oh, i mean i, it's been 20 years since the united states led invasion of iraq, which overthrew president saddam hussein a widely controversial military operation that kills hundreds of thousands of iraqis and displaced to 1000000 small a conflict is consequences are still being felt to day the rock pool, 20 years on, on al jazeera, ah, a protest across several cities in pakistan, one after police said they would arrest former prime minister in wrong con

ah, at all. elizabeth taught them, and this is al 0 live from doha. also coming up we have the lazy market reaction on the collapse of 2 major bags in the united states . russia says it's agreed to extend the black sea grain deal out of goodwill, but with a 60 day limit. plus i'm hydro castro, in pad or california, a farming town already halfway under water, embracing for another round of flooding. ah, we'll begin in pakistan. we're hundreds of support as a former prime minister in ron con, are protesting across major cities against as possible to rest. please have

confronted the crowd for the camping on roads leading to his home in the hall. an arrest warrant has been issued for con, failing to turn up and caught on monday. pakistan's interior minister says he will be arrested by the end of the day on tuesday. the ousted prime minister is facing dozens of charges, including corruption for earlier con, urge to support has to come out and fight for their freedoms. 2 got into the law. my i had predictive bill till the 18th. so 4 days earlier that police arrives. oh wait a rest warrant, which is totally illegal. so what we're doing is we're waiting for to morrow morning when we would, we will again appear. my lawyers will appear in court and challenge the sir warrant of address arrest. and in the mean time, you released a video and you're asking your supporters and you have a lot of passionate supporters. you're asking them to come out and fight for what

you say. are there freedoms? are you not worried that your message asking people to fight, could result in violence? world wide for their freedom means fight for their fundamental raids. which means bes, fully protesting. what you believe, the constitution and the law of the land, what, what you gives you the right to protest. now all over europe, you have people, a france, people protesting but pensions in england, people protesting because of far, you know, inflation and be risers, so produced as part of the democratic process. never in my 26 years of board of dix have i ever asked my boy, my workers ever to be violent and the arrest wines, mister car that you're facing. it's in relation to a case where the government is accusing you of buying gifts, given by fine dignitaries from the state gift depository. failing to disclose the assets and declarations submitted to the election commission. what's your response

to this charge as charge that the police are trying to rescue either? this is absolutely a fabricated allegation. it's not even a doesn't nothing. it's not even contested by us is just a judge, an allegation made by the police, by the government. now, the cases against me just to let you know in the last few months, every other day, there's a fresh case. so case of murder, case of sedition, that the case of blasphemy, there is a case of terrorism. so every other day, there's a case all we have asked we, we are, we are going to go to the supreme court and we're going to ask them to glove all that gets it together. and just like the ex prime minister of india and the month at all, he was given the option then because his life was also under threat, which miners i've, there's already been an assassination attempt on me. or we've often gotten the

glove all the cases together and had them in a secure place at the moment when i attended my do go to better says there was no security and the government itself says that my life is under threat. so therefore all we lost is that in a secure place, either the glove the gets is there or didn't do it on video conferencing. well, let's bring an correspondent, come on. hi there. he's joining us live from islam above and just how tens of situation is this. come all with the government determined to arrest con and protests around the country against that possible arrest. a jaden gay to hire denture, and draw madera thousands of security forces personnel now being joined by the bad military force and the dreaded and at its dog that m ron con, will be arrested in some sort of an operation within the next few hours. it's the

border of gosh, are still sticking around and that come bound emron residency. those are being shaded with deer guide. there's been broaders in our departure of law and order for orders. and i was reading through the fiber book while robins, they'd be in protest in the baluchistan province and read ahead and this video roll will indian islamabad as well. so indeed of a dense situation. this has been going on since evening. they'd been intent sherlyn, water cannons being you helicopters, hovering above and internet connection rochelle got as far as that area is concerned. and he is facing many challenges, but his arrest the arrest warrant is of a failing to show up to court. in one particular case, the case that he and his support as many in the legal fraternity say as very

