so see, ah, will press freedom day. 3rd of may. 2022. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, i'm kid fidel. this is the news are live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes . the world health organization says nearly 15000000 people died because of the crone of ours pandemic. almost 3 times more than previous estimates. scores of civilians remained trapped in bunkers at a steel plant in memory of whole rushes as its observer sees far. ukraine says

attacks continued, grand prime minister appeals for financial support and the war against russia. as a donors conference in warsaw pledges more than $6000000000.00. and israel's highest court upholds, in order that could leave nearly a 1000 palestinians homeless, expanding them from lands that lived on for generations and outside of hmos with the sport rail. madrid celebrate their grades escape and the champions league. they set up a final date with liverpool after dramatic might against match the city with the bold health organization says cobra dye dean is linked to far more deaf spin originally thought it's new estimates show almost 15000000 people died directly or indirectly from the virus between 20202021. this includes what's known as excess deaths. that means fatalities above what would normally be expected in an area

before the pandemic stroke. linked to also to the strain cove at 19 caused on health care systems, amp society. most of the excess deaths, the 84 percent were concentrated in southeast asia, europe, and the americans that it's got more now on there. so charlie angela who's standing by for us in london. charlie talk us through exactly what these numbers mean excess dex. well, it is interesting, as you said, because it is this figure of 15000000 is almost triple the number of official government reported death, which was 5400000. the w h o has yet to break down the figures to distinguish between those direct deaths, as you said, and those caused by knock on effects of the pandemic. but they are saying that a majority of those extra $9500000.00 deaths ah, were direct deaths caused by the virus, which in a way is a subtle way of pointing the finger at countries they believe. miss reported that

coven death holds on top of that list, highest with excess death is india and russia. now these new calculations combined, nor any the official national data, but also surveys from local government and household surveys. on top of that, they've got statistical modeling. that's how they come out with his $15000000.00 figure. but accurate reporting during the pandemic was always problematic. not just because it relied on honest reporting, but also because it, it varied from country to country, how a covey death was reported. so here in the u. k. if someone was dying and they had cove it at the time of death, it was reported as a covered death, even if they were terminally ill. no, that's not the methodology that was used in africa or in india. and interestingly, this report was actually ready in january. the india had had the concerns and they delayed its release saying that they were concerned about the methodology

and a, an over i happy about it quite frankly. but the numbers have been backed up independently as scientists at the university of washington have just released a study estimating more than 18000000 covered related death between january 2020 and december 2021. and that was published in the launch that journal recently. and just to put it into perspective, what we're talking about is 3rd seen percent more deaths globally than would normally be expected over 2 year period. and as the un agency chief gabrielle is said is very sobering. number, charlie, what does it hug to will come out of releasing this report, trying to get a real true tally of the number of people who died as a result of covered 90? well, i think one of the purposes of this report here is to galvanize countries who quite frankly, at the moment, feel like the worst of the pandemic is over. they are lowering their god the who is

said that if they don't count the dead, they will miss the opportunity be to be better prepared for next time. so this report is designed to remind governments that they need to be investing, not just in recovering their economies, but also in preparedness, planning and coordination with our, the gum governments to get ahead of the curve and make sure that they are prepared for the next pandemic. which, who knows when that when that could be, and we've heard from bill nate's bill gates, who's been doing media rounds today. he's launching, i'm an initiative. he's calling jam, which is the global epidemic response and mobilization task force. and that's going to be a team of epidemiologists and veronica just who can work together. but it's also gonna require significant funding from the w h o. so this report is incredibly timely. but when children come to learn about the great pandemic of 202015 1000000

death is the number that they will be learning. all right, charlie angela there for us in london. thank you. like santa, if he's a kid, lead a university college london global citizenship program. on outbreaks of infectious diseases, she joined us on scott from london. so just the woman to speak to honor. what were your initial reports on read your thoughts. rather, on reading this report, that 14900000 deaths were associated either directly or indirectly with the cova 19 pandemic. so far and well, my 1st thought was that that number could be even larger than the current estimates shown. there's some discrepancy the group in washington has a higher figure, but i think on the experts all along were very aware of the, let's say shortcoming or tools that were not available right from the beginning. so the amount of testing and cetera would mean that there were many desks that went on,

