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emanuel mac, ron becomes the 1st french president in 20 years to be reelected, but face is major challenges ahead. also this, our, china's fight to contain covered 19 bay genes. biggest districts, begins testing more than 3000000 residence after dozens of new cases and dance. and so she is made to wage as yet mars military government postponed the verdict in the 1st of several corruption cases against arms on some hires of your sports news rounds out the milwaukee box. so one went away from the next round of the playoffs of beating the chicago bulls in game fools with thank you for joining us. russia is failing in ukraine. that's according to the u. s. secretary of state was just wrapped up a visit to keith antony blinking and defense. secretary lloyd austin, pledged to step pop u. s. military aid, including more advanced weapons. lexia brian begins are coverage with this report.

a show of support in a time of war. the u. s secretaries of state and defense in the ukrainian capital to meet president fellow to me as a landscape. this was the 1st high level visit by us officials since russian forces and faded what you've done in recalling the rush engine, the battle keys. was it for an inch farm? quite widely blue russell? well, we got used to see you on video around the world, but it's great. it's good to see you in person. during a 3 hour meeting, the pair promised to stay pop u. s. military aid, including sending more advanced weapons and we will continue to do everything possible or to ensure that you are successful. ukraine's president has accused allies of being too slow to help saying they shared responsibility for the was casualties. but on sunday he said he was grateful for us support and what he called

an important moment for his country, updated their sam. if the priority of this meeting is weaponry support from the united states and our partners in europe, it's all about the strength of our army. and the 2nd issue is the sanctions against the russian federation. because of the full scale terror, the russians were waging in our country. while russia has failed to capture any major city since the invasion started on february 24th, it has caused widespread devastation. says he's in the east and south, the facent daily bombardment. and what president vladimir zalinski is called the battle for don bests. the u. s. says it wants to see russia weakened so that it can never do anything like this. again, the bottom line is this. we don't know how the rest of us were wanted, but we do know that a sovereign independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than whatever comes on the c o in terms of rushes weren't. russia has

already failed, and ukraine has already succeeded. speaking in poland after their meeting secretaries outlined what will be included in the latest $700000000.00 package to ukraine, a neighboring countries. so they need a long range force. you've heard of. it was a need for claims. we believe that that we can work. they to win, if they have no idea what meant the rights for the visit comes just days before that un secretary general antonia gra terrace is due to travel to moscow. then keith, for meetings with leaders from both sides, say carib lincoln says good terrorist will be carrying a strong and clear message to the russian president, but he needs to end this war now. alex here brian al jazeera esco lived to al jazeera hud abdul hamid, who joins us or from borrowed yankee, not far from the ukrainian capital. keith, what's been the reaction harder to this visit? did the ukrainians get what they wanted out of it?

i think they're beginning to get what they want out of it. oh, you know this conversation of what kind of weapons has been given to ukraine has been going on since before the war. and president zalinski has been asking for these offensive weapons way before the way russia invaded this country. he did say at a press conference at 2 days ago that it's only lately that finally, he feels that the u. s. and other nato countries are understanding the nature of weapons and he needs he said that this word didn't, each of the war has also a change. i mean, at the beginning, while the russians were trying to advance to the capital, they came through faces like board junker. all you do see destruction everywhere, but this was happening in the middle of town. and it was sort of a kind of a guerrilla warfare. it was a to some extent, now does this very long frontline in the dumbass region,

420 kilometers. and the russians are trying to push. basically they're trying to go over and push back this the, the, the korean army that has been stationed there for years since back in 2015. there's also the siege in my, you. but there's also the territorial ambitions of a russia in the south of the country all the way to moldova, to hook up with the breakaway region there transistor. and been all of that. you still have a areas here in the west of the current you are being targeted like delivery region this morning like we need so where the mayor says actually that there been a number of beds earlier than a day. so ukraine. a does need long range. we says that needs these artillery pieces does need offensive weapons. it's getting it. will it be getting it quick enough? that is something they lensky has been talking about and been saying, yes, 1. 1 thing is,

