about the oceans are facing today. i've been working in earnest, trying to find ways to get to the ocean. why? and what are you going to do to keep out of the sort of language that keeps the red blood women, right? a fight for a while. if you got them, eric, i was told the thing with women, we made a challenge in the region. i will not being pro life, i want freedom. we don't have read them in the study about 2 weeks now, 3 days, journey to with someone destroys our country. someone needs to reveal ah, ah,

hello, i'm cyril than yay! it's great to have you with us. this is the news. our ally from dough are coming up in the program to day milan. we asked for international support after severe flooding from cyclone freddie, at least $326.00 people are dead and the president tells us some communities can not be reached. in some places somebody may have been missed out, but my gall and my desire is that every want be accounted for. also ahead anger in france, protesters gather across the country after the president moved to bypass parliament for his pension reform. and the u. s. releases dramatic video of an incident involving one of its drones and a russian fighter jet over the black sea. and i am peter stammered with your spouse the ro, felipe last 16 2nd lakes, have just kicked off. and japan have power the way possibly to reach the room. they

school classics semi form. ah, we start in malawi, where the president has appealed for global support. after tropical cyclone freddy hit the eastern regions of southern africa on the weekend for a 2nd time. mal, always commercial hub blan tire has seen the most damage with flooding and mud slides. at least 326. people have died and hundreds are missing. rescuers scrambled to reach survivors mostly around blan tire after freddy smashed into the country and into neighboring mozambique, triggering floods and lance lights. the government has promised one and a half $1000000.00 to help the 10s of thousands of balloons affected by the storm. but there is anger about the lack of rescue services for me to miller has more. this is milan, joe, west, just outside of the commercial capital,

bland tire. we infrastructure such as roads, telephone poles, as well as electricity poles have been completely destroyed. now this road behind us is a gaping hole, and people have placed logs across it so others can cross. but they can only cross if they can pay people who place these poultry or a charging and not everybody has the money to use this, make sure bridge. they don't have the money, they have to you as an alternative route, which is far more dangerous. now people are using those logs to move everything from food to water, bicycles, motor bikes, as well as bits and pieces from destroyed homes like window frames. they're trying to get across to mylanta over the bridge just ahead of us and even then that's covered in debris. well, earlier i spoke to the president to molly last restoral queerer. he says his country needs international help. mallory is a state of morning and we do have needs

that we almost have to have now and i've been to many of the devastated places i have met people in camps and i have witness the barrier of so many people that have died when we need our more medicines, we need tents, we need equipment that can i help climate change is real. and what we are having to see now is a devastation and seen before this time you 13 months, 3 devastating psych loans and we're trying to do the best we can pull ourselves by boat dropped. it cannot happen with that international help. we cannot happen without every one rollin behind us and say, and what is happening to us can happen to anyone,

anywhere. and are we just need the kind of motor lab or, or response that says while mallory is trying their best with all the constraints that we have in terms of our budget. read the world come in and help malaria? because we cannot afford to be going backwards instead of forward in terms of all of the provisions, lima lauins need. and the development that we so desire. the french government will force controversial pension reforms through without a vote in parliament. after failing to convince a majority of peace, the back, the bill was like a live pictures right now from paris were processes of gathered outside the parliament building. the changes in this reform will raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, and president amended mccoy. says that this is essential to cover pension deficits . there has been, however, widespread opposition to his plan is asher butler reports from the french capital.

oh, it wasn't the outcome. the french government wanted but without the parliamentary majority, but decided to force his pension reform bill through parliament by decree. a controversial move that infuriated some lawmakers and left the french prime minister struggling to be heard on the per pound. we can't risk seeing a 175 hours of parliamentary debate come to nothing. we can't risk seeing the compromise built by the 2 houses dismissed. we can not risk the future of our pensions. this reform is necessary. the move comes off to more than 2 months of street protests and strikes against the reform led by frances trade unions to states and erosion of work has rights also angry for plans to raise the retirement age by 2 years to 60, to demonstrate as he gathered outside the parliament saint they'll continue to fight. oh, so pretty revolting is the fact that despite the fact that the government represents

a tiny minority and doesn't even have a majority in the parliament, they order a constitutional tools that they can use to force of through incomplete the undemocratic manners. but that won't her, that won't her, henry resolved to pursue the fight. that's why you're here today. and that's why the fight will continue to morrow. forcing a bill through the parliament by decree is legal under the french constitution, but it is a course of action seen by many is a failure of politics acting outside the national assembly, france is hard left. leader said, the government didn't care about people out which was on a shoe of ignition. i find it significant and symbolic that for a 100 time the government used a decree to buy paused the will of the people. we must coordinate with the unions and do all we can to have his law withdrawn. performing the pension system was one of president emanuel macros campaign promises. he says the systems outdated, costly and unsustainable for future generations. in the end,

