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workers down their tools and businesses are close to put pressure on the president to step down. increasing urgency in china's capital as it tries to clamp down on a curve at 19 outbreak, plus the world's largest producer of palm oil. indonesia imposes a ban on exports because of shortages. who's more than 2 months since russia began its invasion of ukraine? the un secretary general is there to see the devastation 1st hand. he's been visiting town on the outskirts of the capitol, where russia is accused of committing rule crimes and tonia good tear as to it, a charred residential tower in ur pin, where it more than 70 percent of the infrastructure is being damaged during the fighting. a.

i want to walk with every bob with a war but how to abdel how me to was in open during the secretary general's visit. now the secretary general a seeing up and close for himself, what the ukrainians have been talking about. and that is something that president zalinski wanted him to see before heading to moscow. he said that lay publicly during a press conference. he thought it was a bit ambiguous to go and visit 1st, the aggressor and then come to the victims. i think the secretary general made a point to come here. first he is going to then have these high level meetings later on in the day with both the foreign minister and president zalinski. he's

going around with very heavy security and a large number of journalists, as you can see, has had very little contact with local red is residents from what we have seen. these have been very quick pit stops with i say he's 1st started in bird younger than luke, and this is his final as his stop of this, a short trip in north of cave. but in general, a lot of ukrainians had expressed frustrations in conversation. i had with them before they said to you and should be the body, the mechanism that should be able to interfere and all of that and stop this war. they thought that even before the war started a, do you and was in doing a much it might have been very difficult for the secretary general to have the 2 side c i to i it's certainly is difficult at the moment and it's quite clear that that's why he's concentrating under humanitarian efforts that the un in coordination with international red cross could give rather than try to bring about

some sort of choose a cease fire that is not out the table on the table at the moment for president zaleski said he was willing to kick start the negotiations again. he said that he's willing to meet personally with president putin, but that's there's no indication that that could happen at any time soon. ellia because harris was at the side of a mass grave in boucher that's the town where the bodies of civilians were found with hands tied behind their backs. earlier this month when ukraine we captured it from russian forces because harris was also in borrowed. yank an hour away from the capital cave, it's one of many towns which was occupied by the russian forces. emily flattened by their onslaught like food gym, mass graves were found there, and ukrainians have accused russian forces, if committing atrocities on the battlefield. the crime says russia has increased

the pace of it's offensive in the east. there's been fees fighting, and the don best region. russian forces have taken these 2 towns. they're pushing towards the cities of lyman and pop and smell on the front line defended by ukrainian troops. thousands of troops and civilians are still trapped inside the as of a steel facility in mary, a pole surrounded by russian soldiers and tangs moscow had a great principle. so un involvement in rescuing civilians from their after meeting between ca, terrorist and president vladimir persian. but so far that hasn't happened, you claiming official saying, humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding at the plants. and they put me there over 600 wounded men in our group with different levels and they really need medical attention and health care. there is no medical personnel, all medication. there are also wounded civilian, hundreds of people, the 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. and this bains a series of explosions in the southern city of her son near a television tower, the bloss temporarily knocked rushing channels of the air. her son has been under russian occupation, and residents have been protesting against their presence. they are accusing washer of planning to hold a sham referendum them. let's get the latest on the situation in east and ukraine and bring in child stratford. you joins us live near the city of buck most in the dumbass region. hello that child. what's the latest on the fighting where you are a lot of moving parts overnight and into the morning. it seems suddenly as a fall indication suggest a concerted effort by russian forces to push further forward into

ukraine. we are a few kilometers away from the town of papa's not now. this town we have been told by the military is off controlled by the ukrainians and half by russian forces. we heard reports last night and verifiable that russian infantry. i tried to storm the city and behind me now you can barely see actually in the haze through the camera lens. but i can tell you that there's been a lot of smoke, a lot of shelling on the city in the last of a half an hour. also, as i say, no way of verify whether in fact it was stormed by russian forces. but we were in a field hospital close to her a couple of days ago and a lot of ukrainian soldiers being treated in that field hospital. that's papa's now . now as i say, there are various areas and towns in this region that have seen heavy shelling overnight in the morning, 2 of the others, lucy chanced and several done at scott's norse of here,

they are very close to one if not 2 towns that are controlled by russian forces and we understand that the ukrainians so far are holding them back. but this push in this area papason, or at least a chance consider the next is part of a campaign we understand by the russian army to try and surround the large urban areas of sla janski's and cremmit host. we visited both of those cities in the last couple of days, the streets virtually deserted, non stop air sirens. we're hearing today from the ukrainian military. that term the russian forces have taken control of 2 towns close to a town called izzy. him that they already control pushing further south and south west towards savanski. and there was also reports by the ukrainian military saying that they'd seen russian

