tackling radicalization in fact, pushing youngsters to the fringes of society impacted you typed below. man, thanks so much. have a can take if will you thank. okay, let me re thinking radicalization, part of the radicalized heat series analogies, era o u. s. president joe biden announces more military support for keith and makes it easier. few craniums to seek refuge in the us. ah, hello, i'm adrian for again. this is al jazeera alive from dough, also coming up. the siege of as of style rushes, president says all but the industrial area and maria poll is under his control. ukrainian forces trapped him side are defiant. maria pulls math issues. another

desperate call for a humanitarian corridor to allow thousands of civilians to leave the city. britain's private as to boys johnston, faces upon a tree investigation for lying to m p's over corona virus lockdown parties at downing street. we begin with the announcement of more military support for ukraine. u. s. president joe biden is promising an additional $800000000.00 package to help keep in its fight against washing forces. that's about the same amount in military aid that the white house pledged for ukraine last week. but congress will need to approve the due deal since funding for weapons is nearly exhausted. this package includes heavy artillery weapons, dozens of howitzers, and $144000.00 rounds of ammunition to go with those howitzers. it also includes more tactical drones. in the past 2 months, we move weapons and equipment to ukraine of record speed. however,

with this latest disbursement, i'm almost exhausted the drop down authority. i have the congress authorized for ukraine in a bipartisan spending bill last month. in order to sustain ukraine for the duration of this fight. next week, i'm going to have to be sending congress a supplemental budget requests to keep weapons and ammunition flooring without interruption, the brave grain fighters and continue to deliver economic assistance to the ukrainian people. hold on, i, my hope is my expectation is congress would move and i quickly escal lines to washington or white house correspondent, kimberly l. couldn't so that for a so kimberly that tell us more about what the president had to say and what exactly it is that he's offering to ukraine. l the u. s. president believes that the fight has changed for the people of ukraine, particularly the terrain that this requires a different type of weaponry. so the united states now offering some 800000000 to

supply heavy artillery. that includes $72.00, how it serves as well as one 144000 rounds of ammunition and $121.00 goes drones. we also know that in addition to this 800000000 in security assistance, there will also be 500000000 in humanitarian and economic assistance. this is so that the government of you can crank and continue to can keep some of its programs running. now another announcement that has been made the is that the u. s. government is also banning russian affiliated ships from docking in any sort of u. s. port so that the united states can continue to penalize the russian government and sort of disable its ability to finance its war machine. all told the package that now has been in now's brings the amount of security as this is the u. s. has pledged or dispersed to ukraine to 3400000000 since the start of the

russian invasion of ukraine. kimberly new detail survey on plans for ukrainians. who are seeking temporary refuge in the us will. can you chose rober? yeah, this is an announcement that the years president made when he visited europe last month and it is 100000 ukrainians, will have the opportunity to live in the united states to apply for residency as well as be able to live here and work for a period of up to 24 months, but there is a bit of a catch to this program that is that they need you already have a relative living in the united states that can sponsor them. so this is what's giving the program a little bit of criticism men. the other criticism of this program that's been announced is the number of people it's helping because is the latest numbers of

people fleeing ukraine is somewhere upwards of 5000000. and yet the number of refugees being welcomed into the united states by the, by the administration is roughly 100000. you can see that there is a big gap in the number of people being welcomed in, in terms of just how many actually need help. so that is getting a lot of spotlight given the fact that the biden administration says it was to help . but in terms of those be welcome to the united states. the number is relatively small. white house correspondent, kimberly helicopter life in washington. many thanks. kimberly, russian president vladimir putin as abandoned his plan to stole the steel plant in mary apple where the cities lost ukrainian defenders hold up. instead. moscow will continue to blockade the site. russia still expects to capture the complex, the next 3 to 4 days dosage. murray reports now from moscow. this is what

