in the case of aggressive war, the listening pace dells into the news narrative and dissect them 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. aah! fire and fury and sri lanka, demonstrators to fire curfew to demand. the president follows his brother and resides. ah, my mama jim, jim, this is al 0 alive from door ha. also coming up, the son of an ousted philippines president is on track to become the next leader early results show ferdinand marco's junior has a commanding lead rushes

president uses victory day celebrations to justify the invasion and ukraine, saying moscow is defending the motherland. south korea welcomes its new president, you and so fuel has began his term emphasizing the need for firm military readiness . ah, houses burned shots fired anti government demonstrations and sri lanka turned violent despite prime minister. ma hinder roger pox, a bowing to public pressure to resign. 5 people, including a member of parliament, have died. a national curfew is underway. now fernandez reports from colombo, a powder keg of anger, frustration, and helplessness. among she lincoln's. there's been months of discontent over an economy hills to bankruptcy. people have been demanding the president,

the prime minister, and the government resign. blaming them for mismanagement and corruption premium. a hinder roger box, a has now bowed to pressure. don, about a, how about i'm out when given i did with, as a leader who always listen to the people. i'm asking you, i mean, what do we do now that i mean, we want melinda? we want melinda hearing, that means i do not need to resign. bussed in from around the country, a pro government crowd confronted protest as in colombo, who have spent weeks calling for change. some were injured while tents and posters were torn up. some said the police did not act fast enough to stop them, but shortly after protest as regrouped and launched a counter attack, targeting the buses that transported them even destroying luxury vehicles and

houses belonging to roger folks. loyalists the government imposed a country wide curfew until wednesday morning and deployed the military to disperse the crowds. it had the opposite effect. large crowds gathered opposite the president's office, vowing not to be intimidated. prison go tub is moved to sacrifice his brother doesn't seem to be working to day racing nation is law, would you? but he's unlikely to address the cause that demands off the protest. i don't even despite the curfew in a state of emergency, many on their roads now because they feel their cause any man's need to be her live ammunition was fired when protested broke down gates to the premier's residence, the president had invoked the state of emergency on friday for the past 30 days,

protest as have maintained a largely peaceful campaign, demanding the raja boxer brothers and their government resign. but protested said the violence unleashed by the prime ministers, the boarders forced them to respond. police and the armed forces have the challenge of now restoring. come minute fernandez, al jazeera colombo. it appears the marco's family may be returning to power in the philippines. initial results of the presidential election, suggest ferdinand marco's junior as a huge lead, and he could become the next leader 36 years after his father was overthrown in a revolution. jamila allen doggone reports from manila as vote counting got turned away. it appeared for it didn't mark as junior, was searching ahead. he's the son and name sake of the former philippine president described by many as a dictator and ousted in 1986 revolution,

or that they are calling this not done. i started over, but i wanted to issue a short statement and it essentially is a statement of gratitude to all of those who have been with us in this long and sometimes very difficult journey. yeah. are you the 10 candidates are running up, but for the presidency venue? it's widely considered a 2 person race, vice president lenny roberto was also the leader of the opposition, is trailing behind. marcus junior. initial results show a lead, so white pool experts believe it is unlikely ru brenda can catch up case ending up or something any wanna i'm with you in the belief that the elections must respect the full voice and well of the people my life. it is important that the people continued their belief and respect for democracy. more than 60000000 filipinos

voted for the successor to president rodrigo to 30 in one of ages, oldest democracies. wow. 6 here in one of the biggest polling presence in manila voting day, was marked with frustration. about malfunctioning boating machines. people lined up for hours and refused to leave, even as the pulls officially closed. obama, brit marie lamb. you want the all we want to be here, the one we want to see over by let's go through the machines and see the receipts. some of them looks figure, some of them are, but they knew both of us. we refused to leave our posts. this election is too important, and every vote is secret. the election commission assures the public that it is very much in control, and the sanctity of the votes is still protected. a marcus presidency would mean an extra ordinary return for a family. there was forcibly removed from power 3 decades ago through people power

