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vladimir putin. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm no mozy in london, you're watching alger 0. so coming up on the program, the turkish president says he will back finland's bid to join nato. but sweden's membership and the military alliance is still uncertain. new as president joe biden's call for a tougher punishment on bank executives, as he tries to reassure the public after the collapse of silicon valley bank. and battling for the basics in the wake of psychos friday, lauins phase food shortages, and now the risk of disease. ah hello and welcome to the program. the international criminal court has issued an

arrest warrant for the russian president vladimir putin, along with russia's commissioner for children's rights. maria love over below. ver putin is accused of war crimes, after hundreds of ukrainian children were taken from orphanages and children's homes with menu already. now adopted in russia. the i c c says this is the 1st step in ongoing investigations into ukraine. the kremlin is repeatedly denied accusations that its forces have committed atrocities during its invasion of the country. they've branded the court decision null and void. neither russia nor ukraine, members of the i, c, c. and while it's unlikely he'll end up in court any time soon. the warrant does mean the putin could be arrested and sent to the hague. if traveling to any of the 123, i see. see, member state putin is only the 3rd serving president who have been issued an icy arrest warrant after saddam's omar bashir and libya is warmer. gadhafi. diplomatic

editor james bayes has more now from the united nations, 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's 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 that the band, the top of the tree in russia. let me put in 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 or 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 ass whether at now the secretary general would agree to meet or talk to him, put him as a general rule, the secretary joe will speak to whomever he needs to speak in order to deal with the issues in front of him. does he the fear that this is a threat to diplomacy? because president putin is clearly the person who started the war in crane. 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 in the diplomacy that you're working say aren't, 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 a 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 or in the past hour. the rushing on back to the united nations address this matter and the security council. he dismissed the authority of the i. c. c. you know, to do this is the prejudice polish biased and non competent and international body which has once again demonstrated how damaging and invalid it is. the i, c, c, the pop it in the hands of the collective west, which is always willing to carried out to pseudo legal pseudo jurisdiction based on their border. the russian federation is not party to the rome statute need missing the i. c. c. last jurisdiction used to be the russian federation of citizens. consider we consider anybody any warrant from the 7 this body as illegitimate and

invalid, and now employed. meanwhile, ukraine present automated landscape. welcome to this decision from the icpc is. this is a historic decision that will lead to historic responsibility the head of a terrorist state, and another russian official have officially become suffix in a war crime. in the people taishan of ukrainian children, the illegal transfer of thousands of our children to the territory of a terrorist state in the criminal proceedings being investigated by our law enforcement officers. more than 16000 cases of force people taishan of ukrainian children by the occupier of already been recorded. but the real number of people tease may be much higher than when our early i spoke with jeffrey. nice. he worked at the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia between 19982006 that the prosecution of stop down below savage, former president of serbia,

is also the author of crimes against humanity. so he explained to me how another charge of genocide could potentially be made when it comes to force transfer of children. it's quite interesting to look back to the count reallocation that has not yet be made and may never be made of genocide because genocide when it was decided in the late 19 forties and fifties for the genocide convention had 5 ways and just 5 ways in which genocidal intent is carried out, could be criminal, could be criminally genocidal. and one of the last one was transferring children. and the reason that's important is to bear in mind that the founding fathers of more international humanitarian law who had experience warm and probably too well was, could see the real danger to groups of people, ethnicities, and nature. a nation in either stopping or effectively

in moving children away from their parents or from their culture in order to destroy the culture and in that way to destroy the nation. so a, they are crimes under the statute and be examined carefully. they're actually particularly serious things for persons who tend to do now. the court also issued a warrant, harassed maria level, that dell of russia's presidential commission of for children's rights. azure. is it stephanie decker brings us more on this now from keys toll. russia does admit that it's taken children, it says it's done that under humanitarian causes are. 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 occupy terry to russia,

occupied it, and orphanages also when their parents were arrested. they were forcibly taken from their parents and taken across the border either into state 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. ah, now it's august present regime time i do on says that he will support finland's bed to join nato. after meeting the finish, present sally and yes. so in ankara i do on st. the turkish parliament with start ratifying helsing, his bed swedish foreign minister says that to anchor as decision to support andy finland's, is that regrettable or so said has more in this now from ankara. it was initially