victory looks like for the russian military, nearly 2 months into moscow's so called special military operation. and its defense minister is now declaring his 1st major successor of the armed forces. so the russian federation and the peoples michelle daniels, people's republic heavily been rated maribelle. the remnants of the formation of nationalists took refuge in industrials on of those off style plant. the as of style plant remains the last stronghold for ukrainian troops in mariel pole who have refused to surrender. officials believe there are nearly 2000 ukrainian fighters hold up in and around the steel plant. for days, russian officials had been saying they are willing to allow sporadic ceasefire periods to let them surrender, or they would have to storm the plant. now, the commander in chief of russia's armed forces has other ideas, bigler group. i consider the proposed storming of the industrial area, pointless. i order to aborted. this is the case when we must think that is we must

always think. but even more so in this case, about preserving the life and health of our soldiers and officers. there's no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities block off this industrial area so that not even a fly comes through neevadolla. she'll probably dormer, or i know they've captured most of mario, paul a long time ago. we are very well aware of that, but there's a part of the city where our service men remain and they will stay there for now. so hope william, this once thriving port city was home to more than 400000 people. now, fewer than $50000.00 are left unable to escape the fighting. as vladimir putin was being told of victory and mary opal russian back separatist fighters of danielle and our school was back in session for the 1st time since the invasion on february 24th. according to the done yet, so people's republic,

$721.00 children are going to school and mario fall under its supervision. the separatist say moscow has sent school books for these children, including text books on the russian language and russian history. you are oddly, children, neglect to be alive, to communicate with each other. they respect to elders, some of them and the teachers. this school directors from previous schools, posters, reading for homeland, for russians, for don bass, all in russian, covered the walls in the schools. an indication of what's likely to come as russian officials say it is now safe for residence to return home russian forces entered mary opal on march 11th. now, 42 days later they have claimed victory. but at what cost, it's not clear if any $1.00 will return to this ruined area to live under russian occupation, or who will be expected to rebuild

a city which now lays in ruins. door such a worry al jazeera moscow, as the russian offensive in the east of ukraine continues. i'll just as charles stratford report so from bark porch and the don boss region. the great focus is on what is being reported as around a 1000 civilians. in those bunkers underneath that still works, that is still certainly a section of it we understand controlled by ukrainian forces. those pictures released yesterday by the as off battalion, one of the fighting forces that are inside that steel plant, showing families, children sitting on beds. obviously, having been there for a long while and increasing concerns on how those civilians are going to be get out . now the as off themselves have released a statement saying they want a humanitarian colored all to get those civilians out of that steel plant. as well as what they say is around $500.00 injured soldiers,

but we also know that those fighters are refusing to surrender. and in that context, despite vladimir putin saying that basically it's victory in my real pull, i think it's fair to say that it would be almost inconceivable. the fact would be conceivable for those ukrainian if i just to be able to push back until that pilot is played, of ukrainian forces. he, any military analyst would tell you he doesn't have complete control over that city . so putting that needs this victory in mary awful. and just how he's going to get that victory without potentially a 1000 civilians, at least being killed, remains to be seen. the prime minister of spain and denmark of pledge their support to ukraine on a visit to keep that religious european leaders to meet the ukrainian president. in recent weeks, they also made a trip to body anchor outside the capital where the bodies of 9 civilians were

found. over night, spain's prime minister petro sanchez, condemned what he called the atrocities of putin's war on the streets of the town. where the cranes president says some 120000 civilians. a still stuck in the seeds city of maria poles followed him as zalinski says that russia has taken most of the city, but the ukrainian forces still remain in parts of it said like sam was now the situation is difficult, as you know, it's bad and we believe it hasn't changed since yesterday. as you know, several 1000 people are blocked, including service men and civilian women and children mainly with these. i also told my colleagues with nearly 120 civilians are trapped in mary paul. according to our estimates. young as nice, shaw and b, i know they captured most of mary paul a long time ago. we are very well aware of that huge, but as a part of the city where our service men remain and they will stay there for now.

