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the police. stop him from entering the court. after he left the court police storm his home in law hall breaking down the gate and arresting a number of people. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm noisy in london, you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. a deal allowing the safe exports of ukrainian grain vie. the black sea is extended for at least 60 days. ah, the 11th weekend in a row, israelis rally across the country against the government's judicial reforms. and former us president donald trump says he expects to be arrested on tuesday and urges his supporters to protest.

ah no, and welcome to the program. a court in pakistan has cancelled m. ron cons arrest warrant of he travelled from his home in law to a court in islam of bonds, but violence. iraq did in the capital between the former prime minister supporters and the police, stopping him, guessing into the court room itself. thousands of extra office as had been deployed, con, face is a raft of corruption charges, which he says are an attempt to sideline him politically. and stop him from running in the elections. so after con, left for islam of bought police then entered home in the city of the whole breaking down the front gate. they then arrested a number of his supporters and fire t gas to disperse them. if you say they were covered petrol bombs and weapons from his residence, agidir's come on high to bring just more of the story. now he's in islamic barge

focused on political. joyce k, sometimes not made the ballard bulk and iran con has so many cases against him which shows that the government is determined to jail him, to nail him somehow or the other. primarily because of the rising popularity and the opposition between the budget on democratic alliance and ron font party is one of the most popular leaders in the country. however, read all the red against them that have feared that the government wants to marginalize him by have disqualify him, you'd whatever matter, did the guardian run on to nullify him so that they can have a clean sweep at the elections which are due and upon job on the 3rd year and then reduce the country the national election and october georgia, very difficult to say. where did ron han will be able to show why the storm,

certainly determined. he had been determined and had always said that he's willing to go to any limit in order to try and achieve objectives. and of course, he's always been saying that he wanted it done peacefully constitutionally pga mirror is scandalous and tv anchor in pockets on he's also a former cricketer who played for pakistan alongside. and ron connie joins us live now from the whole. what can you tell us about the situation that particularly off to the home of him on con, was stormed by the police who also made a number of arrest today. well, it's shocking. it's shocking. and brown has been continually saying that he will appear he'd been asking for, you know, for a leave not to appear because of security threats. the government didn't agree to it and then they agreed to it and then it was total confusion. then the police came

with a touching, the 14th, his appearance was today and the court. and he said that, you know, he will not be arrested because the, the warrant were not arrest warrants. they were once for producing him in court. so today he, he went in and he produced himself. now why was this all done? and the tutor. but as i said, if we wanted to arrest him, yes, we would have read to them. so then why rest public money? why the helicopter, from some about to law. i mean, what was the reason for all that, i mean was at the facade. what was to get out? or, you know, what was to really get out of this in your face. how, how and why with these forces deployed? in my opinion, it's a national diversion. some people will agree, some people will not agree and round is a popular leader. it was a pressure group,

political party. now, it is basically a political party. they have been involved with 3 and a half years novices. yes, they've made mistakes, but in the process, they are actually playing the fields in politics. well right now, what is happening is iran may have scored a lot of centuries, but he's about to complete another century, which is a non christian century. and the course of law is just about $26.00 cases now. but to play out well killed and number of people injured. so this is going to be at a litmus test for the government. will it sustain? will it continue on the line or will they be fall is previously rounded? want to check with them because saying that they were corrupt and so on thought to speak. i mean, is he prepared to engage with anyone for some kind of talks or negotiations or just he simply refused have anything to do with anyone in politics. now, what will you see the thing is, you know,

the pdf which consists of 30 political parties is itself in the doldrums because of the situation. right? no, i mean the economy is totally down the drain. there's so much of expensive, you know, food items people can't afford. so the political parties themselves have to save their own skins out of this, you know, the, the p d m. so right now we've seen statements quite alarming statements from the foreign minister was part of the p d. m. ask you be just give me what you know. what does that mean? don't tell me what. what do you think all this is going to means? and one cons political prospect and clashes between police and his supporters. dramatic stand off outside his home in the hall, which was stormed again. today, police claim to be retrieved, weapons, and other devices that will probably be used in evidence against him. is he, he's calling for early elections, but realistically he will not be able to to stand in any political contest now, surely. at this present moment. yes, the omen. it's not

a good omen. but as you mentioned just now, arms and weapons have been found there. how come the government, all the, all the ministry which is responsible for arms there? why one of these arms taken then why now, when the brown goes not in the house, there are a lot of questions. yeah. you see, i mean, what was the reason of going into his house and break in and, you know, find all kinds of, you know, you know, like these models and, you know, good these molotov cocktails and so on. paul, why, why couldn't it happen when he was there? so they'll be a lot of questions. him, they'll be lot of answers, but this is a normal trend and focused on the government out of favor is always victimized. i mean we have seen of, i should have been victimized, we've seen get him shut up. we've seen everybody num, ron is basically is just a,

you know, an s o p political s o p. so if this continues, but tim braun has shown a lot of popularity, people have come out out of their own free will. they haven't been paid. as we've seen in the past, people have been paid to come out, you know, and joined these rallies. none of them have been paid, so they come out law for their leader in a straight and their leader. and that's, that's how it is. so this is a moment of dest pocket funds, politics, that either the sit down or the all go down the drain. that's that's, that's the bottom line. the jamie, i thank you for joining us from the hor aah! deal allowing ukraine to safely export grain has been extended now on the day it was due to expire. while ukrainian minister says it's been extended by another

