i was he still making style with how he made the breakthrough into a friend world. to me. he's a mode was a fighter. his weapons were his mind and his intelligence. med honda, rebel african. tell me on how you see there was a time to be direct there basically on the verge of legalizing racial jerry battery to cut through the rhetoric. this isn't a universal death felony crisis seems to be one of particular populations to dismantle the sound bites. there are lots and lots of women who are likely agenda a kind of anti feminist agenda and demand the truth, those of size of fascism. we have to really recognize what we're off of here. we are determining what is the future of democracy in this country. join me more from on hill for up for on al jazeera. ah. mm. mm.

this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm ne parker. this is the news. our life from dough are coming up in the next 60 minutes. anger rises among us republicans following a stand off on leadership. the next vote for a speaker is expected in the coming hours. an emotional reunion. israel's longer serving palestinian prisoners released after completing his 40 years sentence. m $23.00 finds his se there, withdrawing from another town and east and democratic republic of congo. but the army calls it a sham of because we want to give time for agreement between console and serbia. cost of ours prime minister says his country will continue imposing fines for soviet issued vehicle number plates after spring and i'm given

ashwin. sports will be building up to the big man city. chelsea game lisa and kenya's government ledges to spend $5000000.00 a year for the next 5 years in an effort to combat doping in athletics. if possible . ah. welcome to the news out for a 3rd straight day, the us house of representatives will convene to pick a new speaker. the last 2 attempts were unsuccessful with a group of hard line republicans, again blocking kevin mccarthy's bid for the top job is the 1st time in a century. the result hasn't been determined in the 1st vote. john had run reports from capitol hill. it's a high stakes political stand off on one side, republican leader, kevin mccarthy, in most of his party on the other a cadre of strong willed republican rebels in 6 ballots. over 2 days mccarthy's

mainstream republicans have failed to muster the votes, to elect him his speaker of the us house of representatives. a speaker has not been elected. it was a scene of republican disarray, a block of 19 than 20, then 21, mostly members of the freedom caucus repeatedly stopped the party leader from reaching the necessary 218 vote threshold. mccarthy began the 2nd day of voting with optimism with but the republican rebels want to dramatically limit the size of the federal government and overhaul the congressional rules to do that. and a series of concessions failed to satisfy them. rather after hours of deadlock votes, they took a 3 hour break for equally fruitless negotiation with the house, be an honor, then quickly adjourned. for a 2nd day without speaking, democrats watched the slow paced collision with glee. one bearing an arm load of popcorn, the contrast between house democrats on the chaos and confusion taking place on the

other side of the aisle could not be more clear. democrat, ha keen, jeffries topped every vote, but fell short of the majority needed to win. without a speaker, the house can't pass laws may committee assignments or even swear in its new members leaving the united states without a functioning house of representatives. one democrat, in particular, lamented the congressional chaos. it's embarrassing to the country. i mean, literally, i got a part of this reality that you know, to be able have on congress the can't function. is this embarrassing really greatest nation in the world? how can i as republicans battled it out on the house floor? president joe biden joined republican senate leader mitch mcconnell at a bridge connecting kentucky in ohio funded by a bipartisan infrastructure law, showing that even divided government can function when both sides cooperate. john henderson, al jazeera capitol hill. oh,

the role of us house speaker is one of the most powerful political positions in washington d. c. the speaker is 2nd in line to the presidency would take over the leadership if something happened to both the president and the vice president for the jobs most important role as political as head of the majority party, the speaker has near total control over what gets debated and voted on by the full house when they come from the same party. the speaker can be one of a presidents, most important allies who when they're rivals, the speaker becomes one of the presence most difficult opponents. will that speak to i white house correspondent, kimberly how can, who joins us now live from washington. d. c. and kimberly, i gather that back in 1856. at least it took a $133.00 bollocks and 2 months to choose a speaker where clearly a long way off that but is there really no other option but to keep on going until the numbers out of oh, well yeah, in a way that is exactly what happens and so of historically,

sometimes it takes weeks even months of the we should point out the reason that this is happening has a lot to do with that. just members being difficult, but they are sending a message to kevin mccarthy saying that look a if you think this is business as usual, and you're going to get a rubber stamp. think again, we want you to understand that we are here to deliver for the people that elected us. this is representative government and we have a job to do. and so in many ways these as sort of a rebel republicans are doing what they were sent to washington to do. and that is to tell kevin mccarthy that they are against a institutional government. there are anti establishment politicians that come from 3 specific states of, from florida, from texas, from arizona. and they are against sort of like big ties and big business money

