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a state bank deal to avoid market turmoil. the federal council is come white inst that u. b. s. take cover of credit space has laid the foundation for greater stability, both in switzerland and international me. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up. president putin welcomes what he calls china's constructive role and trying to ins do you crying or ahead of shipping things visit to moscow around president welcomes an invitation by the king of saudi arabia to visit, re add after years of hostility and gone. his government is on to fight for running out of vaccines as it struggles to contain and measles outbreak. ah,
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ah, this government has persuaded, dubious to buy a struggling rival credit suisse for just over $3000000000.00. and the latest, if it's a stay market turmoil, the began a week ago with the collapse of silicon valley bank in the us. the swift national bank says it will ensure both banks have access to the necessary liquidity to underpin the deal. soon after the swiss announcement, the usaa federal reserve, european central bank and other major central banks, came out with statements, assuring liquidity in the markets. on friday, the liquidity outflows and market volatility shows that it was no longer possible to restore the necessary confidence. and that the swift and stabilizing solution was absolutely necessary. and the solution is the takeover of credit histories by u. b. s. it is supported by the for the ride on sil, following several meetings with the national bank. we've our regulator or the fin
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not with credit series, and you'll be as pretty about account. she welcomes the stake over and is supporting it by guaranteeing the framework conditions necessary for its success. poor brennan has been following developments from london. it's been a really tumultuous and frantic few days in the international banking sector pretty much, ever since weapons day when credit suisse was extended, a $54000000000.00 credit line, which it was hoped would keep the bank going. in fact, it failed in not attempts. and last week, credit suisse were seeing deposits taken out of its coffers. the rates of some 10000000000 swiss francs every single day, a real crisis of confidence in the stability of that bank. now the news conference that's taking place on sunday evening has outlined the problems and the options on
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frankly, they said the takeover by u. b. s. was inevitable and unavoidable. and the idea that this was a bank that was too big to fail has come up again. and again in the news conference, there was a whole raft of senior executives in that use conference and some of the quotes from it were as follows. the finance minister saying that the top priority was to protect the financial sector and also switzerland reputation for international banking. the president said that they believe that they come up with a very strong solution to a complex situation. and the u. b. s. chairman, who is the person who is going to be helping the new entity coming out with some very strong, very reassuring quotes. saying that this was an integration as opposed to take care of a enormous opportunities. he spoke calls that u. b. s will remain rock solid. now the importance of that is to try and reassure
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investors. cornelia maya is an economist based in the swift capital. she says the deal is the best possible scenario. well, i think it was the absolutely necessary and it was the best off of very few solutions. so i deal solution, but it's the least fast solution. you know, the other solutions would, would have been to let the bank grow box, which have a huge ramifications both in the global financial system and in the swiss economy as a whole lot of the financial sector and, or to say, or to nationalize the bank. so this was the most elegant and the least solution. what i hope it will stem that at least the, the confidence in the lease, you'll be asked to flip them. but you know what we're seeing on the, on the other side of the atlantic in the us, the client that there are quite
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a bit of rumblings, but the disciplined him made sure. because if you look at the u. k, the suite, they will well capitalized and on pill. so many of the faucets went out there, but also they also have no liquidity issues. you look at the, at the banks in the us will have issues. they have issues because of liquidity concerns, because of capitalization. and because especially with s b b, because the report on the wrong and the rising interest rate, that was not the case with the sweets with, well, the news and russian president vladimir putin has welcomed what he calls china's constructive role. and trying to in the born ukraine, chinese prison, the shooting thing will hit to russia later on monday for a 2 day visit. person says he has high expectations for their talks. katrina, you reports from beijing. he didn't, he has visited russia
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a time since becoming chinese president. his most recent trip was in june 2019 during an economic forum. he will travel there again this week in what's expected to be a major show of chinese support moscow as it continues its invasion of ukraine. crucial with china and russia working together, the world will have the driving force to war. multiple larry and the greater democracy in international relations and a global strategic bowers and the stability will be better ensured the visit comes as china seeks to expand its role as a global leader and mediator. earlier this month, it broke it a deal to and 7 years of strain relations between saudi arabia and iran. some analysts believe it can do the same for russia and ukraine. in february, chinese officials released a peace plan calling for a cease fire and dialogue between both sides. this days, after several months, both parties are exhausted. and yeah,