he will succeeded in changing it, but it cost to his political reputation. natasha butler. i'm just sarah, paris. the u. k. government and healthcare unions have come to a final pay offer which could end strikes affecting the national health service. the offered to unions representing nurses and ambulance workers, includes additional paid for next year. unions still have to present the deal to their members. however, harry faucet is in london with his asthma about that harry, not a done deal yet. what's the offer and do you think unions will accept it? well, on that latter point in terms of the union's acceptance, the indications are good. one of the smaller unions involved has said that it can't support the deal, but the others, including the 3 big ones, are all or recommending it to their members. and so it will go to a voting process for those members. like you to take a few weeks, but the indications are pretty good in terms of what's on offer or there is an

offer for last year or coming to the end of the financial year and the next financial year. so on top of the 4 percent pay rise already agreed for the last year. there will be about another 6 percent. one time bonus switches are both a bonus on top of pay and what they're calling one that recognizes the efforts that are being made to deal with the backlog and the n h. s. a national health service caused by the coven 19 pandemic. so that's gonna be between 2000 and about 4 and a half 1000 us dollars per employee, depending on how much they're paid. that won't go into their annual pay rise, but it is a substantial $1.00 off payment then the coming financially or the be another 5 percent increase and with the inflation predicted to fall below 3 percent by the end of the year. that may have given both sides enough riggle room to it to agree on this. but the unions are saying this is going to cost the government more than $3000000000.00 us dollars. and of course it just the people involved in this about

a 1000000 workers involved in this, from nurses to ambulance staff, to paramedics, to support staff cleaners, and security guards. and the like. there are also junior doctors who've just come off a 3 day strike this week. tens of thousands of those who won't be involved in this . there are other work as civil servants have been on strike this week teaches public sector transport workers as well as one senior obee our office of budget responsibility official. that is the independent body that makes financial predictions and forecasts on behalf of the govern. he says that if all of these people were given similar deals, that would cost the government some. $13000000000.00 us dollars. harry, thank you very much. harry faucet, they're reporting from london. poland as become the 1st of ukraine's allies to commit to sending keep fighter jets polish

president andre dude us as that warsaw will deliver for mig 29 jets that are in full working order this to happen in the coming days with some more to be delivered once they've been checked, stephanie decker is and keith, with her more in this ukraine's really been asking for jet since the beginning of the war. it's significant, of course it is. it's the 1st time and a to ally ukrainian allies says that it is going to send for make 20 nines. there will be more in the next coming days. it's something that the allies have been discussing is something that keeps been asking for for a very long time. it is certainly a step up into commitment of its allies when it comes to providing weaponry. it's also was seeing the arrival of some of the leper tanks and from poland as well. and 9 other countries pick you also mentioned by the us secretary of defense yesterday . secretary state lloyd austin saying 9 countries committing to sending around a 150 leper tanks. to ukraine and they will be arriving before the end of march.

the timing of all of this is very interesting, of course, because there's a lot of talk that ukraine is planning a counter offensive as the weather is getting warmer as the ground is thawing. certainly this is a welcome move from poland. it will be welcomed here and key of and again, a lot of the allies seeing that they're discussing ramping up even further support . and the u. s. military has released video of an encounter between a russian fighter jet and a u. s. drone. the pentagon says the russian aircraft unsafely intercepted the reaper drone, which then crashed into the black sea. jonah ho reports. a 42 2nd video clip released by the pentagon shows of russian su 27 fight a plane dumping what he said to be jet fuel into the path of a u. s. reaper surveillance drone high over the black sea. it makes a 2nd pass, repeating the process and then we're told the plain makes contact with the drones tail propeller. the video feed cuts out resuming 60 seconds later to reveal

a damaged propeller blade. afterwards the drones remote pilots bring it down in the waters of the black sea. the pentagon said it would not be deterred by what he said was a patent of risky behavior by russian pilots in international airspace. the united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows. and it is incumbent upon russia to operate as military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. rushes foreign minister said the us drone had not in fact, been in international airspace. honey, even though the report is to, to touch the porcelain shell, they totally ignore the fact that after the start of the special military operation, our military declared that certain areas of the black sea had limited access by any aerial vehicles. and this defiant neglect of that objective fact makes one think.

the american side keeps looking for provocations to fuel confrontation. the ukrainian military has reported unusual levels of activity by russian ships in the black sea, a possible scramble to recover the wreckage. the south west of the crime in peninsula where we know this drawing went down. that's more or less below a desa. the ukrainian city that was threatened. it's not far from where the most giver russian war ship was sunk back in april. so i think there's, there's a big concern in the u. s, and they will be able to continue to mount the surveillance operations without this kind of thing happen. again, russia has denied any wrong doing, and initially blamed the incident on a faulty maneuver by the reaper drone it's retrieval. could provide valuable intelligence. the aerial encounter was the 1st known military contact between the us and russia. since the war in ukraine began. reinforcing widely held concerns that the 2 superpowers could eventually be drawn into direct conflict. jonah haul

