on al jazeera, smiling through the coals, tamara and her colleagues at the school for peoples with special needs, wants to pay royce that meets the rising cost of living and keeps people in the profession. base teachers are making sure that jamal i heard on what is clearly a sizable demonstration, very long, a wave of industrial action taking in various parts of the economy. calling on the government prepay arises, that meets inflation. if there is no movement of pe, you are likely to be seeing more protests, not just from people like tomorrow, but work as in other key professions to the joy growth support from the public. ah 20 years off to the us led invasion of iraq. we look at how washington's unilateral actions of had the western ability shaped global opinion and the ukraine. more

western diplomats, when you speak to them privately, will tell you that their efforts to put pressure on moscow or even now hindered by the memory of what happened. 2 decades ago, ah, money site, this is out there in life or so coming up at least 15 people are killed in an earthquake that should sell them equitable and north and parade. madman, pearson visits crimea, and the russian occupied ukrainian city of maria pope alice, after the i c. c. issues in arrest, warrant against him. and we have more allegations of filipinos being talked, said traffic, and forced into a life crime. ah,

sunday marks 20 years since the start of operation iraqi freedom, the us led invasion that topple saddam hussein. the military operation was launched without un support and light the 1st gulf war, or the invasion of afghanistan or diplomatic editor james bass. looks at how the invasion damaged the credibility of the un un weapons inspectors in iraq, their job to track down the countries chemical and biological weapons. we now know there weren't any, a former iraqi rulers. saddam hussein had ceased his w. m. d program years earlier. but in 2003 u. s. president george bush was backed by the british prime minister, tony blair was saying he was hiding a huge stock pile. and they claimed they had the intelligence to prove it. the u. s . secretary of state colin powell now known to have been privately skeptical himself, tried to make the case in the security council, even wielding a vile. he said could be anthrax about this. the u. s. and

u. k. bitterly opposed by much of the international community, including france and germany, failed to get a security council resolution to authorize a war they launched one anyway. in the aftermath, one british diplomat who worked as his country's expert on iraq in the security council resigned. do you think the united nations ended up damaged or strengthened by the war 20 years ago? and i think without doubt, it was damaged by the 2nd general at the united nations. didn't assert his authority to say that the war was the legal and should not happen. which later, he admitted, and i think collectively the quote unquote un, this sense of a global community of nations. a sense of a shared set of rules took a very big hit as a result in iraq or so where does that leave things now? 20 years on, once again the security council is deeply divided and there's no doubt that the

invasion of ukraine by russia, a permanent member, was a breach of international law and of the un charter. but western diplomats, when you speak to them privately, will tell you that their efforts to put pressure on moscow or even now hindered by the memory of what happened 2 decades ago. the run up to the war in iraq in 2003 was marked by defiance and disinformation, resulting in deep damage to the human system and the rule of law around the world. so much may have changed since, but the repercussions of events that haunted the un then a still being felt. james bay's al, jazeera of the united nations, least 14 people have died in ecuador, and one in peru off to strong earthquake hit off the coast effect with all the magnitude 6.8 trema was sentence south of the 2nd largest city, jacobo alex bed has the streets littered with crumbled facades.

rescue teams in ecuador scrambled to save those field. trips after the earthquake on friday afternoon will be a part of the facade collapse. them fell on a vehicle that had already been removed by the police. we had one victim without vital signs. a male person and a number of buildings have collapsed across the coastal state of laurel and us. why in the andes. like and people ran out, they yelled in despair. all the people got out of their cars. i don't know how an earthquake would feel in a car, but they were desperate and they ran, they yelled, cried there are thoughts of damage to infrastructure across the region and land slides, blocking civil roads. the trim was also felt across the border and northern peru where a young child was killed. when her home collapsed. only the baby was playing where the strain of blood is. she was playing with my other niece and the brick fell on

her ecuador and peru, a prone to earthquakes. they struggled, the so called ring of fire in the danger isn't over yet with aftershocks still ongoing. alex beard al jazeera russian state. media reporting that president vladimir putin has paid a visit to russian occupied maria pole in ukraine. the city is in a region annexed by moscow last year. it was nearly completely destroyed in a month long russian seas. according to state media, putin met with residents and visited areas under reconstruction. earlier on saturday, president putin was in crimea to mark the 9th anniversary of the peninsulas annexation from ukraine. he taught in our school and a children's center. it comes a day after the i c. c issued an arrest warrant accusing putin of being responsible for the deportation of ukrainian children rushes annexation of crimea. true

