ab unscripted on al jazeera frank assessment. what are the political risks of panic rushmore? the gas for western leaders will sanctions on russian energy exports. that's a recipe for recession in depth analysis of the days headlines inside story on al jazeera. ah, russia says the largest warship in its black sea fleet has sunk after an explosion . ukraine claims it hit the vessel with cruise missiles. ah ha ha ha robin yourselves. they were like my headquarters here in doha also come rising tensions between palestinians and israelis. after more violence they occupied west bank, the un calls for maximum restraint. also south africa braces. the more rain after

the was floods and decades kill more than $300.00 people. and the world's richest man, isla musk makes a hostile bid to take over. twitter will tell you why. welcome to the program in a major blow to russia. the biggest war ship. it is. black sea fleet has sunk, after being severely damaged by a blast. now these satellite images were captured on wednesday before the moscow was damage. the defense ministry says the damage itself was caused by ammunition exploding on board. but the ukrainian military says it hit the vessel with cruise missiles. us national security advisor jake sullivan says whatever the calls losing the ship is bad news for russia. so we'd been in touch with the craniums overnight . who had said that they struck the ship with anti 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 particular good outcome. to them correspond a result. so there has more from keith. early in the day, i have talked to a senior army official in your, in your going official here. and he told me that they have hit the dishwasher 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, you say that at 1st by the drones, we have the word it's raider system. and then later we strike to strike. did there the worship? so in any way, we will, we will, we know that russia a 2014 after the next session of crania was increasing in naval forces in the black sea. and so far, the russian black sea fleet had remained intact. but now after the ukraine, particularly receiving the weapons more and more from the nato countries, we can see that now the watches are coming under the range of the weapons that are being used by ukraine, which advised, say as a defense and security analyst wiki strata. a global risk consultancy join been alive from bias from washington, d. c. mr. watts good,

have you all now to 0 again. how much of a blow is this thinking? considering was talented by the russians as its pride and joy. it is a very severe symbolic blow. this was the main, the most important ship, at least in terms of prestige and profile in the russian black sea fleet. it also was the ship that was involved in the famous sentiment and beginning in the war and snake island when it can for the ship. confronted some brave ukrainian soldiers who resisted the attempted seizure of the island in terms of capabilities. it's an older ship. soviet era, it has not been used till launched the long range cruise missiles were seen, hit targets in western ukraine. for example, those caliber systems are coming from other ships, but it isn't important for air defense. if the russians were going to engage in

a true plan, dean, perhaps death could carry a lot of forces and supplies. so i think that it's a major blow symbolically, and militarily, it's going to force the russians to doubt themselves, to hold back some other other ships until they understand what happened. over the past few weeks. we've often talked about the narrative that both sides have been sort of expounding to the international audience. is embarrassing. either way, you look at it for russia because they weren't able to protect the superior naval vessel from internal munitions damage as they would like us to think. so what does that say about the physical strength of the vessels of the ukrainians? they were able to penetrate the ship structural defenses with whatever weapons they had to hand and they succeeded. is going to be an interesting battle of the narrative. now. yes, so we've seen ukrainians make excellent use of defensive nipples.

they been able to use air defense massage to shoot down many russian planes and helicopters and therefore 4th russian air force, basically to focus its flying over russian territory and then launched missiles from, from there. they've also use these very effectively and in terms of shooting and killing russian armored personnel carriers and tanks that played a major role in defense, a key of and if they shot a rock and killed a russian ship with some an anti ship method, that's a new capability, they are demonstrating, and if anything, will become stronger, their reports that the british are going to per, providing the recruiting as, as more bands harpoon and ship missiles. and there may be other members coming in. so this will certainly show off russia, ukraine's capabilities to overcome russian advantages and platforms through skillful use of missiles from your knowledge. and just for some context,

for our view, as we often hear about america's 5th fleet and all of the smaller ships in the flotilla that normally protect the aircraft carriers. how does russia protect its own floating armada? i mean, what is the modus operandi in protecting itself? while at de paul, the similar practice, apparently the moscow's new, it's main purpose is to provide air defense. an issue at defense from adversary ships since the ukrainians don't have much of a navy to attack. it's been focusing on air defense where some of the and some of the other ships, the crew, which had been used to launch the nav files into ukraine. i think that this is a, if it was, if the russians were engaged in a war, for example, with the u. s. fleet, it would more, it would, there would be more, better integrated was some other russian ships and planes in this case. apparently

