listening to the headlines, join me, if i take on the lies, dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradictions. do we have a real democracy here in the united states? it's not a political florida. it's a radical insurgency. are mark lamont hill, and it's time to get up front right here on out 0. ah, russia promise as a sci fi to freeze of indians hold up with ukrainian soldiers and a sprawling steel works in mario poll class, poland, and sweden, haste, a donors, conference in warsaw, seeking more international support for ukrainians. ah, hello there, i'm laura kyle. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up tensions rise again at al ac. so moleskin occupied east

jerusalem as jewish visitors are granted access after ramadan. and earlier and earlier, how south chris cherry blossom season has become a striking sign of climate change. russia says it'll hold fire at the besieged steel plants in southern ukraine to get trapped civilians a chance to get out there with ukrainian fighters inside the other cell plant. and maria pull, who are fighting what they say, a heavy bloody battles against russian and allied forces than to monahan reports. ukrainian fighters have been holding out an underground bunkers in the sprawling steel works for months. and for the past few days, it from the scene of heavy fighting as russian forces tried to capture the last pocket of resistance in the strategically important city. but despite running out of food and ammunition, the soldiers say they have no intention of surrendering,

followed crania valuable as you have news on the dressing, mario post 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 gravel. there are heavy bloody battles for them. but it's not just soldiers hold up here, or hundreds of civilians remain trapped report others have been evacuated in recent days, but ukraine's president is appealing for help to get those who remain to safety. all it is showing is going to run it to day. 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 maria pole and the defenders of mary paul city. there is not a single day that i and my team wouldn't do this, and i am grateful to everybody who helps russia has promised to cease fire 3 more

days to allow the last of the women and children to escape. if the promises kept, it may be their final opportunity before the russians move in to end resistance and mario full wants and parole. vince monahan, al jazeera authorities in grammar tours, say 25 people have been wounded in russian shelling the eastern city is near the frontline of fighting and done as province. russia has increased its bombardment of ukrainian positions as part of its don bass offensive. when you've got charles stratford on the ground in crime, a tall skirt. charles, what's been happening there? that's right. as you propose it, at least 25 people reported as being injured in these attacks. or you can see behind me is only one. the strike site, one of a number of sites across the city that were hits, certainly according to people were spoken to here, the military here. this was a russian missile that sir landed in front of an office office building.

there was nobody inside at the time of the strike. we do know is that cremmit all skis of huge to significance strategically to both sides. russians. one where we were in our understanding the russians are, are keen on hitting it because it is close to slab dance. it's only about a 1015 minute drive up to the city of sla vance. russian forces are trying to push south and surround both kramer tools and soviets can cremmit source for years. basically has been a garrison town. there is a lot of ukrainian military still in the city. and as you can see behind me, there are still a lot of civilians, national to say that many haven't left but strikes like they serve as a huge concern to the civilians living here. and as i say, there are at least 3 points north of the city where we understand for where we know russian forces are trying to launch some, some sort of push towards this area. fucked. the north west,

the north east and from a town called izzy. him where according to british intelligence, a couple of days ago, they said that russian forces reinforcements were go again. they said that they saw 22 had evidence of 22 tactical battalion group. that is a lot of russian soldiers. now we know that this area has been hot in recent weeks, but it certainly seems as if this, which is the worst attack on cremmit also since that horrific attack. last month's that hit the train station here killing at least 52 people. an attack like this on this kind of scale is a suggestion, yet again, that russia is trying to push south to surround this city and neighboring sullivan . and what about fighting in other areas across the east, overnight south well that has been ongoing shelling across the region. we are be speaking to the ukrainian military. they

saying that sir, there's been a lot of attacks of a lot of activity around the city of marine corps, which is opposite to pro russian separatist control donates russian control. the net we were in that area a couple of days ago. it was very loud. we know that russian forces are dull, again, very close to that city, the ukrainian military saying, and of course we can't confirm this that they, we, the russians were using cluster munitions in attacks on marika. still a lot of civilians in their similar kind of reports with respect to the town of a vehicle which again is close to russian control dynette just north of marian co, heavy shelling in marian could we were there a couple of days ago. witnessing civilians being evacuated by volunteers, still a lot of civilians in that city. and interestingly as well, a notable attack close to the town of buck moved. now, this attack in a village close to that city would be pretty much the furthest west of that. we've

