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ah, hello laura. kyle, this is al jazeera alive from dough. are also coming up at least 4 people killed and thousands more injured in the stampede outside of football stadium in iraq view, a stat ceiling is expected to hit a record high leading to a possible political standoff. and a surprise announcement in new zealand just under adam says she stepping down as the country's leader. ah, says dotson france, when nationwide strikes against present a minute, microns proposed pension reforms are well underway. government announced plans to raise the age of retirement by 2 years to 64. unions have joined protesters and saying the move as an assault on the welfare system to our christ fund. and bernard

smith, he's also joining us live from paris in banners such huge opposition to these pension reforms across the country. so many people out on the streets. laurel, most french people accept the rift the retirement age, retirement retirement, pensions need some sort of reform, but most of them don't agree with the money microns ideas of the way of reforming that is increasing the age retirement age to 64. they want other solutions looking are perhaps increasing employer cont, embloy contributions or taxi. the super wealthy we're going to get into is that have been a very large turn out perhaps as many as a 100000 here in paris. certainly are the initial estimates. and that's because 12 up front is biggest unions of joint forces to lead these protests. they don't often join forces. and frances unions are not as powerful as they warns were,

but the hoping to, to turn this protest, it was also a sort of a social movement not just against pension reform, but continuing protests against the continuing cost of living crisis that we've got some pets has coming into as perhaps some other parts of the city of tear gas being fired at protesters. what is the general mood there? well i think there are, there is, you knows, there is a small element in a part of the crowd that is always intent on some of these protests are causing trouble. but really, the vast majority of this, of the people taking part in this process of doing so peacefully, marching peacefully. and these are enormous numbers. emanuel micron wants some sort of a legacy. these people don't want to give him this legacy. micron kept himself as a reformer, he was unable to reform and his 1st term because of protests because of the

pandemic. this time round is really hoping to push it through parliament is lost, his majority upon his part is not a majority. you'll need the help of conservatives to get it through the republican party. they may back in may not a 100 percent so far, but they'll probably get him some backing. but if he doesn't get them, you can always push it through using a constitutional mechanism. but it itself is controversial and that could force new legislative elections. a lot of what happens really does depend on the numbers of people that bother to turn out protests floor. and that seems that number is huge. okay, bernard, for the moment. thanks very much for keeping across events there in paris. now the final of the arabian gulf carpet is going ahead in the rocky city of basil, despite for people being killed in a stampede outside the stadium earlier. that will fans, we're trying to get into the stadium hours before the match. many of them without tickets. lackland abdullah heat is in basrah with more on the atmosphere in the

city since the stampede were now at the cornish promenades at the main promenade cornish of the coronation of bus. right here. you can see football fans, people from across iraq, from other provinces, are mingling with their peers from other gulf states here. they're trying to celebrate. a little while ago ago we saw people singing dancing, celebrating. it's a kind of carnival like atmosphere. he is. and this area has been witnessing this same kind of a like atmosphere since the beginning to this is the tournament kick off on january 6th. so despite the fact that the city witnessed a tragic incident this morning, but people here are trying to celebrate as much as they can. they say that this is the 1st time iraq hosts such

a regional tournament in 40 years. so they want to take the opportunity to highlight their heritage, their culture. and also they're hoping that this tournament is influencing basra economically bringing economic reforms and improvement to the city of butler. so today at the planning to continue celebrating and their eyes are on the pol trunk stadium, we're the final match is being conducted. death ukrainian press and flood america landscape. calling on europe to show more urgency and supplying arms to his country. in speaking, after meeting european council president shall michelin is visiting keith. both the peach sams opposed thousands of tangs of the russian federation. the bravery of our

serviceman and motivation of green pupil is not enough. we need that pens. we. i do need a lot of artillery systems or adequate number of tanks on the market. james, favorite and devil when he spoke to romania as foreign minutes about the european parliament vote for a special tribunal on war crimes in ukraine. if you were going to have a special tribunal, most experts believe the place to do it is the united nations and the general assembly of the united nations. and although there's talk of a resolution there, no one's actually table and a thing yet. let's discuss this further with one of the key players, one of the nato and e u countries bog down, or esco's, the foreign minister of romania. thank you for joining us again on al jazeera. let's start with that idea of a special tribunal. does romania favor that? thank you for having me again. yes, i welcome very much. the resolution which was adopted today by the european

parliament in favor of, of a tribunal to punish the crime of aggression. the mania has been a very started supporter of fighting against impunity as far as russia and russian perpetrators are concerned in connection to the conflict in ukraine in march, we have ceased together with many other countries. the international criminal court for crimes were crimes. crime so far against humanity and genocide, we have also well tabled our declaration of intervention with the international court and justice. give me your view of, of where the war stands right now because it doesn't look like any one is winning. it looks like this is going to go on and on and be a very long way. actually this we're and i speaking on behalf of romania, which is the even a nato member state of the largest border with ukraine. and so we have been at the forefront of the effort to cope with the effects of the war in a grain since the day one of the work. i would say that this has changed our lives

