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by molina fight, this is out. is there a lie from dough or so coming up, the bass all fall back? marriage, ukrainian soldiers push ahead against russian mercenaries who warn. they can't win . confrontations between police and pakistan and support is a former prime minister in ron con, after they ignore a ban on rallies in law. and calls for greece is prime minister to step down as outraged grows falling in the countries deadliest train accident which killed more than 50 people. ah, thousands of people are rallying outside the parliament building in the george and capital tbilisi for a 2nd day. they are demonstrating against a proposed law, they say will silence critics of the government. the legislation is similar to one pass by russia in 2012,

which the kremlin has since used to talk at western funded ngos and media molig. albert would set their reports raylien outside parliament for a 2nd night in a row. protest as in tbilisi has been marching against a so called for an agent spill that many fear will curtail civil liberties and stifled press freedom. but right police pushed them back, keeping to guess 40 cannon. and then beneath the transparency of foreign funding bill passed 1st reading in parliament on tuesday, but not without chaos and fighting between n p the the bill requires n g o n media outlets receiving more than 20 percent of the funding from abroad to register. as for an agent or face heavy fines, president fellow miserable sheeley has come out in support of protesters and has vowed to veto the bill. many demonstrators say the bill is reminiscent of russian legislation used to silence critics. they say, should the bill become law,

it will reuben georgia's chances of becoming a member of the european union and nato, around 80 percent of georgia populations to you is very pro western and they see their future east west. so that's very important for our government is we see to demonize these people and to now to damage the reputation of the organization. so don't nurse of those who work with them and to use a late ga, the draft is backed by the governing georgia dream party and says it would allow for transparency of, for an influence. prime minister irrationally got to the bus really says it will help route out those working against georgia interests. but critic say that's not the case. the theory amongst many, georgia, but this is actually a conscious benefit by georgia government, the cyber charles georgia efforts to join me in order to,

to carry favor with the candidate and avoid a military intervention like so in a crate and georgians are right about this. because georgia is such a pro, you are yankee, russian public opinion, more than 60 independent and civil society organizations have said they will not comply with the bill if signed into law malachite, i'll just 0. michaela has more from washington dc. they say they deeply concerned about the potential for violence within georgia. first of all, the state department spokesman that price made clear that the right to protest is a universal one. at the same time, he called on both protesters and the government to keep the proceedings non violent to maintain a peaceful atmosphere. as these protests continue, that the spokesmen declined to directly criticize the georgian government,

but at the same time he made very clear the u. s. position on these controversial new draft laws. this is what ned price had to say. we're, as we said consistently in recent days, deeply troubled by the recently introduced draft for an agent law, which is actually made law, would stigmatize in silence independent voices and citizens of georgia. who are dedicated to building a better future within their own communities. parliament advancing of these kremlin inspired draft laws is incompatible with the people of george's clear desire for european integration and its democratic development. the state department spokesman alternate, clear that the us views this current conflict between people and government as part of a why did dissonance between what the people want and what the government once this is very much a reflection of what the us sees as a government not necessarily following the wishes of the people,

and this is something that came close to direct criticism of the georgia government itself. ah, every sirens have been sounding across ukraine, also barrels of russian missile strikes. the attacks hit targets including the black sea port of desa and ukraine, 2nd largest city con keith. they also struck towns in ukraine's western regions, which are far from the front lines of russia's invasion. meanwhile, russian mercenaries say they've taken control of basin part of moose as a battle for the ukrainian city grind zone. it's not strategically significant but has gain symbolic importance to both sides. and it's smith reports. there is a much left of back not to fight for, but ukraine and russia continue to throw soldiers and materiel into one of the

bloodiest battles of the war in ukraine. the head of russia's wagner mercenary group, says his forces have taken control of the eastern part of the city. but there is in issue a garage to get a valued if you was to reach new jersey, bought more the sure for was to g g. welcome. would go baldness to knock williams about gun royal. she was gonna see just that we could discuss on a video released on wednesday. if gainey bridge again is shown talking to wagner mercenaries who are complaining, they're running out of ammunition. magnified as had been leading the russian campaign to seize back mart, bridge again has accused russia's defense minister, sir, j, chicago, of treason, the withholding supplies of munitions to his fighters. munitions are in short, supply to for ukraine's forces. you defense ministers have been meeting to discuss a plan for the member states to pull resources to buy ammunition. nato secretary general says back what may fall to russia in the coming day?

