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ah, hello, i'm elizabeth per autumn and this is the news al live from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. a russian fighter jet, collides with a u. s. military surveillance drone causing it to crash into the black sea. it's the 1st such incidents since the ukraine war began to protest across several cities and pa, castorena's police. a former prime minister m ron con, will be arrested following court orders. the southern hemisphere most powerful and longest tropical cyclone on record of ripped through malawi, killing at least a 190 people. us inflation figures cool slightly bought markets remain in terms of following the collapse of 2 american banks and fishermen. in the philippines, protests against mega projects, bay say a putting bare mountain business and i'm far as small. have all the days. ford is feed for confirm the ex. well, cap or feature a record 100 inform matches,

but 2026 tournament will take place across 3 countries, the usa, canada, and mexico, and will last nearly 6 weeks. ah, the u. s. has condemned what it called a reckless maneuver by a russian jet which has brought down an american drone. the fighter jet collided with the propeller of the drone as it was flying over the black sea south of ukraine. the u. s. military says the unmanned drone was over international waters and posed no threat. let's bring in our correspondence. she had her tansy, he's joining us live from washington dc. it's a very strongly worded statement from the u. s. government, as you'd expect, she had. what more do we know about the incident? what more they're saying? will answer the curve at 7 am local times a 6 a m g m t. in fact,

2 russian fighter jets had been shadowing, this reaper drone, which the us says was over international waters, a spider. and clearly an area of sensitivity to the russians that the russians could. you feel that, you know, with a black seed, the vicinity of crimea, this is their sphere of influence. it's actually pretty common. i think that we have that kind of shadowing between adversarial fighter drabson and aircraft, and drones in this area and other regions around the world. what's different, of course, is this collision, but i will read out a little bit from the statement from us european command. and all we have right now is consummation from the u. s. as we said, we haven't heard from the russians, but it does have spelled out quite a detailed narrative. it says one of the russian, as you $27.00 aircraft, struck the propeller of the m q 9. the drone for causing us forces to have to bring the m q 9 down in international waters several times before the collision. the su $27.00 was dumped fuel on and flew in front of the m q 9 in

a reckless environmentally unsound, an unprofessional manner. the incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe, an unprofessional, that's quite interesting, that sort of, that stressing of a lack of competence, which suggests perhaps that you may think it was all, it may be an accident, may have been unintended, the least the the collision, the collision itself. but then that the statement does go on to warn the russians about an aggressive actions that a dangerous and could lead to miscalculation an unintended escalation, which i think is why we're all concerned about that. incidents like that. but we do have to put it into that context off of this. we're shadowing b rob, bang rather routine but, but not so much the, the actual collision itself. and so how significant would you say the incident as she had given the context of the, the relations between us and russia right now? well, i mean, that's why it's national news. organizations are leading with it because clearly

there's a great deal of tension between the us and russia. but then again, i think it's very important to keep us into the context of, of the sort of interactions and engagement that we see on a pretty routine basis between the, the air forces and drones, of either several countries like the us and russia. we know that joe biden was brief. earlier this morning, the state department says it will be expressing its concerns to russian officials. as a pentagon briefing, it was already scheduled, which is going to be happening in the next half an hour or so. so possible not a little bit more about what's, how the, the u. s. is viewing this and also about the recovery efforts for the drain. still, i think, very from, from the russians. i think that be rather interesting because because you have to read because these but these reap drains are quite substantial themselves. what's the damage this may have done to the, to the russian aircraft as well, or that is she hobb return. see, joining us live with the laces from washington, d. c. thank you. she

and russian president vladimir putin has claimed state actors were behind last year's explosions on the north stream gas pipelines. he dismissed as nonsense reports that a pro ukraine group sabotaged the pipelines which carry russian gas to europe are close to. so to the dish to who's interested theoretically, the united states is interested in stopping the supply of russian energy carries to the european energy market. and supplying volumes of its own, including liquefied natural gas, even if it is much more 25 to 30 percent more than russian. though, on the front lines, the ukranian president anonymous landscape has a russian missiles strike in the city of chroma toss has killed one person comatose because just under an hour away from the eastern frontline city of buck mode, which has seen weeks of shunning. zalinski says 3 people were wounded and 6 buildings damaged, said the buildings were residential,

and again accused moscow's troops of targeting civilians. hassan must sewage reports from cannon tours. the missile at their care attacked this sir area that is in the center o for chromatography. and as we can see, the shelling a had a several buildings at least 9 buildings were attacked her by this a missile attack her this morning. and people a were living here a sleeping here and starting their morning. some people are left already the area and the other people were living in this area that caused one person killed and at least 7 injured other shelling or happened in the days been before and civilians care the city close to here to grandma tourist and donuts treason and it also other cities like a co,

