there are some of the media stories, a critical look at the global news media and al jazeera, not on a shuttle access to social media. ah, the cranes president says russia's new east and offensive has been gone off the day when targets across the country will hit ah ha. why? money inside this is allergies their life and also coming up? israeli strikes hit counts, used by huh. softer rock, it is 5 from the gaza strip. swearing and a new cabinets rolling because president acknowledges mistakes that led to an

economic crisis, but ignore was cool to quit and arrests and injuries and sweden also fall right? politicians plans to burn the wrong trigger for days of riots. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says russia has begun a full scale offensive to take control of east and regions. he says invading forces on attacking along a 480 kilometer from in dumbass, where russian back separatists have declared their own republics, rushes refocused its operations in dumbass alta failing to capture the capt. o'keefe zamora good. now we can already state that russian troops have begun the battle for the dumbass to which they have been preparing for a long time that 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 give up anything ukrainian and we don't need anything. foreign. tele stratford isn't any praise south of car keys and has more of the fighting in that part of the country. 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 loo guns region as well. and officials in la guns warning remaining civilians in that area to get out. and, and fighting in villages, that one of which, at least we understand, according to the ukrainian military, was taking control of by russian forces. will r drive from here to the knee pro. today, of course, as you can imagine, we passed a military vehicles heading in both directions to be fair. but what we do know

is that certainly in the eastern region, certainly around on netscape and i suppose ganske as well. so we're told, and 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 eternal conflict started well before this invasion, 8 years before this invasion. so we understand the preparations for some sort of defense there. i have for i've been underway for a long time. the 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 air power to hit positions and both on enemy lines and behind

a ukrainian enemy lines. a lot of artillery. and then some people are talking about the use of heavy use of, of russian tanks and infantry. so we're the beginnings of an escalation today. and this announcement by, by president zalinski, very worrying indeed for, as i said, potentially hundreds of thousands of ukranian civilians in the east of this country will. so monday, russia bombarded several targets across ukraine and what appears to be an intensified bed to grind down its defenses. the landscape regional military administrators, as russia has taken control of the town of camina, which he says has been flattened by artillery. elsewhere missile attacks caused the 1st civilian deaths in the western city of live. while koch, he's also been hit by more shelling and missiles were fired at keefe and ukrainian forces. a still hold up in

a steel works in mateo pole and believe to be the last pocket of resistance in the shattered city. for the abdul hamid rounds up the latest developments it was just after 80 and when the air sirens went off, moments later black smoke overly beef. skyline form missiles struck one after the other. a few seconds interval. one of them destroying this car repair workshop in the north west of this city. it took several hours for the fire to be extinguished . the force of the blast rock natalia and her daughter katya out of bed. they fled to hometown of seville, done yet in the east of the country a week ago. let us begin here we will get back to normal. but this attack took us back home when the shows for london around us. and we saw deadly burst on the ground. it's horrible to leave with once again. we feel hopeless,

certainly doomed. i'm an adult woman, but can't comprehend how to come to terms with that. how to the further to find strength to keep going. this is scary. some employees at the workshop, among the dead and wounded the 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 rerouted towards here . ah, ukrainian officials believed 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 keep continues to come under constant shelley, russia now striking deeper into the city center. and in more you pull when

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 russian forces, ukraine's president followed the met, zalinski has described the situation there as in humane so far, levine has been spared the destruction witness and 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 de mayo warns no one is safe here either. jordan, am i am agreeing with me now in ukraine? they are no safe or unsafe places. every one is under threat. i repeat my call to our resident. whenever you hear the sirens go to the shelters, because he 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 the target of its air power. what of that? how many edges you are living here i read it as a member of ukraine's parliament. she told us that people in monopole are resorting to on imaginable things to survive. would the reports and the information that we are getting is humanitarian catastrophe. there my people are dying of hunger, they eating the dogs and the pigeons as they are dying all day, some basic illnesses. and there are children by bank of dehydration. could you imagine that the 21st century in the center of europe, children, i dying of dehydration? how is 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 agreements to let people out of the city, but so far has been no progress. not even the negotiation, not even in bringing supplies to the city. so it just, everybody is watching on my people dying there. or the russian president vladimir putin has told a televised meeting of economic officials that weston's sanctions backfiring. he says most goes withstanding what he described as an economic blips came by the us and europe leasing. and we will discuss which extra decision is to take in order to maintain russian business. in the circumstances of the sanction pressure from our unfriendly partners, they trotted the fable life financial and economic situation in russia and course banking crisis. we can certainly say that this policy is failing. the strategy of

the economic blitz creek has failed. functions are hitting the initiators very hard . they have inflation, loss of drugs, living standards going down into us and you brush we stand the unprecedented pressure. dosage of our in moscow says president pigeon is pushing out of business as usual message. the mean? oh, seem of his message to his a financial economic. her officials during this meeting was that at the country's economic status has now normalized and stabilized. he said that the retail demands have now as in normalized 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 early this countries . so called special military operation in ukraine, which began on february 24th a slew of unprecedented sanctions against russia began. and now at 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 there. 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 the general public, and are 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 that go back to before add. the operation began. jordan's king abdullah has spoken with the egyptian president of the thought i'll cc about the violence that the alex m mos compound since friday. they've been confrontations between palestinians and

