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i'm adrian for the given. this is out a 0 live from doha. also coming up. hope francis meets thousands of south suit me, super displaced by a years long conflict ah, is really forced his way to refugee camp in the occupied west bank injuring at least 13 thomaston. yes. and the mystery of the balloon flying over the us. china is calling for calm off to what it calls an airship. accidentally entered u. s. s. base. aah! russia and ukraine of carried out a prisoner exchange. moscow says at 63 of its service might have been released by keith. and the ukranian government says that 116 of its soldiers have been allowed to return home. according to moscow among the russians, free to those who work in

a so called sensitive category. the united arab emirates was involved in the negotiations of zeros. they invest robbie report style from ukraine's capital. keith, what we're hearing is 116 prisoners of war have been released by the russians and are back on ukrainian soil presidents office and the coordination, humanitarian coordination. office that works on these prisoner swamps. calling this cause for celebration, but they do say despite the fact that including today, $37.00 swaps prisoners swaps have taken place since the beginning of this conflict . there remain thousands of russia of ukrainian soldiers in russian custody. and there remain hundreds of civilians as well who are yet to be returned back to ukrainian territory so far in terms of the civilians. only about a 100 have come home in these prisoners swaps. and in terms of soldiers about just

a little over 1640 prisoners soldiers have returned home to ukraine in winter, in negotiations with russia, but what the ukrainians are saying despite the fact that this is a cause for celebration, there is still a long way to go to bring all of the other ukranian citizens in russian custody home. and with the reaction from moscow, his i'll just here is a, some of the job it the russian ministry of defense says that these people are now being treated for 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. 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 facilitate facilitated by turkey and saudi arabia. this time around. it's been facilitated by the united arab emirates, the ministry of defense, specifically a 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 west wants to imposed on moscow. we know that the chief mom had been zaid visited vladimir putin and also discussed the issue of you create the head of the roman catholic churches on a historic visit to south saddam, alongside the leaders of the anglican church of the church of scotland. pope frances holding prayers in job of the mausoleum of john garner, key figure in south sedans, pushed for independence. earlier on saturday,

he met people displeased by a years long civil war, as well as bishops, priests, and other christian leaders. however, tasa reports from june. hello, francis is inside the whole day behind me and he's been meeting people displaced by the conflict. and they'd be telling him about their experiences. some of them say they've been displayed since 2013 when war broke out. and the ones here in juba are staying near the un based the un compound. they wouldn't be in 2013 because they thought they'll be safe any a un soldiers. and they're telling the pope that the, the work that the only be there for a few months. but it's been years and years because they just don't feel safe going home. they say that they want him to urge politicians here to ask the government to deploy the 3 unified army as soon as possible. so that can be protected if and when they return home. and they also say they want the pope to urge politicians to get people here to do more, to walk towards implementing peace in the country. the pope came out and he said to

the people, they must stay strong. he knows it's hard, he knows the conflict effect of people on the ground, ordinary people on the ground. he says he's going to pray for them and he's going to urge politicians to do more towards peace and reconciliation. the reception has been very, very good. i mean, when they arrive thousands of people lined the streets, willing and eager to greet all these religious leaders. this is the predominant christian country and the church have a lot of respect. yeah. and in the past, the church is played a huge role in resolving conflicts between different ethnic groups and different political parties. so people do think that having the pope here, these other leaders is a good sigh. and they say that they hope that the politicians always speak to these religious leaders will listen to them for a trained palestinians have been wounded after this really raid on a town in the occupied westbank. it's the latest incident in an escalation of tension in which $36.00 palestinians had been killed since the start of the year. none of smith reports from ramallah. hey,

