with no host and no limitations, it leads as a pleasant color. it's always a struggle. yeah. it would be much easier for me to might felt that white people part to go into canada and singer songwriter skin carry other people's way is that it is the minute you get way down. you stop what you're doing and made one studio b unscripted on al jazeera. it's been 20 years since the united states led invasion of iraq, which overthrew president saddam hussein a widely controversial military operation that killed hundreds of thousands of iraqis and displaced 1000000 small a conflict is consequences are still being held today. the rock oh $20.00 is own on al jazeera. ah, the u. s. says are russian fighter jets has collided with one of its drones over

the black sea, but moscow denies causing the crash. ah, the watching l 0. i'm carry johnston also in the news. focused on a police clash with him on com support his in the hoards. they tried to arrest him also as executive order helps clean firearms out of dangerous hands. you, as president joe biden announced as a tightening of background checks with people buying guns, and at least a 190 people are killed as a southern hemisphere strongest ever tropical cycling, rips through monopoly. ah, the u. s. military has condemned what it calls a reckless maneuver by russian war plate that brought down one of its surveillance strategies over the black sea. the russian foreign ministry denies the claim,

insisting there was no russian interference before the aircraft crashed on approach to the crimean coast. 100 reports from washington d. c. us concerns the n q 9 reaper drone has been regularly deployed over the black sea, which has become an increasingly crowded air space. but a pentagon spokesperson says, this is the 1st direct air confrontation since the russian invasion of ukraine. question you, what we shall, again, we're, we're fighter aircraft dumping fuel in front of this, you avi. and then getting so close to the aircraft that it actually damaged the propeller. on the m q 9. we, we assess that it like we cause some damage to the russian aircraft as well. the russian defense ministry has a different version of events insisting the drone crashed off to maneuvering sharply. while approaching the crimean coast. the russian ambassador was summoned

to the us state department, and afterwards he gave what seemed to be more a justification or you then a denial this ah wrong can carry 1700. you loss of explosives. these drone can carry. if you bulls, you see that what will be the issue of united states if you see such russian drawn very close, for example, to san francisco or new york. what blue will be reaction of united states. a national security liaison officer at the white house echoed the pentagon in describing the russian action as reckless and unprofessional confirming the president was informed straight off to the incident. the key issue say, u. s. intelligent sources, whether the russian pilots were acting unilaterally or under command. mike hannah, out is era washington,

us and president vladimir putin has dismissed reports of the pro ukraine group sabotaged in nord string pipelines last year. he pointed that washington over the attacks on the pipelines that carry russian gas to europe, occlusal, 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 or co tenable, meet his serum count about basha. our sat for talks later on wednesday present. i saw the arrived in moscow with a large delegation. the kremlin says the leaders will discuss political trade and humanitarian issues, as well as the war in syria. russia is one of assad's biggest military backers, but is believed to withdrawn some forces since invading ukraine. police in pakistan are locked in a tense standoff with supporters of former prime minister in ron con,

protest as outside his home in the hall, trying to prevent his arrest. earlier, there were confrontations between officers and demonstrators. con, it was ousted as leader last year. was facing charges including corruption, which he says are politically motivated. now us present, joe biden has issued an executive order, tightening background checks on firearms. biden announced the order at an event in monterey park, california where 11 people was shot dead by lone gunmen at june lunar new year celebration in january. the decree directs the attorney general to clamp down on vendors who failed to carry out proper checks and clarify who quantifies as a dealer or an 8300 people have been killed in gun violence in the us. this year.

