[000:00:00;00] ah, wherever you go in the world. well no, i'm going to make it for you. exceptional katara going places to go. ah, global outrage in france of moral sanctions often rushes the keys to possible war crimes in the ukrainian town of butcher. moscow denies kidding civilians. the eyes on odessa, russian forces bomb, the strategic, ukrainian port city. ah, hello, i'm on inside. this is out. is there a lie from dough or so coming up?

pakistan's prime minister imran con is accused of defying the constitution off to side stepping and no confidence motion in parliament. oh, arms for luncheons defy a curfew to rally against the government as a grapples with aspiring economic crisis. ukraine is demanding a new wave of sanctions against russia. after accusing it of genocide, it says it has evidence of war crimes in boucher which is a town north west of keith where russian troops recently withdrew. russia has denied the allegation a warning some view as may find this report from him. wrong calling in boucher disturbing. most bodies have been removed and the ones that are left have yet to be picked up. each has to be photographed and documented the dead. a silent witness as

to what happened and what is alleged to have happened is russian soldiers attacking civilians fleeing the city. the mayor of ki visited boucher to show solidarity and express anger. is genocide jill side of ukraine m population. more than sure. as the people in russia and the russian government had to pay for their baneful price officials, a gathering evidence and will submit their findings that may well form the basis of a war crimes investigation you will. so we're still too much of a shelf, but i am of eaten is because i was here today. we finally have opportunity to reduce that of what happened and hearing all this view become evidence. in our case, give is cory, in the outskirts of beach up, russian forces shelled houses. the residency there were effectively held hostage were severely them. the russians broke into our house is in, took him over. they told us not to go out at night. on the main road leading into boucher,

this rushing convoy of heavily armored vehicles lies completely destroyed. it stands testament to the ferocity of the fight. the town was retaken by ukrainian forces on the 31st of march. it's only now the what happened here can be documented . so far the municipality has found $300.00 bodies. but as they search the town, that figure could rise much higher. i've counted at least 10 dead bodies down this road. they're waiting to be picked up, the we taken to the morgue. well, they'll be recorded and eventually even picked up perhaps by their loved ones. although the bodies will be removed from this road, the scars that this town is feeling will take a lot longer to heal as well. the clean up grigory tries to sweep away some of their debris, but it's almost futile. he tries anyway, but the scale of destruction is simply too much m. wrong con,

our desert butcher. or we heard caves may accuse russia of genocide in emeralds reports. president volunteers. lensky repeated the allegation in an interview with the u. s. t. v network. and indeed this is young genocide and to more mission. yeah. not. not all, those should be in the nation of the whole nation and the people we are the citizens. we have more than $100.00 nationalities. this is about the data destruction, an extra nation. we the citizens of ukraine, and we don't want to be subdued to the policy of russian. the reason we're being destroyed and exterminated, and this is happening in the europe of the 21st century. so this is the torture of the whole nation. go to my calories in washington, d. c. might give us

a bit more detail about what the landscape had to say to us networks. and what's the reaction been to his comments in the u. s. when he heard the president landscape saying that what is happening in ukraine is in his view genocide saying that ukraine has some 100 nations within its borders. and that rushes intending to exterminate each and every ukrainian very strong words from the cranium. president raising the question of genocide. well, there has been a reaction from the us secretary state antony blinkin. who says the news about boucher is a like a punch to the gut. been candidates on his way to europe for further talks with european foreign ministers in coming days in brussels, but certainly intense anger in his reaction to those latest events. anger, too, from several other western nations. and the u. s. has now weighed into this. what

have they had to say? well, you and had said in the past, that is a possibility of war crimes that needs to be investigated. now the issue of war crimes is something that has a very strict legal foundation, particularly when the us uses that term. so it is continuing its investigations and says that will continue to do so. now we have heard from the secretary general as well, who has just issued the statement within the last few minutes saying that condemning what's happening. busher in particular saying that there is a strong need now. busy for an independent investigation to find accountability. so the un secretary general joining all those others who are reacting to the latest events in particular, those events at bush, at which, as we heard a little bit earlier, president lensky describing as part of a campaign of genocide. okay. thanks for that my account. the 1st in washington,

