a parade of power. north korean leader says his strengthening his country's nuclear arsenal. and china is scrambling to condemn cove 19 outbreak in its capital. we'll look at how it could affect economies around the world. a push for peace and to save lives that the message should be united nations chief has been delivering in russia. antonio terrace has made his 1st visit to moscow since the saw the crane war 2 months ago. his urge a cease fire while meeting for mr. sega oliver and he's called for humanitarian corridors for the receipt to the of mary paul to save civilians caught in the conflict which is clear that there are due to different positions on what is happening in ukraine. according to the russian federation, what is taking place is a special needs. 3rd, your promotion with your objectives. that's what a lot according to the un in line with resolutions fast by the general assembly. russia's invasion of ukraine is a violation of his very thought of the integrity and against the chart that of united nations. but it is my deep conviction that the sooner we end these war, the better for the people of ukraine, for the people of the russian federation. and those far beyond rody shoshone, but assertion control this was happening as a result of the actions of the u. s. and its allies and unipolar world too, because as for our geopolitical sphere, it was done in the interest of containing russia and to that. and for many years we green has been used as a springboard to restrain our contractor says, skipper, i understand that the russian federation as many grievances. but the un charter foresees a large number of mechanisms in which clearances can be addressed. and namely, with the recourse to the international court of justice or other other mechanisms if all the other ones foreseen in the chart of the faith. but there is one thing that is true and obvious and that no arguments can change. we have not ukrainian troops in the 30 tory of the russian federation, but we have russian troops in the territory of ukrainian federation. how g there is dose jabari has more on the talks in moscow. the secretary general is saying that there are clearly 2 narratives here about her, regardless of that, she was adamant that he has ever come to moscow as a messenger of peace. and he said that they, he had a very frank conversation with the russian foreign minister, sir. de lover of a antonio gutierrez, saying that his main objective was to end the suffering of the civilian population in ukraine, and also to minimize the impact this conflict has had on a, the, a civilian population around the world. specifically, he talked about how it has affected the price of food in africa, and that is something that is as a direct result of this at so called special military operation. antonio terrace, seemingly, quite frank and direct with sergei. love rav and the russian foreign minister for his part said that he welcomed the conversation that he's had with the secretary general. and he said also that they've known each other for a very long time, and that the conversation was useful. and frank as well on his part of it. but it was important for the secretary general to make this trip because he felt that this was the right moment to have this face to face discussion with russian officials. and of course, his meaty with louder moore potent is due to take place in the coming hours. and we'll have to wait and see how that meeting goes as well. the us defense secretary lloyd austin says washington and its allies will hold monthly meetings to discuss arming ukraine. the u. s. hosted talks had the ramstein air based in germany focused on helping ukraine defend itself. politicians and military experts from up to 40 countries to part to ensure that we continue to build an applaud rich. we're going to extend this foreign beyond today. and proud to announce that today's gathering will become a monthly contour group on ukraine shelf. the french and the contact group will be a vehicle for nations of good will to intensify or approach and coordinate our assistance and focus on winning today's fight. and the struggles to come al jazeera, that boston has been following the meeting at a ramstein, a base. the u. s. has travelled here to europe to pick up this leading a leadership role. what often are saying is things need to be wrapped up, but also speeded up, we need to move at the speed of war. he said, and basically, he sort of hinting at the slow pace in which germany has been reacting to the war in ukraine. her germany has been heavily criticized. germany, of course, is the largest economy here in europe for not doing enough until yesterday. even germany was very reluctant to send to have a weapons. well, what do you watch and what awesome has achieved by holding this meeting is that germany has made this turn around to just an hour ago. so the minister of defense from germany has announced that they will, will send, he's a gay part, the sheet that tank's empty aircraft aircraft systems to ukraine, which is a complete turnaround. and germany was one of the countries very reluctant because of this fear that there would be a 3rd world war that there would be a nuclear attack. it's something that the chancellor schultz has said just a few days ago during an interview. so now the u. s. is here, they're really making a big fist, bringing all these