i'm paul. save. all right now, thanks. did this city a search to remain high with detailed coverage? this used to be a cultural center. it was the week before. all this trouble is we move from around the world, 825000000 books were sold around the world. we're talking about paper box. ah, well, the organization says nearly 15000000 people died. because if the corona virus pandemic, almost 3 times more than previous estimates, ah, fidel, this is almost there, a line from door ha, also coming up. scores of civilians remain trapped in bodies at

a steel plant in murray, a pole. russia says it's observing seesaw. ukraine says attacks continue, the cranes prime minister appeals for financial support in the war against russia as a donors conference and was all pledges more than $6000000000.00. israel's highest court upholds, in order that could leave nearly a 1000 palestinians homeless expelling them from lands that lived on for generations. the world health organization says covered 19 is linked to far more death than originally thought. it's new estimates show almost 15000000 people died directly or indirectly from the virus between 20202021 includes what is known as excess deaths . that means fatalities above what would normally be expected in an area before the pandemic stroke. thanks to also to the strain coven 19 caused to health care systems in society. most of the excess deaths, 84 percent were concentrated in southeast asia, europe,

and the americans. why did your cancer join the live from washington, d. c? for more heidi, should we be surprised than by these numbers? what came? it's no surprise of the numbers are high before to be nearly 3 times that of the reported amount of dest from various governments. that is a bit shocking. the world health organization reporting an estimate of nearly 14900000 deaths from those 1st 2 years of the pandemic. and we are seeing this discrepancy particularly pronounced in places like indonesia, in mexico. it's twice as high in egypt. it is. it is 12 times as high and in india nearly 10 times. what explains this discrepancy? well, of course, in the early days of the pandemic, there was problems with testing. there were overwhelmed health systems. there was also arguably political pressure in some areas to under report. the number of

deaths and in indonesia, there are reports that people that families fear of reporting death of their loved ones due to covered because of the requirements and the consequences of that on the funeral proceedings. so for all of those above reasons, it was widely expected that the w h o total would be much higher than what was on paper, but for it to be nearly 3 times as high indeed is a startling fact. he was situation there in the us with the largest number of concerned cova debt. how has the health care system managed right here in the united states, there is reports of nearly 1000000 cova jets. we are just a few numbers away from that, which of course it will be a shocking and terrible milestone in the u. s. but widely expected. there are some places like new york that is again discussing mask mandates, even as across the country. we've seen more places opening up,

but still with this more variance coming to the micron variance there's much concerned that the opening, the dropping of mask mandates in air travel for example, may have come prematurely him. how does your cancer there for us in washington dc? thank you. well, it's on a physic is lead to university college london, global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases. she says, the lack of equipment at the start of the pandemic, ned to and inaccurate death count. that number could be even larger than the current estimate. so i'm showing there's some discrepancy. a group in washington has a slightly higher figure, but i think on the experts all along were very aware of the, let's say shortcomings or tools that were not available right from the beginning. so the amount of testing and cetera would mean that there were many debts that went on, unaccounted for, especially at the very beginning. and if we're looking back as jane 2020,

so from that perspective i think excess dust is an excellent tool to show us that although there were many naysayers about, well, a certain number, the population would have died anyways, because their age is cetera. this really shows that know, in fact, coverage did make such a huge dent in terms of overall level ductile. if we're going to actually be able to act quickly, as i think is one of the key lessons of the pandemic. it does ensure that it does require that we continue to monitor and having surveillance systems in place. and many countries are starting to essentially wind down their surveillance of these into infectious diseases in the tracking. what is happening with code? it is really important because it helps us to understand what we need to prepare for, not just for the next pandemic,

but even now as the coverage continues to evolve. and there could be a long coven complications that were still just trying to understand. ah, the grading officials are accusing russian forces of resuming their attack on the besieged steel pon to now rio paul, west civilians are trapped. russia denied this must go. it only announced to cease far at the sight and insist it is a binding bias. cutty, i love has already on has more it's considered the last pocket of ukrainian resistance in the shattered city of mario pool. and the scene of heavy fighting for weeks ukrainian forces say russians are attacking the assal, stall, steel factory, where civilians and soldiers are sheltering. an underground bunkers wide neighboring better. some of the estimate of 2000 besieged fighters,

