saying stories explore and abundance of world talk programming on al jazeera. ah, russian defense ministry says it's completed the 1st phase of what it calls it, special operation in ukraine, and that it's lost more than a $1300.00 soldiers. ah, what channel does 0 live for my headquarters in del hi denny navigator also a heads. he was president joe biden comes closer to the conflict meeting american soldiers in eastern poland before talking to ukrainian refugees. you strikes a deal with the u. s. to supply liquefied natural gas, reducing its imports from russia by a 3rd north korea test launches its

largest ever weapon and intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit any part of the united states. hello, russia has announced the end of 40 calls, the phase one of its military operation in ukraine. the defense ministry added that it would now focus on taking full control of 2 eastern regions claimed by russian back separatists. after more than a month of war. the areas you see in red are held by russian forces under a separatist allies or places where they have made significant gains. on thursday, russian troops reached the center of mario pole. the port city has been under siege since the war's early days, and tens of thousands are feared traps without food power, or heat, but ukrainian forces a they've been resisting russian attacks elsewhere, such as around chief enter and

a have customer butter is joining us from moscow to tell us what more of the russians are saying about phase one being over. what exactly that mean? tasha me and any indication of the next phases during i think one of the main reasons why i was saying the a stage one has been or has been achieved and the med, most of the girls are the but her in advance. they say that they have managed to cut off the cities of care har curve. so me churney. gov and nicolai. and they are not ruling out the possibility of moving forward into those cities. and they say that they control her son, and most of apology are now when it comes to the don't bus region, they say that they control 93 percent of la guns and 53 percent of danielle. and this could give us an indication about stage 2, where they are going to further consolidate gains and expand that influence there.

because one of the prerequisites for the russians when it comes to this whole military operation, what they called a special operation is in ukraine, is for the ukrainians, a recognizable guns underneath as independent estates. and this explains why they are further concentrating on the military operation. and those areas earlier today, the russian army has been saying that is near to operation has managed to or to severely undermine the military capabilities of the agreement. army in terms of rocket launchers, anti aircraft, batteries, deposed logistics, and also the facilities there that, that they, they are ukranian army has been using over the last few weeks. now, this compounded with the political chalks, which are underway, the russians are saying there are no clear indications that this is moving forward . vladimir or mid in ski, the top negotiate button negotiate has said that the a craniums are on purpose, delaying the,

the talks by asking for more guarantees from the europeans when it comes to the neutrality status. what kind of security arrangements, the international community night to and the americans in particular would be given to the ukrainians. if the before was and the girl accept the notion of india gravity, the russians are saying, and this is quoting bloody meant maintenance kid, that they would only be progress when the crane is agree on the whole package. by the whole package, he means what the set of demands that were presented by the russians for the ukraine is they want them to recognize crimea, which the annex in 2014, as in dap as a russian. and lucas underneath asked as an independent states. they won't then denazi's education, which from a russian perspective means putting more a pressure on the what, what the describe as the nationalist in ukraine to further stop what the russians are saying that as constant attacks on the buses speaking community in ukraine. all

right, thank you so much asthma. how about our reporting from moscow? now let's get more on what's happening on the ground than ukraine, where fighting has been raging for over a month. zane best ravi is in live eve. he sent this reports where country is at war, but for the many ukrainian soldiers, the fight is personal. i told my wife to grab the children on to hide in the basement. and i went to the drafting station and joined my unit straight away. and the next day from the army base, we moved to the front line with my wife and children were and occupation for 2 weeks. but then they managed to escape through a humanitarian corridor. on 3 is from the city of butcher its 25 kilometers northwest of keys in the path of russian invaders. and his unit has come under heavy bombardment since the start of the war. overnight on thursday, a missile hit,

an oil depot near keith, used to supply ukraine's armed forces in the center of the country, killing and injuring people, waiting for help. the city remains under curfew. mario post city council announced on friday an air strike on a theatre. on march 16th may have killed 300 people. nothing. the building was being used to shelter women and children and was clearly marked for pilots to see. 130 people were rescued. but as many as $1300.00 are believed to still be inside, the death toll is expected to go up. the defense ministry says ukraine's armed forces have stopped the russian advance and are taking back territory near the capital. but those forces are spread thin across several fronts, leaving some ukrainians on their own. boy, you see just let him know of the strong bombardment of our village began yesterday

