in the east ah, a diverse range of stories from across the gland, from the perspective of on network genesis on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah another i'm nicholas. this isn't news are live in their heart coming up in the next 60 minutes or rushes president says the operation to take maria poll as a success and cancels the storming of the as of style steel plants. the battle in easton ukraine, we talk to patients who say they can't leave because they've nowhere else to go. ah, is ready for storm into alex and mos compound injury 21 worshippers. after a week of heightened attentions from the war in ukraine to the use future,

the 2 contenders for the french presidency. go head to head in a heated tv debate. and i'm he the same for the sports. manchester city are back on top. they see off brighton to regain control of the privilege title race with liverpool. ah. so then, russia's president vladimir putin has abandon plans to storm a steel plan to marry a pole where ukrainian fighters are refusing to surrender. he has instead ordered his troops to blockade the as of style facility at the entire busy city of mariposa has already faced weeks. a russian bombardment permission is launched on his own. i consider the proposed storming of the industrial area, pointless. i ordered to have bought it. this is the case when we must think that is we must always think. but even more so in this case, about preserving the life and health of our soldiers and officers. there's no need

to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground to these industrial facilities block off this industrial area so that not even a fly comes to me. well, mosca says the lives of ukraine and soldiers will be sped if they give up you creating trip. say these could be their last hours the running out. a weapons and civilians are also sheltering with them. and moscow says it wants to capture the steel factory in the next 3 to 4 days. and president putin has congratulated his defense minister calling the whole operation to take my poll a success. well, we have correspondence funding elements across ukraine and russia. charles stratford, he's in east ukraine and don't batch region. we have a wrestler said who's in the western city of levine? hold abil hammett, she's an earth and we'll be speaking to her at 1st, let crossed adults jabari with the view from moscow, and also tell us more. first of all, about what the russian president has been saying during this meeting with his defense minister. while this was

a meeting and that was unannounced and unexpected, and it was broadcast on the country's sad state tv channels. and the president getting a briefing from the defense minister survey shaw ago, during which he was told that according to the defense minister, the russian forces of now i have a control of the port city of mary opal. on this 57th day of the so called special military operation, which began on february 24th, the russian president seemingly quite pleased with the announcement from his defense minister. and he congratulated a survey chicago, and the russian troops for their work at this was very much a public and show of, of what the president is thinking. and clearly, a message not only to his defense minister and the russian public, but also to the international community. vladimir putin being adamant that he does not want to see his forces or suffer any loss of life other than what they already

have in this city. and the defense minister saying that they will be able to, i take full control of this plant within the next 34 days. the idea being that the, you ukrainian fighters that are held up in that era plant area will not be able to last much longer. without a, the food and supplies that they would need. the defense minister highlighting the fact that when they entered at the city of mariel bull on march 11th, there were just over 8000 ukrainian fighters. and they have a loss about 4000 of them have lost their lives during this battle. and about $1500.00 of them have surrendered to the russians. and the rest are now held up in this area of this plant. and the defense minister telling the president that and they believe, given the next few days, they will be forced to surrender. that is clearly what the russian president

vladimir putin also wants to see. he's saying that there is no need to storm this facility. there's been a lot of pressure on the russians from the instructional community, as well as the united nations to allow any, as some humanitarian quarters to be established during, at this time. and we also understand the, at head of the united nations, as asked to visit moscow to speak with the russian president vladimir putin at prior to this announcement from the president about establishing humanitarian quarter as in mary o pal. now the main question, it now is, what will happen to this city? it was home to just over 400000 people. and since the fighting began at about less than a $100000.00 people are left in this city. now, the defense minister telling vladimir putin that they will try to establish peace in order and to try and get the city back to a life. and as they will want the population to return and to return to some kind

of a normal way of living. what that will look like under russian occupation remains to be seen. but clearly at the message here is that the russians will want to avoid any further loss of life. but to making this announcement about the fact that they have captured the 1st city officially since they launched the special military operation at a time when they are accused of numerous or wrong doings within ukraine since they began their operation. or are those of you for moscow dose jibari? thanks very much. indeed. let's get the latest on the situation, at least in ukraine and charles, prepped for the standing by and with it here. we're near the city of buck went through the dorm bus region, chosen just wondering it for what your hearing on the ground about the latest situation and maria, pull of those that hold off him so i can still work. hi the yes just to bring you up to date before we speak about mario poll. we arrived at this position, i suppose about half an hour ago. having spoken to the military on our way. they

