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the un chiefs on his 1st visit to ukraine since russia invaded $63.00 days ago. so he's been to 3 towns on the outskirts of the capital key. that's where russia is accused of committing war crimes. the last stop was air pin, where more than 70 press percent of the infrastructure is damaged. an earlier gutierrez visited the site of a mass grave in boucher, that's where bodies were found, with hands tied behind their backs. the sector general also went aboard young co, that's an hour away from the capital. more than half the towns been destroyed and there have been discoveries of multiple graves. there is no way a war can be acceptable in the 21st century. look at them, i imagine my family in one of those houses not destroyed. but i see my, my granddaughter running away in pen about of the family. eventually

the terrace is now in the capital keven. thats where a hood abdul hamid is joining us from. so this is the un secretary general's 1st visit to ukraine. since the invasion, what is he hoping to achieve the well he's, i think he's gonna concentrate really on humanitarian aid. what do you and in coordination with the international red cross could offer at this stage, he is coming from moscow, where he got a green light in principle by president vladimir putin for do you and do you play that role in arranging a safe ways? humanitarian corridors for people, for civilians that are still trapped in different war zones around the country. we're not only talking about the $1000.00 or more civilians that are trapped inside of that steel factory in more you, paul, but we're also talking about all those who have linear fling dumbass at the moment

or areas in the south of the country like upper region like michel, i have so certainly there is a lot t can do aimed at says now mar, you pull would be probably the one place that there would be a concentration are because of the very dire situation of those civilians in that place. but it's also a very complicated story to, to bring about is a huge challenge. the words of russia were very clear in principal. now what does that, what does that entail certain if a rush, a huge concern that among those civilians, you don't have a soldiers that are still in the factory there. or you don't have members of the as of regiment that are fighting alongside the ukrainian army in there that just simply take off their clothes and try to sneak away. now they have been actually releasing videos nearly on

a daily basis from inside the as of style. a factory showing the civilians in basements, a lot of children, a lot of women, elderly with disabilities, but also bleeding to the world to try to find a way to extract not only the civilians, but also the soldiers. also the fighters then take them to a 3rd country. so it is going to be a huge challenge and not only convincing the russians that only have it is, will come out. but also convincing the soldier that i inside the they have to stay there and only the civilians going to come out. so what's on is an agenda whilst or whilst and kevin, what should we be looking out for over the next couple of hours? well he now he now has a meeting scheduled with the foreign minister with president zelinski. we believe that this stage is under way. we are not given all the details of his schedule for

security reasons, but we do know that there is a press conference scheduled later in the day. now we still don't know at this stage if is going to be with president zalinski. if it's gonna be with the foreign minister dmitri qu labor, what we had heard ahead of his visit here that it would mirror exactly the same thing that happened in moscow. so that would mean that he would have a press conference with the mythical ever, but that is still i think we will find out only when that press conference starts. now what they're going to talk about, apart from this humanitarian corridors, is the fact that probably the at the moment there is no way of bringing about the ceasefire or choose actually the un secretary general had called for a 4 day ceasefire around the orthodox easter. that was last week and that did not happen just to show you how complicated it is to have either says, back down either size it size,

thinking at the moment that they are winning this war and concentrating on the battle for dumbass because the battlefield don't bass will give whoever with that, the upper hand at the negotiating table when and if those start again. so you will have a lot of talk around that and probably for the resident zaleski, being known for his bold weather eggs. his friend talk will express a bit of disappointments about the role of the un so far. he has said that publicly several times he also said that before going to moscow, the secretary general should have done exactly what he done. he did this morning, going to burn, junker air pin butcher, seeing for himself the scale of devastation that happened just a few weeks. and he just, so really what happened to buildings had happened to houses. but i can tell you we've been going there nearly on a daily basis for the past 10 days or so. and every time we heard about,

you buddies being exhibited people buried in shallow graves, randomly in any place around in the backyard in the side of the road. and in fields, this is still ongoing. the full scale of what happened there is still not fully clear, but certainly there is there. the prosecutor general is talking about war crimes. do you and is saying there's going evidence about war crimes. so that would be another subject he would discuss with every ukrainian official. okay, thank you so much for that. we'll cross back you throughout the day for the time being on the honey, this report for a fun we're on the battlefield. ukraine is saying that russia has increased the pace if it's offensive in the east of the country. there has been fierce fading in the dumbass region. russian forces have taken these 2 towns in the east and they are also pushing towards the cities of lehman and papa now on the front line, defended by ukrainian troops and thousands of troops and civilians are still