widespread criticism. but moscow describe the move as an act of self determination . south korea and japan are reporting north korea has fired a short range ballistic missile towards the sea, off the east coast of the korean peninsula. the latest incident follows friday's launch of a why song, 17 intercontinental ballistic missile tension in the region as increase in south korea. and the u. s. began and 11 day joint military exercise on monday in the democratic republic of congo attacks by the m 23 rebel group have displaced more than 800000 people over the past year. the group which is widely believed to be backed by wanda continues to seize territory in the east, despite regional efforts to end. the violets now come where reports now from the city of gama, josephine one meaning and seed

a breeder. those told us their husbands were killed when the n 23 armed group attacked their villages. many people in this camp on the outskirts of goma tell similar stories. josephine says she went back to her village last week and found her husband dead among about 30 men who were killed with machetes and left barely buried in shallow graves. in the runs and m 23 killed him. as we were running away, they caught us and separated the men from the women. many men were taken by the m 23 in the bush. most of them were killed, and my husband was among them. democratic republic of congo, his army says its fighting rwandan soldiers under the guise of end $23.00 wonders widely understood to back the armed group with everyone does denies it. the army has failed. and 23. the bonds these many people here. question why the government

hasn't done more to support before me 3 times 10 years ago, but at the time they had the international military support. rwanda with sanction this time and east african regional force is meant to help the indian soldiers of the latest to arrive. that is not clear if any of the countries contributing troops did not have the political will or the resources you got to fight and $23.00 or even when hearing congress general constance fema is the 3rd commander to take over condos, military operation in less than a year just as a regional deadline for m. 23 to withdraw is due to expire. your opposition in the bio was attacked earlier today. this is why we have to repeat that. we still have multiple violations of police by m 23 blame the congo. 4th is for breaking the seas flies and denies committing atrocities. in spite of mounting

evidence, there are growing reports of mass killings and rates from the hundreds of thousands of new arrivals in the camps. ca says her husband was trying to protect the herd of capital last month when em, 23 fighters tried to forcibly recruiting and killed him when he refused to say did journey, which he says we need help with suffering. and we can't go back to our farm below. and she recall that she lost malcolm web al jazeera, goma democratic republic of congo versus home secretaries. while braverman has visited randa working to expand a controversial deportation agreement with kid guardy, under the $146000000.00 deal agreed to last year, one that would accept migrants who arrive in person without permission,

no deportations have you taken place as once campaigns challenge the legality of the policy and court. on the 14th that 5000 people entered person last year, my crossing the channel. the big point here is that there will be a package of high quality humanitarian support for people who will be relocated. trolanda that combined with our robust new laws, will be able to, will enable us to break the business model of the people smuggling gangs. for may you as president, donald trump says he expects to be arrested this tuesday. he made a remark on his truth. social media site, he cited what he called illegal leaks in the manhattan district attorney's office. he called on his supporters to protest. my county has moved. trump is referring to a case that has been ongoing in new york. there has been a grand jury hearing into hash money paid to, to 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 this is its 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, trump's own spokesperson confirms that this is from what trump calls illegal leaks . there has been no official notification whatsoever. a cause in pakistan's capital has counselled former prime minister m wrong cons arrest warrants. his supporters clash with police outside the court in islamabad and outside his home in the hall, the case was adjourned, and carne was ordered to reappear at a hearing on march 30th. he faces a number of legal cases where she says, are politically motivated. meanwhile, in law hall police entered the home of the former prime minister, breaking through the front gate as offices and cancer porters clashed in the street . the 60 arrests were made authority, se a search of the property revealed weapons and a large amount of ammunition. small hydro reports from islamabad focused on

