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ah, hello, i'm sammy's a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dall. so coming up 6 months of war with russia, ukraine marks, it's annual independence day, 31 years since it's split from the soviet union where life that capital kiev paul's open across angola with rising inflation and the cost of living heavy on both his minds. cracking down on the cartel, skyrocketing, moderate and civilians caught in the crossfire from the state of emergency in ecuador. ah, a cold in thailand has suspended prime minister prior channel. ch are from official

duty, while the review of his term is completed. car you took power in a coup in 2014 protests his se hayes reached the maximum limits of 8th years in office. it's fed. the legal showdown could trigger a fresh political crisis with national election. months away. tony chang joins us now live from bangkok. so what does this mean? does it mean it's the immediate end of the road for the prime minister? no, it doesn't. it doesn't mean that he's finishing government either. it was a $4.00 to $5.00 decision by the constitutional court handed down about an hour ago . they said he is suspended temporarily and that they will come to a decision by the end of september. the senior deputy prime minister private wants to one will step up into his place for the moment, but because he holds their position, the per defense minister, he'll still be in government. he'll still be a member of the cabinet and he still be very much involved. that said,

i think this is going to be seen by the protest. this is something of a victory. they've been chipping away prior to analysis position for a couple of years now. 2 years ago we saw mass demonstrations when tens of thousands young people came out on the streets, calling for his resignation. this might locate them to a certain extent. it is certainly going to be something of a shake out the town and we've got a pretty big cap if you're major couple of months ahead of us. the lady up to the apec meeting in november. and i think there was some feeling that this is the decision that the constitutional court might put off slightly until that time. but they've gone ahead and done. it was clearly a tight decision. and for the moment we go to the prime minister. okay, got a new primary stoic. going to see any tension over this below on to the streets. well i don't know if you can see behind me,

but these massive containers have been put up a ring all around government house, which is just through that little gap there. but in the last hour, since that decision has come down these riot police who a couple of hours ago were standing here with an old black old dress on bullet proof jacket, shot guns with rubber bullets they've since taken that off. they replaced their helmets with soft caps, so they clearly a little less wary. now, a little further down the road, you can see the water cannon is still in place. there's the blue fuel tank, which is waiting to fill it up. we probably can't see it a little further down the road. there are a group of protests as they've been there since this morning, but they are relatively few in number. we also saw, protest is out on the streets last night, but they certainly weren't the kind of mass protests that we've been used to here in thailand, in the last couple of years. and i think there's

a feeling amongst the general populace that that while general prior and this government, frankly having to handle things desperately. well, they also don't want to return to the sort of chaos we've been quite accustomed to in bangkok. i think what the thing they're really focused on is the general election, which is scheduled to happen by the middle of next year. or i could stop there. thanks so much. tony chang. now the u. s. military says it's carried out to strike near the syrian city of their resort. it says it targeted facilities used by groups affiliated with iran's revolutionary guard. the u. s. central command says the strikes were to protect its forces from attacks carried out by iranian backed groups. newt ukrainians are holding muted celebrations to march 31 years of independence from soviet rule. mass gatherings have been banned in the capital key of curfews

have been imposed in some cities. president vladimir zalinski is wanting any russian attack would be met with a powerful response. wednesday, march, 6 months since the beginning of the russian invasion, she's killed. thousands of people and displaced millions. ties about is live for us in give. so theresa muted bought defiant. does that sum up how they're marking independence day? well, as you just said, it's independence day here in the ukraine. 31 years of independence from soviet rule also marks the 6 months since this war began. and all major cities in the country are in high alert, mostly because of risk of, of strikes, of russian strikes in several cities across the country. president of all of the meters highlands. he had already warned that russia might be able to carry out

