now, to return to their home after midnight, the military drill will continue for 3 days, which means they'll have to go through this again. twice this week. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents. and this is mean fighting both isis and of the 2nd of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father, the son and the g hi part to on al jazeera. ah. on a pacific nation toward china's foreign minister looks to increase its influence in the region.

ah collins, the whole rahman watching out there alive. my headquarters here in doha also coming up. all spittle fire in senegal kills 11 newborn babies. the local mass as an electrical fault was to blame america's biggest gun lobby. we'll go ahead with its annual meeting just a few hours drive from the sight of this week's masts, school shooting in the mayor of keith calls russia's war in ukraine and genocide as fighting intensifies in the east. ah hello, welcome to the program. china's foreign minister has begun his tore a violent countries in the south pacific. aiming to secure economic and security agreements. first stop the wine g e on his visit of 8 countries was the solomon islands. the chinese hope that a security packed with the solomon's can be a model for other countries. and that's raise concerns in australia than its allies,

but china's ambitions. sarah clark reports from brisbin touch down in honey ira. china's foreign minister one ye lead a 20 strong delegation to the sullivan on and to sign a security patch. the follow the visit by the state councilor and foreign minister to the south pacific aims to deepen the relationship between china and relevant countries which is conducive to peace, timidity, and prosperity of the asia pacific region. the deal with the solomon islands is china's 1st known bilateral security agreement in the region. china pines to bice police, law enforcement groups and military personnel in hon. yara, to ensure public oda falling riots in the capital. china said to offer economic and security partnerships with up to 10 other on dyson, ongoing militarization of disputed features in the south china sea. predatory economic activities including illegal unregulated fishing and then

the investments that are extractive rather than beneficial to the countries that are subject to them. australia has traditionally played a key role in the pacific affairs. china is expanding, military presence, undermines it's relationships. australia is newly appointed foreign is to flew to fiji on thursday, offering action on climate change, and bolstering humanitarian aid and development. i don't approach the discussion about china and china's activities by looking at the pacific as if it is a abstract from australia. i'll look at this and think, what is it we need to do to work together? china has rejected fish,

is that it's newly signed security. pat clears the way for naval base in honey ara and a military presence, 2000 kilometers from australia's coastline. but analysts say china's leaders, i came to challenge the pacific traditional partners of the past. i don't think there's any doubt. this is a clear signal that china is, as i say, stating a claim to a place in the region. but also what it is looking to disrupt or what, what have been the traditional oh, sits of relationships in the regions also on the itinerary for china's foreign minister? is the g van a watty? kira bass, samoa, and papa new guinea. sarah clark, our da 0, brisbin, australia go fiji is attorney general. i outside are you says his country's most pressing concern is climate change or they're looking to australia to help mitigate the risks. in the past couple of years,

we've had some very good policy decisions. b, b, a collaboration during the quote for the pen. i mean, we have a lot of budget support, for example, from australia. we're looking at the black rock where there's a collaboration between the different military forces to build in managerial capacity within the pacific. because again, co creative cloud change. so, you know, we've also had a relationship with china to and i think you know where the differences are going to be concerned. they make the own decisions individual in the, by little basis. we develop a long term relationships. it's not based on one simple one offering our business and we what we're going to get out is we kind of sound like and so extractive approach to these things. we like to develop deep and meaningful relationships. and as the media and government obviously as a much deeper commitment to climate change, we are very much like the cold face of climate change, a prime minister, and beginning about climate change. notwithstanding the fact that we have almost

negligible cub footprint, we face the rock climate change 14 cycles since 2016. so we are, we, the discussion we had today with the prime minister penny long is that you know about what we can do collaboratively in terms of building resiliency, 9 for structure in terms of obviously some mitigation measures. but most of the countries are more concerned about adaptation measures. and generally, if you look at the, the spread of funds that has been committed or indeed has been spent globally, a very small proportion to take a slip of it. that is only going to the patient, i think only about 2 percent of the 11 newborn babies who died in the hospital fire in synagogue. that happened in the city of civil one east of the capitol, dot com that says the blaze is caused by a short 2nd, the quickly set to maternity, the tone 5 months ago that was nationwide, protest about the whole state of the health system. after pregnant women died,

fall waiting versus arian section because sank has moved from to one and says the death toll could rise. we're just outside the hospital where the accident took place. it started at 8 o'clock right in this hospital right behind me were inside the maternity ward. there was a patient around 8 o'clock last night that smelt smoke. now he alerted the authorities and the authorities there. the medical south said to him, make nothing of it. but then he did his own investigation, went to the 2nd floor, which is where newborns are kept. there kept under a u. v light. that's to protect them from john this and there he could smell. he could not only smell smoke, but could see a smoke coming out of the door heat alerted authorities, it took an hour and a half before firefighters broke open into that door and tried to save as many babies as possible. so far, the death toll is around 11 people,

