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a russian offensive in the east. the un general assembly voting on whether to suspend russia from the human rights council over a legit atrocities in ukraine. pakistan supreme court is to rule on whether it was constitutional for the prime minister to dissolve parliament ahead of a crucial and no confidence vote. yeoman's un recognized president habit that up on sort of had the hands his powers to a new leadership council. in sport, the 1st gulf major figure is underway with tiger woods ting, off at the most is in the next few minutes. and a korean bens, the master class sees rail madrid. take control of the champions league course, a final tie against chelsea with. welcome to the news. our ukraine is urging nato members to step up weapons supplies quickly as it prepares for a russian offensive in the east. it's foreign minister, a dmitri collabo has been holding talks with nato foreign ministers in brussels, local authorities,

and the eastern hans region have urged all civilians to leave immediately. either you help us now and i'm speaking about days, not weeks or you help will come too late. and sir, many people will die. many civilians will lose their homes. many villages will be destroyed. exactly because this help came too late. weapons are lay minute they lay, they love silence, and her. i will not be in a position to go into details. but ah, let me put it this way. i have no doubt that ukraine will have weapons necessary to fight the question. is the timeline leather against that vasa, who's or any us from battles to tell us more about what happened at the nato

foreign minister as meeting earlier today that well, we had quite an emotional plea during dis, sir. press conference, also by into labor. he was actually very emotional when he talked about a d a, but he said the butcher atrocities, especially people who has escaped from there. and, and that's exactly what has been causing this shift here at nato in brussels, during this foreign ministries meeting. just after the invasion, nato countries were very diff, a very careful sending weapons, still ukraine, dave sending been sending light or weapons and also what they called a defensive weapons. well, this is this, these atrocities, these alleged war crimes have now cost this shift. and i asked you installed and worked in nato chief during the press conference or what kind of weapon so, or would they call them offensive weapons or what has cost to ship? and how is russia gonna respond to this?

and this is what he had to say. alice are providing a wide range of different weapon systems on both her so at arrow systems, but also more than a equipment or. and i think that this distinction between offensive and defensive is a bit strange, because we speak about providing weapons to account to which is defending itself on the and self defense is arrive to which is enshrined in the you and shorter. so everything ukraine, thus, with the support from the dollars is defensive. whilst all the merc was also predicting that the war in ukraine could take a long time. and as he actually, i even went beyond that. he said that the natal ministers are also called a co discuss the infinite entity growing influence of for a china. so they're actually working on

a completely new strategic concept for nathan, because he said if the war is gonna take long or short, the global implications of the war and ukraine will be felt around the world. ok, so thank you so much of us and is reporting for us from brussels on that nato meeting . let's keep the conversation going with robert hunter. he's joining us from washington dc. he's a former us ambassador today. so welcome to al jazeera sir. so do you think that there is a shift going on within nato and maze ho? countries will actually be supplying ukraine with not only more weapons going forward, but different types of weapons. well, the nato secretary general was told, learn, obviously, did not say exactly what kinds of weapons. but he did promise that there would be more weaponry coming of all kinds of qualities and 8, right? they dismissed

a question about whether any distinction between offensive and defensive. i think they were also impressed by what the ukrainian foreign minister, who said i have 3 priorities for nato webpage webpage, had weapons. nato has been a bit slow and been cautious so far for, for provoking russia. tests never really quite. i've never quite understood that. but if we can now see in the west, a lot more weapons to go to the courageous people of ukraine. and i think the russians are going to learn as they've been learning. that aggression, at least in this case, is not a good option, but allow me to just play devil's advocate for a moment. i mean, you say that's not sending weapons is something that you didn't really understand. but do you think that pretend is just going to stand by as more and more weapons

are sent to ukraine? well, that's a decision that mr. prudent has gone after maggie. but he is committing aggression in another country and i suspect they will intensify their use of weaponry in ukraine. but as we've seen already, around kiva elsewhere as ukrainians are, are putting up a good fight themselves. mr. porter, my has to understand that by what he is doing, not only has he made himself unacceptable to much of the world, but also he's going to make it harder for russia in time to reach out and be part of the outside world. and quite frankly, russia has no long term alternative, but to be engaged in the west. but isn't there right now? does not, or are china extra? china is not an alternative for russia, but isn't there is just back on the issue of supplying weapons. i mean,

