side to gaze, jenny still resumed media debt going to be acting from missouri and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera are holding the powerful to account. as we examined the us as well in the world on al jazeera, for the battle, the don't bass wash us military steps up. it's latest offensive in the war on ukraine. it in key targets in the east of the country. ah, hello again, i'm adrian for the good. this is al jazeera alive from dough ha. also coming up, the international monetary fund slashes. it's outlook for global growth by half.

the pandemic of the war and ukraine. i'll to blame protests, turn deadly into lanka, demonstrates as a shot by police as the government tries to revive a crumbling economy on the cost of cove it on our environment. the tough task of finding a solution to the mountains of waste created by pandemic protection in hong kong. a deadline for ukrainian soldiers in mario paul, to surrender to russian forces has now passed. moscow said the lives of the soldiers inside a steel works would be sped. if they ceased what it called senseless resistance. it's the 2nd ultimatum, if you'd this week, rushes foreign minister. so gay love roof says this new phase of the war is a major part of what moscow has dubbed the battle for don bass. a duration in the east of ukraine and aimed as was announced from the very beginning to fully

liberate the done yes, gun low grounds, quickbooks and this operation will, will continue with this beginning. i mean, another stage of this operation is beginning, and i'm sure this will be a very important moment of this entire special of the rush. but ukraine says that it's repelled a number of russian attacks in the east. first, let's get the view from moscow. his dorsal jabari, the russian foreign minister circle of ralph was asked whether or not at the russian military would ever consider using their tactical nuclear weapons that they have in their military arsenal. and the foreign minister was adamant that vin russian military will continue to use what he called conventional weapons during this conflict in ukraine. at the russian defense minister survey. chicago has also been speaking to a number of military personnel at

a meeting here in moscow. and according to the russian defense minister, the reason that this conflict is continuing to drag on for so long. this is now day $55.00 of the so called special military operation, which began on february 24th. the reason for the fact that it's taking this long is that according to the defense minister, the united states continued to supply weapons and aid to the government in kiev is really very issue at the heart of this conflict. dragging on for this long at survey shore guy saying that the united states has a port to take you live to london you case prime minister bras. johnston was speaking to parliament assessment. humility by saying, ah, will not roll of april. i received a pretty healthy notice relating to an event in donald street on the 19th of june 2020. i paid the fine immediately and i also the british people

a full apology. and i take this opportunity on the 1st available sitting day to repeat my wholehearted apology to the house in barracks as soon as i received the notice, i acknowledged the hurt and the anger. and i said that people had a right to expect better of their prime minister. and i repeat that mister speaker again in the house. now, let me also say not by way of mitigation or excuse ha, purely purely because it explains my previous words in this house that he did not occur to me. then, all subsequently the day gathering in the cabinet room just before a vital meeting on covert strategy could amount to

a breach of the rules. i repeat, that was my mistake and i apologize for it unreservedly. i respect the outcome of the police investigation which is still under way. and i can only say that i will respect the decision making and always take the appropriate steps. and as the house will know, i've already taken significant steps to change the way things work in number 10. ah, it is precisely because i know that so many people are angry and disappointed that i feel an even greater sense of obligation to deliver on the priorities of the british people and to respond in the best to the shoes of our country. to putin's barbaric onslaught against you crate

o ukrainian friends are fighting for the life of the nation. and they achieve the greatest feet of arms of the 21st century by repelling the russian assault on kit. yea. and the whole house will show my admiration for their heroism and courage. putin arrogantly assumed that he would capture cave in a matter of days. and now the balkan caucuses of his tanks and heavy alma litter the approaches to the capital on both banks of the deep up and the smouldering monuments to his failure. having pulverized the invaders onward spearheads the ukrainians, then confir tots advice. and 6 of april, putin had been compelled to withdraw his forces from the entire key of region. britain and our allies supplied some of the weaponry, but it was ukrainian valor and sacrifice, which saved their capital. and i travelled to keep my so on the 9th of april,

the 1st g 7 leader to visit since the invasion. and i spent 4 hours with president vladimir zalinski, the indomitable leader of a nation, fighting for survival. who gives the role of a lion hearted people? i showed him of the implacable result of the united kingdom shed across his house, to join with our allies and his, his brave people, the weapons they need to defend themselves. when the president and i went for an impromptu walked through central kit, or we happened upon a man who immediately expressed his love for britain and the british people. and he was generous enough to say quite, i'm prompted, i should ritual of the house. i will tell my children and grandchildren, they must always remember the prison helped us dead. but the urgency is even