something you've got as being child all the time are also were not only here though, the shelling also work or was announced or in the south a few korean, especially in or there. so while her military administration for this, i said that a for a miss hos were, are targeting good. the cost of odessa they would hurts, butts are these are misses caused some damage at the caused their cur, damaged. there is several buildings there. and once cool as a military or for a that my station m a minister of administration and, or this up said and announced to are the news now. and hundreds of support is a form of pakistani prime minister and ron carter protesting and major cities against his possible arrest. police and confer confronted the crowds and a camping on roads leading to his home. in the hor and arrest warrant has been issued for con, failing to turn up in court on monday. pakistan's interior minister says he will be

arrested by the end of the day on tuesday. the after prime minister is facing dozens of charges including corruption. earlier, con, urge to support us to come out and fight for their freedoms. 2 i spoke to former prime minister in ron carne a short while ago. he says the reason why he hasn't showed up in court is because of the lack of security during the hearing. got into the law. my. i had predictive bill till the 18th. so 4 days earlier that police arrives, oh wait a restaurant, 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 beasts 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 politics. have i ever asked my boy, my workers ever to be violent and the rest 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 declaration 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, there's a case of sedition. there's a case of blasphemy. there is a case of terrorism. so every other day, the case, all we have asked we are, we are, we are going to go to the supreme court and we're going to ask them to global that gets together. and just like the ex prime minister of india and the month at all, he was given the option 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 balances, there was no security. and the government itself says that my life is under threat . so that's 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 it to cos bonnen. come on. hi there. he has been following the story for us from as lama, by just how tens the situation is this come on and what's happening in the hall then period minister said that they would arrest and ron con, by the end of day on tuesday. and it's nearly the end of the day. there isn't test absolutely. as you, as we speak, it is less than 15 minutes to midnight. and that of course, after the tread from the interior minister there get really be done. and today's day now the situation day, a still quite a lot main data,

thousands of security forces, but for now, these amended need armed with gear got shares, water cannons, backed on. and all the show not being bagged by the about a military force said yeah, apprehension that gave will be a they stayed within the next few hours and some sort of an operation operation at 10 feds come under skating criticism, begun upon job is being ruled by and and get him set up which came into effect often m, ron honda, does the provincial assembly, they have a mandate only for 90 days. they're supposed to be new drink shania do do judiciary members, jurists have criticize the heavy handed back day, saying that this goes against the spirit of the constitution. given the fact that the former prime minister had predictive ban, she'll want to watch the urgency to go for this particular action. she near jonas have also western day conduct of cleanup when nice often fishers,

who they are in war directly. and it's all probation leading their policeman against that compound and of god. now it has spread to all is bought. so focused on we are getting a boat from the fiber book from what province it some albano draw would have been de garage g good. good. as far north coach made and all showed aboard shells, protest and other cities show how they're stunned out. there's going to be extremely crucial, a senior fall, my us envoy for august on of honest on don't development. i nod said resting. am ron con? what ignite said bear didn't already, didn't, and so that all warnings that sector move, we're back fire that perhaps the public is angry because of the inflation, the poor performance of the government. and therefore, i again, shouldn't draw much turned on, forwarding at gum on fall can law. and him on con is facing many challenges that

his arrest is either failing to show up in court in one particular case. and certainly on paper. it's not the most serious of the challenges that he's face and can you explain what it is come on a 1st or for this particular case as been registered by the police and a magisterial gord. this is the lower court. the law gord shot at the barrington control or whoever adds and paula and bugger star, north end government. now the case against him and daddy, daddy bought some of the doors gifts and then sold them on the open market. many buckets, donnie prime ministers, hedge of state presidents even had of the establishment military. even journalists have been digging away some of the gifts that have been given to bugger, stand by hedge, go stages of other gun. jade some dying for free. so there are charges of frivolous

and a police action it looking more dubious because enron cons party had warned that this is an attempt for cab or dies don't elections, which are due on the 3rd year of april and upon job province command. thank you very much. for that to come on. hi, the keeping a very close eye on developments and the whole for us from islam about. thank you. well, let's get more on this now. we're joined by tanya buzz. i lawyer at the islam above high court and she's joining us live from the law about. thank you very much for your time on al jazeera and correspondent, come on either was speaking there about how there are many lawyers, legal experts who say that the charges against iran con, are frivolous. how would you describe them? i don't have so many charges on him. butter into this case in boucher on a case the non billable. 1 were inside issued by the additional session judge of

