available and that's only to the surrounding villages. so people like flew me in rose, now need to find another way to get out of the city. but for now, they, like many others, would have to reach in hope, hoping tomorrow is a better day. for comes to russia's warriors. russia is failing. your train of succeeding the u. s. pledges more military a to ukraine during the highest level american visit to cave, since the war with russia began. ah, i'm to clog, this is out 0. life. also coming up. russia's president accuses the west of aggression and says it's failing to divide russian society. found guilty of trying to overthrow the government's business when i was when corolla is sentenced to life

in prison in turkey. and men will, macro becomes a 1st french president in 20 years to be reelected, but he has major challenges. so russia is failing in ukraine. that's according to the secretary of state who has visited keith, antonia lincoln and defense secretary lloyd austin, pledge to step up u. s. military 8, including more advanced weapons. alexia bron begins. are coverage, a show of support in a time of war. the u. s. secretaries of state and defense in the ukrainian capital to meet president for a lot of me as a landscape. this was the 1st high level visit by us officials, since russian forces invaded what you've done. um, and we're pulling the rush angela keith. it was for an inch and far and

quite frankly, to russell. well, we got used to see you on video around the world, but it's great. it's good to see you in person during a 3 hour meeting. the pair promised to stay pop u. s. military aid, including sending more advanced weapons, we will continue to do everything possible or to ensure that you are successful. ukraine's president has accused allies of being too slow to help saying they shared responsibility for the was casualties. but on sunday he said he was grateful for you, a support and what he called an important moment for his country, updated their sam. if the priority of this meeting is weaponry support from the united states and our partners in europe, 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. while russia has failed to capture any

major city since the invasion started on february 24th, it has caused widespread devastation. cities in the east and south, the facent daily bombardment. and what president followed me, zalinski is called the battle for don bests. the u. s. says it wants to see russia weekend so that it can never do anything like this. again, the bottom line is this. we don't know how the rest of this were wonderful. but we do know that a sovereign independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than bodamer booms on the sea. in terms of rushes worried russia has already failed, and ukraine has already succeeded. speaking in poland after their meeting secretaries outlined what will be included in the latest $700000000.00 package to ukraine and neighboring countries. so they leave the long run fars. you've heard of it was a need for claims. we believe that we can work, they can win if they have the right equipment,

the rights or the visit comes just days before that un secretary general antonio terrace is due to travel to moscow. then keith, for meetings with leaders from both sides to creep. lincoln says good terrorists will be carrying a strong and clear message to the russian president, but he needs to end this war. now. alex here brian al jazeera and the united states is announced that it's resuming as diplomatic presence in ukraine. my cana is in washington and has norma. this is a strong signal from the united states, and one must know to that it has now announced a new ambassador to ukraine. bridget bring is the current ambassador to rebecca. she is a professional diplomat. this is very important and also she is extremely experienced within the region, and she would be well known by the u. s. s. european allies, which would be of great comfort to them having a diplomat in place who they are well aware of and who they know and who is not a political appointment, who is

a career state department officer. so all of these factors together, very important in terms of the us presence in ukraine saying as well that it's sending diplomats back in the coming week. those diplomats having been brought out to the beginning of the war and also significantly the u. s. is going to resume training of ukrainian military on what it says and disclosed weapon systems. so all of these factors together show an uptick in the biden administration's involvement in that will when you grade. ukraine's defense ministry says russian forces continuing their attacks and needs to check stratford. his inst love young man, one of the front lines and he says things are quiet now, but that's not expected to last. long situation has come down in the last couple of hours in this area. but as i say, the ukrainian military claiming that russian falls, he's trying to push towards the ants have so far failed in that endeavor. but this

is one could only really describe it, potentially as being the quiet before the storm, the streets of slavery and scar. pretty much empty. we can still hear a siren being an alarm. in the distance, most of the civilians of slavery i have have left. and the reason why this area is so important is essays because it is one of the largest urban areas still under ukraine control. russian forces pushing in from, from the northeast, the north and the north west as well as certain areas of the east ukrainian military saying that there is ongoing fighting in various villages to the east of here also with respect to what's going on in mary oh, of course that city that has seen such heavy fighting as, according to some reports and we've seen the pictures as, as the world has a city that is pretty much being flattened. ukrainian, deputy prime minister saying that or is as yet still no agreement. the russians are still, she saying the russians still refusing to agree on setting up some sort of humanitarian