a russian movement of at least $500.00 pieces of weaponry and military machinery in that area. also ongoing attacks in a town called lehman, which again is increasingly close to slave janski's. also with respect to donnette sk, which is south from here, an area that nuts, vall in this, since the russian invasion has, has been relatively speaking, relatively quiet. we're hearing that there has been a lot of shelling overnight in the ukrainian or on the ukrainian control town of abdi erica, which is very close to done exc. and also south of the next an area called marine cat only last week. the ukrainians said they had retaken control back from pro russian forces them having lost control in the early stages of this russian campaign. and then any strategic any analysts will tell you that there's very worrying developments are west of here quite a long way west of here. actually the city of zap parisha reports of certainly

according to the ukrainian military of at least 2 missiles, strikes hitting residential buildings in that city. at least 2 people. we can verify whether the civilians or soldiers injured in those attacks. military analysts are saying that that assault owns upper as you are, is part of a campaign to come in from the south west to possibly try and trap ukrainian forces in this area. so yes, as i say a lot of moving parts in the last few hours, what remains to be seen. what is going to be very interesting is the fact that now that the weather has changed, the sun is out. the fields in this area in this region are drawing up is a lot of our list to say, questioning as to whether we could actually see more movement of russian troops across fields and large areas like this. now that the ground is firmer. of course that's according to analysts, but as i say,

older indications suggest that there has been a concerted effort in the last 24 hours by russian forces to make more territorial gains. ok, thank you for bringing us up to spade charles stratford life ross. new city of a back move tension is rising in the pro ration break. my region of my guys are after a series of attacks and way, some days the interior ministry of trans mysterious says shots were fired on wednesday and came to ward village housing. in ammunition def i am on tuesday. it said 2 explosions, damaged or radio antenna in another village. me back a has more fun. kitchena ukraine's interpretation of what's happened in france. nisha is that this is very much a false flag operation, orchestrated by russia or to justify possibly bolstering russia's troop presence within the trans nice year. there is a sizable russian speaking population in the region. and of course, we know historically that russia has used the defense of russian speakers as

a reason for moving military into regions, of course has happened in the done yes, because half a little hamster in the 2008 warwick georgia that happened in south of sasha as well, the moldova, and believe that they may well be some internal dispute going on in transit east. and what we're seeing are acts of sabotage from within. the russians have said that they're watching what's going on in transit. they're very, very closely indeed saying that they don't want to see the area being drawn into a wide conflict. the question is really logistically whether russia could actually, if it wanted to send troops into the area, it's failed to a stage or some. phoebe, as landing in odessa, there are very few options as to how troops good actually access of the region. for the time being though. oh, security services are moldova, and ukraine are watching very, very closely what's happening there. of course, if this continues on a regular basis, they may well have to reevaluate their own security situation here. mold over pauper and to the east, of course, in ukraine, that is very,

very worried about their suddenly being a new front opening in the west of the country as well. still hold on al jazeera, a warning from the world health organization. after dramatic rise in measles cases across the globe and find out why columbia is a former president l vera robbie is facing more than a decade in prison. ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world carp is on its way to cat. your travel package to death. hallo. the weather remains remarkably wet for parts of indonesia . we have seen some live you storms just rolling through here when in fact just to the east of to carter. we've seen some very heavy rain. april is the wettest month, but sir, we should now be seeing those painful totals. ease off lively showers. little

fletcher stores, meanwhile, across the south china seas, and this is going to gather they're going to put some very heavy rain into our southern parts of vietnam over the next couple days that could well lead to some localized flooding and the showers longest spells of rain they will grasp these are where cross southern parts of cambodia and push on into thailand, malaysia, while it sunshine in the heat of the day, shower, similar picture. therefore, the philippines and the showers, of course, continuing to into or indonesia, particular cross western parts of indonesia, where we got a little system just making its way just to the south. the christmas island here, this clutch of storms. this is a tropical disturbance, is kind of joining up with a cold front, which is making its way across australia over the next day or so. you can see that where to where the coming in across parts of w way down towards the southeast of south australia, where whether they're coming in to adelaide into melbourne. pushing further east was grassy eating a, which was sidney. sidney cools off, but brightens up for saturday. hatter airway issue airline of the journey.

