worries that highlight the human triumph against the odds. ah, al jazeera selects ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello there. i'm dealing with all this is the al jazeera news, our live from london coming up today. the kremlin failed once again in his attempt to sew division among member states, the you accuses rush of black mail after it cops, gas surprised to poland and bulgaria in retaliation for western sanctions. warnings

of increasingly dot conditions at the mario pool. steel works where thousands of ukrainian defenders i'm civilians are still hold up. despite tensions over the war and ukraine, there's a surprise prisma swap between russia and the u. s. class. for millions of families are hungry and desperate across the horn of africa, which is suffering. it's worse drive in 40 years. from the galactose, tor says to the komodo dragon y, a 5th of reptiles, species are threatened with extinction. and i'm tom homeless. my have the latest sports news. liverpool have taken a step closer to the champions league final. the red ceiling a to neil 1st leguinn over villareal and the last

welcome to the program. russia threatened to cut off gas the more european countries after turning off the taps to poland and bulgaria over their refusal to pay in roubles they use accused the kremlin of using energy to blackmail countries supporting ukraine. will european gas prices spiked by as much as 24 percent earlier versus president vladimir putin has won foreign powers against interfering in his 2 month war promising lightning response. you know, if anyone would want to interfere with what's happening in ukraine now from the outside, they have to know rushes response will be swift and fast. we have all sorts of tools that the west cannot obtain, and we will not post of our weapons, but we will use them if need be, and i want everyone to know that. well, the head of the un has arrived in ukraine a day after meeting putin and moscow until near a good terrace is pushing for a c. as far as pricing wages on, and mario pool and elsewhere in the east. the spike bits of divisions over ukraine,

russia and the u. s. have completed a rare prisoner swore after lending negotiations that the baba begins are coverage with his report on russia, gas threats, it had been predicted by some fear, by many more. but european leaders see russia's move to hold gas supplies to poland and bulgaria because they weren't paying roubles as aggressive, comes as no surprise that the kremlin uses fossil fuels to try to black. my last, this is something that your team commission has been preparing for. in close coordination and solidarity with member states and international partners, our response will be immediate. united and coordinated. moscow says countries can still pay for gas imports in euro's or dollars, but only if they open russian bank accounts, which then convert the currency and make the final payments. is thought some countries have already done so. but bo guerria,

which gets the vast majority of its gas supplies from gas problem is not one of them. yeah, i want to put them in that we will not succumb to such a racket, but gary ever is reviewing all agreements with gas problem, including the agreement on gas transit, 3 bulk area, because one sided blackmail is not acceptable. the polish president just promised to take legal action, but the prime minister is insisting there's no immediate threat saying storage facilities are 3 quarters full higher than most of europe. in the patricia, as i've emphasized many times, poland had previously prepared to diversify supplies and obtain gas from various sources. even before the bolted gas pipeline is launched, will be able to protect the economy. to protect public households from such a dramatic step by russia. some warsaw residents, if not all seem reassured. the 2nd thing to go to this man says, shutting down gas supplies might end up harming russia. he says his country has

reserves 11. she was at the party. she's well, this woman one does how much pose like her will have to pay for developments linked to the ukraine war saying things are already incredibly expensive. the use biggest economy, germany has been the most reluctant to end gas import some russia, but a wednesday. it said it was speeding up efforts to find alternatives, including liquefied natural gas, or the condition of thought and see, i can say that's our russian gas dependency, which was that 55 percent before the war and dropped to 40 percent a few weeks ago is now 35 percent and treat. so for now, the common message is there's no need to panic, but it's hard to say how russia's move will play into the existing energy price crisis across europe. nadine barbara al jazeera. when the lino morgan over isn't the energy expert who's from the la ganske region of ukraine, which she left a few weeks ago, she joined us from geneva in a very warm welcome to the program. in your review, how significant is washes, use of energy blackmailers on our sea level underlying cold yeah. the cash

comes in. that is, that is, it says pendant delivery of cast, poland and bo carrier as caps and other russian political creek to snatch forecasts as an instrument of international play and triple to pull up. and this is exactly the scenario, the european commission and the u. madras. post having research and perpetual. so just to draw the attention of how carrie and poland are beyond the 2 european countries with the cash prom contracts due to expire at the end of this year. which means that this hurts for alternatives are partial well 100 but. but there was no ground to ton of the, the costs. it means that russia crawford violated the terms of the natural gas contract. and the kind of comes as the other tongues warmer and the native forecast who didn't windows. and so it is unlikely,

