the corona virus has been indiscriminately selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color. but in britain, a disproportionately high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom faded citizens, britain's true colors, part one on al jazeera. we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. if the human suffering that we report, we brave bullets and bomb and we always include the views from all sites, ah, people in pakistan, coal, or make government to keep them safe and take action against armed groups.

ah, hello, i'm emily. ang, when this is al jazeera alive from jo house are coming up with dozens of prisoners of war, are released in an exchange between russia and ukraine, a weather balloon or spy craft china is calling for. com, after it says in a ship accidentally entered us as space and pope francis is said to meet people displaced by war in south sudan on the 2nd day of his historic visit. ah, we begin in pakistan where people have been protesting in the northern city of per shower there calling on authorities to take action to prevent attacks by armed groups or than 100 people were killed in the city when a suicide bomb. a targeted

a mosque on monday, the more on his story, let's bring an aside bag. he joins us live now from the shower. i said certainly a lot of anger over lack of security way you up? oh, absolutely. people didn't expect an attack of this magnitude to hit the provincial capital here in the shower, but people have come across the province of buffalo to block to voice. they anger. also they did a determination to stand up to militancy, not for years. they thought that this in addition to the thing of the past, but now you have some back to home them after that suicide from a 1000000000 cell. but in the most getting over 100 people. but people here have before the on the authorities to do more, but also this is a popular uprising back in 2014. i think the book is done italian on the check images with over one report to children, killed people from the villages stood up. my says that they would stand up against the difference. yeah. what that did was stop the funny part about of the money and the food that they sold back. now,

what are the main a side, what's come out all? what's the latest in terms of the investigation into that suicide bombing? ah, well the police say the investigation is still ongoing. the still going through cctv and examining darren as well as trying to locate phone calls, but they have returning guys operations and we understand the 2 encounters this morning. where would you say 2 commanders of the book study bon, were killed, very arrested. several people, a multiple confiscated cache, a weapons, munitions, communications equipment, as well as explosives. and this is what the chief of the police in that district had to say is the u bus on the targets of this terror group which we apprehended in swampy district. what policeman t security installations and some high profile people in this region. we are determined to fight these elements. ah,

now they say they are determined. this would be very personal for the police. have been any 100 people killed innocent. what was supposed to be a fuel combined with many of them, the majority of the police officers, but the country does face the challenge is economically just as a topic 5, focused on and it's history and the police here a probably got for resources in many cases that many times have better to put my did tons of them, of images, images them of both my vision on the right. well better chris and the police have when i say this isn't my have it wasn't get out rule. they all to challenge to take you on with them. okay, certainly a loud and noisy group of protest is keep us posted as to how it develops outside making. the the russian defense ministry says 63 of its service men have been released by ukraine. he says 116 ukrainians have also been allowed to return home. according to

moscow among the russians freight of those who work in a sensitive category. negotiations were mediated, 5 united arab emirates for more from cave. let's go to the vein bez, robbie is saying, what are you hearing about this prison as well from the cranial side of things? well the president's office announced this just about an hour ago, and we've heard from the human rights commission, the leaders here and keith are certainly celebrating the return of 116 ukrainians back to your train as, as, as a cause for celebration. now since the beginning of the conflict, there's been a about an estimated at least $35.00 prisoners swaps just like this. most of them smaller number. this is definitely one of the largest prisoner exchanges between the 2 sides. since the conflict began since the russian invasion last year,

and for ukraine, it is certainly a reason to celebrate, but ukrainian government here says there's still a long ways to go. we've heard from the president's office and at least 3400 soldiers from the ukranian side remain in russian hands. but 1646 soldiers have been released during the work of these prisoners swaps. and there are at least 1400 civilians thought to be in russian captivity at this very moment that comes from a number of force migrations of ukrainians into russian health territory into russia proper since the invasion began. and we've also heard reports of ukrainians being forced to convert their nationality to change their nationality to russian nationality in those occupied territories. so even though ukraine is celebrating this as a real, when the return of infantry men intelligence officers,

a number of soldiers killed in action, their remains have come back as well. they still consider that there is a long way to go to make their population whole once again. ok, thanks so much for bringing us up to stay the same as robbie. meanwhile, the u. s. is to send another $2000000000.00 worth of military assistance to ukraine . it will include long range precision rockets for the 1st time someone in jade has more from moscow on rushes response to this latest u. s. a package. we've heard from the kremlin saying that the world must not forget the comments made by president tutoring in, in the remembrance of studying abroad just 24 hours ago where the russian have said that the do not welcome the. the thanks to ukraine president put in the looted to what happened 80 years ago. and thing that net once again, is german tank headed to word the russian border with crosses on them. and russia