but we expect that that death all to rise because there were up to 50 babies, new borns that were, that were kept in that maternity wards. and just earlier there was a crowd of people here outside of the hospital. you can see the police presence here was there to try to, to, to, to, to war them off from the hospital. and they were angry. they were angry. there's a lot of questions here. how did this happen? why wasn't there any sprinkle sprinklers in place to prevent any fire? was there any alarm bit bells in place to alert of such a fire? after all, this is a public hospital. the biggest gun lobby in the u. s. is going ahead with its annual meeting on friday, just a few hours drive from the side of this week's mass school shooting and texas. the national rifle association ignored calls to counselor event after 19 children and 2 teachers were killed in a valley. on tuesday, relatives and friends of hel vigils in the town to mold those killed is the worst

school shooting in the u. s. and a decade and president joe biden has called on politicians to stand up to the annual re shandra not from as all day in texas. another school massacre in america and more flowers to more in the dead. just before an 18 year old texas gunman massacre 21 people at robb elementary school on tuesday, the governor says, well, he shot his own grandmother. anyone who shoots his grandmother in the face has to have evil in his heart. but it is far more evil. for someone to gun down little kids. but the republican governors news conference devolved into political theatre when his democratic rival bed, o'rourke interrupted to denounce decades of inaction in congress and in texas. you know, he talked about that this was evil. the only thing evil is what he continues to do

to the people of the state. he says this was unpredictable. it was totally predictable. and i predict this will continue to happen. syria era's mindy, as a teacher at another grade school. but her niece eliana was a student at rob elementary school. she says it took hours before she learned that elliana was among the dead. aah! we whatever we saw in the phone. and when i was near her or facebook or how we found, found out a tragedy, we didn't find out about her until late last night. about 1130. that's when they confirmed salvador ramos a high school dropout who for years was bullied in school for speaking with a list bought to a r 15 style assault rifles. shortly after his 18th birthday, police say he carried one of them into the school storming past an armed guard before firing more than 230 times over the course of a harrowing hour before border patrol. agents gunned him down. i just don't

understand. oh, how? the book itself, that typo a gun to kid, to an 18 year old. like, what is he going to use it for but for that purpose, just what motivated ramos is a question. authorities are trying to answer now. police are still scouring that scene and looking for a motive for want to set that gunman off before he apparently shot his grandmother and then came here to rob elementary school. it was the 2nd deadliest school shooting in american history, but political deadlock on gun control and a long and bloody history suggests it will not be the last. john henderson al jazeera move all day, texas the

german chancellor says the world must make russian president vladimir putin realised that he can't dictate what peace will look like an ukraine. allah schultz was speaking of the world economic forum in davos. i'm st mccloud. susan, in my mind, if one thing is clear, putin will only seriously negotiate peace. when he relies us, he cannot break ukraine and it's defenses. and that is why we are supporting ukraine in a closely coordinated manner with our partners and allies. for in this, we are united, and we will not do anything to make nato a party to the conflict. because that would mean a direct confrontation between nuclear powers. the aim is rather to make it clear to putin that there will be no dictated peace. female though the mayor of keith says the genocide has been carried out in ukraine that ali clear cook was also in devils. the whole world see thee of horrible images from our satellites, either by the dunker. it had been gastorm in boucher in

a room undisturbed is not special. aberration is not there war after this images what a one so everyone can say is genocide of the grand population. the fighting is intensifying in easton ukraine, where defense officials say russian forces of shells more than 40 towns in the dunbar range and rushing back separate to say that their holding $8000.00 ukrainian prisoners of war after beg has more from the east of the country. i'm the time of today it's quiet. we haven't heard much other than going fire, but the other night we were and just before coffee we left the car and we had the tan was struck. now let me show you what happened. this is a library. you can say the library one strike one went through the roof. you're

the bomb dropped head, right. because right on the floor between the library and some residential buildings. another crate next to it. it took out the residential building, opposite and behind us. now we spoke to some people that were here, cleaning up their belongings just to the right of us because people who are staying here and yes, one moment like with everyone. ok. i said, well, we're a life, but i have no way to live anymore. we met another mother and a child that lives in the building behind us. and she said that we've left and we only come back to feed our cast because i doesn't want to leave. most people have left because of the situation here in back moved out where we were near so slowly and this morning just got side. i mean, and we saw and heard the russian strike hitting a position on the hill. we heard the whistling of the 3rd of the smoke rising up. now the ukrainian started saying that russia is intensifying, it's ation, it's, it strikes to help his grand for in that offensive. and also it's long range