including women, sing in the dark and wait, there is not enough food or ammunition. even if outnumbered, they say they have no intention of surrendering. he was at the rental boiled waterford, was a little heavy with bloody fighting his going on for $71.00 days the defenders of the city has been fighting for and single handedly saw with overpowering enemy forces a 3 day seas fire was promised by russia to allow civilians to escape. ukraine says the promise has been broken. some women, children and elderly managed to make it out earlier this week, but others remain trapped alongside ukrainian soldiers are sure which this the bony woman is already won my family to get out. but not the way we did. it was a miracle we managed to live on the verge of life and death. ukraine's president is appealing for help to get the others to safety. oh, it is showing is in allergic 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 mario pulse city. there is not a single day that i and my team wouldn't do this, and i am grateful to everybody who helps. the kremlin, says accusations of broken promises are propaganda nationally and it's the 20 inside. and especially though so haunting in the as of style plants are well known for producing an enormous number of lies and fights every day. so should carefully filter all the information we get from them. ukraine says russia is trying to destroy the strategically important city in the south. the ukrainian counter offensive is unlikely before the middle of next month, when it hopes more weapons from allies will have arrived. cartier lopez of the young al jazeera, he granted officials and crime and hoist say 25 people have been wounded in russian shelling eastern cities near the front line of fighting and announced province.

russia has increased its bombardment of ukrainian positions as part of its dumbass offensive. cha, stratford is near where one of the strikes hit. have a look at the size of this crater. that's gotta be 10 to 15 feet deep. now, local residents are saying that the building, the destroy 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. right, going to pan out and you can see the residential buildings. this is a so, so the military, caesar is a purely residential area. there are hundreds of flats that sir, i've had their windows destroyed and, and as you can see, pretty much completely devastated. and this area is roy pans, rounds sweeps round to there's a playground here in the park. and you can see,

oversee the trees there have been completely shredded. this was a, an incredible, incredibly powerful explosion. residents are saying that they heard this is one of sri explosions. they heard in this area last night at around 5 a, an 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 kraemer tours . indeed, north of the neighboring city slab dance around a town called izzie. m. i, cassandra, ha, bellamy is filing development sneered the house on region in southern ukraine, where about 2 kilometers from the front line north of the region. that's an area

that has been occupied by russia. we met some people this morning who had just arrived here on the green inside. and they told us that they had to actually walk up to 20 kilometers under cover of darkness. simply because the russians wouldn't allow them to come to the ukraine in the side. they told them if you want to go to a safe area, then you should head south to the crimea, will insula that the defense minister in keith is saying that russia is preparing for a big push on the southern front in 2 directions to the west, to the city of nikolai, of, and to the north, to the city of creevy, re susan, the people here said to have been more shelling. there was this morning as some of please don't. the mayor tells us that cluster bombs were found. he showed us some pictures. we cannot confirm that independently,

but certainly when you walk around again this scene, a village is completely abandoned. people left people do this bush will come sooner rather than later. those coming guys, 1st on i say when they're coming out as quick as possible because life there has become unbearable. they lack everything, food medicine, water in many areas. and also the occurrences about to change from the thing is even to the russian ruble. when you asked them, what about talk about imminent annexation of the region. when man told us he didn't know exactly what were the plaza, certainly, if you thought that those were happening. but she did say that the russians will find no one there because most of the people are trying to leave as quick as possible. still head on al jazeera, there's good news for energy giant shell. it's profits of shot off, despite the big cost of pulling out of russia.

ah hello there, the wind is dominating the story across much of africa and the middle east. at the moment we've got blustery conditions affecting the event, knocking temperatures down here, unsettled whether pushing its way further east. and some of those winds are kicking up dust affecting visibility for the likes of to wait saudi arabia and katana. we are expecting these conditions to last for at least the next 2 days we'll see temperatures down to the mid thirty's as well in places like re add and, and the days to come. now as we move across to north africa, we'll see temperatures dipped down as well coastal areas of algeria. antonia, thanks to low pressure that's bringing some really wet and windy conditions across the mediterranean. the wind dominates as well for libya kicking up. that's the

horror. sand pushing it to southern areas of europe is looking unsettled as well around the coastal areas of the gulf of guinea. we've seen some flooding in a buddha. in nigeria. we will see those thunderstorms dominate across southern areas in the days to come in. that rain runs its way all across the bound of africa towards southern areas of somalia. we've got a wind warning out along the coast of tanzania, wind warning for s, we're teeny, and some fire weren't warnings across the west to fall africa. the wet weather will arrive on saturday. ah frank assessments, what are the political risks, robotic wash, nor the gas for western leaders or sanctions on russian energy sports? i was informed opinions, francie's not abandoning to fight against jedi. still resumed india, going to be acting from leisure and from char critical debate. could china actually

help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. ah, for geology era reminder about top stories list, all of the world health organization says nearly 15000000 people have died from cove at 19 in the past 2 years, almost 3 times more than originally estimated the u numbers and co deaths links to the pandemic strain on health care systems, ukraine is again accusing russian forces of storming the steel plant where civilians trapped russia earlier announce the cease fire at the size in the city of

