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this is the news our live from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes. russia cox gas applies to poland and bulgaria for failing to pay in roubles. pushing up european gas prices and blast drought and the horn of africa in decades. and on pete assembly with your school, it's advantage manchester city in the champions league. they edge, a 7 go thriller with rail madrid, the 1st leg of their semi final now european leaders are calling it gas. blackmail rushes carried out its threat to suspend natural gas applies to your cranes allies if they didn't pay for it in rubles, poland and bulgaria refused, and 2 months into the war, they've been cut off by russia's state owned gas. company gas from o. guerria says it's made alternative arrangements. poland maintains its energy supplies are secure. nasa magazine is, you know,

if you're interested or gas storage is or 76 percent full. this is a high level, i'm feeling much higher than in most european countries. and therefore, also in this transitional which bulgarian site has fully managed obligations and has made all payments required under its current contract in a timely manner strictly. and in accordance with the terms. obviously, gas is used as a political and economical to in terms of the ongoing war and not in the term of illegal and commercial relationships. european commission present uses fossil fuels to try to black. my last, this is something that your team commission has been preparing for in close coordination and solidarity with member states and international partners. our response will be immediate. united and coordinated. but the decision russia has now followed through with its threat to cut supplies. what are we hearing from moscow?

well, with that tantamount to black veil and egg, the kremlin is rejecting these common saying that russia was and remains a reliable supplier of energy to his customers. and in the form of a decree which vladimir putin signed on a march 31st, and it came into effect on april 1st, that it said that's all foreign companies that are purchasing russian oil and gas would have to be paying this country in its local currency this was of course, as a result of unprecedented sanctions, the nothing has changed. the prices have not changed. all these countries need to do is open a new at bank account in gas from bank. and then from there it's very straightforward . so defacto, nothing has changed. that's the view from the kremlin. of course, at the other side of this is that this is being used as a tool by other russian government to really at show the power they have over at the gas supply of europe. of course,

they are the world's top supplier of gas and they are currently supplying about 45 percent of the gas that europe is using. but for the kremlin, it's a very straightforward transaction. as soon as the payments are made in the local currency, then the gas flow will resume to those countries. and in the meantime, how much does russia rely on gas from revenues that it's not getting so much of now? yes, well gas from is that the largest company in this country and to the biggest, publicly traded in the world of a natural gas company. and certainly they make up their revenues from gas, from make up nearly 40 percent of the russian at the state budget annually. and the sale of and europe, russian gas to europe make up about 60 percent of gas prom revenues. so this will certainly have an effect whether or not it will continue, remains to be seen,

but we've been hearing from a very well known and financial expert. and he's also the head of a parliamentary, financial em control body here in russia. and a former finance minister, and he has said his name is alexander, couldn't. he says that today the economy is going through a difficult period. he predicts from his aaron research and from this organization's view that russia is bracing for the worse to come because they expecting the russian economy to contract about 9 percent, 9 to 12 percent in 2022. and they understand that the inflation will be at about 20 percent. there are certainly a measures that vladimir putin has taken to try and try to really, whether the storm that's coming in terms of the financial sector of this country. the rubel has managed to really regain its strength following the special military operation. it actually and gained a one per cents, an advantage over the u. s. dollar. on wednesday,

after the announcement was made about they supply russian gas. so there are attempts be made whether or not they would be successful in the long term remains to be seen for the time being the economic outlook here looks quite bleak for the rest of the year. indeed. okay, well that was going on the in moscow, thanks very much doors a jabari. let's go so been out to london where we can join nadeem baba and the u. k . nadeem and the you very quick to respond to this certain number of hours ago now was the impacts likely to be well, the reaction has been fast in its been a very, very hostile, the year. the implications might take longer to actually reveal themselves. of course, the government here in the u. k. have or condemned the move deputy prime minister dominate, rob calling it bullying action saying that it would further make of russia an economic pariah. you heard from a sort of underlying head of the european commission or just a moment ago,