corridor to get out what we understand around a 1000 civilians traps under that still works that giant great soviet built industrial plant where still there are ukraine in flight as ukrainian military in there, we understand that obviously the civilians haven't left and they were still fighting to try as the russians try to clear that area of those ukrainian fighters, ukrainian military. so of course, great concern there still for those civilians trapped in mary helpful. but as i say, there are still a lot of civilians tracked in towns around this area as it seems. the russians, russian military forces try and push towards leanne sc or russian president vladimir putin says that moscow's enemies are trying to cause unrest in the country to limit his territorial gains in ukraine. he says it's not working. those jibari has more from moscow. letting me put in seemingly very directly at targeting the

foreign media saying that they are an extremist that are being their views being presented in the foreign media. and he advised his and general prosecutor's office to remain vigilant. he also shared some information about a operation that the fs b i managed to prevent from taking place according to the president's the federal and security services are thwarted. an attempt of on the life of a very prominent state, t v presenter vladimir sullivan, who is one of the most well known figures in this country. he has a daily at program here in the evenings on se tv. this was another example by a vladimir putin of how his country has been under attack from the west and specifically the united states. he says he believes that this c, i had a hand in this as well. he also talked about the other various forms of at the

sabotage attempts by western countries on russian society. let's listen to some of what he had to say. roscoe would pressies great options to other task is coming forward to break russia from were vin. but he can't do it because our society showing his unity and support our armed forces and our efforts to maintain the security of russia and the citizens of don bass. rosa media outlets reporting a series of blas in moldova, breakaway region of trans mystery. of the explosions reports may happened at the ministry of state security in the city of paris ball. so far there have been no reports of casualties attack his court had sentence bisman, osmond kabbalah to life in prison. kabbalah had been on trial on charges related to anti government protest back in 2013. he was found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government sinner. costello joins us with more from assemble and sent him what's next for this court case.

well, since else mancha of allah is now charged for aggravated life sentence, as he has a quitted from the charges and espionage accusations, but ah, has not been acquitted for the charges that says he was in charge of orchestrating or, or if he was enrolled in, orchestrating the nationwide anti government protests in 2013 ah, now for the court process, and there is one important thing i because 7 co workers office mon cover law is now charged for 18 years. but a, he's a being charged for aggravated my sentence. as the court argues that he tried to overthrow the elected government and he aim that at the a constitutional ordered but a small comalla. his lawyers are others, other defendants, lawyers, and international human rights watch docs have been saying that the evidence court

has presented so far. i lack a proper evidence, the id, but that's evidence only refers to the allegations at about the accusations, but not the incidence. and the next step for the court right now, especially for rosemont cover law, this case will need it. this decision by the court needs to be approved by the court of appeal, which is a body between the criminal court and the court of causation. or let's say supreme court and then what is it as the penal it, as the court of appeal approves the decision, the supreme court has approved the decision as well. and then o, small koala will be fully charged for aggravates of life sentence, but in true keep. these kinds of processes may take months even a years. and a small comalla has been behind bars for more than a 4 and a half years without any conviction. and according to turkish, lo, if someone has behind bars for 5 years after 5 years, that person,

that defendant or suspect as shall be released it pending on trial. so this can be a max scenario for or small gov. allah syndrome. just very brief. good about 45 seconds to say, why was he arrested in the 1st place? well, as i said elsewhere, comalla is a very prominent businessman and he's also an activist, a he was a prominent civil, so sites a member and a he was a vocal about his, a government, the critics about the government. then he was vocal, i bought the a do during the 2013 nationwide and to government protests a but he's known to be a business, a business man and civil side to person, but the a circle school. so the government argued that, oh, small cove allah is in, it was one comalla stays with people who are not in line with turkey is national interest, and a he is one of c. s best and to raj off they all boat kurdish workers party p k k

