mission 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, this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm emily anglin in dough. hi, you're watching the news hour and al jazeera is continuing coverage of the ukraine . warm rushes fakes of tightening the new surround. the devastated port city of marian pole, which its forces have encircled and bombarded for weeks. the u. s. and chinese ladies speak for the 1st time since november with joe biden, seeking to isolate russia from that's most important ally.

he, president vladimir putin addresses a cheering football stadium, promising that all of russia's military aims will be met. and the un, warren's ukraine's food supply chain is falling apart, threatening what it calls collateral hunger around the world. and in sport rushes battle to play in the capt are 2022 world cap hits a road blog, sports highest court to reject requests from the country to freeze beef is ban on it's national football teams. you as president joe biden has spoken with china's she didn't ping, he's trying to prevent by ging from offering any support for russia's invention of ukraine. china's president, for his pot said the war must end as soon as possible. the fighting is now in its

4th week, and this is the territory in red that russia and its separatist allies currently hold early on friday, parts of a russian missile he to residential suburb in keep killing at least one person in the west to russia. targeted a military aircraft repay facility need levine, while rushes defense ministry says it's tightening the news around the besieged southern port city of mary palm. rob mcbride is covering developments from western new crime. hello, they rob what elsie hearing about. what's happening in mary. a pole right now, we do seem to be getting a number of different reports coming out of mario pol just about the deteriorating situation there. of course, it has been pretty much under constant siege under constant bombardment sealed off from the rest of their ukraine since pretty much the starter of this conflict. but it has been in the past few days that had the situation really,

we know has become extremely desperate. there are we have seen in the past few days, columns of vehicles bringing out thousands are of residents describing the kinds of conditions they have left behind. there is the continuing uncertainty about at the theater that was attacked and that completely collapsed about the possibility of hundreds of people still being trapped or in that, in that chair or building that they were sheltering in. but we are also hearing report, so getting a quote from the mare of matter. you paul, being quoted on media as saying that russian troops are now actually in the center of the city. now that doesn't necessarily mean that they are anywhere close to i to the taking the city, but that that is what's being reported. that russian troops are fighting now in the streets, in the center of the city. certainly the kinds of pictures that we are now seeing that they're being coming from some of the agencies, especially drone footage over the city, do show a picture of absolute devastation,

the whole of the center of central parts of this city completely destroyed after or what has now been several weeks or of an open warfare, and we're still waiting to see just what the position is, but it does seem that there are, there are developments as we get into this friday evening a locally that about the situation there in matter you, paul adjuster, quickly updating on the rest of the country, the ukranian authorities have given their regular update on the military situation from the president's office and their report. it is from their perspective of core is that the situation remains across the country pretty a static, not much movement. they say that the russian positions russian forces have been pushing at different points. but they say that the a ukrainian, a forces have repelled those different pushes forward. they are also claiming to have shot down in the past 24 hours, a 10 aircraft of different types,

including including drones but the focus this friday as we get into this friday evening here local time is the position of mary you, paul. and just how far and the russian forces now seem to have encroached inside the city of having the ring as that displayed. rub, mcbride, live press in levine. let's head to the south. net now where russian warships have begun shelling odessa, which is bracing foreign invasion. he cranes, a 3rd largest city is on the black sea coast and his home to more than a 1000000 people. hunter, abdel ham it is there. these russian war ships have been seen off the coast approaching and maybe sort of navigating around according to satellite imagery to be at least 3 fleets of russian warship, including landing ships. so this city is bracing himself. the beaches have been

mind if you go around the city, this checkpoints everywhere, all the historic center of the city. just behind me there has been completely filled up. if you need a special permission to get in then only. busy residence allowed to get there and then behind me here you see you have this volunteer center you money, terry and aid being gathered and dispatch. this is actually usually a food market as food whole for tourists where they can try all the the salad. well, if you go inside, it's really distracted activity, collecting medicine, water, food maps, blankets, all sorts of things that can help. what if indeed, is an assault on a desk, but it also to be sent to nikolai of which is about an hour and a half or know, 2 hours i would say at least drive from here to the north east. did the russians and the ukrainian army,

there's been fighting overnight from what we understand. the cleaning army is still holding ground and the rushes are not advancing quite at a quick pace. but people watching what's happening there because there is a feeling that after nikolai, if it falls, then it will be, or this turn. and another about correspondence is in ukraine zane bez, robbie. and he takes us through what else has happened around the country. within minutes of early morning air raid sirens throughout the city, russian missiles had targets near levine international airport, shattering once again, the sense of relative safety here in the west of ukraine, before the big position was a rewarding system working. i'm grateful to the armed forces as they reacted. some missiles which were launched from the black sea area were intercept for miss l said an aircraft repair plant, as you already know. there have been some attacks in this part of the country. a training company operative last week and a military posted in airfield,