violent attacks on several cities on this days, but he also said that ukraine is ready to respond earlier today doing a ceremony. saelens key also said that ukraine was reborn after russia invasion that the country was unified and that he will continue to fight to try to recover the territories that russia has occupied, including the areas in don bass and crimea. you know, in spite of the bass hardships of the war, when you talk to people on the street, they are convinced that ukraine needs to fight back, that they need to recover those last territories. when you talk to people, they tell you that they want to be closer to europe, to freedom, to democracy, to free press, and further away from moscow's authoritarian rule. so lots of people in many are afraid that many have left the city while others are in a way, staying in their homes, or going out on the streets and, and celebrating because they still believe that this country is fighting for

independence. 31 years after its independence from soviet rule will be believe that they're defending their country. they're defending though territories, and they're defending their homes. talking about defending and fighting how the front lines shaping up while the war has changed in the past 6 months. initially, moscow was hoping to take over the keys, hold the parade, which is what ukrainians have in the center of keel of key of any install, a puppet government. that's not the situation right now. the war has moved towards the southern parts of the country towards the eastern side of the country, bear ukrainians are targeting for t j. location. they're trying to move past and push back russian force that i've occupied some areas in the country. on the other side, russians are trying to move closer and trying to pick some times. but what's interesting is that the front line, the contact line has not moved in the past month. and that's why ukraine is

requesting more weapons that are going to help them push the russians forward. so that we also been like recent attacks and explosions happening and they occupied crimea. the government to the korean government is not acknowledging that they are behind this, but it could be that part to stand for government supporters in climbing or special forces are carrying out this type of attacks. let's don't forget about the humanitarian tone of this war. thousands have been killed, thousands have been injured. millions have been to this this display. so, you know, when you look at everything that's been going on that right now, hearing key, the situation seems peaceful, but there's a war on going not far away from here. the humanitarian cost of the human costs has been huge. all right, thanks so much. torres about windows is the ukraine's operations manager for the international red cross. she says the humanitarian situation is

likely to get worse over the next 6 months. at the moment, we are still very much in the emergency phase. although we have a much better idea of what are the needs at the moment. so far we have provided assistance with basic items, basic needs to 5000000 people, but the needs are increasing. the winter is coming and this is our main focus at the moment we are preparing for the winter. i zation the needs are, are mainly related to housing, but also for people to just to, to know where they're going to send their children to school. so this, the, the needs are very broad and the people are either looking for

a place to be hosted or reach out to family members outside of ukraine. but within ukraine we still have 6600000 of people that have been displaced by the conflict. and more or less the same amount of people that have fled the country that are in the neighboring countries. the u. n. human rights office says is concerned about reports. russian bank separatists in the city of multiple are preparing to put ukrainian prisoners of war on trial photos show cages being erected, where the proceedings are expected to be held. president vladimir that unskilled, warned any trial would end negotiations with moscow. on 1st a wrangler. refugees who marked the 5th anniversary of the exodus from me and mar, hundreds of thousands of people from the countries. most of the minority fled a violent crack down in 2017. now there's

a 1000000 ra hang. i live in one of the world's largest refugee camps. in concert bazaar, freedom of movement is limited and they kept on the increasingly harsh conditions. bangladesh is pushing for the every pat creation. but last week, the un human rights chief said it's hill too dangerous for them to return. found the child reason cox's bizarre, tells us more about the situation there. 5 years on a 1000000 reparative living in the largest refugee camp in cox as bizarre. when you walk in the straits and talk to the rowing, as you can send as a frustration and sense of hopelessness most know they are going back to me on my anytime soon, many of the rowing refugees we spoke to said that there was increase restriction in the can those barbara all around the need permission to move around. there's also gang violence within the time between growing our gangs. there's also killing of many of the camp leaders in recent months, as well as in the last couple of years. there's also periodic incidence of fire