at 9 o'clock, hailstones and drunkards, the house burned down among the birdie with the burly escaped. well, there were a lot of tanks, we passed a lot of tanks and a lot of soldiers, especially the enemy. for some reason they were fewer of our soldiers. we also saw am and personnel carriers and dead found a rubber bullet some way salvaging what they can moving on, staying strong at noon, we will fight till the end as best we can fell with weapons and some will help us moral support. and by transferring funds to our army, our guys should have everything, helmets, and body armor humanitarian corridors. do seem to be working when they hold. the

government of ukraine has been able to move thousands of people to safety. but it also accuses russian government of forcibly relocating more than $400000.00 ukranian citizens to russian held territory. now russia says that they went willingly. ukraine says they are hostages. then basra, the oldest era levine. so as you heard in that report, russia has been keeping up in bombardment of ukraine, 2nd largest city. hark eve, a big is there for us. we're the latest. there has been constant bombardment going on all night all morning all day. there's so many buildings and places being picked . it's hard to keep a track of smoke on the sky. and this is why i can tell you this morning. we heard of an incident of a cluster munition. we believe just outside a clinic where full people were killed and 3 theaters the injured now when we arrived there, we looked around 200 meters down the road. there was one right hand side

a school. then another one in the middle of a children's playground. that'll small custom, munitions, rip through the woods and climbing frame and hole across the metal slide. and let me just show you some of these small clustering issues that we've picked up found in the, in the, in the children's day grad, these tiny metal ball bearings. some of them the really tiny, just the size of my finger in a school playground. now this is what's going on. this is a resent residential area. and this is what's going on. and 2nd largest city, many people have already left. those that do remain just really fearful because they don't know where the russians will strike and when they will strike. and as you said, they've constant bombardment this morning. we woke up to the smell of burning. as soon as you stepped out. and as we went through the city, every few minutes,

those violent thuds and bangs to and fro from the russians under ukrainians. and sometimes as you get closer, you feel those vibrations and the so many buildings that have been damaged here. and it doesn't seem to be a method to the madness. sometimes it's a shopping center or buildings like this residential building. sometimes it's a hospital. the situation here that people are telling us is that then very, very fearful too many people have left. those that do remain some of them vulnerable and the elderly of some are resilient and saying that they don't want to leave. this is they're sticky. they have one on bread, half, and they refused to give it up to the russian. and other parts of the country, ukrainian forces are reporting games against russia, like in a village near ro, very outside cheve. enron khan is there. this is the front lines of bravery. ah, this place has been under near constant attack by russian forces since the war began. villages around this area of almost been completely destroyed. now the

ukraine forces tell us that they are now in charge of this area. but the very nature of war means that things are constantly changing. the chief of the ukrainian command has said that the russian forces and are preparing for renewed offensive to try and take this area. if it, if they get this area, once again, it could well be a staging place for any further attack into cave, which is actually near here somewhere. however, for the soldiers on the ground and for one general who spoke to us, it's just the nature of wool. but bush and last of the there's not such that the her little the fight has been ongoing since february 24th, but that is no special operation. you just war a war that was started by the russian federation, the russian position a just a few kilometers property at the russian maneuver. but we are very happy to meet them here. via grania are very generous. they're happy to give their rush and some of our lump each russians him of the size of

a grave killer. and the scenes are being repeated in the north of a cave as well. at now, let me just take you through some of the front lines there. so we have osterman and we have butcher, which the ukrainian say they've managed to encircle, russian forces in the area, and will force them out in mockery of and in, at a pin, which are also very close to each other. ah, the ukranian say they've managed to push those. the russian forces out however, shelling is still continuing and as we've seen of last few days, that shelling is now coming in to the north of keith. and you as president joe biden is the closest he's ever been to the conflict. he's visiting eastern poland right now where he's been meeting us troops station. there later, he is also set to meet some ukrainian refugees. more than 2000000 people have fled ukraine since russia invaded most of them are in poland. rob mcbride is in the polish board autonomy de carr. he's been speaking to refugees who have come from ukraine. they come across all day long here. there's