leader up de la rosa lawn. so this seems to be the main reason and they accused him of trying to orchestrate nationwide protests to overthrow the elected governments. okay. all right. student, thanks for that to cynical charity. with that update from stumble. ah frank president manuel marconas called for unity following his re election. after beating far right challenger, marine the pen, 58 percent to $42.00. will the pen got her highest ever level of support and her 3 presidential attempts as a micron? he is acknowledged. the dissatisfaction with his 1st term taking into accounts on those turn out as well as blank, an invalid ballots to serve a 38 percent of all registered voters opted from macro is so good or not local. but yet, i know for many of our compatriots who chose extreme rights, their anger and disagreement, which led them to vote for that project. well,

we must find a response was that would be my responsibility and the responsibility of those who surround me, lovers, because the vote of this election means we have to consider all the difficulties people have lived through and to respond to their anger and disappointment. my dear friends to day you made a choice for humanism, for ambitious independence, for our country, and for our europe visit. oh, they're in love i. they mean what we've been declared dead a 1000 times and a 1000 times history has proven wrong. those who predict are wished for our demise in this defeat, i can't help feeling hopeful. this result is proof of a great defiance on the part of the french people on that our leaders in france and europe cannot ignore its proof of a widely shared wish for a great change. the french people have expressed to nice a wish for a strong opposition against a manion. i call one that will continue to defend and protect them way that or that i should. butler is in paris with more on what's next for both micron and marine the pen for the white be much rest for

a minute. my cross on the international frontal want to forge ahead with his a diplomatic efforts to try and help end rushes at war in ukraine. france also continues to hold, or the rotating presidency of the european union. emanuel michaels work very hard for deeper you integration and then closer to home on the domestic front. micro will want to look at some measures and policies to try and help people a deal better with the cost of living crisis. that was the number one issue i in this election. he also faces the challenge of trying to convince people that he really can be at the french president for everyone. because he knows that 41 percent of people in the selection voted for his fall. right. rival, marine, the pentode, a very different agenda of a different vision of france than he did. he also knows that a quarter of the population simply didn't cost that balance. so he's going to have to try to widen his appeal. he'll also be working very hard towards those

parliamentary elections that will take place in mid june as well. the other presidential candidates in this race, most notably marine the pen. she says that her campaign has already begun back in 2017 mac crawls, a policy had a landslide in the national assembly. it allowed him with a majority to push through many controversial reforms. whether or not he'll be in a priscilla position this time round seems unlikely. still ahead here in al jazeera, we look at how government's around the world increased that military spending to re record level during the pundum. ah, richard, he has begun the faithful wald copies on its way to the castle book your travel package today by its time to borneo for yet more of the philippines, for the ways to get the biggest sheriffs biggest and sold, which are growing now with us for about $24.00 by 48 hours. they're moving slowly

away from places further west. it still could be wetting corolla, important singapore, and saudi through our job a little less. so in cambodia, north of all this and what looks like a familiar line of seas. no rain stretching from china through south korea to japan . what would be called the plum rains is well early. so after that we really can give that name just yet, but isn't obviously consistent line north of it where it was hot, the winds cool things down beijing by about 7 degrees sas of it. whereas halting hong kong, the rain is not far away. you may catch a shower or 2, maybe late tuesday or early wednesday. the full cost for hong kong shows the temperature difference from average should be $26.00. it goes to such 2. now in hong kong, that difference is quite significant is going to feel hot and probably hubert, not the best of weather that he has. clearly building in most of india. there's rain that caroline pickens flanking to big showers. once again, the been coming in and out in the northeast of india and in bangladesh. but the

story really is of the heat. many states in the north and central india are well above 42 degrees. casa official airline of the journey. on counting the cost, sri lankan worst economic crisis in decades, what are the chances for a bailout? china's g. d. p growth beads 1st quarter expectations that could be economy grind to a halt and a high fuel prices pushing on demand for electric cars. counting the cost on how does ear a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of a network, janice on al jazeera. ah ah,

