celebrating the social and cultural importance of songs of the golf on al jazeera, a diverse range of stories from across the gland. from the perspective of on networks journalists on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm lauren taylor. this is the amazon news. our life from london coming up, russian forces try to storm the as of style still works in mar, you poll for 2nd day. with reports of a 3 day cease fire, so trap civilians can get out. and on the ground view of fighting in easton ukraine where soldiers on the front line come under relentless, russian bombardment,

u. s. federal reserve hikes interest rates. as americans face the highest inflation in 40 years facing a triple threat from extreme weather. the pandemic and war more people than ever struggling to find enough to eat. and in small re alma to her majesty's city go to extra time in their champions league semi final. they all say the dramatic may come back to level reply and add word aggregate at the burnable a close advisor to ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says russian troops of entered the territory of the as of style still works plant in mary, u po. david, erica, who is also a ukranian politician, said authority still had contact with the fighters hold up inside the complex. earlier, the more you paul mare said that contact had been lost. the reports of heavy

fighting that the facility which is under siege by russian forces in a phone call to you and chief antonio the terrors zelinski asked for help to save the lives of the injured people still in the plant. the russian military is quoted to saying it will cease all activities there from thursday to law for 3 days of humanitarian corridors. on tuesday, more than a 150 civilians made it from as hostile to the ukrainian control city was upper regia, acknowledged her. the battalion inside the seal works says they'll keep defending it. follow grania, by the way, but if you have news on rossimer, this mario poles, garrison for 70 days, has resisted the overwhelming forces of the inmate by itself. since the 25th of april, we have held a circular defense of the ever stole party. it is the 2nd day that enemy has broken through into the plant. there are heavy bloody battles. i am proud of my soldiers for the inhuman efforts to contain the onslaught up,

but i thank the whole world for its tremendous support of the mariel po garrison. our soldiers deserve and of the situation is extremely difficult, right? but we carry out the orders to keep defending, but despite everything within a gust, most of the ground fighting is taking place in eastern ukraine, which moscow has made a key target in its war. on tuesday 21 civilians were killed in donnette screech in one of the deadliest days there. so far, char stratford is with ukrainian troops in the east and set his report. black smoke rises from russian all control territory. we drive at high speed along what ukrainian soldiers cool the road of life towards the front line, which a war through the forests to the trenches. the sound of artillery punches through the air, washing falls is trying to evolve from the left and right flanks, but morale among the soldiers is high yard in the little leaf. when the war

started, i had a huge adrenalin rush and a search in anger. now, more anger of what the washington up in lucia, maria, pull. what they continue to do, and many other places will never be brothers. liskey scars from mortar tillery strikes. russian forces frequently target disposition that shelling that you can hear is coming over our heads from russian positions and hidden ukrainian positions around about 2 or 3 kilometers from here. this is what heavy artillery sounds like when it's fired over your head. that was just the show bloss through the crunch, just a hit explode. the soldiers of use british made anti tank missiles called in law's part of a multi $1000000000.00 military,

a package from ukraine's western partners. and there's an addition, but that unless we're grateful to western countries, helping us with weapons, because russia has much more than us, we can't hold them back without their help from afford observation points. soldiers tell us, russian forces are behind the wall. only a few 100 meters away and they are facing high tech weapons from above. those for my team could either get a reset or the jones help their artillery to hit oppositions. there are also weaponized version is that far, $3.00 to $4.00 times a day. they are difficult to shoot because they fly so high. my alina worked as a veterinarian before she signed up to fight the so many other then when the thing you see book, i have a child, she's 10 years old. i want her to have a peaceful sky over her head. that's why i'm here. i consciously decided to join and defend my country. boxes of explosives and ammunition,

the constant threat from above, the russian army trying to push forward under a blackening sky. charles stratford 0 eastern new grade. european union wants its 27 members to ban russian oil imports as part of its latest sanctions for the war and ukraine. the block is proposing to do it in stages to give government time to find alternative supplies. the e u is heavily dependent on russian energy, particularly when it comes to natural gas with 40 percent of its supplies from russia. that's why there are no plans to pose a blanket ban on gas for now. the russia also applies more than a quarter of the blocks crude oil, which the use aimed to banned by the end of the year. russia's biggest, you customer germany, had already said it was to be fully independent of russian oil. it reduced those imports to 12 percent and it remains a big consumer of russian gas and facing out supplies will be harder for countries like hungry,