across the come. many joining us tried to flee the camp and had taught se asia for better life on the process, hundreds of died. more than 50 percent of the total don't hang out, refugees are children. when he walked across the camps, you see children everywhere. this is one of the major concern for their families. they want education for their children. there is no formal education school, there's only informed school run by the unicef and other agencies. all the home based schools are shut down by the government. this is one of their main concern right now. nearly $1200000.00 hosts come in a year on the refugee camps. now they're also frustrated. bunger, there's government, it's also finding, it's difficult to, and is the can 5 years on that is no tangible movement. so it's been lot of visit by diplomats un representative, but nothing concrete or tangible happened so far. there has been 2 failed repetition process. many bilateral talks between me and moran,

bangladesh. the bank with his gum and blames man mar for rigging on his promises. not making any effort to take back the rowing as to their homeland in rock kind. despite all the diplomatic effort, bangers, gum and fee of the wild community has not putting enough pressure on me and my to take back their refuge is to their homeland still had on al jazeera with as rushes energy war with europe gets worse. it's cold, not gas that's causing a crisis in poland. i'm andrew simmons and kathy. it's about explaining why trucks are standing in line for days on end. outside the coal mines, i suppose tins of argentine is vice president hit back off to prosecute to seek to put behind bars ah

with hello there. despite nearly half of europe being threatened by drought, this still some rather intense, wet weather to be found, particularly across northern areas and in the east where the heat is still dominating nowhere in the final week of meet her logical summer for europe. but temperatures are continuing to climb for the likes of eastern poland, where we have got high temperature alerts out on wednesday. if we look at the 3 day for warsaw. well, despite those thunderstorms on wednesday, the temperature will continue to climb through to friday with clear skies and hot conditions. now and further north of this, the wet weather continues rounds of rain running across britain, an island edging across the north sea into scandinavia. with heavy falls for norway . heavy falls as well for finan, the rush of storms spreading across into western russia by thursday, but they still a lot of wounds to be found across the northwest and more sensual areas. and the

south was to, we've got more heat blowing in from the north of africa, that's going to pick temperatures up for the likes of portugal. by the time we get into thursday, spain, we've got some heavy rain rolling into the north with thunderstorm warnings out temperatures dipping down slightly. but very hot and dry in south. ah, with frank assessments, how much support is there if it's straight protest that we've seen in cartoon across the rest of the country, the street men have been very good at tapping into the coal confound to people across the country, informed opinions we will say more of these events, what is happening is that climate change it making them work in depth analysis of the days global headlines draw. he is credited by some way where they were storing italy's credibility. this critics would say he couldn't play the part of a politician. what do you think went wrong inside story on al jazeera lou?

ah, you're welcome. welcome back here watching al jazeera. let's recap those headlines now. cotton thailand has suspended prime minister prior channel cha, while the review of his term limits is completed by you to power nicu in 2014 critic say he's reached the maximum limits of 8th he is in office. u. s. military says it's carried off the strike near the syrian city of dare resolve. central command says it was aimed at protecting its forces from attacks carried out by arabian bank groups. ukrainians are holding muted celebrations to mog 31 years of independence from soviet rule. mass gatherings have been banned in the capital g of

co fuse imposed in some cities. now voting is on the way 9 gohler. what's expected to be it's close to still action in decades, the routing party is aiming to extend its 47 years in power. but frustration is growing rise in property and inflation that fueling a strong challenge from the opposition. a political parties are contesting the vote . the front runner is the governing peoples movement for the liberation of angola, or n p l. a. it's led by president john lorenzo. his main rival is that other battle costa junior. he leads unique. that's the national union for the total independence of angola. costs or is seeking a mandate to reduce poverty and tackle corruption. he says the countries, oil wealth is mainly benefited it's elite, more than 2 thirds of the population are on the 30 years old. some analysts say

this demographic is likely to determine the outcome of the election on monday. so lauren code is an africa, political and list that the consultancy control risks she says and go to the 2nd nomic problems are expected to effect voting. gone through quite a tough time in the past 6 to 8 years. so in 2015 it entered into a recession, which would last for 6 years. and then of course, already being in a recession, it was hit very hard by the code, 900 and demick, especially when oil price, the oil price crushed in april 2020. given that it's, that's a major revenue earning. and those ready had an impact on so if you're economic conditions that were not that good to begin with, i think that's definitely contributions to a sense of disillusionment with the ruling party. the other thing is that when president finance, who took over in 2017, there was

