and to seek their consent. the tiny seemingly community has won a huge battle, but it may not necessarily have the last word. since the court ruling does leave room for exceptions in the name of overriding national interests. ah, ukraine says nearly 500 civilians have now been rescued in maryville wells. russia continues as shelling in the east. ah and i there i am nora. kyle, this is al jazeera, alive from doha. also coming up. a search is underway in israel, up to 3 people, a stop to death in the city of a lad. a nationwide strike and shall anchor off to weeks of protests against the government handling of the economic crisis. and polls in the philippines suggest

a solid lead for the son of formerly to fed them. macos in monday's presidential elections, near humanitarian corridors are due to open in the coming hours to get more people out of ukraine's besieged city of mary. a poll, but ukrainian officials say russia is still attacking the as of south steel plant in the port city. despite a ceasefire. the report, nearly 500 people have now made it out of mariposa, but some 200 civilians, and 2000 ukrainian fighters are trapped in the industrial area. catalog has hot again reports it's considered the last pocket of ukrainian resistance in the shattered city of mario pool. and the scene of the heavy fighting for weeks ukrainian forces, se russians are attacking the assal, stall, steel factory,

where civilians and soldiers are sheltering an underground bunkers. i had been better. some of the estimate of 2000 besieged fighters, including women, sing in the dark and wait for me, there's not enough food or ammunition. even if outnumbered, they say they have no intention of surrendering. 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 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. which a which the bony rebrand 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 going on today. i spoke to you and secretary general antonio gutierrez and we discuss what we have already achieved and what is still necessary to do to save mary pole 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. the kremlin, says accusations of broken promises or propaganda way in the training side. and especially those who are hiding in the as of style planned, a well known for producing an enormous number of lies and folks every day. so we should carefully filled out 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 the next month, when it hopes more weapons from allies will have arrived. castillo this of the

young al jazeera. the inspector general says he hopes coordination between moscow and keith will allow the evacuation to continue so far. in total, nearly $500.00 civilian song found a long way to awaited relief after living and the relentless shelling and scarce availability of water, food and sanitation. the factories of cher, moving tales with un stuff marvellous children and frail girls parents spoke of that trauma somewhat urgent need the medical attention. i hope that the continued coordination with moscow and key will lead to more military balls and civilian safe passage from the fighting and 8 to reach those in critical needs. we must continue to do all we can to get people out of these l scapes. let's look at the situation on the ground in the ukraine and in read all the areas held by russia and it

separative allies there on the offensive in the east and the south. and these areas show where fighting has been the heaviest. in the past 24 hours, officials in the eastern city of crime, a tourist say at these 25 people have been injured in russian shelling several homes of school and other civilian infrastructure were damaged. the city is near the front line of fighting in the queen's on at provence. charles dropped and report the. the explosion left a crate to around 3 meters deep, flat and the surrounding residential apartment blocks were destroyed. the blast shredded trees in the park were children, usually clay. this was one of a number of attacks across criminals. in what was the largest similar sailors barrage of rockets in the city. since russia invaded ukraine over 2 months ago. we were sleeping, wakened by a series of explosions before there was one mass of bluff. 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 are below. now. 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 blast. 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 it towards cremmit sauce. and they bring savanski from the north. we drove north

towards the russian controlled city of discarded blood soaked bandages, and a stretcher, wounded. ukrainian soldier had been transferred to an ambulance only minutes before st. it's a pretty big show. when all calls go along the road, they start shutting it in a show. any vague ambulances vehicles, as you say, it doesn't matter. ukrainian soldiers hide in the forest from russian drones above . hillary shell casings, litter the ground. the soldiers won't let us fill me with a claim they have repelled 3 waves of russian attacks from the last week. they gave us this video, they claim shows them retreating from rational hillary far, you'll say, well now holding good friendship position. what they currently called do is stop cities like criminals from coming under russian sharks, charles trav at alger 0,

criminals, police and israel searching for 2 men suspected of stopping attack in the central city of a lad. they have released these pictures of the past. 3 people were killed and several others injured and thursdays, attack, staffing decor reports from west jerusalem. oh, the attack happened as israel celebrated 74 years of independence. this time in a lad and ultra orthodox city in the center of the country, a lad is very close to the occupied west bank. residents came out to protest in the off to moth. it's the latest in the 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. u. n. middle east envoy tor venice. lun tweeted with saying he was pulled by the attack and that it was deplorable that hamas and others continued to glorify and encourage such acts. without warning with opening the la houghton,

