and reconciliation, permission for this former warlord liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country, ah, ah, the palestinian authority says it welcomes international support and investigating the death of ounces here, a journalist serene abruptly. ah, i'm the bulkhead this is al, jazeera ly from london. also coming up, people returned to what's left of their homes in and around kyle keith, as russian troops would draw off to bombarding the city for almost 3 months. ah, protest is out in full, stormy up support for abortion rice,

the united states temperature's reach 50 degrees celsius in parts of pakistan, sparking fears that mouse iglesias could lead to flash flooding with the palestinian authority as it welcomes international support in investigating the murder of al jazeera journalist, sharina blackly. ah israeli police attack mourners at the funeral procession on friday. forcing the poll barris to nearly dropped sharon's casket, israel's police chief was ordered an investigation at the office. his actions sharina was shot in the head by authority forces on wednesday morning. while covering a ray to be occupied, westbank nick clock is an occupied east, jerusalem. he has more on the international reaction to those images of his railey

forces, attacking mourners. it's been a quiet day here and occupied easter islam of the high emotion of serene. i will atlas funeral, we saw those extraordinary scenes with is ready forces pushing and shoving and kicking people at the casket nearly fell to the ground. the rear window of the hearse was smashed in. and all this drew widespread international criticism which will come to in just a 2nd. but 1st this from the israeli police, they said we will be looking into the events that ensued during the funeral. or the police commissioner in coordination with the minister of public security has instructed an investigation to be conducted amongst the international criticism. there was this from the german foreign minister. as is near dia. it's incredibly important to me and we've made it very clear that her death is explained in a transparent way. and it's even sadder that the funeral ceremony could not be held in peace and dignity. to be honest, i'm deeply shock eat owned,

let's say now from the white house press secretary, we have all seen on those images. they're obviously deeply disturbing out we and this is a day where we should all be marking, including everyone there. the memory of a remarkable journalist who lost her life and we know that there is on we a, with a disturbing footage and from the funeral procession procession today in jerusalem, we regret the intrusion to what should have been a peaceful procession. gen psyche there me while the calls grow for an open and independent investigation. it's a sri and i will atlas death a death, keeley felts here in the region and right across the world. palestinian president, my mood abbas was awarded sharina enclave. a star of jerusalem metal. he received a delegation from al jazeera and commended the bravery of al jazeera journalists. he also committed to investigating sharina killing, saying he will not accept the australians taking part in investigation. ah,

dennis them. we will continue the investigation and will in no way allow israel to be a partner to this investigation because they are killers, and they are the ones who killed her role. this is adding to tensions in the region as it approaches 74 years of what's known as the napa or catastrophe. thus, when several 100000 palestinians were expelled from their land, following the creation of the state of israel. hundreds of people who rallied in london to mark mack by day and the death of sharing about ugly demonstrators marched through the city waving palestinian flags and pitchers of serene ah ukraine says russian troops have withdrawn from its 2nd largest city, clark eve after weeks of heavy bombardment, the city's mer says ukrainian forces have now pushed russian troops far from the region. the russian army has apparently stops its. it's advance in northern harkey,

if instead focusing on guarding supply routes, ukraine's military says russia has intensified its artillery and air strikes in the east and done yet screeching as i beg is in hockey and said this update. while the ukrainian said that the earth, they've managed to push the russians back towards the russian border. now are the russians. is there anyone else? everyone else seems to think that this is a tactical withdrawal, but we've been in khaki. we're in the center of hockey right. now we've been here pretty much a few hours and i can tell you it's a massive change from when we were here just over a month ago. we haven't heard any artillery fire. there's many more people out on the streets, cafes and restaurants are open. this traffic on the streets now, this way is the law, a 2nd largest city in ukraine. and last time we were here, we were told that one 3rd of the city's population had left that nowhere in the city were safe. now that situation has changed dramatically or bit. the governor of a harkey has said that many people are now returning to the city. although in some

