people are dying because of lack of medical treatment. black labs don't really matter in the police will join me markham, on hill upfront what al jazeera 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 despite over pain ambitions. will jeremy honda be pulls to announce more money for public services? one of the story, as it breaks on al jazeera, ah, an uptick and violence in the eastern democratic republic of congo. 2 attacks by the adf group claimed dozens of lives. ah,

lauren taylor, this is our desire alive from london, or to coming up. ah, growing anger in greece, protest as demand government action after the railway accident that killed 57 people. protests bland in the us against a visit by israel's finance minister who was forced to apologize for saying an occupied palestinian town should be wiped out at a year's worth of rain in just 4 weeks. frozen beak battles, flooding are being hit twice by the same cyclone. ah hello gunmen of killed 19 people in north cuba province in the democratic republic of congo. congolese officials say fighters from the allied democratic forces were behind the attack in benny on saturday. the same rebel group killed at least, 44 people in 2 villages in the condo and condi on thursday at the adf,

which was established in uganda before moving to easton congo. and the 1990s has been blamed for thousands of deaths in the past decade. the alive democratic forces is one of many on groups fighting in the area. the adf has been active in nor keyboard province, but has recently extended its operations into neighboring eternity province. it's reportedly linked to, i saw the u. s. last week announced a 5000000 dollar reward for information that could help capture the leader of the on group sick. i'm. we're so ballou coupe operations by armies of both congo and uganda over many years have failed to defeat the adf. meanwhile, the un security council litigation is visiting goma, the capital of north keeping province to assess the security situation that the delegation has stressed. a political solution is needed to end the conflict with m . 23 rebels. a group has his territory in the north cuban province since reemerging in late 2021 at the morphine on here. it is clear that rhonda supports the

m $23.00 is also clearly established that there are incursions by the regular runs, an army in north kiva, and that this is unacceptable. so this is one of the subject to be discussed and it must stop. or the 100000 somalis have taken refuge in neighboring kenya as a region grapples with its worst drought. and for decades, aid workers in refugee camps say they're struggling to supply basic services. as more people arrive each day, katherine saw traveled to the da da campaign eastern kenya, and spoke to families about how their coping last saw aden mohammed and how family recently arrived at the da da refugee camp. she left her village in la, juba, in somalia. when how full grandchildren died because she had no food to keep them. is a drought in the horn of africa? 6 rainy seasons ha feels the hurt. and the last drought in 2011,

we were surviving on goatskin and wild foods. in this drought, we can't even get that. our options are limited on this drought is more severe. more than 100000 mile is of crossed into kenya since last year. and they keep coming, aid workers say they're struggling to give them their basic needs. this is the longest dry spell in for decades. even life saving is a challenge for us right now. yes, we are providing food wi fi, wi fi, providing food. and we are providing a water and sanitation. and that is as far as it goes in medical or we, they have access to medical structures. but because of the lack of funding or insufficient funding, even those structures, new structures can not be put in place. so they are overcrowded, the existing structures is mile. ali mohammed is pitching a tent on the edge of the comp. he has to scrounge to have

a roof over his children's heads. howard allen, but bar until other people have been dying. the journey from somalia was desperate, there was nothing to eat, no water to drink. i know people who died on the way such shelters as scattered across the area that host more than 300000 refugees, majority of whom, half flag from conflict and droughts. most of the people who are coming to this area on the outskirts of di dab camps are not registered as refugees yet. so they are struggling to survive. they have very little water and food. the refugees get cereals, cooking oil and some cash every month. but the new arrivals have to wait a little longer to access the services is also a vetting process to ensure those who are coming in and not a security threat. those like is mile mohammed who are making the journey to this

camps. said he just wants to stay alive. catherine saw alta 0, the dab refugee camp. it is coast guard says about 30 people are missing. after a boat capsized of the libyan coast. it said 17 people were rescued by a cargo ship out of their boat. got into difficulty about a 160 kilometers, offer libyan coast. libyan authorities responsible for search and rescue efforts in the area called room for assistance after reporting no available naval boats. i know against the greek government is growing after the country's deadliest rail, trash. thousands of people protested in athens and felony key on sunday, furious with the february 28th accident in which 57 people were killed for rail officials have been charged. but as rising resentment over the mismanagement of the network transfer for us reports from athens is greece's 3rd major day of

