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in suspense bus routes. and china's latest attempt to stop the spread of cove at 19 i and processes multiple abortion right software supreme court leaks suggest a landmark ruling could be overtime. see you has proposed a complete ban on all russian oil imports by the end of this year because of the war in ukraine. european commission present. a lavonne de lance has import should be phased out over time to allow member states to find alternative supplies to mike cain reports. this is the gas from nif installation in hunting months. he asked from installations like these in siberia and across russia, crude oil, diesel, and petro, a pumped to customers, take them together every day. nearly 8000000 barrels of crude and refined products

are exported. 2 thirds of them end up in europe. but now russia's war against ukraine has changed everything to day. we are addressing our dependency on russian oil. and let's be clear. it will not be easy because some member states are strongly dependent on russian oil. but we simply have to do it. so today we will propose to ban all russian oil from europe. this will be this will be a complete import ban on all russian oil seaborne and pipeline crude and refined. but in order for this to happen, it will need the support of all e u. member states. some are highly dependent on russian oil and a strongly resistant to all out embargoes. the hungarian say what matters most to them is protecting their economy and people hobbled. one war is going on and as

a consequence process arising in the whole of europe, the signs of a serious crisis of energy and the european economies are facing miseries. and we are not yet out of the age of epidemics on a preferred people, medically a decision based, but a leaders of the country to defend them and hungry from these dangers. the new sanctions proposed in strasburg will also target several large russian banks and other financial institutions. we finally de swift stabbing. spamming is one of the is the largest russian bank. it was round about 37 percent of the whole banking sector and we will also de swift to other major banks in russia. by that we hit banks that are systemically critical to the russian financial system. and proteins ability to wage destruction. the notable absentee from all this is russian natural gas. in a sense, it's the elephant in the european living room,

too big to be ignored, but also too big, unilaterally to be done away with, without seriously damaging economies across this continent. and that's the problem facing e u leaders. they want to act fast against russia, but they're stuck with the reality of decisions that governments across europe made over decades when they thought that it was in their best interests to make deals with president putin. donna kane, al jazeera, berlin, ukrainian officials and the u. n. say they hope they can keep bringing more civilians out of a bombed out steel plant. and the shattered port says you have maria po, some civilians in scores of ukrainian fighter. the still hold up in the facility and surrounded by russian forces as evacuated so far have been taken to well as if safety ins apparition from where hot abdul hamid reports, peal and exhausted. they stumbled out of buses. perhaps unaware that their plight

has caught the world's attention. they've accusation closely coordinated at the highest levels in both ukraine and russia. and still took several days. a thumb in person to whom he r d now was worried that something would go wrong. first, every one had to be vetted by the russian military. i had a funeral nigger that comes in with a moment either, but historically, should i? so they took photos of us as if we were criminal front and profile. we were fingerprinted, they went through our phones, checked our documents. i was told, there was no way back to mary pull any more. i felt threatened by them. either had gone with her daughter to the as of south steed factory on march. second, you can see her in this video right in one of the dark, underground shelters. that's where she spent the last 8 weeks. the evacuation was broken by the united nations and international red cross. it was

a mission fraught with danger. note we are, we travel through no man's land fairly well. ah, we had a couple of scared instance during the evacuation itself. um we discovered or wait and discovered the are the russian federation. soldiers discovered mine since mon expirence i had to be cleared. so we get a routine for the civilians to come out and there was some more far while we were working to evacuate the civilians. a couple of rounds landed 500 meters white also . i don't know who far them are, but it stopped almost as soon as it started and that was really it despite the risks. and they decided to join the convoy with her 6 months old son. her time under ground was riddled with worry about him and about her mother who got injured and is now receiving treatment. hello, it's in such a law. ah, what? no, with dr. lyle is now nothing and will i keep it? it was very hard, but we managed, we had to boil water was candles because there wasn't hot water. my father was

