the philippines boats in one of ages, biggest elections over 30 out of it's crippling economic crisis may on al jazeera, on counting the cost, the world's richest man is buying twitter. so what will ala must gain warnings that a huge build up of death in the world, forest countries. we should put the bill. and paul is running low on foreign currency with this is an economic crisis lou. lou ah, me more wounded in a bomb attack on a mosque during friday prayers in the afghan capital couple from tennis icon to prison convict. former champion, boris becker is jew crane is primarily concentrating on the industrial heartland of the countries east. he says moscow's offensive has become more intense. the don

bass region has seen fierce fighting with these 2 towns taken by the russians. there also heading towards lehman and popish now with ukrainian troops defending the 2 cities. the village of monica is now on the worse frontline of the east from where charles stratford sent this report like a 2 year old roy isa is blind in firm and terrified tome in the eastern ukrainian city of murray inca mercedes law more. did mom out? we found a wheelbarrow and put her in it and pushed her to the road where a volunteer rescued us. where his bus was in a nearby village, people wait to the food distribution point too much. many have either fled or be rescued from michelin barrenca, a volunteer from a church group, hands out plastic bags filled with a few essentials. ludmilla shows us what's inside of what we live off

can't feed and what we can grow. we have no money because we can't walk. we can't work any more. this is how we survive. further towards mary anchor. as the sound of shelling echoes across the fields, signs of the fighting begin to appear. oh, houses, badly damaged and abandoned of school destroyed. we dr. further and into mary anchor. the sound of artillery far an occasional small arms fire russian forces are close we can hearing what cells like mortar fire in the center of the city. what we do know is that russian forces control positions just a few 100 meters in that direction on the other side of another shell there.

now we also know that the russians made gains here. mary anchor at the early stages of the war, ukrainian army had since said that they had now pushed them back. we moved back out of town and see black smoke rising or letter helps her wounded mother into a taxi to take her to hospital. it's doubtful isa. who ever see her home again? jo stafford, al jazeera, muddy anchor, eastern ukraine, ukrainian president vollmer zalinski says the situation in the don bass region and the city of harkey is challenging. but that his forces are fighting back. discuss the situation in the cave region is difficult, but our troops and our intelligence have important technical success of the occupies doing everything to destroy any life at the dawn. best territory seen him constant prove on bob and lang, and constant russian structure and infrastructure and residential areas. i state

that russia wants to make this territory uninhabited. that's why the defense of our land and our people is literally the fault of our last. another russian attack on ukraine's capital could happen at any time, according to the city's mayor. officials with you in chief antonio. but cherish says he came dangerously close to a missile strike, while on his 1st war time visit to the country, where he went to the site of thursday, the attack, you can see behind me the rescue. oh workers and, and the repair, the emergency service actually sifting through the rubble. now, earlier this morning they did find the body of a young woman. she was a journalist with radio liberty, and she, she was buried under this trouble somewhere here in this apartment block. and we are really in the city center of a key. and now this attack happened just after president zelinski had wrapped up his meeting with un secretary general antonia a gutierrez. the 1st reaction really came because of that missile i tired here

in downtown, keep with many members of his government and president zalesky himself again, underlying the fact that russia did not have any respect in their view even towards do un secretary general and making a point that it was, this attack was done purposely and very well timed to coincide with his made it, not that witnesses ahead of his visit, not only because of the timing and the way he decided to go to moscow 1st and come back here. but also because of the role of do you and so far it has been a lot of frustrations in the weeks leading to the war. and there's been a lot of frustrations throughout the war. we're 2 months in many other leaders have showed up here in cave and then he comes at the back of it. so certainly a difficult position for the secretary general who is trying now to just push

forward. do you many, terry and track hundreds of evacuees have arrived in the ukrainian city of harkey, if they were forced to leave. the nearby village of rascal has over the area has been under russian siege for more than a months. ukraine's 2nd biggest city harkey has on has endured almost daily shelling since the war began. booms heavy over the studio, which our house was burnt this night. the house burned all that was in sight. we have no place to stay. it is scary. while he blew a hide in the basement, it was horror. the basement was shaken from the explosions. lewis screaming, we laqueena la, praying to god, what russia has for the 1st time claimed to have launched missiles at ukrainian military targets from a submarine. the u. k. is defense ministry had already warned that moscow could still hit ukraine from the black sea. that's despite the sinking of the mosque of a battle cruiser earlier this month. the naval flagship of the black sea fleet b. u has called for com, after several explosions in a russian back break away region of moldova. both russia and ukraine are blaming