trapped inside as of stars, steel facility, and mar. your pull there, surrounded by russian soldiers and tanks. russia had agreed a principal as you been hearing to you, and involvement, and rescuing civilians from their after meeting between gutierrez and president vladimir putin. but so far that hasn't happened. ukrainian official say humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding at the plants where she thought only brittany thereof 600 wounded men in our group with different levels of wounds. they really need medical attention and health care. there is no medical personnel or medication . there are also wounded civilians. hundreds of people, dozens of children with many people have limited mobility. the situation is very difficult. there are huge problems with water and food completely extraction procedure. the day is not 19 forties. 2022 new people will simply die here. there been a series of explosions in the southern city of her saw near a television tower. the bloss temporarily knocked russian channels off. the air 1st

on has been under russian occupation, and people have been protesting against their presence. their accusing russia planning to hold a referendum there. charles stratford is near the town of buck mood, that's an eastern ukraine. he says there's been a concerted efforts from russian forces overnight. we're hearing today from the ukrainian military that the russian forces have taken control of 2 tales close to a town called him that they already control pushing further south and south west towards sloppy. and there was also reports by the ukrainian military saying that they'd seen russian a russian movement of at least $500.00 pieces of weaponry and military machinery in that area. also ongoing attacks in a town called lehman, which again is increasingly close to slip. also with respect to the net

which is south from here, an area the last fall in this, since the russian invasion has, has been relatively speaking relatively quiet. we're hearing that there has been a lot of shilling overnight. ukrainian only ukrainian control town of which is very close to done. it's an also south. so that's an area called murray in could that only last week, the ukrainians said they had retaken control back from the pro russian forces. having lost control in the early stages of this russian campaign, what remains to be seen, what is going to be very interesting is the fact that now that the weather has changed, the sun is out the fields in this area and this region a draw up. there's a law and i list the sag questioning as to whether we could actually see more movement of russian troops across fields in large areas like this. now that the ground is firmer, of course not according to analysts, but as i say,

older indications suggest that there has been a concerted effort in the last 24 hours by russian forces to make more territorial gains. and russia saying that incidence in a pro russian breakaway region of moldova, are an attempt to drag the region into conflict. security has been tightened. the border checkpoints after reported attack some trans mystery. all the interior ministry says shots were fired from ukraine on wednesday towards the village housing and i, munitions demco and it says, 2 explosions, damaged radio antenna in another village. the barker is joining us from vernita. that's on the border of the trends of history. a region to tell us more about these attacks and even the significance of them for this also be one of the strangest international borders in the world because this is supportive isn't actually internationally recognized a tool i'm in moldova. behind me, we own that checkpoint over there is trans leister, the broke away from old over properly early 19 ninety's. and for many,

many years has been a frozen standoff between moldova and the authorities. their interests these to that do have the backing of russia and the translation authorities and people that made no secret of their desire to one day be part of russia. but of the last few days or so, there's been an uptake of violence. as you mentioned there explosions on monday, an attack on the security building inter aspell, the de facto capitol of trans nice dra. 2 to explosions the to so be era radio moths in the north the of the region on tuesday, and claims and translation media on wednesday of shots being fired from ukrainian territory into a village in trans nice share. the sights of a large russian ammunition depot. there. another, there a whole range of different scenarios that are being possibly played out and discussed by the authorities. a mo, dover, and ukraine. ukraine strongly believes that this is something of

a false flag operation. a pretext for russia sending a large number of troops into tramps. nice geral, though practically, it's very difficult to see how that would happen, given that russia has been unable so far to seize control of odessa in the south, west of ukraine, which would have been an easy access for for them, the moldova, no authorities believe they may well, be some internal tensions within the trust eastern authorities themselves possible acts of sabotage. but also watching this from the sidelines is moscow. the russian government have said a couple of times over the past few days that they're watching what's happening. entrance needs to very closely indeed an almost ominously have said that they hope that this will not in any way escalate the violence here will lead to moldova, for instance, being dragged into a wider conflict. yes. her name given that the area is such a source of tension. how concerned are authorities there as well as the russians on the ukrainians? we are hearing that there has been an unofficial mobilization of forces within

