he used to heidi thomas a cod, beside with catastrophic consequences. agent orange was the most destructive instance with chemical warfare. a decade later, the same happened in the us state of oregon. these helicopters flying over the ridge brang something they didn't even see the case. the 2 women are still fighting for justice against some of the most powerful forces in the world. the people versus agent orange on al jazeera. ah, it's civilians freed from a besieged steel plan to marry a pole head to safety often during weeks of russian bombardments. ah, 11 o'clock, this is al jazeera life from de. also coming up, you energy ministers. consider new sanctions on moscow,

but remain divided on imposing restrictions on russian oil. you, they'll fitter to celebrations. turn violin did. ethiopia, we have the latest from addis ababa class. welcome back. to new zealand visitors from 60 comes free to fly in again, the 2 years of to asia say russia has reportedly resumed shelling the as of style still works. mario poll following the evacuation of civilians. ukrainian president of loaded med zalinski says about $100.00 people were freed off to being trapped in the vast complex for maybe 2 months. the evacuees are expected to arrive at the ukrainian controlled city of zap regia. in the next few hours, alexia braun has a d. h house. crawling out of the rubble of muddy pulse as of stout steel plants, and finally on their way to safety. these people have been sheltering and bankers

and tunnels underneath the complex, as it came under continuous bombardment by russian forces. i mean, we've been waiting here for 2 months. they tell how they were running out of food. the diversity other children always wanted to eat. you know, adults can wait around for the, with the man filming this video, released by ukraine's as off battalion says they're trying to get people out while the russians aren't shooting. the evacuation was part of what the united nations called a safe passage operation during a temporary cease fire agreed by russia and ukraine. lusciously managed to day. finally, we managed to start you back, you ation of the people from as of style. after many weeks of negotiations and many different meetings, people calls countries proposals. finally, there was not a single day that we didn't try to find a solution to ensure the safe rescue of those people up to

a 1000 civilians and 2000 ukrainian fighters. i believe to have ended up inside the plant surrounded by russian forces in the last ukrainian held territory in the port city. people who were evacuated, spoke of the terror they experienced and of having to live in darkness for more than 60 days. because when the shell started landing out of a star, i thought my heart would stop and i would not survive it. a ukrainian commander still in the bunker, it says there's not enough water. and the air smells of decomposing bodies. you're medusa? sure. glad separate. alright, so i hope the evacuations will continue. well, help our government and a 3rd party, the un mission. the red cross will all try to evacuate all civilians, not only from the plans, but from mario colon general. i also hope to evacuate all the injures and kills who have accurate all soldiers who are here now. will. some of those evacuated way to the russian held the village of busy men, others hated to ukrainian territory. the city of separation,

multiple authorities say a 100000 people remain and what's left of the city with hundreds more below ground that the steel works. a factory that's become a symbol of ukrainian resistance. alex here brian al jazeera. well hoarder bill how made his ends up region, whereas hope the vacuum from mario poll will arrive in the next 24 hours. there's still quite a bit away there still in russian controlled, occupied territory rather. ah, it's moving very slowly. and that's because that's at, at several stages they have to stop or they have to be checked again. and these are russian checkpoints. they have to go through a filtration center where the russians have to vet every single person coming out. so it is an extremely long process, and if you recall, i mean the u. n. and the red cross conway haven't arrived in or you pull on

saturday. and it's only she day that there is some movement and only about a 100 to a $120.00 civilians. of those that were in the as of south steel plant are coming out. we still don't know how many us still inside is believed. maybe this, they were up to a 1000, so maybe 900 are still in there is all quite fluid. i spoke earlier to the mayor of more, you will, who is here in the upper reach. and he said to me, well, today's the big day of evacuations, because apart from the u. n convoy that everybody here is waiting for, ah, is also another evacuation that is happening. it's been facilitated again by the u . n. and the red cross. but those are for people who are outside of the of the plant civilians. we live in different areas of where you pull out. a meeting point has been announced and boxes have been sent to that meeting point. but we still

