we said we need to take america to try to bring people together trying to deal with people who left behind the news voters in france. so choosing their next president incumbent to my new one, my con for right candidate marina pan, are confessing, oppose ah, watching. i'll just hear a life from a headquarters in delphi and jerry navigator also ahead. ukraine's president again called for a meeting with his russian counterpart, but worn talks are off if soldiers and variable are killed. ukraine says washington, top diplomat and defense chief are doing key is the war enters it's 3rd month. but

there's no confirmation from the biden administration. and argentina. capitol farmers have blocked roads to protest against export taxes on their crop. the voters in france are choosing their next president. balloting is underway right now. the 2nd and final round of the election holds open 2 hours ago. the electorate is choosing between incumbent to my word, my home on far right candidates marine the pen. let's bring in bernard smith, he's joining us lie from a voting station in northern paris to describe the choice that the french face, bernard, to let the 3 star choices that the french face today between the central pro european union incumbent and manual micron. the far right, you're a skeptic. marine pad both candidates offering very different visions for the way

they see france in the future. both comes, they sort of buying for the votes of the far left presidential candidate. the melons shown defeated in the 1st round just by one percentage point by marie le pen . those who voted for balance shot, he did not endorse micron. he just said, no vote should go to the far right. so those voters have to decide between the consequences of the presidency and the anger that under the manual rock of macaroni record since 2017 acronym self is one of civil war. at the far right when one of the pens, policies is binding, the way of women from when the muslim had scarf in public places. although the pan in the campaign is now, so that's not a priority. she has concentrated her campaign on the cost of living christ, many french like the rest will be in the pain of rising fuel prices. a low micron has kept those prices. he's also focused on the perceived abrasive ness of microphones. leadership turn out is going to be important if the easter holidays

has been a steady stream here this morning because people are all made on a holiday away from that traditional voting places may bring you turn out down a bit. we'll have a good idea by 8 pm, we'll know just after 8 pm local time, who will be the next president press. all right, thank you so much. bernard smith will be crossing back to you throughout the day. burnett's reporting from paris, the ukraine's president is again post for a meeting with one reputed to end the war despite saying he doesn't trust the russian leader. addressing journalists and achieve is metro station involved in residence. he covered a wide range of subjects. he also announced that the u. s. sector, state and defense secretary are to do to visit on sunday, or dr. hamid reports from the capital need to reach us some movie that the president vol. edema zalinski faced the world's pres from a makeshift platform constructed in one of keys metro stations. he said to one of

his priorities was the evacuation of people caught up in the siege of my you, paul. but that it was difficult to trust to russian money, yet he is not ordered. so show more we offered any format for the exchange of our people who are currently in this predicament in this terrible situation. you call it in the said lady encircling it was to buy and this should up serial number of the he warned that he would break off talks with russia if the remaining ukrainian troops in my you pulls as of stealth leaders planted nor killed me. he said sesna, carmen are killed in mary. a hole in the pseudo referendums are organized in the south. the blue then ukraine will withdraw from any negotiation process. she was little grandma. twice the president paused to make way for passing train. we hear from president zalinski on a daily basis, but this is the 1st large press conference since the beginning of the war,

and it's happening 70 meters underground and one of the major stages of cave. and actually when the capital was under threat, hundreds of people here seeking shelter. the president appeared, relaxed. he says he was grateful for the kind of weapons his country was receiving of late from the united states and western allies. but reminded people that without additional weapons, there would be no fight. should the v score is vocal wine in the so i do not consider the auction that our partners will not give us the weapons. they promise. i do not consider this option at all. they have no alternative to it. we will not provide them with this opportunity. we have no other chance to win back our landline. i hope that the bus zelinski also wondered about the upcoming visit of un secretary general. and tanya gutierrez, who is visiting moscow before coming to keep your drive home uncle was which out for you, i think it's a mistake to visit russia furry than ukraine robin. this is simply wrong,

