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another on the clock. this isn't news i live from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. germany finally decides to send leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. the keep hopes will be a game changer in the war against russia. the dutch government gets the go ahead from a european court to press charges against russia for the mh 17 plane crash in 2014 a twist in lebanon's investigation into the ports explosion. the chief prosecutor orders the release of all the accused detained for questioning. i fed up, i saw that because made opposition holds rallies. the people against power cuts that are crippling the economy and his phone of a joke of it just made it 26 straight winds at the australian open. he's through to the semi finals and inside the record equaling 22nd grand slam size.

ah, so we begin this news hour with a development the crane hopes will be a game changer in the war against russia. after weeks of reluctance, germany has finally decided to send leopard to tanks. chancellor left sholtes a should full support to keep the caution nato against inflaming the conflict. that's here. our goal is to quickly provide 2 tank battalions together with our allies that there are many countries that would like to supply and we will coordinate that and involve them to make that happen. step by step, seen them. it's well the leopard 2 is light and maneuverable and has more sophisticated defense systems than russian tanks. but the kremlin says the german main battle tank will not make any difference. you should know the blue again. just touch on blue book that it, it, you pam can get back with me. so it took greenwich and dorothy should toyota to

wasn't from that bleaching a year. i believe general jake, you repeat pledging committee. conscription best does it mean your own place where you can, if you me brush and the united states is expected to approve several m one abrams tanks in the coming hours. this model has similar capabilities to the leper to but uses more fuel and, and aids extensive maintenance. the crating trips will also need a lot of training for that and the u. k is sending it's challenges to tanks. it's heavy alma off his high protection for the crew, but it doesn't use standard nato ammunition and spare parts are only available in britain. all right, we have 3 cross one, it's falling development saw white house for us. one can be how kit is in washington. d c. natasha butler standing by for us in cave. but 1st let's cross to berlin. dominic cane is that for us and dominic, 1st off i live shoals agreeing to supply tanks, but voicing a know to portion the thing that people have to

remember is the old shots as seemingly been at the center of this storm of opinion about what should happen what tanks should be sent from germany or released re export rights released by germany for countries to send their tax to ukraine. his attitude has always been in the he needed the time to make the decision in the right way with the right coalition of other countries, pledging the same sort of thing tanks for ukraine. that is the way to perceive it from his perspective. it needed the time to do it, but he also had a note of caution. and indeed he also told his parliament, the members of parliament that he was aware that there are many people in germany who are deeply concerned at the prospect of german manufactured tanks. being used to fight russians in ukraine was aware of it, but said that this is the only way to prevent an escalation. clearly that is not

something the russian government agrees with the russian ambassador here in berlin has said exactly the contrary. criticizing the decision and saying it can only lead to a higher level of confrontation. so all we now going to see other european countries following suit. well certainly we know that there were several other european countries who said they wanted to send their leopard to stocks or some of their leopard, 2 tanks to ukraine, principally the poles. people remember that president of yet ski was calling on the german government to allow polish leopard to, to be sent there. well, we know that they've, they've created this decision by the german government warmly and said they plan to do the same thing that they need to train the ukrainian forces in the use of these that produce other countries to the dutch, the fins, the spanish who have said that they are considering doing likewise,

and we know of course that the united kingdom is good, a st challenger to tanks, a company that's 14 tanks and we know also of the m one abraham is being sent by the united states. so clearly there is this sense that there is what mr. moore of yet ski was calling for a coalition of states prepared to send tags, it's being built. the question is simply how many we know the president zalinski or his point of view was a 100 more. maybe that's the sort of number that will actually end up being sent. or donnelly over there. thanks for that to dominate. kane, let's move now from berlin to cave itself. natasha butler is right there in natasha . so what's been the reaction from the government to all this were clearly, this is good news for ukraine. keith has been waiting for this decision from germany for many weeks now. president vladimir lensky, put out a tweet, saying that sir ukraine is very grateful indeed to germany. so this is something of

course is being welcomed by keith, but a top presidential, a aid said, or in a reaction little bit earlier today, this is welcome, but it is a 1st step. and a 1st step that is because we're talking about a few dozen tags, perhaps being sent here somewhere around a 100. but keith has said to time and again that it believes it needs at least $300.00 tanks in order to be able to defend itself against ongoing attacks by a russian forces. and then there's also this question of time that every day is critical and crucial and what needs to happen now from keith's point of view, is for these tanks to arrive here for, for soldiers to get trained on them foster or so for them to be trained and how to maintain them. they do wonder about the timeline and how quickly they can get there . the war goes on all the while. what is the situation on the front line and what's required most, are you crying?