al jazeera, we have got lot more a lot more coming up on the news. our including markets responding after the european central bank raises interest rates. despite turmoil in the banking sector, also we're live in peru where cyclone yakima has brought heavy rains that have triggered floods and lance lights the olympic medalist who has been banned for 18 months. we'll have the details on that with peter flew to the south. ah. so europe central bank has raised interest rates by half a percentage point, the aim to curb inflation, but the hike comes amid fears of market turmoil after the failure of 2 u. s. banks. earlier kitty stories shares rebounded from wednesdays, sharp fall when it announced it would borrow up to $54000000000.00 from switzerland

central bank. the e. c. b says europe's finance sector remains resilient. andrew simmons is in london with the latest on european markets. markets were jittery even before this announcement, but now they are really nervous. the european central bank announcing a 0.5 percent increase in its main interest rate. it's up to 3.5 percent. it says that inflation projected remains too high for too long, and it said it was resilient with strong capital liquidity positions right across the euro zone. so they didn't really feel that this was too risky. they would seem, but that isn't the view of every one. the situation with the market says that the european stock markets dropped at what, not substantially, but the pan european stock, $600.00 index, immediately moved down into the red by 0.15 percent bank stocks,

which had rallied at 2.6 percent were down by 0.5 percent. what is this all about? well, interest rates are high anyway. they've gone up further. there had been a real consideration amongst many financiers and many experts that there could be a small, arise by the c, b or non at all. but it went through, there's a see saw here, the with the inflation rates are going up. and then the problem with, with stocks, the problem with government bonds that they really need lower interest rate. so many banks invested when the brakes were higher. and now selling these off, well, that's certainly a disastrous business, as we've seen with the bank crashes that have already happened this week. so the situation right now, nervous and very difficult remains to be seen. what the other major institutions will do world wide about interest rates. the us treasury secretary has appeared before senate committee,

assuring it that the countries banking system is sound. we worked with the federal reserve and f d. i see to protect all depositories of the 2 failed banks. on monday morning, customers were able to access all of the money in their deposit accounts, so they could make payroll and pay the bills. shareholders in debt holders are not being protected by the government. importantly, no taxpayer money is being used or put at risk with this action. deposit protection is provided by the deposit insurance fund, which is funded by fees on banks. person salumi is in new york. so kristin, janet yellen saying the situation is stable, wanting to reassure everybody, lawmakers and the public at large, except now there's another american bank that's in trouble. that's right. and that had been weighing on investors concerns. certainly we'd seen

concern in the stock markets about one bank in particular 1st republic, another california bank that it was worried was teetering on a banking failure. but good news today word out now that financial institutions, including chase, city bank and other major us banks are working on a deal to shore up 1st republic to deposit money there. so that it has the liquidity it needs for its depositors to com. fears and prevent what was feared, would be a domino effect of another bank that being in trouble. depositors getting nervous, going to take their money out, not having the money to cover those withdrawals in this leading to contagion throughout the banking sector. so this news is certainly being welcomed as

a sign that the crisis has been contained on top of the reassurances that we've been hearing from janet yell and the treasury secretary, something else to through you kristen were hearing now that could use rece the trouble european bank is now facing legal action in the us this is true. i now credit suisse of course, and word that it was having issues sent us markets tumbling on tuesday. and even the news of a settlement to shore, that bank wasn't enough to calm american investors. but that news, along with 1st republics knew seems to be lifting markets here in the banking sector as well. in the united states, the lawsuit that has been filed against credit suisse is on behalf of american investors, who say that the bank was not disclosing problems. that it had that it made false

or misleading statements. so it didn't disclose that it had a what it called significant outflow issues in its 4th quarter as well as material weaknesses and internal controls. so that could, once again shake things for credit suisse, but so far we're seeing that it's bank shares that it's value in the market is up with all the other banking stocks that are up as a result of the latest news on 1st republic. all right, thank you chris, absolutely. new york the palestinian health ministry says at least 4 people have been killed and it is really rate on the occupied westbank. and under cover units of these really forces carried out the raid in a busy shopping area and jeanine. this was on thursday, one of those killed with a 16 year old child. 2 others have been identified as leaders of a palestinian group known as the janine battalion. 86 palestinians had been killed in the occupied territories since the start of the year. and protesters across

israel has pressed ahead with demonstrations against judicial reforms. after prime minister benjamin netanyahu rejected a compromise deal is really president isaac hertzog. put forward alternative changes to the plan on wednesday. but netanyahu says that hertz on plan fails to address what he says are imbalances in the current legal system. speaking during a visit to germany on thursday at yahoo said the change in the change is being proposed will not weaken. did you dish or a spokesperson for the libyan warlord? fully for half, dora says that they have found the more than 2 tons of uranium that had been reported missing by the us. nuclear watchdog. the 10 drums of radioactive material were located near the border with chad, after spokesman says, whoever sees the barrels likely thought they contain weapons or ammunition didn't realize what was actually in them. by police in senegal,

