a ah victory for manuel mackerel makes him the 1st french president to be re elected in 20 years. that he's promising change while is defeated fall right campaigner, a challenger that marina penn says she'll carry on and focus on moving parliamentary elections. ah, hello robin, what you all of their life? my headquarters here with hall coming up in the next 30 minutes. i would like to look at in slovenia. newcomer robert globe defeats 3 time prime minister yachts, yachts, and as russians and ukrainian mark he's to sunday,

we'll look at how the conflict is dividing the orthodox christian church. of to the very i'm french president manuel, my call has been reelected comfortably beating far right challenge at math in the pen, but he's acknowledged a satisfaction with his 1st term and the pen says her strong performance puts her in a good position upcoming parliamentary elections. so let's take a look at the numbers with almost all of the votes counted. now, micro has an estimated 58.5 percent in presidential run off lead. while le pen, who is leader of the national rally party, has 41.45 percent. but it's me has more from paris and manual micron gamble that a short but intense election campaign would be enough. it was his comfortable margin of victory over marina pan. give him a 2nd term of the lease a palace,

only 2 presidents before him of manage that in his victory speech micron promised that his next 5 year term would be different. so it's a new vendor. so this new era will not be a continuity of the 5 previous years. but the collected invention of a revised method 5, better years for our country and all use they support is this is a win that endorse is what they believe is their country's role at the heart of the european union marcus, you sent them. i am very happy up to the last minute i thought i would have fainted . you never know in life anything can happen. rosy lips was ready to get up to day extensions were significant that emanuel macaroni did a good job in the 1st years of his mandate, and he deserves to lead france again. marine le pen gave the far right the highest share of the vote in a french election, but her part to the presidency was blocked again by a republican front. in other words, many voters who supported other candidates in the 1st round voted this time to keep le pen out and seen it,

but to death is with biscuit. the game is not over since in 3 weeks time. we will have the legislative elections that, as we know, are a distortion of the political trend and create a risk of a manual macro. concentrating all executive and legislative powers. john lew, melanie shown the far left presidential candidate, took just one percent less of the vote than the pen in the 1st round. he wants his party, francis bowed to enough support in the legislative elections. the macro is forced to appoint him prime minister. would yet do sure to all of you, i say, do not resign yourself. on the contrary, go candidly and completely into the action. democracy could once again give us the means to change direction. the war in ukraine and the rising cost of living were main concerns for french voters. both issues will likely dominate the start of macro on the 2nd. that probably won't be much of a grace period for the president on the left with many of them and voted for him,

reluctant to raise the retirement, easy to hire and fire workers reform on employment benefit program. the 1st just put in to get out there because her butler has been following developments in paris. one of my new micros, one the selection, but he's going to have to go some way to win a lot of people's trust. in his victory speech, he sang to supportive, but he also acknowledge the fact that many people in france had voted fame. not because they support him or his policies, but because they wanted to block marine the pay and his rival the far right leader, because they will simply see a far right presence as to devices as too destructive for fraud. that is why it might micro said that he would owe those people a debt over the next 5 years. many of those who did vote for him in that way were on the left. they were left wing vs. i think that is why we heard micro talking

about issues such as climate change in some social issues that he would put, he said at the heart of his presidency for the next 5 years to come in terms of marine the pen. well, she lost this election, it was a 3rd short of the lease a nevertheless, she is putting a very positive spin on it. she is calling it a victory. she says that it shows that there is for ranging white support for her fall right agenda. she will do now as well as macro and the other presidential candidates the were in this race is very much focused on those parliamentary elections in june. the chairman of british leaders, i congratulated micro l. a show says friends, made a strong commitment to europe, and he's pleased to be able to continue to cooperate while boss johnson said france as one of the case closest, the most important allies and he looks forward to continuing to work together. laura committee is a power space political jen, as she says, half a french voters don't walk microns when a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections. almost 42 percent of people who

voted for him today voted for him in order to to, to reject. it's minor. ben and he, michael himself, a knowledge that hens victory exempted exit and speech. so it's true that a big challenge for him will be, or how can he reconcile her, his party and his politics with all those voters who decided either not to vote or a vote for him. but out of rejection and fall might have been the parliamentary election or elections. sorry. are variable more important ones for france. and apparently, house of french voters would like michael not to win a majority in the assembly. how far fringe voters would like him to be forced, forced to appoint a prime minister from the opposition camp. so that shows how big the challenge is,

