the damage in the fight against cold at 19 emmanuel micron is expected to be re elected as president. that what will a 2nd term mean the front and the you. april on al jazeera, unprompted, and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center on al jazeera. ah 2. ready this is al jazeera ah, you're watching the news, our life from headquarters in del. hi, i'm getting obligated. coming up in the next 60 minutes. russian president vladimir putin threatened to cut off gas supplies to western nations. if they don't start paying and roubles from friday,

the u. s. president to set to release huge amounts of oil from emergency stocks in an effort to cool soaring crude traces. the un urges world donors to hold the gun economy is death. as it launches its largest humanitarian appeal for a single country plus storms and her nato is ripped through the u. s. state of alabama causing widespread damage and destruction overnight. i dont spam it with the sport, including colds for russia to be expelled from football, governing body free 1st. and the usa and mexico qualify for the world cup finals in cocher. the welcome to the news our. we begin with the economic fall out from the war in ukraine. the russian president, vladimir putin, has issued an ultimatum to the so called unfriendly states. so he wants payments for russian gas and rubles as a friday,

or have their contract canceled. hooton's has foreign buyers will be required to open accounts with russian banks. the decree could pose a serious issue for europe, which gets around 40 percent, if it's gas from there. germany says they're being blackmailed by the kremlin. u. i signed an order that establishes the rule of trade with natural gas, with the so called hostile states. we are offering the clear system that they have to open accounts and roubles, and payments have to be made through these accounts from the 1st of april. if they don't, we will consider it and non fulfillment of contract because nobody sells us anything for free and we will not do charity. so their existing contracts will be suspended when they use them as reference on. while the u. s. president obeyed and is due to announced measures to combat raising energy prices. that'll happen in the coming hours. we'll get more on that from my cana, who is joining us from the white house. but 1st, let's bring in house matter to speak to us from moscow regarding this decree that was announced by president putin has. and this is something that he had previously

warned about. but tell us more of what he had to say. well, during president vladimir putin, about a week ago, he was talking about the conflict in the ukraine, the military campaign, whether didn't russia describe a special operation in the ukraine and the thomas. and he was talking about what he described as an economic war last by the west against russia. he was referring to the fries, the, that the sanctions, the asset freezes, and also the, the ban on russian energy exports. and he was saying that this is something that is not going to be tolerated by the russians because the way they see it, they see it as an attempt to further undermine and isolate a russia. and he said, i will never let that happen. and then he, in strata the central bank of russia to work out a mechanism whereby the rushes were only accept rubel,

the local currency in natural gas. but chase is particularly to the unfriendly her countries a list which includes the u. s. the e u and other countries. now, this is how they wanted to, to work out. they are taught, tell, telling those countries that they have to open bank accounts in banks here in russia. and those measures will come into effect starting from tomorrow. they will, how to open bank accounts for them to be able to pay for the russian supplies in natural gas. now, you can, you can, you can tell that this is targeting gear of to a greater extent. why you are. because let him put in, sees the struggle that, that, that, that europe is going through when he's trying to diversify the sources of energy in force. and because it relies on 40 percent of those are sources from russia,

but they have been struggling to get enough supplies to be able to maintain the upcoming months. just his decision la, last week to work out the new mechanisms, saw the energy or price spike by something like 30 percent massively affecting europe. and this explains why he's been using carefully terms like the warning europe warning, the unfriendly countries about the potential revocation of the war impose on russia . he says, you have to be careful about a potential for crisis, a potential migration crisis, unemployment spiking in europe and the potential for the industry to take a major blow, particularly knowing that it has been trying to recover from 2 years of a covey 19 crunch. so this is quite a critical moment for all the parties. it remains to be seen. whether this is just a static move by the russians to pull more pressure on the europeans and tell them and the west. it's about time that if you want us to move forward and to continue

dealing with you, you have to stop providing the ukrainians with weapons. you have to stop it imposing more sanctions on the rushes by this his achieving another goal. basically, he is increasing the and all of the ruble, and by this he's popping up the value of the room which has been gaining in momentum over the last few days. thank you so much how selma, how about our reporting from moscow? so while that is happening over in the u. s, the president is weighing this oil release. mike, from the emergency stockpile. tell us more about that. well, let's 1st say that the white house has declined to comment on these reports that have been circulating over the past 12 hours from several trusted sources. now, according to these reports, the president is going to release 1000000 gallons a day from the national petroleum. a stockpile over a period of up to 6 months. now this is a massive amount of release from the strategic stockpiles the greatest in us