frivolous in a technical challenge. if you will, can you explain what that is? good. first of all, this particular case, and as you mentioned that are so many cases, embrun conroy stored to appear and 4 to 5 cases in one day, which is in butcher. bellagio alluded to the fact that there was no security there than eminent dead to live this particular case and to which is being arrested and the torture cannot get. a gift that i received by head of state can be barred for a, a certain amount of money or they had to have stated done and formed whether he would like to exercise adoption of buying a gift at a fraction of the got up august on the leaders have done, a journalists have been recipient of bureaucrats even don't milledgeville officials have been getting don't give some of them without paying any money. so don't

charges of, gosh, are not considered to be serious enough, but also the intention of the government, for example, one of its political work. good. good, good. the police said it was an accident and framed georgia against him. ron fond for being responsible for the death of one of the borders to indeed the government also trying heavy handed tactics, they want to make sure that they're able to do it if them and put more pressure on them. come on. thank you very much for that. come on either with the latest live for us in islam about thank you. linen on to other news now. after turbulence, few days on the stock market's bank shares opened higher and new york on tuesday. the we can collapse of to us. banks calls turmoil, but investors have been v a show on my report, showing inflation marginally snowing and the us that could take some pressure off. baton says, economists expect the federal reserve to suspend it, streak of interest rate hikes. as bringing correspondence, gabriel and his on donnie is joining us live from wall street in new york and it

sounds like the message from the white house. the people's money is safe, is working when it comes to the stock market gate. yeah, big sigh of relief here on wall street as the markets are doing quite well. and they're all the s and p. the nasdaq, the dow jones industrial average, the key indices all in positive territory all day. on tuesdays, the white house has been really trying to do 2 things. number one is really contain the damage. with the 2 banks that fail to silicon valley bank and signature bank sorta get money flowing. and so the customers of those 2 banks get the money that they had locked in those $2.00 banks. but then also and more importantly probably is contain the damage. so that it doesn't spread to the wider financial system in the u. s. and clearly, based on what we're seeing from the stock market on tuesday here,

it appears that that is working. now we, we are hearing about this though, that the justice department reportedly might be looking into the collapse of the silicon valley bank to see if there's anything that various that went on there or illegal that potentially went on there. that led to its collapse. and also beyond that, well, the immediate situation here on wall street is at least stable and looking pretty good. the medium to long term outlook for the banking sector in the us, perhaps not so good. and we saw that on tuesday for moody's, the rating agency downgraded net outlook for the u. s. at banking sector as a whole from stable to negative. they say in their words, they did this because of a quote, rapidly deteriorating operating environment and their words. so clearly there's still a lot of trepidation about how the banking sector in the us will come out of this

in the medium term. and as well as the concerns for the banking sector. there were also concerns about the impact of silicon valley is go to bank going fast on the tech sector game, especially given the recent layouts. and it seems that there are more job cuts. now . there are no mark zuckerberg to ceo of meta announcing on tuesday that they would be cutting 10000 more jobs and would not be filling 5000 open positions. this comes after the company matter, which of course owns facebook, instagram, whatsapp among others. some of the biggest tech companies that doings of people around the world use these tech products. this comes, these cuts come after medic cut 11000 jobs in november. so it's clear that there is going to be more downsizing and the tech sector is critical because

meta often signals to what other big tech companies will be doing. so we can expect more cuts throughout the tech sector in the coming weeks or perhaps months at his appears or 2023 is very much going to be a year where the tech sector does more cuts. after adding a record number of employees throughout the pandemic, the last couple years i gave thank you very much for that. that is gabriel and he's on the lie for us in new york. thank you. ah, ukrainian president vladimir zalinski as a russian missile strike in the city of crimea. tours has killed one person. cromwell's cause, just under an owl ray from the eastern front line city buck mode, which has seen weeks of shelling. zalinski says 3 people were wounded and 6 buildings were damaged. he said the buildings were residential, and again accused moscow's troops of targeting civilians. hassan must,