mostly the lot is really 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 alexa most compound . referring to the recent escalations at the site by the entry of jewish religious ultra nationalists. and encouraging individual attacks. defense minister ban against met with the military chief of staff and his ready prime minister naturally bennett was being updated on the situation. the border crossings from gaza and the occupied west bank, enclosed since tuesday afternoon, due to memorial day and independence day in 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 withdrew slim. people are gathering for another nationwide strike and shoreline come. the latest protest amounting the government's resignation. millions of workers are expected to stay off the job on friday as anger mounts against the worst economic crisis in 70 years had been months of power

cuts on shortages of food, fuel and medicines. no fernandez joins us now from the capital, colombo min, hell, how successful is this strike bang? the trade unions that are behind the organizing of the strike say that it is very successful. i'm standing here in the heart of a, one of columbus main commercial districts. it's a wholesale and retail capital and if you can just see over my shoulder, it's almost sort of deserted. all the shops pretty much are shuttered and bear in mind this is very much an area that does millions of repairs or dollars worth of business a day. and everyone has extended support to the strike or hartsville, as it's called a locally where it means a complete shut down, in addition to people staying away from their jobs. now, on our way here, we saw

a number of processions of government workers. workers of banks basically going in procession. some of them are joining those already outside the president's office in the gold face to add their support to that campaign for president roger boxer, his brother, my and the roger box and the government to go home. i still calling for the resignation of the governments of the strike in itself of from what we're seeing in certain capitals, in certain town centers, black flags, poster slogans, being sort of put up a little pockets of demonstrators coming together, shouting slogans. and it's believed to continue for the rest of the day. laura doesn't seem to be much reaction from the government. what's happening in parliament in essentially the government, as it has all of these weeks, remained largely silent in the pro, in the face of such anger and frustration. bry protesters, they have gone through

a series of sort of options if you like, changing the cabinet, bringing in new faces. but for the protests, as they say none of these stopped gap measures are going to work. the only thing the protest her say that will make them stop is for the president, the prime minister and the entire government to resign. so that's what's happening yesterday. however, we have seen that parliament has resumed for a couple of days this week. and yesterday there was a vote taken in parliament. obviously not that much awaited no confidence motion. but there was a vote to select a new deputy speaker. and now the government did not put forward its own candidate . the deputy speaker was from a party that had been aligned with the government that sort of sat as independence, but there was a vote. and at the end of the day, the government actually supported the same individual who ran again. but why i'm getting to this is that the election of that individual happened within excess of

150 wards. that as the opposition, the s j b had a much lower number of votes and it's candidate was defeated. so still, if you look at parliament and this was also something that created a lot of anger among the public because what they say is the parliament, the legislatures who have been elected, chosen and put there by the people don't seem to be listening to the public's voice, and that is something that is really winding up the people again, we are having a group of protest as still outside parliament during sessions to day. and the protest are continuing as the strike goes ahead. obviously the strikers are also wanting that if the government does not heed that called this one day strike and her thought might just turn into an indefinite one in a few days time. okay, we'll try and keep a close on event sound rank mil, fernandez reporting from colombo, thanks very much. still had hair on out. is there an human rights group? say innocent people have been rounded up in

a crackdown on gangs in el salvador. ah hello, i'm pleased to say we have now got try a brighter and warmer weather. coming back into that east aside off spain at area cloud. and right the sundry downpours that cause the flooding in valencia most other places now pushing out into the mediterranean. that's because we got high pressure knocking in from the atlantic. i see a source high now heavy effect to just quieting things down. nicely. warmer weather, coming back in that wet weather though it's still there. it's going to push its way across sardinia, corsica. easing across into italy somewhere to whether they are the central part so of europe i, which was a west lottie dry. some shower right is coming in across from scotland. no in england down cross wells as we go on through friday,

sinking further southwards denise was as we go on through sassed, a brighter weather coming back in behind some lovely sunshine. and the sunshine will continue across western pass madrid at around $24.00 celsius a $21.00 and i bathe her as a little more like it. now we have got some of that way. weather also affecting the north west of africa. so northern areas of algeria seems very wet, very windy weather. we are likely to see some flooding here as we go on through friday and on into saturday. the weather weather coming in across so good party to nicea. meanwhile, showers continue for west africa. ah frank assessments, what are the political risks of batting russian oil? a gas for western leaders will sanctions on russian energy exports such informed opinions, france is not abandoning to fight against jedi, still resumed the area. they're going to be acting from nisha and from chad

