for more than 7 weeks. shilling now. incoming shows london very close to the building to over you, our report from east and ukraine web despite the russian offensive song, residents have no choice but to remain where they are or are the headline, the sal, more than a 100 people have died in an explosion as an illegal oil refining facility in southern nigeria. and better late than never the festivities, i'm the dances back. but this year to somber themes, dominate brazil's carnival in sports. fine munich, make it a records. hand gland is eager titles in a row, and they aren't the only one celebrating as leon l messy strike sequins, the french league of paris santa. ah, hello, welcome to the news our ukraine's president roger zalinski is insisted on a meeting with russia. vladimir putin to try and the war in his country. but he also said talks would be abandoned if soldiers in the city of mario pole were killed. russia has renewed it's offensive, and merry a poll trying to put down fierce resistance from fights is in the as of self steel wax. lensky described the fighting there at the facility on saturday. is one of the hardest days the city has seen. is more mighty you police besiege, it's a very difficult siege. you today is one of the most difficult days. mckinney shelling from the c one from the ground everywhere from that tanks from their artillery, from the aircraft to now order. abil homie has been reporting from ki of, and joins us now. and honda, you, in that extraordinary press conference held by the ukrainian president early on, tell us what message he was trying to convey. and what it was like in the atmosphere was like that. well, i think for us journalists who attended this press conference, this will go down as the most memorable press conference we've ever been to deep, underground 70 meters underground at the metro station. at the beginning of the press conference, you had 2 trains that actually passed by the president stopped to make weight to those trades. there was this platform built in the middle of the station for him to talk and he was very patient. he was relaxed, he spoke to journalists from all over the world. now he spoke about them a variety of subjects. he said he was quite satisfied that finally d, u. s. and other need to allies were understanding his needs when it comes to military aids. when it comes to what kinds of weapons he did say that that, that shift happened over the past week and he reminded everyone that more what is needed if the fight is to continue. then he was asked about the state of negotiation. he did put some irony, they said, well, you need to ask this question, do i not of the mere not me of another bloody me with another to name but a no more serious note. he said that he was willing to continue negotiation. that he always said that he was willing even to meet vladimir putin. does it try to push forward the diplomatic track. while the military track was ongoing, but he said that they were red lines for ukraine. among them that dumbass had to be ukrainian. the crimea had to be created that if indeed, as russia says, a referendum, what he called the pseudo referendum is carried out to the sun, which is this region in southern ukraine that is currently occupied by russia. then it would be the end of negotiation. and he reminded everyone that while people were asking about negotiations well, strikes were ongoing. there were 7 as miss on that hit the the point of a day earlier today to the 3 months old baby died in one of those strikes and he became very angry and emotional about that. we actually even excused himself about this display of emotion, but he said, this is the 1st time in my life that actually the children that i hope that you have a safe life. i hope that you have a long life. then he went on about talking about the upcoming visit of un secretary and i told you gutierrez, he doesn't agree with the fact that i'm telling you is going 1st to moscow. and then coming to keith. he said that in his opinion, it makes it makes his position ambiguous about who is actually behind this war. and who is responsible of this war. he saw that the secretary general should come to cave for it should go north of cave to town, like boots up or down to listen to people see for himself what happened and then go to moscow. so that one point he made you made loud and clear a couple of times during this press conference. he did say that the war was still ongoing, and he did remind actually people that they still had to remain safe. and as we speak now, the air is going off here in cave. he went on to speak also about the future of ukraine. he said, unfortunately that the future will create will be the fact that everyone in ukraine would have some kind of military training. he compared it actually to israel, where men and women do go to military service. he said that under the current situation, with the fact that nato drag that we didn't want to find time in his words, to include ukraine into, well now ukraine had no other choice, but to follow the boss, he did say that he wanted also security guarantees from his nato allies, that, that's the least they could do at this stage. so it's usually a very low press conference, a president, charming, international media, altering all sorts of questions from alters of journalism, all sorts of countries. and really speaking, quite frankly, and bluntly about what's going on, including the situation and is very difficult that there was no way at the moment for keith to sort of send any kind of reinforcement to those who are hold up in that as a steel plan to south of the city, but he said that they, he knew about their plans. he couldn't divulge them and that unfortunately the situation is very difficult and he warned that they could be under where you play around the country. thank you very much. i'm in the kind of capital case of the mayor's office in i, apple, it says an attempt to evacuate more civilians failed on saturday because of russian shelling hill, 2000 ukrainian trips and possibly a 1000 civilians are held up in his l style still acts as auto, his gesture harrington, i believe that they are encircled by russian troops. now who have just launched another assault algae. there is nadine bob that brings us more on this. now let them live in making their way into a dilapidated underground bunker. these pictures are from the as off battalion of ukraine's armed forces when they appear to show soldiers bringing food for women and children. those are but this is somewhere in the as of style steel plants. the last remaining part of mary jo, pull not under russian control. the