near loots. but the friday morning, airport strike is the closest the war has come to the city of levine. so far, as you see behind the smoke is still rising from the area that was hit, we've been stopped from going any further any closer to the areas that were hit by the strikes. police have pushed us back twice. we've tried to go over the bridge, but we've been sent back to this area here so we can't get a clear view of what's happening, but the smoke, the continues to below, over the skies over the city certainly tells you that something definitely was hit and it's still on fire. in the eastern city of carkeek, a college building was shelled, killing one person entering 11 and trapping another in the rubble. the city is home to one of the largest markets in eastern europe, and it remains on fire, sparked by shelling on thursday. another shelling and crummy tours killed to an interim since russian rockets continued to pound the capital key as well. a nursery

in school targeted on friday, killing one child in during 23 little good general jim larissa. the aggressor always pays a high price for war and morton, but whatever happens to them, if it cannot revive our cities or he'll are willing to sweeten us, will become members of the a you would life will be different now. so is my all of those rest in pace who have given their lives for our pay. so say the enemy continues shelling a peaceful sitting summons attacks. hitting mostly civilian targets is proof. ukrainian officials say that russia is choosing not to fight ukrainian troops instead hitting the country's most vulnerable. yeah. how can people in russia be so stupid and let this happen? how come russians don't understand that put in it's not defending russian speaking people in ukraine. he simply went mad, that's it. this is what i think, right? because the same person would never do anything like this. in the central square of la v of the countries, cultural capital and installation highlights the most innocent victims of ward

among the thousands of ukrainian dead. 109 empty prams symbolizing 109 infants killed in a conflict where the death toll increases every day. zane basra v l g 0 live in moscow. rash is president vladimir putin prize the war as a success. he appeared before launch crowds on a contentious anniversary. as ben and smith reports from moscow, ah, this was a powerful show of patriotism. in moscow, russia's biggest stadium was filled to its 81000 capacity to celebrate 8 years since the annexation of crimea, or as it's called here, the re unification. and everywhere the said, the sign, the 1st appeared on russian military vehicles in ukraine, and has now become a symbol of support for russia's war there. i mean, it was a stage set for vladimir putin who told the crowd that the united states is using

ukraine to threaten russia. and it is, is that the soldiers fighting their illustrated russian unity delete your platoon shoulder to shoulder. they help each other who support each other i easily and when needed, they shield each other from bullets with their bodies like brothers. pretty good such unity we have not had pol on time napoleon boil a survey after the 1st week of the war showed that what the crumbling calls its special operation in ukraine. we supported by 58 percent of russians that have been attempts to protest against the war, but they are quickly, often brutally suppressed. but others are finding ways to voice their opposition, such as this art group called party of the dead, protesting somewhere in russia. we've heard teachers again, the young boy named we are practically living on a war footing. there is no way for it not to affect us any more. we have to fight this war, and those were stoking it for keeping it going and are prepared to take it to some catastrophic finale that show of descent won't get covered by russian television,

but friday's flag waving in moscow. another city's will, though you won't hear that ukraine says it's fighting for survival of the west. dismiss his accusations that it wants to rip russia apart. bernard smith, al jazeera moscow. one of putin's closest allies is chinese president. she jin ping . he's spoken to you as president joe biden, for the 1st time since rushes ukraine invasion. let's go live to our wine, has course bunch. kimberly hell get. who's been following developments? kimberly, one of these 2 men trying to achieve in other any hints of any progress. well we have been expecting that there would be some sort of update by now its been delayed and so we're now looking ahead to the white house press secretaries briefing, which is due to happen in the next hour. we hope that will be delayed as well. we do know going into this, the press secretary was very clear about the goals of this,

and that was really to get the chinese side on record in terms of where it stood, where it's alliances are. because up to this point is there was a feeling in the west that in the words of the white as press secretary, there had been an absence of denunciation by china about the actions of vladimir putin and his invasion of ukraine. and in the eyes of the west, that speaks volumes. and so as a result, and as well as the fact that there have been reports of potential sales of military equipment by china to russia. there was a feeling that there needed to be a sort of an on the record discussion, if you will, about the alliances where the support lay of china, if it's supported the actions of vladimir putin. so that was the real crux of this phone call. we again are waiting a read out. we hope that we will have it from the press secretary when she holds

