coordinated amid high tensions between world superpowers, a rare prisoner swap goes ahead between the united states and russia maybe its face imminent starvation. the devastating result of kenya's worst route indicates ah, presidents were unite for the funeral of medlin o vice america's 1st female secretary of state, montana. hamilton with your sport. it's advantage that matches the city and the champions league, the edges 7 golf willow with real madrid in the 1st leg of their semi final ah, the un chief is just arrived in ukraine as he pushes for, sees, saw in the tumult. war. attorney quoterush was in moscow on tuesday where he met russia's president vladimir putin. he announced his ukraine arrival in a tweet saying that he'll continue to work to expand the humanitarian support and secure the evacuation of civilians from complex zones. he said, the sooner this war ends, the better for the sake of ukraine, russia, man, the world or that damage was live now from kia. so how to, what should we expect from this meeting? well, certainly the, the secretary general is going to hear from the ukrainian officials, his 1st going to meet with the foreign minister dmitri collaborate, and then he's going to meet with president zalinski the way these meetings are arranged, actually to mirror exactly are his meetings in moscow now he's coming with an agreement in principle, from president vladimir putin to organize this year. many terry and corridors are out of mar, you pulled for the civilians who have been a lu under siege there for quite a while. that's the most he can get. but talking about as cease fire, permanency fire that could turn into something more long term talking about a truce. that's not on the table at the moment. but the secretary general is saying we have to take care our, the civilians. that's his mission. a humanitarian mission, actually we heard from several officials of the un that works is, are under way already to organize or to try to organize these humanitarian corridors. other than that, he might also hear from president zalinski who is known to be bold and frank in his talks. a president zalesky wasn't very happy about the fact that and to undergo deerish went 1st to moscow before coming to keep. he thought he should be visiting the areas that had been liberate and go to see for himself the destruction the devastation here from those who lived under russian occupation and what happened the extent of what ukrainians are calling war crimes. and what they also as a saying could be at crimes against humanity and genocide and then go to moscow. so zalinski would probably tell him about that. and he would also tell him that ukraine had been frustrated at times with the you and we are now 2 months into the war. other leaders have already visited. this is the 1st time the un secretary comes here. and so, i think the lensky would push for a bigger role of do you, and if that is indeed possible, how to talking about civilian ah evacuations? what do we know about those people who are still trapped in mary of home? well, what we know is that the situation is a becoming more dire by the day if that's at all possible according to the army commander who is their marine commander, ukrainian, dis, shelling is constant despite the fact that russia had said that it would put that huge r as of stell steel plant under siege president booted say a couple of days ago. that is true. it should remain biz besieged and not allow in his word a fly in or out of the area. now this is a huge areas then square kilometers. are there are there and earlier in the day the command of the marines there is should another video in which she described a situation where the sheets of food only put a new there of $600.00 wounded men in our group with different levels of wounds. they really need medical attention and health care. there is no medical personnel or medication. there are also wounded civilians are hundreds of people that dozens of children with many people have limited mobility. the situation is very difficult for a huge problems with water and food completely extraction procedure. today is not 19 forties. 2022 new people will simply die here. over the u. n. managers to organize these humanitarian corridors in coordination with the international red cross. i think they would 1st concentrate on them for providing safe passage to the civilians trapped there's believe to be at least a 1000 or that at least according to the military commanders who are also besieged there. now the issue is that that will have to be in coordination with both the ukrainian ministry of defense and the russian ministry of defense. and i think the russians will also be very mindful of to make sure and to get guarantees that none of the as soldiers who are there. none of the members of the as of regiment who are fighting along them would take off their uniforms and try to sneak out among the civilians. so yes, there is a sort of momentum trying to put these humanitarian corridors into plays, but logistically is going to be very complicated. aren't, aren't, aren't, are hamid, therefore, us in key of thank you. russia is to spending gas deliveries to poland and bulgaria . the decision has escalate intentions with the west, while also highlighting europe's dependence on russian imports. many government say the war in ukraine has already pushed them to look for alternatives, and deem barbara holds. it had been predicted by some feared by many more, but european leaders see russia's move to hold gas supplies to poland and bulgaria, because they won't pay in roubles as aggressive. it comes as no surprise that the kremlin uses fossil fuels to try to blackmail us. this is something the european commission has been preparing for in close coordination and solidarity with member states and international partners. our response will be immediate. united and coordinated. moscow says countries can still pay for gas in ports in euro's or dollars, but only if they open russian bank accounts, which then convert the currency and make the final payments. is thought some countries have already done so. but bulgaria, which gets the vast majority of its gas supplies from gas prom, is not one of them. knew now and simple did them nipple domenic. we will not succumb to such a racket. brig bulgaria is reviewing all agreements with gas prom, including the agreement on gas transit through bulk area. because once i did blackmail is not acceptable, it the polish president has promised to take legal action, but the prime minister is insisting there is no immediate threat saying storage facilities are 3 quarters full higher