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children, and the elderly who were allowed to leave. the besieged, still works in mary pole. on sunday had finally made it to relative safety. $101.00 civilians arrived in ukrainian controlled city of as every year. but 200 others remained trapped in the still complex along with hundreds of ukrainian soldiers who were under renewed russian attack. let's now bring in hodder, abdel, her maid, she is in a separate zia how to describe how the people are, who are arriving there. i and, and what they're saying to you when we had these 5 buses arrive and then you know, we, so these people emerging. and i was wondering actually at the time if they knew how much they were really to focus for all these weeks. the whole world knew about these civilians that were in the base plans of that still works. now,

when they got off the bus, the, so the elderly women, we so young children, they were a bit, i think in a days maybe also because of all of this attention. but then they sort of slowly started to realize that they were here. they were getting big went inside the tent where they got food, where they got all sorts of assistance and they were telling their stories. they were very thankful. but you know, they describe that life i being underground for 2 months. they also described how they were treated when they read these filtration centers where they were into a gated by the russians. obviously the russians wanting to idea anyone who was leaving that you, paul and one woman actually told us that she was threatened. she was told by a soldier not to leave because if she left she would never be able to come back home and never be able to see her city again. now, joining me, it's the best and road stand by. he was, he is the team leader who lead opperation,

suburban. thank you very much for joining me. now. you left here on friday. you arrived there saturday and today's tuesday, why does it take so long? it usually complicated operational environment. that's an active comes like raging in an iran, mary, about as you will of 9, and everybody will see, you know, the last few months. so we have to take a very secure just routes. we were escorted by russian federation and d p. so just who took us down back christ across the tracks and so on. april, just to keep us away from the shuttling away from the mind rates and away from the fighting. and that's really what took so long journey from mary a ball to my goose would normally take 20 minutes to 12 hours yesterday. and at any point was your security and danger or you were ok no we we travel for 9 months fairly well. we had a couple of security instance during the evacuation itself. we discovered a we didn't discover the, the russian federation soldiers to mines,

monex federal grants. because we've got a region that is the variance to come out. and that was to multiply while we were working to evacuate the civilians, a couple of rounds land and 500 meters white for say, i don't know who far them, but it stopped almost as soon as it started and that was really it. and i talking about the civilian we've been hearing for all these days that they were nearly a 1000 that were hold up in that steelworks. however, you might it only a $1101.00 emerged. why is that? well firstly, i don't know how many people are in that. i mentioned there are more, but i also imagined absolutely terrified to come. i, i think, you know, many people i spoke to so that they might be forced to go somewhere. they didn't want to go well, they might be arrested for having been in the, the as well still faxing with the faxes so guilt by association, an actual fax over the 100. when we got ice, we had very few problems,

and i'm very much hoping the fact that compadres can see them now in the upper reaches safe in ukrainian health charts. where they wanted to be that may encourage other people to start coming out as well. and particularly women and children, and we're committed to trying to get them. i and the choice of people was made. there was no clear greed list selection, those people who wanted lee could leave. and they came out and dribs and drabs them in the factories. huge. it's, it's many, many hacked us, so it took time for them to walk out. they were coming out and sevens. a nice tens . walking through mind fails, walking through heavily damaged areas using you know, boss with no windows, no time to ferry people around to get them to the extraction, play where we get them on to the buses and away. and then as i understand the v agreement that allowed all this to happen was centered among around the civilians that were in that factory. however, you managed to get other civilians on board,

but that took time. how did you do that? well, no, not really. i mean the, the, the, this, this organization is, is all the operation done in partnership with the i. c off the all for relies on the cooperation and. ready nation with the korean and, and russian federation, russia, ukraine, and governor russian federation say they really talk to each other. breaking a dale, which meant that we could pick up civilians, my gosh, and added 56 people to, to the number of people we've managed, managed to bring back here. now the deputy prime minister of ukraine was here earlier, and she was saying that president lensky was involved personally throughout this operation. is that true? and then on the other hand, what level was the russia involved in you was deal? who are you dealing with on the russian side? so i think the level of engagement on both sides is very,

very high. we certainly spoke to the vice prime minister almost daily. ready more than 5 or 6 times day on where the president was actually engaged as well, with her office and through her office to us. the russian federation sent down a general specifically to, to run this operation and ensure that we have the coordination we needed through them to, to make the evacuation of success. so both sides held up their end of the bargain. and we got people out. now the way out it took also, i suppose a couple of days you know, why what was happening again. i think the idea was to we were told that it was for all safety and security. ready was to keep us away from ongoing operations or heavy fighting. ready was then taking place in around murray, fall and elsewhere. so we have to take various security roofs. a journey of an hour took something like 12 hours. it's like less than an hour to something like 12 hours. we rods and migration, then we overnighted in