the school outside ukraine's capital kings. many ukrainians are still surveying the damage left by russian shelling al jazeera hotter. abdullah hamid reports now from a pin. we're, we're here actually at this bridge that leads out of a pin. and this place really has become iconic for all the wrong reason it had been detonated as the russians were trying to advance to as the capital a keep. ah, you know, if, if you recall there was these dramatic pictures of civilians trying to flee as quick as they can under the shelling ah, this car just looking at it. you can just imagine probably a family or someone in the trying to run for the allies just to find themselves at the bottom of the river here. and we have no information. what happened to them? now down there under that, under the bridge, that's where people were running out,

trying as quick as they can to flee the russian shelling and also the crossfire. because on the other side, you had some ukrainian forces, so the civilians basically were trapped in the mid level that now this image of devastation is something that you will see over and over again. the more you drive down that road after being there is also now becoming iconic for all the wrong reasons. we'll get a weather update. next he announces era, then, ah melody's take on a whole new meaning as the key of symphony orchestra 6 to the stage for the 1st time since the war began. ah, the journey has begun. the 34 world carp is on its way to cattle. hoop your travel

package to day. hello, we got some rather wet weather pushing out of for southern china. it's making his way towards japan, but in between to pan we'll see some fine and dry weather is our next batch of cloud sliding through on this weather system. further north got another system which will break somewhere to weather into the northeast of china. far east of russia and we go rain clearing japan as we go through friday. bryce guys coming back in 26 celsius there for tokyo is our next area of where to weather coming out of central and southern china that sweeps out across yeast. china seek you, she will see some of that wet weather as we go on through the we can make the most of that fire and dry weather ahead of that and try at time spent also the usual showers across southeast asia, some live the ones, sir, popping up particularly straddling the equator. i also got some rather wet weather, just spilling out of indonesia, unseasonably wet. i would suggest pushing up towards us,

sumatra showers continue across the far south of in your little more cloud up towards the north west. just knocking the edge of the temperatures here slightly, just a couple of degrees below 40 celsius full. some that will make his way further east were still some where to whether they're coming out to bangladesh and northeast of india and noticed the showers do continue. the swell anchor. i saw a issue and line of the journey got on one of the fastest growing nations in the world while need needed to oakland and development school international shipping company to become a p middle east and tried and wanting skillfully enough 3 key areas of develop who filling up from it, so connecting the world, connecting the future while the cato castillo's gateway to whoa trade. lou

ah, hello again. this is al jazeera. let's remind you of the main news. the south u. s. president joe biden has announced a new support package for ukraine bite and says he's earmarked $800000000.00 of military 8th, which includes heavy artillery and drones. russia says that it's captured the stitched. the strategic port city of murray of paul, president, putin has ordered his forces to abandon plans to storm a steel from plant death and late siege to it. instead, it's the last remaining strong hold of ukrainian resistance in the city. of the matter of maria poll says as an urgent need for a humanitarian corridor to rescue civilians who are hiding inside that as of steel,

steel plants. he says that to go see asians are continuing with russia to allow ukrainian fighters to leave with their weapons. british empire voted to investigate where the prime minister boris johnson lied to parliament of the so called party gates, control received. johnson's come under intense pressure of being fined by police for holding parties of downing street at the height of the pandemic. let's go live now to central london now to serious joan a whole is outside of parliament. so despite having got a large majority in parliament, jonah, you k, lawmakers have given the go ahead for this investigation. ah, that's right. in the last half hour or so, this labor party sponsored opposition back motion has been waived through parliament on the nod unopposed, without a vote. triggering an investigation by parliament into whether or not the private devoris johnson deliberately misled, empties lied to them. in other words,

when he said in december, no rules have been broken in respect of those, the legs, parties that have taken place in downing street over the period of lockdown restrictions and remembers you said he has already received a on himself as part of the ongoing metropolitan police investigation for attending one of those events, his own birthday party, no less inside the cabinet office. in 2020. it's a very significant turn of events. this that had seemed unlikely, even as recently as this morning, off to the government table to talk amendment on wednesday night aimed at wrecking this motion using its atc majority to do so. that amendment was dramatically taken off the table late morning, apparently in fear of a larger than expected revolt. rebellion by conservative party em fees. had they been asked to vote, who simply don't want to be seen ahead of local elections next month as blocking parliamentary scrutiny. while the name of the game now seems to be openness on the part of the government, or as johnson in india says, he invites that scrutiny. he has nothing to hide. but an important moment this is

for him and for his position as prime minister after hours of debate today, in which option, the scathing things have been set by empty on all sides of the house about him, including calls for his resignation. but his johnson will now become the 1st serving prime minister in recent times to face an investigation by parliament over whether he lives to m. p. 's potentially putting his own job very much in jeopardy . so jetta, what will this investigation entail? when will it begin? but it will be run by the privileges committee. it's a committee of 7. empties cross party empties. it will begin off to the police investigation. still ongoing has completed. there's no timeline on that. it could be weeks, it could indeed be months. the burden of proof is quite high here. of course, it's not a court of law, but they'll be looking at his intent. what did he intend when he said those things?

