the attention was drawn to cause mysteriously the deity disappeared once again. the apollo of cousin on his jessia. ah, me believe being reunited, relatives meet those fever, marable, but many others remain trust in the city still works complex, surrounded by russian pulses. ah horman, what they were like my headquarters here in also coming up the volunteers rescuing people at east in ukraine from relentless russian bombardment despite the risk to their own lives. also the energy commissioner says,

rushing about the gas payments and rubles, cannot be met at the last energy ministers meet in brussels. ahead of world press 3 to bake jad listen, you've got to say something more difficult to report. due to a government crackdown of descent. the welcome to the program attempts to evacuate both civilians from the devastated ukrainian city of barrier poll have been hit by yet more delays, russian forces are reported to have started shilling. the as of styles still looks again on sunday, following the evacuation of at least a 100 civilians. hundreds more to vote to be trapped there. they've been under ground for weeks of the dark warrens of the buggers. beneath the complex sheltering from relentless russian bombardment, with little food, water, or medicine, people evacuated were taken to the russian held town best better. voskus as $57.00 evacuees have chosen to remain separatist areas,

but the convoys final destination is up a richer. the only large city of the south east of the ukrainian control for where how to absorb hamid reports is the 1st safe transit point for those fleeing shelling and air strikes. a parking lot outside a shopping mall. aptly named episode. all day long convoys of course, kept arriving. this one was the 1st of the day. lena gilbert was born in russia. she could have left her hometown of my pal earlier, but she didn't see him. all my relatives live in russia. they're worried about me. they asked me to go there. i said, i love them, but i won't be able to go. i want tended you a bolt. how can you forgive? there was a possibility to go to russia. there are 3 buses daily that go to daniel. but many

people want to go to ukraine and they don't know how throughout the day they just kept on arriving mostly fling, places like so many topple, but dance and other places under russian control. some were on their last name, d u. n. conway, with the civilian, evacuated from the as of style. steel factory is also supposed to arrive here. but just as those who made it out are going through thorough security checks by the ukrainians. those on board, the buses are being vetted by the russians under the safe passage agreement brokerage by do un only women, children and the elderly are allowed to leave. about a 100 civilians were rescued from the steed works. they have been sheltering and tunneled and bunkers underneath the soviet era. factory. pale and exhausted,

they crawled out of the rubble in um, brilliant, rubber floor to take was puts me to carry out some sort of special operation cuz people are under the rebel. we hear them talking, but we can't lift the slabs. you want to clear the rebel outside the bunkers that block the entrance, but we can't because of the shelling the convoys on the move. but as olean, almost jenko says, driving out of murder, you pull involves several hurdles gazelle in last, they kept us forever at the checkpoints. at the last checkpoint, they pushed us back and told us to come at 7 a. m with a promise that we will cross. let us through. the conway was huge. they were a lot of people. only 25 cars made it. the rest returned back on russian soldier was shooting in the air. he warned us that next time he will she to kill russia wants to make sure soldiers hold up at the factory. dole sneak out among the civilians. for those who make it, these are difficult but joyful moments, but to dull, still trapped and more you pull. these are dark hours where the end is difficult to

predict. hood abdul hamid al jazeera zachary jack volunteers in easton, ukraine are putting their lives at risk to rescue people in danger of rush attack, villages and towns are also being evacuated, despite no agreement in place of moscow. all the un correspondent charles stratford embassy bought the bus, taking evacuees to safety from the frontline town of a difficult to be our volunteer evacuation driver eagle comedy have listened to directions from a contact on the front line. there will be a petrol station. you go straight off to the cross roads. you turn right. she says, we put on our protective vests and get on the bus you. it's an alice drive to the town of gus through countryside. that so far doesn't bear the skulls of war. eagle's church group got a call that up to 40. people wanted to be evacuated immediately. he has to move

fast because there's been a low in the shelling bush. we feel we have to do some think because people have to live. it's as simple as that. when we go in, we are very anxious, but when we get people out, we feel joy. not those weak, destroyed buildings begin to appear as we enter town. the bus stops and we walked down into a nearby bunker all in our fled shelling around the town of cremmit horse with her 2 daughters, uva and maria. she says she is too afraid to leave the relative safety of the underground shelter. i punch in lease can attend to snell. the children are terrified of the shelling shells are hitting buildings near our home. it's not as loud under ground instead of the streets above of virtually empty russian shells have hit residential housing blocks. nearby. people stop boarding the bus, some have bought their pets, sisters moms and dads,

and the elderly. this terrified old lady told us, i'm so scared and i don't want to die, nor her emotion miss. i feel great relief. we live for more than a month in the basement. we are just so thankful. it's very scary. would just have to leave you the boss races out of town before the shelling starts again. this is the 1st time in the church her was received, the po, from people desperately wanting to get out of the of these evacuation now place a 3 day journey to a shelter. the wisdom your crime. there are ongoing evacuation efforts to various villages and towns happening across east and ukraine, but they are not negotiated by the un or agreed upon by russian forces. there is no safe passage for thousands of people. like these. charles, travel al jazeera at the ymca eastern ukraine. a teenager has been killed the

