the far right lee de la pen, happy softened her image and growing discontent with micro and the cost of living crisis at play. how will, from faith follow the french election are now to 0? ah. ready western ally say they'll send more weapons to ukrainian forces facing a russian assault in these. ah, i'm sammy's a van. this is al serra alive from dell hall, so coming up explosions at 2 schools and afghanistan's capital kills at least 15 people, including students, a pro democracy activists and former radio housed in hong kong has been sentenced

to 40 months in jail for sedition. police fire on protest is in sri lanka, is the cache stripes. government pushes from, i'm a bailout us versus shan canadian leave is all promising to send more artillery and anti tank weapons to ukraine. cave is preparing for once being cold. the battle for don bass, a russian forces have begun their assault in the east and region. if they're successful, they could essentially slice ukraine into asset bay reports on the what russia refuses to call a war has now entered it 2nd faith. and it's being dubbed the battle for don bus duration in the east of ukraine is aimed as was announced from the very beginning

to fully the rate that then yes, can look around script public's. and this operation will, will continue. because beginning, i mean another stage of the separation is beginning and then sure this will be a very important moment of this entire special duration. ukrainians caught up in the fighting a forced to flee as russian forces palmer cities and towns ukraine's president says russia will not be successful in the scene is when you are a he's, he's the intensity of fire by russian troops in the hockey direction. in the dumbass and in the neat pro patrol sk region has increased significantly the same as before. they consider ordinary residential housing to be normal military targets . in this war, the russian army will forever inscribe itself in world history, as perhaps the most barbaric and inhumane army in the world. ukraine says its repulsive number of russian attacks in the east,

a 2nd ultimatum issued by russia for ukrainian soldiers in marrow. paul to surrender has passed. moscow had said the lives of the soldiers inside the steel works would be sped if they see what it called, senseless resistance. no sir. okay, what can parallel up on those 3 united states and western country and doing everything to drag out a special meeting operation as much as possible. the growing supplies of foreign weapons like, you know, clearly signal the intention to provoke the key regime to keep fighting until the last ukraine, where you are. the european union is considering more sanctions on russia. we call on russia, we continue to call in russia to stop all the illegal analogy, the mentor actions connected to his aggression against ukraine and when it comes to next round of the sanctions, i think the you highest represent, that is the leaders of that you and also the representatives of the member states, they're very clear that we continue to work on further sanctions. and when the time

will be right, they will be announced so far calls for a cease fire or the threat of sanctions have not stopped this war. although russia may have failed to take, keep that battle for the east is one. russia cannot be seen to loose. i said, beg, i'll jazeera and russia is there, ghana ging ukrainian troops hold up and mario paul's, our styles, steel, planters surrender and come out is now offering them a 3rd cease fire to give up safely. moscow says, the truce, we'll begin with 1100 g m t on wednesday until the east charles stratford reports from inside dawn, the at squan of the 2 provinces where russia is focusing it's offensive in the area that we visit. is it close to here for cross go quite a long area along the front line. some of the heavier shelly, if not the heavier shelly so far since the invasion started out according to some

of the military and people that we've spoken to in this area. and our understanding certainly what we were listening to today was evidence of dr. missiles, rocket launchers, heavy artillery being used over sustained a period of time. and as a say, a very large area. what's also so incredible in town like this is that there are so few people here. similarly, any more local authorities, barcroft saying that they are made around 70 percent of this. the population of the city have already left businesses. homes boarded up, people told to close the curtains at night and avoid putting their lights on. so i will see, as you can imagine, people in this area taking this push by the russian forces very seriously indeed. and we also visited the train station in here in pa cross. they have a,

