smiling through the coals, tamara and her colleagues at this school for pupils with special needs, wants to pay royce that meets the rising cost of living and keeps people in the profession with these teachers are making sure that i'm on. so i heard on what is clearly a sizable demonstration, very lumber, a wave of industrial action taking in various parts of the economy. coating on the government to pay arises that meets inflation. if there's no movement to pay, we likely to be seeing more protests look just from people like tomorrow, but work is in other key professions who enjoy growth support from the public. ah .

the international criminal court issues an arrest warrant for the russian president vladimir contend for overseeing the unlawful deportation of children from ukraine. ah, are watching al jazeera life from headquarters in dow. hi, jenny obligated also coming up. we report on ukrainian farmers preparing for the sewing season as a great deal with russia is close to expiring. ukraine is one of the world's largest produces that fun flower oil, and also weak and great. what gets produced here an export. it has a direct effect on food prices around the world. this is alma did raise from nigeria condos. take photos across $28.00 states to nigeria, going back to the hold off talk last months for status, surely lecture and little relief or

a stock market despite lender is providing billions of dollars to the u. s. banking sector. ah. hello, 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 live up alova, who turn is charge. we're taking children from orphanages in ukraine. many have already been adopted in russia. u. s. president joe biden has called the decision justified, but the kremlin says it's null and void are a diplomatic editor, james base has more from the united nations. as soon as the way she vladimir putin, president of russia, a superpower leader, and now a wanted man for the alleged war. crabs of deputation of children from ukraine, occupied territories, entered the russia physician. the president of the international criminal court announcing that arrest warrants had been issued for 2 russian officials. one of

them, mister putin, human rights activists were quick to welcome the news. this is an amazing day for the many victims of rushes war crimes against ukrainians since 2014 because this war has been going on. since then, almost a decade. vladimir putin is now officially a wanted man. but at the same time, the arrest warrant for president putin almost certainly complicates the possibility of any diplomacy to end the war. the un, in particular, is in a difficult position. will the secretary general still talk or meet with president putin? i don't want to answer her. her pathetic whole oh questions because as you know she was of travel involve involve others. oh we will continue. as a general rule, the secretary general will speak to whomever he needs to speak in order to deal

with the issues at of him. in the security council, the russian ambassador made a blistering attack on the court moose. the maria new to the icpc is puppet. in the hands of the collective west, which is always willing to carry out pseudo jurisdiction based on their orders. a 123 countries, a signatories to the rome statute that governs the i. c. c, then, now obliged to arrest the russian leader and send him to the hague. slightly president putin's travel will now be seriously curtailed. of course, an arrest or a trial isn't going to happen anytime soon, but it's clear the international criminal court is sending a message, not just the president putin but to the officials and military officers who work for him. that one day they could face consequences for their actions. james base al jazeera of the united nations. daniel hawkins as a journalist and moscow, he says, pitcher, and we'll try to show the i, c. c has no power in russia. this is,

of course, going to be very difficult to enforce the i c. c has no police force of the law as a member to carry out and will re direct and ring suspects to trial for the hate lug person, of course, will view this as a, as a will, will be this personal and angered by this russian very much focus on case president of the icpc, which is founded very hard previously, really prosecutions and bring us the trial most likely to be trying to investigate and prosecute us will cons. dana thornton, allegations with crimes are territories. russell, very much focus on this and highlight those case for evidence to show that the i c, c has no power, has no jurisdiction in russia. and this will really change very liberal in the common policy on ukraine, presented as the opens,

as people certainly have been abandoned to a taken from a war, them to safety, to get monetary system. we how the russian media is portraying that was also showed in the reaction of money to live over below the russian commission of human rights . and who was very scathing about these allegations saying that no rush was helping the children. it's given the conditions, law and cat and taking them to safety or not program is going to continue regardless of these icpc allegations. well, the great deal between russia and ukraine is set to expire. russia says it only wants to extend the deal by 60 days instead of $120.00, as laid out any un broker agreements. ukraine is one of the world's largest suppliers of sunflower oil, wheat, and grain. stephanie decker reports, i'm you have sky ukraine feeds the world. the words of this farms owner. victor sharon etta, gives us a tour on

