ah, no matter where it takes us, absolutely, a fantasy again with my eyes and power and passion. we tell your stories. we are your voice, your news, your net al jazeera, ah, frauds chooses, it's next president vouchers are decided between incumbent and men. one micron far right? candidate marilla pen. ah, i'm the clock. this is out 0 life. doha also coming up ukraine's president renews his call for more powerful weapons, as he says, the top us diplomats and defense chief, a jew in keith. but washington has not confirmed this. your crystal was shock. symbol is really believed easter symbolizes the greatest victory of life over death

. the president zelinski urges unity resilience is orthodox, easter, as observed in ukraine and russia. driving home that discontent, about high taxes fed up farmers intelligent in a ride all the way to the presidential palace. so we begin in france where voting in the presidential run off has mostly ended across much of the country. holes will stay open for another hour in the large cities so far turn up slightly down on the 2017 election. in coming to manuel macaroni is aiming for 2nd 5 year term. marine le pen leader of the national roddy party, is trying to unseat him. natasha butler joins me live now from paris and anna natasha beginning, early indications soon. yes, in about an hour's time, we should get the 1st estimated results, which will give

a clearer idea as to who will end up in the li say later this evening. who will be the next presenter? frogs has been a campaign really dominated by a number of key issues. people's concerns over the rising cost of living. people also concerned by immigration and of course, the war in ukraine, the this war in the heart of europe. i'd like to bring in now a guest atanya, russia. she joins me from the university of paris. a sack lay. she is a specialist in the european union. thank you very much for joining us in de tanya . ah, when it comes to the e. u, we have 2 candidates with 2 very different positions. tell us a bit about them between a menu macro and marine the pen. yet cindy dev, a very different position, a manual mac hoya we'll know is a big supporter of the european union, a process currently you present of the conceal of the european union. so it means that the emanuel mccoy really supports a lot of you. questions and mothers as mary lou been on the opposite of for

a lot of people, she wants to exit the your opinion, which is not really what she's saying. no, because she has a different her a speech. she changed her speech about that, and it's interesting because it makes also a speech more realistic because it's complicated to exit the u as we saw with the u . k. and now she won se ally alliance of the european nations. and the idea is actually to continue to have an union of european countries, but countries that do support different values, not those that are now in the core of or in the you and those values should be more conservative. so in that i and switch her anger e r a pull in for instance. so the view there are very different and also about the c h r d a you've been convention of human rights for my in depends the complicate mother and the menu in michael wants to defend the europe of human rights as well.

what about the issue of asylum seekers of refugees? we've seen, of course, so many refugees are leave ukraine recently because of the war there. go to other countries within the european union. where do the 2 candidates stand on those issues? well, they have more common points on those issues. of course, specifically on ukraine. they agree about the fact to welcome those who need to flee ukraine. but they also re about the fact, for instance, that the deportation is not efficient enough in process that they'd should change the rules fully. menu mcclure, the idea is to make the judge of a dilemma directly, the one that decides the dissertation for her main append. or she wants to avoid assume secret come into false. and she wants them to ask for islam in the embassy or a concert french consulate. both her propositions are not legally oh, she said, they're complicated, legally. so, but that's a common point. i really want to make the petition more efficient. all right,

thank you very much. indeed, at any rush for bringing us up to date there with the you and the 2 candidates position on our refugees asylum seekers. of course, there had been so many issues, as i said in the selection, people still have about an hour left to vote here in france to pick the candidate that they want. of course we know though there's so many people have decided not to go out and vote at least a quarter of eligible voters have decided not to cost ballad. we'll have to see how that plays out on the results. natasha volkswagen touch about about in parish. thank you. ukraine's president is appealing to allies for more powerful weapons and vladimir zalinski says the u. s. secretaries of state and defense are expected in keep within hours to discuss the need. the white house has not confirmed the visit to lensky will. so again called from meeting with vladimir putin to stop the war. despite saying he doesn't trust the russian leader,

he's warned that the talks will not happen if ukrainian soldiers defending the besieged city of mariposa or killed the grain at law. we're principal appeal to all leaders. we are not a country of tragic selfies. we have a real war, so come to us. we will be happy to meet you, but please bring the help we've asked for on unless i do not consider the option that our partners will not give us the weapons, they promise. i do not consider this option at all. they have no alternative. we will not provide them with this opportunity. we have no other chance to win back our land and say not from charles stratford, who has more from the frontline city of slo vianza in east in ukraine. on some of the desperate journeys, many civilians have been taken. the town of lee man, which is about 20 kilometers and also had a town that we were literally unable to get to today because the shilling was so heavy, we didn't have to speak to civilians coming out of it. they yeah, confirming what we could hear saying that they were families sheltering in bunkers