with reports from comatose. the missile attack her attacked this sir area that is in the center or for chroma tourist. and as we can see, the shelling a had a several buildings. at least 9 buildings were attacked there by this missile attack here this morning. and people were living here sleeping here and starting their morning. some people are left already. the area and other people were living in this area that caused one person killed and at least 7 injured other shelling happened in that these big before and civilians care the city close to here to chrome, a tourist in donuts treason and also other cities like echoes something you've got as being child all the time. oh, so not only here though,

the shutting also was announced in the south of ukraine, especially in odessa, while a military administration for this i said that a 4 am missiles were at targeting ga the coast of odessa. they would hits butts. and these are misses caused some damage at that caused their credit. mazda is separate buildings there, and once cool as a military offer. and that mutation emitter of administration and, or the sub suds and announce russia has agreed to extend the ukraine grain export dean after talks with the un, but only for 60 days. that's half the length of the previous agreement. the grant export packed has helped ease the global food crisis triggered by russia's invasion of ukraine last year. while than 24000000 tons of grain has been exported under the deal. still ahead on the bulletin leak testimony and glee sheds light on what may

have caused a head on train collision that killed 57 people. ah frank assessments. this treaty provides us with this hopeful moment where countries could come together and stop putting in place the rules and will allow us to treat this global commons with the attention of deserves inside story. on al jazeera, joined the debate. we know that the sector seems empowered by going through the government and stand by there's really going to lynn today. they are the government africans. health security is also global health security on an online, at your voice. there is no right to defense. there is no right to protest, we can't just keep relying on aid. there has to be some work toward a sustainable economy. at the end of the day, it is ordinary objects that are paying the price. this tree on al jazeera,

examining the impact of today's headlines. this was probably one of the deadliest disasters that you study of setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. this is the one that's been hitting city sharing personal stories for a global audience. can you talk a little bit about what like this, like for african limited programs that open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today. all now to sierra lou ah, watching al jazeera with me and as withdrawn doha, reminder of our top stories,

the sour authorities in pox 1000 say they will follow court orders and arrest former prime minister. and ron con, for failing to show up in court on monday, hundreds of protest as an outside, his residence and le 4 and a fought for police stock markets in hong kong and tokyo closed more than 2 percentage points down on tuesday after international investors were rattled, by the failure of to us bags. president joe biden says the u. s. banking system is safe. and russia has agreed to extend the ukraine gray and export de la to talk with you when, but only for 60 days. the agreement has helped ease the global food crisis, triggered by russia's invasion of ukraine. last year. malawi has declared a state of disaster after tropical cyclone fatty hit the country for a 2nd time in less than 3 weeks. at least 190 people have been killed. but troy gate and b reports. they dig to find survivors buried under the mud, but hopes of finding people alive or fading fast. dozens of missing from this

village in malawi, after tropical storm freddy, tall through it with you. have i? what heard of some of it? i'm helping to find the victims. i know there are more bodies that are still buried so far between 20 and 20. 5 bodies been recovered from the debris and ruined houses . most of them of them varied the hospital, but they all looked dead. i think freddy is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere. and the longest lasting little was spared by the storm renewed. what young women in holy mussel. so now it was to bud in the night. but now that it is day time, i can feel the loss. i have never seen something as terrible as this. my neighbor's house is all organic. the family members are gone. they are missing a some cases the father is alive, but the wife and the children are gone on the same storm pummeled central mozambique on saturday, ripping reeves off buildings and bringing with it wide spread flooding. tens of