soldiers say they brought gifts for the kids, but what they really want is to see the outside world that we ran along with the boy. we've been playing games on the phone, says this girl, but we want to go home. we want to see the sun in the ship. this girl's father worked here. now she and her mother, a sheltering in the bunker, after leaving her grandparents behind. they've been here for almost 8 weeks. a soldier mentioned the possibility of being evacuated to safety. we hope so. we're running out of food, comes the reply. on friday, russian forces took generalists to part of the industrial complex that's been badly damaged video apparently shows a shell exploding other pictures also showed black smoke rising from the site. most of mario paul has been destroyed by weeks of russian bombardment and intense street. fighting as the kremlin said, the city had returned to normal. some civilians ventured out from shelters by the royal field. her little ship of state in the basement that everything's been blown up. 3 more shells blasted near by yesterday. only one person was crushed to death. after the risky efforts failed and an elderly woman died, 2. the human cost of the onslaught is still emerging. satellite images just released but taken at the end of last month, a said to show large, freshly dug trenches in the cemetery, east of merrier pole. the local man as accused russian forces of burying bodies in mass graves were. these chechen fighters claimed to have cleansed them, destroyed mario pole along with russian forces. the video was posted on social media by rums and carrier roth, head of the republic of chechnya and the key allies to president putin. but ukraine says, tens of thousands of civilians have been killed here with a 100000 still trapped. and these children don't know when they can go home. or if they even have one. nadine baba al jazeera, the resume was cellphone ukraine. at least 8 people have been killed and miss l strikes on the southern port city of desa for the 18 were injured in the attack which targeted a military facility and to residential buildings. senior ukrainian official says it's likely that will be more fatalities from this. i'll just verify the mon sir is in odessa near a residential tower that was hit. usually it's less so gun elma, denny. we've just arrived in this neighbourhood in odessa. that's been hit with a cruise missile. this residential building was struck by at least one massage, where your residents are being evacuated to smoke. please continue to fill the skies above us as a heavy presence of fire ambulance and rescue cruise on the scene. we're trying to examine the aftermath of the security measures here, a very tight, earlier we saw for cruise missiles in the skies over a desa. the district military spokesman said the ukrainian defences shot 2 of them down. we tried to get closer to the source of the smoke where the missile hit, but security personnel denied access might not who had had the loss. and what we do know so far is that this residential area was hit. there is an overwhelming sense of panic. this fi crew came out of the building and he can see that faces smeared. they're heading back to the 5 team assembly point. all this is the russian offensive continues in eastern ukraine, where soldiers are trying to take control of ukrainian towns and villages across the wide front line. charles dropping reports to us now from this chance in eastern ukraine. the soldiers said that had been the law in shelling, so we drove into the sea chance slack heaps from one of the many coal mines. the dawn valley region skull. the skylight military vehicles drive down virtually empty streets. splintered tree shows where a russian shell exploded. businesses bought it up or destroyed. the sign on the bunker door says children inside, but even the children are no longer here. russian force easy to control or fighting for control of numerous nearby towns and villages. but as is often the case, there are always a few who refuse or conte flea, the fighting said a gay and his wife miller have lived in lucy chance with their parents for more than 20 years. they play potatoes in the spring sunshine. so gay shows his, his boy, it broken windows and the damage. a shell landing near by his home. the, i have no money. i, he'll live here for years. my wife has jo strokes. where can i go without money except into slavery? our relatives have all fled, some 2 negro nissan to leave for years only. this shows just how much danger people who remain here in why dentist goes to the vehicle. it's been the vehicle around on the coming. so we just drove in to lucy chance and as we were coming in through the outskirts shelling now that incoming shells lighting very close to building to there's very few civilians on the street, the military se that has been shutting this morning. but there had been a gap in that showing that things have been caught. it certainly seems as if there is another escalation happening right now. later we walked back into town using the high walls as cover locals. tell us this home business was hit the night before. russian forces won't control alyssa chance they have failed so far. down a bank street we find 18000000 euro fuel your college. are cho yes guys. why should i leave good order you? i have no where to go. you know, my wife has left you. if the war and i am still alive, she might come back because i dont know to blame for this period or stands at his gate as we leave. said again and look, miller continue working in their garden. the shilling is worse, they say at night. charles stratford al jazeera lucy chance east and ukraine. we can now speak to tony k dot j, a senior fellow at the international institute for strategic studies or sit just seeing that reports in from eastern ukraine. it does appear that russia has this narrow focus to season occupy easton ukraine region in order to create that land card are linking crimea to russia. now why is mary a poll in se, ukraine so significant in this context? good evening, memory poll isn't important for port on as us, as of see, my pool is the only the big ports that is still under re craniums control. and it's very important for russia to occupy the city. and also because they are trying to do to occupy the city already for they are attacking the cd already for 7 weeks, maybe more with all their forces. it's like to almost $12000.00 russian troops are surrounding the town. the town is defended only by $1500.00 korean fighters and longer than the fighters of the as of but are young also, some are policeman, local policeman were there and some other units. and