running under the shell and 2 other buildings in the complex to get water with. over the past 2 weeks, the situation inside those shelters deteriorated. food was running low, the air was poor and the fighting ever closer. people like valentino, were stuck in the shelter. her 2 months were cut off from the world. they were not getting any news. and they had no idea what was happening to their hometown. and when they came out, she says they were shocked. while on the bus she so pictures of the building she lived in flattened to the ground. memories of a lifetime gone. mozilla blue, my son has no home. neither. i have my flat anymore. nothing left. everything i own is on me. now. i won't ever be back. there still civilians remaining at this deed works. do you and is hoping for. another evacuation sued. more people who will

leave their home towns knowing they leave behind alive, that will never be again. heard of that, i mean al jazeera is upward each or another algebra correspondent hassan masoud as also ends africa. these equations, it started again at 8 o'clock in the morning from multiple and a 3 more cities are under their russian authorities there and other than russian control in the east and in the south of upper rogia and other cities. and the must come air by night to day if everything went fine and if the a process a was successful or by the next morning to morrow. and now the place here is a quiet, but at this point, or other civilians, not from as of stars, from the city of multiple and from other cities may arrive. here ab bought the same

time. the, the last a evacuation process from as of style was a successful and 156 people came and arrived to this place where the deputy prime minister also received them with a you and, and unicef, and also a international raj cross. so these equations are a to be continued to day. and since the 8th of the morning at 8 o'clock in the morning until that a 16 a clock in afternoon is. so a, we will see. and we will a check if it will be successful today. because of the security issues, russia has been japan's prime minister female casita, and more than 60 other nationals from entering the country. moscow says japan as

laurence an unprecedented campaign against it says, joining western nations and imposing sanctions over the warren crime abandoned indefinite and effective immediately. japan and south korea say north korea has find a ballistic miss oliver is east coast towards the sea. is that it was launched from the soon an area that would be north korea 14th known weapons test this year. not often you cut me careers of recent remarkable development of nuclear found related technologies is not only unacceptable for the security of japan and the region. but north korea's of action is including its repeated launches of ballistic missiles. threatened the peace and security of our country region and the international community and are absolutely unacceptable. they're also in violation of relevant security council resolutions. and we strongly condemn these actions. because that in light of the situation, we will consider all options including the possession of so called enemy based

attack capability and will continue to work to fund mentally strengthen our defense capabilities. robert bride has more from sol. the south korean military confirming that this was a ballistic missile, but with a relatively short flight path. certainly compared with the more recent missile launches, they say that it reached a total altitude of 780 kilometers and flu. a total distance of nearly 500 kilometers east landing in the sea that separates japan and the korean peninsula. now, south korea has a strongly condemned this launched japanese. prime minister has said that it's totally unacceptable. and while we don't know exactly at this stage, what type of missile this was, interestingly, it was launched from this district called su 9, which is just outside the capital gang from where north korea launched at the end of march to an icbm. that's an intercontinental ballistic missile, a sort of weapon capable of reaching the continental united states and the kind of

weapon that north korea has not tested since 2017. so that was seen as a major development to major escalation. now there's some debate over whether that miss out was fired was a, was all 15 or a more powerful, more recent class song, 17 icbm. but both of those types of missiles were on display at this very large parade that was held last week in pyongyang. this was the anniversary of the founding of north korea as military when also on display where other weaponry that the north koreans have been developing very actively in recent years, such as submarine loads, ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles, attended by kim junglin, the north korean leader vowing to speed up the development of his nuclear arsenal. still ahead for you. we'll have a report on drought in the horn of africa, which has threatening the lives of millions and the count down to what could be a historical action in northern ireland. i should fain is poised to become the

