donna kane, al jazeera, berlin, rehearsals, her rushes may. the 9th victory day parade have begun in moscow and the annual well war to commemoration has special significance this year because of the warn ukraine . white jets patches flying in the zed formation used as a symbol of support for russian forces. a kremlin is dismissed rumors that it to declare war formerly on victory de ah, united states is raising its base interest rate by half a percentage point to try to reduce soaring inflation. the chair of the federal reserve, jerome pow, made the announcement we have both the tools we need and the resolve that it will take to restore price stability. on behalf of american families and businesses, the economy in the country have been through a lot over the past 2 years and approved resilient. it is essential that we bring inflation down if we are to have a sustained period of strong labor market conditions that benefit all against this backdrop. today the f o m c raised its policy interest rate by a half percentage point in anticipates that o

donna kane, al jazeera, berlin. alexander le is the president of energy intelligence. he says, countries like hungry will find it particularly hard to win themselves off russian energy. i think it's important to point out that this span on russian oil has been in the works for a while. so i think the european union started its head around it. i think the important thing to note here is the ban on russian crude oil. which of these are the barrels are taken out of the grounds and sent over to refineries. that's a lot easier to deal with than than russian crew products which is much more difficult. and just illustrate that if you look at the figures for april, the amount of rushing crude oil important into the european union is down some 40 percent from 2021. and if you look at russian crude products, so we're talking about easel, gasoline, etc. that's actually up from 2021. so that kind of illustrates the issue here. and i think shows why european is saying it's going to be phase out. the products we face up by the end of this year. and the crude is gonna be much quicker

donna kane, al jazeera, berlin, ukrainian officials and the u. n. say they hope they can keep bringing more civilians out of a bombed out steel plant. and the shattered port says you have maria po, some civilians in scores of ukrainian fighter. the still hold up in the facility and surrounded by russian forces as evacuated so far have been taken to well as if safety ins apparition from where hot abdul hamid reports, peal and exhausted. they stumbled out of buses. perhaps unaware that their plight has caught the world's attention. they've accusation closely coordinated at the highest levels in both ukraine and russia. and still took several days. a thumb in person to whom he r d now was worried that something would go wrong. first, every one had to be vetted by the russian military. i had a funeral nigger that comes in with a moment either, but historically, should i? so they took photos of us as if we were criminal front and profile. we were fingerprinted, they went through our phones, checked our documents. i was told, there was no way back to mary

ok, donna kane force in berlin. thank you. while european union is heavily dependent on russian energy, particularly when it comes to guess, the ear gets 40 percent of its natural gas from russia. that's why there are no plans to impose a blanket ban for now. masha supplies more than a quarter of its crude oil, which the block aims to ban by the end of the year. and rushes biggest e customer germany had already said it aims to be fully independent of russian oil imports. it's reduced them from 35 to 12 percent since the start of the war. but it remains a bigger consumer of russian gas and facing out supplies will be harder for countries like hungry, which rely heavily on russian gas. and oil or the countries are taking large volumes of russian gas, include italy, austria, and the vacuum. or staying with this sir alex schindler is a president of energy intelligence. he joins us live from london now. so how much would you would you stand? will you use down to suffer domestically in terms of energy supplies, if a band was actuall