way with exclusive interviews and in depth reports. not hardly, but he left her because al jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and lied niece. ah victory for manuel mackerel makes him the 1st french president to be reelected in 20 years. that he's promising change. while his defeated fall right challenger malinda pan, says she'll carry on focus on looming parliamentary elections. ah, hello, how robin? you what you all to 0 life, my headquarters here in denver also coming when the election upset in slovenia, newcomers. robert golub defeats 3 time prime minister ayana's yansa and as russians

and ukrainians mark easter sunday, we'll look at how the conflict is dividing the orthodox christian church. ah welcome to the preowned french present. manuel macro has been reelected comfortably beating far right challenge at marine la penn. but tis acknowledged dissatisfaction with his 1st home and le pen says her strong performance puts her in a good position for upcoming parliamentary elections. so let's take a quick look at the numbers with almost all of the votes counted. macro has an estimated 58.55 percent of the vote. while the pen leader of the national rally party has 41.45 percent bernard smith reports now from paris. ah, emanuel micron gamble, but a short but intense election campaign would be enough. it was his comfortable

margin of victory over marine la pen gives him a 2nd term of the lease a palace. only 2 presidents before him have managed that. in his victory speech, makram promised that his next 5 year term would be different. said there are new retina, so this new era will not be a continuity of the 5 previous years. but the collected invention of a revised method for 5 better years for our country and our u. k. supporters, this is a when that endorse is what they believe is their country's role at the heart of the european union emergency. i am very happy up to the last minute i thought i would have fainted. you never know in life, anything can happen. rosie that's already been up to day extensions were significant. i've been a manual 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 path 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 that martinez. but did the visually, the game is not over since in 3 weeks time we will have the legislative elections thought as we know, our distortion of the political trend and create a risk of a manual macro. concentrating all executive and legislative powers. john lute melon 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 from some bowed to enough support in the legislative elections. the macro is forced to appoint him prime minister. the do you do all of you, i say, do not resign yourself. on the contrary, go candidly and completely into the action. democracy can once again give us the means to change direction. the war in ukraine and the rising cost of living. we're main concerns for french voters. both issues will likely dominate the start of

micro. on the 2nd turn, i probably won't be much of a grace period for the president. on the left, many voted for him, reluctant to raise the retirement, easy hire and fire workers. i don't recall point benefit got the 1st just put in to get burned out. you know that when i say to protest by far less groups against mac will victory who's moved in and you go to disperse, demonstrated in paris. there were some of the scenes in the northwest and to see if then the call center is policies have tried to criticism from both far left and right. tween groups, not nicholas tanza is a guest professor of government and political saved. he seals the. he says micro faces a challenge in uniting the country. i think one of the men difficult people for

macros that is perfectly know that he can not, of course, run again because of the ro under consideration basically. so we certainly have, we will have to probably not designate but to choose a kind of person who could replace him next elections. and i think that we have also to focus on the saying, which is very important. if we consider the 1st round of the 1st presidential elections, we had basically more than 50 fart. our entire system voters are from the far right. approximately 35 percent, all from the fall list about 2021 percent. so i think it's a huge number of people that we have to convince. i mean, do the classical political parties or classical particular forces from the left all from the light, from the center, like michael to convince that there is absolutely no future for those on time

system forces. i think that's one of the main challenges. in fact, as a frenchman, i am not very proud of the fact that we have still 42 percent of the voters who voted for the far right candidate. you see at the 1st, the 3rd time that you have a far right candidate present in the 2nd round of the presidential election. and i think we are all responsible even guilty for this kind of situation. me, law french police have shot dead to people in central paris. now they were driving a car against the flow of traffic on the port myth. when the vehicle sped tools officers, a security perimeter has not been set up at the scene. until that is now where elections in slovenia have delivered a shock and a new prime minister. the environmentalists party of political newcomer robert globe won the most and he's unexpected to full mcallison government. account so far

has his party of about 34 percent of the compared to 24 percent. for the conservative slovenia, the democratic party globe had to make his victory speech from isolation at home. after contracting kevin lindsey jasper. and where is the civilian, isn't misleading? capital? a piano? this was supposed to be a fight through between robert rob from freedom movement and prime minister deanna found shot by robert go up on 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 suppressed and needed 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 issues 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 rubber to go up really for my government, which other left in parties on the other hand, yanna sash always 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 the parliament will have for less parties. it would be easier for our other go up to form a government. the euclidean president, a lot of his landscape office says he's the meeting, the us secretaries of state and defense late on sunday in cave. now the visit fill unconfirmed by the american side would be the highest level face to face talks between the u. s. and ukraine, since russia's invasion for lensky is expected to ask antony, blinking,