but it may or may call might, it might be a helped from some part of the right wing, traditional party led from the cow, maybe for the moderate wing of this party. because we've seen that tonight or many of a member of parliament and from liverpool, he can have shown showed there's a lot of in her medical. and they will probably arrange alliance or local alliances with president show party both over 30 protest by far left groups against michael's victory. right. we've moved in and used to gun students with powers. there were similar themes in the northwestern city of rome. mackerel centers, policies have attracted criticism from both far left and right wing groups. the french please have shot the 2 people in central paris that they were driving a car against the flow of traffic on the nerves. when the vehicle said towards the

offices, the security perimeter has now been set up at the scene. elections in civilian pat did have a shock and a new prime minister. the environmentalists party of political newcomers robert global won the most votes and he is expected to form a collision government the count so far as his party, about 34 percent vote compared 24 percent for the conservative slovenia democratic party globe. how to make his victory speech from isolation at home and to contract it contracting code 19. just butler bash is the civilian. is it misleading compet leanne? this was supposed to be a fight through between robert get up from freedom movement and prime minister rhianna found shot by robert go up one in a landslide. one of the reasons is that he has a lot of new orders who weren't went to the election before. on the other hand, pianist, the answer was criticized for suppress and neither for suppressing civil society

and organization. so civil society are going into the 3 selling people for 12. so the very high turn out is one of the key issue in the selection in 2018. there was a 53 percent walters coming out. now it's very close to 70 percent is we expect that the robert drop will form a government with other left and parties. on the other hand, yanna sasha will staying a position. he's a political veteran, he's. he will be waiting for his next chance. he was prime minister for 3 times and he couldn't do it the 4th time. so we are expecting that to fall a month will have less parties. it will be easier for rather go up to form a government that's just pivot toward the top story, now. ukrainian president laudermill lensky office,

says he'd be meeting the us secretary of state and defense late on sunday in keith . now, the visits still unconcerned by the american side would be the highest level face to face talks between the u. s. and ukraine's. it's russia's invasion. lensky is expected to ask entity, blink, and, and lloyd austin for more powerful weapons. well, ukraine is trying to repel russia's refocused offensive in the south, as well as eastern dumbass region. charles stratford is near the frontline in savanski 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 did, however, 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 to describe the 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 it continues, there was a young family that will actually trying to get in to leave. at one stage we said, well, where are you going? can you hear the shelley? 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 sloppy and see where 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. all still had here on al jazeera, we look at how government's around the world increased our military spending to

a record level during the pandemic. and unprecedented slugs. likelihood throughout southern africa, struggles to keep pace with the changing climate. ah, richard, he has begun the full world copies on its way to the castle route. your travel package to that hello there. let's look to east asia and as very wet weather to come for eastern areas of china and for japan. thanks to a massive rain. that's working its way from central areas towards that east coast, bringing thunderstorms to shanghai. by monday, it's going to work its way to the korean peninsula. by the time we get into tuesday and onwards to japan, skirting its way all the way from the south and places like could you show up to the north, to her kinda we could see some heavy falls here. we like you see rain as well in

western han shoe and we for 2 weeks for in just 24 hours in recent days. so that isn't going to be very welcome. we could see some flooding here. now the temperature dipped down in places like tokyo as that system works its way further east. we're going to see a cool down in beijing as well thanks to cooler winds, blowing down, but places like hong kong will continue to see the heat and the humidity. now as we move over to south asia, it's a very hot picture and it's going to get hotter once again from tuesday. we're seeing a few showers creep across coastal areas in the west, some of those showers as well in the northeast, but not as intensely as we have seen by the time we get back into tuesday. well, you can see those temperatures touching up into the early forty's, and that intense heat is likely to continue for the next few days. at least, i saw a special airline of the journey in the foot. i lands of former mesopotamia, where the 1st settlements formed the cradle of civilization. iraqi people who

depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by will and pollution. alger their world reveals how the man made decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments, leaving its peoples struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. lou, the me. that what you know there with lisa who run the reminder of our top stories, french president manuel my call has been reelected comfortably. the through the far right on the independent acknowledge dissatisfaction with his 1st term on appends as from performance in