as mike was saying they were starting to get reaction to what's been happening in boucher from other parts of the world including europe. let's get reaction from ne barker in london need. we've heard from the u. k prime minister, what does he have to say? there's been a strong response to these allegations. so for war crimes carried out by treating russian force is north of care by multiple european leaders. but boys johnson has been very forthright and his comment saying that he would do everything in his power to stop putin's war machine and his threatens the possibility of further sanctions on russia, along with more lethal aid, the ukrainians as well. list trust. britain's foreign secretary has said that the allegations of attacks on ukrainian civilians should be investigated as quote war crimes. and that everything should be done to avoid russia from covering them up using cynical dis information. so what would further sanctions look like? well,

that is unclear of the moment they could take the form of for the financial sanctions and possible blocks on russian shipping as well. but when it comes to lethal aid, we know that the british, british government has been very successful in supplying russian with ukrainian forces with an little anti tank missiles and asked me some talk in recent days about supplying the ukrainians with anti ship artillery of missiles rather to protect strategic port cities like a desa with those that had from gemini, vowing mean sanctions, one of those going to look like you know, generally the o f shows, i'm pretty much echoing what bars johnson has said, suggesting that within the coming days that could well be a new raft of sanctions announced within the european union and in germany against the rational authorities and response to this shall say that we will continue also to make weapons available to ukraine. so the country can defend itself against russia. let's not forget how much of

a complete $180.00 on his access germany has done since the starts of the russian invasion of ukraine deciding now for the 1st time and generations to supply lethal aid to active was i and, and also to ramp up military spending of the country as well as gone far also in suspending the nor stream to gas pipeline. but let's not forget that the huge elephant in the room is the ongoing dependency. the, the european union has on russian oil and gas. the you depends meant for 40 percent of his supplies, germany, 2 thirds of its energy comes from russia. the question is, where the germany will able be able to do the next thing be able to go the extra mile without having serious ramifications on germany's own domestic market and of seem as there. thank you for that me pocket in london. well, russia's defense ministry says ukraine's accusations are unfounded, and it's miniature units or left boucher for days before the footage was revealed.

hassan arvada his latest from moscow. the russian ministry of defense dismissed the reports about massa came butcher as force and a provocation. they say that their military units pulled out from butcher on the 30th of march, right after the talks in his thumb ball with the ukrainians. and thus, when the announced as carrying back their military operation in kiev and chicago, they also blamed the ukrainian military for extensively shelling southern oscars of butcher than the russian military says also that when it took over butcher a pave the way for the civilians to leave the area and some of the managed to go north to words. bella rose, now the russian government says a start of the mitchell operation in ukraine has been accusing the west and the

united states of america for what it has been describing as an unprecedented disinformation war. they say that the west have been using all those reports about civilian casualties, to deflect attention from the core issues that the russians have been talking about . and the grievances that they have been looking forward to see an answer to a particularly the need for nato to stop expanding eastwards and for ukraine to stop getting advanced weapons from the u. s. and from the west, russian missiles have struck near the southern port if a desa ukraine's main naval base. russia says and destroyed an oil refinery and fuel storage facilities. he's buying ukraine's military. and just as a focus for moscow as its force is trying to cut ukraine off from the black sea build on which is always at home. and it was scary because the walls were shaking.