is going to make use of its full capability, and it is going to respond to it. he did poll charge of seeing that is going to be down headed towards its borders with european countries. but it did say that this is going to be something that history also has a lesson for all of the people who are helping ukraine, obviously pointing towards the 2nd world war. and this is something that we've heard from the russian government since the beginning of the war of painting it with the picture of how not the germany was the war against russia. russia has insisted that it is war. went to war with your brain because of the presence of what it calls, not seed. and that is why it continues to be there to make sure that it's boarded are protected from what it's called. it's good. this is something that russia is going to be continuing on as we entered in the stages of the 1st anniversary of the

war. beijing is calling for calm as a giant chinese balloon float over the united states. china says it's a civilian weather balloon and its location is an accident, but us secretary of state antony lincoln says the balloon presence is an irresponsible act and has postponed a plan visit to beijing. a white house correspondent funding has been this thing is up in the sky. china's surveillance balloon is triggering a diplomatic rao that has prompted us secretary of state antelope lincoln to postpone his we can trip to beijing is an irresponsible act. and that the p. r. c's decision to take the section on the my plan visit is detrimental to the suction of discussions that we were prepared to have. the u. s. is accusing china, a violating international law. the balloon is still hovering over the skies of the united states. it was 1st tracked over the aleutian islands near alaska and

travelled through western canada and into the u. s. state of montana where it was spotted near a military installation home to some of america's nuclear missiles. i have no idea the thing that seemed so brazen and just so insane to me that that any one would even attempt to just push a balloon over the sky. the chinese foreign ministry acknowledged ownership of the balloon and expressed regret for the incident, but said it was merely collecting weather data, not intelligently. the pentagon has its doubts. still, it says the balloon is not a threat to any one on the ground or plains since it's flying well above commercial air traffic. but there are questions about why the pentagon is allowing the chinese surveillance balloon to linger, looking at the potential for debris and the impact on civilians on the ground or

property damage right now, as i mentioned we, we assessed that it is not pose a risk to people on the ground as it currently is traversing the continental united states. that hasn't satisfied biden's critics and congress who believe the u. s. needs to take further action to punish china account reward. the c c p for this kind of fly and violation of our sovereignty by pretending everything his business as normal in a grip and grin session was, she's in pain. as this was happening, would have been a terrible look for us diplomacy. mississippi will continue to push the envelope until we push back. this isn't the 1st time the china has lives just spy balloon over the united states. the pentagon says that in recent years, surveillance balloons have been spotted over guam and hawaii. but in the case of this current balloon, the pentagon won't say whether or not it eventually will be shot down,

only that it's expected to drift over the united states for the next couple of days . kimberly help get al jazeera, the white house, and our pentagon correspondent petty calhane has more on a 2nd balloon that's been spotted over latin america. was able to get in touch with the pentagon official who told me, and this is a very carefully worded statements. i'm going to go ahead and read it. we are seeing reports of a balloon over latin america. we now assess that it is a chinese surveillance balloon. so of course i asked the question, you're seeing reports, what kind of reports are these media reports? these reports from governments in latin america because they wouldn't say exactly where in latin america or does the us have some sort of capability, some sort of radar capability over latin america. they, we, so we really don't know where they're getting this information. that's pretty much all the variables to confirm to al jazeera right now. the chinese said this was a basically climate balloon media logical balloon that was blown off course. if

it's more than one balloon, that's going to be a much harder story to sell. because obviously it were they doing multiple experiments. so again, they are confirming that they do believe that there is a 2nd chinese surveillance balloon over latin america somewhere. but again, will not confirm what these reports are. an italian is a senior fellow at the time her institute, he says the balloon is far from disgrace. if it is spying, you have a balloon at the size of 3 buses that is apparently floating over the united states . the national weather organization of the united states is confirmed that it's consistent with being blown i off course over the pacific, down through canada and into the us. the idea that this is a quote spy balloon. the whole point about spying is to gain information by subterfuge. of by not being detected, having a, you know,

something that big that is, ah, here obviously, can be seen by the naked eye would hardly qualify as a huge. there was an interesting situation with blankets visit to beijing. he said he was going on the 4th and 5th, but as of the 3rd, after talking to many diplomatic sources, they confirmed that there had been no official invitation meeting without which he could not go to beijing. obviously, beijing was not amused by all of the items of things that the u. s. was doing in terms of, you know, 5 major chinese tech corporations being basically said, you can't get technology. you can't have any kind of investment ah, you know, talking about taiwan going to japan and south korea and trying to make them focus on china. so yeah, i think at this point it's, it's quite a, i think lincoln was trying to save face for the fact that he had announced

a visit that he wasn't. welcome. still ahead on al jazeera israeli forces arrayed a refugee camp in the occupied west bank, enjoying at least 13 palestinians, and not guilty, tesla, or avon moscow is cleared of fraud charges after he was accused of misleading invested in a tweet ah, examining the impact of today's headlines, this is what is the one about ensuring that lynette can continue and then come up on that setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. i don't believe that. i think it's the fantasy that is willing to kill international filmmakers and world class journalists, bring programs to inform and inspire you need to have a media ensuring that voices are heard on al jazeera,