countries together and basically pushing also germany a bit further in the, in its actions towards helping ukraine. the promise of military aid for ukraine has also come from the u. s. secretary of state, the senate foreign relations committee meeting their success is primarily because of their incredible courage and determination. but it's also because we were able to equip them with what they needed for every tank that the russians have had in ukraine. we've managed with 30 allies and partners and one way or another to provide about 10 anti armor systems for every plane that the russians have fallen in the skies there been about 10 anti aircraft, munitions, of one kind or another. what we're doing is very quickly. um, in the past, it's taken from the time a president made a drawdown decision to getting equipment into the hands of the people who needed it . weeks now are often it's 72 hours. now on the ground in ukraine, russian markets have hit a commercial center in the city as operation killing one person and injuring another is the last launch city under ukrainian control in the southeast so far it's been the destination of people fleeing the front lines, but reinforcements are being sent and trenches being dug in expectation of an assault ukraine is investigating more than 500 suspected suspects for committing thousands of potential war crimes. evidence is being gathered across the country. oh dab to have me travel to village is north of keith and has this report family ever since the russians pulled out a few weeks ago. detective victoria, in the mid rover and her team have been examining bodies, at least 10 day leave, a task she never thought she would be doing when she 1st joined the police to few. on this time, her team is unearthing the body of a person buried in the backyard of a house. they carefully dig, carving around the body, trying to figure out how it's positioned a good morning to the who. these are the feet, so the head is over there. she says at 1st assessment reveals it's a man who appears to be in his sixties. it's only when they flip the body over that she finds a clue into the cause of death. more what awning of your thumbnail for foolish in each athenian his go to wanted the back of the hat. most likely it's from a bullet because he had blood coming out of the mouse. the body is the composing, and the skin is stuck to the clothes. so in order not to damage it more, we will take him away and then the forensic expert will investigate further. the found his fawn. we will charge it and hopefully find out more about him for the full scope of what happened when the russian soldiers left the towns north of keith is still not clear, but the trail of destruction left behind is evident. civilians have been telling about how they were diagonally targeted as they were trying to flee. they had bullet holes all over this windshield, but this car was hit by some large caliber ammunition from the side here. and you can see still the remains of what appears to be a white flag marking the fact that they were civilians in this vehicle. and then here on this side of the car, you see the point of exit, of where they ever rip through the car. and inside it's mayhem, you still actually have blood stains everywhere. and in the middle of all that, a passport it belongs to a young man who was born in september 1990 children who, who killed our business number in char children. but again, we don't. it's another example of a ledge war crimes. among the thousands of cases that investigators have been documenting says, ukraine's prosecutor general. someone. she has dispatched teams around the country to gather evidence here and bro, junkyard, they set up in a classroom and is full of people telling their stories. again, killen civilians, samo them over after tortured torture civilians. we are now started to prosecute sexual crimes, rape. we see eat, unfortunately with the then they talk, what property officer the lance. oh we see again there they bombed again and again, they bombed civilian transaction. hospitals came to harder and schools more than the 1000 into kish or institutions destroyed in ukraine. what is this? of course it's military. it is what crime. nearby boucher do. mortgage overwhelmed refridgerated trucks are also overflowing with bodies. olga finally found her husband after coming here for several days. he was killed while she was away in poland. i put to move her sister there for the lowest of the neighbors called and said me, he was shot on march 22nd. he was going to the garage to get some food to russian. soldier saw him ran after him and shot him twice. the russians didn't allow the body to be picked up for 3 days from her denies committing any atrocities suggesting they've been staged. but do you and human rights offers says, there is growing evidence of war crimes committed by russian soldiers and fears. many more could emerge as the fighting continues in the east and south of the country. are doubly hamid elder z route, north of keefe sled on al jazeera, why even monsoons and melting glaciers aren't enough to salt water shortages for the people of cat monday. and the world's oldest person has died. we look at the extraordinary story of the 119 year old. ah, richard. he has begun the full world copies on its way to the castle. travel package to the hello there. it's all about the heat