trans nice to itself. now we don't have a clear cut number of how many forces there are there. but ever since the 1990s has been at least one battalion of russian troops, well, so possibly around 1500 of them. on top of that, we've got about 7 and a half trans niece, strand true. so if these sir suggestions on a mobilization to, to be believed, then they are of course, in a heightened state of alert, we believe that some villages and some larger towns entrenched, nice, dra have new checkpoints. and as you can see behind me, there are large cues of people. these are people coming out of trans, nice job, not that many, but behind our camera position, a very, very long line of people actually going into trans. nice, jo. let's not forget though, this is the tail end of the easter holiday, so that might be a reason why people are heading back into the region. but these keys, i believe, are not normal. what's happening on extra checks going into the region. clearly the

authorities there or in a heightened state of alert, concerned about further attacks, further acts of apparent sabotage happening in the region. well, dover itself, or misty, deeply concerned as well having to re evaluate it security status. given these rumblings, i suppose are on its doorstep. ukraine though, had said that it would be very, very willing to protect its weston flank bordering trans nature as well. there is some suggestion that perhaps this is a ruse by, by moscow to try and encourage ukrainian troops to re base west pulling them away from the, the rural api center of the fighting, which is of course, in the isa of ukraine at the moment. but of course, we can't independently verify that, so lots of different suggestions, lots of different possible scenarios as to what exactly is going on here. okay, any. thank you so much. any barker reporting from vernita hunter moorehead on the al jazeera new software, including this find out why millions of hector, as of the world's trees are in trouble. we have the details in

a moment. increasing urgency in china's capital is a tries to clamped down on a coven 19 outbreak. coming up in sport a little later, england get ready to announce their new test cricket captain details coming up with jemma. ah. but 1st, a national strike is underway right now and sure lanka, as part of protests against the government handling of a devastating economic crisis. i, members of 500 different trade unions are marching across the capital, colombo opposition parties have organized 6 days of protests across the country. sure, lincolns have been dealing with shortages of fuel food and medicine for many weeks now. michelle fernandez is joining us from the thick of it in columbus. so tell us about this nationwide strike how big it is and what the protests are demanding

o. 2 d o one day sort of tool can strike by trade unions across the different services. both government and civic government unions was to express solidarity with protested. had a good faith just down the road from the president's office. that campaign go to go home is what the trade union have. oh, so i said silly, supported. and that's what these tokens strike was. it was across the boards of different sectors. the post sets of, he says, the railway union, the dentist, the labor secretary, did all of these across the board. so in colombo, we did see a number of protest marches all culminating here in good faith. or we had all of these for some of them, a big group gathering outside the main railway station and marching on here. but right throughout colombo,

you saw those groups of marchers making their way yet. but the same situation has been duplicated. in the $25.00 districts of the country, as you have had all of these union members in terms of those in government service and in semi government service, taking part in that strike and coming together in protests like this right around the country. they're in. so me now, how much pressure is this putting on the government if any at all well, that certainly must be a certain amount of pressure that's been exerted on the president and prime minister because they are very much the key targets of this major campaign. as you can see, go to go home. roger puck says, go home. are the sort of rallying cry for the protest as here outside the president's office for the 20th day. but there are certain signs that they're trying to sort of take measures and steps to respond to some of these calls. we saw

the government, the cabinets stepped down, the president appoint an interim government been bringing an entire new cabinet of relatively young new faces. ah, but it is not seem seeming to have pacified all of these protests as they say new faces, justin cabinet won't do. they want a clean sweep from the president, the prime minister and the cabinet to go. now, there also seems to be moved within the opposition parties to do 2 things. one to bring no confidence motion against the government that would be passed by a simple majority. the other option is also to bring in sort of constitutional reform, the president and the prime minister have made sort of noises about willing to being willing to accept these. but at the end of the day, nothing much has moved. okay, man, i thank you so much. michelle fernandez is reporting for us from colombo

now, despite below, bill pledges to reverse the whole deforestation by the year 2030 millions of factors of trees are still being cut down around the world. each year global forest watch has released the report for last year using satellite data. this is what it shows tropical forest loss and 12 months resulted in 2.5 giga tons of carbon dioxide emissions. that's equivalent to the annual fossil fuel emissions of india. imagine a football pitch covered with trees. 10 of those disappear every single minutes every single day of the year, or more than 40 percent of the loss occurred in brazil. that's 1500000 hector is. there's a plus side, however, in denice as primary for his last decline for the 5th year, falling by 25 percent. but northern conifer it's forest experience, their highest rate of loss on record in 2021. a 30 percent from the year before, we're going to discuss all of this with ra taylor,

who's the global director of the forest program at the world resources institute. he's joining us from geneva. taylor, welcome to al jazeera. tell us what stood out the most for you. from this report, a statistics and the overall picture austin trophies is the arson partition writes remain suddenly high on the last 2 decades just by a session with willow tree funds for the climate where it should include a lot of the carbon i store in a 2nd is bad news to the extinction crisis or, or being lawsuit has been under the trade station early. this is not good because a lot of our station i, i think the bridge is on the right to the digital people's and often