than in most of europe. in that i get now but fresh loan. as i've emphasized many times, poland had previously prepared to diversify supplies and obtain gas from various sources. even before the baltic gas pipeline is launched, will be able to protect our economy, to protect polish households from such a dramatic step by russia, some war. so residents, if not all seem reassured, the 2nd thing to go to this man says, shutting down gas supplies might end up humming russia. he says his country has reserves 11. she was at the party. while this woman one does how much pose like her will have to pay for developments linked to the ukraine war, saying things are already incredibly expensive. the use biggest economy germany has been the most reluctant to end gas imports from russia, but a wednesday. it said it was speeding up efforts to find alternatives, including liquefied natural gas for to come and see, i can say this are russian gas dependency, which was 55 percent before the war and dropped to 40 percent a few weeks ago. now it's 35 percent and retreat. so for now, the common message is there's no need to panic, but it's hard to say how rushes move will play into the existing energy price crisis across europe. nadine barbara al jazeera russian president vladimir putin says ukraine was pushed to clash with russia and moscow's reaction was just unfair . speaking to politicians and pay petersburg, he won't at any country that interferes and ukraine will face consequences if anyone would want to interfere with what's happening in ukraine now from the outside, they have to know rushes response will be sweet and fast. we have all sorts of tools that the west cannot obtain, and we will not post of our weapons, but we will use them if need be. and i want everyone to know that most of our has this update from moscow. the russian president is not so really passing up this opportunity to reiterate the reasons that he felt it was necessary for him to make the decision to send the russian troops into crane in what he calls a special military operation. that is now, in its 63rd day vladimir putin, as we just heard, a had a very strong and stern warning for those countries that are assisting ukraine in the fight against their russian troops. he said that they are basically a fair game for the russians, and that they are, this is a fight between russia and ukraine and that's the 3rd countries that are getting involved. really, i have no right to do so and that he feels that he will be forced to make a decision as to whether or not to use all the tools that are at his disposal to ensure a victory for the russian military. now, vladimir putin was also a speaking quite a bit about the objectives that he set out for his legislative officials about ensuring that russia's economy stays intact. and he said that the attempt that had been made by the western powers to try to cripple russia's economy through severe sanctions, have failed. and that to russia is standing still or, and they are not going to allow its economy to crumble. he also urge the officials that he was speaking to. he said to it, they have to work on anti crisis measures and also they have to strengthen their country sovereignty. there's a lot of emphasis on trying to basically ensure that rushes economy stays strong and that the rubel doesn't plummet to like it did. a few weeks ago, it was happening on the battlefield. and mary paul, city officials say russia continues to strike the last remaining ukrainian army positions. there. with $35.00 ariel hit since monday, thousands of ukrainian fighters and civilians are an underground tunnels and chambers below the as of stalls steel palm. last week that i had put an orange troops, not to storm the plant but blockaded. russia agreed in principle to allow the u. n . and the red cross to help evacuate civilians from the steel plant. mary paul, after fusions meeting with you and 6, she general on tuesday, no more doable school will not be in the mary pulled direction, the enemies exerting massive fire and blocking our unit, said the area of the ups store plant in the city occupies continue to carry out filtration measures against the civilian population. and there's been protests and key of demanding safe humanitarian corridors out of the oven style steel, plant, mothers, and wives of soldiers fighting in mary paul attended the demonstrations agreements between ukraine and russia to allow safe passage of fighters and civilians have failed. so far. i ukrainian forces also confronting the russian military in the east fire if he is fighting has been reported in mc alive and her son in the southeast. russian forces also shelled the town of lyman in southern ukraine. the russian military fire tear gas and stun grenades of protest is in the city of her. some people are rallying against while they're calling a sham referendum. ukraine says russia is planning to hold a staged vote in her son region shrine. show popular support, the creation of a russian bank republic. her son is occupied by russian troops and residents have been protesting against their presence for weeks. a pilot for a former marine russia and the us have swapped prisoners and a time when they're deeply divide it of the ukraine war. the deal was reached after lengthy negotiations. russia's foreign ministry says the former us marine held in one of its jails. trevor read is been traded for a russian citizen serving a 20 year sentence. the white house has released the statement by president joe biden. he says the negotiations that allowed us to bring trey home required it difficult decisions that i do not take lightly. let's take a closer look at the tomb in trevor, he was detained in 2019 on a trip to visit his girlfriend in russia. he was convicted assaulting 2 officers, while drunk. the former marine was sentenced to 9 years in prison. the u. s. government race concerns about the fairness of the trial. on the other side, the u. s. is freed russian pilot constantino shinkel. in 2010, he was arrested in liberia, turned over to american drunk enforcement officials. now shank was given a 20 year prison term for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine. russia accused washington of kidnapping him fighting to learn them of the arrest. let's go to our white house correspondent can be how could kimberly, what else is president biden saying then about this prison? this was, this is the surprise is the, i guess it's surprising, given the timing is very surprising. the timing is a surprise to americans, given the fact that this is in the midst of the ongoing conflict between russia and ukraine. one where the