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country and are ta marsan, making his way down and there we are. a welcoming party, the fast old civilian crew arrives for a week for such of the international space station. ah, facing, has begun the in france for the presidential election. let's take a look. these pictures from paris where 12 contenders, including incumbent, manju, mackerel, all competing to lead the country for the next 5 years. now if no one gets more than 50 percent of the votes, the 2 leading candidates will face off in a 2nd round, which takes place on april 24th. let's go straight to a correspondent, bernard smith, who is lying for us in paris at one of the paulding stations. so voting has begun. what are we expecting today? it has become unexpectedly tight race and manual micron about 5 or 6 weeks ago was

reasonably the conference had in the poles had of his main rival, marina pan. but that got because now narrowed considerably there, a dozen candidates presidential candidates in this election but only really 2 or 3 at the top that the money micro, marina pan from the far right. and john luke melon, sean, of the far left an unexpectedly tight campaign macros only had worn riley, and that wasn't a particularly great success with his supporters. while maureen le pen comp campaigning intensely 5 weeks has concentrated on the cost of living crisis, the number one issue for french vote is yes. party is still an immigration, doesn't want to allow a limit. immigrants to bring family members with them to live in france. she wants to buy the wearing. the muslim had scarf in public, but apart from it, but she's not been concentrating on that. she's been concentrating on this cost of

living crisis. now, i'm joined in this hour by on judy chelly who's to really in this election. but she and international risk consultant and also involved in monitoring the vote here, one of the station parish. first of all, internationally some of the war in ukraine is not really an issue now for the french. that may be at the beginning because that has creating a kind of here who is in the opinion. so that could also contribute to shoes as a reaction radical trends within the political poorer. but finally, what the french people have seen is much more the consequences of this craziness you even if she were looting coaching. the fact that the cost of living is $1.00 of the men issue. it was even before the recording quizzes. but that have sanction

fear of having to because the feeling very hard for most of the french people and also do the issue of refugees. the also is the 2nd left aspect. i mean, as well, sequences of equations, ukrainian quizzes that could have an impact on the votes today in the after 2 weeks, if the people are a bothered about refugees have been quite welcoming of ukrainian refugees, not protect records from elsewhere in the world. ukrainians are being well, you're right. that also has been that is, i mean, that's emily in the middle east with the syrian war iraqi refugees on you mean you, which is, but at the beginning, the french people, the culture of those korean people say, well like, you know, i will call them because they are near the border, are very near is part of the europe continent. so it was at the beginning of the

big reading of showing that in france there is very t and a we, they are welcome but no program are starting. you know that because we don't know how long they will stay and it's, it's a lot of people. they don't speak french. ok. they look like french people are, but let's say that the he also show that now we have to control much more a grecian flu. and also we have to protect our borders. so finally, do the same issue then the father quinn crazes. until the moment, thank you very much. polls close at 6 p. m g m t, here in france will have an indication result very soon after from early exit, polls the font to, to front runners. likely emanuel micron and marine le pen will go through to

a 2nd round a couple of weeks. hence, ben smith that watching all that for us life in paris, thank you. out to pakistan. where else did prime minister him, ron con, has called on supporters to rally nationwide after he lost in a confidence fight. sh, falling tumultuous, weak, which so calm side step, an early move against him in parliament, it tory gate and be reports on us. it was after midnight in islamabad, where members of parliament voted on the mation of no confidence. months settled after a nearly 14 hour standoff between enron cons ruling party and the opposition. 174 members have regarded their war to in favor of the resolution. consequently, the resolution for ward of no confidence against mister m. ron hon. the prime minister of his law, margaret alberto augustine, has been paused by a majority of the total membership of the national assemblies.

ah. gone is the 1st prime minister in pakistan to be ousted by a new confidence that opposition leader she by sharif, who's likely to succeed him? said pakistan had been freed from a crisis girl on key. a new dawn has started, a new day is coming, a law has answered the prayers of millions of pakistani mothers, sisters, daughters, elders, and youth. ah con, says he won't accept in opposition, government and blame the us for leading a conspiracy to remove him. he scold on his supporters to hold nationwide rallies among boys to learn. con has been moved to a foreign conspiracy. god willing, we will fight back to make him prime minister again. we don't want to, steve. oh, concert we will is the culmination of months of political turmoil and a weeklong constitutional crisis. the opposition put food and no confidence mation

to parliament. last sunday. the deputy speaker blocked the nation, saying it was unconstitutional and involved foreign interference. may dispute 0. my use cons advised pakistan's president dissolved parliament, but the supreme court ruled that was illegal. while in on his lost the battle in the parliament. he still has a large following in the field, especially among the young. and they are fairly committed to a lot will depend how this group and they run on is going to react to interact with the new government. because overnight the new government will not be able to solve the problems of the economy relationship with the military. the u. s state department has denied any involvement in pakistan's internal politics. parliament will meet on monday to appoint a new prime minister party studying victoria gate and b. algae. is there any he just some of the engine i had as line fresenius lombard, a sama oh,

