unscripted on al jazeera. ah re, i'll josie with blue . another deadly attack ne, a televi. 3 people killed and several injured. ah. hello, i money inside this is out. is there a life and die also coming up? have a fighting rages on at the besieged steel plant. in modern poll, despite russia announcing a ceasefire to allow more ukrainian civilians to evacuate the world health organization shocks the world. announcing 15000000 people have died of cove. it

that's more than twice the official global death toll on fees that many innocent people are among the $22000.00 suspects, swept out in those salvador was cracked down on gags ah, at least 3 people have been killed in a stabbing attack in israel for others have been wounded. it happened in the central city of lab near tel aviv as people celebrate of the day israel referred to as independence day. 70 deca has this report. oh, the attack happened as israel celebrated 74 years of independence. this time in a lad, an ultra orthodox city in the center of the country. a lad is very close to the occupied west bank. we do not so her full indication of it's

a one terrorist or more. we are conducting ah, chase after him. now we have a helicopter with us, and we are sucking roadblocks in order to catch him. residents came out to protest in the aftermath. it's the latest in a series of attacks carried out by individuals across israel, which is left at least 14 israelis dead. a spokesperson for hamas reacted by saying these attacks were the result of israel's occupation. the palestinians un middle east envoy tor venis lunch tweeted saying he was pulled by the attack and that it was deplorable that hamas and others continue to glorify and encourage such acts. with a warning with fulton in the logo houghton, mostly the lot is ready me to replayed a clip from acid leader in gaza. yes. in war, who in a fiery speech last week called on palestine was to protect the luxembourg compound . referring to the recent escalations at the site by the entry of jewish religious ultra nationalists and encouraging individual attacks. defense minister,

many guns met with the military chief of staff and these weighty prime minister naturally bennett, was being updated on the situation. the border crossings from garza and the occupied west bank had been closed since tuesday afternoon, due to memorial day and independence day. and what a standard procedure doing events like these in israel, the west bank closure has now been extended until sunday. as a result of this attack, stephanie decker al jazeera west drew slim. while the attack came out as aft as riley forces engines, 16 palestinians an arrest. the dozens of others at the alex said, most compound in occupied east jerusalem. made a report say, elderly men and young children are among those detained. israeli police find rubber bullets of palestinian groups who they accuse of throwing stones. the confrontation began alta. jewish worshippers were allowed on the site for the 1st time since the end of ramadan. alex i compound is one of the most volatile flashpoints in occupied east jerusalem. i can 967 jordan and israel agreed that the walk up for as la mc

trust would control the compound with israel. responsible for external security temple mount, as it's called by jews, is revered by worshippers, who pray at the west and wool as the compound. it also contains 2 of us lambs, hurley, asides the alexa moss, and the dome of the rock shrine. only muslims are allowed to pray inside the compound juice can pray outside. while the spokeswoman for the un secretary general stefan germanic says the escalating tension of the holy sites is disturbing. we remain deeply concerned about the ongoing tensions in jerusalem, particularly around the holy sites. we once again repeat, read the rate of our position of the status quo at the holy sites must be upheld and respected. no excuse for any violence, no excuse for any provocations of the holy esplanade. and they must stop. now to

prevent any further escalations, our representative on the ground to venice lawn remains in touch. oh, with all the roving parties to urge her to urge, call, and urge her restraint. ah, to ukraine now where heavy fighting has continued at the besieged stay applause and moto po, this is despite russia announcing a ceasefire. the site allows civilians out. some $200.00 civilians are still trapped there. many of them women and children, together with about 2000 ukrainian fighters. the un has been working with both sides to get people off safely. katya lopez hoodie. ann has this report. ah, 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, the russians are attacking the assholes. saul steel factory were civilians and soldiers or sheltering an underground bunkers, friday night bone, better. some of the estimate of 2000 besieged fighters, including women, sing in the dark and wait with there's not enough food or ammunition, even if out numbered. they say they have no intention of surrendering the threat of the water for watering of the heavy, bloody fighting his going on for 71 day. the defenders of the city have been fighting single handedly 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 remained tramp alongside ukrainian soldiers. what you watch when you