no rules had been broken. remember, for his johnson's defense in terms of the find he's received, is that he didn't believe at the time that he was breaking the rules that the gathering he attended was in breach of the rules. well, that defense could where pretty thin, if as expected he receives up to 3 more fines in the coming weeks from the police and boys. johnson, already the 1st serving prime minister to be sanctioned by the metropolitan police for a crime committed while in office could become the 1st potentially to have been found to have lied to m p's. and i think the for the pressures for him to resign. if that were to be, the case would be resistible houses. there was john hall reporting live from central london. many thanks. indeed, jona francis presidential hopefuls holding their final rallies ahead of sunday's vote. president emanuel macross has been campaigning and sunday, a sub a north of paris. he's hoping to court voters who went overwhelmingly to the left in the 1st round. as far right challenger, marine la penn is set, told

a rally in northern france. opinion polls favor mccrory, but suggest that it could be a tight race. this jose mendosa movies easy, the french will mobilize to and michael's 1st term, which has been devastating for them. they understood well last night during the presidential debate any recent days that at the 2nd term would be even worse as a possible 2nd term for emmanuel macklin will be a social disaster. he will no longer have any limits and he will go to the end of his logic on our, from our series. natasha butler, who's in our us, where marilla, penn is wholly her final rally ahead of sunday's vote. bring the pena out and about sir in northern france as a selection enters its final leg, voters will go to the polls on sunday to elect their next president. she, of course, is hoping that it will be her. she will be holding a rally in this city. of our house a little bit later, we're in the north of frogs. this is a region where her fall, right?

a party has a lot of support. she feels very comfortable in this part of frauds. this is why she's coming. this is the last rally off her campaign for the last a few months. she's been traveling around the country, trying to garner support. it pushed her through the 1st round. and what she's be doing the last a couple of weeks is really trying to court voters many left when voters, you don't have a natural candidate in his final run off because you have the far right leader. also you have the company centrist emanuel micra, marine the pen, also trying to court many voters who abstained in the 1st row to try and persuade them to back her in the final round run. our fees is. she says that if elected, she would do more in terms of creating more jobs that she would protect workers form globalization that she would help reduce prices and costs the cost of living. such an important key issue i in this campaign for so many she is hoping that many of those voters will, as i said, support her in that final round run off is really forces 5 rumbled bullets. do use

pepper spray, injuring 21 palestinians of the alert for mos compound. ah, there's been almost a week of hyper tension at the size and occupy the schuessler. incursions by jewish ultra nationalist groups sparked the recent unrest. al jazeera stephanie decker report that visit to there's 3 hours allocated to the entry of those groups are, is now over it is over until the end of each for the next 10 days. you will not be seeing any more of these far right wing group. sy, in the compound, but from early morning just before they were given out to access these really forces that cleared the compound area. also pushing some of the younger men into the mosque, closing the kibbler mosque, and then you had rubber bullets. we'll so pepper spray used inside the mosque of palestinians using fireworks firing out of them all. so this is the kind of tension

that we've seen over the last week a little bit more to day. certainly possibly because it was the last day, but the big picture here is that palestinians say that there has been an absolute change when it comes to the status quo. this is what jordan israel agreed upon many years ago. jordan is the custodian. i'm of the holy site that muslims were allowed to pray. non muslims were allowed to visit. but the, the increase of these groups in numbers and in ideology, in terms of the call of these far right wing jewish groups to pray. they actually try to pray some of them go as far as to call publicly for the read the building of a 3rd temple. this is hugely provocative to palestinians. hong kong is starting to relax some of its strict corona virus restrictions. earlier this year, the city imposed some of the walls, toughest measures to deal with soaring infection rates. or critics say it's done irreversible damage to businesses. now serious adrian brown reports, ah, one of the world's most congested cities,