seen shells rush and shells landing as they try, as i say, to push in to this area in and around cremmit source console events. ok, charles, that been bringing the latest there on the situation in the east of ukraine. joanie's there from cram at tours. chance thanks bye much. although been scuffles at the isle axa most compound in occupied east jerusalem after jewish visits resumed off to ramadan. police was seen at the entrance to the most dispersed palestinian protesters. the alexa compound is one of the most volatile flashpoints in occupied east jerusalem. in 1967 jordan and israel agreed that the wax or atlantic trust would control the compound with israel, responsible for external security temple mountain. it's called by jews as revered by worshippers who pray at the western wall of the compound. it's also contains 2 of the of 2 of his lawns, holy sites,

the al kimberly mosque and the dome of the rock shrine. only muslims are allowed to pray inside the compound. jews can pray outside. the wax allows non muslims to visit the compound at certain times, 5 days per week under its supervision. oh to right wing jewish groups were allowed in during the pa, so of a holiday. palestinians are concerned that the sites muslim identity is increasingly being frightened by groups attempting to pray that illegally on. let's go live, not stephanie decor. she's in occupied east jerusalem forest following the situation there this morning. it seems that the situation now is calm staff, but jewish groups will be returning for another visit this afternoon. yes, this is standard really? i had about an hour from now they'll be the visitation hours in the afternoon, which is about just one hour. as you mentioned there the morning has 3 hours when not muslims can enter the site. it is incredibly wendy here today. laura, but you just had

a very good explainer of the compound. it is really the main flash point. it is the place that has the capability of mobilizing tens of thousands people to the street really that no other part of what happens here can you're now looking at the dome of the rock, as you mentioned there, and the golden shrine, that is where muslims believed the prophet muhammad ascended to then it is also where jews and what these are. some of some of these that are entering these days at entering the compound, these religious ultra nationalists, a fringe of them, are calling for the building of the 3rd temple at that site. now this is hugely provocative to palestine, and as you mentioned over the years, the nature of these groups have been changing and some meters probably now panning to the kimberly mosque. you also talked about that earlier in your graphic. and then behind the kimberly mosque, you have what's called the western wall. this is where jews are allowed to pray. this is on the outside of the compound. so what you've seen over the last, you know,

quite some time really over the last couple of years. the change in nature of who is accessing the compound, how they're behaving on it. you have documentations, online, really videos, youtube videos where jews are documented, praying on the side. this is of course forbidden, under the status quo, and seen as hugely provocative. and i think so now you seem to have the spotlight on this issue that it's something that's been going on for the very long time. hamas is also taken it upon themselves to say that this is now a red line for them that they're ready to engage with rockets again, having settle this. also a lot of negotiations behind the scenes, diplomatic efforts at is, are all saying that they need to reign to send israel always maintains every government since the status quo was agreed that it has no intention of changing it . but the fax on the ground, according to palestinians, because of all these things that we've been talking about or what are causing these concerns. but yes, now off to ramadan, we're back to businesses usual if you will, which is during week days, 2 time slots allocated to non muslims, which includes these ultra nationalists entering the compound. and that's going to

continue. we're going to have to wait and see if we're going to see any more escalations. okay, we will weigh cincy indeed stuff. thanks very much. now the us says it's now preparing for a world both with and without an iran nuclear deal. the state department can see it's not sure if they'll be a mutual return to compliance with the 2015 agreement between iran and the world. powers says the u. s. withdrew in 2018 under then president donald trump. iran has been ramping up its nuclear program. talk to salvage the deal, have been dragging on for months. we are now preparing equally for either scenario scenario in which we have a mutual return to compliance in which that breakout time is you longer needed. we're also preparing with our allies and partners for a scenario in which there is not a g. i and we will have to turn to other tactics and other approaches. flooding in afghanistan has killed and injured dozens of people damaged homes and drowned

livestock. heavy rain hit 11 provinces, killing 18 people. now the 2 are missing. disaster management officials say a 100 homes and known to have been destroyed. tornado warnings have been issued in the united states following damage to homes and businesses. police say some people were trapped in a twisted struck buildings near oklahoma city. got more weather next and then pressing issue over storing inflation. we look at what the u. s. has done to try to control it. open and nominal. and the dragon leaves its nest. the crew that's heading back up to 6 months mission. ah