you finally understand us. another thing is that you may have to make sure that this supply continues. if we are to win this war. so he would be happy that this visit happened a he had actually leaked it to the media do days ago and journalist yesterday we were basically going around town trying to figure out, had they had the to secretary of states been here or not, or what, where they moved with, we knew nothing until they popped up again across the border in poland. but i'm sure that we're going to be hearing from zelinski. again saying that's a good 1st step. we need more, we need also more sanctions on russia. that's something also he's been talking about since beginning of the war, so he is going to keep up the pressure be satisfied by the 1st this 1st step, but us definitely for more. thank you for that. oh, damn del hamid life or a say in burke duncan and the visit by the top us officials to keith comes as russia continues,

it's bombing campaign in the east of ukraine. chance stratford has more from near lee. man that's close to the front line. you basically have a 3 pronged move by russian forces now trying to get to the strategically and large city of the events which is connected about 50 minutes drive away from another large city of criminals. now these are 2 of the largest cities still under full ukrainian control in the eastern don bass region. this can be very interesting to see how today's events unfold. we know that the ukrainians have putting out a little fight defending those positions elsewhere in the east. the military or doroty in new ganske, the region of the guns saying that the whole region now is without electricity. and there is shilling ongoing in multiple towns. when i say towns, these are more like large villages across the region of lou ganske. and there's also been heavy shilling in the region of the next as well,

specifically around the city of the nets, which we know has been held by separate is forty's pro russia separately since 2015 and also a new development with respect to an area called a region called zach ratio, which is frankly a long way away from this eastern section of the country. so there is a gradual we understand a gradual move by motion force is coming out of the east. coming out of the north towards coming out of a south west towards a fix cities that have so far not self that the kind of heavy shilling and heavy bombardment and others have such as to need pro and zach parisha. so that has been a lot going on overnight. and as i say, the ukrainian military in this area, very concerned indeed. the emanuel macross has been re elected as frances president t comfortably beat far right challenger my pen. but he acknowledge voters, dissatisfaction with the 1st term. with almost all the votes counted,

michael has an estimated 58.54 percent in the presidential and off. while the pen leader of the national rally party has 41.46 percent, then is smith before some pairs. 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 the new readiness of up this new era will not be a continuity of the 5 previous years. but the collector and pension of a revised method for 5 better years, ra country and are you pay supporters? this is a when that endorse is what they believe is their country's role at the heart of the european union. in what you said to my, i'm very happy up to the last minutes. i thought i would have fainted. you never

know in life anything can happen, rosie, i'm so sorry i didn't get 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 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 martini but to the visually, the game is not over in a few weeks, will have the legislative elections. ah, which as we know are a distortion of the political trend and create a risk of emmanuel macros. concentrating our executive and legislative powers. sir 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. yeah, 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, a 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. and then had joint is now live from paris, a big wind from a crime, but a lot of challenges ahead for him. yeah, a lot of challenges had in his 2nd term, he wants to increase raise the retirement age reform, unemployment benefits and make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers. but to do all of that, he'll need control of the national assembly, which is just behind me, and i'm joined by danielle, a bona who's a deputy in the assembly for france as to me, francis bowed danielle,

how are you going to when control of the assembly as john balance show ones, when momentum is all usually with the winning precedence, while i think we need to get the word out there because many people don't know that there's a 3rd round to this election cycle. they don't know that we can actually stop me. it might be on my call preventing him to implement those anti social and anti crappy policies. and so we have to make sure that everybody's aware one 4th of the month reelections all. and also we have to widen and deepen our grocery movement because that's what made it is possible for us to become the 3rd blog political block in the political landscape. pre are in france because when door to door was in working class areas. when we talk to people, and that's how we manage to get an increase in patient in the 1st round,

micron got 50 percent or so share of the vote in the 2nd round. that gives him a mandate. doesn't need to push through these or forms, no matter how unpleasant the left the fall might find them. well, actually, easily hope is one of the worst result when you combine the blank votes. and the extension is one of the worst results in the for an elected president, since $969.00. and we also knew that 40 percent of the people voted for him, didn't do it for him, but to oppose marilla been get what we wanted to have martin the pen at the 2nd round and he worked for 8th need be promoted or written rigs and measures of our program in order for us to be at the sycamore because that was the only way it could be or so that was a lot of people who oppose or, and i think it's lots of triumph and you know, victory knows it, especially because all the crisis that this country has been facing and enough and