isn't there risk that there could be a direct confrontation with russia? the more weapons are supplied into ukraine and whether it's a direct or even an indirect confrontation. if the war spills over accidentally, perhaps into a nato country. for so far, the only attack that we know about ukrainians have launched into russian territory was the attack i think last week on the job. yeah. yes. there is always a risk of the law spelling however, but one thing the allies have made clear and mr. by the press, your president has made claire at one step by the russians into a formal nato. i would bring a specified consequences. but at that point, the entire fabric of nato and western security would be under challenge. and the response would have to be vigorous. and so far mr. potent has shown an awareness of

that and i hope he doesn't get it wrong. i hope we don't get it wrong for everybody's sake. do you still believe this? there is a diplomatic route out of the you can crisis as, as you wrote back in january there's always a magic way out in what is like right now. well, i suspect 2 things which have been there for the whole time. one has to be the removal of rational soldiers forces from ukraine. now, diplomatic solution i think would include that ukraine touch crimea does not come back to ukraine. it never was really part of it. number 2 is that it will be just affirmed something, it's really been true for 25 years that ukraine was not joined now. after all, i joining nato requires

a consensus by all 30 allies and there are is 7 who don't want to get in position of having to fight for a 4 year crane, which is understandable. try to bring us the rascal frontier. just as mr. brewton has to understand that he can't go into native territory. i think the really difficult issue is going to be what happens in the john boss assuming that ever really survived, or what the russian is doing. and there are, there has been an obvious answer for quite some time, which is to have autonomy. areas within the legal framework of ukraine is that i think can renegotiate it, watch mr. pool understands that he will not be able to prevail to the force of arms and workshop the obvious. ok, thank you so much, robert hunter. thank you. former us ambassador, turning to thank you. now the un general assembly is set to vote on whether russia

should be suspended from the un human rights council. a 2 thirds majority is needed for that resolution to be adopted. delegates from both ukraine and russia have already been speaking ahead of that vote. all you need to do is to press the yes button. and to save the human rights, cancel and many live around the world. and in ukraine, on the other hand, pressing no means spooling a trigger. and means a rad dot on the screen rad as the blood of the innocent lives lot. and these image of the rad,

bloody dots on these screen will stay with you. and all of us as long as memory does not fail us, think about it, job running the what buffer for the drop resolution we are considering today has nothing to do with the human rights situation on the ground. what we see is an attempt by the us to maintain its dominant position and total control to continue its attempt at human rights colonialism, waste and approaches of dealing with human rights issues in other countries has not been successful. not a single conflict was resolved. dr. we would like all of these here to really consider your decisions and to vote against the attempt by western countries and the allies to destroy the existing human rights architecture. lighter christmas alone, joining us in the united nation. so as that general assembly meeting is taking place right now,

chris and just tell us what we expect and how we expect this vote to go. well, we'll hear of some speeches and the vote will be called. it takes 2 thirds to pass, and that's 2 thirds of countries who vote abstentions or countries who don't show up or countries who abstain from the vote. they are not counted and they're in that total in any way. we know that at least 57 countries are on board with this resolution. they've signed up as co sponsors. we heard from ukraine laying out the case there that this is needed to stop russia to stop what ukraine has described as genocide. but we're also hearing now right now from senegal,

and previous to that cuba and other countries who are speaking out against the resolution on the grounds that it is singling out russia before an investigation. russia, as we just heard, has been using the argument that the united states has invaded other countries that the united states has done things in the past that it's accusing us of doing now. and we're hearing other countries talk about maintaining a, the structure of the council and having the investigation before kicking russia out . but if any past votes on the situation and ukraine are our guide, nato allies and ukraine have received overwhelming support for resolutions that have called out russia's aggression and condemned russia's

aggression. 140 in favor of that. in the past. 57, co sponsors, as i said today, those are a lot of numbers that would be hard for russia to overcome. so while it's too soon to predict, there is a lot of speeches ahead and a lot of concern in the counsel. and if this goes forward, it would be only the 2nd country to be suspended from the human rights council in its short history. yeah. okay. and that's after libya. but thank you so much kristen, for the time being. we will cross back to you a little later on fun to moorehead on the al jazeera news hour, including amending the president's resignation. students are the latest to join protests in sri lanka later, and sport formula one returns to australia for the 1st time since the pandemic started. ah, then other world news, yelman's leader, aba did

