and reconciliation, permission for this former warlord liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country, ah, at least 6 casualties in live as russia launch is miss solid tax on areas in weston and southern ukraine. mass destruction and moto poll, but the fight continues as ukrainian forces ignore russia's ultimate them to surrender. ah, hello money inside. this is out there a lie from dough hall also coming up, trying to calm, rising public anger, sure lank as president appoints

a new cabinet to tackle the worst economic crisis in decades. china's economy grows bigger than expected, despite stiff coven 19 restrictions. but it's lucky to get weighed down by continuing, locked out at least 6 people have been killed in live off to russia. carried out miss all attacks and pulse of weston and southern ukraine. 8 others were injured in the attack this morning, despite withdrawing its ground forces from some parts of the country. russia's continue targeting several ukrainian cities with missile and rocket attacks. hold the up that hamid has been following developments outside of if. according to the mayor of live eve, they were 5 strikes that targeted civilian infrastructure and i'm going to move out of the picture a little bit. i. you can see that blue of black smoke there. that's in the

direction of the train station, from what we understand at this point, the train station itself was not hit, nor were there railways, but somewhat somewhat, something in the, in the vicinity of that we do not have also any information about the for other strikes we did see another blue of smoke a bit further to decide it's gone now, but we do not know what's happened in that area, nor do we have any reports of casualties at this stage. now live is on the west of the country. it's a city where a lot of the people fleeing or, you know, other embattled areas of ukraine come to on their way out. it's also where all the foreign embassies have relocated to a head of the war. so it's certainly a city that is quite important at this as stage or to make the war operate is school is kind of a back fall is where

a lot of humanitarian 8 comes in. so any kind of disruption, judas city would have a huge impact on, on the rest of the countries or ukrainian soldiers have ignored a russian deadline to lay down arms. and mattie poll moscow says it's forces have almost seized the poor city in what would be its biggest capture if the near to month war tory getting the reports. mary, a poll is a city almost completely destroyed. and from where thousands of civilians have been unable to escape. the last major battle is happening here at a giant soviet built factory in an industrial district. the remaining saw the cranial army and large group of civilians are basically, ah, encircled by the russian forces. they continue their struggle, but it seems from the weight russian army behaves in mario vote. they decided to

raise the secret to the ground. at any cost, bodies lie on the streets in the besieged post city. ukrainian forces ignored a russian ultimatum to surrender by one p. m. local time. on sunday, he cranes, prime minister says its forces will fight to the end. the outcome will likely affect talks to resolve the wool. the air positions are all in go in the opposite direction. out rush captures, marable because lensky made it very clear that of russia carries at another massacre in mary. apple was comparable to what was on boucher on the remaining forces. then they'll be beasley at dead stop vertigo. she agency grinning. foreign minister said that there's really been no dialogue between ukraine, russia over the vasta, 48 hours. russia's own slow continues elsewhere in the east. this is the aftermath of yet another russia missiles strike in hockey. this mainly russian speaking city. ukraine. second largest, has suffered some of the was shelling since russia's invasion,

more than 7 weeks of the paramedics treat, the injured. but the danger isn't over yet. ah, he crane says russia has stepped off its attacks in the region as its full seas prepare for a new offensive in the east. the president zalinski says he remains steadfast in his determination not to concede any territory. victoria gates and be al jazeera on the scale of destruction is becoming evident in some regions of ukraine following russia's withdrawal. received soda visits, head, czerny, one of the cities hardest hit, i, russian forces, and talk to people who are rebuilding their lives. this is all that remains of 80 year old hannah's house. she lives in the neighbourhood of barbara pizza on the

outskirts of chem here. the mine you wouldn't be hostile, nearly that has no water, electricity, and gas it. no one comes here and asked, no one does anything true, and she is not the only one to have lost her home. her neighbor alexey said other shows us what was once he is pride and joy. all that's left out of the ashes of a previous life. his home was 1st hit by russian bombs in the early days of the war . and again on the 10th of march, the letter from june. we had a little bottle keeley, now i have nothing here like a ceiling and flows of burnt. but the most painful thing is that all my memorable documents have burnt weak if i didn't need them, but i kept them as souvenirs. i'm retired pilot and i kept on my pilot log, sir. despite having lost all his possessions, he looked for the future with hope that represent the roku. did his lawyer come back in 2 years? i will rebuild everything. we will have