accounted for, especially at the very beginning. and if we're looking back as june 2020. so from that perspective, i think exit death is an excellent tool to show us that although there were many theories about, well, certain number, the population would have died anyway because of their age, et cetera. this really shows that no, in fact cobra did make such a huge dent in terms of overall global ductile. when you know this report, what are the lessons here that we should be taking away on tale angela was saying, you know, and children of the future come to learn about the great coven pandemic of 2020. what do you think the lessons learned will be when we look back? well, i think a lot will be we're going to actually be able to act quickly as i think is that one of the key lessons of the pandemic. it does ensure that he does require that we

continue to monitor and having surveillance systems in place. and many countries are starting to essentially wind down their surveillance of these into infectious diseases. and di tracking. what is happening with cobra is really important because it helps us to understand what we need to prepare for, not just for the next pandemic, but even now as coverage continues to evolve. and there could be a long, cooper, complications that were still just trying to understand. so i wouldn't say that all of those lessons are in the past. i think they are also unfolding as we speak. and that it isn't. although w o has projected that there could be various different outcomes associate with this that over time we could see the disease become more and more mild, which would be certainly the preferred outcome. it's also true that we're not

immune from a more legal variance emerging as well as we're certainly not in that position right now, but we shouldn't discounted ever. and that's why we need to have these types of surveillance programs in place, and really understanding having the investment and in these types of programs. i think that the fact that there were so much under funding of public health agencies under funding of health of life and all of this did also contribute to this overall google deck tool just in terms of the quality of care that was available to people depending on where they were in the world and the continued problem of vaccine and equity. as i saying these lessons are still happening in real time. and we still have a very unequal divide amongst who have protection and doesn't. what about global cooperation in i guess, reporting the numbers because the w h o says only 5400000 deaths were actually reported attributed to covered worldwide. so therefore,

many countries under reported their numbers for various reasons, i guess. but, you know, has it been any effort to try and create some sort of baseline guidelines so we can all be working, you know, singing from the same phone sheet as well when we try to confront anything like this again. well, even we have the same fun sheep, so we can't force everyone to sing the song. so if we look at some of the discrepancy, there are very significant. so in egypt there are 12 times the number of deaths been reported in india, close to 10 also in the pocket of more than 8 times russia, nearly 4 times more deaths than what was reported. so all of this really in terms of having the tools available. yes, the double show has been amending a best practice framework. but then it is really up to governments themselves in terms of how they will then use those tools, deploy them in terms of tracking and reporting now,

especially in 2020. i think we can understand that many places just simply couldn't access the testing that was available in the united states. however, they had a very complex policy. this is under president trump, where there seems to be refusal the trust that were available to choose to move toward the different one. so any country are sort of unique challenges that the leadership faced in terms of ensuring doctor, we can understand the skill of the problem. and if we don't look back and are able to have an accurate assessment, we run the risk of under estimating the threat yet again and under investing. so that we're not prepared in future on all level that i think minimizing what code it is or what it had done is probably a real threat right outside of their lead to university college london, global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases. thank you. thank

you. the ukraine is again accusing russian forces of storming the besieged steel plant in mario pole where civilians are trapped. russia early announced to cease fire at the sight and insist it is abiding bias. these pictures show fighting there in the past few days, the un has been working with both sides to get people out. civilians are still in the as of style steel plant with ukrainian soldiers who vowed to make a final stand fenton martin with this report. ukrainian fighters have been holding out an underground bunkers in the sprawling steelworks for months and for the past few days in the scene of heavy fighting, as russian forces tried to capture the last pocket of resistance in the strategically important city. but despite running out of food and ammunition,

the soldier se they've no intention of surrendering, follow grania by the open. good news on the mario post garrison for 70 days has resisted the overwhelming forces of the enemy by itself. since the 25th of april, we have held a circular defense of the ever stole fun. it is the 2nd day the enemy has broken through into the plant. there i have a bloody battle side. but it's not just soldiers hold up. here are hundreds of civilians remain trapped, report others have been evacuated in recent days, ukraine's president in appealing for help to get those who remain to safety. when you're going to run it today, i spoke to you in secretary general, antonio gutierrez, and we discussed what we have already achieved and what is still necessary to do to save mary paul and the defenders of mary paul city. there is not a single day that i and my team wouldn't do this, and i'm grateful to everybody who helps russia has promised to cease fire 3 more

days to allow the last 2 women and children to escape. if the promises kept, it may be their final opportunity before the russians move in to end resistance and marable. once and for all. since monahan, al jazeera authorities in common, tolerisk st. 25 people have been wounded in russian shelling eastern cities near the front line of fighting and on this province. russia has increased the bottom of ukrainian positions as part of its don boss offensive. chelsea, it is now where one of those strikes hit have a look at the size of this crater. it's gotta be 10 to 15 feet deep. now, local residents are saying that the building, the destroy building that you can see here was an abandoned building that was still under construction. and look at the thickness of the, of the masonry. you can see obviously how powerful that, that bomb attack was. and right is going to pan out and you can see the residential buildings. this is a seller. so the military says a is