that's. c the dividing of all you very alive vehicle quad, social prices, environmental crises, is still disparities in wealth. so people i feel angry against them because they live under my home for 5 years and many people suffer. so i don't think that it's easy for him to in the 3rd round. can i ask you and quickly, what is the say for french democracy, the the much, the number of people who oppose macro and the only way they can exercise, right? if you like, is to vote against marine pan rather than something they actually want. well, that's the problem with our institution. why now? that's the reason why we want to change them. we'll see them. we've been rapidly that would give less our through the president more power to the relevant actually . but i also think that there was an entire system that prevented the actual

conversation to up and for mom's mom only focusing on the issue that the policy is, is comfortable. we like immigration issue, that was a lot of islam of be great, sorry that. 1 boost needs the far right rather than the actual topic that people are very interested in with the cost of living and, and got my kids for, for instance. so the fact that we got 22 percent of the 1st one is actually the real surprise. and the real achievement of this, of elation because we were, nobody expected us to get this be the result. and to show that there is a need for change, actual change. you got 3 blogs now you got the far white just it's been in this country for too many because now you got my call with the leader of the right. and he got his votes from the right you got to have,

which is the popular block people's blocked that we're, we're, we're real building the left actually. and i seems from you as well. those from the left as well years ago. yeah. because people are both of those marielli band because we are anti fascist. we are anti races. and we know that although marin le pen as a brand is similar while is a pretty small policy, then ah, mccoy, herb regarding economic issue and social issue, she's worse worse than m r when it comes to migrant. although, as i said, macro did very bad things when you come to, for instance, races attacks and anti migrant effects. but people oppose it and people are still oh, waiting for it. change for instant, bare recent balls that show that a majority of the population don't want my call to have a majority in the house, and that's what we're going to build them down here. we're going to thank you very much for joining us. sorry to interrupt. so there are the legislative elections in june,

the french laughed. the father is going to try and stop micron winning the majority that he needs to try and push through his controversial report back to dor bennett . thank you very much for that bernice smith live for i say in paris. and there's plenty more head on this news hour, including the latest on the trial of turkish businessman. osman kabbalah has spent 5 years behind bars without a conviction. ah, as the rising wind for a political newcomer, as he declares victory in slovenia as parliamentary elections and liverpool stay in the hands for the for me and the title, but me their local rivals in big trouble as a result, some experience ah, china is racing to track a coven 19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week. mass testing has begun in beijing's largest district chow young. it's home

of to more and 3000000 people, residents are buying up these central items. i mean, yes, a widespread locked on may be in post. katrina, you has more from b, g. people here and aging our stream, lay anxious and nervous supermarkets across the city, especially in the eastern part, has been stripped of many of their supplies with people panic, buying over the weekend of people think that any day now lockdown could be announced. and this is because the authorities in the city said that they were 41 cases reported in child 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 say 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 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. i'm 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. michael baker is professor of public health at the university of tango and a member of new zealand cove. in 1900 tech technical advisory coach, he says, 0 corporate approach only works for so long. we know the balance is shifted now with high vaccine coverage. many of the, with the fix, the pandemic can be managed. so i think the real question is not so much with this

particular outright can be stamped out with a lockdown. but it's really what is a long term goal in china. i think it's been very clearly articulated because it seems very unlikely that any country can eliminate the kind of the con, the orient long term. so therefore, you have to say, what is your strategy? and what's happened in this region is a number of countries that have been in a very similar situation to china. i think particularly singapore failure, new zealand and hong kong to some extent eliminated device affectively for about 18 months. kept mortality really low. and it now transition to mitigation approaches along with, during high vaccine coverage. and that has been quite manageable with kicked the fatality risk from this infection down to listen one in the thousands of point one percent listen point one percent. and so i think china now has to decide what profit is going to take. i imagine that some kind of orderly transition from

mitigation would make the most sense moment to turkey now, where a verdict is expected on monday, in the trial of businessmen. osman corolla, who's been in prison for 5 years without a conviction, cabanas on trial, and on with 15, others on charges related to protests, seen 2013. they were initially linked to the development of the symbols. jesse park, he faces, life imprisonment if convicted, that's ringing. seen him close hibler who is in a sample forest, give us a background to this case in him, and when can we expect a verdict? well, fully let me start with your 2nd question. we're expecting a verdict today. the lat, final hearing actually started last friday, and the defendants delivered. they are a final statements to the court, but it took so long. that's why it's still resuming today. we heard that the attorneys of the defendants are also making their final statements. oh,

