align, goes to make it feel exceptional. katara always going places to get unprompted and uninterrupted. discussions from our london broadcast center. oh, now to sierra. ah, the u. s. president told us the biggest release voice from the country's emergency reserves and urges producers to drill mall. ah, oh robin, this is out there, a locked my headquarters here in denver. also coming up. russia gives western countries and ultimatum pay for natural gas sales and rubles, or moscow will cut you off way on the front lines of the battle full. the ukrainian city of car keith also all along here you have

what's left over of this intense battle burnt at tanks. what has left behind the plea for hell be when launch is the world's largest appeal for aid for a single country requesting more than $2000000000.00 from don is done. welcome to the prego. it's a rare move that the u. s. president. hopes will ease the pain of rising fuel prices. joe biden has ordered the release of oil from strategic reserves. $1000000.00 barrels a day will be put into domestic and international markets for up to 6 months. but in hopes the increase in supply will bring down price is my can the reports out from the white house u. s. consumers had been warned, they would pay the price for sanctions against russia. and so they are the price of gas at the pumps as increased by really

a dollar some 20 percent since the russian invasion of ukraine. it's risen 47 percent in the past year. and president biden has announced a series of measures to bring some relief to the u. s. consumer, including a release of 1000000 barrels a day from the strategic petroleum reserve. this is a war time bridge to increase oil supplier to production wraps up later this year. and it is by far the largest release barnett national reserve in our history and provide historic amount of supply for historic amount of time, a 6 months bridge to the fall. more republicans dismissed. the move as politically motivated reserve is supposed to exist for jot unforeseen crises, such as a war between great powers is not there, so that the energy, politicians whose policies have raised gas prices, can try to hide that from the public. this is just one of

a multi pronged approach to easing the oil crisis. the president is also invoking the defense production act to ease supply chain issues that have hindered the drive to promoting clean energy. for example, removing the bottleneck in the supply of components like lithium, essential to the development of electric vehicles. the president also had harsh words with some oil companies that he says of seeking to profit from the crisis for us, all companies that are recording their. 1 largest profits in years. they have a choice, one, they can, but those profits to productive use by producing more orals, restarting idle wells are producing on the sites. they already are leasing, giving the american people a break by passing some of the savings on their customers. and lowering the price of the pump, or they can, as some of them are doing, exploit the situation. and in a controversial move, use called on congress to penalize companies at least federal land,

but are not drilling on it. president biden says the us has a history of seeking opportunity in crisis, and the long term aim is to make the country oil independent by increasing traditional production. and by further developing clean energy resources. the political reality is that to achieve the long term aim, the president's party would have to retain control of congress. and that is likely to be determined by whether the short term aim of producing gas prices. by the time of mid term elections in november is achieved by cut, i'll just 0 washington. so what's the strategic petroleum reserve all small as it's known, while it was created following an energy crisis in the 1917, when an arab oil embargo led to a spike in gas prices. several presidents have authorized emergency sales from the reserve. it was used for the 1st time in 1991 during the go for what in 2005 after

hurricane katrina and most recently in 2011 during the war in libya, now the reserve holes about 586000000 barrels in storage, food full, heavily guarded locations on the louisiana and texas coasts. jim crane is an energy fellow at rice university in baker institute. joyce, we now live from houston in texas. funds in mr. crane could help you with us on al jazeera. how significant is this me that sort of this moment in time for president by it's pretty significant. it's a, it's really an unusual move. you know, but, but news sold emergency oil stocks from our strategic petroleum reserve. now, 3 times over the past 6 months. we're going to see probably an additional 1000000 barrels a day of additional oil coming to market over the next 6 months or so. and he's

hoping that the additional supply is going to push down oil prices ahead of what are looking like some pretty tough elections. come november and it's doing it also alongside the i e, a, the international energy agency in paris which is also coordinating emergency releases in service member countries outside the us. so you know, other countries are actually doing the same thing. i mean, he's a president that needs to be seen to be doing something, considering the crisis that europe is facing uncertainly that the knock on effect at house for countries like the us. but he's not the 1st president to do this. i mean from his, from his start from history when you see what president bush had to do, and why had to do it more recently, what president obama might have to do during the libyan arab awakening. how, how do you perceive where this sort of lies? well this one is