history. it would have an impact on raising global oil reserves by some one percent . so it's a massive and that it is said the president is going to now he's going to be speaking within the next hour or so, and we'll get clarity and confirmation perhaps that this is in fact the case. but president biden thinking to find ways in which to lessen the impact on the u. s. consumer, in particular, oil prices at the pump, gas price has now risen by 47 percent over the past year. this is having an immense political impact on president biden who's eyeing those midterm elections later this year. so this release of the stockpile could have a, the consequence of relieving a gas prices within the united states of adding to the global stock pile of reducing the price of oil, which has been soaring in terms of the shortages that have occurred in the wake of russia's invasion of ukraine,

but will confirm all of this one way or the other when the president speak shortly . okay, then we'll check in with you a little later on. thank you so much. my kind of reporting for us from the white house now to the situation on the ground in ukraine, and there is hope that a temporary cease fire will give thousands of civilians the chance to leave ukraine's besieged city of mario pole. a convoy of buses is on route to the southern port city to move residence out. some 160000 have been trapped there with little food, water, or shelter for weeks now. just days earlier, mario poles mayor had warned all residents had to be evacuated to avoid what he called a, an italian catastrophe. the international red cross says it's also ready with aid supplies, but fighting continues in other regions in the east. the governor of denise pro says that russian rocket strikes have hit a military unit, and a fuel depot. it kill 2 people. further east ukrainian forces say they've recaptured the town of trustee or nuts. they've also made some gains around the

capitol. but russian forces have bombarded the besieged city of china. gov and suburbs of chief despite promises to scale down operations bearer. let's get more m, ron con, is joining us from the capital and you yourself have been hearing explosions and keith am wrong. tell us what you've been seeing about 4 o'clock local time about 2 hours ago we had a very loud explosion, very close to where i am right now. then there were multiple air raid sirens. as they were going off, we managed to see smoke rising from one of the buildings, probably only about 2 kilometers with. from here we're hearing that it was a very sensitive military site and intelligence building from con, confirm that it is, according to most people that we've been speaking to recently in my own personal experience, the closest we've seen, the attack in the center of the key has got a lot of people are very nervous. a lot of this journalist we tried to go down that see exactly where the, the missile it it or the rocket will,

the shelling. we're not actually sure what type of artillery was actually used in that strike. we were moved away, the journalists were all moved away from the site itself. so clearly a very sensitive side, whatever it was. it will have a lot of people, very concerned around that building around where that building will, sorry, is the presidential palace or a key hotel will or journalist to staying. and it's a very sensitive area, generally speaking. and it's interesting because at one point on tuesday, the russians announced that they were going to let out the pressure on cave and they were going to withdraw their forces. and one of the reason they cited for that was they knew that decision makers thus that hm. what based in that area and they didn't want to put pressure on them? well, actually, there is some pressure on them now. now also, we've been hearing from yan stone berg, the head of nato. he's issued a very strong statement saying, actually, we are not seeing a withdrawal of russian forces from areas around keep an internet. what we're seeing is a withdrawal, a regrouping and possibly

a repositioning and forces. but definitely we are being, we are seeing a re supply and he also went on to say that there is the russians are still keeping up immense prussia. busy on the capital keep itself and now this is something that the ukrainians were expecting all throughout these talks all throughout the announcements by the russians. the ukrainians of often said, yes, the russians, they say all of this for when it comes to actually falling through, named renee on the deal. and this is now something that will be a bigger talking point in the hours and days to come. and what's happening in mary paul, exactly, because as we know, there is a dire humanitarian situation. there a temporary cease fire meant to be in places at holding and have civilians managed to leave well on terms of numbers, actually civilians managing to leave. we won't get that figure until much, much later on once they've been able to get to a safe area. and exactly, do a census of how many people managed to get out when we do know buses went down to

the voter. we know this sci fi has held so far. now, what happens normally is the buses get to a point where civilians can get there and get on the buses and get out. but it's not just about getting those civilians out. it's about getting humanitarian aid in the met of mario full says he's trying to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. the only way you'll be able to avoid that is if he gets aid in the i c asi of also said the getting aide in half that happen. but my apple is under immense fire has been for weeks now. in fact, the destruction is near total, according to our colleagues, have been on the ground from their reporting and to all of the other i. when the statements we've heard from people coming out. so i very di, situation that a little bit of glimmer of hope that the convoy is headed towards very awful, but we won't know exactly how successful it has been until much later on. okay, thank you so much. everyone. con is reporting from keith. and as iran was

mentioning, there is some hope that civilians could be evacuated from my a paul bernard smith as there and he reports from the russian controlled area in the north of the city. there's not much left to fight for in marielle pull. but the sound of shelling is constant no one flinches. after 4 weeks of this, they used to it. this part of this port city is now russian controlled, and some people are relieved about that. florida might be confused if the russians they would say, started to why would you be happy that the red light dunbar lucky that will scare the they didn't. dumbass is russian speaking, ukraine was pressing us with their language. we launched at 1st no problem, but then there was too much pressure. then in 2013 as of brigade came and it was chaos. the russians say this city has been destroyed because they, as of