look, and that is why there is this sense of urgency and has been when it comes to tanks, because ukraine says it needs all the fire power that it can get in order to defend its territory. in order to fight the russians look just to day ukraine confirmed fat, its military is withdrawing from the eastern town of solid honor. that is a place where there has been a bitter and terrible battle for many months between ukrainian and russian forces, high casualties on both sides of really difficult situation. so ukraine has had to concede that it is lost that to russian forces. it continues to fight though a not far away from solar dot or on the front lines around the town of back moot, but again, a battle that has been going on now for many months indeed. and then you have also continued. russian attempted pushes or pushes in the east, but also in the south of the country. continued shelling. we've had 3 air raid

sirens across most of the country, including here and keith to day. that is the reality on the ground. and that is why ukraine says it is so important that it needs as many heavy weapons as it can get. and that is why it is playful for these tanks with us. or thanks for that. that's a situation and cable, it's been across to the united states in the white house. kimberly how could is right there. and kimberly were expecting an announcement of it. yes i or expected to hear from the president around 1700 jam t. what we expect to hear from president biden is an announcement of sending approximately $2.00 to $3.00 dozen m one abram tanks to ukraine. now, what we're expecting is this is going to be in the neighborhood of what would be referred to as one tank battalion. the president is expected to argue that this will make a strategic difference on the battlefield. a in can nor coordination with the partners and ally, sending their heavy armor as well. but what we know is given the large number of

kilometers that this is certainly going to need the contribution of other nations. and so we expect that the u. s. president will be encouraging other allies to step up as well. given the fact that this will be, will be a matter of miles in terms of delivery not weeks. now, the other argument that is coming out of all of this is the fact that the pentagon was rather resistant to sending these, and one abrams given the fact that they require heavy maintenance. they have jet fuel engines. and there really isn't the logistics to support these a machinery inside of ukraine, and that's why the u. s. president will also be discussing when we hear from him, the fact that there will be logistics training that will be provided to the ukrainians that is expected to take place outside of ukraine. but it's clear that the president is overriding the advice of the pentagon,

pressing ahead in response to the needs of ukraine and the appeal coming from that leadership or a committee leaving that for my pants for much or can we help them with the white house political still ahead on the news are included pointing food shortages lead us from across africa, discuss how to boost agriculture. the british prime minister grill, due to the taxes of the head of the conservative policy. we got school coming up to nicholson's might finally get what they've been dreaming of for nearly 70 years. ah, to lebanon, where the top prosecutor is ordered, the release of all suspects detained over the bay route port blast in 2020, and more than 200 people were killed when chemical stockton a warehouse caught far, causing a massive explosion. prosecutor is also filed charges against the judge is sing i

might do who's the deputy director for the middle east. it i, misty international. and she explains why the investigation into the pope last is significant from lebanon. we see this as really a battle for 11 on the future. are we going to have a kind of country where those individuals who are responsible for blowing up the country are held accountable or one where they're allowed to escape accountability . as you know, the invest the domestic investigation into the last has been suspended now for almost 13 months. on monday, the lead investigator issued an opinion, legal opinion that he said would allow him to move forward with the investigation. and on that basis he charged 8 individuals, including the top public prosecutor, the son always act in relation to the last. and he also ordered the release of 5 of the 17 detainees who currently remain in detention since august, september of 2020. obviously the political establishment and all rally around him,

they said that he did not have the power to move the investigation forward. that the investigation was still stalled and culminated with the public prosecutor who him health is charged in the case and who had refused himself from being involved in the last case due to his familiar relations to some of the defendants. previously, he issued a decision to remove, to reduce all of the detainees and the case effectively bypassing does the type you'd investigate to in the case a very complicated legal situation. but we, you know, all this to say is that the political establishment, the ruling establishment, are doing everything that they can to prevent judge from moving forward with the investigation. they are doing everything that they can to prevent the truth from coming out. and for those high level officials responsible for the last to be held to account. no european court of human rights is announced. it will hare

a case against russia over the downing of flight and 17, in 2014. the netherlands submitted the complaints all 298 people on the militia. airlines flight were killed when it was shut down by russian made missile. it was launched by ukrainian separatists backed by moscow, eric de hoon as an assistant professor of international criminal law at the university of amsterdam. and she says, this ruling shows the court is ready to move forward with the investigation. the court today asset that it is now beyond a reasonable doubt, clear that from april 2014 onwards, russian armed forces, russian military personnel was active in the dom boss. and so that is a very clear statement. and also because of that, russia was under the obligation to guarantee human rights in that area. and so what ukraine and the metal ends of submitted to the court is that russia because they were responsible for safeguarding those human rights and violated european