i went out and saw that there was an explosion near my home and i thought a tank on burning. it was a big explosion like if an aeroplane crashed. i've never seen something like that. we need to close the sky because you don't want an attack against me and before it was better, i did not think of sending my family out of the city. i had some shooting and the defenses working in the past. not like days off of these are too scared, not for myself. for my kid, i will take the weapons in my hands if needed, but again, it's rocky. you can't fight those weapons. stephanie deca has more from nevada, in weston ukraine. they have been preparing for weeks. this is the 1st significant attack on nadisa at the fuel depot. it is in line of russia strategy. they've been doing this in several cities across the country. they're been rocket fired at a dozen. also seen those air defense, red tracer fire in the sky, against them pretty much on a nightly basis. but this is the 1st time they've hit it. now the russians say this

is because those fuel depots are being used to resupply troops. and nikolai of nikolai, of the city around 200 kilometers away, that the ukrainians have managed to keep the russian ground forces from taking. and that is the last front line, really when it comes to the russians and moving on to odessa, usually strategic, it's ukraine's biggest port. and if they manage, then to get that entire southern part, they would cut off ukraine from its entire access to the sea to the black sea into the as of sea. but it's been proving difficult in the beginning of this conflict. there we're talking about a potential naval landing on the beaches of odessa. they have been heavily mind, but certainly all the military analysis points to if those ground troops don't get much closer to the city, that's not going to be possible. i think we're gonna have to wait and see if they're now going to step up the attacks on michel, i have again to try to move forward. still ahead on al jazeera hungry lead of victor alba and faces a tough challenge from a united opposition in

a vote. overshadowed by the warning that been dependent on animals for thousands of years. how the climate crisis is dramatically affecting livelihood in somalia. ah hello, they will have a look at africa in a moment, the 1st to the middle east and it's a hot dry and very settled. picture was seen temperatures continue to climb across the levant, jerusalem, touching up into the early thirties. by the time we get into tuesday, now, the temperature in baghdad will dig down slightly thanks to a cool, a wind that's blowing down. but the wind won't be an issue across the gulf states. we've seen temperatures above average here, with lots of sunshine and clear skies. now as we move to north africa, temperatures are continuing to rise in egypt. lots of hot weather, in places like hiram,

we've got some heat warnings out for molly. the temperature in tim buck to edging up to 42 degrees for the really wet and windy weather. we have to look to that northwest corner some very heavy rain and strong winds on schedule for morocco rebut, touching down to 14 degrees. and some of those winds blowing across algeria, we are likely to see some sand storms from that. now further south, this is where we find the wet to weather those storms and showers rolling across the central bell. we are seeing heavy rain and some storms sweep across eastern areas of south africa into f. 14. it will be wet in johannesburg on monday, but the sunshine will be back on tuesday. that should weather. ah frank assessment, what are the political risk for planning works more than just tool? western leaders, sanctions on russian. i'm josh ward's i was in depth analysis of the day sidelines

inside story on al jazeera. i po pens. we'll see french folks is go to the polls with the cost of living crisis. i'm a war and ukraine looming lodge. my boy is widely spread through the window, but how much ground in the fall, roy can't say we're in the pen. i know those game follow the french election on al jazeera lou. ah, ah, they're watching you. as a reminder on top stories, as our ukraine is calling on the international criminal court visit, the town of boucher near keith. people alleged have been massacred that in what ukraine says could amount to will coin brush as deny the allegations that it kill civilians in butcher. russia's defense ministry says its missiles thrice have

destroyed an oil refinery in 3 fuel storage facilities in odessa. price naval headquarters is in the port city out is there is an olathe as near seen off that attack who anal had up gun at that meal. i human albany or daddy? yeah. lima in at the village me. they are trying to hit the infrastructure of the city. now the police in the mayor are preventing us from getting close to the scene to get pictures and video. because that would allow those responsible to see the results of the attack. like and i have on here might be in a more am i yours, me. what gary by one minute up. or this is a very important and strategic city. in this attack will definitely has its own consequences because people will start talking about the possibility of a land operation. and if this happens, it will scare some people who don't go about this attack is significant, and it will change things wirelessly about that my mother could not like

a camera just there for what i thought the american war there. and we've seen houses that have been damaged. this is big like about li poles have closed in hungary selection in which has been overshadowed. busy by the war in neighboring ukraine. prime minister victor o band is a close ally of russian president vladimir putin honest, hoping to extend his 12 year term races the closest. it's been in years opposition . parties have come together to put up a single candidate. that's going foundry. semen sees in the capital, budapest for us. so andrew, any indications, yes, of an outcome? no, the pose close, 15 minutes ago all over $10000.00 constituents is what across hungary, some indications on turn out which date back to hours at 5 pm. local. that's slightly lower than 2018. however, quite high, apparently above average. these turn out figures in the capital, budapest,

