some trial, whether for parts of texas, oklahoma, arkansas, wet weather, stormy weather, now pulling away from the eastern seaboard with us slowly but surely, but more heavy route gathering across the plains. chatter, official ally of the journey with this is al jazeera ah lauren kerry johnston. this is a news our life from day coming up the next 60 french president to morrow. micron is sworn in for a 2nd term as likely to be overshadowed by challenges at home and abroad. russia carries out missiles, strikes ukrainian, fort city of odessa, as its military prepares for world war 2 picture day parade. after more than

a dozen tests so far this year, or career use of firing another ballistic massage. and afghanistan's taliban leaders older women to where the old covering book in public some of the groups, toughest roofs since, the suzy. i'm sorry, higher fuel source, and it's another landmark environment for the rising star men tennis. 19 year old callers alcaraz feeds his idol, raphael and adults reached the madrid monster semi final awe re elected president myoma cronus promised to unify france soft a divisive election campaign or speaking, or to being sworn in for his 2nd 5 year term. a cron says francis, dealing with unprecedented crises including a war europe. the pandemic and climate change. as he says his country is at its best. despite the difficult times, he vows his 2nd term will not be

a repeat of his 1st viola prophecy. so de vicki dizziness the whole place, not don't. it's the french people who choose their representatives and president gra, giving me this mandate to day. the french people have not extended my turn that began 2017. a new france different to the other 5 years ago. have given a new president, a new mandate, or french turn, this anonymous peer, husky says a con showed an unusually humble face at the inauguration, emmanuel mccoy, sometimes known for grand jose events and, and trying to it's been described sometimes as oregon is been trying to portray itself as a humble, a new president for a 2nd, then they will act to the different crises that you have mentioned, whether it's or the war in ukraine them and they make the climate change. and also the domestic challenges, social and democratic challenges that is facing. and as the recent elections show,

the presidential election showed that fraud was divided not in 2 blocks, but in 3 blocks. and that's going to be the challenge of the next parliamentary elections in june. because we have the far right with marine le pen who was his challenger in the 2nd round. but we now have a united left block behind mr. middle show game, 3rd in the presidential election and was the leader of the radical left. so he will have to face 2 challenges from both right and left. if he wants to get a majority in parliament, which is the key for stability and for governing in this country. so the next 2 months are still going to be very much focused on domestic politics with those parliamentary elections at the same time with the european presidency that frost still has for another 2 months. so it's going to be a busy 2 months for president michael

russian missile strikes of the city which his home ukraine's largest port reportedly struck close to a death airport and its city center. there was a separate strike on the nearby town of asses. in the past week, several towns in the southern region have been targeted by missile attacks, and the curfew is in place in odessa until tuesday. i'll this is hassan law suit. it joins us now from odessa. so her son, what more can you tell us about these latest missile strikes? yeah, we are now beside that. oh, this says airport here in odessa city, which were, which was at targeted by and mrs. strike in this place, 2 missiles at a hear that place. and in the norsen and side of the

airport, oh, which led to explosions, heard throughout the city of odessa. we also heard the air defenses trying to confront the missiles in the sky of odessa, fire fighting hears, are it working in the place? why we have detected 2 injuries, at least so far. this is targeting comes after the south earn operations coleman, the had confirmed targeting odessa region by for a cruise missiles into the region, especially the western and the northern region. oh, fair odessa, the, these attacks and these miss, i start is dikes were since the morning here in odessa, after the air raid also went off a during the day since the morning. okay,

thank you. out as her as her son masoud with that update from odessa, ukraine is taking precautions as russia hurst, his fritz annual victory day parade. monday, march, the $73.00 of nazi germany is surrounded soviet union. the 2nd world war, or the curfew around ukrainian port city of a desa from sunday night. so tuesday morning because of worried about russian celebration officials in t of believe russia, the president could use the occasion to declare a formal war with ukraine. 50 people including women, children, and the elderly, have been rescued from the besieged as of style. industrial complex, mary paul, un, and red cross workers met them. on friday, the russian control village of busy men, ukrainian officials accused russia violating cease fires during previous evacuation attempts. the eastern tongue pass nor has been on the siege for weeks. the news about 2000 civilians are trapped there by those. charles stratford now reports from

nearby viscount attempts to get them out and stopped because of the danger to volunteers. yard. all those who knew school was distilled, came a sort of a rush go, was a construction worker before russia invaded ukraine. when the war started, he volunteered as a civilian evacuation driver is now missing fear dead. this video shows him after he had rescued civilians from the besieged town of port persona. in the east of the country, the liberal eagle was his co driver on that day. he says, said a gay told him, if he could save another 20 people, his life would not be in vain. we should be your partner, yellow. i could see the entrance to propose nor says eagle what the russian soldiers suddenly jumped out from the left. it happened so fast, they fired a rocket propelled grenade, but it miss risk and they started shooting machine guns and rifles. it was the windows shattered. sergei kept driving,