u. s. is decidedly put it support in favor of the ukrainian presidents, zalinski and the ukrainian population. and the, as a result, the relations between russia and the united states have really haven't been lower than decades. so as a result, this is somewhat surprising, but what we understand from a senior administration official is that the negotiations in order to bring about the release of trevor read have in fact been going on for some time at the lower diplomatic level. and to have been the result of a number of diplomatic discussions and hard work. and this comes as much relief to the family, given the fact that they were concerned about his health. they say is since his centered thing in 2020, he's been in 4th labor, solitary confinement contracting tuberculosis. and they were so worried in fact, that last month, they were staging a protest outside the white house. it resulted in a meeting with president biden. and then, and now we are learning of this very happy news for the family, obviously that he is now on his way to the united states. we should point out though, there are still other americans that remain in detention in russia. brittany grimes is a basketball player. she remains in detention and a russian jail and also an american security contractor by the name of paul whalen . the white house says they're still working for the release of those americans. kimberly trevor read as your thing earlier is not the only american being held in russia. izzy. no, that's right. and as a result, what is sort of surprising about all of this is how there was in the midst of these very tense relations. the ability to secure the release of trevor read. what we know from this white house is that there is the ability for a 2nd diplomatic track, even as there is very heightened rhetoric going on right now. you have to recall that just earlier in the week, a survey, lab rav was threatening nuclear war. that's the russian foreign minister. and the sort of rhetoric on the other side from the united states has been somewhat tit for tat with the united states, calling it bluster, the white house press secretary gen saki, saying that this rhetoric is not helpful. so there's been a lot of finger pointing. there's been a lot of arming of the ukrainians by the united states, and there's been a lot of war on the part of russia in ukraine. so, and this has been a lot of conflict, but at the same time the united states believes there's also room for diplomatic discussion. the release of this one, american or, well actually it's a prisoner swapped. and we should point out, this is a very important part of the story. is that an exchange for the american trevor read was the pilot of by the name of constantine your sankoh. but also what we should also note is that the united states believes that they can also work with russia when it comes to even reviving the j. c p. away, which is the 2015 agreement to limit aroused nuclear program. so even as there is heightened tension between russia and the united states, there is room for diplomatic discussion. this would certainly be evidence that kimberly, how can i winehouse correspondent, thank you. thank you more head on the use on including how a fire and a landfill coupled with a heat wave is making life unbearable song in new delhi caught me in my sentences sponsored she to 5 years in prison. all charges that she's called absurd. and in sports dynamo, q of delightful fans in germany, details coming off ah, the un says it's appalled by the killing of at least $213.00 people into dance since monday. michelle partially the u. n. c. human rights chief is calling for an investigation into the deaths. doctor's in sudan said they were killed in gun battles between nomadic arab tribes and non arabs in west off for state unrest latest spread to the state capitol, our jeanina disagreements over scarce resources, of course confrontations for nearly 20 years. hey, morgan is in how to she says military leaders have promised to intervene while on wednesdays has been relatively calm between the 2 sides. but from friday, up until monday evening, there was a lot of tension and a lot of fighting between the non arab natalie tribe and the arab nomads in west r for in the area of korina, which then eventually moved to the capital of west r for janina that the sovereignty council, that's the highest ruling body or the only governing body right now here. and to dan has had an emergency meeting, blood bite, and all of that had the hon who headed there with the security and defense committee. and the issued following the following decisions. they said that they will be sending a team of or rather they will be deploy military to the area to try to separate between the 2, working 5. but that they will also try to address the root causes of the conflict. a member of the sovereignty council also is visiting janina to day on wednesday. and he will be looking into the issue with the state authorities. so there has been a lot of tension between the 2 sides, between the arabs and the non arabs. but this latest round of violence has resulted in a very high death stole, including people who have been injured. the committee for the, for the new office has at least 200 people have been injured as a result of the violence and tens of thousands have been displaced. millions of people living in the horn of africa are experiencing some of the worst effects of time at change. 2019 brought extreme rain and flooding followed by swarms of locus . now the region is experiencing its worth drought and 40 years and 20000000 people are risk of salvation. the conditions have destroyed crops and killed millions of livestock forcing people to leave their homes in search of food and water. it's hard because to report from us of a county in northern kenya, around 3 and a half 1000000 people, a suffering of the years of drought, lo chico, and had a coating. young a worries about the baby boy. he 7 months old and sick, weak and hungry. there isn't enough food because of a drug. his mother can get enough food to eat and con, produce enough milk for him. they lost another child in february. they say he stopped a little going to, he'll get along. he got sick and died. i don't know what to do about this other child. he might also die because he's hungry. millions of families across the horn of africa, a hungry and desperate might. it might not be facing the worst drought. the region has seen in 40 years. in kenya, more than 3 and a half 1000000 people need immediate help. agencies say nearly 800000 of them are children. the animals too, are dying as it gets hotter and dryer. people