available, and that's only to the surrounding villages. so people like flew me in rose, now need to find another way to get out of this city. but for now they, like many others, would have to reach in hope, hoping tomorrow is a better day. ah . competing claims over what happened to the flagship of rushes, black sea fleet, ukraine says it targets of the vessel. moscow says it was an explosion ah, on the ball here. this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up funerals for 6 palestinians killed in israeli. raids and overnight violence, the un calls for maximum restraint. south africa as president says, flood sing quasi lu natal, our catastrophe. hundreds have been confirmed dead. a more rain is forecast and

intense scrutiny over a controversial u. k. government scheme that would cease some asylum seekers sent to bewanda pr processing. ah. the biggest ship in russia's black sea fleet has been severely damaged by a blast, forcing it 50500 member crew to evacuate. the russian defense ministry says ammunition exploded on board its warship, moskva, but the ukrainian military says it hit the vessel with cruise missiles. the most fall had led russia's naval assault during the war, making it an important military target. b, u. s. national security advisor jake sullivan says whatever the cause of losing the ship is bad news for russia. we've been in touch with ukrainians overnight. who had said that they struck the ship with the into ship missiles. we don't have the

capacity at this point to independently verify that, but certainly the way that this unfolded, it's a big blow to russia. they, this is their flagship, the moscow. and they have now been forced to admit that it has been badly damaged and they've had to kind of choose between 2 stories. one story is that it was just in competence, and the other was that they came under attack. and neither is a particularly good outcome for them, or they run cons lie for us in care of him. read. let's start with the war ship the moskva. what more do we know about how i got damaged and the implications for russia? well, illness doesn't matter how it got damaged, the site that it is damaged is a huge blow to russia. you have to understand, this is the flagship. it's the, the ship that the russians say when they deploy anywhere is

a game changer for them. it's a missile cruiser is incredibly fast, is incredibly powerful, and it is something that they were hoping to use when they were going to attack any port. now, this ship would have been a crucial of fighting factor in any assault on mario pope. for orgs, for example, or a desa, for example, we've been talking to military analysts throughout the day, who have been saying the one thing that they don't understand is how was it in range of ukrainian missiles if actually the re ukrainian reports are true now fail? well the ukrainians are saying is they, they used neptune missiles to attack the ship. the neptune missiles are very and of the missiles that the british have actually given to other ukrainians as well as a defense against ships going outside. now, few days ago, we were hearing that the ships on up in the black sea were actually changing positions. now whether that has something to do this or not,

we're not sure. but it almost like i say illness doesn't matter who attack the ship . the fact that it's limping to port according to the americans they, they say it's going to as of us to pull out where, oh doc. so i suppose in crimea when crimea was part of the ukraine before the russians took it. it may at this meant that actually the ukrainians built that ship . so they probably know quite a lot about the ship itself. it's a huge blur. it's a huge blow to russia. it's a huge blow as a symbol. but more importantly, it's a huge military blow to them. and so we are hearing that the russians are saying is actually an accident on board. the americans, as you just heard, that called incompetence. the russians haven't used that word, but it's something akin to that if what they say happened the ukrainians, though a very proudly saying that they managed to hit the key symbol of russian pow unimed, marana took bentley,

important port city of mary. our pole of russia has claimed that they've taken the city they've my certainly be releasing video footage, apparently showing captured ukrainian soldier. so has this been confirmed? it hasn't been confirmed at all. we really know is there still an intense fight going on in mario pal? now what the russians are saying is they captured a 1000 soldiers, right? ukrainian soldiers who were marines who actually surrendered to them, the ukrainians. a saying that they actually the ukrainian marines that she pushed through to hook up with the, sorry, i'm just hearing arid signs in the background. so the ukranian soldiers actually pushed through and into the, the a forces that they will hook it up with. so what's happening right now is there is this fog of war again, and we keep saying this when it comes to what the russians claim and what the ukrainians claim. but all we really know is there is an intense fight going on