a. right. and you know, this struction course has been on cleaning for, for the last 2 decades in fact. and despite the pledges of deforestation and commitments from governments as well as corporations. why do you think that is for station we could problem. it's really about people who need land to survive my family, as well as corporate taking advantage of areas of the world where they're a long way from capital city governments is way there. i think this new round of places is a sign on and potentially can be taken to bring those. all righty. let's look at some good news though. i mean, the report does single out indonesia saying that the rate of primary forest loss declined for the 5th straight year, falling by 25 percent compared to the year 2020. what can other countries learn

from indonesia and is indonesia itself heading in the right direction to meet? so that's kind of commitment. news for me. that is really good. recliner, we're sitting number policies in indonesia. they had a moratorium long or a series for i have various policies in place to restrict expansion or a mass supported by a oil industry. not to expand a palm. well however that is um, not necessarily go hope we have a record of higher prices which will make it more attractive to convert forced upon as well as that it has this moratorium, so lies in indonesia to see general my time of the last 5 years. ok, thank you so much. ra taylor for speaking to us from geneva. thank you. now,

police and peru have use tear gas to evict an indigenous group which refused to leave one of its biggest copper mines. that where a bombay community has set up camp at the chinese run last bombast. mind 2 weeks ago halting operations. the protest her say the mine is on indigenous territory and they went compensation for having to relocate. the firms owner says it's fulfilled it's financial obligations. while my a beach on thailand's west coast was made famous by the movie, the beach, it got so popular that authorities ban tourists for 3 years to stop the environmental damage. as tony chang reports, the success of that decision has sparked a wider debate about marine conservation. if i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back. i think i'd restart like this. red alex garland,

author of the beach. the movie released in 2000 and starring leonardo dicaprio was filmed here at maya bay in thailand. the flood of tourists that followed caused huge ecological damage. let boylen before the government closed the bay, there was nothing left. but after a few years of closure, you see more reefs that more see life is making their way back to the bay. we saw a black tips sharks, which he can see during low tide. the replanting corals are now home to nurseries of fish, including juveniles. sharks, strict limits on the number of visitors are intended to minimize damage to the marine environment. swimming is now banned. after 2 years of cove, it shut downs. it's hope that my a bay will tempt the tourist bag but it's under water. you see how marine life has thrived in the absence of visitors. the adult sharks from my base nursery flit nervously through the corals. huge shoals of yellow snappers,

sweep along the edge of the reef, gently making way for uninvited guests. in the deeper ravines cracks and crevices full of life, a spiny lobster trying to avoid the dinner table. corals fanning out with signs of new growth. and if you want to find nemo, this is the place of that lazy while they're there. it's thriving when you're lucky enough to get a chance to see it. you wonder why they don't do everything in their power to charge reserve? but just behind my a bay, there are no limits or checks. the tourists are backed by the boat load in the clear waters, the coral is bleached and marine life absent. and then all right, of evolution celine will learn. so yes we, we don't have to wait for the court. actually. we don't have to wait for the call with weapon. we can just learn from other countries, like we just learned to artillio. we just learn how the men is the nation about in

the u. s. flight ember. the have even been regular sightings of do gongs. a shy ocean mammal thought to be the origin of the mermaid myth fishermen say they ventured much closer to the shore since covered head, as is among our because of the lack of tourist during the cold pandemic nature is less disturb the most important factor for the gongs is c grassley, which is them in full sauce, you know, but the do gongs and now nowhere to be seen. scared off by boats carrying tourists back to the islands, tourists that after 2 years of locked down, a coming to find a paradise that could soon be lost. tony chain al jazeera southern thailand still had on the auto renews our why the world's largest producer of palm oil has impose the ban on exports and the largest exodus of culinary this century is taking place. i'm to see anyone in havana, cuba, and coming up. i'll explain why and and in sport

a moment to forget for inter milan goalkeeper will tell you why this mistaken true, very costly for his side. ah hello, the weather remains remarkably troy across much of northern europe. no significant rainfall in the forecast. many northern areas as we go on through the next couple of days, high pressure remains in charge is quite a cloudy high, but not too much rain. coming out to that, there is an area of low pressure to know the passes scandinavia possibilities, some snow here, coastal impasse of norway and sweden, in larry of low pressure down towards black. see some wet weather coming in here. and we have got rain still lurking there across at east side of spain as showers will ease a little further east, which as we go on through the course of thursday,