but he was hit and began falling. dragging the steering wheel to the left. we bade off the road, crushing through small trees where i was crouched down, pushing up against the dashboard i looked at said again so much that he wasn't moving or making any sound. here. when i reached the door handle jumped out and started running between the trees using the bosses. cover was continued shooting at it. when i got to a village, i found a house and got water. i was covered in blood, my face, my hands and ears. i thought it was mine, but i had no wounds. i realized then it was said again, not known exactly how many people are either trapped inside paupers, nor, or i'm willing to leave a town that he's on the net constant russian army attack. this is volunteer evacuation dr. mckayla called having a blindfold taken off on russian state cb. 2 days off the disappeared was also trying to evacuate. people track only civilians are doing the evacuation details.

the man in military uniform interviewing him. his daughter made an emotional plea on facebook for his release. oh, i beg you please giving my father back. we missed him so much. please release him. let him go. in a village, neighbouring pause, now the sound of artillery crashes through the air, volunteers, helena and yuri, inspect the graves where they have been burying civilians killed in the besieged town. long trenches have been dug in which bodies lie covered in soil attractor. we'll fill in the trench when the shelling dies down to cuz i'm not, i mean your boss there is more danger. the shells can land on you. not here it is over our heads. we bury them here because it's impossible to bury them under the shelley. it's too dangerous to go in and collect the bodies. now. a beaten,

a really deep. i feel great pity for people killed. if they're alive now, they could be doing something good. it's very hard to comprehend when you find a young person lying dead on the ground, you crate it. oh, sorry to say dna testing will be done when the war ends to identify the growing number of an identifiable civilians killed. this is one of 3 on identified graves in this graveyard. all that is written on the cross is that a woman's body is buried here and the place where the body was found. for now, the fighting info, pause, no rages, all in making it too dangerous for rescuing the living or dead. child stratford al jazeera rubica, eastern ukraine. ukraine says it's hit another russian warship, which they say has sunk off the bursting into flames. the car of frigates, his belief to have been standing close to snake island in the backseat. if confirmed with the rush of 2nd big naval last since thing,

basin ukrainian forces sank. the fraction mosque the ship last month of the us report of the shared information when it's the occasion to con spokesman john kirby could not confirm the latest hit, nor would he safe. it was a result of us intelligence. we provide them what we believe to be relevant and timely information about russian units that call allow them to adjust and execute their, their self defense to the best of their ability. and i would also add, and this is not an important point. we are not the only sole source of intelligence and information to the ukrainians. they get intelligence from other nations as well . of 20 more head to on the news are including choosing a new president or in the philippines were final day of campaigning for millions votes. and it's a one man race in hong kong, a look at the policeman who take charge of detention bus action from the n b a playoffs. including

a super here effort by this for the player ah, come about and leaders in afghanistan have ordered women to cover their entire body . while in public, the decree came from the taliban supreme leader. it says if a woman refuses to cover up from head to toe, her father or male relative can be sent to prison or fired from government jobs. taliban leaders have cracked down on women's rights since taking power last year, despite promising to respect freedoms. were for more on this, so let's bring in that fuzzier a cooper. yes, she was afghanistan's 1st deputy speaker apartments and took part in negotiations with the taliban last year in doha. of thanks very much indeed for being with us, sir. put simply, what do you make of this decree? well actually, what taliban have been doing in terms of the policy on women since they have taken

over cover is depression and operation after the other one for instance. so now the country we all know is that the age of some nation party, your money, tiny crisis, lack of jobs, are, is making millions of africans to either flee up on a sun or put their lives a choice. but what i do in terms of your privacy policy is, you know, issuing decrease that in mind. you can come to this as long as well. and they do it under the same sunny principles. for instance, in the recent decree, they have said that the, you know, woman, that you prefer a job for women, a worker which has no space in islam. it's just the traditional clothing and which is absolutely optional. it has be optional for people of them. and so the question many people has in minus and i have it in the midst of all

these challenges them and something of african people a why is it that only one issue is a priority for on? why not? you know, policy on hunger on poverty, on lack of jobs on security, which, you know, many people actually lost like number done because of the attacks and explosions. when indeed them, to what extent would you say that the author, afghan might be more concerned about the economic and food crisis? a lot of people, their main concern, as they start their day is the economical challenges that they're facing. lack of jobs, no income. in fact, there are women who have not been paid for months. now there are women who have lost your husband or a neighbor when i was getting the war who are now struggling to survive. and now those women or ask to will probably cover her job including burger, it was working there, the cannabis kind of prefer. let me see it because they're