right now for the port of mary. opal will know for sure when the russians start, when we start seeing russians walk around that ports, then we'll know if it's been taken by the russians or not because that's something that they do and they have done in the past ukrainians. right now we're saying we're, we're still in the fight. however, the mayor of the mary, opal is also been speaking. what he's actually said he's, is that he's up the numbers. he's now talking about a 125000 people trapped inside the city, most of whom can get out by the humanitarian corridors. he's also talking about the fact though it's now 90 percent of the city has been completely destroyed just last week. that figure was at 75 percent american that you had down to a shelter if that's what you're being told iran in kiff. docile jibari is in moscow, where officials say the ship will be salvaged. according to the russian defense ministry, this vessel was in the area between the port city of odessa and at nikolai,

of on wednesday evening in the black sea, when a fire broke out on board. and then the ammunition i exploded as well as a result of that fire. now, the russian defense mystery saying that the vessel is now being towed to the nearest port and that it is not completely damaged and all the personnel on board were evacuated. what the ukrainians claim is that they struck this vessel, but the russians said that it was a accidental fire. at that i broke out said regardless, it is certainly out of commission for the foreseeable future. this vessel was providing a lot of support in terms of a missile strikes against that various targets in and around the port city of mary . awful. oh, which is a now seeing a heavy, a ground offensive from the russian military. and at this latest incident will certainly be viewed as a setback for their military, but it, regardless,

the so called 2nd phase of the military operation of the russians are in ukraine is going to continue a certainly without this vessel. but for the time being, the russian defense minister saying that they are going to investigate the cause of the fire and that as the fire has been put out and they know where exactly on the ship it started. of u. k is warning crime, a toss can constantly of co, i likely to be the next targets for russia. potentially seeing the same high levels of violence and destruction as seen in other urban centers like hockey and mary apple al jazeera is omar al hodge is near crime at oscar, where russian air strikes have been hitting farms rather who i am again and we are at the area you're cremmit tours, which was targeted a minute ago. you can see the plumes of smoke and there is one of the victims. he is a civilian woman, simply a farmer. this area is a farming area less than 20 kilometers near cremmit tours. the woman says, one man,

probably her husband is trapped inside the flames. this form came under an air strike my war plant. it was hit by a number of bristles. as you can see, the smoke and flames are still rising into the sky. what is it? why one help camera this soldier is trying to search for the man inside. the soldiers shall be out for him. but there is no sign of the man. over the past hour, the russian jet fighters have been hovering over crime, a tourist carrying out a number of airstrikes. ukrainian authorities did not disclose the target areas, but we came to this farming area in less than 20 kilometers from the city center. as you witnessed, there's one injured woman and possibly of a talent inside men or the international monetary fund is warning. the crisis and ukraine will continue to affect economies around the world. is chief crystelina yoga says the war is hindering recovery after the pandemic. for the 1st time in many years, inflation has become a clear and present danger. for many countries around the world. this is

a massive said bank for the global recovery. we will be projecting a further downgrade the global growth for buck 20222023. fortunately for most countries, growth will still remain in positive territory. that said, the impact of the war will contribute to forecast downgrades. for a 143 economies, this ear accounting for 86 percent of global g d p. ah, you, in 60 general has called for maximum restraint and for israeli and palestinian authorities to worked together to preserve calm amid escalating violence in the occupied west bank. 6 palestinians, including a 14 year old boy have been killed in the past day as

a sales force is increase operations following a number of attacks for in israel and the past 3 weeks left, 13 israelis dead, including a shooting and the center of tel aviv. since there is ready forces of carried out daily raids, particularly focusing on jeanine and nablus, as well as killing several palestinians. they've wounded dozens of people would live fire and rubber bullets. and at least a 100 palestinians have been arrested in the past week. according to the palestinian prisoners club is ready, figures are lower or neither abraham house, this update from jeanine to the occupied west bank. there's a lot of tension, a lot of anger, a lot of sadness. 5 funerals took place to day in different places in the occupied westbank for 6 people died by is really courses higher since wednesday. so you can imagine the level of intensity people. he'll say about accountability. the latest man to be pronounced dead is

a 4 to 5 year old from nablus in the north of the occupied westbank where he succumbed to his wounds after he was so yesterday, by is ready for his my expectation in the area before that a 20 year old palestinian sky, rural went ahead and says, well, 14 year old boy who assaulted the head after what palestinians say with confrontations near his village near bethlehem. so as you can see, these funerals and injuries and killings are happening in different areas in the west bank to show you that there is a high level of intensity. there is anger, but we need to remember that since the beginning of the year, 41 palestinians have been killed. the majority of them in confrontations with these re the military. so we're not just talking about the latest attacks in israel as a starting point for the current escalation. yes, indeed, it has contributed to heighten tensions all across the west. but palestinians want

