ah, ah a the you pushes to phase out russian oil altogether when it's facing resistance. and let's be clear. it will not be easy because some member states a strongly dependent on russian oil. but we simply have to do it. ah, i'm carry johnston. this is al 0 life and also coming up the horn of africa suffers its worst drought in decades, leaving millions at risk of dying hunger. the u. s. condemned the latest north

korean missiles says it doesn't have to lead danger to it shows the world health organization says access to safe abortions saves lives. as the u. s. supreme court considers ending women's right to the procedure. ah, the european union once it's 27 members to bond russian oil imports as part of its latest sanctions for ukraine's war. the block once it gone in stages. so governments have time to look for alternative supplies. are hungry and slovakia or resisting and pushing for exemptions from any embargo from it came reports from berlin. this is the gasp romney f installation in hunting months. he asked from installations like these in siberia and across russia. crude oil,

diesel and petrol are pumped to customers. taken 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. today we are addressing our dependency on russian oil, and let's be clear. it will not be easy because some members states are strongly dependent on rational 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 have a long 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, the best but 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. spank. spank 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 rational 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 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 dominate cane al jazeera berlin, inside ukraine. the mayor of mario paul says, a russian forces are again attacking a besieged, still works, and they've lost contact in the soldiers. hold up inside. the reported fighting threatens to disrupt efforts involving un to evacuate civilians trapped in the conte on tuesday. more than a $150.00 civilians made it out of the as of style thornton were taken to ukrainian

controlled at city of its apparition. the abdul, hamid reports, pale 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. but um, a 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. and i think the only conquer that comes in with the moment either, but it still can, you can shop by somebody. they took photos of us as if we were criminal front and profile. we were fingerprinted, they went through our phones, checked her documents. i was told there was no way back to mary paul any more. i felt threatened with no either had gone with her daughter to the as of style steve factory on march. second, you can see her in this video, 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, 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 we didn't discover 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 motor far while we were working to evacuate the civilians. a couple of rounds landed fall under miss white also. i don't know who fog am. uh, but it stopped almost as soon as it started and that was really, despite the risks. and i 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 thinks as a law, ah,

what not with dr. lyle is now nothing im will i keep it? it was very hard but we managed we had to boil water was canceled because there wasn't hot water. my father was running under the sheldon to 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 valentina 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 gave you, my son has no home. neither do 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. the u. n. is hoping for another evacuation soon more people who will leave their home towns knowing they leave behind alive that will never be again. had up that, i mean al jazeera is i put a just a fuel. their po has caught fire in a separatist control part of eastern ukraine, sending thick clouds of smoke into the sky. the facility is in the city of america, univer, east of them. the exc city separatist leaders say, shunning from ukrainian forces caused the blaze. they st. more than 90 firefighter's battles to extinguish the flames. charles has tracked for his in nicholas cur, donnette screech, and he says, ukrainian forces have repelled russian souls along the eastern front line. we went serve with the ukraine, an army. they took us to a front line, prince trench position close to the town of donates an idea of car. there was

a lot of shelling that we heard a logic shells being exchange or fire being exchanged by both sides. shells actually going over these positions, hitting targets and basically to the south and to the north of where we were. it was very loud when we arrived. we were speaking to the soldiers in these trenches, highly motivated men and women, an a lot of weapons as well, including weapons that have been supplied by nato countries such as those are so the ukrainians will say highly important, an anti tank weapons. and the situation there, they have managed to hold so far, russian forces back and what's interesting is that they're off arish to the left and right of that position if you like, that saw a basically a lot louder where russian forces and the pro russia separatists are making a big effort to push forward, and that's as

a similar story that you're hearing now. we're hearing now right the way across the region as we've been reporting in recent days. we know certainly according to the ukranian military, a lot of shelling a lot of fighting around the is ume area. now this is an attempt by russian forces to push down towards the larger urban centers of yancey and cremmit tools. british military intelligence in the last 48 hours have said that they think that the russians have put in what they say, a $22.00 battalion, tactical groups, which would amount to thousands of reinforcements in izzy. him for that potential push. the u. n. says a concert and ukraine is adding to what it calls a perfect storm of factors and making hunger worse around the world. a joint report from the u. n. european union and world food program says a 193000000 people in more than 50 different countries didn't have enough to eat last year. that's $40000000.00 more than

a year before conflict. extreme weather and the pandemic are the main reasons for the increase content. monahan reports on the situation in ethiopia, which is suffering its worse drought in decades. this used to be fertile, grazing land. now it's just dry as a bone. life is growing increasingly difficult for these nomadic herders in eastern ethiopia and others like them across the horn of africa region. many feel powerless as they wash their livelihoods disappear beneath the sand. welcome had there is not a single animal left for us. hardy welcome. conditions are really hard and this drought is much different from previous ones. we've never suffered like this. the regions worse drone decade 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 they're trying to recover from the other drug and all the progress of that. but, but, but it's

