as is where it's really gone silly once more. this is the last winter storm taking significant snow through new england and maybe he's in canada with these thunderstorms going off shore. but i mean, look at the pacific coast. this is yet another winter storm. this one is more like the one that brings rain than snow. there is snow in the mountains, but rain will bring flooding again to california. ah ah. ah, i'm sir. oh venue. this is the news. our life from bill. hi, it's great to have you with us coming up in the program today. iran and saudi

arabia announced that they are resuming diplomatic relations and reopening embassies. after talks in china. the british prime minister in paris to push joint efforts to stop migrants crossing the english channel. police and germany say a mass shooting at a jehovah witnesses center was carried out by a former member of the community and mass protests. c, georgia scrap its foreign agents bill. moscow accuses the u. s. of instigating anti russia sentiment. i'm devin ashworth, sports and angle house austin, a rescue a general in the right to league while manchester united respond to that rushing at liverpool by beating rail best one to take control of that off 16 time. ah, so we begin with this breaking news as saudi arabia and iran announced that they are resuming diplomatic ties. the deal was struck in beijing. the 2 countries

released a joint communique with china on the deal. iranian state media has posted video from the meeting. the kingdom broke off ties with iran in 2016 while eli hush m is live into iran for us on this ali. what happened? let's just start with the facts. what do we actually know about how this came about and what they've agreed on while sarah, len this morning, there was a treat by the i went there with that website affiliated with the supreme national security council here in iran, saying that the secretary of this counsel which is a was which has been working on these negotiations for the past a couple of years. i was in a foreign country and had important talks with another country, and this will have a very big impact on the situation. now, in few hours later, we all knew then that the iranians and the saudis reached an agreement to resume

diplomatic ties and to open embassies in both countries. now, what was really surprising is that china was the mediator here because over the past couple of years since 2021 until 2023, everyone was talking about the iraq here all. and it brought a run and, and saudi arabia met several times in bagdad around 5 rounds of talks to place in baghdad. besides some security meetings that continued even during this year in all man to coordinate over the, a yamini a crisis. so what was really surprising was the chinese role here, and it really harolds and you add, i may be for china that is coming to the region, not only on the economic side, but also emerging as a political mediator. and we have to take into consideration that both saudi arabia and iran are very important partners of china. the president of china was here in

saudi arabia, just few months ago, president of iran that i use. he was also in china some a few weeks ago. and it seems this path would be, it was being built with a lot of secrecy, but also with a lot of a will to reach to this a result. that's really maybe a, the biggest news in the region for the past few years. a lot of secrecy, as you say, as somebody who covers this region was this on your radar. when it was on the radar for the past, i said since 22021, everyone knew that there was, there were talks going on between the saudis and the iranians. and we were following personal l a following this, this news and went several times to that interview, the rocky for the prime minister on this. but in this time, no, i would really like if i said yes,

it was on my way that actually what was on my day for this trip, even to, to i just thought today was the a prison swap between iran and the united states. just thought of those small deals related to the nuclear dean, but not the saudi arabian breakthrough. and as we said, this is very big alhashan reporting from there on thank you very much. now iran and saudi arabia have a long and adversarial history. let's take a look back at some recent events to put this in context, the 2011 arab spring. so protest movements against the status quo in several countries in the middle east. saudi arabia, at the time, accused iran of inciting protests in bahrain against the royal family. an activation which iran denied that as the civil war in yemen, began in 2015. saudi arabia, back to the internationally recognized government and targeted who's the rebel stronghold. it is believed that iran backed the fees in 2016 saudi arabia, executed a prominent she,

a leader who supported dissent against the kingdom. and was uproar in iran were protested, burned parts of the saudi embassy. and then in 29 team, saudi arabia, state run oil company, aramco was hit by a hoot, the drone attack, 5000000 barrels a day of crude production was impacted close to half of the kingdom, the output iran denied any involvement in that incident. let's turn now to at non tub by he see you at the think tank, the center for applied research in partnership with the orient, middle east focus thing. thank you. join us from diesel dwarf in germany. first of all, your reaction to this i think i would weigh into what your colleague and to her on said it was on the radar. that talks are happening that there are efforts to resume the talks that had no longer been continued since almost a year. and it is a bit surprising that now all of a sudden we see these talks popping up again and

a joint declaration being coming out of this shows that this diplomatic effort and the in the sprint, at the end of this effort has been quite a quite effective, why and how is china in the middle of this? china, of course, has a real big interest in not seeing the security context around the persian gulf region. to, to descend into chaos, to dissented to situation we saw in 2019, when the waterways of the strait of hormones were the sides of different explosions and attacks. so there is inherent interest for the chinese to try and use their leverage, that they have towards both react and to run, to make some efforts to balance these relations. and to finalize what the iraqis and all monies had in fact started. but we're used to seeing the us play much more central role in the region and that does not appear it, it looks like they played no role in this particular case. what is interesting is