a school us at all times we stayed with the people we'd have accurate and reception the same rooms. we made sure that they weren't left alone and we guarantee the level of protection. and i'm delighted to say that now where they want to be and hopefully they can be reunited with that family and friends. thank you very much. thank you very much. indeed. you heard it. it was a very challenging operation to get those civilians here. 156 of them, many more remain trapped inside this to works. but also in my view, paul. and as sebastian just said, the hope is that by seeing the success of this evacuation, then more will want to take that road, which is a very difficult road if you're traveling on your own. thank you very much for those inside of tell how made it easier for us i'll have more on you kind shortly. but 1st to our other top story this hour and the threat to remove the right of

american women to have an abortion. a late draft of the supreme court's opinion suggests the 9 justices may tank a majority decision to strike down the decades old. roe vs wade rolling. president joe biden is calling on all levels of u. s. government to protect a woman's right to choice alexia bryan reports. i. 2 it's one of the most divisive issues in the united states. within hours of a leaked draft opinion, showing justices could overturn a landmark ruling on abortion rights. protestors from both sides gathered outside the supreme court why it's been considering whether to overturn the 1973 judgement known as roe. the wade that legalized abortions across the country. i'm very passionate about being her life.

and i'm just curious what the attitude is like and kind of witness history because this is a huge deal. it's expected to issue its ruling in june, but the draft written by conservative justice samuel leto suggests the top court would find the roe v wade decision was wrongly decided. because the u. s. constitution makes no specific mention of abortion rights. this is really just tearing apart everything that we've worked for and everything. all the change that we've worked for to happen. it would represent a seismic shift in us politics, pushing decisions on abortion rights back to individual states. oh, it could also have a major impact on upcoming midterm elections as well as the presidential vote in 20 . 24 will be on this side. and regardless, california we'll, we'll keep illegal here. but other states like texas and others were red states are 21 states or waiting with legislation, either restrict abortion or band altogether. right now at this point,

we're waiting for this kind of decision. several conservative states have recently joined a growing push to restrict abortions. some activists calling for legislation at the federal level to protect rights that we need mass pro does in hundreds of cities across the nation to defend really weight. and we also need to go on the off. and so, today's mass protest, action group plays actions by the labor movement for abortion, and reproductive care to be free. oh, wow. the unprecedented league has smart controversy across the us, the draft rule, and can only become final when it's published by the court, alexia bryan, l 0. let's bring in petty calhane who joins us live now from washington. they say hello there petty. what will be the impacts if roe vs wade does fall it's hard to overstate, to sweat

a huge impact. this would have done for 49 years. abortion within limits has been widely available to all women in the united states. it's considered a constitutional right by taking that constitutional right away, given it to the states. it means there would be a patchwork of different laws across the country by some estimate. as many as 24 states would move immediately to ban abortion. some of these laws don't make exceptions in the case of rape or incest. so it would have a monumental impact on the lives of women. predominately, if you look at the statistics of who's receiving abortion, they tend to be minorities of lower income. so we're talking about a massive, massive impact as for how this happened, the leak leaks have come out of the supreme court in the past, but not really nothing like this in modern history. it really is unprecedented. and so some are speculate as to why this happened while it could be, it leaked from the conservative side because they still have time to change their mind. but now that the decision is out,

if they do the justice who changes his minds would be known among conservatives as the person who upheld roe v wade or could have been from the liberal side to show just how much of a protest this is going to be we saw purchased last night with the protesters back of the supreme court a to day, they're going to have large rally to night. another thing i think is very important is this is coming because the former president, donald trump, was able to appoint 3 supreme court justices. now, 2 of the 3 in their confirmation hearings assured senators that they would not go down this road. they said it was the law of the land or it was settled law. so there's going to be a lot of questions about that. again, this is leak from politico. want to point out that no other major news organization has been able to obtain a copy of this decision to and to make sure, in fact, it is true, but cor watchers who know the writings of samuel justice say, mila lito. say this is exactly how he would write this decision. so it's, as you mentioned, not official yet, but it is going to see

