city, the ground a different reality appears. official figures released in november show the number of people experiencing homelessness is the highest in a decade. and this shop rise in the number of women experiencing housing insecurity . that report also said there's need for better services and more funds for hostile accommodation as the situation was, since it's the middle of winter here in hong kong, and the temperature often drops below 10 degrees at night. people in this underpass of repairing for another night, exposed to freezing conditions. ah thousands of his wailings protest against the government outside tel aviv airport la, missing the u. s. defense secretaries travel plans ah,

at almond as of a platinum and this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up. ukraine says 5 people have been killed off to russian muscles at multiple cities. it's the 1st attack targeting energy sites and weeks launch protests force, georgia governing party to withdraw a bill that critics say would curtain freedoms and silence the media plus ah, world leaders, them doha, draw mountain road mat to bees. declining economic development across the world's poorest country. ah, ah, we begin in israel where the u. s. defense secretary has cut shorted trip because of protests against the government's plans to change the legal system. lloyd austin was meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu and defense minister jo, off gallant at a venue near tel aviv ben curry, an airport before leaving and

a few hours time demonstrate as have been protesting for more than 2 months against the planned overhaul, which aims to limit the judiciary powers, oh, it was a confrontation between a pret tester and israel security minister is a mob been given outside the airport demonstrate as blocked main junctions across israel as part of a national day of resistance. they said they were trying to slow down traffic and a bit to start prominence to benjamin netanyahu from ordering a flight to ron nathan. yahoo had to be airlifted to the airport that sprague, in our correspondent, mon kahn. he's joining us live from west jerusalem at waiting for a news conference and run by pon mister nathan, yahoo! in the us defense secretary lloyd austin, which has been forced to take place somewhere around the airport because of these protests. well actually the a press conference wont be with promised or benjamin netanyahu. both of the defense

ministers will actually be speaking at that press conference. ah, prime minister benjamin netanyahu, like you say he's on his way to rome. he meets where the italian leader there on friday, but he's going to be looking at the events of to day and feeling the pressure. the protestors brought tel aviv to a standstill. the venue was forced to be changed for that meeting between benjamin netanyahu. the defense minister of gallant and lloyd austin to the airport. normally that would take place at the ministry of the defense. the protesters certainly are got their point across. the israeli police have actually been trying to forcibly move the protesters from blocking highways and roads about little success. some of those roads are actually still blocked as we speak. but this was a meeting or that was crock. quite crucial for prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he doesn't have a huge amount of invitations to sit with americans. are president joe biden has nicely extended an invitation to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. so this would

have been a very crucial meeting for him. he or she tweeted after the meeting saying today i met with you or secretary of defense, lloyd austin. our common goal is to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and stuart iranian aggression. so fam, this meeting was about one thing and one thing only, and it was all about iran, with no mention of the d escalation of tensions, the occupied west bank, the near nightly, raised by the israeli army. nothing like that. whether the 2nd, whether the defense secretary is talk about this, these issues ruins be st. we don't think so though we think it's going to be more of the same or more of the type of language that we've heard in the past. that both countries are committed to the defense of each other. and his protests have been taking place for 2 months now and ran. we heard from the national security minister, we saw him rather at the my bank of ear having something of a confrontation for the protest. her. and this is the same national security minister who's been describing the protests as an anarchy and those taking place in

them, taking part in the mother as the anarchists. that's right, it's a, it's a word that came as a surprise to most people with in the protest movement. most people in the protest movement are loyal citizens of israel. they say that they're in the high tech sector. they're in full military jobs. they're in jobs, there are actually seen as being quite middle fossil up across jobs. these on the poorest people of the country who are protesting ease a journalist there the, the so called elite of the country. they're not saying that the elections weren't a democratic, they're not saying anything about that. it's this one specific judicial reform bill, which gives the kinessa the palm of ability to overturn supreme court decisions that really got them out in the street. these protests have now been going on for 10 weeks, but the government still just it them a bank of it. now benjamin netanyahu, as well as for them as anna, this is his warranty, democratic. and if you speak to some of the more kind of people who support the

