uses and they used them to be of our around but close on out there. ah, tension and india is capital is officials demolish properties in a muslim dominated area following violence during a hindu festival. ah, you're watching all your life from headquarters and find also coming up more western military aid for ukraine, while russia steps up its military offensive in the 8th. more than 500 ro hinge breakouts from an immigration detention facility in malaysia. a search is underway and a former hong kong radio host because part and i think government protested sentenced to 40 months in jail.

ah, hello and new delhi city officials use bulldozers to raise shop stalls on properties. they say are illegal directions continue despite india's top court, ordering a whole to the eviction drive. most of the people living in john or poor or muslims . 4 days ago there were violent confrontations in the area between large, the hindu and muslim crowds during a religious procession. life to elizabeth per item joining us from new delhi. so what is happening right now in the area? have the demolition stop. hello darwin. yes the demolitions have now stopped, but sir, 2 hours after and he has top court, asked them north of del, in the school corporation to do so, the corporation said that it was waiting to see the physical order and would only stop the closing after that they sent in about $9.00 and the young people day at 10

o'clock this morning, accompanied by hundreds of police and paramilitary forces. they worked for 3 hours destroying shops, mostly belonging to muslims, put some to hindrance as well. they also destroyed the gate to the john gave the mosque ab, there was a temple next to the mosque and they didn't destroy a very similar structure gate outside the temple saying that they had just received the physical order. and we're going to stop the demolitions at that point. now the north delhi municipal cooperation is run by the him who national despite of the agenda party. and it says that what it did on a wednesday is part of its regular encroachment drive against illegal structures. but it is taking place to 4 days after violence between him, those and neighborhoods in this, in this area. and just 2 days after the b, j. p chief, others took the road to the north deli mayor, asking him to destroy any in legally constructed street. and illegally constructed

homes, properties belonging to people, arrested and connection to saturdays violence. 24 people have been arrested. most of them have been muslim. and that violence occurred when the hundreds of hindus led a large procession through this neighbourhood. pass him off, many of them carrying swords enchanting him to national the slogans. so this is not the 1st such incident over the past 3 quarters this mean for raising religious tensions in the country. ah, well, they have certainly been rising and the violence that took place in delhi on saturday, it follows a weekend of similar incidents that we had prior to that. that's when we had many hinden roofs, leading religious processions and several states through must be made of us again pass mart mosques and chanting him nationalist slogans. now the worst of that

violence took place in the state of multiple days and following violence in one of the districts and that state local authorities destroyed 45 or is mostly belonging to muslims. and the body of a muslim man who had been missing since that violence was found over a week later. there are many opposition groups, opposition. politicians said his society groups who are bringing the alarm about what they say is the rising from the just polarization in india. and they're accusing the bad of the, a jumper party of not just stoking it, but also targeting are muslims, and an imposing collective punishment on them by destroying their homes by destroying their shops. when that is their ob, source of livelihood, they point out that this practice of boulders in the homes and shop people suspected of violence and more often they're not the muslim suspected of violence. it only happens and states run by the b j, p. and the supreme court has hearing

a case against such demolitions on thursday, and that software was from group one to maya lama. he him has asked or to stop regional government from boone doors and times of people just suspected of violence . alright, thank you so much, elizabeth. per annum reporting from new delhi, the ukraine's military says it's fighting back against the new russian assault. the focus of the conflict shifts eastwards. operations on boss aims to car of ukraine into russia. defense ministry says it hit more than a 1000 targets across the country overnight, but ukraine says it's repelled several attacks. not that it's done. it's a little high school blessed day over the past 24 hours in the territory of genetics. can hon squeegee and then attacks by russian invaders were repelled twice tanks, 28 armored vehicles, 2 vehicles and one octave re system were destroyed. let's get an update from

charles stratford who's joining us from coffee antennae for in that, in the don bus region in the east. so charles, update us on the fighting, taking place in that area. well as we are on the sand listing there to that sir, sought from the current military is consistent with what we are hearing pretty close to the front line here. many attacks last night, right. the way along the front line. we're also hearing reports though, of what the ukraine is describing as being them having repelled moves by russian forces in certain areas. certain air is actually relatively close to where we are. here's specifically a town food hosanna, where we know that has been heavy fighting in the last couple of days we actually spoke to were a member of the organization medicine, san fran chair, about half an hour ago. and he describing the situation in papasan ers being

terrifying for the remaining civilians there. he says that russian forces control about half that a town, a very dangerous road for civilians trying to get out of it. they're also now there are a number of other towns around papa santa and one that is in full control now under full control of watson full, says that town carmina. now, one of the reasons why there is such a push in that area is because it seems as if russian forces are trying to do some sort of pincer movements to try and surround the strategically important, very large city of slum dance. we also know that there has been heavy fighting north of 6 love janski's town called is you so yes, a lot of fighting overnight, but as i say, the ukrainian force is at least saying that they have managed to repel a russian advance. so, you know, it's been coming up for 2 days since the beginning of these announcements that we