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the me. hello, are you watching out 0? i'm emily angry. he's a reminder of our help story. the salad protest is in the pakistani studio for shower i calling on authorities to act against groups, wasn't 100 people were killed in the cd when it's suicide. 4 months targeted a month on monday, the russian defense ministry says $63.00 of its service. men have been released by ukraine. keith is 116 ukrainians have also been allowed to return home. united arab emirates meditated mediated the deal and begging his calling to come as a giant chinese balloon float over the united states. china says it's a civilian weather craft that secretary of state entity, blink, and says its presence isn't irresponsible. at least 13 palestinians have been injured in the lightest right in the occupied west bank.

israeli forces targeted the 2 other refugee camp in the city of jericho has been closed since last week after a shooting in an illegal israeli settlement. at least 18 palestinians have been arrested since the operation started. and i thought jerry is one of 19 palestinian refugee camps in the occupied west bank. well, the $8000.00 people live in an area of less than 2 square kilometers. bennett smith has more story from ramallah. this was a 5 hour operation on saturday morning and it seems to be off the back of a week long operation that has seen jericho surrounded by israeli forces. essentially, if you want to leave or go in or out of the city, you have to go through some thorough searching and it's because of a drive by shooting outside an illegal settlement in league,

an illegal israeli settlement near jericho last saturday. since then, the military has been looking for the suspects. it seems they identified a building where they were hiding an early saturday morning, they launch operation to go in and get them ready. radio reporting, it was hit by an anti tank miss style, and the people inside surrendered and were arrested. but in that operation there were 13 people wounded 3 of them. seriously. there's really army has now withdrawn from the area. we understand, although jericho is self, remains essentially locked down by these railey forces and is the continuation of what has been an extremely violent start to 2023 in the occupied westbank, 36 palestinians killed so far. most of them in jeanine where there was another operation earlier. another operation earlier where these really military and killing tend to billions in there and all of that comes off the back of this new

fall, right? israeli government, that is the term into expand the settle the settlements in the occupied west bank and hard lied ministers in that cabinet. determined to make life much harder for the palestinians than it already is to lincoln. now, where people in the capital are protesting against the cost of a parade, mocking independent saying, $550000.00. the public funds has been used for the military event in colombo shrunk . it is in the middle of the worst economic crisis in its history with food fuel and medicine shortages. now fernandez has more from the capital. the irony of a country celebrating the 75th anniversary of its independence. but very much on the siege, like you can see the people behind me essentially the ordinary. she luncheons locked out. we've had a number of senior police officers telling people they can't go clearing them or not. this is one of the sort of entrance points to the parade location. obviously,

a number of police, a special task force personnel, as well as a military in other areas. now there are obviously water cannons at the ready or with the complimentary water buzzers. and these are in the event that the protest ers, that have made their voices heard and their displeasure heard about what the government is doing. in case they decide to descend, the president running vicar missing her, says that the celebration is necessary to assure that re longer is able to celebrate independence. but he himself has admitted that the countries bankrupt, trying desperately to secure an a bailout package from the international monetary fund. and the after parade essentially is what lots of ordinary people who had tried to go to watch the proceedings ah, confined to seeing because lot of them found that they were locked out. and this is some of the reasons that people in this country at

a time of its worst economic crisis, are taking issue with the military parade. they're questioning as to whether this kind of expense is needed. a number of these people, just a few who remain here who haven't been sent off, or that is the question that they have paused. they tell us that, i mean independence is a celebration of freedom and the reaction that they have had is far from it. the head of the roman catholic church has met with christian ladies in south sudan . hope frances is on historic trade. a visit alongside the ladies of the anglican church and the church of scotland. later on saturday he said to make people effective by conflict. within 2000000 south sudanese have been to place by a he's on civil war. i room a tasa has more from south to dance capital juba. well, it's a jab pat program. there's a master day on saturday, then later he's meeting people displaced by years of conflict at

a town hall here in the capital gibbon. some of these people are coming from the big camps near the united nations base here in the capitol, while they glad to be seeing him. they say they are bit disappointed. they had hoped that he actually come physically to the camp to see how they live in it makes homes than they can pay the is not food enough. running water. after that on sunday there's a big mask at the john grandma's 11. open ground here in juba its way the 2011 independence day celebrations took place when the country broke away from saddam. that being people were really hopeful that this country could move forward. and on sunday, this time to be praying for lasting peace. denmark leads the way as the least corrupt country in the annual report released by transparency international. but it's found corruption in latin america is getting worse, as john holman explains the transparency international corruption perceptions. index came out this week and its outlook for latin america is bleak. no countries