biggest party. ah, he has begun the full world copies on its way to the castle, kill travel package to the hello there we've seen some pretty settled weather across much of east asia. over the past few days, we've got high pressure in charge across mainland china, keeping things largely fine and dry and lots of heat in the north. but that is going to change. you are going to see a pretty dramatic drop in the temperature for beijing. thanks to cooler winds, blowing down those conditions, taking up a little bit of dust as well, and possibly bringing in some rain. but certainly the cloud. we have a look at the 3 day. it's going to be cloudy through to the weekend. the temperature touching down below the average that will feel cooler here. it's gonna cool down as well across the korean peninsula that rains skirting across further east, edging into the north. but for japan,

it is largely fine and dry picture with just a few showers in the south. now as we head across to south asia, well, it's been all about the heat, but it is going to ease for large areas of pakistan. we have got those shallow clouds pulling in as you can see them. we have got warnings out for the north east of india, no dish or for thunderstorms. but as we go into friday, we are going to see that heat come back in for the likes of new delhi as well as the hor in pakistan. it's down in the south. we can find the wet weather with some pretty sharp thunderstorms, pulling into carola and showers and storms for sri lanka through the weekend. i saw official elling of the journey with i don't get a a

with with ah, again you what you guys is there a has a reminder of our top stories. this our, the leader of the european union has proposed a complete ban on russian oil imports by the end of this year. as live on the land announced more sanctions against russian banks and high ranking officers, suspected of committed war crimes, ukrainian officials and the un say they hope they can bring out more civilians from a bombed out steel plant. in the city of mario poll,

some civilians and ukrainian fight is a still hold up in the facility, surrounded by russian forces and south korea and japan say north korea has fired the ballistic missile over is east coast towards the sea. it comes days after me to kim jong and vowed to speed up the development of nuclear weapons. beijing has closed dozens of subway stations and suspended bus routes and as late as attempts to stop cove at 19 spreading through. the city fencing has also been put up around buildings and compounds in neighborhoods where infections are highest, restaurants and bars are only allowed to serve takeaways while gyms and schools are closed. millions of people are being tested. as taught now to katrina you. she's danny. by for a live in beijing and katrina, it seems at some pretty stringent measures all being put in place, but not quite the full lockdown. that's right. i think that a full look down is a said that city officials are desperate to void here. but they so haven't managed

to get this current outbreak under control. they've been just over 500 cases reported over the last week. and the latest figure reported on thursday was 52 new cases. but here's the thing. $46.00 people out of those $52.00 were identified already as close contacts, meaning they were ready isolated. only 6 people on thursday, we're new cases found out in the wild via community mass testing. now that may seem like a miniscule numbers 6 people, but we have to remember that this is china, the country that has still using this 0 tolerance approach to corbin 19. and until they can get that number of 6 down to 0, we're still going to continue to see some of these very heavy handed restrictions imposed throughout the capitol. so some of the things that were mentioned is that most of the capitals population that are 20000000 people have to continue to do

nucleic acid testing. once every 2 days, a number of subway stations are public transport bus stations in affected areas have also been completely shut down. schools are going online and some of the restrictions that they announced for the beginning of the public holiday that started on sunday at which ends today will be continued as well. so that includes restaurants early offering takeaways that have died out. and it came in menus are closed as well as june's and people in many districts are being asked or highly encouraged to work from home and avoid public transport. is 0 coven? i mean it seems such an impossibility? doesn't it? how worried all people in beijing that they're going to face a total lockdown like we've seen in shanghai? well, things are extremely intense. i think every day beijing residence wake up and if there is never city wide, looked down and announced to people,

i'm very thankful they're trying to make the most of their ability to go out tools . but with the kinds of numbers we're seeing at the moment, 52, i think most people agree that a city wide lockdown is not going to be very likely unless we see a huge spike in numbers. but what authorities are doing is sealing off neighborhoods in a very targeted way. so if you are fortunately in a pass of the city which is affected by cases, for example, in china district, the eastern part of the city where i am located, then you will be locked down while the rest of the city. and it still has still relative freedom. now beijing isn't the only city to announce these measures as another city, joan joan, central china, herb to 12000000 people that announced similar measures to day on wednesday. and also, if you look at shanghai, china's commercial center, the moors populous. a city in china further down south that remains mostly under

