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a city who's ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has all the un secretary general to help save the lives of ukrainians, trapped at a steel plant. in mario poll, russian troops have reportedly entered the as of style steelworks facility way ukrainians. soldiers and civilians are inside. on tuesday, more than a $150.00 civilians were evacuated, the russian military is quoted as saying it will seize all military activities that from thursday to allow for 3 days of humanitarian corridors, or addressing ukrainians. lensky explained his appeal to you in chief. oh, it is showing isn't really sick. today i spoke to you and secretary general antonio gutierrez and we discussed what we have already achieved and what is still necessary to do to save mary paul and the defenders of mary a whole city. there is not a single day that i and my team wouldn't do this and i'm grateful to everybody who

helps. yeah, just follow grenier, valuable. if you have news on literacy, mario poles, garrison for 70 days, has resisted the overwhelming forces of the enemy by itself. since the 25th of april, we have held a circular defense of the ever stole part. it is the 2nd day the enemy has broken through into the plant. there are heavy, bloody battles i. i am proud of my soldiers for the inhuman efforts to contain the onslaught i've been up if i thank the whole world for its tremendous support of the mario poor garrison. our soldiers deserve and about the situation is extremely difficult about we carry out the orders to keep defending despite everything going along. and most of the ground fighting is taking place in easton ukraine, which moscow has made a key target in its war. on tuesday $21.00 civilians were killed in the done yet screech, and one of the deadliest days there. so far, chance traffic is with the ukrainian troops in the east. he sent us this report.

black smoke rises from russian army control territory. we drive at high speed along what ukrainian soldiers call the road of life towards the front line. it's a walk through the forests to the trenches, the sound of artillery punches through the air, wash and fall. she is trying to advance from the left and right flanks, but morale among the soldiers is high yard in the loop 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 variable, and what they continue to do. many other places will never be brothers looking scars from mortar at all. tillery strikes russian forces frequently target disposition, that shelling that you can hear is coming over our heads from russian positions and

hitting 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 the was just the shell blush through the the crunch, just a hit explode. the soldiers of used british made anti tank missiles called in law's part of a multi $1000000000.00 military, a package from ukraine's western partners does in addition. but that unless we are grateful to western countries for helping us with weapons, because russia has much more than us. we can't hold them back without the help. from a forward observation point, soldiers tell us, russian forces are behind the wall. only a few 100 meters away. they are facing high tech weapons from above. those for might him, could he not a good accuser or the drones help their artillery to hit or positions?

there are also weaponized version was that far at so 3 to 4 times a day. they are difficult to shoot because they fly. so high on my alida worked as a veterinarian before she signed up to fight her mother is home. and the other thing we did, the thing is hymn 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 up and defend my country. boxes of explosives of ammunition, the constant threat from above. the russian army trying to push forward under a blackening sky. charles stafford al jazeera, eastern new grade. the european union once it's $27.00 members to bomb russian oil imports as part of his latest sanctions on the warning crane block. once it's done in stages, to give government's time to lead full tentative supplies. several countries are

pushing for exemptions from any embargo. dominic cane 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 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 russian 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 was so anxious package would destroy the security of hungry energy supply. while you're like this, the package in this form cannot responsibly be supported of homeowners, ninja need. 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 the proposed embargo and said sanctions are a double edged weapon, which will also hurt europeans economically. 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. alexander le is the president of energy intelligence. he says, countries like hungry will find it particularly hard to win themselves off russian energy. i think it's important to point out that this span on russian oil has been in the works for a while. so i think the european union started its head around it. i think the important thing to note here is the ban on russian crude oil. which of these are the barrels are taken out of the grounds and sent over to refineries. that's

a lot easier to deal with than than russian crew products which is much more difficult. and just illustrate that if you look at the figures for april, the amount of rushing crude oil important into the european union is down some 40 percent from 2021. and if you look at russian crude products, so we're talking about easel, gasoline, etc. that's actually up from 2021. so that kind of illustrates the issue here. and i think shows why european is saying it's going to be phase out. the products we face up by the end of this year. and the crude is gonna be much quicker. and so with the vacuum hungry you've already starting to see question saying they won the exemption to this if it actually goes through. but let's not forget germany is also, you know, the european union's biggest economy account for about a started it's imports from, from russia. so it was a pretty monumental job replacing russian oil in its economy as well. so i think