a group with neo nazi sympathies, won't surrender. the battalion is integrated into ukraine's national guard, which has some autonomy. the presence here was one of vladimir putin is justifications for launching what he calls a special military operation. ukraine says russia, which is looking for an excuse to invade. marapoo city council says there are around a 170000 people still in the city. most have been without power or running water or much food for a mum. hey, you got an indication of a scale of the need. there is here for humanitarian aid. this place has been on the russian control now for about a week, this part of our awful. and since then, this has been turned into an a distribution center with food and freshly cooked meals and some medical assistance. but all of these people from here, they go back to what's left of their homes. these people are caught in the middle

of one of the most strategically important battles in ukraine. mario post capture would help russia create a corridor to join crimea with jeanette can le ganske and narrow ukraine's access to the black sea. that's why neither side is giving up, sophomore bushes, them so much cruelty and bumbling shall flying. why was there a need to destroy home? it's a military crime. no one should do it either. both sides are guilty to bump at night to shoot kill message boards a used to spread news about who is safe, who is missing? who was died? mobile phone coverage is erratic, even if there is power. with russian control comes russian administration. the zed is everywhere. the hashtag reads, we don't abandon our own. what began as an identification on military vehicles and don boss has evolved into russia's logo for this war. what

did you live with my neighbors, old? she can come and share the food with her. i shared with every one who lives on my street. there's so many people who are older, which is con company. her son is here to help with. oh, if russia takes full control of mary apple, it will be the 1st major ukrainian city to fall. a morale boost to one side, a psychological blow to the other. too much is at stake. for there to be any let up in the shelling. bernard smith, hodges era, mariel paul once more had on the officer a news our including to palestinians are killed by is really forces re arrayed in the occupied west bank following attacks in israel turn is yes, president dissolved parliament 8 months officer. he suspended it, crisis i yeah, that uses politicians of bouncing a cool world football chief meet in doha with russia invasion of ukraine. one of

the main talking points at the fee for congress. ah. but 1st, members of parliament and pakistan had been debating emotion of no confidence in prime minister in ron con. he's being pressure to resign after a partner in the coalition government switch sides. so opponents also choose con of corruption and miss managing the economy with some of our job aid is joining us from islam about so how is this all playing out to summer? well there in we've read, seeing in the last 48 to 72 hours, a new alliances being formed. all promises being broken and new ones being made fragments to emerald hahn is facing the biggest challenge yet of his political career. where he has to present a 172 members of parliament in the next few days before the national assembly to

say that he is still the pro, the prime minister. he still has the majority in the house. otherwise, if he fails to do that, than the vote of no confidence is going to have more members against him. and that is where the opposition says that it is very confident of. he were at the assembly session today. it was a rowdy, noisy session which was supposed to begin this crucial debate, but there was no debate and the session was adjourned until sunday. that is when we expect that there might be a vote of no confidence against by mr. ron hahn right now. he is addressing the nation, it is there likely that he is going to bleed his gaze to the people as well. we've been hearing from parliament ariens who belonged to him round hon. spotty. will be telling us that now he's going to take his case to the people he enjoys. the majority of the vote in pakistan, if he loses the majority of the seats in the parliament. and that is where it is going to come to words that both these sides are saying that they do not only have the numbers inside the assembly. they have the numbers on the street as well. so far, there's no indication that there is going to be any agitation on the streets or the

prime minister has hinted before. we did speak to the members of the opposition as well, who have been accused by the go at government, that they are using all sorts of inference, including money to buy these votes, which they deny. so it is another interesting chapter in pakistan's interesting history. but it looks like that the 1st prime minister, who was enron han, who would the prime minister in brown find who was going to be, who said that he's going to be the 1st one who completes 5 years in office, might not be able to do them okay, thank you so much. osama bin daveille reporting from islamabad. a palestinian man who stabbed a 30 year old man on a bus has been shot dead by an is really a civilian. in a separate incident, the palestinian health industry is really forced to have killed at least 2 palestinians. age 17 and 23. it happened during and is really rate in the occupied west bank following attacks in israel. earlier this week,