$120.00 days. russia is saying it's a 60 day extension deal, which was broke up with the help of takia gives ukrainian ships safe passage past the russian navy in the black sea. from ya give it ski, staffing decker reports. 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 you crane holds pull position globally from flower t, which i know that in the low war the grain deal gave us hope because our internal prices dropped almost 3 fall during the winter, but after was signed, war prices rose, immune and of course not like before the war. but the increased. this gave us hope that we can work and sell our harvest in the future award. despite this deceivingly peaceful moment, this is a country at war. and what happens in these fields has

a global implications. ukraine is one of the world largest produces and sunflower oil, and also wheat and grain. what gets produced here an exported 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 result of 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. farmers have also complained of russia delaying checks on vessels transporting, produce, which costs more money horribly. currently, the western border with holland is working, but we cannot fully sell the grain though we have by road where 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, or the russian mercenary wagner group says that it's trying to recruit 30000 new members by the middle of may. the wagner group has sustained heavy losses of the forefront of fighting for the ukrainian city of backlit. they've been recruiting prisoners in exchange for their freedom if face survived 6 months of fighting a little military analyst of accuse a group of using soldiers as cannon fodder. their leader, you have any for goshen says that they are hiring between 50800 people a day at 42 recruitment centers across russia. will the president let him appreciate, has travelled to crimea to mark the 9th anniversary of the peninsulas annexation from ukraine. present her new art school and children's center, or she's 2014 annexation of crime. the andrew widespread criticism from around the world. moscow described and move as an act of self determination. crimea is the home of russia's main lexi naval base. christina passion is director of the

documentary a struggle for home. the crimean ta tires and she explains the history of the indigenous people of crime in their amalgam of very many different ethnic groups from ancient history in the peninsula. and as you said, they had in the ping pong ball when happened, a great and their country, their state, the cranium, connie, in 1783, the suffered population displacement for centuries, bigotry, their marks have been vandalized their houses and has been destroyed. their culture has been decimated, and when the soviet union collapsed in the ninety's, here they thought they're finally free. they're probably free of russia. we finally had their freedom. and then boom, 2014 happened and it's starting all over again. now, under russian occupation under put in the same things are happening, we have creamy and tuckers are being pushed out to peninsula, forced to flee the turkey or to other european countries. they've had their representative bodies, the mattress and the cruel tide. they're banned from the peninsula. now their tv channels have been banned from the peninsula. their cultural institutions are being

estimated once again. and now we're talking about this mass mobilization that put and called for russian citizens. right. that has disproportionately targeted crimea and totters in the peninsula. so once again, we're seeing like these remnants of the genocidal policies. russia has perpetrated against them for centuries. what crime ears are, the few places that fatima cushion is able to visit us. the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant him for war crimes, linked to the illegal deportation of children from ukraine. he now risks arrest if he steps foot in any of the courts. 123 member states. they include south africa, host of the brick summit in august remains an icy sea member despite attempting to pull out after refused arrested dons then present model a share in 2015 for the court. the so called bricks trading block includes another i, c, c in the tree. that's brazil, as well as india and china who are not warrant also puts a long time putin ally victor all been in a tricky position. if the russian president was to visit hungry or banners blogs,

eve sanctions and military economic ac crane since roches invasion. another i c. c . members, serbia has resisted joining sanctions as well, although it has condemned russia's invasion at the united nations. russia has back serbia's opposition to the independence of casa sergey markov is a former advisor to let him push in and the director of the institute of political studies. he says, the move closes the door for peaceful negotiations to end the war and ukraine. we understand to read wells that you are being used in conscious or control international criminal court as they are part. those are hard, but it to against russia. european union clause, any doors for any peaceful negotiation on you could anyone walk for us? it means that only a victory by fighting or the battle field could be resolved for us and knowing negotiation. it's glass mitch's appear at the union through this. and then i talk