strategic bonus to take out ukrainian air defenses. well still had here on i'll just renewed fears of instability and northern chad. after at least 200 people are killed and fighting between tribes and flying in for kickoff, we look at the new initiative to help funds get to cut off a world cup, matches those stories after the breaking ah the focus of the biggest impulse, in se asia that has a large area, but it, it changes actually quite a long day to day. for example, if you did forecasts or friday, what was coveting cloud on wednesday and thursday is going to be largely bare. the folks of the heavy res, certain north, for example, in cambodia last may be viet nam and in me and mary as well as the southern tip, awfully mallet peninsula. so including called importance singapore could well be

wet, which is sumatran. java properly dry to say it moves around how to fix an error in particular, where the seasonal rain, which you might expect fix on is this here. a line through southern china, through taiwan and up to was home shoot hawkeye to that's producing significant rain, brief tokyo and then a bit beyond that during friday, where it is not raining. it's quite warm in china. in fact, you could say halt. not so much in shanghai anymore, which is turning cloudy, but in beijing up to $36.00 degrees, nearly 10 above the average. that may not last because i think the window come out of mongolia, particular bringing dust with it. and those temperatures will go down, but still go above the average. the mency range trying to break over sir lanka, shouldn't he showing some signs of a careless most of india is increasingly windy and dusty but not as hot ah,

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is put forward plans for a sweeping economic and security agreement with 10 island states. and this has raced, concerned amongst western nations. 11 newborn babies have died in the hospital or in senegal that happened in the city, a typical one east of the capital dot com. the mass says glazes caused by a short circuit and the national rifle association is ignored calls to counselors annual meeting on friday is being held just a few hours drive from the site of this week's mass school shooting. in the you, a state of texas 19 children and 2 school teachers were killed. the fighting at a gold mine in northern child has killed at least 200 people. security forces have been sent to restore. com. the fighting was between tama tribesman and arab miners near the border with libya. romage d ha, not d is a senior researcher at the institute for security studies. he says, the area,

the fighting, he said, is a key entry point for our groups being, are bringing in weapons from libya. those kind of questions are very good, the bottoms. and the most of the time, it's happening around the control of minding zones, out of control of the benefits from la mining, the fighting a mining and all of the time is that the mining goes to actually organize flow. we estimate the slides. so this is why when there is a kind of a very by model absent from patients between 2 people can very easily be made for the mining activities. i assume that he requested a mental before the communities. what did you need it from the back of the country to mean that just be but also, or ethnic groups that have been heading out of the country in 2012. but this based on the,

the strategy for the company because i also are the way to lead. yeah. and also the way nivia meaning the entry point for weapons and adam groups creating the company. what we should say that even though that i be forced by the. ready company, we are trying at some point to model the boundary of to complete, but also to our forces idea to do also secure the place. what we see is that, although all this is done, the country is not very able, really making the 2nd trip that actually in the back of the country. the bunker stones, as did prime minister, is giving the government 6 days to announce new elections, or faith major protests among con, gave the ultimate him in his speech to thousands of supporters in islam of all the former prime minister says hill returned with 3000000 protest as if the government doesn't agree to elections, he was removed from office for a vote of no confidence last month. and 12,

either more from the pakistani capital stairs have now started your name. most of them have already gone off to ron conn and known that he was going back to the border to go back. he did not want that which could lead to loss of life. they got 5 people located yesterday and brought the govern government coming down were denied and using extensive guy sherlyn bad on george's and got the fact that they had played badges on was able to reach along with his support. does he of god has given and damage him to the government, saying that we didn't take the day, the election should be a noun. there was an important development head in the box, showed that the ruling government decided to do away with some of the amendments that were done by him. ron conway would mean that the electronic, warding machine were not being used in the upcoming elections. and also the fact

that the board and bucket on the di will also not be allowed to work the georgia indication that the government may decide on the option of reelection. because basically the nika nami crisis has been turned down by the big dog dog dog. they have not gotten any red budgets done, needs money, and needs had bought the floods caused by heavier than usual pre monsoon may have devastated parts of ne, in india, at least 28 people have died during days of flooding in the state of a psalm. as bobby metal reports, experts, the blaming human activity and climate change was thing situation. but something bad to us as she worries about her children's future as she mourns the death of a husband. he drowned soon after the family escaped, flooded home. i'm telling you he went to check on the house. he said there would be damages and wanted to see if the flood water had brought the house down. he hadn't

come back since dozens of others have also been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced by floods and landslides. in dallas, ne, a, some state has been hit, the hardest thousands of people are in shelters, and many are living in flooded homes. rescuers are working to reach people by air and boat, brenda, a scale of our producers to become but laws. so then the people, if it's booked very fast response time, maintaining that fast response time for cancer become fill in. the region receives heavy rainfall every monsoon season. but this year, rains are early and $3.00 to $6.00 times more intense than usual, catching many people off guard. the brother patrol is one of the longest rivers in the world and is critical to this regions rich biodiversity and economy. it floods every year, sometimes causing major catastrophes. experts say climate change and increasing