which relies heavily on rushing gas and oil in austria and so vacuum also take large volumes of russian gas. don't cain reports from ballad? this is the gas from yes installation in hunting mencius from installations like these in siberia and across russia, crude oil, diesel and petrol. 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 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. bannon, all watching will seaborne and pipeline crude and refined. but in order for this to happen, it will need the support of all e u member states, and some a strongly resistant to all act embargoes by sally bad. give it. russell's anxious package would destroy the security of hunger energy. supply modulus like risk packaged in this form cannot response will be supported. as on one knee journeyed, the sanctions proposed in strasburg will also target several large russian banks and other financial institutions. the notable absentee from the list is russian natural gas. in a sense, it's the elephant to 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. bottom line, as you will probably not be able to replace rocky gas any time soon. we're talking about a $150000000.00 billing cubic meters of gas that russia says west that's coming

down at the moment. but we're still gonna face a shortage of, of quite a few bcm out there. the russian government condemned proposed in bog and said sanctions or a double edged weapon, which will also hurt europeans economic. 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. dominic cane al jazeera berlin, andre antique officer russian and political analyst. he thinks moscow can find other buyers outside europe. there could be any responses to the decision made by the u. e. u. on the outside the must go. ready will of course, find some other countries that are ready to import the rational oil. it just said that in days raise the chinese, right? yeah. the countries ready?

so i think what the european countries are doing, the shooting themselves, the leg because russian has provided around 30 percent of crude oil to the european countries. and i think i don't imagine nowhere or at what price. busy those countries would get oil from, from what countries may be the united states would provide the european countries with crude oil. but again, what will be the price. so no one can make these countries this person to buy. so russia will, just, as i mentioned. ready briefly we'll just try to find the other countries to import the oil i used to in days ready to buy. ready russian oil changes ready to buy. ready russian oil other countries are. ready by the russian oil asian country. so basically, so this is the decision made by

a european union. so we, you, of course, where we are, we look at this decision, but we also will take measures will take steps to prevent the economical effect to negative effect on the russian economy or hassle. so, russia's may, the 9th victory day parade has begun in moscow. the annual world war 2 commemoration has special significance this year because of the war and ukraine. fighter jets practice flying in these ed formations, used as a symbol of support for russian forces. a criminal dismiss room is that at times to declare war formerly on victory day coming up, what are they? are this news out of promising to ramp up its weapons program? north korea conducts its 14th missile tests this year with an island poise horn. historic political shift hotel is ready to install. a nationalist government for out is on the march 1st fixed title grid.

ah, the united states is raising its base interest rate by half a percentage point to try to reduce soaring inflation. the chair of the federal reserve, jerome pow, may denouncement. in the last hour, we have both the tools we need and the resolve that it will take to restore price stability. on behalf of american families and businesses, the economy in the country have been through a lot over the past 2 years and approved resilient. it is essential that we bring inflation down if we are to have a sustained period of strong labor market conditions that benefit all against this backdrop. today, the f o m c raised its policy interest rate by a half percentage point in anticipates that ongoing increases in target rate for the federal funds rate will be appropriate. she returns is my 1st in washington

champ, what effect will this have? so the psychological effects but, but practically, when we're talking about inflation, it's difficult to see what the federal reserve can actually do because the reasons behind inflation are so specific, the war and ukraine that you were just discussing. supply chain issues the pandemic . the chinese lock down the slack of affordable housing and corporate price gouging that we're seeing in, in, in energy sectors, food sectors, pharmaceutical sectors. these are all the reasons why inflation are so high, and these interest rate hikes aren't going to do much about those specific specific issues. but what this does signal is, even though this was the largest rate increase since 2000, it does show that there is a sense of moderation and the fed. and even though the mean are more half point basis points, you know, mike, my raises might be coming to because it means they're not listening to those on the right of the political spectrum and economics and colleagues who always want to start curbing inflation through high interest rates no matter the,

