we're now down to the final 8 we've witnessed and seismic upset, but many of the world's top teams still remain at our 2022 on al jazeera. ah us basketball stop brittany griner has been released by russia and the prisoner swamp. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up political upheaval in peru. dena blocked a is sworn in as president after the impeachment and arrest of pedro castillo by jerry, as military as accused of running a secret mass abortion program,

forcefully ending at least $10000.00 pregnancies. and the great migration will look at how climate change of medic aska is forcing people to find new places to live. ah, american basketball player brittany chronic has been released from a russian prison. u. s. president joe biden says she is safe and on her why hon. greiner was freed in the united arab emirates as part of a prisoner swap. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was convicted an august of smuggling and possessing canvas. she was sentenced to 9 years in jail. after mont being unjustly detained in russia. helen under intolerable circumstances, pretty will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and, and she should have been there all along. this is a day we've worked toward for a long time. we never stopped pushing for her release. it took painstaking intense

negotiations and i want to thank all the hard working public service across my ministration, who worked tirelessly to secure a release again to cross live now to kimberly. how can our white house correspondent and if we had a job button, say there the negotiating team had been working on this for months? can you take us through how they got it over the line? yeah, the way does not exactly say what it was that was this breakthrough only that it was painstaking. we know that there was almost a breakthrough over the summer, only to see that fall apart the white house putting forward a proposal to russia of the response we were told was not sincere and then it fell apart. and what we do know is that this was an exchange for victor booty, a convicted arms dealer that was serving a 25 year sentence. he was only 12 years into his sentence, serving

a federal head out of federal prison in illinois. we do know that the white house, for its part believes that the swap in and of itself is somewhat disproportionate. given the fact that brittany griner was serving time in a penal colony in russia for drug possession, the white house is always maintained that that her sentence was somewhat disproportionate. given the fact that this was very hard labor for what she said was nothing more than a mistake. she admitted that when she was arrested that she had these trace amounts of cannabis oil in her luggage. she said that she knew this was prohibited substance, but that it had been packed inadvertently in haste. and the white house believes that she was nothing more than a political pine caught up in the fact that she was arrested back in february. and you'll remember that was about the same time that russia invaded ukraine. and of

course the white house has been very opposed to that invasion. and so there was this feeling better. brittany greiner, the basketball star, really was caught up in the midst of that. and the pushback between these 2 nations, and so there has been high level diplomacy in an effort to try and secure her release really from the start and again the through. it's not clear exactly what happened only that. finally, it did come out the white house announcing this through a tree, tweet the president releasing a photo of him. self along with brittany grinders wife cheryl and the vice president at antony blink. and the secretary of state, speaking with brittany griner, she was on board a plane leaving russia. she was due back into the united states within 24 hours. but the white house, regrettably saying that they were not able to secure the release of paul whalen. he is an american that is still serving

a sentence for espionage he has been serving for years in prison. the white house saying they are still working to secure his release. okay, thank you so much for that. update that so white house correspondents, kimberly hawkers really hush him has the largest from moscow on the release of russian alms dealer victor boot. victor bought was arrival in moscow still a matter of conflicting reports. we don't know yet if he lived or not. the foreign ministry say, said he, i've now we have just saying that he's on his way about, according to the forwards he was known, natoya se dealer involved in deal from africa, congo to live, to yawn, to honest, saw lebron on several places where he was involved in deals and he was arrested in 2008 in file and the 5 police arrested him in coordination

with the u. s. authorities. he was taken to the u. s. where he was sentenced to 25 years. now this, the, the, the swap that took place hours ago, it seems, it was dawn and it was dated by 2 region or other countries in the middle east, saudi arabia and the us. and just yesterday, a call the phone call between president vladimir putin flat, russia, and the you. a president mohammed, i've been zeit to place and seems the de la finalize this act quite explains why the wife of victor boot and his mother say now that the till 2 days ago, they never knew about a deal to release him. now, despite the conflict and reports that we mentioned about his and victor with his

going to be in russia within the come in minutes hours. we don't know, but he's going to be here. and this page is going to be folded. the us secretary of side says he's competent, finland, and sweden will soon be nice. home members, the foreign ministers are in washington, d. c. for talks, rushes invasion of ukraine, push them to apply for nitro membership. it's been delayed by concerns from to kia over care. their separatists and both countries, but as in the blink and says, these issues have been addressed. their militaries work, nearly seamlessly with allied forces been on sweden will bolster our lives not only through their military capabilities, but also through their values, an abiding commitment to democracy. the rules based international order, respect for human rights, respect for human dignity. why hadn't joined us now from washington?

