here's the conflict. how do we illustrate it? are we telling a good story? will people get what we're trying to do here? living outside and make? this is not the way any family want to raise their children. we're really interested in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise. it's absolutely feel as if you were there ah al jazeera with . ready you mending ties. iran's president welcomes an invitation by the king of santia to visit, reacts. ah

li, watching al jazeera, alive from doha with me for the battle, also coming up. more violence in occupied where spank as is really and palestinian officials meet, to help ease tensions, erected nothing to was a we children during our records of bruise loss, $5000.00 plus american soldiers for what, 20 years since u. s. invasion of iraq. we hear from american veteran soldier and says, the war should never, ever, and people are picking up the pieces after north quake in the southern region of ecuador kills at least 14. ah, we begin with the latest efforts to restore ties between iran and saudi arabia. after years of hostility officials in tehran, c president, wraith,

he has welcomed an invitation by by king salman to visit re add. the 2 countries have also announced plans for their foreign ministers to meet it comes after the regional rivals reach an agreement to end. tremendous 7 year rift, earlier this month, life to ali hashem was in tehran for so another important step to day towards re establishing relations between saudi arabia in iran. ali yes, will you when we were listening to foreign minister who sent me rob de leon discussing the arrangements to bring him together with his saudi counterpart? it came out of nowhere that we heard that the deputy chief of staff of the president tweeted saying that the president received an invitation from kinks and man of saudi arabia inviting him to visit 3 other than that. the president welcomed this invitation, adding that the president stressed that he wants to go forward with the relations.

so it seems relations between saudi arabia and iran on moving a quite fast last week. the agreement that was announced thin in china. today, the attempts that foreign minister was talking about to find a place where both father ministers could meet and he said that they did. there are 3 suggestions. and now the biggest development with president tracy, receiving an invitation from being said, man to visit 3, aut separately, alley iraq and yvonne has signed a joint security deal in baghdad. how significant is this? well the security of fact or agreement that was reached them back, that between the secretary of iran, supreme national security council, alisha funny and the iraqi authorities means that the northern side of iraq, that was on the boardman for the past few months from the iranian side because of the actions by the separate, the sticker cared to separate this. uh that one

a to attack some iranian territories. this back to will, it will kind of mean that this region could be controlled in a way or another and that the iraq is, will take control of these areas rather than the iranians trying to take control on their side or one bar from their own side. now, how is this going to happen? what are the details? this is what we are going to know. maybe when the details of this agreement comes out. but it seems also that these are all part of the regional, a new settings of the regions that are being placed there all started from iraq. and now it seems that everything is going back to iraq. thank you for that. ali hashem live there in tehran, while it's been 20 years since this side of the us led invasion that toppled iraqi president saddam hussein and military operation was launch without un support. unlike the 1st call for and the invasion of afghanistan here, veneer takes

a closer look at what happened 2 decades ago. so let's take a look at the main events leading up to and during the iraq war, 1991 to go for ends. the un security council demands that iran give up all weapons of mass destruction in exchange for lifting sanctions imposed after rocks invasion of kuwait during the 1990 the iraq promises repeatedly that it has turned over all its banned weapons. not true. several or later discovered in 1998, president bill clinton signs the iraq liberation act that makes removing saddam hussein's regime. the official policy of the u. s. government. after the $911.00 attacks clinton, success at george w bush identify the rock as part of an axis of evil. that speech widely seen as laying the groundwork for american military action in november 2002 as the u. s. is preparing to invade. the un security council pass is resolution $1441.00, giving iraq a final opportunity to disarm the united nations carries out $700.00 inspections

for weapons of mass destruction. and what do they find? no, w n d 's. still on march 20th, the us invasion of iraq begins. ariel bombardments, 1st, been a ground invasion. within 3 weeks, us forces take baghdad. and this becomes a defining image of the war. the statue of saddam hussein pulled down in fertile square. elsewhere in the capital, there is widespread arson and looting. american forces do little to stop that. iraq's army loses on the battlefield, but many soldiers go into ground and form armed groups. as for saddam, he is captured by us forces in december 2003. but the insurgency continues for years. officially, the u. s. leave the rock in december of 2011, but it still has troops there today. 2 decades after the invasion. while some american military veterans say the u. s. should never have invaded iraq. isaiah

james is one of those for my soldiers, his history and his own words. miami, la jane from iraq. war veteran, i went to time, so i rec, also, was that guys in my job in the army was alone. bravo for those. no, no, that's infantry. my additional skill identifiers bravo for, for those who don't know that the sniper 1st appointment was 15 months, 2nd deployment was 12 months. 3rd deployment was 12 months. so i've been 39 months of combat. straight fighting. i could take a rifle and clear a room and do all this crazy stuff. i'd aerosol to not a helicopters. i grad dudes and put bags over their heads at that time and put them on helicopters and solemnly and phone away. and i've never seen again the iraq war did not need that, but it should not have happened. my rack did nothing to us, and we killed a 1000000 iraqi civilians last $5000.00 plus american soldiers for what it diminished are standing in the world. it tended bankrupted coffers. all i did was