hopefully to lead to media supply cuts to consumers. so and the good news is that poland has petty natural cash. and it's natural gas, courage, facilities, and carrier, which is a comparatively small consumer, is sick in the poor. alternative supplies from greece and target. and alina is, if we look, you know, just a little bit into the future. is it possible for you or what you've been working on listening, it's dependency on russian energy supplies before 2030. is this more achievable? now? i do believe so. the era of fresh and partial fuels in europe is really coming to an end and up. oh, turman ministry is doing everything possible and i firmly believe that invitation to come maybe 2 or 3 days term. i mean, it's time of the knowledge that the company is kind of support energy policy on and pose an embargo on the russian crude oil. and

a lot of the european member states and the european union in general is doing can that can to, to win off russian toll cas supplies and oil. of course it takes huge til of time, but hopefully it's going to be done as soon as possible. and hopefully before trent authority, it lina in europe, you could this end up at some point in the future, being an old goal for russia if you like. yeah, the, well, the past response to what's coming on right now is a, it's quite a threefold 1st. ready sanctions and now that is in parker on russia, orland cast and toward is the european massive investment in the formative energy sources. of course, it's a long term strategy, but so it has to be done. and the problem here now is that if the cut cut of natural gas supplies last for too long, i mean, for too many mouth or suppress to all the countries rather than poland and bulk

area. it's crude cars, quite a few cows for continent that relies some plentiful and she, russia gas for the time being. but i firmly told that missed her put in a cash problem, and russia will cut off the cash supplies to europe because firmly speaking russia has has no plate, no any other place to sell. it can result. and that is a big problem, especially when the european functions go on russia, the lose a big tail of an income. and right now, put in it's put in is in desperate need of income in a morgan over joining. is there lena? thank you. my pleasure. or some forces have continued to pound the last known stronghold of ukrainian forces. the mario pul, thousands of fighters and civilians are so hold up in the as of so still works were

conditions are said to be growing more dire in the but any, there over $600.00 wounded men in our group with different levels that they really need medical attention and health care. there is no medical personnel, all medication. there are also wounded civilian, hundreds of people, the dozens of children. many people have limited mobility. the situation is very difficult. there are huge problems with water and food completely extraction procedure. today is not 19 forties. 2022 people are simply di, here in the city. official says they are strikes on the plan, haven't ceased despite washing president vladimir putin declaring on tuesday that there are no military operations on the way in the bassy city. you creating officials of call the situation in mary oh, poor humanitarian catastrophe. with about 100000 people trapped in the city. nobody . nobody is coming up in the merrier poll direction. the enemies exerting massive

fire and booking units and the area of the store plant in the city occupies continue to carry out filtration missions against the civilian population of them. there have been protests in cave demanding safe humana hatter terry and corridors of the start. your plan, mothers, and wives. the soldiers fighting in mario will attended those demonstrations agreements, issuing the crane and russia to live safe passage fighters and civilians have so far failed. russia re, a news agency says a number of rockets have hit the center of the southern ukrainian city of curse and causing power explosions near the television station. earlier. russian forces fired tear gas and stung grenades that protest this in the city. the people there have been rallying against what they're calling a sham referendum. ukraine says russia planning to hold a stage bolt in the region to show popular support for the creation of

a russian back republic. carson's and occupied by russian troops since early on in the conflict ukrainians holding regular demonstrations against their presence. little earlier i spoke with ivan schooley, a student from carson, and he described what life is like in the russian occupied city. like now in kirsten situation is like we record bias for tomorrow. yeah. and now we can move from kirsten to another great city. we can do it only by car and it is extremely unsafe. so really, the situation is really unsafe and person because or a how to get paid like for our queues. and also i think it's really, he's truly male gender. to go out. go,

because you never know. should russian troops take you to russian army in the what's the situation be? we hope it's, your grand army will win this war. and carson again, it will be great and city and voices in ukraine, also occupying europe's largest nuclear pants and the head of view. and atomic agency says safety levels, they're a so low, it's like a red light blinking. raphael grossi says the agency must be granted access to the nuclear plant, which is in dire need of repairs. this is unprecedented to have a war unfolding it amidst a large one of the work largest nuclear infrastructure. which of course, makes it for a number of a fragile or, or, or,