mike, blinking said that the issues have been addressed with to kia. so what do you think the hold up as for the hold up remains a matter of negotiation both to clear and hungary have asked for security guarantees. now out of the 30, a nato members $28.00 have signed or ratified the membership for these 2 countries . only hungry and took here are actually holding out at the moment. but we heard there from secretary blinking, that he's convinced that they will be agreement. we heard from the swedish and finish afar of ministers as well. that this is something that they believe they have been in discussions a step by step discussions with took here on the security issues. and they are confident that ratification could come by the end of april. so it does appear that although this process is slow, it is and away a took here originally accepted the membership application. however,

in subsequent months had to re burst course and away are many believed that hungry is following. what it's very close ally is doing. but there's other issues involved as well as some speculate that took years, holding out to try and squeeze some concessions out of the u. s. in particular, for example, the sale of f, 16 fighters, which the u. s. has been reluctant to push through. so all of these issues are coming together, but we heard today from the u. s. secretary of state and the foreign ministers of sweden and finland, that they are confident that the hold up will end and that they will become full members of nato. this would be a massive switch in terms of regional alliances. these 2 countries having been non aligned for decades in the war in ukraine, clearly pushing them over the edge, driving them to join nato. and a thank you very much, says mike, hana from washington, d. c. germany says it expects more of wrists and rides in connection with

a far right plot to overthrow with government. police rated 150 science across the country. on wednesday, the prosecutor general says 25 people were detained, to planning to violently seize control of parliament. a soldier, a judge in russian national are among those arrested hoshal funky is a professor of political science at the free university of berlin. he says, not enough attention has been paid to far right. movements in germany and europe. the perception is we have to be aware and to fear about the stability of democracies and, and again, this, german democracy is stable, although they have to be more attention get attention on these groupings. they didn't do it up to the last 2 or 4 years. think about the and a few, then national socialist underground. they didn't perceive it,

they didn't see it. they didn't come to terms with it for a long period of time. only since the last 2 to 4 years, the leading, the leading persons in the security institutions are aware and taking extra like yesterday. so that's a good time for me to defend democracy with respect to the far right. all in nearly all the best. and you repeat states, we have this growing tendency, but the democratic majorities fight them back except the situation in italy to ruse interim leader, dinner blower day has taken office after congress and pitch pitcher castillo, he was arrested just hours after saying he would dissolve congress by presidential decree a move, the constitutional court said was a, could a tar marianna. sanchez has the lightest from lima

a day of her drama and they do with vice president. he never knew out of the been sworn in the country leader nissan. they look us to your dissolved congress by presidential decrease ah, a move the countries constitutional court said was a, could a tar video. as a result, he quickly lost the backing of his political allies, geography the when, when thought a lot, a co attempt has been made an initiative lead by mr. pedro castillo. it was not echoed by any democratic institutions or the people following on from the constitutional order. this congress has made a decision, and it's my duty to act accordingly. it was congress's 30 impeachment attempt to oust castillo. he tried to save himself with a bold move doorman, was low, this is young, will temporarily digital congress and establish an exceptional emergency governmentally. and while calling for elections for a new congress, him of, and drafting a new constitutional, he then went even further ordering the military to patrol the streets

with a night m curfew. but us lawmakers began voting for the impeachment castillo left. the presidential palace with his family, police say he was going to request political asylum in mexico, but instead he was arrested. his supporters clashed with police outside the station where she was held throughout his presidency. castillo had constant confrontations with the political opposition. he was even expelled from his own party. now lawmaker say they want to work with the new precedent. get weighing are gone when i renewed it, she should come with the cabinet that helps to deal with problems, not ministers. who will please her me. the number one at the is the 1st female president of the do. she has asked peruvians for unity and lawmakers for a truce. and in a santa cell to see that the map, it was still a hit on al jazeera trade union. centrelink. i get involved in nationwide protests

against the rising cost of living and uniting for african nations, the world cup fans delivering a little extra ah hello, we've got some right in the forecast, but doha rover the next day or so we got this bad a class snipping further south was gusty winds associated with that as well. if there is any brain, there isn't actually going to be too much to worry about. but i think the main thing you will notice is how it freshen up over the next couple days. friday, $25.00 degrees celsius could be struggling to get to $23.00. on saturday with that brisk shamal wind like dust lifted dust and sand, said he, somebody to watch out for they go, you may see one or 2 bits and pieces of range. a central pass, saudi arabia, maybe the to western areas of iraq to the north of that it is dry and sunny south

of that again last year, dry and sunny, dry and sunny to across much of north africa. but we have got some rain here as well. to spilling across sir morocco, easing out of the iberian commissioner, this nasty little area of low pressure here affecting spain and portugal and wet weather, just trailing in there. so that could lead to some localized flooding. few showers and northern areas of algeria much of north africa try and fight dust hayes. they're just coming out in the jail to northern parts of nigeria. wanted to shout around the gulf of guinea journey up with the main showers through the tropical bout. big down, pause there, rumbling away across that democratic republic of congo, easing down towards mozambique, and quite a scattering of showers to south africa. ah, the if the world has taught us anything, it's that we all need support. that includes, as hale won and assailed to, to do their job,