a cold march morning on the outskirts of keith corn, wheat, barley, and where ukraine holds pole position. globally, sunflower, see the grain deal between russia and ukraine, brokered last july by the united nations. enter kia is set to expire on saturday. and there is a lot at stake, both at home and abroad, which i know was an whoa whoa, that a great deal gave us hope because our internal prices dropped almost 3 full during the winter. but after was signed, ward prices rose immune and of course not like before the war, but they increased. this gave us hope that we can work and sell our harvest in the future war daughters. despite this deceivingly peaceful moment, this is a country at war. and what happens in these fields has global implications. ukraine is one of the world largest produces and sunflower oil, and also wheat and grain one gets produced here an export. it has

a direct effect on food prices around the world. it's one of the main reasons why this deal was brokered, the global need to bring down soaring food prices, the resulting because of the war. russia controls access in and out of the black sea, which ukraine needs to ship. it's produced to the rest of the world. the deal is said to be renewed every 4 months. russia now says it only wants to renew it for 2 citing sanctions affecting its own exports. but ukraine's deputy had of infrastructure who's been part of the team negotiating the grain deal, tells us such a short term deal does not offer stability. what is important to the farmers to see there for a ghost? ah, how they will export their products unit, next market and gear. i go sir, and in case of the farmers for see you and for masses o for me as j, it is also small period. we are asked our partners to make minimum one year. farmers have also complained of russia delaying checks on vessels transporting,

produce, which costs more money had moved from his name or sure, yet, we know russia wanted to only extend for 2 months. but this is not as it should be . also the vessels that go to ukraine are delayed by russia. i in the bathrooms, and we end up paying for this because the vessels don't reach us on time horribly. currently, the western border with poland is working, but we cannot fully sell the grain that we have by road for. we need to see the journey out has begun. russia holds great leverage in just how far they will reach . such tiny seeds and grains with major geopolitical implications. stephanie decker al jazeera, yet kavitsky on the outskirts of keith. nigerians have returned to the post like new governors and 28 out of 36 states. new state assemblies will also be elected. the vote was delayed by a week. world commission said that if needed time to reconfigure the electronic voting machines following a disputed presidential election in february,

diseases joining us now from economy. so the polls now underway. my tell us how significant this election is while this, during this election is significant in many respect because one, it's closer to the people. and 2, because off of the promise is met by the electro. i'm pyre that these mistakes noticed in the last elections of presidential and national assembly elections will be correct at this time. so for people across the country, across the 28 states, this election is important because they are electron people closer to them who they can hold directly responsible for anything that goes wrong or right in the next 4 years. and so people i expected to turn out in large numbers in those states why these elections are taking place. the other 88 states in particular are not holding elections because of judicial intervention in that cases. that's target bay

elections and make the off season right now to discuss further about today's election is the national resident electra the commissioner for the independent national commission. yet in, in cano state i'm bus duty, zango will talk to us about so talk to us about the preparation leading to this particular elections. what the concerns raised in the last 2 lectures? ivy's concerns addressed by the current process, or we still expected more trouble. thank you very much for the opportunity. you are right. indeed. that sounds like you live in that dress, that she was taught to elections very oddly so that people are given to them, allowed to come. i live and it says that the franchise as you can see, right? yeah. opposed open on time. i'll follow up as bachelor left. yeah. and as far as open. exactly. that is the same thing we're seeing across counseling

. that's his cross cultural kind of said before i came, had to check, not just all the local governments come from that data that the elections and out for the 1st time, the way to what does not, what does waiting for of the just answer one of the key concerns kind of being a battle ground stayed like lagos because of the high number of votes. high number of people expected to turn out. initially there were concerns about security. has that constant been addressed or you're expecting trouble in such a spot? it that's largely been address the security agencies on the platform all day on the security agencies had showed us that now will be all those it as have been done and they have largely address back to as you can see, that heavy presence. so the police and about security agencies in all the units.

nevertheless, we do have glitches. yeah. and if i came in here as visually outside canada and i'm but i and guy, but they have like to live in address. so things are going smoothly. so we don't expect any extension of the voting period today. absolutely, we don't expect we anticipate to finish on time. but as you are aware, kind of has a large word to population. it. local governments consist of almost 3000000 at a just at bottom. so maybe we may stay much longer and tunnel compared was about local governments outside kind of and the results were now we expected to get them . hopefully by monday we have 44 local governments. but they said some elections, funds to 20 elections will be declared. right on site and that out for them by tomorrow you will be had on that one. but for the government ship it to the