the economic and social cost, because this is a very blunt instrument. what we're talking about here is raising interest rates to make people's lives harder. so the don't spend more. so that means meaning that you're making more people unemployed, making people make it more difficult for you to borrow, making the job scarcity more important. because corporations and companies can't, can't get get the loans to, to, to hire more people. this could have devastating impacts on socially and internationally because when the u. s. central bank raises its rates for vegetables, central banks and other countries tend to right raise their rates and actually to enormous poverty in the developing world to he's not listening to those on the extreme inflation hawk side of things. they're saying like that, that am in a we're going to keep an eye on things, but we are taking it seriously at least. so that's actually good news, i think on the market. very happy about this. you know, ordinarily you'd expect the markets, the tank of isn't for interest rate hike, but that isn't the case. and progressive economists you say, all right, let's do that though. there's a good chance and we had this of the i'm a spring meetings just a few weeks ago that inflation may already have picked or may certainly peak by

next year. so we shouldn't do anything too crazy. because as we know from previous incidents where the federal reserve tries to tinker with the interest rate to curb inflation, it's often is not always, i think that's a global recession. so they have to be really careful. and lisa, that sense of moderation and what you're out, your empower saying, and, and what president biden have to say that they stated economy earlier? well this is a bit curious to because of the time when americans in the polls are saying, you know, they're having trouble making ends meet and they, they feel they're very pessimistic about the economy. he chose to talk about the budget deficit. it was like a straight out the, the 19 eighties and you know, that sort of right rings and to right wing clintonian sort of democratic party where it was all about budget deficits. therefore, shrinking social spending at which is actually kind of the opposite of biden came into office talking about when he came into office was all that spending money on increasing the social safety net spending money on infrastructure spending money on climate change, i mean a middle eas, could utterly failed in congress to actually get any was done. but he's talking

about budget deficits, which is actually something that would really appeal again to the right wing to, to budget deficit hawks, which is simply not something that americans are talking about. and actually when you look closely why the budget deficit is being reduced, it's not because he's increased taxation on on the very wealthy. i remember a trillion dollars of that deficit was from donald trump's tax cuts for the very wealthy. it's because they withdrawing a lot of the social spending that was put in place during the pandemic to help people, whether the pandemic, this isn't terribly progressive at all. so it was very curious and we'll have to see whether this kind of language continues into the election, where he just gone back into the straight clintonian right wing democratic playbook, to appeal to right wing folks and not necessarily the brig progressive base. shabba kennedy. thank you very much more people than ever before struggling to put food on the table with extreme weather violence and the pandemic to blame. so according to the un, which warns the global food process is set to reach appalling new levels because of

the war and ukraine. according to the u. s. 193000000 people in 53 countries, didn't have enough to eat last year. that 40000000 more from the year before. if you, if you met a gasket, south you done, and yemen are among the worst affected by more than half a 1000000 people are facing catastrophic conditions, including starvation and death. around 26000000 children under the age of 5, a malnourished and in need of urgent treatment. while food programs, rebecca richard says root causes of severe hunger and famine need to be addressed. these, most of these numbers is, as we've seen, also one of africa are in quite a small group of countries. and if we look at the causes, they're really around the combination of climate change, especially with the drought in one. but also conflict will say the economic repercussions prove it, and i have to say the ukraine crisis is going to make a rule, operate local food system, much,

much more fragile. we already see higher number of the cost of food. and so many of our countries, price hikes, the cost of oil, all of these effects accounts for supply chain and the ability to distribute food, to where it's mass need it. we need to also tackle what we're calling the root cause. it's why we there in the 1st place, the drought, they're requiring they're carrying the shooter time frame, but we know they're coming. we have the technology to know that we can predict them . we see it ahead of time. so what is the preemptive action is needed to really change these numbers. what are the solutions needed? so that needs to be, tackle is a longer time frame. as one of the short, an immediate response is needed to save lives. we also need to be looking at resilience of populations and, and their longer term resistance to these shops. we need to come together as a global community. so that coordination and ability to plan together and to look long term is absolutely essential. the horn of africa suffering its worst drought

and decades. the un says millions are at risk of starvation, and entire communities are being displaced into monahan as well. this used to be fertile, grazing land. now it just drives 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 watch 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 the progress of the hits but, but, but it's a controlled. so it's miss, you know,