out here tend to move around a lot, looking for food and water for themselves, and the animal of many areas are remote to come to the nearest hospital can be hours away. some of the women have say they can be very early in the morning and only get to the clinic late at night. cases of malnutrition, arising at this local health center, health workers are struggling to cope. they say when some of the children get here, they are severely malnourished. my teacher and i've been here for so long myself. i can say it is her pony. my position, but it wasn't because of it wrote for the last 2 years, we have not received her info. grace gibbet, his many children are going to school hungry. she says this drought is a worst she has ever seen some of them. they're just die. and we have nothing to just feed them. and i me more all day. good just depend on you. what little water is left in streams and rivers may soon run out. desperate families strace the little that's left and can only hope the rains soon fall again. had him attached to al jazeera, masa bit county, northern king, you find his struggling to contain a huge blaze on the outskirts of india's capital during a heat wave. the prime minister is wanting temperatures are getting too high, too early in the year. adding to the risk of fires. andrew chappelle ripples flames burn for a 2nd day at the ball a swan landfill adding to the hazardous air quality in the capitol. the plumes of smoke hard for any one to avoid especially waste workers. hottest our log b. yeah. may bother me. there's a fire every year, but not new. there is a risk to life and livelihood. many slum dwellings caught fire. people lift up. what do we do picking through rubbish to earn a living, they're only option is to carry on and risk the dangerous smoke as firefighters continue to battle the blaze yard or alicia, observe a medical program. we are very scared. we inhaled these gases, which caused diseases. a few painful breathing the fall and there are many others like this modem. again, indians are suffering a heat wave which is adding to the risk of fires. march was the hottest month and more than a century. a bruce prime minister neurons remedy warned state governments. the temperatures are rising much earlier than normal, leading to wild fires and fires in building such as hospitals. he's urging the urgent implementation of safety checks the landfill was supposed to close years ago . the decaying waste produces methane gas that feeds the fire instead of shutting the waste dump. the city adds 2000 tons of new waste every day. and a shapell al jazeera, still head on al jazeera. i'm john henry in illinois. one of many students with us is targeting espionage from china. so you more coming up also ahead, roaring into all, but again, we'll see who's of all the latest space x mission and, and for to ought to handle miami heat progress in the and b a. playoffs. details coming up ah hello there, we'll have a look at africa in a moment. the 1st. c to the middle east and we've seen some unsettled conditions, work their way across the levant and the gulf states. we are likely to see more showers for places like saudi arabia and potentially katara as that system. those clouds push their way further east, but temperatures are set to pick up across levant, in cities like bay root and jerusalem. but for places like re add, we are going to see things cool down slightly in the days to come. that was move across to north africa. it has been cooler in the north west for morocco as that wet and windy weather sweeps its way east. however, we are going to see an improvement in temperatures here. and it's a similar story for cairo. we're going to see it heat right up by the time we get to thursday, and friday is well look that up by about 10 degrees above the average with lots of sunshine. now the rain ease as for the of guinea, by the time we get in. so friday picks up however, for places like gabon and the democratic republic of congo. now, south of this we are going to see some wet weather sweep into eastern areas of madagascar, thanks to tropical storm jasmine as it works its way east. but behind it, it's a hot and dry picture, but things will cool down in cape town by friday. ah, in the vietnam war, the u. s. army used to fighting toxic herbicide with catastrophic consequences. agent orange was the most destructive incident chemical warfare. a decade later, the same happened in the us state of oregon. these helicopters flying over the ridge, spraying something, and they didn't even see the kids foot 2 women are still fighting for justice against some of the most powerful forces in the world. the people versus agent orange on out of their own. when the news breaks, still looking through the building, trying to see if there's anybody else shopped inside when people need to be heard. and the story told, i feel like i wasn't really awake until i went to market. it definitely changed my life in a good way with exclusive interviews and in depth reports on javion. but he left her because al jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news. oh the ah, what's your algebra? her reminder about top stories, this all. you and she's going to have a good finish, is arrived in ukrainian capital. keith is pushing for a cease fire in the tumult war. on tuesday, he met russia's president vladimir putin. moscow. he was accusing. 7 of blackmail by cutting off gas applies to poland and bulgaria. the russians say it's because they refused to pay the state on gas problem and rubles bulgarians, and polls they made all kinds of arrangements. mario policy, the officials say rush and continues to strike the last remaining ukrainian army positions. there. the $35.00 ariel since monday, thousands of ukrainian fighters and civilians are an underground tunnel below the other steel pumps. from the front line in ukraine's east, russian forces continue their slow advance. thousands of ukrainians have fled as the fighting gets closer. those who remain rely on the bravery of workers who delivered their food. chelsea had reports from net correct sky in east in ukraine. natalia has worked at this bred factory and the town of buck moved in easton, ukraine. for 13 years. russian forces of slowly getting closer. they are 1st firing artillery shells and rockets. then moving in nearby villages the closer they get, the more tempted the mother of 2 is to leave one. i'm very worried for myself, for my family, for the children, for my job is frightening, going to and from work because i hear the explosions in the distance. i love my job and have many friends. i don't want to leave them. the