lockdown. official said that they have eased restrictions beginning on sunday. but because that city is continuing to see thousands of new cases every day. they're still a long way to go until that lockdown is lifted. so the majority of the 25 or so 1000000 people living in shanghai remain confined to that compounds or even their apartments curve is still having a huge impact. the and china katrina money. thanks for bringing the latest from beijing. more protests of being held across the u. s. altro leaked draft opinion by the supreme court suggested abortion could be outlawed in several states. activists supporting abortion rights, demanding national laws to protect women's access to the procedure. shebra tansy reports from washington dc. i thousands gathered outside the supreme court on tuesday afternoon to protest the legal draft opinion that was reported to have the support of 5 conservative

justices and opinion. that concludes that since those who wrote the constitution did not explicitly protect women's reproductive rights than previous judgments in framing a woman's right to choose, had no basis in the law. and that we are long past the point that we was protested well, how many decades ago, but it's terrifying. this is a handful of anti abortion rights. protests roadside the court to my sales in murder, but flows seeking to end abortion access. this has been the goal since 1973, when justice is ruled in favor of women's reproductive rights. in the case of robi weight and justice, robert said that that was not in chick draft. we're very happy to hear that, and we're hopeless. i will stay with that draft and that will be the decision to overturn roe vs wade. the white house as it is prepared for whatever the actual verdict is. but the president warned the reasoning underpinning the draft opinion

has far reaching implications and basically says, all the decisions related to your private life. will you mind whether or not you decided to see the child and i was watching them on the voice range of other decision whether the how you raise your child, what does this do? does this mean that in florida they can decide are going to pass a law saying that same sex marriage is not visible? the u. s. has the worst maternal mortality rate in the industrialized world. those hear a word that terrible metric could now deteriorate even further. the sign was inspired by conversations with many women today. i don't think that anybody has an idea of what the real world consequences are. and especially those who are in a position of privilege. i'm like everybody on the supreme court. myself did not. and there's a lot of really potential for harm, but there was hope to oppose have consistently shown 70 percent of americans are against outlawing abortion. the double grants seem to be hoping for

a bumping voter turnout in november's midterm elections from those who support female, reproductive rights. where there is an awareness here that in the past, when the democrats about the opportunity to codify a woman's right to choose, they failed to do so. she, abraham, so al jazeera, washington politicians in the democratic republic of congo have voted to extend marshall nor into eastern provinces. the military, along with forces from neighbouring uganda, fighting against armed groups are much asa reports is not the 1st time in peace in the democratic republic. of congo have voted to extend the state of siege in the east of the country. it's happened before, and each time martial law has been extended by 15 days or school concert of lisa. this is will not have been assured by the president of the parliament that this is the last vote on the state of siege. we now have to find other solutions after 15 days to try and in the conflict. president village is the katie announced the state

of siege in may last year. parliamentarians say the situation in the east is still volatile. armed, malicious and into camino violence, have killed thousands of people. the congolese army, uganda forces. and the u. ain't largest peacekeeping mission monasco a trying to stabilize the region. but the violence in north q and a to the provinces seems to be getting worse. as you grew less, alco knows it's been 12 months and i think people in a tory have seen positive results. we have the state of siege and we as the government, we think it's working more than a 1000000 people have been displaced by the ongoing violence. many say they see no way out grammars, no, we talk things would have improved so we can go back home on fortunately, we're living in these terrible conditions for how long we don't know local leaders and some rights groups want to return to civilian law, saying the military approach isn't working. last month,

