on this also trying to get out train wise of a fee, but it's on a 1st come, 1st serve basis here at the bus station there only a few rides available and that's only to the surrounding villages. so people like for me and rose, now need to find another way to get out of the city. but for now they, like many others, would have to return home, hoping tomorrow is a better day. ah, today the kremlin failed once again in his attempt to so division among member states. he you accuse is russia of black male after it cuts gas supplies to poland and bulgaria its toughest retaliation yet for western sanctions? will ukraine? russian forces continue to plan the massive still works in mario for where

thousands of craving and defenders and civilians are still hold up. ah, hello there, i'm dealing with donald. this is jesse rely from london also coming amid high tensions over ukraine, a surprise prisoner swap between russia, the u. s. for millions of families hungry and desperate across the horn of africa, which is suffering its worse drives in 40 years, plus a basic sense of 4 more astronauts to the space station, including a doctor and a geologist. ah, they are warm welcome to the program. russia has threatened to cop gas off to

europe to more european countries after turning off the tops to poland and bulgaria over their refusal to pay in roubles. b. u has accused the kremlin of using energy to blackmail countries supporting ukraine. will european gas prices spike by as much as 24 percent earlier, or says president vladimir putin has worn foreign powers against interfering in his 2 month war promising a court lightening response if anyone would want to interfere with what's happening in ukraine now from the outside they have to know rushes response will be swift, fast. we have all sorts of tools that the west cannot obtain. and we will not post of our weapons, which we will use them if need be. and i want everyone to know that well, the head of the un arrived in ukraine the day after meeting prison in law school. antonio good terrace is pushing for a cease fire, a slicing wages on mario pool and elsewhere in the east. but despite bitter divisions over ukraine, russia and the us of completed the prisma swell after lengthy negotiations that the

baba begins are coverage ny, with his report on russia gas, right? it had been predicted by some fear by many more. but european leaders see russia's move to hold gas supplies to poland and bulgaria because they weren't paying roubles as aggressive, comes as no surprise that the kremlin uses fossil fuels to try to black. my last, this is something that your pin commission has been preparing for. in close coordination and solidarity with member states and international partners, our response will be immediate. united and coordinated. moscow says countries can still pay for gas imports in euro's or dollars, but only if they open russian bank accounts, which then convert the currency and make the final payments. is for some countries have already done so. but bo guerria, which gets the vast majority, if it's gas supplies from gas problem is not one of them. yeah,

one is to put them in dublin and we will not succumb to such a racket. but a great gary, i was reviewing all agreements with gas problem, including the agreement on gas transit, 3 bulk area. because one sided blackmail is not acceptable. the polish president has promised to take legal action, but the prime minister is insisting there's no immediate threat saying storage facilities are 3 quarters full higher than in most of europe. now patricia, i've emphasized many times poland had previously prepared to diversify supplies and obtain gas from various sources. even before the bolted gas pipeline is launched, will be able to protect our economy, to protect public households from such a dramatic step by russia. some warsaw residents, if not all seem reassured, the 2nd thing to go to this man says, shutting down gas supplies might end up harming russia. he says his country has reserves 11. she was at the party. while this woman one does how much pose like her

will have to pay for developments linked to the ukraine war, saying things are already incredibly expensive. the use biggest economy germany has been the most reluctant to end gas imports from russia, but a wednesday. it said it was speeding up efforts to find alternatives, including liquefied natural gas, or the condition of thought. and i can say this are russian gas dependency, which was 55 percent before the war and dropped to 40 percent a few weeks ago. now it's 35 percent and retreat. so for now, the common messages there's no need to panic, but it's hard to say how rushes move will play into the existing energy price crisis across europe. nadeem, bob al jazeera, russian forces have continued to pass the last known stronghold of ukrainian forces in mariel for thousands of 5 to some civilians are still hold up. and the as of still still works where conditions are said to be going more die. when they put

