ah, in the story goes that the statue of an ancient greek god. he is flying over the ridge, praying something and they didn't even see the kids foot 2 women are still fighting for justice against some of the most powerful forces in the world. the people versus agent orange on out there on holding the powerful to account. as we examined, the u. s. is role in the world on al jazeera ah, key as the un secretary general visits the cranium capital for the 1st time since the conflict began. ah, hello,

i'm down, jordan, this is al jazeera lives until are also coming up because to this weight, as president makes his 1st trip to saudi arabia in years on shanghai is coded, shut down, continues, put a new round of testing, mean freedom. the city's 1st shots fired cruise missiles that ukraine's capital key during a visit there by the 2nd general of the united nations, the cranes president vladimir lensky. a choose the kremlin up trying to humiliate the jo end. and one of his advisors called it a postcard from moscow. it's antonio detailed his 1st visit to the country, since russia's military operation began in february. i'll just was hold abdul. hamid reports from keith. the secretary general arrived in the capital strong of an agreement in principle to bro crisis. his meeting with president vladimir zalinski, that when longer and schedule focused on this issue. but the secretary general didn't want to give any specifics on any progress. at the present moment. i can

only tell you, we are doing everything we can to make priority is the people that suffer and the people that must be rescued of the russian decided these heavy ahead of his meeting, the secretary general had visited the devastated towns north of the capital bordered yankee it being in boucher where do you and said there was growing evidence of a ledge war crimes proved that without security guarantees. nothing can be negotiated with russia. issue. who are there are 2 of us today, right after our talks in keith, russian, the 5 foot to the city, 5 miles. this have a lot about russia, true attitudes towards global institutions about attempts of russian. it's hard to humiliate us more of that interview that parents gave to our to 0 is how to need. she began by asking about the situation in mario i went to miss pleasant put in. he has agreed with me in principle that un and the i,

c. r. c. could be involved lensky, and i hope that it will be possible. but the best way to make it happen is not to start talking too much about it. you went this morning to burn the to boot and to be you've seen for yourself the devastation of this war. and today, this evening, after wrapping up your press conference, use c o u experience for yourself. cave. on the air strike. do you think this was a message one of the president landscape advisor? i don't think i am so important to just the for the use of these they for, for that, but they haven't got any attack. so i must say that i was obviously shocked

when i was informed that the 2 sides of out of the political negotiations to be fed to do to be frank to you. i regret that that has happened that the one was never in. we would never invited to be part of it, and on the contrary, our presence was conceived is not useful. the end, we are not part of the present political negotiations, but we are following them with a lot of interest and open that they will solve the problem. a piece will come back . and the child stratford is north of snobby asked the don bass region where many residents of flint, the constant shilling, were here in the forests, a few kilometers away from the need. you can hear another one there. and this shelley is getting closer and closer to slab janski's smoke rises from burning buildings in the distance. a missile. it's bob to walter

target potentially tens may be hundreds of kilometers away. there are hundreds of villages like these right the way across this region that seemingly are directly in the days ahead. shall stafford al jazeera eastern ukraine. a large fire has broken out in the southern ukrainian city, of course, on which is currently under russian by russian forces. a 1000 civilians are also trapped with them. russia has continued its air strikes on the facility despite agreeing in principle with the un to allow ejaculation moldova, to the west, and ukraine to the east. min, lengthy checks going in and out. locals can pass without special permission journalists, current people and nervous to speak confused about what's happening. the war, new cranes only 15 kilometers away, but he needs to, roy, him, she was parkway, in there, it's horrible. what's happening, good. new crane will leave 3 war in the 1990 s. war only means one think bloodshed

. on monday there was an apparent rocket attack on translate for security service building in the regional capital to ross paul. the next day to soviet era radio mass were destroyed. and a wednesday trans, nice to an official said, shots were fired from ukraine into the region. close were russian arms depot. ukraine caused the attacks, false flag operations, a pretext for russia to mobilize troops in the region, raising concerns that this could become a new front in the war. new crane moscow denies it, has its site set on trans, nice, dra did the cheapest thing. you need potential, se we strongly condemn attempts to drag trans yesterday into what's happening in ukraine. and we can hear some of the sensationalist claims about preparations by russian peacekeepers. their us ball, air strip and trans yesterday conscript for some hostile actions. it's believe

they're around $1500.00 russian troops. so co peacekeepers permanently stationed in transit, easter, they'd be there ever on the one side of this thin border. although over a country with e u aspirations on the other, a country not recognized anywhere internationally. the still uses the soviet hammer and sickle on his national flag didn't imply earlier in the week the moldova president, my a sunday said unnamed forces inside tramps nissan were in favor of war. the country's neutral under its constitution, but it does have strong ties with the e u. r. like over an economic crisis, more not state ah, journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today. well, we've got some dangerous heat we're dealing with in india, however,