protests in the 2 weeks since the accident. people here reject the argument to the station master who put the train on the wrong track, was the sole culprit. they won't politicians to admit their responsibility as well . then they say it's not an accident. it's a crime. i feel for the families that lost their children. i think the authorities are trying to trick us. the problem is the lack of measures taken by governments and the money that was set aside for safety. some people and basil their level system is more than a human error can be corrected. safety systems exist to do that. but all government seemed to have stripped the railway network. we students believe transport to run on a cost benefit analysis on the government except that there are responsibilities beyond the station must be found. not that that i've thought about either getting it is very likely that was human error dropping. but this doesn't detract from the fact if we had a nationwide system of automated remote viewing after it's certain that this accident would never have happened. the government vows to have automated safety

systems in place by the end of the summer and points out that previous administrations also failed to install safety features. but it is this government that is paying the political price. the protest march came to the hellenic railways organization officers and petered out. but the political problem remains new opinion polls out on sunday show that the government has shed between 3 and 4 and a half percentage points from its approval ratings. so it is unlikely to be able to form a single party government after elections between now and july, about 86 percent of respondents have said that the roadway accident is the number one problem facing grease to day, the ruling new democracy. conservatives are trying to limit the political fallout will pay families of those killed a lifetime pension of $1600.00 a month and circle were outstanding taxes and private debts. but people here say exchange in human life for money is precisely what led to the disaster. when greek

rule was privatized, 6 years ago and stuffing was cut, jobs are all polos. al jazeera athens. north korea says it has test fired to strategic cruise missiles from a submarine, according to state media. it's the latest round of tests and has happened just as the united states and south korea are due to hold a planned large scale joint military exercise. on monday, south korea's joint chiefs of staff said south korean and u. s. intelligence agencies were analyzing the specifics of the missile firing. ah, israeli army says 3 palestinians were killed after they opened fire soldiers in the occupied west bank. another palestinian man is said to have been taken into custody . the palestinian health ministry confirmed the deaths near the city of nablus, at least 80 palestinians, and 14 israelis had been killed in violence since the beginning of the year.

liberal jewish americans are planning a rally against the visit of israel's finance minister is allowed smart rich. he's in washington dc to attend an investment conference organized by a u. s. based organization. the extreme right wing politician has faced criticism after calling for a palestinian town in the occupied west bank to be quote, wiped out smart, rich, apologized on social media for the comments before his u. s. diplomatic visa was approved. i sent jordan to his line from outside the hotel where protested, gathering a washington dc. what's the situation that arrows? well, the pros, hester's, were made to us set up across the street from the grand hyatt hotel here in downtown washington. you can see about 50 or 60 or so of those demonstrators are gathered. they have been a issuing a chance. they're carrying both the palestinian and israeli flags,

and they're all very much against the presence of the israeli. fine men finance minister here in washington. he is a in a closed door rob meeting with thought the leadership of the is read, israel bonsa program, which are raises money for our projects in and across, saw israel. but it's noteworthy that even though mister smelt rich was able to get his sob. his visa to come to the united states, he's here in washington on sunday and on monday and he's supposed to be in new york on tuesday a wednesday. he's not actually going to meet any one from the biden harris administration, which is an incredible law diplomatic snob. he's also not going to be meeting with the leaders of are leading a jewish american groups, including the group a pack, as well as the anti defamation league. they are not going to meet with mr. small

rich. and then in addition, according to the times of israel, officials at the international monetary fund based here in washington will not be meeting with him. it's a huge diplomatic gov measure. i'll just throw it back to you in the studio and it, and it was given, given all that, what was the organizers hoping to achieve with this visit? i think we may have lost terrace and jordan that nicaraguans president daniel ortega has ordered the closure of the vatican embassy in managua, and the nicaraguan embassy to the vatican in rome. the announcement follows commons by pope francis in an interview where he compared the nicaraguan government to a dictatorship or the relationship between the catholic church in nicaragua and the government has been severely strained since the crackdown on anti government protest in 2018 when the church acted as a mediator between the sides,