her briefing. but it's very clear that at times this has been a tumultuous, intense relationship between the united states and china. as certainly this is exacerbating those tensions that have at times been aca. nomic at times have been military and one of the big concerns is we watch all of this is whether or not chinese president, she is watching the actions of latter opinion of whether this will inspire him to take his own action with regard to setting his sights on the invasion perhaps of taiwan. and so that is something else that the u. s. president who was hoping to discourage in his telephone call. and again we were watching for that read out which we hope will happen imminently. all right, and we'll cross back to you when it does. thank you for that update. kimberly how could live for us outside the white house. now to break this down for us, let's bring in to raise a felon. she's the director of center for russia, europe, asia studies and joined us on skype from brussels. thanks for being on this news

out, teresa. so 1st of all, what is china playing in? on one hand, where hearing moscow is requesting beijing provide military assistance and then on the other, we're hearing that china is told the u. s. conflict is in no one's interest. so is it playing both sides? well, it looks like that doesn't. it bank went to backtracked as a couple weeks ago to february 4th when she met before the lympics and signed this agreement that unfortunately we had just lost our connection there with theresa fallon, we'll try and cross back to her a little later in the program. let's head to new york now, and the un security council once again became as stage reclaims and counterclaims, the russian ambassador repeated. he's allegations that the us is funding, biological weapons projects in ukraine. western and boys,

once again describe this as nonsense. he's what some of them had to say brochure put simply the ukrainian, or socrates gave the pentagon caught blanche on the territory, the crane to carry out dangerous biological experiments that are going to go. this is not the noble assistance to ukraine, that the american representatives talk about. this is a cynical use of its territory and population for dangerous research, which washington does not carry out on its own territory. so doesn't run the risk of hurting its own people. you would, you say, last week we heard from the russian representative a tirade bazaar, conspiracy theories. this week. we're hearing a whole lot more where that came from. things that sound like they were forwarded to him on a chain email from some dark corner of the internet. president biden has a word for this kind of talk. malarkey. as i said

one week ago, ukraine does not have a biological weapon program. there are no ukrainian biological weapons laboratories, not near russia's order, not anywhere, a wave of collateral hunger around the globe. that's what the world food program says is coming as ukraine's supply chains collapse. un agency buys nearly half of its weight from ukraine. so the die situation there has implications for all countries that depend on the country's food supply chain is falling apart. movement of good has slowed down due to insecurity. and the reluctance of drive us to life to base is like net pro, like the loan value pool. so me the consequences of conflict in ukraine. radiating out votes they going away from collateral hung across the globe. russia undue came

alone account for almost still to present of global lead plate a b a t f a is a senior spokeswoman for the united nations world food program. she joins us on skype from crack of in poland. thanks for being on this news. our, i guess there are 2 elements to this, the supply chain issues as a result of the war, and then the food shortages within ukraine. so let's start with a broader context. what impact is the invasion having on the world food programs, food supplies, and specifically wheat between russia and you clean? we have 30 percent of the global we production for w p alone. you clean is the 2nd largest country in terms of the procurement of food. so half of what we get for our operating worldwide come from ukraine that include grains and flow of oil and the number of agricultural products and food supplies. so of course,

the impact of the conflict in you clean is being felt ready at our budget. we are expecting $71000000.00 per month increase in the same amount of food that we used to get last month. so that means that we 4000000 people will not receive for the system. it means that, you know, our budget touched. so if that is the impact that to death on the world food program, let alone, what's the situation going to be? for countries that are heavily dependent on inputs and from the, from you clean and russia for the week will be a huge impact on the global supplies. be it on the we're on the greens ukraine is the bread basket of europe. that is, availability in the international market from the u. s. from canada of korea, but it's far away from many of the places and the countries that are dependent on the input of wheat and with the increase in fuel prices. this means that you have

a longer lead time, but also increasing costs. so what does the w pay doing in terms of combating the supply chain issue? we mentioned some of the countries that you're getting your supplies from. i mean, that must be coming at an extraordinary cost while this is a difficult time and it said a year of unprecedented needs and gaps and funding. just 2 days ago, the yemen clutching conference, you know, came with very disappointing commitments. we only have 10 percent funding for yemen . the world really cannot afford another conflict. and conflict leads to greater food insecurity. and in return or so, you know, food insecurity leads to conflict so that you know, we're going to be you know, in the fire where you have climate. busy shocks increasing food prices. a conflict covered 19 and all of these costs are, you know,