russians strike on the bolts that he the desa. the missile had a residential building with 5 people inside. a young girl was also interest and taken to hospital. the russian forces have increased attacks on the city in recent weeks. and it is nightly address ukrainian press. a lot of islam express outrage of the death attack. we just got a message earlier today. the russian army launched another few rockets on a desa. they destroyed a hostile or killed a 14 year old boy wounded a 17 year old girl. she has a shell fragment in her body. what's the point? what for what tainted, those children pose the russian states. when the cranes, prosecutor general says her officers investigating more than 9000 delegations war caused by russian forces, many are alleged to have happened in future. aliana room is a member of ukraine's parliament scenario. she told us what she witnessed when she

visited the city. what you see, you know, when you see it in the picture, it is not the same that when you say to a person, we have witnessed that 1st exclamation of bodies from the grave of more than 250 people who are buried in the most brave women and children, none of them are, wears there by accident. so all of them were shots in the heads. a lot of them tortured before. and obviously when you see that, you know, there are no words to describe. i saw that it was overall in history books for us and when it happens right now in ukraine, in my country, just search kilometers from where i am now from where i live in here. obviously this is absolutely horrifying. experience to see a lot of women also start to tell us that they've been raped during this russian occupation and we're trying to talk to them. it's very difficult psychologically to get evidence this and to get witness testimony of what was going on during the occupation as 2 men and women and children who have been raped. and obviously it's going to take a lot, a lot of work to actually give it to the international tribunal on court. but i

believe that every one of the russian soldiers, every one of the russian officials who have ordered those work firms should be held responsible. and should be facing some kind of work through, janelle, we cannot unfortunately rely on the international criminal court. because all of those efforts were blocked and would be blocked by russia in the security council. so unfortunately, this tells us that the security council, the un, can not stop those crimes cannot stop. nobody from committing crimes does international law cannot well cannot, cannot really do any think about those atrocities and those who are crimes. there used to be a special for been all established and also i think that tells us that we need to reset. 7 to rethink the whole international order, which was established was about 70 years since the world so that nowhere in the world we see such cases of, you know, it's just one dictator, one country who has the power or and who is willing to,

to greg the law to commit atrocities, to kill civilians, to kill women and children, to shell, the hospitals and kindergartens for them to be responsible for, for any actions like that. you energy ministers of met for an extraordinary session over russian demands. they pay for oil and gas in rubles, the blog says those conditions can not be met under any circumstances. the energy commissioner has asked companies that are due to pay gas brought in a few days to consider other options. dominic cane has more from belen for years. russian fossil fuels have been a main energy source for much of europe. on an average day, the e u bies inasmuch as $1000000000.00 worth of coal, gas, and oil. but moscow is now insisting customers from what it calls hostile states pay for their gas in rubles, and of switched off supply to the bulgarians. and polls for failing to do so, forcing the you into an emergency meeting on energy security,

many or financial companies. i try to make that next payment to gasp, i'm in meet may and are trying to understand better. but they should do. and we need to give them the clarity that bank robbers, through their conversion mechanics managed by the russian public authorities. and a 2nd dedicated accounting cast from bank is a violation of the sanctions and cannot be accepted. in essence, this meeting deferred lasting solutions, leaving that option instead for a full e u summit at the head of state level. at the end of the month. the sticking point has been how to help members states who are most dependent on russian energy. so what they want to know, who's going to take care of them is they're solidarity in the european union. it's one thing her solitary, when everybody storage is full, will there be solidarity when storage isn't full and that's germany, for example, has the biggest storage after ukraine. we know the problem in ukraine. they should

step up and say, we're going to share with you what we can. the european commission is already said . it wants to reduce its dependence on russian energy by 2 thirds this year. but the german government wants to act sooner, where possible agreeing to embargo russian coal from august and wanting to stop using its oil by the end of the summer, with gas to follow as quickly as possible. which means uncertainty for refineries such as set in eastern germany each year. it processes more than $11000000.00 tons of russian crude oil. it's currently majority owned by the moscow based company bra sniffed in some ways. berlin's changing approach to russian fossil fuels has been a process, not an event. when the war started, ministers avoided encouraging embargoes. but as the conflict in ukraine has evolved, so to has their position here,