israeli police, jerusalem's old cities, considered wholly to muslims, jews and christians, whose holidays of ramadan pass over any stick converged at the same time this year . both lead is called for an end to what they say are proper prerogative. israeli actions, israeli army says as strikes of hit camps used by hummer and gather off of walk, it was 5 from the strip to was southern israel. no casualties have been reported in either attack. the rocket was intercepted by israel, that air defense system has been wanting of retaliation for israel actions at alexa in while 17. your palestinian girl was shot by israeli forces during a raid in the occupied west bank has died. hannon could do or was injured on saturday. her mother says she was on her way to an english course in the city of janine. and he's 21. people have been killed so far cheering is where any

operations across the west bank over the last 3 weeks. israel says his actions are in response to palestinian attacks. game can la la yamato, you stana beer? we heard from people who were there that a sniff room, one of the buildings was waiting for a car of a wanted man. instead of hitting the car with a bullet, the car turned and the but it made its way to my daughter. she wasn't the intended person, but the bullet moved away and hit my daughter. she suddenly paid attention and said my abdomen her. it was one bullet but it made 5 holes in her body. it hinted through her arm to her chest and abdomen penetrating the liver in spleen. the bullet is still in her or the rob, so it didn't stay in one place. still ahead on al jazeera electronic devices of british officials connected to the highest levels of government appear to be infected with spice of when and seen the potential effects of climate change. fast harris at abacus, president pushes for battle, fight against global warming. ah

hello there. welcome to look at the international forecast. we got a little bit of snow in the forecast once again across a good part of our north america. season very when she weather sliding across the prairies through the plains. we've seen some very lively storms also pushing away from the deep south easing out the way brightest guys come back in behind. there's that snow lake effects now just running across eastern canada into our new england northeastern part of the us could see some wet and at times disruptive snow. further west, well, i'm afraid there is more snow yet more snow in the forecast comes into western parts of canada, rolls across sea cascade and will continue to make its way further east was making way for the next weather system which will bring some re wet and windy weather in

across the pacific northwest western parts of canada. very wet weather larvae storms, possibly some fun. down. pause, localized, fighting, not out of the question. and noticed some snow once again. coming back into ontario ahead of that's it's fine and dr. little on the cool side temperatures struggling to get up into the low teams here that we see is a very wet weather. meanwhile, making its way across the caribbean, particularly across the greater antilles. we could well see some localized fatty across passive haiti and his banner ah the, from the al jazeera london bro cost center to people, unprompted uninterrupted, the witnessing a much more humane response. what subject to the ukrainians than what has been meet without to least known. you appear to produce taught one. if i do is that good now on nana offered to aim. if somebody comes to gone from europe, then never cool of an immigrant, even if they go through exactly the same processes that we go through to come here

. they're always known as an ex pat studio, be unscripted on al jazeera. ah oh, well, come back watching out as a reminder of our top stories as our ukrainian president, florida is. lensky says. russia has become a full scale offensive to seize control of the eastern regions. these include areas where russian back separatists have full the ukrainians for 80. and 87 people have died off the russian missiles hit the crane in the city of levine and the 1st civilians killed in the western city which had previously been considered

relatively israeli asteroids to pick camps. he's by how santa rook it was odd to with southern israel in the gaza strip. i'mma said early a wound of retaliation, no limitations between is already forces and palestinians. in o. p point east to resume a digital rights watchdog group says it wound british officials that electronic device is connected to the highest levels of government appeared to be infected with spice. software. citizen lab says the spyware, known as pegasus a product of the israelis, thigh bombs, dealer, and a so group. the watchdog has linked the hacking of devices in the u. k. prime minister's office on the foreign office to enter. so clients in the united arab emirates, jordan and india. none of these countries have commented on the u. k. government says it doesn't comment on such security matters. and so has denied the allegations . let's speak to adam shapiro,

his director of the israel palestine advocacy at dawn. he joins, as far as going from detroit in michigan, just to repeat the anna, so have denied the allegations and we haven't heard any comment from the british government. but if this is found to be true, how significant is it is quick to get in and it should be said that citizen before has a long track record, credibly proving its obligations would be evidence that are fine on the devices and what, what is significant about this in this case, although it really isn't surprising is the expense of which even european. ready governments are using the spyware against their own civil and against political target. we've seen that authoritarian governments are using this. ready fire against political target. ready stylists, tonight's defenders, people like to show be founded on the vs. but what's the government seems to be

doing to and not using it to fight crime or human trafficking other things that the government, the government and the company said that despite where use the u. k. were warned about the possibility of this sometime back. would they have tried to do something about it? listening might have tried to do something about it. i do think that a bit of catch up by some of these intelligence agencies who believe that they have a better system than the private sector and especially in this case with them. so they will also promises me by the years ago. ready saying that the technology couldn't be used against us phones or israeli. ready phones or u k. ready phone, all of that has been proven to be bogus. how long do you think before the be held accountable? we've seen the u. s. president. put the company on the blacklist what sab has tried to sue it. do you think anything is going to come from these moves or moves