5 people were killed when a gunman on a motorbike opened fire in a suburb of television. he has more from jeanine, where funerals for the 2 young palestinian men have been held. people are shooting into the air in respect to all young man. last year, he's a 70 and you're according to witnesses. we spoke to here at that they said that the israeli forces has rated the cab at 7 am in the morning local time when firing shots. now according to the israeli army, they say that they have arrested palestinians for being wanted, or they believe that some of them are involved in the attack. that's happened to me, but all that is ready to tell you 2 days ago where a gun man has shot 5 is rain, so and killed them. so there the palestinians believe that this is come in retaliation of this attack. let's not forget this. as we said before,

g has arm, so people, usually your 5, these really forces raised with arm today to young man, alive as 3 others. i would it in person just a turkish prosecutor has asked for the jamal shows the murder trial to be transferred to saudi arabia. 26 audi are being tried in their absence and is stumble. the well known saudi journalist was killed and dismembered and the saudi consulate there in 2018. hash of cheese fiance says the trial has stalled because a saudi arabia's lack of cooperation. police and sudan have fired your gas to disperse protest her is marching in the capital her tomb. demonstrators were making their way towards the presidential palace. there been regular protests in the military's takeover in october. last week, the u. s. accused to the nice police of killing harassing and intimidating peaceful professors at rallies earlier this year. can you? i was top court has ruled that president who can also has been to change the

constitution was illegal. the move is seen as a blow to can also on his allies ahead of key elections in august. malcolm web has more from nairobi. this ruling were widely read widely seen as a move showing relative independent of the history from those in power president who re kenyatta and his allies was seeking to expand the executive branch of government. now his 2nd term ended august when the next election, the due, he can't run again for president. the changes might have enabled him to take a newly created more powerful role such as prime minister and to give powerful roles to several of his allies. but the judiciary rule against it. now this is all seen as widely seed as part of a kind of ongoing effort among the historical political establishment. and kenya, the kind trying to keep control of the government in the face of new electoral

threats. in particular, the deputy president william root who is a relative newcomer to the political scene and he will himself be vying for the top position in those poles do in 5 months time. it makes it harder for president who kenyatta to make deals with his allies and give out those powerful positions to the key players that might play into the hands of deputy president william route to be who be vying for that top post. on the other hand, can you elections always mod by allegations of widespread irregularities and rigging, and those things might have a great bearing on the actual outcome of the polls, rather than the confrontational court ruling just presidents, as does all the parliament he suspended last year, accusing politicians if attempting a qu, they define case this year by voting to repeal measures, they say would give him near total power. sarah. hi, rach reports remotely. the, as the law,

another decision likely to divide a nation based on chapter 72 of the constitution. i announced today at this historical moment, the dissolution of the rep multitude council to protect the state much case i had acted after a 124 of parliaments, 217 members. held an online meeting on wednesday, their 1st since he suspended the legislature 8 months ago. a few hours later the president responded. nice would a lesson. unfortunately, we are witnessing a coup attempt, but it is a failed one. the national duty requires to day the protection of all the people and the homeland, based on the articles of the constitution. classic who is exactly what opponents has spent months accusing side of staging since last july, when he sat the prime minister for his parliament and granted himself new sweeping powers, he felt threatened and tried to get them arrested. the prosecutor general said,

i want to rest um i have no evidence and now he's saying ok parliament finished. but this is, these are the acts of someone who is lashing out at any one. he considers a political opposition. he doesn't want to dialogue with those that don't agree with the 64 year old was a constitutional law professor before taking up politics in december, he nancy to points a committee to rewrite the constitution and put it to a referendum in june. meanwhile, the country is experiencing its worst recession since the 1950s. unemployment is high when ukraine has driven up food prices. ah, amongst the political tension, have done little to lessen the internal political wrangling and corruption that side claims force him to suspend parliament. in the 1st place, ah, but what does seem clear is that the latest stand off is another blow to tennessee

is shaky democracy, sar, hider, al jazeera. i'm a freelance journalist. eligible quin has more on the political fallout from tunis . what politicians say calling for a fresh elections, but this is the thing that ty site has yet to speak about. the constitution says that he has 30 days to hold legislative elections. but what we've, what's been in the press is that the minister justice has sent a list of m p 's to the public prosecutor yesterday because they're accusing the m . p. 's. he met yesterday of homing. so a criminal band. and so that they sort of plotting some kind of count to cooper. but what we've, we've seen is that the public prosecutor is actually kind of dragons heels to su warrants because no arrests have been made yet. so sort of parliament in a ways has been the last gate keeper for a, for a white, a democracy. so yeah,

this meeting yesterday, which is the 1st time that parliament is that she sat since july 25th was a key event. they were due to meet on saturday and the moment parliamentarians deciding whether they're going to go a hint of what the next movies ordinarily wouldn't just it's parliament's dissolved . they can still operate until a new parliament is elected. but at the moment, effectively the countries in a sort of political limbo again and parliament is once again in no man's land. still ahead on the al jazeera news, our anger on the streets of argentina will tell you why thousands of people are demanding a financial boost from the government in bonus iris. and in sports, i go behind the scenes that cats, how late is high tech museum, dedicated to sports. ah