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, again you're watching out, is there a his reminder of our top story is this. our new humanitarian corridors are due to open to get more people out of ukraine's perceived city of merrier poll. but ukrainian officials say russia is still attacking the as of self steel plant despite a cease fire police in israel, a searching for 2 men suspected of stopping attack and the central says you have allowed. 3 people were killed and several others injured. attack happened as israel

celebrated 74 years of independence. and a nation wide strike is underwent lanka with millions of workers that don't work on friday. it's the latest protest calling for the government to resign. the country faces its worst economic crisis in 70 years. authorities in fiji, have seized a super yacht owned by a sanctioned russian businessman after a request by the us. the $300000000.00 vessel is believed to belong to philip and caramel, who made billions of dollars in fossil fuels. the white house says it will use every all 30. it has to go off to russians suspected of corruption. moscow is preparing a military parade to might be 77th anniversary of victory day as the end of the soviet union's war against nazi germany. and of the commemoration veterans of the war have been meeting the public has been reported. russian president vladimir putin wants a major victory in ukraine in time for the parade. on monday. ukraine claims moscow

wants to annex the southern region of kirsten. that would create a land corridor between russia and crimea. hope to hurry up to her mead traveled to the villages along the southern frontline, desperate to leave the russian occupation. they cycle then walked for hours under cover of darkness. little did the last we had got unfortunately i'm going to kill me, says this woman, suspicious as the ukrainian police register new arrivals. this was their 4th attempt to flee the her son region where life had become unbearable, says vladimir. yet his and i don't you don't know the air is different here. he says there was a tumble. a sure person may bring a little finance another, discovered to stay there was more dangerous. we decided to take the risk when there were attempts for humanitarian corridors, and people went to the meeting point with white flags. but the soldiers dispersed us instead of you on a corridor,

then go to crimea for when the bluff. that's when people started finding other ways to reach the ukrainian side. what's the level of the bed, the court with forward, the bill all gets it sooner shows as the warehouse where bikes, we've, chairs, primes, and even wheelbarrows are held. people used whatever they had. she says, so the russians of our 3 kilometers away from here. those coming down region crossed the lines and no, no man's land between the 2 armies and hope not to get in the crossfire. it's a treacherous passage, but it's the only escape route to see about love to vermont. thank you guys, we're waiting for you. he says, the armies holding is defensive position, but ukraine claims the russians are preparing for a major push here. and this fear that the soldiers could be out gun, while most of the western weapons had to dumb best region in the east of the country and was congress clara to feminine. we need heavy weapons artillery

javelins, drones, because they have a lot of weapons. the russians don't care about saving their soldiers lives and the advance like works. we who hundreds of them lie in the fields work. nobody collects the bodies, but they have a lot of weapons. the villages along the contact line come under shelling the rumble of artillery sounds at regular intervals, but is the fear of an imminent annexation. just like what happened in crimea and in dumbass, 8 years ago that i pushing people to cross front lines on their own. her dad will meet algebra in southern ukraine. elections in the philippines will be held on monday with a pole is being described as the most important in the country's history. top 2 contenders of frontrunner, frontrunner fund and marcos junior and vice president, lenny robledo marcos. as the son of former president ferdinand marcus, who was al said and the people's uprising in 1986. florence louis joins us from

manila and florence. the poles have been described as the most important ever for the philippines. tell us just what's at stake here. that's right, so it's been described as a battle for the soul of the nation. a make or break moment for this country. now, during the last 6 years on the president, rodrigo detect a philippines as seen as having back slighted in democracy. rodrigo did. they carried out a war on drugs which saw an estimated 6000 people killed. and that's just according to government figures, rights groups estimate that the real number could be 5 times higher. now, his war on drugs is being investigated by the united nations and the international criminal court for human rights abuses. not only that president today was accused of targeting critics and opponents, using a combination of jammed up criminal charges, threats, and intimidation. his political party has endorsed marco's junior. so,