hello, let's have a look at the weather across southeast asia, and we're watching a circulation to the west of the region sitting over the adam and see that area of low pressure chucking some very heavy rain and strong winds towards the north west of indonesia. as well as the malay peninsula, we could see some very heavy rain in the days to come for southern parts of thailand as well as northern sea marshall with the possibility of localized flooding. now on friday we are seeing some heavy rain across coastal areas of cambodia. but by saturday it's once again southern areas of vietnam that are going to see some heavy downpours. but it starts to dry up the southern areas of the philippines, the usual scattering of sunshine showers and storms across much of the region. now was we had down under to australia. it's looking pretty fine and dry for much of the north. i'm the west of the country, we've got high pressure in charge. the heat continuing to build in perth as we see the temperature rise. but it's going to cool down in the southeast corner. we've got some really wet and windy weather working its way to tasmania. we got severe

weather warnings out here. we're going to see very strong winds as well as thunderstorms and showers. and if we look at the 3 day for hobo while the temperature is lingering around the mid teens, but we will see an improvement on monday with some sunny spells ah, how social a social media platforms, if many young uses feel isolated, anxious, and depressed. currently, there is a grand national experiment that is taking place upon our kids. why tech companies not sufficiently regulated, they don't want people to know what's happening on their platform. and when will society catch up? some people that i knew in high school though, susan lines investigates toxic feed, social media and teen mental health on al jazeera blue.

ah, oh yeah, you're watching out his era. his reminder of our top story is this our, i've been confrontations between israeli forces and palestinian protesters at the i'll acts on was dozens of palestinians gathered at the compound off to israel's government, allowed jewish visits to resume authorities in the eastern city of tours, say 25 people have been wounded in washing shelling overnight, as it is near the frontline of fighting and don't ask province. and russia says it'll hold fire for the day at a steel plant in southern ukraine, allowing traps civilians to get out there among ukrainian soldiers at the other cell facility and merrier pole. while away from the frontline, international donors are in poland, capital, warsaw,

aim is to raise money for ukraine's humanitarian needs, which are growing more desperate by the day. once baffling towns and cities now lie in ruins, pounded by months of russian bombardment. that's led to a refugee crisis, which has grown to become europe's worst since world war 2 as cross live to dominate. kane, who's covering the conference from berlin and already been seeing arrivals at the donor conference service morning. what's on the agenda? one of the things that stands out about this is the urgency with which you leaders and others are approaching this conference, what they want to achieve from it. we know that president sharp, michelle, president of the european council of genesis is said that he wants to have a kind of marshal plan for ukraine to be brought in with 3 main goals. but perhaps the biggest of those goals is to see what can be done to rebuild ukraine as fast as possible. the question was surely b,

rebuilding when there are missile strikes and explosions, kicking off going off as it were across the country will be difficult, but says president michelle liquidity must also be provided to ukraine adequately. we could translate that as ready cash as it were. we know that different countries have been pledging age, whether that's financial, humanitarian or other kinds of aides all time over the course of the past few months. but now they're getting down as it were to the nitty gritty. what actually financially can be done as a say lots of you leaders will be speaking at this conference showing what their countries can do. and we know from the e u institutional perspective. as a said president, michelle is talking about a marshall plan for you. great. that's interesting, the marshall plan view as might recall is what the united states gave to europe in the aftermath of world war 2, to rebuild the economies and institutions of

a continent that had been laid waste by 6 years of war. and that is to a certain extent on people's minds. you should remember that this weekend will be the anniversary of the ending of world war 2 in europe. 77 years since the defeated german army signed its surrender both of the western allies and with the soviet union. so it's focusing people's minds. and as the say, the urgency coming from the ear institutions is some sort of plan to rebuild ukraine. done that kind of thing as late as their from berlin, thanks bye, match the costs of paying off mortgages, credit cards, and all other loans has jumped in the us after the steepest interest rate rising over 2 decades. the federal reserve went with a half percentage point increase, hoping to control the soaring costs of living. kepler's under reports from washington, d. c. for regard to a good,

a business is good at his beloved food truck. he calls tamales e tacos, pueblo. but when he needs to restock the truck's refrigerator with ingredients he had to, the local market realizes everything has gone up in price by a lot, $6.00 for this before you could get it for 299 double in price. even the oil he uses to cook with, instead of being 40, now we pay $80.00 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 better reserved chair jerome pow announced wednesday and aggressive interest rate hike of half a percentage point. we understand the hardship it is causing in, 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 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 rushes, 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 wake ricardo. the food truck owner, have a business run in a family to support i 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's hondo al jazeera washington. a notorious cocaine cartel boss in columbia has been expedited to the united states to face trial, or to nail, as he's known, was arrested in october after 7 years on the run for drug trafficking, murder, extortion, and kidnapping. he is the head of the gulf plan, which traffic's around $200.00 tons of cocaine every year. humans actually general has called for a safe return of people displaced by conflict. and ne and nigeria and tenant