we're going to see very closely whether this big announcement today actually creates, you know, entity throughout the group. and it, it very well may not. and let's see if the solutions are now the united nation says a warn ukraine is adding to what a cause. a perfect storm effect is that in making hunger was globally a joint report from the un, the european union. and the world food program says that a 193000000 people in more than 50 countries didn't have enough to eat last year. that is $14000000.00 more than the year before. it's jo pierre, not a gas gas out see don and yemen are among the worst affected wet 570000000 people are facing severe conditions as around 26000000 children under the age of 5 or malnourished and in need of medical care. fenton monahan reports

this used to be for towel, 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 wash their livelihoods disappear beneath the sand, will come hide it. 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 we're struggling decades is 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 missing, you know, it, make them impossible for them to, to recover quickly from the previous previous, you know shocks of 20000000 people are on the brink of starvation. many have been

displaced and forced to settling caps, 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 the i know said he was getting and food dad, not believing. and if in a food for children or in a fit for feeding for children, scientists are linking the crisis to climate change. droughts like this, used to happen once every 6 years. now they're 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 says he, people have been killed during an attack by the also bob armed groupon, african union peacekeepers in somalia. it happened on cheese day at the alber off army base in the middle shibel region, 10 soldiers from burgundy, and at least 20 al shabani faces are among the dead many more winded. so ahead

all out is area where nigeria is northeast and province where the un, sexy general comes face to face with former banker around ah hello, he have another round of stormy weather developing across the great plains. you asked. we got to another merrier cloud, just sliding off the rockies. hilary of low pressure here, latest feature that's now in the process of pulling away from the eastern seaboard . now to the south of our weather system, we're pulling up some very warm moist air out of the gulf of mexico as typical. and we got cooler at just rolling off the rockies and where those 2 mate. that's where we gonna see that developing area fly pressure. bring some really big foundry down . pause in the possibility of some tornadoes. large hail stretching all the way

from texas, louisiana, right up into the great lakes. they're literally seeing some very wet weather then which will slowly but surely continue to make its way further east was running across the appalachians towards the northeast corner. as we go on 3, friday, back up towards the north west. there's another system just coming in here as well, some wet weather, and so winfrey, weather was sandy. see some snow coming in across the cask. a south of that. it stays hot. it stays dry. the fire risk remaining elevated, the hot, dry weather, stretching down across a good part of mexico. we have got some big showers once again across central america. still some big showers there around the greater entities. but looking fine and try for the knots. ah, from the front lines al jazeera correspondence continue to report every angle of the war in crane. we've been given access to dispassion units, making sure there's no threats behind those front lines. there's almost new,

complete destruction of fighting back a russian assault, holding background forces. the scale of destruction is just now being revealed as we arrived at be calliah. there was panic. a russian war played is suspected of being close by. stay with al jazeera for the latest developments. lou ah, you're watching al jazeera mind. if our top story says, our ukraine's president has asked the un secretary general to help save ukrainians trapped at the as of south steel plant, malleable russian troops ever push the enter. the facility where ukrainian soldiers

and civilians hold it up inside. european union has urged member states to bond russian, oil imports as policies, latest sanctions related to the weak, right? the block once it's done in stages, but several countries are pushing back and pulls in the u. s. show rising inflation is now the number one concern for most americans. and in response to federal reserve raised a key interest rate i half a percentage point it hopes the move will reduce demand and lower inflation. it is the biggest hike in 20 years. gabriel alexandra is more from washington dc for we can do a good a business is good at his beloved food truck. he calls tamales a packet pueblo but when he needs to restock the truck's refrigerator with ingredients he had to, his local market, realizes everything has gone up in price by a lot, $6.00 for this. before you could get it for $299.00, double in price,

