stay out until that allowed to return to their home after midnight. the military drill would continue for 3 days, which means they'll have to go through this again twice this week. ah. ready the tax open on us fuel reserves president joe biden orders the biggest release from secure oil stores and says, there should be more drilling. ah, i don't know about this, and this is obviously the light from doha. also coming up, pay in rubles all will shut off the gas. russia gives the west an energy ultimatum analogy as it is on the front lines in the battle for the ukrainian city of called eve. will the long hair you have what's left over

of this intense battle. burnt at tanks. what has left behind? i'm voting to stand together. amazon. stop in new york, look like they'll be the 1st of the retail joins american workers to join a union. president jo biden's, tapping into the united states strategic 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 by kind of reports from the white house. us 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 mar net 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. the 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 res 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 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. 1 largest profits in years. they have a choice, one, they can, but those profits 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 the 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 by keta. i'll just era washington. well, the u. s. statistic. 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 rise 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 20 or 5 after hurricane katrina, most recently, it was used in 2011 during the war in libya,

the reserve holds about 586000000 barrels stored at 4 heavily guarded locations in the coast of louisiana. and texas. jim crane studies energy policy at rice university's baker institute. he says the u. s. is stepping in with the oil production 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 the demand is, is running higher than supply normally opec steps in it, 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 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, are, you know that the global central backer of oil is asleep? at the switch, so looks like it's up to us to step in. so it's, it's a different situation. president vladimir putin says what he calls unfriendly countries need to pay for russian gas in rubles otherwise he'll shuttle supplies. germany is one of its biggest customers and it's calling that blackmail. bruton says foreign buyers will need to open accounts with russian banks from friday. the ultimatum could be

a serious problem for europe. around 40 percent of its gas comes from russia. who's lilian mclaughlin? u. d, i signed an order that establishes the rule of trade with natural gas with the so called hostile states. we are offering a clear system that they have to open accounts in rubles, and payments have to be me through these accounts from the 1st of april. if they don't, we will consider it a non fulfillment of contract. nobody sells us anything for free and we will not do charity should their existing contracts will be suspended when they use them as weapon. so natives as russian forces aren't scaling back their invasion instead, they're regrouping to fight an eastern ukraine. the battle to control cock eve continues. one u. s. official says, russia's not making any major gains there. the russians, savage humanitarian crisis, is getting worse. now let me give you a warning. some of you might be upset by some of the images in assa beggs report. there's only death here. bodies of young russian soldiers lying unclaimed,

apparent victims of port tactics or so the ukrainians tell us, we're watching consumer video for you for me. it was very intensify and our guys at high morale, a special operation was planned together with a 92nd brigade. they flanked this position and then cleared the russians had poured defensive positions, save their enemies, exposing them to ukrainian artillery. this was a russian defensive light. all along here 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 han 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. he 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's 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, 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 not because in dependency 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. there's 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 the 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 vague, altamira outside, hockey, greens president says his 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 turn 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 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. the siege of the port said he monopole is one of the key battles in ukraine has been under russian bombardment for weeks. around 170000 . people are trapped without food, heat, power, or water. some people may be evacuated on friday and our plans for another humanitarian, colorado, to allow people safe passage. dinah santana is from the international committee of the red cross. she says they're 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. a russian forces are said of left exclusions on around the defunct sion noble nuclear plant, according to the ukrainian government. on thursday, ukraine told the u ends nuclear watchdog. the control of the plant had been handed back to ukrainian personnel. chernobyl was taken at the beginning of russia's invasion in february. he gray and staff stayed behind to manage the remnants of europe's worst nuclear disaster. still ahead on al jazeera holden's capital,

under prussia, thousands of refugees are streaming into war so we can city services cheaper. and i'm john. 100 in alabama were the striking mind worker. he'd been on the picket lines for years, still hoping for a contract to get their jobs back. ah hello. they will have a look at the weather in africa in a moment, but 1st, the middle east, and there's lots of hot, dry weather, with plenty of sunshine to come with the temperatures across a live and pick up in places like iraq, as well as lebanon. and syria, a lot of warms here, clear skies as well, extending to western areas of iran down in the south. it's assumed a story for the gulf states. we're going to see the temperature pick up into the high thirty's, in the days to come with a bit of a slight breeze on saturday,

but plenty of sunshine. and as we had over to north africa. 9 well, the wind is still the story. we're seeing some powerful winds blow up towards southern europe. we could see some so horrid dust carried over there from libya, for places like cairo in the north east was the temperature pick up. if we have a look at the 3 day, we're going to be well above the average, nearly 10 degrees on saturday, with some sunny spells or through the weekend. now it is looking lot hotter and dry up in the north, but we are seeing some other than 10 storms pick up across that central band for cases like cameroon, for example, and go and maybe a seen a wet to whether it's a similar story for eastern areas of south africa, but they will be sunshine in cape town from monday. ah, the al jazeera well need some extraordinary women