or weak points that could be, ah, of course, exploited, wittingly or unwittingly. the international criminal court prosecutor says he's received no reply from russia over the call. it's investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the war and ukraine. speaking of the united nations kareem khan, who was recently in ukraine, said the world is holding its breath, waiting for a resolution to violence. this is the time when we need to mobilize the law and send it into battle, not to not on the side of ukraine, against the russian federation, on the side of the russian federation against ukraine. but on the side of humanity to protect, to preserve, to shield people who are children, who are women, and who are men who have certain basic rights. and at that age at those people, whether they are russian or whether they're ukrainian is absolutely relevant. their families and their lives have been torn apart. so if this moment is not a moment for us to define and strain our sinews and come together,

what moment will we wait for? and will we be alive to see it? on the front line in ukraine's east, russian voices continue their slow advance. thousands of ukrainians have fled as the fighting gets closer. those who remain rely on the bravery of workers who deliver their food. charles trapper reports from tourette's in easton. ukraine. natalia has worked at this bridge factory. the child of bar moved to easton ukraine for 13 years. russian forces are slowly getting closer. they are 1st firing, artillery shells and rockets. then moving in or nearby villages. the closer they get, the more tempted the mother of 2 is to leave one. actually, i'm very worried for myself for my family, for the children, for my job is frightening. going to and from work because i hear the explosions in the distance. i love my job and have many friends. i don't want to leave them. the

bread factory is the largest and oldest business entailed employee around 200 people. they supply bread to many surrounding villages, but the amount of customers is shrinking as they flee the slow russian army advance . volunteered delivery driver. andre is a brave man. after loading up his van with freshly baked gloves, he heads out of town towards the front line. we follow him along isolated mc country roads to a village near the russian army control town called lyrica, the village shopkeeper. the few people still living here have be waiting for his delivery. for 3 days. for the release exam was in school over there. last time, the whole field has been shelved so heavily. it looks like they're digging it. go have a look, but it's so loud there in there. so people live and i don't feel particularly afraid. people need bread, they have to eat if they show me. so be it,

this is warm, but the village sits in between the advancing russian army, ukrainian military defense dog in across the fields. here the train stopped coming here in 2014, when pro russian separatists cease control of the next city down the tracks. does louis doesn't watch instruction as it's terrifying, there are explosions, constantly getting food to us is dangerous and there's never enough. we feel surrounded because they shoot from the side and not side. all of those who are left here are there are no medicines available. no buses, nor transport. here we drive to to risk swerving between piles of soil. heaped on the road to try and slow down. and he, russian, army, advance in a nearby village. we find homes destroyed. you create an army, tell us that this village has been hit by russian artillery a number of times in the last week. they say at least one civilian has been killed

in these strikes. the most recent strike was the smaller a number of civilians injured. the soldiers here tell us that the russian positions around 7 kilometers from here, ukrainian soldiers say russian forces are trying to destroy a radio antenna. but so far have only succeeded in destroying lives. charles stratford al jazeera, eastern new grade. there have been a series of explosions in the washing city of belgrade that's near the border with ukraine. the regional governors set a fire at an ammunition that was extinguished, and no civilians were injured and help ukrainian official described it as karma from moscow's invasion order. this month, russia accuse ukraine of attacking a few. therefore, in belgrade now despite being deeply divided over the ukraine war, russia and the us have completed a surprise, christmas walk, rushes foreign ministry says form

a us marine. trevor read has been traded for russian pilot, who was serving a 20 year sentence, a white house correspondent, kimberly how could explain the release of trevor read a former us marine serving a 19 year jail sentence, and russia follows a lengthy negotiation process. the 30 year old was released as part of a prisoner exchange for konstantin, yar shinkel, a russian pilot convicted of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the united states. yar shanker was arrested in liberia in 2010, but then extradited to the us in a statement president joe biden praised the safe return of read as a testament to the priority. his administration places are bringing home americans held hostage and wrongfully detained abroad, adding it require difficult decisions that i do not take lightly.

the timing is unexpected. us russia relations are at their lowest point in decades following russia's invasion of ukraine. but the biden white house has always maintained there's value in dialogue with adversaries. for example, america or russian cosmonaut nationals or flying together in the international socialist contender. this martha warren, the current. so is true. oh, you are so russia. oh, carry on. number of different are to lose some of which will not always. you lou reed was sentenced following a public trial in russia for assaulting a police officer in 20. 19. it's a charge. his family denies. reads, family had been concerned for his health during detention. they say he contract a tuberculosis and with suffering and solitary confinement, and then from forced hard labor entailed last month reads family stage to protest at the white house,

