trucking and fire with africa direct on al jazeera. ah, he crane reports more fighting around the besieged steel works plant in mary, a pole, but russia insists a sci fi at announced is holding. and ukraine's president's address is an international during this conference in poland, which is seeking more help for the household income train. ah, hello there, i'm laura kyle. this is al 0 live from doha. also coming up tensions rise again at alex a mosque and occupied east jerusalem as jewish visits as a granted access, often ramadan and record profits for one of the wells biggest energy companies.

thanks to searching oil and gas prices. ukraine is again accusing russian forces of storming the besieged steel plant in mario pulse where civilians are trapped. russia had earlier announced the cease fire at the sight and insists it is abiding by it. un has been working with both sides to safety, get civilians out. people are in the still plants with ukrainian soldiers who vowed to make a last stand. and to monahan, reports ukrainian fighters have been holding out in underground bunkers in the sprawling steelworks for months. and for the past few days in 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 soldier se they've no intention of surrendering all green. yeah. but it's good

news. on the 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 fun. it is the 2nd day the enemy has broken through into the plans. there. i have a bloody battle side, but it's not just soldiers hold up. here are hundreds of civilians remain trapped, report others have been evacuated recent days, ukraine's president in appealing for help to get those who remain to safety. when you're going to read it 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 paul and the defenders of mary paul city. there is not a single day that i and my team wouldn't do this, and i'm grateful to everybody who helps russia has promised to cease fire 3 more days to allow the last 2 women and children to escape. if the promises kept,

it may be their final opportunity before the russians move in to end resistance and marvel once and for all. since monahan, al jazeera authorities and clamor tours say 25 people have been wounded and russian shelling easton says he is near the frontline of fighting internet's province. russia has increased his bombardment of ukrainian possessions as part of its done bass offensive. chance stratford is at the size of one of the strikes in cram matters. have a look at the size of this crater that's got to be 10 to 15 feet deep. now, local residents are saying that the building, the destroyed building that you can see here was an abandoned building that was still under construction. a look at the thickness of the, of, of the masonry. you can see obviously how powerful that, that bomb attack was. rides going to pan up and you can see the residential buildings. this is a solar. so the military says or is a purely residential area. there are hundreds of flats that i've had their windows

destroyed. and as you can see, pretty much completely devastated. and this area as right pans, round sweeps round to there's a playground here in the park. and you can see over see the trees there been completely shredded. this was an incredible incredibly powerful explosion. residents, a saying that they heard this is one of 3 explosions. they heard in this area last night at around 5 am. it is incredible that nobody was killed in these attacks. we're hearing that at least 25 people were injured. and as i say earlier on this morning, we were to another attack. nothing like on this scale, what we do knows is the russian forces. certainly, according to the ukrainian military, russian forces are building up the reinforcements have gone in north of credit source can be north of the neighboring city to j slab. janski's around

a town called is well away from the front line. international donors are in ponens capsule. warsaw game 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 fled to a refugee crisis, which is great to become europe's work since world war 2. the armed forces of ukraine and all of our heroic defenders bravely and firmly defend our freedom on the battlefield. but how this proved warble and is decided not only on the battlefield. there's also the economy and finance, humanitarian support and the ability to ensure normal life and liberated territory and rebuilding what was destroyed by the russian army. freedom must demonstrate that it protects people, provides better than tyranny. that is why this conference is so important for everyone in europe was cars have a to dominate k. now he's in berlin for in this conference for it and strong

opening appeal that from the ukrainian president. yes, it was clear that the people in warsaw, those leaders of the you and leaders of member states were very impressed by what mr. zelinsky president zalinski had to say no to the fact that he's setting up an online platform for people to make pledges themselves to help you crane. but it's clear he wants the e u and other large institutions around the world to provide whatever they can in terms of humanitarian assistance. he knows already that president shall. michelle of the council of ministers wants to implement a sort of marshal plan for ukraine. in other words, the source of reconstruction package of the united states of america brought in for all of europe. after the end of the 2nd world war, that matters in one sense, it resonates right now. because this we can see the anniversary of the end of world