dominant cane al jazeera in the german capital. that israel has demanded an apology from moscow after russia's foreign minister said, love ropes, remarks, claiming that at all hitler had jewish blood rushes ambassador was summoned for talks. lover of also said you pity and presence jewish heritage doesn't contradict moscow's claims that the country is run by nazis or the out of the claim that in his words, some of the worst anti semite, a jews, ferries that hitler was part jewish widely dismissed and rejected by historians, well the chairman of israel's holocaust memorial yacht sham has called the remarks a portent, despicable and contrary to historical truth. the reference for the ukrainians agree on government that the president the landscape, particularly as mat please. the sole source of the actually is the distortion of the holocaust than the gratian of the victims of the holocaust. because not to mean

something like that. so it's not there but so we can then also the strongest pulse equivalent made by for the liberal and the rest of the patient still here, although there we look at who spying on the spanish government up to the prime minister phone was hacked. i will welcome at all. today we're open to businesses for the 1st time in almost 2 years. ah, the journey has begun the before world copies on its way to the castle book, your travel package today. hello there. the weather is looking rather fine across much of china. at the moment. we've got high pressure in charge. we are going to

see a lot of heat come back into northern areas with the temperature in beijing picking up. and it's the similar story in the south for hong kong, for the wet weather. we have to look at that band of rain that's just gonna pull into tie one in the days ahead, but for the korean peninsula and japan, it's a similar story with the temperature is on the up. we have a look at the re day for tokyo. we are going to see it continue to rise as conditions improve by the time you get to does that. however, it is going to be cloudy, but it will still be warm. now is the head to south asia. it has been a very hot story for india, temperatures here touching up towards the mid forties even higher. and it's been a similar story for pakistan. we saw nearly 50 degrees in some of the cities here. now we are going to see those temperatures come down and places like a hole in the days their head, but it does remain a pretty hot and dry and dusty story as that wind picks up some potential sandstorms from western areas of raja stun. with water magic, whether we have to head to the north east,

we could see some thunderstorms in west bengal. we could also see some pretty sharp thunderstorms in bangladesh of the days ahead, official and 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. as jessia, lou, the me

look about you want me to hill run the reminder of all top stories. the 1st group of keys from the besieged, fountain, malleable, arrived in upper. each of those evacuated were made up of mostly women children and the elderly. hundreds more so full to be trapped. as a teenager has been killed on to russian falls is targeted a residential area in the ukrainians. desa russian rockets also struck the crucial bridge to the port city for 3rd time. and the use energy commission to rebuff the kremlin suburban for gas payments to be paid in roubles. despite the threat of supply interruption, countries, the european companies should consider other payment options. the phones of the spanish prime minister petro sanchez and his defense. but it's to have been hacked. government officials say pegasus fire,

which is made by the israeli, as though group was used to extract information from such as the phone at least once they haven't said who they suspect is responsible. the high court judges are investigating the security breach of the government fades. are being checked and it comes just weeks after is revealed dozens of political figures in catalonia, were targeted by the spyware, jody westby. to be alive from washington, d. c. she's a chief executive at global cyber risk. k cyber security service. west be good to have you on al jazeera, again, the s so group officially says that it only sells this pegasus technology to government and or criminal investigation organizations. so it's a real mystery, isn't it? bad as to who might be spying on the spanish government? yes, they only, yeah, you said give it to governments essentially. i don't know what they necessarily mean by the other organizations because surely they're

a government entity. but it requires a license from the israeli ministry of defense for the software to go to another government. and so that's how it is made available only to certain clients. they won't sell it to everyone or license it to everyone. for example, they would not license it to ukraine because they thought it would upset russia. of course, over the last year we've seen several european governments all question the issue of s, so who they're selling it to and why are they robes of parliament to all leaders being spied upon? the larger question is about oversight. and when most governmental authorities do have their own spying operations on their perceived enemies, how does one operate oversight? and where are the red lines of what, where do they need to be drawn?

what, you know, i think this software just needs to be prohibited. the united states is prohibited at the 8 you is looking at this, and it is a terribly invasive and destructive spyware. and it is certainly beyond it. it is there so doesn't have access to the data of how it's being used. so once of government licenses it, there's really no one exercising oversight. and as you mentioned, if it's for intelligence, are certainly not going to allow another, another government like israel, to have oversight on how they're using it. so it, you know, yes, we have countries with intelligence operations, but usually they build their own capabilities and we leave it to each country to sort of develop their best mousetrap. but this software is invasive. it's destructive and it actually puts lives at risk. it's very dangerous and israel is trading diplomatic favors or other kinds of favors that they want with certain

countries and whether they license it to them or not. it's a big problem in terms of being a big problem. as you say, they're all certain gov months, which would find this sort of technology, a great advantage when it comes to dealing with the adversaries. it's very tempting, isn't it to actually ignore what the wide international community might want them to do? exactly the norms of how we should behave sort of fly out the window because the temptation is so great. once you have the tool and it is so powerful, it's very hard to detect. it can ex filtrate, massive amounts of information from my phone. and i and it, so it's destructive, but the temptation to use it in all sorts of ways is almost uncontrollable. so it, it is a, a problem that we've seen abuses with activists and journalists,

