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hello there, i'm laura kyle. this is the news our live from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes. more than 100 prisoners of war are released as an exchange between russia and ukraine. a weather balloon all spy cross. china was cooling for calm after us as an ass ship accidentally entered us as space israeli forces raids, a refugee camp and the occupied westbank, injuring at least 13 palestinians and feeling unsafe people in pakistan called on the government to take action against armed groups. i'm joanna roscoe, with sports half to winning me conquer cap champions. league to seattle sound does get ready to make their 1st appearance at the club woke up in the rural code. so it began in russia where it's defense ministry says 63 of its servicemen have

been released by ukraine. keith says 116 ukrainians have also been allowed to return home. according to moscow, amongst the russians fried all those who work in a sensitive category, united arab emirates was involved in the negotiations. now we have correspondence in moscow and keep a stop with us. i have been job aid that in moscow. sometimes a little bit more about what we know of these russian prisoners who have been released well, the russian ministry of defense says that these people are now being treated for a psychological and medical help. they're able to contact their relatives and it was made possible to get them released to you after meant. remember that they don't use the word swap with the help of mediation from the united arab emirates. we've seen in the last few months that these releases have become routine where moscow

and ukraine exchange prisoners are. obviously, we've heard from key that there been receiving more prisoners than moscow. but this has been a case that we've seen a number of times in january. there was a release in december. there were a couple of releases and then going back to september where the releases were facilitated, but facilitated by turkey and saudi. but this time around, it's been facilitated by the united arab emirates, the ministry of defense, specifically. and thanks them and you have to remember that this is a country which has so far, not given into any of the sanctions that the rest wants imposed on moscow. we know that the chief mom had been zaid visited the vladimir putin and also discussed the issue of ukraine. so it is a part of the exchanges that we've seen happening in routine. but in the last few minutes we've heard from the russian foreign ministry, the spokeswoman to form the russian foreign ministry, talking about the e u summit,

which took place just about 24 hours ago. a significant event which happened in key saying that the ukraine summit confirm that for the sake of weakening the russian federation and us interest. brussels continues to recreate the support, quote, neo nazis in cave and the e cause for peace. according to the russian foreign ministry, or hypocritical, when they are ready to invest in the continuation of hostilities for as long as it takes. so ratcheting up of the rhetoric that we've seen from both sides in the last 24 hours. but it does seem that there is some diploma which has taken place through which they are at least able to exchange prisoners of war and date of thanks very much for joining us that from moscow. let's go over now to keep where we can speak to our correspondence saying at bas robbie, say what are you hearing about this in ukraine? well, the ukranian president's office announced this is a cause for celebration, 116 prisoners of war being released. the intelligence confirms to us that,

including today, this is the $37.00 prisoner swap that has taken place since the war began since the initial invasion last year. and in that time, prisoners have been swapped. in the hundreds, at least 1646 ukrainian prisoners have been released according to officials in keith. but those that are coordinating these swaps, these efforts say that there are thousands more that remain in russian hands. soldiers as well as 100 the civilians forcibly removed into ukrainian territory throughout the course of this conflict. and those are just the best estimates that they have in terms of who russia has taken and how many ukrainians they're currently holding. and the civilian numbers only about 100 or so have been returned

. so even though this is a cause for celebration in the capital today, are those that are coordinating these efforts. there is still a long way to go to get everybody home. indeed. and meantime thing events on the ground we're hearing of more power outages and you can get more about that. that's exactly right. we just heard from the government that a, an accident of a significant scale, according to the press release is an accident at a high voltage substation. in the odessa region has caused power outages throughout the region. the scale is significant and we are hearing that restoring power to that area will take a very long time, and we're still not sure exactly how, why the impact of that is in the odessa region. this, of course, has been going on for some time. ukraine has been struggling since september of last year to keep its critical infrastructure to keep its electricity grid alive in

the midst of constant russian from bargain of the civilian assets. this electricity grid that russia has been very effectively to a very high effect, been hitting since september of last year. and this latest set back comes just the day after any you delegation promised low consumption light bulbs, generators, and solar panels to deal with what was all ready, a very, very, seemingly insurmountable problem in terms of keeping this electricity grid alive. so this only adds to what was already a very critical situation for the national power group. ok, then many thanks that update that from cave. now the us actually said unsafe lincoln has condemned china ascending what the pentagon calls a surveillance balloon over american soil. paging is urging for calm as the giant craft floats over the united states. china says it's a civilian weather balloon that's been blown off course by accident. china's