a kind of renewed optimism in the country that perhaps he would open up the great civil society space that he was whole local elections. that perhaps the board was brought to macroeconomic stability that might start to trickle down. but of course, that hasn't entirely happened. some of it has been a lack of political will. other things have been just global shocks. but this is really contributed to this feeling of delusion. and this is, this is what you could potentially see the emperor late and not fair as well as it has had previous elections. now, a group of e u countries is pushing to ban russian tourists. russia board as european union members, finland estonia, latvia, lithuania, and poland. all 5 wanton e wide band on rush and visitors. the blank band russian plains, from its asked space following moscow's invasion of ukraine in february. that turn

countries with land borders into pop hill, holiday destinations for russian tourists. russian license plates on luxury cars are a common science at finland biggest airport. it's foreign minister says finland has become a transit country. a band is expected to be discussed at next week's meeting of e u foreign ministers. families in poland de, bracing for a tough winter. the country is facing widespread coal shortages after russian imports of fuel were banned. unlike the rest of europe, poland relies on call rather than gas for power and heating and re simmons travelled because of it's a to see how people are preparing for the cold months ahead. poland prides itself on its potential for being totally independent of russia for its energy needs. but there's a problem. it's a shortage of cold, not gas, like the rest of europe. rough, our roars coal seller is normally stocked up for winter by now. but he can't find any coal to buy, and if he could,

he'd pay almost 4 times what he used to use them and you couldn't again, i'm not a minor orange urologist put the coal is right here beneath our feet. and i've been trying to buy it for 3 months with 0 results, on average when he's right. this region is rich with coal, but polish production is limited. and the government has band imported cold from russia, even though it's cheaper and more suitable for domestic use. we didn't invest in nuclear power yet or we cannot rely on natural gas. so all we have is gold when it comes to the heating sector, the situation is even worse because we were heavily dependent on russian. ready co, poland burns, a lot of coal, 87 percent of the total for households across the european union. coal mines surrounded by cues of trucks can't meet the demand. and if people knew the level of profiteering going on, they be even more alarmed. there's a reason that truck drivers from all over poland are spending days on end and cues

like these. it's because the loads may be small, but the profits are big drivers unknown to make at least a 100 percent profit from a coal yard dealer who will then raise the price by at least another 100 percent. this driver admits the 2nd old will suffer balmy's or be tagged what the government should do is get pension as a special allowance on coal delivered to their door. and it's sick. i don't want to profit from human misery, but that's how it is. the government says an annual coal allowance of around $630.00 a year will help. and ministers say companies are importing coal ahead of the coming winter. polish companies are now importing call from other countries from colombia, indonesia, south africa, and placing with that, the quantities of coal that were coming from russia. it's a bit of a different logistics, so it creates challenges. but right across poland, people like this homeowner feel the government isn't doing enough. andrew simmons,

i'll just 0 of it's polar. iran says israel is trying to sabotage progress in reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. the head of iran's nuclear energy organisation says israel a stage, days of psychological warfare, this follows reports in us media to around is dropped. some key demands from the deal to wrong denies is saying it's being compliant. a u. s. a former us police officer has pleaded guilty for her role in the death of brianna taylor, a black woman, shot and killed during a police raid. taylor died in her home in 2020. her death sparked protest against racial justice and police brutality. across the u. s. federal investigators say kelly good look, conspired to create a cover story and added aligned to a search warrant shadow times. he has more kelly. good look. now house pet guilty