wanted to see you. so part of the problem, it's not just these high temperatures during that, hey, look at the 30 and a lot of people in this part of the world don't have air conditioning. so this heat can be deadly. terms of act of whether we do have our usual storms flaring up across sri lanka on friday. and i won't take you round the bay of bengal because once again, we're seen some explosive storms bubble up around bangladesh. not too far away from the capital thought with a hi moving into southern japan. now, when we see some darker colors pop up on our map, that means the more intense the rain is falling. in fact, we do have some landside advisories for some of japan, southern islands, a big change and weather for tow carrier temperatures come down to just 19 degrees on friday. c. as in cat saw airways issue a line of the journey. the story goes that the statue of an ancient greek god, he beneath the waves for millennia, until a palestinian fisherman on earth,

the priceless relic. the story continues, that as the world's attention was drawn to casa mysteriously, the deity disappeared once again. the apollo of casa on a jessia. ah ah, welcome back and pick them up on top stories here at this hour. russia has spot cruise missiles at ukraine's capital as the un. secondly, general antonio good tatters visits, key a residential arrows. it's at least one person was killed. earlier. getters met with ukraine's president of them is lensky on toward regions near keith, where russian troops have been accused of committing war cross. i'm satellite

imagery from the city of multiple has revealed the damage done by russian shilling on a steel plant, where you, cranium soldiers, the hold up, along with civilians, despite russia agreeing in principle to allow for evacuation to take place. now, yes, president joe biden is calling on congress to approve the ukraine aid package were $33000000000.00. biden's has washington has no choice, but to back you crane. regardless of the financial cost. i'll to 0 white house correspondent, company healthcare report, as russia's war and ukraine enters the new phase and in order to keep the military and humanitarian aid to ukraine flowing, we need this bills for ukraine is white for free. us president joe biden on thursday asked the u. s. congress for $33000000000.00 to support ukraine over the next 5 months. because to lose weight or not cheap, but k be new aggression is gonna be more costly if we allow to happen. we either

back ukrainian people as they defend their country or we stand by as the russians continue or atrocities and aggression ukraine. biden's request for $33000000000.00 includes more than $20000000000.00 for military assistance, like artillery and anti aircraft weaponry more than $8000000000.00 to help the ukrainian government continue to function, add another $3000000000.00 to help refugees. in addition, biden is also sending to congress a plan to crack down a russian oligarchy who laundry illegal and stolen money in the us through shadowy purchases of yachts and other assets like high priced real estate. the proposal is aimed at streamlining the federal government's ability to seize the oligarchy property, and allow the us to use the proceeds to support ukraine. march of this real estate that's been bought by oligarchs,

and the political elite of russia has been bought through front companies. and these from companies have been able to register in the united states without knowing who their owners are. and so it's finding this property that's the enormous challenge at the moment. if approved by congress might into plan would create a new administrative process for the forfeiture of property owned by russian oligarchy. and knowingly or intentionally possessing funds gained from corrupt dealings with the russian government could become a criminal offense. well, most members of congress support president biden's proposals and more money for ukraine. there's little indication of when the plan might be debated by lawmakers and just when the legislation might pass. kimberly held can al jazeera, the white house, and alan fisher joins us live now from washington dc. alan,

so president biden says the u. s. must support ukraine at any cost, but will congress approve this latest package of aid? well, it's a huge sum of money. in fact, it's about a 3rd to what the russian spent on defense in the past year, but falls well short of what the ukranian president said he would need to rebuild his country. he's talking about figures around $600000000000.00. now remember when the last aid package was passed with bipartisan support, mitch mcconnell, who was the leader of the republican, said, if they need more money, they just have to ask. that's very rare for a republican senator to essentially seat a democratic president. we are good to write your blank check here. will this go through? well, the senate could well discuss this next week, but the house is on recess, which means the earliest any bill could get to jo. biden's desk would be around me the name, so it's going to take a couple of weeks to make its way through congress. but here's the problem for joe biden. the republican say they will pass any 8 to ukraine as long as it's what's

called a clean bill. that means essentially, it deals only with aid to ukraine. but some senior democrats are saying they want to tie, gone the new covered relief bill to this. and that means spending billions of dollars on testing and also in vaccinations, republicans, as eventually said, you can't be doing that. we're not going to support you. if you do that, joe biden would like to get this through. and when he was asked, how is this going to get through congress? he said, essentially, i don't care, get it done. or i to alan fish alive us there in washington, dc allen. thank it. now, germany's parliament is approved sending heavy weaponry to ukraine and what's been seen as a major policy cit, shift the decision to send a shipment of anti aircraft systems has been supported by all 3 ruling coalition parties, as well as the opposition conservatives. for weeks, germany resistant calls to provide ukraine with heavy weapons. it's long standing