that is tied to politics typically in washington. so evidently they will likely given and kevin mccarthy knows that. but they are making a big statement in all of this. so they eventually kevin mccarthy hopes that he can wear these politicians down, but not before they make a big splash and big headlines, a frost the globe, which is what they are doing. so ultimately, kevin mccarthy has already moved into the speaker's office. he believes he will ultimately be successful, but there are other pathways. if he's not, there are other republicans waiting in the wings. if he does not get the votes that he needs right now, he just needs for more. and if he doesn't get it from the republican side, he's likely to get it from some moderate democrats, who convinced to support him. and kimberly, one of the big rules to politics is don't interrupt when your opponent is in trouble. me, the democrats must be enjoying all of this confusion and delay. there's no

question the democrats are enjoying this. in fact, we have the se in washington to get out the popcorn. and i believe that there were a few that actually did just that on the floor of the house of representatives in the last 24 hours. but it does have a more serious side. and there, there is some concern in all of this that the longer this goes, the more worrisome this becomes because business isn't being done right now. there are committees that are being named legislation that is not moving forward. and this has an impact on the wheels of government, not turning and people not being served. and so the longer this goes, the more that there are people watching this very carefully concerned that there are going to be a ripple effect if you will. and so there are concerns that the democrats may have

to come together and even come up with a plan. oh my goodness, even work with republicans. and so we see a couple of scenarios playing out. for example, there could be a compromise here. there is a very popular democratic kim dep jeffries, many republicans like him there even could be history made here of republicans get on board behind the popular democrat had came, jeffries even could become the next speaker that would send a signal to the american public that in a divided america that really politicians can come up with creative solutions to get work done. right. interesting choreography. indeed, kimberly many things can you help her in washington, dc or israel is released the longest serving palestinian prisoner kareem eunice who is also in australia. citizen had been in detention for 40 years. he was convicted in 1983 of killing an already soldier in the golan heights. the palestinian israeli was initially condemned to life imprisonment. but his sentence

was later commuted. emron. com is in our village where many people have gathered to welcome eunice back to his community. is an emotional reunion for carry minez, who spent 40 years inside and his railey jail. he was jailed. on the 6th of january, 1983 released just a few hours ago of $530.00 a. m a from a prison in central israel. he was taken to a nearby town. he was given a card that he didn't know what it was. he wasn't sure it was actually a bus both. he then pulled his brother's brother picked him up and brought him here . it's very difficult to underestimate how, how important agreement is, was within the fucked up political movement. it was a member of the central committee advising stone if you own, when he was jailed in 1983, the killing of an israeli soldier in the occupied golden heights. now,

this was not part of a political exchange. this was not part of benevolence on the part of the israelis . this was simply the fact the man i served all 40 years of his sentence and therefore was released within. now this is actually happening in defiance of the israeli authorities. these radio authorities said that they should not mark this occasion, that no one they shouldn't set up, hence the family have ignored that and they've managed to mark this reunion. now we have been speaking to the man himself. let's take listen to what he had to say. about freedom, the lie and dave jim hackett has said no in november. i have a lot of feelings in my wars. don't know how to express. it is the 1st time in 40 years to see the trees in the grass. i used to see on the walls and cement, but to day i saw a lot of different things. i entered so many houses and i sat down on

a sofa for the 1st time at 40 years. i got a very strange feeling when i 1st entered my brother's car, to the extent that i didn't know how to sit sloppily, it is a mix of feelings and emotions to see the sky without bars for the 1st time of 40 years. now wilma, now even when he was inside prison, he still remained politically active. he was teaching other prisoners about the palestinian struggle. like i say he is actually in his writing. citizens of israel always said that his imprisonment was internal is ready a matter. but now he's free, he's 66 years old and as an awful over him, the couch on the united nations security council is said to hold a meeting later on thursday after israel's national security minister entered the alex and mos compound it. a mob been give years actions on tuesday have been widely condemned as provocative palestine ambassador to the un is calling for strong action against israel. the attack is not only against

our holy sites in a lock so most and then the hot m sharif. there are because of this environment of extremism that this is the really extreme government, the extremist in the history of israel, is providing is lay deemed to additional aggression against our christian sites. christian, graveyards, you've seen by now that there are crosses over, you know, graveyards, being trampled upon and attacked by extreme settlers. this is a toxic environment. the international community has to speak with one voice our diplomatic, another james base has more now from the un. well, there's been a flurry of diplomatic meetings taking place here at the united nations, a meeting of the arab group of ambassadors then the meeting of the ambassadors from all islamic countries. and then the representatives of those 2 groups meeting with

