i thought you were doing and i was to see it. but it hasn't been done before. it can be done. you've been bitten as long as a human being is doing it. you can do it. no matter how he possibly looks. it's you taunting the effort within the lock and you will have to be patient with me. i am the captain. lives in me. i will continue, kenya, and them were so at this point, which we are ice wiki team in east, in central africa, we are very francois progressing pretty well. we had wanted to play in some international games. then when corbett came, the ice rink was closed. and it's the only ice rink in the country. ah, the u. s. says that a russian fighter jet has collided with one of its drones over the black sea. but

moscow denies causing the crash. ah, i why money inside this is out there, live holes are coming up august. donnie police clash with him. wrong call and support is a law who is is no, is trying to negotiate a call to parents. was executive board or helps keep firearms out of danger. chance you, as president joe biden announces a tightening of background checks for people buying gums and asian financial markets bounce back from a banking scale in the u. s. ah, the u. s. military has condemned what it calls a reckless maneuver by a russian warplane that brought down one of its surveillance drones over the black

sea. the russian foreign ministry denies the claim, insisting that was no russian interference before the croft crash near the crimean peninsula. my county has morn, us from washington, d. c. the 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 booms, 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. the 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 or the defense unless pavel falcon hor rights for the russian newspapers have i guess that's a he doesn't think that the incident will increase tension between washington and moscow. basically this is not very good, but it's the good news is this is not the beginning of world war 3. this is sort of dry, ron. because no lot of times we were last a so b, m, m, you 9 is not the very expensive. overly expensive drone, it's about 20 times lesser costs than the american global hawk that was shot down over the persian gulf a by the uranium several years ago. meanwhile, the russian president, vladimir putin, has dismiss reports that a pro ukraine group sabotaged the north stream pipelines last year. he pointed that

washington over the attacks and the pipelines that carry russian gas to europe, occlusal, to soon to the teacher who's interested to theoretically the united states is interested in stopping the supply of fresh 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 former pakistani prime minister cameron con, has offered to appear in court on saturday, at least outside his home in law, who have been in a tent standoff with support is trying to prevent his arrest. counselor is currently trying to negotiate that course. appearance on a d escalation of the situation con, was ousted as leader last year, and his facing several charges including corruption, which he says are politically motivated as being to come all high to his nie for us in islamabad. from when i hear things got pretty tense outside his home overnight,

what is the situation there now? well indeed, there was higher tension last night. all night. the police were using tear gas, an enron font supporter rattling around his house in order to prevent kid the address. now, just a little while ago i spoke to one of our senior leaders. you would the full my information minister for what george j. o said that there was another all put ation . dad, redondo way would most trailing this dime the bad a military forces are also president day i said to have now also said on that compound. however, these are dramatic moments indeed, because on the one side the government did victim and to arrest him at the same time as you can see behind me that many satellite ideas and g trucks and

full good fit on the court. the sand bod hide corridors where they're focused on teddy. again, thoughtful, filed a petition seeking for that suspension of death to water. and so that heading down to where we are toward that it is likely to be granted. but the next few minutes. so next through always are going to be critical because if the court come down with a decision within the next few, all would and the government did, they both go direct emron and then it will be another question by then day across the country that was brought dead, and that brought visit likely to grow and become even more dense. if m ron con adrian did address, did. he has also given an undertaking that he is going to appear in court on the 18 dat did the dead by reggie had to be presented before the board. so dramatic developments and a very fluid situation. okay, thank you for that. i'm thank come all high to that for us in islamabad. u. s.

president joe biden has issued an executive order, tightening background checks on firearms. it's aimed at reducing the number of mass shootings. he made the announcement in a los angeles sama that was the scene. if a gun attack 2 months ago, john hanjin reports from monterey park in california in a town still mourning a recent mass shooting president joe biden offered what little he could for new gun control. the president issued an executive order he can enact alone with limited affect her name time, our executor or direct. my attorney general will take every lawful action possible possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation. the action orders the department of justice to crack down on gun sellers who failed to perform background checks and to pursue former weapons dealers whose licenses have been revoked but still sell. it asks the federal trade

commission to issue a report on gun makers marketing to miners, and it asks his administration to find ways to treat mash, shooting scenes like natural disasters or giving federal aid to those affected because our can then the culture of our community. we have been very quiet and we have been kind of neglected. so for us to receive this, a lot of attention and the support that we do today means a lot fraud. but major changes in us firearm laws require action from a hopelessly deadlocked congress with nearly all republicans opposing stricter gun measured. it was here in january at the now closed star dance hall in monterey park . that 72 year old, who con trawn shot 20 people killing the 11 in this asian american community. tron was disarmed at his 2nd dance hall and fatally shot himself as police closed in trans access to a mac, 10 semi automatic weapon allowed him to kill here with speed and efficiency. last