greater now because putin has regrouped his forces and launched a new offensive in the dumbass. we knew this danger would come. and when i welcomed president dude or poems down the street, on the 7th of april, the chancellor shows the following day, we discussed exactly how we could provide the arms that ukraine would desperately need. the countess hooton's next, unsettled on the 12th. they play like prison by debrief him on my visit to give and how we will intensify our support for president zalinski. and i propose that our long term go must be to strengthen and fortify ukraine to the point where russia will never death to invade again. yet, just as our foreign policy was looked to the long term, the same is true, this government's domestic priorities. and as we faced the economic off the shores of coverage and the consequences of russian aggression, that is a bubble in tackling the impact on british energy prices and on consumers and on

family bills. and that's why i was spending over 9000000000 funds to help families struggling with the bills, were helping families to insulate the homes and reduce costs. and to end our dependence on hooton's orland gas and to ensure the energy is cheaper in the long term. we publish on the 7th of april and new strategy to make british energy greener, more affordable, and more secure. we will massively expand offshore wind and in the country the spit, the atom. we will build a new react to not every decade, but every year this government is joining with our allies to face don putin's aggression abroad. while addressing the top is problems at home. helping millions of families with the cost of living, making our streets safer and funding in a chest to clear the covey backlog. my job is to work every day to make the british people safer, more secure,

and more prosperous. and that is what i will continue to do, and i commend his statement to the high yet the later bill possessions kazama will take joke even now at the latest mealy mouthed topology stumble south of one side of his mouth. a new set of deflections, a distortions yet paul from the other. yeah. but the damage is already done. the public made up their mind. they don't believe a word. the prime minister says yes, they know what he is. well as ever, with this prime minister, those close to him find themselves ruined the institutions he vows to protect damaged. george ministers forced to walk away from public service, the chances career up in flames. on the leader of the could scottish conservatives

rendered pathetic for all those unfamiliar with this prime minister's career. this isn't some fixable glitch in the system. it's the whole point or it's what he does. it's who he oh and he knows he's dishonest and incapable of changing. so he drags everybody else down with the more people to place an order. but he was being said because you make into mr. barbara good. all right. oh,

you know what i would say something with said dishonest. i don't think that's an appropriate word. i think ha ha ha. with all the talk like breaking rules do well only lasted good. talk to this the say, i think it reduce withdrawals that works around it. i'm sure that with the knowledge of these j no over many, many years, you can use appropriate words there is in keeping with good temperate language of the subs. kiss. oh mister speaker, i respect that rolling from the chair. the prime minister knows what he is. oh and so he tribes every one else down with them. the more people to place themselves parroting his absurd defensive. yet the more the public will believe. all politicians are the same, all as bad as each other. are not suit this prime minister, just fire some members opposite. seem oblivious to the prime minister's game.

some know what he's up to, but a 2 week to act. yeah. but others are gleefully playing the part, the prime minister cost for them. a minister on the radio this morning saying it's the same as a speeding ticket. oh no, it's not. no one has ever broke down in tears because they couldn't drive faster than 20 miles an hour outside of school. don't insult the public with this nonsense . okay. but mr. speak to us. it happens the last minister who got a speeding ticket and then lied about it, ended up in prison, but i know because i prosecuted him last week, last week we were treated to like grotesque spectacle, one of the prime ministers, loyal supporters, accusing teachers,

a nurses of drinking in the staff room during la members opposite could a so shake themselves would not if they wolves. but those of us who take pride in r n a chest workers out teaches an every of the key work to who gets us through those dog days will never forget that content. me plenty didn't agree with every rule the prime minister wrote, but they followed them. nonetheless, it calls in this country. we respect others. we put the greater good above narrow self interest. and we understand that the roles apply to all of us. this morning i spoke to john robinson, a constituent of the member for litchfield. i want to tell you his story. when his wife died of cove it john and his family of by the prime minister's rules

. he didn't see her in hospital. he didn't hold her hand as she died. that daughters and grandchildren drove a 100 miles up the moat way clutching a letter from the funeral director. in case they were questioned by the police. they didn't have a service in the church. jones, son in law, stayed away because he would have been the forbidden 7th. mona dawson, the prime minister, realize that john would have given the world to hold his dying happy wife's hand even if it was just for 9 minutes yet. but he didn't because he followed the prime minister's rules rules that we now know the prime minister blithely repeatedly, deliberately ignored off to months of insulting excuses. today's

half hearted apology will never be enough, but john robin said if the prime minister had any respect for joan of the millions like him who sacrificed everything to follow the rules he resign. yes, no, but he won't because he doesn't respect john nat yet. he does, okay, well we gotta leave that to that. that was said, the leader of the u. k. opposition labor party. they're responding to an apology by perkins prime minister or as johnson over his breaking of coverage, locked down rules for which he was fined. i repeat my apology over the fine, the prime minister said it didn't occur to him that then all after that the gathering was a breach of the rules. he said it was my mistake. i apologized unreservedly. and as you heard, just as the leader of the opposition called the prime minister,