a bowman sorta has he has delegated his presidential powers to a new leadership council. saudi arabia's advising the new assembly to start negotiations with the her with these rod plans to give yemen $3000000000.00 to rebuild its economy. it comes to days after a cease fire was announced. but the her with the rebels have rejected the new council in a moment, will have reaction from yemen with mohammed lots i been sent off. but 1st, let's hear from side book hefa, who was following the talks in broad the decision of the president obama, or had he has a little bit taken the focus from the, the talk here in the yeah, the decision i would say is a little bit confusing because the president did not say he's been down or he's resign and he said that he is delegating powers to a presidential, our leadership council in an attempt to help the you and lead efforts to and

the war. the problem i would say is how this will help in a stop in a 7 years war in yemen. not now that we know that there is 8 personality of our leaders in the leadership council, which means the people we know, we don't know how they will work together because they have opposing views. and also the hoodies are not taking part in this talk. we don't know if this is something that we had in going further into the dialogue, or it will be a step backward here in the talks though, these for them told themselves the don't consider any move by the international government. they say that the, this, this move that baseless according to their words. the say also that the via the, that the president had the whole, the responsibility for the, for the worry the,

some of the observers believe that this is a move that to, to shoulder the responsibility on the casualties. and also the, the, all in the impacts of the war on the international ignited governments with the, especially with this move and the, the, the quality doesn't have anything to do with that with what happened over the 5th 7 years. so there are these believe that the, the, the, the, you don't have anything to do with the latest. moved by the president. admirable, mon, sort of heidi's formation of a presidential council. the circus court has transferred the trial for murder journalists, jeremiah zilkey, z to saudi arabia. the saudi critic was killed inside the kingdoms. if sambo consulate in 2018 turkey put 26 people on trial in the center. all saudi nationals, prosecutor said the case couldn't be conducted properly since the suspects could not be arrested rights group. say the decision and any hope of justice for hassle.

v. students are the latest to joint protestants for lanka, they're calling for the president to resign because of a worsening economic crisis for president go to a buyer. a defacto has refused to step down. despite weeks of protests against food and fuel shortages and lengthy power cuts, fernandez has more from columbus. this is, as you can see, students, these are students that have had been delayed. they can't study because of 1030 in apo across. all of them basically taking to the streets now they're rallying cry. give us back our futures. i mean that's what lots of these banners say. it's all about what kind of country they want. protected and secured for them that he saw that he saw a few to not do doubt done oil the 21574 years. they have like destroyed the country, the quality issues. so we should come forward. now the government is facing

a huge problem today the 3rd day in parliament, the debates continuing to do in the government and the opposition, the finance minister, the new on that sub for just 24 hours early submarine saying that they had been discussing the need for debt restructuring, the need to allow the repair to float against the donor. 3 all of these things that it had been discussed for a long time. the opposition gave them short. if they said, if you had been discussing it, why didn't you do that much, much longer? why did you allow it to come down to such a crisis and hit rock bottom? and these are issues that are happening, that all of these protest says, are talking about today. and what they want is basically someone who is able a team that's able to address the problems of the country and not just look at cheap, short term political. again, the collapse and lebanon's economy has for some bank customers to take

a legal action to recover their savings. but only a few have been successful. the banks are being accused of shifting their losses to customers by offering checks worth a fraction of their deposits. santa coda reports from beirut. more than $100000000000.00 remained stuck in lebanon's banks since 2019 when the financial system collapsed. depositors had been facing limits on withdrawals at unfavorable exchange rates. now, some banks are closing accounts of mainly british passport holders. after a u. k. court ordered a lebanese bank to give a depositor his money. depositors say they are offered a check for the balance, but they are worth less than 20 percent of their value. manager of the bank told me that i can take my check. i dunno to ease and

wander around and see who can accept or bankers check bank say they are short of cash and fear. if depositors continue winning legal challenges, they will have to declare bankruptcy. they say the answer is for the political authorities to pass a law that would regulate the outflow of foreign currency. capital control measures both would have even the level playing field for all depositors. it would have prevented all these accusations against banks of favoring surgeon a depository over over february politicians over regular citizens. banks have been accused of helping to politically connected transfer their money abroad. many of them are shareholders in lebanon's largest banks. critics call the financial system a ponzi scheme for decades, banks lent to the state that high interest rates, while successive governments largely plundered funds and piled up debt until