him for what to hand over a message from russia. he but i mean, i know he asked by al jazeera, if he wanted to pursue people for war. cry was eve sickness, oklahoma, daniel green. i don't care whether it's in the hag or somewhere in ukraine's what matters is how many will be imprisoned, and for how long would it say smeeley women. and that is drunk performance from the ukranian president in a remarkable setting. g, a president dealing smoothly and efficiently with the international media, but also presidents the lensky, the realist, as ukraine faced more military actions saturday, including a missile strike on an apartment block in odessa, crucial that killed a 3 month old baby. put up that hamid al jazeera keith reports that with the flu. at least 8 people have been killed in those missile strikes on the southern port city of odessa, 18 others were injured. a military facility and to residential buildings were targeted. a senior ukrainian official says that that's all is expected to rise. al

jazeera is fatima ensued, as in odessa, near a residential tower that was hit, usually as late as shook. and elmer benny. we've just arrived in this neighbourhood in odessa. that's been hit with a cruise missile. this residential building was struck by at least one missile anyway. residents are being evacuated to smoke. please continue to fill the skies above us as a heavy presence of fire ambulance and rescue cruise on the scene, we're trying to examine the aftermath of the security measures here are very tied. earlier we saw for cruise missiles in the skies over a desa, the district military spokesman said the ukrainian defense is shot 2 of them down. we tried to get closer to the source of the smoke where the missile hit, but security personnel denied access. might not if we had to have a lot of us, what we do know so far is this residential area was hit. there is an overwhelming sense of panic. this fi crew came out of the building and he can see their faces smeared. they're heading back to the fire team, assembly point one. you can also mention president zalinski says the united states

top diploma is expected to travel to ukraine. anthony blinking is set to be joined by defense secretary lloyd austin. but the visit hasn't been confirmed. how did your caster has more from washington d. c? no surprise, the washington has said no comment. why is that not surprising? will it's typical that when a senior us official makes a visit to a war zone out of security reasons. typically, the public doesn't find out about it until during or sometimes, not even until after the visit has concluded. we know that this is going to be the 1st time that such high ranking us officials have visited ukraine since the beginning of the war. and it is going to be a very symbolic visit. we are having to secretary members who will be there in here on orthodox easter. and this is the secretary of state at the u. s. and the secretary of defense zelinski had said that he still wants to extend an invitation to us president joe biden. but despite you know,

the u. k prime minister being there in person despite other presidents having visited well the u. s. assessment is that it's still too dangerous to send by an artist and vice president common le harris. and so the visit of these to cabinet secretaries may be as close to a state visit as ukraine can get under the circles, under the current circumstances. in eastern ukraine, russian forces are trying to seize territory village by village across a wide frontline charles stratford reports from the citron. the soldiers said that had been allowing showing, so we drove into the sea chance slack heaps from one of the many coal mines and the don bass region skull. the skyline military vehicles drive down virtually empty streets. a splintered tree shows where a russian shell exploded. businesses bought it up or destroyed. the sign on the bunker door says children inside,

but even the children are no longer here. russian force easy to control or fighting for control of numerous nearby towns and villages. but as is often the case, there are always a few who refuse or conte fleet, the fighting said a gay and his wife would. miller have lived in lucy chance with their parents for more than 20 years. they pluck potatoes in the spring sunshine set of gay shows as his boarded, broken windows and the damage a shell landing near by did to his home. yes, i have no money. i. he'll live here for years. my wife has 2 strokes. where can i go without money except into slavery? our relatives have all flat, some to negro, some to leave for years and this shows just how much danger people who remain here in

life. dennis goes to the vehicle, been the very fool around on this coming. so we just drove in to lucy chance can as we were coming in through the outskirts shelling now that incoming shows lighting very close to building. there's very few civilians on the streets. the military side has been shutting this morning, but there had been a gap in that shutting and things have been caught. it certainly seems as if there is another escalation happening right now. later we will back into town using the high walls as cather locals tell us this home and business was hit the night before . russian forces won't control alyssa chance they have failed so far. down a back street, we find 89 year old fyodor your coach archer. oh yes yes. why should i leave?

