america to trying to bring people together and trying to deal with people who love beyond lou. ready the koreans president urges the un chief to help rescue the wounded from the ass off stall, still works as fighting intensifies near the plant. ah, i money i eat this is out there a lie from day or so coming up. i'll just there is on the road of life in easton ukraine, where soldiers space continuous, russian bombardment and high tech weaponry soaring inflation. the united states

prompts the largest interest rate hike and 2 decades and facing a triple threat from extreme weather. the panoramic and war more people than ever struggling to find enough food. who's ukraine's president velasmio polanski has asked the united nations secretary general to help save people trapped to the steel plants. and marion poll. russian troops have reportedly entered the as of style still works, facility where ukrainian soldiers and civilians are inside. on tuesday, more than a $150.00 civilians were evacuated, the russian military is quoted as saying it will stop all military activities there from thursday to allow for 3 days of humanitarian corridors. while dressing ukrainians, lensky explained his appeal to the un chief. when you're going to go today,

i spoke to you in secretary general, antonio gutierrez, and we discussed what we have already achieved and what is still necessary to do to save mary pole and the defenders of mary a whole city. me. there is not a single day that i and my team wouldn't do this, and i'm grateful to everybody who helps follow grania, but it is good news on mario pose, 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 fun. it is the 2nd day the enemy has broken through into the plans. there i have a bloody battle, say, i'm proud of my soldiers for the inhuman if it's to contain the on school with another. i think the whole world for its tremendous support of the mariel pool garrison our soldiers deserve. and the situation is extremely difficult. we carry out the orders to keep defending, despite everything within almost of the ground fighting is taking place and eastern ukraine, which moscow has made a key target and it's war. on tuesday 21 civilians were killed in the don't yet

screech and one of the deadliest stays so far. charles traffic is with ukrainian troops in the east. he sent us this report. black smoke rises from russia. let me 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, flushing false, he is trying to advance from the left and right flanks. but morale among the soldiers is high yard in the loose 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. 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 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 blustery, the the crunch, just a hit explode. the soldiers have 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're grateful to western countries for helping us with weapons, because russia has much more than us. we can't hold them back without their health from afford 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 3 to 4 times a day, they are difficult to shoot because they fly. so high on my alina worked as a veterinarian before she signed up to fight her mother is her money, and the thin made 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 strafford al jazeera, eastern new grade, the european union, one since 27 members to ban russian oil imports as part of its latest sanctions for

the war in ukraine. it will be done in stages to give government time to look for talented supplies. several countries are pushing for exemptions. dominic cane reports from belin. this is the gasp romney. f installation in hunting msl ask 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 you wrote, 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 bash. give you, russell anxious package would destroy the security of hungry energy supply modules 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. dominic cane al jazeera berlin holes in the u. s. sho, rising inflation is now the number one concern for most americans. in response to federal reserve raised a key interest rate by half a percentage point and hopes move, reduce demand, and low inflation. it is the biggest hike in 20 years. gabriel was under his move

from washington, d. c. for regard to a get a business is good at his beloved food truck. he calls tamales a packers pueblo. but when he needs to restock the trucks, refrigerator, with ingredients he had to a local market, realizes everything has gone up in price by a lot, $6.00 for this before you could get a 4299 double in price. even the oil he uses to cook with, instead of being 40, now we pay for $2.00 because he was not alone. millions of americans are struggling to get by with inflation reaching the highest levels in decades. which is why better reserved chair, jerome pow announced wednesday in 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 anyone had heard of covert 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 in ition can lead to an unsustainable cycle of prey. sikes that directly affect consumers and business owners, just like ricardo the food truck owner. have a business run in the family to support you not 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 gita washington. the world health organization chief has warned. the access to safe abortions is crucial to saving lives has fame and follows the leaking of a document suggesting the u. s. supreme court may soon reverse a landmark abortion. burling draft opinion is fault pro, an anti abortion right? demonstrations all across america. tragic ok. now it's been outside the supreme

court in washington way of rival rallies taking place. well, what happens is pretty much what we've seen here today and get it all the way so the child 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. this street behind me used to be accessible for cars, but now on both sides of dump trucks blocking the road. because this is going to continue to be a controversial issue in till the decision comes out. remember this draft, this leaked draft that they've confirmed is in fact just a draft justices are allowed to 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. still ahead on al jazeera, the summit of the americas without free american nations. we speak exclusively to keep his deputy foreign minister after havana is excluded from the upcoming meetings. and we're in nigeria where the un general comes face to face with format, vocal, her arm process ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world cup is on its way to capture your travel package today. hello, the weather is set fair for much of japan over the next couple of days. it's set fair to across the korean peninsula for the time being china. not looking too bad, we got the launch trailing well. a front which runs down towards taiwan has got to stay off shore, shouldn't cause too many problems. there we go with japan. you might just catch