capital inflows slowed and the economy collapsed. and experts believe much of the money is now gone. with people locked out of their savings as they struggle with high inflation and poverty. so there are many challenges in order to get the money back. we cannot just get it back by doing individual lawsuit. and also we have to see a restructuring of the banking sector and the public that and this is what's not happening . those in power have so far failed to reform a system that they long benefited from them to shift the losses to the people who withdraw their money at around 30 percent of its value. already depositors have lost billions of dollars. then whether else is eda mae root ah far right. candidate marilla pan is holding her final rally of the french presidential election campaign . also just the race is tightening with le pen an increasing threat to president. am i do on my cause?

chances of reelection latasha butler reports ah, at the ukranian cathedral in paris, the war is never far from people's minds. a super cab. it's unbearable. just all full of all those people that are dying with you know, to them is only planning before ukrainians are fighting for peace. not only for ukraine, but for, you know, do it is when you of the was one of the key issues in france. his election emanuel, my cross diplomatic efforts, have played out well and opinion polls suggest that he's leading the presidential race. but the conflict is also fueling anxiety over inflation. at places like malta, town, northern france, people on spending like they used to. when did the marquee clients expect certain prices, but they say what's happening and because they are struggling financially, val counting the penalty. every one that we spoke, contin here says that they're worried about the war in ukraine,

the coven pandemic. but then number one, concern is the cost of living in a bar, a group of friends is talking politics. medicine was everywhere. category awful. there are 3 categories of people in france, poor wretch, and the people in the middle, those in the middle struggle most because the poor get state help, but people in the middle get all the texas often i don't fall example and you're, i think it's the people in the middle of fall right, party leader marine, the pen is targeting the focus on the cost of living has shifted the spotlight away from her anti immigration agenda and broadened her appeal. she's widely expected to face my cry in a final round runoff, but many are still undecided. 3rd, may not vote at all, you know, brought been running an informal poll in central powers for several months. because i guess you don't any people are very engaged in this election, but completely last from one week to the neck. it changes

a lot. the only constant is people who say they don't know this week, even more people visibly in the don't know how difficult choices in uncertain times french voters will go to the polls at a moment of crisis in europe. whether they choose to realty and continuity, or something different is unpredictable. the conflict is overshadowed. this election natasha butler al jazeera, monta, tell france, numbers of germany, parliament in germany that is, have rejected. mandatory cobra. 1900 vaccinations for the over sixty's. the votes being seen as a setback for government ministers who back the mandate from october. as a way to avoid further locked jones around 200000 germans are being infected daily with 328 covert related deaths reported on thursday. in the us, government is blaming the war and ukraine for record high petrol and diesel prices

. higher transport costs are causing other goods to become much more expensive to elizabeth moran and reports from new jelly. the. this is one of the biggest wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in new delhi. thousands of street vendors come here every morning to stock up on produce from traders. most of the bulk goods arrive and trucks from neighboring states where drug this talk here, it comes from somebody in used cars, $0.50 sort of sack of potatoes 2 weeks ago, and now it costs $60.00, the price of petrol and diesel has gone up. so this increases to those increases are being passed on to shoppers, such as somebody baby who has to feed her 4 children on her earnings of $4.00 a day party. the problem we're buying when prices are going up, we buy less and less people will spend according to what they are and some people

have jobs. some everyone is helpless. almost daily fuel price rises over the past $2.00 weeks of that protests by opposition parties in many indian cities, all companies began raising prices after a 4 month pause while prime minister, millions or movies bought at the jumped the pot. he was campaigning in recent state elections. and he has petrol and gas ministers as many of the countries are suffering much higher, rises and blames worn ukraine for disrupting oil imports. but the government rates fuel prices $63.00 times the 1st half of last year when they was war, india was able to, amongst a few countries that increase fuel costs in the past 2 years, when crude prices crashing because of the pan demmet experts say years of rising living costs are hurting the economy by driving down consumption of non essential goods. we are now in a situation where the decline in consumption has now become more and more

entrenched in the economy. and so that will leave it to get out of that is to some external stimuli to start the economy. but it is also hurting the inflation as well as the o. downside in the economy is also hurting the ability of the government to generate more revenues in a country where the average daily wage is the equivalent of $5.00 a day. economists agree with consumers and opposition parties that the government must find an alternative to painful price rises. elizabeth moran of al jazeera. you daddy still had on the al jazeera, who's our o. refusing to stay silence how an orchestra from eastern ukraine has reunited in the west. of the country coming up in sport a 3 time major champion, takes the early lead at the master's in ta killer style. that's coming up with joe