and could become the most consequential election in recent philippine history, jamal alan dugan al jazeera manila. all right, let's speak now to ari's auto guy. he is a visiting fellow at i. c. s. use of his shock institute original research center that studies, se, asia, he joins us live from manila. a good morning to you are is thanks for joining us. if things continue the way that they are looking and this ends up being a landslide for ferdinand marcos junior. how astonishing a turn around is that for the marcos family? yes, this has been more than 36 years in the making. i think the markets dynasty, one of the most powerful political families in the philippines have carefully crafted a decades long strategy to be able to reach this apex in philippine politics. so i think they really bided their time, waited for the right opportunities. and i think the parents, i'd ministration, particularly president the therapy as may be atmosphere conducive,

or the return of strong man rule. and it seems like the beans is returning to this preference that the country be ruled by not only assault the mystic family, but one that ruled and reigned over the archipelago with an iron hand r e. do we know at this stage, what a bon bon marco's presidency will look like for the philippines? has he presented policy platform it up? indeed, that is really the question right now. and many of us to observe this compazine are still wondering what the exact details are. unfortunately, mark was that's merely glimmered the filipino electric with motherhood statements and things that filipinos want to hear. affordable rice jobs infrastructure with no concrete details. and these promises we're not tested because he has failed to show

up in any major presidential debate, he has failed to clash with this ideas with other candidates. and therefore, what we have now is that people are scrambling to get an idea of what his administration looks like because it seems that strategy is just to win elections. when we know that winning election is merely the 1st step, the crucial and more important step is what you do when you, when you win an election. how will you convert? this highly fractured and polarized republic audience, there's been a lot of reporting about how big of a role that misinformation has played in this election cycle. from your perspective . has it been a problem and just how much of a role has misinformation played in this election? all experts and even nobel peace laurie maria has said that the philippines has been patient 0 in terms of social media, this information. so i think all those who have sold and established this

infrastructure, this information, had massively harvested all the years of penetrating the integrity of facts undermining it in the feel be. so it's really, really a great threat to the integrity of our, our already eroding democratic republic. and i do think it will not stop with this electron campaign. studies have shown that the markets campaign in the market family has usually invested in this machinery. and i think if they're going to be the next administration, that this is going to be a lean and mean propaganda spewing machine that will be in place. because the roles will just be shifted from getting people to elect them, to making sure that they're protected. and defended once their power and if i could just take a step back for

a moment and also ask you what are the biggest challenges going to be for the next president? indeed, if the partial and official results will show both markets, junior and ferry, the caird, they will have majority mandate. that may mean that they have enough political capital to be able to do what they want in terms of policies. but they're inheriting a government from outgoing president repair that is written in debt that is not as secure as when rodrigo detect get some office that has a foreign policy that is in disarray. and that is still heavily hit by the pandemic . and has the most economy that has severely decline in se, asia, all these are challenges because at the end, as i said, the next crucial. and most important thing to do is to govern and not to rain like

a dynasty. all right, our 100 guy, great to speak with you and get your perspective there. thanks so much for joining us. thank you. still ahead on al jazeera, french and german leaders meet in berlin. what they say is the key to united europe in the wake of the ukraine was abundant plant and animal life versus large scale mining. we look at the environmental battle that's happening in gone ah, the journey has begun. the faithful world cup is on its way to cast your cattle package today when it's when you're getting china and a little bit in japan, but that's going off shore. took years at 20 degrees. the bit of a sherry band coming through beijing but attempts, you won't notice that very much where it's concentrated is really filling up the