and met with bite and pleading for help to secure their sons release in a statement, wednesday they credited the president, forgetting trevor out, saying biden's actions may have saved trevor's life. trevor read is said to be in good spirits and on his way to the united states. but other americans, like security executive, paul whalen, and basketball player brittany greiner, remain in russian captivity. and despite tensions with russia, president biden says the united states will not stop working to secure their release. kimberly help him al jazeera, the white house. coming up on this news hour from london. from the frying pan into the fire. why an indonesian bid to stabilize the price of cooking all could push food prices to boiling point caught in. meanwhile, sentences on song suit she to another 5 years in prison in the 1st of 11 corruption

cases against her sport dynamo keep delight football fans in germany. details coming up later ah, the u. n. is warning, the parts of kenya, ethiopia, and somalia are facing their dry august conditions in 40 years. $20000000.00 people are at risk of starvation this year after the failure of a 4th rainy season. that security has also been impacted by conflict, poverty, and a locust invasion. while the world food program says 40 percent of somali us population faces hunger, with a wheel whisk of famine in the coming months, humanitarian catastrophe was avoided during a harrowing drive. back in 2017 thanks to early assistance and oldness of no pledge $1390000000.00 at a conference in geneva after a previous appeal in february only raised 4 percent of the required funds. was

hiring matessa reports from our sub contract county in northern kenya. or i'm 3 and a half 1000000 people are already suffering after years of derived low tickle and had a coating. young a worries about the baby boy. he 7 months old and sick, weak and hungry. there isn't enough food because of a drop. his mother con, gave enough food to eat, and comp would use enough milk for him. they lost another child in february. they say he stopped a little good to hear a long look too. he got sick and died. i dont know what to do about my other child . he might also die because he's hungry. millions of families across the horn of africa, a hungry and desperate might. it might not. they 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. the nearest hospital can be hours away. some of the women have say they can be 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, to show us new here for so long myself, i fancy to use 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 food for them. and i, li, monster, all day, good,

just depend on you. what a little water is left in streams and rivers may soon run out. desperate families straits, the little that's left and can only hope the rains soon fall again. how to attach the al jazeera, mosley bid county, northern king, catherine russell, executive director of the united nations children's fund. unicef, she told down to 0 more funding is desperately needed to help community survive the effects of climate change. we're seeing more and more of these climate related disasters, and i think that what we need to do, we're trying to do our program is build in some resilience. so there communities are able to deal with them. but there's no question now that we're seeing more and more crisis related problems, climate related problems, and those become huge crisis and something that really risk large numbers of populations. and i think that what we're trying to do is avoid

a situation where people start to starve to death. and we've seen animals here already. you know, the women in your report mentioned that she had a whole herd of cattle or a camels. and many of those have died off, and that's one of the reasons these populations are moving. obviously, we don't want that to happen to people, right? we're trying to avoid that. we're trying to do everything we possibly can. and, you know, we do things like, you know, big for holes and fine, you know, use water trucks and provide emergency education. there are lots of things that we can do, but we just need the funding to do it. and i think bringing attention to it will help us show commencement by indonesia has raised fears that global food prices will surge even higher. the government has expanded a ban on cooking oil exports and deployed the navy to still leave shipments. analysts say could lead to hunger crisis. jessica washington reports that from jakarta in she got herself, some of the country's most popular dishes can be found in this small kitchen. fried

chicken fried fish and fried tofu. almost everything on the menu has one ingredient in common. palm oil and the city and c opened this restaurant 30 years ago, but now she's worried she could lose customers. but a lot of the unstable price of cooking oil effects my business. when it was cars, it was difficult. now it's available but expensive. so challenging for small businesses pump oil is the world's most widely used edible oil. for months, concerns about price and availability have been growing in indonesia, despite the country being the top producer. now the government is banning palm oil exports, including crude and refined palm oil owl. the cut up, i understand the state needs taxes along with foreign exchange, and the country needs a trade bound surplus. but meeting the people's primary needs is more important. it's

a priority week up to one. the move has shocked global markets. the price of cooking oil has been rising around the world for a number of reasons. disruptions in production, increasing demand for biofuels, and the war in ukraine. the world's largest exporter of sunflower oil experts say the latest moved by the indonesian government is likely to push prices even higher . families also used in processed foods, cosmetics, cleaning products, and more economists say the government strategies to normalize cooking oil prices have been misguided focusing on supply rather than problems within the industry. it may not solve the problem because again, the problem with the, with the cooking oil in the, in the, in the indonesian market right now is actually the in the distribution channel. there is a bottleneck in our because of this complex and long, you know, distribution channel. the indonesian pharmacy association says its members will

also suffer. what does that mean? so this time period should give momentum to the government to reform the palm, oil industry and its production model. right now it's run by big companies and they set the distribution of palm oil material according to the market and the government intends the band to remain until prices reach around $0.97 per liter at traditional markets in indonesia. but it's unclear whether this policy will achieve that. jessica washington, out to 0 jakarta, there's lots more silver come the sour, surging temperature spot dangerous fires in india to the hottest marsh since records began. palestinian celebrate one of his lamps holiest nights at miasca at time of tension into islam in the west bank and its board bad dance moves. and there plenty of gold saxon from asian champions league coming up later in the show .