this does sir, or not, sir, necessarily, reflect any, are turning point of the war on them and her and the, it just highlights that we should not under estimate a russia. ah, we must continue to provide support to ukraine. ah, the whole thing, you crane's military released a video of a commander visiting troops in back mart, alexander c, ascii, tells them, and they're in the hottest spot back marty's of little strategic value, the both ukrainian military and wagner mercenaries have said that using this battle to deplete and divert the addresses resources from elsewhere along the front line. bernard smith, al jazeera, the united nations chief on ukraine's president have called for an extension of the crucial black c d o grain export deal at a meeting and keith. and so you,

good terrorist is visiting the ukranian capital and stress the importance of the agreements. the global seem security deal was initially broken by the un tech and is due to be renewed later this month. hundreds of people have been out on the streets in the occupied west bank for the funeral of 6 palestinians who were killed by israeli forces, the palestinian presidency spokesperson, call the israeli raid an all out war. many palestinians calling on their leaders to do more to protect them. needed abraham report. ah, the division between palestine, 2 political factions, played out in the streets of nablus on wednesday. ah, the palestinian authorities, security forces attacked mourners in the funeral procession of a high math gunmen, listed in officials say some participants violated arrangements that were agreed before the funeral. but many here believe the palestinian authority does not want

him as to have a strong presence in the occupied westman, mischievous and the judge. not only is he, his railey army worried about the fight as uniting palestinians who have personal interests. so worried about the units in geneva, the coffee in other places. before he was killed gunman, i've been fatter hulu shape, was taking refuge in jeanene, a hub for the armed resistance to his rails occupation. here in jeanine at different fixture. not only do palestinians fight side by side, but government provide support to one another, even when they belong to different palestinian factions and come from different city fighters tele, just either the internal palestinian division only serves to benefit israel. we are the performance of the leaderships far away from the palestinian struggle for a long time. the palestinian authority wants to curb the resistance and we're against that. the as it is,

one of 6 palestinians is ready for his killed during the day. the genie on tuesday, he was a member of the palestinian security forces before he took up arms enjoined other fighters and jean walketh in the call. us now is the time for us to take up. young people have much more awareness and they say we have to resist that. we can't stay silent against these really aggression for palestinians. it's been a cycle of grief, anger, and mourning united in pain. and now they say the fight. neither bra, him al jazeera, the occupied westbank. pakistan's former prime minister ron con, has criticized the government decision to ban public gatherings, which forced him to cool off an election, raleigh, and compensations between his supporters and police ahead of cons, plan rally in the hall. one person was killed in the violence, dozens of people were arrested just hours before the events of stores. he imposed

a ban on all demonstrations for a week. the biggest concern right now for my political party is to protect me because there's a severe, there's a serious threat to my life. the question is, how do i can been and yet have a secure enough environment. question is, how do i go to this course? i made 3 court appearances and unfortunately there was just no protection there. that's why we approached the gordon said, look, there must be some police protection. come all hide has been following developments in the whole all wood, therefore enron on the leader of the bugger. gone, said he can solve for you to get golf. it campaign the 1st and the beginning of the election campaign which are due on the 3rd year of april. all access are all still have residents have been robbed by shipping container. thousands of police have

