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president vladimir putin. ah, hello, i mary, i'm noisy in london, you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. a turkish president says he will back felons bit to join nato. but sweden's membership in the military alliance is still uncertain. arriving at court on a wave of public support, the former prime minister of pakistan is granted protective bail for 10 days. and he was president joe biden calls for tough a punishment on bank executives, as he tries to reassure the public after the collapse of silicon valley bank. ah, how the international criminal court in the hague is the issue to an arrest warrant for the russian president vladimir putin. and the i, c. c says,

the warrant is in connection with allegations of war crimes and ukraine, and specifically related to the unlawful deportation of children and of the unlawful chance our children from occupied areas of ukraine to russia. and moscow's repeatedly denied accusations on the trustees during the year long conflicts. to date. 17th of march, 2023. the international criminal court as issued to warrants of arrest in the eucharist tuition for vladimir putin, president of the russian federation. and for my yells, over, been over, commissioner of the rush of presents from chosen side for the alleged war, crabs of devastation of children from ukrainian occupied territories entered the russia physician. the judges f reviewed the formation and evidence submitted by the prosecutor and determined that debt are credible allegation against dees

persons for the allots crimes. while the criminal spokesman has labeled and moved by the i, c. c is outrageous and unacceptable. dmitri pasco said that russia, like a number of states, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, and accordingly, and decisions of this kind, null and void for the russian federation from the point of view of law. that is a direct quote. a, let me try diplomatic editor james base. he's been following the reaction from the united nations. so these warrant the 1st to be issued by the icpc for crimes committed in the ukraine war. but also, james, i suppose it is interesting that it's very rare for this court to issue a warrant like this for assisting head of state a sitting head of state and one of the most powerful men in the world, the president of russia, president of a superpower, president of the country that is a permanent member of the un security council. yes,

i think people were expecting the i c c to come up with some list of people that they had cases against that was expected, but not many people have spoken to were expecting. but the bad, the top of the tree in russia, vladimir putin was going to be one of those named. so he is now a wanted man. there are $123.00 countries which have signed the rome statute. that's the statute that governs the international criminal court. they are obliged to arrest him if he enters that territory. now, president putin hasn't travelled much since the start of the war in ukraine. but there are, there is potential problem if he wanted to go anywhere. for example, india, which is hosting the shanghai cooperation summit in a couple of months time, also hosting the g 20 this year on south africa, which is the host of the bricks summit, which is coming up in august. the move to issue this warrant for his arrest has

been welcomed by international legal experts and human rights organizations. but i think there is some concern behind the scenes about what it means for diplomacy. what it means about trying to bring an end to the war in ukraine, and that's why i think the role of the united nations is important. what does it mean for the united nations secretary general? i spoke to his spokesperson asked whether, now the secretary general would agree to meet or talk to them. they put him as a general rule, the secretary general will speak to whomever he needs to speak in order to deal or with issues out in front of him. does he, though fear that this is a threat to diplomacy? because president putin is clearly the person who started the war in ukraine. one might assume that you need president putin to bring the war to an end. one can't see, i can't see president putin being allowed to come by the host country,

the u. s. to the un general assembly high level week. i can't see how you could foresee another summit between president biden and president putin as we saw in geneva. is this a threat, this arrest warrant? then the diplomacy that you're working on, as i said, and this is the supplies across the board, the secretary general will always speak to whomever he needs to speak to in order to advance our lots of other people won't be able to separate. i can only, i can only speak for him a pretty muted reaction from much of the international community so far. i think macapp trying to calibrate what this means and exactly what to say. and not surprisingly, ukraine has welcomed it. i spoke just moments ago to the crane ambassador to the united nations. he's welcoming this interestingly, when earlier the us ambassador to the united nations was speaking to reporters reading statement out about north korea. i asked her reaction and she didn't have