decision to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states is both acceptable and irresponsible. that's what this is about. is a violation of our sovereignty. it's a violation of international law. a correspondent mike hannah has worn out from washington, d. c. and mike, this balloon is drifting across the united states. what we know about where it is now. when on thursday, it was 1st spotted over montana, but since then it's been drifting eastwards open, missouri, and is expected to be drifting over south carolina in the course of the day, possibly executing into the sea by late a saturday. now the pentagon refuses to say exactly where it is. the sightings are being picked up by civilians who are tracking the balloon as it moves through the sky. and like it's a big incidence on both sides and in a, d, u, f. and in china,

how is it further damaged relation between these 2 countries? well, as had a massive impact on relations, we see there that antony blinkin has canceled his much anticipated trip to china. that's going to have a diplomatic effect remembering as well that relations with china have been on a low, particularly since the then speaker of the house. nancy pelosi visited taiwan last year. the u. s. continues to insist that it is not straying from its one china policy in any way, but relations with china had been very, very bad indeed. and this is just going to intensify that china unusually says it regrets this action that has effectively apologize for it, but continues to maintain that this is a scientific balloon. it is not a spy balloon as such, but there's also domestic impact of this. a republicans are up in arms set, the biden administration has not shot down the balloon yet at saying that the

administration is looking week and indecisive. however, or the military is advised that the balloon should not be shot down over populated areas because of the risk of falling debris. that decision might change a once it reaches the crosses over the mainland and into the sea. but certainly. busy the a domestic aspect to all of this as well with republicans, a bitterly criticizing president biden, and his administration by what they say is a lack of decision in terms of dealing with this crisis. okay, mike, hannah, thanks very much for the update there from washington d. c, i n a t hangin is a senior fellow at the ty, her institute, he says, shooting the balloon down, is the simplest way to find out what it is. the balloon may say is a weather balloon. and i think the easiest way to find out exactly what it is is to shoot it down. that pentagon has said that they think it's a spy balloon. that would be reason enough or. and they also say that it could be

a potential hazard to navigation in the air. so that would give them enough reason to do that. the, you know, the suspicion here is that they don't want to show it, says i jump on the excess want to make the point again, as, as in our report that the pentagon is concerned about deborah falling down and hurting people on the ground. i know there is also a 2nd balloon that has been violence in that class me, but this is melissa the reason for them not shooting it down. there is also in the secret balloon bond. montana is a vast state with a for small population. the idea that it may might fall in it, but they can have a control descent. they don't have to quote blow it up. they could simply put a few holes in it and that would bring it down. so what about the 2nd balloon that's been found in latin america? well, it hasn't been found as you report or pointed out. it's unnamed sources, unnamed information code, floating around. no one is coming forward saying where it is or what it is. so at

this point, i mean, the idea that you know, we're going back to europe 200 years ago in floating blooms around and somehow those are the newest weapons or choice when in fact a drones are and satellites. so it's like, it doesn't make any sense, it doesn't whole water that, that the timing of all this is, is unfortunate. hasn't said whether or not the visit was going to go ahead. it would have been, or it could have been a start to mending relations after c and by met him, barley in november and said that they had to find ways to say, believe the relationship between beijing and washington d. c. what is going to happen going forward between these 2 countries? well, at this juncture, blanket has indicated that he has delayed his visit to china. he didn't say that he had cancelled it. and quite frankly, if you're trying to start off in good relations, you know, you would, you would not be vilifying china, you know, basically excluding its top tech companies. as i've said, i mean, there are

a lot of action. so we're trying to get both south korea and japan on board with more concentrated efforts against china, citing security of values and things like this. realizing the group, the person that you say you want to get along with and create guard. rails too is not the start of a conversation or a dialogue. it's simply a way on it. and i personally feel that beijing had enough in that work on a reward. what they saw as a very bad behavior by the united states. an art sec blast has hit parts of the united states and canada with fierce winds, pushing temperatures down into negative double digits. authorities in new york and new england issued warnings on friday as the wind chill, which minus a 75 degrees celsius at the summit of mount washington. schools have closed in some areas for fear of hypothermia and frost bite. cara john elizondo joins us now live

from boston. gay, but it's not quite minus 75 there. i hope. but it does still look pretty cold. it is. we're here in boston where it's the coldest morning in this city since 1957. and let me tell you, boston is used to cold winter's, that's nothing new to them, but this is certainly not normal. ah, given that this, we haven't seen these kind of temperatures here for so long right now in boston, it's negative 23 degrees celsius. but with the windshield factor, it's negative. 33 i celsius here gives you an idea of how cold these temperatures are. and it's not only here, but it see entire new england region of the northeast were about 14000000 people live in some parts of new england in the neighboring states. we've seen temperatures get down to as low as negative, 50 ah,