a daily train now taking those that are wants to leave the area out into safer areas. and as i say, very few people on it. i spoke to one young mother with her 10 year old son. she said that she basically could, could, could, could, can contain her fears any, any longer living in the area that she was a, that she'd escaped from. and she said that she didn't want her son to become a victim. like the many people we saw killed in boucher un secretary general antonio terrace. as caught repeated his calls for a truce. me says it could start on thursday to coincide with the orthodox christian easter. to say, i am calling for a 4 day hold the week. humanitarian balls beginning on holy thursday and running through easter sunday, april 20 force. to allow for the opening of a series of humanitarian corridors,

humanitarian pause would provide the necessary conditions to meet to crucial imperatives. first safe passage of all civilians willing to leave the areas of current and expected confrontation in coordination with the international committee of the red cross. seconds beyond humanitarian operation is already taking place. at balls, we will offer the safe delivery of life saving humanitarian aid to people in the heart of us. it areas such as mario ball, carson don, etc, and lupins. ukraine's nuclear agency is released video showing positions abandoned by russian forces, and each a novel exclusion zone. they took control of the defunct facility, a nearby areas at the start of the war. the site of the world's worst atomic disaster is still highly radioactive, including the soil. russian soldiers, don trenches in ukraine's government says this would have exposed the troops to

significant doses of radiation. oh, hong kong quarter sentence, the pro democracy activist and former radio host to 40 months in jail. tam tam cheese was convicted of sedition last month. it was a prominent face from the mass protest that swept hong kong in recent years. time has been in custody for more than a year and a half since his arrest and september 2020 or revolt a brick plan. it is live for us in hong kong. so 1st of all, how heavy a sentence is this considered by hong kong standards? well sent me, it isn't particularly heavy handed when you consider that it's 40 months, he's already served out 588 days all those. but you have to also consider that this is not the national security law. he will be facing the national security law fight charges later down the line, but you also have to consider the language in this 7 council offerings, seditious words. phosphate was

a very popular radio host. he was highly critical of the government and during the 2019 protest, he cursed police. he made political slogans including down with a communist party which as you can imagine is highly sensitive. so the concern is that this set to davis, president of what is sedition sedition and hong kong, as broadly defined as words that generate hatred, contempt, or dis, affection towards the government or encourages disaffection among residents. so the concern is, is with rule terms like this, what does it mean going forward in hong kong for anyone speaking out on the street and saying, offering what is being seditious language. how important is this case in terms of setting the, the limits of civil liberties well, and this is considered a legal watershed moment in some sense because it will define what political slogans can and can't be said. what we do know is that as i say,

sedition is an expression of ideas on to hong kong law. so the concern is among critics and legal activists, is that it will sense so called red lines over what political slogans are allowed to be said. and what political views are allowed to be conveyed. what we do know is that this is a concern for freedom of speech in hong kong on the basic law, which is the whole city's a mini called situation. it was a framework laid out when the territory was headed back from british to chinese rule in 1997 in the basic law there off meant to be certain freedoms that are guaranteed. and one of those is the freedom of speech. freedom to, to say what she wants in hong kong, whether it's in the media, whether it's protesting on the straight. so the concern is, is that the hong kong is very much going backward in that sense that needs to be taken in the context of the national security, which was introduced to 2020 in response to the 2019 protests. since then,

there has been a wide spread cracked on, on a number of sectors, including the media, including the legal profession. the opposition in hong kong has all but been silenced and there has been concern under the new leadership, which will likely be the foremost security chief and john lee that there will be a crack down even further. he is far more of a hot, lighter than the current chief executive carry lam. he led the response to the protests of 2019. and the concern is that things will go in the wrong direction further in hong kong on the new leadership. sammy, all right, thanks so much. at least 15 people have been killed in attacks on 2 schools in afghanistan. capital witnesses say hand grenades, we used center monahan, now flood on the streets of cobble explosives designated near the school. as children were leaving their morning classes,