the current president of the security council japan, he'll preside over the security council meeting that's going to take place on thursday, the palestinian ambassador, making it clear they want very tough action from the security council. it's worth noting that among those ambassadors surrounding the policy and bassett was the representatives of 2 countries that have long had diplomatic relations with israel . that's jordan and egypt and also the ambassador morocco and the deputy ambassador of a 2 countries that the more recently had more friendly relationships with israel also was telling you that one of those basses ambassador from jordan mahmoud. her mood spoke also to reporters. jordan has a special role as the guardian of the holy sites. the king of jordan has a special role as the guardian of the holy sites in jerusalem. he made it clear and reminded reporters of the year 2000. when that event is railey opposition, the ariel sharon went to the alex amongst compound. and he said that at that time

the security council had produced a resolution. this is it 1322, which condemns what it says was the provocation that had been carried out and he and the other boss to say they want to see another resolution like this passed by the security council because he made it clear back in 2000 that, that act was the spark that started the 2nd intifada and someone who covered that on the ground in the west bank at the time that something the certainly the international community doesn't want to see again plenty more had all the news al, including ah, well, to pope ameritas benedict, the 16th thousands of paid tribute to the former leader of the roman catholic church. gone as cocoa industry is still using child workers, despite campaigns to stop,

it will find out why. and in school to ra gets ready to host footballs. arabian gulf cobb for the 1st time in 44 years. ah, i'm 23 rebels of announced that withdrawing from another town in eastern democratic republic of congo, they say thou pulling out from roman gobble. they also announced last month that they would leave nearby could baba d, r, congo accuses were wander of backing m $23.00. something could gully denies the conflict as force thousands of people from their homes since 2021. o patrick. my architect way is the minister of communication and media and government spokesman for the democratic republic of congo. he says for wanda is key to ensuring peace. in the d. r. c. a re bramble made by interstate reading

me and going back and look amber. i didn't movement stop, even need not read what yours planet, because it's take some times by pushing that they had no choice and respecting what we agree on. we may need to make, they were gonna make it an outcome. we thought we'd go back to the ensure position where we started it more. second orderly, the what the arrow state recommended at the end of the meeting or philosophy is going to be trust the process and that we know you must be very active. the grounds back to be strong, believe that it gender. why not? because that he's the one acting beyond 23. we've seen that in respect for me, man, we meant to get are following are missing and by the end, following the recommendation made by ordinate by order countries, nation united states, french or spanish, or germany,

or the country. and then run on it as president, asking them to respect would they agree on the process in beach, in the town, but believe that it will be done. that's the only way we can avoid using forces. as you know, the regional policies will make a report to different interstate and interstate re decide to go to the world, the orders financially. they generally use new one. on going back to tradition, back year one, ration these lines to do what she has to do to make sure to proper you're saying with a story, lawrence, can you is the m $23.00 spokesman and joins us from going to in the democratic republic of congo. welcome to the news as we heard the message from a d. c that they need to trust the process. but can you confirm that the 23 are

indeed withdrawing from romana garbo? good afternoon. thank you very much for having me. look, it's about, i'd like to say that in so many like how to understand. we know to the admission which one somebody that did. yes. the better way of giving away today is of january come up with a hand. this is agree with all the state, britain. all the meantime, b o. o to one you did before. if you remember on it 22. well we'll give it a time to do it. oh, it does require an image. it yes, we are going with is not wendy's and mr. full is the can you can it mr. cannuck?

i'm afraid it's a bit of a unpredictable line of the moments i'm afraid we're gonna have to move on to the time being, but we'll try and come back to you. though. hundreds of thousands of children in west africa are working in hazardous conditions on cocoa farms, thus, despite international campaigns against child labor, many of them have little or no access to education. i'm in the address reports from western ganna lane. you for the 1st time in his young life, you know, gets his 1st taste of chocolate. he's been working on his humblest cocoa farm for 7 years. in ox father says he put his son to work to prepare him for life's challenges. they do have a badge on the one, meg, you, man, i don't have any money to pay laborers and because there are no schools nearby to accommodate all the children, they help with the farm warning children as young as for are brought to farms to become conditioned to such an environment as they grow. but new rules are being

introduced in europe. that aim to enforce trick to protection of human and children's rights, as well as the environment and producers in countries like gonna believe they could be affected. actively say more than half of all children living in agricultural areas, i engaged in work, most of them dangerous work activity man would lobby knows what's like to work as a child from my end as he grew up on a cocoa farm, but later graduated from university his case is considered exceptional. our last yes, jumped out as michael lee cough i've, i've always been doing. most of my might my, my phrase leaders go pregnant along the lines. across west africa, one and a half 1000000 children are involved in cocoa for me through many work as farm laborers and, and less than a dollar or nothing at all with of issues and agents. travel drawer to communities