saying that this morning had been very quiet. certainly the last 10 minutes or so, we're hearing heavy beverages seemingly of incoming and outgoing artillery various locations across the horizon a bit too far away from what the camera will be able to pick up also from the right . so certainly there seems to be an escalation of fighting this morning in this area. but of course, yes, the big focus of the world is looking at that steel plants in mariel pool, a city that has been some descriptions of it. and the pictures seem to verify that a city almost completely destroyed. we understand that there, around about $10000.00 civilians essentially left in the city as a whole. but the great focus is on what is being reported as around a 1000 civilians. in those bunkers underneath that still works, that is still certainly a section of it we understand controlled by ukrainian forces. those pictures

released yesterday by the eyes, off battalion, one of the fighting forces that are inside that steel plant, showing families, children sitting on beds. obviously, having been there for a long while and increasing concerns on how those civilians are going to be get out . now the as off themselves have released the statement saying they want a humanitarian colored old to get those civilians out of that steel plant. as well as what they say is around $500.00 injured soldiers. we've also had pressure from the ukranian deputy prime minister, demanding that the international community put pressure on russia to guarantee some form of card or to get those civilians out. but we also know that those fighters are refusing to surrender. and in that context, despite may putin saying that basically its victory in my real pull, i think it's fair to say that it would be almost inconceivable. the fact would be

in conceivable for those ukrainian if i just to be able to push back until that plant is cleared of ukrainian forces. he any military analyst would tell you he doesn't have complete control over that city and he needs complete control of that city. to be able to really take that back to the russian. people obviously, having suffered such horrific international price about most goes behavior with respect to bombing schools, allegations of bombing hospitals, allegations with respect to potential war crimes in areas around kids. and of course, the russian forces left those areas around give, it was called a military defeat by the international community. and now they were in areas like this, pushing for more territory in and around don bass. so putting that needs this victory in mary awful. and just to how he's going to get that victory without potentially

a 1000 civilians, at least being killed, remains to be seen. not allowing the, what zone shows this was exploding shell did to her home. yes. her house is a few kilometers from where russian forces are trying to advance that are being held back by the ukranian army fellows verify and then what would i say? it happened so quickly? yeah, i was in the house. i heard a whistling sound. she says she usually thing, so we don't worry, this is out going. she continues at the suddenly i came out of the house and i saw my son was crawling towards me. he shouted, mom are you alive? leah? my ears were ringing and there was debris everywhere. yet when they, when they shoot, it's not that scary. it's the incoming, we are afraid of it. she says another shell blasts out across the fields the ukrainians,

saying that they pushing russian forces back from positions close to here. we have no way of confirming that, but we were in the last few minutes or so heard shells leaving this area. the lady in this house says she's lived here 10 years and we asked her why she doesn't move because pretty much everybody from this area has already gone. and she says she basically has nowhere else to go at a hospital, a few kilometers away. we met these elderly women. they were injured when russian forces shell, the towns and villages they lived in valentino from the town of several dan etzky. she is terrified about her son, who she says was too afraid to try and escape. since we're still up on the only other thing my son managed to get to the basement, but i was too late. there are people who cannot leave their old and many disabled. they're desperate to get out for why can they go? staff told us not to name the hospital because they're afraid of it getting hit.

his doctor insisted we hide his identity, but told me many of the staff had fled the hospital, needed surgeons and trauma specialists. he said, medics load the injured and infirm to the once daily evacuation train. after a russian shell hit a platform crammed with a vacuum ease in the city of cremmit, sourced killing more than 50 people. on april, the 8th. this is now the most east and train service taking people who can all want to leave to safe areas. anna is fleeing the fighting around on ask with her 10 year old son. clearly, we are saving ourselves her that russians can't do to ask what they did in beecher . we left everything behind, even our dog and cat. we have no choice. we find alexander and his wife, gania, in another compartment. nor yesterday pushed him. we have come from cremmit, oscar,

because of russia entered the city. we could never live under their fascist rule. treated. alexander says the elderly woman sharing their compartment seems to be suffering from dementia. she's unable to speak, and he's travelling to safety alone. back near the front line lawyer will sleep in her cell or to night, as an invading army continues to rec, hers, and millions of other people's lives. shall strafford al jazeera, eastern ukraine. all right, we're going across now to a live where wrestle soda joins is so wrestled. tell us what the picture is there and also at where are we at with the, with negotiations and outside assistance v craniums. well, the danish of the prime minister, metaphor dixon and the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez. i'm now wisdom cheer and about to mit a president. as the lensky there. this, that diplomatic was,