the partial realization of cobit 19 restrictions, couldn't come soon enough. families have been rushing into theme parks, sebring of semblance of normality. it's more than a 100 days since basketball was bad. but for these players, it feels longer than that. it's heavy to be again, like in half a year. so it's, it's happy to be here again to be able to get that report claim. but while bars and beaches remain closed, restaurants can now stay open longer. but one owner says his industry has paid a heavy price for the government pandemic strategy, which is seen around $2.00 and a half 1000 eateries close since early january. it's not the policy itself, it's the lack of clarity. if the confusion and chaos, the flip flopping, that's been quite a bit of frustrating foss, even if there's a spike in the number of cases. i hope the attitude is that we have to live with

this. now. hong kong standing as asia's premier financial center, was already under pressure before the 5th wave. the european chamber of commerce says that up to half its members considering leaving hong kong in part because of its tough corona virus restrictions. one expert though doubt, settle, go through with it. if you think that the market could come back and they are considering the thing, i probably offer some due diligence. they realize that, you know, hong kong remain to be vibrant, financial center, hong kong, zip, who was once asia's busiest. it's now it required a monday. no flights arrived from outside asia, airlines of band for a week, if 3 or more passengers test positive for cobra. from the same flight and everyone entering the territory was quarantined for a week in a hotel. many other countries in asia, including singapore and south korea, have opened their borders to fully vaccinated travelers who no longer need to

current team. that in turn is helping their economies to grow again. but hong kong like mainland china is sticking doggedly to what it calls a dynamic 0 infection strategy. that means eliminating the virus rather than learning to live with it. it's a strategy that many economists warn, could damage hong kong economic future. adrian brown al jazeera hong kong the cave symphony orchestra is putting on its 1st performance since the war in ukraine began, and its musicians are on a special mission from the ukrainian government. so stays concerts at warsaw, philip monica walsall for the monic rather will be the 1st stop on a european tour at each artist has a role to play. as al jazeera sandra chappelle explains, ah, at any orchestra performance, the full range of human emotion can beyond display. but the keeps symphony

orchestra is practicing playing a different sort of tune as it begins a european tour with a special assignment from ukrainian authorities. nashik on saturday of sir, i'll concerts are truly a cultural mission. yeah. in ukraine we said is a cultural front dialects. it's not escaping the wall. it's another aspect of the wall of thought each strom and distraction from the reality back home and away from musicians to express. the feelings that can't be summed up with words profess him being a professional artist on the world stage is very, very important right now. because we have access to people, souls through music and art, we speak to souls, we transmit a pain and desire our aspirations to hearts through music. he's only been with the orchestra for a week and a half, but italian conductor, luigi gadget o. says he's never seen rehearsals like this before. and he hopes the tour will last until the end of the war. whenever that might be. and i noticed that he had

you love order, they don't just feel nostalgia for a job. they feel nostalgic for the very reason of their existence, which is music. it's like the air they breathe and finally they can breathe again. back in ukraine, a familiar melody is played during dark nights below ground. mm. a people of car keith emerged to take stock of what else they've lost. oh, for those sheltering and metro stations, the music brings far more. ah, with those sweet music is art. it is life, it is a real flight that helps us sold, survive. it brightens our lives and keeps us away from panicking by the darkness and gloom of the swamp. the bitterness, music, art, we give us hope for the future hope for peace in this world that life will continue

and that the light will win over the darkness. that hope. in the darkest days, he's getting these people through ah, inter chappelle altos here. ah, it is good to have you will as hello, adrian finnegan here. and so how the headlines lauser 0. u. s. president joe biden has announced on you support package for ukraine bite and says that his ear marked $800000000.00 and military aid, which includes heavy artillery and drones. russia says that it's captured the strategic port, city of mario, paul, president vladimir putin as ordered his forces to abandon plans to storm a steel plant there and laid siege to it. and stead it's the last remaining strong hold of ukrainian resistance in the city.