just really trying to do is rewrite the security architecture. it's your personal united states. you start to go to walk and chew gum at the same time, your weekly pay on us politics and society. that's the bottom line. ah, ukraine's president has russia has begun. it's offensive to take control of the east of the country. this off to russia intensified its attacks across ukraine with the previously safe haven of live suffering its 1st civilian death. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm to mozy in london. you watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program,

arrests and injuries in sweden off to a fall right? politicians plans to bond, the koran triggers and 4 days of riots and police on high alert as religious violence boils over in india's capital. ukrainian president warden ear zalinski says russian forces have begun the battle of the da boss, an offensive to seize full control of ukraine's east in industrial heartland. that's where russian back separatists have been fighting ukrainian forces for the past 8 years. in recent weeks, the criminal declared that capturing the don bass is its main goal of to, failing to take control of keith. present. zalinski has vowed to defend the region . that is no more than a cause. now we can already state that russian troops have begun the battle of the dunbar to which they have been preparing for

a long time. a significant part of the entire russian army is now concentrated on this offensive. no matter how many russian troops are driven there, we will fight. we will defend ourselves, and we will do it every day. we won't keep up anything ukrainian and we don't need anything. as far as. i know i spoke to charles stratford in the eastern city of neat pro, with more details on the escalation and fighting on that part and that side of ukraine. specifically, an escalation in car cave, despite that city having been under such heavy bombardment over the last 7 weeks or so. we saw increasing fighting in the new guns region as well. visuals in guns warning remaining civilians in that area to get out and fight again. villages that one of which at least we understand according to the ukrainian military, was taking control of by russian forces will drive from key to denise pro. today, of course, as you can imagine,

we passed military vehicles heading in both directions to be fair. but what we do know is that certainly in the eastern region, certainly around donnette sk and i suppose ganske as well. so we're told these are some of the most elite and well trained ukrainian units in the country though of course, many of them have been there defending that. those front lines for 8 years since this conflict started, or certainly the internal complex started well before this invasion, years before this invasion. so we understand the preparations for some sort of defense. there have been on the way for a long time. they're highly trained. they're very well motivated, as we've seen in the last 7 weeks in their defense of give, for example. but the fact is, is that they are hugely outgunned by russian forces. military analysts are

expecting the russians to use a lot more power to hit positions, both own enemy lines and behind ukraine in enemy lines. a lot of artillery. and then some people are talking about the use of heavy use of russian tanks and infantry. so we're the beginnings of an escalation today. and this announcement, by, by presidency lensky, very worrying indeed for as i say, potentially hundreds of thousands of ukrainian civilians in the east of this country in la rushes, military is pounded towns and cities across the country to day. is it just some of the places that have been targeted? a governor of the han screens as the town of crimea has fallen to the russians with 4 people killed as they tried to flee. and then 7 people died in a missile attack on leave. the 1st civilians killed in the western city which had largely escaped attack until now. and then another day of shelling killed civilians

in her cave. more missiles were also fired at the capital. keith. meanwhile, in the port city of mario pull, ukrainian forces is still hold up in a steel work safe in defending from the russian military. on the abdul hamid reports on a list now from levine. it was just after 80 and when the air sirens went off, bowman's later black smoke overly beef. skyline form missiles truck one after the other a to few seconds interval. one of them this drawing this car repair workshop in the north west of this city. it took several hours, would have fire to be extinguished. the force of the blast rock natalia and her daughter katya out of bed. they fed their hometown of seville danielle in the east of the country a week ago. this is what is produced here, we will get back to normal. but this attack took us back home when the shows for london around us and we saw the neighbors on the ground. it's horrible to leave

with. once again. we feel hopeless, fatally doomed. i am an adult woman, but can't comprehend how to come to terms with that. how to li, further to find strengths to keep going. this is scary. some employees at the workshop among the dead and wounded free military installations were also hit in the morning attack. now, a local official says that the guided missiles were initially aimed at the van of van gifts, a region south of live eve. and then at the last minute we're re routed towards here. ah, ukrainian officials believe the missiles were fired from the east, perhaps as far as the caspian sea. oh boy. at the same time, similar scenes were unfolding in other cities and towns around the country. had