some wet weather still possible. he wanted to showers there into southern areas of france. here we go, it stays dry across england, while scotland into northern ireland and the republic of ireland, maybe one or 2 showers coming into the far north of scotland through thursday in a similar pitch of really as we go through friday signs, then some where to weather which may be coming to the far northwest as we go on through the weekend. something to look forward to much of your but she can see large you to, i want to shower, to allow for southern parts of france. some of those showers cassettes a western side of the mediterranean, also affecting the far north of morocco, some brisk winds coming through here. more showers for west africa. with the story goes that the statue of an ancient greek god hid beneath the waves for millennia. until a palestinian fisherman on earth, the priceless relic. the story continues,

that as the world's attention was drawn to casa mysteriously, the deity disappeared once again. the apollo of garza on as jesse ah ah ah, ah!

ah! tell me again, the story on our un secretary general is the ukraine visiting challenge where russia is accused of committing war crimes. when you're good terrorist has seen the destruction of residential towers in the site of mass grave. russia says incidents and pro russian breakaway, reasonable dover, or an attempt to drive the region into conflict. security has in tightened and border checkpoints often reported to talking. history of a national strike is underway, insure lanka, as part of protests against the government handling of an economic crisis. member, the 500 different trade unions are marching across the capital columbus well, it's been a month since china's biggest city shanghai went into lockdown because of a co, with 1900 outbreak. there has been widespread unrest among residents who complained

of food shortages and tough restrictions. katrina, you reports from beijing. this factory on the outskirts of shanghai normally produces around $300000.00 bicycles every month. it counts us installment among its many international clients. but because of a strict corona virus lockdown, its been forced to close for full weeks. confined to his home manager laid go worries about his 2000 workers. and his bottom line, to be honest, is very difficult for them. i would like to pay a little bit more, but you know, the, the loss for the company is also b. m. i don't know how, how am i going to so wife after this, but i will try to sofa is authorities in shanghai. see, a new round of testing will decide where the neighborhoods can begin. opening up. most of the cities 25000000 residents remain locked down. it sparked anger and

protest in the commercial center. here, people i heard banging pots and pans from their apartment windows. one woman screams, give me back my freedom. still, chinese leaders insist on maintaining a 0 curve 19 policy. they are trying to contain the public discontent. but we are still working with a lan in his system, which means that it is the target that has been said by the top leadership, which is all paramount importance for cart race responsible for any of those specific policies. public is content comes much lower in the list priorities for them to meet. there has been complaints of food shortages, the separation of families, and the killing of pets by health workers. but analysts say any political blame is

likely to fall on low level officials, not president, she didn't ping or top beijing ministers in the capitol. authorities of doing all they can to prevent a city wide locked down. people have stopped up when supplies bracing for the results of 3 rounds of mass testing conducted this week. more than 100 infections have been recorded, resulting in the closure of some schools and attainment venues and tourists sites. dozens of neighborhoods has been barricaded. the heavy handed measures resemble doors imposed during the early days of the pandemic. more than 2 years on many are questioning whether the queue is worse than the disease itself. katrina, you al jazeera, they doing. through us congress has pasta bill to help taiwan regain its observer status of the world. health organization has on a job right and is expected to assign the measure and to law. taiwan was stripped off the status in 20. 17 because of objections from china. beijing considers the

islands a break away province. cooking oil prices have soar to record high, and that's partly because of the war in ukraine. they're expected to increase even more as in denice, the world's leading producer of palm oil starts. it's export ban just washington reports on how cooks are coping in the kitchen. in chicago to sell some of the country's most popular dishes can be found in the small kitchen. fried chicken fried fish and fried toast. almost everything on the menu has one ingredient in common, palm oil, and dung. city and c opened this restaurant 30 years ago. but now she's worried she could lose customers. but it was 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 concerned 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. i'm not that bow. 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 with 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 . um oil is 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 now because of this complex and long, you know, distribution channel. the indonesian farm is, association says its members will also suffer with this. i mean, it, this time period should give momentum to the government to reform the palm oil industry. and it's production model right now, it's run by big companies and they set the distribution of palm oil material according to the market. and i'm, i know you might not 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. chicata pocket on prime minister sasha reef is appointed. a new foreign minister. been a while boots are dory, is 33 years old, making him one of the world's youngest foreign ministers. he's the son of the assassinated, former prime minister. but as your bhutto, the new for a minister and sharif had to saudi arabia on thursday, on their 1st official trip. also going to saudi is turkey's president read. the play burden is on a 2 day visit aimed at repairing ties. he is expected to meet with the crown prince mohammed ben said a man during his 1st visit to the kingdom in many years since lycos vogue lose life for us in is humble. so what do we expect from this visit, and is it an attempt to restore relations definitely there in it's an attempt to, from both sides, to restore diplomatic and economic relations. turkey and saudi arabia have very