policy of not sending arms to contract zones has changed completely to start the war. and germany, chancellor sans his country's preparing for a possible situation where russia stops gas exports. all of schultz is in japan, on his 1st trip to asia and the roll rushes invasion of ukraine and the energy crisis are key issues being discussed with the japanese prime minister for mucous shita or vacate and tried to do this and what decision the russian and gabby sions, between ankara and re add bruship tie burden has met king solomon and the crown prince. mom had been selma. this is ed owens, 1st trip to the kingdom in years, relations between the test, against the government handling of the worst economic crisis in decades. they've been shortages of fuel food and medicines for weeks. when l fernandez reports from columbus, a show full again, she lunk as president, go to obey raj boxer and his administration. services were disrupted as thousands of workers joined a one day strike demanding the government's resignation. bobby lamar get on

daughter middleton. we are telling the government very clearly they should he, to the message of the working class, or else it won't just be one day. we will work towards longer stoppages and paralyzed the country. if we have to, to chase go to buy a roger packs it, teachers, dentist posted the people's, all our fees from much more negotiate from had really ready with your spam. yeah, getting me back. i wonder if that's going to were in effect the one strikers march to the president's office, where anti government protest entered that 20th consecutive day on thursday. similar marchers and protests were held in each district. rings, striking workers here outside the main government hospital in shallow, in northwest sri lanka. nurses carried a coffin symbolizing what they say is the final journey of the present government drain stations were deserted. even the main railway station in colombo and his government are fighting major battles on the economic and political fronts. the

government has no money to pay for food medicine, fuel and of the essential import. after its foreign reserves fell to alarming levels. the government is talking to the i, m f one bank and friendly countries to raise emergency proper. just ask that top and over what they can do. they want that if the government does not hate pause to leave, there will launch more towards men of hernandez under the rock colombo. it's been a month now since china's biggest city shang. i was locked down due to a covered 19 outbreak that has been widespread unrest among residents who complained of food shortages and tough restrictions. this is charles has struggling to stay afloat. katrina, you reports from vision. this factory on the outskirts of shanghai normally produces around $300000.00 bicycles every month. it counts

u. s. department store walmart among its many international clients. but because of a strict corona virus lockdown, it's been forced to close for full weeks, confined to his harm manager, lager worries about his 2000 workers. and his bottom line, to be honest, is very difficult for them. i would like to pay a little bit more. but, you know, the, the last for the company is also the, um, i don't know how, how am i going to so wife after this, but i will try to sofa is authorities in shanghai. see, a new round of testing will decide where the neighborhoods can begin. opening up. most of the cities 25000000 residence, remain locked down. it sparked anger and protest in the commercial center. here, people i heard banging pots and pans from their apartment windows. one woman screams,

give me back my freedom. still, chinese leaders insist on maintaining a 0 curve 19 policy. they are trying to contain the public discontent, but we are still working with a land is system, which means that it isde target. there has been said by the top leadership, which is called paramount importance for cart race, responsible for any of those specific policies. public discontent comes much lower in the list priorities for them to meet. there have been complaints of food shortages, the separation of families, and the killing of pets by health workers. but analysts say any political blame is likely to fall on low level officials, not president. she didn't ping or talk beijing ministers in the capital. authorities are doing all they can to prevent a city wide locked down. people have stopped up when supplies bracing for the

results of 3 rounds of mass testing conducted this week. more than 100 infections have been recorded, resulting in the closure of some schools and attainment venues and tourist sites. dozens of neighborhoods has been barricaded. the heavy handed measures resemble doris imposed during the early days of the pandemic. more than 2 years on many are questioning whether the cure is worse than the disease itself. katrina, you al jazeera, they doing taiwan is facing its biggest coven 19 outbreaks. as the start of the pandemic, more than 11000 people tested positive on thursday, setting a new daily record health authority say most people have mild on no symptoms. taiwan abandoned, a 0 co bid policy. in april. the drug company madonna, has asked us regulators to approve its cobit 19 vaccine for children under 6 years old. my turner says its trial showed 51 percent effectiveness and infants and 37

percent in children age between 2 and 5. at the moment, children age 5 and over can only get 5 years vaccine. i think there is an important unmet medical need here with these youngest kids that don't have any of the vaccine . they don't have any other treatments. i think they have to recognize that they might indeed prioritize application, but they do as you say, now have that full spectrum of data across the whole age range of children and adolescents. ah, picture of the headlines here on al jazeera, russia has 5 cruise missiles at ukraine's capital, as the un secretary general, antonio good ted is visits. keith, ukraine's president of me as the lensky accused, a kremlin of trying to humiliate the un. and one of his advisors called it a postcard from moscow. a residential area was hit and at least one person was killed. well, good heritage has been ukrainian president vladimir lensky. but before that meeting,

he taught regions near keith.