any there over 600 wounded men in our group with different levels of they really need medical attention and health care. there is no medical personnel, all medication. there are also wounded civilian hundreds of people and dozens of children. many people have limited mobility. the situation is very difficult. there are huge problems with water and food completely extraction procedure. today is not 19 forties. 2022. people will simply die here. when a city official says air strikes on, the plant haven't ceased despite russian president vladimir putin declaring on tuesday, that there are no military operations on the way in the besieged city. ukrainian officials called the situation in mary, or pull a humanitarian catastrophe about 100 sizes and people ought to be still trapped in the city. but is coming up in the merrier pull direction, the enemies exerting massive fire and booking units and the area of the store plant in the city occupies continue to carry out filtration missions against the civilian

population. often forces a foreign to your gas and some grenades that protest this in the southern ukrainian city of care. some people have been rallying and what they're calling is sham referendum. ukraine says russia's planning to hold a stage vote in the region to show popular support for the creation of a russian back republic. harrison has been occupied by russian troops since early on in the conflict ukrainians holding regular demonstrations against their presence . will ivan suli lives in chorus on he joins us live from their ivan, good to happy with her to believe that normally you study and live you what you went back home to visit your family and i was sensually you're, you're stuck. what, what the situation like right now. now in kirsten situations like we record buys for tomatoes. yeah. and now we

can move from kirsten to another great city. we can do it only by car and it is extremely unsafe. so we situation is really unsafe person room. so what's it like i can you can you go outside, can you and your family go? why sort of do things like going to get food and things like that. what, what's it like just trying to leave the house? we can do it, but it's not the general situation. like what? because a how to get food we need to pay for our cues. and also i think it's really a 2 week male gender to go out to go, because you never know should russian troops take you to the russian army

in the what's the situation be? we're also seeing pictures i've in there on the screen next to you, right? now, of people going out and taking the risk to protest it, where is this feeling of defiance kind of coming form. and i'm wondering how people can kind of organize themselves in a situation like this to resist what's happening. we had the meeting today in the center of kirsten, but the russian troops use used t. s guess. and they tried to bend this this meeting. yeah. so and then also have a nice chest m. m

enclave citizen of cash. but it is extremely unsafe. and heroes to, to go for such me today because like you are actually from today, how are you and your family coping? ivan, are you kind of wedded to the fact that you're going to have to stay where you are for now, rather than attempt to leave? you know, you know, we try to not focus on because if you're thinking about all time with here, you will get some no mental problems or something or something like that because it's really difficult to cope with it. yeah. and some people in person is the one to move, but now they're

a blocked and it's difficult to to move from question. yes. so we should say that's and we hope of it, sir. your grand army will win this war. and carson again will be sitting. i will still be there. thank you. ivan, for sharing your story with us here live on al jazeera. thank you. thank you. on the front line in ukraine's east russian forces continue their slow advance. thousands of ukrainians have fled, as the fighting gets closer. and those who remain rely on the bravery of workers to deliver their food. cha, stratford reports from tory in eastern ukraine. natalia has worked at this bred factory. the town of buck moved in eastern ukraine for 13 years . russian forces of slowly getting closer. they are 1st firing artillery shells and

rockets. then moving in or nearby villages. the closer they get, the more tempted the mother of 2 is to leave one actually, i'm very worried for myself for my family, for the children, for my job is frightening. going to and from work because i hear the explosions in the distance. i love my job and have many friends. i don't want to leave them. the bread factory is the largest and oldest business entailed employee around 200 people. they supply bread to many surrounding villages, but the amount of customers is shrinking because they flee the slow russian army advance. volunteered delivery driver. andre is a brave man. after loading up his van with freshly baked gloves, he heads out of town towards the front line. we follow him along isolated mc country roads to a village near the russian army control town to call lyrica the village shopkeeper