been blocking all that. you'd also have been golfer where did parties supporter the need using a water cannon also. all right guys, shares are going to be interesting to see what happens next. right now. the police ported out on red alert. they have barricaded several roads, which of course is also guarding problem. and this is a country richard in the midst of a grave economic right. therefore it can least afford more political certainty come on like that. i'll just do it all the hall. tens of thousands of people have rallied in chiles capsule, santiago, marcie. they were mocking international women's day by demanding. the government include abortion rights and gender equality and the new constitution. on wednesday, the chile and government announced a series of measures aimed at improving women's lives. a latin american net, salisia newman was out the march in santiago. it's been a mass mass demonstration,

one of the largest i think i've ever seen in that saying a lot in this country where for international women's day, usually hundreds of thousands of women and children, even babies this time turned out with their mothers. but there has just been an incident. i don't know if you can. you probably can't see it right behind me, but i could see the water cannon trucks of the riot police throwing water and trying to break up a group of violent people that just interrupted into this what was otherwise a peaceful and very joyous march. they started throwing glass bottles, sticks, beat several of the protesters or of the women marchers who tried to stop them. it became very violent. one of them got caught just a few minutes ago by the marchers who him and, and a teams. and it's being cleared up, there weren't many of them, but they were, as i say, they were very, very violent. and it's the kind of thing that happened to often hear, despite the calls for a peaceful march, mainly by women. they're very few men here. those who were armed with the glass

bottles and sticks and stones were mainly young men. but anyhow, it did seem to have ended. and that's why you see very few people behind me right now. but there are tens of thousands in front of me at this stage. they must be marching past the presidential palace to demand abortion right. to demand gender parity, especially an end to fem aside and abuse by men. this, it's a long list. we've heard it all for years and years. but chilion women are becoming more and more emboldened from all age groups and from all social levels economic levels in this country. that's certainly what we've been seeing here today. so add on al jazeera and have funding and political issues, a hampering humanitarian belief in quake rabbit and the race against time in the philippines to contain a large oil spell that is damaging with

with the weather is pretty active at the moment across the ravine peninsula, the release in general is back in fact, easy cloud going across, driven by reasonable breeze. so this dust in the air, particularly in east and south into the forecast for 30. that'll be noticing in q 8 and the blue dots, of course, are showers, all thunderstorms, more concentration, eastern iraq, and the mountains of iran disappearing the for the west. you are good. there's a feed though. you'll notice into sudden turkey or northern syria which might give a few showers, but for the south is generally speaking sunshine. and that continues into friday rather concentration that line of thunderstorms on their way through q 8. and saudi arabia, though hostile are very warm, 32, but you'll notice the brown indicates the enough wind pick up the dust,

at least if not sand. that is jumps south now into actuarial africa, where the rains are shape and cells rather early around like victoria, they've been around in canyon. uganda. they're taking a day off during thursday, and certainly somali remained bone dry at the moment. but look at this, freddy has not gone away the longest live tropical cyclone in recorded history and is heading back rather strongly towards the coast of mozambique. ah. in the blink of an eye, many lives when lost thousands of people buried alive and more left homeless. were shocked by the number of sites we worshipped by, the number of victims al jazeera goes to the most afflicted region in syria. here in northwest to syria, to see those affected by the earthquake amid severe shortages, humanitarian aged,

the full report, syria, the continuing tragedy on al jazeera. ah ah ah. he watching al jazeera mind, a false hopes, stories of south thousands of people approach us thing in the george and captain to b. c. for 2nd day. they rallying against a proposed law, they say will san ins, critics of the government. the government says it's needed to stop the influence of what it calls. foreign agents. russian mercenaries say they've taken control of these and passive box mooses in battle for the grading city. ryan's own nato secretary general says it may fall to russia in the coming days. ukrainian

defenders say they will not retreat. protest as mocking international women's day have gathered in chiles capsule. santiago, tens of thousands were demanding that the government include abortion rights and gender equality. and the need constitution purchased on the streets of athens turned violent on wednesday. as public sector unions demonstrated against the governments. the angry about the trade and collision that killed at least $57.00 people last month. but with an election looming, they are brought to grievances. john zuraw police reports now from athens. greek use, no strangers to show downs with police had reason to be angry. it was mainly young people going back to university who were killed on february 28th. when a passenger train collided with a freight train, the government blamed it on human error. and it's the young who grew up in the