keith continues to come under constant shelley, russia now striking deeper into the city center. and in my you pull when it forces have ignored an ultimatum issued by moscow to surrender. hold up in a steel factory south of this poor city. despite being surrounded and outnumbered by a russian forces, ukraine's president followed the marriage zalinski has described the situation there. as in humane so far live eve has been spared the destruction witness in those other cities. it has played a vital role in this war, becoming the supply and logistical hub for humanitarian and military 8 coming into the country. now the mayor warns no one is safe here either joining in my brain, but they are now in ukraine. they are no safe or unsafe places. every one is on the threat. i repeat my call to old resident. whenever you hear the sirens go to the

shelters, because you might save your life. we mourn those who died, but we have to be vigilant. they are now smashing civilian infrastructure. more and more will be coming. as russia seems to be shifting its focus on the ground to eastern ukraine, the rest of the country remains very much to target of its air power. what of that? how many others you are living was you inch in to earlier rusher is also battling to take over the port city of mario, pull, seizing it completely. would be a huge strategic prize because it could be used to link occupied territories in the south and east. at least a 1000 civilians are still hiding, though in shelters under steel works that is surrounded by russian forces. according to the city council, which says, russian forces are dropping heavy bombs on the plant. russian troops and allied rebels now control most of mario full. but you quite need forces is still defending the steel walks, the commander of

a ukrainian brigade. there is appeal for help and elected to pope frances. he has at the city has become hell on us. earlier i spoke to kiera roodick a you quiting, m p, and leader of the hollows party, told me the wallet has allowed atrocities to take place in mario full. would the reports and information to be a getting its humanitarian catastrophe. there might, people are dying of hunger, they eating the dogs, and a pigeons is e, are dying all day, some basic illnesses and there are children. why the angle dehydration could you imagine that the 21st century in the center of europe, children, i died of dehydration. how's it even possible? how did the world allow these things, these atrocities to happen? and this is why it's so painful because for 54 days it's been happening. we are saying that we need help and support. and we need like some possible agreement to let people out of this it. but so far has it has been no progress,

not even the negotiation, not even in bringing the right to the cd. so it just, everybody is watching. on my people dying, there. moscow's mayor is warned about 200000 people in the russian capital at a risk of losing their jobs because foreign companies of either laughed or suspended operations. meanwhile, rushes president jim of putin has told his economic officials that western sanctions of back firing was loser. we didn't with alicia the now we can confidently declare that such policy is filed with respect to russia. the strategy of economic blitzkrieg proved unsuccessful sanctions are hitting, the initiated is very hard. i mean, rising inflation, unemployment, and worsening of the economic dynamic in the united states and europe, declining living standards for europeans and the debbie waste of their savings was worth dosage of bar. he has more on that meeting now from moscow. the mean,

i seem of his message to his or financial and economic her officials during this meeting was that at the country's economic status has now normalized and stabilized . see, he said that's the retail demands have now as and normalize as well as the inflation in the country has stabilize. this is in reference to a number of things that took place following at the launch of a this countries so called special military operation in ukraine. which began on february 24th, a slew of unprecedented sanctions against russia began. and now this country is the world's most sanctioned country. as a result of it, the president to i was in talking about the panic purchasing that took place following the sanctions that came into force in the last few days of february in the beginning of march. many russians and believed that their country was going to be completely cut off from the rest of the world. and there was a lot of panic in terms of at the general public. and they purchased many things,

the thinking that they wouldn't be able to get their hands on it later at that has since gone down a lot. as the president said, there was also an inflation ad that was happening at the rate of about 2 percent weekly as a result of the sanctions now. or that has seemingly also subsided to levels. are that go back to before as the, our operation began? still, actually on the program, much more to bring you more palestinians, arrested and injured as is ready for says right villages in the occupied west bank . and shanghai announces its 1st official, dest him code. 19, after almost 3 weeks of a grueling lockdown. ah, hallo! was seen a big fall off,