a lot of protests from both sides in it till we hear the final decision. indeed, petty, and this issue has always been a hot political, a tighter. what has the president had to say? will present joe biden put out a statement saying that he hopes that this is not, in fact true. and he's give, gave a sort of cryptic reference. he said that since the state of texas basically made it impossible to get abortions, that his team had been working on ways that they could possibly influence that decision. so he didn't go into detail. but one thing could be in a lot of these states, these conservative states that want to ban abortion, they give a considerably less to the federal government than they get back in the federal budget. so there could be some moves do that. now, as samuel a leader said, there's no reference to abortion in the supreme in the constitution. there's also no reference to how many supreme court justices there have to be. so biden's going to be under pressure. he has a commission to study it to expand the court. that would be incredibly

controversial. he's there could be moved for legislation that seems unlikely to pass. but as you mentioned, he is also saying this is more proof that the mid terms matter, not just the federal level, but for the states because the states that have passed these abortion restrictions, if you look at the polls, the majority of americans really do favor some sort of access to abortion. so this could be very clearly the key, the deciding factor in these upcoming elections in the federal case and also within the states. certainly many moving parts of the story. thank you for that update. petty calhane live for us in washington dc. so let's take a look now at what eas roe vs wade. and why does it matter so much in the us. why this is wade was a 1973 supreme court ruling. it was the end point of a case board in texas by woman known by the pseudonym row who wanted an abortion there. as with most of the states, at the time it was a legal,

she served the dallas county district attorney henry white, the case went through all the legal levels before the supreme court decided that women had the right to make their own medical decisions. including terminating a pregnancy that took precedence over into the your state's laws. let's bring in steve clemens, who's the host of al jazeera is the bottom line. he joins us also from washington d. c. state. thanks for being on this news. our title or the impact this will have on the states. we're going to see the u. s. split between blue states with greater access to abortion, and then red stains with substantially less access. it's hard, as patty co have just said to overstate the significance, this is a 10 point earthquake if you're counting things in richter scale, in terms of the tectonic importance of republican evangelical conservatives. achieving one of the greatest goals that they have had in mind for decades. and

this will, if in fact this document proves to be true, if this proves to be the decision for the supreme court ending grovee way and you have to understand no one expected this. we expected a slow erosion, a kind of set of case law that would fine but, but the statement that we read is a direct assault on the legitimacy and the legal founding of roe v wade. it would overnight change this nation, change the united states into a place where there will be very difficult corners for women who want to seek abortions. we're going to have the equivalent in my view of underground railroads for those women who need to come in and we're going to see law go into convulsions and in places like taxes. we've already seen the attempts to create legal liability for parents. if in fact, their daughters were to seek abortions in other place. so there's going to be a lot of convulsion around this change in law and how to apply it across the nation

. and it is yet another deepening of the toxicity in the united states right now. certainly things that those ramifications will be widespread. save what impacts will this decision have on the upcoming mid terms and also the 2020 for presidential vote? i think it turn the mid term election into one that was rather sleepy. that looked like the republicans would automatically come rolling in with a number of challenges the by the administration has had but this decision is going to animate both sides. i think it throws everything up in the air. i think the anger among progressive circles and among women independent, remember, remember, independence are very important in election. they are going to be frustrated that there is going to be a reversion in established rights for women on the choices they have in the future . and so i don't know yet how this is going to play out in, you know, by taking public pulling data and find to find out what it is going to energize

both sides. the republicans are going to call this enormous victory, a victory that they've been seeking for decades. you're going to find democrats have been trying to stop this from proceeding going on, coming out and taking this next election and 2022. seriously. and as you just said, 2024 will all be about all the issues we're already discussing. but finally, there is going to be a laser focus on the president's power to select that next justice is on the supreme court. as more retirees come in right now, the conservatives have a majority, but, but right now if donald trump would come back or some other conservative when they may be able to put in a majority to stay in the supreme court, that could keep not only doing this roe v wade and how many other rights issues civil rights with l g b t issues, race, other issues of access for those with disabilities. so you have a whole agenda that may in fact begin to seem wobbly because of the decision that

just came. now. steve, speaking of the supreme court and it's make sense, this leg undermine it, and its reputation as an authority that really should be above the partisan frame. well, absolutely. i mean this has never happened. nothing of this scale or consequences. patty calhane just said, but i think at the same time we have been watching an increasingly politicized court system. we've seen people come in to these jobs at lower levels in the courts . and essentially what we've seen some who countered donald trump, who appointed him others who fell into line with what would be perceived as, you know, trump preferred decisions. but i think at the highest levels, we now look at the fact that we've got, you know, a essentially 5 conservative justices, 3 liberals and one guy in the middle, who happens to be the chief justice. and i think when you're in that mix, you can very often have a 6 to 3 decision, and we look at it in political terms. now this now reified, it puts