make them possible for them to recover quickly from the previous previous in 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 mothers who because of they are not fed getting any food. they had no police. and if in a food for children or in a feed, feeding for children, scientists are linking the crisis to climate change. drugs 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. than to monahan al jazeera, any 30 people died in a gun battle between african union peacekeepers and the above group in somalia. 10

soldiers, all from burgundy, were killed and 25 others wounded. in the attack on the army base near the village of sober off. at least 20 of the attackers died when the african union sent in helicopter gun ships. chavez, linked to al qaeda and has been fighting with smaller government for more than a decade. the use extra general is called for the safe return of people displaced by conflict in northeast and nigeria. and tony gutierrez, she visited a camp and bono state his last stop on a 5 day regional tour of west africa, a decade of fighting between the government and the on group. booker, her arm as left was 40000 people dead. nicholas hoc reports fin, nigeria bore no state. the un secretary general received the a rockstars welcome from hundreds of displaced people. they fled attacks from the arm group book on her arm off camera. he spoke with former books, her fighters, many of them teenagers. they haven't only down their arms as part of

a rehabilitation program. feel strongly for the international community to understand butterball as a state of hope to support the mediterranean action in ball myschoolbucks could rise their novice challenges at the bottom of faces with climate change would still active. and don't invest in the bottom of hope. gutierrez met nigeria as president mohammed you hurry, to discuss the fall out of the ukraine, russia conflict, the un estimates a quarter of a 1000000000 people could fall into extreme poverty by the end of the year. many of them in africa, prices of basic goods are rocketing governments in the region, fear a looming food and energy crisis. capital over the attention is focused on the unfortunate situation in ukraine. we in this region already the world

is for getting a low test. the i can be sure that the wired it with us will confront to extreme is terrorist organizations, hunger and enormous problems with millions of displaced people that this can for to vivid earlier good terrorist was in the share where he met maryan refugees fleeing attack from arm groups linked to iso and al qaeda incent ago, he discussed with the chair of the african union president, mikey saw the ways to unlock the funds to tackle climate change drought. an extreme weather is fueling conflict in the style during his visit. he also sought to draw attention to the people of west africa, who he says are too often forgotten in the face of growing instability. and looming crisis. nicholas hawk al jazeera,

juniors coast guard has recovered 24 more bodies from full boats sank of its coast 11 days ago. i mean 67 people are now confirmed dead from the accident. dozens of people were rescued after trying to make the dangerous journey to italy last month . but move a 50th, still missing tens of thousands of refugees and migrants attempt to cross the mediterranean from north africa to southern europe in the full boats every year. north korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea of japan in the latest in a series of missile tests this year, both south korea and japan say the missile was fired eastwards from sue. nun just north of the capital f young and south korean military attracted for 470 kilometers before it came down in the c. it's oscar is 14th known miss our launch this year. japan says it's yet another provocation or not. that's often noted a cooker miss, i don't careers of recent remarkable development of nuclear. nissan related

technologies is not only unacceptable for the security of japan and the region, but not korea's flu 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 we'll continue to work to fund a mentally strengthen our defense capabilities. young has escalate his weapons tests in recent months. it's already conducted more than a dozen since the beginning of this year. in 2021. it conducted 8. and 2020. there were only 4. among this years tess was north. korea's 1st intercontinental ballistic missile launch says 2017. breaking a self imposed moratorium on long range testing. and just last, we need

a kim don't promise to ramp up the development of nuclear arms during a massive military parade. mocking the 90th anniversary of north korea's forces public brian has more from south korea's capital. so 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. well, we don't know exactly at this stage. what type of missile this was interesting that 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 jungle and the north korean leader. vowing to speed up the development of his nuclear arsenal. still to come on out there, this news at a summit of the americas without 3 american nations. speak exclusively to cuba as

deputy foreign minister. after havana is excluded from the upcoming meeting. living in harmony in a single world city of 10000000000 people and have several imaginative ideas to save the planet on displaying london and honoring us as athletes. whitehouse state . the heroes of take you in beijing. ah hello. the weather is looking a good deal dryer. brighter and warmer for eastern parts of spain over the next couple of days. still some live the showers around at western side of the mediterranean for now, but they will garage you just not to weigh a little further eastward. so a little bit sherry up towards the north west recently as well. typically on wednesday, those sundry samples. now the process of easing out the way,