when it comes to south asia. once again, we got that pre monsoon heat building across northern areas of india as well as in the east for pakistan and afghanistan. it is a very hot and dry picture. we're expecting the mercury to touch up to nearly the mid forties. by the time we get into thursday. and if we have a look at the 3 day fuller hall where we are going to be about 10 degrees above the average by thursday. lots of hot and dry conditions here for a break from the heat, we have to head to western areas of india, some showers creeping into corolla, some shop a thunderstorms as well for sure lanka. but it's not as wet as it has been here and the rains also east for the northeast corner. we could however, the one or 2 shop thunderstorms for bangladesh as we go into friday. now as we had to east asia, things are going to get very well. we got some nasty weather on the way for japan. as one system pushes the way we've got another one hot on its heels. you can see it building across central areas of china, knocking temperatures down in places like we have. well, it is going to skirt its way further east. taking a lot of that, whether to southern areas of japan, we could see some localized flooding in the days ahead. but the southern areas of china when it's hot and humid in hong kong, i saw official airline of the journey full of struggles my hulu. job, you know what, i'm well with normal omega, why don't we go on board with a mortgage? obama full of pleasure. we go a little market on the good thing with drama. he bought on noisy, an intimate look at life in cuba today. was it was the annual warner walker. daniel daniel advisor, mike cuba on al jazeera with oh, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our tom stories, un secretary general. antonio gutierrez says he's working to establish a humanitarian contact group between russia and ukraine. quintarius has met russia's foreign minister in moscow and says, lives urgently need to be saved in besieged cities like mario paul. the us defense secretary, noid austin, says washington and its allies will hold monthly meeting to discuss ami ukraine. the u. s. has been hosting talks at the ranch. don abbeys in germany focused on helping ukraine defend itself against russia. and on the ground rush walk, it's have hit a commercial center, the fios operation, kitting one person, and injuring another. it's a last large city under ukrainian control in the south. 3 explosions have taken place in 24 hours in the breakaway, moldova region of chance. mystery. yeah. they targeted to soviet iraq radio antennas and a military unit. the antennas were used to broadcast rush and radio from the village of my jak. on monday, the ministry of state security inter aspell was also hit. russia media say the russian bank head of the breakaway region is blaming ukraine for the attacks. won't overs present? says the attacks are an attempt to destabilize her country. did you send simpler than with the 1000000? what's happened in the past 24 hours in the region of thrones next year as an escalation of tensions? i will like to remind you there for a few weeks. there has been several bomb alerts in the region in schools and medical institutions. mal jovan authorities are following with caution and vigilance. events that are happening on the territory controlled by to ross pull the law or analysis indicates there are tensions between different forces within the region. we're interested in, d, stabilizing the situation. we condemn any provocation or attempts to involve moldova in actions that could be threatened. the country's peace. what is samuel romanies and associate fellow at the royal united services institute? he says, moldova is worried, it may be russia's next target. well mother was very concerned about this because this follows along the trajectory and ask literary rhetoric from russia towards moldova. was the russians have been warning that they could cut off gas tomato. but his mother does not have the funds should be able to pay for it. there was a major gas dispute that unfolded over the course the fall. also, there were 1000 troops and transistors that held drill right before the invasion of ukraine. and ukraine is repeatedly warned. the transistor has major city curious. paul could be a staging ground for aerial operations in solving ukraine. well, nobody is walking every fine line here. it's also unusual country. it's all part of nato, right? and it's vowed to keep that to appease russia. also, it has progression elements like for president e road on one closer economic interaction with russia. so when the united states is telling me, although which divest from russia is not as easy as it looks because it's elements you believe that engaging with russia is the best way to protect model for security . but there's been some small movement threat mom. busy has been removed from the russian power grad, much like you can move towards european paragraphs. that's the positive side model . if you remember your prospects much like georgia's and even arguably. ready ukraine's before this war were very slim. so motto was arguing that it's economic integration and it's presume with europe. europe, for his country, is had to deal disproportionately, obviously, with the refugee writers as only been getting piecemeal assistance from germany and some of the european countries. and that