have fired tear gas to disperse supporters of opposition leader osman sancho. he has been in court facing libel charges for accusing the tourism minister of embezzlement. while the trial has now been adjourned, the government band rallies by sancho supporters. ahead of that trial is growing concerned. the president mackey sal could run for controversial 3rd term, which the opposition says is unconstitutional. because hack is outside the courtroom in the car, smoke billowing in the air, those are protesters have set tires on fire and there's demonstrations from supporters of use my sancho all across the capital, despite heavy security presence. i mean, i haven't seen so much security on the streets of this capital since they're worth other demonstrations when it was when sancho came to court. in march 2021. schools are shut. all schools across the country are shot and in the are shut down for the day. a lot of businesses have also shut down for what is happening inside this

court room. atwoodsman sancho made his way towards the tribunal. we followed him. there was a convoy, there were thousands of people following him as he was making his way to the court room. and then suddenly the police came in, took him out of the of his vehicle and brought him to court inside. we know there's discussions between his lawyers and the judges about this particular event in the way that he's been taken out forcibly from his vehicle. there is a lot of tension around this court case that has really brought to a, brought to the front, the, the political divisions that there is in this country that's known for its stability. the clean up operation is underway in parts of peru that have been devastated by cyclone yahoo, landslides of buried homes in mud, leaving thousands of people homeless. at least 6 people have died in the past several days as a result of the torrential rains. as go to marianna sanchez will joins us from cns

via region near the capital lima. but what's it like where you are mariana? well, cyril, as you can see behind me, there is a nearly total destruction in this area. this is a ravine called the legal cycle in the district of sienna. yeah. and what you can see is that most of the homes that were built with bricks, half sort of stood up and, and, and so, and resisted. but you can see that the most of the homes are very poor. peruvians here are who have homes made of car turn of wood of tin. they're completely destroyed and people have lost everything. now we just spoke with the minister of culture. she was assessing the damage here. she told us that the number of homes that they think that only does ravine have been destroyed is around 1000. so

we see we have seen also that people have tried to come back after 2 ah, landslides one yesterday. and one the day before yesterday at to try to find some of their belongings. people who have only been able to find a pot or 2 and, and everything else is completely under the rubble. now, the, the army has been a coming of the municipality, as well. the mayor of, of sienna year has been here and sold years have been bringing water to other people who are still here. and they have brought rise and in things like sugar and oil. but really everything is destroyed. there's no electricity, no signal for telephone and people, really, many of them stay here because they say that they're the you will little things that they have. they can be stolen. so still they are in danger here in this ravine

because it is still raining behind us and that there could be another activation of another landslide. and this is the natural course of it. and so it is that people are in danger, but they don't want to leave because they want to protect the few things that they have left marianna sanchez, reporting from lima through thank you. a powerful explosion of the coal mine in central columbia has killed at least 11 people. this happened in suitor tulsa, about 75 kilometers from the capital bullet r. m. as uncle soon sharif reports, there's a search underway for 10 missing miners. dozens of rescue teens are working round the clock to reach 10 miners trapped under ground. since tuesday, the operation is challenging because workers are about 900 meters below and the mine is connected to 5 others. 2 minors were rescued earlier as i was

looking at around 8 15 pm. we heard a strong blast and then it triggered as if it were an earthquake. at that moment we lift and we saw the mine entries injecting smoke and dust. the explosion of this coal mine in central columbia is being blamed on a build up of methane gas ambulances, and families of the trap miners have surrounded the ext. inside ensued that olsa, who are you looking? the only got us or is a can. i don't think my son is alive. my heart says he isn't. i wish he is, but i don't think so. i don't think he's in this world because after a blast that some difficult, only a miracle. at least a 130000 people make living from mining and columbia and unions for a long time. i've been calling on the government to improve working conditions. let me pull some sharif al jazeera still ahead on al 0. the leaders of japan and south korea meet for the 1st time in 12 years will tell you what came out of those talks

and find out what volunteers are doing in thailand to help bring down the cost of funerals. also in sports 12 countries, boy counting the women's world boxing championships as russian and belo russian athletes are allowed to compete. stay with ah here's what's going on in the middle east and africa. good to have ya long it is a dry pitcher across saudi arabia, but we are seeing those winds turn up the sand in dust in the empty quarter. this is also gonna run up against that. he jaz mountains and sparks some showers here. but really, for a huge swath of the arabian peninsula, is dry temperatures above average in mascot, with a height of 36 degrees temperatures are coming down in southern pakistan. so

karachi for the 1st time in about a month, you are below 30 degrees. that have also seen some storms in below, just stop and k p k province, some hail storms mixed in there. and really these waves of precipitation will move through over the next week or so. for turkey, it looks like this. the western side continues to be pelted by rain. looks like we get a bit of relief in the earthquake zone where there has been some plotting in the southeast with turkey. pretty steady rain for on tahlia, at 14 degrees, top end of africa. it's a quiet pitcher, a bit breezy though, for the coast of libya and the northwest of egypt, and through central africa thickets. this western portia along the gulf of guinea really we're, we're going to see the biggest downpours of rain and for southern africa. things are beginning to improve in malawi, still breezy, though for south africa's coastline on friday. gus: 60 kilometers per hour. ah. coveted beyond well taken without hesitation. fulton died.

