this stuff from al jazeera is mobile app, available in your favorite app store. just set it and tap the made a new app from audi 0 me at you think it it ah, ukraine's presidents as rushes new east and offensive has begun all to day when targets across the country were hit. ah, i'm running side. this is allergies their life and day halls coming up is riley strikes, hit camps used by hamas soft. a rocket is fired from the gaza strip. swearing a new cabinet shrank as president acknowledges mistakes that led to an economic

crisis, but ignores calls to quit. ah, and arrests and injuries and sweden, alta fuller, i politicians, pounds to burn the chrome trigger for days of rights. ukrainian president below them is zalinski says russia has begun a full scale offensive to take control of eastern regions. he says invading forces on attacking along a 480 kilometer front in dawn bass, where russian back separatists have declared their own republics, rushes refocused. it's operations in don't bass solved. failing to capture the capt o'keefe. that is zamora good. now we can already state that russian troops have begun the battle, 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 keep up anything ukrainian and we don't need anything. foreign. charles stratford isn't in a price south of car keys and has more in 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 the increasing fighting in the loo guns region as well. and officials in 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 kia to the ne 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. they of course, many of them have been there defending that those front lines for 8 years since this conflict started, or certainly the internal conflict started well before this invasion, i years before this invasion. so we understand that preparations for some sort of defense there. i have for i've been underway for a long time. they're highly trained. they have 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 app. how to hit positions and both on enemy lines and behind

a ukraine, an 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, a very worrying indeed for as i say, potentially hundreds of thousands of ukranian civilians in the east of this country or so on monday, russia bombarded several targets across ukraine in what appears to be an intensified bid to grind down its defenses, the lou hands regional military administrator says russia has taken control of the town of krajina, which he says has been flattened by artillery. elsewhere miss alt tags calls, the 1st civilian deaths in the western city of live if khaki has also been hit by more shelling and missiles were fired at cheve ukrainian forces a still hold up in a steel works in mario pole. it's believe to be the last pocket of resistance in

the shattered city. although i'm done hamid rounds up all the latest developments. it was just after 80 and when the air sirens went off, moments later black smoke over libby. skyline form missiles struck 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 catch ya out of bed. they fled their hometown of seville danielle in the east of the country. a week ago. it is here we will get back to normal. but this attack took us back home when the shows for london around us, and we're sort of 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. 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, were rerouted towards here. ukrainian officials believe the missiles were fired from the east. perhaps as far as the caspian, c, y, at the same time from similar scenes, were unfolding in other cities and towns around the country. had give continues to come under constant shelley, russia now striking deeper into the city center. and in where 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 russian forces, ukraine's president followed the marriage. zalinski has described the situation there as in humane so far, levine has been spared the destruction witness in those other cities. it has played a vital role in this war, becoming to supply and logistical hub for humanitarian and military. 8, coming into the country. now de mayo warns, no one is safe here either. join, you knew my whole green, best buy now in ukraine there 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 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 others you are living? care riddick as a member, if you cranes parliament, she told us that people in modern pole are resorting to on imaginable things to survive. what the reports and 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 over they 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. russian president vladimir patient has told a televised meeting of economic officials that western sanctions on back firing. he says moscow is withstanding what he described as an economic blitzkrieg by the u. s . in europe today, shooting. 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. 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 in the us and you brush we stand the unprecedented pressure. tulsa jabbar, in most cases, presentation is pushing out to business as usual message. they mean a seam of his message to his financial and economic 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 ass and normalized as well as the inflation in the country has stabilize. this is in reference to a number of things that took place following the launch of this country. 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,

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 believe 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 that has seemingly also subsided to levels or go back to before add the operation began. jordan king's abdullah has spoken with the egyptian president of the fathers cc about the violence at the alex. so mos compound since friday there been confrontations between palestinians and israeli. bernice jerusalem's. old city is considered wholly to muslims, jews and christians,

whose holidays of ramadan pass over eastern, all converged at the same time this year. awfully leaders call for an end to what they say are provocative. israeli actions. israeli army says as strikes have hit camps used by hamas and garza after walk. it was fired from the strip to at southern israel. casualties have been reported in eda tag. the rocket was intercepted by israel's air defense system. us has been warning of retaliation for israeli actions and a 17 year old palestinian girl who was shot by israeli forces during a raid in the occupied westbank has died hun on co do or was injured on saturday. and mother says she was on her way to an english class in the city of janine. and he's 21. people have been killed during israeli operations across the west bank over the past 3 weeks. israel says his actions are in response to palestinian