government, but not necessarily in the cabinet or in or ministers themselves, they'll say actually we think these protesters are being paid by a foreign country kind of language. you hear from dictatorships, not really from israeli politicians, but that's the kind of language now being used towards the protesters. so yes, the type, the fact that they've been called mannequins is a surprise to the protesters. but with this government, it's, it's in line with the language that they've been using and their strong language on both sides isn't them round. because the national security minister has been calling the protest as anarchists for the protest and protests as themselves have been describing. foreign minister benjamin netanyahu, as a dictator because of these proposed changes up a noun that has a mon con, lie for us, and westerville's slim, and we are waiting as a man said for that press conference. that's going to be taking place between the u . s. defense secretary lloyd austin, and as wally defense minister yo of gallant, we will go to that press conference when it happens. we'll go back to that story.

meanwhile, and to 5 west bank, there's been escalating violence in the past few days. israeli forces killed 3 palestinians and java south of janine early on thursday. they were traveling in a car that witnesses say it was targeted by snipers, on rooftops. israel says the palestinians were fighters carrying weapons and explosives made that abraham is at the java refugee camp and southern jenny. we knew graves were dug up here in jabar, after 3 palestinian were shot and killed by israeli forces earlier today, just next to them. our graves of 2 other palestinians who had killed in january in and is really weighed there. part of what's known of here as the battalion, it's a recently established fighting group here, and we're seeing a growing phenomena of armed men working together,

uniting. and we're seeing that phenomena expanding more than just in genie. and douglas with we want to be free and get liberated and breathed, but don't what we are seeing is depression. and all this pressure will only lead to an explosion. oh, there will then funeral coming parts of the daily life here in the occupied westbank with more than 75 fella, simian field just this year alone would look into them. other meds and for shap show, one of the palestinians were killed earlier today. she says she was one of the 1st to see him identifying him. she rides them, his clothes, i please, 3 with his neck, chest and abdomen. this is the funeral procession and the other 2 men also a 4th i'm to,

is wound up with during an israeli read in genie i. the beginning with with the kremlin, says it launched missiles strikes on ukrainian cities in retaliation for an attack . and the bronze region last week, the latest try on ukraine killed at least 5 people. most of the deaths were in the western region of levine, are the targets include the capital key, the black sea port of odessa, and the 2nd largest city card cave. as a bag reports,

an all too familiar sighting ukraine's capital keefe, according to the ukrainian air force, $81.00 missiles were fighting the early hours of thursday morning, including 6 hypersonic missiles which can travel up to 8 kilometer the 2nd. ukraine said it intercepted 34 cruise missiles, but doesn't have the ability to intercept the hypersonic missiles. 40 percent of keith is now without power or yet jewelers. listen. i heard a very loud explosion. very loud. we quickly jumped out of bed and so one chiron fire than their other cars caught on fire. isreal the glasses shuttered under balconies and windows. it's very frightening that child got scared and jumped out of that you rescue services have become accustomed to dealing with the aftermath of air strikes. i or some of her through thoughtful. i woke up from the explosion quite a strong waterloo, and i could never imagine that it would happen in my back yard. when i went outside, i realised those casa in the yard 0. it is hard to explain how i feel because one

meter left. all right, and it could have been my apartment so that i have no words left oh. in the west for people who killed one misses hit selective sky, ukrainian se, residential buildings were destroyed in the attack. elsewhere in the east, the butters obama is intensifying with the russian saying they now controlled the east of the b. c. city. ukrainian military though still hanging on for now. he could forced on gather up both. oh, look at the theme of the tongue has fire from the concealed position at the enemy position. that is july. the target is hit, the boys are good school. we've sent our greetings to their own invited guests that came to a country back, move it standing. we will, when you are, the attention continues to be in the east where the heaviest fighting is taking place. but russia has reminded ukraine with this latest set of attacks. it has the ability to strike anyway. i said, beg, i'll 0 while the war is taking place in ukraine,