palla define thou. well, we live here. we may the rule, not them. they find the enemy and then they dr. gerber. people with people in power, investigate, exposed it and question. they used to be used of how around the globe went out there. soon as the sun goes down, i is a very challenging place to work from as a journalist, even though the source is here, say you can't do it, it's not allowed. we are still pushing, always pushing boundaries of moscow is under a lot of people are being the same for be fully marked here for the city. we are the while traveling the extra mile where auto media don't go. we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story, hulu

ah, watching al jazeera reminder of our headlight m allowing the president has told al jazeera his country is in need of international support. after a tropical cyclone hit, the east of southern africa, allowing commercial hub has seen the most damage with flooding and mud slides. at least 326 people have died. the u. k. government and health care unions have come to a final pay offer which could end strikes affecting the national health service. the offer to unions representing nurses and ambulance workers include additional pay for next year. the deal does not, however, cover junior workers who also been australian. the french government will force

controversial pension reforms through without a vote in parliament. after failing to convince the majority of empties to back, the bill is alive. pictures from paris were protest. as of gathered upside the parliament building. the changes will raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, and there's been widespread opposition to that plan in a significant diplomatic effort. south korean president unit. so y'all and japanese prime minister form yoke is shita of come together for a crucial meeting. the leaders aimed to tackle regional challenges and resolve longstanding tensions between their nations. robert bride reports from so the landmarks summit between south korea and japan comes at a time of increasing regional challenges for both nations. just a couple of hours before units of y'all's departed on the 1st bilateral visit by serving south korean president to japan. in 12 years, north korea launched a long range missile in the same direction. the weapon was confirmed as an

intercontinental ballistic missile of the kind north korea has been developing and showing off at military parades in the past couple of years. video released by the japanese air force shows what seems to be a missile coming down after re entry into the atmosphere. the launch comes in a week that marks the start of annual military drills between south korean and us forces that will include large scale field exercises. washington wants to see closer relations between it's to east asian allies, not only as a counter to north korean threats. and the growing military might of china, but also to maintain a technological edge in the production of strategically important semiconductors. we come bit, we have confirmed the importance of vigorously promoting security cooperation between japan, south korea, and the united states. japan announced its lifting export curbs on materials needed

for high tech manufacturing, imposed during the recent spat with south korea. president noon is trying to restore ties that have salad considerably in recent years. but in south career, it's a highly controversial move relations have been scarred by decades of colonial rule from tokyo during the last century, which culminated in atrocities committed by japanese troops in world war 2. weekly protests still held against the enforced use of so called comfort women, in military brothels. and you, and has proposed settling the issue of koreans forced to work in wartime factories by compensating victims from a voluntary fund. instead of finding the japanese companies involved a bold offer, seeming to prove units, sincerity, and strengthening ties,

a priority to john on going forward, we will continue to actively communicate and cooperate through shuttle diplomacy meeting as often as necessary, regardless of format, little cannot. but opponents back in south korea accuse him of a diplomatic climb down in this deeply troubled relationship. rob mcbride, al jazeera sol, north korea is miss i. l testing program has increased dramatically under kim junglin, tenure, be impoverished country has spent tens of billions of dollars developing a wide variety of missile systems, of increasing sophistication from submarine, launched by styles to those large from trains and increasingly long range missiles or icbm. that could hit any target in the united states. in january this year, kim jong announced that he would be increasing the frequency of missile tests with plans to launch more in 2023 than he ever has before. but one of the shop toys in a jump professor of political science and international affairs at temple

university, japan. he says there is no solution to north korea's nuclear program because of what it represents to the regime. these ballistic missiles have been on the radar or for north korea for many years now. for north korea, ballistic missiles represents, in addition to their new program, be ultimate, to deter and having a reliable number arsenal. ballistic missiles, along with our new nuclear program, is from the perspective appealed on the best way to ensure and guarantee the security of the kim jong in the regime. so that's one of the reasons why they are developing and launching the missile. but there's other reasons as, while north korea is currently trying to send a strong message, because right now this week, the american south koreans are conducting large scale military drills with also a message of opposition to the japan is hosting a defense show where

a joint fighter jet project with the u. k in italy is due to take center stage. the asia pacific region is witnessing a rapid military build up with several countries, including japan, increasing the defense budgets for as louis has more, this is might japan's next generation stealth fighter will look like. it's a joint project with the u. k. and italy mocking japan's 1st major military development with a partner other than the u. s. since world war 2 and less say security considerations in the region are changing, driven by 2 main factors, prompting countries to rethink the defense strategies. well 1st, the main challenge is, seems to me as north korea is continually testing a ballistic missiles and violating un sanctions. because that's an unstable situation at any time. second is really the great power rivalry. the intensification know, i call an action reaction. oh,