st. mancha. well, law and his co workers are accused of trying to overthrow the alexis government aiming, adds a constitutional order through the nation wide anti government. again, it brought us back in 2013. he is also accused of espionage facilities. ah, but a small cover law who has been behind bars for more than 4 and a half fuse is denying oldies accusations against him. and he says that these are all baseless a causation without any evidence. also international community of the european, a council of human rights and opposition in turkey have been against osman cavellas arrest or for the last 4 and a half is and a e. c. a char also stated before that all those accusations are not based on solid evidence and the lawyers off the defendants have been

arguing that those evidence is for resent. so the courts are based on allegations, but not the incidents themselves. so, um is that is the supporters and friends of rosemont, comalla, and a his co workers demand his release. however, having spoken to judicial resources as many international come into the opposition to have could size a turkish to the shooter for highly politicizing this trial. and as seeing this as a means of the turkish government to silence the descent, many do not expect an acquittal for these defendants, but there are some options. one of them is that, at this case can go to the court of appeal, which is a court between the criminal court and the supreme court. and it can take some time . but at the end, since a small cover law will be completing 5 years without conviction, based on the target to slow a,

he will have to be released pending on trial. ok. these, these are the options being, discuss will. of course, in the, in the afternoon to day we will, we will be eyeing the real verdict by the court. and we will go to live, of course, as soon as there's a verdict in that case, it's in em, cosigner in his symbol. thank you very much. not least 15 soldiers have been killed in attacks in mali and burkina faso in west africa that took place on sunday vehicles. cracked with explosives were driven into military base as spring and nicholas hackles. vi for us in the car synagogue. what more you hearing nick about the circumstances of these attacks on these military basis. while fully these attacks took place at 5 o'clock in the morning, simultaneous attacked, coordinated attacks that have been claimed by an alcohol to flee it german to start on the slide. well, mostly mean, as you mention these attack food took place in camps that were several 100 kilometers away,

such as the level of sophistication of the attacks by our groups. that is taking place right now in molly and said it was a car bomb. in a box, so there was a rocket launchers that were used, they shot down to malia and helicopter, make no mistake fully. there is a stepping up of attacks by armed forces ever since the french forces that were under ground announced that they were pulling out since then. we've seen the these arm groups attacking in the north in the center of the country. more and more brazen attacks. and what's interesting is that since the french have announced they were pulling out the russians or russian fighters linked to the wagner groups have come into the country right in our a, we know that there is, according to french military officials, that there were russian fighters that were involved to try to repel the attack on the campus. sorry, i was going to ask you about the role of russian forces, the ball of the russian mercenaries in molly. we know that the russian presence,

somalian government is said they're serving as advises, but is there more to it? what the very interesting of the official account, as you say it is that there are russian instructors. now let me put in and moscow has, has always denied that this is the case. however, just recently, just yesterday, we've seen a statement released by this, i'll call you to affiliate joe martin said to me somewhat, mr. mean, explicitly saying that they have captured several russian fighters. they say linked to wagner's group. you know, there's no official video that has been released associated to that. but that's the 1st time that we're hearing from these are groups saying that that's the case. now, according to senior french defense or military officials that i spoke to, they know that russian fighters have been captured by these groups for several weeks now. and this comes on the heels of what the french military say. there is.

information war that is being played out between the russians and the french that were on the ground. and cotton middle of it, of course, are among the people. the battle field is no longer just on the ground where there's been attacks, but also on social media. why, well, that is because just last week, the french had handed over a military camp in go see to them all the, and forces a few days later on social media appear to video claiming to, to show french soldiers burying these, these people that molly and supposedly in a mass grave. now the french forces deny that they've released drone footage, showing what they say were the audio analysis. people speaking in the local language, bummed barbara. now, it seems that this was, according to them planted by the russian forces of the money and authorities, and the money and authorities released the statement saying that these bodies were

in advance stage of de company decomposition. this something to the french forces have denied. in fact, it, it has been supported, they say that the death that, that, that, that, this is absolutely not the case. okay, but what's interesting, what we're seeing here is really this information war that we're seeing between the french and the russians fully nicholas hoc in de chi. thank you very much for that's still had on algae. yeah, we look at how governments around the world increased and military spending to reckon level during the pandemic. as we go underground in germany as it, upgrades old bank is built to protect people from possible nuclear attack. and an attempt to create aviation history does not go, is expected. what will happen ah