a booker or what and. and if they don't, they will be punished. they will be moved from get jobs which they even don't go because the other one don't allow them, but the thought of a still have them in their attendance sheet and, and paid all in the government offices or didn't know where to put the president from the jobs, which is again, i mean in contradiction where the sum of all the laws of got us in the constitution because how do you punish somebody who are the same as protocol and the financial that somebody else is committed? so unfortunately, they are actually taking the country back to hundreds of years under the name of religion, which is not common in other some countries. what they do is in contradiction, will be happy saying to us, during negotiation, they're generally segments, and they have been hiding under the name of islam. now the do in the contradiction to a sunny principles and in a wider sense, then once the international communities reaction to this likely to be

we all know that early international community shifted focus, who another also, why did you kind of harness that is no longer making the headline, and this is unfortunate because i just believe that upon a some conflict has a multi dimensional impact on the world security. and that woman is sure enough on a cell has never be a social issue. it is an issue that is linked to security because if the more palawan upon these oppressive measures one isn't there, they put somebody in jail because his wife or his sister or has the other and does not respect halbens definition of his job. what will happen to the man when he's continued to sign up? i'm done without any action. of course not there might join under, you know, military extraneous groups, in this case dies probably, or under a fight nurse underwood country. you're an, a lawyer in situ, atlanta. some were the ones security and they're still working. we all have

a collector responsibility, especially numbers the world and the other one are missed to present, you know, a religion we to raise our voice and standing solidarity with people off of amazon . okay. fancy coffee. thank you. we do appreciate a time here today. thank you. north career has a fire. what's believed to be a ballistic missile for the 2nd time this week. japanese and south korean alameda sate was launched into the sea off north korea's east coast south korean. the military says that the south in for 600 kilometers as an altitude of 60 kilometers, is the 15th test this year and comes just days before the inauguration, south korean president elect of no us believes north korea is preparing for a nuclear missile test. or robert kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy and who son, national university. he thinks it's likely pyongyang wants to send a message to south careers, new president. so you and becomes president in

a couple of days, i believe on may 10th. right. and i think the idea is to sort of signal to the south koreans, you know, we're still here yet because seriously, campuses around the north koreans abundance in the past. if i remember correctly when brock obama was inaugurated, there was a test and i think when pumpkin, hey, was inaugurated president south korea. there was a test drive train with a long history of sort of doing this. and it's kind of a mix of signaling and bullying. now i print something new for testing since 2017. you may recall for a short time donald trump was president and there was sort of an effort to reach out to the north koreans for 2 years. it looked like there might be some kind of a hot break through in the north korean sort of hell off. but that really didn't go anywhere. the north koreans didn't put much on the table to be fair. the americans didn't really either. and so the whole thing kind of came apart, and if you're north korea, you're really not seeing much moving on the go station table. and so you're, i presume the thinking is something like we need to keep on escalating rights and trans, can't get a decent deal out of south korean, the united states, and they're going to want to really bulk up on the deterrence. and that means

a regular testing program. i think the big concern in the last couple weeks had been the north trains have gotten a lot more aggressive. and the rhetoric started talking about using these things outside of defense areas. and that's got everybody's scared right. that they make you thinking of using them cramped or send out zeros. rosalyn jordan in washington, d. c has more on the u. s. warnings of a potential nuclear test. earlier this week, 2 news organizations here in the us reported that according to military and intelligence officials, they were detecting the apparent ramp up of activity at the site where underground nuclear testing happens inside north korea. if this does happen during the month of may be the 1st time in more than 4 years, that of the of young young government would have carried out what is considered under international law and a legal nuclear ro, arms a test. this is of course, a situation that very much has a you, us and south korea concerned,

especially because of their just out some 28000 u. s. forces inside of south korea. but there have not been any nuclear weapons stationed on south korean soil since the early ninety's. and that was at the order of the president at the time george h. w bush of the u. s. is also trying, but so far, unsuccessfully to get north korea to return to the bargaining table without preconditions about efforts to end it's nuclear weapons program. the current leader has yet to respond to those overtures. one thing that is clear of the white house is already said in light of these reports that the u. s. president's plans to visit south korea and japan later in the month of may will not be put off just because of this a possible threat. it's the final day of campaign route is in the philippines ahead of a presidential election described is the most important in the country's history.

