admits activists taking matters into their own awe out of africa on a just, you know, the biggest source event on the planet is coming to the middle east. phillip 1st find time to find out who your theme will be. flying will be live from dough hall and across the globe. the special coverage of the fee for the world cup draw. join us on april the 1st on al jazeera ah, the tops open on us fuel reserves, the president orders the biggest release from secure oil stores and says, this should be more drilling. ah, tom robinson, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, pay in rebels, all will shut off the gas. russia gives the western energy ultimatum. i'll zeroes

on the front lines in the battle for the ukrainian city of cock eve. all the long hair. you have what's left over. of this intense battle burnt at tanks, workman's left behind. i'm john, hindered in alabama where the striking mind workers had been on the picket lines for a year still hoping for a contract. still hoping to get their jobs back. president obama and tapping into the u. s. is strategic. busy oil reserves to try to bring down rocketing prices. an additional $1000000.00 barrels a day will flow into domestic and international markets for up to 6 months. my kind of reports 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 nearly 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 ramps 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 dismiss the move as politically motivated. the reserve is supposed to exist or 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 hinted the drive to promoting clean energy. for example, removing the bottleneck and 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 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,

he is called on congress to penalize companies at least federal land, but on not drilling on it. president biden says the u. s. 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 reducing gas prices. by the time of mid term elections in november is achieved. mike, hannah, ojo 0 washington. well, the strategic petroleum reserve is also known as the s p r. it was created because of the energy crisis in the 19 seventy's, when an oil embargo by arab countries lead 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 gulf war, then in 2005 after hurricane katrina. most recently, it was used in 2011 that was during the war in libya. the reserve holds about 586000000 barrels stored at for heavily guarded locations on the coast of louisiana, and texas. which em crane studies energy policies at rice university's baker institute. and he says the u. s. is stepping in for the oil, producing countries in opec should be taking action. 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 oil 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 saying 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. well, 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 opec isn't taking action by the ministrations like, look, we're going to have to steer the ship. i mean, our, you know, the global central backer of oil is asleep at the switch. so looks like it's up to us to step in. so this is, it's a different situation. president vladimir putin says where he calls unfriendly countries need to pay for russian gas in rubles, otherwise, he shut off supplies. germany is calling that blackmail putin says foreign buyers

will need to open accounts with russian banks from friday. now automate him could be a serious problem for europe. around 40 percent of its gas comes from russia. personally, i find an order that establishes the rule of trade with natural gas with the so called hostile states. we are offering the 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. nathan says, rushing forces on skating back their invasion. instead, they're regrouping to fight in eastern ukraine. the battle to control khaki continues. one u. s. defense official says russia's not making any major gains there. the russians wanting to humanitarian crisis is getting worse. let me warn you, you might be upset by some of the images in i said, big's report. 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's left over 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. pause, it just did laugh with 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 on the blah, blah. but it was my 1st experience with phosphorus. air strikes, you know, 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 and below now we can't independent 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 ukraine's president says the country must prepare for a renewed russian offensive in the east. 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 merrier pole,

and car keys directions. russian forces are massing 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. the seizure mario pole is one of the key battlefront around a $170000.00. people are trapped without food or heat, power, and water. some people may be evacuated on friday, then i'll plan for another humanitarian called a door to allow people safe passage. dana santana from the international committee of the red cross says they're ready to move people load negotiations have been going on and 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 and you know, all the different,

logistical details in order to make this happen. we know that this is a dire situation and mario paul, and the people that are still there. 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 as 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 roger forces and said 2 of left exclusions, all along the defunct chernobyl nuclear plant. according to the ukranian government, on 1st ukraine told the you engineer for your watchdog, the control of the plot i've been handed back to ukrainian personnel. tional was taken at the beginning of russia's invasion in february. ukrainian staff stayed behind to manage the remnants of europe's worst to euclid. disaster still ahead on

al jazeera, poland capital, under pressure, thousands of refugees distributed to warsaw book and city services. people on workers rights in alabama will tell you why some of the states binders and amazon stoffer calling for change. ah hello. they will start in north america and the weather. he has been all about those severe storms rolling across the south east of the us morning, tornadoes and bringing powerful winds and flooding conditions. now that system pushes off further east. we are going to see cooler conditions across the great lakes, some of that heavy snow falling in eastern areas of canada. but we will see the temperature in places like toronto pickup as things clear up, but not far behind that we have got another system. things are going to get very