make the war machine get bigger and stronger in america. i think anybody who's been shot at and blown up and seen people blown to little pieces as anti war. if you're not, and this is for, i'm speaking directly to every veteran out there. if you love war, then you never actually been in it. if you, i don't give a damn with you. so if you talk about america, these of the, you never seen somebody take the last breath and a violent situation. you've never seen, i have a, she is not very, you do so much better than i ran for congress because i system is completely broken . i mean, we are, we are, by far the most powerful military in the world. we have one of the large economies in the history of the world. and all these the, there are full $33.00 industrialized macys on the planet earth. 32 of them provide their citizens with some form of guaranteed healthcare. the only one it

does is a mirror madison war for over to one. it is now it's our job. as a new generation war, veterans who are more technologically savvy, who have access to more education, but it's not gonna change the way magazine in the world. a. now the world news one is railey, has been wounded in an attack in the occupied west bank. the incident happened in hawaii for a town which was attached by israeli settlers last month fees a life pictures of the scene. and this comes as israel and palestine and officials are meeting in egypt to try and we so common. and the searching binding stetsco lie to nita abraham, who's in ramallah for us. what do we know a happened in his latest shooting? nita we knew that a palestinian has shot out a car that had is rabies in it. he shot around 20 bullets. we believe that the gun he owned or he had is carlo ghost of

a kind that palestinians self manufacture here in the occupied left bank. some sort of a hand made kind of thing. now, according to these really armies statement, the person who was shot at has shot at the shooter, or he was also shot at the upper body leading him to half serious conditions as far as the where the army statement is concerned. now according to palestinians, they said that they've seen these really forces arrest the palestinian. he's been taken for questioning. now it's interesting that these events take place on her water because 3 weeks ago why the palestinians and israelis were me in a summit, alongside that, your damian's and addictions and the americans. another palestinian has shot at to israeli settlers and her water and killed them. so it gives you an idea that the tension was somehow expected to happen and for what a while at the meeting is happening and some shift today. yeah. and what do we know

about this meeting happening in shannon's check? what are they talking about? well, according to palestinian officials, they say they wanted to go to shudder. michelle to bring about the issue of protecting palestinians of defending them because between the 1st summit that took place in october in february 26th. and the summit that's being held to day 24 palestinians of these were killed by israeli forces. but if you ask the palestinians in the street, if they believe that this summit is going to lead to anything, they would tell you not only that, they don't believe that it's going to yield any results. but they also think that it's kind of one way of training the palestinian authority to do the job that at these really forces has been doing lately, which is clamping down on palestinian arm groups that have been growing in different areas in the occupied west bank. so over all palestinians are disappointed, they say that the u. s. wants to somehow contain

a potential escalation that could happen during the holy month of ramadan, specifically that we know that palestinian prisoners and his really jails are planning and open hunger strike. nita, thank you for that. i did need abraham live for a say in ramallah, president vladimir putin has visited russian occupied mario pole in ukraine. the city in the dawn near screeching was annexed by moscow last year. 14 drover on several districts on saturday and was shown restoration work at a theatre and a university. his trip comes after the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest on the suspicion of unlawful deportation of children. stephanie deca has more from keith. the kremlin has made it very clear that they don't consider the arrest warrant by the international criminal court in any way, legal or, or valid. yasandra 23 countries can arrest a russian president if he visits there. it's certainly not going to be in crimea or

maro pole which is now under russian occupation. they annexed crimea in 2014, which is why putin made his appearance there to mark those 9 years. and mario poll, which is a city that endured the most horrific of seizures in the course of this war. just 3 days ago, was the anniversary you may remember of a theatre bombing deadly theatre bombing. we're civilians were sheltering that killed hundreds of civilians that was on the 16th of march, 2022. so now you see vladimir putin driving himself round the city. and i know so i think a statement there to the international community that he remains very much ah, the power house that he is and doesn't take the arrest warrant seriously. talking about reconstruction of a city, a city that really was left half of it, a carcass of war due to the, the, the brutal nurse of the assault by the russian army. a strong earthquake. as cale