even the oil he uses to cook with instead of being $40.00. now we pay for 2 because he was not alone. millions of americans are struggling to get by with inflation reaching the highest levels in decades. which is why there are reserved chair, jerome pow announced wednesday and aggressive interest rate hike of half a percentage point. we understand the hardship it is causing, and we're moving expeditiously to bring it back down. the u. s. benchmark or target inflation rate is about 2 percent. he rate at which the fed believes a normal healthy economy can function without too much strain on consumers. in march, 2019 before any one had heard of corporate 19, the u. s. economy was humming along inflation was at 1.9 percent. basic interest rates were also low. but then march 2020 hit. and so to do the pandemic,

the u. s. economy began to shut down. the federal reserve slashed interest rates to near 0 to keep the economy from total collapse. it worked. but since then, supply chains have become clogged while consumer demand has increased, along with energy costs, with russia's war and ukraine. goods and services have become more expensive. inflation kept creeping up last year and has been over 6 percent for 6 straight months. it's now at a 40 year high. so interest rates are going up to put the brakes on an overheating economy. left unchecked, inflation can to an unsustainable cycle of prey sykes that directly affect consumers and business owners. just like ricardo the food truck owner, have a business run in a family to support hey, you know, to raise the price is one. unfortunately, i don't have a way around it. the government hoping this latest interest rate hike will provide

the economy with what the fed calls a soft landing for millions of americans. gabriel sandow, i'll just say to washington, let's get more or less. we can speak to. she returns who's lying for us in washington dc. good to see you. she up. so what effect will this, right? hi. hi cap on real people. it will, does that make life more difficult? this is an incredibly blunt instrument that is being used, which is much favored by the right wing of economics and politics, who always the inflation is that the biggest scourge of any economy? so they always say, look, we have to do whatever we can to bring inflation down. so that's why what inflation interest rate cut does is make people's life more difficult and makes more difficult for them to pay their rent to, to, to pay their credit card bills. it might increase or unemployment is as companies can't expand and, and get loans. the point is, you know, what we,

what we're trying to do to bring inflation down is to, to restrict demand. so people when spend so much, the problem in this context is, it's pretty clear and the federal reserve is pretty clear about the, the spring meetings. if you weeks ago are pretty clear, most economists have not done that. you can also stream, right? are you suggesting this is more of a structural issue? that the reason why we have inflation right now is because of very specific issues, the war and ukraine, the pandemic supply chain issues locked downs in china, lack of affordable housing, corporate price, gouging from energy companies and pharmaceutical companies, food companies, airlines and so on. as almost the fed can do about that, there's not much that this interest rate rise will do about any of that. joe biden could do stuff about that, but, but the fed, the fed really cut, but it seems they what, what drove out is saying, and he's trying to assuage both sides of the debate, is like, i understand i'm taking inflation very seriously. but i'm not going to go completely crazy. i'm going to be relatively moderates in my, in my, in my interest rate hikes. and in fact, actually

a lot of the projects is we have inflation is stabilizing, could peak next year. i will, the last thing anyone once is for the fed drug so aggressively that they create a global recession, which is actually what has happened in the past when the federal reserve stops tinkering with interest rates. okay, thank you for that. she had for tansy that 1st live in washington dc. now the world health organization chief has worn to access to safe abortions is crucial to saving lives. if statement follows the leaking of a document suggesting the u. s. supreme court may soon reverse a landmark abortion burling draft opinion as false pro, an anti abortion white demonstrations all across america. passing oh hey, has been outside the supreme court in washington where rival rallies have been taking place? well, what happens is pretty much what we've seen here today and to get all the way so that we can show you. so this is pretty much been the scene all day about 3 to 4

dozen pro abortion rights activists here chanted 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 district 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 leak 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. let's get more in this. joining law from austin, texas is jo pointman, the executive director at texas alliance for life. thank you for joining the

program. what's your view of the draft decision and of the reaction to it? among the democrats, we like everyone else is surprised that this draft was meat of the opinion itself. the draft opinion is has it's very helpful. it completely overturn roe vs wade in a way by show that showing that row was not defensible in the history of this nation in our culture. and certainly not in our laws or constitution. but what happens between now and the time that this decision is actually released? we don't know. so we're going to be waiting like everyone else. this is a uniquely divisive issue in the united states. why is that? i think is a misperception on the side of people who support abortion rights, that abortion is needed for women to advance of society. and yet that's just not