each other for the blasts entranced mischief. the barker has more from the mold open capital just now. for a couple of hours drive away from the ukrainian border for the situation here and the mold, dove and capital cushion now couldn't be more different. the country has taken in more ukrainian refugees per capita than any other. but given that optic in violence, in moldova, breakaway region of trans nature of the past few days, the concern is the war could be moving a little bit closer. west or monday, trans nice univision has around 1500 russian troops that have been permanently stationed there since the early 1990 s and a brief war between russia back separatists in trans nisa, and the mold dove and authorities. the ukrainian sir blamed russia for provocations of staging false flag operations to justify mobilizing troops in the region and possibly a full fledged russian invasion from the south. our now also hearing that western

intelligence has advised ukraine about a possible incursion by russian forces in ukraine's most southwesterly part pushing up north into moldova proper. and given that the country own critical situation, because rushes provoking things to stir up a conflict, it's impossible for the mold of an army in its current state to stand up to russia . but we're ready because this is our home. this is where we live. this is where our children and grandchildren are was whether it yeah. la la grover. yes. look. i've got a military to to those. i fought in afghanistan and trans, mr. yeah. i was in the army for 11 years, but i will never let my son serv kennimore do an army protect us. we have to be joking. historically, the country has been pulled between east and west one soviet and now aspires to e u membership. but the crisis in ukraine has complicated moldova future,

a bomb at a mosque in western cobble during friday prayers hated in a series of attacks, targeting africa and places of worship. and civilians during ramadan said no more than william. what i've done with you about all my that it was a number of taliban members inside the most to involve me withstanding to finish that ship. within a few minutes, an explosion occurred and i was covered with small pieces together. below our e is an afghan journalist based in toronto. he says, the number of people killed could be much higher residence in that area. and doctor is in some hospital in an official with ministry. quite tragically, the total is quite higher than what the taller bonding this sophie shrine and the attack took place after the prayers during the meditation period. so people from very far away provinces and also come in because this was the last friday from a very popular with sophie's. and quite frankly,

and i have been monitoring the social media because you have relatives of the victims. writing that they've lost family members. speaking to protect the sort of attacks from taking place on very regular basis now. former 6 time grand slam tennis champion, boris becker has been jailed for 2 and a half years in london. the 54 year old german was found guilty of hiding millions of dollars worth of assets to avoid paying his bankruptcy debts. john hall was at the court. hearing in london, boris becker arrived at court for sentencing, wearing a tie in the wimbledon colors. he won the championship 3 times among 6 grand slam titles in a tennis courier that had earned him more than $50000000.00. now bankrupt and convicted on charges of concealing his assets from investigators. becca, would listeners judged deborah taylor sentenced him to 2 and

a half years in prison. he must serve half of it before becoming eligible for release. i accept the humiliation you have felt she told him, but you have shown no his lifestyle and then paying for a famously expensive divorce. seldom far from the tabloid headlines. becca father, a daughter after a casual encounter with russian model and waitress angela irma cova london restaurant in 1909 by his own evidence, child maintenance, pending and use deceit to hide what was left more than $3000000.00 in cash and assets at trial the jury had heard in his defense that becca had relied on insolvency lawyers signing papers. he hadn't read and failing to understand his responsibilities. the jury instead found his ah,

found we go some more rain for b, c's lower mainland into the pacific northwest. and it is tender dry for parts of the desert southwest. so we're talking about arizona, new mexico, western parts of texas into oklahoma, where we have high fire danger here, that western side of florida looking to get some driving rain. that's in the forecast for you on saturday, and i'll take you to central america right now. down with rain for the dominican republic and also put the rico top end of south america. looks like this. we've got our usual storms coming in going in this area, but i won't take you further toward the south for a cold front, had sliced across, so big drop in those temperatures across the river to the day of just the high of 16 degrees. and we see the storms around port to late grade on saturday with a high of 20 degrees. ok, i'm out of time. i'll say again, plate region a fresher feel. oh, oh i

i, ah, wherever you go in the world. pershing former tennis champion, boris becker, has been sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison by a british court. the 54 year old german was found guilty of hiding millions of dollars worth of assets to avoid paying his debts. a security guard at an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank has been shot dead. the israeli military says palestinian gunmen opened fire in the aerial settlement between that amolla and nablus, and then fled the scene. all settlements are illegal under international friday. prayers of ramadan. emotions are running high because of weeks of confrontations between israeli forces and palestinians near the mosque. compound. meanwhile, hundreds of people in gaza took part in demonstrations to mark international eclipse day or jerusalem day. that's when people are on the world protest against

israel's 55 year occupation of palestine. you'll notice that he had reports from gaza international. they would coincide with the last friday in run, the country this year was ignite. and you escalation between gaza and israel. atlantic. they have actually had called the people for a process today. here is because is trying to impose identity on sovereignty over alex is a battle, not just for the palestinian people, but the entire islamic world. and the resistance will make israeli pay a price for any escalation towards alexa, while the policy effective in god's great states have been there in case of any escalation by being really forth. is there any. ringback reason why these really forces or sectors and they could be brought him reports from new delhi, which had just recorded the 2nd hottest april in 72 years. labor was