. we smoked one person described a crater in the central town that was believed to be changed from an as strike. we cannot confirm that. and just as indication of the difficulties that people are facing here is this, as this will continues, there was a young family that will actually trying to get into lehman. at one stage we said, well, where are you going? can you hear the shelling? and they said, well, we have no choice, our home is there and we cannot afford to live in denise pro, and that's where they fled to. they played that every once before and now they were going into it. just as it seems, russian forces are making a concerted effort to push towards the city of soviet square. we are now in other areas. we also know is ongoing fighting south east appear in a town called pop santa, which we understand is half controlled by the russian rules is heavily contested. and as i say, is an indication of the russian army trying to surround savanski here as sofa so

far, at least the ukrainians, ukrainian forces seem to be keeping. keeping them back when you current president vladimir lensky, his call for unity and resilience during an address market. orthodox easter sunday celebrations were subdued. church leaders asked, not together too many people together, the case, it became a target and accept brian has this. he has an order to sell over the niece in the shadow of war, ukraine's president turned to a building signifying peace caves, 1000 year old, faint for fear cathedral, the setting for his latest video message mocking orthodox easter sunday was christina crystal. this symbol is we believe easter symbolizes greatest victory of life over death. each of us is asking god, only one thing. every one says the same words, the words of a great and united prayer. great lord, the save you crane. oh, sunday also marks 2 months since russian forces invaded ukrainian authorities urged

those celebrating the christian festival to follow services on line. but some still made their way to church for easter blessings. oh, this is boucher outside cave. a town that seen some of the worst violence of this conflict in other parts of the country artillery fire could be heard as easter services were held. ukraine had joined the you in and pushing for an east, a truce, but with no success is soon to see it. if you ever, the sun is shining and the sky is clear, but there is no peace in my soul. i very, very much once ukraine to have liberty love and hope or years that the book is so others in the eastern city of separation were too nervous to stay for math. 3rd one as a whole of so we didn't enter the church. we did everything quickly. we received our blessings from the priest and we are now on our way home. the conflict has

divided the orthodox church. the russian patriarch and ally of president vladimir putin. his throne, his support behind the war, and used his sermons to justify it. that's angered church ladies in ukraine and others across the orthodox faith, its spiritual leader has pushed for an end to the fighting, calling it an indescribable human tragedy. russia's annexation of crimea led to a part of ukraine's clergy splitting from the moscow led branch in 2018. there. a fee, as the war could further rupture. the why the church president followed me as a lensky urged ukrainians not to let anger overwhelm them. vilegas, how does a wooden today's great holiday gives us the great hope and belief that light will win over darkness? good will win over evil. life will win over data a little. therefore ukraine will win. inevitably ga, mailed to me, ah,

a prayer for peace and hope heard and felt across ukraine. alixia brian al jazeera still ahead here now the 0, the international monetary fund warns of what it calls a massive set back to the global economy. why severe floods in south africa are reviving concerns at neighboring countries on doing enough to combat climate change . ah now it's never very wet in the raving peninsula. so to see this amount of cloud around the right thing working on. this is really approaching summer. we shouldn't be seeing that much rain this quite a few shares in the forecast route, saudi arabia, stretching down to the mountain westerns on the yemen, but also may be less typically the eastern side of saudi towards blackraven cutter

. certainly iran and rock, i mean this is a good spread of potential showers or thunderstorms. nothing too heavy. i don't think mixed in with it while the hazy atmosphere, a dusty atmosphere with winds very in direction is possible. as on tuesday, a shower actually builds over doha unusual event, but generally speaking, we will see temperatures in the high twenties or thirties, and things will settle down to iran's forecast looks a bit more typical. 25 degrees, little wind, and either rain or sunstone. so next couple of days, that's fine, that's what you might expect. a quick look though at sea still while the wet conditions you just briefly saw jasmine, the name site for him, become unnamed during monday of open water. so as we can tell, it will produce yet more flooding on the eastern side of mozambique, and then it might make landfall as a tropical lo, western madagascar was right in the eastern case of south africa nest. 14. but that too is clearing away with

frank assessments. what are the political risks of banning russian oil? a gas for western leaders, pull sanctions on russian energy exports was informed opinions. he's not abandoning to fight against yet. he still is a media debt. going to be acting from nisha and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. ah, hello again. you're watching al jazeera reminder about top stories this. our

