a showcase of the best documentary films from across the network on al jazeera ah victory full a menu all micron. he's the 1st french president to be re elected in 20 years and he's promising change. ah, hello, i'm emily anguish. this is elisha 0 live from jo. house are coming up as russians and ukrainians mock east to sunday. we look at how the conflict is dividing the orthodox christian church by genes largest district begins mascot. good 19 testing

with rising infections leading to fees of widespread locked down man man to posed later unsung suit, she awaits verdict in the 1st of several corruption cases against her in the military country. ah, we begin in france, where president emanuel macklin has been re elected. he comfortably bade far right challenger moraine le pen, but he is acknowledged. the dissatisfaction with his 1st term and the pen says her strong performance puts her in a good position for upcoming parliamentary elections. so let's take a look at the lamp numbers now, with almost all of the votes counted, micron has an estimated 58.55 percent in the presidential run off while the pen, later of the national rally party. as 41.45 percent. bennett smith has the latest developments out of paris. the manual 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 her new realm. so up 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. rock country and are you faced supporters? this is a win 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. rosy lips was ready to give 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 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, let back in it, but to death is we. the game is not over since in 3 weeks time we will have the legislative elections. ah, that is we know, or 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 yard do had to all of you, i say, do not resign yourself. on the contrary, go candidly and completely into the action has on democracy. could once again give

us the means to change direction, the war and new crane and the rising cost of living were main concerns for french voters. both issues will likely dominate the start of microns 2nd term. that probably won't be much like grace period for the president, as usual on the left, many aluminum one voted for him, reluctant, her microns from her to raise the retirement age really to easy to hire and fire workers and reform unemployment benefits for protocols. as god is 1st here, i think this could erupt again, bernice went out as if they've been isolated, protest by far left groups against microns victory. right police medina, news t gans to disperse. demonstrate is in paris. it was similar things in the northwest and city of re, a crohn's centrist policies have attracted criticism from both far left and far right groups. nicholas tanza is a guest professor of government and political theory at sciences po,

a research university. he says, micron face is a challenge in uniting the country. i think one of the men difficult people for macros that is perfectly knows that he cannot, 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 part time system, voters, ours up on 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, the classical political parties are classical political poses 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 that the 1st time, 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. still in france and police have shot dead to people in central paris. they were driving a car against the flow of traffic on point. know when the vehicle said towards the offices, the security perimeter has been set up at the same the

the us has pledged to provide more than $700000000.00 in new military aid for ukraine. announcement came as the us secretary of state and defense, met with president law means the landscape in keep on sunday. the visits is the highest level of face to face talks between the u. s. m. u claims. since rushes invasion that cave is trying to repel russia's refocused offensive in the south as well as the eastern john bass region. charles stratford is near the front line in that of young's 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 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 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 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, wilson is ongoing fighting south east appear 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 so for so far, at least the ukrainians, ukrainian forces seem to be keeping,

keeping them back. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has called for unity and resilience during an address makeing easter sunday. in the orthodox christian church, celebrations were subdued, and small church church ladies were asked to, cape can congregations limited in case they became a target. as alexia bryan reports, he has an horde rochelle all going me. 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 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 online. but some still made their way to church for easter blessings, or whoever this is butcher outside keith 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 were, the sun is shining and the sky is clear, but there is no peace in my soul. i very, very much once you crate to have liberty love and hope or yours, but the book is some others in 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 with that's angered. church leaders and 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 laid to a part of ukraine's clergy splitting from the moscow laid branch in 2018. there. a fee, as 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 mailed to me. oh,

the prayer for peace and hope heard and found across the big number. but they say that the situation is particularly concerning because these cases has 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 their homes. 1200 had been identified as close contacts and they were swiftly moved to quarantine centers for isolation. now authorities say that they're going to conduct the 3 rounds of mass testing in china 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. still ahead on al jazeera ah, is surprising with mentor elections and unprecedented flood loans and route southern africa, struggles to keep pace without changing climes. ah, he has begun the full world copies on its way to the castle. travel package to the hello there. let's start in the middle east and we've got some unsettled weather across much of the region. you can see in the satellite image, those clouds working their way over northern areas of saudi arabia, in particular. bringing some rain here, touching into your weight, and

a lot of the wet weather can be found in western areas of iran were talking some fierce thunderstorms as well. and we've got a bit of a wind blowing down that's going to kick up some dust, create some hazy sunshine in places like guitar, as well as southern areas of saudi arabia. and look at the temperature in dough. how we dip right down to $31.00 degrees, but there's still a lot of warmth in places like to buy and musk at 40 degrees celsius on tuesday. that was we had across to north africa, the wind is still dominating the story here for patients like libya as well as i do urea and she nicea, we are going see some wet or weather creep into morocco. by the time we get to choose, davidson showers there, and a round rabbit, down to the west coast of africa was still thing intense showers here some of those showers feeding into lagos over the next few days. but for the wet a weather we have to head down to the cell. once again, that tropical storm easing it's called jasmine. it is likely to move its way towards the west coast of madagascar taking the heavy rain and stronger winds with

it. official airline of the journey mainstream coverage of big stories can sometimes deliver more heat than lights in any waters. busy scenario there's always a push to simplify. narratives. new walks is always called for, even in the case of an aggressive war, the listening post, delve into the news, narrative, and dissect them. there is not our great deal of subtlety. we're talking about the barbary game. it has been folding as a result. how unique it's not unique covering the way the news is covered on al jazeera. ah ah.