conventional human rights by setting up all sorts of torture camps by killing people by detaining people. but also by like down in flight made 17 where old people on board died. so this was a flight step, flew from amsterdam to qualify for on 17 july 2014. and that was down. and the dutch court already said in last, november, the dutch criminal court that russia indeed had already overall control and was involved in, in downing this with a russian book miss l system. and now this european, quite a few men, right? agreed with that indeed, already from april 2014, there were russian armed forces present and fighting into dom boss. and so whether or not russia then also violated those rights will be the next stage, the merits phase. but now the court says yes, these cases are admissible and we're moving to that next step. south africa is main

opposition party has been holding rallies nationwide against rolling power cuts and an increase in the price of electricity. demonstrators have been picketing outside the ruling agency parties. headquarters in johannesburg. most households go without par for at least 6 hours a day. me, the miller has more from just has been going on for more than a decade. and now people are increasingly frustrated because these blackouts have worse, and especially over the last 18 months. so, so i'm away. last year there were more than 2 other days about electricity in this year. so far, there's been blackouts every single day, and the power utility is farmers said that these blackouts will continue for at least another 2 years. they say they want to manage it so that there is some level of predictability and that businesses can run, the household can run and people are less angry. but people are still very frustrated by just how badly their lives that impacted. now the reason he's a power cut to happen is, is what the is composed load shading is that they cut the electricity to certain

parts of the country for a number of hours throughout the day to try to manage the demand without that, they could possibly have a complete shut down of the national grid. but you know, the reasoning behind it, most of africans, it is very difficult to swallow because critics would say it's because it's probably what it's because there has been the deployment of officials to that to power utility, which is state owned by the african national congress deployment. to people who are not capable of doing the job, or they're also issued on the supply of coal, the supply of diesel, which is used as a back up to call. but also the infrastructure is aging and hasn't been adequately maintained. and the power plant remain to have open to haven't been yet, and also others have closed. so it really is a very difficult situation for is going to try and get itself out of the government to say that is going to try and push will clean energy. let's take a closer look at the impact the blackouts are having on the everyday south africans

. dairy farmers say that having to regularly dump days, production of milk, fast food outlets, kfc says around 70, that stores all now closed. as a chicken supplies struggle with constant challenges and some smaller businesses say they're unable to trade because they can't afford generators, calendars, and energy analysts and managing director of business intelligence. he says the government must find a better way of dealing with old power infrastructure. in 2007 in 2008, a major new build of power stations was announced some 9600 megawatts from 2 massive coal fired power stations. and these were intended to be completed 520142015 respectively. the reality, however, has been very different. these 2 power stations have been running very light. and the one power station is essentially complete, except one of its generators has exploded in hydrogen explosion and taking off

about one 6th of that power station. the 2nd to power station is only one out of the 6 generators up is operating. so if you look at these 2 pass stations, they are delivering only half of the intended $9600.00 megawatts output. and they are running something like yours light from the expected completion date. so we are missing a just from that project alone. $4800.00 megawatts, which is equivalent to about 5 stages of low chinney. as i've had those things come on time. and you know, the situation would have been considerably less and they have been other delays with other new projects, new generation capacity, and also a very, very poorly performing fleet of old and middle aged coal fired power stations. adding to the was of south africa. the name is keep inflation low,

the most west african countries are a combination of subsidies, tax relief and price controls. but the countries measure is it being criticized. people say that high food prices of 14 families to skip males and businesses going under. how would interest reports not from cultural business, because the industry is close to collapse, copied 19 and the war in ukraine have pushed up costs and shrunk. profits and they blame government price control. so making business harder, the price we're ready to is fish. ok. we cannot turn this on the big prize off off it that's important we are using is our growing every day. so it's way are difficult for us to continue to survive. but businesses of received, relieve the wilma ed bill is under of industries received a lot of support from government to back them up after the economic fall out of coven $19.00. in fact, the rising cost of living since in 2021 came down last year,

especially towards the end of 2022. for others, government subsidies are helping to keep the price of goods down. the government is largely able to control prizes of many items, especially important food that has helped to keep hold price inflation here lower than the most west africa countries. but officials aren't able to cut prices of locally grown food. but the high cost of local produce and transportation remain a source of worry for many i went by there, i can look where your money is running out and you feel like it's been stolen from you. the thinks an expensive in the market. we wonder how to survive. traders like solving your fiance to bring down inflation. the government needs to help small businesses say like price control measures only benefit to wholesalers. sometimes we don't make profit at all. for now,