not to part across central parts. we can see this little light of showers central airs if you and i think that's gonna be the dominant feature as we go on through the next day or so. so some big showers coming in to southern parts of france around switzerland, easing over towards austria. and poland ahead of us where we seem, wet weather, pulling away from that western side of russia. brightest guys, come back in behind ukraine, looking to keep it around 14 celsius in the sunshine. 17 celsius here by friday, would see that when we're still looking around central parts, the showers continuing and centralized of the mediterranean. now seeing some of that wet weather setting in as we go on towards the weekend. but from march of spain and portugal, as you can see, the sun's out and it's warming up nicely at long last, but to dry and sunny across northern parts of algeria, we still have some showers in play here, cooler as well. meanwhile, seasonal rates for west africa, ah,

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no news ah, ah, one of the top stories al jazeera, a close advisor to ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, says russian troops have entered the territory of the as of style. steel works plant in mar, you pulled, rushes military says it will cease activities at o'clock for 3 days from thursday to allow civilians to levi humanitarian corridors. united states is raising its base interest rate by half a percentage point to try to reduce soaring inflation. republicans of accused us president joe biden, not doing off to purging prices with the un says more people than ever before

struggling to feed themselves with extreme with violence and the pandemic. to blame you. c. o p, madagascar, faster don, and yemen are among the worst affected. with more than half a 1000000 people pacing catastrophic condition ahead of the world. health organization says access to safe abortions is crucial to saving lives. to address issues made the comment underneath the document suggested the u. s. supreme court could reverse the countries. landmark abortion law. president joe biden has called a women's right to an abortion. fundamental is, administration says it could move to expand access to emergency contraception. in the event that rosy wage is overturned, practical high, and has been outside the supreme court in washington, where both pro and anti abortion rights demonstrations have been taking place. she explains what happens next. well, what happens is pretty much what we're seeing here today and to get all the way. so that's talk for can show you. so this is pretty much been the scene all day about 3

to 4, doesn't pro abortion rights activists here, champion in front of the supreme court. earlier in the day we saw a much smaller group of anti abortion rights activists. they came and they sort of started shouting at each other. we saw police quickly move in and i want to point out security here is incredibly tight. this street behind me used to be accessible for cars, but now on both sides of the dump truck blocking the road. because this is going to continue to be a controversial issue in till the decision comes out. remember this draft, this leach draft that they've confirmed is in fact just a draft justices are allowed to and often do change their minds between a draft and the final decision. so expect to see protest this one is much smaller than yesterday. pretty much leading up to the final decision which we expected late june, early july renisha as a conservative political adviser and founder of relax strategies, joins me by skype from washington. d. c. we had patty mentioned the mid term

elections. it was, there'll be some kind of inquiry into how the league happened, but, but who stands to benefit most from it. the democrats will or the republicans will, at this very moment in time. i think both sides can make a play for why this could benefit them. at this point also, what we should know is that democrats really have not one for the juggler in the era of trump. and i say that having sat on the other side of my career on the right, and i have supported some different kinds of cross party lives in recent elections to vote for democrats and i believe will hold certain values. now of course, we know that the mid terms are this litmus test that we need to have here in the united states in order for voters to feel something about the way things are going this country with the economy and inflation being what it is. it is a moment where we can say that maybe this is exactly what the democrats need and that they will rise to the case and, and fight back in a way that's meaningful and perhaps mobilizes or voters to do the right thing,

which is essentially to shut down the republican majority, and that is saying that it's going to rise again and that it's going to uphold the sanctity of life. i have no guarantee. and i think many voters, despite been conservative for many years, have any assurance that this republican party will do that. oh, no 11 recent poll from the pew research and it's just people disapprove of the supreme court being politicized. is there danger that this decision, if, if it goes the way the leak suggests, actually makes people lose faith in one of the key institutions in the country? well, i'm going to date my hears myself here for a moment. i'm, i'm an elder, millennial, somebody born after 980. and i say that because in my lifetime, there has been a sent in an understanding that the supreme court is free of is really any of the politicization that that touches our other branches. but what i'd seen over time is this