and it was changed our lives radically and forever. we had to adapt immediately our diplomacy, for instance, at a work time diplomacy type of action. and this, this were prompted us to give an immediate and consistent support to ukraine. the next important step i think, is, is an important meeting taking place in germany, in the next 24 as it ramstein air base. and that's a meeting to decide among the allies, the allies of ukraine. what additional military help is given to ukraine? i've got some breaking news just coming into as actor alec baldwin is expected to face involuntary manslaughter charges i have at the film set shooting in 2021 full term, was pointing a gun on the set of the film rust when it went off, wounding, and killing cinematographer. hi leanna. hutchins correspondent rob reynolds is in los angeles for us. so rob baldwin, now facing charges. is that coming as a surprise? well, this is the result of

a 15 month long investigation since the fatal shooting on the set of the western of film rust. and in addition to alec baldwin, the armorer of the said who was on the said 24 year old and a good year. apologies . for that, we seem to have lost our audio with rob reynolds. we will try to reconnect in just a moment. rob can you hear us? was in weapons on the set of the assistant director of the film also pleaded guilty in a plea deal to a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon. now, um, what happened was that re a, a gun which was supposed to be a cold gun, in other words, without any when any of bullets in it was handed to alec baldwin. he discharged it,

it hit alena hutchins, the cinematographer, also joel sousa. the 1st director was wounded. hutchins died shortly thereafter from a chest wound up. baldwin has claimed repeatedly that he would never have fired the gun. he said it misfired somehow when he cocked the hammer of this sort of antique cold, 45 revolver. but he settled with the family of lena hutchins aah! last year for an undisclosed sum of money. what happens next? it will be that there will be clearly legal proceedings underway of taking place in santa fe new mexico. and these charges of a negligent a homicide will be, will be brought before a jury. ah, and more on this tragic incident. a sort of really unprecedented in modern

hollywood a will who will unfold at that time? have think dance developments and not as i think story. thank you very much. ra violence for joining us that from los angeles. now is when the forces have shot and killed 2 palestinians during a raid and the jenin refugee camp unoccupied west bank a death take a number of palestinians killed by israeli forces this month to 17 am on con has more from ramallah in the early hours. israeli special forces, backed by the army, carried out arrayed engineer refugee camp. the fire fight was intense. one palestinian fighter 25 year old other job maureen was killed. another man, an armed and not a fighter, was also shot dead. 57, jo jawad, 3, but were connie was a teacher or a local school. his son describes will happened. one of 2 on her phone on the volume is really special, forces into the camp at 2 30 am. they stormed. the building at m was standing here,

they shot him, were dragging him away. he was calling for help. one of ours is the closest house. how could we leave m m? i opened the door. my father and i. we dragged them in warner. they showed up my father, my father went out to help a wounded man who was screaming for help. so some of these almost nightly rates across the occupied west back of killed 17 palestinians this year in jeanine refugee camp many of the residence of people who were forced from their homes when israel crated its state in 1948 young people who have never seen their ancestral homes frustrated by the lack of any kind of peace process. many of those young men are now becoming increasingly hardened. a recent opinion, polls suggest 59 percent of palestinian respondents supported an armed struggle against the occupation for the supply lucky of earth. we haven't seen such support for an armed intifada since the last one. it's mainly due to the israeli policies and the occupied waste bank increased settlements at killings and rates on

a daily basis. the latest is really elections and colds to expel all palestinians. he. israel shows no signs of stopping or even reducing rates. these on this far right government is openly hostile to all palestinians, a combination that has led to violence and past. this mural commemorates the armed intifada. the armed struggle in the year, 2000 now many here say another reckoning with israel is coming. the only question is what shape that will take? and that question is being asked with evermore increasing frequency, emerald con our desert rama. look on are the longest held, palestinian israeli presidents, his back home after 40 years behind bars. mahunis and his cousin were convicted of kidnapping and killing. and his rainy soldier in the 1980s, often baja reports from the palestinian village of ara in israel. oh, man eunice is free after 40 years in an israeli prison,

friends and family gathered in order to welcome him home. eunice was the longest held, palestinian prisoner, he and his cousin kareem were arrested in 1983 and convicted of murdering and israeli soldier. kareem was released 2 weeks ago. the 1st thing eunice did was a visit to his father's grave. he died 12 years ago, colonel. i always hoped when i was free to see my homeland liberated eunice was born in ira, in 1958, just 10 years after the nectar, when hundreds of thousands of palestinians either fled or were forced, from the homes to make way for jewish settlers. when israel was founded in 1948, his parents chose to stay and later became palestinian citizens of israel without