the world to know that they have been under occupation for decades. and it's rarely been a night in the west bank where they haven't seen israeli army wade, their cities, arrests people, and sometimes shoot and kill them. in other news, the number of people killed in flooding in south africa has risen to more than 340 president, serial number fossa has called the disaster and cause really natal province. the catastrophe of epic proportions areas near the eastern, coastal city of durban experienced the heaviest rain in 60 years. rosa has warranty expects. the situation to worsen saying, flooding is part of climate change from either mila is in causing the natal province with this report. ah, life is slowly returning to normal in an under outside of durbin, 3 days after torrential, rain, and flooding caused wide spread damage. this is the 1st day of 20 piney park. a

money has been able to operate his food business, which he relies on for a daily income is corckalone has been up and owen, his cousin, the floods of really affected us. the people who used to support us could not coming by law because they were not going to work and i or even the little money they had mice, they had to use also with the water and electricity supply still cut off plenty. bonnie does not have any way to keep his stock city officials a year to begin clearing and rebuilding some of the roads and bridges which collapsed to were destroyed by mud slides. at a home to la, kill himself, he's cleaning up. she says as the flood level reached as high as the rooftop of 5 children, just managed to make it out safely. bless elinor cornwall is if it is, i've lost everything. my kids birth certificate, school books and clothes, my fridge, my television. nothing's working, as you can see around here and i've not received any help. i only managed to get blankets for my neighbor, alcorda resident,

no ton does evil yellow says some food has been distributed, but people in this ward have not received any. and they have to make use of whatever they can to get by 5 was one community members are using the stream where the water, we don't even know it's coming from. so to our wash our laundry and also drink from this are contaminated water. while people try to recover, it could be short lived. more rain is expected in the coming days. many people living in informal sacraments like this one ready struggle to make ends meet the destruction caused by the flooding. is that them back even further? in many say, they have not received help from the government that's despite its promises to assist those affected for me to mila al jazeera, deb in south africa. ok, still to come on al jazeera, the rivals to be france is next president trade accusations of authoritarianism on the campaign trail. and the world's richest man is trying to buy twitter, find out why

a lot mosque wants to take over the social media platform. ah now the weather in east and spade is not been that brilliant. recently you can see the clouds billowing over the western med and it's been causing a lot of problems. rain wise and the loads. it's been driving it all is still there . elsewhere in europe, not quite as dramatic, so we'll head south 1st. the winds are still like, be quite strong through the barracks at 1st, at least on friday. and they're on shore for algeria into an izzy, where the blue shows you where the rain is going to be. so we're drawing our for spain and portugal, most of france, in fact, temperature was in the twenty's. it's really fitting, quite pleasant. now i take you through to saturday, the rain is still there, been to museum, had to was libya and things improved. algeria, the wind is to the north leave. it is not particularly strong, although any be through i think you will find it quite noticeable. now i said

elsewhere in europe is nothing quite as dramatic. there is cold, cold pushing, pushing down through germany and poland. that'll not come just back than a single figures, i think tag rate in some sleet with it. but typically the sun is out and of course it's spring sun, so most places are fine. you'll see snow on the higher ground. this is definitely the colder part of europe. dropping south in that same low is been circulating, bringing up a huge amount of dust into libya, back into our students here that will continue ah, in 2018. a journalist lead 40 days of civic action against the armenian government, and president sockets yann's great home power. i'm going to liberate this, where a new documentary follows his non violent campaign to break down the corrupt regime . astonishing outcome with i am not

alone on mias velvet resolution on al jazeera. ah ah, reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, the biggest ship in russia's black sea fleet has been severely damaged by a blast, forcing its 500 member crew to evacuate. the russian defense ministry says ammunition exploded on board its warship, moskva, the ukrainian military says it hit the vessel with cruise missiles. the story, the army says dozens of palestinians have been arrested and have weapons confiscated. is part of what israel cools counter terrorism. operations of the