. the few people still living here have be waiting for his delivery for 3 days. don't believe there is in school over there. close to part of the whole field has been shell so heavily. it looks like they're digging it. go have a look, but it's so low they're in there, so people live and i don't feel particularly afraid. people need bread, they have to eat, if they show me, so be it to this is worn was. the village sits in between the advancing russian army and ukrainian military defense dog in across the fields. the train stopped coming here in 2014, when pro russian separatists cease control of the next city down the tracks does lose the ration which instruction as it's terrifying, there are explosions, constantly getting food to us is dangerous and there's never enough. we feel surrounded because they shoot from the side and not side. all of those who are left here are all. there are no medicines available. no buses, no transport,

you're not. so we drive to, to risk swerving between piles of soil, heaped on the road to try and slow down any russian army advance. nearby village we find homes destroyed. you create an army, tell us that this village has been hit by russian artillery a number of times in the last week. they say at least one civilian has been killed in these strikes. the most recent strike was the smallest number of civilians injured. the soldiers here tell us that the russian positions are around 7 kilometers from here. ukrainian soldiers say russian forces are trying to destroy a radio antenna. but so far, i've only succeeded in destroying lives. charles stafford, al jazeera, eastern ukraine. there have been a series of explosions in the russian city of belgrade, near the border with ukraine. the regional governor set

a fire and ammunition. death was extinguished, and no civilians were injured and taught ukrainian official described it as quote karma from moscow's invasion earlier this month. russia accused ukraine of attacking a fuel devil in belgrade. and despite being deeply divided over over the ukraine war, russia and the us of completed a surprise prison. this wall or just foreign ministry, says former us marine trevor read has been traded for russian pilot who was serving a 20 year sentence. our white house correspondent kimberly hawk. it explains the release of trevor read a former us marine serving a 19 year jail sentence, and russia follows a lengthy negotiation process. the 30 year old was released as part of a prisoner exchange for constantine yara sankoh, a russian pilot, convicted of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the united states. you're a shanker, was arrested in liberia in 2010, but then extradited to the us in

a statement president joe biden. praise the safe return of read as a testament to the priority. his administration places on bringing home americans held hostage and wrongfully detained abroad, adding it require difficult decisions that i do not take lightly. the timing is unexpected. us russia relations are at their lowest point in decades following russia's invasion of ukraine. but the biden white house has always maintained there's value in dialogue with adversaries, for example, america or russian cosmonaut, nationals or foreign together in the international socialist continued to support the war and the current. so it is true. oh, you are so russia. oh, carry on the number of different are to some of which will not always you lou reed was sentenced following a public trial in russia for assaulting

a police officer in 20. 19. it's a charge his family denies. reads family had been concerned for his health during detention. they say he contract a tuberculosis and was suffering and solitary confinement and from forced hard labor entailed last month reeds, family stage to protest at the white house, and met with bite and pleading for help to secure their sons release in a state. and wednesday they credited the president forgetting trevor out saying biden's actions may have saved trevor's life. trevor read is said to be in good spirits and on his way to the united states. but other americans like security executive, paul whalen, and basketball player. brittany greiner remain in russian captivity. and despite tensions with russia, president biden says the united states will not stop working to secure their release. kimberly held it al jazeera, the white house,

still to come this half hour a court in me in my sentence, his own song. so cheat to another 5 years in prison in the 1st of 11 corruption cases against her. and from galapagos stored. so, as is to the komodo dragon warnings, a 5th of reptiles species are threatened. extinction. ah, doctors in sudan say at least 213 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in gun battles between nomadic arab tribes, a known arabs fighting, sauntered in west star for state after the bodies of 2 more nomads were found on thursday on rice lay to spread to the state capital l janina disagreements over scarce resources of calls. confrontations for nearly 20 years. us warning the parts of tenure, ethiopia, and somalia are facing their dry ice conditions in 40 years. 20000000 people are at