one of 2 front runners, ferdinand macos is moving a knowledge. running manila, macos is the son of a former president ferdinand michaels. he was asked in peoples uprising in 1986, florence louise following the marcus campaign in manila. now you see support is dressed in red, that is the color for ferdinand marco's junior and those wearing green. those are the supporters of sarah. do. terry, who is the daughter of the president and who is herself running for the position of vice president? now even though these positions are voted for separately, this is a very strategic pairing because marcos is able to take advantage of its family's popularity in the north with a detailed day strong hole in the south. now, he's also able to take advantage of the fact that more than half of registered voters in the philippines are too young to remember what his father, ministration was like. now his father ruled the country for 20 years, and nearly half of the time the country was under martial law. it was

a period rife with human rights abuses and corruption, but he's been able to gloss over that in a mis information campaign. effect checking group says marcos junior has benefited the most from a misinformation. in contrast, his closest rival, lenny robledo, now she's been the biggest victim of a campaign of dis information. but if you speak to his voters, they'll say that it's a simple message of unity that resonates with them on the candidates hoping to beat mar costs his vice president. lenny were brader, her rally is being held of a symbolic location. it's where a huge march was held in 1983 after the assassination of a senator, who struggled against the marcus machine brito has run a grassroots campaign against the political elite jeanette a armando and has been at the right. there are already around $300000.00 supporters of vice president lanyard, or rather clearly a. so of course on the last date over can mean when she ran. she was

a reluctant candidate. she was no match against the what are very sophisticated and well funded resources of her political arrival. bobo marcus junior. but what has changed really is how she was able to mobilize a grass roots campaign that is completely decentralized and quite different from the previous campaigns. we've covered, we're seeing this is clearly a movement led by the you. as you know, there are more than 27. there are more than 27000000 voters now in 2022 compared to 20. 19, during the mid term elections, more than half of the total of $6.00 to $7000000.00 voters or young filipinos. so despite her trailing in local service over the last few months, there remains to be a strong sense of hope. here they say, because of this unique electoral landscape brought about by her campaign message, radical love, no weather. this will definitely turn into votes. that would be enough to be bobo

market junior, that remains to be seen, but clearly now this has become more than just a regular campaign as manuel observers both year and the broader said regret this campaign really has become a peoples movement challenge because president has joined criticism at home and abroad, after declaring a state of emergency for the 2nd time in 5 weeks, presence go to by roger packs has been facing nationwide calls his resignation. people are angry about his failure to control worsening economic crisis. no fernandez has more from columbus. if you just look over my shoulder in front of the president of is the presidential, the director of that group or protest is that still outside. i essentially continuing into it's 29th day and that's their reaction to the emergency brought in by present got up a roger boxer that those regulations obviously are receiving criticism both here and abroad. we've had our human rights activists. we've had the bar association

that's a professional body of lawyers that have condemned it. they say that there are grave concerns at the promulgation of emergency to be used at what have been largely peaceful protests and the president of the vazo zation urging the president to revoke our the state of emergency. and essentially, to withdraw that new set of regulations that that's what we have the protests as themselves saying, they're not going to be cowed. there are, you know, they've had it with successive government, you know, trying to scare people to get their own ends achieved. and they said that after this long of having looted the country, having driven the country to its knees economically socially, that they're not going to be have they're not going to have their voices silent, they're going to speak up. and they're not going to be afraid by emergency regulations that they will face these regulations. so that's where it's ends on

kong and next lead, it will be confirmed on sunday john. these are short victory as he's to so candidate will be elected by a committee loyal to china's communist party. adrian brown reports on the man i've been to revive the fortunes of asia's financial hub. john lee's career has been rooted in discipline, a career policeman who went on to become hong kong security. during the turbulent spring and summer of 2019, he directed the response to anti government protests. now he's about to replace kerry lamb as hong kong next leader at a time when the territory remains deeply divided and exhausted by coven 19, it's been a short and strange contest. without even token competition, it's an unusual election because there's just one candidate. it doesn't matter because the, you know, the, the election just open to everywhere,

even though i have only one kennedy vinny, we also needed to walk for them. they, at least only rally on friday, was a small invitation only event that included members of the committee. they will elect him. oh i law they means in the coming 5 years, hong kong will become a caring, accommodating, place, full of energy and hope. well, let's do one thing together and support the election on may 8th grade. lee has the central government's backing, assign it once a hong kong leader with strong security credentials. june came why is a political commentator who left hong kong for england more than a week ago because he no longer felt safe. he says, lee doesn't have the right experience to lead a global financial center. you were looking through the cb up johnny. we know that he had no experience in economy affairs, international tray, and all major areas of the policy are,