now it's still not looking spring like everywhere, and it was a great deal of class, right in facts don't. this is been driving through from west to east keeping temps low breezing. all the cloud and rain is the center of the most active one the only a couple days ago was further west. however, the weather around it. it's cloudy is particularly focused, i think, on switzerland in this snow, in the out the blue anyway, i would suggest a certain amount of rain to the size of it to improved roughly 20 degrees, madrid billions, double figures about 2 days ago. so that's an improving situation and know for towards a cold wind here, but temperatures in the most part are at least in the teens. and yes, we've got cherry blossoms in sweet being enjoyed by all. so despite the year the recent cold, not too bad in sweden, but in zurich. yeah. only about 12 degrees dropping a little bit, capital pour days, wednesday things do improve in the sun returns. in fact,

the picture on toothy already see things moving eastwards, allowing much of france to coming back into fine weather. the progress is west to east. we've been some very big storms recently around west africa, typically around the coast to, to go. and gala, now they're suppressed, it will come that far north, but they are coming slowly. ah. as climate change heats up, the planet, one scientist intends to take his back to the ice age to save the permafrost below . he's reintroducing animals to the grand slams above. starting with the living creatures, the planning to resurrect an extinct species. could this approach save our world's witness? the zimm of hypothesis on al jazeera african stories from african perspectives. and the marine biologist,

a bizarre swim short documentaries from african feel. maybe i'm going to do that from south africa, ethiopia, and nigeria. we been to cobra from stuff in this classroom. she saw this as my, and my role africa direct on al jazeera. ah, ah ah cogan watching the news are on al jazeera with me for the back table. a reminder of our top stories, u. s. secretary of state antony blink, him has promised ukraine's forces continued support. he met the ukrainian president

in keep on sunday, along with the us defense secretary lloyd austin, was the highest level american visit to keith since the war with russia began french present minute, my call has been reelected comfortably beating far right challenge remain the pen a cross has acknowledged a dissatisfaction with his 1st term while the pen says she is in a good position for the upcoming parliamentary election. a c and mass covered 19 testing has begun in beijing's largest district charl. young china has been racing to track an outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week. but for the 1st time, governments around the world have spent more than 2 trillion dollars on military expenses. he soc home international peace research institute says spending increased during the pandemic. the united states tops the less with more than $800000000000.00 spent last year. china's next followed by india, the united kingdom and russia, the kremlin boosted his defense budget to $66000000000.00 before invading ukraine.

the 3 percent increase was mostly funded by oil and gas export revenues. for the 1st time in 4 years, iran increase its military spending to nearly $25000000000.00. nigeria, japan, germany, and kata also recorded substantial increases to their defense budgets. well let speak to dig, lopez, the silver barb. this is a senior researcher in military expenditure and miss production at the sock home international peace research institute and is joining us from sweden's capital. thank you very much for being with us. diego, fort, thank you for your time. i talk to us about the factors behind this big increase in military spending, despite the fall out from the covey. 19 pandemic. yes, exactly. thank you for having me. as you said, we just had a record high level image you're spending. that's 2 point. one trillion that is equivalent to point 2 percent of the world's combined wealth. just to give you an

idea to give the audience an idea that that is for every $100.00 we have in the world, $2.20. we're spend on the military and 2021. and the overall growth that we had in military spending was really the combination of multiple increases among the top vendors. for instance, i'm on the top 15 vendors. well only had 3 decreases. that is the united states, germany, and, and israel, and together those 15 account for 81 percent of the world total. so it's very much for the center in those countries. so whatever direction those top 15 countries go that will largely affect, of course, the overall asked that we have for the world. but as you mentioned the, the pandemic, it's quite remarkable that the interest spending continue to rise during the been that make during the worst economic fall out that we had system 19 thirties. but if the condemning did not affect the ongoing streak of increases that we have in the world since 2015 we've just been, it has been increasing

