on all disease. oh, well josie, with no victory for a manual mccolan, he's the 1st french president to be re elected in 20 years. and his promising change. ah hello, i'm emily angland. this is al jazeera live from coming up as russians in ukrainians . market east is sunday. we look at how the conflict is dividing the orthodox christian church. beijing's largest district begins mass covered 19 testing with

rising infections, leading to fees over widespread lockdown and unprecedented floods. psych loans and drought, southern africa, struggles to keep pace without changing climate. ah, we begin in france, where president emanuel micron has been re elected in comfortably bade far right challenger moraine le pen. but he's acknowledged the dissatisfaction with his 1st term. and the pen says her strong performance puts her in a good position for upcoming parliamentary elections. let's take a look at the numbers now with almost all of the votes counted. micron has an estimated estimated 58.55 percent in the presidential runoff. while le pen, later, of the national rally party has 41.45 percent. bernard smith has the latest incentives,

parents, ah, an annual micron gamble that a short but intense election campaign would be enough. it was his comfortable margin of victory of a marine le pen gives him a 2nd term of the lease a palace. only 2 presidents before him have managed that. in his victory speech, micron promised that his next 5 year term would be different said the new realm, philip. 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. ra country, and are you faced supporters? this is a when 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. rosie that's already been up to day extensions. were significant. 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 republican front. in other words, many voters who supported other candidates in the 1st round voted this time to keep le pen out that martini but to the visually, the game is not over since in 3 weeks time we will have the legislative elections. ah, 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, france on bowed to win enough support in the legislative elections. the macro is forced to appoint him prime minister. the i to should, 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 with main concerns for french voters. both issues will likely dominate the start of microns 2nd term. the probably won't be much like grace period for the president, the snow on the left, little many aluminum on voted for him, reluctant, her mom's for, to raise the retirement age and really easy to hire and fire workers. i don't recall on employment benefit programs scotty's 1st to school to rumps. again, notice with al jazeera they've been isolated, protest by far left groups against my cons. victory. right? police moved in t against to disperse, demonstrated in paris. it was seamless veins in the north western city of renee's microns. centrist policies have attracted criticism from both far left and right wing groups may mile french police have shot dead to people in central paris. there

were driving a car against the flow of traffic on the point enough. when the vehicle sped towards the offices, the security perimeter has been set up at the same ukrainian president, villani zalinski is off as says he's been meeting the u. s. secretaries of state and defense light on sunday in keep the visits still on confirmed by the american side would be the highest level of face to face talks between the u. s. and ukraine . since russia's invasion, zelinski is expected to ask. antony blanket annoyed austin for more powerful weapons or evidence. a ma ukraine is trying to repel russia's re focus defensive in the south, as well as the east and dumbass region shall strap fit ease near the frontline. 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 have 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 air strike. we cannot confirm that. and just as indication of the difficulties that people are facing here is this, as it 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 to any pro. and that's where they fled to. they flipped that every once before and now they were going into it just as it seems. russian policies are making a concerted effort to push towards the city of sylvia and see where we are now. in other areas, we also know is ongoing fighting south east of here 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 sofa so far, at least the ukrainians, ukrainian pulses seem to be keeping, keeping them back. ukraine's president salome zelinski has colfey unity and resilience during an address mocking. a sunday in the orthodox christian church. celebrations were subdued, and small church ladies were asked to keep congress congregations limited in case they became a target. alexia brian reports, yes, the horses will go amiss. 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 marking orthodox easter sunday. will yours, christina crystal, as shall symbolism,

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, 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 for this is boucher outside cave . a town that seen some of the worst violence of this conflict and 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 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 lead to a part of ukraine's clergy splitting from the moscow lead branch in 2018. there are fears, the war could further rupture. the wider church president for law to me as

a lensky urged ukrainians not to let anger overwhelm them. vilegas out as a wooden you, today's great holiday gives us the great hope and belief that light will win over darkness. so good will win over evil life will win over it after the law. therefore ukraine will win inevitably audra milk, mute. oh. ringback a prayer for peace and hope heard and felt across ukraine. alexia bryan, l g 0 at said to china now, which is rising to track a carbon 19 outbreak that may have been spreading the capital for wake badging residents have been rushing to by central items and cans, amid concerns that are widespread, locked down could be imposed let's go to katrina you now whose life rests in that beijing? hello there. katrina, we've witnessed the fall out from that really strict lockdown in shanghai. what's been the reaction from badging residents that they could be next?