political conversations are happening on the sidelines. the russian and saudi foreign ministers have been holding talks and moscow, as well as the armed conflict. the energy corporation was high on the agenda. russia also said saudi arabia has played a role in enabling prisoners swaps and journalist daniel hawkins has been following the meetings and moscow. 4 minutes a psychological suddenly seemed pleased with the outcome of the meeting describing it as timely and useful. oil and energy markets was the big announcement. everyone was waiting for and both sides confirm their unwavering commitment to existing open plus agreements like elaborate saying that those agreements in place would last at least until the end of this year. been for han also reiterating the importance of a coordinating energy policy with russia to stabilize energy market. so both sides also gave you the credit for their efforts in mediating in regional conflicts like the war and given. and it's very poorly fit in complex. but of course, ukraine was the biggest automobile agenda, sag elaborate,

revealing saudi arabia had been involved in multiple prisoners, were exchanges with russia and ukraine. and saying that this corporation was lucky to continue in future. his saudi called the counterpart equally saying saudi arabia is always willing and ready to speak to all sides to find common ground dialogue at to resolving the you quite in conflicts through diplomatic means. legislators in georgia said l. drop a controversial bill that many feared was silence. independent media and critics thousands of people have been protesting against the proposed law in the capital tbilisi for 2 days. john hall report. after 2 days of protests, a spiraling battle against government plans to curb civil liberties in georgia may have been pulled from the brink. the ruling party announced that it would step back from draft legislation. that protest is said, echoed a civil society crackdown in russia. but no one is taking that for granted. we just

want to fulfill our dreams and we want to finish the job that we've talked to tv, the goal. of course, it's great news that they want to cancel, but the order still ends, if it will be cancelled. we will be happy, georgia and opposition leaders treated the government's announcement with extreme caution to the early the morning georgians. republic said that they are ready to cancel the rush and provoke the profit people process. you know, the 3 religious reasons we do not believe in quality pavement because we have very bad experience that georgia public, georgia, i believe several time wednesday night. so violent confrontations with police using gas, water, cannon, and stun grenades. the protest as insisted the so called transparency of foreign

funding bill, supported by many m. p 's on tuesday, would stifle press freedom silence descent and compromise. the former soviet countries chances of joining nato and the e u. the bill requires n jose and media outlets receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents or face heavy fines around 80 percent of georgia populations to you is very pro western and they see their future in the west. so that's very important for our government is we see to demonize this people and to now to damage the reputation of the organizations of donors, of those who work with them. and to use a late ga, the draft bill. have the backing of the governing georgia dream party. chaotic seem to parliament, the prime minister iraq lead gary bash really said it would help route out those

working against george's interests. interests that appear to differ from those on the streets. joe hall al jazeera, still ahead on our sierra to people a convicted and indonesia negligence for the stadium. santi that killed a $135.00 fans last year. and thousands of women contest in the streets of chile calling for gender. patty, the new constitution. ah, well we certainly turned that heat on across india. hi there is we're talking about the western gas in particular. so for the state of go a heat wave, watch him play. that heat will now transfer into the capitol region. so new delhi over the next few days, he's got his steady climb in those temperatures. 34 on monday, probably 35 by tuesday. so that is above average high temperatures through pakistan

as well. but same goes for afghanistan, herat at 30 degrees. your temperature record for the month of march is $31.00, so getting pretty close there will keep tabs on whether that happens. getting pelted with rain for that west coast of sumatra and also west java province on indonesia as main island of java. but northward we go, it is a quieter picture through indo china, so that allows those temperatures to rise. so $35.00 degrees at the top temperature for you in bangkok on friday and of course got high temperatures. rate across china is feeling more like summer here, 30 degrees in jung, joe. but a hot look at this rain and cloud rolling across big drop in temperatures on saturdays. so young joe goes from 30 down to 17 and we're getting that error drawn out of the north. so it will certainly be a fresh fil set. some records in japan spook ashima prefecture, but disturbed weather pushes out to the open water on friday. soon a bit, ah,

in the blink of an eye, many lives were lost. thousands of people buried alive and more left homeless. were shocked by the number of sites. we were shocked by that of what victims al jazeera goes to the most afflicted region in syria. here in northwest syria to see those affected by the earthquake amid severe shortages of humanitarian age, the full report syria, the continuing tragedy on al jazeera lou ah,