hello there, let's look to the middle east and we're seeing hot dry and it'll conditions over the next few days. we'll see things start to hot up across the levant temperatures picking up in places like baghdad will be well above the average. here. by the time we get to sunday, nearly 10 degrees with plenty of sunshine, and it's looking a lot more settled across the gulf states as that shamal wind ease is it'll be a little bit breezy on saturday, but temperatures will pick up into the high thirty's in places like doha and into to by now it's all about the wind as we had to north africa. you can see that wind blowing is the horizontal would southern areas of europe was about wet and windy conditions, plaguing coastal areas of algeria. by the time we get into saturday, that pushes further east with the temperatures in places like high roast, ought to pick up about 5 degrees above the average on saturday. so hot and dry up

in the north, a lot wet down in the south. some of the heaviest fools around cameroon, edging into western areas of southern africa for south africa. it's wessa in the east. but for johannesburg, plenty of sunshine with the temperature at $26.00 degrees celsius. though it will be cloudy in cape town this weekend. that should weather update. ah, al jazeera world needs some extraordinary women who are making things happen that way. following the daily struggle to survive for their families to thrive. egypt swimming st. sellers on al jazeera on to

bombardment and odessa, the missile and see it on the road out there and meet ukrainians. determined to stay, you will not surrender just like that to fight you. shoot a train you 2 days ago the show me how that works. and to defend the barricades and you don't commentary shows the ukrainian witnesses tool from the front lines dispatch and defiance voices from ukraine on al jazeera. ah ah, on the weekend, the top stories on the al jazeera news, our president vladimir putin has issued a decree, ordering foreign buyer is to pay for gas with russian roubles or have their

contracts canceled. the decree could pose a serious issue for europe, which gets around 40 percent, if it's gas from there. do as president joe biden has decided to release $1000000.00 barrels of oil per day from strategic reserves. and this is aimed at decreasing energy prices, which have spice, because of sanctions imposed on russia. a russian ceasefire to allow civilians out of maria poll has come into effect. ukraine's deputy prime minister says a convoy of buses is trying to reach civilians were trapped in the port city. the united nations is holding a donors conference to raise money for its largest humanitarian appeal for a single country. it says it needs nearly $5000000000.00 in aid for i've gone austin, to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. victoria gate and b reports. every day is a struggle for layla. my husband left afghanistan for around 5 months ago to look

for a job and she hasn't heard from him since she is living in a makeshift camping can the whole city with her 2 sons and her brother in law's family. the rochelle lander, with no shame, ramadan is coming and we have nothing to eat during this month. it is hard to fast eaten only bread. my kids are sick and i don't have enough money to buy them medicine. i collect garbage on bottles from the street from morning until evening and i barely make the equivalent of $0.35, which is not enough to buy flour oil or rice for dinner. the number of people in afghanistan who can't afford food and other essentials has doubled since the taliban took over last year. the un humanitarian agency says $4400000000.00 is needed in afghanistan. as it faces an economic crash and humanitarian crisis. the money is needed to boost the delivery of food and agricultural support and to fund health services, water and sanitation and education. afghans need all help, enabling their economy,

sustaining their agriculture and enabling the basic functioning of social services to prevent further economic collapse. preserve those basic services. the international community has long said human rights must be up held for the taliban leg government to receive aid. they supporting the un appeal se the taliban decision to close may. secondary schools for girls last week has made it more difficult to raise funds from western governments to taliban. the defacto authorities have to live up to their responsibility to protect their people and to help you monitor in organizations. do the work on the ground that in each to the decades, afghanistan was heavily reliant on financial aid that was frozen when the taliban to power. now the un is urging the world not to forget the country as it faces a crisis, victoria gate and be al jazeera. let's get straight into hands. larkey, who's the spokesman at the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. he's joining us from geneva. welcome to al jazeera sir.

what's at stake for i've gone on? if this money is not raised? well, what is at stake is literally life or death for millions of people, enough candy stone as you here and see in your reports. there the situation is extremely, dia, 6 out of 10 people are in need of emergency aid. 20000000 people have i in the situation of 60 a food insecurity, that means simply they don't have enough to eat every day. so it could hardly be more urgent than to day or to raise the funds to actually get the aid out to people. but with less than 13 percent of the funds reached at this appeal is severely under funded. what's been the reaction from the international community to what you've put forward? the pledging event is happening right now. it started

a couple of hours ago. it will end in a couple of hours. it came off to a very good start. we are doing this together with earn germany, the united kingdom and cutter. all 3 countries really put money on the table up front, very large or hundreds of millions of dollars are coming up. we are seeing other countries are stepping up. so there is a sense that i've got to stand the people of afghanistan is not forgotten. how far we get was they'll have to get to the last stretch in a couple of hours. and we will see what the result is. to what extent though, do the actions taken by the taliban on the ground? for example, like the decision recently to close secondary schools for girls? does that make it more difficult to raise funds from western governments? frankly, yes, it does. what we're hearing from all the intervention so that i have heard up to now is this being raised? everybody's mentioning it,