wet across the gulf of mexico, as those storms come into play on saturday. now for the north west, we've got more wintery weather pulling into western areas of canada as heavy as snow and sleet for british columbia. but it says largely fine and dry towards the southwest corner, which doesn't bode well for wild fire risk. now as we had for the south and got lots of heat coming through for places like mexico, you can see that largely dry picture, few showers, kissing into the eastern coast. the caribbean manages to stay largely dr. just a few showers popping in to cuba. much of a wet weather can be found across the florida peninsula. thanks to that row of storms pushing out further east and plenty of sunshine for panama. ah, with one of the fastest growing nations in the world, news wanted cuts out needed to oakland and development pool international shipping

companies to become a p middle east and trade and money skillfully knocked down $3.00 key areas of develop who filling up from it. so connecting the world, connecting the future while need. cato. cortez gateway to whoa trade. lou. ah, you want your, i'll just, you don't mind a much help. so is this r u. s. president jo biden's ordered the release a 1000000 barrels of oil a day from emergency reserves. he helps the rear move is gonna help counter wising energy prices. the extra oil will be put into domestic and international markets

for up to 6 months. russian president vladimir putin is issued and ultimatums, who so called unfriendly states, is demanding that european buyers pay for russian gas in roubles or place having the contract canceled. it brings president, says this country must prepare for renewed russian offensive in the east lugging meals since these morning that moscow may shift its focus to separatist held areas after suffering setbacks and is offensive. near keith. millions of ukrainians have fled to neighboring poland since rushes invasion. many are settling in the capital, but services there are strained and the mayor is treating for help. and with hawkins has the support for morsel. 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 velma, blunted her nagging dis, is a tragedy. the biggest problem is intimating shoes. her clothes is the psychological site of these children don't want to be in poland. demis their fathers from you don't come 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 soul bulletproof and i got a value on the bottle for me, usually its infections. they also have all kinds of aches, muscle eggs, stomach aches, diarrhea, respiratory infections. sometimes they a bruised from travelling part of jama. since the start of rushes worn 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 to this is president co said says elections won't be held within the next 3 months . and that's contrary to the countries constitution side has dissolved the parliament he already suspended last year. it accused politicians of attempting a qu, they voted to repeal measures. they say, would give the president new torkel power m p. 's are also meeting in parliament to decide whether or not to answer police arguments. members of parliament pakistan of debated a motion of no confidence in prime minister emron con. a votes expected to take place on sunday can under is under pressure to resign. after our coalition partners switched sides, he says he won't step down upon an accused can of corruption and mismanaging the

economy or some a bunch of it reports from islamabad. another day of high political drama in focus on prime minister in mankind is defined that he still has the numbers that he can remain the prime minister of focus on the 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 through the parliament session today. which is the numbers required to bring down and run hon in a vote of no confidence. and 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 eminence funds around funds government had. and it also has the support of disgruntled and bees off the biggest hunter reconcile in ron 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 will 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 to all of these came seeing that no money has exchanged hands, and if and ron hahn and his government has any proof they had shared with the wider world. coming back to the conspiracy that imminent han was talking about, he seeing that there is an international effort to try and defeat imran han. he pointed out towards the u. s. a. in the united states of august and the ambassador being given a warning of sorts, that if him run hon, stays in bower, it will not be good for pakistan. all of this remains in the balance until the vote, which is expected on sunday. that enron, 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. international donors taking part in the united nations fundraiser for the canister and have placed more than $2000000000.00 to help. but that falls short of the 4400000000. the u. m. had hoped to raise to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. victoria getting good reports every day is a struggle for layla. her husband left afghanistan for around 5 months ago to look for a job. and she hasn't heard from him since she is living in a makeshift camping can the whole city with her 2 sons and her brother in law's family. rochelle lewis motion ramadan is coming and we have nothing to eat during this month. it is hard to fast eaten only bread. my kids are sick and i don't have enough money to buy the 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 upheld for the taliban leg government to receive aid. they supporting the u. n. 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 humanity tearing. organizations do the work on the ground that they need to. the decades afghanistan was heavily reliant on financial aid that was frozen when the taliban took power. now the un is urging the world not to forget the country as it faces a crisis. victoria gate and b algebra to letters of left, a trail of destruction and the southern united states. and these 2 people have been killed, and 2 others have been injured when a twist had touched down in florida. alternator earlier injured several people in arkansas, another in alabama, overturn the mobile home up routed trees, and downed power lines. alley results of a vote by amazon employees in new york show. the majority want to unionize. it would be the 1st of the company sites in the u. s. to become unionized vote counting continues on friday. workers at an amazon warehouse in alabama also voted on a union bid, but appear to have rejected it. that results could be overturned after a recount of challenged ballots. amazon is the 2nd largest employer in the u. s.

