a miss things on edge, south africa. tina i would change and showed me that i'm actually tracking and fire with africa direct on al jazeera ah . the world health organization says nearly 15000000 people have died from coven 19, or due to its impact on overwhelmed health systems. that's more than double. the official told. ah, okay, johnson, this is al jazeera life and also coming up ukraine reports more fighting around the besieged, still works part in mario, but russia insist a ceasefire. it announced is holding. ukraine's president's address is an

international donors conference in poland, which is seeking more help for the war torn country. and israel's highest court upholds an order. i could see the forcible expulsion of more than 1500 palestinians from the land. they have lived on 2 generations now the world health organization says that code the 19 is associated with far more deaths than originally thought it's new estimates show almost 15000000 people died directly or indirectly from the virus between 20202021. well, this includes what's known as excess deaths. that means fatalities linked to the panoramic drain on health care systems and society. most of the excess deaths, 84 percent, were concentrated in southeast asia, europe, and the americas. let's get more on this now with charlie angela in london. so

we're, well, how definitive can we say these figures are? well, it is very interesting because 15000000 is almost triple the number of the officially reported death supplied by each individual country. although the w h o has said throughout, it doesn't believe that old countries have been reporting, honestly, some of under reported. but as you said, those figures are between direct death and indirect death have been lumped together . and i think we will see calls for the w h o to distinguish between the 2. so 15000000 is based on a country report to data. and since statistical modeling, and but accurate numbers of covey death have have always been problematic throughout the pandemic. not just because it relies on countries being honest, but also because of the differences between countries on how they recorded cova death. for example, here in the u. k. if

a person dies and they had coven 19 at the time of death, the reason of their death is recorded as covert 19, even if they were terminally ill before contracting the virus. and that's in direct contrast to how cove death have been recorded across africa. and in india, and in fact, the indian government has said it has concerns with this report. questioning it, sir, it's methodology. but there are other studies that also back up the w h o figure some scientists at the university of washington have said more than 18000000 people died of covert or related deaths between january 2020 in december 2021. and just to put that into perspective, that's 13000000. so it's 13 percent more death globally than would normally be expected over 2 years. so as the, the agencies chief tundras, i've known gave races. but this is a, an absolutely sobering number. so charlie big figures we're talking about here,

but why has the w h i released these figures now to rethink? oversee the purpose here is to galvanize countries to a to get their act together. just as many countries feel like we're getting over the worst and dropping by god. this is a real rallying call to say, don't just be investing in your recovering economy, but also invest in future proofing your countries against future hadn't amex. and that means we're preparing for either the next phase of this one or another. pandemic planning systems, coordinating with all the governments, which quite frankly, during this pandemic, i was just not there at the beginning identifying and containing fugette outbreaks and having a global plan. and we that she heard from her bill gates. today's been doing the media rouse, he's launching a, an initiative. he's calling the global academic response and mobilization if

narrative the show and for that is job. he's hoping to get together a global team of experts, epidemiologists, verola jest and, and that's going to require significant funding from the w h o and it's, it's member countries. i'm but so 15000000 it pales in comparison to the 100000000 that estimated to have died during the spanish flu epidemic in 1918. but considering our modern medicine and our vaccines, it is still a shocking number and that's the number that children are going to be remembering in their history lessons will future. okay, charlie, angel in london. thanks for that perspective. thank you. the craning officials are accusing russian forces of resuming their attack on the besieged steel, planting maria pal, where civilians are trapped. russia has denied it and had earlier announced a ceasefire at the side and insists it is abiding by it. nearly $200.00 civilians

are believed to be with ukrainian fighters inside the as of south land in mariposa were fighting what they say are heavy bloody battles against russian and allied forces. these pictures show fighting there. this thursday un has been working with both sides to get civilians out. people in the font with ukrainian soldiers who vowed to make a last stand into monahan reports. ukrainian fighters have been holding out an 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 now munition, the soldiers say they've no intention of surrendering for grania, but it is 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 for others have been evacuated in recent days, ukraine's president in appealing for help to get those who remain to safety. when you're going to 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 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 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 marable wants. and for all, since monahan al jazeera fiona abu is

a spokesman for the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. he told us earlier, some of what the survivors on country people there are completely traumatized by the situation which i think known of us can even imagine what is it being to be underground for more than 2 months without seeing the sunlight for 2 months and not and having done this sounds of the shelley on your heads every day without access to water, proper water without access to food, without being able to, to shower every day or not even shower more than 2 months. so you can imagine how it can be actual being the situation. i think the suppression of people deck. and yesterday i was in the, one of the equations and that we went to close my calling. now the idea is to bring people to safety. here. i could talk with some of the different areas, could see how we teach for ben georgia to being an added it cannot meet. i met one woman yesterday and tony and she said, no, what do we mine?