they were a bit over confident and this allowed from major error in terms of their defense of tactics. if the craniums did hit ship with a massage in terms of tactics, as you mentioned, it's all about control of the black sea and how naval bombardment was perhaps helping russian land forces penetrate inwood. so how does this particular event now affect the way that land forces can progress the way that moscow would like within ukrainian territory? well, i think the main effect will less be on the land since they've already deployed their marines as additional army forces in effect. they are fighting on land around mary helpful. and they probably won't, won't attempt an amphibious landing. but i think the main effect is going to be in terms of rushes missile attacks throughout ukraine. if the other, if the ships have to pull back farther away from the coast,

this is going to main that they, there's, the missiles will have to fly a greater distance, giving the craniums more opportunity to shoot them down. perhaps it'll be harder to reach certain targets. so i think that the impact will be more and marsh's strategic bombardment, ukrainian high profile targets inside in the deep battle inside ukraine. richard bytes from wiki started, it's always good to get your insight and thanks very much for joining us on al jazeera. thanks. i'm the ukraine. foreign minister is calling for law military assistance to help break the russian siege on the ports that he of multiple. about 120000 people have been trapped in the city for weeks as they've been throughout russia's compartment. the man of the city says at least 90 percent of the area has been completely destroyed. tens of thousands of civilians have been killed. the crumbling plains russian false has no control of the port said he, but ukraine says its army as continuing the fight to push russia back. iran call

has more on the situation in multiple from the capital keith. there is this fog of war again, and we keep saying this when it comes to what the russians claim, what the ukrainians claim. but all we really know is there is an intense fight going on right now for the port of mary awful will know for sure. when the russian start, when we start seeing russians walk around that port, then we'll know if it's been taken by the russians or not because that's something that they do and may have done in the past ukrainians. right now we're saying we're still in the fight. however, the mayor of the mary apple is also been speaking. what he's actually said is that he's up the numbers. he's now talking about 125000 people trapped inside the city, most of whom can't get out by the humanitarian cargo. he's also talking about the fact that it's now 90 percent of the city has been completely destroyed just last week. that figure was at 75 percent of the days of the news. the un secretary general has called for maximum restraint and for israeli and palestinian

authorities to work to preserve calm amid escalating violence of the occupied westbank. 6 palestinians including a 14 year old boy had been killed in the past day. as israeli forces increased security operations following a number of attacks for israel in the past 3 weeks left, 13 israelis dead, including a shooting in the center of tel aviv. well, since then, israeli forces not carried out daily rates, particularly focusing on jeanine and nablus, as well as clean several palestinians. they dozens of people with live fire and rubber bullets. but at least 100 palestinians have been arrested in the past week, according to the palestinian prisoners club. is ready figures say that's lower it. abraham has more from jeanine in the occupied westbank. there's a lot of tension, a lot of anger, a lot of funerals took place to the different places in the occupied the bank. 6 people died via corporate fire since wednesday. so you can imagine that i've been

up intensity south accounts for the latest men to be for now, 45 years from nablus in the north of the occupied bank where he's a company was there he was yesterday by is really forces by the station in the area before that 20 year old palestinian ural went ahead to the 14 year old boy who was shot into head after what policy is they with conference station near his village, near beth lab. those you can see these few roles and the injuries and killings are happening in different areas of the bag. to show you that there is a high level of intensity. there is anger, but we need to remember that's just the beginning of the year. 41 tell us thing is i've been killed the majority of them in confrontation with the military. so we're

not just talking about the latest the facts in his records as a starting point for the current escalation. yes, indeed, it has contributed to heightened 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 is really army weighed their cities arrest people and sometimes shoot and kill them. well still had here on the 0. find out why asylum seekers trying to reach the united kingdom could end up in rwanda 6 and a half 1000 miles away. and why they got lynn warren gangs, and el salvador is also said to target freedom of expression and the media. those stories after the break. ah

right. the snows always stop falling in winnipeg. this has been a huge late winter storm affecting the prairies of central canada. the plains of the northern states is all wrapped around this. lo here close schools in winnipeg 1st time 25 years, the cause in sweat back behind it to the rockies. and the cascades and temperature dropping into plane states and the midwest. chicago goes from about 11 that 7 between friday and saturday, but the snow's become showers and the wind isn't howling lea cold. the temperatures on the east coast will tend to drop away for a while. and the writing heading in from the pacific to san francisco was significant. now, i think for the mountains found out was oregon. washington, that is, that coast presents of the plane states, the southern states, the u. s. will yet again see big thunderstorms build possibly torn out accessing the heavy bit south of this, the trade winds are blowing strongly, the bit of a concentration of shouting for think, persistent res with turks and k cost. probably puerto rico hispaniola cuba and the