li says his priority will be issues like housing, not more democracy, or a free vote. he's also promised additional security laws and to increase patriotic education. these very bright, which is what i like about him. so i really feel hong kong is ready for this kind of change. and plus he has such us of china. that is something very, very important. lease campaign suffered an early setback when you tube shut down his account, citing compliance with united state sanctions. that means he can't visit that country, just like the outgoing chief executive hong kong people will have no say in the selection. that task falls to an election committee drawn from hong kong business and political elite. a committee vetted by a panel that included john lee, adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong. when it's time for the weather report now his everton hello, we got some cloud and rain pushing towards sir parts of india over the next couple

of days, but it isn't going to help with the heat wave here. more of that later karen ray will help with the heat. we have seen recently across northern parts of china that's going to pick temperatures back. is that just slides a little further south which and east was. it will turn cooler in fresh air for northern parts of japan. as this system makes its way 3 price guys come back in, so not too bad on one or 2 showers lurking away showers. there will become increased the intense across sir central parts of china. 17 sale, she said, basing nothing too much to write home about. it does warm up a little as we go on through monday. we can see that cooler weather weather continues to slide its way further southward into southern parts of china. joining up with the heavy showers that we have across a good part of indo china. usual russia showers, therefore southeast asia, the philippines for malaysia for indonesia. and we have seen some very heavy rain full recently. could see the system, which is now dragging its way out across the adams sea into the bay have been goal in this. what we're talking about this system here. bringing increasing cloud and

rate towards india is the eastern side of india. certainly want to watch out for over the next couple of days. meanwhile, the heat continues to build up towards the northwest, as is developing tropical cycling moves in was to the head on al jazeera. ah, a protest against the conquer these president turns violent demonstrate to say they won't be silenced. sifting through what's left of a luxury hotel, a search for bodies after an explosion in cuba capital. the whitest straight is male is sport out there. only look at what's being done to change the image of professional ice hockey. ah, mainstream coverage of big stories can sometimes deliver more heat than lights in a water scenario. there's always a push to simplify. narratives. nuance is always called for,

even in the case of an aggressive war, the listening pace delve into the news, narrative and dissect them. there is not our great deal of subtlety. we're talking about the barbarism that is unfolding as though we're somehow unique. it's not unique covering the way the news is covered on al jazeera, seen as a burden. countless babies are reported in india simply for being girls. but amidst this resistance, even from her own patience, a fearless midwife has adopted the course of challenging, deeply ingrained tradition. and terminating this modern day beat aside, the daughter 3 witness on alger stealing, lou

ah, watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the south russian missiles of his ukraine's southern ot city of odessa. the report of the stroke close to the airport and city center. in the past week, several towns in the region have been targeted by missile attacks. taliban leaders hove ordered women in afghanistan to come their entire body, wanting public decrees, the latest crackdown and his rights since the group took power last year. despite promising to respect readers. north careers fired what's believed to be a ballistic missile for the 2nd time this week before as a warning from the u. s. that sean yeah. and that could be preparing to test equal missiles later this month. or louis enough, you lou, that the silver is set to launch his 6th bid for brazil's presidency. formerly

there was shaping up as the strongest challenger to incumbent terrible scenario in october's election. when. okay, any acc? yes, reports from our product? oh, who lives back? it's 76, former president with the master mueller. the silver says he's older, wiser and ready to lead a coalition of center, let parties to victory in october's presidential election. i want to tell you that i am willing to cover a brazil 12 years after leaving the presidency and 12 years we learned a lot who are able to see what we did for the country. what we did not do and what we could have done, a former car factory worker lula govern brazil from 2003 to 2002 as president. he was one of the world's most popular leaders. but after leaving office, who was jail done corruption charges, and barred from running again,

his political fate change last year when brazil supreme court and mulled his trial . since then he has emerged as the most formidable challenger to the income, been changeable sonata. i think that corruption is worked with initial because a both on are you make sure that he will use ah, the are, i'm the, the corruption scandal i guess rule. but i think that her, after the almost 4 years of most on our and in several cases of corruption, his government, this has not, this has changed. it's not, it's not in the a weapon that will fire only on one site. maggie finish voted for both sonata but for years on she's disappointed with your wall so mad a silly

a yield from my boss. nora was elected, promising to fight corruption, to reduce public spending and to adopt business friendly economic measures. he did the opposite. he is wheeling and dealing to when support and congress something he said he would never do. there is corruption and the economy isn't shreds like wallace trying to appeal to disappointed bull sonata voters by choosing a former adversary and send to right politician jed ald welcoming as his vice president. he's also counting on anger at bull scenarios. denial of the coven, 19 pandemic. which killed 660000 brazilians. and his anti environmental policies, political abrupt vogl, recent polls show no la defeating bull sonata political analysts. sasha bananas, sheesh says rejection. more than approval will play a major role in the selection. 60 percent of resilience say they do not approve of both sonata and would never vote to re elect him. lula fear slightly better with 45