. ah hello, thank you for joining in. there's a lot of sand and dust being spun around the middle east. here's a picture of it right now. it is around the levant, especially our 4 box that on friday with the high $35.00 degrees. look at this though. huh. okay, i put you in for 39, but i think there is a really good shot. you could see your 1st 40 degree day of the year and now here's what it's looking like on saturday. those winds are going to shift around out of the north, north west. that's going to have a big drop in the temperature for bahrain, so minima. 36 on saturday, but drop of about 10 degrees by sunday. off to pakistan there are size, we could have the hot is summer here in about 5 years. i me already, we see the signs of a temperature is widespread in the forty's, la whore could get there in time for off canister couple could see a sprits of some showers. 26 will be the number for you. ok, here's where all that energy is. turkey, the easter med,

those winds spinning around all of that sand in dust into the levant. central africa looks like this are storm centered around coastal areas of nigeria cameron gabon into western areas of the congo into the south. we go still that cool air for south africa. cape town 21 degrees, but by the end of the weekend. yeah. may hit 30 big difference compared to jo berg . 12 degrees was some showers. susan. ah, it's the largest war in europe since world war 2. is president newton reclaimed what belong to russia? was natal coming to close? and what does the end game look like? an in depth look at the war in ukraine, hooton's land, or the with ukraine,

the season just uter. ah, ah, ah, ah ah, ah, ah ah, hello, are you on the top floors on the als, is there a new dollar? ukraine is urging

a 2 members to step up weapon supplies quickly as it prepares for russian offensive in the east. the meter collab appeal for weapons to fight russia before it's close to late. ukraine is urging members of the united nations to suspend ross from the human rights council. the general assembly is set to vote on the resolution to serve as majority is needed for it to be adopted. there are new accusations of brutality coming from both sides. in the conflict, a video appears to show ukranian forces killing detained russian soldier. as the verified footage was recorded outside the village of mich rifka, that's a few kilometers southwest, a boot shop. it happened on the 30th of march, in it's soldiers wearing ukrainian fly patches and blue arm bands, chance glory to ukraine. a soldier a thought to be russian has a jacket, pulled over his head and a shot 3 times. the bodies of 3 other suspected russian soldiers are seen nearby.

i haven't seen it. i heard about it. i want to reassure you that ukrainian army observes the rules of warfare. there was, of course, there might be isolated incidents of the violation of this rules, and they will be definitely investigated. russell sardar has more from miss rifka on march 30th, wilder, russian, our forces were withdrew him from a nearby town called demetrika, and they have been ambushed here by the ukrainian a forces. she knew that day a heavy, a fight took place right in this support. and several russian were where forces wiggles have been destroyed for the tanks, personal care years here came under the fire from the artillery by the ukrainian forces. now here in this support,

i can see at least 8 military waykell personal carriers. and the tanks completely destroyed in some of the personal carriers. still, the russian, a soldier's body are completely burnt out there. you can see, and also wild fighting was continued here. the other russian forces were dispersing, and several of them are trying to escape from the battle. they ran into the woods, but then they also have been killed by the ukrainian forces still around here. there are these, there are the unexplored ammunition remained from the russian forces and on the same day, at right over there, several other russian forces also had been captured by the ukrainian forces. 2 of them are particularly important because at the da da video that support an outrage has been immersed right over there. in the video, we see that one of the euclid,

russian soldier still alive and heavily breathing, have been killed by the ukrainian forces you been in the 1st minutes. we said at the destruction of the russian column here was precise work. however, the video that emerged shows a more complicated reality. pakistan supreme court has just rules that prime minister iran con, violated the constitution as allies and parliament prevented the opposition from proceeding with no confidence motion. despite the opposition, having a majority con, then got parliament dissolved and called an election. a son, bon jovi is coming up for us right away from his line of bad. so osama now that that ruling has come through 1st. tell us how the supreme court reached this decision. well, as we speak to you right now, they're 5 member bench is reading outs. it's verdict it right now after hours and