celsius. but what's the real complicating factor here is the wind. we've gotten wind gusts that have gone up to about 40 to 50 kilometers per hour, and that's really causing a lot of these dangerous temperatures. is arctic blast is just come through here friday and is now a, it's getting the worst of it right now. and as you mentioned, mount washington in neighboring new hampshire. it saw a negative $75.00 degrees celsius. let me say that again, negative 75 degrees celsius. and mount washington observatory and neighboring new hampshire. that's the coldest temperatures ever recorded, anywhere in the united states. now you can't even imagine bang that call it a bang in those temperatures. can you? what sort of a courses game are being taken to keep people safe during this time? well 1st and foremost,

officials throughout the reach these part of the united states are saying one that simple rule do not go outside in less you have to it said no joke. this cold weather, it can cause frost bite if with exposed skin in less than 10 minutes. so it's a serious situation. they've closed schools on friday. some businesses are close to . they are closed early last night, telling people to stay pretty much inside. don't go outside unless you have to. they've also opened up shelters for homeless and not only homeless but elderly or just people that have lost power and or do not have enough heat in their homes. so they were opening up areas where people can go get warm, but so far they're saying let's just get through this the next 24 hours or so it's so it starts to warm up on sunday. so certainly a lot of precautions being taken here, trying to keep people safe because this is dangerous, this, these type of a temperatures. and again, more than 14000000 people are living in this right now. okay. well gave,

i think your 10 minute window outside is up, so you better get back inside quickly before you start getting frost bye. thanks very much between now plenty more. cilla has hair on this knees our including, i'm hope frances said to me, people displaced by war in south said on the 2nd day of his historic visit and a 4 year old sales the so ahead of the n h l. all star game that's coming up with joe and sport. ah, and he's 13 palestinians have been entered in the latest ways and occupied west bank is ready for says, talked at the o'clock jabber refugee camp. the nearby city of jericho has been closed off since last week. after a shooting in the legal israeli settlement,

at least 18 palestinians have been arrested since the operation began hulu re upped door, which they went in and didn't have a specific house in mind. they targeted the whole camp. they started from the entrance of the camp and they continued their ill doing inside than they left to go by rock. but murmur and it's in this mess. houses were targeted as if the residents were criminals, while they were asleep in their houses, civilians who have nothing to do with the incident. 3 or i mean awkward java is one of 19 that palestinian refugee camps in the occupied west bank. more than $8000.00 people live in an area of under to square kilometers. are on this as chrysler to ben smith. he's in ramallah, forest burnett, as why is rarely forces of targets at this particular camp. laura, they've had jericho and the edge of jericho, there's camps just on the edge of that city under lock down for the past week because they're been looking for suspects in connection with his drive by shooting

that was near in israeli. a settlement just over a week ago. so they've been looking for the suspects and it seems that this morning, the israeli military said they identified a property in this camp where they believe the suspects were. and so they went in to get them. they threw in the building with an anti tank miss. i'll the people inside surrendered and in total were about 10 people we think arrested and actually all but 2 of those people i've now been released. it's not clear yet. if this made a military of got a particular individuals, they're looking for because jericho a still remains locked down. so it's very hard to come and go out of that city. you subject to very thorough searches. so everybody's there is still sort of kept locked in until israeli military are found who they're looking for. but this is just the latest and what's been a very violent month beginning of the year in the occupied westbank. 36 palestinians killed so far and his railey operations, 6 jew jewish citizen,

israeli jews, and one ukrainian killed in an attack, or near a synagogue in east jerusalem. all of this at ramping up the tension and the pressure and the occupied west bank, particularly now that we have this far right, is railey government in charge. where there are ministers in that government who have settlers as their constituents who determined to expand the settlement project in the occupied west bank and make life much harder for the palestinians than it already is indeed valid. and thanks very much for joining us there from ramallah. now the head of the roman catholic church is on a historic visit to south to dawn alongside the leaders of the anglican church and the church of scotland. he is bad, were bishops, priests and other christian leaders, and is expected to meet with people displaced by the civil war. harring matessa as more from the capital, juba, jacob, now remembers, coming to seek refuge in this camp for the internally displaced people in juba.