they bought 14 and and natal, the loan of even decision to appleton of be from natal is fine with me here in on cra is 1st dollar and goodish with him season. we have seen that finland has taken sincere and concrete steps to refill its commitments in the trilateral memorandum of understanding based on the sensitivity for all country security and the progress that has been made in the protocol fulfillment accession to nato. we have decided to initiate the ratification process in our parliament sourcing on caught off seeing that last week, that housing policy tools, because demand and turkey and there'll be some of the 3rd party companies will got involved in the negotiations. and based on that prisoner gone and his team accepted or agreed to approve the men's accession to nato. indeed, the officials here are seeing that jackie, since the beginning on has repeatedly said that turkey doesn't have any problem with been as accession to nato. but the main security problems agreements were,

were severe them. so today there were no swedish or officials in ankara. however, present added one has been repeatedly asked about sweden's accession. even president or finland solely minister also has asked present add, want to fast and sweden's accession to natal. i have a feeling that phineas nato membership is not complete. without sweden. we have so much common interest having being to really neighbor center, having in the baltic sea area code our shore. however, present add one has been explicitly cleared in his answers. he says that they have citizens agreements regarding security concerns with severe them. he said that uncle has put away a list of 101 for people to see them, which on kind of believes that all of these people are members off y, p g,

and peak at k, which are regarded as total groups by anchor and add one said that deal severe then handover is $124.00 people to ankara. turkey is not going to approve to be. there's accession to nato and their sources here are telling us that it's very much unlikely that turkey will approve sweden's be to nato any time before the elections that are going to be held in church on may 14 or the turkish decision to approve finland that keeps clean, waiting for his months of tensions with the country, either as police reports now on what sweden's exclusion from the alliance means for stock hand and finish her. stock homes were on their way home for the weekend when the latest blow to their country's hopes of join nato was announced. turkey would let finland in, but not yet sweden. the main reason turkey has claimed that the government in stockholm is harboring what anchor calls terrorist groups,

particularly the kurdistan workers party, the p k k. nowadays, pick a how has a black market here through the nada and took in honor and took a real 3 then take it seriously. gender is a kurdish journalist. he came to sweden in 2005. he watched in january his tension between turkey and sweden reached their height when curtis protested in stock home hung an effigy of turkish president, russia. type err to one in response to his demand that sweden extradite a list of people. he said willing to the p. k k, some codes for the having been given refuge. it could now be sent back. george porter, say about nato and sweden and turkey was a blank boy because supporters, we are 2 different group, of course here in sweden as a court. i have a good life here 3 than respecting me my language. we will see what was 3 then do as a quarter of server, i want to see the swedish government to take some serious action of the situation

wasn't help. when danish right when politician ross was paladin, was allowed to burdick run outside the turkish embassy. but whatever happens now, it wasn't meant to be like this for sweden who've been stepping up their military in preparation for joining nato. it followed decades of neutrality which had become part of their identity. the common defense planning that we have been doing with finland since 2014 will become much more difficult. it is right now that durn ideas of nato's your forward defense is going to be figured out. and in that work, it would be a very big benefit for nato if they knew if they could include both swedish territory, but also swedish military capabilities. ah, precious to night, i would have been swedish technology, with its grip and jets bolstering the alliance is able capabilities over the baltic . such an addition to their aubrey in opposition to russia is now with the dia,

last year sweden's entry into the alliance, alongside friend, when seemed all but assured as nato countries rushed to welcome the ren but with turk, here and also hungary. still having doubts sweden may have to wait until the upcoming turkish elections at the very least poorest out his era stock home. all right, please of once again confronted to angry protest as in paris for 2nd night, no road have been demonstrations against the government's pension reforms. officers have been using tear gas to deal with the crowd near the parliament building. this latest action comes a day after the government bypass parliament and force through a controversial plan to raise the rate time in age from $62.00 to $64.00. still a have for you on the program arriving at paws on a waiver, a sound. i mean a stay. my con is got to bail 10 days, thousands of gun and more national team, football and christian as it is state funeral and background.