impulse have not closed in large parts of france. both contenders for the french presidency have voted along with millions of best pulses as he bids for a 2nd term. president mental macro cost hispanic ballot, and the to k for right change every depend caused her by the to know prompts as well. a voter turnout by 5 pm was just davis 63 percent. that is cheap points less than 5 years ago. the cranes president is asking our lives for more weapons ahead of him meeting the top us officials modem. as lensky says, a u. s. secretaries of state of defense are expected and keep on sunday. for washington is not confirmed. ami commanded in molly say at least 6 soldiers have been killed in 3 separate attacks. 20 security force personnel were injured as unidentified gunman, targeted military bases with bombed laden vehicles. molly has been repeatedly attacked since a fight is linked to al qaeda sees territory in the north 10 years ago. as similar attack happened around the same time,

neighboring burkina faso 5 soldiers were among 10 people killed when an armed group attacked and military unit nigeria presidents as a nation, is in shock, the killing of at least 100 people at an illegal oil refinery. officials in i'm a state said the explosion on saturday night. good victims beyond recognition. the illegal tapping of oil pipelines is common in southern nigeria, where the high unemployment still isn't buys in the capital of buddha and says the death toll is likely to rise from persons who were bonds. guarantees hadn't been taken to hospitals and then some family members took away some of those whose body to recognize for, for burial. this incident happened 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 states, which is named us or capital happening in

a place called or high g. a in the most states in south is major area and the area materials for legal refining of petroleum products. this has greatly over the years, been a problem for government officials because these illegal finding call centers have all come on does via, you know, i packed by government forces will try to rouse these operators from the locations, but they keep coming. not just in a most states, but all across the major area. and to some extent it has greatly affected nigeria production. over the years. at least 12 people have died and another 10 are missing . after 4 boats carrying 120 migrants in refugees sank, the answer is yes. the coast guard rescued, at least at $98.00 people off the coast. this fact, it's become a departure point for people seeking a better life in europe. security forces in lebanon have fired into the air to

disperse protests as angry at the sinking of a boat carrying migrants and refugees. stones were thrown at an army checkpoint, the northern city of tripoli, survivors and relatives of the victims say the liberties military deliberately rammed the vessel. the military have not commented. the child was among 6 people killed when the boat sank overnight. dozens of others were rescued. the coast guard in northern japan says 10 people are confirmed dead after a sightseeing boat went missing in bad weather. helicopters and patrol boats are continuing to search the coast of her cato island for the 16 others who were on board. the crew sent out a distress call on saturday, saying the boat was sinking high winds and waves have been reported. the water temperature hovers around 2 degrees. government safety inspectors are investigating the vessels owners beds outcry in shanghai after government workers built fences around homes, shops and restaurants. the latest locked down restrictions aimed at stumpy cobra. 1900 infections. 25000000 people in china's largest city have been ordered to stay

indoors for weeks. many say they're suffering from shortages of basic necessities. identity and farmers have bought roads in the capital in protests against export taxes on agricultural products. they have to pay levies of up to 33 percent on exports of soybeans in grains. but the worried that the government could raise them even higher. treasure by reports now from one is at us. an uncommon sight in the city of winder fridays, tractors from across the country, came to identify as capital to protest against the government of the families. and they live, travelled 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 forms, because small scale farmers end up renting their land to, to national corporations who can afford to bear the enormous tux birds. and we have

food prices are rising worldwide driven up by the war in ukraine. this has put argentinean producers on alert. farmers say taxes, export taxes, route and exchange rate controls hurting their capacity to produce and fear the government could increase taxes even more. thousands of people like company to farmers, to the center of the city, to protest against the administration of the medical firm. and they say they tired of the inflation rate. it was close to 7 percent last month. and they said every month, they're saying that the government has no economic plan and the grow chrissy and the restrictions implemented by the administration. 2 and are doing productive last march, the government increased export taxes. and so we been flower annoy, seeking to control local prices and stabilize the price of wheat to what it was before ukraine's conflict. it also says farmers are overreacting and there are no

plans to increase export taxes again, at least for now we'll get an o 2. i didn't see on it. we haven't increased export taxes under producers. so damn arching, just in case they're marching against the project. it on? no, i imagine the could happen. so we have no doubt this is a political demonstration that the has to do with our inches than defending the rights of the farmers looking basically, journalists like my be along on he say the situation in flames. already long running tensions between the government and the agricultural sector, gamble and the, or ethan ery. taylor as the farming sectors in a strange situation. because like most countries in the world where they produce more food than they consume does a chance to make profit. argentina has a surplus of food and it could export more grain. milken meat, butts, and argentina's case the bitter prices, dont always benefit the farmer was this was the constant trouble between producers and the government and that's why farmers vowed to continue with their demands. they say government assistance would help them to produce more,