were already one my family to get out, but not the way we did. it was a miracle, and we managed to live on the verge of life and death. ukraine's president is appealing for help to get the others to safety. issue is going to run is 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 merrier poll city. there is not a single day that i and my team wouldn't do this and i'm grateful to everybody who helps the kremlin, says accusations of broken promises or propaganda way. and then chris is the training side, and especially those who are hiding in the as of style planned a well 9 producing an enormous number of laws and folks every day. so we should carefully feel that 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. castillo, this was a young al jazeera while v u. n. sexy genuine. so new to tennis says he hopes coordination between moscow and keith will allow b evacuations to continue. so, flooding total, nearly $500.00 civilians, strong, found long way to awaited relief after leaving and the relentless showing and sketch availability of water, food and sanitation. the factories of shared moving tales with un stuff. mother's children and frail go parents spoke of their trauma somewhat. he noted neither medical attention. i hope that the continued coordination with ma squint key will lead to more humanitarian pauses. when all civilians safe passage from the fighting and 8 to reach those in critical needs. we must continue to do all we can to get

people all of these l scapes. meanwhile, officials in the eastern city of clamor task say, at least 25 people have been injured in russian shelling several homes. a school and other civilian infrastructure has been damaged. the city is near the frontline of fighting in ukraine's done yet, province. russia's army has been pushing towards commer. tosca movie ukrainian forces have been struggling to block. charles strafford has the latest the explosion left a creature around 3 meters deep flash and the surrounding residential. pablo blocks were destroyed, the blast shredded trees in the park where children usually play. this was one of a number of attacks across criminals. in what was the largest similar samian barrage of rockets in the city. since russia invaded ukraine organ 2 months ago.

we were sleeping in wakened by a series of explosions before there was one mass of blast. thank god, no one was killed. a couple of kilometers away. this parade of shops and small businesses was also hit. the city men says that 25 people were injured in the attacks. it's miraculous that nobody was killed. soldiers have collected shrapnel to try and identified a weapon that was used until i heard it was a rocket attack. there was a siren and then huge explosion. my apartment is about 100 meters from and all the windows blown out. the scale of the destruction here shows you just how powerful the explosion was. there are tens of flaps that have been pretty much completely destroyed in the bloss. ukrainian police say that they believe that this was a russian as strike and it comes at a time when the ukraine in all me say that russian forces are trying to push into

was cremmit source and they bring savanski from the north. we drove north towards the russian control city of museum. we discarded blood soaked bandages, and a stretcher. wounded ukrainian soldier had been transferred to an ambulance. only minutes before us really so much in a pretty big show. when all calls go along the road, they start shutting. is it an issue? any ambulances, vehicles you say, it doesn't matter? ukrainian soldiers hide in the forest from russian drones above. artillery shell casings lit to the ground. the soldiers will, that is filled with a claim. they have repelled 3 waves of russian attacks with the last week. i think he was this video, the claim shows them retreating from rational to the reform. you'll say, well, no hold is good to friendship position. what the coldly cold do you stop?

cities like criminals from coming home to russian turns chill stratford, l 0. criminal tools or international donors have raised about 6 and a half $1000000000.00 for ukraine. european leaders and officials were in the polish capital wu, sulfur conference aimed at helping keep cope with the economic and humanitarian phone out of the wall. it, as of course, triggered europe's west refugee crisis since well will to moscow is meanwhile preparing a military parade to mount the 17 7th anniversary of the soviet victory over nancy . germany known as victory day crowns wars. the wrestle with infantry and military vega was congregating in red square. has been reported that the russian president vladimir pierce in once a major victory in ukraine in time for the parade, which takes place on may. the 9th, there is also speculation. he will use victory day celebrations to officially declare rule on ukraine. the israeli prime minister says

vladimir pearson has apologized for his top diplomats remarks by out of hitler, having jewish origins, rushes foreign minister, say lovegrove made the comments while trying to justify russia's claim. it was d, not so fine ukraine. and despite the fact that ukraine's president is jewish, and he also said jewish people can be the most odd anti semites. still a head on out is era. kids arising be on the wall for british rule and all the not and where in belfast as voting ends in a historic election facing justice or a witch hunt guineas. former president is back in the country, an under house arrest. ah

hello the stormy weather, the severe storms swept across oklahoma and texas. they're not quite done with us just yet. so courtesy of this area of low pressure which will drift across the plane to central plains easing up towards the northeast, over the next day or so. i just don't water se we are still pulling up that warm moist. they're out of the gulf of mexico. see temperatures into the low 30, his hear, some of that warmth actually stretching out broad across the plays up towards the canadian prairies. 21 celsius for calgary on thursday will transfer into an 18 as we go on 3 friday as some re, some sleep snow. also pushes in from western canada into the pacific northwest. that stormy weather that we have around the place that is pushing up towards the appalachians, easing up towards the lakes, nudging up towards new england, grassy, sweeping through. as we go on through sass day, brightest guys do come back in behind. it warms up in houston, tampa,