ah hello. the weather is set to remain dry across a good part of northern europe. high pressure, very much in charge. we could do with the rain. i'm afraid there's not too much of that in the forecast. is our area of high pressure, flabby one now, but it's having the effect of just killing off these weather systems that we do have here. little weather front there. perhaps a little bit of sharon but nothing much to speak of. the wet weather remains further south. we have got some big down polls coming in across spain and portugal, southern areas of france, not a little system just making its way across austria sliding across the hungarian, playing, pushing towards romania southern parts of ukraine. seeing some wet weather as we go through thursday. there's that try whether there's that settle weather or as warm as it has been recently announced by 14 celsius, but still plenty warm enough for the time of the simpler temperature. therefore,

glasgow, england, scotland wells with an island, allan generally dry and fine, little cloudy. the cloud trapped on to the high, but it will stay dry. over the coming days shall was continued and across a good part of spain. thursday, going on to friday. the wet weather just ease is out of the way. but northern parts of spain still seeing some wet weather. having said that, some of that cloud and ray will affect the far north west of africa. and of course a show was gathering for the gulf of guinea. ah, the mainstream coverage of big stories can sometimes deliver more heat than light in a water scenario. there's always a push to simplify. narrative nuances is always called for, even in the case of an aggressive war. the listening pace delve into the news, narrative, and dissect them. there is not our great deal of subtlety. we're talking about the barbarism it is unfolding as though we somehow unique. it's not unique covering the

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reminder of our top story here on russia has threatened to cut off gas more european countries after turning off the top of the poland and bulgaria with a refusal to pay in roubles. these accused the kremlin of using energy to blackmail countries supporting the ukraine. russian president vladimir putin as one that any countries attempting to interfere in ukraine will be met with the lightning fast military response. russian forces have continued to pound the last stronghold of ukrainian forces in mario pul, thousands of scientists and civilians are still hold up in the act of self works where conditions are said to be growing. worse doctors in sit down say at least 213 people have been killed, more than 200 injured in gun battle between nomadic arab tribes and non arabs fighting started in west of 4 states after the bodies of tino labs were found on thursday. on rest later spread to the state capital disagreements over scarce

resources of cost. confrontations now for nearly 20 years will have been, morgan is in car to me and she says to downs, military leaders have promised intervene from friday up until monday evening. there was a lot of tension and a lot of fighting between the non arab natalie tribe and the arab nomads in west r for in the area of korina, which then eventually moved to the capital of west r for janina that the sovereignty council. that's the highest ruling body or the only governing body right now here. and to dan has had an emergency meeting blood bite, and they had the hon. who headed the would the security and defense committee and the issued following the following divisions. they said that they will be sending a team of oh rather they will be deploy military to the area to try to separate between the 2 warring size, but that they will also try to address the root causes of the conflict. a member of the sovereignty council also is visiting jeanina to day on wednesday, and he will be looking into the issue with the state authorities. so there has been

a lot of tension between the 2 sides between the arab and the non arabs. but this latest round of violence has resulted in a very high death toll, including people who have been injured. the committee for the new office, at least 200 people have been injured. as a result of the violence and tens of thousands have been displaced. 11 people in india have been killed after their vehicle touched overhead, power cables during a hindu festival possession. 3 more people have been treated in hospitals for burden injuries. the vehicle decorated as a temple cherry was taking part in a religious celebration in fungi. born in the southern states of tamil nadu, firefighters are struggling to contain a massive blaze which broke out on a huge landfill site on the outskirts of india's capital, amid a heat wave. prime minister, the ranger moody is warning that could be more similar, incidents as temperatures are getting too high, too early in the year. and just chappelle reports. flames