significant improved it school since 2017. the organization says an overall failure by leaders, work against corruption and strength and public institutions has left the door open for criminal networks to bully and co op to politicians. nickaligha, cuba was marla, they will sank to new lows in guatemala case of the briefly showing the way forward with the united nations by 20 corruption commission that was dissolved in 2019 haiti's in trouble to with no elect to government officials. and it's kept to largely overrun by gangs with the absolute bottom of the pile. according to transparency international is venezuela. i asked the organizations direct to them sadies to freighters. why? what get even is in contrast to the rest of the countries? there is no spacing which venezuelans can go to ask for justice or their rights.

they call a patient of the institutions is startled by the group in power and the systems for justice under their job. on the contrary, they are a guarantors of impunity. the most extreme case perhaps that it's common to hear in latin america, that corruption is a cancer near impossible to root out in latin america. expectations are so low that people in some countries actually have a saying, robert, that, oh, i see regarding politicians and it means well, he stills, but at least he does something. but if that changed, if electorates started expect thing even demanding that their politicians did things for them without ceilings, might things improve in this region? perhaps uruguay also in the region, shows that they could. it's a rich inc of light for latin america. it has the same transparency score in the indexes, canada, when you're away, is one of our top for performance in several years. and it is not

a coincidence that the country is strong democracy in some more a united society and institutions work. well. what does that mean? it means that checks on balance is operate. well, it means that they have a judiciary, dallas's strong and independent. there's a reward for that. you require has the highest pickup to income and lowest rate in a quality in latin america. not alone seems we're fighting for if of a government's here are interested. john homan, al jazeera mexico city. a jury in the u. s. is down. tesla billionaire, a long mask did not defraud investors with tweets posted in 2018 verdict was rates after less than 2 hours of deliberation. roomy, cool. soon sharif has a vindication for ease on musk. the billionaire using the social media platform he now owns to celebrate any comments. thank goodness,

the wisdom of the people has prevailed. i am deeply appreciative of the jury's unanimous finding of innocence in the tesla for 20 take private case. the wolf 2nd preaches had testified for 8 hours on the witness stand defending his motives for this treat 4 years ago and considering taking tesla private at $420.00 funding secured. probably the court decided not, but then in 2018, this wasn't a market moving event. this wasn't something that could be taken as go school when you must tweet it. but since then, we've seen a series of situations where we run most cars actually use twitter hours. i saw a sounding board, the tweet sent tesla chest soaring. but when the buyout failed to materialize, the ship rise fell back to earth that resulted in a class action from investors who calculated their losses as high as 12000000000 dollars. were disappointed. we're examining options. yeah,

look into the with the trial comes at a sensitive time for mosque was dominated headlines for his chaotic takeover of twitter, michelson, sheriff alessandra and the arctic blast has hit northeast in the united states. and canada with fierce winds, pushing temperatures down into the negative double digits. authorities in the states of new york and new england, the issued warnings on friday as when she reached minus 75 degrees celsius. some schools have been closed over fees of hypothermia and frost. my or i, that's it for me am language believes continues here on al jazeera, after inside story. ah, the who's

well, the extremes appear to have gone from the station. now the real cold is no longer that a snow showers almost a thing of the past because temperature is a bit too high. yes, it's still cold, nothing hawkeye. there is nothing unusual here. there is rain in southern china was not particularly use of this time. the year, but we're coming to see nasa south of the yangtze disappointing, i think the best description, the weather, but 8 degrees and beijing a bit above the average. the same is true in the korean peninsula. hobbins minus 6 on the tiles minus and also above the average bennett space, which is coming to a slow end. that rain might become heavy for time for it goes off short even reach shanghai, otherwise changes are slight between sunday and monday. in india, mister la, she dr. picture because he still porn the north, but i am afraid in pakistan or pakistan, you are a call to the worst in cities. at least the rain has been falling in sri lanka has disappeared. the time being might well return by the time we get to monday, we had one big circulation that went from northern sumatra. westwards and this next

thing, not really a simulation does produce yet more rain. i suspect in that part of the world as a pakistan's air quality in the horn as well. that's not very good. it may be, it'll improve of the next day or so because you see rain or snow, that means the air is at least mixing. ah, i care about how the us engages with the rest of the world. we're really interested in taking you into a play. you might not visit otherwise and feel as if you were there. the american people have spoken, but what exactly did they say? is the world looking for a whole new order with less america in it? is the woke agenda on the decline in america. how much is social media companies know about you? and how easy is it to manipulate the quizzical look us politics? the bottom line explains prime minister made a visit to morocco this week. if government has agreed to support for plans to grow

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