also i had the last part of the city that is, that remains on the cranium. control is the industrial part of the city where the baker famous of stock factories situated money poll is, as i said, is the law courts controlled by ukraine's room as a see. and this is also the him or not. since the russian initial plan failed of capturing the capital in installing a pro russian government, they moved to a new strategy and new strategic goal that is to occupy the whole south and the whole east of ukraine. and to create a, probably a pro russian, a poppet states that are different of several for russian profit states they. and that's why in one of the reports we heard about the possibility. so from what you're saying in doing this, they would separate one part of the country from the other and effectively and effectively divide ukraine. now, if they manage to secure this land corridor, is that would that enable president putin to possibly declare some sort of victory? a come may, 9th, that seat there seems to be some anticipation that could happen, particularly as attempts to seize key evan of ukrainian cities failed. yes, this is so probably a short term objective to, you know, because we know them from different sources that put in subject. it was to celebrate the victory over nazism on month of may and to, to also to show the, the, for the state to crania nazis where defeated. that was the end of the 1st in his 1st statements about ukrainian government. now that he cannot say any more, the crane was the nazi find and key of his on the, on the russian control. yes, he will try to present the control of don bus region. i mean, lou hans and don't yes. region plus the south that to put in already called in 2014 is, nova was here is a colonial term that was used at the end of 18th century, when the russians occupied these lines. when russia occupied crimea and the adjustments sultan, south ukrainian step region. so he, so he will try to show this as a victory and russia already controls the significant part of south the ukraine. but recently like 2 days ago, the deputy commander of central for centro armed forces of russia claimed that the whole black sea coast of ukraine should be controlled by russia in order to to obtain a control, a junction to touch these 3, i trust. nicea is that a pro russian, a region of moldova, that is not controlled by the local governments. and these territories in place between new crane and mo, go so a lot of attention as you say, with the government and not as i can ask you about their mark that i present semanski made his press conference adding on it. and it, and that trust station he announced that there will be this meeting with the secretary of defense and secretary of state on sunday. now what, what is the u. s. position going to be a, how is it evolving in response to this? well, it's it to the scenario you describe it in a shit i should be able to occupy and divide the country. what, what is the us prepared to do? use pub med position is evolving from the, from the beginning of the conflict and use position is becoming more and more a stronger because of the russia. thanks to the courage and resistance of you, craig, remember that the beginning of the americans were advising the presence of landscape through tu, tu, tu quits to leave a key if i'm to, to go either in the western crate or, or abroad and they were offering this possibility then, as ukrainian governments we made in p if and president the last to himself. and they offered a fierce resistance and they even want at least partially in chief and saying the regional here then american position became stronger support became stronger. not only defensive weapons but now offensive weakens, are also offered to craig and the red line that was constantly american red line. we don't want to be involved directly in the conflict. it still keeps, but the american involvement is bigger and bigger because the army americans are now giving to create are more and more sophisticated. russia is, of course, protesting, but we saw that they can't do anything really against the so more ukrainians are resisting more. they are even offering a trying to, to, to counter attack. russia more american position. it is stronger and the support is is growing from from that side. okay, thank you very much. tony can't go to that johnny, a star and from paris. thank you. sad for you on this new south. florida's governess trips disney of its special status in orlando as a row over sexual orientation. lessons in schools deepens, holding the tech giant accountable. the u unveils new rules to been illegal and offensive content. and his sport the sapling clench his pole position, adds a molar after late trauma. in the sprint race, jemma will have all action a bit later. ah, and more than a 100 people have been killed in southern nigeria often explosion at an illegal oil refining facility in river state. the minister for petroleum says the victims were burnt beyond recognition. illegally tapping oil pipelines has become an attractive source of income in the south, which has a high rate of unemployment or fidelis and bod, joins us live now from a boucher tell us more about where this explosion occurred and how many people have been affected by it. miriam, what we do know is that witnesses the saying up to about more than 100 people died in the incident and the death toll is expected to rise because from persons who were bonds guarantee use it and have been taken to hospitals and then some family members took away some of those whose body to recognize for for burial. this incident happened friday night into saturday morning because most of the legal refining of products happen overnight. and that area is actually just on the boundary with reverse states, which is named us or capital happening in a place called or high g. a in the most states in out is major area and the area materials for legal refining of petroleum products. this has greatly over the years, been a problem for government officials because these in the go to finding call centers have come on. does via, you know, i packed by government forces will try to rouse these operators from the locations, but they keep coming. not just in a most states, but all across the major area. and to some extent, it has greatly affected major production over the years. because they bought into pipelines. conveying could oil across the country to try to tap into all of the phase of prieto's who are to need licensed by government. and this has been the sort of consent to government officials. right now the 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