bahamas. not your south of that is generally looking fine. there is still heavy rain in brazil in peru, and there's a good climatic line that stretches down to walls. rio, so between rio and salvador potentially flash flooding stuff. south of that though, it looks fine. ah, with the scars of former yugoslavia civil was run deep, but for years the bull couldn't manage to keep a fragile peace. now with ukraine, a light in europe on high alert for russian meddling. the mood is uneasy. people and power travels to boast via with rich to secede by sir belinda miller at due date have ignited fears that conflict could return bosnia testing the piece on al jazeera ah

ah, look about the watch, realtors there with me. so rob, the reminder of all top stories, the biggest ship in russia's black sea fleet has been sunk by a blast, forcing its 500 member crews 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. these ready always says dozens of palestinians have been arrested and had weapons confiscated. it's part of what israel coles counter terrorism. operations of the occupied west bank, it full so its forces have also kill 6 palestinians, including a 14 year old boy. in the past day,

no more rains forecast in south africa were flooding, already killed at least 341 people, homes, bridges, and roads have been washed away. and as for me, the miller reports, many survivors are struggling without running water and electricity. the life is slowly returning to normal in, in and outside of durbin, 3 days after torrential, rain, and flooding caused widespread damage. this is the 1st day for the party pa kamani has been able to operate. his food business, which relies on for a daily income is colette. it's been up. i and the floods have really affected us. the people who used to support us not coming by because they were not even the little money they had. they had with the water and electricity supply still cut off . honey. bunny does not have any way to keep his stock city officials a year to begin peering and rebuilding some of the roads and bridges which collapsed were destroyed by mudslides. at home to like him saw miss cleaning up.

she says as the flood level reached as high as the rooftop of 5 children just managed to make it out safely. leslie, who is, if it is, i've lost everything. my kids, birth certificate, school books and clothes, my fridge, my television, nothing's working because you can see around here and i've not received any help. i only managed to get blankets for my neighbor residence, no tando, zebra ye las has 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 by like most of our community members are using the stream where the water, we don't even know we're coming from. so to wash our laundry and also drink from the 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 system back even further and many say they've not received help from the government. that's the fight. it's promises to assist. those affected me, the miller ultra 0 dove in south africa. britain isabel, while of its most controversial plans for asylum seekers. some people trying to enter the u. k will be sent 6000 kilometers away to africa. processing the u. n. and rights groups have criticize the proposed scheme. as the barber polls prompted way way on the white cliffs of dover looking out across the english channel which separates britain from france, 600 people cross this narrow stretch of water by boat on wednesday. not a huge figure in the scheme of things, but under pressure for his johnson is determined to be seen to be doing something to stop the dangerous journey's position. and so more than 6000 kilometers away, golly, he's home secretary announcing ambitious deal with

a ruined and government in theory, anyone who enters the u. k. a virus so called illegal root may be sent to rwanda. to have that claim for a site and 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, we settle and thrive through and, and governments getting an initial payment of roughly $156000000.00. it says it's a lot of people, protection and a chance to rebuild their life, even if they're asylum and claim on successful. meaning ones have experienced what it means to be displaced. these have shipped how we approach migration and a say don't one day already provided a future for almost 130000 if you use from multiple countries, including neighbors like the, the, or a, c and d, israel, as african eastern 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 party have caught the whole idea, immoral, unworkable. and a huge waste of money needs to create more safe routes. it needs to be looking at creating actually monetary visa system, for example, where people can claim, assign them in a country such as an embassy and so that they don't have to put their money and their lives in the hands of people from others. there are many other options to this to this issue. it's far from clear how much this scheme will cost beyond practicalities. many have expressed amazement at the choice of rwanda last year, britain itself called for independent investigations into allegations of extrajudicial 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 saying sending them to a wander will simply increase the risk to their physical and mental health. nadine baba al jazeera. well, the world's richest man wants to buy twitter elements. k recently increased his stake in the social media platform to 9 percent as the whole style bid for the company. twitter says it'll carefully review the bid $43000000000.00 offer. well, musk who owns has learned space acts as twitter for short, his feet free speech principles, and needs a complete overhaul. connie clay bo is the editor in chief of seen. it shows me now via skype line from san francisco. a good time with us. on the program, what is eland must up to well, ilan mask is what we call a silicon valley, a professional troublemaker. he likes to make a lot of noise. he likes to get a lot of attention for his ideas,