a little different than those uses in the s p r. busy it this time we're, it basically biden is doing what opec should be doing right now. and this is kind of how we're seeing this over here and how a lot of oil and gas analysts are looking at this. i mean, normally when well, prices are spiking when there's a clear shortage of supply in the market when, when stocks are starting to dwindle down when, when demand is, is running higher than supply. normally, opec steps in a, you know, usually we'll hear the saudi oil minister coming on and staying with some soothing words to try to talk the price down. and then if that doesn't work, you know, the saudis and opec right now have between 3 and 4000000 barrels a day of surplus world production capacity that's not being used. they're holding that in advance. so they could bring significant oil on stream with basically just twisting a few valves in a few weeks,

there'd be some more oil on the market. they're not doing that this time around. normally this is what we see. and you know, these emergency stocks are really held for emergencies and isn't opec isn't taking action by the administration is like what we're going to have to steer the ship. i mean, are, you know, the, the global central backer of oil is asleep at the switch. so looks like it's up to us, it's a different situation, mister cra, quite a few questions to get through a be the lead up to your introduction. i mentioned the fact that this old began because of a boycott and an arabic bog of all back of the 1970s. the government itself, buffering bull, this reserve fuel, it's a much cheaper price when it takes that fuel into the market, it has to replace it back, which means it has to use tax pay as money to buy fuel, which is currently at a much higher price than what was already in the reserves, if that starts to hit the pocket of the consumer in the us, this is a problem full,

the biden ministration. oh sure, this, it's a risky mo, price. so it, you know, not only does the buy the ministration bill that reserve back up in it's already, i mean, it's not a full right now. so, you know, as you said, 580000000 barrels. but, you know, it holds 800000000. so, you know, we'd like to see it more full than it is right now actually. but, you know, typically presidents will, you know, order replenishment when prices are low and there's lots of extra stocks on the market. so i expect them to be rushing out the bible now show if they're already the 580000000 barrels, that you might say in the reserves of the us. and you say that it is a gamble. and what 1000000 can be released every day for the next 6 months? what happens at the end of 6 months? if there is no site in end to what's going on in ukraine, there is no sci fi on the war continues. you know, at that point, there's

a couple of options. so you as president doesn't have a lot of options in energy policy or, but you know, there's still going to be some oil left and strategic petroleum reserve. i think you'd probably be more cautious about such a big release again. hopefully by that time some of the us, you know, the, some of the, the law jams are stopping us, brought you from increasing will have been cleared and will start seeing more oil flowing from the us. you know, like to say the best year for high. well, prices is high, well, prices, so when prices are high, like they are now, you know, it's an investment signal for people all around the world to get back to work. but the other thing that the, by the ministration can do, if saudi arabian, the opec and opec is not going to are not gonna play play ball. you know, we can lift sanctions on iran. we deal with sections on venezuela and bring and bring that oil back to martin and rods. guys, a spare $1000000.00 plus barrels a day to bring online fairly quickly or just see what happens at jim crane. they're

from the university. bakers to, thanks so much for joining us. thank you. my, my pleasure. my russian president vladimir putin as issued an ultimatum to cycled unfriendly states that he wants them to pay for russian gas in rubles starting on friday. or he threatened to cancel their contracts fees and says foreign buyers will be required to open accounts with russian banks. the decree could pose a serious issue for your, which gets around 40 percent of its customer. germany says the kremlin is black mailing it to you. i signed an order that establishes the rule of trade with natural gas, with the so called hostile states, where offering to clear system that they have to open accounts and roubles, and payments have to be made through these accounts from the 1st of april. if they don't, we will consider it a non fulfillment of contract because nobody sells us anything for free and we will not do charity. so their existing contracts will be suspended when they use them as weapons. notice as motion forces, not scaling by corporations,