the district court's. then the loyalty brown han, do you just gone by the high ward for suspension? then he's gone. bug hi. horn game died action that even give you 3 days. you are presenting brown hand on monday, but when the lawyers appeared on monday in the under the bill, i want the law, the lawyer off in brown hon. you just said that in rob han yet not because it can come to the court due to some security reasons, bend on that it will, i won't give direction to the police to the id that to be want you brown, hon. if dean thought mars in this court, because it's a non billable to water and, and a judge has to be framed. why do you charge? you know, pretty him that you shouldn't be in the. and then run con, told us earlier himself that he wasn't due in court till the 8018th of march. what do you think is happening here with authorities trying to arrest him on the 14th? the reason is that when the charges rained in criminal cases,

that used to be present in the court, the only one high court gave him to court chances even tomorrow, the case suspects report under beleive court. but it's an objection in the case because the biometric of iran hahn is needed unless until in downtown does not come and do the biometric in on it. but i for then the kids will not be entered, did not listen. and that's why the only one i put that actions do all of them that we need to be addressed him in. and he says that he is unwilling to appear in court because he has real safety concerns. this is a man who had an assassination attempt on his life last year for his safety. he wants to be allowed to appear in court via video link like the person who is accused of trying to assassinate him. do you think the court should allow him to do that but. 8 the reason is that he cannot go on a video call because the biometric of the accused is very important. the person was

finding the keys. there is a rule in slumber bi board that without that, by a magic your kids can not be fired. no, you can be listen. so he is given to you for chances from the honorable i, for that you please come and a fear, but you do some is your duties and then has the he was, is lawyers game but this excuse and mankind. and his lawyers would say that these are very valid security reasons tanya bus i lawyer at the lab above high court. we thank you very much for your time, your expertise on this? thank you. we have plenty more head on the news, our including more misery for tech workers in the united states. as facebook's parent company met her announces thousands of job cuts and a sport the usa had back of the world. baseball classic details coming up

ah, malawi has declared a state of disaster after tropical cyclone freddy hit the country for a 2nd time in less than 3 weeks. at least a 190 people have been killed. the storm trodden floods and lance flies that washed away many hollins. thousands of people are displaced and sheltering, and schools and churches. sy clone freddie reached malawi early on monday after sweeping through mozambique for the 2nd time. finally, the miller has more from allow his capital, the long way more than 12 districts in milan, we have been affected by a tropical cyclone fredy, including the main city of bland tire, where thousands of people have been affected. the malawi government has said at least 190 people have been killed due to the storm due to much flights flooding as well as very strong wind. 60000 people have been affected,

at least 20000 of them had been displaced. the government has said that it sitting up camps to accommodate these people to ensure that they have some way to go now in neighboring mozambique. the picture isn't as clear because telecommunications have been brought down as well as electricity and internet services. so it's been difficult getting a peer, a picture from mozambique where tropical cyclone friday has now hit for a 2nd time in a month. this is one of the longest lasting tropical storms on the work order that has become very concerning. for people in the region just given the extent of the damage, which in a country like mozambique has been difficult to determine. they have been measures put in place including age agencies are trying to reach some of the worst affected areas in cleaners and be the region where at least 900000 people in was a big have been affected. but governments in both countries saying they're closely watching what's going on and trying to put in place emergency services to assist as

many people as possible. after a toby and few days on the stock market, bank shares opened higher and new york on tuesday. but we can collapse of to us banks course terminal and investors have been reassured by report showing inflation marginally flowing in the us. that could take some pressure off banks as the economist expect the federal reserve to suspend that streak of interest rate hikes . well, let's get more on this now where you are by william colon. he's a writer and former mergers and acquisitions, investment banker. and he's joining us live from new york. thank you very much for your time. as silicon valley backs vulnerability, that we've seen its collapse as vulnerability to rising interest rates as it power leveled and other banks to an over exposure to folding bond prices. do you think? well, i'm sure that unfortunately, other banks have probably made similar investment mistakes that silicon valley bank

made by investing in the bond market when it was so overpriced. and before the fed started raising interest rates, the question is whether they'll be, will other banks will be forced to sell some of that investment portfolio and silicone bank valley bank was because depositors wanted their money back. there was essentially a run on the bank and the silicon valley bank had they not done that, then the bank wouldn't have been forced to realize those losses. which of course led to a spiral red rapid spiral downward and the f d. i see close in the bank. why, how was it that full of con valley bank ended up in the situation? well, the bank made the classic mistake. the banks often make of borrowing short and lending long. and what i mean by that is, you know, they had