a long track across ukraine from all parts of ukraine they spend, spend several hours on the other side of the border, patiently waiting in line before finally getting across. now these, these, they, that we ask them about what they want to see and all of them out to obviously talk about peace and dates when it comes to the u. s. and the international community, all of them talk about the international community and the us trying to put pressure on putin and russia to stop the war to get out of ukraine again. and again, you hear the same refrain that calling for the space to be close. they know that nato would have it in its power to declare a no fly zone. because that does seem to be the biggest concern. for many people are the asked strikes the missiles that are flying through the skies of ukraine. and you've got to remember, of course, that these are people who are coming across now that would have spent 2, possibly 3 weeks under constant air rate alarms over a more, a frontline cities like heart cave and so on. they would have been, in some cases,

spending much about time in basement. so you do sense the people coming across the expressions on their faces. the tia's, the, the, the sense that these are traumatized people that they really have been through it. and i think universally as well as, as anger i think, is a sense of relief that they have left for the moment at least the war in ukraine behind them to saudi arabia. now we're a source has told the reuters news agency that for the rebels have attacked and aramco storage facility in the city of jetta. a victim of black smoke was seen rising in the city where oil giants, aramco had several facilities earlier, who the rebels announced that they would be issuing a statement on a big military operation. deep inside saudi arabia will bring you more in that story. as soon as we get it still has on al jazeera, also he, what is us? 2 biggest nations have been saying about the war.

ah, ah, look forward to scores. whoever sponsored cutoff airways. hello there. as we look to south asia, it's all about the heat. once again, particularly for those north western areas of india, you can see from the thermostat chart, there were seen temperatures pick up into the early forty's, around places like good europe, where we've got heat wave warnings lasting for at least the next 4 days. but a lot that he is pushing into new delhi, we are seeing the temperature here continue to rise over the weekend. and it's largely hot and dry picture as we had further east and down into the south for our med about, you can see that we can be touching 42 by the time we get into sunday with lots of sunshine. now we are seeing some clouds develop along the western coast with some

of those showers creeping into corolla. sher lanka sees some of the shop, a thunderstorms in colombo, and in the northeast corner of india, we have got some thunderstorm watches out for a sam with a bit of a winter mix blowing into the himalayas. and was we head across to central asia? it's clearing up nicely for eastern and northern areas of china, the temperature and beijing. picking up again, similar story for shanghai, but it is still wetter in the south. but look at that, it's going to be japan that sees the big change in whether that weather system sweeping through to tokyo. by the time we get to sunday that to weather update, blue weather sponsored by katara, always a sanctuary for journalists. it was a haven, the wall and shelter for civilian refugees, scattered into the garden during cambodia as bloody stuff. flooring us up to me and suddenly returning back to the canal rouge had taken anything of value

out of the hotel, cambodia. let the know a new episode of war hotels on al jazeera. ah, ah, ah, hello again, the top stories on our rushes defense ministers as the 1st phase of phase of what it calls a special operation in ukraine is complete. in the separate is controlled areas of the dos region. russia says it will now focus completely on taking control there, and it's not ruling out storming the siege ukrainian cities. russian shelling of struck the international airport in ukraine, 2nd biggest city harkey is pictures from airport surveillance. camera shows the

moment that it was bombs surrounding areas were also hit overnight on thursday. the us president joe biden is the closest he's been to the conflict. he's visiting eastern poland, where he's met american troops later is expected to speak to some ukrainian refugees sheltering in poland while before poland. joe biden was in brussels. there the u. s. presidency. our team struck a deal with the e. u. aiming to reduce europe's reliance on russian gas under the agreement, the u. s. and other nations will increase natural gas exports to europe by an extra 15000000000 cubic meters this year. not impressive. i know. i know good lemay russian gas will have caused for europe, but it's not only the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. is kind of put us on a much stronger strategic foot in the sanctions are now working their way deep into the russian system. draining proteins,