variable. it insists it is abiding bias. ukrainian officials and parameters could take 25 people of the wounded and russian shaddick. eastern cities near the front line of fighting in the eastern province of don't etzky away from the front lines. international donors are in poland, 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 lie and ruins pounded by months of russian bombardment and sled to a refugee crisis, which is going to become europe worst since world war 2. from the kane has more on the donors conference over the course of the war in ukraine, the president in kiev, viola demy zalinski, has repeatedly appealed to the wider world for military assistance to help his forces try to ward off the attacks of russian forces. but vast idea was not at the

forefront of his approach to the warsaw conference which took place in the polish capital on thursday. rather, it was the humanitarian effort that is required in his country. he particularly talked about the plight of his people. oh, the armed forces of ukraine and all of our heroic defenders bravely and firmly defend our freedom on the battlefield. but how this brutal war will end is decided not only on the battlefield. there's also the economy and finance, humanitarian support and the ability to insure normal life on liberated territories and rebuilding what was destroyed by the russian army. a succession of european leaders and elected politicians then talked about their experience having been to ukraine and seen for themselves. the effect of the fighting. certainly president funder line of the european commission said that she believed that what was taking place from the russian perspective in ukraine. in her eyes was a war crime,

and she said that she believed again, her words that russian force is a carrying at war crimes every day in ukraine, which is why it was so important for financial help. but the overarching theme in so far as this reconstruction effort, europeans proposing came from her colleague, president sha michelle, the presence of the e, you council of ministers. he talked about a reconstruction effort and he evoked memories of the reconstruction provided by the u. s. government, after world war 2 had ended this survey decision with a song boy richard and for your prison with will bring are you ready for me? there's no question that the ukrainian government is crying out for financial assistance for humanitarian assistance. but one question must be that given that

many buildings, many communities are still facing shelling, bombing, and where there are battles taking place. the question must be, how easy will it be to rebuild buildings which are still in the line of fire? that was not particularly addressed by delegates at this conference in warsaw. but the question though, their intention is to provide as much financial and human monetary assistance they can to the government in key. if israeli forces have injured 16 palestinians and arrested dozens of all this at the alex, a mosque compound and occupy these ru slim meteor bought, say, elderly men and young children are among bows, detained. israeli police fired rubber bullets at palestinian group saying they threw stones. the confrontation began after jewish worshippers were allowed on the side for the 1st time since the end of ramadan. there likes a compound is one of the most volatile flash point in occupied east jerusalem. in

1967 jordan and israel agreed that the walkie for is i'm a trust control. the compound with israel, responsible for external security temple mount as is called by jews, is revered by worshippers, who pray at the western wall of the compound. it also contains 2 islam, so holy sites, the ald, kimberly mosque, and the dome of the rock shrine. only bosoms are allowed to pray inside the compound. jews can pray outside. stephanie decker is unoccupied, east jerusalem with more details on the latest trouble. it is the 1st day since the end of ramadan and ead that non muslims are allowed to enter again into the alex a most compound to time slots. alligators during the week 3 hours in the morning, one hour in the afternoon. there's actually now one group touring if you will, the site. this is something that's been agreed upon between jordan,

the custodian of the site in israel, under a long agreed status quo that non muslims, ah, can visit, and muslims pray. this is what's changed over the years policy, it will tell you that the nature of these groups have changed, calling for the right to prayer, actively trying to pray on the site. and this is what is hugely provocative to palestinians. in fact, many, unless we've spoken to have said that even the police who escort these groups often turn a blind eye to prayer and there's even actively members in government that support jewish prayer on this side. however, every israeli government has maintained that they want to maintain the status quo that there are no plans to change the status quo, but certainly policies on the ground will tell you, it is a very different story. just to give you a sense of the, a, of the complete sort of inflammatory nature when it comes to these kinds of visits to the side, you're looking at the all could be mosque. now, behind the mosque,

you have the western wall. this is the only area that jews can pray at the most compound. it is the holy site for jews known as the temple mount. it is the 3rd wholly a site for islam, of course, drew slim is wholly to 3 abrahamic faith. so this is the situation why you've seen tensions escalate in the last couple of weeks. hamas also saying that this is now a red line that more needs to be done to stop these kinds of groups accessing the site provoking palestinians, particularly with those calls and right to practice. israel supreme court upheld an expulsion order against 8 palestinian villages in the occupied west bank, around $1500.00 villages, face being made homeless. they've been fighting to stay in their homes in the massive toyota region for more than 20 years. israeli army designated the area military training zone in the 1980s, shlomo. liquor is an attorney. he father petition together with the association for civil rights in israel, on behalf of some effected palestinian families. he says the court decision

violates international and humanitarian law. it's really the worst decision i have seen. and so many years since i represent the dentist and in a really have many more very bit, this one is even worse because it, it didn't take in consideration at all the rights of the list indians that the physician is not only lived there for generations, but they also own the land, it's private land doesn't do number rather than and didn't take in consideration that the international law monetary law. we found we the petition. we add an opinion by 3 major experts when the measure. but when they are in law, say that the state cannot declare that as a firing zone and the judge who gave the ruling. he himself is