per river valley with significant rain usually floods, of course, sometime in the spring. so we're coming up towards that period. now, hong kong be involved in wet weather as well to some degree taiwan, but to north of the yank seat mostly a dry picture. notice that life shares are probably just a fact. so, but largely the korean furniture is pretty dry at the moment. for the southwest daily thunderstorms and shout concentration, i think in the southern philippines maybe sort of way see for the west is where we are watching the change in wins that's brought a sorry was the tropical cyclone in the bay of bengal. that's already given rain because of its large extent, all the way around the coast. the bay bang go. the wind itself is significant, but it's dying down. so it's more a risk to fishermen, of course, to open waters. but the rain will fall in lab and there's a coastal flood warning out for andra pradesh that will keep going throughout wednesday as the storm itself slowly dissolves. as for the rest of india and

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you're watching all the 0. a reminder of our top stories, the sour anti government demonstrations and sri lanka have turn violent overnight despite a night time curfew and the resignation of the prime minister. my hinder roger poxel. there been weeks of protests against the worsening economic crisis. unofficial results from the philippines show ferdinand marco's junior is on track to become the next president. the 64 year old as the son of the president ousted in a revolution 36 years ago, or the 90 percent of the votes had been counted. russia's president has used victory day celebrations to tell his forces they're fighting in ukraine for the motherland and its future. vladimir putin led the traditional parade in moscow to celebrate the surrender of nazi germany in 1945. but he didn't announce victory in ukraine and couldn't tell russians when the war would end.

dorsey jibari reports from moscow victory day is the most important annual event for russians. but this year it has added significance because of the conflict in ukraine. $11000.00 troops her rated through red square in moscow to commemorate the soviet victory over nazi germany. 77 years ago and estimated 27000000 soldiers and civilians from the soviet union died in what the russians call the great patriotic war. president vladimir putin used the occasion to compare the fight against hitler to his so called special military operation in ukraine. the waste as ages, you're fighting for people in dom bus for the safety of a motherland, russia and i sure may. the 9th 1945 will always be a triumph of os single soviet people. russia's lo, preemptively rebuffed the aggression, it was timely, and the only right decision, the decision of a strong sovereign independent country me some was that yet to lease them. as the

missiles and other military hardware paraded to the streets, onlookers back their presidents decision to send russian troops into ukraine. no more, dora, i think reparation had to take place. we must be in it, bring it to its logical ent only this way. not a single step back published by the rule. i fully support the decision of the russian government in i don't condemn it. i think we would have ended up with naziism in yes, as evil. oh great. now we must raise all this in ukraine. this fascist tribe must be wiped out from the world completely. that's why putin is doing everything right . always. which and didn't say when the operation might end. but he also didn't use his speech to broaden the conflicts or make a formal declaration of war. as some had feared. this civil appeared to be marked more difficult and blind as n. ah, we expect we expect that this will be a po bottom or

a gun boss will cantino ah, mobile grid until 0. i middle obama and zan are based on that. his uncles, his bottle and on boss, on your political decision, so i will be made put in late flowers at memorials to the 12 so called hero cities, which include odessa and kia for outstanding heroism during world war 2. the commemoration continued as president putin let the procession of what russians call the immortal regiment, carrying a portrait of his father who fought in world war 2, defending the city of saint petersburg. he was joined by thousands of others who lost relatives in the war. similar ceremonies were held across russia and in the occupied territories of ukraine. in what is left of mary opal russian back separatist reader, dennis pu shaylin, told

a small crowd that russia is here forever. president putin says he has no doubt that the military operation will achieve jack dizzy. craig, while he continues to lose, his hunches has to justify its presence a tactic that's proven to be mostly successful so far with in russia. dorsey jibari al jazeera moscow, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says russia's actions are a betrayal of victory day because she is a bla since you build rushes, forgotten everything that was important to the winners of world war 2. but ukraine in the whole free world will remind them which said that then no one will forget to regain their weight. the really important woods never again, which are repeated round the free world every year in memory of the victims of world war 2. the u. s. president says he's worried russia's leader of vladimir putin does not have a way out of the war with ukraine. joe biden made the comments after approving