ever get your watching out 0 reminder, our top story is her and your sector state entity blanket has promised ukraine's forces continued support. he and the defense secretary met the crating president to keep on sunday. it was the highest level american visit to keeps to war with russia began. vladimir putin says the west is trying to divide it russian society speaking in moscow. the russian president also accused for a media outlets of provoking rushes military attack. his quarter sentence businessman osman corolla to life in prison, viola had been on trial and charged as related to anti government for assistant 2013, who sank guilty of attempting to overthrow the government. at least 15 soldiers have been killed in attacks and marly and bikini fast. so they happened on sunday when vehicles packed with explosives were driven into military bases. also marley frances accuse russia must raise of creating

a mass grave and forced to blame it on the french army. nicholas hack as more from docker, the neighboring senegal. we spoken to french military officials and they say that there is a campaign of this information happening in molly, especially targeting the french army that are pulling out most recently, just last week. the french forces were pulling out of a base and go see, shortly after we saw on social media accusation of, of the presence of a mass grave there on this site. now, the french forces deny this. they've showed evidence thrown footage that they were not involved. the russian are pressing on and according to this military official, he says make no mistake. there is a war being played, being played out, not on the battlefield on the ground, but on social media between the russians and western forces. and the french, specifically, in cotton, middle of this is obviously the 1000000 people more than

a 1000000 displaced as these attacks continue to step up. china is racing to track a cobra 19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week. paging residents have been buying essential items to mit, concerns locked down could be imposed. katrina, you reports from the chinese capital launch used for corona virus testing, forming across the east of beijing. the capitals towel, young district has ordered all those living and working here to be tested. it follows the discovery of at least $41.00 cases in recent days. are good to go from of another. i do worry, but what can you do? you just have to chose and do what the common tells you. that's why i'm here to listen, can go as it was a warm, i'm not too concerned. i had prepared one week's worth of food at home. that should be enough. the warning prompted panic buying on sunday. the shelves of many supermarkets and grocery stores have been emptied. officials are trying to reassure the public,

saying supply chains for essential goods are secure toys neutral banker, retail supermarket stores, community valuable shops, and a direct sales stores. have a sturdy supply of daily necessities. at least 28 neighborhoods have been put under locked down and 1200 close contacts sent to quarantine centers. more than 3 and a half 1000000 people must undergo testing 3 times this week, as bating races to contain this latest outbreak. leaders here are anxious not to repeat the mistakes made in shanghai, where expert, se infections were identified. 2 lights, most of shanghai is 25000000 residents remain confined to their homes. the commercial center reported more than 17500 new cases on monday. 138 deaths from the virus had been officially confirmed there. in recent weeks, most were elderly and unvaccinated. there was some say, the real death toll is higher. residency, access to food and necessities has improved, though the indefinite,

locked out 1st imposed at the beginning of the month has sparked wide spread aga and desperation. viral social media video criticizing the government's heavy headed 0 tolerance approach has been sense it online. katrina, you al jazeera b jang. the 1st verdict on one of several trials of mir mazda post civilian leader has been delayed, and fancied she was arrested by the army when it sees power more than a year ago. she's facing several corruption trials. so she is accused of influencing the 2020 election in order to win a 2nd term. israel's foreign minister. yep. it says his government is committed to the status quo. the our acts and mos compound the muslim religious trust that overseas the holy site says more than 4500 jews carried out incursions, jury into the compound during the jewish possible holiday. it also says more jews are accessing the site than in previous years. many of them are calling for the

right to pray, which is hugely provocative to palestinians. stephanie decker is in jerusalem and looks into the nuances surrounding the status quo. and what it means to day it's one of the world's holiest sites. and recent weeks of once again seen arise, intentions is the holy month of ramadan coincided with a jewish holiday of passover, the number of jewish religious ultra nationalist groups entering the site has increased. some are part of the temple mount movement, whose members cool for the right to pray on. the site incursions are protected by israeli forces and seen by palestinians as a major provocation. what would take place in small groups and respectfully as well, being done in large groups, larger groups, and more provocative, more defiant, and more humiliating for the muslim worshippers. and this is what it's all about, the alexa most compound or temple mount, as it's known to jews where certain hours are allocated during the week where non