a barbecue together. can each boom chem, he woke up to the rocket attacks on the 1st day of the war when russian troops cross the border from bella, rose. despite being besieged, it did not surrender. and finally, on the 30th of march, the russian forces retreated from the region. by chance, he has paid a high price on the answer. lana's home was here 3 times, and now they are trying to salvage whatever remains. oh, don't worry for your letter, said the montage very favorably, but there we are killing in this mass under. it tells me what can we do wanna we dont need help but others do up in law prohibits somebody actually swept on as identically. you see how a russian brothers have help us? the former, let's see for the la la la la. we met hannah again in a nearby shelter. dot com. when you book i suddenly came not the here showing me my room already. it is a nice room. i will stay here as long as i can. i don't have

a choice yet and isn't why you continue gaskets. and through the draw trina in our center was created for children with psycho your logical difficulties when the bombing started, many people came here as they were looking for shelter. we became a shelter for those who needed a total, his little geeks get good for hannah. it might not be an ideal set up, but at least she now has a roof over her head. not only these rehab center for children has changed after the war in ukraine, civilians are now become frontline workers helping to rebuild the country. and they say in this process they are more united than ever. chris, who said that al jazeera chem, here in shoreline, can you ministers have been sworn in 2 weeks after the entire cabinet resigned to com? anti government protests. some newer and younger faces have been drafted into a much smaller council of ministers. the prime minister may hinder roger pox her

and his brother president got to buy a raja pox that remain in power. shank has been struggling with its worse economic crisis since independence which has led to severe power fuel and food shortage. let's go to michelle fernandez, who was in colombo. so tell us about this new cabinet a key feature is that most of them are new feet of new faces in government. they are somewhat junior ministers and parliamentarians that the president got arbitrage epoxy has drafted in, in terms of the new cabinet. however, for the protest, as you can see, all of them behind me, they're not seem to be, are sort of happy with that or shifting just yet. they obviously have made a point. i mean, they're rallying cry has been go home, gotta go home, roger boxes and they want the government to step down to obviously as to how far it

will go in appeasing these brought as they have said, very clearly, that they are not going to be sort of satisfied with quick fixes the president, however, in his address to these newly sworn m. p. 's has talked about them sort of taking on not a privilege as ministers, but a responsibility he has called on them are to be honest to be clean and efficient. and he has talked about the system change being demanded here by this brought his campaign that this being the perfect opportunity for the young people as he referred to them, you know, helping in terms of bring in the system change. the question is whether that's going to be enough for the british does hair manella away from the politics? what is actually being done to tackle the country's economic problems? her that's a different kettle of fish altogether. we've got the finance minister ali subway, the governor, the newly appointed central bank governor, and

a number of officials who have arrived in washington dc. they are going to be holding talked with the international monetary fund. they have indicated that they're going to be seeking support of the i m f and they're supposed to sit down with that organization to see what they can do to assist in terms of shanker, sort of revival. in the mean time, we've had the stock exchange been closed for an unprecedented 5 days because it's doing so badly that the only thing to prevent a crash might be to have a truly have it closed industrial leaders. the chamber of commerce have all express concerned at this move. on the other hand, even the rookie has fallen even further against the dollar, and it's in the doldrums, so financially, konami, curly, it's going to be a long hall. thank you for that. michelle fernandez for us in colombo. still ahead on al jazeera, welcome to babylon, how tourists have been enjoying iraq's cultural treasures again.