risk of starvation. this year after the failure of a 4th rainy season for security, has also been impacted by conflict, poverty, and locust invasion. while the world food program says, 40 percent of somali population faces hunger with a real risk of famine. in the coming months, a humanitarian catastrophe was avoided during a harrowing drug in 2017 thanks to early assistance and the illness of no place. $1390000000.00 at a conference in geneva, after a previous appeal in february only raised 4 percent of the required funds. was harriman task reports from more solid county in northern kenya. around 3 and a half 1000000 people are already suffering after years. have drived la, chico, and had a coating. young a worries about the baby boy. he's 7 months old. and sick, weak and hungry. there isn't enough food because of the drought. his mother can't get enough food to eat, and comp would use enough milk for him. they lost another child in february. they

say he stopped a little going to, he'll get along too. he got sick and died. i dont know what to do about my other child. he might also die because he's hungry. millions of families across the horn of africa, a hungry and desperate might. it might not. they facing the worst drought. the region has seen in 40 years in kenya, more than 3 and a half 1000000 people need immediate help. agencies say nearly 800000 of them are children. the animals too, are dying as it gets hotter and dryer. people out here tend to move around a lot, looking for food and water for themselves and they animals, many areas are remote. the nearest hospital can be hours away. some of the women have say they can be very early in the morning and only get to the clinic late at night. 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 teacher, i've been here for so long myself. 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 for info grace gibbons, his many children are going to school hungry. she says this drought is the worst she has ever seen. some of them. they're just dying. and we have nothing to just feed them. and i me more or all day good, just depend on him 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, masa bit county, northern king. there are fears that global foot prices will search even further after indonesia announce is widening about on cooking oil exports. the government

says could and refine, pamela won't be allowed out of the country, either president, yoko, widowed, oh, says indonesians need to be able to afford basic goods. and the navy has been deploy to stop illegal shipments. indonesia is one of the wells largest exporters of edible oils. global supplies already been hit by drought and russia's invasion of ukraine, which is also a major crop producer. firefighters are struggling to contain a massive blaze which broke out on a huge landfill site on the outskirts of india's capital emitter, heat wave prime minister ranger modi is warning the could be more similar. incidents as temperatures are getting too high, too early in the year. and re chappelle reports, flames burn for a 2nd day at the ballast while landfill adding to the hazardous air quality in the capitol. the plumes of smoke hard for any one to avoid, especially waste workers. how to calculate 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. what do we do? picking through rubbish to earn a living, they're only option is to carry on and risk the dangerous smoke. as firefighters continue to battle the blaze or drive up rather medical programs, we are very scared when hail these gases which cause diseases a few painful breathing the fall, and there are many others like this modem. again, indians are suffering a heat wave which is adding to the risk of fires. march was the hottest month in more than a century. the abuse i minister neurons ramadi, warren, state governments, temperatures are rising much earlier than normal leading to wild fires and fires and buildings such as hospitals. he's urging the urgent implementation of safety checks the landfill was supposed to close years ago. the decaying waste produces methane gas that feeds the fire, instead of shutting the waist dumped. the city adds 2000 tons of new waste and the

temperatures are rising much earlier than normal leading to wildfires and fires and buildings such as hospitals. he's urging the urgent implementation of safety checks the landfill was supposed to close years ago. the decaying waste produces methane gas that feeds the fire instead of shutting the way stumped. the city adds 2000 tons of new waste every day. and a shapell al jazeera co, it's in me and mar, has sentence, formerly dong songs. if g to 5 years in prison, on the 1st of 11 corruption charges that she currently faces. she was found guilty of accepting $600000.00 and $7.00 gold bars. in bribes, her child was held in secret, said she says the corruption charge is a made up by me and lies military beulah, who took control in february last year. or for well, this and from human rights. what says mean wise militia humans are, is doing everything it can to get sued. she, i'm to the way permanently on songs to cheese life as a free woman as effectively over. it's quite clear that the military went to there

is going to do everything they can to keep are behind bars. she's 76 years old. now she's that 11 years in prison and there's going to be more coming with other criminal charges and other court trials coming later this year. i think that they're trying to locker away for life that they do not want to see her or her political party ever surfacing again. and this is part of their effort to destroy popular democracy and human rights and member. these are kangaroo courts. they are waiting for the instructions from the military hunt on how to rule. there's no iota of independence. the woman who won the november 2020 election landslide is now a prisoner in her own country. this is another argument for sanctions against the military and military companies are to really increase the pressure on the,