thousands of homes that damaged. the un says more than half a 1000000 people could face a humanitarian crisis in one of the world's poorest nations. in malawi, people have been urged to move into temporary shelters, and the government has declared a state of disaster. the guide you even granted this is the 2nd time this has happened in 2015 will to experienced a disaster. but this time it's far worse. i think the number of down here is likely to rise. fine to say climate change is making tropical storms more powerful as oceans absorb heat from greenhouse gas emissions. here em allow a many, a suffering the consequences. despite having done the least to cause it, victoria gate and be al jazeera, california is bracing itself of what the national weather service is calling further. catastrophic floods on the days of heavy rainfall. emergency cruise, near the town of pa, jar only a central california coastline. a charge of repair breaks and a levy which led to the settlement being flaunted more than a 1000 people,

had to be evacuated, and dozens of rescues were carried out. we're joining us from pedro's correspondent, heidi show castro. what's the situation been now heidi? well you're seeing empty homes behind me. you're seen vehicles that were under water just a few hours ago. most of the people in pato have been evacuated after that levy broke on friday and this is sort of a low because the water has receded. and that's notable around me, but authorities are warning, this is only temporary, and people are heating those warnings and they're still staying away. what's in the forecast, more rain in the starting the next few hours and continuing through the next few days. an impact of what scientists are calling the atmospheric rivers that have been dominating overhead of, of california throughout the winter season. this is the 10th one to have hit this

region and signed to say they 2 are impacts of climate change. so in the next few days, there will likely be more flooding, and people are being warned unfortunately to stay away because the worse is still yet to come. that's in the next few days, but given the intensity of the flooding of the last one month, heidi what's expected to be the, the long term impact right. even if immediate dangers are averted and the county of monterey says it's already conducted a 170 high water rescues of people who have been stranded in their homes or vehicles even if they, whether that danger. they're still the long term challenge of recovering from this disaster falling disaster falling disaster, which is the pattern here just in january, there were more, there was more flooding. the levy survived those floods, but these storms that have been happening over the weekend of their project. it to

return, they are far worse. and the people here in pato are mainly farm workers. they don't have a lot of money and now they're losing their homes as well as their jobs. because this region, which is known as the salad basket of the world wells, up to half of its crop yield from this season, is projected to be lost because of this flooding. so there will be economic consequences as well. and of course, just the continued uncertainty as california, like much of the rest of the planet, goes between extreme after extreme from droughts to amazon york rivers back to droughts. and that is simply the uncertainty and the continued risk that appears to be the trend going into the foreseeable future. how does your cost are there with the wide reaching implications of this flooding? not just for the people in pato, but for people around the world. in fact, thank you, heidi now, judicial inquiry is underway. increased to been justice for the 57 people killed

when a passenger train collided, head on the freight train last month. some of the responsibility for the crash could fall and the italian state railway scope it operates. grace's passenger trains, john to rob las reports from athens. throughout greece, there is fury with the government by its own admission. it failed to install safety systems that could have told human operators, 2 trains were on a collision course. many of those killed were students. one of them, a colleague of santos, vanities. it's just unimaginable. that's on a country's my central rail route. you wouldn't have a backup system that tells you what direction to train for traveling. whether they're going to collide greek grill has largely relied on humans systems centered on this room inside the hellenic railways organization headquarters. this is the nerve center of the greek rail network. a central traffic coordinator sense at this

desk trained drivers give him their whereabouts through this vhf radio system. and he plots the progress on this paper chart. but this completely manually operated system is not all knowing a local station master can switch tracks without telling the coordinator. that is what happened on the night of february 28th. when, according to leaked testimony, a station master's switching mistake, since the northbound passenger train 62 up a south bound track into an oncoming freight train, killing 57 people. a veteran head of rail security says that mistake wouldn't have happened in the days when 3 people sat in this room. and as other wash head brush, there used to be an experienced train driver and an experience train inspector who sat with a traffic coordinator. they were in contact the station master's and train driving across the country. if any mistakes happened, they were fixed within 2 or 3 minutes he had

a night train did away with that institution. in late 2024, the imprint, your line hellenic train is the hellenic railways organization subsidiary that runs greek passenger trains. it was sold to the italian state railways group in 2017 to cut costs. the italian management abolished route checking inspectors on trains over examiners. if the inspectors duties had been left intact, train $62.00 wouldn't have left the station on the wrong track. and if he had, he would have used the emergency brake. yeah. if the italian company doesn't want to enforce a safety rules, they can return the shares in hellenic train under the greek states. don't go home . hellenic train didn't respond to our requests for comment. what's clear is that the greek state failed to install 21st century safety technology, and that the italian train operator cut stuff with safety rules. 57 people died in the crash rail, expert se was utterly avoidable. jobs are awful. us al jazeera atoms.