to day, i'm announcing another executive order. no acceleration intensify. this work to save more lives more quickly. first, as executive order helps keep firearms out of dangerous hands. as i continue to call on congress to require background checks for all firearms sale. me time. lead time, my executive direct, my attorney general would take every lawful action possible possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation which on engine has more now from california. the president seeks to enhance background checks by cracking down on or by requiring the department of justice to crack down on those people who are selling guns, but not performing the background checks either because they're doing it. i

mistakenly thinking they don't need to do the checks or vice scoff laws who are not carrying out those checks. it also asks the government to do a study on how gun makers are marketing to minors. and it encourages red flag laws . those are the laws that temporarily remove guns from people who are deemed dangerous and gun storage rules. so the president's executive actions are really designed to do what he can on his own without enacting new legislation. but he also asked for new legislation from congress, something he's not likely to yet under the current congress, a desk. so from that tropical cyclone to freddy in malawi, mozambique, a metal gasket has risen to 220 a storm head to southern africa for a 2nd time in a month last weekend and used to 190 of the dead were in malawi. it's declared a state of emergency following devastating floods in landslides. the storm is one of the longest lasting tropical psych loans ever recorded. when it started 37 days

ago in the western pacific as travel more than 8000 kilometers, gathering strength of the engine ocean, made land for the metal gasket as a tropical cycling. from there it moved on to batter mozambique for several days. it then regained strength, name is on the channel, then it hits the country again, catching the southern part of neighboring law. well, always government says nearly 60000 people have been affected, including 19000, forced to flee their homes. number of dead is expected to rise. a search and rescue operations continue. restriction families are trying to identify loved ones. we hear voice for the child. can you believe me? believe me. then after opening the door, then we have discovered that we have along did with mud alone, our house,

the monday, the month. you see, it was a 5 by how the whole the whole board or for me, the miller has more from allow, is capital the long way more than 12 districts. in milan, we have been affected by a tropical cyclone fredy, including the main city of blan 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 mud 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 was a big 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 the beach where tropical cyclone freddy, has now hit for a 2nd time in a month. this is one of the longest lasting tropical storms on record and had just 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, trying to reach some of the worst affected areas in cleaners and be the region where at least 19000 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. her and 5000 supporters of senegalese opposition leader as

men sancho have been demonstrating in dot com. it's part of a planned 3 day protest to show supports for the aspiring presidential candidate that faces a libel case resume this week. because hawk has more for miss, i believe capital were in the suburb of the capital, the car, and there's still a crowd trying to get in. we're talking about thousands of people gathered here in this meeting. a rally of a coalition of the opposition led by opposite leader with men sancho. so why is this happening now? well, in 3 days time, he's supposed to appear in court. he's been accused of defamation. it was during a rally like this one that he had, he was a government minister of corruption that he's convicted. he will not be allowed to run in the upcoming presidential election that are going to take place in a year's time. but the reason why you're referring so many people here is just in support with them. it's also about whether or not president monkey. so in order to

manage the mandate after you change the constitution. and for many people here, they're showing up to the less the opposition for democracy in setting on nicholas hall, al jazeera, about that as in the china is reopening its borders to international tourists for the 1st time since the covey pandemic broke out 3 years ago. last month, beijing declared victory over a recent surge and the virus by using the restrictions, china is retreating from at 0 covered strategy that has hurt the country's economy . well, katrina, you joins us live now from beijing. so katrina is this essentially the last step in dismantling china's coping 19 control policy. it looks like it. so when china imposed it's very strict code controls in 2020,

in march, it closed its borders. and since then, china has essentially really been isolated from the world, certainly from travelers. now it started to dismantle it. strict 0 harvard policy starting at the end of 2022. and in many cities, her life has returned to normal except for the lack of foreign visitors. and china was arguably quite a popular place to visit before the pandemic used to welcome tens of millions of international travelers. every year in 2019, there was 65000000 visitors to china. so at the end of these border controls really do seem to spend a spell the end of trying as ice relation from the world. so from today on wednesday, china will talk presuming processing tourist visas. beijing also says it will honor the visas that were granted previous to the border controls being important in march 2020. now these pandemic regulations really did hit china's economy overall hard, but particularly it was the tourism and event sectors that was very much crippled.