strong economic and political relations for a long time. but all those relations have been screened in the last decade, mainly after they are killing gov. this sent a saudi journalist demarco shook jay in 2018 in saudi arabia as a general consulate building in istanbul. and at that time, a turkish president was a very vocal about the situation and he said that such a murder couldn't be committed without an order from the very top officials in saudi arabia. he was pointing out the crown prince. emma met vin salomon and his entourage. at that time, of course that's killing became a very big headache, especially after turkey revealed that it's had some voice recordings from inside the consulate building. and if there were voices of mom at bin cell moms at top, uh, aids are involved in that murder. so after that,

even the cia ss that are the crown prince mohammed and salmon ordered the can. so that was the end of the game for both countries and a, bilateral relations were straight and there was an unofficial boycott against the turkish goods and the turkish exports. the saudi arabia was around $3200000000.00 in 2019, but when it came to $3000.00 to $1.00 to $1.00, it's hit down to $200000000.00. so it was a head to politically. it was a, had a for saudi arabia as international pressure was all over a crown for his mom at been so man who is the de facto leader of the kingdom. and it cannot be wise turkey, a older he has been in a very fragile position in the last couple of years, especially after the turkish national currency lost great value against the u. s. dollar and the turkey central bank reserves have been nearly melted down. so now there's the expectation that 1st turkey one stoop,

a man ties with all of friends in the region. where with israel took gilded, he had to pay the visit to the united arab emirates and restored the relations turkeys, tried to restore relations with egypt. now, at the same is expected them on the 2 countries, and it is an expectation that 2 countries central banks are going to sign a swap. thiel of currency, which is about $10.00 to $20000000000.00, a root is a remedy for the turkish economy. and thinking that the turkish president is going to run for the elections in 2023. the reason i'm thank you so much and in kosovo glue reporting from his stumble. now a columbian judge has ruled at the former president, alvaro or re bay will stand trial on charges of fraud and witness tampering. and this has to do with an investigation into abuses committed during the countries 52 year long civil conflict. alessandra petty reports from bogo top in

a 12 hour long virtual hearing the judge, carmen ortiz question. much of the attorney general's office reasoning to ask for to dismissal of this controversial case against the former president of columbia. at the judge detailed at times, in stark terms of how she believes that the prosecuting attorney gabriella hi, miss failed to present important evidence that indeed would suggest the possibility that that is responsible for crimes. in particular, he is charged with directing one of his lawyers and other people to try and bribe and change the testimony of some paramilitary members and change the testimony where that link would you be at 2 d, illegal armed groups? now this case goes a ways back, it's actually 4 years old and it started and the country supreme court about after

the court ordered into home detention, he resigned. and that moved the case to the attorney general's office, a different legal body that some people here c as more favorable to the ex precedent. but now there's this new decision by this judge, which means that the case will indeed continue. even if there are still the possibility to appeal this latest decision. what's also clear that this is also political defeat, florida would you be and his party coming just a month before presidential elections. fossils belonging to a dinosaur that lived around 70000000 years ago have gone on display in argentina. so these are the remains of the my micro thorax, the mega rafters to 10 meters high weight about 5 tons and had blade like claws.

the fossils were found in santa cruz province 2 years ago. here with the news hour on al jazeera, here's what's coming up. 0 gravity, greetings and new crew successfully arrives at the international space station. we also have action from the n b a playoffs. as one of basketballs biggest stars helped as team progress to the conference semifinals that store is coming up with java in sports. ah