a stamp on the fact that, that read of the court on the, on the biggest decision is actually right. and they're going to be a lot of scrutiny as somebody just mentioned in your show about the statements that they made in confirmation hearings. going from sam alida to clarence thomas, to others who as they were trying to get confirmed for this role on the supreme court, how they address ro, we've weighed most of them said it was established law. most of them said they would not go into about this is a repudiation of those statements they made if in fact this statement holds and that becomes the firm decision in finding of the supreme court. yes, we do have to wait for that confirmation at sending. going to be interesting. how plays at thank you for your insights. this dave clements from am out is there, appreciate it? returning to the war, new crime now and british prime minister bars johnson has told the parliament and keith ukraine will win the war against russia. he gave his address via video link

the 1st world later to do so. since the conflict began, johnson say to britain would help fortify ukraine, so it could never be attacked again. there's also been a call between vladimir putin and french president to menu mcclung for more on that . let's bring in a barbara who joins us from london. hello. then again, what more can you tell us about this phone call between mac, krone and potion? well, emily, this is just the latest in a series of phone calls between the 2 presidents. of course, president my call also actually went to moscow in person, but they have been constant to phone calls between the 2, trying to keep lines of dialogue open and what detail we've got from a tuesday's cool has come from the kremlin and it does say the president putin told a man who am i call that russia is still open to dialogue with ukraine. but apparently, president putin accused key of not really taking the process seriously. president putin reportedly said,

but the european union was ignoring war crimes committed by ukrainian forces. and he told president mac home the west could help stop atrocities as he put it, boy, ending the supply of weapons to ukraine. he also apparently updated president michael on the progress of what the russians called a special military operation in the dawn bass. those eastern poets if ukraine and efforts to evacuate civilians from mario po, which have actually real yielded results as we've seen in the last few hours. apparently, still, according to the criminal president, michael raised the issue of global food security, saying that that was a huge concern because of the war. and president putin reportedly told him that that was really exacerbated by the sanctions against russia. and of course, that he was currently looking at

a fresh round of sanctions against russia. all right, thank you very much, nadine, babble way this going to have to labor there because they've got president joe biden speaking now. and after that, the landmark abortion are in the u. s. is facing a possible threat. so let's us mean to what the president has to say. work off record, reflect his view almost almost. anyway, look, the idea that charge me a great deal that we're gonna after you decide what we do not have a right within the limits of report. number one, but even more boys profound rationale, you and it may not. every other decision making the notion of privacy is thrown into question. i realize this goes back a long way, but one of the debates i have a rob report with weather,

weather reservoir versus connecticut standards law. the state of connecticut said that privacy, your bedroom, you a husband and wife were a couple of that, not to use contraception you. the 27 was a violation law. if the rationale, the decision as relates were to be sustained, a whole range of right. but a whole, as you like, the idea, we're letting the states make those decisions. locality would be a fundamental chip. what we've done. so it goes far beyond my view if it becomes a law. and if what is written is what we mean goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there is like to go to the other side. right? to marry, right to determine a whole wrong. because one of the issues that this court, many of the members of the court number of the members have not acknowledged is

that there is a right 5. as soon as i finish, i strongly leverage. i think the decision law was correct. overall. i think the decision rose, correct, because there's like the 5 notations on it, but it cannot be denied here. but well, you know, if this decision holds is really quite a radical decision. and again, the underlying premise. and again, i've not had a chance to thoroughly report that, but it basically says, all the decisions related to your private life will you marry whether or not you decide to conceive a child or not, whether not, i'm on the voice range of other decision whether that how you raise your child. what does this do?

does this mean that in florida they can decide they're going to pass a law saying that same sex marriage is not visible against the law in florida? so there's a whole, it's like a fundamental shift in american, just a fair to kind of fight. i'm not, i'm not prepared to make those judgments about but you know, i think the kind of vacation ro makes lot of sense. look, banquet gross rose says what all base with mainstream religion have historically included that right. that means that the real in life and the is the question, is it at the moment of conception is if 6 months, if it was a quickening my aquinas bargain, i mean, so the idea that we're going to make a judgment,

that is going to say no one to make the judgement to afford a child decision, bible boy, i will go way overboard a bit for me. i haven't thought that. do you think that need to be before i move, i do need to be made in the court later that go with a lot one, the reasons why i voted against number. the members of the court, very to the knowledge of the 9th amendment, refused now and like the privacy who saw a funding demo, rose and i'm on the law. i prefer to leave that to the women of the public at the moment. local. thank you so much. thank you guy.