so there is working in those industries are very much excited and looking forward to some sort of recovery. but they're also aware that this is something that will take some time. of course, it will take time to process the tourist visas. and i think main obstacle now is flights international flights during the, almost 3 years that we had of corporate policies. many airlines canceled their routes to and from china and they get to resume those are at the moment. flights to and from china remain quite limited and very pricey because really you in basing for us the thank you. knowledge and tina was enjoying its hottest summer on record, searing temperatures, and lack of rainfall damaging agriculture. theresa bo reports on the impact this will have on argentine as struggling. economy. roman gutierrez, he says he stares at the sky every day in search of signs of rain. he has lost nearly all of his so having crops his ear due to crippling drought conditions

affecting the south american nation, who say she normally rhythm of a latania. this year we need a $600.00 millimeters more. that's why we lost all the crops. most of us read the land which makes it difficult to pay rent, but inputs and other items we need to city and do the extreme weather conditions have also cost shortages of grass, grain and water severely impacting the cattle of many of the farmers in the area these are the argentine pam, pass the heart of argentina's, agricultural production and drought is everywhere to be seen. the drought is having an impact all across argentina. this is a field of corner. as you can see, it's dry and it's already been lost. producers are telling us that because of the lack of water, they have started to notice different types of insects, insects that they tell us they had never seen before. in this part of the country. the lack of rain is linked to the landing yet climate phenomenon. at cooling of the

quote oil pacific that cuts rainfall in parts of argentina. but this time farmer say the situation is worse than ever. about a silly all insect of italian. there are and 6 to we didn't see before, but also people stop controlling because it wasn't worth humor. gazing as the crops were last. we see more in 6 here because they have nowhere else to eat. i ah, argentina is struggling with a 100 percent inflation rate in the past a year. and a shortage of us dollars. agriculture is a crucial supply of revenue, adding billions of dollars of foreign currency to the central bank and economy say, the severe drought will likely complicate the economic outlook of the country even further. $20000000.00 of exports, which in turn implied a this day it is taking them export toxic. so there is so some fiscal side, we're in the middle of a dollar shortage on this. can only deteriorate farther. laura shortage, fully more pressure on the exchange rate. so this is going to stress both bailey

targets with the m f. so yes i was going to be difficult because of your question. thema experts also believe that the political uncertainty of the upcoming presidential elections later this year could increase economic instability in the country. but right now, farmers like roman gutierrez, are just hoping for a little government assistance and for rain to help him save what is left of his produce. that is how will as deceit out when a site is so a head on al jazeera, where in hong kong, as the asian financial markets bounce back from us banking scare and more misery for tech workers in united states. as facebook's parent company matter ounces, spouses of job cuts. ah,

here's your forecast for wednesday, march 15th, across asia. good to see you were going to kick this one off in india where increasingly there are more outbreaks of sundry rain across the country. some hail storms mixed in as well, but i think the bulk of the action is going to happen in the foreign northeast of india. now for i've kind of stand and focused on things are quite right now, but here comes our next westerly disturbance moving out of iraq into iran. so prepare for a tater on got some downpours in the forecast for you on thursday. those rains are finally back in, off, across malaysia. so it is a dry day in places like call them poor with the high 33 degrees. and for that southern sizes, sumatra island. there have been some land slides there because of how much rain has been falling and unfortunately there's still more to come on wednesday. severe flight advisories in play for a minute. now, island in the philippines is this like of rain dips to the south, and we're also seeing that rain getting go in for the western yang. see river

valley will travel across the basin knocked down temperatures in places like woo hahn wednesday to thursday by almost a good 10 degrees. or we've had our 1st blooms and the cherry blossoms in tokyo, that's of late temperatures, while above average. and a beauty of a day on wednesday. 17 degrees the high for you. that's it. got her jet. ah, the coveted beyond well taken without hesitation. fulton died for power. defines how well we live here. we make the rule, not them. they find an enemy and then they try and scare the people with people in power, investigate expos days and questions. they use them to be just of our around the cloud on now to sierra. ah