several people are dead and children are among the injured for jody. we are close to the school. i quickly came to the side from the 1st bloss 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. i was standing on the roof of my house and called my children to enter the harm. suddenly the 2nd bloss happened and i got injured. the victims are members of the has ara a, she a minority group there community and this neighborhood have previously been targets of eiffel attacks. the governing taliban says the security situation is under control, but i'll warn that violence may be on the rise. the most important thing that we have to talk about we have to consider is the franchise nature of the security can easily be disrupted. it could easily be put in danger as we have seen today. so therefore, i think a lot has to be done on the part of the taliban to, to, to provide if you please could get it to the entire population i want is done,

but it is going to be impossible for them. because if you see the economic hardship deducing for jasmine in the public discontent that is going with, with every passing day, all those things combined together. i think it was going to be really difficult for them. back at the school security forces arrive to seal off the area. the taliban has been cracking down armed groups since it came to power in august. but this latest attack is a reminder that security remains one of its biggest challenges than to mon in al jazeera said i had an al jazeera why the international monetary fund this slash, this outlook for global growth by hoff. i acknowledge the hurt and the anger. and britons prime minister says sorry to m p. 's for breaking co with 19 laws. your physician says it's a joke. ah,

the journey has begun. the 34 world camp is on its way to cat hook your travel package today. hello there. welcome to have a look at the international forecast. we got some rather cloudy weather across northern parts of the middle east and bits and pieces of shabby rain coming through . still one or 2 showers into turkey. towards the caucuses eating over towards the caspian sea. wanted to share with their little western disturbance pushing in across northern parts of pakistan, some snow over the high ground south of that. there we go is fine and dry with some sunshine once again, pleasant sunshine. 33 cells is here in doha over the next couple of days. lottie, sally, 2, across the northeast of africa. different story towards the north west. we have got some wet weather, just rolling across the northern parts of morocco, northern areas of algeria, area of low pressure swirling away in that at western side of the mediterranean.

for central africa, all showers coming for here, liberia sinks and foundry. dow pause a shower, extending across garner ivory coast into central and southern parts of nigeria. joining up with a shout that we have across the heart of africa will sit turning increasingly wet down towards tanza, near mozambique and madagascar over the next couple of days. now i am pleased to say it has turned a good deal dry africa zulu natal at east side of south africa. brightening up nicely as we head through the week. cats are air with visual airline of the journey. in the 3rd time, lands and miss tina were the 1st settlements and the cradle of civilization. iraqi people is depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries. can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by war and pollution. out their world reveals how the man made decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments,

leaving its peoples struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. lou, the me. watching out a time to recap, i headlines now. west and allies have promised to send more artillery to ukraine to help, and what's being called the battle for done by russian forces began their assault and eastern region. if they're successful, they could fly. ukraine into russia is again, a ukrainian troops hold up at mario pose. as of styles, feel planned to surrender and come out is now offering them a 3rd seas fun off safely. moscow says the truce will begin at $1100.00 g and t on

wednesday. hong kong call to sentence to pro democracy activists and former radio host, the 14 months in jail compact. she was convicted of tradition last month. there was a prominent face in the mass protest. swept home home, listed in the international monetary fund, says the ukraine war is driving a world economic downturn. it slashing its global growth forecasts from 6 point one percent to 3.6 percent this year. its latest world economic outlook reports, it says nettie, every country is likely to feel the pinch. you have redundancy reports from washington. d. m. s. projections for the world economy have worse and significantly since his last report in january, when he predicted a post pandemic recovery. the reason is, claire global economy prospects have been severely set back largely because of russia's invasion of ukraine. this crisis unfolds,

as the global economy has not yet fully recovered from the pandemic. from an estimated 6 point, one percent and 2021. the m f. now says economic growth will shrink to 3.6 percent in 20222023. the phone says that inflation already surging due to the pandemic will be amplified due to war related supply shortages and its world economic outlook says increases and food and fuel prices could lead to social unrest. however, the i've also said inflation for advanced economies may 4 to 2.5 percent next year . some economists say that should mean a change in cost prevented devastating global recession. driving to do what it's done many times before, which is to increase interest rates unnecessarily. and that affects a whole world because interest rates of other central banks tend to follow the fed in the world. and that makes it more difficult for developing countries to avoid crises,