ah, with the sil, tropical thunder in northern australia, the bulk was dry, that there's a frontal system running through the bite. so the extraordinary tension 37 will not last that'll go down by the time you get to sunday to about 21. but sit these 30 to give you probably a record breaking run above 30 for this time of the year. and look at pers 33 degrees or equally hot for this time. the nice weekend for both odds of new zealand is a little rain arrival temperature on the high side of normal and sunshine is the predominant form of weather. rain is going to be concentrated in borneo and the central philippines. possibly, solar waste has been some flooding in central philippines. that could be repeated.

and this in japan looks quite like to bring yet more flooding. and this great snow for non mountains avalanche risk continues to be quite high in china, south the yangtze. that rain isn't extraordinary. it does tend to get heavier, i think during sunday, whereas in japan, the whole dots gone through. you got a cooler but a brighter day. and this is wrong. we should be seeing dry weather, pre monson heat at the moment. we got significant rain, particularly on the eastern side of india, with vicious lum, particularly wet ah. on counting, the calls will borton's new plan to bring people back into the work will help boost economic growth, the collapse of silicon valley bank, reno rethink all interest rate. plus, australia wants to create a new fleets of nuclear power, stop the massive price. counting the cost on al jazeera, a ward winning documentary from around the world.

one which is 0 with ah, welcome back to the main stories of following this hour now into the international criminal court on friday issued an arrest warrant for the russian president vladimir putin accusing him of war crimes in ukraine. this includes the unlawful deportation of children. also today, the turkish president worship type odo on says he will now support finland's bid to join nato. after meeting with the finish president an anchor. oh, tuan confirmed that the turkish parliament will start ratifying helsinki. his bid

to join the military alliance. riot police of again confronted angry protest as in paris for a 2nd night in a row. i've been at demonstrations against the government's pension reforms. officers have been using t gas to deal with the crowd just near the parliament building. in other news, u. s. president joe biden, once congress to impose tough a punishment on bank executives. the tries to reassure the public after the collapse of silicon valley bank. u. s. markets close lower on friday. will this triggered by ongoing uncertainty in the banking sector that said, dragging shares down 1st republic bank shows found more than 32 percent, despite injection of cash deposits worth $30000000000.00. gabriel elizondo has more now from the new york stock exchange. it was another tough day on wall street, as all of the major indices were in the red and down throughout the entire day.

any of the gains that were made on thursday were wiped out on friday, but the market is also giving very mixed signals as we enter this next phase of the u. s. banking crisis. in some ways, we're seeing the markets very much down. but for the week, the market has been quite resilient. for example, the s and p down 1.2 percent on friday. but for the week up over one percent. the nasdaq down a little under one percent on friday, but for the week up 4 percent. and we saw the same with the dow jones industrial average down 1.4 percent on friday, up a little over 0.4 percent for the week. so we're really getting a lot of these mixed signals and are getting a sense of you really don't know how the market should be reacting to this banking crisis. it's clear that this is top of mind here on wall street now, but it's really a sense of will this crisis be contained to the regional banks as what we've seen

for the last week or so? or will it spread beyond that to larger banks, which could cause a much bigger banking crisis and what we're seeing now, and of course, spread even further internationally. according to one trader, it's almost like the market doesn't know how to react right now. they're kind of like a deer stuck in the headlights of the old saying goes just sort of frozen. and that's all we saw while with the markets on friday. there wasn't a lot of selling, wasn't a lot of buying. it was just sort of frozen in time, so to speak. now 1st republic, bank, one of the banks. it's at the center of all this down 32 percent. it's lost about 70 percent of its value for the week. and that's after $30000000000.00 aid package was promised to the bank trying to stabilize the markets. now, what are we looking to in the future?

the next big thing will be next week, next, tuesday and wednesday, when the federal reserve makes a decision on if they are going to hike interest rates again or not. traders will be watching that very closely because whatever that decision is could then have a knock off effect for wider implications throughout the market. and through the goal, we commie. parties in malawi are still coming to grips with the scale of destruction from cycling friday. survivors is struggling with a shortage of food. government has been providing food parcels, but ada's coming in slowly, many areas have been cut off by landslides. over 300 people have died, thousands are still missing. i mean, the miller has worn out from a school in blan tire that's been converted into account for the displaced more than 88000 people have been lived homeless and lapped in malawi, alone, due to the impact of cycle on friday. they were land slides landing as well as