a purely residential area. there are hundreds of flats that i've had, their windows destroyed and, and as you can see, pretty much completely devastated. and this area is right pans, round sweeps round to there's a playground here in the park. and you can see obviously the trees there have been completely shredded. this was an incredible, incredibly powerful explosion. residents are saying that they heard this is one of sri explosions. they heard in this area last night and around 5 i am. it is incredible that nobody was killed in these attacks. we're hearing that at least 25 people were injured. and as i say earlier on this morning, we were at another attack. nothing like on, on this scale. what we do know though, is that russian forces, certainly, according to the ukrainian military, russian forces are building up the reinforcements, have gone in north of crematory. indeed north of the neighboring city slab,

dance around a town called is yeoman. away from the front line since national donors are in poland, capital was all the a mist raise. money for ukraine's humanitarian needs, which are growing more desperate by the de once bustling towns and cities, now lie in ruins, pounded by months of russian bombardment. that's led to a refugee crisis, which is going to become europe worst since world war 2. dominic cane who signed for us in berlin? dominic ukraine's president address the opening of the donor conference. my videos inc. what did he have to say? over the course of the past few months, the regular plea from presidency and ski to the wider world has been for military assistance. but that was not the forefront of his mind today. instead, he wanted to prioritize the plight of his people talking about the reality facing

those many millions of ukrainians who are dealing with the onslaught that they have been under from the russian forces. now for many months, this is how the presidency, the sky, address the conference the armed forces of ukraine and all of our heroic defenders bravely and firmly defend our freedom on the battlefield. but how this brutal war will and is decided not only on the battlefield, there's also the economy and finance humanitarian support and the ability to ensure a normal life and liberate a territory and rebuilding what was destroyed by the russian army. freedom must demonstrate that it protects people's, provides better than tyranny. that is why this conference is so important for everyone in europe. and that plight of the ukrainian people moved many of those who were listening to the address from president zalinski.

president fonder. lion of the european commission spoke with some emotion about her experience visiting butcher in ukraine with president savanski seeing for herself what she called the evidence of war crimes committed by the russians. she said, these are her words that russian forces are committing war crimes on a daily basis in ukraine, which is why she said it was so important for the you to have a twin track approach on the one hand ratcheting up sanctions against ministers in moscow. and against oil, and that sort of thing coming from russia was on the same time, pledging far more money towards ministers in care of. the interesting thing here is that that pledge of money was backed up by the german chancellor, all of shots, and answering another 125000000 euros for the government in kiev. and the overarching theme provided by president shine michelle of the european council of ministers. the you cancel the ministers who has said that he wants to see

a martial plan for ukraine. now that is a reference to the american reconstruction brown from the u. s. government that was provided to europe after world war 2. and given that the anniversary of world war 2, ending, at least in europe, is this weekend. it will certainly have focused people's minds reconstruction. they say providing liquidity to the ukrainian governments. while that means ready cash to the ukrainian ukrainian government so that they can start rebuilding that when it came f arthur deleon. thank i did go ahead on the news r including there's good news for energy giant shell. it's profit of shot off despite been costs from exiting russia and human rights groups. they innocent people have been rounded up in the crackdown gangs in el salvador and they transport with santa action from the n b a playoffs, including

a veteran who continues to deliver ah, israeli forces have injured 16 palestinians and arrested dozens of others at the alex a mosque compound and occupied east jerusalem media board, se elderly men and young children are among those detained. israeli police fire rubber bullets at palestinian gold saying they throw stones. a confrontation began after jewish worshippers were allowed on the site for the 1st time. since the end of ramadan, the alex a compound is one of the most volatile flash toys in occupied east rou, slim. in 1967 jordan and israel agreed that the war, cliff, or islamic trust would control the compounds with israel responsible for external security temple mount as is called by jews, is revered by worshippers, who pray at the western wall of the compound. it also contains 2 of islam. holy

sites, the al kimberly mosque and the dome of the rock shrine. only muslims are allowed to play prey rather inside the compound. jews can pray outside. stephanie decker is in occupied east jerusalem with more details on the latest trouble. it is the 1st day since the end of ramadan and ead that non muslims are allowed to enter again into the alex. i'm off compound to time slots allocated during the week 3 hours in the morning, one hour in the afternoon. there's actually now one group touring if you will, the site. this is something that's been agreed upon. tween jordan, the custodian of the site in israel under a long agreed status quo that non muslims, ah, can visit, and muslims pray. this is what's changed over the years. policies will tell you that the nature of these groups have changed, calling for the right to pray are actively trying to pray on the site. and this is what is hugely provocative to palestinians. in fact,