a member called given the fabrication it means additional call charities are going, is ation. if you cannot sense, i agree to talk about this rational will be happy to give or their immediate is still quite in the front line. when all the stories are following tens of thousands of israelis, of gathered in several towns and cities for the 11th weekends in a row of protests, against the judicial reform plans of the hard right government of the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. the protest to say that the proposal would increase the power politicians over the court and are a threat to democracy. but the reforms already moving through parliament, since nationalities, government announcer forms in january days off to taking office. massive demonstrations have regularly taken place across israel or the former us president donald trump is saying that he expects to be arrested next tuesday. ms. calling on his supporters to take part in protests and quotes,

take our nation back. trump made the remark on his truth social media sites. witcher is citing what he called illegal leagues from the manhattan district attorney's office. trump is under investigation over alleged hush money pay to adult them. star stormy daniels before the 2016 election us house because kevin mccarthy as tweeted that he'll direct relevant committees to investigate whether federal funds are being used to interfere in elections by what he described as trumps. politically motivated prosecution. mike, hannah has more from washington compass, referring to a case that has been ongoing in new york. there has been a grand jury hearing into hush money paid to $2.00 women, one a former porn star. this money was allegedly paid by trump through an intermediary to get them to keep quiet about having had sexual relations with him. in the past. now tramps then attorney michael cohen has appeared before the grand jury and

although grand jury proceedings, our secret code has stated publicly that he orchestrated the payment to, to women in order to keep them quiet about having had sexual relations with trump. now the significance of the timing, because the payments were made during the campaign period before the 2016 election . and what the grand jury has been deciding on is whether this was in fact, a contravention of campaign funding laws, which is a criminal act. now the, the new york district attorney has given trump the opportunity to appear before that grand jury that was a week ago. and that normally does precede some form of indictment in this particular case. so this is what trump is referring to, no confirmation whatsoever from any other source. in fact, trumps own spokesperson confirms that this is from what trump calls illegal leaks. there has been no official notification whatsoever with al jazeera ally from london

will still to bring you on the program. vote counting begins in i, jerry is delayed state elections amid reports of scattered violence on vo to intimidation. we look at why millions of dead fish of washed up in a river in a remote parts of new south wales. ah hello there. let's have a look at europe and the wet weather was continue for the south east. we've got an area of low pressure lingering around turkey, that sports very heavy rain as well as thunderstorms, with hail to the likes of gas, the antenna, and cause some flooding, not just here, but also in syria. we are expecting that wet, whether to continue over the next few days. it's not the temperature down in ankara that system. now in contrast to this further west, it is

a pretty mild picture. we got. temperature is above average for this time of year for places like greece and the balkans. we've got some spells of rain, however, they are going to develop and pull their way from west to east. the west of those falls to be. 1 found across the island of island and parts of britain as well. we are expecting the wind to pick up here on monday. and that will push some of those wintery waves across northern areas of scandinavia as snow for norway and for finland as well. but for the south of this, on monday, it is an improving picture across the mediterranean. some of those spotty showers are going to san to ease from sunday to monday. suddenly for france it does start to dry up nicely. and for the iberian peninsula, spain and portugal, some rain in the north on sunday, but by monday, look at that clear skies and sunshine ah, whose breaking down the headlines to exposing the powers attempting to silence

reporting what to do? what did you investigate? why didn't you ask if there are many joins that said, censor people have to take effect 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 tunnel, the listening post on al jazeera, ah, oh, a mac, mac al jazeera, a life from london. i look at main stories now. of course, in pockets on has cancelled enron collins, a restful orange tree,

turned out for hearing on corruption charges as normal bod violence rotted in the capitol. and also con home. and this, if you look for the gene from apartment to supporters on the police, the deal allowing ukraine to safely export grain has been extended on the day it was due to expire. ukrainian minister says it's been extended by another 120 days, but russia says it's only agreed to 60 days. and former president donald trump says he expects to be arrested next tuesday. you called on his supporters to protest and quote, take our nation back. now and all the stories are following at least 18 people have been killed off to flood swept regions, hit by, of quakes in southern turkey. these pictures from social media showing heavy rain that is still falling in the forecast to continue for at least 2 more days. it's brought further misery to many people are forced to live intense after last month. quakes local media is reported that several 10 cities for quite victims have been

badly damaged. people are being having to evacuate now to say for locations. meanwhile, people in malawi continued to search for loved ones, buried on the mud is the death toll from sight on friday, rises to more than 430 tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes by flooding survivors a short of food, an aide has been slow to arrive as many areas are blocked by landslides, while food programs, as it's working to distribute partially pre coast food, allowing mozambique were already facing major color outbreaks before the cycling head. there is a disaster could worse in the spread of or suborn disease. for me, the miller has more now from the island of mac hunger it's far from over and the rescue services are continuing. here in mccann guy. it's just off land. oh, it's quite a distance from the mainland. there's a river between my congo and the mainland, and that has been entirely flooded. the water coming up into what was