settler, an ideological settler, who lives in the westbank. a totally ignored the opinions. he told me not the rights of the palestinians, and actually the transfer of hundreds affirmative from the little villages where they live and why they own the land. the meaning of the court decision from yesterday is that the right, the high court of justice and i emphasize the war justice because there's no justice here. it gave us permission of the state to evacuate them 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 emphasis at the moment is given by the very high court of justice. and i mentioned the one, the judge, you wrote a decision, but the 2 other judges, including one of them, is going to be in the, in the year the president of the icon just signed. and the pro markets in the

us are in the red day after at central bank announced its most aggressive interest rate hike in more than 20 years to tame out of control inflation. kristen salumi has more from new york. investors seem to be having 2nd thoughts one day after the u. s. federal reserve decided to raise interest rates by half a percentage point. that was the decision that was widely anticipated. the announcement was made and expected as a, as the u. s. central bank attempts to curtail inflation in the united states, which is running away today. investors seem to be having 2nd thoughts. they are reconsidering yesterday's activities. market shot up yesterday, and now they've erased nearly all of the gains that were made yesterday. and then the nasdaq is down 5 percent. dow industrial average down more than a 1000 points, so it's not looking good right now. inflation is also the rise in turkey,

one of the worst effect, the countries in the world. consumer prices increase some 70 percent last month, month compared to a year earlier. british interest rates are also going up to a 13 year high. the bank of england increased them by $25.00 basis points to one percent. it's also warning the u. k. risks a double whammy of a recession and inflation above 10 percent on wednesday, the u. s. federal reserve and else it's steepest increase interest rate hike in 2 decades. how the world's top hoyle producing countries have agreed to slightly increase their output while the u plans to ban importing russian oil by the end of the year. opec countries in their pond, nations will raise production by more than $430000.00 barrels per day, starting from next month. some analysts predict that won't be enough to meet demand and could further increase the price of crude and lead to even higher inflation. and hi, prices of oil and natural gas,

a boosted wreck on the 1st quarter profits. the british energy giant shell shell says it made more than $9000000000.00 in the 1st 3 months of the year. that's triple the earnings that reported the same time last year. the company took a $3900000000.00 head from exiting russia, but thought lower cost elsewhere than the earnings pumped shells. stock price up by more than 3 percent during morning trading in london. i. b. raj in drawn is director of research at the energy intelligence he expects shell to continue making huge profits. you have to take hit on that. not only from b but just more degree from others as well. you know, again the, the exit is one of what i think i think the focus is on the, on the underlying strength and resilience of the business. you know, really, really going to be a very strong 2nd order as well, oxygen, ohio, oil prices. i gas prices, but also very strong refining margins and, you know, and also petrochemical products as well. i think i think the concern would be on

that correct and your term is profit should continue. i think the concern is around slowing economic activity. very negative. certainly in, in the earl zone and europe in russia, but risks spreading throughout the world. and so i think there are open questions around the, the process, the 2nd half the, which is why the companies are enjoying the profits. but you know, but still think about the security forces and sedans, capital, how to have fond tear gas at marches, protesting against the military government and power. since a qu lost here had been, morgan has more from cotton, 6 months to dance military over through a transitional government of 2 years that was meant to lead to down to democracy and took over power. and the protest movement against that takeover has not halted . people have been taking to the streets for months to void, their opposition to the military take over. and on thursday,

in the capital harpoon, thousands once again took to the streets to voice their opposition protest, her cried to make their way to the presidential palace, to void their opposition to the military. being in power, security forces use tear gas and live ammunition to disperse protesters. not the un has previously described the force being used by security against the anom protesters as brutal and excessive with at least 90 protesters, killed and hundreds injured. and protests against the military. the un mission here in sudan, as well as the african union and the regional inter governmental authority for development have launched a facilitation process. a process that is meant to bring all the political actors and political parties as when a civil societies incident together to a round table discussion to try to find a way out of the political deadlock that has been created since the military took over. there is currently no functioning government, there is a caretaker government that has been appointed by the head of the military,

general ogden for that and behind there is no prime minister appointed since the military takeover or rather since prime minister, abdullah ham doke, resigned in january are following opposition from the streets, no resistance committees, the bodies that have been organizing the protests against the military are divided . some say they are ready to indirectly negotiate. while others say that they don't want to sit down with the military and give them legitimacy. but all agree on one thing that they want to continue the to worcester opposition against the military takeover. and they want to see a civilian government being put back in place with the military being removed from students politics and returned to their barracks and to dance. once again, under path of democratic transition, ah kimbrough. with headlines on al jazeera, the world health organization says nearly 15000000 people have died from coven 19

in the past 2 years. way more than originally thought. new numbers include deaths linked to the pandemic strain on health care system.