but instead that regrouping to fight an eastern ukraine. the besieged city of merrier pole is becoming one of the key battle funds. the ukrainian ministry official has sat around 170000. people are trapped without food, heat, power, and water. and the fighting continues also in the eastern city of car keith. but a u. s. defense visual says russia has made no major gains that well ukraine's the 2nd largest city has been ruined by the ongoing assault. but it's fighting back, some people might find the images in a bag report from outside cookies. distressing. there's only death here. bodies of young russian soldiers lying unclaimed, apparent victims of poor tactics, or so the ukrainians tell us which in the same neighborhood by e are part of the it was very intensify and our guys had high morale. a special peroration was planned together with a 92nd brigade. they flanked this position and then clear to the russians had

poured defensive positions, save the enemies, exposing them to ukrainian artillery. this was a russian defensive line or the long hair. you have what leftover of this intense battle burnt out. tanks, weapons left behind grenades. they didn't even have time to take some of their data. everywhere we look, they are signs of battle and fear of chemical attack. ukrainian soldiers, salvage what's left, the village of mother or hon is back under ukrainian control, but the cost has been high. a fierce battle pushed the russians away from the gates of her keith calls it just a glare. 21 year old guinea has been awarded,

ukraine's highest honor for destroying 5 tanks and other heroics during battle. he tells us it's the 1st time he'd come across the use of phosphorus, the highly flammable chemical. both are on the blah, blah. but it was my 1st experience with phosphorus. air strikes are not a scary as the phosphorus. first they use the air strikes, then the phosphorus below eyes were burning. i couldn't breathe through my nose. it was like really difficult to breach. but the equipment was burning. it was bad, they couldn't below not be caught in dependent key, verify it's use this is one of the main streets. in this village i was completely destroyed every building, every window. everything that you see has some sort of damage the bullet holes in the doors. the windows have been blown at the bricks all over the place. and we've been told that we can only stick to this main road because everywhere

around hasn't been completely de mind, because the fear is that the russians have left minds and booby traps behind for the ukrainian soldiers taking this place. but as you seek, there's not much left. i said bake algebra outside huck if the queen's president says the country must prepare for a renewed russian offensive in the east. not even issued kiva. we continue pushing away occupiers in the north of keys in the turning. he region and in the sumi region they realized themselves that they can sustain the intensity of combat that they held in the 1st half of march in done bass in mary paul and car keys directions. russian forces are amassing resources for powerful strikes. we will defend, we will do everything possible to stop the occupiers and clear our territory from the evil and senseless crimes. well still had here on al jazeera, we visit the polar city of warsaw, where the influx of refugees is putting a strain on basic services. and one year on these coal miners in the u. s. navy,

with a strike until they get what they want. ah, he has begun the full world copies on its way to cancel your travel package today. hello there. it's an improving picture for japan as we start in east asia without a weather system. take a lot of wet and windy weather towards the east. things are going to start to clear . and we'll see the temperatures in places like tokyo and a fucker pick up. by the time we get to saturday. we'll also see temperatures, why the cross north of china pieces like beijing and for the korean peninsula, as sunshine dominates with clear skies, it's down in the south with still think some of that where, where the cling to the edges of the south coast of china and hong kong is likely to see the wet weather continue through to sunday. when things start to clear and we

will get some funny spells as we move over to south asia. sunshine is certainly on the menu. it's been very hot. we've had an intense heat wave across new delhi that's likely to last for at least the next 2 days. it's a similar story for southern areas of pakistan, those conditions extending through to saturday. it's only down in the south that there is some relief, a few coastal showers, kicking in some stronger storms for sri lanka. but for the weather weather we have to head to that northeast corner of india. we got some warnings out for thunderstorms across a some, a lot of that wet weather, pushing out further east that she weather update. i'll be back with more later cats, ha, airway issue, airlines of the journey. iraq, a nation riddled with land mikes and an expert dedicated to defusing them, one by one. equipped with only a knife and a pair of wire puppies,

he faced his death every day. but does his work make him a hero or a talk? witness? the d minor on her jessia. ah ah, both about kill what channels as ever with me. so he'll robin doe hall, reminder of our top stories you as president joe biden assaulted the release of 1000000 barrels of oil to day, from the emergency reserves. now he hopes the rebels will help counter rising energy prices. the extra oil will be put into domestic and international market for up to 6 months. russian president vladimir putin has issued an ultimatum to so