that we have been used to anti american sentiment slogans and speeches in iran. but i would also argue that at least from the fall of 2019 onwards, there is also some disappointment, some increasing skepticism inside saudi arabia, towards the role of the united states in that particular region. the security umbrella is no longer an actual idea that the u. s was supposed to build for 1st nigeria and its allies. so there was a need also sends insider ravia to, to think in a different way about how it can secure it's territory and it's borders and it's interest. look, iran and saudi arabia in recent years have been on opposing sides of every major regional issue right in the middle east. so does this, this normalization of diplomatic relations? does that mean that there is going to be that they're going to start agreeing on things? well, it's obviously

a something that we will have to really cautiously monitor in the upcoming weeks and months. the statement also says that both sides have 2 months time to in fact, re open the embassies and maybe really dispatch ambassadors. and these 2 months are also, it's a lot of time in this particular part of the world. so we will have to wait and see . i think that the context such as syria, iraq and lebanon have been increasingly in conflictions between these 2 countries. yemen is still a big issue, particularly for saudi is security interests. so we can assume that there has been some progress made on the yemen file with regards to syria. we're actually seeing initial steps of the saudis to reach out to our side. we have been seeing this for the past years, so i think those contexts in which they were on 2 opposing ends are somehow coming to a bit of a closer and more convergent position. ok,

that was. so that's really interesting. what specifically then, are you going to be looking at to see whether, you know, the balance of power is changing a little bit in the region. what is certainly not going to change is that these 2 countries are going to to continue to be rivals and competitors for influence. but there is a new security setting in that region. as i mentioned earlier, i think that saudi arabia also, but iran in general, has come to terms with the fact that there needs to be an arrangement with neighboring countries. there will be no other great power to protect on either side from each other and to protect this region to descend into further chaos. so that there is the need to come to terms over certain security issues so that their candy possibly and it will be a lengthy and painful process of motors, vivendi between these 2 giants in the region. atlanta about of i thank you for joining us with early analysis of this of this important regional change. thank you . my pleasure. thank you. well, there's plenty more ahead on this news hour,

including more on the charges of corruption level that malaysia, the former prime minister in yes it was. i'm just seeing human at the chilly bolivia border. and what you see here is what's become one of the main smuggling roots on these documents and migrants here in the, at the comma deserts and in sport, the come back king strikes again andy murray, big deed to win. well that's coming up with gemma. ah, to the british and french leaders, a meeting in paris with migration is the focus of their talks. amanda and mccolan richey soon echo, holding the 1st such summit in 5 years. it comes as the british government launched a controversial new crackdown on migrants crossing to the u. k. from france in small boats. british prime minister said the 2 countries working together against

what he called the scourge of illegal migration with asher butler is joining his life from the elite a palace in paris. natasha as far as we know, what's the personal relationship? is there any between these 2 leaders? well, the for any far better personal relationship between emanuel micron wishy sooner than there was between macro and see you next predecessors, list, dress and bars, jumped right translations with them times. but with soon i micro seems to have found somebody that he can do business with these with 2 young leaders in their forties, both seen as dynamic format and investment bankers on the, on the old medic notes in common on paper. although of course, the politics often differ, nevertheless, this is the 1st franco, pretty some, it's in 5 years. that in itself is significant because it shows that off to me is

a very strange ties between the u. k. and from off the break that the things do seem to be improving. both sides of talked about wanting to start a new chapter of relation from one of the things it's really been a catalyst has been probably more than that. personal relationship is actually the fact that the war and ukraine has really fueled a common sense of purpose, both in london and paris. but sooner can michael be talking about ukraine. we do expect them to talk about launching more close to corporation in matters of defense and other things. for example, a joint training of ukrainian forces and on migrants. natasha france and you already have an agreement in place. it's been there for a number of years. but yet the number of boats crossing the channel keeps increasing. so what do we expect this time? cross channel migration, that's another subject that has been

a real subject to much dispute route between the france and the u. k. in recent years, there is no doubt that both sides would like to see less people taking that dangerous journey across the english channel from farms to the k. through not just this week has announced the controversial proposal for lor, in the u. k. in which people trying to cross the reach the u. k by boat and legally would not be able to apply for asylum. what they fall from says that is unlikely to have a major impact on the situation here. nevertheless, we know that micro will be discussing this, and we do expect franz to ask the u. k. to roll out more financial assistance for frogs in the coming years. a long term plan that would help from both state security operations on the northern coast. natasha, thank you very much. now joelle, how long is research associated the think tank u. k in a changing europe and he joins us from london on this. really is this

