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it is just past 15, g m t. and we begin in israel, where the united states defense secretary is on a visit shortened by a weeks long protest against the government's plans to change the judicial system. lloyd austin has met prime minister benjamin netanyahu as well as defense minister you av galant, near televi, tv's, been gorey on airports. israel is a major, a strategic partner for the united states. that very special relationship began when president truman became the 1st world leader to recognize the state of israel . 11 minutes after it was form. and that was some 75 years ago. in our bond is rooted in far more than just shared interest. it's rooted in the shared values of democracy and freedom and the rule of law i and that just there

was a confrontation between a protester and israel. security minister ben chavira, outside the airport. demonstrators blocked main junctions across the country as part of a national day of resistance. they said they were trying to slow down traffic in a bit to stop prime minister benjamin netanyahu from boarding a flight to rome. and netanyahu had to be airlifted to the airport. am on con, joins us live from western islam. im ron, we've had the u. s. official. mr. lloyd austin lloyd speaking and the israeli defense minister speaking at the moment. what have they been saying? while the focus is on one thing and one thing only unless iran and that's been reiterated by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, immediately after their private meeting tweeted that this was all about iran. that that was the really the focus of the meeting. a want to yeah, of gallant has been saying that iran should be stocked up at by any means possible

from getting a nuclear weapon. it's worth noting, heather, iran has always maintained that. it's a civilian and nuclear program is exactly that just for civilian purposes. but that's never satisfied. israel is right is always said that this is about stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon. lloyd austin, his counterpart is merican counterpart, had a slightly softer take on it said that they were committed to israel security that they would stand shoulder to shoulder with israel and they would give it all the support that it needed. now it's worth noting here as well, the u. s. gives, is rolled $3500000000.00 a year in military aid alone. so those are the kinds of those kind of words that were used when it came to iran, but certainly the way both sides were selling this meeting was it was about iran that will the publican messaging ad there is coming out of this or is all i'd be just about around. okay, so they prioritized iran, which i think shouldn't be

a surprise to those who follow the region. but what did they have to say about the turmoil that we're seeing israel at the moment? both the reforms against the judicial protests and also the, the increased cycle of violence that we're seeing between the israelis and the palestinians at the moment. well, like i said, the public public messaging was all about iran at those points weren't mentioned at all. nothing about the name nightly rates in the occupied westbank. nothing about the protest movement. nothing about the protest this and remember the extraordinary circumstances of this meeting to placing normally it would take place of the ministry of defense. it couldn't be that couldn't take place there because the protests as a basically locked down television, it had to take place at the airport. it was cut short. lloyd austin was supposed to ride on wednesday. in fact, you actually came on thursday morning and oliva shortly. so this was extraordinary circumstances of the prime minister and his team had to actually be helicopters in

to the airport. that goes to show you that this is not a country was in business as usual at the moment. and the protests have now been going on for 10 weeks, and they showed no sign of stopping the putting a tremendous amount of pressure on benjamin netanyahu. but he does have won a soapy sleep. he has a fin majority in the government and he says the bill will pass and that's the kind of language he's using. he's actually now just sticking to his guns. all right, m, ron kon reporting live from jerusalem. thank very much. i was really began protesting against the proposed reforms on january 7th. that's when more than 20000 people gathered on the streets of tel aviv demonstrations have since been happening every weekend. but in israeli parliamentary committee went ahead and approved the 1st reading of the bill on february 13th prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who was on corruption trial is pitching. it is an attempt to restore balance between branches of the government. protesters observed a 1st of march,