called unfriendly states. he wants them to pay full russian gas in rubles as a friday will, that contracts will be canceled. and ukraine's president says his country must prepare for a renewed russian offensive in the east. lot of insulin ski wall. but moscow makes shift its focus to separatist held areas after suffering setbacks and it's offensive. they keep now some of the civilians stuck in the besieged, city of merrier pole may be evacuated on friday. there are plans for another humanitarian, colorado to allow people safe passage. diana santana is a spokeswoman for the international committee of the red cross. now she says the red cross is ready to move people out. negotiations have been going on throughout the day. there has been talks and some intentions of declaration of intention from both sides. so there's positive indications that this can happen. our team is in position and ready to go into mario ball tomorrow. and so what we mean now are

these concrete details on what roads we can take? what can go in? what can come out, you know, all the different, logistical details in order to make this happen. we know that this is a dire situation in mario and the people that are still there are many are the most vulnerable, the elderly people that just can't move around, maybe sick people with disabilities, children, people that may be not be ready to leave their loved ones behind so there's various reasons why people may not be ready to go, are able to go. what our focus is, is to that the safe passage is allowed to happen. and that if they choose to go and, and they're able to go that we can help facilitate that millions of ukrainians have fled to neighboring poland. since russia's invasion, many are settling in the capital, but services there restrained on the bank is pleading for help. kimberly hallett has this report from walsall. ah, warsaw is

a city under stress. within days of rushes invasion of ukraine, the children of refugees started showing up at polish schools such as this one desperate for normalcy. some still in shock, no toys that are much blunted or her nagging. so this is a tragedy. the biggest problem isn't needing shoes or clothes is the psychological site. but these children don't want to be in poland, demis their fathers, canyon. so across town, at one of warsaw as busy as hospitals, the situations the same, every day on top of serving hundreds of polish patients, ukrainian refugees are showing up by the dozens of the sole bullet. often i got a value on the bottle from you. usually its infections, they also have all kinds of aches, muscle eggs, stomach eggs, diarrhea, respiratory infections. sometimes they are bruised from travelling part of channel . since the start of russia's war and ukraine,

poland has absorbed roughly half of the 4000000 refugees that have fled. within weeks, warsaw saw it's 1800000 population swell by more than 20 percent overwhelming city services. it's estimated there are more than $400000.00 ukranian refugees living in and around warsaw. they're drawn to the region because poland government has promised free education and health care for ukrainian refugees living in poland for up to 18 months. warsaw is barely managing. that's because there's no system for delivering these services on a mass scale. people ask me, what's the problem? there are no tense. there are no camps of refugees. yes, because they have been accepted to our homes. but if we have more and more and more and we have no strategy, then of course the system will break down and it will mean that we will be overwhelmed and that we are not going to be able to effectively help are the

refugees. warsaw mayor says the international community is providing assistance, but he wants the united nations to help manage the effort. so far, poland government has refused. the mayor says he's not sure how much longer the city can cope. and the refugees who are currently being welcomed into warsaw may soon have nowhere to go. kimberly help get al jazeera warsaw, poland. members of parliament in pakistan have debated a motion with the confidence of the prime minister in run kong. a vote is expected to take place on sunday. now con is being pressured to resign after part during the coalition government switch sides. but he says he won't step down. opponents accused con of corruption and mismanaging the economy of some of in java, possible from the capital islam about another day of high political drama in vogue . hassan from minister in on con,

is defined that he still has the numbers that he can remain the prime minister of focus on a head of a vote of no confidence on sunday. the prime minister destination saying that he is going to remain the prime minister on sunday. there is going to be a competition of good and evil if he was, were to put it plainly in wrong. hon is now facing a very difficult situation in the parliament where the opposition did bring about at least a 172 members to the parliament session today, which is the numbers required to bring down enron hahn in a vote of no confidence at the opposition says it has not just those 172 members, but it has a lot more than that. it has the support of the coalition partners that runs hundreds around funds government had. and it also has the support of disgruntled and bees off the market until he gets off and run cons party. and now we've been speaking to his party members as well, who say that this is a conspiracy against him? the people who are changing their loyalties and the coalition partners who leaving