heard from the ukrainians and the russians that this, as the russians call it, a 2nd phase has started. but certainly analysts the saying and the ukrainians. a saying that as yet, the russians have not managed sort of get the kind of momentum that they need for that 2nd stage to make serious territorial gains. and the port city of mary paul, of course, continues to be received by russ and forces. what are you hearing about the situation there? were you out an announcement today from the ukranian deputy prime minister saying that there is in her words, a preliminary agreements with russian forces to try and get 90 bosses into mary opal and hopefully around 6000 civilians out maybe the elderly women and children ukrainian say that there are at least 10000 civilians that are still stuck in that besieged port city of port city. that the scene arguably the worst fighting

in the more than 7 weeks since the invasion. we know that the remainder of the ukrainian force is hold up in that giant great soviet built still works are refusing still to surrender despite 2 offers from the russians that say, if they surrendered and put down their weapons, the russians saying that their lives would be se ukrainians, yes. fighting on it remains to be seen whether this actually happens though, this humanitarian cordele to get those civilians out. because as we know, there have been many, many attempts to do exactly this many times before. and normally both sides blaming each other as you can imagine for shelling the whole so prevents those bosses getting into that city. thank you so much stratford reporting from the dumbass region. now the us, british and canadian leaders are all promising to send more artillery, an anti tank weapons to ukraine. keith is defending its eastern region from

a new assault by russian forces. and if moscow is successful, then it could essentially slice ukraine in to. the pentagon has given further details about the weapons being sent. we have helped deliver, not just from our stocks for from stocks of other nations, more than 50000000 rounds of small arms ammunition of various calibers 50000000. and that's the kind of stuff that the koreans are literally using every single day instances invasion began. so all of that will also be factored into this package going forward. here is alan fisher with more from washington d. c. to weeks, as joe biden announced that the u. s. was going to send any $100000000.00 package or military aid to the ukrainians that's already started arriving in country. in fact, the pentagon, seeing it somewhere between 40 and 72 hours to get those weapons that material across to ukraine, this has been drawn down from existing u. s. military stalks. now joe biden was asked in the last few hours if there was

more military aid going to ukraine and he said yes, there would be. and in fact, the talk in washington over the last few hours is that in the next day or so, we could expect another $800000000.00 package to be announced by joe biden. though he's been speaking to a few new to allies over the course of the last few hours, he spoke to the canadians to germany and also to the united kingdom. the of all pledge to send more weapons to ukraine. among the things top of the list will be artillery pieces and artillery guns. that's what presidents lensky says, he needs most, but they're also going to send anti tank and anti aircraft missiles as well. no, you remember at the end of last week, the russians were said to send a diplomatic note to the u. s. concerned that it was sending weapons to ukraine along with its need to allies and that could lead to unexpected consequences. it looks as if the u. s. is not backing down a might even be sending more weapons to you create more than $500.00 ro hinge

refugees. have escaped from a temporary detention center in malaysia. 6 were killed when they were hit by vehicles while trying across the highway after the escape in bounderby haru and malaysia northern kids state police say almost 400 of those who got out have been found and re arrested florence louise and qual, i'm for it with the latest police have confirmed that there was a riot that preceded the breakout. detainees broke down doors and grills and they escaped. now, this detention center, a temporary detention center called tonight back up detention center, was holding around 650 detainees. and they were $23.00 immigration offices at that time, they were completely overwhelmed. more than 500 detainees fled now, but he said there's no further information about what caused the riot. but the cadet state police chief did concede that that could have been feelings of dissatisfaction among detainees, but he did not elaborate. he said,

police are investigating the cause of the right. now we know that at least 6 people have been killed, including 2 children while attempting to cross a highway in the early hours of wednesday morning. and this incident took place around 6 to 7 kilometers from the detention center. now police say they are still searching for the detainee. we're still on the run. they've set up road blocks. they've asked villages to be on the lookout for detainees. and they've also activated a volunteer power military force. hong kong court has sentence they pro democracy activist under former radio host to 48 months in jail contact. she was convicted of sedition. last month, he was a prominent face and a mass protest that swept through hong kong in recent years. tom has been in custody for more than a year and a half since his arrest and september 2020 for it credited as hong kong. with more it is seen as fairly heavy handed, especially considering that he's already been in custody for 588 days. and he will