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the white shoe has the hoary issues. are you trying to get what you are currently doing? but other se baiting is reluctant and unable to play this role due to the west's extensive backing of kids. it is great power, job politics going on there. it's very difficult to, to play a mediating role in that context. and i know the stakes are very high. ah, russia and ukraine do not want to negotiate at the moment. so there is very little china can play with baiting relies on economic trade with europe and says it's impartial in the war. but its claims of neutrality has been questioned last year. see declared a no limits partnership with moscow. expanding trade between the 2 countries has become an economic lifeline for the sanction country she and put in are also good friends and have met 40 times including on kootenai birthday. the united states,
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as china is considering providing military support to russia, which they jing denies. she is reportedly planning to speak to voting, muse lensky, following his most go to visit. it would be, she's 1st conversation with ukrainian presidents in hostilities broke out. kill says it's cautiously receptive to pages involvement. but a withdrawal of russian forces from any occupied territory must be included in any p. still. katrina, you al jazeera, they doing just one day after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him. brushes president, let me push and made a visit to the russian occupied city of maria, poland, ukraine, the city in the den. it screeches with n x by moscow last year and drove around several districts on saturday and was shown restoration work at a theater. and the university or pulse was the focus of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. the you in estimates nearly 90 percent of residential buildings
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were damaged or destroyed in the russian siege of 2 years of hostility officials and to run say presidents abraham racy has welcomed an invitation by king solomon to visit read. the regional rivals have also announced plans for the foreign ministers to me. earlier this month, the countries reached an agreement broken by china to reopen indices after a 7 year rift holly hush him has more for me to run. relations between iran and saudi arabia are moving fast and they to the really impressed them to reveal on sunday that came so man of saudi arabia extended an invitation to, but i am lazy to visit 3. are there any president according to what, how much am she the welcome to invitation and stress? discovery is ready. let's do more thought size. now on sunday, also iranian foreign minister for st. emmett abdulla, he on fact of a shoe off hearing and saudi relations, a news dresser. and he said that both countries are currently studying the new
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settings and how both foreign ministers could meet more. there are more to arabic regarding the issue of saudi arabia in the near future. i'll meet the foreign minister of saudi arabia. so far, we have agreed on deploying technical delegations from both countries to visit embassies and consulates and organized practical steps to reopen embassies. over the last 10 days, messages had been exchanged between the 2 countries through the swiss embassy. we announced we are ready to hold the meeting. and on the last message, st. from us, we suggest 3 places for the meeting book on m. b. i mirabelle i and said that technical teams from both countries are visiting the capitals in order to make sure that the embassies are ready to receive the new diplomats. you also said that relations with bahrain. oh, with mercy, can you turn willful thought of all my leading invitation to the vive thighs, you also welcome the promotion of relations with jordan to the level of ambassadors and the dialogue taking place with egypt,
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the ash and jesse era that on iraq and iran have signed a joint security tale and baghdad, around top security officials, santee agreement that involves coordination to promote i protect common borders. it also calls for a strengthening of cooperation and several security fields. the 20 years after the invasion of iraq, some u. s. military veterans say the country shouldn't afford the conflict in iraq as i a james is one of those former soldiers. his story, in his own words, miami, la jane from iraq. war veteran, i went to time, so i rec, also it was that case and 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 of 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
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a rifle in queer room and do all this crazy stuff. i'm aerosol to not a helicopter. i grad dudes and put bags over the head that tied him and put him on have a cup in solemn the phone away. and i've never seen again the iraq war did not need that, but it should not have happened in iraq 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 dammit, 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 it. if you, i don't give a damn with you. so if you talk about america, these of you never seen somebody take the last breath and a violent situation. you've never seen, i have a, she is not very,
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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 won a large economy in the history of the world and all these there, there are full $33.00 industrialized nations on the planet earth. 32 of them provide their citizens with some form of guaranteed health care. the only one it does is america, america's gonna walk over to what it is. now it's our job. as is new generation war veterans who are more technologically savvy, who have access to more education, but it's not gonna change the way a magazine in the world was still ahead on al jazeera, more violence in the occupied whist bank. as it's raining and palestinian officials meeting in egypt say that the great work towards d escalating tensions. plus,