1st of march as the national day of disruption against the bill, which they say severely curtailed the powers of the supreme court. jonathan reinhold is head of the department of political studies at bar ilan university, and he explains israel's relation with the west israel's relations with the west that the united states with europe have 2 components. one component will remain stable irrespective of what's going on inside israel. and that is the common interest, the common enemy peak, the iran, and radical islamic terrorist organization. and that context, the only confirm will be whether israeli is able to propel it traditional role and i as i live in this regard, given it in division. i was of a long term, particularly on the center of at the center left of american politics in the sense

of center, right, and center left in europe and politics. the product that is rather the democracy is central to the underlying support for israel. and were these reforms to be part and implemented and lead to overtime. the loss of independence is ready to dish or re and pose a threat to individual a minority rights in israel that could severely damage israel's relations with the us with western europe. meanwhile in the occupied west bank, there's been escalating violence in the past few days. is really forces killed 3 palestinians in java. south of janine early on thursday. they were traveling in a car that witnesses say was targeted by snipers, on rooftops. israel says the palestinians were fighters carrying weapons and explosives in abraham. is that the job refugee camp in southern journey? we knew graves were dug up here in about after 3 palestinians were shot and killed

by israeli forces earlier today. just next to them, our graves of 2 other palestinians who are killed in january in and is really weighed there. part of what's known 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 in annapolis because we want to be free and get liberated and breathed, but told what we are seeing is depression. and all this pressure will only lead to an explosion. oh, there will then funeral, a coming part of the daily life here in the occupied the west bank with more than 75 fella, simian field. just this year alone with spoken to the mother of maddie for shap

show one of the palestinians over killed earlier today. she says she was one of the 1st to see him identifying him. she rides, that's good, at least we will. it is neck, chest and abdomen. this is the funeral procession and the other 2 men also, of course i'm to, is wound with doing and is ready read and getting a minor to be in the beginning here as well. when i went to the, the parents a situation even further, there's plenty more coming up on the news hour, including a former malaysian prime minister ma,

hidden yes. in arrested on charges of corruption and thousands of women protests in the streets of chile calling for gender parity. in the new constitution, plus in sports and innings to remember any pakistan's super league, and that will be coming up with joe later. the cell. ah, the kremlin says it launched missile strikes on ukrainian cities in retaliation for an attack in the russian region of brianna sc. last week. the latest strikes on ukraine killed at least 5 people, most of the deaths in the western region of live are the targets include the capital key, the black sea port of odessa and the 2nd largest city har keith acid bag reports. an all too familiar sight in 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

climate to 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 the 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 shattered on the balconies and windows. it's very frightening. the 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 the little through those trouble. i woke up from the explosion of quite a strong waterloo, and i could never imagine that it would happen in my back yard. so when i went outside, i realized those cars are in the yard 0. it is hard to explain how i feel because one meter left, all right. and it could have been my apartments that i have no words left oh. in the west for people who killed one missiles, hit selective sky, ukrainian se, residential buildings were destroyed in the attack. oh, elsewhere in the east,

the butters obama is intensifying with the russian st. they now controlled the east of the busy city. ukrainian military though, still hanging on for now. he could forced on catherine both. oh look at it again. the team of the tongue has fire from the concealed position at the enemy. position is july. the target is hid. the boys are good. we've sent our greetings to their own invited guests that came to a country back, moved it standing. we will when you are. the attention continues to be in the east with the heaviest fighting has taken place. but russia has reminded ukraine with his latest set of attacks. it has the ability to strike anyway. i said, beg, i'll j 0. and while the war rages on and ukraine, political conversations are happening on the side lines, the russian and saudi foreign ministers have been holding talks in moscow, as well as the armed conflict energy cooperation was on the agenda. russia also said saudi arabia has played

a role in enabling prisoner swaps or the speak to defense in military analyst, pavel felton. how are from moscow? first of all, from a military perspective, what stands out to you about the overnight strikes that we saw in ukraine? these, they were all recal, it area tax, but basically it's more with the same. it was continuing for quite some months. during this winter by russia, bishop were attacking the ukrainian power grid system, hoping that their break down the power could lead for the soften up the brain, yan leadership and people. and they would agree for the 5 that will stop these attacks. these are texas tech, who are, they were there were hypersonic massage years,