watching on sierra with me, elizabeth broadman, doha reminder about top stories. the south, the us defense secretary, has caught shorter trip to israel because of protests of the government plan. changes to the legal system. austin's visit will be limited to the grounds of ben curry, an air force demonstrate as have been protesting for more than 2 miles against the plant over which aims to limit the judiciary powers. legislators in georgia said, withdrawing a controversial bill that critics feared. besides the media and opponents, thousands of people have been protesting against the proposed no one to believe c. and at least 5 people have been killed and ukraine after a batch of russian missiles tries. most of the desk or in the western region of the v energy facilities were targeted. a taliban governor has been killed in a suicide bombing in northern afghanistan. that happened inside the office of muhammad da, with missouri on it, and was that he should even the province of bug. it is the 1st time a senior thought of an official has been killed since the group took control of

guns thought in 2021. several other people have said to have been injured in the explosion to indonesia. now were 2 people have been convicted for their roles and the stadium stampede that killed a 135 people. the caution belongs that happened last october describes is one of the worst football dissolves in history and investigation found the main cause, the police fire and tear gas into the fans. judges have sentenced to football, official to a year and a half in prison. given a one year sentence to a security officer, jessica washington has more from jakarta. these 2 men were matched officials and their defense as long argued that guess they may have been some capacity issues at the can do hon. stadium where $43000.00 tickets were sold for the match that night on october 1st. but previously they had never been safety incident, such as the tragedy that unfolded and that the blame should be placed on the police who gave orders to fly a tear gas at

a close stadium. but prosecutors argued that it was the responsibility of match officials as well. those local match officials had the responsibility to ensure that the stadium was safe, and that spectators had a safe avenues to evacuate as needed. there. some shock and disbelief that such a tragedy where a 135 lives were lost, where almost 600 people were injured and 38th children under the age of 17, lost their lives in this tragedy that such a tragedy could be minimized. 2 sentences that the, this of the relatives of those who lost their lives, say, a relatively lenient this some disappointment. i spoke a short while ago with a father whose 22 year old daughter died in the tragedy. and he said that he feels as no justice, he's in complete shock and disbelief that people who may have played a part in the loss of his daughter have been given these relatively light sentences

malaysia, former prime minister, more you, the nelson has been arrested by anti corruption investigators to be charged in court on friday. the charges include abuse of power and money laundering. will you the prime minister of 17 mon, between 20202021. he and his party had faced multiple investigations since losing elections to an alliance led by him in november, florence louis has more we it in yes, in is being questioned for corruption in relation to a coven 19 stimulus program that was introduced when he was prime minister known several individuals belonging to his political party bra soft. you have already been charged for corruption together with 2 businessmen. the anti corruption agency also froze his parties, accounts in january. now in december, the prime minister of malaysia, who's also the finance minister on why abraham said the finance ministry had discovered there was severe breaches of procedure in relation to around a $150000000000.00 worth of government funds during where you'd in your sins

administration now the opposition though, says that the investigation against sweden is nothing but political persecution were you did, came into power in a rather controversial way. he was part of the then government which was seen as more reform minded, but he led a group of empties to defect that toppled. but then government led by martha mohammed who had an agreement to transfer power to on more abraham. and that transfer power never took place. now meeting us in came close to the seat of har again, after the last election in november produced a hung parliament. we'd inflamed, he had the support of the majority in parliament, and was jostling for top leadership position. but eventually lost out to annoy, brought him the current to prime minister. we didn't support to say, we didn't is clearly a political rival. and that this is a way to remove him as a threat. and it's nothing more than a political persecution. pakistan's,

former prime minister, and mon con, has criticized a government decision to ban public gatherings which forced him to cool off an election rally the confrontations between his supporters and police, the head of the planned rally in law for on wednesday, one person was killed in the violence and dozens arrested just hours before the event authorities imposed bad on all demonstrations one week. in an exclusive interview with al jazeera khan said his life is under threat. the biggest concern right now for my political party is or to protect me because there's a severe that there's a serious threat to my life. the question is, how do i get been and yet i have a secure enough environment. question is, how do i go to these gods? i mid 3 quarter baron says, and unfortunately there was just no protection there. oh, that's why we were broached. gordon said, look, there must be some police protection. the indian in astray,

