the u. s. o was of interest, the people around the world, people pay attention to won't be going here and i'll just, he was very good at bringing the news to the world from here. ah, french president and money of my calls seeks another term, often election campaign, overshadowed by russia's invasion of ukraine. ah, hello, i'm money inside his house. is there a lie from doha also coming up? candidates line up in pakistan to replace prime minister emron. com after he loses a no confidence votes in parliament. you quite pass for what it says that will be

faced by saying, with russian forces massing in these country. our government is not perfect. we've never climb debris. and australia's prime minister gazes, 5 of his political life oft calling an election for next moment. ah, they saying is underway in france for the presidential election. these are pictures from paris 12 contenders, including the incumbent. a menu macro are competing to leave the country for the next 5 years. 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 our corresponded ben smith. he's an appalling station in paris. suppose have been open for few hours. now bernard, what can you tell us about the selection? well, a dozen candidates standing for president, manuel micron. once

a 2nd go the presidency. no candidate present president has managed that since 1965. he's hoping this time round. he can persuade voters to give him a 2nd run at the 2nd roll as 2nd term as president, excuse me. but the 11 others are trying to get in his way. it's becoming has become an unexpectedly tight race with the top 2 or 3 contenders vying for place in the 2nd round. it has always gone again since 1965, it's always gone to a 2nd round in france. and as every indication that the will be a 2nd round vote here, this time around macro themselves only have one campaign rally saying he's been busy managing the war in ukraine. other candidates have been campaigning intensely, one of the major issues. the french vote is, is the cost of living crisis is affecting france as it is every other european

country. it's a clip sing, concerns about the war in ukraine, concerns about health care and jobs. cost of living is what the main contenders. i've been focusing there campaigning all and at their face a very low turn out. aren't they a wise that while a polling before the election suggested as many as a 3rd of voters would not turn round, would not turn out in. this is because it been concerns that the result was a foregone conclusion. now back in 2002 turn out was about 28 percent in 2017. it was slightly better at 22 percent for the affairs this time round. it could be a considerable number of stay at home voters, and that would be more people staying at home than actually cast a vote for the a candidates that who might go through or so the 2nd round will get an indication also of who will be in the 2nd round at just after 8 o'clock local time,

6 o'clock g m t. the polls in most french cities close at 8 o'clock. but in the provinces, outside the cities, they close at 7. and the indication we get between 7 and 8 is of the early vote counts the announcement they make after 8 o'clock is who's getting those early votes. nozik, there's no exit. polling here in france is done on the early vote counsel. that's why can sometimes it quite a reliable indication quickly after 8 o'clock local time, who will go through to the 2nd round? okay, many thanks for that then it smith, their 1st at appalling station in paris. pakistan's al said prime minister cameron con, has called on his supporters to rally nationwide alta. he lost no confidence vote. he followed of course, a tumultuous wake, which so con, side step and at a move against him in parliament, excoriating the reports unless it was after midnight. in islamabad, where members of parliament voted on the mation of no confidence, months, subtler after a nearly 14 hour standoff between

a moron cons ruling party and the opposition 174 members have regarded their war to in favor of the resolution. consequently, the resolution ward of no confidence against mister him, ron hon, the prime minister of islam exhibited o'clock. hassan 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 lead as she best sharif who's likely to succeed. him said pakistan had been freed from a crisis. gall omby. 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. com says he won't accept in opposition, government and blame the us for leading

a conspiracy to remove him. he's called on his support is 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 in no confidence mation to parliament. last sunday. the deputy speaker blocked the mation saying it was unconstitutional and involved foreign interference. name is 0. my use on one's advice, pakistan's president is old parliament, but the supreme court ruled that was illegal while him on his last back 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. the 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? what's on the bend of a it has more from islamabad, there is going to be a protest nationwide protest calls from former prime minister in mount con, at least, 24 hours ago, and he forwarded, coming with come out in the evening to try and show that he still has a lot support based and budget 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 when the court order was about to expire. iran con said that he will not resign his secret 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 bought sealed m non huns fate and an unceremonious showing of the door to get another prime minister in pakistan. no prime minister has completed 5 years in power, so the moved remains mixed. the park sunny's, are asleep in the federal capital divided amongst

a supporters and the opponents of england. find. there is jubilation from the opposition side. anger and frustration from him. round flexible israeli troops have arrested 3 people after waiting a palestinian refugee camp in jeanine for the 2nd day in a row israeli soldiers fort with armed men in the camp in the occupied westbank is one. palestinian was killed in a 1000 injured. and the camp was rated on saturday, has also been arrayed in the palestinian town of yeah, bad west of jeanine way 8 people were arrested. these pictures were released by the israeli army. ready forces remain on high alert on palestinian gum and kill 3 people in television late last week. all the of that hamid has moved from occupied east jerusalem. there's a series of measures that were issued by the basically disraeli authority in the occupied was bang. those measures include, for example,