a village. and i'm just going to step out of shot to give you a better idea of what it looks like here. the water wasn't this close to where people were living and you see people sitting on local canoes waiting to be rescued by the police services. the canoes would normally transport people back and forth between here and the mainland, but they're charging $4500000000.00 shillings, the equivalent of $4.00 to take people to the mainland and they simply don't have the money. so they're relying on police services. we're sending 2 boats out a day and connecting people to make about 6 trips and so far they've reached about 1300 people. but hundreds more are waiting on an island like this other to take refuge in trees. they've lost absolutely everything. their homes have been washed away. they also don't have any food, and that's the main thing they're complained about. as soon as we reach this island, they said they're hungry and they're trying to get to the mainland to get food. because a little may, they did have,

has now run out and has nothing left. they even, even if they did have maze, they don't have homes, they don't have shelter, they don't have cooking utensils or pots, there's really nothing they can do. we also understand it further on this island. they are more people waiting for rescue efforts, but they're simply too weak and tired to make it here. so they would have to wait for assistance to reach them a little more in land. we know about a 126000 people in this district alone have been displaced. please say they're doing as much as they can. it's taken some time to reach areas like this because they've been inaccessible. the water was just too strong and too high. so these rescue efforts continue, and it certainly will be a number a few more days before the is i suppose, a greater a bigger dent made in terms of rescuing people in places like this, which have been very difficult to reach up to. now we go to nigeria, now vote counting is underway in the country, state elections and reports of scattered violence and voter intimidation. africa's

most populous nation is electing more than 900 state assembly lawmakers and 28 state governors. final results are expected by monday. vote was delayed by a week as the electoral commission said it needed time to reconfigure electronic voting machines off. last month's disputed presidential election, a tight race is expected in lay goss, i'm say, of the president elect a bullet to new booth, which was won by his rival pita of the. i'm a dangerous brings us more now from cono in northern nigeria. the board has been largely successful and people in many parts of cano state and many parts of the 28 states of nigeria, why voting took place? remember, there are 36 states, and 8 of them are not holding the governorship elections today because of court decisions. or court rulings that's going to be on the off season for now. now basically the elections, according to officials, from most part of the country that we've called, or been in contact with,

say the election went on peacefully. however, there are isolated incidents even here at the polling station. we are at now. there was an attempt of supporting came close. there was an attempt to scuttle the process. individuals invaded this forming center, which is about 6 or 7 units at the clues approach. and they may want it to disrupt the process. it took the quick intervention of security agencies, the police and other security organ in kind of state to put everything in order. so the porting and counting process could not take place in the open in the public glare. because of duck particular threat to the process and then are similar process in certain parts of the country that was reported to a close. usually it's at this time when individuals tried to disrupt the process and disrupt the polls because they felt maybe they may not win an election when the

election or the polling stations. or more protests have been taking place across france against controversial pension forms that will raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 situation, 10 violence in the northwest and city of non swear. protest is clash with police to fire tear. gas is hunger. that the bill was pushed through this week without of parliamentary vote. capital paris hosted a much smaller protest, unusual after police bond gatherings on the concord. after 2 nights of violence, serbian present alexander of the church and cos of n prime minister albin courteous are in north macedonia. holding another round of talks of the normalizing relations. european union has proposed their plan to end one of europe's longest disputes. but serbia's president said he will not sign it after facing public protests, cause vote declared independence from serbia in 2008. but sir b as always, refused to recognise the split

well, australia is that new south wales is dealing with the largest number of fish deaths on record. millions of fish of washed antonia and major river west of sydney authority saying ongoing heat wave and receding from waters. a party to blame laura con reports this white blanket and darling river is laid up. a lillian of dead fish, the rotting remains of maley. breen caught him perch a clogging australia 2nd longest river and disrupting the lives of people in the small town of men. indeed, where you walk around into a draw up medicine and there is smelling as putrid smell and a set of terrible smell and a horrible to say all those dead fish local authority say unusually hot weather has led to a large algo bloom in the rivers. this coupled with receding flood waters and drying

river beds have starved fish of oxygen. in a statement, the new southwell state department says the hot weather is exacerbating hypoxia. as warmer water holds less oxygen, the cold water, the fish have higher oxygen needs at warmer temperatures. this is the 3rd mass dial for fish in the darling river in 2019 nearly 1000000 fish perished them. but the new south wales department of primary industries says the latest is the worth, with hardly any fish being left alive. as is their feeling of hopeless 1st said that nick, no one wants to take any responsibility for it. and really all we want is to maintain a healthy river authority, say fish populations, usually boom, during the floods and then full as flood waters receipt. but local people, blame poor water management, they say more needs to be done to improve the drainage and quality of water to prevent another.