combined pushing more people into hunger was struggling with funding resources even before the conflict. the new claim we started this year with a 60 percent gap between what we need and what we have to let alone, what this conflict will bring our way and only in the 1st few weeks of this conference. and so what's a solution other than a return to pace in ukraine? what can be done to access weight supplies? i think it's, it's a matter of cost. it's going to be, if it's for you, many period operations, then we definitely need the support of the donor community. we need, you know, supply chain to get that contract. i think the with the conflict, the future of that we production in your claim is looking precarious. it's basically that you claim has put a ban on the x put of some of these strategic commodities. so,

and also the same for russia. it's not very clear if that if that would be a harvest from your clean in the next few months. and if there will be actually, you know, crops planted in the, in the next period because we do have shortage of fuel. and also the country is keeping its strategic commodities for their own people. of course, you know, inside the country. so the that will be got to spend, whether we like it or not the, the, the situation will become difficult. i think countries need to weigh come 15, that's for the most vulnerable people and put us to the point foot subsidies. sisters need to be in place to support these people in that own country. it's difficult because it's a, it's a, it's a truck giving fiscal year for a lot of these countries. but in general, i think that the harm has been done. if the conflict stopped sooner than we might

be able to salvage the situation. but i think it's going to take a long time to recover the globally for the full price and for countries. and to be, as i mentioned at the side of this interview, it's not just sort of the supply chain issues globally, but there's also those issues on the ground in ukraine. what are you hearing about? what's happening? they particularly those cities encircled by russia, food and water supplies actually able to get in and out. well the well food program is very concerned about families in the embattled areas in this encircled areas and especially muddy pool where families are having very great difficulties in accessing food in kiev that is shortage of food supplies. the supply chain in general is collapsing. so some days there would be food in the supermarkets, but the other days the child will be completely empty. and the, at the moment, w,

p is pre positioning food supplies for around $3000000.00 people inside the country and putting them in major cities close to the areas where we would feel that there might be become in circle at one point in areas where the market are stable and functioning food vouchers will be in place for some of these families. it's a very difficult time for a lot of ukrainians. refugees out of flooding the neighboring countries, but inside the country the food need. busy becoming greater every day and especially in these areas where that is shortage of walk that and food, especially in value poll been i was on the board that yesterday between paul and then you came and have met some families to just left muddy pool and heavily put the how you know that it's been a struggle to get that handle any food or walk that for the last few weeks. you know, struggle indeed. thank you for breaking down for us a be a t for

a senior spokesman for the united nations world food program. thanks for being on this new zone. thank you. the 3 bolted countries have ordered expulsions of russian embassy staff, estonia, latvia and lithuania, have taken the coordinated action in solidarity with ukraine. in total, 10 russian diplomats of being expelled. russia has vowed to respond accusing the countries of unjustified dismissals. and britain has switched off the russian government's r. c. news channel. the kremlin says the decision to revoke unties broadcast license is madness. the u. k. regulator off come says i. t cannot be considered a fits and proper broadcaster channels coverage of the ukraine. war was subject to 29 separate investigations into what critics describe as state sponsored propaganda . a deem baba reports from london will in the post

r t has actually been fined for breaching impartiality rules here in the u. k. and for the last couple of weeks it's disappeared from t v. screens here because of the u sanctions against russia over ukraine. but it's still accessible online despite these move boy off come. now, the watchdog cited in its decision new laws in russia, which it says effectively criminalize any independent journalism that departs from the russian state. news narrative saying appears to make it impossible for our tea to comply with impartiality rules, but off come also. sites 29 different investigations into ortiz coverage of the war in ukraine. prime minister boris johnson did oscar the regulator to look into the broad costa of the start of the invasion that will fears then that could be retaliation by russia for example, against the b b. c. the british broadcasting corporation that hasn't happened so far for its party has responded angrily. edge deputy editor in chief on

a balcony says the turn off column is in her view. nothing more than a tool of government bending to its media, suppressing will. so a lot of pushback from a channel and from the criminal in fact, which is called the move here, madness coming up a little later and his knees al noon. i mean messages, hope how young are rockies are into, is ukrainians to lift their spirits. and in sport will find out who's facing home in the quarter finals of the european champions, li ah,

hello there. we've seen some unsettled conditions. sweep south across the middle east over the past few days, but things are going to improve. so many of the gulf states like guitar and the u. a in the days to come, but for the event, while it stays rather wet, windy and wintery. a lot of that snow, confined to eastern areas of turkey, pushing across the caucuses and some at wet weather, dribbling down into syria and northern areas of iraq. but for saudi arabia and katara, we are going to see temperatures pickup as that wind dies down by the time we get to monday, we will start to see the skies clear. but around the red sea, while the wind is still there, coastal showers as well. and as we move over to north africa, we are going to see the coastal showers pick up for to new zia and libya. some of the stronger winds causing sandstorms here. and if we look at the 3 day for tripoli, well, the temperature is going to dip down well below the average by monday, but the rain clears with some sunshine coming back in. now was move further south to southern africa. much of the heavy rain can be found once again in northern

