sending national park an annual ceremony has been launched the hall parish's, an individual's pay $5000.00 to name an elephant. the aim this year is to raise $1000000.00, much of it for conservation initiatives. ah, early estimates in the french presidential election, emanuel micron of phase far right. rival marine le pend in a 2nd round show down. ah, hello i marianna mozy in london. you watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. former pakistani prime minister iran con, calls on his supporters to rally his attention shifts to replace him and ukraine as mass graves are found in the village of preserve. any key of presents. lensky seeks

germany support for tougher sanctions on russia, and rising tensions between israelis and palestinians after more violence in the occupied westbank. ah, welcome to the program and of course we continue our coverage of the presidential election in france, the incumbent, emanuel micron and far i candidate marina pen all set for a run off vote based on early projections which shut tend to be quite accurate. micron is right to become the 1st french president to be reelected in 20 years, while at the pen is on her 3rd attempt for the top job. in toto. there are 12 cans, it's listed on sundays ballots. the final round is due to take place on april 24th . we are expecting manual mat on to speak pretty shortly,

but turn marina pan has just addressed her supporters. she says our mission is to reunite the nation. o missouri, jeremy, this premier meal director of human, i would like to thank the millions of voters who had given me their trust and with humility, i have hope for the recovery of the nation. it was clear from miss 1st round that our mission is to go against divisions and maintain social justice against the divisions of emanuel macaroni to support the nation, the people. and so i'll be fighting against him. i want to have a responsible debate for the french people, so that yes sir, look at some the specific figures based on the early numbers that are coming in the comment. emanuel micron is leading the race with $28.00 and a half percent. now this is actually an increase on his performance in 2017 when he was at 24 percent. meanwhile, far right. rival marine la pan has 23.6 percent. also arise from the 21 percent she

got in the 1st round. the last time. many voters say the cost of living was their main concern, but turn out in this election has been low. secure. my concern is had future. of course i am worried about the cost of living, but the main thing for me is the action needed to fight climate change shipper could. could tell she my cou, i want everything to change, that we go back to a sweeter life where we stop talking about money and about profit, and put, being human at the heart of the discussions it properly, doctors know, like to don't done this in the international situation the scary was a war going on in europe. i think it's a big worry. and then an appointment is also a concern. even if night slowing all is hash about her is following all these developments enjoined his life now from paris. and so we have the early projections are, it looks as though a manual micron will face marina pen in a 2nd round, but at his support, his must be breathing

a sigh of relief on his or how would you describe the mood there right now? well i think yes, the manual my call support is would be pleased that sir. those lisa is estimated. results do seem to put him nearly 5 percentage points ahead of his main challenge of the far right candidates. marine the pain we've yet to hear from emanuel michael . we have heard from a marine the pen. she is certainly going to put up quite a fight for the 2nd round a she says we've also heard from some of the other candidates. oh, who? many of whom have called on their supporters to vote for emmanuel macro in the 2nd round we fired for example, from the greens candidate also from the conservative candidate. however, another far right candidates in this election, eric zamora, former t. v pundit turned to presidential hopeful, wealthy as all he is out he asked for his supporters to vote for marine the pen. so a lot of shifting prospects and i'd like to bring in now our guest geo politics

expert p r better law. he joins me. i think in paris, pierre, ah, well, it was always going to be a tight race, but what do you think her manual macro? how would he be looking at these results and howard marine the pen be also perceiving them? i think are quite a fortunately boss because there was some dobs in last week because there are micro was decreasing in paul's or it was a very criticize her regarding, you know, is policy especially for her? people are more of poor people that will have a good living. oh, so they was this dobbs, and he was the decreasing impulse. and so i think it's very, it's very good. it's very good opportunity for him to be reelected. so i think you

feel very relief tonight. and for marion look, then it's a big result. because a few days ago, maybe 2 weeks ago she was and there are 20 percent. so, and the 2nd part is that she, as you mention it, she, when the primary of the far right. because the other far right. candidate riggs and more former journalist. it's a very big deception. disappointments with only 7 persons. so i think she's in the best, better situation than 5 years ago. it will be very difficult for you, of course, that you prevail, but maybe she can reach 4045. and the main stake is what will pen after in the parliament. because for me tonight, the biggest surprise is the total collapse of the conservative candidate. valerie

pre, chris, went to remember that political family, garvin friends for the kate's, more than 4 or 5 prisons were conservative and entrenched history. so it's a terrible, terrible disaster with less than 5 persons. so what will happen in the parliament is the fall rights will be the main opposition, or the conservative will still have some seats. right. and those fall lametre elections in fact, will take place in june sat political landscape. all to be decided as is of course, the president presidential election, i should say, the 2nd round on the 24th of april, back to you. thank you very much pierre. we'll have more coverage of that later on for now. thanks very much. tasha butler from paris.