resources to finance this atrocious war. i'll work on sanctions also shows that when we act together with stronger and we really can make a difference. and we are continuing to reinforce our corporation in many strategic ways, turn spaces and brussels. he told us how the you plans to reduce its dependency on russian energy. if you look at the things that ukraine wants, in terms of sanctions, they won't tough a sanctions. and the thing that they think is missing is the energy that the e. u. bies from russia, the oil and gas, it's 40 percent of europe supplies that comes from russia. now the you have said, well, we can't cut it. many countries are opposed to that because they say it was home very much of themselves and their citizens. so what now the u. s. is doing is it's going to supply l n g to europe,

when they've said that they're going to supply 15000000000 cubic meters this year. the u then says that this means that this year they can cut the dependence on russia by 2 thirds, and by 2027, they can have no rushing gas or tall. they can completely cut it out, but it goes 20. $27.00 is 5 years from now, so that means they're going to be 5 years in which the e. u is still going to be paying russia for its oil and gas money that is going to help the russian economy at a time. when you stay today is to try and isolate the government, apply them to the final communique. not yet out here at the summit, talks going on a little bit longer than usual. one of the other issues i believe they are close to agreeing is a plan to jointly by the gas in future that will give them a better price truckers in madrid. they are a striking in a protest against high fuel prices. that's despite the government agreeing to

a financial aid package worth more than a $1000000000.00 with unions. but self employed truckers say they're not satisfied and fun to continue their 12 day per section. the one ukraine has 1st fuel prices up right across europe. the strike action has disrupted supply chains and floods, shortages in spanish supermarket. turning to other news now in the u. s. is imposing sanctions on north korea. that's gang long since largest ever intercontinental ballistic missile general, who says he's preparing for a long stand the confrontation with the u. s. and expanding his countries nuclear deterrence, florence louis reports on the launch of what some analysts are calling a monster miss. all this is north korea's biggest intercontinental ballistic missile state media has now released this video of the test, calling it a new type, icbm. he to kim jong and personally oversaw the launch saying the test will

deter any potential military moves by the u. s. south korea reacted immediately, conducting a live fi, a test of multiple ballistic and tactical missiles would have been on a military's closely monitoring in north korea military movement. and confirmed that we have the ability in readiness to accurately strike the origin of a missile launch. thursday's launch chose north korea's nuclear capability, has advanced the missile flu higher and for a longer time than any previous tests, the size of this means a lot more inside of it. so we're looking at a missile lacking cherry for more than one, or i could shrink multiple targets with a single foot. the timing of the launch is also significant. and because of the wall is on the ring prices that i the northridge trying to get frank, we focus attention on his cell. or it thinks that because that we are so

preoccupied that they made her less ashy because of all bandwidth that be great. so um, yeah, the test is being seen as a major escalation. the un security council will meet on friday to discuss the launch for years, attempts to dismantle north korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs have failed. and kim junglin has made no secret of the fact he wants his country to be recognized as a nuclear state. florence louis al jazeera hello on is considering extending mandatory military service for young people following russia's invasion of ukraine . military drills are taking place on the don in archipelago. it's a string of filings that are closer to mainland china, and they are to type pain and are chappelle report. people living on these islands off the coast of the mainland are watching events unfold and ukraine as chinese warplanes carry out incursions into taiwan air defense zone. 64 year old lindsey

show has always lived with the threat that china might see. don in island by force . he was on college, how he knew my heart. if they provoke us, we still can't touch them. if they want to fly over the island, just let them fly. if you shoot them down, everything will be over. i'm not kidding you. it would be the start of the 3rd world war. it's really too scary. it wouldn't even just be us. and the main line fighting other countries would surely also join in the fight. just look at the war between russia and ukraine. if they use atomic bombs, it'll all be over. no country would be able to escape where the public dung in is only 50 kilometers off the mainland. the island is home to a missile bait and military drills are held regularly to prepare for potential assault by chinese forces. shows un shield full taylor and bush will color festival . we need to be pointed out upon one is not ukraine to taiwan question and the