to buy cocoa beans for $60.00 a sac. but they sell a 2 or 3 times that on the international market. i think local farmer, how much will you ain, after have ethical call. their price is even lower. as much as it and again, i see this audit time, you see our trends are closer to us. there is no quality indicating for them. pharmacy attempts by western cocoa, biased to force down prices, is keeping hundreds of thousands of children out of school and condemning them to a life of poverty. and they argue only by them receiving better prices and education being approved. can the lives of children like, you know, improve to decrease al jazeera, he and penny russia is calling for a 36 hour sci fi with ukraine, so people can celebrate orthodox christmas. this weekend, president putin has discussed the war and the conflict in syria during a phone call with the leader of turkey, bishop time. oh,

do an office says he called on putin to support a unilateral cease fire, and a fair solution or 2, and is expected to speak to ukraine's fellow to me as the lensky by phone later on thursday. robbie by fun is a political analysts. he says turkey wants to establish itself as the preferred negotiator in this war. as a natal member, turkey named the president avalon mediate him between the 2 sides. but i don't think he is speaking on behalf of nato, but nevertheless, as a mediator, it's very important that both sides of depend on him trust on him and continue negotiate him. otherwise deep channels, special like diplomatic channels, seems to be not walking at all. and despite efforts by the un and by the you not much had been achieved so far. also, let's remember the president ad on using his personal friendship with both leaders

are bringing in solutions. for example, prisoners exchange, or many other areas which are extremely important at these that channel is open and someone is doing it willingly. this is present out on himself. tens of thousands of people have attended a special funeral mass that the vatican for po benedict. the 16th is the 1st time in modern history that a serving head of the roman catholic church has presided over the funeral of a predecessor. the dean baba reports ah applause from some of the 50000 bonuses. pope benedict's coffin is carried into saint peter's square, ah, and the cry from the crowd santo. so bitter saints, now calling for the beatification. the former head of a catholic church who died at the age of 95 benedict stepped down in 2013 searching

poor health. the 1st pope in more than 600 years to resign. his successor, poke francis, he came to know him well, prayed for him on thursday. you see claudia, to a particular gracious father. we commend to your mercy pope, a meritus benedict whom you made, successor of peter and shepherd of the church. national. a fearless preacher of your word and a faithful minister of the divine mysteries in indies from south florida. clearly this wasn't on the same scale as the last paypal funeral in 2005 when john paul the 2nd died. still 200000 people came to view benedict's body lying in state at saint peter's basilica before this public ceremony. and many here appreciated being able to say farewell think it's represents a lot about his life and, ah, what we're here expected a simple celebration, but very fearful he or cynthia for there despite having other things to do to day, i felt that i had to come here i told myself i had to come and attend holly mass to

accompany him in prayer, that the current pope is now 86. he said he'll step down if his health stops him performing the roll. and the vatican's foreign secretary recently hinted that pope benedict's death could make that path easier. it was already very complicated, having to man wearing white in the vatican. if folk francis had resigned while it was still alive, would have had to former popes and one reigning pope. put benedict was revered as a theologians by many catholics. but by his own admission, he was a leader who failed to act decisively enough on cases of sexual abuse by clerics. his legacy is long and complex. dba al jazeera california's governors declared a state of emergency after a powerful storm cut electricity to thousands of homes in the north road had been flooded and trees uprooted in sacramento authorities of toll people to evacuate coastal areas of vulnerable to mudslides. it's the 2nd storm to hit the west coast

in the past week. i le charles has more from san francisco, california emergency official said this round of storms could be the most severe california has seen in the last 5 years. with that, they accept a lot of flooding, not only in the road, but also that would cause damage to homes. but their biggest concern right now, they say is high winds. that could get as high as 70 miles per hour in the mountains and along the coast. they say with that they expect extensive power outages and also a lot of property damage for their asking people to stay off the road. so head on al jazeera, another head for the tech sector is an online giant analysis is largest layoffs in history. the border guards have gone. i'm stephanie decker on the creature slovenia board. and we've been speaking to parisians about how they feel about these new open roads and in sport, or lack of snow in croatia doesn't stop this usb st often closing in

a long time. ah hello there. we've got a vigorous, a weather system stretching across parts of south america. you can see the plume running all the way from peru across bolivia, down to southeastern areas of brazil. now we've already seen very heavy rain effect parts of bolivia. we're seeing that shift for the north up into peru is some pretty nasty extreme thunderstorms being warned off in places like santa catarina state in brazil. but even rio won't escape the worst of that wet weather, and we will see the temperature come down to about 25 degrees celsius on saturday. thanks to those thunder re downpours for the south of this very hot and dry picture . and we will see a new way to start to sweep into parts of argentina, possibly challenging some temperature records over the next few days. now as we

move to central america to launch a quiet picture for this area, as well as for much of the caribbean, with some heavy pulses of rain expected to effect puerto rico as well as the dominican republic. and some brisk, a winds blowing into central parts of mexico. still some showers across more southern areas, but much of that wet, nasty weather can be found in north america. we've got a winter storm blowing in to the west coast. that's going to bring some flooding rains as well as a very heavy snow to the likes of california and southern oregon that sure whether ah ah, ah, with