engagements between china and the united states militarily, asia pacific is where the economic and military rivalry between the u. s. and china is being played out. the u. s. has been challenging china's expansive and increasing the assertive claims in the south china sea with what it calls, freedom of navigation operations. china's military and political pressure on ty, one to accept chinese sovereignty has also increased tensions in the region. we now back to the normal of modern history with the world of our up in the competing great powers and complete power walks. and that's what we're saying in, in the pacific region. it's never that competition is inevitable. conflict or war is not inevitable, but it's more of a possibility i think, going forward and it has been looking backwards. the growing geopolitical uncertainty has seen countries unveil new strategies for the region that includes australia's new security and technology pat with the u. s. and the u. k. it's also

set of an arms race as country seat to modernize their weaponry, but not everyone believes military might as a useful deterrent at the defense show in tokyo, anti war protesters have a clear message, boise, thank you. now, one important thing for stopping the words and conflicts going on now is getting rid of weapons. that message unlikely to be heard in the corridors of power. florence louis al jazeera thousands of her tens of thousands of farmers in india or marching to mom by ha, the 200 kilometer walk started from the city of mass seek in mahar, russia state. they're demanding government compensation to their losses in onion crops after huge dropping prices. the government blames a surplus in production for the fall in value. in years, the world's biggest exporter of onion. benito has more on this from the deal. farmers in western india are in

a dire situation. thousands of them in the state of my russia marching to the city of moon by which is the state capitol. it's a difficult journey. 200 kilometers on foot in this heat. they have a list of demands. the major one being they want financial assistance from the government off to onion prices crashed in wholesale market. marsha is in does largest producer onions, but price has have plunged to about 3 dollars, 100 kilograms. that's a fraction of what farmers would normally get. this is partially because productivity has been higher, production has been higher and the other a reason under mo, concerning reason is panic selling an earlier. c and more intense, some are in high temperatures, are threatening the crops. and so farmers are trying to sell them as soon as they can and get whatever money they can, forcing prices to drop to a level that for some farmers it's been easier to just bond the crop than to

actually try and spend money to transport it to other areas we go to washington dc now where the department of defense is holding a press briefing, it's expected to address the downing of a u. s. drone over the black sea, the pentagon's press secretary air force brigadier general pat writer is speaking in the west. yep. thanks to our so 1st of all, it's not unusual for us to release imagery of unsafe unprofessional insight. we've done that in other situations. and so, particularly in this case, given the reckless and dangerous behavior and to demonstrate publicly what type of actions the russians had taken, we felt that it was important to provide this imagery. certainly, there are certain considerations that we have to take into account when dealing with imagery to include the classification to ensure that we're not inadvertently putting out sensitive information. but in this case, we were able to, to work through that and provide that. as far as you know, russian perceptions,

again, i think it's important to take a step back and look at the big picture here. the united states focus in the region . the focus with ukraine is solely on providing ukraine with the support that it needs to defend itself. you've heard a say before that ukraine has a right to defend itself, and we have a right to help them alongside the international community to do that. so. so the united states does not seek conflict with russia. we do not seek escalation with russia. and so we're going to continue to stay focused on our primary mission in the ukraine area, which is supporting ukraine and it's fight declasse, declassified the video and releasing it. you know, russia has suggested that it didn't show the actual contact. how does this really just counter that narrative and show that this happened the way that the pentagon has said it has? yeah, well, i think that our words and our actions speak for themselves. and similarly, rushes inaccurate information, false information, observation, grasping at straws,

changing narratives also speaks for itself. so we're going to stay focused on the facts. and we're going to stay focused on our mission. me go to the next question, was all 1st part of my questions are m, did the u. s. asked for an apology from russia on taking down the drone and did russia offer an apology? i know we did not ask for an apology. again, our focus was on highlighting the fact as we've made very clear publicly and privately that the united states will continue to fly and operate in international airspace in accordance with international law. thank you, and my 2nd part is on. it's come out that russian officials ordered the pilots to be aggressive towards the drone. and today, the st. com commander told the senate armed services committee that he seen increased russian aggression in the middle east. is this something that the u. s. is concerned about? does the us have any promises that russia will decrease its it's aggression. so was

what i would tell you, is it again, our focuses on conducting our operations in support of our national security interests. are our allies and our partners around the world. ultimately, the russian military, the russian government is responsible for its own behavior. and when that behaviors unsafe and unprofessional, we're going to call it out as we've done in this case. and so that it will continue to be our focus. you've heard secretary austin, you've heard general hacker in europe and others call on the russians to be safe and professional in conducting their operations. and that would be the expectation going forward. thank you will. all right, you've just been listening to a press briefing from the at the pentagon, the u. s. department of defense and they of course, addressed the matter of the u. s. drone that was downed by a russian jet over the black sea. as good a petty co hain are corresponded in the pentagon who has been following this. patty