no hurry. i have no where to go. your dog and my wife has left if the war ends and i am still alive, she might come back because i dont know to blame for this. feared or stands at his gate as we leave said again and ludmilla continue working in their garden. the shelling is worse, they say at night, shall stop it al jazeera lucy chanced. eastern ukraine still had on al jazeera, severe floods in south africa, reignite concerns that countries in the wider region aren't doing enough to combat climate change. the journey has begun. the fee for world cup is on its way to qatar. hook your travel package today. what today's weather in space be much better than yesterday. so i think madrid briefly popped into double figures for about 20 minutes is

because all the storm systems now going through iberia and through for out of the middle of europe. which means to the south. yes. often disappointing to the north. those been settled, quite windy, actually windy dry and not especially cold, for the most part, dry enough as any other country to spark every now and again, a fire wildfire not a big one, but it was all the same in southern england. and these dry winds of still blowing, but you know, the temperatures are in double figures here. even in the north of finland. however, rain is in the continental plane is moved away from spain now. so you've got an improvement in portugal in spain. it's concentrating now in italy with snow in between, over the alps and the rain spreading into a rather cold germany and poland. only justin's double figures here. that last into monday, the some slow improvement. i think you could argue the south coast of france, but otherwise, yeah, cloudy and wet for many, but it's spring. now in north africa,

things are drive you might expect we should be seeing big shower did. there are warnings of big thunderstorms today in garner. they are creepy, up into this a hell, where it is still very hot. cats are official and line of the journey. from talk to al jazeera, we are. what is the time table in your mind? when do you think that you can be off of russian gas? we listen when i have seen and played football with these refugee, i look at them and they're having a smiling. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera from the for villas of correct us. so the battle fields around most of our job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. ah,

the me. hello again to help on algae 0, voters in france are choosing their next president, my new my call facing a reelection challenge from marina pen. on the far right, among the main concerns for voters is the war in ukraine and the rising cost of living ukraine's president. his again called for a meeting with my person to end the war, follow the rest the lunch. he says the us sector, stay down, defense are expected and keep on sunday. but there's been no confirmation from washington. miss, all strikes on the southern ukrainian portico just have killed at least 8 people. a military facility and to residential buildings were targeted. 18 people were injured in that attack. the 1st commercial flight from yemen in 6 years has been postponed. the flight to jordan did not receive the operating permits. that meant it couldn't take off from some international airport. the em,

any government blamed who the rebels for shutting all the points selling tickets. they added that the whole, the then only gave to cars to people they had issued passports to. at least 12 people have died and another 10 are missing. after 4 boats carrying 120 migrants on refugees sank near to the coast guard rescued. at least 98 people off the coast of fox. it's become a departure point for people seeking a better life in europe. also off the lebanese coast, at least 8 people, including a young girl who died when a boat carrying 60 migrants on refugee's capsized vessel got into trouble shortly after leaving the northern coastal tunnel column. near tripoli, at least 47 people have been rescued. the democratic republic of congo has confirmed the new outbreak of the bowl. a virus. one case has been found in a town in the northwest. the world health organization has a vaccination campaign will begin within days. the rare and severe virus causes fever and bleeding,

and it's transmitted from wild animals and is often fatal people. incentive go have been protesting against poor conditions and hospitals, especially for pregnant women. they've been prompted by the death of a woman who was 9 months pregnant as to so cannot and her baby died after she was refused. this is very infection out of public hospital. health workers also went on strike earlier this week, late some that do not v o don't women lose their lives during childbirth every day in santa goals help institutions look the case of us do so now who lost your life as a result of medical negligence is illustrative of the long list of tragedies experienced by patients in senegal and pregnant women in particular. more than 100 people had been killed in southern jury after an explosion at an illegal oil refinery. it happened overnight in river state. the minister for petroleum says some people were burned beyond recognition. unemployment is high in the south and the illegal