benign has been able to avoid the social and economic and rust seen in some african countries due to rising cost of living. but many say keeping it that way will depend on how long and how far the government is willing to go on, subsidizing import and local produce a decrease aldi's era cultural well, in an attempt to help combat food insecurity. african leaders inmates in senegal to discuss ways to increase the continents production of food and across bullet nicholas hackers. indian idea in senegal, i said, nick, 1st up at what's the name of this conference, what they're hoping to achieve. well, it's to address this paradox. next, there's plenty of food being produced on the planet, and yet people here on the african continent are dying of hunger, a 150000000 people. in addition, have gone into hunger or malnutrition this year. these are staggering numbers,

and most of them are right here on the african continent. 150000000. that's the population of russia 3 times the population of france, nick imagined if this was happening in europe, what would be the world's reaction? but it's happening on the african continent, and now we're leaders on the continent are gathering to try to find a solution for this. they call for what they say is not food security, but food sovereignty to ensure that people here are able to feed themself and to tackle hunger. nick, so how do they see food sovereignty put into context for us? what she looks like with food sovereignty essentially means that countries here want to rely less on imports, like we've heard the fall out effect of the russia ukraine war. and also to ensure that they decide people on the continent here decide what they want to grow.

essentially it's about try to protect small holder farmers. now a lot of the farming and investment is led by agro business. so people may be growing food, maybe growing rice. and disregarding local projects or grades such as millet or so groans and are considered super foods. and that could address the issue of hunger and malnutrition. so there's a need, according to some delegates, i've spoken to here, of an overall of the way that we see our food system. so that farmers can be protected from the effect of climate change and invested in. so let's talk about the numbers that people are trying to raise here. we're talking about $8000000000.00. and what they want to do is invest in infrastructures. for example, here in senegal, they produce onions, they could export that onion, but they don't have the storage facilities or their refrigerators to try to contain those onions where they have to do. they have to import onions from holland,

and that's greatly expensive, specifically because of the fall out of the russian ukraine. so there, here, according to the presidents in the heads of states, they see in this challenge of tackling hunger, an opportunity to reinvest in agriculture. the head of the african development bank said oil should be no, that's an agriculture should be seen as the new oil a way forward for people in the continent and governments in the continents to invest in agriculture and also to tackle the issue of migration. one of the minister that i spoke to the minister of nigeria was telling me that a lot of people that are leaving the countries are leaving their lands going may be traveling to europe, is because there's a lack of opportunities at home. specifically, when it comes to farming. so that's the issue at hand that people here and delegates here are trying to tackle. so we're seeing a heads of states meeting with donors from europe, norway, holland, the u. k. to try to find

a way forward to try to find more investment in agriculture. nick turning crisis into opportunity. leecock, thanks a lot more than 1000 people or died from a cholera outbreak in malawi infections have risen to ever 30000 since december. most of the deaths occurred in the city of long grey and blunted brushing is soon ack says, no issue was raised during the appointment process of the conservative party chair and that he to hurry. the british prime minister has been facing questions in parliament after over to his taxes, as soon as ordered an independent inquiry after to merge that. so he agreed to pay millions of dollars in taxes and penalties. and please to make my position on this matter completely. clay ah, the issues the issues in question occurred before i was prime minister ha with regard with regard to the appointment with regard to the

employment of the minister without portfolio, the usual appointments process was followed. no issues, no issues were raised with me. when he was appointed to his current role, and since i commented on this matter last week, more information has come from huh. and that is why i have all the independent advisor to look into the matter. now, i obviously can pre judge the outcome of that, but it is right. it is right that we fully investigate this matter and establish all the facts and you sentences more now from london. the label the kiss, thomas said that this issue showed that soon act simply couldn't do the job. he was hopelessly weak in failing to sack. so holly, he also said the job was too big for him. but soon i came back at these attack

saying that this was simple, political opportunism on the part of the labor leader. because they had pushed the standards to be much better, much more thorough in terms of wrongdoing within the conservative party. and sooner had shown that when he became prime minister by appointing this independent advisor on ethics. and this is where the inquiry is going on. now it is an independent inquiry and the prime minister insisted that the labor party has no right to be attacking him from not actually making the sacking. he said that there would be due process followed. and of course, that would be a result from us inquiring an action to taking after it. but it isn't just criticism coming from the labor party is coming from within his own party as well as soon as he is being seen in this is perhaps not being strong enough and making decisions when wrongdoing on taxes that furthermore, it was a case that is a how we was finance minister when he was doing this. so he was in charge of tax

