ah, ah. ready ready ready when it comes to russia's orange, russia is failing. you trying to succeed in the u. s. pledges more military on financial support for ukraine during the highest level american visit to keep, since the war began. ah, wanting on to 0, like from a headquarters in del hi, darren, navigate also a heads them out of my company. first french residence in 20 years to be re elected . what has major challenges ahead? china's visit to china's fight to contain covered 19 beijing's biggest district begins testing more than 3000000 residents. after dozens of new cases,

a political newcomer defeats the videos 3 time prime minister and parliamentary elections. exit polls suggest the landslide victory or russia is failing in ukraine. that's according to the u. s. sector. he stayed who's just wrapped up a visit to achieve during the trip antony blinkin and secretary of defense lloyd. austin also said that the u. s. will continue to provide weapons to ukraine to help it pushed back the russian invasion. this is the highest level face to face meeting between cheve in the white house since the war began. blink, and also said you as diplomats would start to return to ukraine. next week. russia is failing. ukraine is succeeding. russia has sought as his principal way to totally subjugate ukraine to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. that has failed. it sought to assert the power of

its military and its economy. we're forcing just the opposite military that is dramatically under performing an economy as a result of sanctions. as a result of the mass exodus from russia, that is in shambles. thursday, the broke president biden signed a, you know, a drop down in, on saturday. ours was, were showing up from that drawdown package that is a unimaginable speed. and it's due to the hard work of all the men and women who are working day out day in a day out to, to do the kinds of things that they're doing. what we're going to remain focused on giving him what he needs to be successful in the future, and that, that's what did you, you'd expect you'd expect for him to say thanks, but in he's really grateful. but, you know, let's focus on what needs to be done last spring and her that, that honey. and she's joining us from macarena that is near keith to talk to us about the reaction to the american officials visit letter.

well it was, it was to try supposed to be a secret visit and it was not because president zalinski actually leaked it to the media during his press conference at the, the evening before. now, all of us journalists are, were kept to wander yesterday, where were both us secretaries of state. and we only heard from them this morning was they cross back into poland. now this is a very different visit from a foreign officials than the ones we have seen in the country before. that were highly publicized. for example, when the u. k. that prime minister boris johnson was here and he had a walk in the streets of keith, or just last week when the head of the european council shall michelle was in country and he went all the way to boucher. 5 and boom junk or rather to see for himself the devastation left behind by this war. while none of that happened,

this was a 3 hour meeting with president zaleski that was kept under wrap. we do know that they discussed weapons, president zaleski actually denied before. had said, well if you you're welcome to come to keith, but don't come empty handed. now for what we heard from president zelinski. after his meeting, he seems to be quite satisfied. assured game of ki via the game during the day. we're happy to see you and keep in this important moment for our country. we're grateful that the united states is truly helping ukraine's. i want to say thank you personally to president biden, for his support for ukraine's and the support of the american people by them. now opportunity, sam was the priority of this meeting is weaponry invisible, support from the united states and our partners in your us. it's all about the strength of our army. and the 2nd issue is the sanctions against the russian federation, because of the full scale terror, the russians were waging in our country. well,

both j. u. s. secretaries of state and defense, they, that knowledge of the nature of the war has changed. and that ukraine needs different kinds of weaponry. i do moment actually the secretary of defense did say that new, great now is was a need to more long grade miss isles. i think you will hear more and more president zalinski, continuing to press on de needs of having other weapons, new or weapons, more offensive weapons. but it seems, at least for what both the secretaries have sate said that his message has been well received. they also said that they have ear marked out more than a $170000000.00 for the purchase of admission and greenlighted about $300000000.00 of military aid from allies to be given to you. great. probably president zalinski will say that this is not enough, as the war ended of bass is unfolding, still not at full speed,

yet according to the ukrainian is because russian troops a bog down in maria ball, and they cannot read it. we be re deployed to other areas of de dumbass and then there's also those words that we heard coming out from moscow just a few days ago that now did territorial ambitions. also including sudden ukraine, all the way to the border, or with moldova to that a suit of self proclaimed republic, there to transmit j. where must go now is say that the people living that russian speakers, ethnic russians are also in the help of moscow. so certainly a much wider front line photo ukrainians, and president zaleski will be pressing on as he has been doing since the beginning of this war, that he needs more weapons. and that's the main thing he needs at this point. all right, thank you so much with often hearing aids reporting from just near keith. ukraine is trying to repel russia's offensive in the south and east her and on bass region