king as president or who looking at a media talks in nairobi between different rival groups operating in eastern biase . those talks are expected to resume later in may. the militia say they will stop fighting if certain conditions are in place, including amnesty for the fighters and the release of political prisoners. millions of people are fit to by decades, a conflict fear it could be years before peace returns to easton, the asi hardware theresa out there. people in the one of africa suffering through the worst drought in decades. humans as millions are at risk of starvation and monahan has more. mm. this used to be fertile grazing land. now it's as dry as a bone. life is growing increasingly difficult for these nomadic herders in eastern ethiopia and others like them across the board of africa region, many feel powerless as they wash their livelihoods disappear beneath the sand. oh, come hide it. there is not a single animal left for us. hardy welcome. conditions are really hard. this

drought is much different from previous ones. we've never suffered like this. the regions were struck decades has killed nearly 1500000 animals from the herds. people here say it's part of a new pattern of weather that's threatening their way of life. the puzzle is, you know, as soon as they know that you're trying to recover from the allen drug and the progressive of the his but, but millisecond road. so it's met with make them impossible for them to, to recover. whitley is from the 5th period free by single shocks. 20000000 people are on the brink of starvation. many have been displaced and forced to settle in camps. aid workers do what they can to feed the hungry, but sometimes that's not enough. we come up with some of the mother who because of they are not fed getting any food. they had no problem. and if in a food for children or in a feed feeding for children,

scientists are linking the crisis to climate change. droughts like this, used to happen once every 6 years. now there every 3 rights groups are calling for urgent action. but for the nomadic herders of east africa, it may come too late to preserve their way of life. vention monahan al jazeera and historic shift can be looming in the politics of northern ireland. should feign once the political wing of the re is poised to become the biggest party after elections on sunday. as gentle reports, it would be a significant milestone. it should faint quest for united ireland catholic protestant unionist or nationalist not much matters more in northern ireland than identity. and the symbols of sectarian struggle to preserve it. thursday the election will test both with the likelihood of a nationalist shouldn't fame victory sweeping away a 100 years of pro british dominance and a possible union is boy cult of the power sharing government. as a result,

this will be very significant because of course should fain, and as its primary intention is seen, northern ireland no longer exists. it wants to see irish unification. so to have should face the largest party, the assembly in northern ireland. am bearing in mind that overnight was created to maintain a unionist majority would be remarkably significant. dana murray is a young nationalist blow to bone in 1998 when the good friday agreement brought an end to the troubles. he grew up on streets that then those now bear the marks of violence and division. is hector, hotmail, hotmail, recently, last year on the road, just in the privacy rule. so there is that element of distiller. i think you have to go to mark, see a child, let this new assembly, if it is to be an i says, 1st minister, you know, lot that nice the show or no desire to go back where it's going to take time and trust and work on dialogue, you know, maybe not physically but metaphorically picked into the wall together. change

appears close and now accelerated by the u. k. departure from the e. u and the see board of protocol put in place to avoid a hard land border that would have jeopardized piece on the island. the island, the protocol as it's known is moved by unionists who demand its removal because for them it undermines northern islands place in the united kingdom. people like billy hutchinson who spent 15 years in prison for the murder of 2 catholic men in the 1970. now as a unionist politician, he believes bricks it and the protocol of put at risk, the good friday agreement itself. what you're saying is this storm of that go? yeah. effectively defined agreement. yet. i'm not, he used amongst 900, so, i mean, it's more 63000000. but i want matt calling me to be wrong from london, not wrong from europe, from brussels or dublin. this is an election then,

perhaps more important than any before it in which the power sharing arrangements that have underpinned peace in northern ireland. since 1998, could collapse with profound consequences for the prospect of a united ireland. and for the future of the united kingdom, this tiny province that has seen and experienced so much could soon find itself again in uncharted territory. jonah, hold to syrup, belfast, ah, who without there are these are our top stories. the leader of the european union has proposed a complete ban on all russian oil imports. by the end of this year. ass lavonne de lan nuts, more sanctions targeting russian banks and high ranking officers, suspected of committing war crimes and butcher. and merrier poll. we will make sure that we phase out russian oil in an orderly fashion.