of the outskirts of villages and towns of hockey region where the russians have left, he fears that there still may be mines there. so he's asking people to be cautious . but again, her, her give seems to be dead. going back to some sort of normality love the robot has been cleared up from where the air strikes took place and there's not any shelling taking place. been east of the country or the battle continue. and the authorities there say that those fights and those, those battles between the ukrainian, the russian forces are very intense once an idyllic street on the edge of town. now, a giant crater, bricks and mortar ripped apart. this is all that remains after russian forces targeted the outskirts of blackmore in eastern ukraine, with many people's hearts and souls went to building these homes. the war has destroyed so many women. but some people are glad to be alive and grateful for what

they have left from you. thank god, everything is all right. what is there to be scared about? i have 6 children, 5 sons, and one daughter, named grandsons. i've done everything in life. i could his feet crunch on shattered windows as he tries to salvage what he can. yeah. 0, one of his few neighbors who still here offers him a cigarette. in the same town, the russians hit this dormitory with a rocket. were told it was meant to take out a bunker. russians frequently use long range weapons to destroy targets anyway. and ukraine would come another dealer. yes, we found all of that stuff today in the morning when i had explosion, i went down on my knees and the shrapnel came over my head. some people told us they had seen ukrainian military and uria. the front lines are not far away for the russians are making a push for more territory. an ambulance crew heads close to where the battle has

taken place while they wait for casualties from the front line where given camouflage for our vehicle. ah. we've just had to take over because a jet was flying overhead and had to spread out that this is what's happening on a daily basis for even though they're trying to help them. unity, there's no let up in the fighting with forced to turn back. the constant sound of heavy artillery can be heard and felt all day. and all night. i said bake. i jazeera, eastern ukraine. when ukrainian forces have launched

a counter offensive near the russian held town of izzy. and what could prove a serious set back for moscow's plans to capture the entire dumbass region. russian forces have focused much of their fire power on the dumbass in a so called 2nd phase of the invasion, which was announced in april. the ukraine has been re taking territory and it's northeast and is maintaining pressure on troops and is m a near a russian supply line. turkey has offered to carry out a sea of accusation of wounded fight as hold up in the massive as of style still works. murray open the southern port city has suffered weeks of devastating bombardment. the as of style complex is the last hold out of ukrainian defenders, and they say rushes military continues to carry out ass strikes, hundreds of civilians to a sheltering and a plant were evacuated earlier this month. with the help of the red cross and the united nations. why says president vladimir putin has told his finished counterpart, the joining nato would be a mistake sally,

nearest i informed putin of finland's intention to join the alliance and a phone crew on saturday. russia cut off its electricity supply to the country earlier and was seen as retaliation for those plans. russian power accounts for around 10 percent of finland's supply, but the government in helsinki says it's making up the shortfall with imports from sweden, which is also likely to join nato. i hope that that's weird and will also decide to join nato and to get there with finland and that we are making the decisions simultaneously. and hopefully we'll give them or send step locations that we are willing to join nato together. i think this is crucial from the perspective of the whole and nordic and baltic c region, the security i region that we share. i think it's very important that we are making the decisions to get there. will finland and sweden's potential membership has been

the main topic of the nato foreign minister, summit of berlin woods, been opposed by a major member of the alliance, so vast and explains unified support for you? great, that's basically the main theme here, the foreign ministers meeting and berlin. the big topic will be natal membership for finland and sweden. the application is expected to happen in the next few days . it's a big historic moment for both nations who have been neutral for such a long time. but they now say that put into actions and ukraine has pushed them towards nato. with an s sad, it's a big mistake for the nations to join. nato and kremlin has already warned that will be a reaction electricity coming from russia to finland has already been caught up today. and then there's the other hitch president, early one of turkey as that he can't part of the fleet response to nate to membership of the nordic nation. especially sweden. he says, has been hosting what he calls terrorist organizations, and he's talking about goodish workers party,