areas of mozambique pulling into malawi as well, where the area is already flooded. but swanner as well seen some of that heavy rain for south africa. it winds up in the south with sunshine in cape town, through the weekend, ah. on counting the cost for the war and ukraine plunged the global economy with russia to china wants to survive sanctions, tis the us dollar in danger. am. could crypto currencies help russia evade financial punishment county? because all al jazeera, a sanctuary for journalists, it was a haven law, and shelter for civilian refugees. were like scattered into the garden during cambodia as bloody sandwiched off, imploring us to leave. and suddenly we were turning the axle. the could bare rouge

had taken anything of value out of a hope. dro cambodia, let them know a new episode of war, hotels on all jazeera, understand the differences and similarities of culture across the world. so no matter how you take it will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. oh, wow. ah hello, you're watching al jazeera, i'm emily angry. he's a reminder of our top stories this hour and warning some pitches you are about to see from mary paul are disturbing. the southern port city has been nearly flattened by days of russian bombardment. russian troops have besieged in the city from all

sides, and thousands of people as still inside their battered city, with dead bodies lying outside their homes. french president emanuel macolon has told president vladimir persian, that he is extremely concerned over the fate of that city. and persian has prized the war in crime as the success at a concert. in moscow, he appeared before large crowds who gathered to celebrate 8 years since russia annexed crimea. and the presidents of china and the us of held their 1st direct talk since november. chinese state media is reporting she's in pink, told joe biden, that conflict is not in any one's interests. a little earlier in the program. we were speaking to theresa fallon, about this phone call between the us and china. she's reconnected now. so let's bring her in. thanks for joining us again. teresa, what is china playing up?

is it playing both sides of this conflict? it certainly appears that way because it's a bit of a dilemma for president. she didn't think because he has a special agreement with russia. they cited on february, 4th in the run up to the olympics, describing it their special relationship as no limits. and after that agreement was signed, president putin was able to move troops from the far east of russia to ukraine. so it showed a great deal of trust between the 2 leaders. nevertheless, this battle in ukraine has really grabbed the world and, and it be, we did it in real time. it's bringing death and destruction. everyone's living room, and perhaps it wouldn't now turn to a very long drawn out battle. so this has reputational damage. for china, they appear to be supporting him, and in many respects it does look that way. so i think this call between president

biden and she can ping will kind of make it more clear which side china's really on . and i think that china, since it has valuable markets in both europe and the united states, doesn't want to align itself too closely with russia. but for those people who been really following this closely. so, you know, russian relations are the best they've ever been in about 300 years or so the 2 leaders like to say. and so i think that this february, 4th agreement kind of showed the new contours of the relationship. and it was very clear in that statement that both china and draw, so a worry ends of agreement was that china had agreed to an energy deal. so it kind of was a signal that even if there were sanctions against russia, china had russia back now at the meeting in rome, on monday with jake sullivan and his chinese counterpart, it was a 7 hour meeting. it was by all accounts, very tense. and so china has tried to play as you noted,

both sides. they want to keep hootin happy and they also want to are you good? but there are a policies we have just lost theresa fallon again, but we did get the gist of what she was trying to say. so we will move on. now. 3 russian cosmonaut are on their way to the international space station and they blasted off from the russian space agency is launch size. enoch has extern, they'll join russian, american and european crew members on board since it began operations more than 20 years ago. the i s s has a generally stayed out of earth bound politics, but it's feed the ukraine war may change them. for now. nasa says nothing has

changed to keep it operational. the u. s. provides power while russia equipment maintains the correct orbit and away from spaced young and american astronauts routinely fly to and from the i assess on board rushes, sawyers spacecraft, but the head of the russian space agency has cast doubts on future co operation and warn sanctions against russia could cause a space station disaster to break this all down for us. the, let's bring in a jonathan mcdowell, who is an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics, and joins us from summerville. jonathan, thanks for being on this news. our up. what is the purpose of this mission? so this is a regular crew change out mission the they, together with one of the american ashmore's who's due to return to earth aboard aboard this lawyers. so i guess, as we mentioned in that initial intro,