it's next to the united nations base, so he feel safe here. he was a schoolboy back in 2013. soon after war broke out. he's now 25 years old with children of his own. he hasn't been able to go back home because of violence in parts of south sit on her to as, as id of his. yeah. like in a lot of things. switch on food listed without food for 5 months or the disease room to start. last yesterday, today's work. and there's also bad news about it that the put is going to last only for 6 months. then after 6 months, there was no food. according to the united nations, there are more than 2000000 internally displaced people insulted on. and another 2300000 have played the country as refugees. famine was briefly declared in some regions in 2017. more than 2 thirds of the population now need humanitarian aid because of conflict and natural disasters. with 2018 p,

steel stopped the worst of the fighting, but parts of the agreement, including the deployment of a re, unified, national army have not been implemented. and that's why some people say they don't feel safe. returning home be the head of the catholic church, po, process along with leaders of the anglican and scottish presbyterian churches have voiced concerns about the government slow progress in implementing the 2018 p steel . they've been delays and holding elections and reports of violence. in some areas . civil society groups say a lack of political will and personal differences between politicians insulted on is the problem. so i'm kinda able to say, and math is an after all possible problems and we kind of use our personal differences to subject country to suffer in the way we're suffering. now discovery, a quick hug. deliver there. we can give a discount from violence to piece. so the leaders need to forget that personal problems. the church as a lot of influence insulted on which is a predominantly christian country. many here hope this historic visit,

puts pressure on politicians to do better and work towards peace and reconciliation . all hurry joins us now live from a jibber and harry, the pope, is expecting her where you are to meet this place. people this afternoon. yes, love people are falling into that hall behind me. they are planning to meet and talk to the polk. most of them will be people have been displaced by years of conflict. some of them are coming from the big camps here in the capital, juba camps that are based literally outside the u. n. base. what happened in 2013, when fighting broke out, a lot of people ran to the united nations base, expecting to get some kind of safety. they thought they'll only be staying there for a couple of months, but it's been years some of them since 2013. and they say they can't go home because they don't feel safe. returning home to some parts of the country where they still conflict and still violence. the reason why they say me was, don't feel safe is because bizarre re, unified national army. it's fairly new,

but they have not been deployed yet to these volatile area. so people are saying, even if i go home today or tomorrow and next week, what if there's going to be an attack by our group militia groups, cattle, herders and my family get caught up in the violence are either stay in these camps until they feel it's safe enough to go home to the pot, we'll be hearing some of their stories, trying to encourage them to stay strong, trying to call for leaders to try and implement peace here in this country. then later the evening, there's a big masters going to take place there on sunday. a big at mass will take place across the road from where i am bare the pope with an address the congregation and ask that he's going to leave. so it's a pretty packed program for the poor while he's here insulted on. okay, her thanks very much for the update home to us, other n, juba or before his visits herself. sudan pope france has spent 3 days and democratic republic of congo, eastern african leaders, all meeting and burn day on saturday to discuss an escalation of fighting between

the congress army and the m. 23 rebels over the past week. and is 450000. people have been displaced by months of violence in the country. welcome web has more from bullying. go, that's a refugee come just outside goma in the democratic republic of congo. thousands of people have arrived in this camp in the last few days. many of them have fled from villages. the m 23 is advancing toward the has taken others have been on the run for 6 weeks or more. having already been displaced once they keep moving each time and $23.00 gets close to them and $23.00 is widely understood to be backed by neighboring rwanda. rwanda denies it. meanwhile, congos army is widely reported to have been fighting along signed armed groups. congos army denies that 2 conditions here. a bad people have made shelters from whatever they come, whatever they could carry or things they found. here, rocks sticks and grass and people who say that they're hungry,

that there isn't food to eat and they're still waiting to get humanitarian assistance. let's get somewhere now and has another outbreak of art to carries chemicals. ethan code towards the northeast of the u. s. current temperatures are low enough, this minus 30 years in ottawa, miles not in washington, d. c. but that is closed and add some would wind to that goes, not only is it cold, but there is wind chill. so if you stood in it and you're warned not so this is how it would feel, minus 23 in new york in the minus 40 in quebec airport. now in new hampshire, there's the mountain mount washington. this with the wind is how it looks minus 43 is los have been recorded, but if you add the windshield, if you steve enough to stand in it, that would be minus 78. so sat is not a good day. now the sun has replaced the stove, in many places is slowly improving, but this is what it's going to look like during saturday, minus 9 at best in boston. but i do have some good news for you,

although it looks bad here in 24 hour time. 24 hours times, much better. minus night is the best you'll get to in boston after starting at minus 20. but tomorrow sunday, though it is breezy. the sun has appeared in the sky script about plus 7 after night, time minus 10. and monday it's all about 0. cilla has hair on al jazeera, not guilty, tesla c, a in on mosque is cleared up for challenges off. he was accused of misleading investors in a tweets what any report says about corruption across last in america will have the details after the break and, and sport, we build up to saturdays games at the club, wild club, and mark, ah tough times. the man tough question, what exactly are you asking for you?