ah, you without us here? amanda of our main store is now the u. s. has condemned what it calls a reckless maneuver by russian war play. that brought down one of its surveillance drains over the black sea. the pentagon insists the drone was over international waters. russia denies its jets, came into contact with the egg, please, and focused on a locked in a tense standoff and supporters of former prime minister sharon con, protest is outside his home and the whole are trying to prevent his address. con is facing challenges and she says it's a can motivated us present. joe biden has issued an executive order, tightening background checks on firearms, made announcements in monterey park,

california and nothing people was shot dead during a do that. you, yesterday ration in january i in stock markets have opened high off the cheese days. dip as worries about a potential us banking crisis continue to ease well, the collapse of us lenders, silicon valley bank and signature bank triggered a sharp drop and stalks across the region. despite washington's efforts to shore up confidence. richard, kimberly lived for us now in hong kong. so richard, the, the markets have open, strong as we say, kind of the very latest things of stabilizing here, hong kong stuck his chinese behind me back to regular operations ready after dramatic. 2 couple of days when most asian benchmark stock index is lost, all of the money that effectively generated for their investors just in the space of a couple of days, all the money from this year gains wiped out as a result of investors panicking because of that banking perhaps in the us things

stabilizing now, economists and trade, as i speak to say that pretty sanguine about the impact of this u. s. banking crisis. they think things will level out over the coming weeks and months without any major financial implications here. there are those interesting asian angles to this story. one big chinese state owned bank, the shanghai put on bank has revealed that it has a, a joint venture with the silicon valley bank is trying to reassure its own investors on the mainland that this is not going to cause them big financial losses . it says the situation is under control and a stable and other interesting case study here in hong kong. one of the biggest financial companies listed on the stock exchange behind me at hsbc. it bought the u . k. of silicon valley bank just for around one us dollar earlier this week. so lots of scrutiny about how that may affect investors perceptions of the bank here on the market. and the last thing to mentioned that's interesting is hong kong is trying to promote itself as a major hub for fintech and crypto development as part of its effort to become more

modernized, financial system. now this is all of course recording more regulation and the impact to seeing what's happening in the u. s. with silicon valley bank is again calling into question just how quickly and have aggressively a financial center like hong kong can do that without necessarily finding itself in the same situation with the risks. but the collapse of silicon valley bank happening here in asia. ok, thanks for that. that was kimber in hong kong. there the u. s. tech dark matter has announced another huge round of redundancy, cutting $10000.00 jobs matter which owns facebook. instagram on the what's up previously laid off, 11000 employees in november, seo. mark zuckerberg says the company is facing a new economic reality of the profit slowed significantly last year. well, jim anderson is a tech analyst at glassware ventures. he says that matters a business model is vulnerable because it relies almost entirely on advertising.

the 1st thing to remember is that facebook's generate 95 percent of its revenue from advertising. they very much want to branch out and diversify their revenues, but it's a tough time to be an advertising. whether you want to talk about regulatory headwinds or the changes made by apple to preserve privacy. it's just a very difficult market. you add to that the slowing economy, it's clearly a tough time for facebook and other ad supported businesses. i think it is good, old fashioned, targeted advertising, right? as you get more specific about what you're trying to reach or who you're trying to reach more accurately, the price goes up. and so facebook was a master of being able to know that. ok, somebody's a 46 year old male. they live in the northeastern united states, they're interested in puppies and race cars, and they can charge a premium for that kind of thing. now apple comes along and makes some significant changes to the iphone, which effects a significant portion of facebook usage. now, all of a sudden they can't target those as nearly as precisely the prices go down, the effectiveness goes down. and sure enough, you've got what amounts to a massive economic headwind on their advertising business. but pretty much anything

