egypt swimming st sellers on al jazeera, we understand the differences, emerson, malachi, of cultures across the world. so no matter what moves in winter been used, and kind of calls that matter to you. ah, hong kong leda kerry lamb says she will not seek a 2nd term as chief executive in next month's election. ah, no, i'm darned, george. this is donna 0. live from della also coming up. the un coastal, an independent investigation off to russia is accused of committing war crimes and ukraine. for long as i'm ta, cabinet resigns, as the country grapples with its worst economic crisis. and becky, awe and hungry his primers to victor alba city was another to him. and

opened the geron victory them sunday's election. ah, hong kong leader, kerry lamb as an ounce. she will not seek a 2nd term. her successor will be picked in may when the election for a new chief executive due to take place. my alarm presided at hong kong during massive anti government protest in 2019. adrian brown has moved from hong kong. and so you night she insisted. the decision that she took was hers and she cited family reasons for her decision to go. now she said that she inform china's leaders of her decision to stand down last march during the national people's congress in beijing, when china's parliament approved a radical overhaul of hong kong electoral system. the past 5 years have been

to us ones for hong kong. we had to protest in 2019 we had the imposition of, of a new national security law. and then of course we had cobit 19, we're still wearing face miles here in hong kong. and hong kong has some of the most harshest restrictions around the world. and i think that has also worked against her. she is a leader who has been under anonymous pressure when she came into office in 2017. she promised to heal the divisions in hong kong society. that hasn't happened in many ways. those divisions have deepened when she came into office. you know, her popularity stood about 63 percent. it's now down to 27 percent. so i think caroline has been really in a very untenable position. her life has been turned upside down. and i think at the end of the day she just felt it wasn't worth carrying on. i mean, there's

a feeling that, you know, hong kong is to move food. if it is to have a new look, it needs a new face at the top and a face. it's not connected with all the bad stuff that happened during the past 5 years. where chief secretary and 2nd in charge, john lee is widely tip to replace carrie lamb. we spoke to keith respond, university of hong kong journalism and media study center. and he told us what we know about. we know that he spent most of his life as a policeman. he's a cow. he came up through the ranks of the police are many for decades, and then he went over to become head of security in 2017 and then moved over to become a number to official which they call chief secretary here. but his entire life and career has been in kind of security and law enforcement. so, i mean, if china wants to emphasize kind of the security aspect, the national security aspect, you know, making sure that i know hong kong or is don't, you know,

rise up again in any kind of demonstration. they'll put a cop in charge. so that's what we know about him. the other leading candidate we thought might be the financial secretary, all cham, but we haven't heard lately whether or not he plans on entering the ring. more disturbing footage is emerging out of ukraine of the violence reportedly committed by russian troops as they withdrew from positions made a capital. a warning, some of the falling images are distressing. a mexican broadcaster has captured these scenes and at a pin which on the outskirts of keith, chose the dead bodies of what appeared to be civilians lying in houses, alleyways. extensive damage is also been cause to buildings in the area. well, there are some of the scenes in the nearby town of boucher also close to keep ukraine is accused russia of carrying out a deliberate masika, hiring footage of bodies and civilian clothing long in the streets. a sparked outrage around the world. the cranes government says it as evidence of war crimes

and calling for tougher sanctions on moscow. when the kings are alleged have taken place as russia. bullets troops back from key towns near the capital. officials and boots are se around 300 civilians were killed, many buried in mass graves, with some showing signs of torture. russia denies the accusations moscow's now repositioning its forces for increased attacks in the south and east of ukraine. and a warning now you may find the images in this report and enron can disturb it. most bodies have been removed and the ones that are left have yet to be picked up. each has to be photographed and documented the dead. a silent witness as to what happened here. and what is alleged to have happened is russian soldiers attacking civilians are fleeing. the city is sure. oh brother drawer he went to get someone. when all of a sudden they started shooting that hit him a bit above the heel, crashing the bone. and he fell down the chute. i shouted. don't scream or i will