muslims can enter. but under long standing agreement between israel and jordan, which is the custodian of the site, only, muslims can pray there. however, over the years has been an increase in the number of jewish religious ultra nationalists entering the site. quoting for the right to prayer and actively attempting prayers there, and that scene is a gradual erosion of the long agreed status quo. according to these law, mac walketh the jordanian religious trust that runs the site, the number of jewish religious ultra nationalists to access the site in the past year was the highest so far. many try to pray and are sometimes removed by israeli police. this is the weapon ization of faith and religious play. romania in recent years of that started school has begun to road and is really policies underneath and yell became i would say more permission. there

was a turning a blind eye for quiet prayer, and then more demonstrative prayer. now, me works for this law mich walketh and says he is witnessed the same thing. he was injured by israeli police, while documenting what happens in the compound. so stopped us for how long of follow that the police are turning a blind eye to these praise. these groups cool for invasion with huge numbers of the say the site stairs, and they must demolish the dome of the rock and build their temple instead. this is how they think, and this is what's causing the escalation and triggering the conflict. hitting raphael is a member of the temple mount movement who we met earlier this year in an illegal outpost in the occupied west bank. so now i'm not about to vote roofer at the time he was considered a security risk by israel's internal security services. the shin bet and banned from entering jerusalem's old city. maybe the, please don't like what i do. emory provokes the police and the country called we want to go to come home and we wonder whether it will be able just to walk there.

really, that won't be escorted by policeman. could pray a whenever we wanted, where we want on the temple mount. the growing temple mount movement is a concern to many palestinians and muslims across his lamid world who say that alexa is a red line, consecutive israeli governments have maintained they have no intention of changing the situation. and israel's foreign ministry ela plead on sunday, reiterated israel's commitment to the status quo that only muslims pray and non muslims visit. events at the alex. a mosque compound can be linked to triggering the 2nd intifada, and also the most recent garza war last year. nothing has the same ability to mobilize major protests and anger here at what's long been a volatile and emotionally charged religious epicenter. stephanie decker, al jazeera jerusalem. these ready armies says it's a tight talk. it's in lebanon after rock. it was fired into israel late sunday

nights. they say the projectile landed in an open area with a ton of slow me without causing damage or injuries. now, for the 1st time, governments around the world to spend more than 2 trillion dollars or military expenses, they stock home international peace research, as she says, spending increased during the pandemic. united states top to lists with more than $800000000000.00 spent last year. china's next followed by india, united kingdom and russia, the kremlin a boost it it said defense budget to $66000000000.00. that just before invading ukraine at the 3 percent increase was mostly funded by oil and gas export revenues for 1st time in 4 years. iran increase its military spending to nearly $25000000000.00. nigeria, japan, germany cutter also recorded substantial increases to that defense budgets sinner from diego lopez, the silver from the stock home international peace research institute. he says it's not surprising to see russia among the top spenders for every $100.00 we have in

the world. $2.20 were spend on the military and 2021. and the overall growth that we had in military spending was really the combination of multiple increases among the top vendors. for instance, i'm on the top 15 vendors will only had 3 decreases, that is the united states, germany and israel. and to gather those 15 account for 81 percent of the world told us russia increasing your spending by 2.9 percent. so that the interesting thing about russia, which are spending 2021, was that the national defense budget, which is one of the components that we see for use to, to, to come up with an estimate for russia. and it's the biggest component because it's 3 quarters of the over our, our estimate had a really big revision over the course of the year. so the difference between the initial budget that we had in december 2020 to the final numbers of actual expenditure that we had was a 14 percent increase. so that's quite substantial. however,

we're not exactly sure how this money was spent because the budget lines where the biggest increase to place are classified. of course, because of the timing here because of because of the context. it's very reasonable to assume that this is related to operational costs because that to place it right up to the war. ah, so this is are, these are the top stories and your secretary of state and zip lincoln has promised ukraine's forces continued support from the white house. he met the credit president and keep on sunday, along with us defense secretary lloyd austin. but when praise ukraine's efforts to defend itself, instead, it would ultimately prevail over russia. the u. s. is also announced that it's resuming its diplomatic presence in ukraine. my kind of in washington has more. all of these factors together, very important in terms of the u. s. presence in.