a large. ready pool of depositors. ready who wanted their money for whatever reason, similar time. and they had invested. so there was a demand on people wanting to deposit and expecting to get them because that was their money. and unfortunately the bank had use that money to invest in long term securities. which of course they could sell and when they sold them, they had huge losses and they couldn't provide the deposits back to the depositors when they wanted it. and so the money essentially wasn't there and it was lost. and that's when the f d i had to step in and closed it. it was the mistake that has happened since time immemorial. but the bank at the subaru short and last long. and why is that then? you know, if it's a mistake that has been made some time and the more you why a bank still making this mistake. well, there you go. you know,

i think it's human nature and it's also the nature of our banking system. here we have what is called the fractional banking system. the only way that for profit banks, private banks make money is by taking the money from their depositors and lending it out to corporations, individual universities, municipalities, people who want it. so they take the money in and pay very little for it and then use that money to lend out to people who can pay higher rates of interest to them. and that spread between what they pay for the deposit and what they get from lending it out. is their profit that's the way backing works, and it's fine until people all want their money at the same time. and they can't get their money at the same time because it's not at the bank. and never was it the bank. it's the fiction of our fractional banking system, which usually works just fine until there's

a stampede and everybody wants their money at the same time. what's the colon? thank you so much for breaking all of that down for us. that is william cohen joining us live from new york. thank you. thank you. facebook's parent company, meta says it plans to cut $10000.00 more jobs this year. it is the social media, john's 2nd run of math layouts. the past 5 months then eliminated 11000 jobs in november or about 13 percent of its global workforce. that's making that correspondent gabriel. any dondo who's joining as ly from new york. so what's, what's going on with meta, he again because you mentioned they're cutting about 10000 jobs. this announcement came here on tuesday and also not going to fill another 5000 open positions. this comes after the company cut

11000 jobs last november. and what's basically happening here is this is a further indication of a downturn in the tech sector. during the pandemic. companies such as meta hired by the hundreds, if not thousands of new employees during the pandemic as people were working from home using as zoom and other online for systems to do meetings and doing e commerce to buy groceries and products. that's why the tech sector was increasing their spending on hiring, as well as employees during the pandemic. and right now with the economic slowdown, they're simply saying they have too many employees and these cuts. so that is why in a nutshell, if you will, why we're seeing these guts that we're also hearing from a meta c e o. mark is dr. burke, who in a letter to employees, indicated that this downturn in the tech sector could last

a couple of years. if not more, he said that 2023 is going to be the year of efficiencies, which usually is code were for cutbacks and given mess. such a tech industry giant gave how could this affect the wida tech sector a lot. a net of course owns facebook go. what's app messaging system is roles. instagram, billions of people around the world used better products every single day or multiple products at one time. why this is important is because meta being one of the biggest tech companies in the world often is a benchmark for what other tech companies do or will do. so how goes meta usually indicates how the wider tech sector will react. and what will

happen with the wider tech sector, so expect more cuts in the tech sector throughout the united states year in the coming months and route through the years. well, thank you very much for that. go ahead and he's on the we're the nation's life, or as a new york. thank you. 10 to 11 and now with a local currency has continued, plummeting. now it's hit record lows. just 3 years ago, one daughter was trading at around 2500 lebanese lira. now it's unofficial value has nearly reached $100000.00 lire against the dollar. the currency is loss of value has hurt people's purchasing power and 2021 kilogram of chicken cost. 2800 libra. now it goes from more than $600000.00. well, the government is making attempts to stabilize the market and is pushing for reforms. zayna honda has more from beirut, lebanon local currency. the lira continues its freefall, its been sharply div valuing since the onset of an economic crisis in late 2019.

but in recent weeks, we've seen a sharp evaluation. it is now trading at $100000.00 lire to the dollar. at the start of this year, it was trading at $50000.00 lire to the dollar before the economic crisis in late 2019. it was trading at $1500.00. so this is the 100000 bill. this bank note is the biggest bank note in circulation before the economic crisis. that was worth 67 dollars dollars. now it's worth a dollar. now this is causing a lot of suffering because the majority of the population earn in the local currency and lebanon is an important dependent country. it imports almost everything, it needs, so prices keep on on rising. in fact, if you go to supermarket, everything now is priced in dollars because a store owners are not able to keep up with the fluctuating exchange rate. what are

the authorities doing? the central bank has tried to stabilize the market a few times by pumping dollars into the market, but it's just not working. in fact, what is happening is that it is damaging the foreign currency reserves before the crisis is there were $30000000000.00 in the central bank. now, $10000000000.00. the solution is for the authorities to carry out much needed economic structural reforms. reforms that will hurt politicians who are in power. they've been reluctant to do that. but unless they do that then, then the currency, which really is worthless. you can, you can barely buy anything with this. now, we'll just continue to devalue even further. still ahead on the news out i'm how did your castro in pohardo california a farming town already half way under water embracing for another round of flooding