percent of voters rejecting his candidacy. it's still too soon to tell who will win this race. but most analysts agree that brazilians will have to choose the candidate they dislike less. instead of the one they believe represents them or will make their future better. monica not give, i'll just 0. so ball. well geraldo zacharon is a political honest in brazil, he joins us by skype from south. pablo, thanks for joining us here on al jazeera. so look at the silver launching another bid for the presidency. to what extent does the soaring cost of living in brazil and fairs over authoritarianism, help his campaign? well, the soaring cost of living here certainly help since convey the past 2 years of being terrible for the middle brazilian and middle income. there's a lot of poverty rising. people are hungry again after years that we had get rid

of poverty and hunger in brazil. so if you look at the real issues of the economy of society, that platform certainly helps load the. the problem is that there's a lot of miracle thing going on who has a very high rejection rate. and i was campaign was and i had been content for the past 4 years. he never stopped containing against law, against its perceived threats that they claimed there are in society. so got to be a replay of 2018, but so much, much higher degree. now some would point out that his predecessor, duma, who says over saw a huge recession. does that take him in any way? so you get a recession. yes, that is true. in some sense the vehicle nomic, but us of the duma government were, were not successful. but on the other hand,

it's be 6 years that do my president anymore. so this is strategy of looking back and pointing, pointing at the mistakes of previous governments at some point that will run, run its course, right? that do my was the teacher. there was a center, right government in, in place for 2 years and then also not on extreme government for the next 4 years. at some point, they'll have to be held accountable for 4 different mix of the past 6 years. and what has at present, in both scenarios, strategy been against him. well, not right now. it is running 2 different contains he's, he's running one campaign against lulu and gearing towards the the election. he's getting support from, from congressman trying to to chart his bays. he change his political part, a lot of jock came between politicians, representatives in different parties right now. so he's trying to get hold of his campaign. but on the other hand, well, so that is also runny as mere,

convey about bridget and democracy about our institutions. he's being taking jobs at the supreme court at the electro committee, claiming that the election system is rig that the counting is rig that and threatening the military, the general of the survey that threatening to intervene the electro system. so in case both, so not at most, and i think that's what your initial clip doesn't get. we're not running and electric normal conditions. and there's a, there's a risk here that most are not loses, that is likely to those right now, he will try to overthrow the electoral system and staying power. ok. after all this political and the thin south. thank you very much for your insights here. thank you . the republican party sinn fein looks lucky to come out on top and over northern selections for the 1st time. the cornerstone of the party's manifesto is to leave the u. k and unite with the rest of violent turn. the reports from belfast.

if only when fame account promised many more for the nationalist party committed to a united ireland and predicted by opinion polls to beat their pro british unionist rivals. for the 1st time in a 100 years lifelong the republican party do have you not alone. and we also have to show that we deal with people's issues as they go to the thank are not top rated, are inseparable. she finds campaign focused on bread and butter issues like the cost of living, crisis, health and housing as precursors to irish reunification. the union is both, on the other hand, was split with the largest party, the democratic unionists threatening to boycott the store mont, assembly. because of post greg's, it border arrangements that they say undermine the very union they exist to defend

. the non protocol is the key to for us at the time, and we need to get resolution abroad because by and within a country between great britain nolan, adams. and we need to move via good really and ensure that the know who to call ac is dealt with pearl which raises the possibility of a full blown political crisis after this election paralysis deadlock, arising out of the 2 parties, power sharing system under the good friday peace agreement and not for the 1st time . that's why growing numbers of voters have chosen a 3rd way among the biggest winners and this election, the cross community center ground alliance party. northern ireland isn't just a place where the national union of northern i'm the place that is diverse on this boat for alliance, assuring that there are more people who aren't satisfied being better both and also

being moistened ash. it's further evidence of potentially seismic shift to the political landscape. i think would you put it down to is, 1st of all, our post brags that tiredness actually with what has happened since it's become very green and orange. hadn't you put down to a new younger? electra, who no longer interested in these things, i think you put it down to the fact that for a number of years, we've hardly had any government under to real wish for a large part of this population to get on with actually getting stuff addressed, which isn't just constitutional, all of which sets up a fertile conversation about the future in northern ireland, one far less tethered to the sectarian constraints of the past. jo, a whole al jazeera belfast. at least one person has been killed in violence that broke out at protest against electoral reforms in democratic republic of congo. police moved in on crowds who came out to denounce the changes in leaving their

