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ukrainians, asked the world to help save the lives of thousands of people trapped in a steel plant. and maria pole, which is once again under washing of time. ah, oh, i'm adrian said again. this is alvin. ah, we are in kenya where millions of people are facing starvation. as a result of the worst drought, the horn of africa indicates european leaders are calling it gas blackmail. russia is carried out its threat to suspend natural gas supplies to ukraine's allies, if they didn't pay for it. and rubles, poland and bulgaria refused to monks into the war. they've been cut off by russia, stated gas company gas prompt bulgaria says that it's made alternative arrangements

. poland maintains that it's energy supplies a secure and nasa magazine. if you're not sure if you're interested or gas storage is or 76 percent full, this is a high level, i'm feeling much higher than in most european countries. therefore, also in this transitional period, before the baltic gas pipeline is launched, we will be able to draw on our resources as well as of any gas from all other possible directions. busy as well as our gas terminal interface, which can receive even larger amounts of liquefied gas. we will try to rise to the occasion in time to get which gary inside has fully managed obligations and has made all payments required under its current contract in a timely manner. strictly and in accordance with the terms, obviously gas is used as a political and economical to in terms of the ongoing war and not in the term of illegal and commercial relationships. a decision by gas promise caused gas prices in europe to increase by 24 percent. the price such as coinciding with reduced

demand for heat and gas as the european spring weather warms up well, you repeat, commission says that it's prepared for the price rise. president us live on the lines, treated that the announcement is another attempt by russia to blackmail europe with gas spots. europe is prepared for this scenario. she said and is mapping out a coordinated e response. she went on to say that europeans will stand united, added solidarity with the member states impacted will get more european reaction shortly from out to c, as in bob in london. but 1st, let's go live to moscow. i'll just do a story. jabari is there. so door, so why as russia decided to do these, to this, to these 2 particular countries right now, well, it's not anything to do with these 2 specific countries. this is part of a larger effort by the russian president who signed a decrease on march 31st,

which said that the purchase of russian oil and gas would have to be paid in the local currency, the rouble. and that came into effect from the 1st of april. and now we're at the end of the month. and that's when the payments are due and the countries that have refused to make the payments in the local currency have essentially they said that they are not going to be purchasing russian gas. that's according to the officials here. this is of course, as a result of the severe sanctions that have been placed on russia since the air officials here said they would go in to ukraine as a to launch their so called special military operation. at the end of february, now we've been hearing from the kremlin spokesperson dmitri prescott, who has reacted to the comments from european officials. and he said that the language they're using is absolutely outrageous that this is not russia blackmail in europe. they are simply just finding solutions that would serve their own interests and pest cove also said that the 2 countries at that have now been

a cut off from russian gas have been, were warned previous to they faxed it of this action taking place. so they were well aware of it, it was not a surprise, and they were told that if they do not make the payments in rubel, that this would happen without this is a system that was set up as a result of that presidential, the cri, through gas from bank and that the foreign companies would have to open up to bank accounts and basically deposit the payments in dollars or euro's and then transfer it to another account that would be transferred into roubles. this is a system that the russians want to use the to bypass the current at sanctions that they're under. and it's one way that the president has managed so far to basically maintain the currencies value. the ruble has, as since this morning, even gained one percent against the u. s. dollar and 1 point one percent against the euro seemingly working for the time being. but whether or not it will be

sustainable long term remains to be seen. how much does washer rely on gas pro revenues? well, according to a government figures, thin estate budget annually relies on oil and gas. revenues are about 40 percent of the annual budget comes from those revenues and gas from being the biggest company in russia is certainly a big part of those revenues. and as they are relying on european sales about 60 percent of gas from sales and come from europe. so certainly it could be a significant dent in their profits. but at the officials here have said that they are, they have looked at alternatives and ways to really as safeguard the economy. but saving said that there are still a concerns, and we've been hearing from one official who is the head of a parliamentary body that looks at financial control in the country. and he's a former at finance minister alexey cooter,