guitarist visited a camp and bore no state his last stop on a 5 day tour of west africa. a decade of war between the government and the on group bach. her has killed more than 40000 people. nicholas hark reports. in nigeria is born no states, the un secretary general received a rockstars welcome from hundreds of this place people. they fled attacks from the arm group book on her arm off camera. he spoke with the former book of her fighters, many of them teenagers. they have not only down their arms as part of a rehabilitation program, feels strongly to the international community. to understand vertical as a state of hope to subaru mandatory an action informal must be recognized. the enormous challenges at the bottom will face with climate change, which still active even and don't invest in the bar 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. one, over the attention is focused on the unfortunate situation in ukraine. we in this region already the world is for getting the i can be sure is that the wired it with us and we confront to extreme is terrorist organizations hunger and the enormous problems of dealing with millions of displaced people then this to, for, to vivid earlier gutierrez was in the chair where he met maryan refugees fleeing attacks from arm groups linked to iso and al qaeda. when in senegal,

he discussed with the chair of the african union president mikey sol, ways to unlock funds to tackle climate change. drought and extreme weather is fueling conflict in the sale. 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, the head of the world health organization appears to have weighed into the 1st debate. i have access to abortions in the u. s. while not explicitly mentioning the u. s. supreme court to address at ham, gabrielle says, said save pregnancy, terminations save lives, and opinion leach from the court this week suggests it will soon end. nationwide legal abortions. and there's now a protective barrier at the supreme court because involved the volatile abortion issue. events is built on wednesday following protest from both sides of the debate

left. the court does overturn the constitutional right to abortion. about half of us states will restrict all barnett. others, though, will put themselves forward as so called sanctuaries. bob reynolds has more from los angeles. oh, california governor is in a fighting move. i think, till she really be pissed off. at this moment, gavin newsome says california will be a sanctuary state for women's seeking abortions from around the country. he will not be defeated. we will stand tall, we will stand firm, and we will affirm the constitutional currently, constitutionally protected rights of women. girls. ah, protesters gathered in los angeles and other cities around the state. newsome says he will propose an abortion rights amendment to the state constitution for a state wide vote in november. we look forward to going front of the voters

affirming this constitutional right in our state in the constitution, not just statute. because we now recognize the vulnerability of the moment we're living in california is the least restricted access to abortion. in the us, it covers the cost of the procedure for low income women and requires private insurance to pay for it. newsome has suggested that state funds may be used to help women in anti abortion states. pay for travel to california. california has wor, abortion providers than any other state, but that network is likely to come under pressure. as the number of women traveling to california to undergo the procedure is likely to increase dramatically. we anticipate substantially more people coming to california and to los angeles. we've been working with our hospital partners with a variety of partners across los angeles across the state,

in addition to our legislative and gubernatorial leaders. and really are doing all that. we can to anticipate this moment, governors of other states where abortion will remain legal no matter what the supreme. ready decides are also speaking out message to women all across his country. that new york, the state of new york will always be there for anyone who needs reproductive health care, including an abortion. let me be clear, no matter what atrocious opinion. the supreme court officially rolls out the summer in regards to roe v wade. abortion is safe and legal in illinois. a country already severely split over politics and cultural differences. now on the verge of an even deeper divide. rob reynolds al jazeera, los angeles, south greer assessing an example of what can be done to revitalize forests as it hosts to industry leaders from around the world. it's we connecting with nature

after decades of exploitation. mcbride reports, 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 stain 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 forest 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 korea 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 biggest summer storms and floods because of climate change, inflict more damage 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 to another indicator of a changing climate. the cherry blossoms 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 nasa astronaut are heading home out there 6 month mission to the international space station. the space ex dragon capsule is exposed to splashed down off the coast of florida. the 3 americans and a german carried out hundreds of research projects and welcomed the 1st space tourists to the station. ah, who without his era, these are our top stories. russia says it'll hold fire for a day at a steel plant in southern ukraine, allowing traps civilians to get out there among ukrainian soldiers at the other sal facility and merrier pole. making a last stand against russian forces authorities. nissan city of grammar tours say.