when the war on ukraine commenced, people in power reached out to inhabitants of the nation, 2nd city, less than 40 miles from the russian border. as the carnage unfolds, a handful of civilians document their experiences as they try to survive and maintain some normality in a reality. turn upside down a road glimpse of life under the bond. you cream city under siege on a just either ah, ah ah, hello, are you watching out a 0? i'm emily anglin, he's reminder of our top stories this hour. the un secretary general is in ukraine

to observe the devastation 1st hand caused by russia's rule and turning retires to the child residential tower in open when more than 70 percent of the infrastructure has been damaged. earlier terrace visited the site of a mass graves and gotcha, that's the town where civilian bodies were found with hands tie behind their backs . earlier this month when ukraine we captured it from russian forces. he also went to forward young po, an hour away from the capital key. it's one of many towns which was occupied by russian forces annually flattened by their onslaught. turkeys president is traveling to saudi arabia for to day visit, aimed at repairing ties. red chip type, irwin is expected to make crown prince mohammad been so mon, during his 1st visit to the kingdom in years, relations between the 2 was strained after the 2018 killing of jealous shamarka

shogi at the saudi consulate in istanbul. a nationwide strike is under way in tr lanka as part of protests against the government's handling of a devastating economic crisis. i. members in 500 different trade unions are marching across the capital, colombo opposition parties have organized 6 days of protests across the country shall hankens have been dealing with shortages of few food and medicine for weeks. vanelle fernandez is covering developments for us live from colombo min al. you're outside a hospital where doctors and nurses have been protesting. how large is this strike? and what to protest is want the sort of one day, a general strike called by all of these trade unions has pretty much crippled, most government services across the country. now here,

opposite arshella has largest a hospital which is the government, the national hospital, which you see behind me staff has decided that they will not art of join the full strike, but did, did step out for a talk. and to was the reason they say is that the sort of dire shortage of medicines and supplies is already affecting their ability to serve their patients. they're not being able to deliver a 100 percent of their safety. step out, you know, the entire deed further are sort of inconveniences and endangers of public. but we did see them out earlier, but across the country, particularly, ah, here in colombo, what we saw, we saw representative groups of the bankers, a postal workers, the labor department, the dentist, your name made up the railway unions. all of them are not only not reporting to walk to day, but they've also gathered and basically are marching on to the president's office.

that's in the heart of columbus where there's been a 20 day now fit in outside the president's office and all of them with one voice asking the president and his government to step down. so that's, that's where we stand. but even here, despite the hold workers not reporting to work, there are some pretty heartbreaking stories. there was a lady was husband is in the i c u and she said she is out here camping. she goes and sees him in the morning. she is back like 3 different meals that should be given to him because she can't take public transport. she got here at like 56 o'clock in the morning. and she is here till about 8 o'clock in the night when her children can come and take her. so really sort of kicking in and biting as the strike cripples. and me, me now, what's been the government's response, given the scale of those demonstrations that you've been describing. i mean, so far we haven't really heard them directly addressed the strike itself. but in

terms of both the president and the prime minister have not really heeded the demands, the growing demands of people across the country for them both as well as the cabinet to step down. the prime minister basically, yesterday came out literally sort of in a fighting spirit, saying that he was not going to step down if there was an interim government, which has been muted, that he would still remain the head of it. the prep, the president, on the other hand, his younger brother has basically said and put out a statement that in principle he is agreeable to an all party government. but that should happen after the prime minister in cabinet resigns. in fact, he is called a meeting to morrow of coalition parties of the government, including around 40 members who that they stepped down that sort of papering over the cracks, looking at alternate options, appointing new cabinets, you know, talking of, you know, mistakes made, but ain't been al fernandez,

live for us in sherlock was capital colombo, to pakistan. now where the prime minister ship, as sharif, has appointed a new foreign minister bill of wild blue toes. the diary is 33 years old, making him one of the world. he youngest foreign ministers. he's also the son of assassinated, former prime officials in shanghai, a concentrating on vaccinating the elderly as they battled china's biggest corona virus outbreak, yet the city and it's nearly $26000000.00 residents have been locked down for 4 weeks. more than 9000 new cases were detected on wednesday and 47 people have died . most of them were about the age of a she and by jane. it's one thing to contain if outbreak of clothes and some schools as well as entertainment and suicide official sam 15 cases on wednesday. as i tried to test, most of the 22000000 people who live in the city that have been locked downs in some offices, harms and university infections were found. katrina,

you found this report from the capital situation? your engaging is quite 10 people are expecting that a lockdown could be announced that any day now because we are seeing numbers continue to rise. authorities have conducted so far, 2 rounds of mass testing a final one is due on friday to morrow. and after that, from those results, we'll see if there will be further restrictions. authorities have said so far, they have found at least $138.00 cases in beijing, which doesn't sound like a lot, but this is the country that is still maintaining its 0 tolerance approach towards curve in 19. so as a result, we saw on thursday morning, a number of schools shut their doors in the classes online. many people, including our team, have been advised to work for me for me and attainment then years and tourist sites have also been closed. i think it's already here doing all they can to avoid tissue wise locked down. so we have seen a few dozen neighborhoods for example barricaded,