what happens on earth doesn't necessarily relate to what's happening in space. but how can these mission be justified in the context of what's going on in ukraine and sort of that worsening relationship between washington and moscow. it's a bit awkward. the rest of the space industry has been thrown into turmoil by the ukraine war. the space programs, once rivals are now really intertwined. and so, you know, a western satellite. so we're meant to go up on russian rockets. they're now stranded. and yet at the i s s, it's as if nothing had happened. they say no, we're, we're, we're going to carry on as before. they kind of have to at some level because the one can operate with one of the russian side cannot grow without the american cyber vice versa. they've got so much money invested in this. they don't want to give up on it easily. but i don't see how that can be sustained in the long run, and indeed, america has been trying to persuade russia to extend the life of the station

project till 2030. currently scheduled to end in 2024. i can't see how that's gonna happen now. and how would that us ashton or mark vander high be feeling i mean, he's going to be riding in a rush and capture back to earth in the midst of all these deepening tensions between the 2 countries, he's obviously made it through nearly a year in space but surely this could be his trickiest assignment. yes. you know, i don't think so the, the people involved in the program really trust each other. they've been working together for years. i think they're able to put the politics aside and are, you know, he's coming down. he's not learning in russia, he's manning and kass extern. i have full confidence, the russians will put him on a plane back to the u. s. so actually, i don't think they're what they're worried. they, they've managed to keep it or the, the day to day interaction with mission control, moscow and mission control. houston has, has really not, you know,

been subject to these, to these tensions. it's at the management level is on the higher that i think it's it becomes untenable. okay, that is good news. and have there been any sort of previous missions in the past which have had to put this sort of degree of politics his side to ensure a safe space mission. how unprecedented is this? well, you know, even at the height of the cold war, right space was used as a method of de tonton communication with the apollo sawyer's mission in 1975 actually being a step towards warmer relations between american, the soviet union. and so i think that there's some hope that you know, keeping these channels of communication open in this piece for scientific corporation can, can, that might, might come in useful. on the other hand, europe's are really wrapped up almost all a bits of space cooperation with russia. they've shut down a space telescope that was jointly operated. they canceled launches on russian

rockets. and so, you know, the, there's an inconsistent message happening here. it's very interesting to watch. there's a european robot arm on one of the russian modules this you for testing what's gonna happen to that. now europe's invested years. lots of money in it. are they just going to say, well, no, forget it. we know it's going to be very interesting and we appreciate you breaking down for us, jonathan mcdowell is an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics. thanks living on this knees our thank you for here, let's take a look at some other world news now and rising fuel and state prices in the philippines. provoking a growing anger. demonstrators are demanding the government implement price controls to cut the cost of living. jamaila alan dorgan has moved from manila.

oh, we're in downtown manila where several transport groups are staging a protest. they say a rising fuel prices over the last week or so. i made their situation here quite difficult. we've spoken to some leaders the say they have 3 basic demands. they're asking the government to immediately suspend the excise and value added taxes. they're also asking the government to increase the minimum daily wage rate from $10.00 to nearly $20.00. and to repeal the oil, the regulation law, which will finally put the power back to regulate oil prices to the government. these demands may be simple, but everybody knows especially those transport good job demanding this for many years. that this is easier said than vandeveer. mclaren, nothing said to be the government's insensitive, public transport drive is mostly come from the poor sector and i saw it there on

a hand to mouth existence because of soaring prices. i love them. there's not much left for, i mean people, my god, i had the little child that my husband works is a public transport driver used to earn enough, but now most of his earnings is spent on fuel expenses. public transport drivers are also demanding that the government finally released the money promised cash assistance of a $150.00, the thousands of drivers across a little in geopolitical tensions. the president is expected to step down within the next few months, and the crunchy is facing its worst economic recession in decade. i container senate has approved a deal to way finance a $45000000000.00 debt with the international monetary fund, but many people are against borrowing extra cash to raise a bar reports from one a series. it was necessary agreement to help the country move forward. said

argentine senators who voted in favor of a new program with the i m. f. debates about with financing have been ongoing for 2 years. something that has cost widespread protests and frustration. now, it's embarrassing. they gave way of sovereignty. every 3 months i am f will come to orders har accounts, aside from last inflation, the cost of transport, of gas of wheat increase every day. how are we going to afford all this? o, g, t m, b i m f. have been negotiating a new program to restructure over $40000000000.00 in debt inherited by the previous administration. argentina will have to pay over $2000000000.00 next week. this vote in the senate was crucial to prevent the default. the government says that an agreement with the i m f is crucial, discover lies, economy that is currently struggling with exchange rate controls, inflation rate and poverty rates. but this people here say that an agreement would