one. she finished her statement and walked away saying nothing at all. i think we might hear more in the next few minutes because the un security council is meeting on the subject of the crane on the humanitarian situation in ukraine. but it's quite possible that some of the council members will give their response to this arrest warrant in their speeches in the security council. and of course, we were listening very closely to the speech of the russian ambassador. thank you very much. our diplomatic editor james base united nations. well, it's important at the court also issued a warrant to arrest maria level bill of the russian presidential commissioner for children's rights. stephanie decker brings us more on that now from keith. to russia does admit that it's taken children. it says it's done that under humanitarian causes. many of the children have gone either into state institutions, either been adopted by families. most of the children from what we understand were either taken from state institutions here in ukraine and occupied terry to in

russia, occupied it, orphanages also when their parents were arrested, they were forcibly taken from their parents and taken across the border either into stage institutions has been investigations that show these children learning russian singing the russian national anthem at school. other investigations that have taken place show that they've been adopted by russian family. some of them quite happily. others aware of what's happened to them, but certainly it is a very murky and complicated case that is now under the international spotlight. well, in only diplomatic developments, china's present shooting pain will travel to russia. next week, the official trip follows an offer by china to broke a piece and ukraine. this is the 1st time the chinese leader we'll have visited russia since the war and ukraine began. katrina, you has more now from bay chain. according to china's foreign ministry, trip is all about promoting peace between crane and russia. china, our mystery says that leading stones during the conflict has been consistent. that

all at once is to slide to sit down and talk and it released the keys class last month, outlining the dialogue at this school. saving is also criticized to us and other western countries will important thing what it says. you need lateral sanctions and feeling the crisis white one which is support to ukraine. now that's what kind of our ministry says, but there are really 2 other goals here that very, very much staging interest. the 1st is, this trip is going to be a major show of public support for moscow at a time when its continuing its invasion of brain. and this is what fading intended intends to show that this is advancing a multi polar world as opposed to one that just run by the u. s. and other western countries. they also want to deepen its economic ties with russia. we've seen trade sold between the 2 countries since the invasion in 2022. it went off by 29 percent to $190000000000.00 us dollars. and much of that is the buying of cheap oil and gas

from russia for aging. something that very much need and they do is also going to promote itself as a global leader and immediate. she didn't think it's very much capitalizing on the recent success of one of the aging. aging top did not brokering a piece deal between saudi arabia and iran, and meanwhile, inside ukraine, fighting is continuing the eastern city of batman. this is now the wars bloodiest battlefield, the institute for the study of wars warned that rushes of wagner mercenary group is nearing culmination, as they put it in it, siege of the city, the russian back leader of ukraine's. danny ask region, is that the situation of a russian forces is difficult, that is no sign of keep ordering. a withdrawal of its troops, rusher is made the capture of bar much a priority in its strategy to take control of ukraine's don bass industrial region . ah,

what was our cash preservation of time? but i do want to saying that he will now support finland's bid to join nato. the announcement follows him meeting with the finish, president saline stir in ankara. i do on that. the turkish parliament will begin ratifying helsinki bid. the swedish romans as, as anchors, decision to ratify only flit villains bid is regressive. bull turkey had previously blocked finland and sweden's beds, citing security concerns. so soda has more in this now from ankara, from the beginning on when fiennes read them both applied to be a member for the natal took digital crystals and encore to have repeated the said they have no problem with felines accession to nato because they didn't have any security disagreements with freeman, but the main issue was with sweden. however, nato has insisted so far that freelance sweden to be accepted to me too as a package. so, but it seems that nato has changed that position. and also last week,

that have been impassive talks between female and turkey and also some other nato liters. nasal companies have also been involved in these negotiation process and loss re prison added one and his team to have agreed to give their full will for free lands. bid to nato. and prism add. one asked what at present to president meeting. and then based on that, the athena, the freelance president, sold him initially have been invited to ankara and he came here today after the long meeting. that was his last longer than we were expecting. and that has been announced now. so now the process is going to work like that. there is decision, the protocol has been assigned to the by 2 presidents and then is going to be sent to the turkish parliament once it's rectified there as well. and no one is expect many supplies. everybody believes that there's going to be a ratified done bed decision is going to be thrown to the brussels headquarters of nato and nato is going to take it from their own hungry and out, that it will also agree to felons,