has nothing to do with their security orientation of being anti russian. but obviously, russia has had a tendency to view economic integration with the last as a prelude to security integration, and therefore, is reacting quite unpredictably towards mother. as soon to have a news now and in pakistan, 4 people have been killed and several others injured after a suicide bomber time. target van at karachi university. police say several people were inside the vehicle when it blew up. it's bringing c'mon haida was live from his dime a bad copy, pakistan's capital. a group has claimed responsibility for the attack. come out, tell us about who they are. well 1st of all, in order to understand this particular attack would be made, which at the time that this particular group had used their female suicide bomb off their dog shop, skin lake, which was carrying those chinese profess day off, got up based at the got you know voted day at the confusion center also, or chinese language for august on the still games. but it is important to know that the balloon liberation army a band out by the united states by the united kingdom and buckets on what formed by our slum are to call them general are true in his outburst. he was came back in great danger of december, just a month after deadly attack by the my gate group, which is part of the balloon liberation army attack the chinese configured in karachi. there also to leave the radio enraged the command. where did faith ways and of god surrounded by at least a while for the fight dressed and desert camouflage address dog message for the budget on the security for it. and the chinese in particular saying that there was a continuing operation and that the chinese and the buckets i knew will be targeted by god. they said that the balloon to are not party to join up buckets on economic quarter door of god. this is a big change to the and then the chinese, the chinese have invested tens of billions of dollars and building water board. so that is unlikely to be any change as far as progress on feedback is concerned. but what we are seeing is an escalation of our tax by the by lewis, but asian army at relative that did he get dollar bon buggers, dawn and did odd indication that the 2 are now also go operating with the charge and garden ducting, the sophisticated tax come out, thank you for that update. come on hider life for seen islam about north korea has stage a nighttime military parade through the streets of the capital piano. young. it's the latest show of force by came john own was promised to quickly run puppies countries, nuclear arsenal. from sol in south korea, robin fried reports the parade. march. the 90th anniversary of the founding of north korea military. and it was meant to show off the power of its modern de weaponry on display with some of the newest weapons. it has recently been testing such as hypersonic missiles and a more advanced longer rain submarine launched ballistic missile. after several years of attempted to go see ations aimed at the nuclear rise ation leader kim jong seems to have abandoned all such efforts that conciliation him was she me in the world today. we're powers our fears. the clashing with other powers, national dignity, sovereignty and true peace can only be guaranteed by strong self defense to overcome enemies. north korea is dara. the show was what it says is it's the most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. to date, the 4 songs 17. it's the same type of weapon. it says it launched at the end of march. the 1st fully fledged test of an icbm. since 2017 it things north korea has nothing to lose by putting on a big show of military force right now. us and south korean forces have gone ahead with that joint spring exercises, south korea has just chosen the conservative administration that's likely to take a much tougher stand with the north. i do as president joe biden will soon be visiting northeast asia. president biden will be attempting to bolster support from the united states allies, south korea and japan. but they mounting speculation that north korea and might even be planning a return to underground new, clear weapon testing for the 1st time in 5 years. and would you be coupons had the basic mission of our nuclear capabilities to deter war? but our nuclear weapons are not just for the sole mission of deterrence. if any attempts are made to usurp our interests, we might have no choice, but to call on those weapons. pyongyang seems as determined as ever to be accepted by the international community as a nuclear power to be reckoned with. rob mcbride al jazeera, so may jing is to introduce mass testing for most of its 21000000 residents. as authorities struggle to contain a surgeon corona virus cases, people have been panic. buying a supermarket, stocking up on food, any central items. china's capital has rolled on strict measures under it, 0 covey, 19 policy. now the economic effects of china's long downs is starting to be felt. it's cold in march, the national bureau of statistics says gross domestic products will 4.8 percent compared to a year earlier. retail sales are down the lowest since april 2020, and an unemployment is at its highest since may 2020 unless say results for this quarter will be worse. since dozens of cities are in full or partial lockdown, including the world's largest sport in shanghai. and