be facing national security charges later down the line as well. hong kong define sedition in a quite a broad term as words that generate hatred, contempt, or dis, affection towards the government or it you have to encourage disaffection towards other residents. so it is quite a broad definition and that does worry legal experts. but we have to understand as well that at time was not charged under this national security level, which was implemented in 2020, which caused hit global headlines, which caused a lot of controversy. this was under a little known colonial law that hasn't been used since for hand over when hong kong was handed back from a british rule to chinese rule. in 1997, the judge in ruling down his sentence today said that this time showed little remorse and that he didn't appear sincere. and as time left the course, he said,

take care mother. i shouted that as he was leaving the court case, we have to know that in hong kong time is known as this very big figure. his show was very popular and he was very critical of the government, which is ultimately what's got him in, in hot water with the government. here he was saying, cursing police yelling at police shouting political slogans, including down with the communist party, which as you can imagine, is extremely sensitive. here. still ahead on al jazeera, the warren ukraine takes its toll on the world. economy will have more in the i mass latest growth forecast. ah hello, we got a good scattering of showers, the usual seasonal showers there across march of southeast asia, but unusually wet. so once again, into a passive indonesia 99 millimeters,

the frame had just to the east of to car to so we stand seeing some very heavy down pause, aim to southern parts of the region should be turning a little dry. now of course, as the shower continued to drive the way further north, plenty a shower was there with sunshine into the philippines and also across a good part of indo china little changes we go on into friday. you can see more wet weather down towards a, indonesia, and some very wet weather in the forecast over the next couple of days for ne, in parts of australia, just around tropical queensland. we got a system here that's driving moisture over toward sir can says going to bring some very heavy rain in between cans and townsville that is likely to cause some flash flooding. river ring flooding intense down post. coming through here. 5200 millimeters of fried 70 possible. i've a 24 hour period through thursday going on into friday so that will cause some problems. eventually, it will drive its way out into the gulf. the carpet terrier elsewhere lossy drive

across much of australia, showers for eastern parts of new south wales wet and wendy for new zealand. ah. the african story from african perspective if conditions select wireless cuz you're with. ready sample short documentary from african filmmakers from booking of fossil and head. for me, it's really important to teach the president comes in do something that i can be proud of. the painter and she hides bench africa direct. on al jazeera lou, the me

we got the top stories on al jazeera, this, our city officials in new delhi, destroyed what they say were illegal structure of the site, india, top court, ordering a hole to the eviction drive. it follows violence between him. do and listen crowds and jagger, cory area on saturday. the u. s. has begun delivering more artillery to ukraine. the u. k. and canada are promising to send additional military aid, kiva, defending its eastern dumbass region against a russian for more than $500.00 ro hinge refugees escaped from a temporary detention center malaysia. early on wednesday, 6 died after being hit by vehicles when they fled a cross. the highway, police say nearly 400 have been found and have been re arrested last spring and half, sorry to me. so dean, she's chair at asia pacific refugee rights network and also a former ro hinge a refugee herself. she's joining us from wellington, welcome to al jazeera,

so authorities have, yes, i didn't find the cause of the incidents, but you yourself, as we're saying, we're ro hinge a refugee in malaysia. so what is your reaction to this breakout? my 1st reaction is the people will never choose to take such a whisky, johnny, unless the situation and the detention center as dia. so my knowledge, i'm aware that it is often very difficult to have adequate an appropriate access to food or medication or other basic needs. and then in the detention center, that was my 1st reaction, right? so it will tell us more about some of the conditions that are, that these refugees are reportedly held in, in the detention centers in malaysia when i was in malaysia involved in many different displays wearing different heads. it is always difficult to get access to malaysia detention center. and the story that i heard back from different

ro here, refugees who was detained in the detention center previously at all. it's very horrible. the living condition is very bad. it is not appropriate for the people to have to have adequate basic human needs to have basic and good quality food and everything is very depressing and it sounds very stressful and there and also the treatment was the prism the song sounds to me is very inappropriate. on the, on the, on the human trend ground, of course, the government says though that these people in the detention centers are illegal immigrants, thus, according to officials there. but your organization is committed to advancing the rights of refugees in the age of the pacific region. seeing that malaysia doesn't grant refugee status. what does this mean for the rights of the ro hinge and the country?

i think it won't be very inappropriate level under the same type of title as a legal mike, when we always have to be it is the true and it is that we honest have to be very mindful of the fact that for the case over here, it is not the choice that they make willingly while they have another option to survive in their country of origin. it is whether the fact that they are compelled to lead from the country because there was no alternative way for them to survive. and also from my perspective, as a former refugees, people should not be taken into legal action against just simply trying to stick a safe place in another country without committing any other crimes. right. so when malaysia doesn't grantham refugee status, what does this mean for their rights in the country? and in the human for there will be in refugee in malaysia, but do not have the right malays. could you repeat your question?