year, congress did pass the 1st modest gun restrictions in 3 decades. among other things, they enhanced background checks for 18 to 21 year olds, but they've done little to slow the pace of mass shootings in america. in the past several months, there have been dozens of other mass shootings, killing 20 wanted a school. and you have all the texas 10 black new yorkers and a racially motivated shooting spree at a supermarket in buffalo and 7 at a parade in highland park, illinois. paying tribute to the victims of monterey park bite and renewed calls from major new gun controls, including a ban on military style assault weapons. universal background checks and repeal of the immunity for most lawsuits that congress gave to gun makers in 2005. so let's finish the jar band, so weapons band, them again, new and now i'm not do something do something big. but with little hope of congress approving any of those measures,

nothing that comes out of washington is likely to prevent mass shootings like the one that happened here. john henderson, al jazeera, monterey park, california agent stop. markets have rallied out and she say slump is worried about a potential us banking crisis continue to ease a collapse of us lenders, silicon valley bank and signature bank, to get a sharp drop in stocks, despite washington's efforts to shore up confidence. but she kimber has moved from hong kong. think of stabilizing here, hong kong stuck its trains behind me, back to regular operations ready after dramatic couple of days when most asian benchmark stock index is lost. all of the money that that effectively generated for their investors just in the space of a couple of days, all the money from this year's gains wipes 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 us banking crisis. i 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 stable and other interesting case study here in hong kong. one of the biggest financial companies listed on the stock exchange behind me as hsbc. it bought the u. k. of silicon valley bank just 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 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. china is reopening its borders to international tourists for the 1st time since the coven pandemic broke out 3 years ago. last month, beijing declared victory over recent. and the virus by eating the restrictions, china is retreating from a 0 coded strategy. that is, the country's economy. katrina, you has moved from beijing. china has essentially really been isolated from the world, certainly from travelers. now it started to dismantle its strict 0 carpet 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 kinda was arguably quite a popular place to visit before the pandemic used to welcome tens of millions of

international problems every year in 2019 those 65000000 visitors to china. so at the end of these border controls really do seem to spend a spell the end of china's isolation from the world. so from today on wednesday, china will top resuming processing tourist visas. aging 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 events, 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 lights international flights during the almost 3 years that we had covered policies, many airlines canceled their routes to and from china and they get to resume. those

are at the moment flight to and from china, remained quite limited and very pricey. south korea as scrapping the last of its pandemic measures for monday, people will no longer be required to wear a face mask on public transport. the government had announced the rule would be lifted in january masses, still compulsory and fond medical facilities still head on out there, at least 190 people are killed as a southern hemisphere strongest. ever tropical cycling rich through malawi, the severe drought, devastating argentina's farming sector. we look at what it could mean the country's fragile economy. ah, off we go with your weather update for the middle east and africa. thank you so

much for joining in, kicking this one off in the middle east and we've got some soaking rains in the forecast stretching from or b o. box dead rate into q weight, i think in the zone $1020.00 even 30 millimeters of rain to be expected. so we could see some for the air going in for a closer look. it has been very soggy. forecast think you wait as of late, that continues with that rain falling. have 25 degrees suns out in doha with a high of 28. now things are quite right now and i've got to stand and focused on, but this is the next westerly disturbance. it's going to push out of iraq into iran, so from what, whether to be expected in ted on over the next little bit. again, let's go back. this is wednesday, this were the bulk of the action is so round that border with turkey a and syria, this is the earthquake zone. so now we're running the risk. i've seen some flooding in these areas, had this bubble of heat around senegal, and molly temperatures about $4546.00 degrees in per central africa, where the rain is falling. we've got some lower temperatures. so

a d saba 21 will be the high for you. and as we dip toward the south, white and windy for south africa, south coast on wednesday. ok, i times up. i'll see you in a bit. ah, i said the dakota oil pipeline snakes through indigenous land, but not without resistance hook right in front of the bowl and they were beaten, arrested, and shot protested they all needed and so proclaimed would have protected the women of standing rock on al jazeera lou.