shoot us. then the shut off his left leg completely. then they shot him in the chest and another shot when slightly below the temple. it was a control shot to the head daughter. no, no. he the mayor of ki, visited boucher to show solidarity and express anger. is genocide jill side of ukraine, m population. more than shaw is it, people in russia and the russian government had to pay for their baneful prize officials, a gathering evidence, and will submit their findings that may well form the basis of a war crimes investigation. you'll also be able to watch all the shows and movies news because i was here today, be fine anyhow, opportunity to reduce that of what happened and hearing all this view become evidence in our case, give is corey in the outskirts of beecher russian forces shelled houses the residency, there were effectively held hostage were sewell with them. the russians broke into

our house is in, took them over. they told us not to go out at night on the main road leading into butcher. this rushing convoy of heavily armored vehicles lives completely destroyed . it stands testament to the ferocity of the fight. the town was retaken by ukrainian forces on the 31st of march. it's only now the what happened here can be documented. so far the municipality has found $300.00 bodies. but as they search the town, that figure could rise much higher. i've counted at least 10 dead bodies down this road. they're waiting to be picked up. they'll be taken to the morgue. well, they'll be recorded and eventually even picked up perhaps by their loved ones. although the bodies will be removed from this road, the scars that this town is feeling will take a lot longer to heal as well. the clean up gregory tries to sweep away some of the debris, but it's almost futile. he tries anyway, but the scale of destruction is simply too much m. ron con,

our desert bhutto for russia's defense ministry, says ukraine's accusations are unfounded and all its military units left butcher. 4 days before the footage was released, i shall borrow as more for master. there's been a statement from the russian ministry of defense dismissing the report about mass murder in butcher. they say that the foot is coming up from there is a provocation. and they also said in a statement that when they took over butcher, people were given access to leave the area include including to words north towards bella ruse. they also say that their forces left boucher on the 30th of march and that before that the ukrainians were to blame for massive shelling of the southern outskirts of butcher. and i have to say that since the start of this

military operation, the russians have been saying that the, facing an unprecedented or misinformation disinformation war and they have been accusing the west, the americans for deflecting the attention on the core issues that russia has been dealing with and they say that we've been telling them that we have a huge concern about the military situation and in ukraine. but those parties were incomplete denial about realities on the ground where the killings in boucher have promot global outrage. the 2nd general of the u. n. has called for an independent investigation into the depths. my kind of has more from washington d. c. the images emerging from the town of boucher have sent ripples of shock and revulsion around the globe. indeed, this is genocide appearing on us network, ukraine's president cited them as yet more proof that russia is conducting a campaign of genocide. we are the citizens of ukraine and we don't want to be

subdued to the policy of the russian federation. this is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated, and this is happening in the europe of the 21st century. so this is the torture of the whole nation and presidents lensky later delivered this message in a televised address. hundreds of people tortured to death, shot with peaceful people, bodies on streets, minds around houses, and even dead bodies everywhere looting, concentrated evil came to our country, murderers, rapists, robbers, looters that call themselves an army. and they all deserve the death penalty after what they've done. russia's aggression, us secretary of state, described the images as a punch to the gut since the aggression we've come out and said that we believe that russian forces have committed war crimes. and we've been working to, to document that to provide the information that we have to the relevant institutions and organizations that will put all of this together. and there needs

to be accountability for the reaction of the u. s. western allies was summed up by the german chancellor, the modern, fancy, b list miss, antique sub russia. the murder of civilians is a war crime. we must relentlessly investigate these crimes committed by the russian armed forces. i demand that international organizations, such as the international committee of the red cross, be given access to these areas, to document the atrocities and the perpetrators, and those in charge of the must be held accountable. listen, so i stuff gets all that the issue of accountability is echoed in the statement by the un secretary general. i'm deeply shocked by the images of civilians killed in boucher ukraine. he says, it's essential that an independent investigation leads to effective accountability . in his interview, president lensky also called for increased sanctions, but added that what was even more important was formal security guarantees from the

u. s. in particular, the secretary of state. so sanctions are continually being reviewed and if necessary, tightened. but the by that administration has been silent on the issue of written security guarantees. and that will be a matter for discussion at the white house in coming days. as well as in congress. mike hannah jazeera washington, since i shall break here now to 0, when we come back to political limbo in pakistan. why mr. tamrand. com, de zones parliament and colson actions must feel dishonest. william usability to tell our story. ukrainian president brought him is the lensky appealed to the u. s . music industry for support during the romulans more not space. ah.