a reset the u. k. friends relations me and it's certainly both sides want it to be. i think you need to understand the context of the front, her bridges, relationship in the last 5 years or so has been probably as bad as it's ever been. we haven't had a summit since 2018 and we had the prime minister 1st, the embarrassed johnston who repeatedly sought to untie the french. for example, ever the all because submarine deal which the u. k. in french, i. hi jackson. he then told the french to the name was great, i think with his time, and then we had prime minister this trust to can on whether or not he was a friend or foe. so you've had really constructive relations and has been very this was happen between you can in the past 5 years. so i think it's very clear the message from both sides. is it this summit signal at a turning point in that relationship and they go and try and work together

constructively. okay, so it's some kind of research. where do you see them reaching common ground? i think the most obvious area is as security and defense in europe. and i think that's because if we're looking at the reasons why the reason has happened is not only to pass now gibberish. used to not is those are the context of the war in ukraine and you can cross any you realizing that need to work together to find solutions on these issues. and also if you look at the language of richie's, you not just this morning, he was saying we need to find a negotiated outcome to that rule. that's totally quite different for us. johnson previously was say, which was always talking about kind of, you know, you can't leadership pushing to the end really putting britain 1st. i think there's trying to be slightly more constructive in the tone. hey, was to not, and we can expect to see, i think some announcements about, for example, a joint supplies or weapons or, or so strategy not only in ukraine, both in other areas like the in the pacific. so i think there's going to be a real emphasis on the 2 nuclear powers of europe coming together to do something

more, more effective and joined up on. ringback defense, it's interesting that the last few years seem to always highlight what drove these 2 countries apart would separated them. and now recently, the ukraine war highlights what actually brings them together on the migration issue. there are protocols already in place between france and the u. k. the u. k. regularly off as up more money to france to increase its patrols and none of that has actually worked in terms of limiting the number of boat crossing. so what more could we possibly expect today on that? i think migration is going to be the same issue at this on that. if you look at what's being brief, the press in advance, really, it's just more of the same. what we've had in the past has been more money. more patrols on the ground is having soften use and more, you know, strategic, you know, use of like groans to, to survey the situation. these declarations have been made numerous times in the

past and they've never really change the patterns of migration across the channel. so i struggle to see what is going to change really through more of the same today . and the fact is that the u. k. wants to do something fundamentally different i. e at once. and sometimes it has to be returned to front of me across the channel. and it needs to be part of the use of the regulation of some kind of similar code on that front. and that's something which is not going to relent on because you know, it can't, it can't give you a quote, the benefits of the membership without and being a member. yeah, that's what really soon acts as he'd like to achieve. certainly medium to long term, but short term. there's no sign that there'll be any movement on that drove along. thank you so much for joining us today. taking a police in germany, say, a gunman who killed 6 adults and an unborn baby at jehovah witnesses hall was a former member of that community. they say he shot dead himself or he shot himself

dead as police enter the building in the northern city of hamburg. during the whole reports move our footage records. a gunman, firing many rooms inside a building where a weekly bible study meeting a pitcher hoses witnesses, was taking place outside a stream of police vehicles and ambulances were quickly on the scene. armed police stores the building, finding dead bodies, and many injured and escorting survivors to safety. had the police have confirmed, the gunman was among the dead shooting himself on an upper floor as police entered below. they described him as philip f, a 35 year old german citizen, and former member of the job is witnesses who left the community on bad terms 18 months ago, possibly suffering from mental ill health. the motive remains unclear, but terrorism has been ruled out. i've often validus liter appeared to be unmarried

. i lived and worked in humbugs, in 2014. philip philip f. had a gun license for school purposes and was in legal possession of a weapon type of heckler and cockpit 30, which was the weapon found next to the trade o. overnight eye witnesses described a frenzied scene. yeah, no, it's been unwilling to you me. i'm a resident up here and i heard loud gunshots, so i went to the window to get an idea of the situation. then i saw that a man was shooting out of the window with the fire people being carried out and there will probably 25 shots at least that i heard. and after the police got there, there was no gun fire for a long time. but then after 5 minutes or so, there was a single shot as forensic work continued. police said the government at $59.00 back as the ammunition during the rampage. the coincidental presence at the time of highly trained officers near the jehovah, witness building they said, had saved many lives. joe,

the whole al jazeera. let's get more the investigation falling, that shooting in hamburg, our producer, william peacock, is there for us. william. there was a press conference with the local authorities and security forces. law enforcement, i should say, just a little earlier. what did we learn from that? we are a lot of more details coming out about press conference, which went on for an hour and a half. in fact, details about what happened last night and saw about gun move out. now identifying as we heard is philip f, as they say here, cutting the surname down to the initial intensive last night, very keen to stress the authorities. how quickly police reacted just a few minutes. they said before the 1st ones arrived and very soon we were almost a 1000 officers at a point where they did think that might be a 2nd gun man. somewhere in the area, which of course turned out not to be the case. but included, in fact, a special unit trained in, in fact he was kind of situation who happened to be very close by. so, but all went very well. what is going to draw attention?