collision center. i will be at the headquarters and hopefully monday you had that resident. electra commissioner, i've design go in con state. now what we are witnessing here is the repeat, the re, the conduct of the governorship election and members of state assembly lexus. 20 governors are running in this election. i mean 28 states doing the elections for governors and thousands of candidates contesting for parliamentary seats at the state level. we're looking at $950.00 something seats across the $28.00 states in nigeria during ok. mental cross back to you later on. thank you so much. i decrease reporting from nigeria, the united kingdom's interior minister, and we're wanting to discuss a migration deal swell abraham. and we'll meet with the rwandan president parker don. a britain agreed to send tens of thousands of migrants to rhonda as part of a $146000000.00 deal last year. but no flights have taken off as opponents

challenge the policy in the courts. the initiative is a major part of britons plans to detain, and the port asylum seekers arriving in small boats across the channel. right? police have confronted angry protest or as for a 2nd day in paris, there are violent demonstrations on friday, outside parliament against pension reform. on thursday, the government bypass parliament to push through a plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 64. natasha butler is in paris with more. well, a number of french ministers have been trying to defend the pension reform in the way it was for through by decreed by policy parliament. they said it was an action that was necessary because they say that this reform is essential if fraud is able to sustain its pension system in the future. nevertheless, that is the nino washing with many m p 's a lot of anger amongst some lawmakers. we know that lawmakers on the left and also

to far right and also independence. hey blake, emotion of confidence against the government that will be voted on monday. meanwhile, trade unions are calling for more protest nationwide day of action on thursday. and there are ongoing demonstrations in paris. some people have tried to block the main ring road, the garbage collectors, also oil refinery work is all continuing with that process. a lot of anger over this reform, a lot of anger is the way in which has been pushed through parliament and lots of frustration and anger, a presidency by micro seen. i've been out of touch with ordinary people. meanwhile, rubbish is piling up in paris because of that strike by waste collectors who are opposed to the reforms. so they began to strike a blockade of the cities incinerators 12 days ago and have resisted attempts to force them back to work under emergency powers. 10000 tons of rubbish is now

uncollected, the pension reforms we'll see them have to work until age 59 compared with 57 now. still ahead on al jazeera, a step ahead for finland, but we'll, why sweden's bed to join nato remains uncertain. we'll also tell you why a wall of dead fish is moving along a river in australia. ah, there is a march of springing, warmth, going east was through eastern europe, being driven on by what has to be said is rather cloudy and wetter. weather, which i think has used what mild to describe, brought warmth. but this the picture. anyway, it's like on saturday, with temperatures in the teens, quite happily here and in the teens. but in the rain for the west, sophia may reverence the best changes about 3 or 4 degrees

a by the middle of the week. now we're up to about $8.18. that's how we get to monday. all because this suddenly breeze in the march of general wants to coast longer days and nights now as well. right? where is the picture on sunday? you see this bit, the rain will be by this time spreading out of france into switzerland. parts of germany says durick be rather dullard. we'll be feeling a little bit cold. but the sun's returned to spain, for example, in london at about 30 degrees. yes, it's rather wetting on to have to say. now if we jumped south, most to north africa is looking dry to be expected. there is a little bit of rain now, jerry, and very obviously developing sandstorm in libya and algeria. but the south of that, the rain is doing what it should do. you see big shall coming to nigeria, making bit bigger encroachments every day. but maybe more interesting and maybe your more useful is the right now in somalia lithia ah,

of breaking down the headlines to exposing the power, attempting to finance reporting what to to do what to, to investigate. why didn't you off the fact the question. there are many during the sensor people have, but you didn't get back on subsequent stories. the listening post doesn't cover the news. it covers the way the news is covered to suppress moderate. and in some cases amplify the content. you see on your carnival, the listening host own al jazeera lou . ah, hello again. the top stories on al jazeera this hour. the international criminal court is in the hague,

has issued an arrest warrant for the russian president vladimir putin. the i c. c said it's in connection with the forcible deportation of ukrainian children. the kremlin, called the move outs ranges. voting as underway in nigeria as governorship and state assembly races. the delayed vote comes weeks after a disputed presidential election. the ruling party hopes to regain lost grounds in key areas. the united kingdom's interior minister, while the braverman has arrived in rwanda to discuss a migration deal, britain agreed to send tens of thousands of migrants to rwanda. as part of a $146000000.00 deal last year, but no flights have taken off. the u. s. markets finished the week being pushed down by banking stalks share as and 1st republic bank closed nearly 33 percent lower on friday. that's the spite of cash and jack of $30000000000.00. european stocks also and the down us president joe biden,