a continuously. if the pandemic was not enough to you to reduce mint or spending to bring it down, it was enough to effect the pace of growth. so last year we had that we went one increase this year. we had a 0.7, and that's largely the effect of inflation because of the economic recovery packages that countries issued. alright, let's talk about the big spenders a bit more. the us china, india, the u. k. russia, the usual suspects really. interestingly, as you said yourself, the u. s. had a slight decrease in spending, but they are funding for our indeed research and development increased. what does that suggest to you that that's really the case that i was owes making about the effects of them. and then i had states what we had was a nominal increase over all that is not corrected by inflation. but because the united states had one of the highest inflation rates in the decade, in 2021 that brought down the nominal increase too as a one point for decrease. so over the decade, we can see

a trend of shifting resources towards research and development that i spoke with in more when emerging technologies did that stace trying to keep the technological edge i had from it is pretty competitors. and it shifting away resources from legacy systems and the costs that that entail. right now, what about russia? they are increased and military by jet in the lead up to, to the war with ukraine. what did they spend at on that is very difficult to say. what we do know is that, as you said, russia increases need we're spending by 2.9 percent. so that interesting thing about russia's, which are spending 2021, was that the national defense budget, which is one of the components that we see for use to, to, to come up with an estimate for russia. and it's the biggest component because it's 3 quarters of the over our, our estimate had a really big revision over the course of the year. so the difference between the

initial budget that we had in december 2020 to the final numbers of actual expenditure that we had was a 14 percent increase. that's quite substantial. however, we're not exactly sure how that money was spent because the budget lines where the biggest increase to place are classified, of course, because of the timing because of because of the context. it's very reasonable to assume that this is related to operational costs, right? because that took place at random to the war. all right, let's end with india on the 3rd in the world in terms of military spending. but surprisingly, they're not importing these weapons. what, what is trying to do, really, and that's a policy that has been taking place over over a few years already. is that they're trying to increase their honest production capabilities. they're trying to increase the self sufficiency. so what and they are using which are spin. busy as a means to pursue that and of course. so what happened in 2021 was that your mark

quite a considerable amount of their military budget just to increase the internal demand . it really support and foster their self sufficiency norms, procurement. thank you so much for talking to about this. it was very interesting to to hear you on this vehicle. nope. as the silver senior researcher in military expenditure and arms production. i to see pri, this talk home international peace research institute. thank you. by the 1st verdict in one of several trials in myanmar, suppose civilian leader has been delayed on time. so she was arrested by the army when it ceased power. more than a year ago. she is facing a series of corruption trials and sounds which he could face up to 15 years in prison. a found guilty she is accused of influencing the 2020 vote to win a 2nd turn in office. florence lee has more from quantum port. well, 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 have gone on against her

. they were for relatively minor offenses with much shorter, maximum prison terms. and she has been found guilty in those cases ranging from possessing unlicensed walkie talkies to reaching corona virus, ruth and rather sadly, she was sentenced to prison in those cases. there are many people watching this case are expecting a guilty verdict as well. now, in this particular case, she is accused of having received bribes from a former yang, gone chief minister. his name is pure, maintain, and he was considered a process of suji 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 t v, saying that he had given gold and us dollars to on santucci 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 gender has conducted the trials. of course, many people have also denounced the cases against all senses as politically motivated and designed by the jury to ensure that she cannot stage a politically a political come back. elections in slovenia have delivered a shock and a new prime minister, opposition candidate, robert galant from new freedom. moving honey one. the old and newcomers now expected to form a coalition government. his party won nearly 34 percent of the vote can bear to 24 percent voice. conservative rivals live with a major defect for outgoing final, vienna's yansa was accused of pushing the central to the right. we want to take in our life to moscow. where's russian president vladimir putin is speaking, has been sharing a meeting of the general prosecutor's office, lead flison. and we also are economy also has all opportunities

to work in a stable and effective manner. under new circumstances, lies a mechanisms should provide our market with goods and times the prices rises. we will have to create a favourable conditions for our entertainers. but if someone is acting in a, an unlawful manner, we'll have to react on that. just a russian business is working really well at the moment. but at the same time, the not all the medium to small sized businesses overcame the consequences of the patent air make. and i also have to mention the so called sanction

aggression against russia will have to use all the opportunities, including a lowering of of punishments and also what clearly we have to control what's happening in our country when it comes to well being and health of our citizens and we have to let our entertainers work in the normal manner and those foreign companies, which despite all they work on the russian market and we have to protect them, which you have all tools for. and we clearly have 2 of them. we have to fight against the all sorts of fur attacks on our businesses and was a michel, deer,

