ah al jazeera with no news. ready a major blow to moscow's military capability. russia says the damage miss al cruz, her moskva has sunk in stormy weather while being towed back to port ah, on the balcony. this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up. funeral 6 palestinians killed in his ready raids and overnight violence. the un calls for maximum restraints. south africa president says flood saying causally natal, our catastrophe. hundreds have been confirmed at

a more reign. his forecasts are the world's richest man is trying to buy twitter, find out why yellow mosque wants to take over the social media platform. ah, in a major blow to russia, the biggest war ship in its black sea fleet has sunk, after being severely damaged by a blast. the moscow was being towed back to port in stormy conditions. according to russian news agencies, the defense ministry says the ship was damaged by ammunition exploding on board. but the ukrainian military says it hit the vessel with cruise missiles. moskva has led rushes, naval assault during the war, making it an important military target. russell soda has more from keith early and they have told to a senior army official in your, in your gaining official here. and he told me that they have here. this was

despite russia, russian delegation that it was caused by an explosion. she said that they have, he did the worship by a neptune cruise missile. so he asked him, how is that possible? while this most worship is having a very advanced defense systems, he said that at 1st by the drones we have they worked at its raiders system and then later we strike to strike this there, the worship. so in any way, we will, we will, we know that russia, a 2014 of the dentist vision of crimea was increasing the naval forces in the black sea. and so far, the russian black sea fleet has remained intact. but now, after you claim particular receiving the weapons more and more from the nato

countries, we can see that now this watches are coming under the range of the weapons that are being used by you frame ukraine's foreign minister is calling for military assistance to help break the russian siege on the policy of mary apo about a 120000 people are still trapped than last. according to the man, he sways of the city are in ruins. the exact number of civilians killed isn't clear yet, but ukraine says it's at least 21000. the criminal claims russian forces and now in control of the poor city. but ukraine says its force is a still standing. a u. k is warning crime, a torso and constant to nikki, are 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 opal out. here is oma, how hodge is near chrome, a tools where russian and strikes have been hitting farms. rather who i am again,

and we are at the area in your cremmit tours which was targeted a minute ago. you can see the plumes of smoke and there is one of the victims. he's a civilian woman, simply a farmer. ivan, this area is a farming area less than 20 kilometers near chroma tours. the woman says one man, probably her husband is trapped inside the flames. this form came under an air strike at 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 hell, hell i'm or 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 less than 20 kilometers from the city center. as you witnessed, there's one injured woman and possibly of a calendar inside. i'd begun. i've even to come in here. oh,

good natured ah . the number of people killed in flooding in south africa has risen to more than 340 president 0 ramirez, her house, call the disaster and causing the natal province. a catastrophe of epic proportions areas near the eastern coastal city of durban experienced the heaviest rain in 60 years. while the fossa has warned, he expects a situation to worsen saying, flooding is part of climate change for me to miller is in cause really not our province. with this report. ah, life is slowly returning to normal in amanda outside of durban. 3 days after torrential, rain and fading 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

o in is it doesn't the floods of really affected us. the people who used to support us could not come in by law because they were not going to work. and i or even the little money they had mice they had to use outside with the water and electricity supply still cut off plenty. bonnie does not have any way to keep his star 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. blasio our call is if it is, i've lost everything. my kids, birth certificates, schoolbooks, 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 alcord a residence, no tender zebra 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, like most of our community members are using the stream where the water, we don't even know it's coming from. so to 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 settlements like this one ready struggle to make ends meet the destruction caused by the flooding as them back even further in many say, they've not received help from the government that's despite its promises to assist those affected from either mila al jazeera durbin, south africa, the un secretary general, has called from maximum restraint and for israeli and palestinian authorities to work to preserve calm amid escalating violence. they occupied westbank, 6 palestinians, including a 14 year old boy have been killed in the past day. as is ready forces increase operations following a number of attacks. for in israel in the past 3 weeks left,