hours of deliberations. it was delayed by half an hour at least a week before they were supposed to announce it. but we can tell you now that the supreme court are focused on has declared that it was unconstitutional for the deputy speaker of parliament to suit against the vote of no confidence. which means that the assemblies have been restored. the ruling that the deputy speaker gave throwing out the vote of no confidence is enshrined in the constitution that after a motion has been tabled before the assembly that the prime minister should go for a vote of no confidence. no other business can take place. and this was the plea that was brought forward by the opposition parties to this would be brought to focus on seeing the ruling was unconstitutional. the prime minister saw that he's going to lose his numbers. as the motion had been tabled before parliament, he could not go back and dissolve the assemblies and called for elections. so he

used the deputy speaker and his law minister to go through another route which was unconstitutional. and that is what appears to be at the unanimous decision by this 5 member bench. and this guy is going to have a wide ranging ramifications. because soon after that ruling, the prime minister, due to the president, the assemblies were dissolved. the for the president actually asked for an interim government as well and called 4 elections in 90 days. and it appears that in after this ruling has been declared unconstitutional, all of those subsequent steps will be rolled back as well. so what is it that happens next? what should we be watching out for well, we were speaking to leaders of the opposition, people who went to the supreme court and some of the lawyers have been pleading their case as well. and they say that the 1st step is to get the court to agree that no one should be able to cite

a foreign conspiracy and strike down this search vote of no confidence. if the supreme court allows this, then never, ever, in the history of august on a prime minister would be able to walk it out of office. and the next steps would be that now, if the court allows them, the assembly is going to reconvene. there is going to be a vote of no confidence. the opposition says that it has more than a 172 members close to a 200 members. it says it has now he said that they do not believe that ron hahn should be the prime minister of bach. his son there is also talk about elections and that is something that we saw in the last few days at the supreme court as well . these questions arising and how are they going to govern the country renatta election is going to take place and what will be the way forward. because you have to realize that this country now is polarized between supporters of him. don han and the opponents of him run on and what this is brought to before as well, is the role of pakistan's powerful military establishment as well. but emerald con, the sitting prime minister for the 1st time,

he said that he was given options by them in a v. stablish ment do i that resigned to does all the assemblies are faced, the vote of no confidence and he's found a fort's way forward and that seems to have been struck down by the supreme court of pakistan. so it is going to be a, an end to a constitutional crisis. but again, a lot of ambiguity on the road ahead because pakistan is scheduled to have elections a year and a half later. but if things are to go by a where the opposition has been calling for elections there, the boards for a new mandate from the government is when it appears that focus on is probably going to be heading towards a new mandate, a fresh elections, where people are going to decide who they believe should be in power. thank you so much. osama. bon jovi reporting from islamabad. the u. s. is imposing more sanctions on russian banks, as well as lot of our pu tunes, adult daughters. president joe biden says moscow was paying a severe and immediate praise for its reported atrocities. and boucher ukraine's leader has welcome the extra sanctions,

but as more needs to be done. our white house correspondent, kimberly hallett reports. it is the latest us escalation against russia in lockstep with e u and g 7 nations new sanctions targeting russian financial institutions and kremlin officials. the u. s. president also introduced an executive order banning all american investment in russia. this ration was going to make sure that new money can't come in to rush you to replace what's left. some of those sanction now include russian president vladimir putin's 2 adult daughters and foreign minister survey. laugh rav, his wife and daughter. on wednesday, the justice department announcing actions against russian oligarchy, constantine malice, have for sanctions violations. and the seizure of a yacht docked in spain earlier this week, owned by another russian oligarchy,

victor vac cell burg. it does not matter how far you sail your yacht. it does not matter how well you conceal your assets. the justice department will use every available tool to find you disrupt your plots and hold you accountable. the justice department working with the f. b, i also announced it had disrupted a malicious computer network infecting us. small businesses operated by russian military intelligence. the sanctions were accelerated following. the images emerging of civilians killed in boucher scattered in the streets some with their hands bound behind their backs. the attorney general would not confirm his assembling and nuremberg style investigation, but did go out of his way to constitute the killings as atrocities the world sees. what is happening in ukraine. the justice department sees what is happening in the