what is the mood in the country this morning? we know emron khan has been calling on his support is to go out on the streets. can we expect protest today? yes molly, there is going to be a protest. her nationwide protest call from the former prime minister in mount con, at least 24 hours ago. and he forwarded coming. any of the followers to come out in the evening to try and show that he still has a lot support based and focused on and his support are rallying to the board that he was ousted by what he called before. and conspiracy. it was a very interesting night at the last few hours. so when the court order was about to expire, iran con said that he would not resign his speaker to the parliament resigned. then there was a new speaker that was thrown in and at the stroke of midnight. there was a new confidence for the 1st brought in pakistan to vote out it and elected prime minister. the papers today are full of what happened last night. and using

cricketing terms for a cricketer turned politician back to the pavilion, says the express tribune because iran con has been relying on many of these terms. the news goes with him, ron shown the door. this is something because iran han was trying to fight the orders of the court and he tried until the last minute denay his departure. and then the dawn newspaper says that the midnight boat sealed m non huns fate and an unceremonious showing of the door to get under the prime minister in pakistan. no prime minister has completed 5 years in power. so the moved remains mixed. defect sonny's are at least in the federal capital, divided amongst a supporters and the opponents of imminent fund. it is jubilation. from the opposition side. i'm suspicion from him run flexible was summer. what happens next to is in the front running to become the next prime minister pakistan

in the next 24 hours on monday the parliament is going to reconvene. you're going to see a shop ashery, who is likely to be stored in as a new prime minister because he is the a joint candidate for the joint opposition, which had been trying to oust him. ron hon, calling him that he came to power through the backing of the powerful military establishment, saying that the elections were rig and imminent fun, obviously seeing that he's now being pushed out. because the horse trading people, people, the votes being bought and a foreign conspiracy against him, troubleshooting is not very well known in international circles, but he is the former chief minister. but robin say he's in order to be an effective administrator. he's the brother of the wall street, the former prime minister, who was ousted after panama paper scandal. and he is going to be staring down at

a country which faces a crossroads of myriad of challenges. not just economic and social, but also challenges which will be on the political front. as im run con spotty says that they will not accept this imported government and they're going to fight it in the assembly and on the streets. okay, thank you for that. or some, a bunch of i'd, therefore live in some about to ukraine, which is preparing for big battles in the east of the country. is thousands of people get out of low hands ahead of an expected russian attack. have been evacuations from cram a toll square, more than 50 people were killed on friday in a strike on a railway station. ukraine says russia 5 missiles, while thousands of civilians were waiting to catch trains. russia insist keepers responsible most pleasant, donaldson, hooded from our city. the train hasn't been running for a long time. we can only evacuate by boss. it's impossible to live in the city

because a water supply is intermittent. electricity is infrequent. shops are closed, communications don't work is like armageddon here. well with the wall moving away from the capital, keith president vladimir zalinski has hosted wild leaders. they have been promising more support, i saw said a reports from air pin on the outskirts of key cigars. can you more high level diplomatic visits to keith on saturday, yuki prime minister boys johnson and austria's chancellor caught me hammer, became the latest western leaders to wizard ukrainian president. a day after will admit zaleski welcomed european commission, president or sullivan de leon, and the blocks foreign policy chief, joseph portal. johnson. one of the most local critics of russia's invasion of ukraine, retreated his support for the country. and we will give you the support that you need the economic support, but also of course,

the defense is military support in which i am proud to say that the u. k. helped to, to lead the way he plaster sand, new armor vehicles, anti aircraft, anti tank missiles, and perhaps most significantly anti ship miss our systems. those co threatened brush us lot naval presence in the black sea with lucifer as embassies and political figures began to return to keep. the word to reconstruct is destroyed, neighborhood is ramping up. among them is the city of european once home to 60000 people, the city was a front line in the battle between russia and ukraine. of forces heavily guarded on a visit to the area. the austrian chancellor told me he found the destruction difficult to take in for a thorough quarter of the people, no credit card or war crimes. now fierce

fighting continued here for over a month. these bridge became a focal point. as people fill out the bombardment, ukrainian army sacrifice this bridge in order to hold the atlas of russian forces as they try to encircle the capital. as a result, the city of new had been, has been cut off from keith since the early days off the war. now that the russian forces left the region, a force are on the way to reconnect the 2 cities with a temporary bridge. since russian forces have withdrawn from the area, foundations are being relayed and connections remains as the suburbs are linked again to the capital, so to key reinforces it's linked to the world, mrs. sanders, i was just 0. if you saw head on al jazeera o vs and lanka,