don't know if that convoy is actually going to be on the move. anytime soon. he could be official, say, a strategically important bridge in the southwest has been hit by russian rockets. the brit provides the only road railing from odessa to the other side. of the denise to estry, it's been hit by russian strikes twice before. it's unclear if the bridge is still operational. let's him out from charl stratford who's just outside. i. d. fca on the front line in east new credit. he describes what the situation is like for residents fleeing the town was quite as, as we went in, but a lot of destruction. lot of the buildings destroyed. and some very terrified people as well that have been living in a bunker in the center of town. and we asked them, as you can imagine, what their plans were now and how it felt to be to be evacuated after having spent so many days in this bunker. one, dear old lady wellings, her eighties, utterly distraught, breaking down, saying, please,

we just need to move now. i don't want to die. other younger people there are young couples saying that the only plan that they had in place was to get as quickly as possible out of africa. that group now will be taken over basically a 3 day journey across ukraine to a shelter in the west of ukraine. and from there on, i mean it's, it's basically up to the individuals as to whether they stay in ukraine, whether they indeed have anything organized that fall back from the frontline. as for other fighting across the front, it's the usual towns that we've been reporting about. and from in recent days, towns like leman towns, like is young towns like cam berry own cover. these are all places where russia is trying to mount a big serge, that's according to the ukrainian military towards the areas of savanski. it has been quite in the area that we've been in over the last hour or so. but literally in the last few minutes,

we've heard heavy shelling coming from the east european union energy ministers, holding an emergency meeting after russia, cut deliveries of gas to poland and bulgaria. some you member states are trying to phase out the blocks reliance on russian oil and gas impulse. the u gets 40 percent of its natural gas from russia and brings in more than a quarter of it's crude oil from there, but now rushes biggest. see you customer that's germany, aims to be fully independent of russian oil imports later this year is already reduce them from 35 to 12 percent. but it still remains a big consumer of russian gas. banning russian energy is complicated, not everybody is on board. hungary relies heavily on russian gas and oil and is resisting a bad over concerns. it may damage its economy. other countries taking large volumes include italy, austria, and slovak. yeah, that's enough from dominant cane who has the latest from the aim behind this

meeting pretty clearly is to provide support to the poles until the bulgarians, who had their supplies of russian gas, halted because they were not prepared to pay the russian provider in roubles, which was the demand that had been placed on many different e u countries who are recipients of russian natural gas. that's the aim. the question is, what measures could really be brought in to try to provide any degree of security, remembering quite how dependent all sorts of different countries off on russia, 4 different sources of energy be that colby, that gas be the oil. so at the start of the war in ukraine, the german government was a lot more careful about the wording that it used. the policies that had brought in, but over the course of the past few months, the level of criticism on germany from within germany, but also from without, has grown and grown and grown. and as a consequence, we've seen this government composed the 3 different parties coming up with more

rhetoric, really sort of heating up the language they use and saying, okay, well now is the time to get out of certain things, which is why earlier people talked about getting asked of oil germany that is getting out of its dependency on oil by the end of the year. well, now that is going to be by the end of the summer, we know that the german view of our coal from russia equally get out of it as quickly as possible. gas is the real issue. so much gas comes here from russia that immediately to switch it off would have a really, very serious effect on the economy. says the government here, the united nation says the war in ukraine has fours more than 5 and a half 1000000 people to flee to neighboring countries. most of them have taken refuge in poland and other 6 and a half 1000000, a believe to have been displaced within ukraine. will ponens president, andrew is due to us. welcome, the speaker of the us house in warsaw. nancy pelosi arrived from ukraine's capital . keith, where she pledged americans backing into

a victory over russia. that's close to kimberly how could who study by washing this is kimberly so what does nancy pelosi hoping to achieve? mel important that well wasn't just nancy pelosi who was in the region, but it was also a number of congressional members that joined her. and this is the latest in a string of u. s. officials to make the visit. and this is really designed to do one thing that is designed to send the message to vladimir putin, the russian leader that the assistance of the united states behind ukraine is not going away. so to that end, well we have the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, currently in the area we also had in the region the secretary of state antony blacken and also the defense secretary, lloyd austin. and to that end, as