i think in what we heard is this issue of a gun license. so this man held a gun legally will hold you to say he wasn't going to remove the sensor, no charge of it that had been made against him. but this gun license, someone had complained about anonymously saying before, he might have an undiagnosed mental illness. was very angry of religious people in particular, and his ex community of james witnesses here. they investigated in the sense they went to his house, they found a very minor infraction, but some ammunition wasn't properly locked up. and that was that. so are going to be questions about where the german gun laws are really fit for purpose isn't for 1st time has been a mass shooting her. it's not the 1st time has been done with a legally owned weapon. and people are going to ask, what do we need to do to stop happening again? a william peacock reporting from hambert. thank georgia. parliament has dropped the bill that protest is feared, would silence the media and opposition. the bill would have forced the media and n g o who received more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as

foreign agents. tens of thousands of protesters were in the streets for 3 days straight, and they had warned that the bill was moved towards russia and away from the west. a criminal accusing the u. s. a stirring up anti russian sentiment now in georgia. went on smith has more fund leafy. there's a lot of relief here outside parliament, the popular protest seems to forced georgia government to back down and kill this bill. the ruling party, georgia. dream said it would conditionally withdraw the bill. it supported without any reservation, but it accused what it called the radical opposition of spreading lies about the bill. many people here send the hands of russia. the bill was called an agent of foreign influence. bill was a very similar sort of law was passed in russia and it was used to crack down on opposition groups and human rights watch says that here in georgia organizations and jose would have faith owners reporting requirements and inspection that

includes electron monitoring groups, corruption, monitoring group independent media, anyone who got source more than 20 percent of their funding from overseas, the government, but simply that this law was necessary to root out foreign agents and spies the kremlin when a specifically about this law that that they had no influence. i'm not involved in this. lauren, georgia. she is in being has been reelected by china's rubber stamp parliament as president for a historic 3rd term. and new leadership team has also been decided all known for being loyal to she. katrina, you report some basic in a unanimous vote by china's national pupils, congress cdp was re elected as president. he began his unprecedented 3rd term by swearing an oath to china's constitution washer. should i pledge to be loyal to the motherland and the people to be delegated in my duties have integrity and serve

public interests for a whole. he was also elected head of the military are largely ceremonial. the vote signals a further consolidation of power under she who was confirmed as party general secretary in october. the chinese politic now had entered into the era of the winner, takes old politics essentially and shooting pain. is that big winner if 5 years ago, here with a, with the majority of paula bureau, which was the top level of decision making body, this term he has something a lot closer to near monopoly this time around. so we also elected was hon john as new vice president and john g as new head of the n p c. all officials are known for their loyalty to see and they faced many challenges ahead. china's economic growth is slowing modest gdc target of 5 percent was set for 2023. paging was also deal with low consumer confidence, rising unemployment and an ailing poverty sector. increasing rivalry with the

united states pauses. another threat sanctions on chinese firms have caused what she says are unprecedented and severe challenges to try and his development of friday, china's congress also proved far reaching reforms to various state and party institutions . they do argue these changes will lead to less bureaucracy and waste of resources and more efficient policy making, especially when it comes to boosting much needed growth and innovation. but ultimately, it will also concentrate more power in the hands of the party and ultimately in the hands. she didn't bring public confidence in. she's leadership was damaged, following a hasty reversal of his strict pandemic policy last year. but analysts say it's had little impact on his power featured paint leadership is a core priority of the communist party itself. and that the reversal of 0 cove id and the can to sigh so full out from that policy have not translated

into to any real political threat in 2018. the communist party abolished presidential term limits allowing she didn't ping to room for life. katrina, you al jazeera, the north koreans leader has ordered the military to intensify drills for what he calls a real war. came german, made the demand as he oversaw the launch missiles alongside his daughter, the u. s. and south korea, preparing for large scale joint military drills. next week. japan is preparing to release water from the destroyed fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. jessica washington reports on this. these fish are part of a mission to convince those who don't the safety of releasing water from one of the world's worst to nuclear accidents into the ocean. what article i took that here at the marine organism breeding test station we raised flounder and abalone with treated water containing ordinary sea water. i think we are able to show that there

is no change in how they are growing. this is part of a plan to solve a problem more than a decade in the making. in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and sin army which destroyed the fukushima plant, water used to cool damage react to cause and contaminated rain and ground water was stored in these tanks. but they were almost at capacity and authority, say the time to release the treated water is fast approaching. the tokyo electric power company has been treating the water, removing various radioactive materials. but some fishermen say they aren't convinced and they fear their efforts to rebuild the fishing industry in the years after the disaster are being undermined. we know that with oh no, i think it's still too early to release the water into the ocean. it's too short. i don't understand if they discussed it with everyone beforehand, but they haven't talked about it yet. about some neighboring countries, including china and south korea,

have also voiced their concerns. and some pacific nations have pushed for japan to delay the release of the water until implications for the pacific ocean. and islanders are clearer or great. it's one doesn't allow the key point here is the ocean. there are concerns not only within japan, but countries mainly in the pacific ocean. we should do or at most from a scientific point of view to prove to those countries, we are dealing with it thoroughly. all that i think is what we are lacking the most . the water release will take place over 2 to 3 decades. it could start in coming weeks. jessica washington al jazeera. it's time for the whether he is rob. says is lovely, sunny day in southern california, just right. clearing the snow, 3 beaches of it. or what was left in san bernardino matters were some people been trapped for days on and so it looks beautiful. in the sunshine, of course is not so beautiful, particularly at stacks up on your refund, casey tin. but that was a day of clearance before the next wind storm comes in. this is it coming in?