as are quite important for, for, for, for ukraine. because each wizard means more weapons and more, more, more financial support for them. so yesterday we have seen that the, the president of the european council, charles michelle was here and he promised more weapons and more at the financial support as well. as i said, just before, did just ahead of the war. we have seen an extra this. off the over the embassies moving out of kia, the diplomatic missions, relocating to the neighboring countries or, or living. and now, after russian, our forces retreated from the regions around kia. we now see that the high level diplomatic was that are happening again. in the 1st, the highest level diplomatic wizard was at the present of the european commission. or sheila, on de leon. she was joined by the way, by joseph board of the the cheaper or did the foreign policy of the european union . and right after that we have seen that you k prime minister job. but as johnson abbey, near, so akin prime minister ocean are chancellor pooler of

a chat and polish at the prime minister. so these are quite important diplomatic whizzes, but yet think with all of this implemented was it you're hearing a little when it comes to the, the p stalls between ukraine and russia and some expertise that their actual dis, pistols are in a, in, in, and that, that and so at each of these diplomatic visits, ukrainian officials had been quite consistent on their demands. they're simply asking for more weapons, particularly while the war is intensified in the eastern region. they say that the army are desperately needs more ammunition and more weapons. so the 2nd demand is humanitarian aid, considering the, the scale of the destruction across the country. that is huge. so they said that they need that as well. it asking you to pin leaders to provide more humanitarian aid. the final demand has been the sanctions ukrainians. the officials are asking your opinion leaders to put more sanctions on russia, particularly on is a gas and,

and, and, and oil industry. and they say that and europe should stop put cheese in it, russian gas, and fear and oil because it is feeling the russian war machine. and today, at through this wizard of the prime minister of spies, spain and banish prime minister. we are expecting to win officials to repeat the same demands or a rustle thanks very much indeed, illustrator, now from livid to open hot abraham. it is standing by for sound or to tell us what you've been seeing. while we're here actually at this bridge that leads out of a pin and this place really has become iconic for all the wrong reason. it's had been decimated as the russians were trying to advance. so as the capital keys, you know, if, if you recall there was these dramatic pictures of civilians trying to flee as quick as they can under the shelling this car just looking at it. you can

just imagine probably a family or someone in the trying to run for the allies just to find themselves at the bottom of the river here. and we have no information. what happened to them? now down there, there that under the bridge, that's where people were running out, trying as quick as they can to flee the russian shelling and also the crossfire. because on the other side, you had some ukrainian forces, so the civilians basically were trapped in the middle level that now this image of devastation is something that you will see over and over again. the more you drive down that road after a bootstrap, also now becoming iconic for all the wrong reasons. we saw a woman called diana the 1st time she had to return to this area. she had actually

fled from that is bridge. she owned a bowling alley and she was standing in front of there looking yeah. did. it was completely destroyed and she had tears in her eyes and she was saying that was the dream of my life. and my dream is now in tatters. she employed 50 people, she said she was going to try to rebuild it, but it's going to be extremely hard for her. and for all the other people who really trickling back because to live here is still not possible. that is lack of water. it is lack of electricity, there is lack of gas. and then there's also all the stories that really, nobody still knows. we mean go around, you see police still trying to uncover dead bodies, exhibit bodies that way. have silly does put in the ground as people were trying to flee away, trying to figure out their stories and trying to figure out who they are. and where

do, where did they come from? so socially, what you see in this devastation is yes, her refers to watch, but that's really the tip of the iceberg. that amount of human suffering under that is still not clear. the scope of it all is still not clear. and i think more when people eventually would be able to return here, they will be quite surprised what they will find and what's in just for you to know what's happening behind me. well, this is a mexican artist. his name is robert. he came here during the war to provide you money theory and a then to try to help as much as he can. well, now he's painting a replica of guernica, which is the famous painting by the castle, which actually were present war, death, destruction, and hopelessness. well, he says that he's trying to adapt that to you, crane and colors using the new and the yellow of the ukranian flag. but he says

that this, he's trying to capture the suffering of this war the had bought to the people here . but certainly you'll see that in our report, nature just driving around, you just get imagine human beings and stories one after the other of people really who are in a matter of days if not hours have lost. absolutely everything. hard to thanks for that tragedy. just all around isn't it? thanks very much. and each time being plenty more still ahead of the news r, including russia, successfully tested new intercontinental ballistic missile that it says can hit anywhere in the world. will have experts analysis also white bars, johnson is facing calls to apologize on a trip to india. they don't support coming up to dramatic finish for they 76 is in the n b a playoff. peter will have that story and more.