recession after the post, 2008 global financial crisis. the new democracy conservatives came to power in 2019 promising prosperity. but the coven 19 pandemic, and now high inflation because of the ukraine war, have largely sunk their agenda for that it is a lot of job insecurity. some on my age doesn't earn enough to pay their way and live with dignity. there isn't much opportunity. it's a general situation and people of all generations are disillusioned with what they see as a failing state. greece purchased automated warning systems for its railway in 2014, but still hasn't installed them everywhere or trained every one to use them separately. this should have been monitoring off the train on the control board where is visible for 5.5 kilometers. after i left the station, if that had happened to the action would have been avoided because it would have been clear that the train was on the wrong tracks. rail workers unions admit there

was human error, but blame that on greece is 8 grueling years of government spending cuts and a botched privatization of rail operations. let us get of it. this is the government says if the safety systems ran pace, we wouldn't have had these deaths. yes. but why didn't we have them all these years? because we had personnel, we had station masters and technical support. we had maintenance, we hadn't left the company on a skeleton staff lacking at the limit of its ability. maybe in other countries, privatization works very well. but here it hasn't. various political opportunism here. public sector unions with grievances against the government are riding on this train accident to express their dis, to sanction. and they so largely left swaying opposition generation protest. however, there is true nation wide discontent as well because the government and the states have seemed indifferent and dysfunctional and with an election and fewer than 5 months from now. the prime minister and his entourage are nervous about how far

this reaction will run over. the government says it will nearly double its budget to 80000000 dollars this year to improve the rail network quickly higher, more stuff, and install automated tracking signaling and emergency breaking throughout the system. but it's too late for those young people killed hair. and it leaves many wondering why it took this long for politicians to act. jobs are opal us al jazeera, athens yelman's internationally recognized government has banned fish exports. freshmen are struggling to catch enough. and what they do get is now too expensive for people to buy because of the plumping value of the currency as a bank has more. ah, fish used to be the main dish for. yeah, i said we got offered prices at this auction that the central fish market teenager not too high for most people to afford. i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry. we're going in, i'm not gonna let some of the officials come here and see what you're dealing with

. they need to figure out a way to lower the prices. your average citizens cannot buy any fish of other. humans. currency has lost value by 400 percent who reducing the purchasing power of people, fishermen hell to blame, uncontrolled fission by commercial vessels off their coast. those catching fish rest, their lives gone further out to sea. according to rights organisations, many have been killed by the saudi u. a coalition where ration of war against a country since 2014 a 1000 bol, the prices i insane. we can't buy meet. no, it can't afford fish. depresses, used to be much lower than this. how can you afford this? this is so wrong, a longer government authorities with the you and recognize government in yemen, have blamed a situation, park, and exports to neighboring countries. but have now implemented an export, but no acre, no not. well. we've also mentioned that there are brokers who come to the ports, antique large quantities of fish, the minute the ship, dogs and the mar applies a sales when it comes to the local market. unfortunately, the fish we have don't go to the average, any consumer,

but they end up being sold for higher prices outside the governor. awful law. many question within the authorities can enforce about on exports leaving fish caught by humans out of reach for most families. i said, bake, i'll 0 emergency teams have ruskin. 3 people trapped in a landslide in indonesia, torrential rain trinket, month slides, the remote, not tuner, region killing at least 11 people, dozen small are still missing. volunteers on the coast gone are struggling to contain an oil spill off the island of min, doro. in the philippines, the oil is coming from a tanka which sank a week ago, threatening marine life am tourism business is in the area on a be low reports from manila for generations to people of the island. the builder in the central philippines have lived off the waters around them. but a tanker teary 800000 leaders of unrefined fuel sent off their coast last week,