the case. abortion they, abortion rate in texas and, and nations has been steep decline over the last 2 decades. i mean, it's really dropped enormously and yet women continue to advance in society, in government, in, in the law, in education, just throughout society and income, income, or earnings. so abortion obviously is not needed for, for women to advance in society. so there's a perception that abortion is needed, but really the fact that it's not well upon us as the draw furling, say that it opens the way to much both the changes in u. s. society like abolishing same sex marriage, for example, pat fever bands and contraception. how do you respond? today's consent? the dread addresses that ins just as sam, a leader who wrote the draft, makes it very clear that the reasoning use in this only applies to abortion and would not apply to any other issues, like

a marriage contraception and any other social issues. if this, this, what the supreme court does in this draft, and of course what they do when they finally release or decision isn't that may be another matter. we don't not. but it's very clear that they are only addressing the abortion issue, which was so egregiously decided 50 years ago. now if the u. s. ends up at an end, it's possible if this draft goes through with vastly different abortion laws from state to state guessing, and abortion will become a massive living in the right states. and oh, having the time in the money to travel somewhere else. do you think that's fat or just well as the way united states is structured, 50 states, that's 50 sets of wasn't, and that's part of what makes maybe perhaps a united states different from some places. but for even in the u there, each nation has many different was. but really,

what we have to realize is each state also, especially those states that intend to pass laws that protect unborn babies from what we call the tragedy of abortion. many of those states at texas i think is a very good example, have gone to great lengths to provide compassionate alternatives to worship, and that will continue to do so. for example, at the same time the texas legislature passed the law that was last year, 2021 to completely protect unborn babies in from abortion in the event that. ready return the legislature also appropriated 100000000 dollars over 2 years to provide all the services that women need to successfully carry their babies to term give birth to the babies or place those babies for adoption. and those services continue for 3 years after the birth of the child. i got thank you for your time, jo appointment, executive director at texas alliance for life. thank you. the uncertainty

general has cold for the safe return of people displaced by conflict. in northeastern nigeria, antonio terrace visited a camp and borne estate. his last stop on the 5 day regional tool of west africa. a decade of war between the government and the armed group, oak, a rom, has killed more than 40000 people. nicholas hackable in nigeria is born oh state. the un secretary general receives the a rockstars welcome from hundreds of displaced people. they fled attacks from the arm group book of her on off camera. he spoke with former book or herm fighters, many of them teenagers, they have now lay down their arms as part of a rehabilitation program, a few strongly international community to understand bordeaux as a state of ho to support united. 30, an action you borrow must be recognised. the enormous challenge that is born will faces with climate change, which you will wanna active even the wings and to invest in the

bartow gutierrez met nigeria as president mohammed you bo hurry to discuss the fall out of the ukraine. russia conflict the you and 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. when they enter willowwood attention is focused on the unfortunate situation in ukraine. we in this region, i didn't already that the world is for getting our address. there can be no greater assurance that the world is with us. and we confront extremely terrorist organizations, hunger and the enormous problems of dealing with millions of displeased people that this computer visit earlier. gutierrez was in asia where he met malia refugees

fleeing attacks from arm groups lead to iso and al qaeda. in senegal, he discussed with the chair of the african union president mikey sol, ways to unlock the funds to tackle climate change. drought and extreme weather is fueling conflict imbecile during his visit, he also sought to draw attention to the people of west africa, who he says for too often forgotten in the face of growing instability. in looming crisis, nicholas hawk al jazeera, a little bit of smart sport, nice. he rail madrid will play level pool in the champions league final. after staging, a dramatic late come back in the 2nd leg of their semi with manchester city. we are about to be knocked out before t like goals by substitute rodrigo took the match into extra time. and a penalty from kareem, bessie bens zima eventually gave them

a $31.00 when on the night and a $65.00 when on aggregate. having already won the spanish league title, we are madrid will head to paris on may 28th aiming to become european champions for 14th time in their history. ah, it's going to recap of your top stories. ukraine's president has asked un secretary general to help save ukrainians trapped at the as old style steel plant. and mario poll. russian troops have reportedly entered the facility while ukrainian soldiers and civilians. i hold it up inside the little window, alicia, today i spoke to you and secretary general antonio gutierrez and we discussed what we have all.