ah, so israel is hit targets in garza for a 2nd time this week. it says rockets were far towards the israeli ton of so to wrote earlier, palestinians say the rocket far follows israeli incursions into the out acts of mos compound. there are no reports of any casualties on either side. israel says it had a military post in garza. when it's ready forces fight rubber, bullets and pepper spray injury $21.00 palestinians at the alex mos come. ah, it has been almost a week of heightened tension is at the sight in occupied his teresa because ins by jewish, ultra nuts, nationalists groups bought the recent unrest. let's get the very latest from stephanie decker, unoccupied, east, jerusalem and stephanie, what's been happening well, that visit to there's 3 hour is allocated to the entry of those groups. it is now

over. it is over until the end of each for the next 10 days. you will not be seeing any more of these far right wing group sy in the compound. but as you mentioned, you played the pictures there from early morning just before they were given attic access, he is ready forces at cleared the compound area, also pushing some of the younger men into the mosque, closing the kibbler mosque. and then you had where you saw it weighs you said there rubber, bullets or so pepper spray used inside the mosque palestinians using fireworks firing out of the mall. so this is the kind of tension that we've seen over the last week, a little bit more today. certainly possibly because it was the last day, but the bigger picture here, nick is this is that palestinians say that there has been an absolute change when it comes to the status quo. this is what jordan israel agreed upon many years ago. jordan is the custodian of the holy sites that muslims were allowed to pray. non muslims were allowed to visit. but the,

the increase of these groups in numbers and in ideology, in the terms of the call of these far right wing jewish groups to pray. they actually try to pray, some of them go as far as to call publicly for the, the building of a 3rd temple. this is hugely provocative to palestinians. now, you know, some members of this government of the previous government as a that jew should have the right to pray on the alex m offs compound, even though that is still enforced somewhat by the israeli forces by the guards of the walk of that's the jordanian trust on the ground, but this is the bigger picture. one is really unless we were talking to were saying that this was equal to what he called religious pyromania. that this was an absolute red line and that what happens is alex doesn't stay in alex in the sense that it has the capacity to inflame, not only the ground here, but also across the wider muslim world. our stuff, thanks for that update. as to feedback about these 25 people being killed in explosions in multiple cities across afghanistan were harry,

at least 5 of them were killed in one of the biggest sheer mosques in mazar. e, sharif and explosion in condo is killed. 17 people near the airport and a blast in anger. har province that killed at least 4 members of the taliban, bringing more in that as we could hear it out, sir. while the 2 contenders for the french presidency of taking part in a televised debate ahead of sundays, election incumbent met a man while macro and it's far right challenger murray le pen spot over the cost of living ukraine war and the use future opinion polls suggest micron is in the lead, but it is a tight race as natasha butler reports. now from pers, as olivia cited there, it didn't take long for things to become tense. soon after the start of the french presidential candidates debate, the centrist incumbent emanuel macro put the far right candidate, marine the pen on the spot. by questioning her links to the kremlin and a russian bank loan that funded her 2017 campaign, was every dish of thought. you were one of the 1st european leaders in 2014,

to recognize the annexation of crimea, because you depend on the russian regime. and you depend on mister putin, madame le pen, you took out a loan in 2015 from a russian bank. the 1st check russian bank, which is close to the government amendment. my boy, except the presenters repeatedly called for com is the candidates, disagreed over issues including climate change, education, immigration, and the european union. mackerel believes the block should be stronger, and the pen wants to diminish its power. the far right leader also said she would make it illegal for muslim women to wear the headscarf in public. if elected macro said such a move would provoke a civil war is a ship, orlando, these only well dollars. personally, i believe the headscarf is a uniform imposed by islamists that most young women who wear it have no choice. this is just shelton, france's country of the enlightenment of universal values would be the 1st country

in the world to bound religious symbols in public space. the 1st country in the world that is what you are proposing probably at times, mcgraw seemed over confident or on the attack. but for most of the debate, he clearly had the upper hand, leaving the pen, looking frustrated or confused. a performance wasn't a total re run of the 2017 election debate with macro a disaster by her own admission. but it wasn't far off, although she gained ground on some social issues, including health care forward can, can em. and you know, the reality is during your presidency, mr. mack long, it's only crazy is that make you act there? had to be a pandemic to make you realize that help workers have been in a terrible way for years doing for nearly half a century. presidential candidates in france are faced off live on tv and a debate that's usually watched by millions of people, and is often a pivotal moment in the election. on monday that law was a fiery exchanges to natural flourishes. the debates are often highly anticipated

by fuels and rarely dull. over the years the protagonists and politics have changed, but one thing has remained constant and the person most widely perceived have won the debate often wins the election. voters on sunday will now decide whether history will repeat itself. natasha butler, al jazeera paris, or couldn't, we shall see. so we are allowed 0. thousands are forced to flee their homes in the u. s. state of arizona is. wildfire suite closer to urban areas. and it's more real madrid take another big step towards the spanish title pigeon o avenue. ah. hello there. welcome to kathy international forecast, parts of central spain to see the heaviest april snow fall for around 20 years. it