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the century driven mainly by worst thing economy. the government claims the u. s. e can like embargo or latin america editor alicio newman has the special report from cuba, capital, havana. but old mary maurice 76 year old girl young gonzales has been making shoes by hand since he was 12, nor does her bible home. but i made despair as a gift to my son's friend what friend will be giving him temporary woman board in argentina to where he is about to migrate. he tells me it will be hard to leave behind his home, even though it is literally falling apart. his children and his wife migrated long ago, but he never wanted to leave cuba until now and he will under the same diagnose for the last 60 years, our leadership has told us things will improve that will overcome all obstacles. but we see the contrary. everyday things get worse, we have less food, more social problems, going so yet again, by senior gonzales's. lucky. he has

a visit to enter his country of destination. vast majority of cubans don't. so they try to fly 1st to nicaragua. the only country where cubans can enter freely but to get there, they need to transit through panama, which is now demanding a transit visa. cubans from all over the country. wait near the panamanian embassy to apply the majority. in vain. monahan or liberal chemical has been out here for 23 days. we'll give you more than what we said are you, i'm a human being and i look on around and can't understand that any human being can be treated like this. i feel humiliated, messy, and only oh wow, at the airport. another equally desperate group has become the latest victim of a scan, an alleged travel agency that sold in tickets for a non existent charter flight to nicaragua. oh margaret. oh, everyone, you see here the whole family was leaving today. and what were you going to do when

you arrived in nicaragua? i asked her, i love him. many of us have nowhere to go because we've sold how's everything cuban she can on the crisis has unleashed the largest exit is since 1980 when former president, fidel castro, allowed 820000 cubans to sail to florida. se cooper's government blames the trump and bind administrations for the latest crisis hula her birth. the recipe is to taught me economic embargo and keyboard to provide more hardships on cuban families . reduced salaries provide hunger and desperation, and the overthrow of our government off me to heal. since cuba government repressed and unprecedented social uprising by disgruntled cubans, last july. exodus has increased this despite the new obstacles placed by panama, which appears to be cooperating with us efforts to reduce the influx of undocumented cubans. whatever the reason cubans are telling us that they feel trapped. and as a result, many are resorting to

a far more dangerous method that hadn't been seen since the 19 ninety's. and that is to attempt to cross the shark infested, florida straits that you see behind me in a raft or in a boat in an attempt to make it to the united states. in 1994, during the so called rafters crisis, nearly 40000 cubans attempted to sail to florida. many drowning in the process to day history is beginning to be repeated back at the airport. the lucky few who had managed to get a transit visa prepared to leave cuba, final destination still unknown, but the pain of leaving their loved ones behind is agonizing. a scene that is being repeated all over the caribbean island. she and human al jazeera havana. let's get an update on the sports news now with jamal. thank either ame that live a fuller step closer to the champions league final but manager young club is

warning. his side that walk is not done yet. a beat via rouse to nail in the 1st leg of the semi finals thanks to a couple of goals in quick succession after the break and such a fortune about their 1st john henderson's prost deflecting in to give them a pull. the lead. and 2 minutes later sadie amana made it to no theory out, didn't have a shot on target the whole game, but despite his seemed dominating cloth is no getting complacent as they chase an unprecedented quadruple the fool, bogus to them as nothing, nothing happened. that's how it is reduced isn't for me to the best example you play a game wants to know how often you have to be completely on alert. the to be 100 percent in the right mood have to play the 2nd half likely play the 1st half in some lands reserve goalkeeper left the failed in tears off to his mistake. gifted belong your victory and could prove very costly in the serial title race in. so went into the game knowing a when would move them top of the table above city rivals ac milan. and it look

good for them early on when even parasitic but them had 3 minutes in that mark i on out of ich headed in the closet for the long yet before the break was 9 minutes left to in his keeper unit, roger you who was making his 1st league start of the satan season that made an absolute holla to allow belonged to snatch victory into remained 2 points behind ac milan with 4 games left to play to the m b a is a big it stars have lead that teams into the conference playoff semifinals yanez entered a compost, got 33 points to send the milwaukee bucks. 3 in the east. i'll steph curry had 30. as the golden state warriors progressed in the west. david stakes rounds at the action. ah, willow road i get started. you only sent to decompose wasn't hanging about in game 5 against the chicago bose, the tea time and b p came a firing in milwaukee with 15 points in the 1st quarter alone. he had known rebels

and 3 assistants as well as the defending champion, bucks sweat to side. their opponents by 6 points. the 2nd seed securing the series for one, your list finish with 33 points over all and he and his team can now look forward to fighting the 2nd. seated boston celtics in the east, in conference semi finals. not that he knows much about them. how much basil i was supposed now i'm busy on was but i get to just started swain stuff and you know, my body gets danced up and you know, sit with my kids and i'm like really know i can was bashful. sure. haven't wasn't, i'll know that done hurry, pfizer know, putting it over in the west. the curry started his 1st game in the series for the golden state warriors against the denver nuggets and he made a big difference with 30 points. 11 of them came in the 4th quarter is golden state 8 down to win boy full trenching the series for one. 0 boy. yeah, no,