burn for a 2nd day at the ballast while landfill adding to the hazardous air quality in the capitol. the plumes of smoke hard for anyone to avoid, especially waste workers. hottest, i like the yag ne, bought the me. there's a fire every year. it's not new. there is a risk to life and livelihood. many slum dwellings, quote, 5 people left. but what do we do picking through rubbish to earn a living, they're only option is to carry on and risk the dangerous smoke as firefighters continue to battle the blaze. rod or alicia, observe a measure of damage. we are very scared when hail these gases which cause diseases . i feel pain while breathing the fall and there are many others like this modem. again, indians are suffering a heat wave which is adding to the risk of fires. march was the hottest month and more than a century galbraith prime minister neurons remedy warn, state governments. the temperatures are rising much earlier than normal leading to wild fires and fires and buildings such as hospitals. he's urging the urgent

implementation of safety checks the landfill was supposed to close years ago. the decaying waste produces methane gas that feeds the fire instead of shutting the waist dumped. the city adds 2000 tons of new waste every day. and a shapell al jazeera, a court in me, in law, has sentenced formerly to ong sung switching to 5 years in prison. in the 1st, if several corruption cases, she was found guilty of exec thing, $600000.00, and $7.00 gold eyes in bribes. a child was held in secret, said she says the corruption charges are made up by me in laws military lead will osu took control in february last year. will the latest conviction takes a total prison sentence to 11 years so far? the 76 year old has been found guilty of inciting descent, breaking covert rules, and possessing unlicensed walkie talkies. sir g still phases 10 other corruption charges each carrying

a maximum penalty of 15 years in jail. she's also charged with influencing the election commission and violating the official secrets act of florence. though he has worn out from qual alone, poor is not yet known. whether she will be taken immediately to prison, this is not the 1st custodial sentence she's been given in december and january. she was sentenced to 6 years in prison for more minor offenses. she's now being held in an undisclosed location. and the gentiles said before that she will remain there. now, all her charles have so far been held in secret, including the latest one, which means there's been no media coverage. members of the public have not been allowed to sit an interest in on the case. does even been a gag order on her lawyer. so there's been very little information about just what sort of evidence exactly is being presented against her. but we know that in this case, she's been, she's accused of having received bribes from a former chief minister of young going $600000.00 in cash and us dollars as well as

gold bars. now, a few weeks after the qu, the military had add a video confession by the former youngel and chief minister. at that time, people said that the video was fake, but he also appeared in court and testified against her. now, on santucci, according to reports, is trying to appeal the conviction. of course, few people believe that the charges against her are fair. many people believe that the charges have been trumped up by the agent to keep her out of a political career. and the military government, of course, denies this and they've, they've said before that she has been given full due process under the law. but so far, what we do know is that she has not been able to have any visitors and even her lawyers have had difficulty getting access to her. singapore has executed the malaysian man convicted of drugs, trafficking despite appeals for clemency on the grounds that he had an intellectual disability. naga and friend darling him, had been on death row for 13 years after he was caught smoking 43 grams of heroine,

his mother as well as celebrities, and several governments appealed for clemency, saying he had an i q just 69 and was coerced into committed the crime, although we choose from the anti death penalty asian network and he says, singapore government ends up targeting drugs, drug trafficking, news, rather than the people who actually run the smuggling operation. i think singable goldman, this will us itself, this execute has been a very big support in singapore itself, which is traditionally a place where people favor the death penalty. they even claim the same in their parliament. hands of it amused the state, the thing up or in people want to definitely the belief it is the fact that the parents and the government defendant and then we look at the grins case, we've got to ask the question. when the government introduce the death of people dropped fed and 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 that has more work. it has been 3040 years now. drug trafficking is do something happens to singapore. and what they're doing now is the punishing news news almost mo, who benefits from the treat? someone who's exploited by the drugs 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 that? 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 prove it. the depth of the packets, the week, the vanderbilt, the poor, and he doesn't solve the problem. medical workers in china's capital, they shing have found 31 new coven 19 infections. the 16000000 of the cities residents were tested on tuesday,

with 4000000 more shed to be tested by the end of the week. this mass testing program as part of the government 0, call the strategy, and they have been reports of panic buying in the city with many concerned that they could follow shanghai, which is now in a 3rd week of locked down. so any forces of shot dead, a palestinian man after reading the occupied westbank. it is the 2nd killing there in just 2 days, following 17 deaths in recent weeks involving israeli forces. they say they're carrying out come to terrorism operations in the city of gin, in one of the holiest knights of the year in islam as being celebrated in occupied east jerusalem. some $250000.00 worshippers are holding prayers that they are off for layla or other which march the 27th night of the month of ramadan celebration for israeli. we at the holy site. stephanie dickins. he's lived there for us. hi there, steph. so you seen a huge number of people know that worshiping after?