eunice says, she can't believe she lived to see her son, a free man. i'm how do you feel gifts showed a car and i just needed his hug. this is the best feeling ever. being the celebrations were quite palestinians are not allowed to have loud parties or even fly. the national flag by older of the new israeli security minister at him are being given. eunice is viewed here as a symbol of palestinian resistance to their israel occupation. he was telling reporters and family members and friends and peace activists here. that despite the fact that he was freed, he felt so ru, for thousands of palestinian prisoners who are still in israeli presence. i am at my, her ira. israel cilla had hair on out his era. ah,

dollar fisher live in washington in front of the treasury department where the u. s . treasury secretary has started to take extraordinary measures because the country i think it's debt limit. ah, with here's are whether updated in a minute 15 good to have your longo cook this one off in pakistan. we're baluchistan capital quota. so it's 1st flakes of snow so far this season. there is some more significant snow up against the foothills of the himalayas in pakistan, india and that stretches straight through to nepal. let's pick up the weather store in india right now. we've got some cloud striped along that east coast that could generate some showers. also foggy conditions, for example, in the indian state of leticia right through to a sun. now in the south china sea,

we've had somewhat weather wobbling around here for the last few days. i think it's going to spread some showers into hotel and city over the course of the weekend for indonesia as main island of java, anywhere from west java province to central jabber province. we are running the risk of seen some land sides here, dr. the blue and the yellow, the more intense that rain is falling. now south of the yellow river valley temperatures have come up in china. so we're actually back to where we should be, for example, in hong kong at 19 degrees, but north of the yellow river valley i o my those temperatures have fallen. we've got more c and do so for western in northern japan. but let's paint on the colors struck the blue and the purple to lower the temperature harbin waken up to minus 29 on saturday. that could be your coldest night of the season. ah, the witness inspiring films from around the world. they so now the violence until the power is, bears witness intimate portraits and epic struggles. because leadership is often

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the gulf cup final match as its by say, place the rocky city of vassar as scheduled, as despite for people being killed in a stampede outside the stadium earlier and dr alec baldwin is expected to face involuntary manslaughter charges over the films that shooting in 2021. baldwin was pointing a gun on the side of the film rust when it went off, wounding, and killing cinematographer halley anna hutchins now the u. s. government is due to hits, it's $31.00 trillion dollar borrowing limit on thursday. that's been set the stage for a political showdown between the, by the administration and politicians on capitol hill. i'm fisher joins us live from washington. d sees what i'm saying. the treasury secretary announcing extraordinary measures to tackle this, what is going to happen?

okay, let's explain what the debt lemme is. first of all, the u. s. government takes it less than it spends, and every year they make these commitments. and essentially the bills come due and that's exactly what's happened. no. so this isn't new spending. this is bills that are due that have already been agreed, but the, the debt. lemme, and it's up to congress to extend that debt limit that hasn't happened for the moment. and so the treasury secretary, who warned a couple of weeks ago that should have to take extraordinary measures to perhaps not the economy through to may and june has done exactly that in the last couple of hours by sending a letter to kevin mccarthy. the speaker of the house, and also the ranking members on the important committees and both the senate and the house. so what is she doing? well, 1st of all, she's saying we're not going to pay into certain retirement accounts for the moment . those that don't need to be paid out at the moment. we don't need to put that money in right now. she's holding back a payments to other accounts as well. and as the days go on, she'll look at shifting money around various departments. say if the department of

homeland security has got a slight excess, she can perhaps move that to the department of transport. and then there is going to be the realization of assets essentially selling investments that they've already made to try and raise money. but it's up to congress then to take the action, to raise the debt limit. because if it doesn't, there's a real financial f quick. it could cause problems back in 2011, when there was a standoff between congress and then president barack obama, the u. s actually lost its top rated credit rating for the 1st time ever in history . the economy took ahead and the global economy felt the f quick as well. so there's a real danger that this could cause a real problem, particularly in a global economy, which is already struggling with inflation and high prices and also began energy costs as well. and if this does turn into a big political showdown and big baffling congress, how's that going to destabilize government?