we're more than a week israeli forty's have kept jericho locked down and it's residents at bay, as they search for suspects in a drive by shooting. on saturday morning, the israeli military thought located who they were looking for and rated a refugee camp on jericho's outskirts. a house was hit with an anti tank missile, and those inside surrendered. according to the military, rough and mamma houses were targeted is if the residents were criminals, while they were asleep in their houses, civilians you had nothing to do with the incident on mama. no one has been allowed to move freely out of this town of 37000 people in the occupied west bank. after shots were fired near an illegal israeli settlement in the area. no one was injured in that incident. it's unusual for so many people to be locked down for this long, but then these are exceptional times in the occupied west bank so far. 36 palestinians have been killed this year in confrontations with these railey

military. and they're a far, i ministers in the israeli cabinet, committed to expanding settlements and making life much tougher for palestinians than it already is. bernard smith, al jazeera ramallah, moore protests are being held against israel's far right government. crowds have gathered until of eve and west jerusalem to demonstrate against prime minister benjamin netanyahu proposals to reform the judicial system. the changes would make it easier for parliament overturned supreme court rulings. critics say the move is anti democratic al jazeera cimarron. com is with us now live from west jerusalem. the brought it's the 5th week of protest. is the government feeling any pressure well, the government's got a very simple strategy. when it comes to dealing with the protesters, they simply ignore them. this government has a majority is very thin, but it's able to make a able to ignore any of the demands of protests as a make him go the way the camera just. i will show you a great round. ah,

it doesn't live is very many people. heck is there aren't, but this will be packed in about an hour's time. the protest, like she officially kicked off in about half an hour's time for the people here. it's really about putting pressure on the government to try and call for early elections. they want a vote of no confidence in this government to try and push for early elections. and i have to say this will be the if they do succeed, it will be the 5th. ah, elections are nearly 2 years. ah, so is all has had, am a lot of protests against previous governments, but this one has been seen as being far larger than any of the other approaches that we've seen so far. however, the numbers are dwindling ah, at the peak, but to each can 3 weeks ago we saw about 130000 people across the country last week that number went down to about 30000. so the government can ignore these protests and is hoping that the numbers are dwindling with the protest movement itself is still pushing for large numbers of people to get out the street. so although these

numbers are significant, they are actually dwindling in numbers as weeks go on. out as he was in run. com reporting live from western chrislynn, him on many facts. here a secretary of state antony blinkin has condemned china for sending what he, the pentagon calls a surveillance balloon of american soil. beijing, a surgeon. com. as the giant craft floats over charlotte in the state of north carolina. china says that it's a civilian weather balloon that was blown off course by accident. while this sir, whatever it is, suspected surveillance balloon is about the size of 3 buses. it usually operates at an altitude of anywhere from 24000 to 37000 meters. that's higher than commercial planes or fighter jets. it's filled with helium. a solar panel is attached to the base of it, which has been visible in recent sightings. it also carries equipment, including cameras, radar and census census. rather, i know tango is

a senior fellow at the tie. he institute, he doubts the u. s. accusations that the balloonists were spying you have a balloon with 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. 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 and 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. i'm, 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. pakistan has band access to wikipedia failing to remove what it calls sacrilege is. content focused on telecommunication authority says the online encyclopaedia, fail to comply with a 48 hour deadline to remove and block the content uses across pakistan. now, unable to view the websites we compete, he says, the move denies the 5th most populous nation access to free knowledge with sound

like heels. he is a columnist, a digital rights activist. he says the band has white raging ramifications, the oven, just limiting information to back studies. i think it's quite vague and to be honest, there's no transparency around what exactly the content is. because of which they're requesting, you know, take down an entire blockage of the entire website. there's 6600000 articles and we can pedia in the english language. but because it's one or 2, it's completely disproportionate to, you know, block access to it and the impact of that is really wide ranging. so i think there needs to be more transparency, but also the realization that this is a crowd sourced platform. so anyone can edit articles that so maybe the regulator themselves can edit the article that they have a problem with. instead of blocking the entire platform. i think it's a preposterous man because it's a basic source of knowledge and information that i could do me education student,

you name it any information and it's available on wikipedia that updated in real time. but there's also this economic impact focus on starved flooring reserves and for an investment at a time when you need more for an investment in our sector and industry is really growing and booming when that censorship and bonds come and place it impacts investor confidence and it impacts the ability of focused on needs to do business in the sector when tomorrow you don't know what other essential platform or website will be blocked. so i think it really raises economic questions as well. so come on out here. i'm gabriel's onto a boston massachusetts where an arctic blast of cold air is rolling through the northeast of america, causing record low temperatures. that story, coming up for lanka amongst independence, stay with a parade,