well, it's been a relatively peaceful couple of days. it has and you mentioned the numbers there, a quarter of a 1000000 people managing to make their way from the occupied westbank from northern israel, from all across the, the area really to say their prayers. it's a little less now, is it was we get into later into the night, there will be more prayers basically it's seen as, as the holiest night of the islamic calendar. they believe that it's when god gave the, the did the 1st versus of the cut on to the profit. and it's the night that prayers carry more weight. believe that the heavens open and angels descend on to earth, which is why so many people try and make their way to the lock. so most compound just behind us that the, the largest prayers took place about an hour ago or so the crowds of somewhat thin doubt, but many people will remain there throughout the night. and until the sun rises,

you mentioned there. yes, there have been tensions on the compound over the last couple of weeks in the last few days that is subsided. that also is because israel then a band, the entry of non muslims on to the alex. so the mos compound until the end of ramadan. of course, this is something that we've seen in flame tensions in the past. it was part of a series of events which led to the gods of war last year around this time. so it does give an indication that this really is the site that has the potential to trigger on any larger scale conflict, not just here, but also reaction from provocation across the hour. but certainly this night, which is, as you mentioned, again, very spiritual, very special. the most holy to muslims has gone very peacefully with certainly the largest number of worshipers that we've seen over the last few years because of tensions last year, as i mentioned also because of the current virus. so certainly this is something that we haven't seen in terms of numbers for quite some time. and they're flying

from occupying east jerusalem stephan keys funerals from health. madeline albright, the 1st female u. s. secretary of state who died last month. the age of 84, president joe biden led the tributes calling her a force of nature. former presidents, barack obama and bill clinton, were also present. clinton appointed albright, a secretary of state, back in 1997. these one in 5 reptiles are facing extinction. according to a major global assessment of more than $10000.00 species across the world, signed displayed habitat loss and climate change. it find that at least $1829.00 species of reptiles are either vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered, including the iconic king cobra. 31 species are already extinct. crocodiles and turtles of the most at risk with around 15 percent of crocodiles and 50 percent of turtles to be found on the threat. if we lose all the reptiles species currently at

risk 15600000000 years of evolution would be wiped off the planet. rush young is one of the office of that report. he's chiefs who ologist and senior conservation. scientists at nature serve and he joins his resume from costa rica. thank you so much for joining us on the program. when you were putting together this reports. did you imagine that you get to the point of saying, oh my goodness, this large number of reptiles are so much at risk and, and how did it feel when you made that conclusion? well we, we knew on from previous studies a, quite a few species were threatened, but we didn't know was that many so it was, it was a bit of a shock. at least it's not as bad as amphibians were twice as many species are threatened. so it could be worse, could be worse, i understand what you're saying, but what's the impact of potentially losing biodiversity in reptiles, species at this kind of scale? what kind of impacts could it have?

i mean, a couple different levels. of course, reptiles are important in the ecosystems they occur in. i'm bait, occupy kind of a middle link in the food chain. many reptiles beat on insects and in turn are preyed upon by birds and other larger animals. so we just lose that link and that means that we might find a lot more in sex in the leaf litter, for example, and fewer birds. i'm but reptiles also have cultural meaning as well. many cultures . river hurdles, for example, as symbols of long life us is what a cultural things we can lose as well and brisk. what's the conclusion? and i know this is like a multifaceted situation around why it's happening at the rate that it potentially is. well, the main conclusion is that what we know from studying birds, mammals, and amphibians, which are much better known,

is pretty much applies to reptiles as well. we know the major causes of extinction are the same across these groups. so the more we can do to protect forests in other habitats, where either birds occur or reptiles occur, and they often put her in the same places. the more we can do to prevent these extensions. we know what to do, and with this study, we know where to do it and exactly which threats we need to work on. you mentioned knowing what to do and where to do it. is there an element here, or perhaps if i can call it a lack of will, is that what there needs to be more of a strength behind these kinds of efforts? when, as you say, we already know what to do. that's exactly right. and this study is an important reminder for you, what's writing on the inter governmental negotiations leading up to the biodiversity summit in china. this fall that we just found 1800 species. the

reptiles are threatened with extinction on the icy and red list. there's 40000 species listed as threatened across all these groups. there's a lot riding on government coming together to agree to do it. effective measures to protect biodiversity worldwide. bruce, i noticed there was one other bright sport within the report which she touched on earlier that by preserving in conservation efforts lots of other species. there is the overall effects of the state of preserving these 2 that's right on the situation could be a lot worse than, than what we found if that weren't true. so what that means is that, you know, like i said, we know a lot about birds, mammals, and opinions, countries especially in mega diverse tropical countries have set up protected areas aimed at protecting those species. and what we found was that those efforts have co benefited reptiles because so many reptiles occur in exactly the same places per shall. joining us there just before the storm gets underway, have embrace,

thanks very much, appreciate it. thank you. still had this news, our too hot to handle the miami heat progress in the n b a playoffs. details coming up in just a 2nd and sports and sleeves extends for more astronauts to the international space station, including a doctor and a geologist ah, cattle airways, official airline of the john with