but the strategic objective has not been achieved the power grade in your brain. despite all the facts continues to work, more or less and brain does not seem to show a desire right now. you agree on the rush in terms of you mentioned that hypersonic missiles you, these are the kins out cruise missiles and there are one of moscow's most valuable weapons. what do you make of the fact that they were used? ukraine says 6 of them were used, which would be unprecedented. well, they're not really gross massage. these are boosted list land based missiles initially of that were modified to be launched for an airplane high about 10 kilometers high, which gives them additional range and speed. so these are area ballistics, so kyra called miss us. that's like the basically figures come their messiah,

but with the larger range this was develop, give russia medium range capability while we go by passing the grid. the treaty with the united states band name, search web based messages, but of course that has been gone. so russia that has a number of these missiles, and it's also, of course you're using the normal is come there to attack targets in ukraine. the kim's are from give much additional capability to such attacks because of the con, bare land based also covers. busy of ukraine, but it can also penetrate ukrainian air defenses, where cruise missiles can be shot down. we were also talking just before we brought you want about the talks that happened on the side lines of this war, in this case between the russian and saudi foreign ministers, where the saudi arabia fit into this picture. saudi arabia has ambitions to have

a bigger international role and the more independent international role. and so it's in as interested in being may be a go between then the conflict in ukraine. there has been involved in the prisoner exchanges, including some american citizens and british citizens. that were captured in the n word release through it with the help of the saudis. russia, of course, is also interested in saudi arabia by being in conflict with the west rushes ready right now to talk to anyone and sound very important. and of course, it's also important because the major oil producer in the world of russia calling 2nd then are discussing more is important. and also, of course, there's the russian, iranian connections where saudi arabia may be, by becoming more important in moscow could try to at least

moderate russia the iranian tides. baba falcon, how're in moscow, thank you very much for joining us. thank you. bye. jer slater's in georgia. say they will drop a controversial build, many feared with silence independent media and critics. thousands of people have been protesting against the proposed law in the capitol lisi. jonah hold reports. 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 the 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 talked 2 days ago. of course, it's great news that they want to cancel,

but the order to get and if it will be cancelled. georgian opposition leaders treated the government's announcement with extreme caution to the early in the morning georgians. republic said that they are ready to cancel the rush and provoke the process. people processing the 3 religious rates we do not believe in quality pavement because we have very bad experience that georgia public, georgia and i believe december 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 speak of their future east west. so that's very important for our government is we see to demo nice this people and to now to damage the reputation of the organisations of donors, of those who work with them and to ease a late georgiana. the draft bill have the backing of the governing georgia dream party. i mean, chaotic seem to parliament, the prime minister iraq leap gary bash really said it would help route out those working against george's interests. interest that appeared to differ from those on the streets. jona hall al jazeera iran says it is willing to work with you and you

can watch dog on implementing agreements made last weekend. there her on the nuclear representative made the comments on wednesday. they come out to the us nuclear chief, made a 2 day visit day, ron. he said he was given concrete commitments that they're on would reconnect surveillance cameras and increase inspections at nuclear sites. all of us which should seize of this opportunity. so that pursued the goals in front of us, and there are many things to doing in the coming weeks and months towards addressing issues of, of common interests for that it on is very much willing to work. pity is offered yet to see to realize what we need with the disease, recent visit and see how a taliban governor has been killed in his suicide bombing in northern afghanistan. it happened inside the office of mohammed down missouri meal in mazar, e sharif in the province of buck. it's the 1st time his senior taliban official has