keep on the pressure on the government. and australia prime minister admits his gum with mine. ah, he has begun the full world copies on its way to the castle. travel package today. hello there. as one weather system rolls out of europe, we've got another one hot on its heels, bringing unsettled conditions from the west to the east. so on sunday, that area of low pressure sitting across the balkans, bringing some wet when the an wintry conditions here. it clears not behind that, but we've got another one waiting in the wings ready to bring in some heavy rain to the iberian peninsula on sunday for the north west. it is looking a lot more miles across britain, an island with sunshine temperatures picking up here in places like london. but the

rain isn't very far away and a lot of that rain sweeps across the low country's got wintry showers in. a germany and poland, some warnings for strong winds along those coastal areas. the scandinavia, it's cold with snow pushing its way further east, but we are seen from fine conditions come back in across the low countries. if we have a look at a 3 day for antwerp in belgium, for example, we'll be touching 20 by tuesday with plenty of sunshine. now further south of this, it is looking a lot finer on sunday for spain and portugal, but the weight rain is going to come in from the west. by the time we get into monday, it will be edging into madrid, a lot calmer, across the mediterranean sunshine for greece, but wet and windy weather for turkey that she weather update. i saw a visual airline of the journey. in a conflicted world, millions of children are abandoned, abused, and deprived of their basic rights and eat, is the international community doing enough unicef,

executive director catherine russell and goodwill. ambassador david beckham talk to well just a diverse range of stories from across the globe. from the perspective of and networks journalists on al jazeera lou ah, watching out as a reminder, on top stories, the former president nicholas saw cozy husband among eddie versus in the french election 12 contenders, including incumbent manual. my call in the running to leave the country for the next 5 years. pakistan's prime minister emron con, is called on support,

is to rally nationwide alta, he was ousted from power in a no confidence phase. opposition party secured a 174 votes in the 342 seat conduct ukrainian forces say they're preparing for much worse. fighting in the east where renewed at the attack is expected from russia. british prime minister force johnson has pledged more military aid of talks with president vladimir lensky in for just as inch lanka say they won't stop until the president resigns. have continued to demonstrate against the raja packed sky in columbia. despite heavy rain suppression of the country's worsening, economic crisis is growing. now fernandez reports from the capital lumber. angry, frustrated, and desperate for justice around the president's office in colombo, under the eyes of the police, shalanda is facing its worst economic crisis in decades. or saturday,

the protesters kept coming, most of them young people in what reported to be the biggest protest over the crisis to d. o public service. so we, i had to say that always as needs could be heard and he needs to be respected and dis, grice's needs though and no because it had gone up to the limit that to well be broke and obey any more. the crowds came from all of to lunches, diverse communities. this goes to read, give us stolen money back. and this is corrupt jewelers are playing with our future . in recent weeks, the price of essential goods rocketed and cooking gas and fuel became scarce. hopa last up to 30 hours. 7 economy see a massive drop in tourism revenue due to the east of bombing of 2019, and the pandemic, coupled with a loss of government revenue due to a major free election tax stuck to blame. not is not in

a foreign currency for the government to buy a central. that's only why it be out of disguises. about the roger boucher's has to be removed from the positions and they normally be got to see some sort of a credible political stability in the country and wanted to go bid that wanted to go stability only. they want to make god sustainable to be coming to the country, the government requesting a bailout from the international monetary fund. and also seeking financial assistance in india, china, and other countries. the government has described demonstrators as extremists, accusing them of being politically manipulated. while a very few may fit this description of vast majority of the thousands of britain have turned up voluntarily. they say they want their futures back and go to robert . roger pops i'm the government must go. many fernandez, audra 0, colombo,

australian prime minister scott morrison has admitted his conservative government is imperfect as he called an election from may 21st. his coalition trials, the santa laughed labor opposition party, up to 3 years dominated by floods, bush fires, and the pandemic. it's a choice between a strong future and an uncertain one. it's a choice between a government, you know, and a liberal position that you don't our government is not perfect. we've never climb to be. but we are up front. and you may see some flaws. but you can also see what we have achieved for australia in incredibly difficult times fall. i had the honor of serving as your prime minister. i can promise you this. i will laid with integrity and i will treat you with respect. i will restore

fight in our political system by ending the weist and roots and establishing a strong national anti corruption commission. i won't go missing when the going gets tough. i will accept the responsibility that comes with high office. peruvians again calling for president petal castillo to resign. rising feed and fuel process of lead to protests, where he declared a state of emergency on thursday to clay highways blocked my truck drive is demonstrating against inflation and is increasing frustration with brazil's president valuable sanara. thousands marching in sao paolo rifle politicians and indigenous groups blamed the president a double digit inflation and affordable fuel. often ours, also on the 5 trying to push 3 controversial legislation that would allow commercial mining indigenous land and poles of closed in elections in the