bread factory is the largest and oldest business entailed employee around 200 people. they supply bread to many surrounding villages, but the amount of customers is shrinking as they flee the slow russian army advance . volunteered delivery driver. andre is a brave man. after loading up his van with freshly baked gloves, he heads out of town towards the front line. we follow him along isolated mc country roads to a village near the russian army control town called lyrica, the village shopkeeper. the few people still living here have be waiting for his delivery for 3 days. don't believe there is in school over there. closer to part of the whole field has been shalt so heavily. it looks like they're digging it. go have a look. but it's so loud there in there. so people live in a city. i don't feel particularly afraid of them. people need bread, they have to eat. if they show me, so be it to. this is warm, but the village sits in between the advancing russian army, ukrainian military defense dog in across the fields. here the train stopped coming here in 2014. when pro russian, separatists cease control of the next city down the tracks does lose the ration which instruction as it's terrifying, there are explosions, constantly getting food to us is dangerous and this number and we feel surrounded because they shoot from the side and not side all of those who are left here are, there are no medicines available. no buses, no transport, you're not. so we drive to to risk swerving between piles of soil, heaped on the road to try and slow down in the russian army advance. in a nearby village, we find homes destroyed. you create an army, tell us that this village has been hit by russian artillery a number of times in the last week. they say at least one civilian has been killed in these strikes. the most recent strike was this morning. a number of civilians injured. the soldiers here tell us that the russian positions are around 7 kilometers from here. ukrainian soldiers say russian forces a tried to destroy a radio antenna. but so far, i've only succeeded in destroying lives. charles stripe al jazeera, eastern new grade, us secretary of homeland security as testifying before congress about the biden administration's use of policies to manage immigration. 100 mile cuss could face questions on a controversial policy originally introduced under donald trump. the restricts the ride to asylum because of the crone of ours. pandemic shepherd, towns used for us in washington, dc. she have well, so this has been from politicians there on capitol hill. title 42, something that receives a lot of attention from both the left from the center. i'm actually the right. so all 3 or 3 sides are attacking the by did ministration for the handling of title 42 . this is the 2nd of 3 hearings. my office will be speaking, i don't see another one on thursday. and title 42 was this part of the health code that the trumpet ministration brought in. when the pandemic began, which basically said, we don't have to purchase any asylum seekers, we can just tell them away at the border. we don't have to live up to our national or domestic legal obligations. and at the time we have memories from which these. busy control we have outrage from from democrats. so this is clearly nothing to do with public health. this is a political maneuver to prevent immigration, which is clearly one of the trump administrations go and put different asylum seekers. the people fleeing playing violence and biting around on a policy the election of over talking about going back to a humane process of asylum of accepting the asylum system, accepting the international law. but when biden got into power, and we have very little reporting about this. now, they kind of chicken out and they got weren't their chief of staff biden, the national security adviser, kind of what, you know, what we don't really want to be seen a software immigration. and the irony being, of course, they kept title fully to face. we still have, it's due to be phased out now at the end towards them towards the end of may. but the irony being of course, that got progresses up and say when you made that problem anyway, we had terrible scenes. the bully, because title 42 led to a huge spike in the number of people repeatedly trying to get across the border. because i don't even, i don't even documented as people who've tried once. and now now that actually the bite administration is attempting to face about a few months before the mid term elections, the republicans say we're, we're going to make a great deal out of this and you will sort of the border of course, the progress say what was done last year than just could have been seen as part of reversing from policies. now you own it. so you're getting it from all sides. are all the people also the issue of ukraine, you ukrainian nationals being welcomed in as asylum seekers is also getting some attention. and of course that's being welcomed by everyone but, but again, progressive research shows that double standard. if you're white, you're holding their site seekers. you accept a 100000, but if you're black, your native american, your, you are indigenous, you're brown, then you just called illegals in your turn to turn around the border as bite and has done for the last year. so in some ways that he does have one out there, which is republicans are suing in the courts. and i want to actually pass by the best hope actually as of this is what kind of stayed in the legal challenges, stopping from having to do the tool. but even violence. closest friends in the, in washington will say, this is, this is a problem there. and making separate tom, the and washington. thank you a call to me and mark her sentence to also be the unc sounds to cheat to 5 years in jail. so she was found guilty of accepting $600000.00 and $7.00 gold balls and bribes. 