the british broadcasting corporation has faced a 2nd day of last minute sport planning changes. a staff refused to work, present to say they're showing solidarity with gary lenika. it was suspended from hosting match the day as tweets about you. k asylum policy critiques, have accused the bdc of getting into political pressure. the mother reports that have you spoken to tim davis with the liquor standing his ground and being kept offer? days on from carolyn the cause. suspension by the b. b. c. the ripples are getting bigger. the former footballer made social media comments comparing the government's rhetoric on asylum seekers to language used in 1913 germany. now sports coverage on the networks been hugely disrupted as commentators and analysts refused to work in solidarity. but here no is the best action from today's premier league matches. the flagship show, much of the day was a short some would say bizarre version with no commentary or presenters and now

opposition politicians are accusing the corporation of caving into political pressure. i think that tory m p. 's apple intolerable pressure on the baby say, because they don't like the criticism of their government policy and whether you agree with what the language, gary linux used or not, he should be able to express his views earlier in the week. government supporting newspapers called for linux to go, but the bbc's director general tim davy says the decision was driven by concerns of impartiality, not political pressure. one complicating factor. the issue of the bbc's chairman richard sharp. he's a major conservative party donor linked to the arranging of a loan for the former prime minister boris johnson. as he was applying for the bbc job, he denies any conflict of interest. what needs to happen as a result of not just the discussions about gary linux, but also about the chairman of the bbc following the independent investigation that's now happening is that we need to make sure we maintain that trust in the

independence and the impartial. i see that you see as for the substance of li, because criticism, the governments admitted its asylum legislation could break international law. some government critics here in the u. k. so this whole row has been used to distract from real discussion of asylum policy. but others say it's thrown up important questions about the people who run the b, b. c. and their relations with the politicians. richard sharp and tim, davy appeared to keen to do what the government wants. now they may say in the long term interest, the bbc, it's about the funding of the bbc's about license fee. it's about featured world service. the trouble is there are moments when the bbc has to change the govern and say, we're not doing it your way. gary linux has made it clear, he won't be apologizing. he insists he hasn't broken any guidelines. what's beyond dispute is that the bbc could have handled this differently, and it's now struggling to contain the crisis. getting barbara al jazeera london.

even barnett is a professor of communications at the university of westminster in london. he explains why this issue is placed further scrutiny on the me shannon richard sharp . usually you would expect the b, b, c, chairman to come out fighting for the b, b. c. not necessarily defending lenika, but certainly defending the b, b, c. but of course the chairman has had to keep very quiet because as you say, he is under scrutiny. now. it is not unusual for there to be a political appointment to chair. the b. b. c has been true under labor governments and it's been true under conservative governments. the difference here is that richard sharp during the appointment process never told m p 's when he was asked that he had some and he had a role in facilitating a loan of 800000 pounds to the then prime minister barak johnson. and of course, it was boris johnson, who as prime minister appointed him as chem of the b b. c. that looks and smells bad. he obviously has and he's never hidden,

that he has close links to the conservative party. and when you have a chairman with that close linked to the ruling government, which at the same time is at the, at the center of a row about bias. it's, it's not a good look for the b, b, c. and it does make it look as if the b, b, c, is caving in to pressure from the government. still to come on out there. the carpets rolled out for the 95th academy awards, whereas genre, bending epic is shining light on asian representation in hollywood. and an anti corruption watchdog clears south africa is president, but the investigations aren't over yet for serial and poses ah hello, i'm pleased to say we have got some dry weather pushing into northern parts of