a new deli work through temperatures above 40 india's workforce who work outdoor labor. we have to go outside to work. it's very hard. when the water we've got, he becomes hard to drink and you don't even have enough water. a heat wave has gripped many parts of india for weeks, that's after the nation. so it's hot of march since records again a 122 years ago. the higher than usual temperatures have led to demand for electricity reaching and all time high this week and power cuts and several states . deli regional government has told people to expect power outages of metro and hospitals because of the shortage of coal power plants, the indian government has cancelled hundreds of passenger trains to rush coal to thermal power plant around the country. the intense heat has also affected wheat crop with some agriculture experts predicting this year's yield will be 25 percent

less. that could have international implications. and we have to be very watch of ologist say the severe weather is part of the re occuring trend. you know, the temperature of when you get these heat web events, they're becoming more frequent than more intense. and when they happen, they last longer. so we're definitely seeing a shift in the trends some more the next 5 days. but this little response expected afterwards with may and june. usually the hottest month of the year, elizabeth moran, m al jazeera new daddy pakistan's climate change ministers as the country's gone straight from winter to summer without a spring season. our correspondence come on high, there is in pakistan's capital islam of bog. i'm up with the elaborate line. some of them are already in progress. dieter project deadly. take a few more years that hydro paul walk, i'm buggered on in building down for degroat dig dime. the other thing is that bug, it's donna,

to read off totally. all from call regard of the conflict in and i rode myself 3 plantation across the country. a poor start to the rainy season and the horn of africa has added to fears. the worst drought in decades wasn't an option. here it is in northern king. i have lost thousands of animals because of recurring droughts . if that is a young, i'm now always out here with the camels. help doesn't reach us. but i know in the villages, at least the government is giving people some water pots of king ethiopia, and some ought to have 250 camels. the drought has killed most of them. i only have 3 left. it's heartbreaking. a 4th failed rain is, is the do given cost, the vulnerable households. we still have a huge population in their need or for deep who wish if nothing is going to be done about it will end up with a out of stuff is the only way to survive for many is to keep moving.

people here have been walking for girl, had a matessa al jazeera northern king. at least 3 people had been killed in an explosion and turkey. it happened in istanbul as to sla destry get a factory in an industrial zone. 6 people have been injured. emergency services brought the fire under control and an investigation is underway to find out how it started. the fight for equal rights goes on for one of iraq's most persecuted minority groups. the colea, our romano mads, who arrived centuries ago. but life for many of them now lies in ruins. osama binge of aid reports from day one ear in southern iraq. in the dusty village of zoar, children have returned to school after a 14 year break. these are the cavalier aroma people scattered in isolated communities across iraq on this one says the faith, derogatory treatment,

and have children have no future after decades of persecution. so laurie hale, logan maya, dr. joe, we were attacked with rockets. they don't want gypsies. among them, people hayes us. we don't have water. we have to buy water. yeah. my house is are old and falling apart. i don't know why they deal with this like this, aren't we? human beings. most homes in the village are in disrepair and many are jobless. heidi says he and his friends fought in the iran iraq war, and later alongside iraqi forces in the battle against isis. he called his community, the living dead worship, and the rocky state just doesn't care. either car alan with us. hey alma, so sleeve. the school, the clinic. a little after the us invasion. 19 years ago, aid from saddam hussein's government ended on groups accused. the cavalier of being heretic and prostitutes and destroyed their village. no one dare says that on

camera, they are afraid of the police. the guard the only entrance to the village and restrict access articles or wasn't going on. yeah, yes we used to have dancing and singing were visited by officials at that time. we're not living in poverty. things are now upside down. the government denies new id cards discriminate against the co, lia i've been bothered on. who will and sonny has this nice. oh, we don't connect us. there were some issues with people and now they are more accepted than before. they are like others. they can apply for any job they like. but the unemployment poverty rates are high in this province. it is true, they do not have fresh tap water, but waters delivered to them by tankers. but many villagers can not afford to pay the daily war to charge, though it's meant to be provided for free. oh, good use of this village and it's people show a different picture. their ancestors including performers, musicians, and dancers, came to the rock from india and other middle eastern countries more than

a 1000 years ago. now the musical instruments have been replaced by pictures of clerics in their homes and the fingers have replaced happy songs with religious hymns of a tragic theme or shy vill oh, any day mark that rumor people of iraq say because of discrimination, that excluded from a normal life and opportunities, and their question is that after generations have lived in this country, what can they do to be treated as equals iraq? he citizens, without women yagi the other era, the veneer fed than iraq. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. ukraine says russia has intensified it's offensive in the east. there's been fierce fighting the don bass region, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has described the situation there and in the city of harkey as challenging. but as his forces are fight.