heavy winds, and the people here lost everything including their homes. many of the 4000 here a children. and some were brought in by community members because these children had lost both parents all their entire families. there are children here without homes to go to. now the volunteers here are concerned about their resources. they don't have enough. for example, we don't even of for example, enough for me does enough beebe machines so that again to made were saying the eyes are the busy thought. i see the patients other thing that people that i hear people . yeah. have been lived with nothing and they're relying on the community around them for donations to keep them going. we're going over and over and over. i remember we're used things closely. bergen shoes worked over the home. they brought those things to my house. that's when we come to distribute actually we are just,

you know, gabe's issue of non moping. it's our mom there we want to do today. we're willing to buy, so when 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 to accommodate the people who continue coming in to this temporary camp. looking for refuge from me to mila al jazeera plant. i am allowing we go to pakistan now, and the former prime minister in montana be heading coach on friday with a warrant for his arrest was cancelled in the end. cars cons car was surrounded by supporters when he arrived at me, the whole court. i've been warren's house against him on multiple corruption challenges that he's also facing terrorism challenges. stemming from confrontations between supports in the police earlier this week, con says that to all these charges are undertaking motivated. come on. hi don. this

update now from the hall. a large number of buggers on teddy again talk to borders have gathered outside the la hoard high court. they said they had seen high drama for the past few days, got flowed between the police and the border of the form of prime minister, emron con, appeared before the lord high guard to seek protective bade. that guards had now been granted relief at law. but that happening often negotiations between the dedicating called leadership and your charter did add suggested by the court m. ron hahn is also going to appear at gord heading and it's lama bod, where those are non billable waters were issued and ended up going to, going to be in for turn by dead is come rear of all. regarding the buggers on the prime minister. i had hinted that he would willing to extend an olive bronze to the former prime minister. and ron conroy co said that he would be ready for our

general opportunity. b, berlin boggart on have been glued to the televisions page for the last 10 days. the former prime minister im ron connor said that he was not debating and god, because of the imminent threat. like if god had already appeared to know that the nation are dead. and he said that the government wonder, do i have a dock and take him into custody? excuse me, the door. dear george. oh, some of religion. but for the 1st time, it began, there seems to be hope be, but will be jubilant for damage will be at small victory. but this is a long battle. and is it that your dish or the project? why to happen within the next 10 days is going to be significantly important for this country. now, spain is in the grip of long term drought after 36 months of below average rainfall

. officials of ost farmers factories and pretty much everyone to cut down on water . whereas i was in a hot hit catelyn regents down that just 27 percent sprains environment ministry has warned the country to be prepared for longer cycles of extreme drought due to climate change. the average amount of available water in the country has fallen 12 percent since 1980 projections adjust. father drop of up to 40 percent by the 2050 and january spain. governance analysis to $24000000000.00 plan to protect and improve the water supplies. summarize wasn't caterine a so low that old structures like bridges, the church bell tower, and all the ancient ruins have resurfaced for the 1st time with navigation apps. they are showing that people are in the middle of the water when they're in fact standing on dry land. we surely just the warning that that could be another hot and dry summer ahead which could increase the risk of launch wildfire as we go to gone

. and now the countries held a state funeral for its former national team, foot board christian at sue. he died last month of quake in turkey, as nicholas harker forth, thousands of mourners in the capital pay the final respect, including the president. ah, ganna is morning one of its sons outside the state house in the capitol. across the coffin, the late football star christian achieve hundreds gathered family members, former players, managers, and a legion of fans, including orphans that at you helped all here. to play tribute to the former newcastle winger who died in last month. earthquake in turkey. yes, done. so my friend, so when we heard about the earthquake, we prayed for him. but then we heard the bad news that he had died

while he played for turkey is what i asked for ought to spend most of his career in the english premier league playing for chelsea, new castle. and every time he also made $65.00 appearances for gunners national t, helping the black stars reached the final of the 2015 africa cup of nations in equitorial guinea. he was awarded goal and player of the tournament. yeah, it is a very sad day to us we it's not even the football as per se. busy or sports per se . busy everybody in gun a sod today you know such a tile and he's going to l e t. my opinion in gannons tradition, funerals, or send off to the other world in a moment of both grief and celebration, are too used his talent to spread joy to millions of people and gone on beyond. for many, this isn't just a funeral. it's a lot.