remains rather disturbed across sir at western side of the mediterranean, but the earth, winter weather the weather weather will ease off, at least for a time. now the system does come in from the atlantic as we go on through the next couple of days. this area of low pressure here. the reason i'm getting still further south is because of this blocking high over scandinavia, which has been keeping it positively balmy. 18 celsius there in oslo. more glorious sunshine across much of scandinavia, not too bad. across c, u, k. into the island of ireland we have got so uneasily, windows that takes the edge of the temperature is here a some parts of spain then a little dry, a little bright was he got $13.00, the remainder of thursday. that wet weather getting pushed into that western side of the mediterranean, pushing towards sardinia, corsica, across southern parts of france, italy, seeing some rather lively showers where to weather move further east, which as we go on 3, friday, there is a return to the rain, the possibility some snow of the high ground of spain to re disturb that where to weather pushing across towards the balkans that disturb whether across north

western parts of africa. also bringing some rain in here and showers, continuing around the gulf of guinea. ah, the full of struggles. i allude job, you know, but i'm, i'm with national, i'm going to what i mean, goal on bowl that i'm walking up on full of pleasure. we go, a little mounted on the good english, aided by rama in but on an intimate look at life in cuba today. as it was a, i don't want to walk on it. but a young man was daniel, i give it a manageable my cuba on al jazeera with

blue ah, the guy you're watching out 0 reminder about top stories this and rushes president vladimir putin. it's cancelled plans to storm a steel plant in ukraine's port city of mario pole. he has instead ordered a blockade. the 2000 de crating fights is still hold up that a spanish prime minister president sanchez in the danish prime minister meto frederickson, all the latest european leaders to visit keith. they're expected to hold talks with

the crazy president for the maintenance israeli forces fy rubber, bullets and pet spray in drink 21 palestinians of the most compound. it's made almost a week of heightened tension of a site in spite through some cousins by jewish ultra nationalists groups spot. the recent don't read. so russia says it successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile, called the psalm that president vladimir putin says it will provide food for thought for those who threaten russia. he says each miss allison carry up to 12 nuclear warheads and can hit any target on earth. so what do we know about this new ballistic missile? it's been in development since the early 2, thousands and it's meant to replace rushes, aging. soviet era weighs more than 200 metric tons and can carry multiple large nuclear warheads capable of hitting different targets and several occasions at the same time. it has the longest striking range of about 800000 kilometers and rushes

as it can even flavor north and south poles and attack anywhere in the world. let's take this home. we can speak to probably 40 or he's the chief executive officer. it's a political consultancy residents in global. i also form a direct policy. plenty of nature and joint is not from spain from sent on there. in fact, as properties that certainly seems like a very potent missile. and when says this is food for thought, he's not mentoring his words as he and this is part of a long series of what we call nuclear signaling from the reporting since the beginning of the war in ukraine, where he's been engaged in both rhetoric, lee, and also in kind of matters to show that he might be willing to use nuclear weapons if russia were to be threatened. however, what you also mentioned is that the salma inter continental miss side is actually 2

years late on delivery. so even the question is, presenting things as if it's a great moment for the strength of russia. it's actually tell us about the delays and the corruption in the russian armament procurement system. with this test, i guess the, the us, the united states and nato on seeing anything they didn't know about already. exactly, and i think the key question here is whether western allies, nato allies are going to respond to. what again, as i mentioned yet again, nuclear read me put in by saying that nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction have nothing to do in the war and ukraine at the moment that will be brought in that war. it will find them utterly change the nature of the conflict, and it was already say few weeks ago at the nato summit, but i think it does not hurt, repeating it depends can says,

this new nuclear capable missile is not seen as threatening to be united states and its allies, but it could be couldn't when that's the principle off, i need to continue to tell me i need to be able to keep a target tens of thousands of kilometers away. that's what depends. i can also say this. they are very confident in their own days, and that then implicitly to restore some kind of stability in the strategic nuclear . they come between the 2 countries for every one that's, i'm sorry my day for that and i'll talk to you. thank you to china where the president says his government back talks to resolve international disputes, but opposed to the sanctions in the video message should be on your bow forum, asia. she's paying warned against what he called the cold war mentality and unilateral sanctions become today after leap video from the chinese navy showing an advantage ship missile designed to destroy aircraft carriers. katrina,