on more, increasingly, myanmar has sort of fallen out of the headlines with other things going on in the world. it's time for re dedication of effort by the international community to pressure them or who does to restore democracy and to respect human rights. one of the holiest knights of the year and islam as being celebrated and occupied east jerusalem. some $250000.00 worshippers are holding prayers of the alex and ask for layla, i'll call to which was the 27th night of the month of ramadan. celebration fall is israeli, raised to the holy site and the killing of at least 17 palestinians and a crackdown across the occupied westbank. 2 of them in the last 2 days will step thicker, is live and occupy mystery them high. there stiff, a huge number of people worshiping after, i guess a relatively peaceful couple of days. yes, things of quiet and down. and the last couple of days, particularly since these really government and this happens every year,

stopped allowing non muslims to enter the compound. as you mentioned, there it is, the holiest night in the islamic calendar for muslims and a quarter of a 1000000 worshippers are now inside the compound, carrying out prayers. i'll let you had take your little closer. you can see the courtyard filmed, filled with worshippers. they are now going to be carrying out prayers throughout the night until sunrise later at the others. you mentioned. there is the night that it is believed that the court on was revealed to the prophet mohammed by god. it's believed that the prayers that people's prayers are heard that the heavens open and angels come to earth. so this is why you see so many people gathering here. they've come from the occupied westbank from north israel from all over really there's been a lot of traffic during the day around this area. roads have been closed and it's the largest number of people that we've seen over the last couple of years. because

of course, the corona pandemic, and also last year you had the escalation, you had the tensions on the compound which led to the gods award, i think will. so a reminder that this is as many palestinians will tell you as many muslims will tell you a red line locks a mosque is a red line and it has the ability to trigger a much wider conflict. what happens at this site? but certainly tonight on the holiest night for muslims going very peacefully with a huge amount of people on the compound praying. and we are expecting them to stay there and more to come throughout the night and stay until sunrise that can then live from commodities to some staffing, keep the world's reptiles are in crisis with more than a 5th of them threatened with extinction, including iconic species like the komodo dragon galapagos tortoise and king cobra. a new study from a conservation group in the united states examined the more than $10000.00 reptiles

species worldwide, and it found 21 percent or endangered, or vulnerable to extinction. they've cited deforestation the spread of urban areas and hunting, as the main reasons. climate change is, of course, another factor will the report also identify a $31.00 more reptiles species that are already extinct and will therefore never return. species are declining at a rapid rate. um, some estimates 10 times a 100 times a 1000 times more than the background rate of extinction that normally happens on the planet. so we're at a really critical time. i'm in our, you know, an earth history. reptiles represent a unique evolutionary heritage on the tree of life. and if all of those are 20 percent of reptiles that are threatened today go extinct, we will lose accumulation of 15000000000 years of evolution.

that's. that's led to these fascinating creatures that we see around us today. private aerospace company space acts as launched another 4 astronauts in orbit from the u. s. including adults and a geologist. vulcan, 9 book at dragon capture blasted off from florida, taking 3 nasa astronaut and an italian from the european space agency to the international space station. there on a 6 month mission, with more than $200.00 experiments planned space ex is owned by the world's richest man in mosque who struck a deal this week to buy twitter are really focused around the rendezvous, which we'll dark later this evening. actually at 815 p. m. eastern time. this is the fast us launch to doc that we've done. it's about the same time it takes to go from new york to singapore. so it's kind of interesting. check out our website, you can find out much more. they are at al jazeera dot com. ah,

very quick remind in our top stories on al jazeera, russia has threatened to cut off gas to more european countries. after turning off the taps to poland and bulgaria over their refusal to pay in roubles, he is accused the kremlin of using energy to blackmail countries supporting ukraine . european gas prices shots are by as much as 24 percent earlier. russian president vladimir putin has warned that any.