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you're watching al jazeera, remind default top stories this so the us house of representatives convening for a 3rd day in a row to try and pick a new speaker. republican kevin mccarthy has lost in 6 rounds of voting. israel has released its longest held palestinian prisoner karim eunice was detained for 40 years. unis isn't his railey citizen was convicted of killing an australian soldier in the golan heights. in 1983. m. 20. the rebels say they withdrawing from another town and easton democratic republic of congo. the pull out from roman gobble follows last month's announcement that fighters would leave campbell. my company's army call that withdrawal. a sham the kosovo says it's still planning to get members of it's ethnic, sir minority to surrender their serbian issued number plates. tensions flared up between christina and belgrade over the plan last year. prime minister album

curtsey told al jazeera he's making no promises to serbia on the recent crisis. we have given a bit of time regarding implementation until spring this year of because you want to give time for a agreement between crossover and serbia, which is very much needed for normalization of relations. so as a goods gesture from our side, we have said we are not going to impose fines on those who have these card plates until spring and i will never compromise with the constitution and la floor. therefore, until spring we have given this time. and hopefully we can have an agreement beforehand. i believe it's fully doable. if there is a willingness from belgrave and especially intensified engagement by

you and you us. and you can watch wrestle said as full interview with a prime minister of crossover. i've been kathy on saturday at o 430 g m t that's on talked to al jazeera. i was staying with the story, marco georgia, which is the serbian ambassador to the united states, and joins us now live from belgrade. welcome to the news hour. at the latest stand off at the borders seems to imply on important thing that the dispute won't be resolved until kosovo and serbia achieve mutual recognition will serve you ever see it that way to think happy new year at all are of yours from belgrade. and unfortunately, the prime minister, of course, saw his repeatedly resorted to unilateral actions since february 2022. this is the lead to a series of escalations eat after another that has been more difficult to resolve.

he is clearly trying to abuse, are the tragedy in ukraine to try to further his own agenda. and unfortunately, by doing so, he is also undermining the stability in south eastern europe. so why, since plates you shoes, just merely a symptom of all of that. when it comes to allegations of escalating the situation we're seeing, kosovo, pointing the finger firmly at a bell grade. we're seeing a repeated pattern in recent years, kosovo trying to exert sovereignty over its whole territory. and belgrade, apparently responding by allegedly stoking unrest amongst ethnic serbs in the north of kosovo. is that how you set? well actually it's the other way around. ever since february 2022 and even before that, but acutely seen february 2022. could fisher thrive to buy exerting heavy handedness and by abolishing what has been achieved through the brussels dialogue

process to undermine the collective political rights of the serbs. in course of true arrests through various forms of harassment through intimidation. and unfortunately, she has also publicly renounced the brothels and the washington agreement. i believe that actually the absence of firmness on the parts of international community. when it comes to pressuring him to implement the brussels agreement with its key 11th formation of the community, of certain dorothy municipalities in a way in bold and him to act irresponsibly. so we believe the quality should be held accountable for failing to implement the agreements. and that the government, of course, of all should be sanctioned for its you're responsible. and our sinister behavior, which are almost like to conflict on

a number of occasions in recent months until you're specifically about the potential for conflict. i mean to serve yet serbia has now of course revoked the combat readiness of its troops that happened a few date days ago. but the fear is, of course, at some point the logical conclusion will ended a cross border conflict. serbia is definitely firmly resolved to try and de escalate the situation every time there is an attempt to destabilize, serbia has so much to lose. we have in the past couple of years made any economy quan there i there to say in our region our g depeacher's increased from 32000000000 us dollars back in 2012 to over 60000000000. and now we have attracted our last year more than 62 percent of all foreign direct investments in the broader region. so we're fighting but for stability, for peace and for collective political rights for the serbs in kosovo. nothing more

than what has been proscribed in the brussels agreement, but also nothing less than that. on the other hand, i'm afraid the term seems quality. his feels to deliver on his electoral promises, which were dobbs andros descend with an unemployment level of 32 percent in cost. so he's trying to feel the ears of his voters when he cannot feel their bellies. mab ambassador, i, thee ca, sevens would argue exactly the same thing that they are pursuing. ab stability, economic growth and independent sir. let's not forget the more than a 100 countries recognized kosovo as an independent nation as do several international institutions such as the well bank of the i m f and in 2010 to 2010. rather, the international court of justice ruled cost of owes declaration of independence was legal. what does all of that mean to you and serbia? well, speaking about international courts,