there are concerns that marco's junior, becoming president could mean more of the same thing. now, not only that, there is also the markov family name. now granted, marcus junior is not the same person as his dictator. father put it in mar course, but there ought signals or small indications that his rule could mean could, could really be quite similar. not only as he sidestepped issues of his father's corrupt and authoritarian rule, but he's attempted to portray that period as a period of prosperity for filipinos. and he also has an apologize for rights abuse is committed during that time instead praising his father for his genius and leadership. so the question, i think for the philippines and the final come to visit election is, well, it could put philippine on the part towards more authoritarian rule. ok, france leave it there for the moment. thanks very much for bringing the latest on the philippines elections now. counting is underway in elections in northern

islands, regional assembly, where a party that wants to leave the u. k. is expected to come out on top. shouldn't feign was once a political wing of an armed movement that opposed british rule. but it's dream of a united ireland as a long way off, as during the whole 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 isn't going to happen imminently. and many voters were swayed instead by more immediate concerns. oh, united allens on the cardinal data. on up to important to me. what do you think the chief thing capable of us for to get the rates will get better, better hospitals?

so just to open game, she and fame 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 would have struck fear into the heart of many unionists who already feel marginalized by westminster, the handling of bricks it negotiations with the you and a new trade border in the i receive that they say undermines northern islands place within the united kingdom. that need to get a wakeup call. nobody wants to shouldn't be a minister in the union, a people don't want him to be a minister coach for 1st. first and foremost, if we have a dan, you're going to call for a border pull. i don't know if i thought that even a question mark over whether the democratic unionist party leader will take up his position as deputy 1st minister behind shin feigns michel, neal. jeffrey donaldson says he wants to see border protocol removed 1st. in

northern ireland, symbolism matters hugely. so while power sharing enshrined in 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 pow was the changing of places in the storm assembly in this election carries enormous symbolic way unionism is in a very, i'm place. northern ireland had its and teen re last year, the celebrations were muted and there was a sense of the future 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, the resources, all agreements in the protocol and but 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, a government offensive, and el salvador against criminal gangs has led to the arrest of 22000 people. the crackdown has popular support, but in special rights groups they innocent people are also ending up in jail. john holeman reports, 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 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 and 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 sons, one of the latter he sells face must a hospital. 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. don't get a 2nd 100 percent on the hunting offender, 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 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,

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 labor kelly's actions. muhammad boredom, we have stopped being extortion. we're not being anything now. the 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 arrest confusion of brutality, this will actually work. john holman, out 0 here. senate majority leader chuck schumer says the senate will vote next week on whether a woman's right to an abortion should be protected by federal law. had been more demonstrations after a leak draft opinion suggests, and supreme court justices were poised to reverse abortion legislation. roe vs wade

has stood since 1973 and guarantees the legal rights. the procedure. about half of all your states are expected to ban or limit abortion if the landmark ruling is overturned. his president joe biden has named corinne john pierre as his next press . secretary, she is the 1st black woman and openly gay person to hold the roll. she replaced jen packee, his stepping down to take up a new position at a u. s. television network. powerful tornadoes have left thousands of people without power in the us. state of oklahoma, homes and businesses were damaged wednesday night storms, which caused flooding and parts of the state and arkansas. officials are using drones to assess the damage. southern states have been told to brace themselves for yet more severe weather this friday. the 3rd team of astronauts sent into orbit by space x has landed in the us. dragon capture splashed down off the florida coast.

after a 23 hour return journey from the instructional space station for astronauts conducted hundreds of research projects during that 6 month mission. they also welcomes the 1st civilian crew to the space station. every team will perform ah, without a 0. these are our top stories. new humanitarian corridors are due to open to get more people out of ukraine's proceed. city of mario full art ukrainian officials say russia is still attacking the as of cells steel plant despite a cease fire. although it is in fiji. how caesar soupy ot owned by a sanctioned russian businessman off for a request by the us. $300000000.00 vessel is believed to belong to silliman, caramel, who made billions of dollars in fossil fuels. the white house says it will use every all 30. it has.