they need help from the ground. support doesn't come any stronger than the s l st teleport designed to protect and maintain our satellites. from infrastructure to control. it never stops adding value. as sales science space to deliver your vision . lou ah, you're watching l. j 0 reminder of our top stories, the sour american basketball player, brittany criner will soon be back in the us after being released from a russian prison. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was freed as part of a prisoner swap. us secretary of state antony blinkin says he's confident finland

and sweden's application to join nato will be approved soon. their foreign ministers are in washington, d. c. for talks, brushes, invasion of ukraine, pushed them to apply for nicer membership, and peru has sworn and dinner for loyalty as president of the petro castillo, was impeached by congress and detained. he was arrested just hours out to saying he would dissolve congress by presidential decree, lafitte. lithuania has turned away nearly 20000 refugees and migrants in the past year. there, despite having an official policy to medically assist them 1st al jazeera midsummer asylum seekers who said they had serious injuries. when they were rejected. step vos and spoke with 2 of them. a 530 kilometer long 4 meters height, barbed wire fence to keep out refugees and migrants. but video footage given to us by the live to wally and border police shows people are still crossing the border.

some have accused the bell russian forces of copying defense to let people through . not long after they are seen being pushed back through the same hole by the lithuanians. this re lanchen man who does not want to be identified as this is what happened to him too. after crossing from bella rufe, he says his feet were injured, but lithuanian border. police did not supply medical aid. the other day we raised our hands asking for help, but they show no mercy. they took us right back to the forest. so i was praying that i would divide the experience. he says he spent 10 days in the cold forest. after crossing again into lithuania, he was finally admitted to hospital with both his feet suffered from serious frost bite and had to be amputated. his lawyer is preparing a legal case against border police for negligence. well, there was intentional or intentional threat to life and

failure to perform the duty. every person has a right to life and nobody should be left in life threatening situations about the system. what and 4000 refugees and migrants mainly from the middle east and africa, arrived in lithuania from bellows. last year the you accused fellowship leader alexander lucas shanker, of using vulnerable people as a weapon of war after europe and the us imposed sanctions on his government. this is one of the recently billboard of francis aiming to turn to european union into a fortress for refugees and migrants. still, people are risking their life, making the journey through the forest and freezing temperatures. trying to get through the fence into the e u. a journey that often ends right here in the cold forest, the list when he and deputy interior minister says all of those pushed back will be medically assessed. but when asked about the 23 lankin, he admits they may have been returned with injuries. very few cases,

perhaps better keep in mind that they are, are they hiding in any cases they want to escape from the border guards are not responsible that they enjoy themselves this way. lumpkin man is suffering from serious mental health issue fences, amputation while human rights organizations say the push backs is against the un convention for refugees. that the way yes, as it will continue. as long as the situation at its border with bellows does not improve, steadfast and else's era vilnius. the nigerian army has been accused of running a secret illegal abortion program. reuters is reporting at least 10000 pregnancies have been forcefully terminated in the northeast since 2013. many of the women had been rapes, many victims, se booker harass fighters were responsible. nigerian military leaders deny the program existed. in the beginning, we were in our town. book harass,

came and attacked. they grabbed ethan, took us away to the bush. after that we were in the bush in their hands. soldiers came and took us. after that they took us to get our barracks and they boarded our pregnancies. for me to mila has more from boucher o'neil on thursday. the night julian government twins the media as well as issued a written statement in response to the allegations made by the reuters news agency that thousands of women rescued from book around by pose had been forced to undergo abortions. and that reports by reuters agency had said that at least one of the women that's spoken to had described how she had been taken to adopt them off to being rescued, forced to take tablets as well as given injections, which then resulted in an abortion and in her situation, they were losing 5 other women in that room. now, being like 2 in the military has,

in that statement that they issued as youth, the number of adjectives to respond to these allegations, saying that they alive is. these are concocted stories concocted allegations that they're wicked, and also calling it demonic journalism and a fictitious series of stories intended to insult nigerians and nigerian culture. that statement issued by the military also went on to say that thousands of booker, i'm fight to specifically, had surrendered in at least the last 18 months. and many of them were part of a re integration program following their surrender from the book of fighters. and it did also said that it had wanted to respond to this reuters report as to the journalist from ways that agency had to be collecting their information. but it has now had the opportunity to respond. it is said that the