interpreted across southeast and parts of australia. an abrupt end to our recent warm spell of weather could hear this band of cloud at cold front. so the cooler air making its way him across victoria spilling out to south australia. pretty dull and damp day than for much of that southeast corner as we go on through tuesday by remind on sundays or monday afternoon temperatures got up to 28 celsius in melbourne. it was 29 on sunday. only 17 half a tuesday. so you gonna notice something of a different setting in the outback of new southwell central in western part, seeing some very heavy re l suite 3 brightest guys, come back in behind. notice the temperatures. i'll take a little while to recover. much of australia will be dry and fidler, we have got some very heavy ranges, making its way up towards northern parts of queensland. can seen some increasingly wet weather as we go on through the next day or so. and turning increasingly wets across much of new zealand. over the next few days, wet and windy weather setting in here for a time,

a wet weather has set in across southern parts of china, feathered, all that's fine, and dry, warm sunshine coming back into beijing. not too bad for the korean peninsula. and lottie set with just one or 2 showers, the japan ah. the witness fair, witness, bravery, witness. freedom, witness, slavery, witness. people, witness. how was witness and lifetime witness in our witness, man witnessed beast, witness prejudice, witness. peace, witness. love, witness. ball witness. the world witness. next door. witness life witness. but al jazeera oh,

a back main stories now. ukrainian president, northern there's the landscape says russian forces have started the battle for the dawn, back and offensive to see the full control of the east and ukraine. at least 7 people have died off the russian, the health at the quantity of the vive. they are the 1st civilians killed in the west and 50, which had previously been considered relatively safe. and other developments russia is present. the patient is told is economic officials that western sanctions of backfiring with the measures causing a search and inflation and unemployment in europe in the us. for the 1st time in months, a rocket has been fired towards southern israel from gaza. this video, which was uploaded by israeli media,

appears to show the rocket being fired towards kiss offend. israel's military says it was shot down by the country's missile defense system. it follows dawn raids carried out by israeli forces in the occupied west bank that left several palestinians injured more than a dozen people who also rested in villages near janine and ramallah. tensions remain high at the locks or must compound in occupied east jerusalem with thousands of jewish worshippers gathering the a by the west and wall to mark the parts of a holiday that is ready for says stop. some muslim worship is from entering the lexicon pound. 20 palestinians were injured in 18, arrested while being dispersed by israeli forces on sunday. the palestinian israeli rom party is suspended, but dissipation, israel's coalition government, because of violence at the holy site. dozens of people have been arrested during 4 days of riots in sweden, triggered by a far right group announcing plans to publicly burn copies of the koran rallies protested the police were injured in the clashes. violet started on thursday at

protest, designed to oppose demonstrations, organized by danish swedish politician rasmus paladin who needs the anti immigration and anti islamic hotline movement pool. reese is in mamo where there were riots over the weekend. this began a couple of years ago in the late summer of 2020. and is the whole reason that paula don is described as danish sweeter she tried to come over to my my van and threatening to burn a copy of the koran and the sweetest police stopped him. he managed to get round that by claiming sweetest citizenship through his father. and now he has essentially carte blanche to come over and, and do whatever he wants. now he's the, he's the leader of the strong coast party which has not had any influence in sweden . so far, but he will hope to push his anti immigrant anti islamic agenda head of the swedish

elections later this year. and that's over this is the weekend has led to those riots up in nor shipping lin shipping or bro. and here in momo, the rosen go to state whether all right, the last couple of days, demonstrations turning into riots is just a few 100 meters behind me. there was a school bus, a bus set on fire and residence calls burnt, a line to start coding today, some reaction from the government, the prime minister marked elaina anderson has said that paula dunn's actions are up horned. but she's defended the swedish constitution and said that, reacting to it in this violent sense is, is indefensible, and unlawful. and really it's the swedish law that is also a problem. and this issue or india's capital new dally is on edge off to violence between hindus and muslims. last, several people injured at least 25 people have been arrested since the fighting