the p k. k. that's why turkish people predominantly big majority of the turkish people are against the membership of those countries who are supporting a particular k y, p g. paris organization and they're asking us to block this membership. but these are the issues that we need to talk, of course, with our nato allies. all 30 members of nato have to approve the application, and this process will most likely take several months. philip and sweden are mostly worried about this so called gray period when they have not got the protection of article 5, which means an attack on one is an attack on oh, so the come this half hour came young and admit cove. it 19 is causing great turmoil in north korea, which is reported. another $21.00 dance plus ah, ukraine takes the spotlight to the eurovision song contest will cross live to the

grand final, into written ah, the who's in europe and africa. this is the forecast for you here, ron. good to see you. so we'll begin in europe where we've got some thunderstorms breaking out across western france or our weather alerts in play for this activity . it will chug toward the east. so increasing cloud cover for paris and i think showers seem likely at some point in the day on sunday showers dotted across england, wales into scotland, but nothing major here. london, scott, a hi of 23 degrees off to i barrier we go, we've got a push of some atlantic moisture for coastal sections of portugal into the northwest of spain. i gotta tell you the best weather on the continent. central parts of europe, we've got high temperatures here, well above average, full on sunshine. but then there is some rain as we look toward romania into the

balkans and that's leaking into greece. now here's the thing for turkey. central areas, eastern areas where we've got some rain in the forecast for you. south end of africa looks like a breeze off the mediterranean means the temperature in cairo is that $32.00 that's average for the sum of the year or hard met. and wind is really pronounce that we've got storms across the gulf of getting a new oxide at 43 degrees. that's almost 10 above average for dip to the south. now showers pull out of cause zulu new tall into southern motes and beat. so showers to be expected in my put so with the highest 23 degrees c later ah, a unique bullet protest by a palestinian artist using this symbol of national identity to create post agent passport stamps. but us for some burgers and also re dot e life player to be at the conflict anyway, sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict. anamosa. we come to

palestine, palestine some bad stamp of defiance on al jazeera. ah ah, a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, the palestinian authority says it welcomes international support in investigating the boat or of al jazeera journalist, sharina. i will actually. meanwhile, israel's police chief is ordered an investigation into the actions of officers who attack mourners at a funeral. on friday. ukraine says russian troops of withdrawn from its 2nd largest city hall, keith of the weeks of heavy bombardment and rushes,

president vladimir putin has worn his finished counterpart. but joining nato would be a mistake of to finland. and sweden indicated that they would join the alliance. russia has also cut off electricity supplies to say, let's finland have what seen as retaliation for those plans that are brutal, south asian heat wave has made pakistan home to some of the hottest places on earth . the government was warned of crop and water shortages as temperatures reach 50 degrees celsius. come on hider. as more from islamabad, i'm on the outskirts of islam abad and we've been reading some of the fall. murder have just taken care of their rate crop. but i can tell you one thing is 42 degrees already here, and this is only the mid of may average temperature that this time of day recorded are normally 3536 degrees. and the major logical department of gods had issued

a warning came. their temperature may rise by 9 degrees in some places. now it should be no day that jacob odd and the southern province of kindred corday at high of 50, making a hard place in the white for the last few days. and there are warnings that a good crowd of 50, small, which of course, could endangered tens of thousands of people living across pockets on august under the nor devens here proper spring. and the extreme temperature. i now mean that the fruit outboard, they're going to be damaged badly show it registered with production and our country rigid and agricultural economy might see bog going to me body of fall because of lack of range and early heat wave, most of the fruit is lost and the read crop is badly affected and not just dad, while they're in the tread of drought and famine into planes under out that it all