ukraine issue are different in nature funded mentally taiwan is an inalienable part of trying to the territory. the taiwan question is purely chinese internal affairs and that can be no for an interference. the 2 sides across the taiwan strait must be and will be unified. it is the trend of history that can never be stopped by any one or any 4. surely. for younger people that's now easier to imagine. so i, so it is, it's a challenge. and nancy, i don't think the threat of the war has a big influence in our daily lives, but of course it will come up and everyone's conversations, but we will discuss it in a rather light hearted. for example, when we explore strongholds, we would discuss if we really start which nearby stronghold we would run to. because recently there's been discussion about bomb shelters in taiwan about where to go to take shelter and so on. but life goes on as usual here, and people hope that isn't about to change and or chappelle. i'll just hear china's foreign minister has made a surprise visit to india. it's the 1st such trip by

a top chinese officials and fighting at the border in 2020 elizabeth peron and reports from new delhi. the chinese foreign ministers visit to new delhi was shrouded in secrecy, but neither the chinese nor indian governments confirming that it was taking place until it actually happened. we had wonky missing and the national security adviser will before meeting his indian counterpart, external affairs minister s j shanker. for nearly 3 hours, they discussed a range of issues, but they focused on the ongoing tensions along the himalayan border, which as shaka said, more than one was a result of chinese actions. since april 2020 the frictions and tensions start arrived from china us deployments since april 2020 cannot be reconciled with the normal relationship between 2 neighbors. for mr. longing spoke about china's desire for return to normalcy, but also referring to the larger significant dice. i was equally fort coming

to india. i want a stable and predictable relationship. but restoration of normal people, obviously the clyde restoration of peace and tranquility. this visit is significant, given the armies of both countries have a mass. they soldiers along that disputed border since the worst violence between the 2 countries in nearly 50 years to place in june 2020, that when 20 indian soldiers and the unknown number of chinese soldiers were killed and fighting multiple grounds of school between the military. you have failed to result and complete this engagement off the armies along that border, but s dish on because said that that can be achieved if both sides a genuine. he also said that they spoke about some major international issues, including ukraine, where they agreed that dialogue and diplomacy must be the priority. india has so

far failed to criticize russia or condemn russia at the united nations. it's abstained from voting on all the resolutions in regards to russia, while china has supported russia at the un. lebanon is facing an education crisis with it's only public university close to financial ruin. that's threatening the future of more than $80000.00 students. xena who did reports from bay roots? that's me. well, i know this is the reality of lebanon's economic crisis. many and a currency crush me and salaries are not enough to meet basically. it's why these teachers have been on strike, threatening the education of more than $80000.00 students enrolled at the only public university in the country. it wasn't, it was, am i the budget for that? have a nice university has changed since the financial collapse in 2019, and this means it's hard to give the teachers their rights like full time

employment uninsured. the lebanese university has become the only option for those who can no longer afford private education. many students are concerned about their future already. more than $200.00 of the teaching staff has left dollars a month or if you don't give them their rights more. this will affect us already. there is a huge shortage of flowed equipment and other learning resources at the university of the university has long been underfunded. but now the nearly bankrupt state is unable to cover operating expenses. it's facing what has been described as its biggest financial crisis in its history. and it is close to collapse. the university says it needs $34000000.00 for this year's academic year, but it only has $16000000.00 in its budget. for families who are struggling, education is no longer a priority, especially because of the drastic increase in tuition fees. going to music on the

german auto b u. 13 university. but the fusion fee was increased and it became too expensive. it was a very difficult position called the merely my financial situation didn't allow me to continue my education. i couldn't work and study at the same time with no end in sight to the economic collapse. many fear they to may be forced to drop out. i'm not sure if the and the tuition fees or something that i'm not able to pay them. there's also little hope of change from a political class blamed for decades of corruption. they left us no chance for opportunities and there is no practically no future for students. and there may still be those able to complete their studies. but the united nation says the financial collapse has until now.