queensland. now we have still got this chain of storms running. right down towards sir brisbin towards the gold coast. as we go through the next couple of days, this sir, trough here that will tend to week, little, tend to slide a little further southwards. and these, this with the heavier re making his way across. so that eastern side of crazed as some lively showers still in place there to cross use the side of new south wales, 23 celsius in melbourne. you'll be fine and try here. warm sunshine, the perth temperatures here getting up to about 30 degrees celsius on monday. as we go on into tuesday, we will see that where to where the tended to ease out into the open water. still a few showers around for eastern parts of us, but nowhere near as heavy as they have been recently 28 celsius. they're in melbourne on tuesday. we getting up to route 30 degrees on wednesday. so warming up nicely about us. not too bad across these in bloody fi, and try and not too bad with the winds falling light, so some pleasant autumn sunshine coming through. not to spring like meanwhile, across japan, we have still got some sleep. the snow particular cross northern parts of the

country, but that will push out of the way brighter skies come back for more in the way of sunshine. 60 celsius in tokyo is dry, bright, and will once again for bating aah . from the al jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation with no host and no limitation lead as a place of color. it was the struggle. yeah, it would be much easier for me might feel that white people part to go into and thing a songwriter in the other people wait a minute, you get way down. you stop what you're doing and maybe one studio b unscripted on out there. ah

ah. and one of the top stories here now to 0, gunman have killed 19 people in north keeping province in the democratic republic of congo. officials say fight us from the allied democratic forces were behind the attack. a un security council delegation is visiting goma, the capital of north keyboard province, to assess the security situation involving m $23.00 rebels. liberal jewish americans are planning a rally against the visit of israel's finance minister below smart rich. the extreme right wing partition has faced a criticism after calling for palestinian town and the occupied west bank to be quote wiped out. and the british broadcasting corporation has faced the 2nd day of last minute sport programming changes. a staff refused to work, present to say that showing solidarity with gary lenika who was suspended between

about u. k. asylum policy. opposition. politicians accused the bbc of caving to political pressure. in a few hours, hollywood begins handing out its most which it prizes organizes a craving. calm off to last year's academy awards were overshadowed by an infamous on stage slap. but this year's oscars have already had their fair share of controversy. as 100 your customer reports. ross, angie's world, what with these will be the 95th academy awards. and the critics favorite for best picture is everything everywhere, all at once. nominated in 11 categories that john are jumping film about navigating familial drama and the multiverse features a majority asian cast. there's never been this many act i is an actor nominees. if michelle jo winds, she for leading actress. she would be only the 2nd woman of color to ever went on.

the category with no black actors were nominated in the leading role categories. nor were any women nominated for best director. that's renewed criticism of the oscars lack of diversity. we saw a couple of um re great performances and directors that got overlooked also for best picture or the block buster sequels avatar, the way of water and top gun, maverick. but it's the german war film, all quiet on the western front. that critics say may deliver a surprise when comedian jimmy kimmel will host for the 3rd time, expect jokes about last year's slap with a capital s. when after will smith attacked, host chris rock over a comment about smith's wife. the show's producers were criticized for allowing smith to stay until the end of this year. a crisis team is reportedly ready for

anything, and smith is banned from attending. also, missing will be ukraine's president vladimir zalinski, who's reported request to make a virtual address as you did at the berlin film festival, last month was declined by oscars organizers in the evenings, intent is to focus solely on hollywood achievements. what we're honoring is these people who are at the top of their game. they've produced art for us. it's very important. and that makes a difference in the world. this year's oscars will be a test of whether the show has truly rebound from the pandemic following 2 years of the lowest ratings ever. and unlike last year, all $23.00 categories will be presented live, which will make for another long show and a test of the viewing public's endurance. heidi joe castro al jazeera angeles south african president serial ram, oppose. it has been cleared of any wrongdoing after scandal known as farm gate. but

just 3 months ago, threatened to see him impeached an independent panel last year investigated accusations that remo bozer covered up a theft of about half a $1000000.00 cash from his farm. as well as the kidnapping and bribing of the burglars into silence. the panel delivered for men findings that run the poster might have committed a serious violation of the constitution for conducting paid work, while in office, by not reporting the theft to $580000.00 us dollars in cash to police, he might have broken anti corruption laws he could have committed serious misconduct by acting in a way that was inconsistent with his office and found that because of a possible conflict between his official responsibilities and his private business from oppose it may have committed serious misconduct. fought on saturday, south africa media quoted a preliminary report by the country's anti corruption watchdog, a public protector exonerated rather opposed that there is though, still a police investigation into the matter. karen,