sure and know the warning that the glass up into not and progress on as much remembered has the most glaciers outside the polar regions, day of gosh, where to start melting in foster rate. we have already seen an outburst of one particular glass up into northridge, of course, stripped away bridges. and a warning as that dead extreme redder may also induce flash floods in the not for abortion. rights activists are marching in cities across the united states to demonstrate their support for continued access. they're responding to a leaked memo from the supreme court, which threatened to take away the constitutional right to an abortion, and a draft opinion. a majority of justice is supported overturning the landmark roe vs wade decision which legalize the procedure across the u. s. and congress democrats failed to pass a vote to codify abortion rights. now to republicans voted it down law correspond

kristen salumi is at a rally in new york cur kristin. we've of course, sina huge amounts of her anger in recent days over this. what's the mood like where you are in new york? oh, you're very prevalent. well, you can see the crowd behind me is huge. women and men have come out in force to make their voices heard. they're telling me that they're not going to see abortion rights go away. they're not going to let them go away without a fight. they are not accepting the overturning of roe v wade as a done deal. they're hoping to influence, and i think their passion is even here in the state, like new york, where abortion rights are likely to stay in her. sometimes they're worried that this is just the beginning and they're referencing politicians from other states who are talking about banning abortion nationwide in the future. and they are

determined not to let that happen here in new york. the governor, in fact has set aside $35000000.00 to help women. i'll say perhaps i no longer have abortion near them coming to new york. and there's a story of legislation, era and new york to try to protect those rights in the state constitution. very likely that i see what kind of support there is here behind community. again, for many people, this is an emotional and i the speaker as how many in the crowd have had a also breaking news as an opportunity for conservatives to try to track down on contraception or warning that contraceptive right? oh,

be sacrifice if rosie is allowed to be overturned in there for her another day of action later this month or calling on women. oh, go to work to walk out of school with the ground. here is any god we can expect the big turner. wow. kristen, thank you. well, we can now bring in life from washington. d. c. our correspondent gabriel alexander, who is at a similar rally there. gabriel. these rights of course, are 50 years old. i can imagine a few people expected. that service was a case that was going to be revisited. what are people they're saying about the direction that the country is going in? they don't like it. quite frankly. they think that it's unfair. many people we talked to that the supreme court, a conservative supreme court that's not elected in the united states. the supreme court justices are appointed by wherever the president is. at the time when there's a vacancy. and people here are outraged and you're seeing that outraged now because

there are tens of thousands of people here on the streets in washington dc and they're marching right now right past the u. s. capital. and they're just about a block or 2 away from the supreme court building. and that is where they want to take their message to his directly directly to the supreme court. and what they're saying is, is that the abortion is a health care issue, because many people have told us that if it's banned, it will not stop abortion. in their view, it'll just mean that that women will then have to get illegal unsafe abortions. and that is the real problem, and that's why so many people here are framing this as really a very much of a, a health care issue. and that's why so many people you see are out. let me just step out just for one second here. and you can get a sense of how many people are here on the streets. taking part in this,

this is one of more than 50, actually more than one of more than 250 different rallies, such as this throughout the united states. but the one here in washington dc and the one that my colleague kristen salumi is at and new york clearly are the biggest gabriel, arizona them, washington dc. thank you so much. and just to remind you, the final ruling by the supreme court would be bait this summer. the north korea's leader says coven 19! has thrust his country into great turmoil, and has called for an all out battle to contain its spread, came young and has imposed a nationwide locked down after acknowledging a corona virus outbreak for the 1st time. 2 days ago. those korean state media reported 21 deaths in the last day among people with a fever. only one death has been formally attributed to the armor chron variance of coven 19. and the next hour, the final of the eurovision song contest kicks off with ukraine. favorite to win

this year's event. it's entry. the collusion orchestra is riding a wave of public support after russia's invasion. their song is attribute to ukraine, which mixes wrap with traditional folk music. while adam rainy joins us from trent in northern italy outside the venue, adam. so ukraine has taken center sage as i was saying for sure, nave, i mean february 24th ukraine changed with the war that began there when russian evaded europe changed the world change and your vision changed from that moment on the favor in this competition here. saturday night and turn had been carlos orchestra. that's because with the war raging was so much pain. so much video coming out of there. it's kept all this focus on one group from ukraine. oh,