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deal, which was mediated by the united arab emirates. pope frances is holding pres in juba, after meeting people displaced by south saddam's civil war. the head of the roman catholic church is our historic 3 day visit, alongside the leaders of the anglican church of the church of scotland. a protest to being held in tel aviv west jerusalem against the israeli governments proposals to reform the judicial system. the changes would make it easier for parliament to overturn supreme court rulings. an arctic blast to set parts of the united states and canada with fierce wind as pushing temperatures down into the negative double digits. that been warnings issued in new york and new england where the windshield reached. yep, this minus 75 degrees celsius. the summit about washington. i'll just here as gabriel elizondo is in boston right now and out in it's not quite minus 75 there. i hope gave at the moment, but it looks pretty cold. how does it feel?

hi, it feels cold. and when the wind kicks up, it's quite frankly painful when it hits your face or anywhere that is even close to being exposed. the good news is, is that it's slightly warming up from what it was a few hours ago. and the worst of the cold is over. as you can probably tell some people back that behind me here, we're in boston, common a famous park in the city. some people actually out playing hockey in walking on some of the ice stair a little bit. so you can tell the temperatures have peaked up just a little bit to it to give you an idea of how cold it is here in boston today. the last time temperatures reached this low was 1957. how cold was it just a couple hours ago. it got down to negative $23.00 degrees celsius, but then with the windshield factor, it was negative. 33 degrees celsius here in boston,

so that can give you an idea of how cold it was. it's not only here, but it's in the entire new england region of the united states. we're about 14000000 people live. so it's the entire surrounding area here with this really cold arctic blast. and it's not even just the cold temperatures. but what really is added to it was that it was the winds. they were clocking in, in some places in the region, up to 4849 kilometers per hour, which that really brought the temperatures down. so haven't seen this kind of cold in this part of the united states for decades. really, people are bundling up. good news is though it is slowly warming up here as a day progresses or it's and what's being done to keep people safe, particularly the elderly. yeah. where they're saying a, if you can stay indoors a particular, if you're elderly or you have problems with heating in your apartment of your home . they've opened up shelters here in the city. they also kept the main train

station open all night. so anyone that doesn't have a place to go could go there and stay in the train station. we counted about 20 to 30 people there on her there this morning. and they're basically saying a lot of the schools were canceled yesterday. basically, they're telling people really if he don't have to go out don't, because this is really dangerous, quite frankly, and the temperatures that we saw earlier this morning in boston. in some of the surrounding areas. you could get frostbite on any exposed skin in less than 10 minutes, so there's literally no joking matter. but the worst was last night of course and, and a little bit now. but they're really taking precautions to get people off the streets and tell him people just stay indoors to day if he can. but of course this is boston, so he will get some young people, primarily hockey players here there. see, this is an opportunity to go out and play hockey on, on frozen lakes. and so yeah,

it's boston. so they're used to cold weather but nothing quite like this alzheimer's game. amazon though, out in it, in boston, many festive, april insurance capitol of protested against the cost of a parade barking independence day. $550000.00 of public funds were used for the military event and colombo shall anchor is in the midst of its worst economic crisis from history and to serious michelle fernandez, was there 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. 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 running vicar missing her, says that the celebration is necessary to assure that real anchor is able to celebrate independence. but he himself has admitted that the country's 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. people and all those that have a shower in pakistan are protesting to demand for the pharmacies take action to prevent attacks by armed groups or zeros or should beg is there. ah, they came from across the province demanding peace from the focused on the government. after monday, suicide attack on a mosque that killed 101 people, an injured many more political parties, were asked not to fly. their flags in state white flags were raised. many people here in the northern city of pasha, ver say, they don't trust boxed on military establishment. for some reason have been something from 20 out of 4. this is the name of the time that government for quite a se, and our own. and our last, an argument demand is based on the city,