colleagues. as of a, i want to emphasize on certain tasks in front of our law, enforcement or structure in the light over our special military alteration in ukraine. we are of the see lead noticing that the nazi are army groups in ukraine and foreign mercenaries. they are easing people, including children as human shields and so on. we have to look into those cases. are indicators of earlier provocations against our armed forces, including foreign media and that, and so on. we have to we have to stop any bullying any crimes on the touch of russian. i'm federation this morning and security services stopped the act of the actions of the terrorist group,

which plans are an assassination of one of the famous russian tv journalists. but we've got of all the compelling evidence as in this case, although the investigation is still ongoing. and i want to say that's a very it's, it's very a strange, but the top diplomats in europe, they're asking that ukranian satellites to use all the, oh, all there might to, when on the battlefield. it's a very strange diplomacy. as you can imagine, a from the u. s. and the you coming from us in europe. and as they realize that this is impossible, oh, the other task is coming up forward to break russia from the, from within. but they can't do it like it because our society is showing that

it's unity and supports our armed forces and our efforts efforts to maintain the security of russia and the citizens of don bath. so thought our people in don bass boy and because we're even there on this informational field, they are failing, clearly fooling. they're the citizens and they're using their monopoly under or on the mediums nerve cells face in their countries. birds are here and russia least. terry cheat they, they've taken off terror preparing a murder. our journalists earlier in this respect, i have to mention that we know the names and the handlers from the

western security services, of course, are primarily from the cia who work. oh, with conjunction with the ukranian security service, and they advising that like that. now you can see there, there stands to words, the url rights of the journalists and human rights as a whole. so say if i'm all they only care about their own rights. some of them are using their m. m, a imperial ambitions, or they are a colonial past. but in russia, it's not going to work. anna, ask another investigative, earn a committee or 2. it was that note every time for this crime and launch by and it's taking all the culprits or 2 chords miss early moved on those facts. other prosecutors should take part in

forming a certain compelling evidence base which will be used in course including the international level. i want to emphasize on this a basis should be no, it compiled on all the crimes committed by neo nazis and their handlers. starting with the crew to tie key of back in 2 to 14, which opened the way to the civil war and bloodshed in ukraine. great extra efforts as or extra attention were we'll have to pay to people who come to russia from ukraine or don. it's can land people in public. there are more than a 1000000 them are more than 100 children. nice people. not all, always have those documents and papers in order to receive the medical care and to a range. the school schooling for their children,

ask her to protect their rides, and also leading with doctors will to resolve their problems in the shortest terms possible. how you study business long, dear colleagues, as befall a brother in law among the major tasks of, ah, a law enforcement in earnest bodies. it's a fight against crime. kennedy, this is a very, a comforting statistics that in some of the serious a crime we almost 100 percent in resolving them. but some smaller crimes are remaining on the different a level over a 1000000 of, of the uncovering the culprits and bringing them to justice. we have to fight against extremism. we because we have to, oh,

stop every kind of action, or which threatens russia from the outside. heard on xena fall, big, a belligerent to nationalism. we have to fight all this. and we also have to prevent the spreading on internet, all sorts of fakes and illegal actions. and quite often they are being organized from abroad. of course are they to, it could be if they could be happening in a different manner. and then i was listening there to the russian president vladimir, pertaining who has been addressing a meeting of a general prosecutor's office in m. moscow, as you can imagine. now the situation in ukraine are dominating a lot of what he's had to see so far. i, he said that the federal security services have quoted to what he called the attempted murder of a rush. and you journalists are saying that there is

a provocation against russian military alter, using fine yet, and that must be done on the situation in ukraine. specifically, he criticized the us and you are describing other support the military support they provided to ukraine as strange diplomacy. and as he also oh, described, the sanctions against russia. call them us sanctions, aggression against russia. and russia has to fight against attacks on his businesses as spring endorse jabari, who's going to tell us a bit more about what the russian present has been saying, and also the context and in which this is all happening today. yes, fully, this is a annual meeting of the general prosecutor's office in russia and the president at making an impersonal appearance and delivering his remarks life which is unusual