hi, emily. well, peter hill, people here and aging are stream lay anxious and nervous supermarkets across the city, especially in the eastern part, has been stripped of many of the supplies of people panic buying over the weekend. people think that any day now locked down could be announced. and this is because the authorities in the city said that there were 41 cases reported in china young district, which is actually where we are located in the past few days. now 41 doesn't sound like a very big number, but they said that the situation is particularly concerning because these cases have been, they say, spreading silently throughout the capital over the past week. and because of this, we've seen 28 neighborhoods put under lockdown that at least 20000 people confined to that harms. 1200 had been identified as close contacts and they were swiftly moved to quarantine centers for isolation. now the authorities say that they're

going to conduct 3 rounds of mass testing in china and district this week. that's about 5000000 people who have to be tested 3 times over the next few days. and they've also discouraged any form of travel in and out of the city, especially with the upcoming may public holiday, which starts on sunday, which goes for about 4 days and is really typically when a lot of families leave the city for travel. indeed, and what slightest of shanghai, how are authorities continuing to implement that 0 tolerance policy? well, shanghai remains the every center of the a virus out phrase here in china, they had 17500 cases reported on monday, which is slightly down from the numbers that we were saying last week, which were between 20025000 every day. but it's still very severe situation as far as the authorities are concerned. and when it comes to 0 tolerance, well,

if you're lucky enough in shanghai, to live in a neighbourhood where they have not had any new carpet cases for one or 2 weeks, you might be given the freedom to leave your home to leave your neighbourhood, wander around go get some groceries for a few hours, but the majority of those living in the commercial center of china, that's 25000000 people. the majority of them are still under some form of very strict lockdown either confined to their homes or confined to the residential compounds authority, say from this current outbreak in shanghai. we've had about 138 debts, which is very high for china. if for one place since the beginning of the pandemic, we haven't seen that kind of number, most of these deaths they say were elderly people who were unvaccinated. now the good thing about shanghai is that we are not seeing today the kinds of complaints around access to food and other essential supplies. logistics chains seem to have improved in the city. so that is a very good thing. but still,

residents are normally layer frustrated. we have to remember some of them have been confined to their home since the end of march, and there is no end date for this locked out. and the experts are predicting based on these current numbers. it may not end until the beginning of the middle of may. just extraordinary. thank you very much for that update. katrina, especially given that the pandemic happened. you know, 2 years ago in china or i'm still ahead on al jazeera. we look at our governments around the world, increase their military spending to a record level, drink the pandemic. ah, and is surprising when for with victory, levin is parliamentary elections. ah .

hello there. let's look to north america and much of the weather action has been focused on that major winter storm swooping its way across the northern plains of the u. s. and central canada. what by monday, you can see that's pushing its way further east, across the great lakes. taking heavy snow and blizzards to eastern areas of canada . now behind that it does dry up. we're going to the temperatures dipped down slightly, but there is still a lot of wants to be found in the southwest. we've got those critical fire warnings remaining here in places like new mexico. we are still going to see a lot of warmth in places in california like los angeles, the temperature touching up into the early thirties. now we're going to see a cool down. however, across the great lakes and places like chicago as that system pushes its way towards the east coast. if we have a look at the 3 day, we're going to be touching 6 degrees by wednesday. so very chilly indeed. but there will still be some sunshine, and we are going to see a lot of warmth knocked out of the southeast corner thanks to those severe storms

rumbling their way further east. we have got some tornado warnings out in places like oklahoma and no storms touched on into northern areas of mexico. monterey is going to see a dramatic dip in the temperature. by the time those storms rumble down to mexico city by tuesday, ah, full of struggles by util. bob marano would not allow me to. why don't we go on board with our mortgage obama? full of pleasure. we go a little market on the good thing. where did obama he bought on an intimate look at life in cuba today? was it was a on want to walk on the, on your more general advisor, my cuba, on al jazeera lou

ah ah, hello are you watching? are 0. i'm emily young. when he's a reminder of that, up stories this, our french president, a manual, my phone has been reelected comfortably. bating far right challenger moraine le pen microns acknowledged the dissatisfaction with these 1st chem, while a pen says how strong performance puts her in a good position for upcoming parliamentary elections. china is rising to track a covered 19 ap rec break that may have been spreading the capital for week badging . residents happening, rushing to by central items and made concerns at a wide spread locked down, could be posed and ukrainian officials say the u. s. secretaries of state and

defense are in the capital. keep meeting with president for letting me landscape. the white house hasn't confirmed the trip, which would be the highest level visit by us officials since russia began its invasion of ukraine. william courtney is a former white house senior director for russia, ukraine and eurasian affairs. he says the moved by western ladies for the boast is zelinski image as the legitimate war time later visits of the western leaders have shown some support for present soleski and ukraine. truly courageous, defense of the country, but they've also shown a measure of confidence that ukrainian government has made okay of secure. so there are 2 purposes they're now 3rd purpose is to get a measure of zalinski as a war time president. he's become a war time, winston churchill, to the surprise of a lot of people,