broke out on saturday. and the 2 years ago, the city witnessed some of his deadliest communal violence for decades. elizabeth brought him reports from the jelly, police and paramilitary forces remain on the streets of john. good pooty, 2 days after hindu celebrating a religious festival fought with muslim residents. here, police are forcing people to stay indoors and the predominantly muslim neighborhood in northwest deli was the amount of unequal muslims can even move out of the homes . the police isn't acknowledging what the hinder state. wow, it hinders kevin's wards in a religious procession. haines organizations can raise their slogans, we don't have a problem with that. but when we celebrate our festival, do we raise such slogans? outside temples, phone videos appeared to show him those carrying swords as they held a procession through the neighborhood on saturday. and another purportedly shows a muslim man firing at the procession. both sides accuse each other of starting the

violence. women, okay. the muslim stop does not just returned back. there is a mosque close by and when we got dead, they started fighting and tried to create chaos. more than 20 people have been arrested in connection to the violence. 16 of the muslim ccb mortgage. we're analyzing c. c t, v footage, and other additional evidence. based on that, more people were identified. they will also be detained and interrogated. danny police also said they'll take action against any one found guilty regardless of their religion, but not every one believes that. one lawyer has filed a petition with a supreme court asking it to oversee an independent investigation into the violence . it's the worst religious tension in the indian capital and 2 years in february 2020 fighting between muslims protesting against the citizenship amendment act or ca. and hindus who supported it, led to the deaths of 53 people. most of the muslims believed or during the indian

20 dives has been under the christian. these have been good, had admonished invaluable news for their own on the legacy approach and have been on, i think, the rights and that's not the only petition surrounding recent tensions that's been submitted to india's top court. a muslim organization called jamal lama him has asked the supreme court to stop regional governments from bulldozing the homes of muslims suspected of violence. that's after 45, a bulldog in the state of mother probation last week following violence between hindus and muslims. that also occurred as him 2 groups were leading processions through muslim neighborhoods. elizabeth brought him al jazeera new delhi. well, many indian states are sizzling under a record breaking heat wave that st temperature soaring past 40 degrees celsius. a weather warning has been in place for several days. last month was the hot march for a 121 years. since officials in india 1st started recording temperatures. residents

a, it's highly unusual for it to be so hot. at this time of year. all going to me out what we've got. the heat is very difficult. hey, it's used the only the sorted. my, but this year i pro feels as hot as my or june 11 are to some way. now to should anchor, the president has sworn in a new younger cabinet 2 weeks after the previous one resigned or to by raja packs have promised change an express regret for his government's handling of the economic crisis. many say that's not good enough. as michelle fernandez reports from colombo after days of protest again tr lunk has government. 17 ministers take their oath before the president most are young with little political experience. poverty, no me out of buddha. the crisis that exist today is a good opportunity to bring changes to the system. the people are asking for that you have got that opportunity along with that, i am asking young people to assist that process. so says delta 0, that prime minister my in the roger potter wanted more experienced people in the

cabinet. he did not attend the swearing in the president's decision to bring young people into the cabinet is seen by critics as a way of acknowledging and responding to demands made by youths in country wide protests against him and his government. the country is suffering its worst economic crisis since independence from britain in 1948. a shortage of foreign currency has left the government, unable to import basic essentials, leading to price increases and shortages of food, medicine, cooking, gas, and fuel. tens of thousands of people have demonstrated for more than a week at this protest ground outside the president's office in colombo. oh, and the reaction to the new cabinet here was no surprise. get even like metatags it's of no use of food. it's the same kind of crooks, just different faces coming in. this is not alicia probably came from corona gala to somehow chased them out. we honestly have no way to live because of what they

are doing. we are managing with great difficulty, after months of denying an economic crisis. the government has downplayed the protests and he seeking help from the international monetary fund. but some economy see, it may be too late. most of the young people we spoke to here. they're, they're not happy with the appointment of a new cabinet and that as long as resident got alberta buffer and prime minister, my and the roger buck, the remaining tod, things will be the same. michelle fernandez, auto 0, palumbo, the south african government is deploy 10000 military personnel to search for people still missing after flooding and to help restore power. it's a week since record rainfall began pounding the east coast, flooding durban and surrounding regions. 443 people have died, but more than 60 still missing. in one town near durban, community members joined police and sniffer dogs to try and find a woman swept away by rushing waters. or dozens of people who rescued from the