what i'm saying is malaysia, malaysia does not grant refugee status to those that come into the country like the ro hinges. so what does this mean for the, for any writes that they, they may or may not have in the country. it makes you had no right, that includes you have no right to at this level and assess to protection access to walk. you are not even allowed to walk in that country. it's basically you don't have it. right. and i remember when i was in malaysia, if refugees were found, walk, you can be arrested and detained. so why is that melinda rose? why do you think that malaysia remains a popular sort of entry point for, for the ro hinge, were trying to escape persecution. and might be for a couple of reasons on, unlike other refugees also happen to be the stainless people. we don't have any

type of documentation. so majority of us have to rely on the smugglers to be able to stay from the country. maybe most of the time we don't even have a choice, was some to want to go, well, i guess simply fall where the spotless take them and their 1st priority is just to find a safe place, an escape from them from the ongoing but the future. they have been experience implemented tickets and all the decades and tickets again, and it might also be another geographical reason that might be closer to me. emma, maybe the transportation. okay, we'll leave it there. thank you so much. have come out to the dean to me. so excuse me for speaking to us from wellington. thank you so much. thank you. we had a few eman, newly formed presidential council shod. lee, me has been sworn in the ceremony, took place on tuesday in the southern port city of ada and in front of members of parliament law. amy has vowed to stabilize the economy and alleviate humanitarian suffering. earlier this month,

president thomas bowman sort how the fired his deputy and formed a leadership council after 2 months cease fire with the whole thing is to be the roof. reject the new council. tensions remain high ups almost compound after the incursion of jewish ultra nationalist groups into the holy sites is really forces of thought. some young muslims from leaving the compound earlier is really troops fired rubber bullets at one of them off windows after someone threw a stone at a soldier. since friday, a number of palestinians have been injured and is really raids on the occupied compound. get an update with harry false joining us some occupied east jerusalem. just talk us through what happens earlier this morning, harry and what you're hearing about the scene right now. we are all right now it's relatively quiet. but as we saw in previous days this week, at this time of the confluence of both the jewish positive and the muslim holy month of ramadan, we saw where the forces come into the compound and essentially clear large parts of

it, bar access, as you say, to young men and seal the doors of the mosque itself with the worshippers inside it . and all of this to allow access for the very groups you were talking about the is i make what the trust the jordan back trust. that is, the custodian of the site says that nearly 1200 such people came in largely ultra nationalists, religious nationalist settlers as well. people with an ideology that, of course, is extremely provocative for the palestinians inside. and so we saw relatively low level confrontations, again, as, as you say, some stones were thrown a molotov cocktail at one stage was attempted to be thrown out of that window. it fell very close to the mosque and then something else that was burning inside was objected. 2 people were injured by rubber bullets, one in the hand, and one in the head. but as i say, nearly $1200.00 were allowed in during the course of the day that is

a much higher figure than we'd seen in previous days. and what we're also hearing from you is really government is that they are going to bar access to all non muslims from friday onwards to the end of ram it until the 2nd of may. that is something that happens regularly. but at this time, at this particularly tense time, it's being seen as potentially something that might turn the temperature down. here's the thing harry of palestinians accuse israel of one thing to divide the ox i'm off, but what is really say is really official say at least about why they allow these ultra nationalist groups to in well being is ready, government from its perspective. it says that this is a case of ensuring access to the sites of people of all religions. the israeli prime minister natalie bennett, talked about safeguarding the rights of the 3 abraham, make religions of jerusalem just a few days ago. and indeed it's not just use who are allowed in there about $350.00

or more non muslims and non jews, essentially tourists to also come to look to, to view the site. however, as i say the, that the components of the majority jewish entrance to the site, they are largely politically motivated. a lot of them. and we've seen in recent days, we've seen anti our braces chance, we've seen chance about destroying the mosque and, and building a 3rd temple. these are things that palestinians who view the site as a sort of a read beacon of kind of independence in liberty, especially here in east jerusalem on their occupations. and for policies more generally, a site which they want to see is the, the future capital of the future state of palestine. these are extremely sensitive issues and it could be exacerbated further later in the day. there is a right wing jewish flag march, which organizes want to carry out around the fringes of the old city. police has so

far rejected the plan route, but there is always a potential to further confrontation. ok, thank you so much. harry fossa reporting from occupied eastern southern polices for language, but a city near colombo, under curfew after anti government protest against the growing economic officers. officers excuse me, and rumble cannot open fire to protest on tuesday, killing one person, an injury nearly 20 others. these are like pictures from there, that's where people, as you can see her demanding that the president, that sounds like the international monetary fund says the war and ukraine is driving a global economic downturn. it's lost its growth forecasts from 6 point one percent to 3.6 percent this year. she had a chance he has more from washington d. m. s. projections for the world economy have worse and significantly since its last report in january, when it 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 i'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 it's world economic outlook says increases and food and fuel prices could lead to social unrest. however, the i'm, 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. threatening 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 released a study predicting of 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.