nato membership removing. and now the barrier hungry saying a vote is scheduled for parliament to ratified membership. and on march, the 27th says a decision on sweden will be made at a later date. now we've been falling developments in france fray closely. people are again out in protest in cities across the country with unions warning they will continue their fight against pension reforms. the latest action is a day after the government bypassed parliament, enforced through a controversial plan to raise their i'm in 18. 62, just 64 that led to even more anger in the country, protest kind of bit violence. one point police of use was accounted and tear gas to break up. the crowds who had set fire to cause more than 300 people were also arrested. natasha butler has more now from paris. la number french ministers have been trying to defend the pension reform and the way 8 was forced through by decree

by passing parliament. they said it was an action though, was necessary, because they say that this reform is essential if fraud says, are able to sustain aid pension system in the future. nevertheless, that is certainly not washing with many. m p 's a lot of anger amongst some lawmakers. we know that lawmakers on the left and also the far right and also independence all tabling a motion of no confidence. i gates the government, the will be voted on monday. meanwhile, trade unions all calling for more protests, a nationwide day of action on thursday and their ongoing demonstrations in paris. some people have tried to block the main ring road garbage collectors, also oil refinery workers, all continuing with their purchase amount of anger over this reform. a lot of anger, of the way in which it's being pushed through parliament, a loss of frustration and anger. i present it, minute micro, seen as being out of touch with ordinary people. he was al jazeera ally from london

more still to bring you on the program, including this story from the law way. people that are struggling with food shortages after being struck by sight on friday. ah, terms is arising spring war to spreading through europe being brought up from the south. the big churning master plan that is also going from south to knows that clara tends to meet rain and is no exception. there will be rain for the british isles, increasingly france, the north of spain. not so much. scandinavia then says big gap before we pick up the cold, a bit of rain. it's been around for a couple of days that normally when doesn't make it very peasant, they stumble and the whole circulation is the heaviest. rain is going to be running out of target into syria closing yet more flooding,

but it's left behind rising temperatures in, for example, bulgaria, sophia has come about 7 days. it'll keep going up at the same time this system moves in. so rain will tend to not temperature back in zurich, but if you take vienna's example of austria and all the neighbors, the temperatures here are rising, we get to 20 by tuesday, the average is 10. so this is really quite a warm spell. now we have seen very high temperatures in some parts of west africa, particularly in senegal. 4647 degrees. generally speaking, it is hot but not unusually, so the winds are showing themselves p. picky up in the sahara, but there's rain coming for the nose and stretching cross to the horn of africa. ah, in 543, a broad takes all the big issues. this is not one off you talking about

a systemic issue here. black gloves don't really matter in the police. world unflinching questions is war with lawanda minute rigorous debate. people who are dying because of lack of medical treatment, challenging conventional wisdom. the fact that people are starting to get angry about this is in itself a sign of progress. join me more from on who for upright. what al jazeera. yeah. ah ah. i'll come back, look at the main stories of following the sound now and the international criminal court on friday issued on the rice warrant for russian president vladimir putin. he is accused of being responsible for war crimes committed in ukraine. this includes

the unlawful deportation of children, the doctors president regime typo. tuan says he will now support finland's bid to join nato, often meeting finished, present saudi iniesta in ankara. i don't want to set the turkish potter most. all right. to find else think he's bid people in france or again, protesting ways that unions warning, they will continue in that fight against pension reforms. they to sanction is a day off to the government bypass parliament enforced through a controversial plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 60 full. now us present, joe biden wants congress to impose tough a punishment on bank executives as he tries to reassure the public author the collapse of silicon valley bank. us markets were down in early trading on friday, triggered by ongoing uncertainty in the banking sector. first republic bank fell about 23 percent when the market opened, despite the injection of cash deposits was 1st $1000000000.00. so gay, but i was on join us live now from the new york stock exchange. it's been