librarian soldiers have under no circumstances taken part in any systematic or legal operation to conduct abortions, that this hasn't happened and to show soldiers they cherish life. and that despite the difficulties and the challenges the nigerian government is facing in terms of security in the country trade union centurylink, leading several protests against the spiraling cost of living. it follows president when a little bit from a thing is decision to privatize some state institutions. sure, lanka has been going through. it's worth economic crisis and decades. at least $22000000.00 people are struggling to pay for essential goods. people in portugal capital have been edge not to leave their homes up to heavy rain caused flooding. at least one person has died. cars were submerged in some road. the tunnels and

metro lines shut down in lisbon. the severe weather is forecast to last until friday. climate change is causing drowsy crop failure and self metal. jessica and an increasing number of people are moving to the coast in search of food. the influx of migrants is putting huge pressure on fish, stocks and ocean life. net clark reports in bello sir mare. the wind blows the fishing boats home as it has for the countless centuries. people have lived here left here, living by what nature provides for not all is as it seems, these are malagasy migrants. they move from the drought written south in such a means to survive. and their story is the interface between climate change and biodiversity. los alamedos to the med, operates in our place who are suffering, and there was no food, and the kids are starving. so that's why we came here to bill of so many it is too

expensive to pay for it, is that with fishing we can friendship even fee foot. i in the local fish market amongst the myriad species, hammerhead shark is available for sale. he don't even think it's a legal catch, but it's a globally threatened species. the arrival of the migrants is adding to the pressures on fish, dogs, and marine biodiversity already stretched. by over fishing, we speed out to sea into a marine protected area. but with few resources, the no fish stones are hauled to police from a double threat. you know, la premier say let me guarantee. the 1st one is the migrants who are coming in the dry season. here. the 2nd is the big fishing boats who don't stay outside the protected zone, and they cut the nets and damage the gear of the smaller fishing boats. smoke rises in the distance that's more biodiversity loss happening before our eyes, slash and burn deforestation. and soon we see the effects up close.

10 years ago. there were forests here. glen tells me 900 square kilometers of virgin forest was destroyed by the migrants fleeing the southern drought to grow crops like peanuts and mays. the habitat loss is devastating. i've even, i've seen many live her son, the trees here, the dancing lemurs. i've seen them many times in the colon. we're here. there. we're here and it's 5 years. yeah, we stopped here to take them pictures. and are they come on round a at gal read faulty? the brown limits of saw there were, here was no home for them. none here for people fleeing the impacts of global warming. it's survival at all costs. and this is going to happen all over the world. is impacts like sea level rise, caused people to move further and further in land to escape rising sees pretty normal pressure on environmental sources. here in madagascar slowing the ecological

decline is key. but fundamental to that is improving the well being of the average, malagasy as a climate, they once new changes beyond recognition. mcclark al jazeera palace humor, madagascar. ah, but it's been another big casualty from the football world cup. spain's head coach louis on re k has left the job after the last 16 to feed to morocco on penalties. for the 52 year old says he was to blame on the k, had been in the job since 2018 and had a contract until the end of this year. a morocco won't be lacking support when they take on portugal in the quarter finals on saturday. thousands more fans are descending on doha, but this already a hot, cold base and casa, he'll be backing them during breaks between delivering meals. funky new urine

caught up with a motorcycle drivers, zigzag across the city in doha, delivering fast food, groceries, and even medicine. but when african teams are playing, they can often be found. one of the free sweeney, i thought to be a love, because because they came the game and did a good job, which is trained in the name of africa. in this one moment, daniel brenda came to catch our from ghana a little less than a year ago. oh, catching some world cup action is a welcome break. comes 12 hour shift in the week. i do. i've few very of in this thing. i've seen africans before me, so just a moment. i few suicide that i feel presented with it doesn't matter that their countries aren't playing at cut are 2022. my human goes from the gambia. he says he's followed the game speech an african sites closely. and very much out beyond and grateful to watch in the

football year in cut the and, and i know every, every gun here will bit was little hockey. there was you don't know where now you want to watch it again. ah, this year was the 1st time all african teams, one, at least one match in the group stage. the parent africans make up roughly 6 percent of the population and cut our footfall is by far the most popular sport back home. and for many of these migrant workers, the, this close to a fee for world cup is a once in a lifetime experience with gerald. i kinda as is a former professional athlete and coach these days. he's a professor at northwestern university, working in sports management in africa. come see a large majority. i, blue collar jobs or self, he's lost. his jobs for them. got our present something exceptional. they woke up, and moreover, african themes doing well. and that is very essential. any the more milk pride for

all those people who are normally not socially i the high level aidan yes, the city of here then got to have represent under opportunity represent the 1st thing that give them a 90 minute passes. are all too quickly and time to get back on the road again to customers. they may be faceless nameless service providers. but behind the uniforms and helmets are passionate supporters of african football. funking leon out his ear . ah, ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. the sour merican basketball player, brittany criner will soon be back in the us. after being released from a russian prison. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was freed as part of a prisoner swap after mont to be no justly detained in russia.