with sun the name of the game and high heat. hey everyone, we're focusing on the middle east where there are temperatures in the 40, as we look at mecca, 40 degrees bach that also coming in at 40 and i think in the days to come will add more to the 40 degree heat focusing on monday, across the gulf states kuwait at $38.00, i'm going to put this several days for now. we'll find ourselves on saturday, seeing this sand and does pick up. but look at some these temperatures. q weights at 43. looks like doha will have its 1st 40 degrees k up this season. now if we look toward bach of standards, sweating it out in the heat wave here. so karate at 39 degrees, if we get you up to 40, that will be 5 days in a row that you hit 40 degrees, and i think you may do it off to turkey. what weather has swept through is stumble, mostly cloudy on monday, but i think we will see the sun poke out. also got heat across the levant is while ramallah 28 degrees. central africa wanted to focus on the storms go in through

here, but also the temperature and heart tomb at $44.00. you can a lock in there for the next several days. it's not going to be record breaking stuff, but it is above average after southern africa right now. what, whether continues for eastern portions of south africa and some showers dance back into cape town on monday with a high of 22 degrees. ah, the from the world's most populated region in depth stories from across asia and the pacific. good type us coaches and conflicting politics. one 0, one east on al jazeera. ah al jazeera. with samuel lou.

ah, welcome back. a quick reminder about top stories here. this al hong kong lead a carolina about she would not seek a 2nd. ton of successes will be picked in may when the election of revenue chief executive is due to take place. long presided over hong kong during massive anti government po, texas in 2019. but more disturbing footages emerging out of ukraine of the fallen, potentially committed by russian troops. they withdrew from positions made the capitol dead, bodies of what appeared to be civilians were found lying in houses on the weights of fields and have been under similar scenes in the nearby town of boucher also close to key ukraine as a tooth brush of carrying out a thunderbird masika there. it says as evidence of war crimes,

but moscow denies the accusations. not so long as cabinet ministers have resigned or mass falling an outbreak of protests against the government's handling of an unprecedented economic crisis. the prime minister still remains in the job as does his brother, the president, the government's running extremely low on foreign reserves, and is struggling to import basic goods under chappelle reports across the island, a sudden ground swell of opposition to the roger pox of family. and what's widely seen as a man made crisis. protestors defied a government curfew on sunday, prompting she longed has entire cabinet to resign. all 26 members except for the president go to by roger boxer. and his brother before president now prime minister may hinder roger boxer. after declaring a 36 hour curfew, the government cut off social media to try and prevent these demonstrations. in

a suburb of candy protestors, grievances were met with tear gas and water cannon. university students, professionals, mothers and children, all came out despite government orders. i knew it again. oh yeah, i don't, i will not. we would like to tell the government that whatever happened today back on stopped tens of thousands of people joining the struggle. it is a joke if the government pays, it can stop this people's protest by using barriers under tear gas or shooting and saw the economy is in tatters. it's the worst economic crisis and decades. people are angry at the skyrocketing cost of living, increasing shortage of essential goods and rolling blackouts. the government is saddled with huge debts and dwindling reserves. the now limit its ability to bring in basic supplies. critic say, mismanagement bad planning and corruption has aggravated the situation. we have tipped off of our basic rights are right to fuel our i to oh, energy. if you don't have power foam, almost 16 hours a day and now there's no gas. there's no, petro,

there is nothing to eat. there is no medicine. what can we do? if this continues, we will have to jump into the sea with frustrations boiling over and protesters attempting to storm his home. president roger pucker assumed emergency powers and briefly blocked access to whatsapp and other messaging services to and the protest it back side. oh, a position figures called the measures illegal, sri lanka is not a dictatorship. this is a democracy and we will fight for the rights of the people and we will fight to protect democracy. now mother. 6 what's more, the protests appear to be drawing people from across ethnic and religious lines uniting to challenge the status quo. namely, the ruling family in charge and or shapell al jazeera and michelle fernandez, joins us live now from columbia modelled so this 36 hour curfew has now ended. what are you seeing and hearing on the ground,