the growth of israeli protested, have tried to block the road, leading to the prime minister's office after parliament passed the 1st leading of a controversial bill to overhaul the judiciary. as it becomes law, parliament would be able to strike down decision by the supreme court for the simple majority, it will need to pass the 2nd and 3rd, even before it becomes more government employees and india protesting in front of parliament to demand the restoration of the previous pension scheme, pardon? metal has more on you. deli government employees are upping the ante union members have done maturing new denny demanding. the government revert to the old pension scheme. under this retired employees got half the salary is monthly benches. but this added to the government's financial burdens and so in 2004, it implemented the new pension scheme. under this, a portion of the pension contribution is invested in the stock market. yeah. and

when the employee retired, yoshi gets the entire pension in want to go, but employ davis, make them bud reboot to have a strong market performance. they're all to plot against increased privatization of government services like transport. it sort of got a great deal to because we don't like the government's attitude. there is blaine privatization. they are out sourcing work to contractual employees who don't get paid for money. departments are being shut down and the government is giving lucrative contracts to some business with similar vote as have been taken place across several spot in the state of iraq. you know, many government employees are on the side of these. people just have taken a political, don states governed by opposition party said they will be reinstating the old pension scheme and just headed for general elections next year and party see this as a good opportunity to corner prime minister marine to mode these b j, which remains when i gave it to, one to part with tom, bob with china is re opening its borders to international tourists for the 1st

time since the car, the pandemic broke out 3 years ago. the move comes of beijing declared victory last month on the recent surgeon, the virus by using the restrictions. china is retreating from a 0 called strategy that has hurt the countries economy. vinyl records sales have out performed cds in the u. s. for the 1st time in decades, more than $41000000.00 vinyl records was sold in 2022 to the tune of $1200000000.00, compared to $33000000.00 cds, which made 480 $3000000.00 in revenue. well that's it. from me, elizabeth ferrara. them inside story is coming up next. thank you for watching. ah

hello, slicking a little gray and cloudy across the middle east at the moment. lots of unsettled well around this massive cloud, right? the way across, even us here. in cancer, right, the way down across. so the you a pushing into iran in it leaks all the way back into to care up towards the black sea where we are going to see some very heavy rainfall as we go on through the next couple of days. at cloud, great spilling in off the eastern side of the mediterranean. really heavy and sundry showers coming in here as we go through wednesday, particularly in the afternoon. i do expect to see some flash flooding as a result of that. that wet weather slide through crew waited makes his way further . east was petering out somewhat, but still some lie be down, pulls me some snow over the mountains to stay dry. hearing hatter though ha, 20 at celsius for the time being lottie dry across northern parts of africa till we got some rain clearing away from the sinai peninsula. 21 celsius 3rd carissa cooling off, but to try and find, find a cross much of north africa. but showers there around the gulf of guinea,

right across the coastal fringes of west africa, other side of the continent, more heavy showers still lingering there into where mozambique as a result of what was tropical cycling ready, it moves out into the open waters with showers behind ah, the latest news as it breaks from for it's still the favorite here among the grass roots and, and many of the poles to be the republican presidential nominee with detailed coverage fire has swung the spotlight back on the struggle based on daily basis by everyone here from around the world, fire didn't go to the 1st to cause of this trade was so hot, it may have cremated the victims exactly where they were killed a decade long conflict in a region which with natural.