just getting up to 35 degrees celsius colstat in calgary top temperature, just 11 degrees here. so quite a change over the next few days. not change too. much across the caribbean, we still have showers lurking around cuba hispaniola and also into jamaica. not too bad for the eastern island, so the water to showers over the next couple of days. ah, for over 15 years that converts the i'm conflict, the natural disasters in the political upheaval in the philippines. parents tell us they walked for hours with their children just to get to have those stories of orphan widows, rebels and soldiers bearing witness to not only their suffering, but also the hard won victories of ordinary people. as a filipino, as a woman, it is a rare privilege to tell the stories of my own people to a global audience. lou

lou, welcome back you watching out. as a reminder, on top stories us our at least 3 people have been killed in a stabbing attack in the israeli city of a lot near television. and he say they suspect the attack has fled in a vehicle for others were wounded. 2 of them are in serious condition. ukraine says russia still attacking the besieged steel plum and not a pole, despite declaring a ceasefire to lead civilians leave. oscar denies it's broken. the agreements around 200 civilians are trapped inside of tennessee you and has been trying to get them out in the eastern ukrainians to see it from a post at least 25 people have been injured in russian. shelling homes of school

and civilian infrastructure were damaged cave says it's trying to fend off russian troops pushing towards the city. the world health organization says that the coven 19 pandemic lead to many more deaths than previously thought. nearly that triple that est estimates of the almost 15000000 people died directly or indirectly from the virus in the past 2 years. on the j, castro reports the world health organizations estimate of close to 15000000 global deaths due to coven 19 is nearly 3 times the official death count of just under 5 and a half 1000000. as reported by governments. the w h o says it used statistical modeling to arrive at the expanded number, which includes death directly from cove it and from other medical conditions that went untreated due to the pandemic strain on health systems. this is extremely

important information for anyone to have, especially policy makers and the public. we need to know the true goal of the pandemic. we have to remember that behind these numbers are people. according to the w. h o's report covered related deaths in india were nearly 10 times higher than the official count. indian health officials pushed back against the report thursday, attacking the w h chose use of statistical modeling. please be sure that these guy know presumptions to reuse for the national park size. norfolk argument size i am to pull doesn't, would like this, not design. other countries with large discrepancies, include pakistan, where, according to the w, h o, excess deaths were 8 times higher than the official covey death count. in egypt, it was 12 times higher. and in mexico it was double. i think on the experts all along i were very aware of the,

i let 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 on a counter or the w h o says most of the excess deaths were concentrated in southeast asia, europe, and the americas, and were in middle income countries. they also confirmed the global death toll was higher for men who accounted for 57 percent of deaths. the w h o is the 1st to caution that it's report on global code related deaths is an estimate and thus imperfect. but the agency says it is nevertheless important to get an accurate accounting of those head demick tools to better prepare for future threats. hydro castro al jazeera washington holes of closed in northern ireland where a party that wants to leave the united kingdom is predicted to come out on top in elections for the regional assembly. sion fane was once the political wing of an

armed movement which opposed british rule, but its dream of a united ireland is still a long way off journal reports from belfast. a win for the nationalist shin, feign as opinion polls predict, would make history in northern ireland. it up ends a century of dominance by parties dedicated to the union with great britain putting on top a republican party that exists to forge a united ireland. that is going to happen imminently, and many voters were swayed instead by more immediate concerns. all united allens on the cards, new database. on up to important to me. what do you think the chief thing capable of us for to get the rates will get better and better hospitals? so just to be open again. she frame was once the political face of the irish republican army that waged

a decades long conflict with the british army and pro british loyalist paramilitaries. its electoral success with struck fear into the heart of many unionists who already feel marginalized by westminster as handling of breakfast negotiations with the you and a new trade boarder in the i receive that they say undermines northern islands place within the united kingdom that need to get a wake up call my. nobody wants to shouldn't be a minister. in the union, the people don't want him to be a minister coach for 1st, 1st and foremost, if we have a day and you're going to call for a border poll, and there's no guide if there's even a question mark over whether the democratic unionist party leader will take up his position as deputy 1st minister behind shin feigns michel o niel. jeffrey donaldson says he wants to see border protocol removed 1st. in northern ireland symbolism matters hugely. so while power sharing and shrine to the

good friday peace agreement ensures that the positions of 1st minister and deputy 1st minister shared between the largest unionist nationalists parties have exactly equal powers. the changing of places in the storm assembly in this election carries enormous symbolic way. unionism is in a very place, northern ireland had its antique re laskey in the celebrations of rather muted. and there was the sense of the feature of the union, very much being at stake. and partly because for exit and what that mean for northern ireland change relationship between overland and the rest of the u. k. with all agreements in the protocol. and that also what's going on with in unionism itself, it's very fragmented. and with that fragmentation comes the uncertainty over political stability in the short term and longer term questions about the future of northern ireland itself. joe al jazeera belfast us stock market have slumped