been killed since the group of control of afghanistan in 2021. several other people are said to have been injured in the explosion. malaysia's former prime minister moore he hadn't yet seen, has been arrested by anti corruption investigators. now he's due to be charged in court on friday. the charges include abuse of power and money laundering. mo he dean was prime minister for 17 months between 20202021. he and his party had faced multiple investigations since losing elections to an alliance led by and war. abraham in november, florence louis has more on this. wearden. 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 is 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 reading your sins administration. now the opposition though, says that the investigation against sweden is nothing but political persecution. wearden 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 employees to defect that topple. then government led by martha mohammed, who had an agreement to transfer the 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 him . the current 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. the u. s. senate is holding a hearing about the derailment of a train in ohio that was carrying hazardous materials last month. senators will likely demand answers on the rail safety after a string of recent derailments. in fact, on wednesday, another freight train crashed in west virginia and during 3 people in dumping fuel into a river. the department of transportation says it is taking immediate steps to improve accountability and safety. harry call him is live on capitol hill, calling this floors patty, a head of his hearing. the ceo, of course, knows he's going to get a grilling the ceo of the real company, and he tried to set the tone by issuing an apology. tell us about that. that he's been apologizing quite often in a few different locations. so alan shaw's you mentioned the ceo of norfolk southern, he knows he's in for a really rough day. us senators tend to really go after ceos,

especially if they think his actions is companies, actions have heard american voters. now the hearings just gotten underway and it's clear from some of the initial comments from the senators on the committee that it's not just going to be norfolk southern, they're going to have pretty tough questions for the environmental protection agency. they were widely criticized for not jumping on this emergency fast enough, not getting out accurate information. people in that town at east palestine were just incredibly angry and scared about what sort of information was coming out. remember just as a toxic chemical league at a fire and they said that they were having medical conditions to what we expected. alan shaw put out in his opening statement and it is going to be very much an apology tour he expects to list all of the ways the company says it is helping the community with millions of dollars. he's going to go into detail on the costs of the clean up and what they're doing there. and he's even gonna say that he personally is funding almost $450000.00 us dollars in scholarships for the seniors

at that high school. will it be enough to keep senators from really going after him? probably not. probably not to is likely in for a tough day. he's also going to talk about what safety measures they're taking because what happened here is their heat detectors along the tracks that show if a wheel bearing is overheating, in this case, overheated to the point. but by the time the alarm sounded, it was too late. it had already to round the fire that are already started, so he's going to talk about how they're maybe going to space those heat sensors a little bit differently. all right, that's what i wanted to ask you about, because you want, once the senators have got their pound of flesh out of the ceo, what do they actually want to achieve in terms of real safety? ah, well, it's can be really interesting. remember, this is a really politicized atmosphere here on capitol hill. but the 2 senators from ohio, one democrat, one republican, i mean, really, if you look at their policy positions,

they could not be further apart. i'm pretty much every single issue. they are going to be talking to this committee today cuz they want to propose legislation on railroad safety. and it seems things like those heat sensors we talked about. there's no sort of federal law that says exactly how they have to be used that they have to be use and how they have to be space. that's likely one area that they might try to find common ground on and not a lot of legislation gets to this very divided congress. but there has been outrage at all of these accidents and the response from both republicans and democrats. so they're going to, these 2 senators are going to be making the case that time is now to act on empirical haine reporting live on capitol hill. thank you very much. after a closely fort presidential election, nigerians returned to polling stations next week to elect state governors. this time 28 seats will be decided along with hundreds of seats for state assembly members. but other med interests reports from gumby. the governing party faces

a tougher challenge. this time, oh no juris recent presidential election has chicken habits governing party. although it won the vote, it has also lost a lot of ground to the opposition in battle ground states like carnal. and only see the losses could spread to the next round of election for some state governors. this governors do not perform because they do mobile more denito of the people on the after is papa, i want to upgrade. they are confused. now, just as governing party is in charge in the northern state of grumpy. the governor acknowledges the setbacks of the presidential election, but says his party is unfazed by us top and opposition. well, we'll comfortable and let's see what comes out of the governor seat that is coming up. i believe if you see to was to and when most it and at least men 10, what they will have before was state governors and legislatures closer to voters of