you has worn out from bay j and 100. we had chinese president, she didn't thing talk about the need for world peace and countries to work together . but on wednesday we had a video which appears to be link leaked by the chinese navy and shows a hypersonic missile being launched from one of china's most advanced navy missile destroyers ships. now we've had no confirmation from beijing that they have successfully achieved this technology. but we do know that they've been working on it for some time. and if they are successful, they would be the only the 2nd country to have hypersonic missiles after russia. now, from the looks of these videos, experts say it seems that these missiles have a, a range of about 10021500 kilometers, which means they're able to target entire air strike fleets at sea. and we don't know exactly why china is really putting a lot of investment into this hypersonic missile technology,

except to say that paging has been building up its military and also nuclear capabilities over the last few years. and chinese analysts say that this is all about deterrence that china is a long way when it comes to a power c with the likes of the u. s. or with russia. but because of increasing tensions around the south trying to see around taiwan and also looking at ukraine and seeing how the u. s. and other western countries are really galvanized and sort of mobilized to support ukraine. this is making aging nother, so it's working on building up its 2nd strike capability to deter any future attacks or counter attacks in what, what baiting sees as its own backyard, the by ministration has begun. a multi $1000000000.00 revamp of his aging nuclear power plants. the program is part of the plant use more carbon free energy and we in the united states of fossil fuels. john 100 reports now from the state of illinois, which relies on nuclear power rising from remote landscape across the u. s. is an

old and new answer to the energy crisis. as part of his clean energy plan, president biden is spending $6000000000.00 to bail out nuclear energy plants at risk of closing us secretary of energy. jennifer granholm says she wants the country powered by clean energy by 20. 35 nuclear plants are very cost effective to operate once you, once you get them built. that compares with things like coal and gas where a lot of the expenses in the fuel itself. this is nuclear country. the state of illinois is more dependent on nuclear power than any other state in the us. the states 6 nuclear reactor sites provide more than half of the energy state uses. so when an energy company wanted to shut down 2 of them, the state of illinois paid up to $700000000.00 in subsidies to keep them open. because without this energy,

chicago 90 miles away could go dark to replace loss nuclear energy. cities like chicago would likely turn to carbon, generating oil and natural gas a future. the climate scientists in the biden administration hoped to avoid as countries like france and china lean heavily on nuclear power. germany and other nations are moving away from it. in the u. s. protest against nuclear power in the 1970 is helped launch the modern environmental movement. the issue nuclear waste in the form of spent fuel rods that remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. then there are the repeated disasters, the 1979 meltdown at pennsylvania's 3 mile island reactor, with the deadly 1986, meltdown fire and radioactive contamination it ukraine's chernobyl plant. in the fatal 2011 sou nami, that shut down japan's fukushima reactor. but the climate crisis is changed. the view of many environmentalists who now see nuclear energy is the lesser of 2 evils

. priority number one is move away from fossil fuels. we think the best way to do that is by applying real clean energy, which i would not characterize nuclear energy that way. but we have it today. it may be around for a little bit as we work on that transition. the $93.00 reactors across the us already provide 20 percent of the nation's electricity and half its carbon free energy. the u. s. administration hopes the new funding will avert new closures. john henderson, al jazeera, byron, illinois, britain is prime minister is facing cause to apologize for a colonial era massacre on its visit to india. for us, johnson arrived in good drug as the city mall to centuries since more than 1000 people were killed during protest against imperial rule. johnson visited the home of indian independence they did, mahatma gandhi, he's on a 2 day visit and is expected to announce new investment deals with more than $1000000000.00. he will meet his indian counts upon the range remotely in the

capital new delhi on friday. let's bring in out of his head of the history department at university joint live now from matt about our and so let's talk about this apology or calls for an apology likely to get when do you think from birth johnson? mr. bought in the united kingdom has applied for the delay while we did the place in 99 days. i had got a letter by the better than it is fine, but wanted to call themselves busy for the filling up. you know, since the end of the street, i have to say what i want to be able to have that money, but it is evident that the humanity liberality and your money. we're open. no one,

no one can well. but as for by surprising him and by noon i only at a better lied about it. but i have to say something more about this . i got it but not only in yes, but in the video i am living in the us and then those funds to us in the. 1 place one was 959. and so both my god was high and then again the 1st one was on the 7th in november 19, her face was taken place in the month of the month the ad. so on the bottom of my son can i just just jump in there for

a 2nd because just curious about their injury. modi's position on this briefly, if you would because he said the independence struggle is, is a vital part of indian identity. a little bit is that? yeah, just what the render modi's position is about this the calls for an apology from bars. johnson ok. yesterday, we get the whole year by the button that of the, with the dot and device and then the list more about the policy and set that appraisal based on it and know all the deal with it. all right, we'll leave it that thanks very much down to forget that from the university. but