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have taken a massive step towards the champions league final. the reads at beach visitors villareal to announce the 1st leg of the semi finals to thanks to a couple of goals in quick succession. after the break, we proposed 1st that going in after a couple of deflections off their opponents, which had your money getting the 2nd node and clubs men are currently chasing a trophy ford suitable for both parties and ukraine have conceded that the seasons competitions can't be completed and the league tables will now be frozen from the last round of fixtures and december shattered. annette could finish to top ahead of dynamic here with both sides, potentially eligible for next season. champ is a dynamic. we're in action on tuesday nights in germany there match with lucy darkman. that was to raise funds to support ukraine following russia's invasion. $35000.00 fans that went along to see if he ever win at $32.00,

and estimated $425000.00. that was raised, ukrainian teams are playing several matches like this around europe and the coming weeks. agent champions league now south korea as they go, have we taken top spot to end their group? they thrashed shand dongle tie, shun of china for now. the wind means their level and points was 2nd placed around red, so who also won earlier? a wind for dig in their next game will guarantee qualification as they hold better head to heads, results against allah and grounds will if a grant a gave away to penalties to help malaysian side yahoo darrell ties im a pick up a to know when was it in forward bergson that converted each of them with the 2nd spot to pick one very late on for her lead their group ahead of the sun for

a level of points with them. each group only has one automatic qualifies into an am. dragons have kept alive their hopes of reaching the knockout runs for the 1st time ever, the korean side that beat united city of the philippines to nil area. they sit fed in their group and must win the final groove, a game to stand any chance of progressing the winning run of world number 110. is there a gush white tag? i want to extend that beyond 23 matches at this week's madrid open. she's withdrawn from the torment a with an injury to her right shoulder. on sunday, the polish player collected her full straight title with victory in the stood guard gauntlet. and there was a big scalp for 18 year old. the hall girl runner in wednesday's quarter finals of the munich open. he knocked out wald number 3 in home favored alexander's video of the dane, dropping just 5 games in straight sets. when the miami heat off the atlanta hawks

at to clench their 1st round series in the m b a. playoffs. victor, i've del school, was the star man for miami with 23 points in game 5 on tuesday. but the win wasn't safe until a bomb. i, i did buy you made this score in the final minutes. the heat, the take this 197 to 94. i'm staying in a moment and making every moment mean something. so just going out there and playing hard math we. we had a great when great series. oh, when the job isn't done yet. where some conference top sees the phoenix suns at now lead their stairs with the new orleans, the appellate, thanks to a comfortable victory game. 5 carl bridges top scored with 31 points in the 112 to 97 when and the memphis grizzlies. ford back in game 5 to take a 3 to a series lead against the minnesota samples jama ranch. that was the bar man for

the grizzlies, with 30 points in the 111209. when there was a slice of history for the carolina hurricanes in n, h l on tuesday, sebastian who rounded off for, for one victory over the new york ranges in madison square garden. it gave the hurricanes a franchise record. the 53 winds in the season. if also now clinch the metropolitan division typhoon boxes, katie taylor, amanda serrano are enjoying the le. i'm lied to ahead of their historic meeting in new york. both fighters were showing off their skills and public work out earlier become the 1st female boxes. the headline of fight hard at madison square garden when they meet on saturday about is being co promoted that via crossover you tube boxing thought, take pull, and we'll see that on or hear challenge for taylors unified, lightweight titles. and that set for me back to julian london.

santa. thank you. now the private aerospace company space x as launched another 4 astronauts into orbit from the u. s. including adults and the geologists folk and they woke and dragon capture blasted off in florida, taking 3 nasa astronaut and italian from the european space agency. the international space station on a 6 month mission with more than 200 experiments planned face ex is owned by the world's richest man in law, must construct a deal this week. the by twitter are really focused around the rendezvous, which we'll dock later this evening. actually at 815 p. m. eastern time. this is the fastest launch to doc that we've done. it's about the same time it takes to go from new york to singapore. so it's kind of interesting where you can check out our website, following all the major stories that we're following right here in the studio, and that's at al jazeera dot com. that's it for me, julie mcdonald though,

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