and he said that at today the economy's going through a difficult period. and he's expecting the fall of the russian economy in 2022 to be anywhere between $9.12 and a half percent. that's a staggering figure, and he puts inflation this year at around roughly 20 percent. so certainly there are concerns and, and this latest move is an attempt to try and really decrease the effects of these crippling sanctions that this country's been placed under. now in terms of ag, short term fixes, but whether or not they will be able to withstand those sanctions remains to be seen in the long term out serious torso, jibari live in moscow. any faxed or so let's go to london, then i'll deserves the d baba is the so london on you are both swift to respond to this. what in fact, but him is this likely to have that's why adrian, there is widespread condemnation of the move. and for example, the deputy prime minister here in the you can dominate. rob is called is bullying

behavior by moscow. thing. it will increase rushes status as in his words and economic korea. similarly, in the statement from us who live on the lion, she calls it blackmail. but she also does go to great lengths to stress. that's member states have been making contingency plans. she says that there is a meeting going on right now of a gas coordination group. so stressing that this won't cause chaos and hom, even in the short term of course, for the 2 countries involved right now. they are very heavily reliant on russian gas imports for poland. it's around 55 percent of their gas imports for what they need right now. in bulgaria, the government say no restrictions are needed on domestic use. the energy minister of bulgaria says that both between bulgaria and gas problem, so very annoyed by this, saying that the issue is being used as an economic weapon,

but telling their own population or his population that the non delivery of gas to bulgaria does not mean the stopping of trends, it of gas transiting through bulk area and the u. institutions are looking at alternative sources. but off the russia, which account to around 2 thirds of you, gas import the net and gets just on the half it's supplied from russia via a pipeline which crosses bella roofs. shield. rob is a specialist on european energy and chief analyst commodities at s e. b. bank, he thinks the poland is ready for this, but the rest of europe may not be. that is why they exit dear or year and the deficit of energy in general and natural gas specific in those order to all the questions on the solutions. and i think rushes em statement here, states very, very specifically. if you don't pay in rubles, you're not going to get any gas. but there are some,

ann ruba last remaining ukrainian army positions there with 35 airstrikes in the past 24 hours. thousands of ukrainian fighters and civilians are an underground tunnels and principle to allow the you and the red cross to help evacuate civilians from the steel plant. in mario poll after meeting the un secretary general on tuesday. nobody operation measures against the civilian population. ukrainian forces also confronting the russian military and the east. fierce fighting has been reported in mc alive and cason into the merrill pool mal, his telegram channel is said that sir air strikes according to him. russian air strikes only as of the steel plant. ah stillia and saying that this was as a result of russia's attack on that plant, that lady had been into an injured in those attacks. of course, we have no way of verifying that. but sa, ongoing concerns for the ra 1000 civilians trapped underneath that steel plant. in

mary opal this morning, we are very afraid you can imagine as strikes, bring a whole new dimension of fair to to the civilians living in this area. there's also reports of grad. so abdel cas certainly seemingly having, according to reports at the brunt of some of the main movements in the east this morning. but sir, as i say, staring coral to rescue them in southern ukraine. russian military at the russian military has fought tear gas and stung grenades. at protests, as in the city of cason, ah, and people are rallying against what they call a sham referendum. ukraine says that russia is planning to hold a staged illness for weeks. the interior ministry of moldova, breakaway region, trans nice drea says that shots have been fired from ukraine. the russian to save her son from death row in singapore sales and columbia military commanders acknowledged their role in thousands of extrajudicial killings.