for bidding 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, honest indians 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 agriculture projects from that janine area. so certainly clamping down on jeanine are ready the checkpoints, the 2 major crossings for people living in that area. do i'm in the north and the south have been close down. are the only little cabinet you have is that daily laborers will still be allowed to come in to israel to work as long as they can, but they will have the most most stringent security measures. now,

seniors overseas slam these measures says that that that amounts basically a g collective punishment about israel. it seems to be standing firm, especially after that attack yesterday. the problem is to have said that he is lifting all restrictions on security forces, bid basically giving them the green light to do what ever they want. and the defense ministry said that all offensive and defensive operations will, why didn't, and continue in the occupied was bag for the coming days to ukraine, which is preparing for big battles in the east of the country. is thousands of people get out of lou hands ahead of an expected russian attack. i've been evacuations from chroma tor 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, keep, was responsible. most prevalent, donald with an order from our city. the train hasn't been running for a long time. we can only evacuate, but boss, it's impossible to live in the city because a water supplies, intermittent electricity is infrequent shocks are closed. communications don't work is like armageddon here over the wall. moving away from keep president blossom as zalinski is hosted. well, leaders in the capsule, they have been promising more support. but so we'll set our reports from it, a pin which is on the outskirts of keith. the gars, more high level diplomatic visits to keep on saturday yuki prime minister boys johnson and austria's chancellor courtney 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 burrell 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 rushes, large naval presence in the black sea with loses as embassies and political figures began to return to keep the work to reconstruct is destroyed, neighbourhood is ramping up. among them is the city of their pin. 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 the quarter of the people, no grain. todd warren, now fierce fighting continued here for over a mount. these bridge became a focal point as people fled 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 the had been, has been cut off from keith says the early days off the war, now that the russian forces left the region a force or 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. mr. sanders, i was just 0. if you all for ukraine shortly. we meet a ukrainian company director who's re told his business to make body armor, police and soldiers out on the. busy with 1st all civilian career rise of the international space station, no less time for these stories. ah, how low they will start in southeast asia and the 1st tropical storm of the season has slammed into eastern areas of the philippines, bringing some really wet and windy conditions, rough seas as well. now we are expecting it to continue on its path west before it suddenly turns east pulled in by another tropical storm malacca. now that's not

expected to make landfill, it will continue moving to the north north in north east of the philippines. but we still got some very heavy rain to come. we have got warnings out for land slides and possible mudslides from those rains, but elsewhere across the region. it is a much more settled picture and it's looking settled as well as we had done under to australia for that southeast corner. the rain will be back however, but we have got a slight pause for me. it's looking wet and windy a for the west. southern areas of western australia seems storms and showers pulling across the bite and to where the front is going to move away from tasmania . and victoria taking a lot of that wet weather towards new zealand. it'll sweep up the south island. we've got warnings out for heavy rain in western areas here, but up in the north it's a much finer dryer picture with $22.00 degrees celsius in oakland. that should weather update. i'll be back with more later. ah. the

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is one of the latest candidates to cast a palace elephant election 12 people including incumbent monument, crying and wanting to leave the country for the next 5 years. pakistan's prime minister cameron con, is called on supporters to rally nationwide after he was ousted from power in a no confidence vote. opposition party secured a 174 votes. in the 342 c, parliament ukrainian forces say they are preparing for much worse fighting in the east where renewed attack is expected from russia. british prime minister or is johnson has pledged more military aid after talks president on demand zalinski. and the wars triggered a serge in demand for body armor. rob mcbride reports from the very on the home grown industry of protective vests. it's a long way for many front line, but these volunteers are doing what they can for their countries. war after the

director of this company decided when the war broke out, he had to do something. but she knew i was thinking, what can i do and how can i help in this was at my age, i saw that people were getting weapons, but there was nothing to protect them. ah, this is what his company was doing before the war. creating laser light presentations for company events and promotions. now his staff helped by volunteers make the plates needed for body armor with ukraine struggling to find enough for expanding ranks of soldiers. the finished plates are then put inside a vest one front and one back at the rate of more than $200.00 pieces of body armor per week, and all of them going to the front. as soon as they're made. the 1st plates were tested to make sure they can stop high velocity, bullets and shrapnel splinters, and developed come in on this plate and explode. yes. exploit and the small pieces

of the ballot. and, and this layer observe, observe, observe, wow, one day when that country is once more at peace, these engineers and designers will return to more creative work. for now, they say their priority is getting vests to fellow ukrainians to stop russian bullets. robert bride al jazeera, the v australian prime minister scott morrison has admitted his conservative government is in perfect ass, cold and election for may. 20 fast coalition trails. the centre left labor opposition party. it is choice between a strong future and an uncertain one. it's a choice between a government, you know, and a labor opposition 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. 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 waste and routes 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. we spoke to pizza hart chase political at the sydney morning, how newspaper he explained why many verses have run out of patience with the prime minister. the government is way behind on every indicator of his standing a performance with the public. yet the prime minister's crime is quite accurate.