the effects will extend beyond china. congestion at ports is forecasting. increased shipping costs and consumers around the world can expect inflation and prices to rise. garrath leather is a senior economist said capital economic space in london. he says the full effect of the downturn in china is still not clear. you go see, go this on wave infections. you've also got a slowing property market. and also we could global demand in terms of what this means that consumers in the west depends very much on whether china is able to keep its industrial sector open. so one is locking down certain cities is doing everything it can to keep factors running. so we have stories of, for example, workers and having daily tests, some workers are actually sleeping in the factories to keep them. so provided this remains the case if you don't see large scale industrial disruption. and i think the impact of consumers in the rest of the will should be relatively small, but obviously just given the uncertainty as to how the parcel ration in china comes out, that's by no means it basically says to me that china is going to continue with it's eric hybrid policy for quite some time, at least i think until the end of the year when you get a big national people's congress in china. and she's in hoping to come preston for life for it. and is there any sign whatsoever? the child is going to switch away from 0 coven before that. and i think disruptions the service sector is going to be quite, quite significant. even if you don't get locked down, people being very cautious because they don't want to be call anywhere near anybody with said that they're already changing their behavior. and if, if the record is allowed to, to remain in place and this disruption i think will last quite some time. yet. nepal has plenty of water from annual monsoon rains and rivers fed by melting glaciers in the himalayas. yet every year the capital cat mondo suffers shortages from yet a limber went to find out why every morning found him. i a booster collects water from these centuries old stone tabs, in derby, got a suburb of cut one do once a week water. it's also piped into her home, but it's barely enough for her family's needs. it allison while paula, the implemented on the line. when so many people come here and wait in line to collect water, it's never empty. it's crowded in the mornings. some people come as early as 3 a. m. dana invited the hinterlands across the road. women paid to use pont water to wash clothes. cut manned is rapidly growing, population is straining the cities already overwhelmed, municipal water system. most people have to buy water from tankers at high prices. the city relies on aquifers fed by monte rains. but as it expands and demand for water rises, they're running dry. that monday, with home to 4000000 people, the city rick y 430000000 leaders of water a day, less than half that demand is being supplied. residents hope the ambitious and long delayed mylanta water supply project to pipe water from the river to the city will reduce demand. that project is run by the public utility k u k l. that's now upgrading infrastructure to protect water supplies from the military river. thousands of our to kill companies to distribute the available water you could believe. and without the minimum, without war leak is as easy as a network of got more no valley or more than under the it. so there is a lot of problem of the case. what are the case? that is, why are we out of the shipping from orlando to new network without on they're going know organizations like smart bonnie, are also seeking solutions to the cities, water shortages that are very many pools in cassandra valley, which are struggling to manage water and provide water to their kids. so that's why we work with public schools where there is a dire need of water and support them with an alternate source of water by harvesting the water that is falling on their own rooftop. we're just filtering it and ensuring that it can be reused. unpredictable monsoon rains under rapidly growing city are clearly big challenges here, but many hope that by conserving water they'll at least start to reduce them from the other liberal al jazeera cut. mandel, people have protested outside lebanon's parliament against a bill that would limit how much they can withdraw from their savings. union say they'll go on strike if the lies passed, but it's a requirement of the international monetary fund before it provides $3000000000.00 in loans for lebanon. the countries in the worst economic crisis in his modern history. now the world's oldest person has died in japan just months short of her goal of reaching the age of a 120 kani. tanaka was born in 19 or 3 the same year. the wright brothers made their 1st powered fright. the mother of 4 lives through 2 world wars. the 90 ladies 18 spanish flew and survived cancer twice. she spent her final years in a retirement home, enjoying math, calligraphy, and chocolates. while it's old us is now lucille rondon of french, none known as sister andry who's a 118 years old. oh hello again, i'm fully batty boy. with the headlines on al jazeera, the russian foreign minister has met with the un secretary general antonio terrace in moscow. gutierrez has called for a ceasefire and is urging humanitarian corridors for the besieged to be of mary paul. to save civilians caught.