who am making things happen that way. following their daily struggle to survive for their families to thrive with egypt swimming st sellers on al jazeera. ah ah ah, you want to go to sienna? remind him i told stories this hour president joe biden's opening the top. so 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 market. for up to 6 months,

russian president vladimir putin as demonte, european countries, pay for russian gas in rubles all your counselor contracts. germany buys a lot of russian gas and says, nights, blackmail. it rains president says his country must be prepared for a renewed russian offensive in the east. not amused the landscape warning that moscow may shift its focus to separatist held areas, auto suffering setbacks and it's offensive. near keith, millions of ukrainians have fled to neighboring poland since russia's invasion and many are settling in the capital. what services there are strained and the mayor is pleading for help. kimberly hawkins has this report from 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 that are much blunted with her nagging dis, 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 fernando, going 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 of the wolf. me usually it's infections. they also have all kinds of aches, muscle eggs, stomach aches, di, rear respiratory infections. sometimes they a bruised from traveling part of china. 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 helped get al jazeera warsaw, poland to his imprison. guy said, says elections won't be held within the next 3 months and that goes against her in his years. constitution site is dissolved the parliament that he suspended last year. it accused politicians of attempting a qu, they voted to repeal measures. they say would given the president, near total power and peace are also musing in parliament to decide whether or not to answer police summons them. supplanted pakistan had been debating a motion of no confidence in the prime minister. in long con a votes expected to take place on sunday, uns, under pressure to resign. after coalition partners switched sides, the prime minister says he's not going to step down a summer binge of it reports from islamabad under the day of high political drama

in pakistan, prime minister in mankind is defiant, 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 were, 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 number to acquire, to bring down enron hahn in a vote of no confidence. and the opposition says it has not just those a 172 members, but it has a lot more than that. it has the support of the coalition partners that enhance funds around funds government had and it also has the support of disgruntled and fees off the budget on there. you can soft in run cons party, and now we've been speaking to his body members as well, who say that this is

a conspiracy against him? the people who are changing their loyalties and the coalition partners we're leaving them are because of the bribes that are being offered to them at monetary incentives and incentives for a new set up i being given to them and the opposition it rubbish dollar. these came seeing that nobody has exchanged hands and if i'm wrong hahn 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 ron hahn. 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 im not, hon stays in power, it will not be good pakistan. all of this remains in the balance until the vote, which is expected on sunday, where imran cons 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 either to nations,

fundraiser for dallas dunn has failed to reach $4400000000.00, which the un says is needed to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. donna's supplies less than half that victoria gave me reports every day is a struggle for layla. a 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 can. the whole city with her 2 sons and her brother in law's family, rochelle miranda, with no shame, 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 them medicine. i collect garbage and 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 a va last j. d. u n's humanitarian agency says 4 point. $4000000000.00 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 our help, enabling their economy, sustaining their agriculture, and enabling the basic functioning of social services to prevent further economic collapse and preserve those basic services. the international community has long said human rights must be up held for the taliban leg government to receive aid. they 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 the taliban. the de facto. ready authorities have to live up to their responsibility to protect their people and to help you manage her 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 took power. now the un is urging the world not to forget the country as it faces a crisis. victoria gate and be al jazeera, early results of a vote by amazon employees in new york suggest most of them want to join a union. it with the 1st of the company sites in the u. s. to become unionized for counting continues on friday. workers at an amazon warehouse in the state of alabama also voted, but they seem to have rejected forming a union that result could be overturned after a recount. 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. members of coal miners union walked off the job and april last year. they want that a wages on handling reports. 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. a way to just get back 5 years ago. i think i think a lot of gas would 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. and i had plans to go to houser, to move on with my life. all that money's gone 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 returned, chris broo. baker says there'll be some harsh words for those who crossed the line . i'm sure you got 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 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 ass warrior met cold for comment, but they didn't respond my last day 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 cold. the alabama miners are hoping to take part in a comeback of short 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. we're not going back down we, 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 elgin's era, brookwood, alabama. hong kong covered 195 ban on 9 countries has officially been lifted for the 1st time since january the territories, accepting travelers from countries including the u. s. u. k. and the philippines. passengers from manila with some of the 1st to touched on themes of qualified for the fee for world cup and caught out this november. we'll find out on friday, who are they're going to play in the group stages. it's a big moment for the quarterly national team and for the region latasha claim 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 cut timbers a. so 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, it is a lot of so session about region, it's time to to bring people are closer to each other. i think a sported and definitely full dilemma, and even more like a wilco can do so ha ha. since 2010 cutter 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 swell by more than a 3rd. during the world come 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 game, l g 0. doha. we're gonna have a special program on friday following the world cup. draw as it happens, live in doha. our coverage begins at 15. 45, g m t ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top storage president, jo biden's, opening the taps on the u. s. strategic all 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 putin is demanding european countries pay for russian gas in rubles or the contracts will be canceled.