occupied westbank is forces of also killed 6 palestinians, including a 14 year old boy in the past day. people in flood affected areas of south africa are struggling to get clean water off the historic floods that killed more than $340.00 people. that the worst in 6 decades, a whole rain is forecast. the u. s. in russia have traded accusations over who's to blame for food insecurity in yemen. in a meeting of the united nations security council, millions of people are facing food insecurity and hunger. yemen relies heavily on imports of ukrainian grain which have been interrupted since russia's invasion. hooton's war of choice in ukraine has made an already precarious foods insecurity situation in yemen, even worse. the world for programs march report identified yemen as one of the

countries most affected by wheat price increases and lack of imports from ukraine. this is just another gram example of the ripple effect, rushes and provoked, unjust unconscionable war is having on the world's most vulnerable gloves are folk . that amused that bill is cheap. it isn't come problem. the main factor for instability and the source of the problem. today's not the russian special military operation in ukraine, but sanctions and measures imposed on our country seeking to cut off any supplies from russia and the supply chain apart from those supplies that those countries in the west need. in other words, energy. for this reason, ladies and gentlemen, if we really want to help the world avoid a food crisis, you should lift the sanctions that you yourselves imposed your sanctions of choice . and poor countries will immediately feel the difference. and if you're not prepared to do that, then don't get involved and demagoguery and don't mislead everybody's the u. k. governments, as defendants planned to send some asylum seekers to rewind up the $160000000.00

trials scheme would affect men arriving on boats across the english channel. prime minister boys, johnson says it would save countless lives and prevent trafficking rights groups have criticized. it is cruel and flag rwanda's poor human rights record nadine baba as mull to process it. so anyway with on the white cliffs of dover, looking out across the english channel which separates britain from france. 600 people crossed this narrow stretch of water by boat on wednesday. not a huge figure in the scheme of things. but on the prussia forest, johnson is determined to be seen to be doing something to stop the dangerous journey's position. and so more than 6000 kilometers away, kigali, his home secretary announced an ambitious deal with the rwandan government. in theory, any one who enters the u. k by or a so called illegal root may be sent to rolanda to have their claim for asylum processed. those who are resettled will be given the support,

including up to 5 days of training with the help of integration accommodation, health care, so that they can resettle and plan through and, and governments getting the initial payment of roughly a $156000000.00. it says it'll offer people protection and a chance to rebuild their life, even if they're asylum and claim is unsuccessful. many ones have experienced what it means to be displaced. this has shipped how we approach migration and asylum. wonder already provided a huge for almost 130000 if you use from multiple countries, including neighbors like the d, r a, c, and d is as for goodness and migrants. if a created from libya, despite the u. k. words about ruined is often maurice johnson says the scheme should act as a deterrents to people thinking of crossing the channel. whatever the case is accepted, there will be legal challenges. in many ways, it's

a clear breach of the 1951 united nations refugee convention. beyond that opposition politicians. and some conservatives from johnson's. i'd party, of course, the whole idea, immoral, unworkable. and a huge waste of money needs to create more say fruits. it needs to be looking at creating an attorney visa system, for example, where people can claim, assign them in a country, such as in an embassy and so that they don't have to put their money and their lives in the hands of people. there are many of the options to this to this issue, and then people having to use people focused, or when they arrive to being for flu system where 6000 miles away. it's far from clear how much the sky will cost be on practicality. many have expressed amazement that the choice of her wonder last year britain itself called for independent investigations into allegations of extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and torture in the country. and rights groups have drawn

parallels with australia is experience of offshoring. asylum seekers, se sending them to a wander will simply increase the risk to their physical and mental health. nadine baba al jazeera complaining is underway for the french presidential run off in 10 days time with the 2 remaining candidates rallying at opposite ends of the country . for a candidate marine le pen has been in avignon in the south of france. she's rejected my crumbs accusations of being authoritarian by saying the same about him earlier present to manuel macro met voters in the northern port city of the, of the canadian. but if you will, back in the european strategy of carbon neutrality by 2015 and a european green plant, which the far wants to quit, she said it very till yesterday. if the far right is elected, it will rip that up. it's absurd. it's irresponsible for us and for future generations. and natasha butler house. more for marine la pens rally in avenue, on the far right, leaders spent about an hour in the state here in avignon. she spoke to her,