many analysts we've spoken to have said that even the police who escort these groups often turn a blind eye to prayer and there's even actively members in government that support jewish prayer on this site. however, every his railey government has maintained and that they want to maintain the status quo that there are no plans to change the status quo, but certainly palisades on the ground will tell you it is a very different story. just to give you a sense of the, a, of the complete sort of inflammatory nature when it comes to these kinds of visits to the side, you're looking at the al kidley mosque. now behind the mosque, you have the western wall. this is the only area that jews can pray. abbey of the alexa most compound, it is the holy site for jews known as the temple mounted. is the 3rd wholly a site for islam, of course, it drew slim is wholly to 3 abrahamic faith. so this is the situation why you've seen tensions escalate in the last couple of weeks. hamas also saying that this is

now a red line that more needs to be done to stop these kinds of groups accessing the site provoking palestinians, particularly with those calls and right to practice. israel supreme court has upheld an expulsion order against 8 palestinian villages in the occupied westbank, 1500 villages, face being made homeless. they've been fighting to stay in their homes in the motto region for more than 20 years. he is the army designated area, military training zone, in the 1980 summer. liquor is an attorney. we found a petition together with the association for civil rights in israel, on behalf of some effected palestinian families. he says the court decision violates international humanitarian law. it's really the worst decision i have seen . and so many years since i represent the dentist and in many of the more very bit this one is even worse because it, it didn't take in consideration at all the rights of the indians that the

physician is not only lived there for generation, but they also own the land it's private land with doesn't do number privately in and didn't take in consideration at all the international law monetary law. we found we the petition. we add the opinion by 3 major experts when the measure, but when they are in law, say that the state cannot, the area is the firing zone. and the judge who gave the ruling, he himself is settler, an ideological settler, who lives in the westbank, a totally ignored the opinions. he told me, not the rights of the tenants. and actually he allowed transfer of hundreds affirmative from little villages where they live and why they own the land

. the meaning of the court decision from yesterday is that they really high court of justice and i emphasize the war justice because there's no severe it gave the permission to the state to evacuate them and actually to move them forcibly out of where they live. i'm not sure that it's going to happen or not. so the emphasis at the moment is given by the very high court of justice. and i mentioned the one the, the judge who wrote the decision, but the 2 other judges, including one of them, a mid to it's going to be in the, in the year the president of the icon just signed and approved the high prices of oil and natural gas, a boosted record, 1st quarter profits for british energy giant shell. shell says it made more than $9000000.00 in the 1st 3 months of the year. that's triple the earnings that reported the same time last year. the company took

a $3900000000.00 hit from exiting russia. that's all lower costs elsewhere. the healthy earnings pumped shells, stock price up by more than 3 percent during warning trade in london. well, i'll be right. jan brown is director of research at energy intelligence. he joins us now live from new york. now shell isn't the only one making bumper profits out of the the current climate. is this not? i mean, joe joe was we should have in line with all the spears, shouldn't be strong results upstream part of the business of a downstream part of the business journey record margin. so we're seeing really sort of across the interview space for show that they finally get the 10 percent returns, the planets you would turn off to 30 percent of the cash flows, the base that they generate back to the general or the 2nd half. that's a very strong environment or energy. how was this happened despite shell energy at

energy, despite shell exiting russia? yeah, i mean the, the, the exit is, you know, obviously mentioned they have to take a hit on that. and not only from the small degree from others as well, you know, again the, the end of the sort of what i think, i think the focus is on the, on the underlying strength and resilience of the business. but that's been very strong. and that should continue, definitely even stronger in the 2nd quarter, especially for downstream summer suggested a windfall tax, which is exactly what it says on the box, taxing shell for its windfall. is that ever going to happen? and then we've seen bro, i, mr. johnson, pretty much talk that down. so we don't expect to see that happening in the u. k for companies. i think, you know, i think i think that's, you know,

our profit taxes are, are generally counterproductive. we'll political tools and then useful tools with a strong earning shell of peers are generating, you know, they can reinvest more of that into both their traditional energy but also their due energy. that's something that they sort of mentioned there. but do you expect that the source of profits will continue a 2nd order as well? ok, so i want prices, i gas prices, but also racial and we're biting margins and a chemical rocks as well. i think the concern a, with your term is profit should continue. i think the concern is around a long economic activity or negative matter. so we made the euro song to europe in russia, but result of that from spreading world. and so i think the russians route to