. charles stratford is near the frontline and savion st. the town of lee man, which is about 20 kilometers and also here a town that we were literally unable to get to today because the shelling was so heavy we did, however speak to civilians coming out of it. they yeah, confirming what we could have saying that they were families sheltering in bunkers . we spoke to one person who described a crater in the central town that was believed to be changed from an air strike. we cannot confirm that. and just as indication of the difficulties that people are facing here is this, as it continues, there was a young family that will actually trying to get into lehman. at one stage we said, well, where are you going? can you hear the shelley? and they said, well, we have no choice, our home is there and we cannot afford to live in to meet pro, and that's where they fled to. they played that every once before and now they were going into it. just as it seems, russian forces are making a concerted effort to push towards the city of slavery and where we are now in

other areas. we also know is ongoing fighting south east of here in a town called pop sauna, which we understand is half controlled by the russian rules is heavily contested. and as i say is an indication of the russian army trying to surround savanski here as sofa so far, at least the ukrainians, ukrainian pulses seem to be keeping, keeping them back, i am under my call has been re elected as frances president, he comfortably beat far right challenger marine the pen, but he's acknowledged voters, dissatisfaction with his 1st term. with almost all the votes counted macro has an estimated 58.54 percent in the presidential run off. while the pan leader of the national rally party has 41.46 percent, bernard smith reports from paris on an annual micro gamble that

a short but intensive in campaign would be enough. it was his comfortable margin of victory of a marine le pen gives him a 2nd term of the lease a palace. only 2 presidents before him have managed that. in his victory speech, makram promised that his next 5 year term would be different. said there are new retina, so up this new era will not be a continuity of the 5 previous years. but the collected invention of a revised method for 5 better years. ra country and are you faced supporters? this is a when that endorse is what they believe is their country's role at the heart of the european union in what you sent them. i am very happy up to the laugh, minutes. i thought i would have fainted. you never know in life, anything can happen. rosy lips was ready to get up to day extensions were significant that emanuel macaroni did a good job in the 1st years of his mandate, and he deserves to lead france again. marine le pen gave the far right the highest

share of the vote in a french election, but her part to the presidency was blocked again by a republican front. in other words, many voters who supported other candidates in the 1st round voted this time to keep le pen out that martini but today is we. the game is not over since in 3 weeks time we will have the legislative elections. ah, that is we now are a distortion of the political trend and create a risk of a manual macro. concentrating all executive and legislative powers. john lew, melanie shown the far left presidential candidate, took just one percent less of the vote than the pen in the 1st round. he wants his party, france on bowed to win enough support in the legislative elections. the macro is forced to appoint him prime minister. the are to should, to all of you, i say, do not resign yourself. on the contrary, go candidly and completely into the action. democracy could once again give us the

means to change direction the war in ukraine and the rising cost of having were main concerns for french voters. both issues will likely dominate the start of macro. and the 2nd term probably won't be much of a grace period for the president on the left with many of the voted for him, reluctant to raise the retirement, real easy to hire and fire workers. i don't recall on employment benefits approaches. the 1st thing just to get out of their political journalist, lori committee has says, half of french voters don't want my crowns when a majority and the upcoming parliamentary elections almost 42 percent of people who voted for him today voted for him in order to to to reject it's minor, been, and he mccoy himself, a knowledge that his victory, eccentric exit and speech. so it's true that a big challenge for him will be,