that this is absolutely unacceptable. that the half of the population, half of the women are not giving the rights that they should and that girls are not getting the opportunity to go to school. so frankly, that, that is not helpful. but there are a certainty, a room for us to continue to, to work with them as we heard from marty griffith, the un, human italian chief there. he has been meeting with taliban leaders over the past couple of days and his impression are coming out was that the door is still open. the door is open or to continue discussing these things. but it is important to make that distinction between who are the rulers in countries and who are the people in the country. and what our goal is, of course, is to help the people of afghanistan answers and stay with them. and it brings me to my next question. i mean, doesn't alleviation of, of gant stands, extremely serious humanitarian crisis. as you're describing require

a some sort of engagement with the taliban. well it, it does for issue many tarion purposes we do, we have and we do engage with that. we move with the 1st to go there after the takeover last year for the for one simple purpose to make sure that we are able to provide in an impartial and neutral and independent manner. the humanitarian aid that people so desperately need we, we don't take sides or we don't look at who rules. we look at where are the people in need and can we get her the age to them? and we were given assurances that we can continue to do so. dosage, assurances were reiterated at this time round, and that is extremely important. thank you so much for joining us from geneva. mr. youngs. luckily, appreciate your time. take you now in the us. several

tornadoes and storms have injured people. they've damaged property and left thousands of homes without electricity. 7 people in the state of arkansas were injured in a tornado. the national weather surface says the storm reached wind speeds, if up to 217 kilometers per hour in alabama's states and another tornado overturned a mobile home and did up routed trees. john henderson is joining us now from chelsea and alabama. john, tell us what you've been seeing on the ground. this was a broad swath of storms. it stretched from texas over to the florida panhandle in the east, and then as far north as missouri, thousands of square kilometers of territory and a series of storm brought in with heavy heavy winds. and you can see some of the damage here, the roof being taken off, partially bat house over there. on this hill. you can see that trees have just been

down one after the other. and as i look over here, i spoke to the owner of this house and she says, now this is a job for the insurance, but she says the good lord did her, his work. she still here, i spoke to the mayor of this town, tony pickle timer, who said that no one seems to have been injured despite extensive damage throughout the town of chelsea. and we were told that this happened with no warning whatsoever . it happened in the dead of night about 7 seconds is what it took for this storm is sweet through this particular town. there's a lot of damage and a huge debris field where the mayor says, thank goodness no one here who's injured. so don, you, what you're saying is this wasn't expected that at all. so. so how are people coping with the aftermath? well, it was expected that there would be storms in the area of this particular tornado, though was not predicted ahead of time. as some of them were, the mayor said,

by the time they got the warning, the storm had already passed through. so there was some concern that there would be storms in the broader area, but often the weather service tries to nail down exactly what towns are going to get hit. in this case, they weren't able to do that. and this isn't nearly record setting month. the storm prediction center here says that a 187 reported tornadoes have happened this march. that is 2nd only to last march in 2021. when they were a 191 tornadoes and they have some idea that these storms are sweeping through. and occasionally they can pinpoint where they are about to hit and warn people to get him out of the way. but here in chelsea, alabama that just not what happened. this came as a complete surprise, and again, so far it seems that nobody here was injured. thank you so much, john henry, reporting from chelsea, alabama. sure. lincoln's are being war and to expect more electricity cuts at least until may millions are suffering. blackouts are up to 13 hours a day. the government's struggling to afford fuel imports for power stations

because of the worst economic crisis in decades. leaders say nothing else can be done at the moment to avoid the blackouts. chinese leaders are choosing britain's government, pressuring. 2 british judges to resign from hong kong, highest courts, the judge, i say, there rolls at the court. a final appeal became untenable. that's after being introduced new legislation in hong kong, which has restricted free speech and civil liberties. adrian brown reports the, an independent judiciary has been a defining feature of hong kong since it was returned from british to chinese rule . nearly 25 years ago. its legal system is unique. foreign judges preside in the territories highest court. there from countries that use unwritten laws known as common law, created by precedents set in court. now, 2 of those judges have quit fighting the erosion of liberty and democracy here for

the human rights lawyer marked 80 says it's another damaging blow to hong kong, international reputation. we don't know exactly what tip them, what tip the balance here and why they got off, but the infrastructure, the legal infrastructure has changed such that they feel they can't do justice in hong kong. the judges say their resignations are a response to china's introduction of a national security law nearly 2 years ago. that followed month about and violent unrest since then, more than a $150.00 people have been arrested with most denied bail under the law, regard them and can select judges for trials held in secret without juries. in some circumstances, suspects can be expedited and tried on the mainland. hong kong leader says the judges were pressured into resigning by the british government, accusing it of damaging the territories judiciary. it is something to be regretted