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i'm bought me with that in law has gone west in delaware shop on an onion prices had led to the new devices. farm was blame this on climate change and government ah was breaking down the headlines to exposing the powers attempting to finance reporting. what did you do? what to, to investigate? why didn't you ask the question? there are many during that said censor people have, but you know, 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 seed on your time more than if he has own and which is era. iraq, a nation riddled with land mines and an expert dedicated to defusing them, one by one. equipped with only a knife and
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a pair of wire puppies, he faced his death every day. but does his work make him a hero or target? witnessed the d minor on as just sierra. we understand the differences and similarities have cultures across the wound. semi matter, glad you called al jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that mattie out is there. ah, ah, ah, you're watching else, is there a reminder of our top stories? the sour, spanking giant
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u. b. s as buying troubles rival credit suisse for just over $3000000000.00 in the state. back to deal. it's hard. the deal will assure up confidence in the global banking system after the collapse of to us linda's chinese prison. she, she pang is here to travel to moscow on monday for to day visit rushes, president vladimir putin has welcomed what he calls china's constructive role and trying to ins the ukraine war dr years of hostility officials and to rom say president, abraham bracy has welcomed an invitation by king selman to visit viet. earlier this month, the countries reached an agreement broken by china to reopen embassies. palestinians have been protesting, and hebron garza against talks between israeli and palestinian officials and egypt . hamas which governs the gaza strip, has condemned the west bank by palestinian authority for taking part in the meeting . the talks were a bit to try and calm,
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a surge of violence and the occupied with bank. then a joint statement issued after the meeting, both parties agreed to work towards d, escalating tensions, and continued to ranked dialog by those talks were taking place and is ready. man was wounded in an attack in the occupied with bank palestinian gum and open fire on and israeli capital in the car in the town of who are or as similar shooting last month prompted, is ready fiddlers to burn palestinian homes and businesses. well let's get more now on the summit that's taking place in egypt. coastal city of shaw mill shake from corte is director of global engagement at american university of by rudy. join us from boston. thank you very much for being on al jazeera. first of all, how positive value about this meeting in the joint statement that, that came out of us? the meeting is intriguing because it has some positive themes and it has a lot of question marks. the positive themes are that they are meeting and they're
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meeting with 5 different parties, 2 of which are ira jordan and egypt, and then the palestinian national authority, which doesn't speak for all the palestinians most in his didn't walk though to this meeting. but it's there. and then you got the israelis and the american. so it's, it's better to me than not to me. but if you're going to me, if you want to get something done, they had a meeting like this back in february, this quintet, that's called this for these 5 members. and the february meeting made a similar declaration that they're gonna try to calm things down and restore trust and move to negotiations, leading to a 2 state solution. and of course we just had tremendous violence since then. there's been 89 palestinians that israel has killed in the last 3 months. so the, the parking has to be matched by action. what is good i think, in the community. and does talk about practical things that the palestinians really
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need, which is finances and stopping a whole to temporarily holding settlements and unilateral actions. but these values have promised us before and never really delivered. yeah. so it's hard to say this is good or this is bad. i think it's, it's good in principle, but you really have to wait to see what comes out of it. the palestinians are suffering daily under occupation. expropriation of land and new settlements, rampages by settlers, curfews killings, all the jailing. these things have. and this is what people are going to look at if you do get a cessation of these israeli criminal actions. and then there will probably be a period of quiet in which these things are not killing each other, but you still have the occupation and the occupation is not mentioned in this. and
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this, yes, except for this, this intriguing priest talking about a political horizon, a political horizon can united you want to mean, but in diplomatic speak. it means moving to a political negotiations to resolve the underlying political issues which are the occupation by israel. and conversely, the palestinians, recognizing israel, the persons already told israel many times they recognize it. yeah. so let's see. we have to in seen ok. thank you so much. we're gonna have to leave a day that is from corey, director of global engagement at american university of by route. thank you very much for being on al jazeera actually own or us prison. joe biden has spoken to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to express his concern about planned overhaul. so the country's judicial system mess protests against the changes have been ongoing for the past 11 weeks. as the bill makes its way through legislature,