a joke, let's go live now to what just outside parliament, algiers, jonah hall, was listening in to all of that. what do you make of jonah? i much anticipated apology, too, and fees the 1st time boys johnson has been able to stand up in parliament in front of em fees and acknowledge and disgust to find that he received during the easter o recess. one of the number of finds handed out by the metropolitan police as part of their own going investigations were series of awe. incidents allegations of ruled breaches, parties held within their downing street during periods of cope with lockdown. as you bench there. he repeated the apology that he made at the time publicly, albeit not in the house of commons. when he acknowledged. and he again repeated that he acknowledged the hurt, the disappointment of people. he said that the latter, right to expect more of their leaders of the very people who made those rules in the 1st place. but he went on boys johnson to say that he did not occur to him then

that the gathering in the cabinet room in downing street could be a breach of the rules. so yes, the police have found that rules were broken, but no, he didn't believe then that he broke the rules and quite possibly still doesn't believe that he did anything wrong. will this be enough to a fees? his critics, many of them in peace within his own party, one could only imagine, not in part because this was a much broader statement. the apology only took up the 1st few minutes of it. he went on to talk about ukraine and talk about spiraling energy costs. here, he was couching it, in other words, in a broader context, in a wider context. the message that he and his supporters have been putting out recently that this is not the time for leadership change, but perhaps more than that they will be people who will see for his children continuing to fail to give this issue the gravity that it deserves trying to less

than trying to minimize trivialize his own misconduct as deemed by the metropolitan police. and as his stomach is set there, the opposition leaders you mentioned, there was a joke, a merely mouse apology, couched in deflection and distortions. so jo, that is the prime minister's job, still a risk i think one has to imagine that yes it is. this issue is not going away. the investigation is ongoing. there are a string of other parties that is still being investigated. there was a trying to find issued, there are expected to be more and they could come at any moment. and amongst the parties still being looked at the events still being looked at at least 3 where the prime minister himself is going to be present. so it's not inconceivable that he may receive further finds himself, and that of course, could spiral. this whole situation could spiral off the back of that again later this week he may well say so vote in the house of commons over whether he should be

personally investigated. over whether he lied to empties back in december last year, when he said no rules were broken. no parties took place. the ongoing question of whether a plot may yet be hatched within his own party to ask him. well, that appears to have been put on the back burner. those letters that m p 's have to send in declaring their lack of confidence in the promise to in order to trigger a confidence vote. the thinking is that's being put off till after local elections in may next month when the party is expected to do rather badly. and if that is the case, then what is against him can hold that up as the public's judgment against bar as johnston. and at that point is position would be extremely technical, very stern reporting line from central london. many thanks. and a jenna at least 15 people have been killed. an explosion in afghanistan's capital . 2 schools in the west of cobble were hit. witnesses say that hand grenades were

used. many people in the neighbourhood belong to the sheer hassan community, which is often targeted by sunni armed groups. lucky infidel. and for those that we are close to the school, i quickly came to the site when the 1st blast happened to see if everything was okay. i went to the top of my house to see what was going on. there was a crowd of people over there and i was standing on the roof of my house and called my children to enter the harm. suddenly the 2nd blast happened and i got injured and i'm with taliban has been in control of afghanistan since august last here. but fuller look for is a political analyst based in kabul and says that the group is still trying to figure out how to bring security to the country, the radio which, which indicates the printed agility of the security and the relation between the indicators, the future of the relation between the new reality on the ground understanding of the pakistan. so you're in number 2 and it is, it is your daily bond or get to transform it body into

a fully functioning a cap. people in the sponsible state yet is know from if we'll simply talk about the secret competitive intelligence, the military defense. all these are still in the v, as in stage in paris are working on that till that happens until they're transformed yourself into a cabin state. i think the secret would remain fragile in the people like that. we don't have our get that the, that the hugs super sit in cobble, particularly in other posts already. some so they can utilize the farm lines. they can exploit the, the hardship disappointment in the anger that is in the a some right now. so it's going to be very difficult for the taliban. counting is on the way in the final run of these timor's presidential election, nobel laureate shows a ramos horta is up against encumbered francisco terrace, in one of votes that seems crucial for the country stability. jessica washington reports as he says, youngest country goes to the polls. aunt rivals,