well, of course you've been following for very dramatic developments in the past few days in pakistan. where am ron con, as actually called on his supporters to riley nationwide, after he was removed from office in a vote of no confidence opposition party to get a 174 votes. in the $342.00, the parliament top contended to replace him is opposition. neither shabazz sharif. this is the leader of the pakistan muslim league party. will. the 7 general is also the brother of the former prime minister and a wash reef whose exiled in person he faces arrival in his knees and party vice president. mariam know was she's the daughter of no, was sharif in 2018. she was sentenced to 7 years in jail for corruption, but it was suspended for the 3 year old below a booty. the diary is chairman of the pakistan people's party. now he is considered a progressive, and it is known for speaking out about the rights of women and minorities algae.

there is that come all hide. there has been reporting on this story from islamic bod, where supporters of enron con, have been gathering in the city center housings of people who are expected to arrive day. and that's rare in ron con. i did need to ship is going to talk to the public, but i still be also understood that on monday the opposition will be choosing the new leader of the house. and it is important to note that this particular budget on democratic lines, a grouping of 9 political bardeen, which includes the religious fodder, right? secular parties, i have all joined hands together and everybody will be worth waiting to see whether shabazz should eve. richard, likely going to be the next prime minister will get dead ward of cranford and by day cross, bog estin. although d. d, an opposition may be in a euphoric mood that has also a sense of gloom. be many people are not happy at toward to happen because they do

believe emron con, renew said that they would go farther and spread as the 2 of them. so it will be important to see how many people come out with. oh, ukraine's present random is zalinski says he has been speaking with the german chancellor about imposing more sanctions on russia. local officials say they found graves with the bodies of dozens of civilians in the village of brazil. vanya keith, russian forces have now withdrawn from that area at the sight of another mass grave in the town of boucher, especially designated ukrainian war crimes. prosecutors and forensic experts of exude 9 more bodies. it was uncovered. don't local church grounds brings the total number of civilians, hardy buried by retreating forces on the site to 30 in total to my a says 320 civilians are confirmed to have died. and then you kind

official say the data from friday's missile strike on a train station and come a tourist has risen to 57 will than 100 people were injured in mass attack. moscow has denied responsibility for the strike suggesting that ukraine targeted civilians . if not provided any evidence for this was his soldiers following developments joined just now from the capital kiev. and we have seen in recent days, present for them is the landscape meeting with the british prime minister and really it's a ukrainians. main argument is they are saying they need more help, more not just financial help and not just sanctions on russia, but more military help. well, that's right. recently, we have just seen that there has been that high level diplomatic wizards, the highest levels actually since the war began on the 24th of february. first one

did lie and the president of the european commission joined by the blocks our foreign policy chief, joseph world. they have visited chief just 2 days ago, and also so akin from prime minister or so was here. and one de leon, who has promised a 1000000000 a dog, the euros a worth of weapons to be soft, lie to ukraine, and also promise a 600000000 euro at worth, or a location about a new budget for the reconstruction or ukraine. however, the prisons and ascii asked for more weapons, but yesterday when and prayer buquet prime minister, jubilee johnson also. busy was here, and he has promised to provide more anti tanks, anti aid crafts, an anti ship miss. i was to you great. which could cause a significant damage, particularly, or in the black sea, considering that the russia has a, a very heavy,

a presence of me with forces in biloxi. but despite all of this diplomatic wizards that now gee, is seen again at the, has been a very little emphasize on the their own on, on the diplomatic efforts to find a piece and to they present. zalinski says that we shouldn't mr. put trinity to find a piece or to, to design a deal that called and the, the war that is on going in the country asking he's, he's pleased obviously about, and weapons contributions be made by the british prime minister at, but also frustration calling for. that's been embargo on energy exports from russia, but then also frustration with nato that too. so ukraine has a painful history with, with nature just in 2008 was 1st time that you came, wanted to join a joint nato. but by that time it has been blocked by france and germany. and today

the ukrainian for a for the minister dimitra quin caliber said that v r p in the cost of the strategic mistake that has been done by france and germany by blocking a u. k. a ukrainian, a membership to, to, to nato. so am just at before the beginning. and that was also a pretext for the russian invasion as well. because russia was seen that it's dread line that you claim a jury. you claimed joining nato is a red line and if that goes on it will invade ukraine and indeed it try to do so. but when the war started or so, the ukranian side has been complaining about nato because individually the companies in european union, in the western camp, they have supplied weapons 2222 and ukraine. yuki has been one of the leading countries usa as well turkey as well. these are the major natal members. however, the nato, as an organization, a did not step in and, and they said,

made it clear that there will be no nato troops on, in our own ukrainian soil. and then you cannot order these as nature to, to, to per white and no flies on. and they too, did not do that as well because it did, they were, it was seen that in case of doing that, then it will lead a data confrontation with russia, which he went truly could lead and nuclear a war. and that is, that was something that nato was meticulously careful about to, to, to award that. however, here we can see that the discontent of the ukrainian leadership about nato still is in place. thank here. so center and cath oh, a macro to the west of ukraine's gather volunteers. there are helping clean up after the retreat. have rush in for says, as our course, my emron con, discovered a task also has its own dangerous dis 10 days ago, the ukrainian army in russian forces both pitched battles in the streets of mockery