now's different in character. this one, if you follow the cloud, it's streaked out into the pacific down towards almost hawaii. it's a line. the next extend towards this kostnik persistent, sometimes referred to as the pineapple expressed because it comes from hawaii as persistent in nature. it's warmer air. so rain is more of a problem than snow. could be a big problem. so let me get some more snow in the mountains, sierra nevada, in particular, we'll get more rain and that rain will help to melt some of the snow. so that combination of run off range and the sky flooding will be significant problem throughout california, particularly from central valley southwards. during this coming, we cannot saturdays picture it still stowing still rang, but not as strongly. by the time we get to sunday, it will have just fed across into the plane states and added to the string of storms have been running from west to east. so that's the picture of a sunday stormy in the southeast. a still a head on al jazeera, a key player,

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he shot himself dead as police entered the building and amber and the british and french leaders. a meeting in paris with migration is the focus of their talks. the british government has launched a new craft down on migrants crossing to the u. k from france and small boats. saudi arabia and iran have announced that they are resuming diplomatic ties. the deal was struck in beijing. the kingdom broke off ties with iran in 2016. iran con is joining me live from occupied east jerusalem on this. enron. we wanted your perspective or more precisely, the israeli perspective on this because of course, what happens between the 2 regional power houses. iran and saudi arabia stands to effect israel in many different ways. the right israel, the furious that this a resumption of diplomatic relations is taking place and will take place in the next 2 months. and now there's really one reason for this. israel, as always said that everyone needs to be completely isolated from the rest of the

international community. it says that iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program and presents a threat, not just the israel to the rest of the world that it's worth pointing out that iran is always maintained. that is, it's nuclear program is civilian and completely just for peaceful purposes. but they'll be more pressure now on probably minister benjamin netanyahu. he's often said that he's the only person that can really deal with iran on the international arena. that he's a tough guy when it comes to iran, but he's also under pressure from the americans to expand the abraham a cold, those what resumption of domestic relations with the united arab emirates. i'm with buffering the americans would like him to expand that to saudi arabia. this is a move likely to be seen in israel as actually killing any expansion of the abraham a code. saudi arabia probably not. going to come in or come on board with israel in the full home. that's how you b,

u. e. o bahrain. did. he also ones relations with kathy and with other muslim nations cleaning indonesia and we pockets on those things are happening right now. so this will be a complete blow to the prime minister, no doubt. and he's in italy right now. he might well react to this little bit later, but no doubt he will offer up some tough words when he does speak about the reason that iran should not be a member of the international community. okay. yep. so you answered what was gonna be my 2nd question on whether there had been any official reaction to this from, from israel. but, but you mentioned that benjamin at yahoo has not yet spoken officially on this. enron, thank you very much. you will keep a surprise the developments no doubt the israel will have some kind of reaction on this later today. thank you. james based joins us live now from the united nations in new york. james, you're a diplomatic editor. big picture. what's your biggest take away from this start there? it's absolutely fascinating and it's fascinating for so many different reasons. so

many different intertwining elements to this. one of them, iran's just been talking about, which is clearly the situation with regard to israel. the situation with regard to the iran nuclear deal and saudi foreign policy, though in recent years, has got a lot more complicated than it used to be. now probably were me taking you back to how saudis eustace eat the world and you go back 78 years to the 2nd world war and a meeting with president roosevelt on a war ship with in south the founder of the house of saudi arabia and the basic foreign policy of saudi arabia, it was to be very close to the u. s. it would give the u. s. energy in return for security guarantees from the united states. and one difference of opinion of those to close allies was the issue of israel palestine. and sadie radia agreed to differ . great. disagree remained a very strong supporter of the palestinians. well as in rounds,

just been saying in recent years, we've had an effort and it's been going on in the last few days, even of the us trying to change the saudi position at trying to get the, the saudis, to join those abraham a cords that other countries like the u. e have already joined and there was talk in recent days of a saudi arabia may be asking for a civil civil nuclear program asking for new arms sales in order to go in that direction. but it seems that even if they're still thinking about that, saudi arabia for now is, is going to and to reach out to iran. that's gonna seriously anger israel. it's very interesting, given the backdrop of another huge issue, which is the war in yemen. there's been a cease far in yemen, or there was a cease fire last year. it was never, formerly renewed is now shaky truce. but it's nearly 8 years that saudi arabia has