a controlled. so it's may make them possible for them to recover quickly from the previous previous shocks. 20000000 people are on the brink of starvation. many have been displaced and forced to settle in camps. a workers do what they can to feed the hungry, but sometimes that's not enough. we come up with some of the mothers who because of the, had not had everybody getting any food. they had no police. and if in 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. vince monahan al jazeera, so the head on al jazeera, la sal noise, kept in facing eastern democratic republic of congo. but the army is fighting,

at least a 100 armed groups on the count, down to what could be an historic collection in northern ireland. explain why a hello. there was sat in south asia and as a welcome break to the intense heat that's been dominating the story in india and pakistan, you can see the cloud showing as unsettled conditions, working their way east, bringing some showers to northern areas of pakistan as well as india we are going to see the intense rains pick up in the northeast. we've got some thunderstorm watches out for odessa, as well as for corolla as those shop the thunderstorms work their way further in land. now what is going to be all about the heat? however, as we move towards the end of the week, lots of dry conditions coming back into places like new delhi,

we will see those hot and dry conditions extend to central areas as well. if we look at the 3 day for new delhi, we are going to see some cloud. but as we get into sunday, we will see the sunshine dominating once again, lots of heat here and lots of heat as well across northern areas of china. but with a change in the wind, we are going to see a dramatic drop in temperature for beijing. have a look at that. some of that rain rolling down towards the korean peninsula, wintery conditions for russia's far east. but further east of this for japan, it's a largely fine and dry picture. just a few showers creeping into the south, but the temperature in tokyo, sitting in the mid twenties with plenty of sunshine. and that extends further west to shanghai. that to weather update. ah, joined the debates, it is nor he job back. and if anyone here talks about women that i had so suggested this seemed of them says no topic is off the table. we were taught to see abortion

one way, tickets treat to help all the companies. they denied any responsibility, even though they have the resources and the power to fix it, where a global audience becomes a global community. the comment section is right here. the part of today's program this stream on al jazeera lou ah, ah, you're watching elders here remind to now of our top stories is how the leader of the european union has proposed a complete ban on all russian oil imports or the end of this year. or slip on the line announced more sanctions against washing banks and high ranking officers, suspected of committing crimes. ukrainian officials an un say they hope they can

bring out more civilians from a bombed up still found in the city of morrow. paul. some civilians and cranium fighters are still hold up in the facility at surrounded by russian forces. joint report from the un european union and world food program says 193000000 people didn't have enough to eat last year. it's gonna stand ethiopia, yemen, abreast affected. the us has condemned the launch for ballistic miss, sorry, by north korea, urging pyongyang to refrain from what it called further destabilizing actions. japan and south korea say the missile was fired, open north korea's east coast towards the sea. it would be north korea's 14th known weapons test this year. while mcbride has more from salt, the south korean military confirming that this was a ballistic missile. but were they relatively a short flight path? certainly compared with. and what more recent or missile launches?

they say that it reached her and that total altitude of 780 kilometers and flu, a total distance of nearly 500 kilometers east landing in this sea that separates japan and the korean peninsula. now, south korea has a strongly condemned this launch. the japanese prime minister has said that it's totally unacceptable and why we don't know exactly at this stage what type of missile this was. interestingly, it was launched from this district called soon and which is just outside the capital pyongyang from where north korea a launched at the end of march, an icbm that 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 major escalation. now there's some debate over whether that miss out was fired was a why song 15 or a more powerful, more recent why? 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's military, or when also on display were other weaponry that the north koreans have been developing a very actively in recent years, such as submarine launch, ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles, attended by kim jong on the north korean leader vowing to speed up the development of his nuclear arsenal. beijing has closed dozens or subway stations and suspended bus routes in a bid to stop code. 19 spreading through the city fencing has been put up around buildings and compounds in neighborhoods where infections, the highest restaurants and bars are only allowed to serve. takeaway while jeans and schools are closed, millions of people are being tested, katrina, you reports from beijing. well, things are extremely intense, i think everyday paging residents wake up and if there is notice to be locked down,

announced people are very thankful to trying to make the most of their ability to go out tools. but with the kinds of numbers we're seeing at the moment, 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 stealing 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 and district, the eastern part of the if you where i am located, then you will be locked down while the rest of the city, it still has still relative freedom. now aging, is that the only city to announce these measures. there's another city job job central china, home to 12000000 people that enough similar measures today wednesday. and also if you look at shanghai, china's commercial center, the most populous. a city in china further down south that remains largely under