what the troops on the ground, the rigorous, the way we challenge conventional wisdom racism is so deeply entrenched in the country that is identified with america. so when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging of merit and demand the truth. there's no serious discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are up front with me. mark lamb on hill on al jazeera holding the powerful to account. as we examined, the u. s. is role in the world on al jazeera, oncology, and the close to europe's population is aging, should pension excuse be reformed, egypt and pakistan's economic crises a deeper they will, i m f, loans, fix their problems. and we explore the implications of the tumbling value of india, a donnie empire. counting the cost on al jazeera lou.

aah! again watching out, is there a reminder of our top stories this our russian defense ministry says 63 of its servicemen have been released by ukraine. keith says 116 ukrainians. i've also been allowed to return home united arab emirates mediated the deal at least 13 palestinians have been injured and arrayed and the java refugee camp in the occupied westbank. israeli forces arrested several people in connection with the shooting as an illegal israeli settlements. and you are a secretary of state antony blink. him has condemned china for sending what the pentagon calls a surveillance balloon over american soil. beijing as urgent. com as the giant balloon float over view nighted states was suspected surveillance. balloon

is a route about the size of 3 offices. it usually operates as an altitude of anywhere from 24000 meters to 37000 meters higher than commercial plains or fighter jets. the balloon is filled with helium. a solar panel is attached to his bottom, which has been visible in the recent sightings and also carries equipment, including cameras. radar and sensors is bringing alexi. moreover, in part he's a professor of national security and strategic studies at kirsten at university. great to have you with us. what do you think this balloon is? look, it seems like it may be in the, the reconnaissance flight and the so called material would you go balloon has been used to undertake a deep surveillance missions, especially always sensitive areas of the united states which are particular linked

to and the u. s. strategic nuclear deterrent capability, we need to remember that a seamless, i mean, sions. what carried out by the united states and other countries during the cold war. so using balloons for high altitude espionage or organizations me issues is, is not something is not something new. and beyond the fact that the chinese did not alert them the united states are for it is that there was so called me there or you go. balloon was coming into the aerospace inadvertently also suggest that there were bria trying to keep this mission as, as yes, glen this down as possible. i am trying to argue that and perhaps fanny, that it's very difficult to keep such a big visible object can death dine, and why would it use such old fashion technology to spy look, i mean, it may, it may sound like an old fashioned technology, but that the end of the day, whatever delivers you have the results and, and certainly compared to for example,

satellites, balloons can holler over particular areas for much longer. and as a result they can collect data. busy visuals, perhaps even through some recordings and been better than, than the satellite. so we should not on the estimates there, they get passages off this low cost of platforms. and again, this is, this is another factor that makes balloons and quite an attractive form of espionage because the cost of assembling the balloon and run the mission with them . boom is incomparably low to one of a launch in a spy satellite and keep anything in the orbit. and then again, given the fact as your report suggested earlier, the balloon flies. how did your missions between 20 to 30 kilometers. it's not really easy to neutralize the started because not every country will have a sufficient air in defense capability to shut it down without causing any

substantial damage or without the l. busy or with significant lock to, to achieve in it where the image is or information that it might have already gathered. has that already been sent to beijing? look, i mean it's, it's difficult to say and what sort of equipment is on more and by. it's reasonable to assume that this balloon is indeed an, has a spy mission down and it would feed information back. for example, wise set, the light that works tried to be june. so we shouldn't really not be assuming that this is really in the fifty's technology. well, balloons were equipped with cameras and then they would just say a waste of. busy the films and then you can only recover film swans, the balloon will with such the surface. so i think if, if, if it was collect in formation, if it was a gathering intelligence, i'm pretty sure this intelligence would have been found back to the source in real

time that been reports in a 2nd balloon not confirmed, but over latin america. you think incredible? well it's, it's a bit difficult to say it may well be, you know, a series of missions. it may well be one of the balloons. indeed, playing the role of mentor, illogical below. and then we're as a decoy to kind of, you know, an authentic aid, the, the, the official a line that b g and has been using. it may well be and not the reconnaissance flights and the a with, with a mission to actively distract and, and, and create some sort of decline myisha for the, for the primary mission to achieve success. so which we shouldn't be rolling out any possibilities. but i can't possibly imagine that the chinese, all of a sudden interest in, in acquiring weather details, always north and south america. this particular example, the really interesting speeds here elect, same review, have. thank you very much for joining us there from path in queue. now

a jury and the u. s. has found tesla found the ill on must did not defraud and best as with tweets he posted in 2018. the verdict was reached after less than 2 hours of deliberation, michael sim sheriff has more vindication. for elan musk, the villainy using the social media platform he now owns to celebrate. 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 world's 2nd riches 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