ukraine. the white house is warning nations like india and china against the lining with russia to ease the impact of sanctions. but china accuses the us of exacerbating the conflict they were would. if the u. s. is serious about easing the situation in ukraine. it should stop adding fuel to the far stop imposing sanctions and stop course of words and deeds, and truly commit to promote peace talk soon doing them. the white house says that sanctions already in place are having an impact. the russian economy is set to contract in 2022 by as much as 15 percent and inflation in russia is up by as much as 200 percent. kimberly hell can al jazeera washington, the w h o says it's verified. 91 attacks on health facilities in ukraine since the conflict started. the organizations regional director for europe says it's working to make contingency plans as resources are stretched in the country. giving the

uncertainties of the current situation. there are no assurances that the war will not get worse. w. s, considering all scenarios, and making contingencies for different situations that could afflict the people offering from the continued treatment of mass casualties. chemical assaults of liquid also coordinating with the european union to patients arriving to make sure that they are received in an you can treat that as best place to treat them. the us senate is expected to confirm the historic supreme court nomination of $210.00, g brown jackson. if confirmed she will be the 1st black woman to serve on the country's highest courts. jackson was announced by as president joe biden's pick in february. 3 republicans have said they'll vote for her. in addition to 50 democrats, peace talks for the disputed. they're going to care about. border region have been

agreed by the leaders of armenia and are based on president ali evan armenian prime minister, nicole fashion, and met in new council president charl michelle. to lay the groundwork. recent fighting and gordon care back has threatened the 2020 russian brokered agreements. security forces us through don, have killed at least one person, an injured dozens of others during the latest show of anger against the military coup. the demonstration, demanding civilian rule was on the 3rd anniversary of the city and which led to the overthrow president martin bashir. his mortgage reports from hard to ah, it's almost 6 months since the dance military ceased power and the opposition remain focal. on wednesday protesters in the capital cartoon, and several other cities, once again took to the streets to voice their anger at the military and demand they hand over power to a civilian government. they added a sal and a little while in our shop, we came out to send a message to the military who are in power around the country that we want

a pure civilian government. the army should return to the barracks, no militia can rule the country. and i think that is a very clear message. processed as are also commonly rating the 3rd anniversary of a citizen in front of the army headquarters that sits in let the military to depos longtime president, omar bashir, after month of protests and signed a power sharing agreement with the protest movement, an agreement that was dissolved when the army took over last october and hug name polanko give, then we made a huge achievement in 2019 and entered a ratio stronger than the current one. they say the revolution was stolen, but it wasn't. the army was in partnership with us and they betrayed us. and this is a fresh revolution with no partnership with the military. it's now we want a civilian government without the military. we can't to live under military rule security forces, use tier guys and live ammunition to disperse processes in the past 6 months, more than 90 protesters have been killed and hundreds injured as security forces

use what right groups and the un describe as excessive and brutal forest against unarmed demonstrators lost the military takeover has committed a political crisis. there hasn't been a prime minister for 3 months, and the caretaker government is still wanting the day to day affairs. i'll become queen the uncertainty along with donor countries halting financial. it's suzanne calling to take over as grated him. he cannot make crisis, but the army says, even with protest against it's cruel, it won't handle power except an elected government. a joint effort by the united nation african union and the regional inter governmental authority on development r e got to facilitate talks between the various political actors incident was launched in january, but many protesters have rejected the process of thought. we will both of isn't to knock on this revolution will succeed. whether that happens today or tomorrow, or next year, or the coming generation of the come on go in 2019. we demand the end of division to what brought about we're demanding that same thing. now,

none of them we don't one partnerships or negotiations, we're all compromised with the military. protesters have faced the threats of violence and detention from security forces, but they say until their demands for a sibling government and a returned to a democratic transition are met. they won't stop protesting. he bal morgan al jazeera cotton. here's it's coming up on the news, our tiger woods eyes, a 16 major title as he tees off at the master's job will have the details in sports . ah