tapping of oil pipelines has become a common source of income. fidelis and bonds in the capital. boucher says the debt all is likely to rise. some persons who wear bonds guarantee use it and have been taken to hospitals and then some family members took away some of those whose body to recognize for for burial. this incident happen friday night into saturday morning because most of the legal refining of products happen overnight and that area is actually just on the boundary with reverse it, which is named us or capital. you have a place called or high g, a. in the most states in south is major area and the area of materials for legal refining of petroleum products. this has greatly over the years, been a problem for government officials because these illegal to finding out centers

have come on. does via, you know, i packed by government forces will try to rouse these preferred from the locations, but to keep coming. not just in the most states, but all across the nigeria. and to some extent it has greatly affected major production over the years. one person has been killed and 4 people injured and fighting between rival armed groups in libya. it happened in and so we're west of tripoli. a security source of the fighting was between factions from the ministry of defense and the ministry of inferior. libya currently has 2 different prime ministers and various other rival groups who are trying to take control of the country rescuer and to found 9 people thought to be from a tor boat missing in frigid waters off the northern coast of japan. there are still searching for the 17 others on board the vessel which disappeared off. okay, 2 island on saturday. the coast guard has most of those were found unconscious and they were taken to hospital. the crew had sent out a distress call,

saying the boat was thinking the transport ministries investigating the operator over its safety standards. or continued farmers of blocked roads in the capital in protest against export taxes on agricultural products. they have to pay levies of up to 33 percent on exports of soybeans and grains. but they're worried that the governments could raise them even higher. terrorism reports from bonus i reach and then come on site in the city of winder friday's directors from across the country came to i didn't t s capital to protest against the government of the firm and less. and the me less traveled from the province of santa fe, he explained why he and others like him are at risk of whatever we cannot produce. like this. all of us end up renting or forums because small scale farmers end up renting their long term national corporations who can afford to bear the enormous tax bridge and we have food prices are rising worldwide driven up by the war in

ukraine. this has put argentina, producers on alert. farmers say taxes, export taxes, crowd an exchange rate controlled, hurting their capacity to produce and fear the government could increase taxes even more thousands of people, our company, the farmers, to the center of the city, to protest against the administration of medical firm. and they say they tired of the inflation rate, it was close to 7 percent last month, end of the day, every month, they're saying that the government has no economic plan and the rock receipt and the restrictions implemented by the administration hurting and productive last march. the government increased export taxes on so we been flour, annoy, seeking to control local prices and tablets, the price of wheat to what it was before ukraine's conflict. you don't to face

farmers are over reacting and there are no plans to increase export taxes. again, at least for now or less than c on it, we have an increased export boxes on the producer. so they are marching just in case they're marching against a project at all, no or imagined or could happen. so we have no doubt this is a political demonstration, but it has to do with of interest. and then defendant device of the farmers journalists like might be long gone. he say the situation in flames already long running tensions between the government and the agriculture sector. and what have you as the farming sectors in a strange situation because like most countries in the world where they produce more food than they consume is a chance to make profit. and argentina has a suit of food and it could export more grain, milk and meat box. and, and tina's case a bit of prices don't always benefit pharma, the constant trouble between producers and the government. and that's why farmers vowed to continue with their demand leafy government would help them could use more,

something they say would benefit argentina's economy. and the whole world will just see that when environmental groups in southern africa say there is renewed concern that many countries in the region are doing enough to combat climate change. extreme weather conditions from floods to drought have hit millions of people in the last 6 months. alone and recent floods in south africa cause we're going to talk province, have highlighted the issue from similar reports from johannesburg. on the imaginable destruction homes and lives destroyed or lost as floods ravaged parts of quizlet natal province in recent weeks. and in the aftermath, beaches and streets lined with debris and pollution. at least 443 people were killed in the floods described as the worst in 60 years. when 2 months worth of rain fell in just 48 hours, closing mud and lance lines. we need to increase our investment in climate

adaptation measures to better they've got communities against the effects of climate change. the government is calling such natural disasters the new normal, attributing it mostly to climate change, but environment experts say the devastation may not have been as bad if the government has done more. here in the township of alexandria and johanna, thousands of people live alongside riverbank from flood prone areas. while there have been local and global pledges, who would use the effects of pharma change? many of those promises have not been kept. experts say countries like south africa, nice of old houses, road and drainage and phone system to accept the climate change and keep people safe. experts say africa's west indian ocean region is vulnerable to extreme weather shocks. parts of madagascar recently been hit by intense tropical psych