to falsify the arrest warrant that convinced a judge to, to, to allow it to go ahead and then conspiring to cover up what she did with the other officer. it thought that she will be giving evidence against 2 of the other offices who have been charged by the department of justice and those 3 offices and challenge with the bureaucratic side of the raid. another office has been charged with excessive force, the officer who basically stood outside brianna taylor's apartment, just shooting wildly into the apartment, despite the fact that he could see anything. there were blinds down on a black outcome, but he was just firing away with it with his guns. he's going to be charged with excessive force. again, he was acquitted on that charge in the state court already though once. but we should also remember them that just leaves the 2 offices who are actually inside brianna, taylor taylor apartment, who bust him. they claim that they announce themselves brown, tennis boyfriend who was the being said, said they did not. they're the ones who actually 5 to 10 years,

many shots inside the apartment 6 with which hit brown and one of which killed them . they haven't been charged with anything. so it's clearly welcomed that people are being charged by the federal government of constitutional crimes. but this is clearly fatal out of state level, but, but so it's still being looked at at least something moving forward that the people are slowly perhaps beginning to be held accountable for. for the steph. prosecutors in the u. s. city of atlanta have decided not to pursue charges against 2 white police officers involved in the killing of a black man in 2020. rayshawn brooks was shot dead after the officers responded to complaints, fallen asleep in his car and drive through restaurant. they tried to arrest him. brooks grabbed the taser from the fight, it ran away onto the shot back, shot him in the back echoes ports and weak institutions have turned it into a key transit point for hundreds of tons of narcotics earmarked to the united

states, europe, asia, and russia. the sea and human tells us how drug trafficking is causing unprecedented violence in the port city of ry equilla. i celibacy, it's been more than a week since an explosion destroyed the homes and the lives of many living on chi yet, or chal. a street in a poor guayaquil neighbourhood. me her down in the royal apostle. my daughter was sleeping with her husband when they heard machine gun fire. they ran to the window when the bomb went off in front of our house, dolah. yeah, he said, his daughter and his son in law each last deny. yeah, the magnitude of the explosion left 17 people injured and 5 dead authority suspect it was directed at a drug trafficker, nicknamed cockroach, who reportedly had already left the scene. 36 year old roxana battery else died almost immediately think it was

a gig on the only one we thought the my mother's body was found over there. i believe that explosion has been followed by 2 smaller ones this week in ecuador, z, largest coastal city, where in the last year the murder rate has doubled. i am the government has responded by declaring a month long state of emergency, which allows the police and the army to work together to crack down on criminal organizations linked to drug trafficking cartels. about a year ago, 2 bodies were found hanging from this bridge here in the new land district. it marked the beginning of an escalation of violence here in y, yackino. and since then, there have been decapitations, dismemberment of bodies of rival gang members, all of which have becoming more and more common in a country that had never seen those types of crimes before. all insurance. but if the national police director of investigation says ecuadorian, geographic position is mostly to blame,

a case stumbled employee intervals bite about it, or we are waged between the world's 2 largest drug produces columbia in the north and peru in the south africa. we've become embroiled in the logistic network. the transit country is what we're seeing a crime sort of copied from colombian and mexican cartels. in order to generate tara and panic, get the name of various where police police have identified at least 26 criminal gangs. some of them, small armies, who are fighting each other for the privilege of distributing drugs from here to the rest of the world. in the last 3 days, police have confiscated more than 40 tons of pure cocaine in banana shipments that were earmarked for europe. what that small consolation could the people of guy or child who say the police can't control the violence, which is why they're still living in fear to see in human al jazeera, why get keel?

ecuador? supporters of argentina's vice president, christina fernandez, the kister have been protesting what they say is, judicial persecution of her. oh, it, former president greeted the crowds outside congress as they chanted against the prosecutor's decision to seek a 12 year prison sentence and corruption trial. fernandez is accused of diverting public funds during her time in office, but many in our party say she is being targeted because she championed the poor for my head of security at twitter says the company has no idea how many fake accounts are operating on the social media platform, he hasn't co as filed a whistleblower complaint with u. s. officials in it. he alleges the company miss land regulates is about it cybersecurity defenses and was negligent in trying to root out fake accounts to with the says the allegations are false.