process the 2nd half of which is why the companies are joined. but you know, but still stay. and i thank you very much for your time. a fair analysis api gen john, director of research at energy intelligence, is one of the world's top oil producing countries have agreed to slightly increase their outputs, while the plans to been importing russian oil by the end of this year. opec countries and their partner nations will base production by more than $430000.00 barrels per day starting next month. but some analysts predict that won't be enough to meet demand and could further increase the price of crude and lead to even higher inflation. still had on al jazeera, he's described as one of the most dangerous criminals in the world, a colombian drug lord, and sent to the u. s. to face multiple challenges and in sport, qualified places are up for grabs at the grid master's fun. it will have all of the

actually, ah, hello there, the wind is dominating the story across much of africa and the middle east. at the moment we've got blustery conditions affecting the lavon, knocking temperatures down here, unsettled weather, pushing its way further east, and some of those winds are kicking up dust affecting visibility for the likes of to wait saudi arabia and katana. we are expecting these conditions to last for at least the next 2 days we'll see temperatures down to the mid thirties as well in places like re add and doe in the days to come. now as we move across to north africa, we'll see temperatures dipped down as well for coastal areas of algeria. antonia, thanks to low pressure that's bringing some really wet and windy conditions across the mediterranean. the wind dominates as well for libya kicking up. that's the

horror. sand pushing it to southern areas of europe is looking unsettled as well around the coastal areas of the gulf of guinea. we've seen some flooding in a buddha. in nigeria. we will see those thunderstorms dominate across southern areas in the days to come in. that rain runs its way all across the bound of africa towards the southern areas of somalia. we've got a wind warning out along the coast of tanzania, wind warnings for s were teeny, and some fire weren't warnings across the west to fall africa. the wet weather will arrive on saturday. ah, with, i don't get a get with

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what geology is there, a reminder of our top stories this l. well, valve organization says nearly 15000000 people have died from cove at 19 in the past 2 years, almost 3 times more than originally estimated. the new numbers and crew deaths links to the pandemic strain on health care systems. ukraine is again accusing russian forces of storming the besieged steel plant where civilians attract. russia announced to cease fire at the size in the city of north pole. it insists it is a israel supreme court has upheld an expulsion order against a cluster in villages and they occupied west back around $1500.00 to the jews, faith being made homeless. these are the army designated area, military training zone in the 980 or attending now to our top story, ukraine is again accusing russian forces of storming the besieged steel plant with civilians. traps, russia, ernie announce sci fi at the site and say that is abiding by savannah brew is

a spokesman for the un office. for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. he told us earlier, some of want to, as all the stall survivors have gone through. people there are completely traumatized by the situation which i think none of us can even imagine. what is it being to be underground for more than 2 months without seeing the sunlight for 2 months and not. and having done this sounds of the shelley on your heads every day without access to water, proper water without access to food, without being able to talk to shower every day or not even shower more than 2 months. so you can imagine how it can be actual being the situation. i think the suppression of people deck. and yesterday i was in the, one of the equations and that we went to close. my polling out there to bring people to safety. here i could talk with some of the different areas could see how we teach for venture to, to being an added to cannot to meet. i met one woman yesterday and tony and she is

an old woman and she has to say with by foot to have children, children, i was there when they jumped into the bus to come here for the thought to the bridge. and these women and all the lady, she doesn't want to leave the audience. so we're talking about family separations. she has to see the children that you get onto the navy. and she is being a, not that spanish intensive ip and still it is. she doesn't know about how it's going to be for her to be bad with her husband, but she does not know either. she's going to be able to see it got you. and i think it's a very dangerous environment where operating a wash on and going there and going to my all going to august. how is a very complex and then to creation. we have to think about every movement and i agree on these movements ot us to the conflict. rising fuel costs to behind higher inflation around the world, turkey for $1.00, so consumer prices jump almost 70 percent last month compared to a year ago. said im calling all the reports from istanbul when the rising cost of living there. target citizens have been overwhelmed with rising prices,

especially in energy and food. in the last one year, the annual inflation has reached nearly 70 percent is expected to continue this way a but for the regular turkish citizens. the rising prices especially include, is making their lives more difficult. the reason the of the price hikes and true kit is one, the regional problems like the war in ukraine uh, between kia and moscow. and also turkey's domestic monetary policy took his central bank cut interest rates from 19 percent to 15 percent last september, which calls occurring sick crash. and because of that turkish near our loss valley . and it is this meant for the turkish citizens that they can buy less with the same amount of money. the government has tried to improve the living conditions of