to day on to the federal reserve announced its biggest interest rate increase in more than 2 decades. all 3 major american indices were down with the dow jones. dropping about 3 percent. tech stocks led the sell off. the decline was john ganes wednesday as investors faced the most aggressive tightening of us monetary policy since 2000. because salumi has, well, this comes one day after the federal reserve decided to raise interest rates a half a percentage point. that increase was widely anticipated and the market actually rallied after the announcement. it seemed to take comfort in the fact that the federal reserve chairman jerome powell said that there were not planning to raise interest rates more than 5 percent going forward. and in a bigger chunk that they would keep this kind of pace going forward. and the markets were reassured by that it rallied,

but today we're seeing all of those games are raced and investors seem to be having 2nd thoughts about where the economy is going and renewed fears that a recession could be looming. one key indicator that came out today is productivity . u. s. productivity declined 7 and a half percent in the 1st quarter. that's the most. it's declined in many, many years since 1947. so that's a big concern at a time when labor costs are up and that's a combination that is going to weigh on profits for companies. and so investors are concerned and pulling back. so today's declines have completely erased the games that were made yesterday, indicating a very volatile market in a very concerned group of investors. the president has named korea john peers, the next white house press secretary. so in pairs, the 1st black woman, an openly l b gc pass and to hold the role, she will replace jen saki who she has fills in for throughout biden's

administration. the board president of guinea is back on the house arrest as police investigate him for alleged crimes, while in office of a cold day was ousted from power, entertained and administered last september. supposed to say it's a political witch hunt, nicholas hacker boats. the deposed president of guinea no longer a free man, but under house arrest the once feared leader seen as untouchable and above the law is facing justice guineas, attorney general ordered legal proceedings against alpha con day and 26. former members of his government. they're accused of murder, torture, sexual violence, and the destruction of public property called his party member say, it's a political witch hunt exit adequacy b. r. p. janet allies demand the respect of the principle of presumption of innocence and a deeply to zation of the current procedure. consider suspending its participation

in the national meetings recalled the need to appoint an international mediator in the game and crisis. it was only after connie was deposed in a qu last september, that the investigation was open for crimes committed during his time. and office security forces fired bullets at protest years in the run up to con days contested reelection in 2020 the 84 year old changed the constitution allowing him to run for a 3rd term rights group say at least 40 protests were killed and around $200.00 injured in the months leading up to the election guineas military leader, general mama d. dubois fired all 40 generals accused of involvement in the killings. he promises a corruption clean up saying the powerful will face justice. but in a tv address on sunday, he pointed out that the free and fair elections won't happen for another 3 years. while visiting west africa this week, the un secretary general, called on guineas,

leader to hand overpowered to 8 civilian administration. immediately the regional body echoes has imposed sanctions because of the election delay debris. his rule is seen by his critics as a step back for democracy, but condo. his arrest is being seen as a stepped forward for justice in a country where. impunity for the powerful has long been the rule. nicholas hawk al jazeera, a government offensive in el salvador against criminal gangs, has led to the arrest of 22000 people. the crackdown has popular support, but international rights group say innocent people are ending up in jail to john hallman reports. this is the image that the o 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 saying good bye to a husband or a son, as a disappearance of the salvador and 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 salvador in 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 and the loose code out to 0. her son's one of the latter, he sells face moss to hospitals. she says and helps her get by now she's used the quarter of what she makes in a month at a market still to try me free him. don't get a 2nd 100 percent on the hunting offensive,

but i don't know why the president is doing this to innocent. people have people that aren't guilty. i can find someone's done something they should pay. but the not guilty now li, 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, a well known m s. 13 stronghold. so just question search everyone going in and out . but an overwhelming number of salvadorans approve of president night. bu kelly's actions are hamilton. we have stopped bain extortion. we're not being anything now . the gang members have been being seen. they have practically disappear, and business is flowing. bullard no 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 arrest, confusion, or brutality, this will actually work. john holeman al jazeera tornado warnings have been issued in the united states following damage to homes and businesses. penny say some people were trapped when a twista struck buildings near oklahoma city. ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stories. and these 3 people have been killed in a stabbing attack in the israeli city of a lot near tel aviv police sight. i suspect the attack as fled in a vehicle for others were wounded. turn them on serious condition. stephanie deck has moved from west jerusalem. 3 killed, 4 wounded, 2 of them critically. the attack took place in various parts of the city of.