there's also an indication here that the higher in opposition constituencies than they are in the government called control constituencies. but again, you can't read into that at this stage. so what we're saying really is a reliance in terms of opinion. polls are all know, exit polls in the hungry, the opinion polls suggesting that could be up to a 10 point lead for the ruling party. fit as that was compared a month before to a much closer race, which was getting to the point where it could have been hard to cool. however, opinion polls who can actually really rely on them most people, but we'll see now in terms of victor or bands position, he had a bad situation with his close links to let him putin that played out quite negatively for the public, certainly, and also internationally of course has turned around somewhat. he's tried to use

the whole ukraine war situation to his advantage of playing the card of going with the european union in the sense that he supported the sanctions. they issued, but then he refused to have any involvement with nato or the you over supplying military aid to ukraine. he came to be the peacemaker. and he accused the opposition for the very 1st time, united 6 parties. he claimed they were really after war, that they would take hunger issa soldiers inch to war. that was august. you refuted by the opposition, but this did cause some distortion of the message. it would say certainly to the public has been criticized with previous elections. de those issues still remain the honest answer is yes, under the reservation of the elections in 2018 of being

her free, but certainly not fair. the o s. c, e, the, the answer has had her the highest number of observers out in the field on this election than ever before. they will be coming up with a report on monday on this. and you can expect that report to suggest that media freedom is still a major issue right across the board and media ownership and really effects of censorship. and an example of the situation for the opposition. they could only get 5 minutes of our time for put their message out on state television compared with multiple times the use of a speech by victor. all about, that's just one snapshot of many, many, many issues which mean that many observers internationally see this government as being the only undemocratic government within the european union. front of it, i understand ends in the past. elections also being held in serbia,

voters are deciding whether president, alexander richard should have a 2nd term. as in hungary, the election lead up has been dominated by russia's invasion of ukraine. routed as campaigned on promises of peace and stability. elections, choosing the president of parliament and local authorities in the council belgrade augustine's opposition is challenging a decision to dissolve parliament and hold a new election in the next 90 days. the supreme court is hearing the petition on monday. i thought if we've got a formula, somebody at a prime minister on com sidestepped a no confidence motion in parliament was dismissed by the deputy speaker who described it as part of a foreign plot. the opposition believes it had the numbers to alice con. they keys them if miss managing the economy. as i'm a been debate, as in islamabad, where he spoke to belong will bhutto, who was a prominent opposition leader. he said, avoiding a no confidence motion amounts to

a coup by the prime minister of some goes into this political crisis. the opposition says the only route that it has available is via the supreme court are focused on and this is the chairman of the focus on people's party from the coalition, which is, it says that it has the numbers in the parliament and they are going to defeat him wrong on according to the constitution of bikes on thank you very much for speaking to a below, but to tell us isn't it correct course of action to go for election? why is your position against no one's against lectures? in fact, people reason that we brought a new confidence counsel mister car, is that the opposition believes that 2018 elections were heavily compromise. and in order to go to a new election, free and fair in it, we 1st had to remove mr. ha, and then conduct electoral reforms and all of our demand was this that we have for

the election. who mr. con is done today is not only unconstitutional. it's a good. the constitutional part responders has one legitimate democratic means to remove the prime minister of our constitution does not allow for, for them to not hold voting today on the, on the new consciousness motions as our constitution does allow the speaker to parole the session. as we have done, our constitution does not allow the president of pakistan to try and dissolve the assembly as well as motion is spending. so all that is done today is not to force a free and fair election was to force and unfair election to create a constitutional crisis. and as i said, it's a good time to position m. p. 's and for lanka, have defied a curfew to march in the capital and demand that the president stepped down. oh, the government has declared a state of emergency and a weekend. cathy,