when he though is wrong doings with taxed the tune of millions of dollars and just ended up also in the u. k. and then just start demanding pay rises, the cost of living souls, but they're also drawing attention to the poor state of the national health service . the president of the rural college of emergency medicine has warned as many as 500 people a week dying because of delays in emergency care. 35 percent of patients needing urgent care. we're not seen within 4 hours. that is the services worst performance on record. patients are also struggling to get appointments with a local doctors. one survey found more than one in 4 adults have been unable to get an in person appointment to the past year and the waiting list to start routine. and it just treatment in england alone stands at 7200000 people. i mean, barbara looks at a debate on the future of free health care in the u. k. i. c with

strike spreading and talk of a system on its knees is britain's reverence for its national health service looking much needed reform study javits certainly think so. the conservative for my health secretary and finance minister wrote recently the 75 year old model of the n h. s. is unsustainable? javits suggested people could pay for consulting a family doctor and price island system where patients must pay around $81.00 to access the equivalence of the you case accident and emergency departments a and e, unless referred by their doctor. now that's the sort of idea. most british politicians run away from because it means scrapping the doctrine that health care should be free at the point of need. the prime minister has distance himself from the comment for which you feel like it did before taking off it. talk about issuing fines to anecdotes, patients who missed appointment. he then backtracked, the opposition labor parties also stepped into the debate shadow health secretary,

west street and has suggested the growing waiting lists could be tackled by the n h s sending more patients to private hospitals. louise irv in a retired family doctor, an anti privatization campaign. i think that's a bad idea. there isn't an infinite pool of doctors, nurses, and a lot of doctors, nurses go to that in the private sector because they get paid more. and furthermore, when something goes wrong in the private sector, the patient is then, you know, red light, it straight into air, and then it has andy. now, if we, what we need is we need to build a harmonic chest. again, louis says she did see real improvements in patient experience in the 2 thousands on the labor. when annual increases in m. h s. funding were higher than they are now. since it was created spending on the n h. s is increased by an average 3.7 percent per year in real terms, but from 2010 to 2018. when the conservatives governing coalition and then on their own annual n h s funding growth slow to 1.4 percent. it's rising more quickly now,

but an aging population. an increasing de bond for expensive treatments means nobody's noticing. if we look at the antitrust compared to other o e c d countries, we have fewer doctors and nurses per to population. we have fewer hospital beds for had a population. we have low levels of investment in things like diagnostic equipment . and all those things are not about the way in which the system they, they are not trustees, organized and funded. that's about the, the fundamental decisions we made about the level of what we want to spend on health in this country. so the challenge to the politicians is this dealing with the crises hitting the health service right now. planning for the long term and avoiding or to to assist the dba al jazeera london. * still ahead here and held 0 new leader for use it off the shelf resignation. the procedure done is latest judges are unveiled as part of the tokyo textbook and sport in 15 minutes or so. martinez, football is celebrate

a stark when the african nations challenge ah hello, i was out in south america, and red warnings have been issued for severe thunderstorms and some coastal areas of brazil to the north of rio de janeiro. this is where we are expecting the west of the wet weather. we could see some flooding here. we have the possibility as. 8 for flooding across more northern areas, as the rains intensify and those feed into storms and showers across much of the amazon basin, much dryer farther south of this, and certainly hotter a rush of thunderstorms, feeding away north, across northern areas of argentina. but for the south, a very dry picture for much of a chilly patients like paraguay and europe. why? sadly, feeling the heat. if we have a look at the 3 day for us and she on,

we are seeing the temperature pick right up above the average with a chance of rain coming in on saturday. now we moved to central america. we've had largely clear skies, much of the caribbean, intense heat for western parts of cuba. well, that's going to change the edge of this front, pulling its way across parts of mexico, bringing some heavy, a falls to the yucatan peninsula, cold air behind that drops the temperature for the likes of monterey. and we will see that wet weather starting to skirt its way farther east into western cuba by thursday. ah, african stories from african perspectives machine, a picture with short documentary from african fill me from wanda and bookkeeper,