. now an army of volunteers is fighting a different one to clean up the streets, their weapons, old fashioned rooms and physical strength. these people are members of a bodybuilding club and keep them come to help alongside their friends. they sweep into their suit market every but i am, we are trying to clean up the mess that the russians left behind. we are trying to bring normality to our country green, but it's dangerous work minds and booby traps are everywhere. they work with the military to stay as safe as they can. we asking for the military guys and promotional, what is i found good to bombs, but it was florida on the garden. elizabeth did become view the task ahead is daunting, even with volunteers in the civil administration. it'll take years to get this town

back to anything resembling what it was. facilities like the local library and community center will be the last to be rebuilt. after all, without homes for people to live in, there can be no community that v was painted on that gauge by the russians. they've taken over this entire area. you can just see over there, the empty ammunition cases, they used as defensive positions, but the ukrainians have now been through this area. they've searched house the house, see that yellow dot over there, but yellow dot symbolizes the fact that this house has been cleared of mines and any kind of booby traps and the residents that are back here. and what they're doing is they're rebuilding slowly. but surely. soldiers are still clearing houses here. they looked in the cellar methodically, making sure there's nothing that might explode. the woman who lives here watches

nervously satisfied is clear, the soldiers leave with us. it's this type of operation that will allow those who still have some hope to return this ukrainian tank has become a makeshift memorial to those who died, defending this place. the residence of la flowers, flowers that have wilted and died. but as the long process to clean up begins when they return, perhaps fresh flowers will as well in wrong hon out 0. mcconick. hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a palestinian woman, shot by israeli forces in the occupied west bank is ready. soldiers shot and injured the mother of 6. during raids in the town of her son, she died in hospital. israel says its troops had fired warning shots. they also

arrested 20 people is al has been on high light after several recent attacks and ingenious israeli forces fighting a vehicle, injuring one man victim is the brother of the individual suspected of being by the shooting in tel aviv last thursday. 3 people were killed. marian barger t as a political writer in research and explains what triggered these recent attacks. these are palestinian acts of resistance and confrontation. i think it has less to do with the fact that it's some of the on and more to do with the fact that for the past couple of years, israel hasn't been increasing. it has been intensifying and further brutalizing its assault on palestinians. it is gone to a point where nobody say not palestinians with israeli citizenship,

not palestinians, and the best, not policies in the west, and not palestinians, and forced exile. and i really think that the settler regime is reaching a point where it's we either take it all now or, or, or we risk losing parts of but you know, they're, they're annexation. there has been an intensification of land seizures, but burning palestinian all the groves of mass detention and incarceration of politically active use as well as demolitions. we have reached some peak frequencies in the missions of palestinian civilian infrastructure in 48, as well as on the west bank in jerusalem. and as it, let's not forget the carpet bombing that took place last year in the us as well. so there is a complete full force going on with the aiding and abetting of the international

community with the israeli judicial system playing a key part in it. and the continued militarization of these really population returning to coverage of our top story. the results of the presidential election in france and manual micron will face marina pan in a 2nd round of voting and these elections. and just to give you a quick rundown of the figures, macro one, about 28 percent. the pen is on 24 percent in the 1st round. they above the head of fall of candidate don't look mental show. with 20 percent out there is scott, it's maron. ba shara joined this life from paris and marana. i suppose one thing that really stands out from these figures is that the 2 political parties that traditionally dominated the landscape and france for decades seemed to have disappeared. we now have this sort of big bass in the center with, you know, 2 candidates on the polar opposites of the spectrum. what,

what lead to this result? well actually we didn't have 10 years or 5 of each for the socialists under president longed and 5. and the presidents are cosy. that where said lutely disastrous. and that's why none of them are neither of them was able to do to turn presidency. they blink blink. mr. start cause it was an option disaster and the boring, uninspiring mr. holland was a disaster also. and i think the overall did not provide the french with answers about some major questions and challenges such as job placement, economic insecurity. problems with the social worker, state walker, see, and so on, so forth. and so you had this centrist banker coming from the solution socialist party, but speaking new liberal language, but was able basically to build