them are because of the bribes that are being offered to them at monetary incentives and incentive for a new set up i being given to them and the opposition and rubbish. all of these claim seeing that no money has exchanged hands, and if i'm wrong, hon and his government has any proof they should shared with the wider world. coming back to the conspiracy that imminent han was talking about, he saying that there is an international effort to try and de seat him wrong. hon. he pointed out towards the u. s. a. in the united states of august on the ambassador being given a warning of sorts that if im not hon stays in power, it will not be good for pakistan. all of this remains in the balance until the vote, which is expected on sunday. but emerald, hans fate is going to be sealed as either the prime minister who is going to remain to continue 5 years in power. or he will go home. willing social donors taking part to the at nations fundraiser for the goddess fall of pledge more than $2000000000.00. but it fall short of the 4400000000 the you and hope to raise to

avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. as victoria dayton be, reports every day is a struggle for layla. her husband left afghanistan for a round 5 months ago to look for a job. and she hasn't heard from him since. she is living in a makeshift camping hand. the whole city with her 2 sons and her brother in law's family, rochelle, under, with no shame, ramadan is coming and we have nothing to eat during this month. it is hearty, fast, eaten only bread. my kids are sick and i don't have enough money to buy them medicine. i collect garbage on bottles from the street from morning until evening and i barely make the equivalent of $0.35, which is not enough to buy flour, oil or rice for dinner. the number of people in afghanistan who can't afford food and other essentials has doubled since the taliban took over last year. the un humanitarian agency says $4400000000.00 is needed in afghanistan. as it faces an economic crash and humanitarian crisis. the money is needed to boost the delivery

of food and agricultural support and to fund health services, water and sanitation and education. afghans need all help, enabling their economy, sustaining their agriculture and enabling the basic functioning of social services to prevent further economic collapse. preserve those basic services. the international community has long said human rights must be up held for the taliban leg government to receive aid. those supporting the un appeal se the taliban decision to close may, secondary schools for girls last week has made it more difficult to raise funds from western governments to taliban. the de facto authorities have to live up to their responsibility to protect their people and to help you monitor in organizations or do the work on the ground. that in each to the decades, afghanistan was heavily reliant on financial aid that was frozen when the taliban

to power. now the u. n. is urging the world not to forget the country as it faces a crisis, victoria gate and be al jazeera while some workers that us companies like amazon and starbucks are trying to unionize the coal mine, as you did in alabama, has been on strike since the 1st of april last year, the workers want better wages having taking a pay cut during their last contract negotiations 6 years ago to $100.00 pounds. this is a portrait of patience. these miners have spent a year picketing to get their jobs back, but warrior met coal has yet to offer them even what they earned before they went on strike. we're going to just get back to work 5 years ago. i think i think a lot of gas would be happy with that $365.00 days without regular pay. the longest strike in alabama history with 1100 miners living off a union strike fund. i had plans to build a house or to move on with my life. all that money's going every

day they watch non union replacement workers drive to their old jobs. that's led to some confrontations by replacement workers. and by striking minors, prompting a judge to temporarily ban picketing when the strikers return, chris broo baker says there'll be some harsh words for those who crossed the line. i'm sure he'd gone me a lot of things said in the bath house. they probably said me said on adding pelvis descending more than 600 meters beneath the earth for scraps of cold as a dangerous job. in 2001, my number 5 exploded, killing 13 miners. a year after the strike began, these my workers are still out here, drawing attention to their cause. occasionally getting a hunk of support from passers by. we asked warrior met cold for comment, but they didn't respond. my love, say tara and reason where they become a cause celeb drawing support from nationally known activists like rage against the machine guitar as tom morello, and by taking their cars on the road to new york,

ah, out through the miners picketed in front of black rock a major investor and warrior met coal, the alabama miners are hoping to take part in a comeback of sorts for unions in the us, even here in the anti union south than a so called right to work state that bands unions from collecting dues, from any worker who doesn't volunteer them? the desire for workers who heretofore have had to give concessions at every bargaining table. discovering that they are a commodity and they're a forced to be reckoned with after $365.00 days these minor said they're not going anywhere. we're not going back down way, we're not back down we're, we're not gonna turn around and it was one day longer, one day strong. even if it takes another year. john henderson, al jazeera brookwood, alabama. oh.