hello, are you watching out 0? i'm emily anguish. he's a reminder of our top stories. the salam french president emmanuel, marconi has been re elected to comfortably bathing fall right challenger marine le pen. a crones acknowledged the dissatisfaction with his 1st term. while a pen says her strong foreman's boots are in a good position for upcoming parliamentary elections. the u. s. has pledged to provide more than $700000000.00 in the military a to ukraine. denouncement comes as the u. s. secretaries of state and defense met with president for letting me it's against game keith. it's the highest level of visit by american officials since it washer began. it's invention. ukraine and china is racing to track, recovered 19 out by that that may have been spreading and capital for wake. aging residents have been rushing device in july. hm. it concerns that a widespread lockdown could have been, pun mia mas deposed civilian later unanswered. she is

expected to hear the verdict in the 1st of multiple corruption trials, said she was arrested by the army when it seized power more than a year ago. she is accused of influencing the 2020 vote to win and 2nd term of office. the more on the story. let's bring in florence louis. he joins us from hello. hello there, florence. since being forced from power la c. she has been charged with multiple offences. so what's the significance of this particular verdict? while this is the 1st of several corruption trials she faces, and for this case, there is a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison that carries a much heavier than the other cases. and the other trials i have gone on against, they were for relatively minor offenses with much short, her maximum prison terms. and she has been found guilty in those cases ranging from possessing on license walkie talkies to beaching corona virus,

ruth and rather sadly, she was sentenced to prison in those cases. for many people watching the case are expecting a guilty verdict as well. now in this particular case, she is accused of having received bribe from a former yang, gone chief minister. his name is pure, maintain, and he was considered a process of offensive. she considered by some to be a possible successor. now, a few months, a few weeks after the cool that he appeared in a video broadcast on military run tv, saying that he had given gold and us dollars to on time to g as bribes. and in october last year he testified in court. now at the time where did the video appeared, many people had denounced it as fake, but then he appeared in court in october and so he seen as a key witness in this case. and many people are expecting on fancy g to be found guilty. partly because of this, but also partly because of the way the other trials have been conducted as well. the way the june has conducted the other trials. of course,

many people have also denounced the cases against all senses as politically motivated and designed by the june test to ensure that she cannot stage a politically a political come back. florence talk us for the background to all of the in the turmoil me. and mine's been facing since that crew that you mentioned 14 months ago . so there has been and now what started really as the opposition to the didn't really evident the qu, started as a non violent protest. but it since gone on to become an armed resistance. and many analysts say it's now descended into a civil war in the country. now, it has been a year since the since the association of southeast asian nations broken a piece deal, but non ma, so far has been kept to any part of it piece deal. and many people are saying that many analysts are saying that the chances of peace in that country is becoming very

unlikely known. despite the military having more alms, having more personnel is to put down the armed resistance. and this on resistance, they were initially made up of non violent protested who taken part in protest, but who had been moved to take up arms after watching how the military have used lethal force to put down protest. and not only that, many ethnic armies have now thrown that support behind this newly formed militia group and cove who call themselves the people's defense forces. so now i'm seeing is the senior general minute lang, perhaps in an attempt to divide and conquer, making a peace overture to the ethnic armies. now these armed groups have been engaged in arms struggle for many decades against the myanmar government them in my military, the fighting for more autonomy. but now perhaps, me know, hang it perhaps is a new strategy. he's offered these armed groups, a chance to sit down and talk. there's no indication how they will respond with at least one group saying it's too early to comment. and there's also no indication

that the people's defense force is going to give up the struggle, which is more. you've got many analysts saying they expect the conflict in young to go on for years or i think you're right. he is down that break, breaking down for us florence louis live for us in color pull elections in slovenia. i have delivered a shock and a new prime minister, the environmentalist party of political new come a rabbit, won the most votes and he's now expected to form a coalition government account so far has he's party on about 34 percent of the vote compared to 24, for the conservative, liberal in democratic driving up had to make his victory speech from isolation at home on the contracting close of 19 my badge is in this live any capital louisiana . this was supposed to be a tie through between the robert robert from freedom movement and prime minister, the honest shot bought 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 suppressing media 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 collections in 2018. there was a 53 percent walters coming out. now it's very close to 70 percent. if we expect that the rubber to go up really for my government, which other left in parties on the other hand, yana sasha, was 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 less parties. it will be easier for or other go up to form a government. you as president joe biden has accepted an invitation from brown's prime minister nestali bennett, to visit the white house. the bottom will make the trip in the coming months. the 2 ladies spoke on the phone about the 10 situation at the el awesome mos compound in occupied east jerusalem. it will be biden's 1st visit to israel presidents. how does your 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 a republican national guard as a terrorist organization, as it's currently listed. now this is a something that is ro considers 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 discussed the threat posed by ran and its proxy renewed violence between armed groups in sedans. jar full region has killed

a number of people. rival size accused each other of triggering military reinforcements have been deployed to the region as he been. morgan reports from cartoon. while the rita of west r 4 has been witnessing inter coming of violence between the ethnic arabs in west r for in the region of carina, which is about 80 kilometers from the capital janina that the capital of west are for now, the masai tribe, that's a 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 accused the arabs of raiding 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 intercontinental 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 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. there is in plans that have devastated large areas of south africa, a highlighting concerns of climate change. environmental groups in southern africa, worried governments in the region aren't doing enough. for manila, reports from transfer 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 township of alexander and to hannah's bug, thousands of people live alongside river banks and land po here is, while the have been 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 brains, and falls ford systems to adapt to climate change and keep people safe. 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 oh, 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 lea, a dangerous places to put up their houses seem. 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 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, you're watching out here. these are the top stories. french president, a manion, the con, has been reelected comfortably basing far right challenge him moraine. the pan, a groans acknowledged. the dissatisfaction with his 1st term, while a pen says her strong performance puts in a good position for upcoming parliamentary elections, 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 led them to vote for that project. well we.