once congress to impose tougher punishments on bank executives. following the collapsible silicon valley bank and the parent company of silicon valley bank has now filed for bankruptcy protection, much if it is already under the control of regulators. this comes a week after a surge of withdraws triggered the worst bank collapse since the 2008 financial crisis. gabriel is on there has more 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. so 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,

as the old saying goes just sort of frozen. and that's what 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 rate 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. the former pakistani prime minister iran con,

is traveling from the horse. who is lama bad to appear in court? around $5000.00 extra police have been called to the city for security. and parts of the capital have been filled off earlier this week. crowds of his supporters on police out of violence stand off. while they were attempting to arrest him at home for evading ports, who facing multiple legal cases including charges of unlawfully selling gifts received while he was an office, con denies all charges. the turkish president friendship labor to one says he will now support finland's bed to join nato. the announcement came after his meeting with the finished president saline sto in ankara. the sweetest foreign minister says anchor as decision to only give the green light to finland is regrettable. tortilla had previously blocked both finland and sweden's bed sating security concerns. russell sars are has more from ankara. it was historic. they both 14 land and natal, the long of either decision to april feel have been to natal is fine with me here

in ankara. is this the orland ghoulish millenniums? is it we have seen that finland has taken sincere and concrete steps to bethel its commitments in the trilateral memorandum of understanding based on the sensitivity for our country security and the progress that has been made in the protocol for finland, accession to nato. we have decided to initiate the ratification process in our parliament, the source, the scene on cut off seeing that last week that had been house tours between finland and turkey. and there'll be some of the 3rd party companies also got involved in the negotiations and based on their prisoners, one on his team, accepted or agreed to april freeman's accession to nato. indeed, the officials here are seeing that turkey says the beginning on has repeatedly said that turkey doesn't have any problem with females exception to nato, but the main security problems agreements were with severe them. so today there were no swedish or officials in uncut. however prison ad one has been repeatedly

asked about civilians, accession, even president or finland sole in easter also has asked for as an add on to fast and severe as accession to natal. i have a feeling that phineas nato membership is not complete without sweden. we have so much common interest having it being do really neighbors santa having in the baltic sea area gordon our shore. however, prison ad one has been exclusively clear in his answers. he says that they have citizens agreements regarding security concerns. with 3 of them. he said that anchor has put away a list of 101 or 2 people to cv them, which on kind of believes that all of these people are members off y, p g and p i k, which are regarded as total groups by anchor and ad was said that peel 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 of it as b to nato any time before the elections that are going to be held in turkey. on may 14, at least 18 people have been killed after flood swept regions hit by earthquakes in southern turkey year. these pictures from social media users and gasoline tap show heavy rain is still falling. it's forecast to continue for at least 2 more days. that brought further misery to many people who are forced to live intense following to quakes and february. local media reports that several 10 cities for quite victims have been damaged when people are being evacuated to safer locations. ghana has held a states general for its former national team footballer christian archer who died in those earthquakes in turkey. as nicholas hoc reports,

the president and thousands of mourners paid their respects in the capitol. i cra, ah, ganna is morning one of its sons outside the state house in the capitol. across the coffin of the late football star christian achieve. hundreds gathered family members, former players, managers and a legion of fans, including orphans that actually helped all here to play tribute to the former new castle winger who died in last month's earthquake in turkey. yes, done. so my friend though and we heard many earthquakes, we prayed for him, but then we heard the bad news that he had died while he played for turkey is heartiest poor ought you spent most of his career in the english premier league playing for chelsea, newcastle, and ever,

he also made 65 appearances for gone as 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. yes, it is a very sad day to us. we, it's no, even the football is for sales force per se. everybody in gun a sod today, you know, such a thailand, 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. i 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 alaska bond to a football star. nicholas hawk al jazeera, the forward ism allow, we are struggling to cope with the scale of destruction from cycling. freddy, at least 400 people have died in the region. tens of thousands have been forced

from their homes by flooding. survivors are short of food, and aid has been slow to reach many areas locked by land, slice in australia, millions of dead fish have washed up near a river west of sidney. the river authorities as an ongoing heat wave in the state, cause the largest number of fish deaths ever recorded in the town. higher temperatures and drought had become more frequent and upset water ecosystems in the area during the last few years. it's pretty hard to comprehend drilling, you know, i would some from the flood and worry and everything there and was just sort of started to decline often. and then this is happened and that's just sort of you will be ran into a draw up mess and then needed smelling as putrid smell and said terrible smell and horrible to say all those dead fish ah.