leon. prime ministers are pitching, cricket, and diplomacy of meeting and am the bad. anthony out uneasy and that in ramadi, attended the test match at the was biggest cricket stadium in the western indian city. they are expected to discuss trade and tension for china during albany. 0 visit wold leaders have gathered in doha this week for the 5th united nations conference and the least developed countries. the un says the 46 countries, the count for 14 percent of the world's population and majority of citizens live in poverty. as natasha, the name reports officials working to reverse a decline in economic development since the pandemic. ah, this d a through from k as the new year is by the sampling of passion and promise in the world's least developed countries. nearly 3 quarters of them live on the continent of africa. this is the greatest innovative. ah, you know, knowledge hungry generation. that's

a biggest potential. but we have natural resources, but are being exploited by others. is not the been on, on somebody else to come and do what we need to do, let them become partners in development for a real while we set the vision and they help us fulfill it from the solomon islands, to sal sudan, and haiti. this week. the un spotlight has been on the world's poorest people. once in a decade, un conference on the least developed countries in doha, has been touted as a quote momentous occasion to implement a path forward of progress. a lot of the least developed countries have quite a low level of revenues. domestic revenues compared to g. d p was a lot of potential ref him to find more resources. and what the i m f. does our teams provide a lot of capacity building help?

the doha program of action is a road map for the next 8 years. it's main components include eradicating poverty, enhancing international trade and combating climate change. an online university and an investment support center are also part of the plan. with only 19 percent of women and girls in these countries connected to the internet. leaders say gender equality is vital want. we want to focus on closing the gap between men and women and technology innovation is science. if we don't, it will be hard to reach gender equality. the un hopes this week, the world has revived a commitment to transform the potential of the more than 1000000000 most vulnerable people into prosperity. natasha named el jazeera, doha. tens of thousands of women and girls have a marching and chillies capital. the demand that abortion rights and gender parity

should be enshrined in a new draft constitution. a latin america editor lucio newman reports from santiago who was a massive display of women's determination and empowerment. women and girls of all ages and sizes were out from the streets of chiles. capital ah, mothers bought their young daughters in huge numbers among them 10 year old dominique, the la fuente, the got them must have. yeah, i used to have very low self esteem, but then i started thing on the social networks that women are strong. that changed me to the adult women here. the right to say proportion was also high on the agenda . address constitution was rejected here last year, and now it's back on the drawing board, but this time without guarantees of legal abortion and gender parity. what does that really look when?

it's terrible and it's even more terrible. the ones who are weighing in on this. amen. but it's not a done deal that tens of thousands of women who have come out on to the streets of santiago. another part of the country are sending a very, very clear message that they will not settle for anything less than gender piracy and the right to the side over their own bodies. and that's something that lawmakers and the ones who are going to write this program next constitution will have to take into account that women's rights have advanced in recent years. in chile, you what the, what they know what i remember, but we don't have the same opportunities as men of my age. so i'm here with my friends to speak out for myself and many women who comp, because they were mad at women like margery by my mother says she was strangled, beaten, and stabbed to death by her boyfriend. last august, about i'm asking for a life sentence for her murderer who killed her as of jealousy. there was nevertheless, a party atmosphere. but suddenly,

a group of people described by the crowd as and his socials tried to disrupt the march, throwing glass bottles, stones, and sticks. several were injured. i, you runing a beautiful day and march, they have no right. it's unclear just who they were, but the incident seemed to underscore that women in this country as in most of latin america still have a long way to go to achieve what they're fighting for. lucy and human al jazeera santiago. finally this bullet and the launch of the walls 1st 3 d printed rocket has been called off. at the last minute, the rocket was attempting to break new ground and space exploration. but early in the launch process, teams at cape canaveral began, trying to fix a problem with the temperature of the rockets liquid oxygen. and you launch date hasn't yet been announced. ah.