often island demonstrations over worsening economic crisis. it's also man, all public gatherings. unblocked social media and al fernandez is in columbus the opposition, some luggage on about a vigorous who you see members are just behind me here at this barricade. that is preventing protesters from going towards independence square, the sort of monument of independence here, inter lanka. as you can see, there's basically a bank of police. there's military and so special task force ah personnel that are behind the line over here. these barricades have been constructed right across the road, all entry points, preventing and blocking off the independent square. and it's gotta go home. that's a rallying cry, obviously of the opposition. but even among the ordinary sher lumpkins, who are trying to organize to come together, despite the 36, our co feel that the government has announced that there are attempts for them to come together. that is just on the outskirts of colombo in

a place called mariama. ordinary people have come together to protest despite the coffee and our bearing in mind that the government has really brought in all its arsenault to try and prevent these protests from happening. they have brought in the state of emergency, they have put in a curfew. they brought in an extraordinary gas at an additional one, preventing people from gathering in public places recreational grounds. but despite all of that, the anger and the frustration that to has being heard throughout the country seems to be drowning out all those efforts. and people are keen for their voices to be heard. jordan's prince honda is giving up his royal title a year after a rare palace feud. he says, is because his values are not quote in line with approaches, trends and modern methods of fall institutions. last month he apologized for his role in an alleged plot to destabilize the kingdom is placed on the house arrest after kissing the government of corruption,

he later pledge allegiance to king of villa. the 2nd may 6 people have been killed in a shooting in the us state of california happened in the 80 hours of sunday in a busy area of the state capitol, sacramento, and his close surrounding roads. no information yet has been released by the victims or any suspects. somalia is in the grip of its worst drought in 40 years. it's a take li, bad for the 5 millions somalis who make a living herding animals. malcolm web reports from alcorto. we found her, dea mohammed, kabir and her daughter, i am sitting under a tree waiting for rain. she was told some rain fell 400 kilometers from here. so spent weeks walking there with their goats, but didn't find any posture. so she walked back. most of our lives dog died on the way like we depended on the livestock because we would eat them and sell them,

but that is no more. our priority now is finding water. some people are drinking salt water and it's giving them diarrhea. we need fresh water and food as now we cannot eat or sell the livestock because they are very weak. dear is one of more than 5000000 people affected by the drought in somalia, about a 3rd of the population. many of them are heard as who move around with their animals following rains and seeking posture, camels and the go county. this. what's happened to most of the bushes here after the last 3 rainy seasons have failed. and so this is what's happened to many of the animals and it's the animals enable people to live in this dry environment. the, even at the best of times is difficult to survive in the plains across which to hurt his move, where they are animals a dry. as far as the i can see, it is the same in parts of the country where people greg crops to major rivers in

the south have dried up the surrounding areas used to be known as the bread basket of somalia. people here said the 1st time this has happened in living memory near the dry river. we met at durham anew. abraham. the river used to water his crops. he's joined the hundreds of thousands of people moving into camps after their farms failed, an animals died. he's 70 years old and lived through several drowns, including severe ones in 20112017. but he says none have been as bad as this. then my other, the wind motor drought happened d. b as in the past. people fetch to deliver for water. but now very, very dry all the way from the, the border to the see. many of those displaced by the past routes are still in the camps. when able to restart, their farms will restock their herds. to un says people in rural somalia are among the least able to cope with changing climate following 30 years of conflict.

climate change is directly related to the drought that we are witnessing now. the frequency of those climatic shock is and are increasing people who live in rural areas. their capacity to recover from the shocks, easy, extremely, extremely challenging because because of the frequency of the shocks back in the north, the herd is he's animals of died and moving into camps. 2 people have survived here heading animals for thousands of years, as the droughts become more frequent and more severe is not clear if their way of life can continue or how they will survive. malcolm web al jazeera, galka somalia. ah, this is out there. are these top stories rushes defense ministries as images of dead bodies in a town near the capital cave?