it is weighted well usually deny was just a weird feeling cuz we had been there in a while and i, we were again, we wanted to show her on canna made it a lot more difficult for ourselves. so but we still remember how to do it, which is, which is a good, a good feeling. the leaks and the pain nickel yoke, it registered 30 points 19, re bounce, an 8 assists with nuggets even with a hamstring injury. but it was all in vain as denver would dump down to the playoffs. instead, it's the warriors who go through to face our does the memphis grizzlies or the minnesota timber, who had a golden state warriors starting to get that. oh, look you know that folks. oh, to 0 in the n h l, the dallas stars clench the final spot in the stanley cup playoffs. that was despite of full 3 a the time, lots to the arizona coyotes they blew with 3. nothing late for traverse boyd school . the winner. the davis got the point thing needed to reach the pay season,

and that also meant the vegas golden knights. what eliminated later on thursday, las vegas will finally have the nfl draft after a 2 year delay. this is the event where we find out which teams the best college football players will be playing foot in the new season. vegas was originally supposed to state the draft back in 2020, but it has to be held virtually because of the pandemic. followed by a low key version in cleveland in 2021. but the set to be way more glamour this time round with the red carpet built right in front of the famous bellagio fountains. this rare, every year brings unexpected happenings. it's hard to predict what's gonna happen. oh, say, expect the unexpected. there's always shocking move. surprising, new boucher think, you know, but you don't know. her trade teams, moon up themes moving down, players being dealt for traffic themes, setting up for next year's drap. as the eagles already have 2023 dress is going to be loaded with great quarterback. it could go $12.00, i'm a teams position themselves for next year will be fun to watch this 2022 draft. so

like i say this draft every year. always i ones better in the other ben state this has been announced as england's new test, cricket captain feel round us succeeds joe re to step down earlier this month after a terrible run of results. england have one just one of the last 17 tests and lost the ashes for mail in australia. folks 1st challenge is a to test time theories against new zealand in june. heavyweight boxing, while champion tyson fury, has once again insisted that he's going to retire after his victory over william white. the 33 year old a w b. c champion, he's undefeated in 33 fights. says he wants to spend more time with his family, but a fight for all the heavy white belts against the olives under anthony joshua could be was up to $250000000.00 theories also being linked to the crossover fight against u. s. c. champion at france's in gonna taking with boxing katie taylor and amanda serrano are enjoying the limelight ahead of the historic meeting in new york.

they'll become the 1st female boxes to headline, to fight caught at madison square garden. when they meet on saturday, the bouts will cease serrano challenge for taylors unified world lightweight title . and finally, it's not easy to throw baseball while wearing a suit jacket and tie, especially when it's buttoned up. but it wasn't a problem for masters golf champion. scotty scheffler the 25 year old won his 1st major at augusta earlier this month. collecting that famous green jacket as a dallas native, he was given the honor of throwing the ceremonial 1st pitch at the texas rangers. home game on wednesday nights and it was a pretty good effort compared to some of the other ones we've seen that is all your spot for me for now i'll have more for you a little bit later. okay, i'm a thank you so much for that. before we go, let's just tell you about this. so a new group of astronauts have has arrived at the international space station. it's the 1st nasa crew with an equal number of men and women,

including the 1st black female crew member. so there on a 6 month mission aiming to do $200.00 experiments. the space ex falcon 9 blah set off from the kennedy space center in florida. that's it for the news hour. thanks for watching. more news coming up with emily intimate. ah frank assessments. what are the political risks of batting russian or the gas for western leaders or sanctions on russian energy exports? harrison was informed opinions. france is not abandoning to fight against jetty,

still resumed media. they're going to be acting from nisha and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera, mainstream coverage of big stories can sometimes deliver more heat than lights in any waters scenario. there's always a pleasure to simplify. narrative nuance is always called for, even in the case of an aggressive war, the listening pe, delve into the news, narrative and dissect them. there is not our great deal of subtlety. we're talking about the barbarism that is unfolding as though we're somehow unique. it's not unique covering the way the news is covered on al jazeera. this one's feared warlord during lay barriers. decade long civil war says he's now fighting a drug epidemic. the work that the former warlord joshua boy he has done with treat

children, has attracted to how black sentiment been and as protected in effects from public crawl situation. despite the recommendation is made by the truth and reconciliation commission for this former warlord, liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country, ah, in the ruins of ukraine's destroyed towns, the un secretary general witnesses, the horrors of the wool, and coles for accountability. the war is an absurdity in the twins. and so since the war is easy, ah,

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