let us not forget that many of the former costs will lead. there are currently in the c g on trial for war crying. some of them were presidents and prime ministers until 2 years ago. and the number of countries recognizing cost source is dropped significantly. actually, 19 countries revoke the recognition. and the number of countries of the recognize call. so we have an independent state now standard $83.00, no more than $83.00 a call. so he is not a member of the united nations in the calling to the un resolution. security counselor is also $1244.00 course, so he's actually in a minimum of probably broken 3, the serbia. we are in favor of a compromise source and a compromise source. and that will take into account the interests of both real beanie and serbian people. and we are definitely interested in a peaceful settlement on the other hand caught a piece of public clearing. now the brothel agreement just publicly renounced the

washington agreement, stating that they were adopted by previous governments. of course, that were corrupt. and you know, the basic rule of international law is pocket the full set of on for the old that all. busy agreement find must be observed, she shall fail to do so. he has shattered the confidence in the dialogue process. and he says through unilateral moves like sending hundreds of armed police officers which are under the agreement not supposed to be in serving the dora period. she was also called the instability so time and again, she has shown indeed that he's doing exactly the opposite from what he should be saying. even in the interview for your team p station. ok, marco jewish, serbian ambassador to the united states. many thanks for joining us. on the news, our thank you for having co asia is now a fully fledged member of the european union. the country adopted the euro and

joined the board of free travel zone on january. the 1st stephanie decker was creations, how they feel about these open borders. it's off season and without the hordes of tourists that usually pac creations coastline, there's a sense of stepping back in time just to 15 minutes, drive away the border with slovenia, here to a feeling of emptiness. but this is all about moving forward. krasier joined the open border shank in zone as of january 1st and its being welcomed here. dennis is a nurse who takes care of an elderly lady in italy working 15 days on and 15 days off. she has been crossing borders for 5 years, and years and pressure. i was traveling through creature slovenia italy border and every country had their own restrictions. we never knew what to expect on the borders, so this will be much better. it will make our lives easier. one, up, one up, and this is what it's all about. the freedom of movement, no more passport checks, identity checks,

no waiting in line. the border guards have all gone. that's croatia straight ahead is lavinia. now it's only about getting on your way. no need to stop is still a novelty here. crated join the shank and zone on the same day. it adopted bureau, which is now replaced its old currency the kuna. and her businessman, it's a more than welcome development. cloud has been importing and exporting good since 1995, he has seen career again, independence joined the you. and now this for him to it's much better. we for one of the library for these up right the week, 1st after the free forwarding service in italy, then in slovenia, and then you went to kerisha. we had to sort taxes and lots of other small import costs putting it lasted 8 hours some times. now you just go through, there are no issues in stopping a toll free. his son santo has now taken over the business. we ask him if he's emotionally attached to the old currency, the kuna. as many people have told us, they feel it's a loss of identity, poised and all be honest with you,

not much. our business is over the waters. you visit. all you markets. you buy hotels in voicemail euros for yes, we are doing business. i'm thinking euros. it will be much easier now. this will make our business more fluid and our life easier. for many here now being a fully integrated member of the european union with open borders and a common currency is a good thing. despite some emotional attachments and early problems, as switching currencies, it seems in the long run, many creations prefer these open roads. stephanie decker al jazeera on the career shirts. lavinia border tag joined amazon, me laying off an additional $8000.00 people last after the company announced in november it would come $10000.00 employees. the reduction of stuff is the lar, had largest in its history. the company is citing what it calls the uncertain economy. soaring, inflation has forced consumers to come back on spending amazon share price as also los up a half its value. the layoffs will impact its

e commerce and human resources departments. with an ice is a tech analysts that web brush securities. he says amazon's job cast or whatever the iceberg for the broader tech industry and be what you're seeing here with amazon in terms of big tack. it's a. busy hangover post cove it and it to go into a but also a darker macro. they got a cock cause the band aid off. this is a command span hyper group. they've been spending money like 980 rock stars. now my time during that in really non strategic errors, you look at, oh, actually you look at some of these projects that definitely growth is waiting pretty significantly there. i think they're going to continue to spend in cloud and ultimately pull back administrative and even some the e commerce air as well. this is a company under baez's. they got polluted built for hyper growth. and now alternately, you're seen cracked from the armored demand, softening and jazzy. ultimately,