while she's actually said or after she was questioned about reports, that 10 companies across the you had agreed to pay gas from in rubles. she said explicitly that that would be a breach of european union or sanctions, and she says that about a 97 percent of contracts do stipulate payments in dollars or euro's. and that changes what austria's chancellor is saying on wednesday that when he met president putin, a couple of weeks ago or a president, putin assured him that he could, his country could continue to pay for its gas in euro's well those 2 countries, poland and bulgaria are hugely relying on russian gas in ports for poland. it's about 55 per cent. for a bulgaria, it's around 90 percent, but they're both saying to the outside world and their populations, there's no need to worry you heard from bog areas, energy minister there. well,

and there are reports that the bulgarian prime minister, her head says his country is reviewing all contracts with gas prom, but also including those contracts for transit gas transit of russian gas going on to serbia and hungary. because if you got what he calls blackmail by russia, well that's prompted a response from the hungarian foreign minister saying that he'd like to reassure every body that the non delivery of gas to bulgaria does not mean the stop the stopping of transit through bulgaria. so obviously a lot of countries are having to reassure their own populations. poland able to say the containers a full to around 75 percent of capacity in the long run. it's unclear what this will mean on the lion. i said the e u is working with member states to try to secure alternative gas supply. and she mentioned to deal struck this year with the united states for liquefied natural gas . but it, some countries like norway,

but people are looking to as an alternative to russian impulse. so the norwegian phone var and again on wednesday you had said, but it's producing as much natural gas as it possibly can. at least in the short term, it can't increase its output. as you heard, prices have with an in the last few hours. there's already an energy crisis in europe with consumers pay, seeing that bill is go up dramatically. so there's this worry about gas supplies, but that's not the whole picture. of course, there's the oil supply issue as well. and the you saying that the hopeful but the you can move much more quickly. offense alter the global path of trade production and consumption. the world buying says it expects prices to remain high for years to come as commodities higher natural gas prices twice as high. both needed to produce fertilizer, which became 200 percent more expensive this year. we'll have knock on

a few. so yes, as we've seen, a very large increase in commodity prices, especially since the war and ukraine. but i think it's important to remember as well that even before the start of the walk, prices had been studying has to be emergent coming from lump down. but in terms of where most worried about the largest increases, it could potentially have a devastating effect on many populations throughout the world. that's right. yes. we're very concerned that it will lead to a setback in poverty reduction. we're taking concerned about the poorest households, the space spend a larger share of their income on, on food and energy. and so those of the household isn't rationing as much as just family is struggling to pay for those commodities. ok piece and a going appreciate you taking the time to join us there from washington. thanks very much. me an army positions there with 35 air hits in the past 24 hours. thousands of ukrainian fighters and civilians are in underground tunnels and

chambers below the help evacuate civilians from the steel plant in mary, a pole. after meeting the un sexy general on choose day. nobody will go to school will not be in the mary porters fighting and miracle attended the demonstrations agreements between ukraine and russia to allow safe passage of fighters and civilians have failed. so far. degrading force is also confronting the russian military in the east. fist fighting has been reported in mich, alive and casts on in the southeast. motion forces also shell, the town of lyman. charles stratford reports from backwards in that ukraine's dumbass region. they advise it to the mariel poor man on his telegram channel is said that as strikes according to him, russian air strikes only as of the steel plant are still on get underneath the plant. one of the was reported to be around a 1000 civilians with a head injury the. there was of the ass off battalion releasing that picture and

saying that this was as a result of russia's attack on the lady had been injured in those attacks. of course we have no way of verifying that, but ongoing concerns for the rental 1000 civilians trapped underneath that. still plant in mary opal this morning we are hearing reports. you can imagine as strikes, bring a whole new dimension of fear to, to the civilians living in this area. there's also reports of grad rocket attacks on the grad rocket. so these multiple rocket launches that, that fire these, these rockets that cover a vast area. so abdel eyes on the, the civilians tracked underneath that joint great soviet built steel plant in mary opal and no side still of any humanitarian corridor to rescue them. in southern ukraine, the russian military is 5 tear gas in some grenades. that protest is in the city of cuts on the people rally and guess what?