a real sense that the core is actually filled and becoming more filled with activist judges. and, and that's on both sides. i think anybody can make the argument for either side there, but also that congress and, and that's where i've made my career on the right in, in helping to congressional members that were social conservatives. i was an aide to them in the early 2000 into the mid to thousands. and i can say that congress is really abdicated duty to be a check on the other branches of government. so if you, if i'm looking at this as somebody that's really going to the next era my life approaching my 40 soon, i will say that i'm disappointed in really how the supreme court has acted in recent years, the judge, individual justices. and with this leak, many of us don't know what to think. it's a scary, scary moment for how the court continues from here forward in our trust in the institution as well. what about the idea that some states might sort of move to make their own decisions about this? um, we had given the news from uh, california saying that he would, you know,

promising he would protect the rights to abortion and saying, you know, don't think that this person, this is where it's going to stop. pay attention america. they're coming few next. if it different states do either or the go, you know, the way to banning abortion or protecting it. how does that affect kind of political parties, a bit of rooted to make decisions on, on big issues if it ends up being a sort of state by state mish mash? well, that's a complexity here as well. and, and to my previous point, i will say i'd seen also the supreme court just really kicked the ball to the states over and over again. our system here in the united states can makes it all very complex. i am born and raised in the state of west virginia, for example, a very red state. when i was growing up, it was quite purple. we voted blue statewide elections. but red presidential now it's pretty much all red. so west virginia would be one of the states that would actually buy laws. it has on the books, could really implement ban on that portion right away. depending on what happens with ro, if we're, are viewership,

anybody's interested in seeing some great stats on the, on what the states could do on what particular states would do. and there's a patchwork across the country. there's not one particular area of the country that's going to do one certain thing. if, if and when ro is overturned, i would, i encourage you to go check out some of the data by the government, the institute, and, and see what exactly the states could do because it's really going to be different for each american woman based on the state she's living in our, on what her access to reproductive rights, and we're reproductive right sadly. and what abortion care could look like we nisha . thank you very much. data for your thoughts from subject. thank you. the chinese capital beijing has closed dozens of subway stations and suspended many bus routes . it's attempts to stop covered, non teen spreading through. the city fencing has been put off around buildings in neighborhoods where infections, highest schools and jims already closed. and restaurants only allowed to serve

takeaways, millions of people are being tested. raging situ authorities want to avoid the type of full lockdown as caused major disruption in shanghai, or border katrina, you has more from her appointment in beijing. well, things are extremely intense. i think every day, aging residence wake up, and if there is another city wide, looked down announced people are very thankful to trying to make the most of their ability to go out tools. but with the kind 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 like in numbers. but what authorities are doing is feeling off neighborhoods in a very targeted way. so if you will, are fortunately in a pass of the city which is affected by cases, for example, in china and district, the eastern part of the city where i am located, then you will be locked down while the rest of the city is still has still relative

freedom now being is that the only city to announce the measures there's another city job job central china, home to 12000000 people that are now similar measures today, wednesday. and also, if you look at shanghai, china, commercial center, the most populous a city in china, further down south that remains mostly under lockdown. the 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 lockdown and lifted. so the majority of the 25000000 people living in shanghai pain couldn't find to that compound, or even their apartments. the u. s, as it will exclude cuba, venezuela and nicaragua, from the upcoming summit of the americas because they do not meet the necessary democratic standards it but to washington at odds with its latin american and caribbean neighbors. add to the summit, which is due to be held in los angeles or latin america,

added to lucy newman spoke exclusively to cuba as deputy foreign minister. kara's fernandez to cost you to get have hours. reaction. as the name implies, the summit of the americas is the only venue were leaders of north central and south america gathered to confront pressing problems. this year the theme is migration, but the host president joe biden has unilaterally decided to exclude 3 countries, including cuba. by o, thank you. thank you for. i met cooper's deputy foreign minister, godless, fernandez, the ga seal of annas point man for us affairs, to talk about the implications of washington's controversial decision. or we have said that a saw me that excludes some countries of the region. it's an excuse is our summit, but if you're going to have the summit, you're going to spend money on it. if you're going to go to the trouble of convening, heads of state and government, it would be to discuss the difficult problems that we have in our region,