employ to silence descent, fulton modern repulse. what began as a sit in protest of parliament quickly turned into a violent confrontation with police fire tear gas in the crowd and moved in to break up any resistance the protest her say present felix to carry plants to steal next year's election. oh, and they'll keep up their campaign until he agrees to talk we're fighting for a credible a lateral law from the parliament, which will allow us to have a good election next year so that we can kick out president felix trish caddy. we're suffering in this country because of his faith governance by firm event one, the control will wrap up despite will continue from now till we have a good election 23 present. jessica, he must go next year peacefully through a lecture. we'll. we'll come back to morrow till we have an agreement around the

electoral law. to katy became president in 2019, in the democratic republic of congo, 1st peaceful transition of power. but now he's pushing through reform to electro last, opponents fear be used to disqualify his main rivals. the opposition was national consensus on the best way to hold a fair election, who found the most inter makers of the president, his controlling everything as a dictator. the only way to put pressure on him is to call on our population to take action against this regime. dish kitty's reform plan has become a rallying cry for the opposition. if they aren't included in the process, it's likely the protest like bees will continue and failure to reach a consensus on next year's election could further complicate the nation struggle for democracy. didn't and monahan al jazeera airlines in nigeria

have suspended flights because of the high cost of jet fuel. several companies say they stop flying from monday. fuel shortages have disrupted domestic flights since march global jet fuel prices of sold since rushes invasion of ukraine. 7 palestinians have been injured in confrontations with israeli forces and occupied westbank happened after house and the village of the demolished early on saturday home belong to a man who along with other families, accused of killing and very secular. in december, 100 migrants have been rescued of italy's coast. the coast guard has 2 bodies were found in the water and migrants were on a boat that ran the ground and overturned of the southern coast. italian need to report say, most were from afghanistan. rescuers having working throughout the night in cuba capital, searching for bodies after explosion at

a luxury hotel. and these 22 people, including a child, were killed in a blast at a hotel high tugging havana. 74 others were injured was caused by suspected a gas leak on home. of course, the sound of the explosion ripped through have m as old town. it knew of a big part, the front of the southern toga hotel, one of the most luxurious and expensive in the cuban capital. preliminary investigations indicate it was caused by a gas leak says the cuban president's office movie stars and celebrities like madonna had stayed in the southern toga, now rescue workers and locals, a searching for people missing under the rubble. it was a blast that threw me out there. apparently it could have been worse. no tourists were staying at the hotel because it was undergoing renovations, said the have on a governor. president miguel dears canal arrived at the scene shortly after the

blast. hello i. there's a group of people receiving help. there were rescue teams. the specialized emergency forces. we have debts. unfortunately, the hospitals are dealing with the injured. i feel the explosion damaged other buildings around the hotel to there were worries, especially about a nearby primary school authority. say that thankfully the children and teachers there are okay buildings in heaven as beautiful, but disintegrating old town often suffer fooling masonry, but explosions are rare. this one is shocked. the island john homan al jazeera was la heads, analogous air in sports, why louis hamilton's jewelry is taking the shine of the lead up to the army ah,

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. ah ah, i was talking to bring you up to date now with all the sport. sorry, thank you very much carol. its been another landmark moment for the rising star men's tennis call us all crosses, beats and his idol known as the king of clay rafael. no doubt, for the 1st time across is only just turned 19, made a false dance, his quote to final at the madrid master's. taking the 1st set, 62. then came a scare as he twisted his ankle and needed treatment with y'all winning the 2nd set . but alcaraz recovered in deciding that and found another gear as he went on to win it $63.00, the doll was his hero as the young tennis player. and finally beating him was an

emotional movement in sir, hello to me. i mean do all the hot water with the ribs day base of. busy today to redraw fabi did best to bring those serial on play in the saw alex now moving on to the and b a playoff. some all we maybe you see face massport with pandemic, but nothing quite. i caught joe and be returned to action. he was wearing one off to fracturing his ice. okay. he helped the, the philadelphia 76 ers, get back into their semi final series against the miami heat. navy stokes has the action. i think after missing the 1st 2 defeats against miami jolen bead was back for the sixers looking like a superhero and playing like one to many, fractured his eye, sockets, and suffered a more concussion against toronto last month, but returned with a decisive 18 points and 11 re bombs, his teammates, danny green, entirely smack cbo school, $21.00 with mercy, also producing incredible bits of defense in the 4th quarter of