gambia, where people have been voting to elect a national assembly. a record number of candidates, a competing for 53 parliamentary seats, and other 5 will be appointed by president under marlborough, with faces growing discontent. i've met interest reports, foreman's of top presidential election. guardians, once again came out to vote. many of them consider this parliamentary election as important as the one that return president item a power to power into ag ambien. yeah, we need change yet because the big i'm is going is not promising at all. it's not promising. so we need a tora change. the house on the assembly. yeah. and the constitution can be amended . yeah, we need a, a new deaf conversation because the internet isn't because as usual, is the worst conscious vision ever gives more. but the presence that he considers the election, unimportant stuff. our democrats is moving. that means defeat is lower.

i think that is very good going forward. was it was supposed to some people, not it was his over. we have consolidated or so we have been as profound isn't moving forward. the election commission says that china was much lower than in the presidential vote in to somebody. local observers say that maybe because a parliamentary vote came so soon after the presidential race and honest in the game, biase just a low voter turnout could give the governing and p p party. only a small majority. if that happens, the president, then we'll have to find new partners to push through his agenda in parliament. ah, although the president won a lunch slide re election 4 months ago and a list predict he faces over time said if he doesn't win the majority, it will be very difficult for him. but of course i think for me and that's about us . and we should be deal with different voices and it is there is the instability, business opportunity to see how they can work together to ensure that what is of

benefit to denisia is about people in the gum. dear, i know, waiting to find out who will be representing them in parliament election. officious expect most of the results to be an almost a decrease of which is really troops have arrested 3 people off to writing a palestinian refugee camp in jeanine for the 2nd day in a row. israeli soldiers fought with armed men and the camp in the occupied west bank on saturday. at least one palestinian was killed and had done some injury during the ride. it's ready forces on highlands on the palestinian government, kill 3 people in tel aviv on thursday. all the abdul hamid has moved from occupied east jerusalem. it is a series of measures that were issued by the basically disraeli authority in the occupied was bang. those measures include, for example, forbidding merchants and businessman,

people from the junior area to cross into israel. another, another thing is that 5000 permits were revoked. those permits were granted cheap at his dinner during this month of ramadan. so they could visit their families inside israel. well, no more of that either. and then it seems that there's also no transfer of project agricultural projects from that janine area. so certainly clamping down on jeanine the already the checkpoints, the 2 major crossings where people living in that area do i'm in the north and south have been closed down are the only little cabinet you have is that daily laborers will still be allowed to come into israel to work as long as they are, but they will have the most most stringent security measures i miss seniors of this you slam these measure says that that, that tantamount is basically

a g collective punishment. a. but israel, it seems to be standing firm, especially after that the attack yesterday. the problem is to have said that he's lifting all restrictions on security forces been basically giving them the green light to do what ever they want. and the defense ministry said that all offensive and defensive operations will widen and continuing the occupied was back for the coming days. now space tourism has taken one giant leap this weekend. the fast all private team of us north has docked at the international space station. and carry out fund civic research and other projects during the 8th day stay, sir kyra reports doing floating in the galactic ocean towards the international space station. initial contact made the soft capturing is now going to begin to retract mission control in los angeles. what she's patiently is the endeavor

capture dr. smoothly on the other side of the hatch, a team at the international space station. welcome 3 astronauts. on the trip of a lifetime tracking the retired nasa astronaut, miko lopez. alegria led the 20th flight for the 1st time as each instead, mock puffy and larry corner through the entrepreneurs, paid $55000000.00 each to stay in space for just over a week. and it's the 1st nonprofessional ass not seem to travel to the i assess nasa and others say it's a milestone in the commercialization of low us. all that bonds critic say the private space race needs to be regulated. there is a lot of rich people want to have in their barriers that the space and gym back. so that will be one sector. but for commercial exploitation space, i think the laws need to come and place the overly. but manufacturing in space is one more area, which will have to mean that in times to come,

how it would be done. the mission is collaboration between, you know, mosque space, x commercial space, flight company axiom, and nasa under 3 meters on board. the i assess and orbiting 400 kilometers above sea level. there'll be no time for leisure for the tourist. so be put to work on several research projects for the next 8 days, including an experiment involving kansas stem cells. so to hide it, al jazeera, the ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stories, former president nicholas psychos. he has been among early voters in the french election. top contenders, including the incumbent manual matter, are in the running to lead the country for the next 5 years. and a smith has more from paris, or a dozen candidates presidential candidates in this election,

but only really 2 or 3 at the top. that's in money or macro. marine la, penn from the far right. and jean luc mellum shawl of the far left.