faceoff once again in the final round of presidential elections, incumbent francisco. look with that if says he is focused on the economy and improving people's quality of life. i want a prosperous economy will try not to incur unnecessary debt except to improve people's lives. in march, 16 candidates contested round one of the elections. gutierrez, one only 22 percent of the votes. while his opponent nobel laureate jose ramos horta got nearly high politics in east timor, also known as timor. listy is dominated by older men who are respected for their roles in the countries fight for independence from indonesia, occupation. both candidates are from a generation of what a widely viewed as revolutionary heroes, who now make up the political elite. they competed in elections in 2007 to which ramos horta, one is low, respectful, the old, a politician. there's

a lot of respect for their resistance, generation and veterans, but people are asking the question, oh, how long can this generation dominate all 6th team or was that as he cast his own ballot ramos horta said he would prioritize building regional ties. ag, falling policy from absolute priority is our water osceola membership. around 40 percent of people in east timor live in poverty. as people queued in the sun waiting to have their say many a hoping for solutions to high unemployment and improvements to health care and education. political stability is on the minds of many voters to a long standing rivalry between the 2 major parties has created a political deadlock that prevented the government passing a budget. i think. and i hope that no one will forget their promises made during the campaign, will have to keep reminding them. so those promise is a well implemented in the community. some analysts say the growing number of young

voters are getting tired of the political dramas. if the past being continually dredged up and that's putting them off, supporting the 2 biggest parties, sienna, te and franklin, i don't think they see themselves represent in representing in their agendas. and i think that's something that boats the energy and threatening are struggling with, with their representation of young people. now voters have a choice between 2 candidates, both played important roles in the nation's past, and hope they will to in its future. jessica washington al jazeera protest has been shot dead by police and trial anchor during demonstrations against the government handling of economic crisis. i media board said 10 people were injured. security forces were seen using live ammunition against a group which was blocking a highway opposition. parties threatening to bring down the government the day after a new capital was sworn in the demanding, the president got

a bio roger boxer resign. jabber is the executive director of the national peace council of shore anchor. he says, there's a risk of further escalation. if the government uses force and cracks down or protests us, i think it is very essential that people should see that the government is responsive to what they are demanding. and what they're demanding is no less than the end of the president. and the prime minister, both writers who are presently holding those positions. i think that if the i to defuse this crisis that not to raise sold it, the president should sit down because that's what, that's what the people want. and the president himself has not been able to show the mind straight the leadership and the necessary to, to go in the country. because if he doesn't, then these protest i want to continue this protest. i'm not also just out of,

you know, some people like you are the needs of the people, the hardships that people are going through. now there are message the fuel crazy minds outside your stations. are people not getting the roads and really tracks because there is no fuel for them that so, and that's why i don't know that recently is spreading throughout the country now are different countries. so something has to be done. and what you're really concerned is that the government might write down using the meat of yahoo. that is the only aggravate to cover the international monetary fund of the war. and ukraine is driving a world economic downturn. it slashed its global growth forecast from 6 point one percent and 2021 to just 3.6 percent this year and its latest world economic outlook. it says that bailey,

every country is likely to feel the pinch. beyond its immediate and tragic humanitarian impact, the war will slow economy growth and increase inflation. overall economic risks of risen sharply and policy trade offs of become even more challenging. compared to or january forecast, we have revised our projection for global growth downwards to 3.6 percent. and both 2022 and 20. 23. on kong is one of a few places in the world that's maintaining a 0 coven policy. tens of thousands of people have been under quarantine and it's adding to pollution and waste problems and the territory is priyanka. gupta explains remote controls, pillows, cutlery, almost everything in this quarantine hotel in hong kong that can be touched by people. sounds. it's wrapped in plastic. the government is determined to keep the krona virus out,

seemingly at any cost. every single one of the staff members here was so p, p, you know, the gowns, the glass, the hats, and that every staff member and on every school, even just that in itself, the huge amount of wasted, huge amount that's being thrown in, you know, to the been and none of that is able to be recycled. hong kong comes more than $2300.00 tons of plastic waste every day. most of it is disposed in these landfills . since the pandemic, disposable waste has been piling up, even along its white, sandy beaches. the process, oh fall recycling. wait. while quickly ah scrap. it's about 11 percent only. who's a small percentage and so you're worth nearly 90 percent of your project ways is either and up in our own fields or you end up in the later.

these hastily made quarantine facilities cannot be used long term for housing and are also adding to the problem. everything is non standards, the ground formation decide formation is non standard. it doesn't comply with any particular building standards. we have in hong kong, the structure set up place on top are temporary, so they had a short lifespan. and then already we have seen issues. when there is a heavy rain, we have flooding issues and so on. last week, the government's environmental advisors suggested ways to change hong kong through a culture. but many are concerned the pandemic and the territories 0 covert strategy. me heard those efforts. brianca i'll to sir. ah, it's for terry with us. hello adrian for.