that they have decided that they have to leave. but what i find very disturbing and i cannot served as the association of the judge's resignations with either the implementation of the national security law or the practice of individual rights and freedoms. in hong kong, there are now 10 foreign judges left at hong kong, 6 from britain and the rest from canada and australia. they're all retired. unlike the 2 judges who've just stepped down. and that means they're not bound by decisions taken by the government. one senior legal figure questions where the hong kong still needs foreign judges presiding in its courts. we are able concern on our own, as it demonstrates, improved to the world that we independent, that we have totally committed to the rule of law in with me for a night in title,

full judges of now step down in the past 2 years. and that's a legal scholars could increase pressure on others to follow. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong, gonna start producing its own, covered 1900 vaccine in 2 years time. and has stated the nation addressed of parliament president non cooper are those that a national vaccine institute would be set up around 20 percent of the population in vaccinated. the government lifted most restrictions last week as the infection rate fell. ah, in with with, with, with police and chilly have arrested at least 55 people during

a day of nationwide protests demonstrators through fire bombs and stones up police . the violence broke out on the anniversary of the killing of 2 brothers by police officers in 1985. they were protesting against the government of the vent president . gusto pino, shaped. at least 5 officers were injured. thousands of people have march through argentina's capital. they're demanding more financial help from the government. country is rich and natural resources, but it suffered years of debt crisis inflation and economic mismanagement. theresa bo reports from the protestant bonus diaries. the are a symbol of a country crisis. socially movements representing millions of people in need on wednesday, the march to the center of when a site is and paralyzed argentina's capital bilateral class works as a blacksmith. he says he makes around $50.00

a month and it's the only job he has been able to find. they're hoping, what are you? what i'm over 50 years old, who's going to give me a job relate discarded material. nobody wants us. that's why we come here until the government does not forget about it. when her it, there's entire families outside this ministry and defender of went outside of poverty rate have been growing steadily in the past years in argentina with an exchange rate prices and soaring inflation that have had a huge impact on people's purchasing power. and that's why most of every well here are saying that they need to stay at least 48 hours until they get our response on the government. these protests happen as the government announced the economy slowly recovering. poverty rates are dropping, but inflation continues to be the real challenge. last month, it was close to 5 percent. march is expected to be even higher money

gasoline is part of an organization, negotiating assistance for the poor. she says, government programs don't do enough to fight inflation. it gets the way that you want. we know is that every time inflation goes up, it seems a 100000 people into poverty. and we can see that because salaries aren't high enough to buy food, all workers know this. i feel now president elevator the, for a man. this is trying to relaunch his economic agenda. randy's, i'm assuming your youngest argentina is like a big market or what do you need? lithium? we have it gas. we have it oil. we haven't had food we habit. so let's get organized and take advantage of the opportunities, you know, and let's understand that everything the world. once we can provide argentina, recently reached an agreement with the international monetary fund to restructure

at least $45000000000.00 in debt. the goal is to help stabilize the country's economy, but the war in ukraine and rising commodity prices could complicate the government plans. and that's why people he avow to keep up with a pressure. so the government does not forget, they are in desperate need. that is, i will, i'll to seat out when a site is still had only al jazeera is our formula, one will gray song, the las vegas strip next year. we'll have details coming up in just a moment with peter. ah

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hello again, sound for the sportsman's use peter theory. thank you very much. the sporting fall out from the ukraine war has continued at a meeting of football wool governing body fee for ukraine in says that russia should be thrown out a fee for while russia say the country is being unfairly treated. any richardson was the fee for congress in covered russia's national teams may be banned from all competitions. the country's football union was the annual congress of the sports world governing body fee for thief. it says it can't suspend a footballing federation for actions taken by political leaders, a view not shared by ukraine's representative at the meeting in qatar. do you think it's right that the russian football federation is sitting just a few yards away from you here? i think that they have to be expelled from this body since they have perpetrated the crimes they committed to the general the violated all the norms of

civilization instructions. can the ukrainian football thing play this year as well? is it possible? well, it's difficult for me to say you see the situation and if the urgency petition are so of course we'll be happy to do that. you had a feel for president done in front. you know, you had a member of football. molly, you have a sense the head of the ukrainian football association, sense of video message from keith, thanking the global football community for it support. so it is a community that 4 years ago had been gathering in russia for the world cup. a great success sporting lee and culturally but obviously it did not solve the problems of the world. it did not even solve the problems in the region. the man who headed up russia's well cup organizing committee in 2018 says the ban on his country's football teams