ah, richard, he has begun the freeform world copies on its way to cattle group. your travel package today. hello there. let's have a look at the weather across europe, and it's been about the pleasant warmth over recent days, particularly for western and central areas with clear skies. in germany with sunshine, people could enjoy the blooming cherry blossoms over the we can now we are going to see that warmth. continue in cities like paris as well as london. but there's going to be a bit of a dramatic cool down for the likes of madrid. as unsettled conditions, sweep into spain by tuesday. now for the north west, we aren't going to see some rain edge into western parts of island and britain. but still some funny spells to be found, particularly in southern areas and not the sunshine for scandinavia, we got high pressure in charge here. some flood warnings out the southern areas of

finland as that snow melts and rivers continue to rise. but as we go into tuesday, we are going to see the wet and winter where the pickup for the likes of poland, as well as the check republican. that feeds into unsettled conditions, plaguing the se for the likes of the balkans as well as for grease and southern parts of italy. we're going to see some wet and windy conditions here over the next few days. but it's much finer across the mediterranean. we are going to see things cool down however, for madrid. on tuesday, i saw official airlines of the journey casino and a family man politicized by the forces of nature, filmed over 4 years. i came in pharma documents, his struggle for his community survival. i'm builds a template for global action on climate change. cassini, the climate diaries,

a witness documentary on al jazeera. mm. mm. ah. oh, you're watching out, is there a reminder of our top story? is this our russia is carried out missile attacks and parts of weston and something ukraine for rockets hit the city of live, killing 6 people and wounding 8 ukrainian soldiers have ignored a russian deadline to lay down alms and marty poles. moscow says its forces have nearly taken over the port city and what could be the most significant capture in the near to multiple inter lanka,

new cabinet ministers have been sworn in 2 weeks after the anti cabinet. resigned to com. anti government protests. prime minister ma, hinder roger pox, and his brother, president go to by roger pox remain in the us, get the situation in ukraine and the very latest in live where number of people have died. we can speak to her about her meet, bring us up to date with a situation where you are well, we do have an update, some the mayor of levine, who said that actually they were for missile strikes. not 5 as earlier believe now, one of them hit the car serviced. a facility that overlooks the railway tracks as sort of on the outskirts of olivo and st. and the 3 others actually were aimed at

military targets. now i'm deputy of the mayor has just said in an interview here that actually he believes that those were a guided missiles that were initially set to target even offensives from gifts that a which is south of levine and then were rerouted towards the 3 a military target it targets here in and around lives. 6 people have died and 11 others were injured among them. one child that's oh, that's the update we have so far. oh, we also heard from the mayor. he said that one of the blocks he didn't specify which was so strong that it actually shattered at the windows of a hotel near by where a number of displaced ukrainians from other parts of the country are where as staying, that's what we know at this stage okay, thank you for that. update that the her,

me that for us in the event on other news now, tension is high at the most compound in ocoee potty sewer slim as jewish worshippers gather the western wall to mark the pass over holiday palestinian israeli rom, policy has suspended its membership of israel kotis and government because of silence at the site in recent days, 20 palestinians have been injured all being forcibly dispersed on sunday. let's go to harry, forth it who is in occupied east jerusalem for us. harry, what's the situation at this morning? well, as you say by the, by the standards of the recent days, this has been a relatively come morning so far. but the way that it's been calm, there's something that could potentially fuel for the tensions going forward. what we have, as you know, is the crossover between the jewish positive and the muslim holy month of ramadan happening at the same time. so there were thousands of jewish worshipers at the

western world during the course of the morning for a very important prayer. when that happens, twice a year during jewish festivals, and at the same time, of course was the much wanting to get into the alex and must compound. and there were about a 100 who stayed within the mosque itself. overnight. other worship is. busy allowed in, but anyone on the 30, these ready forces were preventing, getting in these people of that sort of agent who these ready security forces deemed could be potentially someone who might be coming into the must compound with confrontation on the mind that obviously encapsulates a much wider cohort than just that. and so we have people who were locked inside the mosque. people who prevented from getting into the most compound. and at the same time, the usual sorts of jewish visits to what in judaism is known as the temple mount. usually these people from the really right religious nationalists, often settlers and according to the walks,