at me is 14 people in ecuador, and one in peru, the magnitude 6.8 trema was centered south of ecuador, 2nd largest city guayaquil. alec sped, reports, streets littered with crumbled facades. rescue teams in ecuador scramble to save those still trapped after the earthquake. what will be rear balloon? a part of a facade collapsed. them fell on a vehicle that had already been removed by the police. we had one victim without vital signs. a male person with a number of buildings have collapsed across the coastal states of alberto and us. why in the andes but gathered all i can to sally at, 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. they ran, they yelled, yodi cried. they were ports of damage to infrastructure across the region and landslides, blocking civil roads. the trim was also felt across the border and northern peru

where a young child was killed when her home collapsed. yellow, the baby was playing where the stain of blood is. she was playing with my other niece and the brick fell on her ecuador and peru, a prone to earthquakes. they straddled the so called ring of fire in the danger, isn't over yet. with aftershocks still ongoing. alex bid al jazeera, still head on al jazeera ganawe's side to control a measles outbreak. the government is under fire for running out of vaccines, and allegations that filipinos are being targeted traffic to enforce into a life of cry. ah, i think we missed sand by some for some more flooding in bornea. possibly sumatra

and java. the concentration of heavy dam pulls over the next 24 hours. it looks a little bit dry in the philippines and mostly dry and what is the hot area of southeast asia around tylen meanwhile, but us prompting realty shares, which has knocked him back again as well. looks about right elsewhere in china. the korean plates are in japan tibbs is on the high side but is now expected to these. tempers will rise. there is rain again, running through central china and it keeps going every now again gives a heavy burst. now it's not supposed to be bone drive, it's time the air, but you do want to see too much right before you get well above the average. however, compared to ya, last year, this might be welcome. this is also unusual. the number of shares before recently in india and they still keep going in bangladesh and the northeast of india and pole and baton, a little less. so for the south, west chin as extraordinary. rain has gone away and you see the dryer looking picks, but not in the north indian plains,

still rains here. they shall do tend to die wagering tuesday. but the same time we've got an unusual feature coming up through the rape in see really the shower as you know, man are little early and a little heavy. ah, the throw ends of the grove biggest dam losing tens of billions of dollars. the new one on 18th investigates with prose. yeah, we have each one out of the room on counting the calls will borton's new plan to bring people back into the workforce help boost economic growth. could collapse to silicon valley bank mino rethink on interest rates. plus australia wants to create a new fleet of nuclear power. so blurry had a massive price counting the cost on al jazeera. ah

ah, welcome back. our top stories on al jazeera e, ron's president abraham rice. he has reportedly accepted an invitation by the king of saudi arabia to visit re on foreign ministers from both countries all to expect it to meet soon. the regional rivals agreed to men best 7 year reef totally of this month. one is ready has been wounded in an attack in the occupied west bank. the incident happened in a wire or a town which was attached by his reading settlers last month. it comes as ease re, lease, and palestinians are holding talks in egypt to try and restore. com and end the search in violence. and it's been 20 years since the start of the us led invasion of iraq that topple saddam hussein. the military operation was launched without un support. unlike the 1st hole war and the invasion of afghanistan,

not waste constitutional cortez declared upon him entry election held last september, null and void. the court ruled the previous parliament should be reinstated. last year, kuwait's crown prince. this old parliament and call for early elections to end political feuding batter outside is an assistant professor of history at kuwait university. he explains what's likely to happen in the coming months. this isn't actually a precedent. we've had one happened before. so we've had a parliament and alt in 2012, which was also voted in 2012. it took a bit shorter than this one. this current one state for 6 months only. while the previous case that i referred to, has lived on for 4 months, we've seen a growing assertion of a co, 80 constitutional court in the constitutional affairs of the country. which only makes sense because the court was built and put in place to look at ambiguous issues that arise when the constitution is not observed. and this has happened yet

again. it feels like deja who, 2012, in reality the constitution is quite clear when a parliament is an old dissolved, you have 60 days until the new elections come through. and this is not the case because you have a parliament in place right now. so you already have the 2020 parliament in place, but what i see happening is the same reasons that led to the dissolution of the 2020 parliament, the unconstitutional dissolution. now we know from today's ruling will probably lead us to yet another dissolution. but it behooves the government at this stage because with the court to point the finger is to as some government malpractice, they should have done their homework better. they should have researched a much safer way to dissolve the parliament and hence the grounds will be placed. now, so that they can prepare for that, that's a moment. so now we will see the 2020 parliament to reconvene the parliamentarians,

for example, that were never elected to parliament before will not be considered and peace if they were only elected in the $22.00 parliament. and i foresee a new parliament coming through and new elections in the coming months election zondaway in montenegro rotations, the next president, the races between the countries long as setting leader miller, joe, kind of age and rivals, hoping to change the cold landscape. ongoing political deadlock has sold the nato members bid to join the e. u, and some people are worried that the country could align more closely with russia. ganna is struggling to respond to a measles outbreak because of a shortage of vaccines. the government says he can't afford them because of high inflation, but could explain mismanagement. collin baker has more. zena adams lives in the city of tamale, 600 kilometers north of gone as capital across. 3 of her children are sick with measles. when she suspects her 4th is to,

