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i'm fully batty boy. you're watching al jazeera life from doha. also coming up more violence in the occupied westbank goes. he's really in palestinian officials meeting in egypt say they've agreed to establish a mechanism to deescalate tensions ah, 20 years since the us led invasion of iraq. we look at how iraq is still struggling to improve basic services. and at least 15 people are dead after a powerful earthquake kid, southern ecuador, and parole. ah, thank you for joining us. we begin with the latest efforts to restore ties between iran and saudi arabia. after years of hostility, officials into iran see president, right. e c has welcomed an invitation by king solomon de visits 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 mend a 7 year rift. earlier this month, ali hashim has more from tehran. we heard that the deputy chief of staff of the president treated saying that the president received an invitation from kingston man of saudi arabia inviting him to visit 3 yards. and 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 are moving quite fast. last week, the agreement that was announced in, in china today, the attempts that for municipal of forking about to find a place where both for the ministers could meet. and he said that there are 3 suggestions. and now the biggest development with president tracy receiving an invitation from being said, man to visit 3 out. meanwhile,

iraq and even have signed a join security deal in baghdad. iran stock security official signed the agreement that involves coordination to protect common borders. it also calls for a strengthening of cooperation in several security fields. erica, yes, he said, can we get it? we agreed to form a national security committee that included security and legal representatives from the federal government of iraq. the government of could has done in northern iraq and iran, a security document for the 1st time had been prepared and ready to be signed by both countries. previously, there were other documents with northern iraq, only. there is full and well studied cold nation in this regard between the 2 countries. 3 different political and security committees. while it's been 20 years since the us led invasion of iraq that top hold saddam hussein by the oil, which nation has struggled to improve basic public services, political instability, endemic corruption and security issues have all contributed towards the economy being, flux, being in flux,

or some been job reports from boston. the buttress famous italian bridge wasn't here 20 years ago. neither was the main road that leads to busters international stadium. now the streets are peaceful, and there's relative political come in the city, and across it all packed up. and the chief more than $8000000000.00 a for an investment up to february 2023. we are keen to achieve major projects. this is all in coordination with the federal government. lots of projects were completed in basra, related to infrastructure services, commercial and tourism sectors. in this oil field is the mid noon, which means crazy in arabic, something that refers to the large amount of oil. there's found here in one location and estimated 38000000000 barrels. the mission field produces $240000.00 barrels a day for iraq's economy, and production is planned to be expanded to 5 and a half 1000000 barrels per day. it off,

the government says despite obstacles like corruption, red tape and an unstable region invested the lining up. the mainly interested in the countries abundant deposits of gas. but despite its large hydrocarbon resources, iraq imports a 3rd of the gas. it needs for its power stations. nearly $2000000000.00 birth comes from iran and on a stretch budget that's a burden. it also spends an estimated $5000000000.00 the unimportant diesel in petrol. that's left it off currency struggling against the dollar. and that's not all. and there's no malia and the federal had the remodel. it had to it as estimated by a parliamentary committee, corruption cost around $10000000000.00 a year, around $600000000000.00 have been smuggled out of or i can the past years, we have to fight against corruption, administration, and financial. there's no real development in the rocky economy. despite that wealth, millions of iraqis struggled to get clean water every day. and every year, thousands of people fall due to waterborne diseases, drank rivers,

and climate change has increased risks of food shortages. 2 decades ago, the 1st battles of the iraq war report and bus for the city of a 1000000 people was besieged by mainly british forces. cluster munitions were used in the international coalition to band uranium weapons says you can and us forces use depleted uranium, frizzy is after the invasion. a lot has changed yet. this problem continues to remain the backbone, put ross, oil based economy. but still, the complains of the people are a lack of job opportunities infrastructure and the lack of attention from the people in power. family guy without the 0 button a. now the world news one is really 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. it comes as is really and palestinian officials have met in egypt and agreed to deescalate tensions,

particularly during ramadan, which charged this week. it abraham has the latest from ramallah. we know 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, or he had, is carlo ghost of a kind that palestinians, self manufacture here in the occupied was make 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 have serious conditions. as far as these were, the army statement is concerned. now according to our palestinians, they said that they've seen these really poses 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 meeting in

a summit along 5 the jordanians, and the egyptians and the americans. another palestinian has shot at 2 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 so i will shift today. kuwait's constitutional court has declared a parliamentary election has last september and null and void. the court has all the previous parliament should be reinstated. lassie equates crown prince. this old parliament and confir early elections to and political feuding body unsafe is an assistant professor of history at kuwait university. he explains what slightly 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 the co, 80 constitutional court and 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 vu 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 point, the fingers 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. we can beat 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 parliament. and i foresee a new parliament coming through a new elections in the coming months about counting zondaway in nigeria after millions of people voted for state governors. violence and voter intimidation were reported in some cities. people can their balance for more than $900.00 assembly legislative and 20 a governor's results i expected on mondays. elections out on the way in montenegro to choose the next president the races between the countries long as serving leader me loads are kind of age and