also in alabama. the longest strike in the state's history shows little sign of being resolved. the coal miners union walked off the job in april last year. workers want better wages having taken a pay cut during the last contract negotiations 6 years ago. john henry reports this is a portrait of patience. these miners have spent a year picketing to get their jobs back, but warrior meant coal has yet to offer them even what they earned before they went on strike. a way to just get back 5 years ago. i think i think a lot of gas will be happy with it. that's $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 go to houser, to move on with my life. all that money's gone every day. they want 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 striker's return chris brew, baker says there'll be some harsh words for those who cross the line. i'm sure you got me a lot of things said in the bath house. it probably shouldn't be said on out in public descending more than 600 meters beneath the earth for scraps of coal is a dangerous job. in 2001, my number 5 exploded, killing 13 miners. a year after the strike began, these mine workers are still out here, drawing attention to their cause, occasionally getting a hunk of support from passers by. we as warrior met cold for comment, but they didn't respond my last day and reason where they become a cause to lead 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 cole. the alabama miners are hoping to take part in a comeback of sorts for unions in the us. even here in the into 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 are forced to be reckoned with. after $365.00 days these minor said they're not going anywhere. and we're not gonna bite down. way. we're not back down, we're, we're not gonna turn around. and it was one day longer, one day, stronger. even if it takes another year, john henderson, al jazeera brookwood, alabama. teams of qualified for the fee for world coven caught on this november are going to find out on friday, who they play in the group stages. that's a big moment for the quarterly national team and for the region,

the sasha can name reports boys day dreams kicked around on the streets of their childhood. are now the pride and pressures of men. soon to be measured in gold, scored, and shot saved by cutters. national football team. when these 23 players take to the pitch in november, they know many might view them as a long shot. the other asian cove jumbo's, a sound going to be easy for the teams to. when it gets us, it's will be hard for them when we make it difficult for them. this will be the teams introduction to the world cup. as host katara will be a top seed tea. this is the 1st time footballs. premier competition has been held in the middle east and only the 3rd time it's been held outside europe and the america is a lot of misconception about to region. it's time to to bring people are closer to each other. i think a sport and, and definitely football. i mean, and even more like a wilco can do so ha ha, since 2010 cuts are one,

the bid to host the 2022 world cup. the country has been in a perpetual state of construction, millions of migrant workers in the last 12 years have transformed desert into the stadiums, roads, hotels, and metro system that will make the world cup a legacy for cutter. but amnesty international says thousands of workers have died due to unsafe conditions and many were exploited by employers. country officials say 3 people have died on the job for world cup related projects. and reforms have been implemented that have improved workers' rights greatly. this country of 2800000 people has never hosted an event on this scale. if attendance estimates pan out, cut hours population will well by more than a 3rd. during the world cup to assist with security, the turkish government is sending a team of 3250 people. it includes riot police,

special operations forces, bomb experts and bomb sniffing dogs. it's also training about 700 countries, security personnel, no matter the outcome on game day cutters. national team has already logged several entries in world cup history and become the embodiment of the football aspirations of this country and region. natasha name al jazeera, doha, and on. finally, we're gonna have a special program following the world cup. draw as it happens, live in doe hub. a coverage begins at 1545, g m t ah, this is odyssey with these are the top stories president, jo biden's opening, the tops and the u. s. strategic oil reserve to try to bring down rocketing prices

. 1000000 barrels of oil a day will flood into the domestic and international markets for up to 6 months. russian president vladimir pu.