a good position. buffering parliamentary elections and elections and civilian have delivered a shot from the environmentalists party of political robert law. one the most folks and expected to listen. and you find officials say the secretaries of state defense when he's meeting with president, lot of it's lindsay whitehouse is confirmed or hasn't confirmed the trip, which would be the highest level visit by us officials in russia began explanation of ukraine. now ukraine's president zalinski has called the indian resilience drawing an address. walking easter sunday in the orthodox christian church, celebrations were subdued, and school church leaders were asked to keep congregations limited in case they became a target. alexia bryan reports. yes, the horses will go on miss. in the shadow of war, ukraine's president turned to a building signifying peace caves 1000 year old st. sophia cathedral,

the setting for his latest video message mocking orthodox easter sunday room will yours. christina crystal has shaw symbol is we believe easter symbolizes the 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 to 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 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 un and pushing for an east, a truce, but with no success is saunter sciatic labor. 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 and the eastern city of separation were too nervous to stay for mass. 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 leaders 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 to branch in 2018. there. a

fee of the war could further rupture the wider church. president philosophy, as lensky urged ukrainians not to it. anger overwhelmed him because he had to show, wouldn't you? today's great holiday gives us the great hope and belief that light will win over darkness. good will win over evil life that will win over data, and therefore ukraine will win. inevitably, ga, mailed to me, o, a prayer for peace and hope heard and found across ukraine. alixia brian al jazeera, the for the 1st time governments around the world have spent more than 2 trillion dollars on military expenses. the stock home international peace research institute says spending actually increased during the code 1900 pandemic. the united states tops the list with more than $800000000000.00 spent in 2021. trying his next followed by india, the united kingdom and russia. the criminal boost its defense budget to

$66000000000.00 before invading ukraine. the 3 percent increases must be funded by oil and gas export revenues for the 1st time in 4 years. iran increased its military spending $2025000000000.00 nigeria, japan, germany, and cattle also recording substantial increases to the defense budgets. the spring in matthew chronic, his director of global strategy at the atlantic council, and the forward visor in the office of the secretary of defense. the job via skype from washington d. seems to kind of get tough with us on the program. thanks for your time. i just begin with the fact that military spending is always scrutinized no matter what year or decade the text the, the cystic, come out it. i mean, the figures were talking all certainly for the u. s. and china could run a small nation in some parts of the world. so how surprised should we be at this report? well, i'm not surprised at all. we are entering a new era world history, a new era of brain power competition. we've seen intense military competition like

during the cold war. and then since 1991, we kind of had this really remarkable period where we didn't have great power competition. but now it's really return with russia starting the 1st major land war in europe since world war 2, china becoming more aggressive against its neighbors. and so i think we're seeing the great power politics still matters. ready and military force remains the ultimate tool of international politics. the assessment of this report came in through the pandemic such and so therefore, i mean what was driving what is driving the need for these countries to increase that defense spending? is it all about external threats and all the really spending enough? well, obviously it depends on the case by case i think, in the case of russia, china and iran, the increases in military spending are more meant for aggressive,

revisionist aims like russia invasion of ukraine, like china's long standing goal to take taiwan if necessary, by military. ready force, i think some of the spending by the united states and its allies is more to defend the international status quo. they're happy with the way the world with the world it is, and they want to defend it. and so in washington right now, really the debate is that washington isn't spending enough if we're entering this new era where we need to engage in essentially to cold horse with both russia and china. and we're not spending it. we're spending about 3 percent on the cold war. they spend on average of its g, p on defense. and so i think you likely will see it even more significant increase and us ending in the coming years. you know, you do neatly move me on to my next question because there's different types of spending for different issues. i mean, for jerry, for example,

they have internal issues with groups like boca her arm. the cats are, they've increased their naval and ad defense spending ever since this country was blockaded by regional labors in 2016. 0, need for that to end last year. i mean the needs are different. so how do you compare country to country and you sort of alluded to a sort of the way the us thought process is well, you're right. you do have to look at each individual country and see what their national security goals are and see how they can best address those with diplomatic intelligence and military tools. we are seeing that many countries are finding military tools, useful nigeria for counterterrorism. as you point out, could tar because it, i think wants to be more independent power play more of an independent role in middle east politics. be independent from traditional rivals and even even security