interesting. use the word should it, it? well, there's no doubt about it. the republicans have said, look, we want spending cuts and why are they saying that? that's because when kevin mccarthy was appointed speaker, he made promises to try and make sure he got enough votes among those promises or to a group of republicans who said we want spending cuts when the debt limit talks come up. what's the biden administration saying? no spending cuts, this is a clean bill, you pass it the way you passed it before for republican and for democratic presidents. and so there is this political game of chicken where both sides are facing off. and they're hoping that they'll be able to get something done in the next few weeks for the republicans. it's tough because they're saying we want spending cuts. but of course, if they pass a bill that says, eggs, that's not going to get through the senate and sadly, won't be signed by joe biden. unofficial, the government don't. and that's a possibility. then the republicans will be blamed for it because they'll say,

this is your full and you could have passed a bill that extends the debt limit. so it's going to be an interesting 3 or 4 weeks . the u. s. isn't on the edge of default at the moment, but it certainly causing some headaches at the department of treasury behind me. and just along the road and pennsylvania avenue at the white house. and it's a lot to watch out for alan fisher. thanks very much, brings the latest from washington. now new zealand prime minister jacinta done, said she stepping down next month after 5 and a half years in office and was widely praised for uniting the country off the christ church mosque attack in 2019. the tough restrictions she imposes beginning of the current of ours pandemic have been credited the keeping the death toll relatively low cost of living crisis. an unfulfilled election pledges, of course, have dunn's popularity to decline in recent months. this summer i had hoped to find a way to prepare not just for another year, but another tune because that is what this year requires. i have not been able to

do that. and so today i am announcing that i will not be seeking really chin and then my tim as prime minister will conclude no later than the 7th of february when hay has more from oakland, the announcement from justin to reduce that she would be resigning, came as a complete surprise to everyone in new zealand. it wasn't that long ago after all that, she said she would definitely be seeking a 3rd term in office when the election is held this year. and that was the other big announcement from her that the election date has been set for the 14th of october this year. she of course will not be contesting that election. in fact, she says she will be in office no longer than february the 7th. so the labor party caucus will now meet this coming sunday to vote in

a new party leader and prime minister. and that person will go on to contest that election. the timing of this announcement is interesting, and the main reason that she's given full resigning is that it's simply time or that she feels she doesn't have what it takes anymore at to lead the country to go for a 3rd term in office. but her popularity, according to opinion polls had been declining, and there was a growing sense that it would become increasingly difficult for her at to win that election, the closer we got to it. so how will she be remembered despite those declining numbers in the opinion polls, she'll go down in history, i think out fairly well in terms of her memory. she'll be remembered as a crisis. prime minister, one who was able to communicate very well, particularly in some of museums darkest times. as she led ye zealand through of course the mosque shootings and christ church and 2019 the for cardi white island. volcanic eruption later. that same year that claimed the lives of $22.00 people.

and of course, the coven 19 pandemic when she led out what was regarded as a world leading response to that crisis. but increasingly, new zealand is felt that the government began to overreach. the longer the pandemic went on and affect the since was rightly or wrongly ad. that while the rest of the world was reopening you zealand was taking too long to do so, that history will judge her again as a leader who was able to handle some of these. ellen's darkest moments, perhaps better that any one else could have anti government protest as from a cross peru at gathering in the capital lima for 2 days of mass demonstrations. they want to present in a little while to resign and have predecessor petro castillo to be released from jail. more than 40 people have died since the nationwide protest that started off to castillo was ousted in december or in the sun chest, joins us now live from limits. those protests of miranda from all over peru. what are they telling you that that's right,

laura. and many of those protesters have come here to luna to see that this on medical are they have the ones that have been allowed to come and enter and spend the night out inside the university are new people who have come from from a full scope. now in this morning, this whole area was plagued by hundreds of police officers were guarding the entrance. many of the policemen said that they were going to accompany these protesters towards the center of the capital where they were going to to protest. but the officers have pretty much moved out of this place. there is a few, a group that remains here in riot gear and also behind the camera, a whole group of police that are also guarding the entrance of the university. but

we have also seen people coming out from here with carrying their water, carrying their bags, because there is a controversy whether they can stay and sleep here and or, or not. so the president of the university has said that she does not want them here. but the students that allowed them here say they are sons of indigenous people. tons of people that come from the provinces and the children from people who come from the provinces sunday, allowed them to stay here. now people are moving out of here, they're going to the center of the capital where there is a lot of tension. our police says, 11800 police officers will are being deployed in the capital. and also, many prosecutors are, will accompany the police to verify the type of weapons that they were police will be using in light of so many questioning of what the army and police have used in

the past few weeks when 100 were when know many people have been killed and brought us in the south in the areas of and the why last, excuse me poor know, and i put your laura and i thank you very much for doing is the from the capital of through will be joining you later in the hours as those protesters continue to get underway for the next 2 days. ah, without a 0, these are all top stories. nationwide strikes against present. manual microns will propose pension reforms are underway in france. the government announced plans to raise the age of retirement by 2 years to 64 public transport schools and refineries affected by workers walking off the job but needs a life seems from.