how things are essentially back as busy as ever. you can see some of the activity. i'm here at the independence square, that monument to sherlock as independence received from the british in 1948. and this is the location where most of the protest as were expected to converge on sunday. but all access roads were blocked off with heavy barricades by what seemed a very worried government with a heavy military and a police presence. but to day with the roads opened and all of that, you can see, i mean there's a huge crowd of young people are most of them talking about taking back their futures, saying that this is our country and to we need a, you know, proper leaders future leaders who are going to bring us good future. so in terms of the streets around the city, colombo are things are pretty much back to normal. there was quite

a lot of traffic this morning as people go about their sort of day to day activities like the demonstration behind me. there are a number of demonstrations which had to be postponed yesterday, or even though some went ahead. so we will see all of those unfolding throughout the day. yeah, manila shall anchors anti cabinet resigned over the government's handling of this crisis. how much political trouble is the government in and what happens now? then there's obviously a lot of wrangling happening behind closed doors. as we speak late last night, we heard that the entire cabinet had submitted a collective resignation are to the president, the allowing the president and the prime minister got up a roger part said his brother, my hinder roger boxer, to reconstitute the cabinet. there have been a lot of criticism about members about key figures in that cabinet. and some of the coalition partners of the government had basically proposed an interim

administration. and one of the things was the rework of cabinet. now, bear in mind that just late last week, the president invoke the state of emergency. as these protests began to rise and sort of build momentum within that we had the curfew. and once parliament comes together, which is to morrow, r d, the government has basically 10 days to ratify that declaration of emergency. so before 14 days or 2 weeks since the emergency is declared, the, the government must ratify that. so wit all of these are sort of coalition partners there are about a 120 to 30 m p 's. within that grouping that has been sounding a lumbers for the government saying one thing they should go in for a caretaker government. another thing there should be an entry mm administration. the government is quite worried about its majority,

so it needs to make sure that it has the vote when it goes back to parliament. so they can ensure that this emergency is ratified because they will lose faith if they find that the emergency can be passed. so a lot of tray, what sort of horse trading from what we hear going on behind the scenes and her expectations are that the new faces in the cabinet will be announced and sworn in today. all right, michelle fernandez, live for stay in the capital, columbia middle. thank you. pakistan's opposition is challenging. a decision by prime minister in one can to dissolve parliament and hold a new election in 3 months. cannot been facing the prospect of defeat and a confidence vote table by m p. 's. the supreme court will hear the opposition's petition on monday. as on the ben j report now from islamabad, members of parliament arrived expecting a vote of no confidence, but in what some say appeared to be a planned exercise. the newly appointed law minister said the resolution was linked to a foreign conspiracy to contact them with. the deputy speaker immediately dismissed

the note for spoke against by mister emmon han minutes after he appeared on state t. v. presidents i'd go advised his dear. i advised the president to dissolve the national assembly under article 58 in austin nation to prepare for fresh elections buyer's visitors. and on cue the president announced the dissolution of the assembly. opposition and bes, called the actions illegal and unconstitutional. in the absence of the speaker and his deputy, an interim speaker in a 195, m. p. went ahead with the vote of no confidence, a simple goat has turned into a constitutional crisis. according to the opposition, the only way forward is abiding by democratic norms. and the rule of law in pakistan, it's who attended. the constitution of pakistan does, has one legitimate democratic means to remove the prime minister bugs as our constitution does not allow for, for them to not hold. we'll do today on the, on the new consciousness motions,

as our constitution does not allow the speaker to prove the session as they have done. our constitution does not allow the president of pakistan to try and dissolve the assemblies while ago is motion is spending. so all that is done today is not to force a free and fair election is to force an unfair election to create a constitutional crisis. in an exceptional decision, the supreme court heard the opposition's plea and issued notices to all concern parties. is this a banana republic, or is it a constitutional republic? i honestly feel that this is not going to turn into a banana republic if the millions of pakistani, so feel and think and act like i do have any that little say in the matter the deputy attorney general has resign thing. his government's actions were unconstitutional. while the government has indicated that elections will be held in 90 days, no prime minister has ever completed 5 years in office in pakistan, and not for the 1st time. it's democracy, he's looking to the judiciary to help it survive a constitutional crisis from