76 year olds trial was closed to the media phone story as more from calling them for is not yet known, whether she will be taken immediately to prison. that is not the 1st custodial sentence she's been given in december and january. she was sentenced to 6 years in prison for more minor offenses. she's now being held at an undisclosed location and the didn't i said before that she will remain there. now, all her charles have so far been held in secret, including the latest one, which means there's been no media coverage. members of the public have not been allowed to sit and listen on the case. does even been a gag order on her lawyer. so there's been very little information about just what sort of evidence exactly is being presented against her. but we know that in this case, she's been, she's accused of having received bribes from a former chief minister of young going $600000.00 in cash. and us dollars as well as gold bars. now, a few weeks after the qu, the military had add a video confession by the former youngling chief minister. at that time, people that said that the video was fake, but he also appeared in court and testified against her now on santucci. according to reports is trying to appeal the conviction. of course, few people believe that the charges against her are fair. many people believe that the charges have been trumped up by the agent to keep her out of a political career. and the military government of course, denies this and they've, they've fed before that she has been given full due process under the law. but so far, what we do know is that she has not been able to have any visitors and even her lawyers have had difficulty getting access to her cooking. oil prices have sought to record high recently because the warn ukraine and are expected to increase even more mis, indonesia and the world's leading producer of palm oil starts it's export ban. jessica washington has been seeing how cooks coping in the kitchen. and she called herself some of the country's most popular dishes, can be found in this small kitchen. fried chicken fried fish and fried tofu. almost everything on the menu has one ingredient in common, palm oil, and the city and see opened at this restaurant 30 years ago. but now she's worried, she could lose customers. but it sounds like a lot of the unstable price of cooking oil affects my business. when it was cars, it was difficult. now it's available but expensive. so challenging for small businesses. pump oil is the world's most widely used edible oil. for months, concerns about price and availability have been growing in indonesia despite the country being the top producer. now the government is banning palm oil exports, including crude and refined palm oil. not that owl. the cut up, i understand the state needs taxes along with foreign exchange, and the country need to trade bound surplus. but meeting the people's primary needs is more important. it's a priority weak up with one. the move has shocked global market suppressive cooking . oil has been rising around the world for a number of reasons. disruptions in production, increasing demand for biofuels, and the war in ukraine. the world's largest exposure of sunflower oil experts say the latest moved by the indonesian government is likely to push prices. even higher . families also used in processed foods, cosmetics, cleaning products, and more economists say the government strategies to normalize cooking oil prices have been misguided. focusing on supply rather than problems within the industry. it may not solve the problem because again, the problem with their, with the cooking oil in the, in the, in the indonesian market right now is actually the in the distribution channel. there are some bought on and, you know, because of this complex and long, you know, distribution channel seen in asian farmers association says its members will also suffer. what does i mean? it was this time period should give momentum to the government to reform the palm, oil industry and its production model. right now, it's run by big companies and they said the distribution of par oil material according to the market pneumonia beginner. the government intends the van to remain until prices reach around $0.97 per liter at traditional markets in indonesia. but it's unclear whether this policy will achieve that. jessica washington al jazeera jakarta. israeli forces have shot dead, a palestinian man after arrayed in the occupied west bank. it's the 2nd killing there in 2 days, owing 17 deaths and recent weeks involving israeli forces. they say they're carrying out counter terrorism operations in the city of janine, one of the holiest knights of the year in islam as being celebrated and occupied east jerusalem. thousands of worship as a holding prayers at the alex a mosque for was called the letter to al qaeda. the 27th night of the holy month of ramadan and fig. stephanie decker in occupied easter. ruth slim, so a holy night, a stiff, the celebration of following israeli raids at the holy size place has been relatively peaceful in the last couple of days you mentioned there. this is the holiest night of the year for muslims in the last few days of ramadan. and the numbers are enormous. can we've just heard from the islamic body, the walk of that runs that governs the sight quarter of a 1000000 people have entered and a worshipping. i'll try and get you had to take you a little closer to the compound. the prayers are going on. we can hear them and basically what happens to night is that people have made their way from the occupied westbank from northern israel, from all across really to pray. and they're going to stay overnight and carry out prayers because it's believed that tonight was the night that god revealed the opening versus of the could on to the prophet mohammed, it's believed that the heavens open a jos descend on to earth, and that the prayers really carry more weight on this night, so people really do stay in the compound until dawn until the early mornings reciting prayers. and the numbers are really the highest we've seen in the last couple of years. last year. you had the tensions here, of course, that led to the gaza war, which of course, gives you that indication that this site has the potential to ignite pretty much more than anything else can here. and also because of the pandemic, the corona virus pandemic that people simply did not attend in these huge numbers as they're doing now. so certainly the roads around here have been closed for most of the day. a lot of traffic is people making their way from all over to worship, to say their prayers, which we do expect, you know, will go on until the early hours of the morning. stephanie deca, thank you. us math professor who grew up in china has become the latest person caught off in an anti spying campaign. the program originally called the china initiative began during donald trump's presidency to abide and broaden the focus to include other countries, the critic se still discriminates on hanjin reports from chicago. ming chang shao is caught in the web of a massive u. s. program targeting spies for china, but he's not on trial for spying the justice department. his charge, the southern illinois university mathematics professor with financial fraud and tax evasion for allegedly failing to disclose grants from chinese universities when he applied for a grant from the us national