is on just you had a case going to the court of arbitration, the sport. do you think you have a good case or to overturn the bank? your national things? yes, we you. we did go to cos or when the think that there are layers and art football fans did not deserve it. and our team should have had the right to continue the qualifications. we certainly would have not welcome this decision, but a department at this moment. it is what it is. faithful will now turn its attention to the drawer for the group stages of the cattle world cup competition that russia insists. it's been unfairly expelled from ukraine to remain consumption for a place at the finals that play off against scotland has been delayed until at least june. and the richardson al jazeera doha johnny infancy, you know, also shocked many by claiming fee for wasn't behind the idea of having world caps every 2 years. we started the feasibility. but if i did not propose anything,

if i came to the conclusion that it is feasible that it would have some repercussions and impacts. but once this certified the next phase dos and it's a phase of consultation, it's the phase of discussion is the phase of trying to find agreements and compromises. algeria fail to qualify for the world cup, and they've lodged an appeal with free for hoping the 2nd leg of they play with camera room will be replayed, algeria obese and t one and were eliminated on away goals. they argue the outcome of the 2nd leg, and algiers was distorted by the officiating in the wake of that last the president of the algerian football association has resigned. egypt have also asked for, they will come qualifier again, cynical to be replayed because of the hostile treatment. the team received in deco

african football journalist. asha com, a geisha explains why both appeals are unlikely to succeed. you must have to be quite honest. i understand where algeria and egypt are coming from, but when you look at the history of how faith has handled cases like they still have to prove that there was malpractice or the was corruption with the referee. and also you have to give credit to papa because you get some i, he's one of the top 3 best referees on the african continent. he knows what he's doing. and really you have to understand attack cameron. we're also in this fighting algeria. yes, they are the reigning arab kept champions. do a here in cats are very sad for their friends that don't not be coming to watch their team play. the 2019 african champions they deserve to be. he had to have a good quality side. but football is what it is when you're going to a game. he said, i draw a win or a loss. you have to be prepared for that. 2 more teams of qualified for cancer, 2020 to mexico or through to the 8th straight world cup. it's a run that stretches back to 1994. they ended the qualifying campaign with

a win over el salvador moville and tuna opened the scoring and then ro jimenez added a penalty beforehand so to seal a to know when they finish. second, in the group behind canada, who had all he booked the spot at the world cup. the united states of america returns to the world, the above to must be out on the 2018 tournament in russia. the americans changed their spot despite a to the last to costa rica on the final late nights of qualifying. meanwhile, the costa ricans finished for fin the north and central american group. that means they are through to an intercontinental playoff. it'll take place against new zealand in june in doha. the kiwis booked their spot in their play off by thrashing the solomon islands in the final of oceania. qualifying zealand, secure to 5, no victory. taking them a step closer to reaching the will cup for only the 3rd time in the history. and on

friday, we'll have a special program following the wolf cab drew as it happens live in doha. our coverage begins at 1545, g m t. the miami, he saw holding on to top spot in the n b a's eastern conference, as the playoffs approach, jimmy butler school 24 points and car larry 23 as the he saw all the boss himself. it's 10690. 8. miami are still the top feeding lease as things stand fast for boston, bail fulton, the east, and on course to avoid the initial post season playoff for teams. place 7 to 10 elsewhere. c, j. mccollum was given a standing ovation by his former friends in portland. he traded to the new orleans pelicans in february and sadly for the homes and he helped his new team to victory here. the columns will 25 points in 170 and 107. when for the trail blazers, the pelicans lie in line to spot in the western conference defending created

women's world cup champions. england will face a stranger in this year final on sunday. that's after the english thrush of africa by $100.00. 37 runs in christ church. you and you in the semifinal. danny white top school with 129 of england post 293 for 8 and 50. so africans maybe even got close . so if you could spend $66.00 to $36.00, so that's all out for only $156.00. and informally, one has added a 3rd race in the united states from next year. the cars will compete on the las vegas strip landmarks such as the bellagio and caesar's palace hotel will feature along the temporary st. circuit for a saturday night race. from november 2023. the american parent company of the myrtle series is expanding its north american footprint. already having races in austin, texas, and miami, making a stave you later this year. and we do believe that without be that oregon, that the, you know, that, that, that request than that, that, from a one would be something on which, you know, those, the, the, the,

the american fans would love to be involved even more. okay. we're going to leave it there for now. more sports is on the way a little bit later we'll see later on. thank you so much, peter, and thanks for watching the news. our on al jazeera, we'll take a short break, and we'll be back in just a couple of minutes with much more news. see it? ah. mm hm. the biggest sports events on the planet is coming to the middle east for the 1st time. trying to find out who your theme will be find will be live from go home and across the globe, the special coverage of the fee for wild cup dro. join us on april the 1st

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