and government officials and members of the judiciary and legislative branches. and you're all being targeted, even members of certain royal families. and so the abuse is clearly there and it is not being used in repeated instances. it is not being used strictly in the manner to only catch criminals and terrorists said interesting development to be driven, see how this actually unfolds as the days progress for the moment. jody westby. thanks so much for joining us from washington, dc like it the muslims across the world are celebrating the either withered holiday marking the end of ramadan. with the easing of pandemic restrictions mass prize and mosques and celebrations of once again. a hallmark of the holiday. laura burton medley reports daybreak in serious it lip city. prayers mark the end, the islamic holy month of ramadan, and the completion of

a month of fasting from dawn to dusk. ah, lady fitter is a time the celebrations and respite in a city that's been racked by civil war since 2012 but for some in the countries rebel held northwest. it's a solemn occasion. oh, in this historic mosque, in cairo, people arrive on mass for pres and a lot in numbers than have been seen in years due to the pandemic. and these are laid on of course, eat proud as a joyce, we're so in the past couple of years, we couldn't enjoy it because of quarantine and a night time coffee. but this year it's different. the day is celebrated with balloons and traditional i 3 court can leaders from the u. s. and calendar sent that best wishes to more than 2000000000 muslims across the world.

muslim americans in my administration have key roles and tracking the climate crisis. rebuilding our economy shape, guardian, r o restore in our alliances and so much more after 2 hard years, this ramadan and this ead has brought everyone back together, rushing muslims and catherine city accept the holiday. like so many across the world with prayers, new clothes, food and festivities, even though the worn ukraine has caused a surge in food prices, yet almost almost one issue. i think that muslims around the whole world are trying for peace. i needed a wealthy all day families for a p. this is not a holiday, is a time to gather and celebrates, and now so many come for the 1st time in years lower but manly al jazeera new zealand has opened its borders, tourists for the 1st time in any 2 years, fully vaccinated travelers from about 60 countries can visit without having to

isolate or quarantine sort of congress as well. i was my re welcome to clint, therefore, not one separated by the pandemic. find the united with really full round off to the listing of some of the world. toughest board restriction. i have been a long 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 you. thank you there. we started without knowing if we'd ever 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 without borders. reopening to visit is from visa, where 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 and the girls 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 travelers must be fully vaccinated and have a negative p. c, l test visitors from india, china, and other non wave, a countries remain bond. the government type seizing of travel restrictions will help provide the economy that relies heavily on the 3000000 tourists who visited annually before the pandemic. despite protests against the strict lot downs and limited quarantine slots for key restock abroad, the government has credited the relatively low code the death toll to it's strict no tolerance policy. and while the pandemic hasn't been did yet, life in many a new zealand is returning to something like normality. at long last thought a height of al jazeera,

the state of tennessee has halted executions for the rest of the year. after failing to test lethal injection drugs, it follows concerns by advocate so prisoners on death row over the state failure to follow procedures. the executions of 5 men schedule for this year have been delayed . while tuesdays world press freedom day and jamison, uganda se, getting harder to do their jobs because of the government crackdown on dissent rights group say it's part of a long running campaign to silence critical voices. how rumor, tulsa has the story for these journalists swinging again, that is frustrating and sometimes dangerous. in march, the independent online tv station was rated by security official journalists were rated for what the government called fiber, stalking and offensive communication. some say they were tortured before being released on bail. anything in regards to broadcast with picking anything regarding

to office equipment from computers to even media paperwork even receipts me or was it written for? you will. i mean everything was to him. that's why you to do with clothes, because as move our own fine, i am sure you. so our team as i, you do as it seems at our section. we do anything. right? group the keys, presidential air mas seventies government of silencing critics was saving. he has been in power since 1986. the opposition said he has become increasingly authoritarian, cracking down and voices of descent and harassing independent media outlets that it causes the turks on jalissa. i think she are fairly appreciate the critical role that media plays in a democracy where the security and governments tend to think that was generally. so media house curves the story that he's not in their favor, the fighting demand against them. they do not appreciate the critical importance of

holding lead us to our account over exposing bus or gross misuse of office and power. uganda government says it is not trying to muzzle the press, but journalist can't be allowed to publish. false news, commit libel, and fuel incitement. they are not going to count to it to ignore the media house. oh journalists, desa because they are. so you are talking about east dances of gram. i'm the security forces going in there by it's not targeting that the journalist, but some journalist in uganda feel the state is targeting them and they say more needs to be done to respect people's rights to freedom of speech and expression. parramatta out there. ah. what 120 me. so rob lindo, all reminder of all the top stories, the 1st group of her q e 's from the besieged steel plans in multiple have arrived and jeff, richer.