force the governmental implement austerity measures that will have an impact in their lives. president elevator, the for man, this managed to convince the opposition to vote in favor of an agreement that gives the country a 4 year grace period, but aims to reduce the deficit and cut down energy subsidies that cost the country over $10000000000.00 a year. exactly. lataria gets almost a single yucca, what we are doing here today is preventing greater suffering. and this is the importance on the tragedy. because an agreement with the i m f prevents in economic calamity. and that's why we are doing this today against the clock on, with lots of responsibility. but the process highlighted tension between precedent . man, this and vice president, christina fernandez, the cosigner who questioned the terms being negotiated with the m f. in the past weeks, the war ukraine has pushed up commodities, prices and inflation has gone up even further economy. see the agreement goals will have to be revised whether the, what is going argentina, signed the agreement,

everything got worse. the price of energy went up, the price of gas went up. so all the objectives will have to be update the growth, inflation, and deficit, and everything is getting worse, because that's happening around the world. the or the problem is that here we have a chronic problem. the agreement must be approved by the i m s point. but emily say that deal will not solve argentina is endemic economic problems. problems that have left millions living in poverty and looking for solutions that never seem to arrive . there is i will as a feeder when a site is the little city of mosul and iraq has been rebuilt since it was destroyed by iso. but young rockies are hoping the sound of music will give new life to the city. and as a sum of in giovanni reports, they have a message for ukraine. 2 from the ruins of mosul, music as the emerged in the summer of 14 musicians who make up the water

orchestra in iraq, 2nd largest city being banned when mosul was occupied by isolate. the melody survived, the christian curd absent, even as these young men and women represent the diversity of iraq. it's the 1st time they've come to practice in the destroyed old city. list of us father was a blacksmith shop and their lives were ruined in the fight against the wind, with contact with them. when i see the huge destruction of the city, everything has changed so many collapsed houses. now i see a different image from what i remember this place as a child coming here gives me energy and grief. we hope to present mostly heritage. it's old songs and melodies. so i didn't know whether colonial presumed familiar marlene studying to become a paramedic. but her passion is music. she fled from

a most christian area near mosul during the fighting. and now she wants other erotic girls to follow their dreams. the most common muscle. what harling did that often defeat off? i feel the society is more open. now girls have a chance to work and to play music. my message to a dog goes, is that whatever difficulty you face and even their societies against you, confront them with the think you love doing? ah, none of them is a professional musician. but then just a year, they've helped 3 concepts. one of them abroad, more than a 1000 people turned up to listen. last month on social media, people from mostly sent messages to door, the ukraine, assuring them as they rose from the ashes of eisen ukrainians shouldn't give up hope to be able to hear music amid the ruins of muscles. all city feel strange, but it brings home the resilience of presidents who say that despite the destruction and lack of help,

they remain committed to bringing the city back to life. this is assess dot conductor, an orchestra maestro, he invited dentist is from all over northern europe, tested their talent, and then wrote symphonies as someone who was born in new york city. he feels the cultural revival of most and is his responsibility to come. i cannot describe my feeling when i returned and played in the old city. despite all this, there is a hope of happiness that the city will come back, and my favorite melody was composed while i was the refugee and turkey, and i completed it in muscle. and called it ashes. now, having played by the orchestra, much of the old city remains ruin 5 years after i filled with crushed hair. but from the ashes, people here hope of the future in tune the most ins, former glory, some of the java, the error, most of the old city, tommy hopkins, thought

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ah ah hole ah ah ah, of what we had to sport, we have a story out of cuba where dozens of protest students who joined a nationwide revolt against communist rule last year have been jailed for up to 30 years. he is our latin american editor, lucien human 19 year old orlando, kind of

a had gover data has just been sentenced to prison for 20 years longer than he's been alive. meredith, you're so it's what you get for take to the streets. i know is that my son sentence is to extreme for a young man who only through a few rocks. he had a lawyer, but the sentence was already predetermined. take ah, that of a hide. it was among the thousands of cubans who took part in unprecedented nationwide protests against the communist government. 8 months ago. amid a severe economic recession, they demanded better living conditions and freedom of the 790 protest or is arrested and accused vandalism, sedition and public disorder so far, 127 had been tried and sentenced to between 4 and 30 years in prison. in many cases, longer than for far more severe crimes. 19 year old daniela alexander the gospels,

husband. yes. yes. is one of them. i live in the law. he's losing ali's you of is life. as a youngster. he says he feels like dying. the vast majority of the accused or young people so far, only one person has been acquitted of ne, a family or more. while the prosecution insist, the due process is being guaranteed. family members and actress charge that the trials, lack transparency, and that the penalties are disproportionately long and harsh will not only for the young president begin, diaz canal accuses the united states of inciting them as protests. yamaha the harsh penalties against them. send an unequivocal message to disgruntled cubans that there is a high price to be paid for showing it publicly. to see a newman al jazeera, it's time for sport he far. emily, thank you so much. sports high court is rejected