a continued effort in showing a projecting that message, we do have the u. s. president going here in the united states on tuesday to the us state of alabama, where he will be touring a factory that makes javelin anti tank missiles. these are, of course, some of the weapons that are used against russia by ukraine in that offensive that is taking place in ukraine. and so, once again, this is all designed as a carefully choreographed message by the west, by the united states to project 2, latimer putin, that the long term military economic ad, humanitarian support of the west and the united states is simply not going to go away. mm. hm. what else is in the system in terms of support for your crim? well, i should mention that in terms of support. 0, $1.00 of the big things that is going on in the united states right now is the fact

that the united states has already pledged $13600000000.00 and that's almost run out. so the u. s. president last week asked congress for another 33000000000 and that still has to be approved by congress. so no doubt this visit is trying to underscore the urgency for the approval of those funds. but as well, there are a number of other things that are going on inside ukraine that are significant in order to project that the united states believes flattery. putin's operation ukraine has failed, and that is the fact that to be acting ambassador to ukraine, the united states acting ambassador, says that they may, in fact, re open the embassy in ukraine. that is, if it is safe, they are already ready resuming some of the diplomatic operations. they're closed as of last february as a result of the concerns of violence. but again, this is another way to reject the message that they are feeling that the support of

the united states for ukraine has been successful. and very quickly. one other message the united states is trying to send will be taking place this upcoming sunday and may 8th. the 1st lady dr. joe biden will be traveling to slovakia, where she will be meeting with some ukrainian refugees. again, this is an effort to really show support and solidarity as the united states in the west was to underscore that they are behind the ukrainian people and they will not give up that support until there is you really there behind the 100 percent and they will continue to do so for the long haul, or i could refund, spoke to reallocate, reporting that from what so had her al jazeera, we'll have a report from the philippines were indigenous beaver appealing for help to save the ancestral land. and

a da storm in iraq causes travel. cale says flights are grounded, a black dot effort. ah, it's turned very well the last few days in viet nam louse. cambodia and thailand, it's seasonal rate and it's fairly heavy and it will keep going in that direction. in fact, you see some down some path tollen that wants to get poor sumatra bornea in the western part of java deliver gap elsewhere in indonesia. but both the north and the south, the philippines also look fairly where this is all season stuff with daily variation to some degree. this is little less seasonal. the has been significant rain recently in southern china a couple days ago also in hong shoe. that's on its way out. what's left behind is the heat of the spring sun. so hong kong, warm. yep. consider re and so is beijing both?

well above the average, i mean the case of beijing, something like 8 or 9 degrees above the average. the focus of beijing is a hot one, then for wednesday, average being 24. it does cool down as the wind picks up malcolm outer mongolia, i think by friday, heat is an enduring problem, as you know in northern india, and the winds pick up the dust. so da storms too. but the feet of this moisture, further east is in introducing enough to produce big thunderstorms, the cold cowboys, jackie's dangerous ones, particularly round bangladesh, to some degree in the neighboring parts of india as well. ah, talk to, i'll just see where we are. what is the time table in your mind? when do you think that you are, can be off of russian gas? we listen or, and i have seen and played football with these refugees. i look at them and they're happy. they're smiling. we meet with global news makers, i'm talk about the stall restock matter. on out,

you see ah, molded untold stories from asia and the pacific on al jazeera. with a guy you're watching out a 0 reminder on top stories this out and russia has reportedly resumed shelling the as of style still works. maria poll following the evacuation is billions, about a 100 people have been freed off to hiding underground for nearly 2 months. un at red cross all coordinating the operation with ukrainian and russian forces. european union energy ministers are holding an emergency made in brussels off to

russia. deliveries of gas to poland and bulk area. some e u. member states trying to phase out the blocks relaunch on russian hill. poland president dunn's was due jaw has welcome the speaker for us house to close the arrived from ukraine's capital of cape, where she pledged america's backing until victory over russia. now the un secretary general, has coven return to civilian rule and became if i so giddy and molly all 3 recently experienced military coups attorney terrorism in west africa visiting center goal nisha, nigeria, hills are ones debt relief and greater investment to help african economies recover from the pandemic terrors is set to meet families affected by violence and instability in the whole region. nicholas hackers in dhaka and he says, molly is not simply absent from the u. n. chief's ter interesting that he, he, he didn't go to molly, which is home to the biggest, the most expensive un operation call costing a $1000000000.00