or how can he reconcile with his party and his politics with all those voters who decided either not to vote or a vote for him. but out of rejection, fall might have been the parliamentary election or elections. sorry. are variable able, important ones for france. and apparently, house of french voters would like michael not to win a majority in the assembly. how far fringe voters would like him to be forced, forced to appoint a prime minister from the opposition camp. so that shows how big the challenge is bertha to my image. michael might, might be a helped from some part of the right wing, traditional party led from the cow, maybe for the moderate wing of this party. because we've seen that tonight or many of a member of parliament and from liverpool, he can have shown showed there's

a lot of him and michael and they will probably arrange alliance local alliance with president show party china is raising to track a coven. 19 o break. that may have been spreading in the capital for a week last, testing has begun in beijing largest district. chow yang is home to more than 3000000 people. residents have been rushing to buy essential items and fears that a widespread lockdown may be imposed. it's really you has more from basing people here and aging our stream, lay anxious and nervous supermarkets across the city, especially in the eastern part, has been stripped of many of their supplies of people panic, buying over the weekend of people think that any day now lockdown, could be announced, and this is because the authorities in the city said that there were 41 cases reported in charlie young district, which is actually where we are located in the past few days. now 41 doesn't sound like a very big number,

but they say that the situation is particularly concerning because these cases has been, they say, spreading silently throughout the capital over the past week. and because of this, we've seen 28 neighborhoods put under lockdown that at least 20000 people confined to their homes. 1200 had been identified as close contacts and they were swiftly moved to quarantine centers for isolation. now authorities say that they're going to conduct 3 rounds of mass testing in china district this week, that's about 5000000 people who have to be tested 3 times over the next few days. and they've also discouraged any form of travel in a nation to city, especially with the upcoming may public holiday, which starts on sunday which goes for about 4 days and is really typically when a lot of families leave the city for travel fil ahead on our 0 the latest on the trial of turkish versus one of monica ala spent 5 years behind bars without

a conviction. and we go underground in germany, from white, it's upgrading old bunkers, built to protect people from possible nuclear ascent. ah, the journey has begun. the b for world copies on its way to catholic book. your travel package today now still not looking spring like everywhere. it was a great deal of class, right. in fact, storm has been driving through from west to east keeping temperatures low, breezing all the cloud. and rain is the center of the most active one. the only a couple days ago was further west of the weather around it. it's cloudy, is particularly focused. i think on switzerland in this snow, in the out of the blue anyway, i would suggest a certain amount of rain to the size of it. it's improved roughly 20 degrees, madrid billions, double figures about 2 days ago. so that's an improving situation. and also towards

a cold wind here, but temperatures in the most part are at least in the teens. and yes, we've got cherry blossoms in sweet being enjoyed by all. so despite the year the recent cold, not too bad in sweden, but in zurich. yeah. only about 12 degrees dropping a little bit. couple of poor days, wednesday. things do improve in the sun returns. in fact, the picture on tuesday already see things moving eastwards, allowing much of france to come back into fine weather. so progress is west to east . we've been some very big storms recently around west africa took the round coast to to go and gala, now there suppressed that. come that far north. but they are coming slowly. official airlines of the journey. the stage is set and it's time for a different approach. one that is going to challenge the way you think was wor, inevitable. i just want the started to please don't if they're not doing the right

thing. let's leave simplicity to the headlines. join me as i take on the lies, dismantled misconceptions and debate. the contradictions do we have a real democracy here in the united states? this number political 40. that's a wrote a cool insurgency, our mark, lamarr hill, and it's time to get up front right here on al jazeera. ah, the hello again. the top story on the us secretary said anthony lincoln has thomas ukraine forces continued support from the white house. he met the ukrainian president and chief on sunday. along with us defense secretary lloyd austin, french president. my new micron has been reelected comfortably beating forward

challenger marina pan microns acknowledged the dissatisfaction with his 1st turn while she's in a good position for upcoming parliamentary lucky 900 begun invasion. large district chow yang. china has been racing to track an outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for the 1st verdict in one of several trials. me and marz deposed civilian leader has been delayed. i see she was arrested by the army when it sees power more than a year ago. she's facing a series of corruption trials. a guilty verdict could mean a sentence if up to 15 years. she's accused of influencing the 2020 vote to win a 2nd term in office. florence, though he has more from qual, i'm for. well, this is the 1st of several corruption trials she faces. and for this case, there is a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison that carries a much heavy, attend the other cases. and the other trials i have gone on against her,