the presidency and the parliament. these elections are expected to draw more waters rising follows poverty and economic decline have brought hardship to many and i did it. this has generated anger and book apathy in the february 10th of july position . now as they go to the post again, some more to say that one to one is better presented for that dismal performance in obvious. in nigeria, the office of governor carries a lot of responsibilities, but also wills a lot of power. including helping to decide who becomes president, reasons that political parties he had desperately what to keep the states the old. and when more, how many degrees al jazeera wemby nigeria still ahead on l 0. ah, world leaders in doha drama, the road map to beat the decline in economic development across the world. forest

countries to people are convicted and indonesia, a negligence for the stadium stampede that killed a $135.00 fans last year. was disappointment for it taught them, but delight for ac milan after they reached the champions league plans that will be coming up. ah there is a risk of further flooding across the us state of california. as another happens, fear river sets up high there by the way. so this is a narrow, concentrated band of rain that extends from the ocean to land. already see the effects of it on thursday. and we can trace this out to around how wide shut stretching. right across the pacific and this moisture field, believe it or not, extend some 4000 kilometers. it's gonna dump all that rain and snow into california

over the next little bit. the risk of seen some flooding across the southern plains in the u. s. southeast with this batch of what, whether it's not rain but snow. we're talking about across the upper mid west. these 2 systems are going to combine that's going to spread of swath of snow eventually making its way to new england. i to the west coast. we go and some rounds of rain to go for the coast of oregon. so saga forecasts there on thursday breeze conditions around hispaniola in the u. s. virgin islands, who were talking about waves, about 4 meters high off the coast there. and there has been some deadly fighting for western ecuador and the rain still falling, still being doused in that same area over the next little bit. and we've got some showers in storms in the forecast for bi jablonka with the high of 28 degrees on thursday. okay, got a dash soon a bit. ah, the march honor just the devastation and its aftermath. we have more on our

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a watching al jazeera reminder of our headlines this hour, the u. s. defense secretary has cut short the trip to israel because of protests over the government plan. changes to the legal system. boyd austin's visit will be limited to the grounds have been gorey on airport demonstrate as have been protesting for more than 2 months against the planned overhaul, which aims to limit the judiciary powers. at least 5 people have been killed in ukraine after a barrage of russian missile strikes. most of the debts were in the western region of levine. energy facility is worth talking to the russian and saudi foreign ministers have been holding talks in moscow as well as the armed complex energy corporation was on the agenda. russia also said saudi arabia has played

a role in enabling prisoners and journalist daniel hawkins has been following the meetings from going to 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. collaborative saying that those agreements in place would last at least until the end of this year. been for han also reiterating the importance of coordinating energy policy with russia to stabilize energy markets. both sides also gave each other credit for their efforts in mediating in regional complex like the war and given. and it's very pallet fit in complex. but of course, ukraine was the biggest automotive agenda saga level revealing saudi arabia had been involved in multiple prisoner of war exchanges with russia and ukraine. and

saying that this corporation was lucky to continue in future, his saudi called a counterpart. equally saying, saudi arabia is always willing and ready to speak to all sides to find common ground dialogue at to resolve the, the, you quite in conflicts. through diplomatic means. greek, prosecutors have charged 3 more railway officials in connection with the countries worst train crash last month had killed $57.00 people. public sector unions are angry about the collision and with an election looming, there are broader grievances as well. jumps or apple us reports from athens creek youth. 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, whereas visible for 5.5 kilometers. after 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 up. it is the government says if the safety systems ran pace, we wouldn't have happy's death. yes, but why don'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 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 riding on this train accident to express their dissatisfaction in this a largely left swing opposition generated protest. however, there is true nationwide discontent as well because the government and the state 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 remo fi, the government says it will nearly doubled 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 here. and it leaves many wondering why it took this long for politicians to act. jobs are awful, us al jazeera athens pakistan's, former prime minister, emron con, has criticized a government decision to ban public gatherings, which forced him to call off an election rally yesterday. there were confrontations between his supporters and police ahead of cons. planned rally in the hor, on wednesday. one person was killed in the violence and dozens arrested just hours before the event authorities imposed the ban on all demonstrations for a week. in an exclusive interview with al jazeera khan said, his life was under threat. the biggest concern right now for my political party, is a to protect me because there's a severe that there's