locked down. official said that they have eased restrictions beginning on sunday. but because that city is continuing to see thousands of new cases every day. there's still a long way to go until that locked down and lifted. so the majority of the 25000000 people living in shanghai main couldn't find to that compound, or even their apartments ahead of the world health organization has said access to safe abortions is crucial. to saving lives is comments came after the document emerged suggesting the u. s. supreme court is poised to reverse lunmark abortion routing. she had returned to reports not from washington, d. c. o. thousands gathered outside the supreme court on tuesday afternoon to protest the leet. 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 training, a women's right to choose had no basis in the law. and that we are long past that point and that we was protested about 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 check draft. so we're very happy to hear that. and hopefully 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 act, true 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 marry whether or not you decided to see the child or not, whether not, i'm on the board 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 here a word that terrible metric could now deteriorate even further. that the sign was inspired by conversations with many women today. i don't think that anybody has an idea 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. there's a lot of really potential for harm, but there was hope to oppose if consistently shane 70 percent of americans are against outlawing abortion. the democrats seem to be hoping for a bump in town out in november's mid term elections from those who support female, reproductive rights. but there is an awareness had in the past when the democrats

about the opportunity to codify a woman's right to choose. they failed to do so. she had time to al jazeera washington, wherein the military says that candidates african union peacekeepers have been killed in somalia. of the us above overrun the base at elbert. on tuesday the 25 other soldiers were wounded. 20 algebra fighters were killed if the worst attack by the arm. through this year. leticia, the democratic republic of congo have voted to extend martial law in to eastern provinces. the military, along with forces from neighboring uganda are fighting against armed groups. ports of mass killings, abductions and sexual violence are widespread or matessa reports is not the 1st time in peace in the democratic republic of congo have voted to extend the state of seach in the east of the country. it's happened before, and each time martial law has been extended by 15 days on student concert. later

this year or not, we've 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 off the 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. n. t. a 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 was jacayla. gould i shall call 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 think it's working more than a 1000000 people have been displaced by the ongoing violence. many say they see no way out grandma's her 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 mediator talks in nairobi between different rebel groups operating in eastern d, r. c. 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 affected by dickens. a conflict fear it could be years before peace returns to easton. the asi hardwick other of the un secretary general has called for the safe return of people displaced by conflict in northeastern nigeria, antonio terrace visited a camp in warner state. if last stop in a regional tour of west africa, huck has more farm dot com on this visit he made,

he met with those that have been displaced by the ongoing violence in this a hell of region. he met with former fighters of book her many of them children. and he said there that this offered an example of how peace can be rebuilt. and that's the message that we saw throughout this visit. he is trying to draw attention to the region, mostly from. 3 donors, from international agencies, from rich countries. there's a real fear of the fall out of the crisis, or the conflict and ukraine in russia, and it's already playing out in the region. the price of sugar here in cynical, has doubled their shortage of gas and fuel. the price of fertilizer, and that's the key component in an area where there's drought and climate change. that is be becoming increasingly expensive for a population where both live on less than $2.00 a day. and that will have a fall out effect on people's ability to feed their family. 18000000 people

according to the un. my re need of urgent humanitarian help. and our risk of suffering from acute malnutrition, if this goes on. and the numbers that we're talking about could get even worse if something more is not done in order to help those people who need in this i held region on historic shift could be looming in the politics of northern ireland after elections on thursday. she fain, once the political wing of the re is poised to become the biggest part in the regions. ascending down the hall reports now would be a significant monster. she think. quest for united orland catholic or protestant unionists or nationalists, not much matters more in northern ireland than identity and the symbols of sectarian struggle to preserve it. thursday's 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 unit is boycott 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, its wants to see irish unification. so to have champagne is the largest party, the assembly in northern ireland. am bearing in mind that overnight it was created to maintain a unionist majority would be remarkably significant. dana murray is a young nationalist blow to born in 1998 when the good friday agreement brought an end to the troubles. he grew up on the streets that than those now bear the marks of violence and division. is hector, hotmail, hotmail, recently, last year on the road, just mcafee rule. so there is that element of distiller. i think you have to go with democracy. a child in this new assembly, if it is to be a nicest 1st minister, you know, lot, that nice assure will desire to go back there has going to take him and trust and work and dialogue, you know,

maybe not physically but metaphor. you pick. and during the war together, change appears close enough accelerated by the you case, 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 is known is knows 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 breaks it and the protocol of put at risk, the good friday agreement itself. so his, it says storm on his goal. yeah. effectively. agreement yet. i'm not, he used the monks name under surgeon. i mean you to mock 62000000. but i want my economy. we run from london not run 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 fight itself again in uncharted territory. jonah haul alto syrup, belfast. ah . this is aus is here, and these are the top stories the european union once it's 27 members to ban russian oil imports as part of its latest sanctions for ukraine's war hungry and slacker are resisting for the block once it done in stages. so governments have time to look for alternative supplies. we will make sure that we phase out russian oil in an orderly fashion.