13 israelis dead, including a shooting in the center of tel aviv. since there is ray, the forces of carried out daily raves, particularly focusing on jeanine and nablus, as well as killing several palestinians. they've wounded dozens of people would lie, fire and rubber bullets. at least a 100 palestinians have been arrested in the past week. thus, according to the palestinian prisoners club is ready, figures are lower. neither abraham has this update from jeanine in the occupied westbank. 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 to 6 people died by is really courses higher since wednesday. so you can imagine the level of intensity. people here say that good south accountability, the latest men to be pronounced dead is a 45 year old from nablus in the north of the occupied westbank where he succumbed

to his wounds after he was so yesterday, by israeli forces my explanations in here. yeah. before that a 20 year old palestinian ski rural went ahead and see where the 14 year old boy who assaulted the head after what palestinian se 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 bag. 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 hight intentions all across the west bank. 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. and all the news, the world's richest man wants to buy twitter. ellen musk has put in a beard, amounting to more than $40000000000.00 for the entire company. he recently bought a 9 percent stake, meaning he's already its biggest shareholder. twitter says it will carefully review the offer. the tesla and spice ex says twitter fall short of its free speech principles and needs a complete overhaul. oh twitter stock drops about 2 percent on thursday, a fine investors have mixed feelings about muskets plans. gabriel elizondo has more from the new york stock exchange here, 81000000 followers. he tweets a lot, he uses twitter very aggressively. and as we all know, of course, and he's claiming that he wants to buy it because he thinks it needs fixing. and in

his words, only, he can fix it. and he said he's got the plan to do it. and but what he's saying though, is he spoke to at a tech's event in vancouver, canada a few hours ago. and he said why he doesn't want to buy twitter, and that's because he said it's not financial. he doesn't expect to make a lot of money off of it. he says he's doing it because a free speech. and he doesn't think that twitter is the right platform for free speech. he said that twitter restricts free speech in his view and says he's doing this for the good of humanity. this really is an issue here of the future direction of twitter. because as we know, twitter very much is not afraid to de platform or restrict the account or delete the account of people that they think are promoting misinformation on the site. even donald trump was taken off a twitter. you must very much disagree with that. and this is part of the reason why he wants to buy it,

because he says he wants he can fixed twitter and make it more of a free speech platform. of course, a lot of people disagree with that and say there's plenty of free speech on twitter . but anyway, this is at least what he's saying, why he's willing to potentially cut a check for more than $40000000000.00 to own it still come here on al jazeera, the u. k. government faces intense scrutiny over decision to send some asylum seekers to wonder whether applications will be processed and the rivals to be france is next president trade accusations of all thought terrorism on the campaign trail. ah, with the weather in australia is not as dramatic as it was less than a week ago, and that end of philly that tropical cycling is now gone past due zealand as well. so we look at fairly quite whether there are a few,

shall the tasmania and the few for the coastal parts of new south wales. and may be queensland in western australia. that certainly breeze hasn't not attempt to back from perth. it's still 26 here and very enjoyable. so gibbon is in the sunshine and quite warm. there is more rain coming into it and use it and you might expect that, but most times of the year is running out to the western side of south fall touches probably a little bit higher than average to be honest throughout malaysia and indonesia. the wet seasons coming to an end is a good sprinkling bat or shout all thunderstorms, virtually everywhere and their shower, showing up more in vietnam and thailand. but the heavy rain in the central philippines has gone away now. so it's just basically quite nice, but wet quite often. there are showers, show up again, his trail anchor up in canada out the west coast of india and raw, the bigger ones, maybe the cowboys. jackie's with big thunderstorms in bangladesh, in the northeast of india. but the most of india, when i look at the pre monsoon heat, no longer is there

a heat wave warning in rochester, but it's certainly pretty hot in northern india. ah, more and more indians are going on to lunar to become told when i wanna investigate the length, some people are willing to go to reach new hires on al jazeera for over 15 years have covered the armed conflict. the natural disasters in the political upheaval in the philippines. parents tell us they walked for hours with their children just to get as the filipino as a woman. it is there. we are privileged to tell the stories of my own people to a global audience. ah ah,

a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, the biggest warship in russia's black sea fleet has sunk off to being severely damaged by a blast. the defense ministry says the martha was damaged by ammunition exploding on board. but the ukrainian military says it hit the vessel with cruise missiles, the astray. the army says dozens of palestinians have been arrested and had weapons confiscated as possible. israel cools counter terrorism operations in 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 struggling to get clean water after historic floods that killed more than $340.00 people. though the worst in 6 decades, a more rain is forecast o campaigning is underway for the french presidential run off in 10 days time. the 2 remaining contenders incumbent