loans. while south east of the island drought has decimated crops, killed animals, and displaced thousands of people. closing widespread food shortages, drought has to ravaged parts of zambia, zimbabwe and south africa. in fountain, madagascar, for example, you have 1.5 to 2000000 people who suffered acute hunger because of drought issues. you have ah, or what a 1000000 carcasses are from lice life soak, heard us, et cetera. and now, with the storms are that we have seen about 3 very significant storms happening in causal natal in the space of about 7 years. and who has suffered the most. it is really the poor and vulnerable who have only a dangerous places to put up their houses in. we are going to continue to see this

framed happening all across the african continent. it's estimated it will cost billions of dollars to fix the damage caused by the latest gliding in south africa and environmental groups. a severe weather has killed half a 1000000 people in southern africa. in the last 6 months alone. for me to mila al jazeera johannesburg, south africa, thousands of dancers, drummers and revelers are making the return of brazil's world famous carnival. for many, it's a turning point for the country. after the pandemic put a stop to celebrations. for 2 years, monica, anna kev reports from rio de janeiro. ah, thousands of revelers and shimmering costumes are back in the sam bedroom where we're diginero holes. it's annual carnival parade dubbed the world's largest st festivity. but this year's grand u spectacle is anything but typical. oh, it's being held in april,

2 months after carnival season. and it's the 1st since the coven 19 pandemic struck brazil 2 years ago. what are those on the dodge, amelia? we come from 2 years of hardship and loss. many of our dances and sing has died in the pandemic which killed 660000 people in brazil. the world's 2nd largest death tow locked downs severely impacted, and ports were china. we will use supplied material for costumes. the main thing this year is to fight against racial discrimination in a country that has the largest black population outside of africa. well, sambas schools are participating in this parade. 8 of them are singing about afro brazilian religions against racism, against intolerance, and in favor of brazilian black roots and writes

sambo, composers started writing their songs in 2020, just as black lives matter. protesters took to the streets in the united states. many say it inspired them to make a political statement about brazil. english dogs in brazil like the united states, has a date with the descendants of african slaves its time. we correct this historical injustice. brazil is preparing itself for divisive presidential elections. blacks account for more than half of the country's population, but they still face exclusion discrimination and religious intolerance. sombre schools paid tribute to their ancestry into dieties of april brazilian religions who have come under attack by evan jellico gangs in recent years. more gosh, god was global, although many of our temples were destroyed. religious intolerance is a crime and should be stopped. but the government has turned a blind dive because a political reasons. although the president joy both noro has a,

supposedly evangelicals and bar, right groups who are threatened democracy and diversity. we have to fight for our freedom of faith compared to previous years when millions of people flooded the streets of rio to participate in carnival. the city was quite empty, but the parade still brought a much needed financial revenue to the somber schools. i hope you didn't, you don't, they la panoramic pointed a finger at the social gap between rich and poor black white. but it also showed us that we're mortal, because no matter our color, our blood is the same and that we should be grateful for those who survived. good guy, what did, what do you mean? international audience for this years carnival was smaller. but the themes of social and racial discrimination have struck a chord with brazilians as they prepared to elect. when you, president, in october, monica inactive, al jazeera, rio de janeiro. and then sport tyson fury has retained his

w. b. c. world heavyweight boxing title. he knocked out fellow brit dylan white on in the 6th round of their fight in front of 94000 fans at wembley stadium in london, furious unbeaten in his 33 ro fights. and after the, when the box are known as gypsy kings suggested that he will retire ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera voting is underway and france right now. and the 2nd and final round of the presidential election voters are choosing between the incumbent in money. one my call and challenger marine le pen. bernard smith has more from paris. it's a stock choice that the french face today between the centrist pro european union incumbent and manual micron fall right. your skeptic.