a support is about her vision for france actually wants to make a frauds more suffering. she said that she would do things like help a tackle the cost of living up, bringing down inflation crate, more jobs and protect workers from globalization. if she was elected numbering, the pen knows that there are lots of undecided voters in this election. there are lots of voters on the left. we'll be looking for a candidate to perhaps back in the 2nd and final round. when she goes off her head to head with a manual macro, she is hoping to try and capture their votes. she was hoping to join capture their attention. now of course is going to be very difficult for her to appeal to some photos on the left. he will be unimpressed by her agenda. have a tough anti immigration anti eel agenda, but she's hoping to try to peel to those vectors. you are very worried about rising prices. you are very worried in by jobs salon co mugs the new year in mid april. but celebrations have been overshadowed by the worst financial crisis in decades.

fuel and electricity are in short supply and the cost of basic goods has skyrocketed. demonstrators of surrounded president got to buy a raja paxis office demanding his resignation. madell fernandez reports from colombo, praying for a better year ahead in order to shower, he could only manage to afford the basics. this new year. milk, rice, and bananas. with atlanta, family life is very difficult. now things are very expensive. and previous years we celebrated the new year, but this time we can't do much with others in this crowded colombo neighbourhood echoed her blight. this family struggle to find the milk they needed for this new year. tradition. they say every one is finding it hard to make ends meet, that difficulties. what's brought together these protested to the president's office. they denounce guitar by roger parson, his government,

fulfilling the people. the 3rd gown, one who does a lot, began their corruption and all they have, they didn't do anything. every time they, they've asked at our money, probably by lab. what are the allowed do now? are we voted for them? not expecting they would be like this, destroying the country, a bit prime minister mine the roger pox of the president's brother says he's willing to talk to the protest is they have refused. i barbara warranty debina i would do diagram with embarked on a massive program to get over the current crisis. we're facing, the president and the government has spending every 2nd to get our country out of this crisis o months. government leaders insisted the wind control of the economy. but on tuesday, the announces suspension of international debt repayment until a bailout plan is agreed with the international monetary fund. slack must put together a deeper commitment to economic to

a plan that gets the economy out of the mess, not just immediate emergency assistance i and also fixed the political legitimacy, instability problem because these 2 now go to get, o protested, are showing little signs of giving up, they say that all communities, all races and religions have united under the national flag to continue the agitation for president, go to obey roger parker and his government to go home. they say they'll be here till that happens. fernandez i'll jazeera colombo now. who else richest man wants to buy twitter a law moscow's put in a bit amounting to more than $40000000000.00 for the entire company. he recently bought a 9 percent stake, meaning he's already his biggest shareholder. twitter says it will carefully review the offer. a short while ago in mosque appeared to the ted talk in vancouver canada way was asked about is attempt to take over twitter. gabriel elizondo house more

from the new york stock exchange. this is the 1st public comments by ellen musk about this. and he did not give a lot of specifics. his overarching theme was when asked why he wanted to buy twitter, why he wanted to own it. he basically said twitter has become the world's de facto towns square. and that he said he wants to buy it because he feels that free speech is very important. anything twitter plays a key role in that. when asked if he has secured funding to buy twitter idle cost about over $40000000000.00. specifics, if you will, everyone knows he's got enough money, but what people want to know is does he have other investors with him? what about that? any more details of how he's plans to buy to buy it? he said simply, he's got the resources but want didn't want to go into any more details and then asked if he has a plan b. if twitter rejects his takeover bed, he said yes,

i do have a plan b, but i don't wish to devote divulge what it is. so clearly eli musk being a little k g there as he often is. and we, but we really did not get any more specifics on why the world's richest man is willing to potentially spend over $40000000000.00 to buy the social media platform . ah, the top stories on al jazeera, the biggest ship in russia's black sea fleet has been severely damaged by a blast, forcing its 500 member crew to evacuate. the russian defense ministry says ammunition exploded on board its war ship the musket. the ukrainian military says it hit the vessel with cruise missiles of the most fall has led russia's naval assault during the war, making it an important military target for us. national security advisor.