but while bars, johnson is in india, back in the u. k. british mph are expected to vote whether he misled parliament over his rule breaking. during the credit of ours lockdown, johnson has come under intense pressure of being fined by police for holding parties at donny street at the heights of the pandemic. if enough, m. p 's vote in favor. the matter will be referred to parliament privileges committee. that's jennifer jones live now from london. jenna told us more about what's happening today and how important is all this well, the problem is devoris johnson is of course in india, as you were reporting there and from india. indeed, he has issued essentially an extraordinary government. you turn, the government had sought on wednesday night to table and amendment that would have new to this whole vote. taken this thing entirely out of it. they've now said they won't table their amendment. mister johnson saying he invites all scrutiny necessary into these of these events. the parties in downing street during co

lockdown, and indeed his own behavior. so we are back to the motion that was tabled by the opposition labor party. earlier this week, a motion that seeks to trigger an investigation into whether the prime minister lived, misled parliament when he said in december that no rules had been broken. in respect of these parties, alleged parties during covert lockdown being investigated by the metropolitan police. remember he's now received defined for participating in one of those events, he may well receive to even 3 more fines as that the investigation goes on. now, there wasn't an immediate prospect. it seemed all the government losing this boat. they have an atc majority of course, but there is the prospect a growing prospect now of a potentially fairly sizeable rebellion among conservative party em fees with local elections coming up next month. who don't want to be seen on the doorstep by voters just having failed to stand up to a, to stand up against what mr. borders. 2 bodies stokes and has been found to have

done. it is possible that the numbers could be fairly tight. and remember, this is an investigation by the privileges committee of part of it that would have the power to look at all the evidence that the police have been looking at in making that determination, including hundreds of photographs which could be potentially very damaging to boris johnson. and if he is found by this committee, if an investigation goes ahead to have misled parliament that could precipitate his resignation. all right, we'll see how it pans out later. jennifer b, thanks very much. hong kong is eating some of it's coded, 90 restrictions for the 1st time in 4 months. many schools are resuming in person classes. jim's animals and other public facilities are reopening on thursday. thoughts, as adrian brown reports, many say it's too late for some businesses. so many of the bars and restaurants in this once busy entertainment district of lang, quite phung, the partial relax station of coby restrictions has come to late. one trade group

estimates the by the end of april 2 and a half 1000 restaurants across the territory would have shot permanently for more than a 100 days, dine as couldn't be served up to 6 pm. and no more than 2 people were allowed to table. this steak house though remains open. the owner frustrated with a government's cobit strategy. it's not the policy itself. it's the lack of clarity . if the confusion and chaos, the flip flopping, that's been quite a bit of frustrating foss, even if there's a spike in the number of cases. i hope the attitude is that we have to live with this now. from thursday, his restaurant can stay open until 10 pm with up to full dinah's the table. the government has been providing financial support to businesses, including hymns. but the owner of this one was it won't survive another locked down, load on cash or thought, well, i think it will be difficult for us to survive with the existing cash flow. if

there is a new way of kind of 19, our cash flow has a limit. most of the small and medium enterprise is like not recovered from the 5th wave. hong kong standing, as asia's premier financial center was already under pressure before the 5th wave. the european chamber of commerce says that up to half its members, considering leaving hong kong in part because of its tough corona virus restrictions. one expert though doubt, settle, go through with it. if you think that if market could come back and they are considering the thing, i probably offer some due diligence. they realize that, you know, hong kong remains to be a vibrant financial center. pumpkins, airport was ones asia's busiest. it's now it required a monday no flights arrived from outside asia, airlines, a band for a week if 3 or more passengers test positive recovered from the same flight. and everyone entering the territory. miss quarantine for a week in

a hotel. many other countries in asia, including singapore and south korea, have opened their borders to fully vaccinated travelers who no longer need to quarantine. that in turn, is helping their economies to grow again. but hong kong like mainland china is sticking doggedly to what he calls a dynamic 0 infection strategy. that means eliminating the virus rather than learning to live with it. it's a strategy that many economists warn, could damage hong kong, economic future. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong. a wildfire has displaced thousands of people in the u. s. state of arizona. official say 97000 hector's abuse scorched in the northern county of cook, or nina, a dry conditions and making things worse. cateel episode ian as this hovering in the shadows of an arizona state wildfire, these homes are dangerously close to a fast moving blaze. it's called the tunnel fire,

and already it's forced thousands of people near the city of flagstaff to flee. dozens of buildings had been destroyed and fire fighters say hundreds of homes could face a similar fate. city leaders are urging people to leave the area and to take their animals with them. i think with the flames as high as 30 meters pushed to fire over a major highway at one point. the place nearly tripled in size, fueled by dry conditions and a wind gusts of nearly 50 kilometers an hour. like other southwestern us states hit by extreme weather, arizona's, facing an early star to its well fire season firefighters worn dry grass and low humidity could make the fire grow both in size and intensity. katya lucas of the young al jazeera, still ahead here and al jazeera got sports friday. freeman pause,