something they say would benefit argentina's economy. and the whole world is i will as a seat at one site, is both the international monetary fund of the world bank group of rep for the past week to consider the global consequences of the war in ukraine. they've also been discussing what's called the debt distress of many low income countries. people world wide are grappling with rising prices and increasing shortages caused by the pandemic. and now the war and ukraine, vicky price is the chief economic adviser at the center for economics and business research. and she says global financial institutions were forecasting high inflation even before the war and nuclear. we had seen good prices on prices and freight charges for transporting anything from anywhere around the world going up very significantly. and that had been leading those people to downgrade the forecast anyway. so i was expected it would happen. but the interesting thing is it happened with a vengeance if you like, in the sense that they had to add to the impact of the warranty ukraine. and

additionally, of course, they did this huge uncertainty as to how long the one, the brain will last. and what will happen after it goes why the world bank has already analyses this $170000000000.00 support fund. that is a crisis fund which they had something quite similar during the cobra crisis. but they've got this one now, which is going to be some slowly building up over the next year or so for the poor countries, which are indeed going to fall into serious debt crashes. those countries that do not have the sort of luxury of being major, a food producers or food export, just they are the ones that are suffering quite significantly. so the world bank is worried that something like 60 percent of the countries are looking at are going to be falling into serious debt issues and they going to have to step in how long this will last is the real question. because on the food side, you know, once you see what is happening with 30 lies a cost going up, significantly, farmers are not going to use,

specializes as much as they would have done. otherwise they're not going to put down, you know, the crop. so they would have done otherwise. so the problems with security may last a lot longer than those for energy security. exit polls from slovenia, indicate that the opposition freedom movement party is on course a victory in parliamentary elections. the environmentalist party led by the renewable energy businessman robert globe is projected to get to nearly 36 percent of the vote. the right wing prime minister janese uncharged party is expected to secure server 22 percent support is been criticized for restricting media. freedom and civil liberties during the pandemic, whichever party wins will have to secure coalition partners to form a new government. devastating floods recently in south africa have highlighted concerns about climate change in whether neighboring countries are doing enough to combat the threat. millions of africans have suffered both floods and droughts in the last 6 months alone. miller miller has more now from johannesburg,

unimaginable 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 land slides. 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 is what government has done more. here in the township of alexandria and johanna, thousands of people live alongside riverbank 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. it would say countries like south africa, nice of old houses, rose and drainage 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 displays 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 life life. so i heard us, et cetera. and now with the. busy storms are that we have seen about 3 very are significant storms happening in causal will natal in the space of about 7 years. and who has suffered the most. it is really the poor and vulnerable who have one li, are dangerous places to put up their houses in. we are going to continue to see this framed happening are 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, the well famous carnival in rio de janeiro. it was back with a bang. how to the pandemic put

a stop to celebrations for 2 years. many see the return of potty time to the streets as a turning point after so much despair on a piano kiff as more ah, thousands of revelers and shimmering costumes are back in the sam bedroom where we're diginero holes. it's annual carnival parade dubbed at 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 dakota 19 pandemic struck brazil 2 years ago. what goes on to dodge merely, 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 imports were china. we will use to buy material for costumes. are the main thing this year is to fight against racial

discrimination in a country that has the largest black population outside of africa. 12 sambas schools are participating in this parade. 8 of them are singing about after a brazilian religions against racism, against intolerance, and in favor of brazilian black rhodes 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. somber schools paid tribute to their ancestry into dieties of afro brazilian religions who have come under attack by evans jellicoe gangs in recent years. more does god was gilbert, all the many of our temples were destroyed. religious intolerance is a crime and should be stopped. but the government has turned a blind dye because a political reasons. although the president, joy boston aro, has the support, leave our generals 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 real 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 like the pandemic pointed a finger at the social gap between rich and poor black and white it. but it also showed us that we are mortal because no matter our color,

our blood is the same and that we should be grateful for those who survive towards the thank you guy. what did, what he me international audience for this year's carnival was smaller at the themes, a social and racial discrimination have struck a chord with brazilians as they prepared to elect. when you president, in october, monica inactive al jazeera, we're dinero. ah, so this is al jazeera, these are the top stories and poles have now closed in large parts of france. both contenders for the next president of france have voted along with millions of our supporters as he bids for a 2nd term. president manuel macro caught his ballot inlet. okay. far right. challenge emory le pancoast, her palette, northern france as well. a voter turnout by 5 pm was just over 63 percent. 2 points lower than 5 years ago. natasha butler.