political joyce k, sometimes not made at 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 their writing 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 case against them that are feared that the government wants to marginalize them by have disqualify him. damn you whatever matter, did the guardian rim on hand 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 return the country, the national election and october. sure, it's 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 as riley have taken to the streets. in the 11th straight week of process against govern plans to curb the supreme court powers critic see the plan as a threat to judicial independence. as its leaders, legal experts and retired military leaders have joined the protest and some is ready. reserve is threatened to stop reporting for duty if the plan becomes law. president isaac has or has appeals to the policy to be postponed. more protests have fallen 2 nights, a violent demonstrations in france against pension reforms that will raise the retirement age. from 62 to 64, a bell was pushed through this week without

a parliamentary vote. in the north western city of nonsense protesters clash with police firing, take ass. paris was quite a al to police ban gatherings. an ongoing rubbish strike has left over 10000 tons of garbage industry. zillow, heads on out. is there a very good in nigeria voters? it's using governance a month after a hotly contested presidential election and whereas a military base in vulgar to meet some of columbia's 1st female, all me recruits in more than 2 decades. ah

hello. they will have a look at africa in a moment. the 1st to the middle east and much of the unsettled weather can be found across northern parts of the region, but we will see some of that rain start to shift its way south of the next few days . the area of low pressure, however, has already caused flooding in turkey and syria. you can see some of that rain intensifying across northern areas of iraq and pulling into iran with snow on the mountains. now the wet and windy conditions continue to affect eastern areas of the mediterranean. we could see some of those clouds bring some of that rain across parts of saudi arabia, into guitar and the u. e. z sunday in some monday. certainly by monday, you can see some of the heaviest rain falling across parts of oman and yemen. we could see a shower, or 2, maybe even some thunderstorms, effecting north western areas of algeria, but certainly is the wind. that's the story here. we've got warning salt for possible sandstorms for western areas of libya to nicea,

as well as algeria winds. also the story in nigeria along with thunderstorms, stretching from the gulf of guinea all the way across that central band of africa. some welcome rain coming into somalia and though freddy may have disintegrated, we've got a legacy of showers continuing formula. we on sunday. ah ah. i ah, hulu.

ah! watching out, as a reminder, our top story is the seller is 20 years since the start of the us led invasion of iraq topple saddam hussein. of the 300000 iraqis were killed in the war between 232019 the ministry operation. was launched without un support. at least 15 people have died after strong earthquake hit off the coast of ecuador, the magnitude 6.8 tremor was centered south of the 2nd largest city choir kill and also impact northern group number of buildings have russian state media

reporting that president vladimir putin has paid a visit to russian occupied maddie pole in ukraine. city is in a region annexed by moscow last year is nearly completely destroyed. and amongst long russians siege our people in law, we continue to search for loved ones buried on the mud as the death toll from cycling. freddy jumped to more than 430 tens of thousands have been forced from their homes by flooding survivors. the short of food and aid has been slow to reach many areas blocked by land slides for millet miller has more from mac hanger 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 kanga 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 $4500.00 below in 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 there's nothing left they even, even if they did have made, they don't have homes, they don't have shelter, they don't have cooking utensils or pots as 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 have been inaccessible. the water was too strong and too high. so these rescue efforts continue, and it certainly will be a number of 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 till now. to nigeria, now where they'd counting is underway in state elections versus i like seeing more than 900 assembly legislators and 20 a governors on a result. so i expected on monday i'm and interest reports from connor.

oh, is voting comes to a close at this pooling station in carnell? a plan to scuttle the election is set in motion. the police quickly stepped in to restore order at another pulling center, an attempt to disrupt the voting was quickly brought under control. for many voters, this election for state governors in assemblies is more important than that for the prosecution. dave level of government that is, closes to the people. and it is also important because a separate, essential system of government in which a good deal of powers lay on the office of the executive violence and intimidation have been reported elsewhere in the country. but the use of electronic voting machines let to less destruction than in the elections in february. then a brutal commission size coating has been largely successful in most of the 20

states in our general. what many people's biggest concern is about one on one of those. i noticed in the next few days, especially after just for special on parliamentary elections. lawson security was kept up for the vote. this did i, did you have on the ground is enough to check. commit any on towards development and any possible, pete, he can test it out. am i devising him to changes my head of the vote. technical glitches during the presidential election in february had raised concerns about the ability of the electoral empire to conduct a free and credible governorship collection. they have lied to live in the address, so things are going smoothly. but it's appalling centers would have stayed away. after several people were killed in the elections 3 weeks ago,