she's left her business to visit them in hospital. this is really stressful. i had to look up my shop to be with them at the hospital and the little money i have is what you spent on their medication. the shouldn't have happened. i tried to get all my children vaccinated against these preventable diseases was unsuccessful. why should the country even run out to vaccine for children? they not, children are among scores who fallen ill since october last year during an outbreak of measles in the north, the united nations and gone us health minister say children have not died from the disease in the country for nearly 20 years. now 5 are suspected to have died at the start of 2023. many health workers say that could have been prevented by vaccination. would allow that over 80 percent of the patients that we got between last year and now have not received a immunization either. they have not received anything

or they received this as single dose standard childhood vaccines are made available in ghana through the un. and the global vaccine alliance gathered. the government funded vaccines, including for measles, ran out it blames and inflation rate of more than 50 percent. our own built to reach out to our various offices across the globe to see whether some friend countries can land some of these about these 2 countries. so that they feel the gop ganna is among many african states has vaccination programs were brought to a standstill. during the pandemic, the government acknowledges there are shortages, but says it's managed to get some new deliveries that they've come to late for a non children. and she can only wait and hope they recover. column baker al jazeera carina minter, a condo is a member of parliament in ghana and a member of the house committee. he says, a government should have prioritize acquiring vaccines. you need to annual budget.

the government is a blend mitigated minister, responsible for health and the president because the bastards are that precedent because you see we have something called a national health insurance formula. and so nice to do by says doctor about brush the buses that day by says that we are supposed to procure henry percent and we have they show as much money as we have in this country. while we are proving the formula for much, much health insurance and fund, we make positions for their procurement of these buses almost every year. so in last year, 2 into $22.00, for example, were made not less than 72000000 cities for the procurement of those buses. so, and when we've checked, we realize that these monies are being released and we don't understand why the money will be releasing yet. we know how to process in this country. we cannot sacrifice the lives when the children in this country because of information. yes, i agree that for example, as i speak to you now,

inflation is more than 54 percent of the respective of the installation might think about talking about like you might be. and these are the future leaders of our country. so we have no, absolutely no reason to wait and such a fight the lives of these children because of the pollution i do not. i mean, i respect that religion doesn't and we've been doing as a country and it's my talk prioritize, asian. we have to prioritize boston says with us why i believe is lack of forward planning. physically lack of for, and there is no way. there's no way that it has been stated. but alice shortage of buses in the market in democratic republic of congo attacks by the m 23 rebel group, have forced more than 800000 people from their homes over the past year. the group is why we believe to be backed by one day which of wanda denies and is continuing to see the territory in the east. come way of reports from the city of gomez.

josephine one meaning and seed a breeder. both 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. dick 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 that denies it. the army has failed to stop. 23. the grounds these many people here. question why the government hasn't done more to support for the 3 to 3

years ago, but at the time they had until international military support. busy rwanda with sanction this time in 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 or even were wanda, hearing congress. general constance fema is the 3rd commander to take over congos 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 35, and 23 blamed congo for this for breaking cease fires and denies committing

atrocities. in spite of mounting evidence, there were growing reports of mass killings and rapes from the hundreds of thousands of new arrivals in the camps. would sit a says her husband was trying to protect their herd of castle last month when em, 23 fighters tried to forcibly recruit him and killed him when he refused. unable to say, did you say was yearning? she says we, i need help with suffering. and we can't go back to our farm until i was little w, and she recalled and that she's lost a malcolm web al jazeera, goma democratic republic of congo to the philippines. now where a senator says she's uncovered an operation in which filipinos and possibly other nationals were trafficked and forced into crime. she says victims were viewed by jobs that call centers in cambodia and jamar. but then pressure to take part in

fraud. barnaby low has the story from manila, so nasa love us lung coming lung area. this clip was taken by filipinos held at a combo deon police station. in january's. they say it shows they were victims of human trafficking. the bipolar men, 2 of the group have says, returned home and told al jazeera, their experiences were horrific. though with a broader 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 live up or there was have been in the 1st in a small wooden bold, including an infant and luggage. that was the most dramatic part because to vote with god's sakes anytime. and no one would find out if we, they both are. this was her destination in cambodia. a large business complex would many buildings. mile says there were given customer service jobs, but then forced to carry out online fraud. st. happy 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 a month. but unlike bruno miles was florence cambria, 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 officers stamped their passports, let them straight through. at least 6 officers are being investigated by the bureau of immigration or b, i. following senate 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 2 cracked down on the syndicate or syndicate still operating within human trafficking during the legislative hearings, it was also revealed that the government had.