the regular turkish citizens by increasing the minimum wage and the pensions. however, people we have spoken to tell us that it, despite the increase in their wages, it is difficult for them to deal with the prices that are changing nearly every day . ashley, we are cutting an all cash combined cheaper, otherwise it's impossible to survive. i checked around today and all prices have risen, but i guess we will get used to, as i believe prices will eventually come back down. partially. turkish policymakers will believe that this high inflation is a temporary problem for the turkish people and the turkish economy. by keeping the interest rates low and the turkish near all week, against the u. s. alert turkey will boost its exports and production and will create a budget surplus by the end of the year. this is what the turkish economy administration things. however, despite the ministry of finance,

believes that this problem will be overcome by the new year. many experts warn that the impacts of this high inflation will be felt among the residents up to 3 years. some of the residents believe that the government is going to overcome this crisis as there is an election coming up in 2023. but experts warn this may not be possible. british interest rates are going up to a 13 year high. the bank of england increased them by increased them up rather by a quarter of one point to one percent. it's also warning the u. k. risks, the double whammy of recession inflation above 10 percent. on wednesday, the u. s. federal reserve announced its deepest interest rate hike in 2 decades. giddy has opened an investigation into former president of a cold day and 26 of his officials. he's alleged to have committed several crimes while in office, including complicity and murder,

torture and legal detention candy was ousted from power and arrested after a military coup in september. it was hawk has more. well, off a con they was in exile up until a few weeks ago where he returned to the country. remember he was deposed in a qu, back in october. and it's because he's in the country that the attorney general and the prosecutor, a very young prosecutor in his 30, his name is alfonse charles wright took charge and started legal proceeding against a man that appeared before then untouchable above the law and powerful the former president of guinea alpha con day, now he's charged with being behind a rafter of murder, sexual abuse, torture during his time in office. the 84 year old is what among 26 people that have been accused of all of this,

including 26 members of his former governments. so this is quite an incredible moment for a country where there's, there has been very little justice for the people and it was, in fact a civil society group that brought this to the court during alpha conduct rule. and now we're seeing hopefully the beginning of a proceeding taking place in guinea while he's above 84 years old. and he re spending the rest of his life in prison. but what's extraordinary, and what we're seeing right now is not only the level of impunity there was previously in this country. and justice. similarly starting to being served is the circumstances in which this trial is taking place. why? well, because since october military genta has taken over power, one of columbia's most notorious strong cartel bosses has been extradited to the united states. as well as being one of the biggest cocaine traffic is in the americas san antonio. as he's known as also wanted the murder, extortion,

and kidnapping the hunting has more he was the most wanted man in columbia until his arrest in october now wearing protective military gear. dido antonio saga, also known as o. tanelle, has been flown to the united states, charged with drug trafficking, murder, extortion, and kidnapping. gas c o. it's that i thought i'd like to inform you a little that die euro antonio, it will sugar. yes. or, or torn, yell was extradited, is this criminal is comparable only to pablo escobar, killer of social leaders, abuser of children, boys, girls, and teenagers alike, the killer of police officers. and one of the most dangerous criminals in the world are tonia is widely considered to be the boss of the cleanser golfer, a powerful drug cartel that controls cocaine roots into mexico in the united states . is there one view this band? it was extradited to serve drug trafficking sentences in the us. but i want to be

clear, you know, that once he serves those and he will return to columbia to pay for the crimes he committed in our country. her toenails lawyer argued against his extradition, saying he should be allowed to confess his role in columbia as nearly 6 decades of internal conflict. but that request was denied with a $5000000.00 bounty on his head or tonia is now at the mercy of us court to decide his feet. leah harding al jazeera, a government offensive in el salvador against criminal gangs. the scene, the arrest of around $22000.00 suspects, though the rank down has popular support international rights group say innocent people are ending up in jail to tom homan, reports this is the image that the salvador government wants to transmit. another suspected guy member of the streets, his tattoos giving away his affiliation to a criminal band. they rested more than $20000.00 people in the last month and

