trying to reach the us. the current dire economic circumstances meet this exodus is more acute than it had been for many years. the russian defence ministry says its forces are in complete control of the vast steelworks in the port of mariupol, following the surrender of the ukrainian soldiers defending it. fighters from the azov regiment were holed up inside the plant for weeks, while the city suffered constant bombardment. meanwhile, the president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky has said that the donbas region in the east of the country has been completely destroyed. he said it was like hell . jeremy bowen has the latest. explosions. the russians are shelling severodonetsk, as they try to encircle it. more than 100,000 people lived in the city before the invasion. now, it s one of russia s biggest targets. this is russia using the methods it perfected in syria and chechnya. heavy bombardment to try to break the will of its opponents. ukrainian rescue crews can still operate
Bangladesh is also effected. But first at least two sunni mosques we understand have been attacked in hila that is just south of the iraqi capitol baghdad. No one so far claimed responsibility for the attacks and they of course follow saudi arabias execution of the prominent shia cleric alnimr and the latest from abraham who is in the iraqi capitol baghdad and tell us what more you know about these attacks. According to more than a Security Source from the providence located just south of baghdad the source said three attacks happened and three separate places, almost at one time around midnight yesterday night. Attacked three mosques and one of them in the downtown of the capitol of hella and the other one in the neighborhood which is north of there and another one east of bobbel and the attacks came as the source said at one time. One of the mosques and the dome of the mosques were totally collapsed. And of course this comes at a time of increased tension as saudi arabia cuts diploma
Northeastern india and bangladesh is also effected and Barack Obamas latest bid to take on the u. S. Gun lobby but his emotional appeals have Left Congress unmoved so far. We start with breaking news and news coming from the iraqi capitol baghdad where sunni mosques have been attacks and that is the details we have and when we get more we will bring it to you at al jazeera but in the meantime we look at our other main story today and that of course is of the chinese stock markets which plunged by 8 and automatically therefore triggering a suspension in trading and investors reacted to the latest signs of economic slow down by selling off their shares and those shares are globally and dragged down the european markets and here is a look at the sell off and the worst ever start for chinese shares forced a trading halt of 7 trillion of stocks, futures and options and the first test for the countrys new market Circuit Breakers designed to shut down when losses reach 5 and lets go live now
Routes as they start to close their land borders to refugees. I have all the sport including the return of a convicted cricket sheet and with pakistan after a fiveyear ban for spot fixing. Searching for a man who is a suspect in attacks and indonesia with attackers with i. S. I. S. In thursdays explosion and gun battles and we have more on the investigation in the center of jakarta and following a peace rally taking place there and tell us what the message is that the people are trying to send out. Yes, people have come to the very place where the attack happened on thursday morning, the intersection where those attackers came to has been reopened, the roads are open to traffic and many people have been coming all day to pay their respects and also as an active defiance in the peace rally that started about an hour ago certainly designed to do that as an active defiance saying they will not be afraid or deterred from going about their business and living their lives as they have always
Brazils coronavirus death toll has risen to more than 16,000, with more than 240,000 cases, making it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. On sunday, the mayor of brazils biggest city sao paulo warned the Health System was close to collapse. Earlier we spoke to doctor Marcelo Kalichsztein whos working on coronavirus intensive care wards in rio, and asked him how brazil is coping with the rapid rise in cases. We know that social distancing is important to secure our Health System against the effect of the coronavirus in hospital admission. But brazil is a very poor country and some people need to work on a daily basis to bring money home. Its a very difficult decision to make. Of course, we cooperating with the social distancing. I asked my parents and my patients to stay home, dont go out but we know that for some people and some part of the population it is impossible and brazilian people used to be a happy people but we are changing a lot, the way of li