a serious threat to my life. the question is, how do i campaign? and yet have a secure enough environment. quested is how do i go to these goals? i made 3 court appearances and unfortunately there was just no protection there. but that's why we were broached the court and said, look, there must be some police protection the indonesian, our 2 men had been convicted for their roles and a stadium stampede that killed a 135 people. it's happened after police fired tear gas into the stance. the 2 match officials were found guilty of negligence causing death. jessica washington reports from jakarta. notable in man is java. this is how went the wound, worst stadium to sensors unfolded. some fans had entered the pitch after the match ended, least than fighting against it, fans, including those innocent people tried to flee, but many the exits was shot causing overcrowding. at the gates, uh 135 people were killed in the resulting crush. many of them children and nearly

600 people were injured. this month, 5 men who were on trial for their involvement in the incident, learn their fate. the head of the organizing committee for the match heard his sentence 1st of 18 months in prison. ha. i declare the defendant abdul harris has legally and convincingly been found guilty of committing a crime because of his negligence, causing people to die. and shortly after another match official, a security officer was sentenced to one year in prison. the prosecution said the men were responsible for the safety of the match, including stopping overcrowding and insuring gates were open. the much officials say police should shoulder most of the blame, the firing t again in the stadium. the defendant, under how to set the situation spiraled when police used take, i really thought those dollars of the stadium doors have been like that. so, so long time ago, even if there was to your gosh, even if the gate was opened,

there would still be a problem. 3 police officers will be sentenced next week, but the prosecution requesting sentences of 3 years in prison. some relatives of the victims told down to 0. they are in disbelief at sentences they consider to be too lenient. i asked about k, as a parent of a victim, i am very disappointed. the families did not expect this. i respect the law, but this is not final. we must appeal. we are no, says he will never stop seeking justice against those. he holds responsible for the death of his daughter, jessica, washington, out his era to counter at least 30 people have been killed after torrential rains and landslides hit indonesia, remote in the tuna region on tuesday. so far, 8 people have been pulled out alive. nearly 700 rescuers have been deployed to search for the dozen others that are still missing. for the rescue operation has been hampered by heavy rains. in the u. s. and other powerful snow storm has swept

across the southern regions of california. it blocked roads, buried cars and traps, and people inside their homes for more than a week. authorities and volunteers had been digging out the snow to free them. southern california had received heavy snow last week. this is a absolutely amazing snowstorm, not just in the amount but the duration of the storm. so some of these people have been homebound for 11 days, they've run out of food. they, in some cases don't have power. they don't have their own generators or a leader is gathered in doha this week for the 5th united nations conference on the least developed countries. the u. n says these 46 countries account for 14 percent of the world population. a majority of their citizens live in poverty and as natasha, the name reports, officials are working to reverse a decline in economic development. since the pandemic this dance through from cazenovia is but a sampling of passion and promise in the world's least developed countries.

nearly 3 quarters of that 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 depend 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 south 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. as a lot of potential left them 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 and 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, one tweet moved 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 concerns about growing debt, causing mass hunger and parts of africa. we're also discussed about united nations conference, veronica pedrosa reports no longer 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. se sum $21.00 countries are facing the combined effects of debt and hi suit prices. apart from zimbabwe, afghanistan, cameroon, ethiopia, haiti, lebanon, somalia, sri lanka, and to 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 40 sex 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 he has some solutions. one way is suffering less doubtful bills are for live bureau system instead of importing from outside or are relying on the external fertilizers in of a place of coming from outside or seeds having from outside. we have to rely on our own soil or not all people on our own knowledge to produce food through, out of really, really fight to improve or to change. the financial is structural system. the word

never again, he ought. these should countries have to choose between repaying debts and ensuring that people affect but it's not clear if anyone's listening. veronica pedroza al jazeera, doha, still ahead on al jazeera japan's baseball superstore and leads his team to an opening when the world baseball classic. that's coming up with joe ah ah