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ah hello again, we're taking you back to the united nations general assembly, which is voting right now on whether russia should be suspended from the human rights council. we will listen in for just a moment. the president. all right, so as we way to vote taking place right now, as we speak and wait for the numbers to come in, just so you're aware of what we're seeing right now was that i sent to you in general, or somebody voting on whether russia should be suspended from the human un human rights council, and what's needed is a 2 thirds majority for that resolution to be adopted. earlier in the hour we did hear from delegates, including of course, ukraine, as well as russia who's spoken before the vote. and that is the delegate from

india to speak engine of the premium. right now let's listen in for a moment for peace dialogue and diplomacy. we believe that no solution can be at i that by shedding blood and at the cost of innocent lives, india has chosen any side. it is a sight of peace and it is for an immediate end to violence. be continued to remain deeply concerned that the worsening situation and re today to our call for end to all hostilities when innocent human lives at stake. diplomacy must prevail as the only viable option. recent reports of civilian killings in boucher a deeply disturbing b have an equal colleague condemned these killings and support the golf for an independent investigation. ok, so here are the numbers are right on the be now are we have a 9 t 3 votes?

yes, 24. no. and 58 extensions, which means that russia has been suspended from the human rights council. kristen salumi is joining us from the united nation. so. so those numbers just coming in, kristen and a suspension for russell. yeah, very interesting. votes. ah, not as large of victory as other ukrainian backed resolutions in the past. but clearly russia has been removed suspended from the human rights council, a position a geneva based council meant with promoting and protecting human rights around the world. we heard before the vote from several countries who said that they had reservations about supporting this, not because they weren't concerned about what was happening in ukraine,

but because they wanted the investigation to play out 1st. so we heard of that russia that brazil and south africa, india that we were just hearing from. i said that this investigation should happen 1st. they're concerned about double standards. they're concerned about politicizing investigations and they're concerned about weakening the human rights council. china and who vote abstained from other votes on ukraine in the past, voted no against this mexico, which helped draft the last general assembly resolution condemning russia's aggression calling for a withdrawal said that it would abstain from this vote because it thought it was premature that the investigation need to play out. i think i've got a quote from him here. he said were in favor mexico's ambassadors and were in favor of accountability and more transparency, but through inclusion,

not exclusion. so clearly a divide about whether or not this would be the best way forward or not so surprising syria kazakstan siding with russia voting no. i saying that there was a double standard that the united states had also been accused of violations of international law and not been suspended from the council on, on, on that in their case. so i did. this is how it's playing out. we are now likely to hear more from supporters of the resolution, and of course, it was united states that 1st called for this action, saying that it was hypocritical for russia to even beyond a human rights council. when there was evidence on a daily basis that they were violating basic humanitarian was. yeah. and kristen, it'll be interesting to see, i mean, how this all plays out. because prior to the vote of course,

russia had warned those countries that voted yes or abstained, that that will be viewed as an unfriendly gesture. so russia, speaking out ahead of this votes, there was a lot of pressure on countries from all sides. here we saw a note that countries received saying that it would be considered an unfriendly gesture to vote russia off of the human rights council that it would affect bilateral relations and, and work being done inside of the u. n. i. but the united states and nato allies have also been calling on countries as well. this is the standard procedure to try to, you know, convince countries to go along with the resolution that they feel strongly about. and so the implications for developing world countries here are,

are very hard to navigate. many of them are not directly involved in the conflict, but they may have relations with one side or the other in terms of military support or economic support. and they rely on those countries and good relations back home and, and especially now that the conflict is having such a, an impact on food prices around the world on fuel prices. many countries are eat and even more precarious position and feel that they can't afford to anger one side or the other here. so we have a very high number of abstentions at the end to 58 countries, abstained, but it only took a 2 thirds majority to pass and that's 2 thirds of those who cast the vote. so the, the resolution has passed easily. but clearly a lot of countries are uncomfortable with us. okay, chris and thank you. we will speak to you in the next hour. kristen salumi is reporting for us from the united nations. and just once again,

a recap of our breaking news story. that is the representative from katherine speaking right now with the un general assembly were just a few moments ago. the general assembly voted to suspend rushes, membership in the un human rights council. this of course, is because of the country's invasion of ukraine. and here is a recap of the numbers that came through. so we had 93. yes, both. we saw 24, no votes, and there were 58 extension's. just a reminder that in this votes at the general assembly, the extensions do not cout count and we needed a 2 thirds majority of voting members, which obviously was reached at the votes in the general assembly. and to put this in a little bit of context for you, this is the 2nd country that gets voted off the un human rights council. libya was suspended back in 2011 because of what transpired in the country and the violence

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