ah, the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today. hello there we seems, very wet weather across east asia. and there's more of that to come, particularly for japan, lunacy some pretty nasty weather this weekend. and not thanks to these pulses of heavy rain working their way east. as one moves away from japan, we go to no one brewing across central areas of china, bringing some heavy down ports to the likes of wu han. we're going to see the temperature knock down here and it'll be a similar story for shanghai. and so have a look at that as that wet or whether skirts its way for the east. and we are likely to to see some very heavy downpours in japan up to 150 millimeters of rain potentially. and of course, the risk of localized flooding now for northern areas of china is an improving

picture. we're going to see a lot of warms, come back into beijing and down in the south. the hong kong will, it does remain pretty hot and humid. now as we move over to south asia, it's all about the heat. once again, you can barely see a cloud in the sky on the satellite image, not just for india, but also for pakistan and afghanistan. there is going to be some relief down in the west for carola, we've got some storms pulling in here, one or 2 shop of thunderstorms as well for southwestern areas of sri lanka. but look at that, it's a very hot and dry picture through the weekend. that should weather update. i saw a special ed line of the journey with a, a

with, [000:00:00;00] with ah, again, this is al 0. let's remind you of the main news. the south russia says that it's turned off the supply of natural gas to poland and bulgaria that's up to they refuse to pay it, statehood gas company, it rules both countries say they've made alternative arrangements. and maria, port city officials say that russia has struck the as of style steel plant. with 35 air strikes of the past hour, 24 hours, thousands of ukrainian find his, the civilians,

a sheltering in underground tunnels and chambers below the plant. millions of people living in the horn of africa are experiencing some of the worst effects of climate change. 2019 brought extreme brains and flooding, followed by swarms of locusts. now the region is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years. and 20000000 people are at risk of salvation. the conditions of destroyed crops and killed millions of livestock forcing people to leave their homes in search of food and water. as out as here is how to attach a report style from masa bit county in northern kenya, around 3 and a half 1000000 people are suffering after years of drought, low tickle and her recording young a worries about the baby boy. he 7 months old and sick, weak and hungry. there isn't enough food because of the drop. his mother can't get enough food to eat, and comp would use enough milk for him. they lost another child in february. they

say he stopped a lot to look to. he got sick and died. i don't know what to do about this other child. she might also die because she's hungry. millions of families across the horn of africa, a hungry and desperate might. it might not be facing the worst drought. the region has seen in 40 years in kenya, more than 3 and a half 1000000 people need immediate help. agencies say nearly 800000 of them are children. the animals too, are dying as it gets hotter and dryer. people out here tend to move around a lot, looking for food and water for themselves, and the animal of many areas are remote to come to the nearest hospital can be hours away. some of the women have say they can lead very early in the morning and only get to the clinic late at night. cases of malnutrition, arising at this local health center, health workers are struggling to cope. they say when some of the children get here, they are severely malnourished. my teacher,

i've been here for so long myself. i can say it is her pony, my tuition, but it wasn't because of the drought. for the last 2 years, we have not received winful grace gibbons, his many children are going to school hungry. she says this drought is the worst she has ever seen. some of them. they're just die. and we have nothing to just read them. and i me more all day because it just depends on you. what little water is left in streams and rivers may soon run out. desperate families stray the little that's left and can only hope the rains. soon falling had a mythology there martha pitt county, northern king. doctors in sudan say that at least 170 people have been killed in gun battles between nomadic arab tribes and non arabs. fighting started in west

r for state of the bodies of 2 nomads were found on thursday on rest. later spread to the state capitol, our geneva disagreements over scarce resources, of course confrontations for nearly 20 years. now for syrian soldiers have been killed in israeli air strike. serious defense ministry says that at least 3 more were injured media report explosions over the capital damascus. in the early hours of the morning. i caught me on law has sentenced, ousted leader on sans 2 cheese of 5 years in jail. she was found guilty of accepting $600000.00 and $7.00 gold bars. in bribes, the 76 year olds trial was closed to the media. so robertson is deputy director at human rights watch his age of division. he says that the germs has used false charges to imprison sushi on sanks of cheese life as a free woman as effectively over. ah,

it's quite clear that the military junta there is going to do everything they can to keep her behind bars. she's 76 years old now. she's got 11 years in prison and there's going to be more coming with other criminal charges and other court trials coming later this year. i think that they're trying to a locker away for life that they do not want to see her or her political party ever surfacing again. and this is part of their effort to destroy our popular democracy in human rights in myanmar. these are kangaroo courts. they are waiting for the instructions from the military who don, how to rule there. there's no iota of independence. the woman who won the november 2020 election, a landslide, is now a prisoner in our own country. this is another argument for sanctions against the military and military companies to really increase the pressure on myanmar. increasingly,