been directly militarily involved in yemen. and it blames iran fought supplying the healthy hope is with weapons weapons they said, have even been used and landed on saudi territory. and there's another element in all this, which is the war in ukraine, because you have a situation where saudi arabia, yes, used to be a very close us allied, but there's certainly been strains with the biden administration or the death of jamal kashodi, for example. one of the big issues there and president biden was distancing himself from saudi arabia since his trip there. perhaps there's been a little bit of a reproach more. but in recent days, you've seen the saudi foreign minister in russia. and of course, iran is supplying those drones to russia, a very complex situation. but what it shows me is that saudi arabia is not any more going to adopt. it's a traditional foreign policy of being the u. s. is very close ally. it's looking at

all the different aspects to this in different conflicts around the world. and right now it's choosing a reproach mall. reopening of diplomatic relations with iran, as it's best move forward at this time. and at the center of this, you mention that the u. s. was not the power broker in this. what's surprising is that china was the power broker, right? that's where it's in beijing that this deal was signed when you make that well it's, it's fascinating again and it's lots of countries. and we do see with regard to the war or the war in ukraine and russia's invasion ukraine, we see boats in the general assembly that looks like most of the of the countries of the world are on ukraine's side and supporting the u. s. but when you speak to people home, the scenes here and the not noted nations, it's a little bit more complicated than that. and there are lots of countries that are hedging their bets a bit with their language on the war and ukraine,

but also on their views. of the superpower structure of the world of the power dynamics of the world. they're looking not just the u. s. any more. they're looking to russia. they're looking to china. they're looking to other powerful regional countries, turkey, for example. and saudis, one of them, the gulf states, and james bears are nipple now get into reporting from the united nations with the big picture of you on this. we are not than talking about this. thank you so much. and the former malaysian prime minister maria dania scene has pleaded not guilty to corruption and money laundering charges. he is accused of abuse of power and misusing coven 19 funds. or he didn't says the accusations or politically motivated . foreign st. louis has more from qual and poor. he's the 2nd malaysian leader to be charged for corruption after losing power. we didn't, yes, in his pleaded not guilty to all 6 charges. 4 counts of abusing his power to obtain $51000000.00 in bribes for his party and 2 charges of money laundering

a sum of $43000000.00. he is alleged to have committed these offences during his tenure as prime minister from 2020 to 2021 and faces up to 20 years in prison, and a fine if found guilty. this is part of political and select the position is not that it is corruption, quasi you have will default and let the court decide what the real situation and i am in the sun until proven guilty by the court. the charges relate to a government economic stimulus program launched during his time as prime minister o outside court, dozens of his supporters rallied to defend him. debbie and i did god, was it wrong that he helped us? he's here in court because he was helping people. what's wrong with this? what's wrong with this government? the charge has come less than 4 months after we edens alliance lost

a general election. the poles were closely contested and returned hung parliament. it rifle unwise. abraham was eventually appointed, prime minister, 6 out of 13 states are set to hold local elections by the middle of this year. that again, expect it to be closely fought and seen as a referendum of sorts. on the new administration's performance, we'd in support to say the charges an attempt to weaken the opposition florence louis al jazeera while the looper and the global repercussions continue from a massive corruption scandal involving another jail former malaysian prime minister in algebra. zak, a u. s. court has sentenced a former goldman sachs banquet at 10 years in prison for embezzling billions of dollars from malaysia sovereign wealth fund. kristin salumi reports from new york, former goldman sachs, executive roger on the left court with his attorney's heading to jail to serve a 10 year sentence. prosecutor say the 50 year old pocketed $35000000.00 as part of

an international money laundering scheme. a scheme that diverted 4 and a half $1000000000.00 from malaysia sovereign wealth fund, known as one m d b between 20092014 in court on expressed deep regret for his crime and its impact on his family, including his 11 year old daughter, whom he hasn't seen in more than 5 years in a statement. us attorney brian p said today's sentence serves as a just punishment for the defendants crimes. and a warning that there's a significant price to pay for corporate corruption on was just $1.00 player and a complicated web of corruption surrounding the wealth fund. his former boss at goldman sachs tim lightner has already pleaded guilty. he'll be sentenced in september goldman sachs malaysian unit paid more than $6000000000.00 in fines after

pleading guilty to bribery charges. former malaysian prime minister naji bra, zak was also involved and sentenced to 12 years in prison and 2020. after being convicted of corruption. and finally there's jo low, the malaysian billionaire, an alleged architect of the scheme, who prosecutor se pocketed $2700000000.00 for himself. he still, on the run, the judge said on in his co, defendants effectively stole from the malaysian people. money meant for infrastructure and economic development projects and imposing the tenure sentence. she cited the need to deter crimes of pure greed. like this one, kristen salumi al jazeera, brooklyn, new york. in fiji, the former leader, frank combine by me. by name rama has been released on bail. he pleaded not guilty to a charge that he abused his power as prime minister in december by new moran. the loss