and this protest is seen as a popular uprising, similar to the one that followed the killing of 134 students in 2014, in a 30 bon attack on a military school. the movement stove, the boxed under taliban, of supporting towns and villages in the region. and along with military operations . attacks by the taliban drastically reduced your spot that these kind of incidents are happening, but no one is taking responsibility. how women and children are suffering. we want bes, we want education, we don't want state sponsored terrorism. every house in this room is leading in. we can take any more bodies blue they chant, we will never accept terrorism. the threat is still very real. security was high, run the protest. on saturday morning police carried out operations against armed groups. they say to to the bond commanders were killed and a cache of weapons confiscated, and others were taken into custody. the dog is off this route, which we honors industries, the lobby. we're will you spin

t secured installations as a high profile persons in this region. prime minister, shabazz sharif, a said pakistan is facing an unimaginable economic challenge. the killing of over 100 people seems to be a real turning point here in focused on for years they struggled and suffered with militancy and they don't want to see it make a return. but unlike before economic conditions now are the worst. the country has ever faith, which would make it even more difficult to get why to resources, the police are desperately need. some people here, they don't have a choice. they live on the front line of this battle. i thought vague, i just era a shower of buckets on denmark leads the way is the least corrupt country and an annual report released by transparency international. but it's found corruption in latin america is getting worse. john holman reports the transparency international corruption perceptions index came out this week and it's outlook for latin. america is bleak. no countries significant improved it 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 was marla. they will sank to new lows in guatemala case of the briefly showing the way forward with the united nations backed anti 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, but the absolute bottom of the pile, according to transparency international, is ms. wayllace. i asked the organizations direct to their mercedes that freighters . why? what again even is in contrast to the rest of the countries. there is no spacing which venezuela can go to ask for justice or their rights. the call taishan 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, but 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 petto, 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 the without ceilings, 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 indexes, canada, when you're away, is one of our top 4 performers 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 and balances operate? well, it means that they have a judiciary, dallas's strong and independent. there's a reward for that. you are quite 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 here are interested. john homan, al jazeera mexico city and that's it from me for the moment. i'll be back in a little over 30 minutes with the news i here on al jazeera right after inside story coming next. ah ah, now elsie rabbit potential now settled quiet and slowly warming up the opposite is

happening in the levant and the eastern met generally one storm systems gone through the next one is already gathering, coming down through greece and the aegean. so the forecast is no pleasanter than current weather. it means a huge mass of snow for turkey to batches. you can see. but if you're bit further close to the water or over the water in cyprus, the coast levant is wind and rain. that rain does penetrate to some degree in the event, not very far into siri. you'll notice the temperatures really guns drop quite tremendously in athens, for example, ishmael and talia. however, this is winter is worse, which we should expect it. that rate will carry on through northern syria and it was by john parts of iraq. myrtle show itself as snow. there's more snow to be seen in afghanistan, but mostly ran as i've already mentioned. the rebates are it's very quiet, weather temperatures rising slowly in the gulf states. this is the picture of a monday spot. the difference? oh look, a return of stormy weather even further south. so at best,

theresa gets to 9 in the rain on monday. in thompson, a i think the renal starts get a little bit heavier. the most part is much dryer in tropical africa in the south. it's stormy. ah. how do you state controlled information? moscow is one of the day of the case in the world. it has an incredible facial recognition technology. how does the narrative improve public opinion? no, wasn't asked. how is it in journalism we framing the story. the video spread like wildfire, they do not do more in ukraine. the listening close dissects the media. we don't cover the news, we cover the way the news is cover a balloon over us guys triggers a diplomatic storm. beijing denies washington's accusation.