a range of rivals hoping to change the country's political landscape. ongoing deadlock has sold the nato members bid to join the european union, and they are concerned that the country could on line more closely with the russian president. vladimir putin has visited russian controlled, married pole in ukraine. the city need only ask legion with amex by moscow last year, who to drove her on several districts on sunday and were shown restoration work at a fee to and a university. his trip comes after the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest on 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 valid? yes, 223 countries can arrest the russian president. if he visits there, it's certainly not going to be in crimea, or mario poll,

which is now under russian occupation. the amex crimea in 2014, which is why putin made his appearance there to mark those 9 years and marry a pole which is a city that endured the most horrific of sieges 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 also, i think a statement there to the international community that he remains very much 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 avoids you to the, the, the brutal most of the assault by the russian army. still ahead on al jazeera

ganawe's fight to control and measles outbreak for government is under fire running out of vaccines. i'm talking about that in the office on western in delaware shop on and on. your prices has led to a huge prices for muslim this on climate change and government. ah frank assessment. justice means to give them the basic human rights, not only in the camp, but also inside the map, informed opinions by the ministration are very concerned about this development especially, or what it means for china's power on the world stage. critical debate. not only both the legal report door, they see the progress in depth analysis of the day headlines inside story on al jazeera. talk to al, just here we are. who is really fighting? is russia, isn't wagner, or is it the russian or military?

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welcome back our top stories on al jazeera yvonne surprised at andy brain. lacy has reportedly accepted an invitation by the king of saudi arabia to visit re our foreign ministers from both countries on so expected to meet. soon regional rivals agreed to mend a 7 year reef terry of this month. one is really has been wounded in an attack in the occupied west bank. the incident happened in laura and it comes as israel leon palestinian officials meeting in egypt have agreed to deescalate tensions. especially during the ramadan holly month, which started this week. and it's been 20 years since the start of the us led invasion of iraq that topple saddam hussein. a military operation was launched without un support. unlike the 1st gulf war and the invasion of afghanistan in other news, a strong earthquake has came at me. 14 people in ecuador, and one in peru, and magnitude 6.8 tremor was centered south of ecuador,

2nd largest city guayaquil. alex bad. how's the turks? st. slitted with crumbled facades. rescue teams in ecuador scramble to save those still trips after the earthquake. quoted will you be a good, a part of a facade collapsed? them fell on a vehicle that is already being 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 think this idea 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 that they ran. they. yeah. yodi cried city. there are 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. while 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 trone to earthquakes. they straddled the so called ring of fire in danger, isn't over yet with aftershocks still ongoing. alex beard al jazeera ganna is struggling to respond to a measles outbreak because of a shortage of vaccines. the government says you can't afford them because of high inflation, but quite explain mismanagement. collin baker has much zayna, adams lives in the city of tamale, 600 kilometers north of gannon capital across 3 of her children are sick with measles and 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 him 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, but 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 those sick standard childhood vaccines are made available in gonna through the u. n. and the global vaccine alliance gathered the government funded vaccine, 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 gone is among many african states whose 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, copying them into a condo is a member of parliament in ghana and a member of the house committee. he says the government should have prioritize acquiring vaccines any daniel budget. the government is a blend mitigated minister for help and the precedent because the bastards are the 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 and show ours and fund, we make positions for their procurement of these buses almost every year. so in last year, 2 into $22.00, for example, we made not less than $72000000.00 savings for the procurement of those buses. so, and when we checked, we realize that these monies are being released and we don't understand why the money will be releasing yet will know how to process in this country. we cannot sacrifice the lives when the children in this country because of inflammation. yes, i agree that for example, as i speak to you now, i inflation is more than 54 percent of the respective of the installation. i think that about talking about like over you might be and these are the future leaders of our country. so we have no, absolutely no reason to wait and sacrifice the lives of these children because of

the collision. i do not. i mean, i respect the resolution, doesn't we've been doing as a country and it's a much prioritize issue. we have to prioritize buses. so that's why i believe that is lack of forward planning physically, luckily, and there is no way there's no way that it has been stated. but alice shortage of buses in the market. mexico central bank has raised its key interest rate to a record high of 11 percent in a bit to reduce inflation. despite that food is getting more expensive, we spoke to one st vendor to find out how people are getting by. know me if somebody said, my name is rosa maria velasco zaragoza ive been managing the store for about 30 years now. we've had good times and weathered some bad times, but we remain in business. thank god the our clients are working plus most of them earn minimum wage. so we make products that

they can afford with what little money they have. if i find on my my bread mayonnaise, me, everything is getting more expensive. the last price to increase was bread. so we had to increase our prices also, our customers know to the market, you know? yeah. as the inflation rises, people take more care of their money. it is worth less. so if they don't make enough to wait on the street, maybe that will bring their lunch from home. at the no, i get this inflation affects everybody. they is customers and us is merchant. now our sales have dropped to half of what we used to sell in terms of some as a matter of fact, we sell even cheaper than most of the said, which we try hard to keep prices low so we won't lose more customers. with that,