of 10 selection after holding the position for 16 years. this week he resigned from parliament and protest after a temporary suspension for insulting the president. the soldiers in bolivia are accused of helping and profiting from the smuggling of migrants into chile. the chilean military was deployed more than a week ago to try to stop the flow of undocumented people across the border or latin america editor lucy newman, reports from called johnny. oh wait a little. it's been more than a week since chilion soldiers began patrolling the border with neighboring bolivia to control undocumented migration. but every one we speak to says that the mainly venezuelan and colombian migrants continue outwitting authority, visit and younger to put it up and they come down that hill and the coyotes pick them up in many buses and take them to the city through back roads. the bush driver should be punished. it's a legal this has become the main entry point for tens of thousands of undocumented

migrants. this path is one of the main smuggling routes from bolivia into chile. here in the, at the cam, a desert, you can see the footprints here that show that people were passing probably overnight. it used to in fact be nicknamed the cigarette path because our cheap bolivian cigarettes were smuggled usually from their into chilly and stolen cars, were smuggled from chile into bolivia. now it's no longer really a cigarette smuggling path, but rather a path used to bring undocumented migrants from bolivia into chile. it's not just smugglers who are making money, but also bolivian soldiers who man the space just over the border. according to chile and soldiers and police as well as local residence, the bolivian soldiers are using vehicles like this one to bring my grants right to the border and charging them $30.00 a person. last night i couldn't sleep from the noise, the bolivian soldiers cross over all the time they've even stolen. some of my lamas

complains dis, resident but there's a bigger problem. bolivia, cut diplomatic ties with chilly in 1978. the neighbors have only consider relations, and that made this desolate border a magnet for migrants. a lovely syllabic on both hill solomon. olivia will only agree to take back undocumented migrants from its own country. if the only country that does that. yeah, this means that venezuelans, colombians, brazilians, or anyone else who comes into chile without authorization cannot be sent back. will you, the, at the name of chili's government is currently attempting to negotiate a reciprocal deal with bolivia. but so far there's been no breakthrough. meanwhile, the local indigenous, i mad us who for centuries have gone back and forth across the border as easily as crossing the street complain that they are the only ones obliged to produce up to day permits. to enter this country, to see a newman al jazeera,

called chaney. at least 44 people have been killed in an attack in eastern democratic republic of congo. the military says the village of mac, condi, and north cuba province were targeted by fighters, believe to be from the allied democratic forces. now that said, uganda, an arm and a group that has pledged allegiance to iso un security council team is in the country for a 3 day visits. as fighting with rebel groups continues in the east. still ahead on al jazeera, defensive prowess, cindy n b a. that is coming up in sports in just a moment with jemma. ah.

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ah, it is that time of day time for sport with gemma. thank you sarah. it was the perfect response from manchester united following the thrashing by livable as they beat ro bet his 41 to take control of that you wrote police last 16. and i said we're looking to bounce back from that 7 middle dropping at the hands of that rivals. and it was looking was good. elio and marcus sasha gave them the lead 6 minutes in better as the size $1.00 and $1.00 half time. but you know, i said it went back in front. thanks. we're ready and strike from present when anthony is 7. so the signing for the club in september. you know, i just kept him from school that said he was heavily criticized performance against liverpool. but it's not a jet, was full of price to him also this could be food up and i think he was the best play on the pit and it shows his personality. he played a little bit deeper. all tonight seemed to do and i think he did

a brilliant and he was the leader in ice then with one foot in the quarter finals. but also i was forcing lives and it's still wide open off the side to to william. believe i headed off from that is what level it before the break and then took the lead 10 minutes to do the 2nd half through holiday. it's not your fortune about awful equalizer because attempt to paul, which is the selection of miss build. it had a muslim merisa and going in for an golf every time i can be reached. we're seeing too many symbols and we talked about the importance of boxes. and especially in competition when you are in or out and with the indifferent that what are some positive because we showed, again that our resilience to give up on the game. but we need to defend our books much better, and we're going to have to be better in the return later to beat them. event us to can narrow 1st advantage over private wealth without to see that unhealthy maria

scoring the only goal of the game. you very well without whose hopes that he was dropped for disciplinary reasons. also reportedly putting up late for a team meeting. j same radio is right. my have to step closer to the quarter finals after a victory over rail associate at raleigh school. us office. the minute the former russia campbell as a late head, right. so the, when to the italian side, 2nd, go christiana, without a doubt, those were an action against out if they had in the top of the table question, the saudi already had went ahead in the 18 minutes, resilient fluid around marina with the goal. and now that i had a chance to equalize later on, but he saw his efforts saved. so one that it finished. and he showed his frustration at full time as the slide dropped behind that type of rivals into 2nd. australia have posted a big sustaining score against india in the full test, as men call jim cameron green with the stalls of the show on metadata collage of