he must tweet it. but since then, we've seen a series or situations where we run most cars actually use twitter hours. i saw a sounding board, the tweet center slashes 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 12 $1000000000.00. were disappointed. we're examining options. yeah, look into the the trial comes at a sensitive time for mosque was dominated headlines for his chaotic takeover of twitter. o, michelson, sheriff al jazeera they will have been protesting in the northern city of per shower. i calling on authorities to take action to prevent attacks by armed groups, more than a 100 people were killed in the city when a suicide bomber targeted a mosque on monday. the you bus on the targets of this terror group,

which we apprehended and swap the district, what policeman, k security installations, and some high profile people in this region. we are determined to fight these elements. but i jotted, as i beg, as following developments from per shower. the police say the investigation is still ongoing. the flu going through cctv and examining dna as well. so you're located on hold, but they have returning out operations and understand there were 2 encounters this morning. where would you say 2 commanders of the box? anybody bond were killed, very arrested. several people a more fo, confiscated cache a, workman's, i, munitions, communications equipment as well. as explosive, this is what the chief of the police in that district had to say is to give us on the targets of this terror group which we apprehended and swap the district, what policeman, case security installations and some high profile people in this region. we are determined to fight these elements started, but now they say they are determined. this would be very personal for the police.

have been in it. 100 people kill innocent. what was supposed to be a fuel pump? aren't many of them. the majority of the police officer for the country does face challenges economically. this is a topic tied up on in its history. and the police here are probably got more resources in many cases. the militant of better with the red rhythm record. and the police have pretty say, this isn't like a good one to go. they are determined to take it on with people in shall anchors, capital, a protesting against the cost of a parade marking independence day. $550000.00 of public funds is being used for the military event in columbia. shank is in the middle of the worst economic crisis in its history with food fuel and medicine shortages. and as speech marking the day president ronald wicker, i'm a singer said the country is already meeting the acquirements to secure a $2900000000.00 bailout on the international monetary fund. michelle fernandez has

more from columbia. 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 are now 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 the 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 ronald vicar missing his says that the celebration is necessary to show that real anchor 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, are 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 are. 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. iran has released an award winning film director who was detained for descent jaffar pena. he was arrested in july. he was told,

had service 6 year sentence originally handed down in 2010. he'd been charged with propaganda against the state and inciting, protest. he's now been freed after going on hunger strike. at least 10 people, including an infant have died whilst attempting to reach europe from north africa by boat overnight. most are believed to have been killed by exposure, italian coast guard rescued. another 42 people in poor condition survivors said the vassal had departed from a to z and port. rescuers brought them to the italian island of lam. producer members of peru is congress. so voted to block, present in apollo are says bill to bring forward early elections. 2 months of anti government protests in peru have heard the countries tourism industry latin america as sir lucy newman has more from crisco at 3500 meters above sea level in the heart of the andes mountain. sly school school once the

imperial capital of the inca empire, and later of the historic capital of colonial peru. it's the gateway to another world heritage site. much will be to the famous 15th century english citadel above the sacred valley, usually packed with foreign tourists. but my 2 p 2 is now off limits until further notice protested, have partially destroyed the only access to the lost city of the incas was by la la la la m a. leave we, peruvians don't even have free access to much of each you only private business interests benefit from our heritage. a nearly 2 month long general strike mass protests and blocked highways. have left to my to be true. ankle school devoid of tourists. the main source of income here, this wall belongs to what was the palace of the 6th in gather ink i regarding one of its main attractions. is this, it's called the 12 angle stone. and it is an example of an extraordinary technique

called bully, been old masonry. and that's one of the reasons why tourists come here to see this except that now there are practically aren't. any, hotels are empty and losing millions either admin gusio. this has been a terrible blow with the events that we're witnessing, the occupancy in hotels until march has dropped 90 percent because of cancellations . unemployment saud to 75 percent. some shops of closed under threats from strikers or so. but don't my, the annual shop that sells hand me choose is still open for business, but whom cousins are in? no, we don't. so anything any more, we have to pay a lot of rent. the staff is on strike and there's no tourists from north america. and europe, we run into women who make their living by offering tourists to take photos with their baby out back us. they've come to school from their village 2 hours away, but they say there isn't enough business to buy food for their animals.