i'm going to keep on working as long as god allows me to. if i'm healthy, i will work. every day i wake up willing to serve my customers and with faith that this work will be enough to feed me. it's hard, but we have to keep going. in india sha dropping onion prices in the west instead of my roster has led to a crisis among farmers. they said government says it will compensate, grow is after hundreds of farmers started protesting. pardon me, tommy, for some last have gone. i this is how prices are decided at asia's largest onion, wholesale market. farmers and traders from nearby areas meet in the town of laslie dow every morning to day them buddhist, somber. they say they are struggling because of falling prices, blood buffalo back on the funnel guy, whisky. why does that sound good to me? like i lost more than $1300.00 the season. i'm known definitely bought a condiment on my house. i'm worried if i'll be able to grow onions next year when

i'm scared my dep fuel increase and i'll be stuck in cycle of launch. i get the western state of my roster as in just largest producer of red onions. recently, prices dropped by half, creating a big crisis in the region, grew as a blaming this on surplus produce estimated to be around 30 percent pharmacy. i say government policies are making it difficult for them to export onions. climate change has also impacted on in supply higher than usual temperatures and unseasonal rain have reduced the shelf life of these onions, forcing farmers to bring them earlier to markets before they wrought laraca took them. i did not heard of it. j to say they're trying to revive the market before the summer harvest arrives, then courage and customers to bite low prices and working with farmers to find long term solutions. they wanted a big while. it was an exquisite that was killer warehouses. yep. you got these red onions cannot be stored for too long. the pink onions have along the shelf life.

and so we are asking farmers to expand warehouses for those social studies. we are also suggesting they grow varieties that can be exported to regions like europe in the middle east. so next time there's a crisis here, we can sell the produce that last week housings of farmers started marching to move by to demand financial assistance. the end of their protest after the state government agreed to their demands, those include subsidizing prices and waving loans. some say the solution is only a temporary fix, marcus, joy, all, oh, so that owner to you, the entire system needs to be overhauled right now. political parties interfere and decide who's allowed in the market. this should only be buyers and farmers, no one else. additionally, farmers need to learn to balance onion production with demand, so they can get a good price. harvest season is expected to begin next month. farm was hope they'll benefit from new policies and start recovering their losses. bob newman,

the larger sierra lawson gone, western india, a sanitary in the philippine says she is uncovered an operation in which filipinos and possibly other nationals where traffic to enforce into crime. she says victims were used by jobs at call centers in cambodia and myanmar, but then pressuring to taking part in fraud. barnaby low has this story from manila, so nasa la, muslim, coming down 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, them by phone number to call me 2 of the group of says, returned home and told al jazeera, their experiences were horrific. now, with the florida, bruno doesn't want to reveal his identity and says he was me to travel from one country to another illegally. and by boat, 17 guy, me, me my lit up or there was, had been in the 1st, in a small, with in bold, including an infant and luggage. and that was the most dramatic part. we cause to

vote with capsize any time. and no one would find out if we dana her. 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. st. prepared b. 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 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 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 to crack down on the syndicate or syndicates still operating within human trafficky during the legislative hearings, it was also revealed that the government had rescued. $200.00 victims caught in a similar schemes up on board. there were not only from cambodia, but laos and me on mar, that's raced. fierce many more crimes like these are going undetected. born to below al jazeera manila that's in use for now inside stories. next march is here. ah, the who's when it's still raining in turkey away you don't want it to rain has been about

twice as much as the average would suggest you should get. of course is still cold enough. the snow at height and that range, but again soon, lebanon, dancer, israel, the occupied territories and almost into egypt with an onshore wind as well. not particularly, doesn't conditions. and they laughed into monday that the system is moving in land, taking a favorite of rain into jordan and to iraq as well. and of course, eventually inter wrong. and with that system it will be an introduction to spring rain. i suspect between that and the south coast, which is effectively a man looks drive in a man's weather is unusual. these shows a little bit a little bit heavy in comparison. and then if i take you to tuesday, as the rain goes east was the following. wind is quite strong, which suggests the dust, or even a sandstorm, possibly eastern saudi bahrain, or even cover. so dow hospital crosses, dusty and windy one, at least on tuesday. it still stays quite breezy during wednesday and thursday. the rain is falling in somalia, kenya, and he c o. p is probably welcome,

but it's quite heavy. this time the year warranty plays, particularly somalia and it's still raining in malawi, but nothing like as heavily as it was, but still over the floods. ah . from the al jazeera london, bro, consented to people in thoughtful conversation are to cannot be easily erased by, by a superpower with no host and no limitation. what matter, dino was to be radical. how can the thing that's radical would be forsaken park one at the highway and denise cool. it's not about wanting to sell. you know about the message in the studio b, unspent dates on outs is era 20 years since the us night invasion of iraq.