and she has to say good bye for to have children, children. i was there when they jumped into the bus to come here for the thought to the bridge. and these women and all of the lady, she doesn't want to leave the audience. so we're talking about family separations, she has to see the children that you got onto the navy, and she's being a nodded dispensing pensive fighting and still it this, she doesn't know about how it's going to be for her to be bad with her husband. but she doesn't know either. she's going to be able to see it got you. and i think it's a very dangerous environment where operating a wash on and going there and going tomorrow. all going to august. how is a very complex and then to creation. we have to think about every movement and i agree on these movements ot us to the conflict and authorities in our tours say 25 people been wounded in russians selling the eastern cities near the front line of fighting in don. yes, province. russia has increased its bombardment of ukrainian positions as part of its dumbass offensive child stratford. his near where one of the strikes hit have

a look at the size of this crater. it's gotta 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. and look at the thickness of the, of the masonry. you can see obviously how powerful that, that bomb attack was. right? it's going to pan out and you can see the residential buildings. this is a seller. 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 is right, pans, round sweeps round to there's a playground here in the park. and you can see obviously the trees there have been completely shredded. this was an incredible,

incredibly powerful explosion. residents are 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 at another attack. nothing like on, on this scale. what we do know though, is that russian forces, certainly, according to the ukrainian military, russian forces are building up the reinforcements of god in north of cremmit tours can lead north of the neighboring city slab dance around a town called is yeoman. away from the front lines, international donors who in ponens capital, warsaw, the aim is to raise money for ukraine's humanitarian needs, which are growing more desperate by the day. once bustling towns and cities now line ruins, pounded by months of russian bombardment. at sled refugee crisis, which has grown to become europe's worst 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 proof of war will end 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. israel supreme court has upheld an expulsion order against a palestinian villages and occupied west bank around $1500.00 villages face being made. they've been fighting to stay in their homes in my suffer region more than 20 years. israeli omi designated minutes you trainings in 19 eighties. let's bring in a flamer lecture. now he's an attorney and he filed

a petition together with the association for civil rights in israel. to the high court of justice on behalf of the affected palestinian family. he joins us live from western and thanks for being with us here today. what was your reaction to this verdict here? actually it's really the worst decisions i've seen so many years since i represent the dentist and it's really like that. many of them are very bad about this one is even worse because it didn't take in consideration at all rights of the understanding that the petition, the us will not only live there for generations, but they also own the land. it's private land. what doesn't do number private then and didn't take into consideration that all international law, how many terry law we fired with a petition. we had an opinion by 3 major experts. well,

no measure experts and know that say that the state cannot because it is a firing zone. and the judge who gave the ruling, he himself is a settler, an ideological settler, who lives in the west bank. he totally ignored the opinion. he told me not for the rights of that, but his tenants, and actually he allowed transfer of hundreds of family abuse from their little villages where they live and why the on demand. so forgive me, what can these kind of student families do now? then will they be expelled? well, what, what the meaning of the court decision from yesterday is that there is the high court of justice and i emphasize it was justice because there's no justice here, gave the permission of the state to evacuate them and actually to to move them

forcibly out of where they live, i'm not sure that it's going to happen or not. so the emphasize at the moment is in that them it, given by the high court of justice. and i mentioned the one the judge who wrote the decision. but the 2 other just including one of them a me to is going to be in the, in the year the president of the, i just signed the prompt decision. so if we ask for options, there is a legal option that i don't believe that will result in anything good to ask for a higher partner to, to give the really so this really goes by 3 judges. and sometimes very rarely, we get the commission to 456710, just and so on. i don't think it will happen. so the other option only the other option is international. as it happens,