a presidency or a candidacy on the ashes of 2 mainstream parties. that simply failed to resolve challenges and questions for the french one. what is your sense from marina pens performance? could the country really be on the brink of electing a far right president? well, she is not far off and she certainly closer than she ever was. her father was something like 18 percent in the 2nd round. she was and something like that if i remember correctly 34 percent or 30 some percent in the 2nd round. now we're talking about her being in 40 something percent on the 2nd round. so she clearly had doubled, tripled, perhaps this time around. and she is nick to neck with the incumbent president,

which is really surprising. there was nothing shocking about her making it to the 2nd round because we knew that from the polls. but the fact that she continued to rise in terms of the pause for the 2nd round. that should worry present, michael, who did feel. busy to resolve some major issues for the french, including things like what i'd like job security, economic security, economic agenda, question of retirement plan, question of energy and the nuclear energy, and so on, so forth. why he did make some progress on the domestic issues. he didn't rather fail on a number of important issues, especially that was our state, the brock proceed, and so so forth that concern the french. now, in terms of foreign policy, of course that is not exactly important or pressing domestically, but since we are an international news organization, let me tell you to say that his foreign policy was bad would be in an exaggeration

. it was terrible. it was terrible, terrible failure. he get f for failure, although he gets a for effort. meaning this was a very, in the objective president wanted his country to make it smart on european and global agenda. but she failed miserably. because on the one hand he was inexperienced and i know that had because he was unlucky. i mean, it was not fair exactly for him to be faced with put in his envision of ukraine coated trump and also some other challenges that were difficult for him. well, we'll get to discuss that a bit more later on. i will be hearing respecting the manual mac homo deliver an address to support his very shortly. for now. marwan, thank you very much but wants to now tissue lanka, because people there are also angry about the rising cost of living and they've been holding protests despite to wrench

a rain. they say they don't going anywhere. demanding that the president got to buy right. you're packs of resign been blamed for failing to tackle the countries was he can all make crisis in more than 70 years than shortage of essential goods. people are struggling to afford food and there's rolling power cuts as well. and that's resulted in near daily protests for more than a month now. out there has been al fernandez, has been with protest is in the capital who continue to put in quite a big showing that despite the miserable whether now there are hundreds, thousands of protesters that have come out here today. many of them coming out voluntarily and all of them say they have had enough. c they've gotten must go home, reference a, go to a bit. our departure, obviously here behind the scenes, a lot of food. all of this donated voluntarily if we could just go, there's buns. there's biscuits, there's flasks of hot tea and coffee loads of water bottles. and all of those

things donated obviously by people who are pretty much backing the. 2 process i, here we see a little medical table, which is full of things like strep. so for those who are shouting, you've got basic um, medical supplies or things not privacy to move a cough syrup for the rain. and even something we saw was that among the people, distributing food and drinks hot drinks or things like hubbard used to ensure that people stay well in this weather. and like you said, i can assure you this gentleman over here are distributing hot tea. it's happening so lots of people coming voluntarily nor the people who conjoin in the protests. also helping out with whatever supplies they can muster together, where they do packets of biscuits or create loads. well, in australia, the prime minister is called for an election on the 21st of may, he seeking

a 4th time in office. scott morrison's coalition trails, the cent left opposition party in the poles after 3 years of disasters. and the pandemic franca group to reports. now, ah, the date is set, and a 6 week campaign for australia's federal elections officially begins this fire. this pandemic. there is now war prime minister scott morrison seeking re election. his conservative coalition has held power since 2013. but morrison is the 1st is treating prime minister to so full town in more than a decade. it's a choice between a strong future and on certain one, it's a choice between a government, you know, an alive or opposition that you don't our government is not worth it. we've never climb to be. but we are up from his challenger. the center left leave a party leader,

antony albany. thee he hath the message of optimism. growing up with a single mom. i learnt the value of a dollar and steeped heavily. it is working class roots, more jobs, better health services, and cheaper child care. i will laid with integrity and i will train you with respect. i will restore faith in our political system by ending the whitestone roads and establishing a strong national anti corruption commission, albany. this campaign will focus on trust in the government or lack of it. over the past 3 years have been dominated by catastrophic bush wires, devastating floods and some of the was toughest covered, 19 roofs. 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 later, anthony of uneasy was right and the 2nd most trusted while morrison were bank on strong economy. the kaufman budget is nearly one trillion dollars in debt. morrison's refusal to commit to facing our fossil fuels has also galvanized queen activists and independent candidates who can heard of coalition. and then there was thing ties with china, which the government has been accused of recognizing what scott morrison is known for pulling off political successes before despite significant towards priyanka severe beliefs in spain of seas, one of the largest discoveries of taxidermy animals in europe was around $32000000.00 giant warehouse and valencia was found to contain more than a 1000 stuffed animals, including rhinos, polar bears, elephants, tigers, and alligators. the whole included hundreds of protected species as well as some the and now extinct.