looks to me and i didn't hear everything that you heard looks to me like the u. s. not escalating this exactly, that was my main takeaway because when they released the video very early this morning, the clearly shows what dependent i want you to see, which is q passes by fighter jets. he mean to drop you on the drone. then at the end, you see that that one rotate, one of the engine's rotors was bent, doesn't show the rotor being bent. but the question was why released this video? because we saw clearly yesterday the top rest of the military really tried to downplay, they didn't escalate it. they said this, we just need to communicate more. they had phone calls, they didn't order ultimatums or you just heard ask for an apology. so then why release the video? so i was going to see what is looking for is brigadier general pat ryder if he was going to up the, basically the rhetoric. and it is clear that he is not. he's still saying, look,

we put this out there to counter what russia says happened. but you know, we're moving forward, what would it be communicating not asking for apology. so i think that they tried to send a message by releasing that video and then just sort of letting the video speak for itself. right, petticoat haine, reporting from outside the pentagon. that's where we are in this, at this stage. the big take away from this, no escalation from the moment for the us on this matter. petticoat have thank you very much. of course and indonesia has sentenced a police officer implicated in last years football stadium. crushed to 18 months in prison, 2 others were found not guilty. 135 people died when police fired tear gas into the stands after pitch invasion. survivors and victims relatives are disappointed by the court's decision. jessica washington reports from east java. in milan, east java, really 6 months after his son died. we anto says every day is a struggle for this but i just miss him so much. it's so hard. i

can't get rid of this trauma. i just can't. his son was one of the $135.00 people who died when police fired tear gas at fans at the end of a football match. after some spectators entered the pitch, it resulted in a crush at the exits of the overcrowded stadium. people tried to escape only to find many gates lot. now he says his heartbreak is mixed with disappointment. said again ha, malia will just what i wanted was for the people connected to the shooting of tear gas to get the punishment they deserve. at the sir, by a district court one police officer, a squad commander of the mobil brigade, who ordered his officers to fire t. a gas was sentenced to 18 months in prison. 2 other local police officers were acquitted. this incident was the tragedy that none of us had hoped for. we surely hope that everyone involved be at stake holders. the organizing committee, local government and security officers,

should evaluate so that these unwanted incidents can be avoided from beauty. the prosecution had asked for a 3 year prison sentence for each of the officers. mood and court was secured only a few relatives of victims attended proceedings many to hold out 0. they pulled the lives of their loved ones. had been disrespected. he saw too sad a 16 year old brother was one of the victims were definitely disappointed. we regret the judge's consideration was lacking in thinking about the loss of a 135 lives to stay away from court. this week, many survivors told al jazeera, they are too traumatized and disenchanted with what they call a lack of accountability from authorities. i always think about and seeing my friends dead in the hospital, i have lost my friends how come the punishment is so unfair. the site is now an unofficial monument to what happened that night. the shoes of spectators still lined the steps of the stadium

a sign of how they desperately tried to escape this villa letter. i have been following the case closely because it's about a 135 lives. and now it's like nothing happened at all the law, the case was handled quietly. like many in milan, he feels the seriousness of the tragedy and the devastation it caused for this community has been undermined by this outcome. jessica washington out to sara, east java and protests in athens have turned violent again with police firing tear . gas em had demonstrators hurling petrol bombs. thousands of greek workers walked off the job on thursday, and rally de voiced their anger over last month's rail disaster. at least 57 people died when 2 trains collided in northern greece. protesters and unions are blaming the crash on neglected safety standards, and they are demanding safer working conditions and government accountability. and it's time for all your sorts coverage now with peter, sir, thank you very much. we'll start with the news that fee for prison gianni infancy.

now, has been re elected unopposed for a 3rd term. the formalities were completed at the 73rd fee for congress in kigali rwanda. it comes off to the fif, a confirmed the next $4018.00 woke up. we'll have 104 games. and the club woke up will be expanding to this has been met with criticism in europe, but infant tina is promising recall revenues. so from 6.4, which became 7.5 in the last cycle, we go to 11000000000 u. s. dollars. and actually the new club will copies even not included in that. so i think this figure will increase still by at least a couple of billions. the euroleague lost 16 2nd legs have kicked off. i can tell you manchester united and rail bettis our goal is at half time. but then united lead for one over all. meanwhile, in the champions league title holders rail madrid or through to the quarter finals after beating liverpool $6.00 to $1.00 aggregate ever already leading 5 c from the 1st leg and living hall, bossier than club admitted. they only had

a one percent chance of turning things around. well even that disappeared when kareem bens abbas struck the only goal of the game at the been about one that was the final school and it's the 3rd straight season. madrid have not lovable out of the competition with her a little hard that we played a knockout stage against a strong team and we did very well over the 2 games. this may help us to make it into the semi finals. we'll have to play against very good teams and surprising teams because nobody was expecting to see 3 italian teams in the quarter finals. napoli are among those italian teams moving into the law. thank victor. awesome man, a school twice as they crushed on track frankfurt. 3, no on the night and 5 mill, an aggregate. it's the 1st time the city our leaders have reached the quarter finals. believe it or not, they will be joined by a fellow italians inter and a similar come a little for yeah, yeah, that's all see me. but the build up to that match was overshadowed as fans clashed on the streets of naples. 8 people have been arrested 5 napoli for free from