these are michel authority that controls the most compound. they say about 560 people came in on those terms. the israeli medias reporting us valley high number, nearly 800. and so that is a relatively low number for passover. but of course that happens during ramadan. it happens during the time of increased violence intention in the run up to the holy month as well. and these images of people being prevented from getting into the compound itself that could despite the relative com this morning that could prevent further response going forward. okay, for now. thank you for that 1st and occupied easter eastern. now, number of palestinians have been injured during dawn raids carried off as early forces across the occupied west bank. more than a dozen people have been arrested in villages near janine and ramallah, published in geography say they would pain on charges of resisting the occupation

and have been taken to investigation camps. john, as economy has beaten forecasts in the 1st quarter. 2022 figures show that it is though at risk of a sharp slow down over the next few months, aging gdp that the gross domestic product expanded 4.8 percent year one year. more than expected. but the effects of new coven 19 locked downs, and the war in ukraine could still put pressure on the economy. so you should, you should, i must be aware that domestic us an international environment becoming more complicated and uncertain. as we faced these challenges, we must follow the guidance of shipping for them social trans characteristics for a new era and fully implement the spirit of the century economic world conference and the arrangements made by report to the work of the government. the must coordinate the efforts of covey 19 to response in social development. make economic stability, our top priority empathy progress, while ensuring stability, and put the task of 6 or shoring system safeguards front and center. katrina,

you have more from beijing. this figure doesn't really tell the full picture regarding the health of china's economy, because of course, we've had 2 major things that are really affecting affecting it at the moment. one is the ukraine war, and 2nd is the biggest corporate outbreak that child has faced since the beginning of the year. and many analysts are saying that we're not really going to see the impact of those 2 things until the 2nd quarter. so what we do know is that this figure that beat expectations, 4.8 percent. a lot of that is value factoring activity, especially in the 1st 2 months as well as infrastructure spending. but what we had in march was the lockdown of some major cities across china financially crucial cities, including the commercial center of shanghai, looked at the cross. wong jo, the manufacturing center of shin gin, tens of millions of people confined to the homes. so we really, analysts are expecting that the worst is yet to come unfortunately,

and we all be getting to see hints of that in the data, although we've had strong performance in some areas. if you look closely, for example, at consumer spending, that's taken quite a dive. it's negative 3.5 percent. that's the lowest figure when it comes to consumer spending of domestic consumption since july 2020. the 1st year of the pandemic and the jobless rate you're in, china also rose to 5.8 percent in march, which is the highest the job this rate has been since may 2020 without weighing is the chief economist that hang bang china. she says there are concerns about the sustainability of the upturn. the number has to be the market citation by a very wide margin. so people do have fear that this may not be sustainable. and when you look at the breakdown of the data, it's quite obvious. there are some structural issues on the growth was bolstered by infrastructure, spending,

manufacturing lesson and an export. but the weak spot is consumption. it actually turn negative growth in march and in many peoples as fact in the coming month. and the weakness in the consumer market was sustain closing the 2nd quarter. my slow down quite significantly on not so much from the ukraine war because the commodity price has somewhat stabilized, although still out of their high level. but the cobra control, especially the repetitive pattern of the city locked down, has been the biggest challenge. when my look at a period of time, a 2nd for a few dozen of chinese cities could implement their last measure simultaneously, which can be a big damage to transportation, production, consumption, and international shipping. and that could be a very big chaos. 3 das playing to complications from coven 19 have been reported in shanghai. authorities have been ramping up efforts to fight the pandemic with

inflatable labs 200000 samples. a day being tested, the city announced a 14 day lockdown on friday. now the number of people who have died from flooding in south africa is rising. 443 have now died, dozens and missing most struggling to keep up with demand after the heaviest rains in 60 years. the disasters caused nearly $700000000.00 worth of damage. in sweden, at least 3 people have been injured off to police 5 warning shots into a crowd of people during unrest in the southern city of, nor shopping. all as has broken out across several cities. danish far right groups said it planned to burn copies of the koran in response a well and has summoned the swedish envoy on cattle has condemned what it calls an act of incitement. tourism is making