o, through used to receive 2000000 tourists before the pandemic and the strike. but now these indigenous for testers are the only ones who arrive here in large numbers with them. we want the president to resigned to leave and for new elections to be called. that's the only way we will get back to normal. but there is no sign that either the president or congress will meet the protested demands. while one of the world's most attractive towards destinations sinks into despair. the sea and human al jazeera goosgo pool. a state of emergency has been declared across several regions in chalet as wildfires wet through large parts of the country. hundreds of haines have been damaged and fire fighters are struggling to contain the fires at high winds and a heat wave worsening the problem. at least 13 people have died. denmark leads the way as the least corrupt country and an annual report released by

transparency international assets found corruption in latin america is getting worse. john holman, as the story the transparency, international corruption perceptions index came out this week. and it's outlook for latin america is bleak. no countries significantly improved at school since 2007 t. the organisation says an oval failure by leaders to act against corruption and strength and public institutions has left the door open for criminal networks to bully and co, up to politicians, nicaragua, cuba, what the molar they will sank to new lows in guatemala case of the briefly showing the way forward with the united nations back 20 corruption commission that was dissolved in 2019 haiti's in trouble to with no electric 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 their mercedes, their freighters. why? what get even is in contrast to the rest of the countries, there is no space in which venezuelans can go to ask for justice or their rights. they call a patient of the institutions historic told by the group in power and the systems for justice under their job. on the contrary, they are guarantors of impunity. the most extreme case perhaps, but it's common to here and in america, the 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 petto, i see regarding politicians, and it means, well, he stills, but at least he does something. but he thought changed if electorates started expect thing, even demanding that they politicians did things for them without stealing. might

things improve in this region. perhaps uruguay also in the region, shows that they could it's rich ink of light for latin america. it has the same transparency score in the index as 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. it's a more a united society and institutions work well. what does that mean? it means that checks on balance east upgrade. well, it means that they have a judiciary danny's a strong and in the band. and there's a reward for that. you're why has the highest per capita income and lowest rate of inequality in latin america? not alone seems we're fighting for if of a government's here are interested. john holman, al jazeera mexico city. a hair analysis era for minute one's well champion expects a tough title. challenge this season, we'll hear from him in sports with jack. ah,

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blue. ah okay. all this bought out and hes jo. nora, thank you very much. will. there are 2 games in the fee for club. woke up on saturday with the seattle sound as making their debut in the competition that the 1st side from the united states to qualify off to winning than comcast champions league last year. seattle faced the egyptian side athlete in 10, g, going to win with sets up a semi final against rail madrid. we are in the right to be here.

we took out over cap as one of the top m last teams. and we played good, good football. we played it, i get them tough teams. we're facing teams that we're not kinda, we're not familiar with the way they play. these are going to be different, different styles, clashing and styles. i haven't really faced each other before. so both teams really figuring each other out they have a match on saturday, sees african champions with ad casablanca, take on saudi arabia, al, hello, winter of that one will, and a semi final parents against south america's champions fleming go live now to andy rich than who's in rabbit covering this much for us, and andy with dad really trying to ride the wave to more can national team created when they played at the capital. welcome. absolutely. and you go that feeling talking to some of the without friends that they were arriving today. renown as being,

some of them are passionate and organized in world full ahead hours before k called at times, the stadium authority struggling to process them through the turns in a seemingly timely fashion. or is it a wall jumping going on a few little pockets of crushing going on outside the stadium as well? finally, i'm, it all seems to just about calm down now we've got about 45 minutes to go. so kick off. so hopefully, all the support is going to get in safely. been talking in the last couple of days to some of the funds from the ultra group. that's always cool when is 2005? when is because that's what they consider that seem to be in 2005. that was the really old culture 1st became popular in morocco. and they were very proud to show me around the old town of casablanca, where there's lots of pictures and murals and tax on the walls that really tell the story. and the history of that club found that in the 1930 at a time when the country was on, the french was founded in order to give the moroccan equal access to schools. found

it as a symbol of nationalism and pride in the club stands for it. that is still resonant, sat said i should make the quite an atmosphere inside the site when they take on how allow, i'll allow they all the asian champions from saudi arabia. some will been in the shower in terms of global headlines recently in saudi because of our master's purchase of christiane ronald r. let's say now for the saudi arabian football. right. so often alpha jerry, who has been talking to us about how he could have all these are different renella would have ended up al. hello. how did not be for transfer back. okay, now we're actually in talks with the christiane aldo and his representatives before . but the problem was that because they have been banned from transfers and nervous ration because of how math can rosa, let's say situation that happened with him signing 2 contracts, one with another home with that resulted in him being banned in addition to a job being banned from transfers for at least i think 2 periods of buying numbers

by sheer numbers alone is the biggest club in saudi arabia. in terms of title one, i'm has a very big fan base a. it's just a team that has been used to success for years and years and years in comparison to other sally teams where as we go through cycles or periods of going up and then you know, going a little bit down in terms of performance. whereas in here are usually is there on the top and fighting off for the title. i think in the lab are going into this tournament with something to prove. they just got knocked out to be a saudi super cup by they out. so they have something to prove in this tournament, and i think the, the have the quality and the players for them to actually show what they're really made up in, in a big stay such as the club world cup or, and they will the couple of cup has a bit of a strange format, but the tournament is going to get to read them. what can you tell us about that?