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ah . oh, lou. ah, let's hear this boy is peter nick. thank you very much. was all at some news breaking it lost our manchester united have announced the appointment of eric in our g as the clubs do manager. the dutchman will leave his job as i x coach at the end of the season. said hog has signed a 3 year contract at old trafford with the option to extend for a further year,

ralph rang, nick has been in charge of united the season on an interim basis match the 30 manager pip. guardiola says he and his team know they cannot afford a slip up in any of their remaining prem, any games this season if they want to be champions again, they move back above livable to the top of the table with 3 low when of a bright and on wednesday go so maria martin's full photon and canada solver restore bay one pointed bondage in the title race. both man said he had love, we'll have 6 matches deficit to play music. one of the best sites in all e football history. we're facing one of the best teams ever have everything so that why be in there with them in salad after winning winning winning permalinks in the past. so and the player knows it arsenal have given their hopes of qualifying to thank champions league football next season. a massive boost the gunners

b chelsea for 2 at stanford bridge, eddie and katie asked flooring twice, also on our level on points with for places haflin health carrying benjamin must to penalties and rail madrid's match at also sooner but didn't prove costly. row 131 to take a 17 point lead at the top of the spanish league. lucas vasquez rounded off the victory in stoppage time. 4 points from the last 5 games will secure a record 55th spanish title. on it again, it remains comfortable to fall paris sanjay man at the top of the french league. they are still 15 points, clear killing, and bob a set them on their way to a 3 know when adds on g on wednesday with he's 33rd goal of the season. would you believe? and the scoring was completed late on through p s g captain martinos event. her say i have given themselves hope of some silverware in what's been

a disappointing season. they will face in some alarm in the final of the copper italia of the scene of fiorentino in the semi finals. federico bernard this skis, great strike, set them on the way to eternal victory on wednesday, the final takes place and the 11th of may. let's go from football to basketball mount and a dramatic overtime. when for the philadelphia 70 sixes has put the team on the verge of the 2nd round of the m. b a. playoffs. a buzzer beating 3 pointer from star man joe m bead snatched victory over the toronto raptors on wednesday. the forward top score with 33 points in the 100 for 101 when in game 3. the 70 sixes lead the best of 7 series 3. now i'm, you know, come in to toronto's, daphne gone, good burger are in or for quite some time. so i want to come out and you know,

just, you know, that the game come to me are and her body far great are but the job is not done. ah, you know, we got to go one more elsewhere on wednesday, 22 boys from jane and brown health, the boston celtics open up a to no series lead in brooklyn. next it finished 14107 to the 2nd seeds brooklyn have home advantage in the next game on saturday. man, the chicago bulls of level their series with milwaukee de mer to rosen was the star man with $41.00 points. as the box went down and home, 114110, the next 2 matches in c game is on friday. no matter what you did and in a regular season, you know, 6 grand star random. i said, you know, you can see it in an olive garden no matter the last 20 times to those guys. you

notice? no, absolutely. let's go out there and compete. and now we got to take advantage of a major league baseball. freddy freeman has handed out more pain to its former team, the atlanta braves. he struck a 2 run homer to help the la dodgers to victory for the 2nd time in the 3 game series, against the defending rooters champions, dodge is taking a 51. freeman play for the great for 11 seasons before. do you see the $163000000.00 deal last ukrainian tennis toiling us with alina says, russian and bell, russian players who speak out against the invasion of a country should be allowed to compete at wimbledon. she was critical of the decision by the all england helped to put the band in place for the 2022 championships, which the sports governing bodies also described as unfair. felina said, if they speak out against the russian government, then they are with the rest of the world and its fate, they should be allowed to companies. meanwhile, women's world number one, egos, freon tech, has continued her impressive run of form. the polish player has won her 20th

consecutive match of the season. she antic dominating germany's ever lease in straight sets. stuttgart and computer fun. there was a slice of history for her seen of a fi at the world's nuka championships in sheffield, england. on wednesday, he became the 50 rainy and player to compete in the prestigious tournament at the crucible. verify a trails former world champion judd, trump 6 games, the 3 after that 1st session. that will leave the sports news and i'll be are again a little bit later with another update. nick, peter, we shall look forward to that see a little bit later. don't forget our website out 0 dot com is the address. all the news with covering is right there. at pleasure comment in analysis to a diary will be here in a couple of minutes. we'll have a half hour of news. we're from mean o'clock in the rest of the news out to you. it is by no ah,

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