all right, let's bring in and patty calhane, who joins us live now from washington. d. c. had a we've just heard from the u. s. president for the 1st time on camera. since the late draft of the supreme court's opinion suggests that the justices may strike down that decades old. roe vs wade ruling. what did you take away from what he had to say? what stood out to you? well, what i took away from that is the argument that elite as that we believe justice samuel leto is making of the what the exactly amendment that he is. he's tiny too. so what joe president joe, by just trying to do there is brought in the coalition of those who are going to be concerned about this. basically saying it's not just about abortion. if they were, if they were able to do this, they may use that provision that they're citing to strip away other rights. he brought up the fact that couples couldn't use cup contraception in the past that maybe that would go away. that this would affect every aspect of private life. now

we're gonna have to wait for the legal scholars to see if that argument makes sense . but from a political perspective, what he's trying to do is brought in the coalition of those who will push back against this decision. if in fact true, you can imagine that the l g b t q, community would be concerned about this. so that was the 1st take away from that. the other thing he talked about is the convocation of roe v wade. so that is one option. he, congress could pass a bill and he could sign a law that saying, no, abortion is a constitutional right now with the very slim democratic control of the house in the senate. that seems somewhat unlikely now. and he said he didn't have time to think about how this would impact the midterms. but in his statement, he did say this makes it even that much more important. that the mid terms that they elect pro choice senators and members of the house because then they would have a bigger chance of passing that and turning it into the law of the land, which the supreme court would have no jurisdiction then to overturn one of the other things that he was asked about what's called court packing. so when the

republicans did some fairly unprecedented maneuvers to make sure that there were republicans in the super majority of the supreme court, there were a lot of legal experts and a lot of drama crowds, especially who said, okay, no, we're in the constitution. does it say, how many supreme court justices we need to have it just so happens that it's 9. so the president said, i'm gonna create a commission to study the possibility in that. so he's been taking the slow path on that because he knows that would be incredibly controversial. if you think women in democrats will show up about this in the mid terms, because this is an issue that matters to them. if you want to make sure that the people who are anti abortion show you would pack the supreme court. so the president, acknowledging that this is a potential problem for him, really trying to lay it out very early on in the political sense of this isn't just about abortion. this is about fundamental freedoms that americans have come to expect. basically, patty, just quickly because we do have to move on,

we're hearing that the chief justice has confirmed that the late to draft is authentic. so what does that mean? that means that i imagine there are some f, b i agents who are going to get very busy very soon because a leak like this really is unprecedented in modern times. there's a lot of questions about why it would be leaked. was it the conservative trying to lock in decisions because between this decision and the final decision? any justice can change their mind? so the, by, if it was a conservatively that would put pressure on the justices, the conservative justices if they change their mind. everyone in the world would know roe v wade stood because this justice said so but there are others who think it was a liberal leak because they want to court to see just how many protests they're going to be. not just here in washington, but across the country. so we don't know who leaked it. i imagine they're going to try and find out because if you look at who had access to this document, it's an incredibly small pool of people. and again,

we haven't confirmed or we actually is justices confirmed it. then it seems that it is legitimate and we're going to see the fall out in the days and weeks and months ahead. how do we appreciate you breaking down for us as always? petticoat have live for us in washington dc. thank you. moving on now and tuesday is world of press freedom, dame gentleness in countries like me and mom, mexico and uganda. say it's harder than ever to do their job safely. many face violence persecution and the threat of government crackdowns on dissent, uruguay and unesco are hosting the annual global press freedom day conference. our correspondent to raise a bow is there. hello that teresa, what's happening where you are and what a journalist having to say. well, that's correct. i'm here in the city of honda. they live there in all why we're hundreds and hundreds of journalists international organizations. even lawyers have

gathered here to try to address the problems that journalists face around the world, and it has come out, but it's not wholly in conflict in war zones, but also online. and the threats that journalists are facing. the whole theme of this conference here is journalism under digital siege and to talk about what's been going on is the special rapport for, for freedom of speech. irene can, who's here with me right now? we've been trying to, to understand the challenges that journalists face to day, how they can be attacked on lines or surveillance technology used to control them. what are the real threats that journalists are facing today? but journalists face threats both in times of war, as well as peaceful situations in this continent. at a, you know, in latin america, many journalists have been killed. now from the digital perspective, i see 3 major threats. one is online violence targeting women journalist silence