. as we'll hear from the team end to end manchester cities for the 1st champions lead time. so ah hello sir, looking a little grey and cloudy across the middle east at the moment. lots of unsettled weather relative is massive cloud right. the way across even us here in cancer, right? the way down across said the you a pushing into iran and it links 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. that crowded right, spilling him off the eastern side of the mediterranean. really heavy and sundry showers coming in here as we go through where to stay, particularly in the afternoon, i do expect to see some flash flooding as a result of that. why to whether slide through crew wait, it makes its way further. east was petering out somewhat,

but still some live down pools. we some snow. i with the mountains, fish, they dry hearing hats out there. ha. 28 celsius for the time being mostly dry across northern parts of africa to we got some rain clearing away from the sinai peninsula. 21 celsius 7. carissa cooling off, but to try and find find a cross much of north africa, but showers their round. the gulf of guinea, right across the coastal branches of west africa are the side of the continent, more heavy showers still lingering there into where most and big as a result of what was tropical side claims ready. it moves out into the open waters with showers behind. ah. ready too often of canister is portrayed through the prism of war. but there were many of bannister, thanks to the brave individuals who risk their lives to protect it from destruction

. an extraordinary film archives spanning for decades, reviews the forgotten truth of the countries modern history. ah, we're going to a press briefing from the pentagon now, following reports to the russian fighter jet, collided with the propeller of a u. s. drawer that's over the black sea. let's listen n lead a consultation period to identify the optimal pathway for australia to acquire this capability. while setting the highest nuclear non proliferation standard. this plan will deliver on that commitment and live to all 3 nation submarine, industrial bases, and undersea capabilities, enhancing deterrence and promoting stability in the indo pacific for the last 7 decades are 3 countries have stood shoulder to shoulder, along with our allies in partners to help sustain peace and stability in the indo pacific. the optimal pathway will sustain that in the decisive decades ahead. as

the national security strategy and national defense strategy describe the united states must pursue a free open and secure world to protect our national interests and those of our allies and our partners office advances this goal by building our military capabilities and those of 2 of our very closest allies enabling closer military planning and cooperation. it is a generational opportunity to enhance the national security of all 3 nations. as the president shared in his remarks yesterday. the optimal pathway will deliver deterrence across several phases. under the 1st phase of the optimal pathway, the united states in the united kingdom will immediately increase port visits of conventionally armed nuclear powered submarines and australia. and then as early as 2027 will begin rotating through australia under summary, and rotational force west. this deployment will ensure australian personnel can continue familiarizing themselves with how these vessels operate, how they are properly maintained and how we can continue safely operating together

. the increase presence of us submarines will buttress regional stability and support the safe development of australian stewardship of its own sovereign conventionally armed nuclear powered submarine enterprise. in the next phase, the united states intends to sell 3 virginia class submarines to australia in the 20 thirty's. with the potential to sell up to talk to more if needed. this will provide austria with a conventionally armed nuclear powered submarine capability prior to their enduring sovereign capability coming online, you will see 3, allied and highly interoperable. s. s n. fleets operating in the indo pacific. the final phase will be our support for what we call assess en, arcus and next generation, conventionally arm nuclear powered submarine design and constructed by australia in the u. k. and incorporating cutting edge us technologies in the propulsion plant, combat control and weapons systems, australia's acquisition of s's, and will bolster the capabilities of one of our strongest allies. by increasing the

royal australian navies, range survivability and striking power. thus strengthening deterrence. in the endo pacific, every phase of the optimal pathway will set the highest nuclear non proliferation standard. moreover, arcus will diversify u. s. posher in the indo pacific, offering new locations from which u. s. forces can operate and august will strengthen us and allied summary industrial capacity, which is key to modernizing, innovating and maintaining our military and economic competitive edge to day and in the future. 3, highly capable, allied, and interoperable submarine forces will strengthen us national security and buttress stability in inno pacific for decades to come. we are also working to modernize our information sharing an export control systems which is necessary for the active, effective implementation of august. as the national defense strategy outlines the capacity to share information with key allies and partners is of critical importance to how the united states to turn aggression and succeeds in contingencies. we will work closely with the u. s. government, including the congress, of course, and the united kingdom and australia,