science foundation. or critics a, that's the problem with the china initiative. if authorities can't prove spying, they'll look for something. anything else? i feel it's completely jennifer. it's racist. corbin yes. a friend who set up a go fun me page says the trump, you're a spy. catching program aimed at preventing china from stealing intellectual property is not catching spies. they're going about it in a completely wrong way. i mean, they are clearly targeting, for the most part, asian americans. and, you know, we've seen this in past instances in history, and it's happening now. when the biden administration inherited, the china initiative decided that wasn't the right approach. it replaced that with a broader plan called the strategy for countering nation state threats. targeting espionage from china, russia. busy iran and north korea since then there have been trials across the us with at best a mixed record of convictions. the case of gang chin, a massachusetts institute of technology professor accused of lying about his ties to china was dismissed without trial. university of kansas professor fang franklin towel was convicted in april of fraud and making false statements. but the judge is declined to set a sentencing date and is considering defense claims that there are major problems with the prosecution's case, f b, i. officials point to the case of harvard university chemist charles libor convicted of lying to federal agencies about his tie to a chinese talent recruitment program. failing to disclose the chinese bank account and tax evasion. they say there's good reason to focus on china. there is no country, no country that presents a broader, more severe threat to our innovation, our ideas on our economic security than china does. joyce chow with chinese student living in chicago says the focus on china makes the u. s. and increasingly hostile environment. very huge rise of anti asia and violence and discrimination of many smaller incidents as well. and i do think that this, these child are originated from the, the more social political factors, the case of ming chang, shao marx, the latest test of whether the anti spying program will survive public scrutiny. john henderson, al jazeera chicago, spain's prime minister pedro sanchez has promised that his government will be held accountable, falling allegations of spying on catlins, separatists candidates citizen lab group says spyware, hacked the phones of 60 cadillac politicians. sanchez and his french all coalition in madrid relies on the catalan separatist party to pass legislation. the hacking controversy may jeopardize that yes, president joe biden is leading tributes to former secretary of state. madeleine albright had a memorial service in washington, dc. he's joined by predecessors, brock, obama and bill clinton and pick to alright to be his top diplomat. a child refugee from war torn europe rose to become america's 1st female secretary of state. she died of cancer, the age of 84 last month. headache, all hain has more from the funeral service at washington national cathedral. it's really been just 2 hours of pretty moving tributes to madeline albright, as you mentioned, to who passed away the age of 84. the 1st speaker was president joe biden, and he talked about how she was a force not just within the clinton administration, but within national security circles for really the duration of her years. after leaving the public office, he talked about how much he learned from her. he called her for force of nature, the change the tight of history we heard from former president bill clinton, as you mentioned, he named her u. s bastard b u n. and then his 1st thing the 1st to hold that post, he talked about how she pushed him to get involved in kosovo. and that there's that the fact that there's been a piece for i've met you might not have known. but apparently madeline albright love to deaths and she was quite good of the tango and want to taught a foreign minister the macarena. something you probably wouldn't have to the facts that she was a bit brusque. ah, her daughter spoke about her as a mother and as a grandmother, very moving tribute to her on that a. but overall, the theme is what an american life she led and had to flee europe twice, came to the united states at the age of 11 and rose to become the face of foreign policy during the clinton again, president clinton says that too is a testament to her legacy a u. s. the aerospace company is launched another historic mission carrying the 1st black female crew member of the international space station space. the x is of falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the space. kennedy said in florida, 3 nasa astronaut, including jessica watkins, are heading into orbit along with an italian from the european space agency. there on a 6 month commission, with $200.00 experiments on there to do this. i sent f sports seller. thank you very much. cam always start with football and livable as champions league semi final against federal gets underway shortly. yoga club cider are looking to reach the file for the 1st time at since they lifted the trophy in 2019. the manager is wary of villareal who haven't knocked out you venice and german champions by munich to each lustful. so many coaches so many players out there try and broke their socks off with their whole life and have no chance to be to be closer to sammy file and we are there. so we have 2 chairs that we have to appreciate of course, but you have to enjoy it as well. and then yes and facial very, very difficult opponent. that's, that's true there. made for this competition to me when i was an honest because the way they set it up it's, it's, it's really, really good. you know, emory's villareal have been the surprised package of this season's competition. they've only lost once on the road so far on their way to the semi's, but the coach accepts his side that will have to take a big step up. if they're to spring and not, they're upset, a life equal dobbs, my yard emotional male difficult. this is an even higher level of difficulty than you venice and byron munich. and we will have to try to show the better version of ourselves individually and collectively are, and in all this, we will try to surf the wave of experience we started accumulating last season. and the season o semi finals began on tuesday with the breathtaking 1st leg between matches the city and the visitors. we are madrid. the fans were treated to a 7 gold thriller with city ending at the night with a slender advantage. lawrence smith, half the action an electric atmosphere for a mouth watering clash on the