here in russia. usually we get, i recorded and tape feed of his events that he attends, but certainly a very important day for vladimir putin and a clear message from the russian president. that is his country. he needs to remain united. and he said that there are a number of attempts to divide the society within russia, and that the job of the prosecutor general's office is to maintain a law and order in the country. he said that there are now over a 1000000 ukrainian refugees in russia and a, including a just over a 100000 children. he urge the members of this committee to make sure that their needs are met in terms of their medical needs, as well as their social services that they would require a he said that there, this is the time for russians through it really show that they are united within the country and that the attempts by the international community to break russia and that society have failed. a. he said that there needs to be

a stricter a look at the attempts by foreign media to discredit at the russian military. of course, the russian president passed a law in early march, which bands the media, local and foreign from saying anything against the countries military forces, and also ensuring that said the media referred to this event in ukraine as a special military operation. seemingly vladimir putin is keen to continue this narrative and rhetoric that the russian population is fighting a war against the west and not only just on the battle fields in ukraine, but certainly it's a i'm a role of ideologies, as, as we've heard from the president. thank you for that dosage or barry life or say in moscow or less catch up on sports now, his star thanks. lot follow it. we'll start with him being the defending champion,

the walkie box. a one went away from the next round of playoffs. a storm man yan is until to combo was in good form on sunday, against the chicago bulls. he schooled 32 points, and 17 rebound says the bugs 119 to 95. this means we'll walk here 31 up in the series. elsewhere the miami heat moved into a $31.00, the series lead against the atlanta hawks. jimmy bought in the scoring 36 points in best when for the heat, but also had 10 assists the final school 110 to 86 with game 5 on tuesday. everybody to my or about stan aggressive take it more shot, but still finding a way to play basketball the right way. and i'm not all one is not in a rhythm. i guess we're playing great basketball, we're again starch. whenever our spacing is correct. when everybody's knowing where to ball supposed to go, and i was a good one. 0, we got another we got to get although it's 2 of the playoffs games on the nights.

the new orleans pelicans tied their series with the phoenix suns, 119 to a 103. it was a score in that one. and then the denver nuggets lead the golden state warriors 31 . nicola, your kitch scoring 37 points is denver, 126 to 121. now levant, foreclose the gap on the premier league. lead in manchester, 50 off to beating everson in the nosey side. the b. i'm full. every dropped point is crucial at this stage of the season. author enervy our for the home fans and the robinson house to put liverpool in front of to know when was wrapped in the closing stages. and that, thanks to the book, a geeky, liverpool are just the points behind 50, with both scenes having 5 games to play. everson have now dropped into the resignation. places off the bundy. b wolves. now as for titles in a row and $23.00 matches on beats and now for egos, fe on tank off to her success at the stood gods grown pre. well number one from

poland, cruise to victory in the final, against the sub billing cause. she dropped the ball games in straight sets when she me on take is on a great run. having picked up titles at the kappa open indian wells, miami and now a big high court in europe. andry and andre brother roblis denied, was number one of actual which a 3rd time to his home tournament, the rushing won the final open route, took the fast that dropped the 2nd, then went on to wrap up the final set 6 long. it is the price of the season and an ice hockey, the montero canadians paid tribute to the late gala sla ahead of their game against the boston bruins on the sunday, the hall of fame and died from lung cancer on friday. age 70 lasler helps won't drill when full straight sand, the high schools in the 1970s. now what do you do when you're frustrated with

the pie as officiating again? well, in the case, the philadelphia phillies bathroom, the college you make sure that the empire is all about the national, but with who's out on strike. why have mandate clearly the silly luggage this agreed and lashed out? hernandez, philadelphia went on to needs and walk you through is one, nothing to me or compile, is hoping to slip aeroplanes mid and have failed in their attempt to make ation, history, cousins, new icons and, and the farmington plan to intentionally nosedive the cross. then civil pain, the see jump from one to the other before taking controls and landing safety, all of that. and then the one minute, while at the same time promising a 140 miles an hour, i can manage to get him to find his cross. man is safely, fast fight, enhance abandoned his attempt. i'd be pleased to know that both devils are safe. oh,

i see a sport for now, but i'll be back more later. sarah, thank you very much for that. that's it for this. he's out to see with us on out stand when he's actually ah mm. and frank assessments, what are the political risks of banning russian oil? a gas for western leaders will sanctions on russian energy exports. recipe was informed opinions. france is not abandoning to fight against jedi, still resumed media debt going to be king from missouri and from char critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis

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