a shower too, particularly over the high ground for a time on thursday, but la, she settled fine and plenty of sunshine, 25 celsius there in tokyo. not too bad, indeed. solem around $25.00 degrees. it's hotter still there for beijing, but notice this line of plain rain up towards the far east of russia. sinking further south was cooling off, impatient, 24 celsius. that system makes his way through running down towards yellow sea, north korea. seeing some lively downpours by friday, south korea dust a fine and dry along with japan. now not too bad across a good pause to se asia. meanwhile, we have got some very heavy showers still in play across parts of indo china. we have got some very heavy rain. last and sundry down poles lurking around pasa cab body. we have got to flood warnings in force force ham here, some parts of vietnam, still seeing some live the shaft usual scattering a shower there across malaysia, and also denisia cat,

an issue and line of the journey. the latest news, as it breaks, we've ramadan east. i'm paul. say we're all happening right now. thanks. is it the city holy sites, a set to remain high with detailed coverage. this used to be a cultural center. it will take weeks before all this. rubble is removed from around the world. a $125000000.00 books were sold around the world for talking about paper books. ah ah, watching out as a reminder of our top stories, as our experienced president has asked,

the un secretary general to help save people trapped at the as of steel plant. in maria poll, russian troops have reportedly entered the facility while ukrainian soldiers and civilians. i'll hold it up in size. european union has urged member states to ban russian oil imports is part of as late as sanctions related to the war in ukraine. block wants it done in stages of several countries are pushing back and the u. s. federal reserve has raised a key interest rate by half a percentage point in hopes move will, would you say, man, an low inflation is the biggest increase in more than 20 years. keep up venezuela and nicaragua have been excluded from the upcoming summit of the americas in los angeles. the u. s. as those countries don't need meet the necessary democratic standards, the decision has put washington and olds with countries in the region. in an al

jazeera exclusive latin american eta salisia newman spoke with keepers deputy foreign minister to get havana as reaction. as the name implies, the summit of the americas is the only venue where 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. well, thank you. thank you for i meant to budge deputy foreign minister godless fernandez the gal, seal a van, his point man for us affairs to talk about the implications of washington's controversial decision. or we have said that a summit that excludes some countries of the region. it's an exclusive 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 summer to be successful. the useful thing to do, and the fair approach to take would be to have everybody in have everybody put forward their point of view, even if you don't like, as we all know, tuba is undergoing a huge exodus of its citizens right now, the largest since the 1980 is actually why do you think that is one of the basic reasons that is pushing migration is people saw that the policy of the biting government is exactly the policy of the government, which is maximum pressure to where cube the policy of the us against cube in economic turns to date is nothing short of criminal. it's a criminal policy to punish the livelihood of people. while i've heard i asked for an understood basil if and as a gesture to the biden administration, the head of the summit of, than up my grant, an amnesty to protest to sentence, to 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, calling summit of a part of the america, you cannot collie some of the americas. if you guys could, 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 region. but the countries need to talk about the countries of the region are claiming that it be an inclusive of it. and the cubey include viewers should pay attention to the us says it's now equally preparing for

both scenarios with and without the iran nuclear dale. the state department warned it's on says and if they will be a mutual return to compliance with the 2015 agreement between to her on and world powers. the joint camp comprehensive plan of action limited iran's nuclear abilities in exchange for dropping sanctions. the u. s. left the deal back in 2018 . we are now preparing equally for either scenario, a scenario in which we have a mutual return to compliance in which that breakout time is elongated. we're also preparing with our allies and partners a for a scenario in which there is not as easy way, and we will have to turn to other tactics and other approaches. a course in miano has rejected an appeal by deposed, lay down san sushi to overturn her 5 year sentence for corruption. the sentence was handed down last week since being removed in nevada. she came late last here. so

she has face a series of charges that could see her spend the rest of her life behind bars you unsexy general has cold for the safe return of people displaced by conflict and ne nigeria and sonia terrace visited a camp and born a state his last stop on a 5 day regional tour of west africa a decade of war between the government and the armed great boca rom has killed more than 40000 people. nicholas hack reports in nigeria is born oh state. the un secretary general receives the a rockstar 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 laid down their arms as part of a rehabilitation program, a few strongly international community to understand bordeaux as a state of hope to support you might be 30,