myanmar has sort of fallen out of the headlines with other things going on in the world. it's time for rededication of effort by the international community to pressure them jamara honda. to restore democracy and to respect human rights. i'm a lazy man, convicted of drug trafficking and singapore has been executed off to final appeals failed. naga and tongue lingam had been on deck through for 13 years of to be in court smuggling heroine, his mother celebrities around governments appealed for clemency because of his mental disability. darby chu at the anti death penalty age network says that drug trafficking, mules being targeted, not the bosses. i think singable government needs to us itself. this execute has been a very big support in singapore itself, which is traditionally a place where people favor the death penalty. the human claim, the same in the parliament, hands of it, amused to state the thing up or in people one. so definitely the belief it is the fact that deterrence and the government defendant. and then we look at again,

trends case. we've got to ask the question, when the government introduce a definite people drop off and then this was in the seventy's piece. it was not to say, you know, they believe that this will look at the tourist with a response to the traffic. you'll hear intrusive point, australia, other countries, and then has more work. it has been 3040 years now. drug trafficking is do something happens in singapore. and what they're doing now is the punishing news news on know some who benefits from the treat. someone who's exploited by the drop in the good to to do, you know, run their business. and when you look at the boy and the kid thing, we want to catch the big fish. we won the big fish. we do not intend to execute their drug use. why exploit but what is like in good? how do they justify this? they need to be able to then of speak to the west, say yeah, we believe in depth and i'll be the works. and then it works, it get rid of the big fish, where is the big fish? raise them if that he thing that, you know, this is going to work to stop drug trafficking in the country. how do i go and just found it? because right now, from my perspective one,

they just proof of the death of the targets the week, the vulnerable the poor and it doesn't solve the problem. medical workers in china's capital have found 31 new corona virus infections. that's after 16000000 people were tested on tuesday. the plan is to test 20000000 people in beijing by the end of the week, the mass testing program, as part of the government, 0, coven strategy, columbia general, and other high ranking. all the officers have acknowledged their pass in the extra judicial killings of $120.00 civilians. it's the 1st time that members of the military of publicly told the truth about one of the darkest chapters of the country, civil war, and a subtle amputee reports. now from bogota holding pictures of their loved ones, relatives of the victims of extra judicial killings streamed into this hearing in the northeast region of cat dumbo were 10 former military members among them in general at mid to committing war crimes and ask for forgiveness. your assist me,

i killed family members of people who are here. i misled them and cruelly and cowardly assassinated them pretending that rebels tarnishing the name, leaving children without fathers as mothers with our children. and i know you will forgive me, but i hope this will avoid this happening again. the military is supposed to protect pharmacy, they trusted us, and we lie to them and kill them. come, we'll get to the data while facing each other. victims and perpetrators detailed the killing of over a 100 civilians falsely portrayed as rebels killed in combat. the court determined that 6402 people were murdered this way between 20022008 in a scandal known as false positive. the goal was to boost that statistics and justify u. s. military aid. the soldiers involved were rewarded with promotions in time, off. luck. while we're going to luna coffee in the requirement was to produce

casualties in combat. no matter what this according to the policies of the army, come on demand a piece. conspired with paramilitary groups that offered them weapons in uniforms to disguise the killings. many victims are wondering why there has been so much impunity for a guess it will get. why did we have to make a public scandal for 14 years to reach this point? yes. what would have happened if we had given up we did, we need another 6400 than 2 victims in the course that you see behind me. it's also investigating the military high command that has always been that the killings were part of a systematic policy. but a number of officials have said that they were under pressure to inflate the success of their military operations most. and they just like our own. these weren't isolated event, nobody apples responsible for the killings. this is the result of failed state policies. and it war crimes is precedent. it in an important step in overcoming one

of the darkest chapters of columbia as long civil conflict. i listen that i just need a book in the walls, wealthiest university plans to spend $100000000.00 to make amends for links to