war 2 in europe. one other thing to point out that after we heard from presidency lensky, we heard from president funder lion of the european commission, who was spoke with some emotion about what she felt when she was in butcher in ukraine. seeing what she referred to as the aftermath of war crimes. and she said to the other delegates there that in her opinion, the russian government is committing war crimes in ukraine on a daily basis. and that was why she felt that whilst the e, you can't directly provide military help in this shape of soldiers. and that sort of thing. what it can do is economic pressure on the russians in terms of sanctions, but then also serious financial aid to the ukrainian government in its bid to deal with the humanitarian challenge it faces. ok. domain cambridge is the latest

that from bell in thanks very much on that. now is really police of fired rubber bullets, palestinian protesters unoccupied. east jerusalem police, they demonstrated threw stones off to israel's government, allowed jewish visits to resume at the alex a most compound following ramadan. his latest confrontation and weeks of unrest at the holy site for muslims and jews. the alexa compound is one of the most volatile flashpoints in occupied east jerusalem in 1967, jordan and israel agreed that work for all the islamic trust would control the compound with israel, responsible for external security temple mount, as is called by jews as revered by worshippers who pray at the western wall of the compound. it also contains 2 of islam 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 as go live now to stephanie deca. she's in occupied east jerusalem,

and stephanie jewish groups all back in for a 2nd, permitted visit over the day. and the situation. is it still ross of a. com? it is actually we wanted to show you one of the group that's in now, but we've just missed that timing seeps them you can catch the last of the man. this is the last half hour of to day of the visiting hours. non muslims have to come into the compound, as we mentioned 3 hours in the morning, one hour in the afternoon, part of the lawn agreed status quo between israel and jordan. but the status quo also says that only muslims pray on the site known to muslims visit. this is what's caused such controversy, such provocation to palestinians, these groups and increase in nature if you will, of religious ultra nationalists entering the site over the years and calling for the right to pair and actively trying to praise. so this is why you've seen this ebb and flow of escalation on the alexa mos compound. this site really has the, uh,

the ability to trigger a wide spread, a condemnation, anger or tens of thousands of people on the street like nothing else can in this region, many people will tell you that even though these groups, if you will, when you look at the wider israeli public are very small, but like one expert was telling me it only takes one person. this is how sensitive the site is, which is also why recently you've had a lot of behind the scenes diplomatic efforts to try and see if they can find some kind of resolution to a palestinian say is already the gradual eroding of that status quo feedback. i bring at the very latest that from occupied east jerusalem. thanks for mazda. now, the u. s. says it's preparing for a world both with and without an iran nuclear deal in the state department concedes it's not sure if there will be a mutual return to compliance with a 2015 agreement between iran and well palace says the us withdrew in 2018 and then

president donald trump. ron has been ramping up its nuclear program towards the 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 long needed. we're also preparing with our allies and partners for a scenario in which there is not as easy way. and we will have to turn to other tactics and other approaches. flooding in afghanistan has killed and into dozens of people damaged homes and drowns livestock. heavy rain hit 11 provinces, killing 18 people, another to a missing disaster management official, say, a 100 homes and known to have been destroys. one of columbia's most notorious drugs, cartel bosses has been expedited to united states as well as being one of the biggest cocaine traffickers in the americas auto nail, as he's known as also wanted for murder, extortion and kidnapping. miss harding has more he was the most wanted man in

columbia until his arrest in october. now wearing protective military gear. dido antonio saga, also known as o tanelle, has been flown to the united states, charged with drug trafficking, murder, extortion, and kidnapping. gas c o. it's that i thought i'd like to inform you that di, euro antonio, crucial, gar. yeah. or, or torn, yell was extradited. is this criminal is comparable only to pablo escobar, killer of social leaders, abuser of children and boys, girls and teenagers alike, the killer of police officers and one of the most dangerous criminals in the world . atanya is widely considered to be the boss of the cleanser golfer, a powerful drug cartel that controls cocaine roots into mexico in the united states . is there one view, disbanded was extradited to serve drug trafficking sentences in the us. but i want