they're calling a sham referendum. ukraine says russia was planning to hold a stage, vote in the coast on region to try to show the interior ministry of moldova as breakaway region. trans. nice jazz says shots have been fired from ukraine, russia back regions as a large ammunition den clear who's behind them. aah! russia on the united states have conducted a prisoner swap to link the negotiations, rushes foreign ministry as a former us marine, held in a rush and jail. trevor read has been swapped for one of its citizens serving a 20th sentence in the us. on the white house is released a statement by president joe biden. he says the negotiations that allowed us to bring trevor home require difficult decisions. that i do not take lightly. let's go

straight to our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit so can be of us waking up to the news. i'm biden already commenting on it. yeah, that's right. this is a case that the white house and according to a senior administration official from the state department has been working on for months. we know that there have been for allegedly smuggling cocaine into that country. and what we also know is that this has been a case that has been on the mines effort of his family to bring him home for some time. there has been a protest by this family in front of the white house, and it is something that led to a meeting with the president very recently. and perhaps even escalated this in the minds of the president. and they were gravely concerned that if he continued a detention, that he may not make it back to the united states following his release. he had been sentenced for 19 years. for what surprising is it?

kimberly, when relations between the us and russia so sour at the moment. indeed . and let me just cauffron. so one can only presume that these talks will continue because it is in the interest of both government to see both of these sides having these respective citizens return. absolutely, well kimberly, we appreciate you keeping on talking as well. please do go and get some more to now . kimberly help get reporting from washington. millions of people living in the horn of africa are experiencing some of the worst effects of climate change. 2019 brought extreme rain and flooding followed by swarms of low, cuz then people are suffering after years of drought. latino and her according young are worried about the baby boy. he's 7 months old and sick with a beauty. they say he stopped until he got sick and died. i don't know what to do about this other child. she might also die because she's

hungry. millions of families across the horn of africa, a hungry and desperate might. it might not be facing the worst drought. the region has seen 90 cases of malnutrition, arising at this local health center health workers are struggling to cope. they say when some of the children get here, they are severely malnourished. my tuition i've been here for so long. my said, if i can say it is her pony my position, but it wasn't because of the drought. for the last 2 years, we have not received her info. grace gibbet, his many children are going to school hungry. she says this drought is the worst. she has ever seen some of them. dad just die and we have nothing to just feed them. and i me more all day. good. just depend on what

a little water is left in streams and rivers may soon run out. desperate families stressed the little that's left and can only hope the rains soon fall again. harder . matessa al jazeera master bid county northern king doctors in sudan say at least 170 people have been killed in gun battles between nomadic arab tribes and on arabs . fighting started in west are 4 states after the bodies of 2 nomads were found on 1st day. on rest later spread to the state capital al genea disagreements over scarce resources have caused confrontations for nearly 20 years. central african republic has adopted bitcoin as legal tender as the 1st african country to do so in the 2nd, in the world, after all, salvador, the president's office, as a bill has been signed to use the crypto currency alongside central african frank with time. now for all the weather in his car. hello there, we'll have a look at africa in a moment, the 1st to the middle east,

and we've seen some unsettled conditions, work their way across the event and the gulf states. we are likely to see more showers for places like saudi arabia and potentially catan as that system. those clouds push their way further east, but temperatures are set to pick up across the levant in cities like bay root and jerusalem. but for places like reality, we are going to see things cool down slightly in the days to come. now was move across to north africa. it has been cooler in the north west for morocco as that when windy weather sweeps its way east that up by about 10 degrees above the average with lots of sunshine. now the rain, eas, us for the gulf of guinea, by the time we get in. so friday picks up, however, for places like gabon and the democratic republic of congo. now, south of this we are going to see some wet or weather sweep into eastern areas of madagascar, thanks to tropical storm jasmine as it works its way east. but behind it, it's a hot and dry picture, but things will cool down in cape town. by friday,