a year and where most un peacekeepers have died previously that any previous un mission, the situation or the relationship between the municipal that un mission in molly and the military turn to the power in place in by marco has been rocky of late, especially after the arrival of russian fighters on the ground that links to the wagner's. now there's been, according to human rights move allegation of a torture, extrajudicial killing of maryan forces, and these russian fighters, the u. n. has tried to investigate those, those claims trying to go on the ground, but they've been prevented to do so. this is one of or it is the biggest un operation. but what's happening in molly is affecting neighboring countries. new share for kina foster. we're seeing millions of people this place and that's where good terrorists will go to meet those this place because of that ongoing conflict,

he's meeting the president of news. yes. we've already seen a pivot from the french forces, who were in molly that are now moving their operation to neighbor news here. so are the european special forces that have been deployed on the area. we're talking about 2500 french forces and 900 soldiers. so for antone. oh, good terrorist. the un secretary general, the future crisis crisis lie in the region. muslims around the world is celebrating the 1st day of fitter marking the end of the holy month of ramadan. and e. c o p as capital about his habit, but boarding pres, celebrate t 8, have ended in violence protests, the threw stones at government buildings and police who followed by will take us the angry about violence in the north. its lead to the deaths of muslims in the city of gandhi. if you have in journalist some, you'll get to choose in the capital at this harbor and has more. this was an eat celebration that's been happening in this sob. may god open space square and named

moscow square. hundreds and thousands of people do attend if you know, just occupy the space of the square. but the gold, a stretch, all the way to you know, some of the neighborhoods in the bully area. the push a bully and want from it. there was, according to the id, some of a police are, there were a young people throwing stones in light of what happened in the corner, a town of wonder, and i'm her region, which they felt that the muslims have been. i get it. in particular, 21 was limbs were allegedly killed. why christians, they alleged, and that's why they were throwing stones and really destroyed properties according to the ethiopian government. but the top and security decided to use tier guys who try to bring this, you know, young people under control. and there has been lots of people that have been

injured. there hasn't been any you know, anyone that have died so far according to the german government. but there are many, many children that have been missing and the government and the local organizations on tried to unite this children to their families. and what is should be a holy day for, you know, muslims in, if you get a thousands of palestinians have attended pres of the al axa most compound and occupied east jerusalem to monkey delford tension has been high in recent weeks following incursions by far rights. ultra nationalists, jewish groups, stuffy deck reports from the entrance to the alex a compound in occupied east jerusalem. the mayor prayer is about to take place were outside the entrance of the alex, amalia compounded lions gate. and as you can see, a sort of relatives and thousands of thousands of people had been arriving here throughout the morning, starting from around 4 o'clock in the morning. now making their way inside the

compound to carry out their prayers and that they done my problem and we always prayed to god for peace and to lift the suffering of our youth. and we had a lot of people killed many martyrs. sadness is killing a hot spots. it's thanks to god who gave us aid to celebrates with happiness and to also pray for peace with a small misses jamini. so he'd prayers have finished and have paul sta without incident. you can now see the large crowd making their way out of the lock the most compound they'll be heading home, spending the next 3 days celebrating ead with their families that have been tensioned here over the last couple of weeks, particularly when it comes to the access of the far right ultra nationalists, jewish groups accessing deluxe. i'm also compound and calling for the right to prayer, sometimes even actively attempting prayers on the site. this is forbidden, under the status quote is agreed upon between israel and jordan, which is the custodian of the site and seen qsi provocative to palestinians.