the thing is executive director of corruption watch in cape town. he said they've been multiple investigations, and today's routing is just part of the proceedings. initially there was an independent panel set up by parliament to, to assess whether the president had a case to answer in terms of a potential impeachment charge. the work of that committee found that the president did have a case to answer, but that was then a voted down by the legislature with the support of the presidents, a ruling governing party at parliament. this 2nd report now is the report of the public protector, which is a constitutionally established body. the mandate of this report looked into the issue of whether or the president had contravene the executive ethics act. and in terms of this investigation, the mandate of the public protector was somewhat narrow. what she found is that the

president did in fact declare his business interests and therefore as a result of those declarations. that there wasn't a contravention of his role as an executive in terms of his, his, his declarations. this doesn't mean that the president, however, isn't clear in terms of any ongoing criminal investigations that would be conducted by the police. the white house has denied it, has reached an agreement with a run on a prisoner swap. it says it wants to secure the release of 3 americans, but says report to the deal a false earlier runs. foreign minister said an agreement with the u. s. was imminent mall regarding the exchange of current prisoners between iran and the u. s . we've reached an agreement within the past few days. if everything goes well on the american side, i think we'll witness a prisoner exchange in the near future. we see this as an entirely humanitarian case. alhashan has more from terran. foreign minister said that over the

few past few days, they were able to reach kind of an agreement with the united states of prisoners swap. he said that if everything went right on the us side, then this is going to be implemented within the coming days. he was also talking about many other issues regarding the dialogue with saudi arabia regarding even if i have a jesse to a. but the main issue that he spoke about was the prison, a swap, and reaching a deal, which was kind of surprising for many as though surprising because there was no announcement from the us side also. but it was expected because there is a context. iranian foreign ministry has described the u. s. reaction as surprising . a spokesman said written agreement with washington was reached in march last year, tropical cycling. freddy is unleashed powerful winds heavy rain and floods in

mozambique the 2nd time. at least 28 people have been killed and tens of thousands of homes of damaged freddy. as the southern hemisphere is longest lasting, tropical cycling on record started 35 days ago in the western pacific. and travel more than 8000 kilometers. gathering strength over the indian ocean, made land full on madagascar as a tropical cyclone. from there it moved to batter mozambique for several days. it regained strength over the indian ocean and has hit me back again as it bears down on the southern tip of neighboring malawi. almost because in more than a year's worth of rain in the past 4 weeks of their fears, about half a 1000000 people could face a humanitarian crisis in one of the world's poorest nations. many have been urged to move into temporary shelters, including schools, churches and warehouses. a humanitarian operation has begun, but efforts are being hampered by heavy rain. i'll send you a look of ada is the country director of for africa,

mozambique. he says it's difficult to assess the real extent of the damage this is doing is living for much good. disliked one is coming for the 2nd time indies a problem. can you money of yes, of the from 18 hours to print out a the dish. we're very limited information currently a cycle on how you know the information to the extent of the flood the is so, so 5, no connection with it please. if you've been in the let in some basic currently, so we, we have much information, but we're working in coordination about institute for disaster management and reduction to get more information to see how good, what can we assist the community that relevant to the suffering was whenever floods go and you know, secretion, ones on site long normally it's, it's,

it's very obvious but because break, you know, a p as in the, of course we, we do with our team. we are on the ground walk outside the community, trying to assist as much as we can assist with the food shower and blankets. now, silicon valley bank customers will have access to their deposits starting on monday . yes, officials have said the u. s. and the u. k. so they're working to minimize the damage from the collapse of the bank. washington's treasury secretary, janet jaelyn, has ruled out a rescue package for the fan. now sweets collapse was the largest failure, the yes bank since the 2008 financial crisis. ah, i'm under the top stories here and i was here. government killed.