if you're familiar with the case which i presented also for 9 years, the decisions there was quite similar but much smaller case than this one. because you were talking about 11 villages. it was that the state is allowed to demolish the bed, doing the village and to transfer the people to other location. but the state didn't act and they didn't because of international pressure. unfortunately, it seems like this is the only option. and when they talk about it does international pressure that means to try to implement the humanitarian international law. as we understand, the state is not allowed to take over the land for political reasons because there's no other reason in there and to probably in the future. give them to the surrounding a settlements were growing and on the private lender finance

and elsewhere. and in what other ways does the israeli government essentially steal palestinian lands? well, there are many, many ways away. the state x and the known area see which is a 50 percent of the was 1. 1 way is to declare big areas, including private land, not only in the military zone, for military training claims in the court that is not allowed to declare areas in the west bank as military is known for, for training of the army and 1000000 doing them out of the area see that was declared as military zone, which means that the city is on the land or use them for being for

a good culture can enter and can use it. this is one way and many others. it's not the time that they owe it all in the history of the last 20 years or so after us le agreements that the state 2 different ex to, to take overland and not the indians use area. see ok, attorney. so my lack of thank you indeed for your insights here today. sure. okay. well is rarely forces of injured 16 palestinians and arrested dozens of others at the alex so mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem. made the report say only men and young children among those detained israeli police. fire of but it's still in groups saying the through stones, the confrontation began after jewish worshippers were allowed on the site for the 1st time since the end of ramadan are still ahead on al jazeera in human rights

groups. say innocent people have been rounded up in a crackdown on the gangs in el salvador. ah hello there. let's look to south asia and storms and showers across and north of india. i bring some relief to the intense heat that's lingered here for recent weeks and in northern areas of pakistan. but as we go into friday, much of the wet weather can be found along eastern areas. we got fund a storm watches out here is a similar story for the west of places like carola and go. i was seeing some shop, a thunderstorms here, some of the wet weather as well, creeping south into sri lanka. but for the north west, the heat continues to dominate. we've got heat wave conditions expected for western and eastern rochester as we go into saturday. so a very hot picture once again,

up in the north and as we move over to east asia, we're going to see a lot of the heat kicked out of the north of china. we've got a cold front pulling its way south, knocking temperatures down in beijing, sol, as well as shanghai, some of that wet weather, creeping further east, bringing wintery conditions to russia's northeast. we will see some of their showers creeping across nolan areas of japan. by the time we go into saturday, knocking the temperature down in support, the temperature will come down in toko as well. and we will see some of the showers creep into southern areas of japan through the weekend. that should weather update . ah, in a time when everyone wants the latest news with speed and reliability, information spread around the globe. it's never been moved by trust technology, which drug sports knowledge, where ever to go with state of yog,

secure bandwidth. but let's people share on those 2 stories. as hale sam is helping bring the world closer to a sales space to deliver your vision. oh ah. they're watching out us here reminding our top stories. this are the world health organization says nearly 15000000 people have died from coping 19 in the past 2 years. way more than originally thought. new numbers include death linked to the pandemic drain on health care systems. ukraine is again accusing russian forces of storm in the besieged steel plant, where civilians are trapped. russia announced

a cease fire at the sight in the city of mariposa. it insists it is abiding. might . israel supreme court has upheld an expulsion order against 8 palestinian villages occupied west bank around $1500.00 villages. face being made homeless was rarely army designated area and military training zone in 19 eighties. a prominent figure from tennessee as opposition says his movement will rescue the country from political deadlock are made. hackney, j chevy. the head of the political committee of the our amal party, says he is seeking a national dialogue. on tuesday, several position. the parties formed a new alliance of accused, at present case, side of a power grab a little over a month after he dissolved parliament superior. our people call sid. this is all the exceptional procedures illegal that the parliament should be. also

part of this national dialogue, i think the we need not these acts of the president. we need not to suffer from these acts on this procedures, but this is to march. we'll, we'll continue our resistance around the world. sharp rises in inflation are caught in a cost of living to increase. turkey is one of the worst affected countries. consumer price is increased summit 70 percent last month headed to yeah. skimming. cassiano is in istanbul. turkey citizens have been overwhelmed with rising prices, especially in energy and food. in the last one year, the annual inflation has reached nearly 70 percent is expected to continue this way a but for the regular turkish citizens. the rising prices, especially in food, is making their lives more difficult. the reason the of the,