a new law to speed up the delivery of weapons and military equipment to ukraine. biden's signed off on the lend lease act saying washington supports the ukrainians fight to defend their country and democracy against putin's brutal war. the u. s. has already given billions of dollars worth of weapons to ukraine. south korea is swearing in its new president, former prosecutor yoon, soak your world. leaders and former presidents are among thousands attending the inauguration and soul which got under way a short while ago you and won the presidency by a narrow margin. in march. he began his 5 year term on tuesday and takes office at a time when tensions are high on the korean peninsula. you and his stress the need to have a firm, military readiness. he takes over from wound j in who try to engage with john young . president noon. so carol has promised to overhaul south korea's foreign policy by developing alliances with non traditional partners. the former prosecutor wants to

end what he calls his predecessors, subservient approach towards neighboring north korea and to strengthen its military capabilities. so cule promises to rely less on its largest trading partner, china, and increase cooperation with the quad alliance, which is made up of the u. s. australia, india, and japan. the group was created to counter beijing's influence in the region. the foreign policy changes ultimately aim to strengthen economic and security ties with washington, a fight between rival gangs at a prison in ecuador, his left, at least 44 people dead. authority say they were all inmates at bella, vista jail and santo domingo. more than a 100, others escaped and remain at large. the violins broke out after a gang leader was transferred there, which officials say caused unrest. the last most of the wedding that you passed sadly 41 incarcerated people lost their lives during this incident. it can be seen that most of them, if not all of them, were killed with a knife, not with

a fire on most of the bodies were exposed and attacked in the pavilions and sales. adrian perez salazar is an ecuadorian attorney and political analysts. he says, the situation at the prison as part of ecuador is growing problem with drug cartels is key to understanding that these are not isolated incidents. and there is the reason why a violence keeps increasing. integral presence is because they have, there's a neural center of the. busy cartels in a book. so every time there is a ganga dispute in over. busy it always manifests in the extreme body, gang violence within the prison walls. this say organizations are evil traded in the, in the police department, they're able printer, they wouldn't military, they're part of the, the, the penitentiary administration. so once the whole system is corrupted,

it's extremely hard for me to, to, to clean the system. so we know, for example, that a weapons are been muslim in, in the food service visit the are in prison. the, the conditions are a whole. they are terrible. and this is the result of. busy decades and make it of neglect, of systematic neglect every time you know, the government that needs and it's money, well you could for me for business because they're always up to the bottom of the site. and now we're seeing as part of this, this partly result of that. but i insist that this is not only an issue of. busy prisons, this is a systemic issue, is an issue that's inspecting the whole of the site. unfortunately, a demonstration is being held in mexico city to demand justice for a rising number of murdered journalists to females. a director and reporter were

shot dead in the city of vera cruz there. the 10th and 11th journalists killed so far this year. the state prosecutor says it's investigating the killings, promising it will be exhausted. at least one person has been killed and 3 others seriously injured after a passenger train derailed just south of the austrian capital vienna. the red cross says 11 people suffered minor injuries. the cause is being investigated. french president emanuel micron has held talks with german chancellor, olaf, sholtes, and berlin. he called for europe to cooperate amid the ongoing crisis in ukraine. mcclain was old. you said that gentle sooner. you crying. he's taking older risks. therefore, we have to build a new political, not just a legal form of the council of europe together with the human rights court, which has been shaken up by russia. that we have to find a political form that makes it possible to keep these values in europe, and to have political coordination with solidarity in terms of security. without