stella had hair on out to sarah a mother's last at nico challenge, to save her son from death row in singapore, fails and come killing the debate. there is no, he charm ban political union. i mean, if anyone here talks about women that i was a, does this, this, the bill seemed and then said, no topic is off the table. we were part of the abortion had a one way ticket street to help all of the companies. they deny any responsibility, even though the of the resource put in is addressing a gathering of politicians at the federal assembly. leslie finances, who always a story collie were set on the holding russia and it was since, well, since the beginning of time, you know that very well. oh these indeed what, why are they doing it? because this independent massive country. they don't need it unless they are threatened by this country. also remember when the countries of the west and

the early ninety's early notice were helping the international terrorists and bandits in an oven called bears bare a corner. but they just, they didn't succeed. but they didn't, didn't know, they went okay with this. and they were not okay that we withstood despite all that's on attacking, screaming and on bass. and the ukrainian or people were given a fate of the cannon fodder. i think many obtained nuclear weapons, the via weaponry labs in the anti sanctions packages which were adopted during last 2 month. we have quite a few. a laws that were adopted by the russian parliament in the nearest future

will busy making decisions on pensions, social help, and so as a result, fema, we're not only can be adopting those measures alleviates it's and mitigated her system. our national of currency transfer, trade i economy as a whole did not collapse. fisher. i have good as bins. of course, this is the result of the responsible social economy co policy, the policies of life. this is the realization also that society. i want you to work on anti crisis measures to you strengthen the parliamentary control on it says very that is quite possible because we have all sorts of bases of engineering schools and in buffet. he still calls the special military action that

speak to those of jabbar issues standing by 1st in moscow, also listening in to president who to filling their tasks in ukraine. the russian president is making a rare live appearance in saint petersburg in front of a council of the country society. as a result of it, there was also a very specific warning from the russian president who is also with the commander in chief air in this country. he said that if any one would want to interfere in ukraine, and he said they would have to know that russia will be responding and, and message from vladimir putin to the countries that are now supplying arms to ukraine. and the main one being of course, the united states, but now over the past few days, we heard from germany and for the 1st time a plan supplying tanks to at the ukrainian military. so it's letting me put in clearly taking toe in terms of even supplying arms and weapons is fair game for the

russian military. we've seen their russians attack an 8 convoys that have come in to ukraine, and the most is mythical. one was near the border with poland, the ukrainian city of the village. there was an attack on a, they are going to, he's going to use anything and everything that he has at his disposal to counter those deliveries. ok, thanks very much for bring if needed. however, western countries already sending weapons and providing intelligence to ukraine to fight against russia, germany is sending around 50 times equipped to the weaponry. so what's going to be the fall out? fall putin's concerned? well, i think what you're seeing here, the p digging and surprisingly, both at the eastern bass but also resort li. a feeling that he's right, that really, really hardening position and re open the providing the kind of weapon systems that

that was, was off the lease. i just feel very open about a need or kind of heavy equipment from going from, you know, logistic also pews. but also what these key nato countries, especially the united states, a very kind of the goal that ultimately the only way out of the war. so she was found guilty of accepting $600000.00 and $7.00 gold balls and bribes. 76 year olds trial was closed to the media thing, holmes. i missed the boys, johnson again, apologize to the families of those who died and says, the government will study the court ruling. i want to remind the high so as to the reading, we will study it. and we will, of course, respond further. in due course, firefighters are struggling to contain a massive blaze on the outskirts of new delhi during a heat wave. the prime minister is warming warning that temperatures in india

getting too high, too early in the year, adding to the risk of fun. the plumes of smoke hard for anyone to avoid, especially waste workers. i was i liked the neighbor near. there's a fire every year. it's not new. there is a risk to life and livelihood. many slum dwellings caught fire, people lift it. what do we do? picking through rubber garrett we inhaled these gases, which caused diseases. i feel pain hauled, breathing the fall, and there are many others like this is not on. the indians are suffering a heat wave which is adding to the risk of fires. march was the hottest month and more than a century galbraith prime minister neurons remedy warrants, state governments. the temperatures are rising much earlier. it was city who came out the blocks quickly. kevin de brewing and giving them the lead off of just 2 minutes. and it was looking ominous for royal when gabrielle has zeus made it too soon after the visit is pulled on back before half time,

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