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the proposals would increase the power of politicians over the courts and critic site. they threatened democracy, syrian prison bashir allison has mid immortality. lead isn't abra davi on his 2nd trip to the gulf since last month's earthquakes. his 2nd trip to the u. r. e in 2 years comes after a visit to a man last month. the 2 visits are his only official engagements in arab countries since the start of the syrian war and 2011. the u. i. e, normalize relations with syria in 2018 who ganna is struggling to respond to a measles outbreak due to a shortage of vaccines. the government says i can't afford them because of high inflation. but critics blame mismanagement colon baker has more. zane of adams lives in the city of tama lee, 600 kilometers north of gone us 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
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hospital, and the little money i have is what you spent on their medication. this 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 since 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 6 standard childhood vaccines are made
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available in gonna, through the un 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 or go to do reach out to our various offices across the globe to see with some free countries can land some of these boxes to 2 countries. so that they feel the gop gonna 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 st. children. and she can only wait and hope they recover. column baker al jazeera, there have been more large protests and france against controversial pension reforms. the demonstrations come after president manuel mccall bypass parliament on thursday to push through arise in the state retirement age from 62 to 64. french
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impedes on both sides of the political spectrum, have filed no confidence motions against the governments and protest. the chrome centrist alliance still has the most seats in the national assembly. the vote is sit down from monday. the brazilian security forces have launched a major crackdown on criminal gangs after 4 nights of violence in the north of the country. at least 3 suspects have been killed and 97 people arrested since tuesday . police say the crime wife was organized by jailed gang leaders and protested prison conditions unlocked, our intention is to fight crime and to intensify our policing. may i help support the units that are on the ground to address this situation? it's happening now in rio grande. no, not in india, a sharp drop, an onion prices in the western state of my roster has they to a crisis. among farmers, the country is the world's 2nd largest producer of the vegetable. the state government says it will compensate growers, after hundreds of farmers,
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started protesting poverty. miss al reports from north lasalle gallow. i. this is how prices are decided at each us largest onion, wholesale market. farmers in trade us from nearby areas meeting the town of laslie gout every morning to day their moody, somber. they say they're struggling because of falling prices like that a little back on the funnel guy, whisky white as i am going to me like i lost more than $1300.00 the season. i'm known definitely. i can't even done my house. i'm worried if i'd be able to grow onions next year. what i'm scared my dental increase and i'll be stuck in cycle of launch. i get the western state of my roster as in just largest producer, red onions recently, prices dropped by half, creating a big crisis in the region. drew 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
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change has all to 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. let architect them than 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 buy lower prices and working with farmers to find long term solutions there. ended up being while it was on a scheduled opposite by with killer warehouses. yup. it is red onions cannot be stored for too long, your bottle of pink onions have along the shelf life. and so we are asking farmers to expand warehouses for those. 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 so 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
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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. farmers hope they'll benefit from new policies and start recovering their losses. bob newman, the larger sierra lawson gown, western india. well, that is all from may tom, a crime. the news continues here on al jazeera after inside story, which is coming up next. ah
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hello, that it's a pretty warm picture across much of east asia at the moment, particularly for japan that thanks to an area of low pressure that has moved its way east giving way for high pressure to move in picking up temperatures into the high teens for tokyo and a soccer, so about 5 degrees above where we expect them to be for this time of year. and that trend continues across the korean peninsula into northern areas of china. beijing coming in at 18 degrees celsius, some sunshine coming through the cloud. there for the wet or whether we have to head further south to more sensual areas, we had seen some pretty big thunderstorms, wet weather, intensifying, moving towards the east coast. now, shanghai will see some of that rain. it will also roll its way further east into southern areas of japan, but temperature is still remaining relatively high here for this time of year light rain on wednesday, $820.00 degrees celsius. now for south asia, rain is certainly the story. it has died down. however,
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across the west coast of india, those fierce thunderstorms remain, however, particular for the northern and north eastern areas, sla, legacy of showers for the east coast. but we will see some pretty big bang as rolling into places like bangladesh and their pool over the next few days. that she weather update. ah, in a concert hole in baghdad. away from the conflict and pales from the womb, sectarian farms and sanctions. the rocky national symphony orchestra has full to perform classical and traditional irish music in the face of all adversity. oh, to 0 tones. it's challenging story simply for iraq on al jazeera, 20 years since the us led invasion of iraq. how has the war reshaped the country
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