to be clear that once he serves those, you will return to columbia to pay for the crimes he committed in our country. who toenails lawyer argued against his extradition, saying he should be allowed to confess his role in columbia as nearly 6 decades of internal conflict. but that request was denied with the $5000000.00 bounty on his head. ordonia is now at the mercy of us courts to decide his feet. leah harding al jazeera, coming up shortly. a patch of brightness, how south korea's cherry blossoms have put the limelight on climate change. ah, richard, he has begun the refill walled copies on its way to the castle route your travel package to the hello there. let's look to east asia and northern areas of china is

seeing a cool down. we've got a cold front working its way down further south knocking temperatures down to likes of beijing. and so from that rain, edging down into north korea, pushing across as well to northeastern areas of china with a bit of a wintry mix blowing across rushes far east. but farther east of this, for japan, it is largely fine and dry picture the temperature hovering in the mid teens. the toko is expected to come down by the time we get into saturday. but there is still a lot of warmth in the south stretching across west towards shanghai. for the wet weather, we have to look to southern areas of china. we've got a rash of storms and showers here, and storms and showers across northern areas of south asia have brought some relief to the intense for india as well as pakistan. we have got thunderstorm watches out for the eastern half of the country as well as for places like carola down in the south fulton. sean was as well for sri lanka because we go into saturday. we are going to see those hot and dry conditions dominate. once again,

we've got heat wave conditions expected in western and eastern areas of rochester, but new delhi will also see a lot of that heat. by the time we get into monday, the mercury will continue to rise. official airline of the journey. i don't get a catch ah ah

ah, again, you're watching out 0. his reminder of our top story is this. our israeli police are fired rubber, bullets of palestinian protesters unoccupied. east jerusalem, please say demonstrators through stones after israel's government allowed jewish visits to resume at the alex and mosque. compound following ramada, rosser says it will hold fire for the day at a seal plans in southern ukraine allowing traps civilians to get out there among ukrainian soldiers at the other cell facility. and merrier poll. authorities in eastern city of grammar tours say 25 people have been wounded in russian shelling overnight said he is near the frontline of fighting in donna's province. high oil and natural gas prices have fueled record 1st quarter profits for a british energy. giant shell says it made more than $9000000000.00 in the 1st 3

months of the year. that triple the earnings it reported the same time. last year. the company took a $3900000000.00 hit from exiting russia, but saw lower costs elsewhere. the healthy earnings pump shells stock price up by more than 3 percent during morning trade in london. so griego is in london also for us, so sorry, talk us through these record profits. well yes, i mean as, as you mention there, really a huge thorn in the number, 51 percent of a hike in those prices there. and very similar sort of high because was reported by another energy giant b p on wednesday. and really what we can do, what we can ascertain with those numbers is the fact that it's down, of course, to rising oil prices. part of that is in part driven by the opening up of economies. the sudden such demands for, for oil. and while opec,

the oil provided group has stated that it's going to continue to continue with his ton of modest price oil. it's actually not going to be able, it's not going to sort of like really stop the produce the production of oil at any point. so, but also the real crux of this matter, as well as the fact that it is being driven by the war in russia as well. and ever since the western nation sanctions on russia in itself now shall have said that while it would divest and be p actually, while it would dive best from its joint ventures with russian state energy giant, produce a gas problem. it would actually take about $5000000000.00 to its profit, but as we can see from the profits that producing very healthy margins,

which would indeed cover that. so really all in all, as we can tell, is that those profits have more than cover the loss that they deem that they would have well pulling out from those russian joint ventures. so to get reporting that from london, thanks very much. sonya will turkey is among the countries struggling to cope with soaring inflation. latest figures show the consumer price is increased almost 70 percent last month compared to a year ago. so i'm closer glue is that a food market? in istanbul, when prices are storing, it's nearly a year, especially since last september to get has been dealing with very high inflation. there are 2 reasons for this inflation highest one is the international and regional issues like the war in ukraine is caused by russia because that rising energy prices are increasing the cost of manufacturing. and the 2nd reason is the currency it currency crash that happened lot september because of the