facebook does is going to get massive regulatory scrutiny. you see significant privacy focuses, especially in the european union. us maybe not as much, at least outside of apple from a regulatory perspective. the u. s. lags in terms of privacy, but those kinds of things. again, when you start talking privacy, the amount of information or data you have with which to target narrows and the price of the advertising goes down and therefore their revenue goes down, or at least the growth rate. it started and they have fewer pass to growing the revenue you case finance minister will unveil his spring budget on wednesday. economic outlook is less blake than it was a year ago. many across the country are still struggling with a soaring cost of living. and as jonah hall reports from coventry communities, were they looking closely at where that journey hans, a budget will do enough to improve livelihoods among the world's most advanced economies. it may be, but the u. k. faces the worst economic outlook in

a generation. people like jasmine almond and her husband chris her, found that to full time salaries no longer sustain a family of 4 have really great. say the great, the high cost of living especially child care means that jasmine wasn't earning enough to pay the nursery fees. it worked out less expensive to give up her job as a teacher and care for daughter carina herself is i and a wife and a mother. and i have to do the right thing for our household. i am just going week to week. we survive like that and it's just life nowadays. on wednesday, britton's finance minister jeremy hunt will deliver his 1st spring budget since taking the job last autumn. childcare will feature but must take its place in a long queue. public sector workers on strike, again,

even as the budget he's announced in an economy left reeling by covey, bricks and the war in ukraine. i think $11.00 area with will be cut up a lot of focus, particularly decisions is around public sector pay. and you know, it's kind of lot of pressure and that with what strikes we're seeing rising vacancies in the public sector. that scenario we will secret up quite a lot of pressure. and it's not just families looking for help, but whole communities in towns and cities across the country where political promises to level up in the qualities have not been met. and slow growth is led to cold by business leaders for a clear strategy to attract investment. take coventry, for instance, here in the west midlands, once a center of manufacturing so important to britain's economy, that hitler's air force took great care to bomb it into oblivion. coventry's damaged cathedral is testament to those bleak times. but at the heart of the d

industrialized midlands, it's a hollowed out place. even now, jeremy hunt will announce funding for new low tax investment zones to try and spur business and growth in areas like this, such as the scale of the task that his budget will offer. no quick fix. joe, the whole al jazeera coventry forecast as a warning of catastrophic slugs. and parts of california hit by a series of storms. emergency crews near the flooded town of paro in the central coast region of trying to repair damage to flood defense is almost swollen river. with an $8000.00 people had to be evacuated from the area with dozens of rescues carried out. all you, jo custer has mornow there was a brief moment of sunshine this morning, but as you can see, the wind is really picking up now all around me because yet another storm system is coming right behind it. another week of rain is with anticipated to fall

a top power row, and that is very bad news for the people who call this farming community home. they're not here right now. they were all forced to evacuate after that. levy breached on friday, and now they're across the river that went over its banks and they have been spending the morning just watching, wistfully wondering what has come become of their homes. we have been able to go around of it and there are homes that have been inundated by a flood waters. these waters have receded, but again, because more rain is anticipated, they will likely grow in level once again, 1700 people call this community home. many of them are immigrant farm workers, so it's sort of a double whammy for them in that not only are their homes damaged and possibly lost, but also the many fields in this area that calls itself the salad bowl of the world,

producing fruits and vegetables that get shipped all around. all those fields are now under water right at picking season, which means lost jobs or those farm workers, as well as more atmospheric rivers are predicted to bring more precipitation. here . a sport now in manchester city are heading to the quarter finals of the wafer champions. league largely thanks to 5 goals from erling holland. after 1st leg ended, 11 the english side thrashed. the 9th, 67, know, 81 on aggregate city on listen to when they chat and say the 1st time by no record sales about performed. c, d 's in the u. s. for the 1st time in decades, more than $41000000.00 vinyl records were sold in 2022 to the tune of $1200000000.00 has in comparison to $33000000.00 cds. so last year it marks the 16th consecutive year of growth for records ass.