to identify obstacles, to information sharing, and to develop innovative, rapid and scalable solutions to deville to deliver on the president's vision for this historic partnership. and with that, i'd be delighted to take your questions. thank you very much ma'am. right. go to the ultra cushions visser a v any direct communication says or the military's airing concerns or issues about the orchestra deal and if so, what have they been? and also just on the selection of the virginia class submarines that you will eventually sell to australia. what's the criteria for which submarines you select and how and when you deliver them? i want to make sure we have been listening to a r news conference from the u. s. department of defense at the pentagon fallen reports that a russian fighter jet collided with a propeller of a u. s. drawing as it is flying over the black sea. we are expecting

a pentagon spokesperson to address this incident following a statement by the us government. and we will go back to that news conference when we hear more about that incident. but for now, let's bring in puzzle falcon how he's a defense analyst em colonist for now via gazette. and he's joining us live from moscow. thank you very much for your time, sir. and what do you make of the u. s. statement about this incident? oh, rush not our diesel lock report that at all in the russian p. stay drum tv again, there are no reports about it. ah, the russia sa says show news agent center fox reported, but just growth in american sources. so we don't our, the russian 5 year basically this is not very good, but the good news is, this is not the beginning of world war 3. this is sort of dry rock because

no laws are lost or so b or 9 is not very expensive. overly expensive drone, it's about 20 times lesser cost. busy spend the american go who was shot down over the persian gulf by the uranium several years ago. and this was a factor. this is an accident. so i don't think there's going to be any russian america won't be any american reprisals coming up. so this is a weight, that's the good news and mr. come from. huh. yeah, yes, yes. if i may interrupt, because i can see that the reuters news agency, it's reporting that the russian defense minister is saying, i'll just go over the statements from the russian defense ministry according to the

reuters news agency. i'm on the morning of the of march 14th, a u. s. flight was detected near the crimean peninsula in the direction of the state border of the russian federation. and the defense ministry goes on to say that the u. s. drawing flew over the black sea in the direction of the russian border. would the transponders turned off and it also says that fighters from the air defense forces on duty were in the air to identify the intruder over the black sea. and that they did not use on board weapons, did not come into contact with an american drawn. what do you make of these statements? yes. hello. i was telling you that this is not the beginning of world war 3 at all . this is not a, it's an accident. russia says we didn't attack them. thank you. the american say no . that was also not that goes,

i'm accident. there'll be no reprisals. but this is of course, not very good thing because it's going to be ok. i could show what can happen when there's going to be a rush, sham, her or america loss of life and a pile of the brain going down. mr. falcon, hello. thank you very much for your time. your analysis on this developing situation. that is pavel falcon, helen live, and moscow. thank you. now, u. s. president joe biden has issued a new executive order aimed at reducing gun violence in the united states. is expect to discuss his latest efforts in a speech from monterey park and los angeles. that's where a mash shooting to place last january 11th, people were killed. let's bring in our cost onto john hendrick, who is live for us from monterey park. so tell us more about what we were expecting

from this visit. well within an hour or so, president job will come and offered solace to a community that launched 11 people in january when a 17 year old immigrant from vietnam gun down 11 people right here at this dance hall behind me. he also will issue that executive order that you talked about. now, any major gun control legislation here in the united states has to include an act from congress and congress is hopelessly divided right now. the house is controlled by republicans, most of whom favor gun, right? so nothing is going to happen in congress anytime soon. so widen is doing what he can do, unilaterally and wall, that will be a series of actions. i have to tell you, they will be very, very limited in their effect. he will order the justice department to increase background checks by cracking down on those who are wilfully violating background

checks. and on those who don't know, these are gun dealers who don't know that they have to perform those checks. he's going to order the d o j to crack down on former dealers who have their who have had their licenses revoke that are still doing business selling guns. and he's going to order them to crack down on guns that haven't yet been sold, but are lost in transit. and the number of those launch guns had gone up a lot in recent years. and he's also going to raise awareness of a couple of things. gun storage, safe guns, storage and red flag laws. you can have a campaign to tell people more about those red flag laws allow individuals to challenge the gun ownership of someone who might have had a criminal past or mental health problems. so a series of orders here that would be able around the edges of gun control, but really wouldn't have a massive effect. and certainly as we've seen, there was a gun law passed just a year ago. the 1st major gun law in the past 30 years,