a job without a 0. his arm about hunger is prime minister victor alban has declared victory in an election, overshadowed by the war in neighboring ukraine. or banners, a close ally of russian president vladimir putin and early results give his party a comfortable majority in parliament, under simmons report from budapest to victor, woburn, who likes to think of himself as the strong man of his supporters are elated. whatever the overall thinking hunger, his voters have given their leader an overwhelming vote of confidence. i guess your name, in case we look pretty good. we'd never looked as good as to nights. we won a huge victory from it can even be seen from the moon, but in brussels for sure. that last quit was aimed the e u all. bam is its biggest critic from within. me more our doc for the leader of

the opposition. peter, mark his i, who had brought together 6 parties in the united alliance. it was a humiliating loss in his home town and the overall defeat for his alliance. there is no democrats in hungary, there is no free and for action. regardless of the result. only weeks ago, opinion polls showed mark his eyes opposition gaining support. the war in ukraine and all vans close relationship with russia's president vladimir putin appeared to be negative factors. the old man told voters they were safe with him. he wouldn't get involved in the war. nato and the e, you may be giving military support, but they will be known from hungary. and so the national assembly building in budapest remains dominated by all them. it stands as a symbol of defiance to the liberal policies of the e. u. and of all bands cooperation with russia and china for the european union. i

think this will be a very happy dilemma because if that would be a landslide victory, and apparently it would be a length lighting sort of question, maybe posed better the existence of time. i also retiree and members, faith in the european union is really just a temporary challenge or death will be the new business as usual. on monday, a european team of observers will announce whether they view the election is free and fair. in the 2018 poll they declared it wasn't fair. amount may, will be the verdict this time opposition parties will have been telling them that problems have included limit of access to the media and government induced buyers. pub, of off the majority of news outlets. and so what caused this a power turn around in or bands position? it could be a number of factors inaccurate opinion polls all by claiming that the opposition wanted hungary to join the war ukraine and perhaps more than any of the others. the

fact that so many people wanted a trusted strong leader at a time of crisis. andrew simmons, al jazeera, budapest, and a neighbouring serbia, the incumbent president as one reelection during the campaign, president alexander vouchers tried walking a fine line by highlighting serbia's traditional ties with moscow. also voicing aspirations to join the youth is right the forces of arrest at 10 palestinians hold their calling. rioting and attacking officers. scuffles broke out made damascus gate in altar bodies, jerusalem late on sunday. the palestinian red cross says 11 palestinians will answer at least 6 people have been killed and 12 injured in the shooting in the us state of california happened in the early hours of sunday in the center of the state capitol, sacramento. and he said there were multiple shooters, but none are in custody. we have really limited information about 2 o'clock in the

morning last this morning. our officers were in the area here at 10th and k, and they heard shots being fired. they responded to our scene behind me and located a large crowd. they found that multiple people, unfortunately, had been shot. and this is a really tragic situation to south the down now where an agreement has been signed to create a unified command of the armed forces. president saw the care and his rival, vice president, rick mcgraw, attended a ceremony in the capital, juba, where they agreed to silence that guns for the sake of a country. the 64th annual grammy awards are taking place in las vegas. the music industry's biggest night of the year, the american sing, a john legend, john ukrainian artist on stage to share a message of hope. ukrainian president vladimir lensky also appeared at the gramm isn't a pre recorded video message. he appealed to artists to use their voices to help

bring m n to roll out musicians where body armor instead of succeeded. they seem to that wounded in aust dos even to those who come to hear them. but the music will break through. anyway. we defend our freedom to leave to lot to south on our land, we are fighting russia, which brings horrible silence with its bumps. the dead silence filled the saddens william musings until it to day to tell our story. ah, are christian the headlines here? i'm calling you to carry them as announce. she will not seek a 2nd term. a successor will be picked in may when the election for a new chief executive is due to take place. lamb presided over hong kong during massive anti government protests in 20. 19 cy adrian brown has moved from hong kong past you know.