attacks. still ahead on al jazeera, can you images could offer more clues about what happened to russia's most that warship before it sank. and in the philippines, the sum of a former dictator is the front runner and expense presidential election. ah. with holiday we've got cloudy or whether we got slightly cooler weather coming back into the east side of the but it's friday. you can see that spilling into levant, while the more cloud they're just running across more than part. so the middle east, someone's of a western disturbance just making his way towards more than afghanistan. more than pasa pakistan that should help to break the heat. and i, we are seeing the heat break across that he's the side of the met damascus. for example,

30 celsius on tuesday got around 25 as we go on into where to state some places of sherry right to the north of that south of that little more cloud the across central parts of saudi arabia. but large you dry and that dry weather extending across kata. danica some parts of the arabian peninsula. last dry across northern parts of africa, one or 2 showers, that just coming into southern parts of egypt into chad. perhaps quite a brisk wind and a brisk wind. there to into a northern areas of algeria. heavy showers just around the gulf of guinea, southern parts of nigeria sinks and very heavy rain. over the next few days i started down post, could call some localized flooding. now of course, we have seen the fighting into that eastern side of south africa recently. still some pockets of heavy rain in the forecast, but i'm pleased to say it will turn dryer and brighter over the next few days. ah. on counting the costs,

latin america's inflation nightmare returns come governments bring prices down, lebanon reaches a draft deal with the i a map that will the nation implement reforms on west africa, worst crisis in a decade. oh, fun. the much needed a counting, the cost on al jazeera, we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter how you take it will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. oh, oh, you're watching out. as a reminder, if our top stories, the sour ukrainian president allows him, is zalinski, says russia has begun a full scale offensive to seize control of the eastern regions. ease include areas

where russian back separatists have fought the ukrainians for 8 years. only 7 people have died out to russian missiles hit the ukraine, the city of live, the fuss civilians killed in the western city, which had previously been considered relatively safe. israeli as strikes of head camps used by hama soft a rocket, was flying towards southern israel from the gaza strip. i'mma said alley, a wound of retaliation, not to confrontations between as rightly forces and palestinians in occupied east jerusalem. a video has surfaced, the russian war ship moskva just before it sank off the coast of ukraine, on their still conflicting reports about what happened to the flagship of russia's black sea fleet. ukraine says its missiles hit the ship, but russia maintains that it sank while being towed away off to fire on board. trying to halt reports. new video appears to show russia's flagship cruiser the 43

year old moskva or moscow. shortly before she sank in the black sea on april the 14th, but what actually happened to the aged mosque law? this image offers clues in clear distress and listing heavily portside. the mosque appears to be burning internally with smoke billowing from portholes. there are signs of hall damage. life rafts are missing. the helicopter doors are opened while a rescue ship alongside sprays. water jets. ukraine claims it fired land based neptune missiles that struck the cruiser off the coast of odessa. russia says only that there was a fire on board and that she sank in choppy waters while on the tow back to port. yet the waters here a come and the moskva is not on the tow. and perhaps most importantly, the fire be broken, not just ahead of it,

their defense missiles and just behind itself is this miss l. so if at some point after the imagery was taken, either of those systems ignited that would have likely caused a much larger explosion that would have made the ship effectively unsalvageable. so it's undoubtedly a ship in distress and very much consistent with the ship that has been subject to a successful cruise mythos. also uncertain is the fate of the mosque was crew as many as 500 strong on saturday russian defense ministry pictures showed the commander in chief of the navy meeting the ship's crew. in the crimean port of sylvester pole. only around a 100 men present. russia has not confirmed any casualties, but there are reports of social media posts by relatives announcing the death of loved ones on board posts that were later deleted. in the opening salvos of russia's invasion, the mosque vall played

a major part of it. confronted buddha, gods on snake island in ukrainian waters, and ordered them to surrender. the incident and their colorful response became an emblem of ukrainian resistance. the sunken moskva almost 2 months later, is now emblematic of something else. not just one of the most significant losses in recent naval history, but assigned to many as well that ukraine's resistance is working. jona whole al jazeera, a digital rights watched or groups as it warned british officials that electronic device is connected to the highest levels of government appeared to be infected with iso with citizen lab says the spyware is known as pegasus. it's a product of the israeli cyber alms dealer en, eh, so group want show because link the hacking of devices in the u. k. prime minister's office and the foreign office to en, eh,