germany despite i'm for fans in band, from attending the mass. french offensive course. problems during the 1st link in the tub was also find after trouble at a match in ma say earlier in the season. european club football takes a break next week for euro qualifies to take place and it's been a surprise gone up for sweden. 41 year old slaton abraham of inches made the squad a year after he's lost appearance for his country. the ac milan forward has been out of action for much of the season because of a knee injury and there's no guarantee he'll play against belgium or as a beige on later this month. the women's boxing will championships have begun in india, but a dozen countries have boycotted the event. that's because athletes from russia and belarus are competing with their flags and anthem's, the international boxing association, which is led by russian businessman lifted the band last year going against guidance from the international olympic committee, which came in following the invasion of ukraine. we spoke to eve engler and

activist and author into ranta who questions the logic behind banning rush and belarus from sports events. i'm okay with it if there's a consistent principle. so were us athletes band after the us invaded iraq 20 years ago? we're canadian athletes band, after canada led the nato bombing of libby in 2011. the answer is no. so it seems hard to me to believe, to understand why the athletes from those countries are calling for a russian or beller russian band at this point. i think the russian war in ukraine is illegal, is brutal, but i wouldn't compare it to what the us did in iraq. russia has far more security justifications for what it's doing in, in, in ukraine. again, i don't, i don't agree with it, but there is at least some, some understandable justifications. the u. s. one half way across the world to invade a country with absolutely 0. there was actually 0 threat in any way to the u. s.

and killed hundreds of thousands of people. now with regards to israel, palestine, i think it's slightly more complicated. in that case, we're talking about, you know, 75 plus years of dispossession. occupation that almost all the world considers we go for more than half a half a century, constant destruction in gaza. the don't dynamics are slightly different, but i think that the, what israel is doing to the policy and people is certainly on par with, with what with rushes doing and ukraine. and again, not even mentioned, i don't know any canadian journalists, not even a one column raising the idea that israeli athletes should be banned from international competitions. rush and santa star daniel med va dance, says he feel sorry for ukrainian players competing on to with a country in turmoil. the we're going to fix, we're speaking of re court to find a win at indian wells and city wanted peace all over the world. met with a breach the semi finals after tournament in california for the 1st time in his

career to be to handle the video which for kina in straight fits for his 18th consecutive when after collecting 3 titles over the last ill face, another semi final debutante in francis t f o next the american b britons cameron nori 6464 to reach his 1st office. 1000 tokyo olympic silver medalist raven saunders has been banned for 18 months for violating anti doping rules. the 26 year old american shot potter caught the eye in 2021 with her green and purple hair and joker mosque. she's been punished for muscle 3 tests, but it's not tested positive for a band substance. she'll miss the sears world athletics championships and we'll be back to compete at the paris 2020 full olympics to time will

baseball classic champions, japan of power their way into the semi finals they thrashed italy 93 earlier in the final in tokyo consumer or come auto and the massacre yoshida hit home, runs for the japanese who had booked a final full meeting on monday in miami. they were face either mexico, puerto rico play on friday. the united states remain on track to defend. they will title mike trial drove in 3 runs in phoenix as they be columbia to move the call to finalize the usa will face venezuela in the last days to the n. b a. and the boston celtics of kept up the pressure in the race for the eastern conference title that eat the minnesota timber wolves and a close game. 141. i'm to jalen ross called a game high. $35.00 hoist grab 10, re bounce off. it's boston's 3rd when in for games, but they still trail the n b a leading milwaukee bicycle mer, try by boston in the race, you'll find philadelphia 76 was included place they beat the cleveland cavaliers.

make at 6 winds and a raj all n b had $36.00 points. amazingly bow. and in the west, steph curry scored 50 points for the golden state warriors, but they still last to the ali clippers co. i leonard. what 30 as they added 4 winds in a row. the clippers are foot in the standings, one place above the warriors in 6. that's what this forces are more later 0. i repeated, thank you so much for all that sports coverage and that is it from me, cyril benya for this news hour. you've got lauren taylor up next from london for all your news. nice. ah mm.

with that all will say you dial as the ballade never laid him a bottle of him in my thought that the national food i did them nice. it was even be saddam, that there will be now you what that view ah debating the issues of the day, the 5 largest polluters of the world are in india, jump into the street. they made their money on coal. they made their money on field, convincing those folks. no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult, giving all of voice. we chose to live because we wanted to escape war and violence . when you humanize this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality and break down misconceptions.

the street on al jazeera australians of the world's biggest gambler, losing tens of billions of dollars a year. one on one ace investigates with friends gambling addiction on out of the year. it's been 20 years since the united states led invasion of iraq, which overthrew president saddam hussein a widely controversial military operation that kills hundreds of thousands of iraqis and displaced 1000000 small a conflict is consequences are still being held to day the rock pool 20 years on on al jazeera ah morning and anger and malawi in the wake of psychos freddy.