atlantic ocean near the canary islands. $61.00 refugees and migrants including 9 children, were picked up by the spanish polk coast guard. they were taken to a port on grand canaria human rights groups say at least 4400 people, including hundreds of children, died last year, trying to reach spain from africa. now, chinese authorities have reported 3 corona virus tests in shanghai. the 1st of the cities latest outbreak, shanghai is in its 3rd week of lockdown as the country continues to enforce a 0 tolerance approach. another round of mass testing is also due to take place. june, we just cancel. none of them had been vaccinated, their condition deteriorated after being admitted to the hospital and they died despite the medical intervention, the direct cause of death with underlying diseases. richard bro baker is an entrepreneur based in shanghai has been locked down with his family for 18 days. he told us what life has been like that the 1st week of parcel lockdown is,

is almost normal if you could go around your community. even though my son was at home learning through school, we were able to kind of, you know, get around the city. we could, we could do it, we wanted to, we can buy groceries without much, without much challenge, or at least have it delivered. but the full lockdown has been the real challenge. and the 1st week i'd say, a lot of anxiety, a lot of people trying to buy food, who hadn't prepared fully, but also just trying to understand what is the timeline, how serious of the situation, what's gonna be the impact of business to education like those are some real concerns and a lot of anxiety. the 2nd week was a little bit easier. i would say there were certain, see, some are leases were getting some, some ideas that things might be, might be lightening up. but the last week has been kind of back things idea again, where the duration of 3 weeks, 4 weeks for food on have really kicked in. and i have a team member that's over 40 days now in her home. and so there's a lot of anxiety now building up around what will be the next 2 weeks,

2 months of this locked down, but also now china wide crow vice restrictions in china light to shut down in shanghai. a damaging the world's 2nd largest economy grew faster than expected. the 1st 3 months of the year bought, fell short of the official target. the warn ukraine is also creating challenges as katrina. you reports from beijing. china's economy beat most expert forecasts and expanded by 4.8 percent in the 1st 3 months of 2022 strong manufacturing activity and a boost in infrastructure. spending early in the year drove much of that growth. but major challenges threatened the outlook of the world's 2nd largest economy. sure g to the global situation has been complex on the fluid domestic way. coven 19 continues to have impact. that's why some major indicators was low down and there's a pressure i can amik performance. other china is battling it's worse current of ours outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic and tens of millions of people

nationwide have been confined to their homes, look downs and pers march across major industrial and commercial hubs. including shanghai and sion, gen have crippled supply chains and assembly lines. analysts say the damage caused by shutdowns will be further felt in future economic data. but retail spending has already contracted by 3.5 percent. unemployment has also risen. foreign business leaders say badging 0 tolerance approach to corporate 19 is harming both the domestic and global economy, the west and, and japan, korea, all the big economies have strong interests. the china changes to one because it said percent of all goods and china manufacturers have some sort of china in there . so of china actually sneezer, you know, the world catches a cold. we need child to succeed. we need china to open up in order to actually maintain also good the global economy at a certain speech speech and a global economy needs china now to succeed because we have

a war and ukraine which as a rebel on effect. and this is like a perfect storm coming altogether. unfortunately, rising inflation and a cash crunch in the property sector are also dragging on growth. the government has set a g d p target of around 5.5 percent this year. it's the lowest in decades, but many believe this figure will be tough to achieve without the rolling out of more aggressive stimulus measures. still, china's leaders insist on maintaining the most heavy handed pandemic measures in the world. the cities of she ad, pseudo and john jo have joined shanghai in imposing restrictions following local outbreaks over the weekend. katrina you out 0. beijing. now argentina's transport ministry is released cctv footage of a young woman who had a very lucky escape. she was getting ready to board, a train and wine desires,

when she fainted, as the train was still arriving and fell on to the tracks railway staff and police officers managed to pull her out and take her to hospital. they later discharged her with no serious injuries. and actually this happened at the end of march. a couple of weeks ago. video is only just gone viral now and there is incredible. ah, look at the main developments, the sour and ukrainian president ramirez lensky says, russian forces have started the battle of the don bass and offensive to seize full control of ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. in recent weeks, the crime declared that capturing the don basses its main goal after failing to take control of keith present zalinski has vowed to defend the region zamora.