so clients in the united arab emirates, jordan and india. none of these countries have commented and the u. k. government says it doesn't comment on some security matters. an essay has denied the allegations. shlang as president has admitted that he made mistakes which has contributed to an economic crisis in the country but got to buy a raja park so still refusing to resign. instead, he sworn in a new cabinet hoping to turn things round, and l 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 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 and the roger potter wanted more experience 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 countrywide protests against him and his government. the country is suffering its worst economic crises 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, you know, and i can imagine it's of no use a tool. it's the same kind of cooks just different faces coming in. this is not alicia article came from cooney 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 her mind the raj about the remaining god. things will be the same bill. fernandez, auto 0 fillable and didn't police on jaila selves. a hindu muslim violence erupted in new delhi during a hindu religious procession. it is the worst such incident in the capital since 2020, when fighting, killed, more than 50 people. elizabeth per on the 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 northwest deli was amount of unequal muslims can't even move out of the homes. the police isn't acknowledging what the hinder stayed. while a hindus 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 neighbourhood on saturday. and another purportedly shows a muslim man firing at the procession. both sides accused each other of starting the violence on them and okay, the muslim stopped, doesn't asked us to turn 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 cc'd levy ford edge. 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 the supreme court asking it to oversee an independent investigation into the violence. it's the worst religious tension of 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, believe it or during the indian 20 nights has been under the grid. cindy's have been good, had admonished, invaluable news for their own on the leg yesterday. and they have been, i think, the rights and that's not the only petition surrounding greece intentions 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 our to 45 builders for 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. dozens of people have been arrested in india during a 4th day of riots and sweden and began over far right groups. plans to burn copies of the koran. in wisdom neighborhoods, police believe some of the per, just as the link to criminal gangs is 20 police vehicles have been destroyed or damaged in the violence for races and mama where they were riots during the weekend . this began a couple of years ago in the late summer of 2020 and is the whole reason that polygon 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 swedish 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 ad 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 a 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 causburn's. a line are to start code today,

some reaction from the government, the prime minister mark the lane, 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 protests have also broken out outside the swedish embassy into hon. demonstrate to say that outraged by far right. politicians who are planning further burnings of the wrong or concerns, the unrest weakens sweden's relationship with iran and other muslim countries. the sana form of philippine dictator is maintaining his from running position and next month's election for it and on bone bone. marcus junior says he wants to return the country to its former glory family links with an oppressive pastime, conviction for tax evasion, on hurting his popularity. to mil alec dagon reports from manila.

0, one of the value my room for. but marcus junior is the front runner in the presidential election in maine. but for some one who is running on the platform of unity, he is seen as the most divisive candidate. that's because the marcus named conjures up images of corruption, decadence and oppressive rule. many say it was the day when democracy died. on september 21. 1972 martial law was imposed by former precedent. ferdinand marquess thousands were jailed, tortured and killed. that brutal rule lasted for 14 years, and it remains to be the darkest period in recent philippine history. but 64 year old baldwin is the only son of the dictator ferdinand marcus senior. he dined in exile in hawaii after the revolution which toppled him in 1986. it may seem

surprising to many now, but the marcus political resurgence didn't happen instantly. political observers said the marcus, his have spent years using social media to rewrite history. oh, despite widespread outrage in 2017 president rodrigo to 30 allowed his predecessor to be buried in the revered hero cemetery. in manila, many see the rehabilitation of the marcus image is nearly complete. miko simply wants to preserve his family's ill, gotten worse and once got and bid. thus, he probably left things beyond bills, but more interested and more self interested people. it will be a continuation of the old regime. despite his political pedigree, mark, as junior, has been marked with cases and deaths both here and abroad. he was convicted of

facts, evasion, his family's multi $1000000.00 estate tax to remains unpaid. and he is facing the largest ever contempt case, filed by a u. s. court al jazeera requested an interview with the marcus campaign team, but we didn't get a response, or the candidate has also missed other media interviews. and most of the presidential debates. but bumble marcus junior says, all he ever wants is to return the country to its former glory for many filipinos here. all they see is the son desperate to leave the country. that others accuses parents of ransacking jamal alan dog and al jazeera manila. ah, this is our desert, these you top stories. ukrainian precedent follows him is lensky says russia has begun.