a lot of volatility in recent days. how i mean, how much nervousness and anxiety is there in the markets? well, there's a lot and we could see that in the markets on friday because all of the 3 major indices are down and have been down all day in the red. the dow, the nasdaq, the s and p all down around one percent, 1.31.5 percent. and they pretty been just been stuck there all day reversing any of the modest gains that were made on thursday. but the stock market is really giving out a lot of mixed signals as well, while it's sort of its frozen in negative territory all day on friday. the nasdaq is having one of its best weeks since are on pace to have one of its best weeks. since november of last year. so it's just, there's really these odd idiot. secrecy is if you will, with the markets looking at credit suisse. the market seem to not be reacting well

at all to the announcement they'd be taking a $54000000000.00 loan from the swish. first, national bank credit switches down about 89 percent on friday, taking with the other major banks as well as city bank down about 5 percent wells fargo goldman sachs also in the red down about 3 percent. so the overall picture of the markets is things are pretty flat right now, but the banking sector certainly very nervous. now what about the parent company of silicon valley bank, which started all of this filing for bankruptcy? early on friday. what, what are the consequences of that? what are they trying to do in filing that making up filing well, they're trying to find a buyer, that's number one. and it's a little disconcerting. most analysts will tell you that they haven't been able to find one over the past week or so since they basically collapsed. so them filing for chapter 11, bankruptcy and new york early friday was sort of expected,

but still worrisome. someone can still buy the bank. that's the hope anyway, by the assets. what's left of the bank that would help prop up what's left of it and take some of the anxiety and pressure off if you will. but the big picture here beyond that is also these other regional banks. and that is really the real worry now the markets are looking at, will this be contained to the regional banks, or will it reach up to bigger banks as well? and that's why you see wall street biggest banks. they have trillions of dollars and assets, giving money to these other banks. the smaller regional banks to try to prop them up as a confidence sign because they know essentially what we have right now is a wildfire in the u. s. banking system. it's right now contained to the regional banks, but nobody wants it to get expand to the larger banks because that could bring up

the p word. that's panic that everybody on wall street is trying to avoid. as you, as you say those shares continuing to slide. so thank you very much for giving us all the reaction from eoc gabriel alexander a form pakistani prime minister and non con, appeared in court on friday where a warrant his arrest was canceled. cons car was surrounded by support. his money arrived at the whole court. i've been worn out against him on multiple corruption charges. he's also facing terrorism charges coming from confrontations between his supporters and police earlier this week. con denies the charges and says the government is trying to stop him from contesting the elections. come all hi da. has this update for from the whole a large number of august on that he can solve the borders have gag outside that level or high court. they said they had seen high drama for the past few days,

got flows between the police and a couple of days of the former prime minister, enron con, appeared before the lord high court to seek protective bade data guards had now been drawn date relief at lot but that is happening often. negotiations between the dedicated solve need to ship andy or target gate ad suggested by the court m. ron hahn is also going to appear in a court dating and it's lama bod, where those are non billable waters were issued. and i've got it going to be important. my dad is come rail vol. regarding the buckets on the prime minister had hinted that he would willing to extend an olive bronze to the former prime minister m ron conroy. sco said that he would be ready for that general book, junior d people and focused on have been glued to their television screens for the last 10 days. the form of prime minister in ron con said that he was not debating in court

because of imminent take to had night. if god had already appeared to attach the nation or dame. and he said that the government wanted to have ducked him and take him into custody. he accused the government of gosh, store dear dog joe. some of it needed him. but for the 1st time since this guy, it began, there seems to be a ray of hope. it will be doable. for them it will be a small victory. but this is a long backdated. and is it that your dish or the fraud take? what happened within the next 10 days is going to be significantly important for this country. now the authorities in milan, we are still coming to grips with the scale of destruction from cycling friday. survivors struggling with a shortage of food. the government has been providing food parcels, but aid is very slow and coming in many areas and accessible because the storm called landslide that's got in the wave infrastructure in the destruction of roads . at least 226 people have died. thousands are still missing though. the meaning