they were for relatively minor offenses, with much shorter, maximum prison terms. and she has been found guilty in those cases ranging from possessing on license walkie talkies to beach in corona virus, ruth and rather sadly, she was sentenced to prison in those cases. for many people watching this case are expecting a guilty verdict as well. now in this particular case, she is accused of having received bribes from a former yang, gone chief minister. his name is pure, maintain, and he was considered a process of suji considered by some to be a possible successor. now, a few months while a few weeks after the cool, he appeared in a video broadcast on military run tv, saying that he had given gold and us dollars to own santucci as bribes. and in october last year he testified in court. now of the time where did the video appeared. many people had denounced it as fake, but then he appeared in court in october. and so he seen as

a key witness in this case. and many people are expecting on fancy g to be found guilty. partly because of this, but also partly because of the way the other trials have been conducted as well. the way the gender conducted the other trials. of course, many people have also denounced the cases against authenticity as politically motivated and designed by the jury to ensure that she cannot stage a politically a political come back. a verdict is expected on monday in the trial of turkish business man os. mancha allah, who's been in prison for 5 years without conviction. kovasos on tried along with 15, others on charges related to 2013 wave of protests initially linked to the urban development of it stumbles. guess the park center because rogue has more from a stumble. oh, swan comalla was the one who organized the gives the protests and nationwide protests which turned out to be anti government protest in 2013. that's why he's accused of trying to overthrow the got elected government debt, which means targeting the constitutional order and according to turkish law,

ad this crime is described, deserves aggravated life sentence. however, there also my osman carla has been behind bars already more than 4 and a half years without any commission. and his supporters a, his friends are asking, demanding his release. i have spoken to some judicial sources since friday they, they've been to a but they have been also telling me that i release an acquittal doesn't seem possible as this file has been criticized by international environment, international organizations, the opposition european council of human rights. a very important international human rights watchdog, and they believe that this case is highly politicized because of the government is fry. as for them, the government is trying to silence the descent. and that's why if a life sentence is given to these people, this can also harm to his relations with the u. s. specially thinking that

a turkey, the european council member, a turkey turkey can be suspended. but some argued that says o smock abala has been behind bars for more than 4 and a half years a quarter, according to turkish laws. a person who is behind bars for 5 years. without that conviction can be released, pending gone trials. several people had been killed in violence between armed groups and st. john's door for region. rival sides accuse each other of triggering gets melcher reinforcements have been deployed to the region. harbor morgan reports from cartoon. while the rita of west r 4 has been witnessing inter coming on violence between the ethnic arabs in west r for in the region of korea, nick, which is about 80 kilometers from the capital janina. that's the capital of west are for now the masai tribe that to non arab ethnic tribe in west are for accused. the arabs, a grading them on friday and attacking them, killing at least 8 people. the situation was largely calm on saturday,

but on sunday morning, the masai accused the arabs of raiding the area. once again, they say that's our armed men came from all directions and burned villages. displacing people in the area of greening again, which is about 80 kilometers from the capital janina. that's the capital of west. dar for now west are 4 and our 4 generally has been witnessing inter communist violence despite the fact that a peace agreement was signed between the transitional government, an arm groups in 2020 with the aims of ending the conflict that started into 2003 the intercom violence between the arabs and non arab tribes have displaced tens of thousands over the past couple of years, especially over the past few months. that's largely because of resources. these are the army says that it's attacking targets and lebanon after a rocket was fired into israel late sunday night. they say the projectile landed in an open area near the town a slow me without causing damage or injuries. you as president joe biden has