emanuel macaroni and his far right. bipolar marine le pen have been rallying and opposite ends of the country. natasha butler reports from la pens campaign in the southern city of avignon. ah, marine the pen wants to be fraud. says 1st fall, right president and she's campaigning. how do you live? run up to the 2nd round. at a rally in the southern french city of avenue, she said that if elected shit create jobs, tackled inflation and protect workers from globalization promises that she hopes will convince voters, including those on the left. oh, i don't think oh oh, the cost of living a quality education, good housing and living standards. your freedom has no prize. yes. ah, the pen supporters say she represents something new and they don't want another 5 years of emmanuel macro arrival in the presidential race. he aggressive his full of

himself. i won't change engine remains at depaula bought every marine, the pen is human, she stands for ordinary people. back on isn't for real people. it's sad, just look at the past 5 years ago. luckily, with the friends focus on the cost of living in this election, only whitey to reveal he's also oftentimes major, but the laker channel and immigration. i'm to you agenda the some say would divide fraud are not. is a nurse. he moved to abbey, nor 15 years ago from pikeno faso. he says le pen presidency would be dangerous for france. so he's campaigning for macro vision. danville could approve other people say the cost of living has gone up on to macro, but that's totally false. that's just what the panel milan shall support to say of macro has done a lot to raise purchasing power these past year in the centrist incumbent. macro is

also courting left when voters and people who are undecided in a battle that appears to be a re run the 2017 race, but is widely expected to be much tighter. which way it will go is impossible to predict. but those here believe that them moment has come. natasha butler, al jazeera avenue buquet government has defended its plan to sense some asylum seekers to rwanda. the $160000000.00 trial scheme would affect men arriving on boats across the english channel. tribes creeps have criticized it as cruel and fly verandas. poor human rights record the same baba reports. i will, i will wait 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 under pressure forest, johnson is determined to be seen to be doing something to stop the dangerous

journey's position yet. and so more than 6000 kilometers away gully, his home secretary announced an ambitious deal with the rwandan government. in theory, any one who enters the u. k. i r, a so called illegal root may be sent to rolanda to have their claim for asylum processed. those who are re settled will be given the support, including up to 5 days of training with the help with integration accommodation, healthcare. so that they can, we settle 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. claim is unsuccessful. many ones have experienced what it means to be displaced. this has shipped how we approach migration and a sam one day already provided a future for almost 130000 if you use from multiple countries, including neighbors like the d, r a, c, and

d is as for good news done. and my grants, 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, a 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 are focused. there are many of the options to this to this issue. and then people having to use people focused, or when they arrive to bang for the flow system where 6000 miles away.

it's far from clear how much the cost beyond practicality, many have expressed amazement that the choice of her wonder last year, britain itself, corporate independent investigations into allegations of extra additional killings, deaths in custody, enforce 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, florida, has become the latest your state to restrict access to abortion. the governor has signed a law banning terminations after 15 weeks gestation. there are some expect exceptions on health grounds, but not for rape or incest. boston rights activists say the law disproportionately affects the most vulnerable and as a step on the way to a total abortion ban. swollen co mark's the new year in mid april. but this

year celebrations had been overshadowed by the worse financial crisis and decades. demonstrators of surrounded president got by roger pox as office with a resolution not to leave until he officially resigns madell. fernandez reports from colombo bring for a better year ahead in order to shower. he could only manage to afford the basics. this new year, milk rice and bananas. wood as being a muddy life is very difficult. now things are very expensive. and previous years we celebrated the new year. but this time we counting much, would of others in this crowded colombo neighbourhood? echoed her blight. this family struggle to find the milk they needed for this new year. tradition. they see every one is finding it hard to make ends meet, that difficulties. what brought together these protested to the president's office . they denounce good or bad roger parson, his government,

the feeling the people this our government, he does a lot began their corruption and all they have didn't do anything. every time they've, they've asked our money probably by law do a lot do now, are we voted for them? not expecting there would be like this, destroying the country, a bit prime minister mine the roger pucks of the president's brother, says he's willing to talk to the protest is they have refused about warranty debina or would the diagram was 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 month government leaders insisted they were in control of the economy. but on tuesday, the announced the suspension of international debt repayment until a bailout plan is agreed with the international monetary fund. slack of us put together a deeper commitment to economic to a plan that gets the economy out of the best,

not just immediate emergency assistance. i and also fixed the political legitimacy, instability problem because these 2 now go together. oh, just it showing me the size 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. if an end is all jazeera, colombo o, salvatore's legislature has approved harsh reforms to the penal code. the could also target freedom of expression, and the media has been less than 3 weeks since that imposed a state of emergency. given the government special powers to arrest gang members. but in american editor, lucio newman reports the buses. but these are just some of the latest alleged gang members captured by salvador and special forces. nearly 11000 arrests in less than