a lot of western leaders about mon zalinski in that context, getting a personal feel for him and for the figures around him is an important step. well, the where says moved, it's a red line if you will, throughout you at the beginning, the west is emphasizing that it was providing all the defensive equipment, including javelin ante armor and stinger angie air systems. but now as the fight has changed, its move to the east of ukraine where there is more open country. so longer range, artillery tanks are more useful there. so the worst of stuffed up, the kind of military equipment that was provided earlier, the u. s. president turned down the big 20 and i'm transferred from poland to your crime, apparently thinking that might be provocative. but if that issue were to come up today for the 1st time, you might have a different response. for the 1st time,

governments around the world have spent more than 2 trillion dollars on military expenses. this dot com international pace research institute says spending actually increased during the kind of a 19 pandemic. united states tops the list with more than $800000000000.00 spent last year. china's next to followed by india, the united kingdom and russia equivalent boosted its defense budget to $66000000000.00 before inviting crime. 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 to nearly $25000000.00. nigeria, japan, germany, and cuts are also recorded substantially increases to their defense budgets. su carnegie is a former advisor to the office of the us secretary of defense. he says, military force remains the ultimate tool in global politics. we are entering

a new era world history, a new era of great power competition. we've seen intense military competition the past 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 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. and 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 under 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. elections of any i have delivered a shock, m to you prime minister, environmentalist, party of political, you come a robot is gone, but one the most voice. and he's now expected to form a coalition government. the count so far has his party on about 34 percent of the vote compared to 24 percent. so the conservatives living in democratic party call

up had to make you victory space from isolation at home to contracting. because 19 guess the loop edge is in this live any and capital lu, brianna this was supposed to be a tie through between the robert robert 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 elections before. on the other hand, pianist, the answer was criticized for suppressing you, therefore, suppressing civil society and organization. so civil society are going into the 3000 people for 12. so the very high turn out is one of the key issues in the collections in 2018. there was a 53 percent walters coming out. now it's very close to 70 percent. we expect that the robert to go up will form

a government with other left in 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 follow him and we'll have for less parties, it will be easier for or other go up to form a government. the israeli army says their attacking targets 11 on after a rocket was fired into each route. earlier in the night. the projectile had landed in an open area near the town of slow me without causing damage. injuries. the flare up follows a 2 week long tension between palestinians and israelis forces at the alex and mosque us president joe biden has accepted an invitation from his rounds prime minister in italy bennett to visit the white house,

says by them will make the trip in the coming months, the 2 ladies spoke on the phone about the tension situation of the 10 situation rather at that alaska mosque in occupied easter salem. israeli forces attempted to stop palestinians from accessing the holy sides as ramadan a sta, and pass over holidays through thousands to the area is, will be biden 1st visit to is round as president hundreds of women has marched through mexico city to protest the murder of an 18 year old woman protest is carried signs rating. no harassment and mexico is a mass grave. young woman's body was found on thursday inside a water tank at a motel in one terrace. activists say police and prosecutors have been slow and ineffective, investigating cases of murder and disappearances of women in mexico, which continues to increase every year. are new to violence between

armed groups and sedans. duffel region has killed a number of people. rival size accused each other of triggering it military reinforcements have been deployed to the region as he been. morgan reports from cotton while the reader of west are for has been witnessing inter coming and violence between the ethnic arabs in west are for in the region of korea. nick, which is about 80 kilometers from the capital janina. that's the capital of west are for now the masai 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 leads accused the arabs of reading the area. once again. they say that armed men came from all directions and burned villages. displacing people in the area of greening again, which is about 80 kilometers from the capital janina. that's the capital of west.

dar for now was there for aunt r, for generally has been witnessing inter continental violence, despite the fact that a peace agreement was signed between the transitional government, an armed groups in 2020, with the aims of ending the conflict that started into 2003 the intercom mill 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 raisins lines that have devastated large areas of south africa are highlighting concerns of the climate change environmental groups in southern africa award government in the region and not doing enough for manila reports from johanna spec, 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. again, 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 into 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. excellency, 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 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 oh, from life life, so cur, heard us, et cetera. and now, with the storms 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 lea, a dangerous places to put up their houses seem. we are going to continues 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 flooding 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 alta 0, johannesburg, south africa. ah, hello. are you watching out as the are these the top stories? this? our french president manion mccaul has been re elected comfortably. bating far right. challenge and moraine le pen for cons, acknowledged the dissatisfaction with his 1st term.