trying to silence them. second is the use of disinformation or forms of disinformation flooding the platforms so that people no longer know what is the truth. and that means that they no longer trust journalists, and many of them there forgot to attack. and more recently, there have been revelations of how digital surveillance is being used through a communications to our phones and other means to actually destroy all privacy. the journalists have not only of their own information, but also of their sources. you. we have been hearing stories of journalists who have been targeted by big gospels by surveillance technology and, and the impact it has had not only in their lives, but also in the work they do on your proposing. something that will change that something that will help tackle this ongoing problem. what is it that you see? is that an alternative way or a way of preventing surveillance technology from tablet, from attacking journalists when 1st and foremost, what are we in the united nations?

are calling for is a moratorium, a ban, a temporary ban on any use, a transfer sale of this kind of intrusive electronic surveillance. and then use back time of the ban. too much a string, the national laws to strengthen international laws on trade. and the reason why we want this moratorium futon is because we know journalist themselves have exposed stories about how lives are being threatened. individual lives are being destroyed, how international relations have been affected because one country is sometimes carrying out this kind of surveillance in another country. international cooperation is threatened, we can't allow that to continue while we look for a solution. so we are saying, put on a moratorium, a temporary band then fixed the national nose, make them stricter, and ensure independent oversight of what is happening on the servant and put things

very important for journalists. make sure that there is protection for john. mr. john list are not treated with these types of surveillance equipment that is actually meant for criminals and terrorists to journalism is not a crime. journalists have to be protected. thank you very much. so we will continue here in this important event or international freedom day, where what's being discussed are the threats online, the use of surveillance technology to persecute journalist from the world and. and how mrs. con, just recently said, had the attacks that are ongoing and how laws and technology that should be used to attack criminals are being used to curtail defense back to you. thank you very much . teresa, very for sharing those in science. teresa by live for us in your line. the un secretary general has warned attacks in this a hell region of africa are no longer original issue, but a global threat, and tanya,

good terrorist called for resources to help end the violence. he made the remarks while initiate one of the 3 west african countries he's visiting. could tear is also showed late, is that the un top priority is to say, pace and stability in the area. for more on this story, let's bring in poor mallet, who's a consulting fellow with the africa program at the chatham house? he joins us from london. full thanks for being on the program. what is the you in chief trying to achieve by mrs? well, i think he's got really 2 messages. one it, one is a very high level message if you like to the wide international community, basically saying don't take your eye off the ball. the ukraine crisis may be huge and may be dominating political discussion, particularly more, for example, in europe and in the u. s. but there is another crisis in the cell which is still

going on, which has got worse, which shows no tried no sign of retreating. in fact, the figure is forum, humanitarian deprivation either because of poor weather or because of their violence in the sal this year, reaching an unprecedented level. there are suggestions that close to 40000000 people could be in food crisis in the next or in the coming months. and so he's really stressing that you can't just focus on other crises, the so hell really, hugely matters. and the fact that he has gone there pretty much straight from ukraine is an indication of that. but there's also a message which is addressed. i think more at a west african level, particularly those governments where soldiers have taken power in, in molly, in particular, and to a lesser extent in burkina faso and in guinea. and molly and juncture is currently pretty much buying. it's traditional part that the countries traditional partners

in europe yesterday, it broke off all of its military cooperation agreements with france and with other european countries. and it's now building a military relationship with russia. and in his choice of countries or the secretary general has as it were sent to a really strong message saying the us, he can't of course, because molly mccain of us are guinea. they are all members of the united nations. but in effect, she stressing the value of countries that work within the system, senegal, niger, i'm nigeria. they are all democracies. they all have constitutional rule. they all work very closely with international partners and are trying to tackle this crisis if you like, in the long standing collaborative way. so that's the other message. and what you rank of him not traveling to miley, what does that say? what does that emission say about about the un chief and,

and where their priorities lie? well, molly is a huge priority, but if you just think of putting the question the other way around, what if he had chosen as his keys a hell destination? not near a constitutional democratic state working closely with international partners. but if you had decided to go to molly, that wouldn't, if you like, that would have given a bit of a political lift to the molly and john to. but by focusing flossed of all on visits to these longstanding trusted, reliable partners. and of course there's an internal challenge in nigeria as well. it's a huge country, 200000000 people and next year there's a presidential election. so focusing on those 3 seliger, the jaron nigeria. he's saying these are the people we trust and we can really work with. and the former president of niger who stood down last year after completing his 2 terms, complied with the constitution and stood aside. mohammed who is,