a half as they seek to clean the m. s. 13 and burial, 18 gangs of neighborhoods. they group a decade this also is an image of the crackdown. one of many women saying good bye to a husband or a son, as they disappear into the salvador in prison system. here are others. i love you, son. she's saying in march off through a murder spike, the country declared a state of emergency. that meant people could be arrested without warren, the salvador and congress has extended that state of emergency to late may please continue to round up young men or mess. inevitably, along with the guilty human rights group said the innocent have been taken the matter under loose code, al jazeera, her sons, one of the latter he sells face must to hospitals. she says and helps her get by now she's used a quarter of what she makes in a month at a market still to try to free him 2nd 100 percent that had been offensive. i don't

know why the president is doing this to innocent people. people are guilty can find someone's done something they should pay, but the not guilty i. li, she knows where he is. other women going from prison to prison, trying to find their relatives, look at the crowd here. and the correct down goes on in the italy district, well known m s 13 stronghold. so just question search everyone going in and now put an overwhelming number of salvatore and approve of president kelly's actions. we have stopped being extortion. we're not being anything now. the gang members have been being seen, they have practically disappear, and business is flowing, bullard, and longer afraid to come to the city center and walk the streets. so many have suffered extortion rape, killing that even if some innocence have to suffer others believe that's

a price worth paying if they can simply be free. the question is, if at the end of all the arrest confusion of brutality, this will actually work. john holman, out 0. the u. s. embassy in cuba is again, issuing visas for the 1st time in 4 years. form of present. donald trump closed concert services in 2017 of the allegations of sonic attacks on embassy staff and their families. a number of cubans trying to enter the u. s. is surged with more than 78000 crossing from mexico and the last 6 months. we'll keep it as one of 3 countries excluded from the upcoming summit of the americas in los angeles. the u. s. says they don't meet the necessary democratic standards and, and i'll just, they're exclusive, our latin america editor, lucy in human gut reaction from cuba as deputy foreign minister. as the name implies, the summit of the americas is the only venue we're leaders of north central and south america gathered to confront pressing problems this year, and the theme is migration. but the host president joe biden has unilaterally

decided to exclude 3 countries, including cuba, by o, thank you. thank you for. i met cooper's deputy foreign minister godless fernandez . the ga seal of van is point, man for us affairs, to talk about the implications of washington's controversial decision. or we have said that a summit that excludes some countries of the region. it's an exclusive summit, but if you're going to have the summit, you're going to spend money on it. if you're going to go to the trouble of convening, heads of state and government, it would be to discuss the difficult problems that we have in our region, which are difficult. some of them are controversial and for the summit to be successful. the useful thing to do, and the fair approach to take would be to have everybody in have everybody put forward their point of view, even if you don't like them. as we all know, tuba is undergoing a huge exodus of its citizens right now,

the largest since the 1980 is actually. why do you think that is one of the basic reasons that is pushing migration is people saw that the policy of the biting government is exactly the policy of the government, which is maximum pressure to where cube the policy of the u. s. against cube in economic turns to date is nothing short of criminal. it's a criminal policy to punish the livelihood of people. while i've heard i asked for an understood seal if and as a gesture to the biden administration, the head of the summit of, than up my grant, an amnesty to protest to sentence to harsh prison sentences, taking part in last year's anti government protest. why would cuba have to make concessions for us to stop applying a policy that is criminal? and that is clearly unfair. what would you say to president invite and if you had him on the phone right now about the fact that he doesn't want to invite cuba to the summit of the americas. when that was one of the things that the vast majority

of the countries of the region fought for for so many years, i doubt that he would speak with me. but i would say that if you're going to call it a summit, calling summit of a part of the america, you cannot collie some of the americas. if you go to school some, you should not fear having frank dialog, even when there are differences. and there are differences in the region, and there are problems, immense problems or regions, but the countries need to talk about the countries of the region are claiming that it be an inclusive so it, and that cubey include the u. s. should pay attention to south korea, setting an example of what can be done to revitalize forests as it hosts industry leaders from around the world. it's reconnecting with nature belt a decades of exploitation as providing a model that could help others address climate change. while the crime reports. it's a gathering the brings together thousands of experts on forests meeting after

a one year delay because of the pandemic. organizers say that's a timely reminder of how humanity and nature also interconnected. and reiterate the importance of healthy forests to limit global warming. poorest are absolutely essential to climate stability. if we have any hope of staying below 1.5 degrees warming, we need forests there thinks for carbon, so they suck carbon out of the atmosphere. and all of the scenario is they all have forests in there as part of their models that bring that temperature down. the host south korea offers important lessons on forest management. it's stripped much of its wooded hillsides in the 1st half of the last century. and during the korean war, but then embarked on an ambitious reforest program, the amount of land that's covered by forests has roughly double to more than 60 percent in the past 6 decades. that periods also seen south korea transform its

economy into an advanced one proving it seems that economic progress and good forestry management can and do go hand in hand. in contrast, the mountains of north korea have been relatively stripped of trees. after years of economic hardship, it means biggest summer storms and floods because of climate change, inflict more damage. and the changing climate is also causing more damaging forest fires in south korea. i'm a cuban all of our young one time. this year we had the largest ever wild fire that burned continuously for 213 hours and that was made worse by global warming. so we need to improve our system for, for st. disaster management. another indicator of a changing climate. the cherry blossom season, which has just ended on the peninsula, comes earlier each year. a visual reminder of the delicate and shifting balance between trees and the environment. rob mcbride al jazeera,