i didn't it probably just tip to the iceberg and what we're broader going to see across the tax base. the numbers increase the number of hours of plan blackouts as it struggles to source enough power. some areas in the country and neighboring zimbabwe, already facing power cups of up to 6 hours a day. water levels in lake karima, which supplies hydro electric dam, partly to blame, becoming droughts and low rainfall have reduced supply. mm hm. but tulsa has more from herat right into by way. zambian had experienced pockets before 6 to 8 hours a day, but it stopped 12 hours a day aside. that things could be getting worse and people are frustrated. it's affecting households and it's affecting businesses, especially small businesses. they say they not have to find money to buy alternative sources of energy, such as generators and solar money. some of them say, they don't have orders. ambiance, i've been told, is that officials hope that the power situation will improve when water level start

to rise at lake ariba. other countries in the region are also facing a power crisis here in some barbie. people can go up to about 18 hours a day with our power and that's been blamed on corruption, mismanagement and old infrastructure in south africa. people their experience rolling blackouts on and off and that's also blamed on corruption, mismanagement and old infrastructure officials in all these countries in southern africa trying to find solutions, for example. and bob, wy and zambia are trying to build a hydro power plant and victoria falls. they say when that is completed, it will provide services to zambia and zimbabwe and invades the ingo dad. when the d. r. c, the democratic republic of congo. when that bridge, when that dam is completed, is thought it will be able to provide more than enough power for the whole of southern africa. but these projects could take years to complete. it's not a quick solution to the regions. current energy crisis protest resumed in peru

after a pause over the festive season. it's been nearly a month since authorities arrested for president pedro castillo, who's facing charges of rebellion and conspiracy. people in the south fort with police as they demanded the resignation of his success at dina galati. arianna sanchez reports from the city of ire cojo. ah, a merch lit by 10 coffins, a symbolic reference to the people who died in december when the army opened fire at protesters near the airport and the and the and see to you if i could show them that, you know, my son was taken from me he was 20 years old. i want justice, the families of the victims, blaine precedent. he never knew out of the, for the violent, quite down and want her resignation. i, she's a murderer, addicted to and friends with congress, with demanded and me did a submission. there were protests in several regions on wednesday. highways were

blocking goosgo in, bruno many clashed with police, demanding new elections to be held immediately. although many different horse around the hunter, one different things they're not coordinating among readers. there is one voice being heard louder and louder, and that is the demand for closing of congress under the form of the constitution 74 year old in to get doris has no time to join protests. he lives from crop to crop, barely feeding his family as he plants beans. he reflects on his anger at loose political elite, got farmers like me, suffer from a lack of rain. but congressmen don't do anything fast like improvements or irrigation. how must he live? that is what i asked politicians, that the laws changed to amend the constitution enough to one that would favor all of us that matter in the district of so christina, yet gucho, most farmers live like enrique working the fields and the stays listening to the

news of the nationwide discontent, they say they share community leader in that or that he assess politicians. never remember them goal. this is doug canolli. his up of the rich politicians take advantage of us for them. laws in just a sec vests, but there's no law or justice for us. we want to quality for our people, don't leave us. as protest, resume president, bond we're the is urging for peace. the government says development and growth can't stop. and it's promising security forces will act responsibly while protecting private and public property. but for the people in sa course and many other poor regions in bay do development and growth is just a distant dream. money and us and just i'll just heat up soco sayoko. still ahead on al jazeera, europe's last unbeaten t finally leagues show you how in so sport natalie's party. it's lee. that's coming up with gemma in support.

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ah ah ah, quarterback for now with jim that he needs a wild athletics president sebastian cove has backed kenya's fight against doping. he's in speaking in nairobi where the country's government is again pledged to spend $5000000.00 a year for the next 5 years as they look to carry out more tests and more education programs. they're currently at $55.00 canyon athlete serving doping bands because it says the situation is different. it so that in russia, we know from sad experience and the work of our task force that has produced some

of the changes that we wanted to see in russia. that the early years were about cover up those cover ups were organized at state authority level. there is no suggestion that is the case in kenya. in fact quite the reverse. the fact that all these agencies are in alignment and prepared to work alongside world athletics and the athletic integrity unit is a very, very important statement. the journey will be a long journey. we should not kid ourselves. this is going to be achieved overnight . but the goal is worth it. a big game in the premier league later with manchester city, looking to close the gap on leaders arsenal. they're playing away at chelsea and a victory would put them within 5 points of the top. but city manager pat vajella says they won't be able to capture arsenal if they keep playing as well as they