human activity like deforestation, and building to many embankments is making floods unpredictable and more severe. many are advocating for policies to make the region more climate resilient. one hand you keep one constructing among males, give respite to people in water where you, where we can. but on the other hand, you try to enable people to leave with flux. but to a certain extent, there is no alternative for our right body and population mentally would plot lufkin. they will be stopped fully. while water levels are receding in many parts of a, some, some rivers are close to overflowing. and with the monsoon season, due to arrive in a few weeks, people are becoming increasingly anxious. pardon him at that? al jazeera, a psalm in north east india, the reformist and lebanon, 110 percent of the seats in recent parliamentary elections. that's the 1st since the end of the civil war more than 3 decades ago. but the victory doesn't seem to

be the clean break from traditional elements. and her as more from beirut, the walls are coming down 2 years on lebanon's political establishment has begun to remove barriers that stood between anti corruption protestors and state institutions through the ballot box and against the odds. those who were demanding political change made their way to parliament, winning 10 percent of the seats in the recent election. it's a small crack in the political classes, hold on power, who often used violence to silence opposition. for the longest time, politics in lebanon has been about dividing the shares, and compromising between the different parties in order for each one of them to have its own shared after certain bargaining. this is not a democratic process. there when is a 1st and post civil war politics,

which has been dominated by mainly sectarian leaders, many of them, former militia leaders. but so far what they have in common is their opposition to the system. they know they'll need to speak in one voice forming the blog at this point for reformers is very essential for us to be able to come from the current establishment parties. we know that they're very powerful and we know how much they have leverage of us. those parties also have supporters who have shown willingness to use violence, even destroying opposition. symbols such as setting fire to the iron fist in the epicenter of the protest movement that came to represent the people's resistance and determination. gone are the crowds, their voices are now inside parliament, but the traditional party still retained the majority of seats. they are the dominant force. it's still a resilient regime, and opponents remain fragmented. to be genuinely king maker, they will have to form a united,

coherent to block. they will have to form alliances with other groups as they might not have the influence that they think as they will have. they will certainly offer dissenting opinions. they will raise their voices, they will criticize certain policies, but when it comes to passing new legislation, they will face a stumbling block. no doubt, there is a new beginning, but not all is well in lebanon. were political dynamics after the election may not be much different than before. then there was ita, beirut. now, jordan king is on the murdered algebra, gentle assuring. utley king abdullah awarded her with the independence metal, courage and distinction and reporting events in the palestinian territory. trains brother, anton barclay received the medal during a ceremony in amman. now more than 30 international rights groups are demanding an

independent and thorough investigation into sharina, killing. they've called on israel to ensure the crime is fully investigated and prosecuted. train was shot in the head by israeli forces while on assignment to the occupied west bank. earlier this month, she'd been without reserve for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation and was known as the voice of palestine. it's us in 6 months now until the football well cut kicks off here in cattle and sons preparing for the 1st well cup in the middle east. there are some logistical concerns. bronson, sasha, can em reports on new measures that organize as promise will make for a seamless, a memorable experience. ah, you know, we're better together is part of the chorus of a rural cup cut our 2022 themes saw. ah, you might say it's also the mantra of cut art as it worked to overcome logistical

challenges to coasting the 1st world cup in the middle east. oh, it's turned to neighboring countries to help with one of the most pressing, insuring there's enough accommodation for all fans or vision for the stolen and has always been that it is one for the entire region. after all, this is the 1st one, the cup in the middle east and the at a world. and together we have the opportunity to share the best of our culture and traditions with fans across the globe. with less than 6 months before players take to the pitch, many hotels are still under construction in cutter, finding a place to sleep remains a concern for the 1000000 fans expected to attend cut our 2022. the organizing supreme committee has allocated $130000.00 rooms in hotels, cruise ships, and desert camps that does not include rooms available for rent in villas,

and apartments by private landlords. though no one has been able to provide an estimate of how much additional accommodation that could provide cut our airways has announced a partnership with airlines in neighboring gulf states to provide seemed a shuttle service to attend matches. fly due by. so dea kuwait, airways and almond air will fly in 12800 fans to doha. a day. war flights are expected. i know people are using this against my country. we are not unique that accommodations willoughby up in shall supply. because the volume in every fifo, even if it is in a big country like south africa, like russia, like anybody else, that has always been a shortage of accommodation. so we are not unique. organizers say what is unique is the arab heritage and.