that one encouraged states to pass gun laws and required background checks for it to cover juvenile and mental health records of those who are under 21. and that has not slowed the pace of these shoots of joe biden is here to console this community, to offer them what he can without major concrete action on gun control possible in the coming months. all right, john, thank you for that. that is john hendrick, live for us in monterey park and staying in california, but to a different story. the state has bracing itself of what the national weather service is calling further. catastrophic floods after days of heavy rainfall. emergency crews near the town of pot, only a central california coastline, a trying to repair breaks and the levy which led to the settlement being flooded more than 8000 people, had to be evacuated and dozens of rescues were carried out. i will. joining us now from pato is our correspondent, heidi joe castros. what is the situation there now heidi

well, you see the sun res. finally, hitting power over the 1st time in days, but there aren't any residents really here to witness this moment, which is just a brief respite. before more storms are approaching in the forecast all 1700 people who live here had been ordered evacuated. they left hound around saturday. that was right after a levy. i'm so sorry i have to interrupt you to go back to another story that we are following over the weekend news conference collision between russia foster and us. let's live for 1000000 time. one of the russian su $27.00 aircraft struck the propeller of the m q 9, causing us forces to have to bring the m q 9 down in international waters several times before the collision. su 20 seven's dump fuel on and flew in front of v m q 9 in a reckless and unprofessional manner. this incident demonstrates

a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. u. s. air forces in europe. air forces africa routinely fly aircraft throughout europe, over sovereign territory and throughout international airspace in coordination with applicable hosts, nation and international laws. in order to bolster collective european defense and security, these mission support allied partner and us national objectives. as the u. s. air forces in europe, air forces, africa commander, emphasized in european command statement. quote, u. s. and allied aircraft will continue to operate in international airspace. and we call on the russians to conduct themselves professionally and safely in separate news. secretary austin concluded a successful visit to the middle east region last week where he met with leaders in jordan, iraq, egypt and israel. the week long trip served to deepen defense partnerships and enable the exchange of views on shared regional and global security challenges. specific topics of discussion included ongoing coalition lead defeat isis

operations in iraq and syria. the concerning range of threats posed by a ran, including its d, stabilizing regional activities, and provision of unmanned aerial systems to russia for use in their unprovoked war against ukraine and implementing commitments made by israeli and palestinian senior officials in october, jordan and the importance of de escalating violence and restoring. com and the west bank. the secretary also had the opportunity to talk to a number of us service members currently serving in the us central command area of responsibility and thank them for and their families for their commitment to mission service and safeguarding our nation. and finally, secretary austin and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general milly will host the 10th meeting of the ukraine defense contact group. to morrow, the meeting will be hosted virtually here in the pentagon and will allow for the secretary that you will be listened there. to a news conference from the u. s. department of defense at the pentagon. following reports that a russian fighter jet collided with the propeller of the us drawn as it was flying

over the black sea south of ukraine. we have now heard from the russian defense ministry. what says that its fighter jets did not come into contact with the u. s. draw and that crashed into the black sea. claiming instead that the drawing crash due to shop maneuver. and let's bring in the correspond that she hop, tom see, he gets following the store and he's joining us live from washington, d. c. so despite what the russian defense minister is saying, the pentagon continues to describe the russian fighter jets actions as reckless and unprofessional. she yeah, so this is gotten got a bit more interesting now interesting with these conflicting narratives with the russians saying that these are just identified aircraft and all this is nomic identified drone and we went to find out what it was. but there was no absolute collision, it is like, i guess, significant of each time. and that was the same statement pretty much that i've read them the last just about half an hour ago. the us is closely talking about the

lack of competence on the part of the russian, the russian pilots, in precipitating this, at this drone to, to crash that's address. not really thinking that this in some, this wasn't necessarily on purpose, golden covey. in fact, from national security council press press spokesperson also seem to be playing down the incident. he said look, they've been similar intercepts by russian. i grew up in recent weeks, even even so. this episode was noteworthy, noteworthy, because of how unsafe and unprofessional unprofessional it was. we've had more reaction now from the state department, the regular state department briefing. the state department is someone in the russian ambassador at some point in the coming out to the state department where the message will be conveyed to moscow about about how a professional this intercept was. and meanwhile, the u. s. on boston, moscow has conveyed a strong message to the russian ministry of foreign affairs. so there is not sounds

even though we have these conflicting narratives box mountain while these things do sort of happen. and sometimes things get out of control, i guess is kind of what we're the message we're getting from the us. but it is difficult. i suppose that the entire us narrative of the, of a russian collision with a drone is being denied, but by the russians. yeah, absolutely. she had thank you very much for that for now. that is she how proton c live in washington dc. right. it is time for sport now his father elizabeth, thank you so much. if i have confirmed that the next world cup or feature a record 104 matches, and last nearly 6 weeks, the 2026 tournament will take place across 3 countries. the usa, canada, and mexico. the tournament will feature 48 team, 16 more than all the world caps since 1998. let's take a closer look. at 2026 tournament will have