interesting on the political level. jordan and israel will be meeting after he'd to discuss this exact point. you've also had have mass lead are yes, in law. add to that same deluxe is a red line and this can no longer continue, but away from politics. it today that's paused very peacefully, tens of thousands, making their way here to attend 8 prayers. as we said earlier, now we'll be heading home to celebrate with our families da store made. iraq has caused dozens of people to seek hospital treatment flights of bank that were grounded as the fit layer of dos turn the sky orange, where they were exposed to expect da stores to become increasingly common because of drought and high temperatures. a far in the philippines has killed a people including 6 children. others were injured in the early morning, blaise in the university campus. and the capital of manila, emergency services are investigating the cause. a territorial dispute that led to violence against indigenous activists and the southern philippines. is highlighted

the dangers faced by environmental defenders. can you say the group was trespassing and ignored a warning shot as jamila allan doug and reports now from the book of non province? the actual want that makes administration after upcoming elections to offer them greater protection. they are from them, a noble pull indian tribe considered one of the very 1st inhabitants in the southern region of them in the now, but that orlando anglo and his clan have lived on this road side for many years now they hold to take back more than a 1000 acres of land now privately owned that once belonged to their ancestors. they were shot at bay gun men, despite having written government permission to reclaim their land. shall either del, socorro was shot together with 3 other men are both. i mean adding me. now what though now the gun men came from nowhere and started shooting at us. when i fan let alone a thought, what sort of life do we leave up or learn more of those ellen?

oh, we've been grown for 5 years. who believe that the dirt us administration to help us? no one is here to protect us. people here don't see us as a human beings to them. we are go beach hogs. the monopoly were also attacked a 5 years ago when their leader were now to allow, was shot dead. his killing remains and resolved the story of monopoly. knew this a story that is repeated many times over. according to the international group, the global witness, the philippines is the deadliest country for land defenders across the asian continent, and menda now holds the highest number of recorded killings. when president rodrigo the 3rd, who was sworn into office in 2016, he vowed to defend the point of indigenous peoples and the environment. but at least a $160.00 environmental defenders were killed. between 20162020. a shocking

increase. say many, even for a country long accustomed to violence, the tribes people killed often spoke out against illegal logging, mining, and damn projects. climate change is also a threat extreme where there also devastates vulnerable communities. and many philippines hoped that after to tear to retire in july, the next administration will shift its focus and protect indigenous peoples considered by some here to be the last line of defense against climate breakdown, jamal alan dog and al jazeera book had none. province, southern philippines, spain prime minister, petro sanchez, has had his phone hacked, so his, the spanish defense minister, government officials, in madrid say pegasus spyware, was used to extract data from scientists as phone, at least once. they haven't said who they suspect high court judges are investigating the security breach and take giant apple is facing anti trust charges

. the e u accuses the company of restricting competitors from it's apple pay mobile payment . the european competition regulator from the move resulted in less choices for consumers and hampered innovation. as since the developers were unwilling to create online wallet full can respond to the accusations before final ruling. if the company is found in violation, it could be forced and find and forced to apple pay open. apple pay technology to rival neil and is align terrace in for the 1st time. and nearly 2 years prevalent from 60 countries can now visit without having to isolate or warranty so hard the war mile. re welcome to cleans airport. not one separated by the pandemic. find the united with really full round of the lifting of some of the world. toughest board restriction. oh,

i get along. it's been 2 years in suspension of just wondering if and when and never knowing if the moment was even going to come in for like you there. we started without knowing if we never see each other. the vaccination of more than 80 percent of the population led to the gradual easing of the restriction. we marked another big moment and every connection with the world with our borders. reopening to visit is from visa away. the countries welcoming again. tours from the we say u. k. japan, germany, canada, korea in singapore. in addition, during coding existing visit a visas from any country in the world can also triple here from today. citizens were 1st allowed to return home in march, followed by australians last month, and now expanded to 60 other countries including many in europe. but travellers must be fully vaccinated and have

a negative p. c r. test visitors from india. china or another non waiver countries remain banned. the government type seizing of travel restrictions will help provide the economy that relies heavily on the 3000000 tourists who visited onions before the pandemic. despite protests against the strict lat, downs, and limited quarantine slots for key restock abroad, the government has credited the relatively low code the death toll to its strict no tolerance policy. and while the pandemic hasn't ended yet lice many a new zealand is returning to something like normality at long last saw to hide it al jazeera. ah. all right, let's have a quick check of the headlines here in al jazeera and russia has reportedly resumed shelling the as of self still works. in my poll following the evacuation of civilians, but a 100 people have been freed after hiding underground for nearly 2 months. the u. n

and the red cross are coordinating the operation with ukrainian and russian forces harder abdel hamid's upward asia where it's hoped evacuation.