which are difficult. some of them are controversial and for the summit to be successful. the useful thing to do, and the fair opportunity would be to have everybody in have everybody put forward their points of view, even if you don't like that, as we all know at cuba is undergoing a huge exodus of its citizens right now, the largest since the 1980s, actually, why do you think that is one of the basic reasons that is pushing migration is people saw that the policy of the biding government is exactly the policy that from government, which is maximum pressure toward cuba. the policy of the u. s. against cuba, in economic turns to date, is nothing short of criminal. it's a criminal policy to punish the livelihoods of people. while i've heard i asked the man mystical seal, if, as a gesture to the biden administration, the head of the summit, havana might grant an amnesty to protest his sentence, the harsh prison sentences for taking part in last year's anti government protest.

why would cuba have to make concessions for us to stop applying a policy that is criminal? and that is clearly unfair. what would you say to president biden if you had him on the phone right now, about the fact that he doesn't want to invite cuba to the summit of the americas when that was one of the things that the vast majority of the countries of the region fought for, for so many years. i doubt that he would speak with me. but i would say that if you're going to call it a summit, you could call it a summit of a part of the america. but you cannot collie some of the americas if you exclude some. you should not fear having frank dialog, even when there are differences. and there are differences in the region. and there are problems in many problems are regions of the countries need to talk about the countries the region are claiming that'd be an inclusive summit. and that cuba being put the u. s. should pay attention to it. northern ireland faces

a landmark election on thursday with champagne, poised to become the biggest party for the 1st time. when fishing fame would install a government in belfast, it wants to break away from the u. k. jenna, how report? catholic, 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 unionist boy called 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 invocation. so to have champagne, the largest party, the assembly in northern ireland, and bearing in mind that over 90 was created to maintain

a union 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 misplaced the rules. so there is element of distiller. i think you have to go to mark, see a child in this new assembly. if it is to be a nicest 1st minister, you know, let that nice assured desire to go back there. he's going to take him and trust and work and dialogue, you know, maybe not physically, but metaphor. you pick and turn the wall together. change appears closer. now 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 it's known, is moved by the 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 breck sit and the protocol of put at risk, the good friday agreement itself saying that this storm is gone, effectively decided yet. i'm not. he used amongst 900. so, i mean, it's more 63000000, but i want my 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

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with whole away official and on the journey. ah ah. as part, everything that's going on in the world, most scientists believe the biggest single long term threat to our future is climate change. raising awareness of why we need to change is vital. and that's the

point of a new exhibition opening this week in london. our time on earth focuses on how we can live in harmony with nature. jessica baldwin went to long to have a look. the at 65 meters. this k puck tree grows in the colombian, amazon rain, forest visitors pier through the layers into the trees inner system. see the oxygen released into the air, the nutrients coursing through the structure. a dining table set for 14, including a b, a bird, and a snake. a mushroom sits at one end, the human at the other. all species are equally important to the earth survival by hopefully presenting a story of. wow, isn't this incredible to be living within this living planet? it can therefore, hopefully engage on slightly more emotional levels. and therefore,

develop that sense of m b rather than shame and paralysis. each flash of belief marks 128 square meters. a brazilian rain forest destroyed. so we're looking at winter winter bring to life the 1st station that's happening right now in the amazon rain forest. so when kofi began, there was a 71 percent increase in the for station, and nobody is there to watch. so i made a piece that disappears at the rate of the deforestation, and everybody can watch what's actually happening right now in the amazon futurists imagine re wilding in our cities, trees taking over roads, or even just one city on earth with 10000000000 inhabitants. as well as raising awareness and futurists predicting what our planet will look like in decades. the exhibition also includes real life, current solutions aim just stopping the destruction using rice,

terrorist irrigation in an urban environment. clothes made from micro seaweed or mushrooms. visitors are challenged to connect with nature to consider the soil trees plan, other species. despite hard data warnings from the un and scientists, there has been limited action, could be imaginative, collaborative show by artists, and designers from around the world. help in some small way to spark a reaction for people to make the changes needed to help save the planet. jessica baldwin al jazeera london. so nice here now with his foot. thank you very much. learn already on madrid will play liverpool in the champions league. fine off to coming through a dramatic 2nd leg of their sammy with manchester, city, or city, lead all 3 on the 1st much and look to be heading through and re on my head