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yes, trillion and indian prime ministers of open the final match in a cricket test series between their 2 nations. anthony albanese is on a 4 day official visit to india focusing on trade, but it is their appearance that a stadium named stadium named for no render mowdy, garnered the most attention from ital reports from the deli, a. this keepers entered in style. these aren't cricket captains, but leaders of the 2 nations about to square off on the field as they celebrate the decades. no friendship, much of this record breaking, crowded, i'm the bad has to catch the action off the pitch. this will cause madonna in the mo, the stadium, and nancy, this is of a special occasion, letting them with the stadium is the biggest one in the world. and prime ministers of both countries playing and the best match will be present at the stadium. i wish india evans to match and qualifies for the world test championship. the grant can hold more than 130000 fans and was renamed. the marines are moody stadium in 2021.

it's in the western state of good europe, where mode the was chief minister. the pitch has seen historic cricketing innings, the life of primers, and also served as a political arena in 2020 it hosted the mag i rocher of mahdi and then you as president. donald trump, in the crooked diplomacy, comes as in death pushing for a greater international role in the as the president of june 20 this year. it's a duty new delhi take seriously, seeing it as an opportunity to project it says as the voice of the global south, particularly on issues affecting developing nations like climate change, food supplies, and high debt india is already leading the full match series winning this fine. and match will secure a spot in the finals of the world test championship. the opposition is eager to deny this victory as to the start of the series didn't go to plan losing the 1st 2 games. but, you know, there's a lot in it for india as well, if they,

when they can secure a spot and not have to rely on other results. so, you know, we want to make that difficult as difficult as possible for them. and so we went to the series and ha, i'd been easier for the visit, started with him, celebrating the festival of holy. the 2 nations are expected to strengthen trade and diplomatic ties. pop new metal al jazeera new delhi. ok, you got the diplomacy for more on the action from the pitch. now here's joe. thank you very much here. looks like a great atmosphere, but australia is kirk it's. it's have made a strong start to the 4th and final test against india in mad about much they need to win. if they're to avoid a series defeat, they were $72.00 for 2 and manas lab, shane without cheaply for just 3 runs. all by mohammed shami thought a pna osmond cojo went on to battle the entire day passing 50 for the 3rd time in the series and finishing on beaten on a 100 before the aussies were 255 for food stamps on course to build

a decent score if india, when the match, they'll pick a spot in the well test championship. final against australia in june. history is made in the pakistan super leaking spots. when jason roy smiled the highest individual school ever seen in the pier. so an unpaid $145.00 off just $63.00 won't play for the course. the gladiators that performance help them chase down the highest p. s l. run chase of $244.00. speak. the pest was me to buy a wicket. well, they have a t, a full team of superstars, but person man's weight. when a champion, a title goes on after they were knocked out of the competition by, by munich, p. s. she went to the much training one know from the 1st like and that task became even harder when the former player or it might seem to promo thing put buying one up on the night. that left p. s g meeting 3 goals. but it was the german side who's gotten other, so it's not bri,

making it to nail to send buying through 3 new on aggregate. and at full time, security had to step in when a fund run on run onto the pitch towards leno. messy p s g. have now failed to get past the last 16 for the 5th time. in 7, when i felt i'll do will make sure that we win the front championships. i'll let the funds decide if it's a failure to end the season with only the french li title of a seat. there were lots of expectations for the champions league, which is normal. my regret is that we didn't play to our full strength during this knockout stage. tottenham also needed to overturn a one goal deficit to progress they had christian ramirez sent off with just over 10 minutes left them out with ac milan hurricane. when close his bus stop, it's time to finish neil new any milan one, the time one, the one i could fit to reach that 1st champion, the quote, the final for 11 years. 15 years i'm counting without a trophy, tottenham, and the coach antonio contains out of contract in june to you or contact to legally