like it? well, i think what we're seeing is already happening. there is a case in the u. k. court about the ownership of n a. so group, there's a big battle between investors and funds. ready for ownership, one of them just came out and said, the value of this group is basically 0. and there been no need bias for the company since the pegasus project reports came out last july. if that's true, and if this is what the market was saying, the marketplace basically saying that the company has no value, then it will go the same way as other hacking companies in the past of their cyber . ready surveillance companies have like packing teams in fisher and others have gone bankrupt, largely because they've been exposed for providing technology that farms. i've said violate privacy. ready and effectively poison. ringback for the, for society i don't spare really good to get your thoughts director of the israel, palestinian at advocacy at dawn. thank you. a

national state of disaster has been declared by sub africa's president for storms that have left more than 440 people dead sterile rum poses says it's also clear more needs to be spent shoring up. defenses against the effects of climate change up to 400 millimeters of rain fell in the province of causality. natal over just 24 hours last week. katya lopez, what a young reports the heavy rains have stopped. but the crisis is still unfolding. south africa, the national defense force says 10000 troops will had took, was zillow, natal, province, to help clear out the devastation left by days of flooding. more than 440 people were killed. dozens from missing. this rescue team is looking for one of them. la before, oh my god, we're out here helping looking for our neighbor. we're sure she was swift by the

river because we found her son's body nearby, but she is still missing. families are left to wait and manage. one painful struggle after another is the most likely not pulling the fucks about. the situation is bad. her son is already at the morgue. but since we haven't found his mother yet, we don't know where to lay his remains. are the floods lift thousands of people homeless? the young soul knocked out power and water services. the president says, climate change fuel the disaster and new measures are needed to prepare for extreme weather. we need to increase our investment in climate adaptation measures to better safeguard communities against the effects of climate change. the government has declared a state of disaster with nearly $70000000.00 allocated for relief efforts. with communities hit hard rescue team say it will take more than time and money to fully

recover. hundreds of thousands of children are due back school on tuesday after the easter holiday weekend, but authorities worn for many that won't yet be possible. castillo, this will the young al jazeera shlang as president, has admitted that he made mistakes which contributed to the economic crisis in the country. but go to by roger pox is still refusing to resign. a sworn in a new cabinet hoping to turn things round as men, al fernandez, reports from the capital columbia. after days of protest against lunk, has government, 17 ministers take their oath before the president most are young with little political experience. probably not 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 younger 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. i can even like meant that, you know, it's of no use of who is the same kind of crooks. just different faces coming in. this is not alicia article came from community 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 prison got, i'll be right above her and reminisce or my in the right above the remaining tod. things will be the same. when our fernandez order, 0, palumbo, and in place so and highlands off to hindu muslim vod interrupted in new delhi during a hindu religious procession. and so was such incidents in the capital since 2020, when fighting, killed more than 50 people from new delhi, elizabeth per on them, reports, 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 north west delhi was unable to come out. if a 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 appear to show him to his 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 accused each other of starting the violence or limit, okay. the muslim stopped, doesn't asked us to turn back. that is a mosque closed 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 ccd mortgage. we're

analyzing cctv footage and other additional evidence. based on that, more people were identified. they will also be detained and interrogated, ma'am is donny. police also said they'll take action against any one found guilty regardless of their for legit, but not everyone believes that one lawyer has filed a petition with the 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 death of 53 people. most of the muslims. billy believed at all during the and here during the grantee died at has been under the grid. cindy, so being good, had admonished invaluable news or they are all on the legacy, roach and your family 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 a him has asked the supreme court to stop regional governments from bulldozing the homes of muslims suspected of violence. that sort of 45 or builders for the state of mother probation last week following violence between henderson muslims. that also occurred as him, the groups were leading processions through muslim neighborhoods. elizabeth brought him al jazeera new delhi. dozens of people have been arrested and injured during the 4th day of riots and sweden began over far. i groups plans to burn copies of the koran in muslim neighborhoods. police believe some of the protesters are linked to criminal gangs. these 20 police vehicles have been destroyed or damaged in the violence or reese is in malmo where there were riots during 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 sweetie citizenship through his father. and now he has essentially caught bullshit 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 migrant 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 states where they're all right. so last couple of days, demonstrations turning into riots is just a few 100 meters behind me. there was a school bus there, a bus set on fire and residence causburn's. a line are to start coding today,

some reaction from the government, the prime minister, mark delane 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 violence fence is, is indefensible, and unlawful and really it's the swedish law that is also a problem. and this issue, ah, this is out there are these you top stories, ukrainian, president, lauder, missouri, and ski says russia has begun the full scale offensive to seize control of the eastern country. these include areas where russian back separatists have fought the ukranian army for 8 years. that is ramona. now we can already state that russian troops have begun the battle of the dumbass to which they have been preparing for a long time. a significant part of the entire russian army is now concentrated on

this offensive.