the price hikes and turkey is one, the regional problems like the war in ukraine, a between a kia and moscow. and also turkey is domestic monetary policy. turkey's central bank cut interest rates from 19 percent to 15 percent last september, which calls occurring sick crash. and because of that, turkish near our last valley and in this meant for the turkeys citizens that they can buy less with the same amount of money. the government has tried to improve the living conditions of the regular turkish citizens by increasing the minimum wage and the pensions. however, people we have spoken to tell us that it, despite the increase in their wages, it is difficult for them to deal with the prices that are changing nearly every day . pressuring your cutting on all costs and buying cheaper, otherwise, it's impossible to survive. logan, i checked around today and all prices have risen,

but i guess we will get used to us because i believe prices will eventually come back down. partially. turkish policymakers will believe that this high inflation is a temporary problem for the turkish people and the turkish economy. by keeping the interest rates low and turkish near all week, against the u. s. dollar turkey will boost its exports and production and will a crate, a budget surplus by the end of the year. this is what are the turkey economy administration thing. however, despite the military of finance believes that this problem will be overcome by the need here. many experts, one that the impacts of the high inflation will be felt among the residents up to 3 years. some of the residents believe that the government is going to overcome this crisis as there is an election coming up in 2023. but experts ward, this may not be possible. and british interest rates are going up to

a 13 year high. bank of england is putting them off by a quarter 1.21 percent. so, so want the u. k. risks a double whammy of a recession and inflation above 10 percent. guinea has opened an investigation into a former president of a condo and 26 of his officials. he's been investigated for alleged crimes, one un office, including complicity in murder, torture and illegal detention con. they was ousted from power and arrested offer military coup in september. the u. s. embassy in cuba is again, issuing visas for the 1st time in 4 years for president. donald trump closed concert services in 2017 of the allegations of sonic attacks on embassy staff and their families. number of cubans trying to enter the u. s. as searched more than 78000 crossing from mexico in the past 6 months. the government offensive and el

salvador against criminal gangs has seen the arrest of around $22000.00 suspects. though the crackdown has a popular support. international rights group, say innocent people are ending up in jail to john home and has more from their this is the image that the salvador government wants to transmit. another suspect to gang member of the streets, his tattoos giving away his affiliation to a criminal ban. they've arrested more than $20000.00 people in the last month and a half as a seek to clean the m. s. 13 and barrier way teen gangs out of neighborhoods. they've ruled for decades. but this also is an image of the crackdown. one of many women sank bye to a husband or a son, as a disappearance of the salvador prison system. here are others. i love you, son. she sang in march after a murder spike. the country declared a state of emergency that many people could be arrested without

a warrant. the salvadoran congress has extended that state of emergency to late may, please continue to round up young men or mess. inevitably, along with the guilty human rights groups, i be innocent. have been taken martha under loose, cold out da, 0 her sons, one of the latter he sells face moss to hospitals. she says and helps her get by now she's used a quarter of what she makes in a month at a market still to try me free him on getting a 2nd to present that under hinting offensive. but i don't know why the president is doing this to innocent people and people that aren't guilty, i can find someone's done something they should pay. but a not guilty. yeah, lee. she knows where he is. other women going from prison to prison, trying to find their relatives, look at the crowd here. and the crackdown goes on in the italian district to well known as 13 stronghold. so just question and search everyone going in and out with an overwhelming number of salvadorans approve of president night bu kelly's actions

. how many we have stopped bain extortion? we're not being anything now. their gang members have been being seen. they have practically disappear. and business is flowing, people are longer afraid to come to the city center and walk the streets. so many have suffered extortion rape, killing that even if some innocence have to suffer others believe that's a price worth paying if they can simply be free. the question is, if at the end of all the arrests confusion of brutality, this will actually work. john hallman al jazeera flooding in afghanistan has killed and injured the dozens of people are damaged homes and drowned livestock . heavy rain hit 11 provinces, killing 18 people, and other 2 are missing. this asset management official say a 100 homes are known to have been destroyed. tornado warnings have been issued in the united states following damage to homes and businesses. they say some people

were trapped when a twister struck buildings. now oklahoma city or ukrainian nurse who lost both her legs, has shed a video of her 1st dance inside the hospital ward with her husband. ready and then i was walking home with a see live in the east in the hands region. when a land mine exploded. victor wasn't hurt. they were married on monday. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. the world health organization says nearly 15000000 people have died from covered 19 in the past 2 years, way more than originally thought. new numbers include deaths linked to the pandemic drain on health care systems. charlie angela has more now from london.