extended. their advantage would be opening go with 17 minutes ago, and came the drama re l. a gave themselves hope. when substitute rodrigo scored in the mind, teeth that minutes and in the 1st minute of injury time, he's had made it to one on the night 5 all on aggregate home car, the ruptured and the match would go to extra time g m to it, then moved in front for the 1st time in the tie, one can embed zoom out was found by ruben diaz penalty given and converted by this season's top score. and that's the way of finished the at the end of extra time, real madrid going through to the final, after $65.00 went across the 2 legs another great night for the players who celebrated winning the spanish leave title. on saturday, they had to paris to play liverpool in the champions league final, on the 28th of main spanish legal player, santi mena, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison after being found guilty of sexual abuse.

you strike. i was suspended by his clubs, felt if he go on wednesday he appeared in court and marched over the case which relates to an incident in 2017. he now has $26.00, says that he will appeal the verdict off on a dollar made an impressive start to as he targets a 6 title at the madrid masters, his opening match of the torment was against therapy as a mere me ever mine of which the doubt made light work of it, winning 6176. so faced david, go far as i can see, the alexander's wherever it came from a sat down to beat form, a grand slam when m. r. until it in the 2nd round match. the german took the decided sick game in the women's competition in his in o's job or is through to the semi finals off to getting pos simona highly. she dropped to just 5 games against the former world, number one. and it means that there will be a new champion and madrid with no pass winners left in the troll. except for job or

is a russian qualifier. it kathy in alexandra all of us. yep. says amanda. and he said more of our winning in straight sets a little that is only the 3rd russian woman to reach the semi finals at this form and full well, number one, lee westwood. the is the latest blair to confirm is requested the release from the established world golf tours to play in the 1st event of the new saudi back to live series e prize funder for the 48 platform and to end the u. k. in june is $20000000.00. the brit joins 6th time major winner, phil mickelson in making the move. it's reported 15 of the world's top. 100 plays have signed up. the pga tour had said it will hand out bands to those who joined the breakaway series. i have no, no influence over the way they. they think i, you know,

i'm an independent contractor that you know, i work for myself. it's my job. and i have to do what's right for me. while we play european t o events in saudi arabia, we've about releases from the p j till i'm saying that i can go on playing saudi arabia. so it's, it's been no problem to them. in previous years. was it on the team you i say at ease, who are guests of honor at the white house on wednesday president joe biden. and 1st lady jill by then the how the reception to thank those to had represented the country at the olympics and paralympics in both tokyo and beijing, he president said their performances has inspired the americans that are doing some difficult time athletes all across america, all kinds of backgrounds, including 18 red flags of the united states armed forces for her. oh.

more than 260 miles across a dozen sports wearing a 1000000 pounds to run romance movie feel important for a 2nd. in the 8 pails, boston are back on level terms with me walk, he bucks in the eastern conference at semi finals after losing the opening game against the defending champions. the celtics had their 2 main stars, the liver and game 2 on tuesday. i want you jaylen brown high, the game high, 30 points while jason tatum and the 29. you all sing winning this 106th 18. 93 to women in the western conference mantle squared. their series with golden estate grabbing a 5 point victory game to grizzlies were led to by john miranda, who food $47.00 points is only the 3rd plan and being free to have multiple $45.00 point again in details that before the age of 23, the other 2 are deems the bron james and coby brian. finally, the argentina shirt worn by diego mariano when he scored his infamous hand of god

goal and in 1986 woke up against england has sold for record $9000000.00 at auction . it is the highest price ever paid for a single piece of sports memorabilia. wal mart done a swapp church with england player steve hard to at the end of the game. it has been on displaying football museums of for the last 36 years. my donna who died in 2020 lead argentina to walk up victory at the torment in mexico after winning the controversial match with england in the quarter finals. and that's always bought for me and you back to lauren in london. so thank you very much. in a quick reminder, you can always catch up with the sport and or news on our website. the rest of that is amazon dot com. and you can watch us live on that. okay. can only black live like on the top right hand corner. that's it for me on tony for snoozer. i'm back

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