it's very hard to explain to anyone really. it's a 17 minutes straight, not counseling them for the number of teams and it makes my sense with and then you have the champions of south america in europe, parachute it in the semi final state. so a lot of funds and a lot of clubs around the world, it's pretty unfair, not least when you consider the team from outside of south america, you have reached the final, this told me on a number of occasions, not least, that roger, casablanca, without space 50 rivals here in morocco, they go to the final when morocco host this tournament in 2013 in 2025, in theory this tournament is going to, expands, become a 32 team. so that's where the faith of president, johnny in fancy ones, is going to be a lot of arguments between between that and now the english premier, for example, immediately put out a statement saying they couldn't see how this was going to work. the will play as union fits pro were concerned about the extra workload on their members extra

demands on that players. but outside of your particular, you talk to play as clubs in particular from africa and asia. they would love the opportunity for that seems to be competing against rivals from around the world on a regular basis. all right, and rich than the live for us in robot. thank you very much. hotel, jerry will take on senegal and the final of the african nations championship. later, al jerry reached the final, after threshing the 5 mill, that was the biggest win in the torments. in 15 years cynical, beat madagascar, one mill, around 40000 fans are expected to attend the final in jail on saturday. formula leaders also know it are in action right now in saturdays. early kickoff. they're up against everson who have a new manager in shawn dice, and it's everton who have come close to so far dominic calvert lewin inches away from giving them the lead at goodison park. also are looking to open up an 8 point

lead. with a victory m a saw kyrie irving has reportedly requested a trade away from the brooklyn nets that solves a. he failed to agree a new contract extension. and it comes just 5 days before the trade deadline. if he doesn't get a move before then he would leave as a free agent at the end of the season. the rug, the 6 nations kicks off late on saturday with wells up against the world's top ranked team ireland. it's been a travel, few weeks in the build up for wales. the chief executive of that rugby federation was forced to step down off to accusations of sexism and massage any within the organization. the federation is now also banned choirs from singing the tom jones song delilah at stadium because his lyrics could be seen to glorified domestic violence before now the $968.00 ballads had effectually become an unofficial wales rugby anthem. she's on defending formula one champion, max to stop and is expecting a much tie. so battle for the title. this season is red bull team had joined up

with ford. is that engine supply the season? speaking at the law launch of n u haul, the dutch driver says he expects mercedes louis hamilton. and for always, chelsea clerk to pose the biggest threat to birds straight title for him. there are a lot of things that need to go well and you know, we need to have a competitive car. we believe that we have, but it's more important that we keep working, you know, to keep on trying to, to find more performance, try to improve. and that's what it says here. the whole year is always about, you know, you saw that one carbon drug, the whole year to cars evolving quite a bit to have a yearly last year. it's almost impossible, but of course we always try to, to do better and try to achieve more. that's always, i think the goal. but yeah, if we hit the ground running well, at the end of day it's always about scoring points. you know? yeah, if you're finding for, for juncture, so basically you cannot retire has been a new record set of freestyle gains, woke up event in utah, ukraine's to meet true cut off ski, landed the hardest trick in ariel skiing,

known as the hurricane. the 22 year olds, execution of the triple backflip and him a score of 138.82, which is the highest in welcome history and more than enough to take go. and just let you know that everton have just taken the lead in that much against docile or that is always what for now more later which emma jared thanks very much indeed. and that's it from me for this news. i don't go anywhere zone back in just a moment with more of the daisies. ah ah.

as to 85, he has been coasting to the our world a last good bye from the bbc's arabic radio service. news rita mac would o masala b as b ma station signature, voice for 30 years. fittingly when i read the final bulletin, bbc cost cutting has led to nearly $400.00 job losses at the bbc's wealth service. the number of foreign language radio channels being brought close. one full must offer. i spoke to this week, told the decision to end the service. a gift to dictate us. you lost millions of listener euros, escalate ability, uterus, various wrong, soft bar. the radio service ends with beauty, 5000000 listeners a week. some of them particularly devoted abdullah, abdel rockman says without it has no point in keeping his radiography. i've been listening to it more than 30 years. precious on the bbc's finances had been mounting, requiring ever hot choices for many inside and outside the organization. this has been a sad day every year in china,

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