miller has more from a school and blind tire that's been converted into account for the displaced. more than 88000 people have been left homeless and left in malawi alone. due to the impact of cyclone freddie, there were land slides landing as well as heavy winds. and the people here lost everything including their homes. many of the 4000 here are children. and some were brought in by community members because these children had lost both parents or their entire families. there are children here without homes to go to. now the volunteers are concerned about their resources. they don't have enough, for example, we don't even us, for example enough women does enough b b machines. so that again to made was saying as the busy, so i city the patients as a thing that people that i hear people yeah. have been left with nothing and they're relying on the community around them for donations to keep them going. we

organize virtually in turned over and over. i live by, wow. used things, clothes, bergen, shoes, whatever they home. they brought those things to my house. that's when we come to distribute actually we're just nearby no organization non moping. it's our my main we're going to do today. we're went to buy. so i went to buy everything for these people. while help is trickling in. they are only 18 classrooms at this primary school and they're completely full. they're running out of space. and so they're starting to pitch tents wherever they can to accommodate the people who continue coming into this temporary camp. looking for refuge from me, tamela al jazeera blanche, i am allowing live in some similar scenes, emerging from peru, thousands of people, they're about to flee their homes off the land slides don't mud and debris on an

impoverished community, south west of the capital, lima, at least one person died on thursday while many still their homes destroyed by cycling jak her marianna sanchez brings us worn out from the community of rio seco berta sanders is helpless under the rubble, her children's beds, her sofas and tables. she was only able to recover to parts a cutting board and a toy. oh, everything is gone. the kitchen, everything. there is nothing left. cardboard wooden and tin holmes were ravaged by 2 landslides that tore through the community of leo circle southwest of the capitol . within a 1000 homes were flattened and nearly 2500 people affected with verses his home was spared. it sits between his neighbors, brick walls. we have been our at amanda. i'm so sorry for those we have lost everything. it's nature, we can't find it. we never know when it's coming. the effects of

psychological have been devastating, ambiguous north and central coast, the capital, lima is some state of red alert. in this southwestern district of sienna, yes, 7 landslides happened simultaneously. a 120 soldiers delivered water and food to survivors. here. heavy machinery cleared roads. the force of nature only spared the most solid constructions. for years, authorities have urged people not to build their homes near river banks, or ravines like this one. this is a natural path for landslides, but poor people will likely settle here again. this is for now, the mayor of sienna. yes. set up tents to shelter. many of the homeless and distribute food and other donations. really did it. b, l. e. in 2017 el nino caused so much tragedy, but this is much worse will only hear lance lesson 7 ravines and families losing

all. i feel so useless that disaster song has been cleared of the danger remains. the other men in the net. if we have to understand deep down that people don't want to move, families don't want to go to the shelters because they don't want to leave family home. for most of these poor peruvians, their homes were all they had. and now even those are gone. again, such as i just see the, you'll see media will, spain is in the grip of a long time. drought after 36 months of below average rainfall officials, devoss farmers factories and pretty much everyone to cut down on the use of water. right. that was in the heartache catalog region, stand it just 27 percent spines. environment has warned the country to be prepared for longer cycling of extreme drought cycles of extreme drought juice. climate change, the average amount of available water in the countries fall in 12 percent since 980

projections just to further drop of up to 40 percent by 2050. and johnny re spain's government announced to $24000000000.00 plan to protect and improve water supplies . well summarize of wasn't catch linear a so low that all structures like bridges, a church bell, tower and of the ancient ruins of resurfaced for the 1st time. navigation apps also showing people in the middle of the water, when in fact they are standing on dry land meteorologist the warning yet another hot and dry summer head and environment. once again, favorable, large wildfires will be go everything the climate change is clearly arrived. and unfortunately, it is here to stay. we already have a lot of evidence that in spain we're suffering from the effects of global warming . and we, one of the most affected regions because heat waves are increasing more frequently than in other regions. spain is a country that is always halfway.