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but again, you're watching al jazeera reminder about top stories this hour and lebanon's top a prosecutor is ordered, the release of all suspects detained over the bay route port. last in 2020, more than 200 people were killed in the explosion. the prosecutor is also filed charges against the judge if a seeing the case. europe's court of human rights is announced. it will hair a case against russia. if the downing of flight i made 17 in 2014, all 298 people on the malaysia airlines flights were killed when it was shut down by ukrainian, cept, is backed by moscow. germany has finally agreed to send it to level 2 tanks to ukraine, and then we'll deliver 14 of the combat vehicles from its army stock. and it's also allowing partner countries to send german may times from now schools to ukraine

are. let's take a closer look again at the western tanks that will be sent to the battlefields in ukraine at the german made leopard 2 is light and maneuverable and has more sophisticated targeting and defense systems compared to russian tanks. the u. s. is expected to approve several, and one abrams tanks. it has similar capabilities to the leopard too, but it consumes more fuel, requires more maintenance and requires a lot of tools and a lot of training. and then there's the british challenger to it's slower than the others, but it's heavy armor offers high protection, but it doesn't use the standard nato ammunition and many of its spare parts are only available in the united kingdom. let's take this home. we can speak now to peter wasn't his the senior researcher in the arms of transfers program at separate the stock home international piece research institute get to joins us now from slocum. and peter, thanks for joining us here on alger 1st. before we look at what companies of tanks

could achieve on the battlefield for ukraine is not the the chief question here. timing, how long will it take to deploy enough tanks to have the effect required for the 1st thing which needs to be done is of course, to gather all those things from those different countries which may take some time . although several of those states have already said they are willing to do this really quick. and, and of course, the next step is actually train the soldiers from ukraine on these tangs and a training will then take place in germany, poland, and other european states. and that may take some time, but of course we have seen that the ukrainians soldiers are very motivated and they have a lot of battle experience periods already. so in the end, the estimates of how long it takes them to be trained in these new locker to tanks is between a few weeks and maybe a few miles away. seen how fast they can be trade already last year when the

ukrainians received lots of western equipment and learned to use that really fast. and what about the, the us applying and one abrams tank? so that's more of a challenge in terms of training and learning how to operate and not to say, maintain them. yeah, that is the claim which being made, those are more say difficult things, more complex thing to have a particularly difficult engine which used a lot of fuel of a very particular type which is not so easily available. so that tank may take a little bit longer to learn how to operate and, and especially how to maintain it. on the other handles, you should be said that most of the heavy maint maintenance will not necessarily take place in ukraine. so they don't necessarily have to learn that yet. that something which can take place in european states and the those that will come in and do the training and do the maintenance search for the european tanks. will they be? there's teams of people from different countries. will they end up going to ukraine

to do those jobs? no, that's not the plan. are there in the standards. we need to plan to really keep european nato personnel out of ukraine, or if they are involved in a repair and main main maintenance, those tanks will be sent back to old and for germany where they can be then taking care or as a moving on to what these ties can actually enable ukraine to achieve it. what's the main aim here to, to break through russian defensive lines and try and recapture occupied surgery? what's, what's the goal that a busy day? that's what ukraine has said. it is of course, important to state that these things are not wonder where, where weapons they cannot by themselves a t goes goals. they are part of is much larger package of equipment that western states have already sent to ukraine over the past year. including anything from air

defense systems, to a tier 2 to re, to re colors and systems to arm and be vehicles, to guns, to helmets, whatever you need to wage war. and these tanks that is added to this bag package, to give you crane in a better chance to push back russian forces from ukranian soil. there's talk of a russian spring offensive militarily. do these tanks, but ukraine on the front foot. i know it's very hard to say anything to numbers involved and not necessarily that high. and of course, the expectation should not be too too high for that region either. so i think it provides ukraine. we just the extra which they may need to defend themselves. again, against any further russian attacks and might also give them a standing chance and actually counter attacking and, and gaining terrain all rush. all right, we'll leave it there. thank you very much for your expertise beauty wiseman from supreme. thank you. you're welcome. now people in bangladesh are facing their own

energy crisis with fuel costs and power cuts increasing the main opposition party call for nationwide rallies to demand action on the soaring cost of living. once prime minister shake siena to resign and a caretaker government to take over until elections are held. tanveer child re has more from the rally induct. this is an ongoing protest. this is the 3rd one investment and it's been going on since august. the more and more the usa tend to people that are gathered in no appleton in the capital soccer as a protest going on in other parts of the country. as well as in other parts of the city. are not just all positions, activists and our people from all walks of life. we spoke to cab drivers or fisherman, richard polars. we asked them, why are you taking part in opposition? party rally. as i said, we are here to show our discontent and grievance against the government because