3 weeks. anyone over the age of 12 suspected of belonging to a gang is brought here before being sent off to a high security prison, where they are being denied legal representation mattresses and sufficient food. we are deeply concerned by the series of measures recent, introduced in el salvador in response to the rise in gann killings, with a new amendment to the penal code. people like erica villanueva are also being targeted on this day. she made the mistake of posting a tick tock video suggesting the chip along to a gang, thus, according to when you law, inciting young people to become terrorists. villanueva faces up to a 15 year prison sentence. but the government's declaration of war against el salvador is 70000 gang members. targets not just suspected gang members and sympathizers, but also the media, which is often been

a harsh critic of president naive bouquet lang muffler. a funeral child was journalist association, close it, open censorship. we. i'm be worth it because i read the book is leaving a very ambiguous violate the law unconstitutionally. because the aim is to control the narrative. the government already has the control of our institutions. the only thing that remains to control is the media and freedom of expression. the penal code reform contemplates criminal charges against media outlets that we produce or transmit messages or statements, allegedly created by gangs that quote, could generate a state of anxiety and panic. in g o say they can also be targeted letter for their reforms that dangerous because they block all communications with the gains except by the government. not just a general escort, but also organizations that work in the community yet many ordinary each other

during support. the presidents hard line measures to reduce crime. i mean, i bought it for member. my only hope is that there will be per managers that me feel more secure going to market and elsewhere. her mom is done by somebody and it's good to think we're less afraid. those who aren't criminals have nothing to fear. according to official data. in the last week, there hasn't been a single gang chilling compared to $62.00 murders and just one day last month. and the president is wanting gangs, that is, they don't behave, he'll take it out on their imprisoned colleagues by reducing their meals from to a day to none at all. you see a newman al jazeera smalley as new members of parliament have been sworn in more than a year behind schedule hours earlier. a series of mortar attack stroke, mogadishu, in the same area. the legislators were gathering welcome web reports. it's taken more than a year and thousands of lives to get to hear the appointment of somali as new

parliament around about 250 and peas and 50 senators have been sworn in in a ceremony in the capital market issue a great day. and we hope that the government, this man, the prime minister mohammed who saying mobley, has been in charge of the process is support to say he managed to make it happen again, stiff resistance level, who luckily, he's been at odds with the president mohammed abdullah. he for my j seeking another turn, didn't attend the swearing in ceremony pharmacy, his critics, and opponents say he's been stalling the process to try and stay in power by somalis didn't get to vote. chan representative selected m p 's and a series of closed door meetings. everyone involved says buying a photo widespread. the new m. p 's due to elect the next president in the coming

weeks. for magic had promised to organize elections where families get to vote. that he didn't fulfill his pledge, the whole process has been widely criticized in that selection that actually brought it to the bottom selection process. that lack of integrity, i'm could ability. so unless there is a strong, a strong rule of law and election a law. so monday will be in this what we've seen for the past few months and the last year is absolutely unacceptable and not to be repeated again. humfell a seat in parliament, remain open after electoral official nullified the election processes over irregularities. motors were fired towards mogadishu, greens and the other m. p 's with pairing to be for an in inside the armed group. al. sure, bob is opposed to the government and said it would target the elections. he claimed

responsibility for this attack in the city of bela green last month. that killed an m p and another parliamentary candidate as well as several other attacks factions of the army, fort the police in mogadishu. last year, when yet another election delay was announced, and president pharmacy tried to extend his term in office, somalis and now waiting to find out who will be elected the next president. and if they will be more bloodshed before somalia has a new government, malcolm web al jazeera ah the top stories on al jazeera, russia says the biggest warship in its black sea fleet has sunk after being severely damaged by a blast state media say it happened as the mosque wire was being taken back to port in stormy conditions. the defense ministry says the damage was caused by ammunition exploding.