oh, you're watching out, is there a mind at all to help stories this hour? the u. s. has condemned what a cause a reckless maneuver by russian wool playing that brought down one of its surveillance drawings over the black sea. the pants are going to insist to dry and was over. international voices rushed denies its jets came into contact with former pakistani prime minister, ron khan, is often to appear in court on saturday. all is attends overnight standoff outside his home in law who between police and his support is trying to prevent his arrest . us president joe bought and has issued an executive order, tightening background checks on firearms. he made the announcement in monterey park, california 11 people was shot dead during luna. new year's celebration in january

now the death toll from tropical cyclone freddy in malawi, mozambique, and madagascar has risen to 220. the storm hit southern africa for a 2nd time in a month last weekend. at least a 190 of the dead were in malawi and declared a state of emergency following devastating floods and land sides. the storm is one of the longest lasting tropical cyclone ever recorded and started 37 days ago in the western pacific and has travelled more than 8000 kilometers, gathering strength over the indian ocean and made landfall in madagascar as a tropical cycling from there and moved on to batter mozambique for several days, it then regained strength in the mozambique channel and hit the country again, catching the southern part of neighboring malawi. and are we, is government sicily? 60000 people have been effected, including 900000 forced to flee their homes. the number of dead is expected to rise

as search and rescue operations continue. we 2nd families trying to identify loved ones. we voice or for your child, chloe. leave me. leave me then after opening the door, then we have discovered that we have along the mud alone. oh, the model of the month. it was acquired by the whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. tina's enduring it's hottest summer on record, with soaring temperatures and lack of rainfall. damaging agriculture,

theresa by reports on the impact. this will have an argentine is struggling economy . so mangled yearly says he stares at the sky every day in search of signs of rain. he has lost nearly all of he saw you having crofts, his ear due to crippling drought conditions affecting the south. american nation is a she normally immigrant latonya this year we needed $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 through the extreme weather conditions have also cost shortages of grass, grain and water severely impacting the capital 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 fall 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 insect 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 core tauriel pacific that cuts rainfall in parts of argentina. but this time farmer say the situation is worse than ever, about if in lieu of insect of italian there are in 6 to we didn't see before, but also people stop controlling because it wasn't worth humor guessing. as the crops were lost, we see more insects here because they have nowhere else to eat. i didn't t, they struggling with a 100 percent inflation rate in the past year. and a shortage of us dollars. agriculture is a crucial supply of re venue, 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 review stay in taking them export toxic, so they sell home fisco. so we're in the middle of a dollar shortage on this. can only deteriorate for a little garage shortage, fully more pressure on the exchange rate. so this is going to stress both the targets with the m f. so yeah, i mean if you go earlier version 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 forecast as the warning of more rain and catastrophic floods in parts of california hit by a series of storms. more than 30 counties are under state of emergency crews near

the flooded town of po haro in the central coast region are trying to repair damage flood defenses on a swollen river. honey, j. castro reports the lovey breach on the puddle river is widening growing to more than 120 meters since friday. that's ominous for the town of pyro down stream. as more storms bear down on the farming community this week, paddles 1700 residents were told to evacuate. during a brief moment of sunshine on tuesday, families looked across the river toward their empty homes, blocked by a bridge now only accessible to emergency workers. how's your house ah, so far we don't know. we're not allowed to go in or anything like that. but it's, it's actually pretty frustrating. but knowing the county of monterey has performed more than 170 high water rescues as a result of this flood, using utility vehicles, army vehicles, to rescue people who are stranded within their homes or their vehicles. but not

everyone has agreed to leave. the struggle is like them finding food and not being able to cross the bridge to go get their food. that's what worries i'm the most on . some people don't even have where to go too many also have nowhere to work. this region calls itself the salad bowl of the world, producing fruits and vegetables by immigrant farm workers. now they faced much of the suffering. if no one on or with the la corston, there is no work. i can't pay the rent. i have a family of 4 to support them. underneath the storms are the result of atmospheric rivers, long currents of moisture in the air that cause rain and snow fall. california has experienced no less than 10, such once rare phenomena. since january, an impact of climate change and a probable trend into the future id, jo castro, al jazeera puddle california. the years tech john met her has announced another

huge round of redundancies, cutting $10000.00 jobs mess, which is facebook. instagram was previously laid off, 11000 employees in november. c mark's docket. bugs says that the company is facing a new economic reality after profit slowed significantly. last year. she madison is a tech analyst at glass wing ventures. he says matters, reliance, and advertising income makes it vulnerable. the 1st thing to remember is that facebook 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 is 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 us 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 can find that finance minister will unveil his spring budget on wednesday. economic outlook is better than a year ago that many are still struggling with soaring cost of living. and as jenna how reports from coventry communities will be watching jeremy hunts budget closely to see if it does enough to improve their 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 the 2 full time salaries no longer sustain a family of 4 have really great. so quickly. 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. if i am 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, brittany 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, really by kobe briggs and the war in ukraine. i think $11.00 area where there will be cut off a lot of focus, particular decisions around public sector pay. and you know, it's kind of a lot of pressure and that with, with strikes, fitting, rising vacancies in the public sector. that scenario we will see 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 coals 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 humped, we'll announce funding for new low tax investment zones to try and spurt business and growth in areas like this. such is the scale of the task that his budget will offer. no quick fix. joe. the whole al jazeera coventry ah.