enclosed up where they have found cases. but in other areas, it's still business as usual, but the streets are very quiet. meanwhile, in shanghai and they are still saying this, so she was locked down, most of the cities 25000000 residents remain confined to their home authority, say they're thinking about whether some neighborhoods can have the restriction loosens and that will depend on another round of mass testing, but frustration is continuing that. i mean, this locked down and shot i was only supposed to last for 4 days. and now we've seen it go into it for a week. the u. s. congress is passed to bill to help taiwan regain its observe status. the world health organization president joe biden is expected to sign the measure into law. taiwan was stripped off a status back in 2017 because of objections from china. beijing considers the island a breakaway problem. what health organization says outbreaks of measles rising

sharply. the number of cases reported in the 1st 2 months of this year is 79 percent higher than 2021. the agencies blaming cove 19 and conflicts fe, interrupting childhood vaccination campaigns. most of the cases are being found in the eastern mediterranean region, as well as parts of africa and in was on cooking oil prices have saud to a record high partly because of the war in ukraine, and they're expected to increase even more as indonesia, the world's leading producer of palm while stats it's export ban. jessica washington reports on how cooks and coping in the kitchen into counter south. some of the country's most popular dishes can be found in this small kitchen. fried chicken, fried fish and fried tofu. almost everything on the menu has one ingredient in common, palm oil. and dung said the owning c opened to this restaurant 30 years ago,

but now she's worried. she could lose customers. a song about buffalo to verify the unstable price of cooking oil affects my business law. when it was cars, it was difficult, but now it's available but expensive. it's so challenging for small businesses. palm oil is the world's most widely used edible oil. for months, concerns about price and availability have been growing in indonesia despite the country being the top producer. now the government is banning palm oil exports, including crude and refined palm oil by mouth that bowl not got up. i understand the state needs taxes along with foreign exchange, and the country needs a trade bounce surplus. but meeting the people's primary needs is more important, but it's a priority. we got one. the move has shocked global markets. the price of cooking oil has been rising around the world for a number of reasons. disruptions in production, increasing demand for biofuels,

and the war in ukraine. the world's largest exporter of sunflower oil. experts say the latest moved by the engine asian government is likely to push prices even higher. from oil is also used in processed foods, cosmetics, cleaning products, and more economists say the government strategies to normalize cooking oil prices have been misguided focusing on supply rather than problems within the industry. it may not solve the problem because again, the problem with the, with the cooking oil in the, in the, in the indonesian market right now is actually the in the distribution channel. there is a bottleneck in now because of this complex and long, you know, distribution channel. the indonesian pharmacy association says its members will also suffer. what does that mean? it, this time period should give momentum to the government to reform the palm,

oil industry and it's production model. right now it's run by big companies and they set the distribution of palm oil material according to the market. and i'm, i know the government intends the band to remain until prices reach around $0.97 per liter at traditional markets in indonesia. but it's unclear whether this policy will achieve that. jessica washington out to 0 to carter. a colombian judge has ruled a former president, televera. olibo had is, will stand trial to chat on charges of fraud and witnessing witness tampering. this has to do with an investigation into abuses committed during the countries 52 year long civil complaint. alexandra ram, p a. t reports from boca from a 12 hour long virtual hearing, the judge carman ortiz quest. in much of the attorney general's office reasoning, to ask for dismissal of this controversial case against the former president of

columbia at the judge detailed at times in stark terms of how she believes that the prosecuting attorney, gabriela hi, miss. failed to present important evidence that indeed would suggest the possibility that that is responsible for crimes. in particular, he is charged with directing one of his lawyers and other people to try and bribe and change the testimony of some paramilitary members and change the testimony where that link would you be at 2 d, illegal armed groups? now this case goes a ways back, it's actually 4 years old and it started and the country supreme court. but after the court ordered it into home detention, he resigned. and that moved the case to the attorney general's office,

different legal body that some people here c as more favorable to the ex president . but now there's this new decision by this judge, which means that the case will indeed continue even if there are still the possibility to appeal this late. this decision was also clear that this is also political defeats for that would be and his party coming just a month before presidential elections. police in peru have used t gas to evict an indigenous group which refused to leave. one of the country's biggest copper mines. the fewer bomba communities set up camp at the chinese run less bond this mine 2 weeks ago halting operations protested save mine his own indigenous territory. they won compensation for having to relock hanks when if the minds aren't meanwhile, says it has fulfilled its financial obligations. and you group of astronauts launched by spies ex has arrived at the international space station.

it's the 1st and nasa crew with equal number of men and women, including the 1st black female crew member there on a 6 month mission with $200.00 experiments on they to do list. the spice ex falcon 9 blasted off from the kennedy space fe santa in florida. oh.