doubt that not the same thing as nato, but cooperation and solidarity cooperation in terms of energy integration, solidarity within europe, energy solidarity in order to be able to move forward together with infrastructure and connections to nasty faggot uncle freedom and our opa. at this moment, there is a war in europe. we are supporting and standing with ukraine, with supporting them with financial and humanitarian support and weapons. we have to do everything to avoid that was spilling over to other countries. therefore, we will be discussing ellen vestments and to ukraine, and of course, with german french weapon the projects will be discussed with her in none. and natasha butler has this update from paris. was very significant at emmanuel michael all going to her berlin. it is something that he did in 2017. when he was 1st elected, his presence is no cover. it's no surprise that he chose berlin weiss again off to

his re election as his 1st overseas trip. this is about i emanuel michael, underlining what he sees is the fundamental importance of the franco german relationship, not just as a bilateral relationship, but also as a relationship which really defines in some ways we've seen so often as the motor of the european union or both macro and all actually the german chancellor said in that price conference together that they felt that it was very important to reinforce and strengthen and bolster i. e. u. sovereignty in several areas, but particularly in the area of energy. very relevant at the moment. of course, in the context of the war in ukraine, the use trying to reduce it, sir, energy dependence on russia, but it's sholtes. and michael said that that was absolutely essential and vital. they also both pledged their ongoing support and commitment to ukraine in its fight to for its own sovereignty. and they also said, of course,

that they would do everything they could to try and see if they could bring a russia's invasion to an end. this was a meeting of these 2 leaders, very much focused on the war in ukraine, very much focus on the european union activists and gonna have launched a legal challenge to stop mining in a protected area. the government has signed a deal with a chinese company to extract box like a mineral used to make aluminum product. it says the project will create jobs and boost the economy. opponents say it will damage and already vulnerable ecosystem for meter miller reports. the actual forest in easton garner is known for its abundant biodiversity, including endangered animals and rare plants, dozens of which are threatened with extinction. despite the area being declared protected, the government plans to begin large scale mining for box site that got my husband's saying over and over again. i'll say since 2018 that there would not on necessarily compromise for us. they have not so far demonstrated to any agency to gun

is how that is going to be done. and you know why? because there is no technology, though, allow government to go ahead and tub the box out in this forest without compromising the for us. box site is used to produce and a minion products. while the government's agreed to a $2000000000.00 mining deal with china, it's yet to get permission from gone as environmental protection agency. the government says it's relying on the potential proceeds from the mining of both bach site and gold to develop local mining communities. we now have a fund which is solely dedicated to the development of the minor communities of our country. where if you want 20 percent by law of the royalties which i crew to the state are dedicated to this fun. and the fun is exclusively for the development of minor community to provision of water, for instance, electricity, education, infrastructure, healthcare. but many small scale miners and loggers work illegally surviving on

minimal income gold mine a say they hardly benefit. and critics say their activities are harming the environment, communities, and gone as western region rely on the prior of a for drinking water and to bathe and cook. the baron water basin feeds 3 major rivers, providing water for millions of people across gonna but mining upstream has contaminated the water board on that, that as a crew of that, as you used to be on the mine. and i think this is our fixing the community and when that that doesn't, through us used to be send i a month old, 2 or 3 pseudo even get with that to fooling with half mining opponents, taking the government to court, to stop the search for box site critic say that while they understand the need to benefit from natural resources gone as far as need to be protected for future generations. for me to mila al jazeera,

one of the most recognizable portraits of marilyn monroe has sold for $195000000.00 at auction in the united states. that makes anti war holes. 1964 painting the most expensive american artwork ever sold at auction. but the pop art work fell short of the $200000000.00 estimate. the proceeds will be donated to a foundation that supports children's health and education programs. ah, mrs. al jazeera and these are the top stories, anti government demonstrations and sri lanka have turned violent overnight despite a nighttime curfew and the resignation of the prime minister, my hinder roger boxer. there have been weeks of protests against the worsening economic crisis. unofficial results from the, from the philippines show ferdinand marco's junior, is on track to become the next president. the 64 year old is the son of the president ousted in a revolution 36 years ago. florence louis is in manila. she says,

not everyone is happy about the outcome of the election. a number of civil society organizations and students.