and lloyd austin for more powerful weapons. while ukraine is trying to repel russia's refocused offensive in the south, as well as the eastern don mass region, charles strafford is near the frontline in slogans. the town of lee man, which is about 20 kilometers and also here a town that we were literally unable to get to today because shelling was so heavy, we did have a 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 center of town that was believed to be changed from an as strike. we cannot confirm that just as indication of the difficulties that people are facing here is this, as it was, 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 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 stance. each to fear in a town called pop sana, 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 sophia, so far at least the ukrainians, ukrainian forces seem to be keeping. keeping them back, you're going to present plot to ms. lewinsky has called for unity and resilience during an address marking easter sunday, and the orthodox christian church celebrations were subdued, and small church leaders were asked to keep congregations limited in case they became a target. alexia brian reports, he has an audio shop over the phone with me. 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. you could crystal the show symbol busily believed 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, the save ukraine. oh, sunday also marks 2 months since russian forces invaded ukrainian authorities urged those celebrating the christian festival to follow services online. 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 un and pushing for an east, a truce,

but with no success is saunter severe to uber. the sun is shining, and the sky is clear. but there is no peace in my soul. i very, very much wants ukraine to have liberty love and hope or years, but 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. rushes annexation of crimea lead to

a part of ukraine's clergy splitting from the moscow led branch in 2018. they are fears the war could further rupture. the wider church president of a lot of me at length urged ukrainians not to let anger overwhelm them or willing cassandra. so 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 will win over data the law, therefore ukraine will win inevitably or g mailed to me. oh, a prayer for peace and hope heard and felt across ukraine. alixia brian al jazeera well still had here on al jazeera. we look at how government's around the world increased their military spending to record level during the pandemic. and why residents in the chinese capital have been starting to stock up on a central supplies.

ah, judy has begun the full world copies on its way to the castle. travel package to the hello there, let looked east asia and as very wet weather to come for eastern areas of china. and for japan, thanks to a mass of 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 choose day and onwards to japan, skirting its way all the way from the south and places like can you show up to the north to her kinda we could see some heavy falls here. we are 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 cool a 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. and by the time we get back in to 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. castle away, the official airline of the journey mainstream coverage of big stories can sometimes deliver more heat than light. in any water scenario, there's always a plush to simplify. narrative nuance is always called for, even in the case an aggressive war. the listening pace down into the news and dissect them. there is not a great deal of subtlety. we're talking about the barbara that is unfolding gum and

how unique it's not unique covering the way the news is covered on al jazeera. ah, ah ah, look about what you all just bear with me. so run the reminder volatile stories, french president metro macro has been reelected comfortably beating far right challenge of math in the pen. macros acknowledged a satisfaction with his 1st turn. while the pen says has strong performance for 3 good positions for the upcoming parliamentary elections. elections is lavinia have also delivered a show count, a new prime minister, the environmentalists party, political newcomer robert to call,

but one the most faith. and i was expected to form a coalition government. your painting officials have the us sector states and defense for the capital. meeting with president of his landscape. whitehouse were confirmed trip, which would be the highest level visit by us officials and brush up against the invasion of ukraine. love a 1st time government around the world have sent more than 2 trillion dollars a military expenses. the stock came international peace research institute. suspending actually increased during the covered 19 pandemic. the united states tops the list with more than $800000000.00 spent in 2021. china is next followed by india and the united kingdom and then russia, the kremlin boosted its budget defense spending to $66000000000.00 before invading crane. the 3 percent increase was mostly funded by oil and gas export revenues for the 1st time in 4 years. iran increased its military spending by nearly $25000000000.00. nigeria, japan, germany,

and cas are also recorded substantial increases to their defense budgets. matthew critic is a former advisor in the office of the us defense secretary. he says some countries have increased military spending to a whole aggressive ambitions. we are entering a new era of world history, a new era of great power competition. we've seen intense military competition like during the cold war. and then since 1991, we've 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 that great power politics still matters. ready and military force remains the ultimate tool of international policy. i think in the case of russia, china and iran, the increase in military spending are more meant for aggressive,

revisionist aims like russia invasion of ukraine, like china, long standing goal to take taiwan if necessary, by military 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 way the world with the world as 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 and essentially to cold horse with both russia and china. then we're not spending and 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 as president joe biden has accepted an invitation from his roles, prime minister of tale bennett, to visit the white house,

says barton will make the trip. in the coming months, the 2 leaders spoke on the phone about the 10 situation at alex and most compound and occupied these jerusalem. this will be by the 1st visit to israel as president pedro castro is following developments from washington dc. he nor this really side gave any date as far as when this visit would take place. but both countries indeed confirming that by an accepted bennett's invitation and in bed, this would happen quote, in the coming months. this announcement of 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 white 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 tensions and ensure a peaceful conclusion to the holy season of ramadan. now the other topic here, of course, being iran with bennett office saying that he asked biden not to de list the ronnie and republican national guard as a terrorist organization, as it's currently listed. now this is a something that is ro considered as the largest terrorist group in the world. detailed at the white house read out of this phone call left out instead saying that biden and bennett, discuss the threat posed by ran and its proxies. the lead us from egypt, jordan and the you a have met to discuss incursions by is ready forces at the axim of compound in occupied east jerusalem. none. 3 leaders least, a joint statement saying that countries are ready to exec all efforts to restore. com, more than 300 palestinians have been arrested in 200 others wounded. at alex's,