economic crises that push millions of people into poverty. but such as the uncertainty about the war and ukraine, further energy sanctions on russia, future deadly covert variance, and more supply bottlenecks and china. the i m f says its latest predictions may be too optimistic to coincide with the m f spring meetings. oxfam has already used to study, predicting a pandemic, and the warn ukraine could push more than 263000000 people into extreme poverty. in 2022. the charities calling on the i m. f to stop increasing a hardship due to its insistence on conditioning loans to the developing world on implementing austerity policies. while it was rich nations to avoid cutting spending, to preserve what economic recovery there is. one. i forget the force of us. but we don't see the countries or oxfam says there's

a disconnect between the i m. s. research which discusses increased social unrest and more hunger because of the pandemic in the war. i'm the, i'm as actual policy prescriptions for the most needy nations, which demand the slashing of the social safety that ending subsidies on cooking gas, increasing taxes on food and freezing public sector pe. she every time see al jazeera washington bringing some breaking news down more than 500 or a single refugees of escaped a temporary detention center in malaysia. early on wednesday it happened in the northern penang state. police say more than half of them have been found and re arrested. 62 knees though died when they were trying to cross a highway. let's get more now from florence louis. she joined us from calon. paul. so how did this happen? well, according to the kodak state police chief, there was

a riot that led to the breakout. now the detainees around $600.00 of them in the detention center broke down a door and a grilled barrier. and around more than $500.00 people escaped. now many of them have been recaptured and please say they have set up roadblocks to try and recapture the 150 more was still at large. tragically, 6 people including 2 children, died while they were trying to cross a highway. they were struck by vehicles. now the police chief said the police chief of could our state say that he doesn't really know, he doesn't know what caused the riot, but he did concede that there could have been feelings of dissatisfaction among the detainees, but he did not give further details. now, according to the police, all those at the to that who escaped the detention center or ro hing refugees. now, malaysia does not recognize refugees,

which means they have no stages. they have no rights and they have no protection here. they are risk of arrest detention and deportation. yet malaysia remains a very popular destination for many will hang refugees simply because it is a muslim majority country and they were hanging are mainly muslims. but even so, even though they're not guns, had met rights here. and even though that brisk of deportation while they wait asylum in a 3rd country, this remains a very popular destination for refugees. now police say they are trying to do the best to recapture those who are still at large, will bring you more information as we get it about what exactly cause the riot and the breakout from the detention center. all right, thanks so much florence louis. i shall anc and police, so 5 live rounds to scatter protests is killing one person and injuring up to 20 others. it's the 1st deaths in weeks of demonstrations. they want the reservation

of president growth by roger parks whose government is trying to negotiate a financial rescue. michelle fernandez reports in columba. c sure, and tara is police open fire against anom protestors in rumbled financial anchor. the protested had blocked a railtrack as after the government raised fuel prices by more than 130 percent on tuesday. $24.00 people were injured including 8 policemen. many of them bleeding heavily were taken to the hospital in an audio statement. police spokesman the hotel, do a blame protest as for the violence my own, don't you answering all either can. i mean was they were want repeatedly to disperse, but protestors did not listen. they tried to set fire to a tanker burnt a 3 wheeler taxi and damaged property. the police use tear gas to break up the crowd. at which point the crowd responded by throwing stones in order to control

the situation. the police opened fire police and they used minimum force to stop the group from trying to set fire to an oil tanker full of fuel. but rights activists have express skepticism at this explanation. they say there is no justification using live ammunition against protest is similar, protests were organized across the country. as protesters barricaded access roads against the worsening economic conditions. present got our barrage, patsy's facing increasing demands to step down in a campaign called gotta go home, which has seen thousands of protesters around his office for more than a week. he's refused to quit, but appointed a new cabinet on monday. but that doesn't seem to have worked. senior doctor's joined colleagues outside the largest children's hospital to protest again, shortages of medicine and other medical supplies. depleted for in reserves means the government has no money to buy basic medical requirements. we have an order to