and he's certainly been checking both of those boxes. when it comes to his unsolicited bid for twitter. he's a super user of twitter. he has some 82000000 followers. he constantly tweets, he likes to stir up conversation and so he has been buying chairs, as you've noted in twitter recently and since january and has that 9 percent stake . and he's been saying that he thinks he can do a better job of helping twitter become even more popular as it struggles against some other social media platforms that are winning more users than it has the instagram and take talk. we'll talk on that as well in a moment. so let's just talk about the share options that he has and his relationship with the security and exchange commission. it's a rather fractious relationship and it's all about control isn't it is about ellen musk wanting to say what he wants to say. and he, it's gotten into a bit of trouble as you, as you've noted, with the fcc, which is the governing body body here in the united states over saying public

markets. he made some comments in 2018 about taking tesla pub, a private. and he put out a share price that he would take the company private $4.00, except it didn't turn out to be true. and he ended up having to settle the company . and you know, on mosque with, as he see $40000000.00 fine. and to have his tweet to reviewed about that publicly traded company. so he does not like being rained in and told what to say about opportunities in the market. and so some people here in silicon valley think he might also be trolling the as he see a bit with his bid because he's certainly raised, interested in attention in the twitter share price. he's now a twitter shareholder. i would imagine the value of his shares have gone up, and if he decides to back away from the studio, he might make some money. but then the twitter shares could fall and there's really nothing that as his he can do is twitter an unfortunate victim in the middle of all of this because e law must, could have joined the board because of that substantial shareholding that he has.

instead, he's talk about buying the company out right, and increasing free speech is really what he wants to increase free speech. whatever that is, be offered to join the turbo board after he bought a large stake, also comes with some conditions. it will caps the amount of further shares taken by but also as a member of the board, he has a fiduciary responsibility to not basically talk badly about the company or divulge plans or openly criticize him and treat. so i don't believe he was prepared to take on those restrictions as a board member. and yes, he said that he believes in priest speech, and he wants to have an unfettered platform. he thinks he can do a better job. he's not happy with twitters content, moderation. it's clamped down on some people, but he doesn't think should be on his platform, including the former president of the united states and have policies about coven misinformation. but there's an open question about whether his plan,

which we really don't know a lot about other than unfettered free speech, is a winning one in an age where there's a very, you know, blurry line. now between being able to say what you want and miss information, just information proliferating on these platforms. i suppose we'll just have to watch his account on twitter very carefully, connie go labor, thanks so much for joining us from san francisco. good talk with us. my pleasure. now campaigning is underway for the french presidential runoff. later this month with the 2 remaining candidates rallying at opposite ends of the country. farm tended math in the pen has been an avenue in the south of the country. she rejected macros, accusations of being authoritarian, describing the criticism as childish paranoia. her rival present medical macro met voters in the northern port, the d. m, as the final vote will be held on april the 24th. when i did need to give him a package back in the european strategy of carbon neutrality by 21st and a european green plant,

which the foreign wants to quit. she said very clearly yesterday, if the far right is elected, it will wrap that up. it's absurd, it's responsible for us and for future generation. now, florida has become the latest your state to restrict abortion access. the governor has signed a law banning terminations after 15 weeks gestation. there was some exceptions on health grounds, but no exception. a rape or incest. i'll saw ros legislature has approved harsh reforms to the penal code that also targets freedom of expression. and the media association of journalists say that the restrictions are being accompanied by a dangerous hate campaign against the press. but in america to sandy would ripples because these are just some of the latest alleged gang members captured by salvadoran special forces. nearly 11000 arrests in less than 3 weeks. anyone over the age of 12 suspected of belonging to a gang is born 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 gan 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 that she belong to a gang, thus, according to a new 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 has often been a harsh critic of president naive bouquet les mother, i seem to have salvatore's journalist association, close it open censorship,

overflow we, i'm be, was it was, i meant the market leader who's a very ambiguous and violate the law unconstitutionally, because the aim is to control the narrative. the government already has the control of our institution. so the only thing that remains to control the media and freedom of expression. 4 the penal code reform contemplates criminal charges against media outlets that we produce, or transmit messages was statements, allegedly created by gangs that quote, could generate a state of anxiety and panic, and g o say they can also be targeted letter for there are forms a dangerous because they block all communications with the gangs except by the government, not just a general escort, but also organizations that work in the community yet many ordinary each other door and support the presidents, hard line measures to reduce crime report effect for murder. my only hope is that there will be permanent measures so that we feel more secure going to market and

elsewhere. her mom says ambassador e n decor. it's good. we are 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 honestly, don't behave, he'll take it out on their imprisoned colleagues by reducing their meals from to a day to none at all. to see you, newman, al jazeera. ah, your child is there with me. so horrible. a reminder of all top stories, the biggest ship in russia's black sea fleet has been sunk by a blast, forcing its 500 member crew to evacuate. the russian defense ministry says ammunition exploded on board its warship moskva. but the ukrainian military says it had the vessel with.