partners. but i do think the common threat here is that in the 1900 ninety's into 2000, there was this idea that maybe we've reached the end of history, that major power war was a thing of the path that the military competition. what was the thing of the past, and it was a nice thought but, but unfortunately, i think what we're seeing in this data is that military competition and conflict and even warfare will be with us for the foreseeable future. and, and it has actually bring us to, to the, the last point is that we know you talk about the russian invasion, which officer, we very focused on at the moment. but that too has been a huge wakeup call. the countries who had long standing issues and just bringing for example, japan and north korea, india is looking north to china and west to pakistan. these a decades long conflicts and a intransigent positions that sometimes we tend to, you know, think they're just going to run ballade for some time,

but they're spending is also increased in this report. yes, i think the things like the russian region of ukraine are a wakeup call for many, you know, the united states has been asking european allies to spend more on defense, really going back to the 1950. and i think it was president who did the most to get your a p and allies to increase spending. germany, poland, romania have all major increase in spending in the past few weeks. and while japan, taiwan, india, have been focused on the challenges from china and others. i do think the invasion of ukraine was a wakeup call. i think many of these countries are saying, okay, rather than wait for the invasion to happen and then take the necessary steps, what are the necessary steps we should be taking right now? so we see taiwan, for example, taking more initiative in the past few weeks to increase defense spending by the

right kind of weapons to prepare for a possible chinese invasion and ideally to deter it before it takes place. certainly thoughtful times for the moment. matthew cutting, thanks so much for joining us from washington, d. c. thank you. and you know us present. joe biden has accepted an invitation from his rails, a prime minister of tale bennett, to visit the white house, says biden, will make the trip. in the coming months. the to lead us spoke on the phone about the 10 situation of the ac. the most compound in occupied east jerusalem. this will be biden's 1st visit to israel as president. how did your castro has more from washington d. c. he nor this really side gave any dates as far as when this visit would take place for both countries. indeed, confirming that biden accepted bennett's invitation, and in that this would happen quote, in the coming months, this announcement, following that phone call between the 2 leaders in which 2 important subjects were

raised, one being the tension surrounding the alex, a mosque in jerusalem, where clashes between palestinians and israelis, security forces since april have led to hundreds of arrests of palestinians. and on friday reports of some 57 palestinians, injured by israeli security forces. the why house read out of this call saying that president biden told bennett that he was taking note of the ongoing efforts between israeli and palestinian officials to lower attentions and ensure a peaceful conclusion to the holy season of ramadan. now the other topic here, of course, being iran out with the benefits office saying that he asked biden not to de list the iranian a republican national guard as a terrorist organization as it's currently listed. now this is a something that is row considers as the largest harris group in the world. ah, a detailed at the white house read out of this phone call left out instead saying

that biden and bennett discussed the threat posed by iran and its proxies. now the recent floods that have devastated large areas of south africa, the highlands in concerns over climate change, environment groups and southern africa. rewards at governments. the regional doing enough for either miller reports or 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 streets aligned 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, causing mud and lance lights, we needs to increase our investment employment adaptation measures to better safeguard communities is 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 had done more. here in the town of alexandra and to hannah's, were thousands of people live alongside river banks and flood prone areas. while the happy local and global that is to reduce the effects of climate change, many of those promises have not been kept ex, let's say countries like south africa need to build better houses, road and drainage and transport systems to adapt to climate change and key people say, experts say africa's west indian ocean region is vulnerable to extreme where the shocks, parts of madagascar have recently been hit by intense tropical cyclones. while south east of the island drought has decimated crops, killed animals, and displaced thousands of people, causing widespread food shortages. drought has to ravaged parts of zambia,

zimbabwe and south africa. in sodom, 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 livestock 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 one li, are dangerous places to put up their houses in. we are going to continue to see the strength 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. ah! what you'll deserve me. they'll run the remainder of all top stories, french president manuel my call has been reelected comfortably beating far right challenge at marine, the pen. macros acknowledged dissatisfaction with his 1st term. is a good one on the local, but yet i know for many of our compatriots who chose extreme bright, their anger and disagreement which lead them to vote for that project. well, we must find a response was that would be my response.