causing an oil spill that has devastated their livelihoods. swimming has been ban because of health concerns. and thats hitting businesses that cater to tourists. so growing up in our back, the effects are massive because there are no visitors arriving for vacation or it's unwind. nobody is renting our cottages because of the swimming restrictions of it. and there's no one checking in. it stinks and the sand is full of oil. lumala would come with were saddened because all the tourists booked us for the summer season and the upcoming holy week of already council of this march. we have already had to cancellations. after hearing the news of the oil spell, the effects of the oil spell a huge, huge, not only on jobs in businesses, but on marine life as well. several towns in the province of oriental min, doro had declared a state of calamity, as well as one in neighbouring antique it, which is more than 100 kilometers away from where the tinker sank. scientists say

as much as 36000 hector's of coral reefs and mangroves art risk of damage wrapping they'll yeah, it will take a long time. it might take years because the marine biodiversity will be damaged the marine protected areas where the fish lay eggs. if those are destroyed, will lose the fish reserves in our ocean. it's possible that the fish will lead the area and not spawn there again. and the fisherman will not have any catch. authorities are now racing to contain the li, with booms around the area where the vessel has been located. a submersible machine is on its way to siphon off oil that slapped into cargo. but cleaning it all up may take months or even years. barn below al jazeera manila, their warnings and growing national debt in parts of africa could push millions of people into hunger. the she was just one of the topics being discussed at the united nations once in a decade, conference for the wells least developed countries here in qatar. pharmaca pedrosa

reports at this market in zimbabwe. many of the items on offer a too expensive for a growing number of people here, and it's likely to stay that way. for some time. the u. n. st. some $21.00 countries are facing the combined effects of debt and high food prices. apart from zimbabwe, afghanistan, cameroon, ethiopia, haiti, lebanon, somalia, sri lanka, and sued dawn are in the same situation. all of these countries, governments are in doha for the united nations least developed countries conference at the top of the agenda at their request is the push against international lenders to reduce the debt burdens faced by the 46 countries considered least developed. in other words, they have less than a $1000.00 annual income per capita. the cool thing of a new report says,

a system that's largely built to benefit the global north is driving the world's poorest countries into a vicious cycle of rising hunger. and poverty is that he has some solutions. one we is suffering less. that'll build sort of really lives bureau system instead of importing from outside or am relying on the external fertilizers in of a place of coming from outside or seed. so that we promote said we have to relate on our own soil or not all people on our own knowledge to produce food throughout the really, really fights to improve or to change. the financial is system. never again, he ortiz, should countries have to choose between repaying debts and ensuring that people effect. but it's not clear if anyone's listening. veronica pedroza al

jazeera doha, a special panel formed by us house republicans has wrapped up its 1st hearing into the origins of cave. at 19. the aim is to investigate where the virus came from. the 1st sitting comes days before the 5th anniversary of the world health organization, declaring corona virus and global pandemic. 7000000 people died from it around the world. and pres, hardy, joe counselors more from washington dc. there is circumstantial evidence that the cobra 1900 virus came from a lab but no smoking gun. and there is circumstantial evidence that the virus came from nature, but also no smoking gun. that is where the u. s. congressional committee looking into coverage origin is stuck, and wednesdays hearing here on capitol hill did not change that. there was a consensus that if there are answers to be found, they will be found in china. the chinese government has been criticized for blocking world health organization investigators from the on the rollin institute

where chinese researchers are testing corona, viruses on humanize mice. but u. s. researchers say there has been no evidence that the hon lab can possess a precursor virus that changed into october 19th. and then is that the nature theory were to be proven true. it would be essential to find the animals that pass the virus on the humans. the chinese government says it has tested more than a 100000 animals without finding the viral genome and that any potentially infected animals may have been destroyed in the outbreaks. early days. the former director of the us centers for disease control and prevention. so there may no longer be a smoking gun to be found. i don't think that answer is going to come from the scientific community. i think that answer is going to come from the intelligence community. china is not fully cooperated and we do think that's a key critical gap that would help us to understand what exactly happened. the last voice you just heard.