they really haven't been able to pull down the prices. people are struggling here. paper with fixed income and low income. i really been struggling. the full price has gone up since last year. 50 percent. the industrial gas price had gone up, electricity, electricity price have been high last one that lives by 5 percent. and the essential commodity price has been rising, at least for a year. and now inflation is high, the reserve is law. the businesses are having trouble to input goods here to better that wider discontent among the public sphere among the business community. aside from the election, which is scheduled for this year, december all by january 2024. so there is also a wide spread demand for a free and neutral election out of the 10 coin demand by that opposition allies, which is $32.00 party democratic alive in germany. berlin's at port cancelled all its flights. is ground stuff went on strike,

to demand higher pay a yes to work as a seeking a raise if at $544.00 a month. but local media report that staff have been offered a one off payment of just over 2000 dollars last year job experienced its high inflation in more than 70 years. and amazon workers at a warehouse in central england have also walked out. they too are demanding better pay and working conditions. the 1st time the british operation of the tech giant is facing strike action in the u. k. security forces in peru, her fire tear gas at thousands of protesters in the capitol. ha, demonstrate as one to president, dana brought our day to resign and new elections to be held. royalty has called for a national troops, falling weeks of unrest, will, than 50 people have been killed. crisis began in december of the former president, edward castillo, tried to dissolve congress and was arrested. chris hipkins has been sworn in his

new zealand prime minister. it follows the surprised resignation after tinder are durned. last week he faces the task of reviving the government waning popularity ahead of a general election in october. agent brown has more now from wellington. this has been a quick and orderly political transition. on wednesday, just there are dirt left parliament for the last time. mobbed by colleagues and support and the gathering was a reflection of this country's wide cultural diversity. the transfer of power was completed when chris hipkins was sworn in as new zealand. 41st prime minister. his deputy is carmel zeppelin, the 1st person of pacific islander descent to hold the position, the post confirmed by governor general, dane cindy cura. the 1st mari to hold up position hipkins who led the government's

response to cobit 19. has promised to focus on what he calls, bread and butter issues. when jazz inter are then became prime minister a popularity was undeniable, but a rating slid on a backlash against kobe 19 restrictions increase food costs, rising mortgages, concerns over crime. analysts say people simply want someone to blame and that person seems to be just inter arden. yes, i think she took her absent at every stop. i haven't covered an inch, the shootings and all that sort of thing, but she's dish last hit my jo towards cmj. i know what this job takes and i know that i no longer have enough in the tank to do it. justice. last thursday's announcement was one that few saw coming an unusual acknowledgment from a world leader that she was burnt out, vicious, abuse her on the streets and on line raised concerns over her

safety. she's received death threats and so her child, the next election will be in less than 9 months, which means hipkins may not be in the job long, especially as opinion polls show labor now trading the conservative opposition are done is leading office at a time of her choosing, although she'll remain in m p for 3 more months and good 42. she still has plenty of time to ponder, a new career and the one she's left in. he from the bottom of my hand, the greatest privilege of whom adrian brown al jazeera, wellington caught version of a series of powerful storm systems of sweat through at the southern state of texas, the tornado damage electricity lines from houston, leaving about 13823000 people without power. 20 rain and strong winds caused flooding across the city. no serious injuries were reported. controversial social

media personality. andrew tate has appeared in court in romania. they know we've done nothing wrong, andrew alex and he's been made for this. the british american was arrested in big arrest in december, along with his brother on charges of rape and human trafficking. they deny any wrong doing. prosecutors say they found 6 women who had been sexually exploited by the pair still ahead here in al jazeera in sports, one of site things biggest names has made a big decision about his future id will be hit with that ah

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hello again, now, what's billed as a world leading expos, wearable tech, as open in tokyo, japan, and has always been seen as a pioneer and the latest high tech consumer get a tree, but that reputation has been slipping in recent years, rama bride reports now from tokyo. they're the latest in wearable gadgets or the way we live and play and the way we work all supported by advance is in the virtual ways we interact with our world. oh my god. ok, there's a woman here. i feel rather. 2 embarrass okay, that's rather disturbing. and then some devices that leave you wondering where the humanities, the winner or loser. so you can check 100 workers to make sure they're all concentrate. yes. if someone's not concentrating what happened to them then? japan once plays the trail, is the world's pioneer in the personal catch it. oh, what? yes. but it now lags behind its rivals in finding innovative ways to use its high

tech skills. i'm using this kind of smart glass it for more than 20. yes. you have in the west, especially the united states, is more of a mood of innovation. japanese consumers are not as excited about this technology. it's hoped big events like this scaled back during the pandemic will now help japan restore what it sees is it's rightful position. as the leading provider of the latest and nifty as must have. i think we're getting a lot of people coming today and it seems like we're back to like 2018 with mass, but with massive just type of virtual mass one. yes. hopefully. many devices now find a natural role post pandemic as we become more contactless. but all of them it seems more complex. one of the new areas of innovation is so called energy harvesting, whereby gadgets of the future will be powered by your own body heat. so even if you