a request from russia to free speakers ban on its national football teams. the decision of actually ends any hopes russia had taking part in the world cup, qualifying playoffs later this month. the court of arbitration is still deliberating on the case, but says russia will remain banned while that process is ongoing. we've been speaking to russian sports journalists, alexi, shasky. he's as many people in russia as he'll, the double standards are at play and relation to how the countries football team is being treated. every one is pretty much expecting that costs would be negative in russia. ready appeal to have the national football team participating, or at least trying to fight its way into the world cup and cuts out. on the one hand, we have a dire situation in ukraine. we all obviously have lots of politics involved. we have a barrage of economic sanctions against russia on police, against economic war, as it's now being described here in this country. on the other hand, we have athletes who you know to, for the most part,

never supported what's going on ukraine. most of them even spoke out about the spoke out against what's going on there now. and yet the collective punishment is being applied just about all athletes. you know, it's kind of sad to see, especially given the fact that for the 1st time in many, many months, russian national football team started actually playing really decent football. but if you talk to regular fans, of course the we do see we do believe that there's a case. busy of double standards applied to know all the sanctions related to russian sports. indeed, there have been multiple wars that have been bombardments, so you could slide 99. they have been cases of was in iraq and pretty much all over the globe and the countries perpetuating those was, have never been punished on the sports level. obviously, what is going on in ukraine is absolutely terrible. and every single person with a brain in the head, he and russell wishes for that and soon and for some kind of peaceful agreement to

emerge. but the case of double spans stand is when it comes to sports is quite evident. tattle holder is. chelsea had been drawn again throughout monterey, in the quarter finals of the european champions league. chelsea still don't know if they'll be allowed to sell tickets for the home leg of the tie. the clubs, russian owner has been sanctioned as a consequence of the war in ukraine. the here is the draw in full manchester city will play atlantic on the dread atlantic o knocked out manchester, united and the last round. byron munich, take on delivery now, and it's been figured out versus liverpool. make curious as come close to ending roughly doubts unbeaten run. a thrilling 3 hour match at indian wells and in a 19th, straight wind from the dow. more disciplinary trouble for his australian opponent fell. amish reports. oh, studious materials is unlike most opponents,

raphael and the dull has faced this year. the dolls on beaten thought to 2022 was on the line against one of the schools most unpredictable plays. so settled with indian wells who to finally decided not by assault, but a shout as curious, was penalized for swearing at an unruly fan. ah, senate point benefits mr. you with the focus returned to tennis in the strike had said to us, curious that level the match ah yours was back dealing with the crowd in the decider with his wife leaving

the doll eventually, coming through this test of pressure and patience to win did the side a $64.00 is the spaniards 19th straight when of the year. ah, when you grow some lines, then the thing becomes different long. and the problem is, in my opinion, is, is the same when you allow the players door to door stuff. then you don't know when is the is the line? curiosity cause more trouble after the match had finished, he later issued an apology to bull void. the almost got hit by his flying racket. you don't throw the rocket any one near him. originally. it landed a, made it from a foot and skidded a miller. he didn't look human things up like that obviously was very misfortune of balance. i think if i did a 1000000 times

a little it wouldn't of call. noah curious claims the attention he creates is good for the school. 21 time grant them when an adult appears unconvinced. son who's i'll just there. okay, and that is all your sport for now, emily, back to you and i can assure you not all astray. lions alike. koreans. i hate. all right that so from us here in al doha headquarters, i'm emily anglin. stick around there, julie mcdonough will have more of the daisies. it's been a busy one out of london. ah . from international politics to the global pandemic. and everything in between, it did not respect poor people and your our planet promised to ensure the safety of women. what happens is just the 15th i pulled back that people actually have more

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insignificant, even as a crime game. very significant. by dictating the government, the fuck the policy. thou shalt not kill parts of the radicalized deed series on al jazeera. we tell the untold stories. we speak when others done, ah, we cover all sides. no matter where it takes us. a fan sir guy from my eyes, and power and passion. we tell your stories, we are your voice. your news, your net al jazeera, ah, a thriving port city, reduced to rubble. after weeks of bombardment,

russian troops reached the sand. so of mario pool were thousands of civilians are still trapped by the fighting. ah, hello there. i'm julie mcdonald, this is jesse are alive from london, also coming up the presidents of china and the u. s. t speak for the 1st time since the war began. washington looks to beijing for supports against russia at a rally. so marty anniversary of the anna.