since april 15th or china was raising to track a covered 90 not break that may have been spreading in the capital for a week. beijing residents have been rushing to buy essential items and it concerns the lockdown could be imposed as compared to katrina you is. i was in the chinese capital katrina. what more do we know about this potential locked out of the capital? well, grocery stores and supermarkets across the city have been stripped of supplies following panic, buying on sunday. so people fear an imminent lockdown. no, this is following the identification of about 41 cases in the eastern part of the city that is in china and district where we are actually located. and these cases were found over the past week. now 41 doesn't sound like a very high number, but authority to say that the situation is grim and so worrisome because these

cases have been spreading silently throughout the capital over the past week. and because of this, we've seen 28 neighborhoods put under locked down with people confined to their homes or their residential compounds, us at least 20000 people in aging. and 1200 people had been identified as close contacts and sent to quarantine centers for isolation. now the city says that it will conduct 3 rounds of mass testing in china and district for everyone who lives and works here that's about 5000000 people. and they will so discouraged. travel especially ahead of next week's may public holiday, which is a 4 day holiday where people typically go out of the city and travel domestically. there's always so many questions to be asked about what's going on with cove. it's certainly in china and in the region. is it the same barrier that's in shanghai? is it a new variant? sometimes you, we get the information sometimes we don't. but what we do know is that shanghai has been the hot spot. is there any connection between shanghai and beijing?

certainly, that's a speculation. we don't know exactly where this outbreak invasion originated the authority say it's more likely from people who were traveling domestically. and the authorities say that a lot of this is the, on the con, very angel, the highly infectious strain of on record, which is be a point to that. you're right. she had commercial said to still remains the epi center of the outbreak here in china. we had about 17 live 117500 cases reported on monday, which is slightly down from the numbers that we were seeing in shanghai last week. but it's still quite severe. in the eyes of the authorities, we've had also official say, 138 people who had died from the current of ours in shanghai, which is a very high number compared to what we've seen over the past few years. there was a 138 people, the officials say were mostly elderly people who were unvaccinated. now,

some parts of the city in shanghai have had the restrictions, lucid, especially if that hasn't been any identification of a new case in that particular neighborhood. some families can venture out for maybe one or 2 hours to get groceries, but the majority of the city of shanghai are still under a very heavy locked out. and the one good thing is that people report that access to a central supplies like food, etc, has improved. but residents are enormously frustrated, especially those who has been under some form of lockdown since the end of march. because there simply is no end this lockdown in sight with numbers like these. and many experts say they may not end restrictions until the middle of may for the update. thanks very much. katrina you. there are correspondent in beijing now renewed violence between our groups. since it was done for region has killed a number of people, rival sides accuse each other of triggering it military reinforcements have been

deployed to the region, have organ is following events from cartoon. while the reader of west are for, has been witnessing inter coming on violence between the ethnic arabs in west are for in the region of career nick, which is about 80 kilometers from the capital janina back the capital of west are for now the mus elliot tribe that to non arab ethnic tribe in west are for accused the arabs of raiding them on friday and attacking them, killing at least 8 people. the situation was largely calm on saturday, but on sunday morning they must our lead a tuesday. the arabs of raiding the area once again, they say that our armed men came from all directions and burned villages. displacing people in the area of korean, again, which is about 80 kilometers from the capital janina. that's the capital of west dar for now, west are 4 and our 4 generally has been witnessing inter communist violence despite the fact that a peace agreement was signed between the transitional government, an arm groups in 2020 with the aims of ending the conflict that started into 2003,

the intercontinental violence between the arabs and non arab tribes have displaced tens of thousands over the past couple of years, especially over the past few months. that's largely because of resources. the threesome floods are devastated. large areas of south africa highlighting concerns over climate change. environmental groups in southern africa are a worried that governments in the region are just not doing enough for me to. with the reports 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 streets aligned with debris and pollution. at least 443 people were killed in the floods described as the worst and 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 or 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 township of alexander and to hannah's by 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 needs 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 weather 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 displays thousands of people causing widespread food shortages. drought has to ravaged parts of zambia, zimbabwe, and south africa in southern madagascar for example, you have 1.5 to 2000000 people who suffered acute hunger because of drought issues. you have are, or what a 1000000 carcases are from lice livestock, or heard us, et cetera. and now, with the 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. ah, are you watching al jazeera with me sell robin in doha, reminder of our top news stories for president, manuel macro has been reelected comfortably beating far right challenger melinda, been macros, acknowledged to satisfaction with his 1st team. it is a good one on the local, but yet i know for many of our compatriots who chose extreme right. their anger and disagreement which led them to vote for that project. well, we must find a response was.