and some were concerned that that could happen. result for the governorship election. i expected by monday. and many people are waiting to see whether the streets remain calm after the analyst decrease algebra cuddle, nigeria. women in columbia to now enlist a voluntary military service after being bam. for decades round $5000.00 women are expected to join this year. many of them hope it will lead to a professional career with in the army allison a ramp yet he met some of the 1st ash for crits. as a man she base in bogota. her early morning military drills by these new female recruits. there among the 1st 1300 women to voluntary enlists in columbus army in more than 2 decades. oh, the physical exercises are grueling and the hours long, but they say they're up for the challenge and happy to be able to serve live as in not only only that, it's a tremendous opportunity. we have the same abilities as men and the physical

requirements of the same. we expect no preferential treatment for being women. it fills me with pride that we are eligible for service once again. for those like many here, duma, barry says she always wanted to be a soldier, but lack the money to pay for a military academy. she hopes this will be a gateway to achieve it from her pursuing a professional career is too expensive for many, but now we have an opportunity to be here and do what we always wanted, where the uniform and serve our country. recruits were received 3 months of training here before being assigned to a base across the country, earning a monthly stipend of about $80.00. oh yeah. any albert, he says she entered the program to help her mother and siblings and understands the dangers of serving in a country. still plagued by rebel groups and drug mafias. think there is on those, those bed up was the risks are high, but that's why we have

a chain of command and we are being trained for whatever we will have to face in the future. women lee cut just one percent of the country's $240000.00 soldiers and columbia seal relies on drafting $50000.00 men every year into compulsory military service. the overwhelming majority of them come from poor families, while wealthier colombians pay to avoid it. something the government is planning to change. president gustavo beth, was trying to eliminate compulsory military service, allowing young recruits to choose social services instead, while increasing the number of both professional and volunteers, including women willingly for a lab where it is increasing the number of women in the army changes the culture of the institution, and the idea is to rely on the more different activities security defense where they can contribute a lot. columbus planning to enlist at least 5000 women in 2023 alone

strengthening the role and working to diversify and evolving force. allison and beauty and dizzy, but with that, with a santa said, the philippines says she's uncovered in operation that traffic filipinos and possibly other nationals and forced them into crime. she says victims were lord into call center jobs in cambodia and me and more then pressured into taking pos and fraud on me. lo has this report from manila, so nasa love us lung come young area. this clip was taken by filipinos held at a combo deon police station in january. they say it shows they were victims of human trafficking by phone number 2 of the group have says, returned home and told al jazeera, their experiences were horrific. now, with water bruno doesn't want to reveal his identity and says he was made to travel from one country to another illegally. and by boat, 17 guy, me, me my lead up or there was have been in the 1st in a small with in bold,

including an infant and luggage. and that was the most dramatic part. because to vote with god's sakes and a time. and no one would find out if the day this was her destination in cambodia. a large business complex with many buildings. miles says there were given customer service jobs, but then forced to carry out online fraud. said that they'd be the 3rd day of chatting is when we offer potential victims fake crypto investments. the lowest offer is $50.00, but it can go up to as much as $50000.00. i'm with him on with, unlike bruno miles was florence come bodya posing as a tourist? what are the more common routes and methods? according to victims, filipino trafficking victims who come forward said they're usually question at border checks when leaving the philippines. but they pass through with relative ease. they say at least one immigration officer stamped their passports, let them straight through. at least 6 officers are being investigated by the bureau

of immigration or b, i. following send an inquiries. the b, i should not be a scene of the crime. it should be the last line of defense for our migrant workers . so it really has to crack down on the syndicate or syndicate still operating within human. during the legislative hearings, it was also revealed that the government had rescued. 200 victims caught in a similar schemes upon borgia. there were not only broken bodies, but laos and me on mar, that's raced, fierce many more christ like these are going undetected. barnaby law al jazeera manila. ah, this is our desert, easier. top stories 20 years since the stars of the us led invasion of iraq that topple saddam hussein up to 300000.