the hands on favor in the eurovision song contest ukraine's colors orchestra rehearses for the biggest performance of their lives. but they're carrying the hopes of their country devastated by russia's war against ukraine. ah, did you go to, can them in any year their song, stephanie, with fusion of wrap in ukrainian folk music would have probably been a hit. it's an ode to the lead singer's mother, but with the war region it's taken on new meaning. ah, this is tiffany, i will on up with indeed that song, stephanie, it was written long before the war and it was dedicated to my mother on a lot after it all started with the war in the hostilities. it took on an additional meaning. and many people started seeing it as their mother, ukraine. the all male band was given special permission to lead ukraine. one of its members is still fighting tooth ukrainian fans in italy say

a win here would mean everything original. this like a breach, because it's normal life that we have before the war started and may be like for a couple of units for an hour a day, which is still safe and it would mean the loss if a me and a lot. stephanie had turned in to you, ah, song about everyone's mom and ukraine as a mom, mom to us all. and we're seen and about mom the to you fighting for. ah, but victory is not a short thing. of course, there are 24 other fine was taken the stage and turn on saturday. you case sam ryder, a tick tock star. his generated buzz too. as has norway subwoofer for their song and their antics it because i will say making finals, baseless entrant, said it makes sense for larger events to be front and center.

ah, we really wanted to bring hope to people suffering and the people that are not free and the people that are going to, through hard times like ukraine and to all of us that have been struggling and, and cove it that there's hope for the 10s of thousands of fans here at the finals and the millions more watching at home. it's always about the music. it's just that this year the music has taken on greater significance than normal. so we just senior report, an array of different entries, some highly political, some pretty weird, something if the norwegian entry and they're sig, as dressed up as a bright yellow folks is the events just begun. was the mood well, as you mentioned, leave it wide ranging. but if anything, if you're a vision which means it's a campy mood,

a festive mood. so outside of the political arena, this is your vision. you have 25 countries competing just behind me over the next 2 hours. that band subwoofer, we have clones of them all around here. norwegians, or people sporting or to region flag. dressed up as this minion mix. to dancing. you have a big spanish contingent here. there's a lot of pride for the singer tenelle, born in cuba, raised in spain to the very catchy song that made it into the contests. and of course, all the other competing countries have their groups of fans here. and it's even in the press center itself, flags everywhere. european journalist from all over doesn't have journalist in there, it's packed even in there. and instead of this kind of cold space where people are just covering something, they're singing along, they're getting up dancing and they're getting caught up with it. that's just to say that this is a very festive moment. and even though ukraine is front and center here, so much that as a context got under way a few moments ago,

it started with people seeing give peace a chance, even though that is clearly not just in the background, but underlying this whole context. people want to have fun, this is a party like it is every year. and that said, we're also seeing other political activity taking place here behind me about 50 meters behind me. we had the group extinction rebellion doing alliance. dozens of police had to come in and they carried him off walking right past me before we started our conversation. the. you also have a very small contingency here, protesting the fact that russian artists have not been able to take part here. so it's political. but at the heart, this is your vision. a lot of fun, a lot of festivity and happiness to great stuff. thank you. i'm rainy the years and some contests in tourists of the world's longest suspension footbridge is open to the republic. this is named sky bridge 721, which is how many meters long the walkway is. it took 2 years to build at

a cost of $8400000.00. the foot bridge office unique views of visitors who have head for heights is more than 1100 meters above sea level and connects to mountain ridges in the north east. remember, you can find much more on our website. the address for that is w w. w dot al jazeera dot come, stay with us. ah, the top stories here now j 0, the palestinian authority says it welcomes international support and investigating the murder of al jazeera journalist, serene abil, aclu. ah.