that we thought and um, and then a thought. and i know very well that, which is my thoughts and ideas and this is on the we will meet and then we make a decision. i'm really sorry for or for the fonts. but we cannot to invent the when the all to up in the one medical one day that the trophy oh, go into our water turning round or into our beach. we're to build manchester united players looking to pick themselves up after sundays. humiliating 7, no loss to liverpool, united face. spanish team rail betters later on thursday in the 1st like if they europa league last 16. ty, imagine eric 10 hog is urging his side to learn from that liverpool to feet as they go in search of a 2nd piece of silverware this season. we were really below efforts, especially mentally wise. so we have to take that lesson so we want to be

a big team. we want to win trophies and so then you have to act different. and i think after sunday we have got a big lesson. we take that, but now we have to move on and we have to look for it. you know, i said, come up against a familiar face form, a man city boss manuel pellegrini, who's now in charge of rail bettis. he says he couldn't believe the united liverpool results but thinks his side can't read too much into it. when i went to the see the fun also. so i was not very subtle mother without that result made this game motive. well, i don't think so. it depends how they react on that the. on the defeat, the just one game football can happen. see for women's world cup is a little over 4 months away in france. have just the fact that coach crean deck was dismissed after a number of plays staged a war count among them captain, wendy ronald, who criticized that country's football system and said she'd take

a step back to preserve her mental health. the french football federation said the situation had, quote, reached a point of no return and home the interests of the team. meanwhile, the women's world cup trophy continues on its well for stopping in shanghai heads from the rock. her next will make stops in each of the $32.00 nations taking part. the torment takes place this july and august in australia. new zealand. 55000 fans from the tokyo dome to watch baseball. superstore show her a tawny play. his 1st game for japan. at the world baseball classic and he didn't disappoint up against china. tawny was predictably dominance on the bound. in 4 innings, he struck out 5 and gave up just one have a tiny overhead to run double in japan, the china $81.00 in that opening to be game china is on the performance. not surprising considering most of the plays in the chinese national baseball league,

which has been suspended since the end of the 2019 seasons. because australia has shown south korea in the opening game, roby perkins hit one of the straightest 3 home runs. is they want a 7 in pool? be tokyo, don't next up the play china? japan biggest golf event the so far has tito. but there's just one thing missing at the players championship the defending champion, cameron smith. that's because he's banned from the pga tour for joining the saudi arabian back rival live golf series in fight with top 3 from the play as last year . smith and a bandler. he read and poor casey of all joined live despite their absence organizes are confident the torment known by many as the 5th major will still provide the usual drama. there are a few more famous holes in the iconic island 17th paul, 3 at tpc saw the m b a. and kevin, john missed what was supposed to be his 1st home game for the phoenix suns off to

injuring his ankle and the pre game warm up. luckily for the sun, 7. booker set up to lead them to a convincing win over the oklahoma city. thunder sounds took at 132211, the rack up there full when in. all right? very difficult. all right, that is all, but now it's back through joe. thank you so much. we'll see you again shortly. and thank you for watching. i'm back in just a few moments with more of the world. ah . ah. and a wet cloud with quest struggle gives birth to

a true passion where faith is more just where humanity defies. expectation with freedom is always was quite bold and untold. stories from across asia and the pacific 101 east. on al jazeera, on a recent february day in central park in new york city. you never have guessed it was right smack in the middle of winter. look around, people are dressed like it's spring or summer. wait, hold on. where is the snow ever seen new york in february like this? never a new reality. perhaps with new yorkers. first, enjoying the warm weather, but now beginning to ask themselves, will it ever snow this year? because this isn't normal, they probably don't even need to be wearing this jacket right now, because it's mid february and it's supposed to be cold. but it's not

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