top. 2 slides in england, spain going head to head to the bottom of an old, friendly rivalries. blue. it was city who came out the blocks quickly. kevin, devoid of giving them the lead off of just 2 minutes. and it was looking all minister royal when gabrielle hasn't made it too soon after the physicist pulls on back before half time. thanks to their top score. carrying benjamin the relentless pace of the game, continued after the great city extending their advantage. phil photo made it 31 back, came rail once more. this time it was vinicius junior, breaking away unchallenged down the left to reduce the deficit with a cool finish. ah let says he would open up to go leave for a 3rd time in the match when bernardo silver fired in from the edge of the area. but there was still another twitch to come. a nonchalant light penalty from benjamin made the final score for 3. and rail only trailed by one go heading into the 2nd leg. the result could have been better. madrid has always been the who was madrid and as a matter with 10 or 2 or 3 always. so you have to perform really well to games and we perform really well. the 1st one you have to do the 2nd one of broadsoft and majors that live. he has the advantage. we have to see that there is not a big advantage and rehab at the hours reported that cannot asp to play back got to go to play, to will do the final. the fans have a week to catch their breath before the ties decided next wednesday at the burn about laurent smith, al jazeera for bull salt is in ukraine, have conceded that the seasons competitions can't be completed to and the league tables that will now be frozen from the last round of fixtures in december, shattered on africa, finish at the top, a head, the old dynamic kiff, with both eyes that potentially legible for next season's champions. league dynamo were in action on tuesday night in germany. there a match with bruce yet ortman that was to raise funds to support ukraine. following russia's invasion for $35000.00 fans went along to see if he ever went free to estimated $425000.00 was raised. ukrainian teams are playing several matches like this around europe in the coming weeks. agent champions league now and the south korea as they grew, have we taken top spot to and their group. they thrash that, shan dawn. good tie, shine of china for now. when means their level points was 2nd place or a reds who also one earlier, a win for dig in the next game will guarantee qualification as they hold better head to head results a guess or are and grungy if a grand day gave away to penalties. to help malaysian side 0, who are darrell test him a pick up a to nail when brazilian forward bergson converted each of them to the 2nd spot. kick one very late on to hor, lead the group ahead of all sun by level and points with them. each group only has one automatic qualifies for the winning run of wall. that number one tennis player, e gosh, why and take that. won't extend that beyond 23 matches. at this week's madrid open . she's withdrawn from the torment with an injury to her right shoulder. on sunday, the polish player collected her for straight title with victory in the stood gods, wonky. and there was a big sculpture for 18 year old, the whole go guna, and wednesdays, the quarter finals of the munich open. he knocked out wald number 3 in home favorite alexander's wherever the dain dropping just 5 games in straight sets. when the miami heat saw the atlanta hawks, the clench the 1st round series in the m b a. playoffs. victor ali therefore, was the star man for miami with 23 points in game 5 on tuesday, but the win wasn't safe until a bam i did by you. made this score. and the final minute the heat would take this $197.00 to $94.00. when i'm standing in a moment and making every moment mean something. so just going out there and playing a hot mess. oh we we had a gray when great series when the job isn't done yet wasn't conference top. see if the phoenix suns at now lead there series that were the new orleans, the appellate cancer, thanks to comfortable victory game 5. carl bridges that top scored with 31 points in the 112 to 97 when j and a month is grizzlies that fall back in game 5 to take a 32 series lead against the minnesota timber wolf. sir john moran was the star man for the grizzlies with 30 points in the 111209 when you were. and there was a slice of history for the carolina hurricanes and the inner chill on tuesday. the baton owl rounded off a full one victory over the new york ranges at madison square garden. it gave the hurricanes a franchise record, the $53.00 winds and the season if also not cliffs, the metropolitan division title. and that's it for me. kim. thanks fanta. and i forget you can always go to college there a dot com for more. but that is the news, allan, my colleague julie mcdonalds will be back in a moment over in london with more of the days use scenic signs by ah ah and a shilling the debates it is. know he jogged back in just a moment. if anyone here talks about women's rights or suggested these and be assumed of then says no topic is off the table. we were taught to see abortion as a one way ticket, straight to health, all of the companies. they deny any responsibility, even though they have the resources and the power to fix it, where a global audience becomes a global community. the comment section is right here. the part of today's proven this to him on out his era when the war on ukraine commenced. people in power reached out to inhabitants of the nation's 2nd city, less than 40 miles from the russian border. as the carnage unfolds, a handful of civilians document their experiences as they try to survive and maintain some normality in a reality. turn upside down. a rare glimpse of life under the ball. you crave a city under siege on a just either the heart wrenching goodbyes, loved ones, not knowing when they will unite again. women and children heading west to relative safety, often leaving men behind among the foreigners. also trying to give out train rise of a free, but it's on a 1st come, 1st serve basis here at the bus station. there's only a few rides available and that's only to the surrounding villages. so people like for me in rose, now need to find another way to get out of the city. but for now they, like many others, would have to reach and hoping tomorrow is a better day. ah, today the kremlin failed once again in his attempt to sew division among member states. you accuse is russia of blackmail after it, cuts gaff supplies to poland and bulgaria, its toughest retaliation yet for western sanctions. will ukraine and russian forces continue to pass the massive still.