commit you to right now. so we had to go deal some surgery. so we had to keep the whatever the available who may be the only for my job. just an example. list is very long. thousands of people joined a protest march organized by the national people as power coalition that reached colombo from barrel in the south reno nevada idea that these things are getting worse day by day, and it's affecting the kitchen and we can't face it any longer. audubon opposition party said they're working on a no confidence motion against the government and considering introducing a constitutional amendment, seeking to reduce the powers of the executive presidency, protested. say they won't be fooled by quick fixes. bonaire fernandez. ojo 0 colombo, british prime minister barak johnson, has apologized to parliament for breaking his own government's coven 19 log found laws and being fined by police. but it was after a surgical opponents who label johnston statement, a joke,

demanding he quits jones. how has the story from london? it was the 1st time that boris johnson had spoken to n p's about the fine that he received during the easter recess. one of a number of fines handed out to senior figures in downing street by the metropolitan police as part of their ongoing investigation into allegations of route breaches specifically parties. in downing street during periods of cobit lockdown, he repeated the public apology. he made at the time, acknowledging people's hurt and disappointment, saying they had a right to expect more from their leaders from the very people who made those rules in the 1st place. but did he think he actually done anything wrong? let me also say not by way of mitigation or excuse, but purely purely because it explains my previous words in these times that he did

not occur to me. then. subsequently, the day gathering in the cabinet room just before a vital meeting on cobra strategy could amount to a breach of the room. i repeat that was my mistake. and i apologize for it on reserve at lee that will infuriate many of his critics, including m. p 's within his own party, of course, who will likely continue to feel that boris johnson is failing to give this issue the gravity it deserves, and that he continues to seek to lessen to minimize, to trivialize his own misconduct. it was the leader of the opposition labor party. kia, stop, will take joke. even now. at the latest, mealy mouthed apologies, stumbled out of one side of his mouth. a new set of deflections and distortions,

yet paul from the perils still lies ahead to full bars. johnson, of course, there remains the likelihood that more fines will be handed out by the metropolitan police as its investigation continues. indeed, boris johnson himself may yet receive more fines, and the local elections in may loom at which the conservative party is expected to fare badly. if he does, that could be held up as the public's judgment of bodies. johnson. and at that point his position could be tenuous. indeed. israeli army says it's detained. 5 palestinians as part of one. it's calling a counter terrorism operation. another 79 palestinians were wounded in confrontations is ready forces in the village of troops for supporting fentler's on the march, the former illegal sentiments of how much was evacuated in 2005 was referrals. so called garza disengagement plan that abraham has more from the doctor. thank

these ready army has already declared the area. i doubt the illegal settlement, outpost of omission at close military zone since december. yet we're still seeing hundreds and hundreds of settlers come to that area. raid this side, with the protection of these really army with talking about more than 600 or 650000 is the settlers living in more than 200 illegal is really settlement an outpost outpost scattered across the west bank. which is why many palestinians will tell you that they feel like they're now living in by lynn's around supplements. these settlements enjoy this support for from the israeli government. they have their resources, they take a palestinian resources,

they have infrastructure, and they are expanding and expanding at the expense of the palestinians. when we talk about thomas, which is the illegal is really, is settlement that was evacuated in 2005 as part of the gauze of disengagement flat according to what israel has called it. this a settlement has been proven why is really chords that it was built on private palestinian lands. ah, and let's take you through some of the headlines now. western allies of promised to send more artillery to ukraine to help them what's being called the battle for don bass. russian forces have begun their assault in the eastern region, which if successful could essentially slice ukraine to we have helped deliver not just from.