accepted an invitation from prime minister and after the bennett to visit israel. the white house as biden will make the trip in the coming months. we have the 2 leaders spoke on the phone about the tense situation at the ups almost compounds in occupied east jerusalem. idaho. castro has more from washington d. c nodded joe, he nor this really side gave any date as far as when this visit would take place for both countries. indeed, confirming that by an accepted bennett's invitation and in bed, this would happen quote, in the coming months. this announcement, following that phone call between the 2 leaders in which 2 important subjects were raised. one being the attention surrounding the alex, a mosque in jerusalem, where clashes between palestinians and israelis, security forces since april have led to hundreds of arrest palestinians. and on friday reports of some 57 palestinians, injured by israeli security forces. the white house read out of this call saying

that president biden told bennett that he was taking note of the ongoing efforts between israeli and palestinian officials to lower tensions and ensure a peaceful conclusion to the holy season of ramadan. now the other topic here, of course, being iran with bennett office saying that he asked biden not to de list the ronnie and a republican national guard as a terrorist organization as it's currently listed. now this is a something that is row considers as the largest terrorist group in the world. detailed at the white house read out of this phone call left out instead saying that biden and bennett discussed the threat posed by ran and its proxies. elections in slovenia had delivered a shock and a new prime minister opposition candidate, robert, go up from the freedom move and party won the most notes. the newcomers now expected to form a coalition government to major defeat for the outgoing prime minister young. his

young shot was accused of pushing the country to the political rights for a new badge have more from the union capital liana future value. the, this was the bus to be a tie through between the robots from freedom movement and prime minister deanna found shot by robert go up on in a landslide. one of the reasons is that he has a lot of new orders who weren't went to the election before. on the other hand, he, on his answer, was criticized for suppressing need for suppressing civil society and organization . so civil society, we're going into the 3 selling people for 12. so the very high turn out is one of the key issues in the selection. in 2018, there was a 53 percent walters coming out. now it's very close to 70 percent. if we expect that the rubber to go up will form

a government with other left and parties. on the other hand, you honestly showing staying opposition. he's a political rector and he's he will be waiting for his next chance. he was prime minister for 3 times and he couldn't do it the 4th time. so we are expecting that the parliament will have less parties. it would be easier for our other go up to form a government. germany is planning to strengthen a system of bunkers after russians invasion of ukraine. the interior minister, once old basement shelters upgraded the country has about 600 such bunkers. the boston reports from berlin. in a city with a law unto magic war history like berlin, you don't have to look far to find old bunkers. in 977, this subway station was constructed as an atomic bunker to protect 3 and a half 1000 people from a possible nuclear attack by the soviet union. behind his door,

the cold war seemed still very real. every people come in here get a few things, which is what she needs. she needs 2 rolls of toilet paper for 2 weeks pieces. so a towel and a boat and a cup. the bunker was design, so people would have enough oxygen, water, and food for 2 weeks, hoping the worst radiation would be gone by then. for decades, the government maintained hundreds of these bunkers. and since 2007, nobody spending a cent anymore because they believed in germany. the threat is over. not many in germany had expected just a few months ago that something like this would possibly be needed again, an underground emergency kitchen, well hidden behind the concrete walls, but with a threat from russia becoming more real in people's minds. some here realize the

country is not ready. not only have old bankers be neglected, many have been sold and found new destinations like this one, which now is a museum for asian art. others have turned into galleries, nightclubs or private houses. the nearly 600 bunkers, the government still owns and not ready for use. according to military experts, it will be reusable. within a particular financial constraints, they're gonna have to spend money. this whole thing is a very boston expensive undertaken. the thought of needing to seek shelter in a bunker feels unreal to some of those who just finished a tour or overbearing to see how or darker this whole or the feeling must be in the war when you were here outside to the plains, the bombs that we have had so many decades of peace in europe. this is

a very difficult situation. i hope there will be a peaceful solution to all of this. even in the heat of the cold war, berlin could only protect 27500 people in its bunkers and a population of 2100000. so the government plan to upgrade them is seen as a way to reassure its citizens. rather than aiming to offer protection for every one step, fasten al jazeera in berlin. ah, following on the headlines on al jazeera, here a secretary of state, anthony lincoln has promised ukraine's forces of continued support from the white house. he met the ukrainian president and keep on sunday along with you as defense, secretary lloyd austin.