who has just been asked by men and the african union jointly to lead a new initiative to knocker, possible new approaches and solutions to the sa hell crisis. him later he goes to molly in a sense he will be doing know, having as it were, gotta on, on his note shown his recognition, the priority that he gives to working with those other countries on senegal currently has the chairmanship of the african youth and of course nigeria is the biggest economy and the most populous country in africa. well, poll, i'm sorry to interrupt you there because we're just running short of time, but we really do appreciate your insights and thank you so much for writing it down for us. in such a concise way, we really appreciate it. her poll melina, in london, ne'er from chatham house appreciate time. and kim, stay media in somalia,

say an unknown number of african union soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack. military sources say and al. sure. bob suicide bomber detonated a device at the entrance to be a new base in alber rough explosion in the village was followed by a gun battle. okay, a few hands being declared in the indian city of job poor, following, fighting between hinders and muslims internet connection. there has been cut, the unrest began on monday night during religious festivals in both communities and continued on tuesday was the problem is in new delhi, she explains what's behind the confrontations. very heavy police press now in and around an area called a jewelry gate, off the city of georgia pul, following more clashes more fighting between him booth and muslims on tuesday. local media is saying that at least 10 people have been injured and one person has

been taken to hospital now. these altercations again on monday night when him do the muslims started arguing over hoisting religious flags. muslim, sympathetic, bracing the end of rums on its ead in india on tuesday. and hindus was celebrating a festival call should m j m p. both groups wanted to voice their flags in the area . now that led to violence between the groups police trying to disperse the crowd using battens and using his gas crowd than attacking a police post and injuring offices. that things had come down by tuesday. they were very much under control. each praise in the area took place peacefully, but following e prayers. they were more clashes and 5 different areas around the gate. so what authorities have done now is imposed a curfew and 10 areas around louis gate till midnight on tuesday. the internet to remain suspended. internet is often suspended in india in times of tension. a show,

gaylord, he's the state leader. he sent his home secretary of senior officials to the area from roger that sustain that job, corps and from raja san capital j port and make sure that the violence here does not escalate. m e n ma fighting has intensified between the military and the armed carina ethnic minority rebel group. in the southern state of kai, in the rebels have been fighting the independence since the 1940s. many have arrived at the camp for displaced paypal fakers, the military of increasing its insults on them as salts on them and planting land mines on their farm lands florence louis reports. this is the e 2 tar camp in key in state southwest miano. it was set up to give refuge to people from the current minority escaping from attacks by me and laws army. more than 15 years later, they are still here. and new ones are arriving,

displaced by renewed fighting between the military and the korean national liberation army after lawsuits whom like many other ethnic armies here. the korean have sided with the antique movement. so, so yeah, is one of the new arrivals. he says he and his family fled. after the myanmar soldiers shelled their village, i saw a boiler when there was fight media. our soldiers would shoot at the village and tucked inside the compound. they destroyed food supplies, davosto out of all of they also fight their weapons into the air to intimidate village's land. the villages were afraid to leave her hopes the permit. soldiers are everywhere in our area. that's not the only threat. the current community faces . if you've already gone out to model min more soldiers of planted land mines everywhere around and inside farm lands, nobody dares to work on their farm. is dury and season now, but no one can harvest because of it. the law mines are even in the banana

plantations. in fact, one of my neighbors stepped on one inside his farm and lost a leg. al jazeera is not able to verify their stories. a spokesman from the unless military has not responded to our email seeking comment. units that report showed the number of landline incidents across the country has increased since the crew, the violence between current fighters and the men. the army has intensified in the past year. sending people fleeing across the border into thailand or into jungles in camps in lubbock, at the me and my soldiers are based the all camp and they are fighting with the current fighters. everybody in this cavities are freight and lives in fear. we are worried to fight will come closer and closer to us. with more distaste, people arriving there also concerns. there may not be enough food for everyone. and with no sign of the conflict ending soon, people here know it may be a long time before they can return home. sign slee,