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their advantage with the opening goal was 17 minutes ago and came the drama real gave themselves hope. when substitute rodrigo scored in the 90th minute, and then in the 1st minute of stoppage time, the brazilian made it to on, on the night 5 all on aggregate home crowd were stunned disbelief. and the match went on to extra time around the 2 and then moved in front for the 1st time in the time getting bens him out was filed and the penalty area penalty given and converted by this season's top score. oh. 7 i sorry, on the day they're going through to the final, after 65 when across the 2 legs, another great night for the club off to winning the spanish league. title it the weekend. they had to paris to play liverpool. and the champ is league decided

that's on may 20, but i got others to people that bought deals. i'm going to delegate to win a match like this. you also need a bit of luck. we never gave up off the cities go despite the match becoming a lot more difficult for us. we had everything to night, sacrifice a bit of luck and strength. it was a very intense match. and that was a disappointment for tennis fans at the madrid masters on thursday. the highly anticipated the 3rd round match between all back jock of it and on the murray it was cancelled off tomorrow, withdrew due to illness. it would have been the 1st meeting in more than 5 years succeed and the lever secured his place and the quarter finals with the straight sets when over dan adams, russian took this 17675 is way past us and in the women's competition ost deborah is into the 1st w t, a top tier finals, her korea eton isn't. it was too good for russian qualify. pasadena, alexandra in the senate,

took this 1620. chris paul turns 37 this week, but the be a veteran that shows no signs of slowing the phoenix guard, the livid, sensational final pull to in a game to the western conference finals against the dallas mavericks who had 14 points in the final time and took food for the game with 28 songs winning by 20, and now the, the sears to nothing. so i'm watching some sounds and 2 years and i, well, but you know, just more than what his own gorgeous watches. you know, i carries a cellphone, responds to that, you know, soon as routine takes care of his body, you know, as di, strength and conditioning. you know, i can tell you, bernard campbell, it, he's feeling younger about a day. it's going to be about in the eastern conference, the philadelphia $76.00 is i'm desperate. need of them main man,

joel and beat. well, who's out with a facial fracture from last week. fairly have lost the opening, 2 games against miami, the heat, or led by a bam. and the bio with 23 points are key ingredient ah, to sacrifice from one another like this. that's the biggest thing, a stay connected. all together we're going to reverse, you know, asked when it brings out to true character. and i definitely got each other's back . and in the 1st round of the nfl plan, the carolina hurricanes have opened up an advantage over boston 5 to when a, when they put them to nail up in the series. with the brewing over in toronto, the visiting tampa grade level with maybe leave off to apply for the victory. also in canada at mountain joe hand that mike smith made incredible 30 saves in the 6. nothing victory over the los angeles kings and in minnesota. hold fast through

their hats on to the ice to celebrate a hat trick for toil erickson. e. k. against the st. louis blues only to discover, the goal was overturned after a video review. for me, no one has landed in miami as the city prepares, the stage, it's long away to w raced this weekend. dr. is joined a fans on wednesday for the opening night party at the track which is built around the hard rock stadium along with austin, texas. this is the 2nd us race on the f one calendar with the 3rd being added next season in las vegas. and as i was when we will have more for you later on, including the latest from the madrid, marcus tennis. but for now it's for you. thanks, rosanna, are ukrainian nurse who lost both her legs, is shared a video of a 1st dance inside a hospital ward with her husband asana bound. dina was walking home with victor

vastly lived in the eastern hunts region. when a land mine exploded, victor wasn't hurt. they were married on monday, susan ah, mm hm. and on may, 9th, the philippines will vote to elect a new president to replace that or did he go to care? and more than 35 years in the country emerged from his father's dictatorship, couldn't front runner, worthiness, marked as junior at the top spot. as the men of be thought, join us for a special coverage on al jazeera, the natural capital is capital, which nature created no rush when nature is transformed into

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