that is right of cobra dentist is one of the lowest in the world that the economic bounce back has been very pronounced that the employment rice at 4 percent is at its lowest in 50 years. so how do you reconcile to wealth that you can have such a strongly performing national experience and yet such a heavily discounted prime minister. and the answer is lives in scott morrison's personal appeal and standing a level of trust in the annual barometer. a pole of who's the country's most and least trusted politicians last month. scott morrison was right in the least trusted politician in the country and the opposition leader anthony of uneasy was right and the 2nd most trusted. and therein lies the therein lies the dilemma. if it's got mars and this country has had 3 major crisis using the last 3 years and that the prime minister has been too light to arrive at the scene and done to,

to once he's got there. so there was a bush 5 season of $21920.00, which was a savage one. and then of course, and most recently flooding up and down the east coast trailer. and the resentment at scott morrison's, you know, ability to perform, has grown with each of those crises. they have very much at the seat of the discontent with this governor protests, as in sher lanka say they won't stop until the president resigns. have continued to demonstrate against got to by a roger pucks in colombo, despite heavy rain frustration over the countries worsening economic crisis. is growing now fernandez reports from colombo, 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. all 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 are here to say that always as needs to be heard and he needs to be respected and is grice's needs though, and no because it has gone up to the limit that to well be broke and obey anymore. the crowds came from all of to lunch as diverse communities. this course to really give us stolen money back. and this is corrupt jewelers, uplaid 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 botch us 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 political bid that want to go stability only. they want to make golf dana been to be big bill coming to the country. the government is requesting a bailout from the international monetary fund and also seeking financial assistance in india, china, and other friendly countries. the government has described demonstrators as extremists, accusing them of being politically manipulated. while a very few may fit this, this a vast majority of the thousands of protest i have turned up voluntarily. they say they want their futures back and go to roger pucks, i'm the government must go. ma,

fernandez out of the era. colombo just returned to france briefly. we're looking at live pictures now off the elections in france, where voting has been taking place. we can see the marine le pen. she is voting herself in an e bama, which is in northern france for the french president elections the 3rd time she's run. as she of course, leads the national rally party, also known as the russell blow national party. she's expected to be a big competition for the incumbent. president macro this is in the gambia have been choosing the makeup of their national assembly record number of candidates contesting 53 seats on it at rest reports. 4 months of top presidential election. gubbins, once again came out to vote. many of them consider this parliamentary election as

important as the one that returned president item, a power to power into ag ambia. yeah, we need change. yeah, because the rear game is going is not promising at all. it's not promising, so renew the torch in the house of the assembly. yeah. and saw that the constitution can be amended. yeah, we need a, a new dad conversation because the engine and his them because as usual is the was because his vision ever gives you more. but the president said he considers the election, unimportant static or our democracy is movie news. do you feel is level i'm moving that is very good going forward. was it was supposed to some people, not it was his on his or we have constantly do it over so we have a strong foundation moving forward. the election commission says the child was much lower than in the presidential, wrote into somebody. local observers say you thought maybe because a parliamentary vote came so soon after the presidential race analyst in the can be

i suggest a low voter turnout could give the governing and p p party. only a small majority. if that happens, the president, then we 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 predicted faces tough times ahead. if he doesn't win the majority, it would be very difficult for him. but of course i thing for me as an assembly should be with different voices. and it is that it's, it's been a business opportunity to see how they can work together to ensure that what is of benefit to the measure is advanced people in the gambia and are waiting to find out who will be representing them in parliament election. officious expect most of the results to be announced on sunday. it rece onto the rock of which i space tourism has taken one giant leap forward a fast all private team of astronauts has dog to be international space station and

will carry out scientific research and other projects during the 8 day stay talk. how about doing floating in the galactic ocean towards the international base station? initial contact made, the soft capture ring is now going to begin to retract mission control in los angeles. what she's patiently is the endeavor capture. dr. levy 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 michael lopez. alegria led the 20th flight for the 1st time as each instead, mock puffy and larry corner for the entrepreneurs page, $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 these 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 they space and jim back. so battle going to 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 a 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 cancer stem cells. so to highlights al jazeera oh

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