building on his century. eventually out for $180.00 from $422.00 rooms. cameron, green, 414 just radians were all out for 400 ac and india 36 for no loss of 400 . 44 by 100. something to cherish rory macaroni made a poor start to the players. championship. the world's number 3 caught it for the pot, opening round, which leaves him 12 shots, off the pace at t p. c. sawgrass. the highlights of the day came out the iconic 17th par 3 island. hol, hayden buckley sending the ball over all of that water, landed on the great job, sit perfectly, rode back and into the home. it's just the 11th face at 17, in the entire history of the tournament for the american. chad raimie wasn't too far away either. he's 225 in the world and has never played the course before. he's a man to capture the top of the leaderboard, often a send the power on $64.00 major call and mark how it is one shot.

there's always nerves, but you know, it's just, they don't mean anything. i mean, i kind of mean to care. you just gotta, you gotta deal with them. that's kinda why we play the game. that's why we're here to have those are those nerves. so just kind of push past on, push on the side and just do what you gotta do. i mean, it was fine 1st time to to shoot a score on such a iconic course like this. i mean, you can ask for any more to tennis, sandy murray has once again shane he still has plenty of fight left in him. this time it was in round one of the indian wells office. the 35 year old bridge who has a metal hip was a set down against dodge and t. t, as in thomas martinez is very 14 years younger, but somebody came back to win it in 3 in a match that lasted more than 3 hours. so far this season, the 3 time grants on champion has won 7 of his notches, that have gone to the fighting 3rd or 5th phase of public renew.

switch plans, downs, every cover, sense indian wells for the 1st time in 4 years. the 37 year old be frustrating and alexander kitchens reset sound. that's up to 26 feet in the next month. that was an obsession. the women's event to 2021 australian open finalists danielle collins was beaten in straight sets by locking loose at mcgaffey. the hungarian lost in qualifying, but ended up getting into the drawer because another player was, she's a former junior usa from champion, and this is just a 2nd when at this level emma rather connie and he decided to play 20 minutes before her much as she struggles with illness and the wrist injury, but she did well dropping just 5 games on the way to a straight that victory as a month to that great banker covenants, the 20 year old for us. they've been champion when our face opponents. 20 a seed mark that lynette than the walkie bucks. one again in the m. b. a. despite

being under strength against the brooklyn nets, brick life has put in a great performance scoring 24 points, but also providing incredible defense for the korea high 9 blocks in the game tonight. and that will also missing some big names at the most loc. finding the season about making problems the eastern conference having 119 of our last 20 games . what around that is meant this grizzlies one for the 1st time since pension of jom around they beat golden state warriors comfortably. 131 point to one sense, fill in brooks. i capture the fields in this one warriors of now 8 straight games on the road while the grizzlies heights seem to run back soon. he's being investigated also being filmed on social media, holding a gun in a nightclub where we're taking this, you know, step by step. you know, we're hopeful everything works out where jaws back at some point time table. i can put a time table on it, but you know, until things change. we know this is our group, you know, and we got

a lot of faith in this group and i'm just really proud of how far and how hard they fought. and i, to rugby 6 nations and another huge class coming up on saturday between england and france, twickenham england coach, steve. all right, because made a big call for this one, bringing in loc as smith, the soft fly. how foster a strong performance phase platonically last week. it means england captain far will start the game on the bench, and alice skins will lead the side instead, fall is expected to come on later in the game and will resume the captaincy. for this game, the, i think the right decision to start marcus and him on the field started a game and then oh, in on the field at the end of the game. and that's why i feel is the right blend against this opponent, the czech republic, celebrating that 1st ever. when in the world baseball classic, they were trailing china and sort of monster mujica smashed the decisive go ahead. a 3 run i run in the 9th inning. it finished $85.00 to the jets sewer team. made up

mostly how much is a plate, japan and i can also let you know mckayla's schiffron has it just equaled the record for the most number of wild cup ski victories a j will be her later with low on that story 0. all right, jenna. thank you so much. we're back in 2 minutes with more world news. ah ah. a dollar a year just dallas the ballade never lately. my bottle. no. hm. in massa,

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willing to negotiate is the ukraine war becoming a forever war is america's global leadership, increasingly fragile. what will us politics look like as we had to the presidential elections of 2024. the quizzical look us politics, the bottom line. in the face of the cost of living crisis, the u. k. chancellor is set to announce his spring budget, but with thousands of civil servants such a sprite over pain ambitions will jeremy hunt resource to announce more money, but public services. follow the story. as it breaks on al jazeera ah, iran in saudi arabia announced they are resuming diplomatic relations and reopening embassies after talks in china. ah.