central bank cutting down interest rates from 19 to 15 percent. now we are in sicily, one of his stumbles major districts. it's a humble district and there are so many retired people living around this area and i'm in front of the humble supermarket. i would like to show you the prices for basic foods actually because the food inflation is up to 90 percent. let me show you this counter, you have tomato plants, pepper the these are the major ingredients. 1 of a turkish placene and the, the tomato price per kilogram has rise up to $30.00 li ross and these it compared to last summer's prices. these are very high because of the inflation and the rising input prices. the cost of producing has rise. and so much is so

far on the cost of paying off mortgages, credit cards, and all our loans has jumped in the us off the steepest interest rates rise in $2.00 decades. the federal reserve went with half a percentage point increase as government under reports from washington. for regard to a get, 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 a local market, realizes everything has gone up in price by a lot, $6.00 for that. 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 paid 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 federal reserve 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, inflation can 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 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 he. soft landing for millions of americans. gabriel's hondo al jazeera washington schools and china's capital have been ordered to remain closed for at least another week and a further effort to contain current, a virus. instead of students returning to class after holidays, the streets of beijing, a quieter,

and millions of employees are being encouraged to work from home. after 15 new infections were reported, shanghai reported full and a half 1000. hong kong, meanwhile, has relaxed some of its cov, at 19 restrictions. after the 5th wave of the pandemic ease their limits on the numbers of diners allowed to eat together. at restaurant tables have been raised from 4 to 8 sewing pools and beaches have reopened, and mosques are no longer needed was exercising guinea has opened an investigation into former present alpha condie and 26 of his officials. he's being investigated for alleged crimes, whilst in office, including complicity and murder, torture and illegal detention. and there was al, said from power and arrested after a military coup in september. self career is setting an example of what can be done to leave. i've lived forests as it hosts industry leaders from around the world. it's we connecting with nature after decades of exploitation, and it's providing

a model that could help others address climate change from a bride level. it's a gathering the brings together thousands of experts on forests meeting after a one year delay because of the pandemic organizes say, that's a timely reminder of how humanity and nature also interconnected. and reiterate the importance of healthy forests to limit global warming, poorest are absolutely essential. to climate stability. if we have any hope of staying below 1.5 degrees warming, we need forests there thinks for carbon, so they suck 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 hillsides in the 1st half of the last century and during the korean war . but then embark 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 the changing climate is also causing more damaging forest fires in south korea. i'm a cuban all of our younger ones. 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. so 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. robert bride al jazeera, so artists and designers also believe they have a role to play and tackling climate change. jessica baldwin went to an exhibition in london to see how the, at 65 meters this caper tree grows in the columbia and amazon rain forest visitors pier through the layers into the trees. in our system. see the oxygen released into the air, the nutrients coursing through the structure. a dining table is 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,

it's 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 shaman paralysis. each flash of belief marks 128 square meters of brazilian rain forest destroyed. so we're looking at winter weather bring to life to the 1st station that's happening right now in the amazon rain. far as 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 d for station, 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 aimed at stopping the destruction using rice terrace irrigation in an urban environment. clothes made from micro seaweed or mushrooms, visitors or challenge to connect with nature to consider the soil trees plants, other species. despite hard data warnings from the un in scientists, there has been limited action. could the 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, the ukrainian nurse who lost both her legs, so shed a video of her 1st dance inside a hospital ward with her husband. ah,

well, oksana berlin. dina was walking home with victor vasa live in the eastern. no hands region when a land bind exploded, victor was not hurt. and the married on monday. ah, this is al jazeera, these are our top stories. ukraine is again accusing. russian forces of storming the besieged steel plant in mario pole, where civilians are still trapped. russia earlier announces, sees far at the site and insisted abiding by it un has been working with both sides as safely get civilians out. authorities, nissan says he have crammed tours say 25 people have been wounded in russian shelling overnight said he has.