have been. they're going to the 1000 and the more than one the boys are selling the way he has done so far. if they're going to in that way, boom godson, so you have to be almost perfect. i was hate to hear from, from, from the, from the season aspect that the drop a little bit his performance because yesterday was excellent. i guess newcastle again. so and was who up a city have a not so secret weapon in irving holland. he's already scored 21 primarily goals. in fact, he's only not scored in 3 of the 15 lee games he's played in. so chelsea who have only 11 of the last 7 in the league and know they have their work cutouts home that these, these are the fantastic sees in the goals. they are amazing. so top team. so, but we have to, like i said, think about ourselves. think about how we can do better. think about how we can take steps forward in terms of our game and, and, and that's the nazi punctual, half in italy, adapt a loss for the 1st time. this season,

which means that there are no longer any unbeaten teams in europe. the top 5 leagues, the serial leaders went down one that went into the line with this go from an injection monopoly of so 5 points clear of a symbol on the table. barcelona survived a big scare in the car for the el rey, they were up against 30 aside into the city and ex boss, a junior player, a real sort of villa school to have trig abbas lane. i want it for 3 and extra time to go from and the fact that which puts them through the law 16 show up now to international football in iraq is hosting the arabian gulf. come to the 1st time in 44 years. the tournament starts on friday with 8 countries taking parts, including the asian champions, cattle, saudi arabia, and kuwait. my load of the heat is more from boswell a long waited football championship gets underway in iraq. the 25th,

the addition of the golf club is being held in the southern city of basra. the opening match will see the host nation who head to head with the man. the truck to football fans from across 3 june authorities here have waive the visa fees for fans . with all of you, it's been a challenge for us because we've been waiting for this championship to be held in our country to so long. they've been a lot of logistics and technical obstacles, but we finally overcome them. iraq for just hosted the ruby and gulf copper, 1979 which it won. but its invasion of kuwait in 1990 under the leaders had them foreseen. so it being banned from taking part in international competitions. how they, when i said this championship a significant for both iraq and the gulf countries to government calls on all iraqi offense to show the best of their ethics and generosity. good. our guest, as this event is very symbolic, for all of us. to stadiums have been chosen for the matches. the cities main

stadium can accommodate 65000 spectators. while the port olympic stadium has a capacity of 30000, the tournament is expected to have a big impact on the city. besides revenue from la of broadcasting of the matches advertising and ticket sales, many of bus ross, roads and facilities have been upgraded ahead of the event, which will also highlight the city's tourist attractions. fans from gulf countries are here to take part in the festivities level. i did, i'm a nurse on at the moment of, of them with come by car all the way from, or mom to buffalo to support our team. the tournament is we're uniting all ghost countries. iraq is take pride in their ability to host loves tournament like this. they said can prove crucial for their suffering economy and renew ties with the

gulf countries and the wider arab world on the think. he didn't really, we bought our residence are so proud of this event, is the fast in iraq in my generation. we've been preparing the most to make it comfortable for august that he for her birth for a has been affected by years of unrest and conflict. but if this tournament is a success, it can be a destination once again for war championships and gulf investments. mahmoud abdougla had algebra in basra city, southern iraq, us keystone, mikaela schiffron is now just one wildcat went away from lindsey yvonne's old time, women's records. the american one a solemn night race in zagreb, crecia to claim her the 1st victory of her korea, swedish male race. the mafia mark holds the time record with 86 winds. different is a 3 time and medalist, but she'll have to wait for the chance to equal one as a solemn race has been cancelled due to a lack of snow. well,

we just found out the reason to cancel today, which is not the greatest surprise in the world considering how little snow there was. but the fact that they pulled it off yesterday made me feel like it was definitely going to be pulled off today. so i was, i'm like, i'm shocked. but i don't know why i'm shocked because it doesn't. it's not that frightening but anyway, so the races cancel, so now we're going to ship on our grab and head towards goro because we're racing again the day after tomorrow. so the train don't stop to the m b a, whether the detroit pistons put off a balls beating when i have the golden state warriors, the war is, went into this one looking for sick straight time when, but it was an easy to play. thompson, go to 3 points to draw a level. and with one second left it looked like the game would go into overtime. thoughts the pistons studied bay of found the ball in his hands and let it fly,

facing the bus to stun the warriors 122 to 193, which has kept his incredible winning streak on australian soil alive despite a scary the adelaide international joke of it should, baffled back from 5 to down in the 1st set to be 12 number 64, quinton and he's in straight sets to reach the quarter finals. he's now 131 consecutive singles matches in australia and is preparing for the australian open in 2 weeks. where he's looking for record extending tent title in melbourne. that is all wheel sport for now i'll have more a little bit later nationwide. thanks a lot general. as to me for that need block of this news hour, i would back with more days news, and a few seconds time. ah mm.

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