an action you borrow must be recognised, the enormous challenge that's 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. on the enter willowwood attention is focused on the unfortunate situation in ukraine. we is this region i feeling already that the world is forgetting our address. there can be no better assurance that the world is with us in comb,

front to extrude is terrorist organizations, hunger and the enormous problems of dealing with millions of displeased people. this important vivid earlier gutierrez was in asia where he met malia refugees fleeing attacks from arm groups linked to iso and al qaeda. in senegal, he discussed with the chair of the african union president mikey sol, ways to unlock funds to tackle climate change. droughts, 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 says he, people had been killed during an attack by alger bab armed group on african union peacekeepers in somalia. it happened on tuesday at the alber off army base,

the middle shibel region 10 burgundy soldiers and at least 20 archibald vices are among the dead. many mal winch it you know, as a nation, says the war in ukraine is adding to what it calls a perfect storm of factors that i'm making hunger worse globally. a joint report from the u and the european union and the world feed program says a 193000000 people and more than 50 countries didn't have enough to eat last year at 40000000 more than the year before. if you care about a gasket south, see john and yemen are among the worst effected. 570000000 people are facing severe conditions. and around 26000000 children under the age of 5 malnourished and the need of urgent medical care. and monahan reports. 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 the party. welcome. conditions are really hard and this drought is much different from previous ones. we've never suffered like this. the regions, worse drought and 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 miss, you know, it make them possible for them to put a couple of 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. 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

they are not fed getting any food. they had no provision. 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. vincent monahan al jazeera it is in the wells forest, saint sacks had a meeting in south korea to discuss best practices for sustainable development. so has revitalized, as far as after decades of exploitation, it's believed to be a model that could help others address climate change run mcbride reports from. so it's a gathering that brings together thousands of experts on forests meeting after a one year delay because of the pandemic. organizers say that's

a timely reminder of how humanity and nature are so interconnected and reiterate the importance of healthy forests to limit global warming. taurus are absolutely essential to climate stability. if we have any hope of staying below 1.5 degrees warming, we need forests. there sinks for carving, so they sat carbon out of the atmosphere and all of the scenarios. they all have forests in there as part of their models that bring that temperature down. the host south korea offers important lessons on forest management. it's stripped much of its wooded hill sides in the 1st half of the last century and during the korean war, but then embarked on an ambitious reforestation program. the amount of land that's covered by forests has roughly double to more than 60 percent in the past 6 decades . that periods also seen south career, transform its economy into an advanced one proving it seems that economic progress

and good forestry management can and do go hand in hand. in contrast, the mountains of north korea have been relatively stripped of trees. after years of economic hardship, it means bigger summer storms and floods because of climate change, inflict more damage. so and a changing climate is also causing more damaging forest fires. in south korea, i'm a cuban all right, young then went on figure this year we had the largest ever wild fire that burned continuously for 213 hours. and that was made worse by global warming. so we need to improve our system for forestry, disaster management, he another indicator of a changing climate. the cherry blossom season, which has just ended on the peninsula, comes earlier each year. a visual reminder of the delicate and shifting balance between trees and the environment. rob mcbride al jazeera,

so these spanish se, se valencia has experienced a record breaking down poor for the month of may flooding trap several motorists. and i call on tuesday, the city's metro system had to be shout. spain's web agency says more rain is likely in the coming days. to miss east coast guard house recovered 24 more bodies from full bows for thank officer coast 11 days ago. 67 people now confirmed dead. thousands of people were rescued after trying to reach italy last month over 50 are still missing. tens of thousands of refugees and migrants attempt to cross the mediterranean from north africa to europe and small boats. every year. and in sport, ria, madrid will play liverpool and the champions league final, after staging a dramatic lake come back in the 2nd leg of their semi with manchester city, we are about to be knocked out before 2 late goals. by the substitute, rodrigo took the match into extra time, and then

a penalty from karim ben zima eventually gave them $31.00 when on the night and a $65.00 win on aggregates. having already won the spanish league title, where madrid will head to paris on may 28th aiming to become european champions for a 14 time, ah says our desert, these huge help stories. equations president has asked the un secretary general to help save ukrainians, tramped at the as old style steel plans and marion poll. motion trips have reportedly entered the facility where ukrainian soldiers and civilians a hold up inside militia. william alicia, 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 maria poll.