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cup doesn't want to see any complacency from his side as the try to move a step closer to an unprecedented quadruple chaff. time in the best possible way, we can order clear results from the 1st game. if that would be a cup tie a cup game, only one game and it would be decided that we have to go to we are, we would try to win them. that's what we want to try that knowing that there we go with all they have. it's absolutely clear as for via rail their current you and i emory, since he side must play the perfect game if they have any chance of reaching the final for the 1st time. they've seen off events, us and german champions by immunity to reach the semi's dom we're losing out. as a whole nessie, we played 90 minutes in this stadium against the favorites who were very strong in front of their fans and who were better. we have nothing to complain about about it, but we managed to defend well against many chances that could have increased the goes against us that we come home with the mentality that they are still favorites,

but we are excited. the team is mentally prepared to play our game. was the decision by you if it's a ban rushes, national and club football team from european competition next season has been met with little surprise in the country. sports journalist lexi, you're a chef. ski is in moscow. and says, there are accusations of double standards, but he also fears for the future of sport in russia. interesting thing is that the decision by you wasted to effectively suspend all football teams from russia, including even food cell teams, including women's teams, all the class from participating in next year's next seasons competitions. it probably should have caused more shock waves across russia to rush and internet across the pundits next. but, but the reality is the people have already got used to the fact that everything russian is being banned right. now. the most recent example of that is the wimbledon, where russia, tennis players were actually banned from it. and that as we know, cause

a lot of indignation from current and former tenant professionals, most always the case with football. now we had a little bit of good feeling last week, when the president of you, a free shipping said that it would be unjust to ban all the players from russia for something that would never support. and many of the majority of them would not support the actions in ukraine. however, those words did not materialize effectively. but there is a lot of anger from the former professionals here, particularly from you get your last year who used to be a big superstar in football. and so you guys are moscow player. and he, i think at a most interesting quote in the regards. he said that by doing that to wait for open days on doris box, by banning 18 for something that the country as the government does elsewhere. because obviously there's been lots of presidents in the world history where a government was involved in military action. and yes,

none of the athletes or teams or clubs suffered as a consequence of that. but it's always been obviously like a trend right now. again, i would expect, i was expecting more anger and indignation here in russia, but it's you that people have got used to it. but right now, you know, the only thing i can think of is catastrophic consequences or the rush football and obviously interesting to see how that evolves in the coming months. one of the russian centers players who be banned from wimbledon. andre route left was given a tough time in the 2nd round of the madrid open on tuesday. the 6th seed came through a 3 st battle against british wild card. jack draper replace whose already won a title on clay the season in serbia, would eventually take the decider 75 to move into the last 16 in the n b. a playoff 45 points from luca dont', which wasn't enough to help dallas when they're opening game of the western conference finals against phoenix. and for 2 reasons. one,

i played away from home and 2, they're facing the base team of the regular season. the sons never trailed in a 7.2 fixtures. we got to define what we installed on all season long. i got a 393 on so just, you know, keep, keep trying to slow down. all the guys. you know, i mean, we know, look along on take a shot or not, but i just try to make it tough. on the top seed in the eastern conference, miami, he opened their account in the same ease with a 14 point. whenever philadelphia, who played without their best h o m b who is else with a fractured eye socket. our board, the g o l m b. i feel like the pressures they're from, from the start with or without your, ah, you know, getting to a home is important in the playoff. oh, no,

you can't. you can't decide how hard you can play because a player isn't out there. the playoffs in the n h o underway and stanley camp champions. tampa bay suffered a big loss for the toronto maple leafs 5 nothing. while the los angeles kings scored late in the final period to record a 43 victory over the edmonton oilers. the st. louis blues also grabbed 4 goals, but didn't concede against the minnesota wild. david peron scoring a hattrick and a north carolina the hurricanes hammer, the boston bruins, $51.00 round, one of the players. oh, best of 7 games. majorly baseball is really shorter of great plays and he is a contender for a touch of the season. kansas city outfielder michael, a taylor climbed up the wall and stopped. oem ran against the st. louis cardinals had taken a hall,

brought away from kitchener. michael taylor rob england's new test cricket captain ben stoke says the. ringback field issues he's experienced will help him in his new role. he was formally introduced as skipper on tuesday and he's home ground of durham, and will lead the side for the 1st time in next month. series with new zealand stokes was found not guilty of a fray after a nightclub fight in 2018 and has taken time away from cricket to protect his mental health. i think there's a lot of negativity around that part of the fiscal, but i see it especially as a positive in the role i'm in now because you know, a lot of experiences that i can look back on good and bad and i feel i can really actually help either way. and if people feel like they are the needs comes me speaks about anything on the field or field. okay, i'll be here again in a few hours. it's more sports news. emily sounds good. thank you very much. paid

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