a oh, that eventually led to another 2 points for the sixes who won by 20, the eastern conference semi final series. now 6 to one with game for coming up on sunday. oh i was so have you seen 21 hanging? it's been a lot room with mass. whatever. so i mean, when i mean he's a soldier, a soldier just dom mask. i mean concussion a face broken face? no. make them look even angler now. but when i he, you know, he's his resilient mash and the people are reason with our back up a coach or we're down to one of you know we go. ready ready you know, return return, go down. 3. what i for in the west, the dallas mavericks were also able to close the gap in their series against the top seated phoenix suns, jane and brunson scored a game high 28. a luca dont' ich came very close to

a triple double. with $26.00 points, 13 rebounds and knowing assists, including this one, was sat on the floor. the mavericks 130 to 94 and the best of 7 series is now evenly poised that to one they be stokes al jazeera women's and day season goes on to way on friday with teams aiming to bring awareness that it's attention. one of the league star players, the initial, our initials rather, a number of brittany greiner have been placed on the sidelines of every courts. she faces 10 years in jail and rush her off to being held on drug smuggling allegations . the are so she's being wrongfully detained. and her phoenix mercury side went on to lose their opening game against las vegas. a says one i 688. now the edmonton oilers of thrush, l. a king to take a to one lead in the night shall western conference payoffs. yvonne's a came school, a hat trick and the 8 to victory. it's the 1st time he's managed the faith in the playoffs, but the sport has been accused of having a racism problem across the us and canada now plays and fans save,

encountered discrimination at all levels of the game. and they're walking to change that i did the caster reports from washington dc. playoff. patrick, it's not easy being a black hockey player just asked 15 year old daria's nichols who's been training on the ice since he was 5. it's very hard having to deal with her. i had versity, it's really hard to deal with. most of the other players are white and nickel says, while his own teammates in maryland are supportive, he often gets called racial slurs by players from other teams. i've had kids called me and word i've had kids just come at me for novaire reason close on was bring adobe voice was like that. well, sorry. hockey coach brian king says the same happened to him when he played in college. it was much worse. i'm from name calling to, you know, being punch in the face randomly is also name calling and being looses. and there

is a clue. difference between the hockey still carries the stigma of being a white man's sport. it was developed by european settlers in canada about 150 years ago in its popularity spread to the united states. but unlike most other pro sports, that diversified during the civil rights era, hockey, didn't i, saki is b widest, straightest mail list sport out there. i renee has is trying to change that. she's the founder of a group called black girl hockey club, which organizes fan events and scholarships to support diversity in hockey. as a black woman. if i can find a space in a sport like ice hockey, and if a sport like ice hockey can cultivate a space for me, then that can happen anywhere. professional hockey data for that under represent minorities. currently the n h l has only about 5 dozen minority players and just 8

out of the 220 coaches are people of color. get above it, get above a one day average. crombie hopes to break into that elite group. last fall, he completed a coaching internship with the arizona coyotes part of the n. h. l. effort to nurture diverse talent. i want to be the 1st head coach in the n h l of diverse background to have his name on. on the stand up. he says he's unafraid to aim high because he demands the same of his players. he tells them progress just requires putting one skate in front of the other. go again. go again. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington a consult him led by any of the late soldiers baseball team assigned a deal to buy premier league side. chelsea, subject to regulatory approval. the club says tons for the $5200000000.00 deal have been agreed with the group. this is led by told bowie, and is backed by us private equity fund. clearly capital,

current owner room and brokovich is on the british sanctions and intends to donate all the proceeds to charts causes. now there are 6 games being played in the premier league on saturday therapy and champions will be hoping to certain see coming from the sale of the couple help them back to winning ways against wolves, but only need to be aston villa to move further away from the drop zone, the game of the day sees liverpool up against tottenham was trying to hold onto the spots in europe. while liverpool considered back to the top of the table doesn't be difficult because all the situation data, all team slides for flavor. but oddly thought nozer massive quality m a are not especially away from home, or not too much crowded about having the ball all the time. stuff like they're steady fan compact. and these coatings then, obviously some of the best candle taking place in the world. right,

well mercedes that were fastest after the 2nd practice session for the miami grand prix. but the build up the race has been overshadowed by a jewelry dispute. formula, one's new race director has cracked down on a safety rule. the benz drivers from wearing jewelry in their car. notice hamilton has been ordered to remove his no stud and earrings the 7th time. well champion says the sport has more important things to worry about. i feel like it's an almost like a step backwards. if you think of the steps we're taking as a sport and the more important issues and causes that we need to be focused on. and really pushing as it was, i think we made such great strides as a sport who got bigger, beneficial for bigger things to do more impact to have. so i think that's really where the folks should be. well that sawyer sport for now, but i'll be more late in the coming hours. so i thank you very much indeed. that's it for me for this news hour. i'll be back in a moment with more the days news,

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