don't understand them, simply wearing them will be doing some good adorning ourselves with evermore gadgets, but still the little room for the part that human public bride al jazeera, tokyo, or i, let's get on to the sport. his only thank you so much. nicole. in the last few minutes, one of sy claims biggest names has ended speculation about his future in the sport . for now at least he time grants her when it nar quinton has decided not to retire . the column been called a press conference in bog, a thought to confirm his next move. quinton was disqualified from last year toward a france after testing positive for the painkiller tramadol, his contract with french team, our care sam sick was terminated. as a consequence for our sandra ramp yet his be now at that press conference, sir for his alessandra, tell us what quin toner had to say today. well, and the essentially he this spell the doubts about as possible. a retirement rumors

about that were running wild for the last couple of days. instead, he said that he's in good shape shape. very good shape. he said that he is, he wants to continue arrive the anger, but he hasn't found a theme a yet. then to talk about old dear sir, i am now joined by mat randale in an otter of a number of books on the history of columbia. and there are psych ring mapped it a bit. thank you very much for being with us. so what do you make of what the container had to say to day and the very difficult months he had to go through recently? yeah, very difficult months. i'm a struggle for him. i think because as so often we've seen in the past one of the fittest men in the world, which i'm currently has no team, no races. i know where to go. and one of the revelations i

suppose of his press conference was that his in his 2nd semester of studying accountancy, of one of the university. i don't know that's a future for him. he's got many, many business activities that he's involved with. graham found those all over latin america and so on, but still very much thinking and obsessed with as these young sportsmen are the bike. and the background, of course, is that this is a national figure. this is a figure who, whose victories, and whose wonderful proponents is a patrol to france 2nd in 2013 2nd in 2015 3rd in 2016, provided the backdrop to the peace process in colombia. so that whole sporting phenomenon that was not eric and donna, i was part of the transformation of modernization and the creation of a new columbia or a new country. so he's an enormously important figure but he has

against his name. 2 tests are not doping tests that are of a different order, but nonetheless, to tests that show, he broke a regulation of the you see either not the international sports authorities for cycling that say this pain can a very strong painkillers tramadol and was in his sister and very tall, i'm slightly heartbroken, very torn because in sport and especially in a comparatively big and wealthy and money driven and sponsorship driven sport by cycling. and the writer is always found responsible. and the teams and the institutions and the racism, the rest of the money making machine carries on. as always,

nonetheless, it is a fact that the riders responsible for whatever is found in his system and this drug has been found in history. let me ask you this very quick in the press conference talks about a wall that was raised against this possibility to continue riding. what do you think he meant there? i i put nothing past side thing. i put nothing past any sport are very difficult these days to have absolute faith in any sporting authority. but i don't believe that the total france or the the, you see i of orchestrated some kind of veto. it's very, very difficult to unify the cycling teams nor the other actors. i think that each one will have its own motive, but ultimately i find it very difficult to see narrow control returning to the world. thank you very matt, matt. i thank you for matt. there are contained a doll, he said that he will travel again to europe in the next couple of weeks to continue

negotiating with teams there. and everybody here in columbus hoping to see him again riding at the highest level. alessandra, thank you so much for that updates on that arkansas, his teacher in the sport of cycling. thank you. hello, sandra, of a joke of its remains on tracts when a record extending 10th australian. i've been sidle the former world born a straight sets winter here against the 5th seat on very left was is 26 straight when in melbourne, jock of it, in the semi finals joker, it's targeting a 22nd grandson trophy. when that was taken level would be also a record set, my wrapping it up next of a joke of which is american tommy pool. he beat fellow american, ben shelton in fall sense. paul is the 1st man from the u. s. to make it the semi's that you're struggling open since andy roddick back in 2009 to go any further enough to an joker, which is long match winning st. melba well,

in the women's draw his seed arena. saddle anchor is through to the semi's, the bellow, rush and beat her opponent on a wreckage of croatia in straight sets to reach the last for a moment. for the 1st time, it 24 year old is the only top 10 seed left and more tenure into the quarter finals of the african nations championship. they beat their west african neighbors. molly, one knell to secure a spot in the last states. the result means suits on fondest molly are out mauritania will play cynical in the last all right, that is how you're a sports looking fanatic. i be great. thanks very much for that. see a bit later. that's it for me and a lot for this news up, but we've got another 4 half hour of news coming up in a couple of minutes to see that. ah ah.

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