a 104 games that's 40 more than katara 20. 20 to the 48 teams will be spread across 12 groups of 4 countries with the top 2 qualifying for the knockouts along with the 8 best. a 3rd place, sites of her more in the story were joined from miami by sports at broadcaster horner ango. why no more games more days? is it just too much t? thank well, no, it wasn't only the fact that they already confirmed the the, the world cup format, but they also confirmed the upcoming friendly windows from 2025 on out. so yeah, i think it's going to be a lot more games not only in quandary, but also how you mentioned that it's going to be stretched out that they even talked to are come 2026. there will be, will be for international dates as well, that will be not only 9 days and 2 matches, but now 16 days and 4 matches throughout. so that's going to be also

a point to be looking at when you hear again the debate about calendar restrictions or, or calendar congestion in terms of international dates with national teams. and how they do and abroad coinciding or conflicting with, with, with, with club schedules as well. yeah. just to pick up on that point a bit more. how much opposition will there be against faith as the latest plan? well, i mean there really is a, i mean, from a, from a fee for standpoint from, from a representative standpoint. it's not really going to have a great deal of resistance. jenny fantine is going to be able to be re elected without opposition. so from that political stamp went, there is a front end point, but when you, with a, from a club standpoint, there will be resistance because at this point now you're starting to see that the game is getting to a point where breakdowns are going to occur. where players are going to be more

susceptible to injuries or to have shorten careers as a matter of fact. but it's just way too much time playing football way too much time traveling and way too much time in terms of different competitions. mean a well. so i have to add on the fact that there's going to be a club will come with with $32.00 teams in just a year's time. so that's another thing though to be looking at just not just the work of it's all the other competitions as well. that also expand. i want to talk about the fans because you were here with us covering ad the world cupping. tar. it was a very compact turn meant how do you think the 2026 tournament will compare in terms as fans getting to watch. you know, multiple games in a day as a happening. i mean, unless, unless you can, you can, you can have some type of supersonic jet or something along those lines. it's not going to happen. you're not going to have, you know, venues that are going to be relatively close or within the same city if you will. i mean, maybe just, maybe if you go back to back days, that's

a possibility. especially if you're looking at areas like the northeast of the united states, or even, you know, the corners of the southeastern united states. when you look at miami, in atlanta, you could probably do that back to back days or even in california as well. but as far as seeing him, the city that's not going to happen at all, it's just the logistics are not planned for it. and especially traveling from one see to another. it's going to take an excessive amount of time or a warner ango. great to get your thoughts. nice to speak to you again. thank you so much for your time. thanks always. ap courtney ela has a chance to take a step closer to a 1st champions league. title is manchester city. boss. city are involved in one of 2 last 16 games, which takes off in just over an hour. they house to our b like sick with the aggregate score level at one all. our b, like 6 coach at marco rose, says he's surprised that city striker earling. holland is facing some criticism in

england for his style of play. and as despite in a region averaging almost a goal again for his club, rose coached highland last season in germany at beraskigy adornment. he scored 28 gold and the goats in 26 league games. if you put this goes away, i don't know where city would be now in the league. so and i don't know what we are talking about earlier on on this one of the top player and the top number line in the world. carlos alcortez has stayed on course to return to the top of the tennis world rankings. a spanish teenager is through to the last 16 at indian wells. the 19 year old picked up his $100.00 tour when against talon, greek score of the netherlands. if he wins the van till replace novak chalk village in the number one spot, chalk rich can't compete in the us because he isn't vaccinated against cover. going

to be a game between the milwaukee box and the sacramento kings finished with 2 players being ejected in the final seconds. oh good that to happen again. like, oh wow. we're glo, perez, the bugs and kings player tree lyles were at the center of the disruption louse, had just found the box star. man, john is sitting tito, cool, an action. lopez took exception to where he finished up with a cut on his face. his team went on to secure a 9 point where a lot of fun was said, you know, i don't know what happened, but, so we're taking those from nobody trust me or net and they all have each other's back in there. i don't mean we don't go out and start, shall we not?

but we are stand up for shelf. and each other after their last against mexico, the usa got their group campaign back on track at the world baseball classic might trout hit a 3 run homer in a big win against canada. this game in phoenix finished 12 to one to the us. the defending champions, now cit, top of whose c and our on course to qualify for the fine. okay. and that is all your sport for now. elizabeth becker. thank you very much for that. and that's it from me, elizabeth salon for this news. al, but do stay with us. maria massey will be back in a moment from a london studio with more of the day's news. ah ah

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