a comeback in iraq despite years of war and the destruction of ancient archaeological science visits of the now returning to see the remaining cultural treasures on the nation is proving popular and has long been known as the cradle of civilization. from babylon. he'd reports in the ancient city of babylon, tourists are trickling back. that follows the iraqi government, ending the needful, pre arrival visa from dozens of countries. this is erica of babylon, as it's thought to have looked like in 600, b. c. little is left of the original a structure, but tourist is, are fascinated by 4000 years old mister per to me as cultural heritage. a lot of people back in ireland don't even know that babylon is in iraq. they don't even know it's still a real place, you know? so it's so incredible to be able to come here. this is what remains of the hanging

gardens of babylon. one of the 7 wonders of the ancient ward. the original and renowned is todd gate was shipped off to berlin by european archaeologists. at the beginning of the last century, archaeologists say numerous, his seroquel treasures are waiting to be discovered across iraq. here in this area, for instance, there are ancient ruins. beneath these surrounding pol mcgrooves and villages there threatened by oil pipelines running through them and encroachments by local residence. all was the cultural, half planned, of ancient mesopotamia. it's revered as the birth of the place of prophet abra harm and gained international attention following glass. he is a visit by the head of the catholic church. papa frances. yeah. i think even more

from from my parents, they were, they were quite nervous. they were, they asked why you go into iraq and, and is going to be safe. and but the people i've been so friendly is very welcoming . and so for my point we, it's a great country to with us. so sense of priceless artifacts have been looted or smuggled out of iraq ancient term pills, palaces and tombs either destroyed by i sil or damage it under the watch of consecutive governments over par alysia fill happy political, cultural tourism was blooming before the 2003 us live invasion, but we've recently received several western excavation missions that have helped a lot on discovering and protecting many sites. they've also highlighted the importance of or as the center for inter faith and destination for tourists from various backgrounds. a resurgence of tourism means creating new development projects and job opportunities for many here, highest and harder for these pieces. a hand crafted by young people who have no

other jobs to do so we can the government to help bring to respect so that we can keep the business afloat. accept a shot, and continue to maintain the immortal memory of ancient and super team. yet, even though much of its magnificence has been lost to decayed zoof case and neglect, more brewer had al jazeera in babylon city. centrally rock, cmc divers have been down to check the rack of the tanker for leaks after sank of the coast of tennessee. no pollution has been supported. so for a freshman now especially concerned next year brown report hitting out into the mediterranean sea from the chin in port city. if gave us the dive teams part of efforts to prevent what activists warn could be an environmental catastrophe. they were sent to inspect the hall of the sunken tanka,

the z low. it went down on saturday along with 750 tons of diesel the vessel flying the flag of equatorial guinea was sailing from egypt to malta. it 7 man crew issued a distress call on friday evening and sought shelter from bad weather. but the vessel began taking on water. the crew were later safely brought to shore june as he is environment ministers, helping oversee the response. she says the situations under control of it and getting his own the muscle tone, this is car, go off fuel oil or diesel. it's very different from oil in the fuel. oil is much less dangerous and tends to evaporate fairly quickly. we think the hall is still water tight, and there's no leakage at the moment. no little she authority, se barriers are being set up to limit the spread of fuel. and any spillage would be mopped up. but local fishermen angry, their livelihood relies on the waters where the tanker is lying. the world wildlife

fund says the areas of fishing ground for $600.00 sailors with the wide gulf providing jobs for around $34000.00 others. i think we demand that specialists go down into the sea and unload all the materials inside. if a leakage occurs, we will not have anything, as we already only have a little part of the see left to live on. janasia says several countries of offered to help out to prevent any pollution. alexia brian alto 0. ah, this is out there. these you top stories. russia has carried out missile attacks and parts of western and southern ukraine for rockets hit the city of live, killing 6 people and wounding 11 or the after her meat has moved from live. if. according to the mayor of living, there were 5.