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are ready to guard world order based on international law. while, while president she arrived in moscow several hours ago, also he and president putin have sat down together as well for the initial images of the talking together to explain pleasantries and to wish each other well we haven't talked in depth very much about the issues that they are, we expect them to tackle in the next couple of days. these are the latest pictures of the 2 leaders in their 1st meeting. they course will have behind closed or meetings as day progresses. in this to day, the visits by the chinese president bus join eula of cova in moscow. and of course a great deal of anticipation about this meeting. what can we expect from the visit in terms of what we think both leaders will agree on?

well indeed, chinese president, she's in pain, has arrived at the kremlin to attend an informal meeting with him at payton. the meeting is going on at the moment and we are getting over the live pictures right now with the just we just heard from him as saying that he had carefully read china's plans for a ukrainian settlement. that's quite important. of course, the russian president also said that beijing's blonde could be discussed russia is always open to the negotiation process. while president, she pen wished lodge invitation loc during his next presidential election, and he called vladimir putin, his dear friend, and said that his visit to russia is his 1st visit, actually also his reelection as the chinese a president. so obviously many say that the russian ukrainian conflicts is expected to talk that gender, that according to club and spokesman to me trip i called pretend we'll give she

a 1st pans perspective on what's going on. and ukraine and rushes official position on the vines as want to stand from lead you patients. a recent article in the chinese newspaper hills actually welcomed china, is in readiness to play a role and import control in resolving the crisis in ukraine. the ukrainian complex is now into the 2nd year and it doesn't show any signs of a bay thing. we know china presented the plan, of course and of let me put in just said that this plan is, is, was to be discussed and considered, of course. but. c also, i also would like to say that there are other things on because today like mutual economic and the tree shoes for instance. and we know that in 2022, the tray turnover between the countries increased, set up the send and g to the functions and pose in russia in connection with its special military operation. the ukraine was that china has become russia's largest

economic, hardener, and largest consumer russian oil. and ko, it's also been mentioned that the parties will discuss the increased role of national occurrences and trade pro says, and there are, there are other things to pay attention to like the power of a cyber, a gas pipeline, and new nuclear power units built in, in china, where there is some russian specialist. so all these things are going to be discussed and addressed during are, these are forthcoming meetings today and tomorrow. so of course, a eula, the 2 leaders have met, we've seen initial pictures of them and they've talked in general terms about their friendship about the strategic partnership they have geographically. what is the russian media saying about the visit of she? i mean, we know we've had these statements coming through and these editorials that they've written in each other's respective newspapers. but what,

what are you hearing in terms of the arrival for the masses in russia? well, very clear. we are hearing that the russian press, the russian media actually is praising the chinese leda and the china because china is considered to be number one, strategic and economic part, no russia. and basically, in terms of o b, the special ministry operation in ukraine, china is considered to be one of the rushes allies even though that china denies, obviously all delegations about possible possible lee. so on supplies to russia. but basically, we're not going of course, to hear anything about that now because all the talks about weapons supplies to russia, probably not directly from china,

but from north korea. all the speculations i'll just speculations because we'll resend the stuff that i know officials official reports on that have been made. and obviously i and i think we can, we can leave it after that. now in terms of the updates, of course we'll get back with you as we get more news. moscow shop alova in moscow . thank you. let's go over to katrina you in beijing and katrina, obviously important visit for president she, he's hoping really to try and achieve something off the back of some pretty successful diplomacy in the last few days. that's right, so the timing is interesting trying to try to capitalize on the mention of its successful brokering piece in saudi arabia and iran. and she thing is really

looking at this visit, other than strengthening ties with blood and as no paternity to project china as a global calla as a peace maker. she wants to get the attention of countries from the developing world. you might be a bit tired of seeing us constantly as a leader and might be more open to china as an alternative. now we've seen these opening shots, closing trees in this chassis between bad in houston and she didn't came. i think when it comes to do all the underestimate, importance of the personal report between these 2 leaders. 10 years ago wasn't 10 years ago now. and a huge pain became the leader of china, russia, the country you visited. and he said at the time that he was holding a new chapter in moscow, paging time, and now we've had the 2 leaders meet more than 40 times. it is present and she didn't seem lifetime even more. so let him, if you didn't last time a made

a ice cream birthday cake, prison. she didn't think you treated himself. the said that she didn't pick is the only state leader that he's celebration his own birthday with. i think what really crucially ties these 2 together, it's not just the fact that they're from russia and because those 2 countries have had really complicated history. what i think is most important here is if he's these 2 leaders of the head of authoritarian countries, they have a strong men leadership, they're both figured out ways to manipulate the system so that they can be need is basically what the rest of their life and the important thing that we need to watch out as a member of music these to show a world view. and that is that they don't believe that the world should be loved by the us and other western democracies. they don't think that kind of world or to suit them and that is other country. basically they would like to see their own country, their own style of governance,

or the systems of governance become more permanent because she didn't ping as these, those kinds of governments that kind of world we would give china more the way to teach its own interest. when you look at its behavior, john, when you look at what it does in the south china piece, and specifically when you look at what its own ambitions are around the reification of taiwan and island, which is now a lot of states, but neither which they g c as its own territory, and it says it will not move out use of course one day to be reminded again with the name for the difference between a you that 4th in beijing and just a short time ago by president. she sat down with a president, putin in the kremlin. they met for the 1st time after several years. and this is what they have to say. you've seen him to change your mation the 10 years ago when i was 1st elected as president of china and you are the 1st country i visited you

all you also mentioned, i remember very well he just had as the, the, if it happened. yes, the day from ha golden, china values the friendship, one tree in china and russia. these houses, historical logic. because that we are neighbors, we are also due to a larger countries. we are also known as fatigue ponderosa being more such, such a position yet a determines that over you have very, very close relationship or one solutions to rosena. yes, it is quite symbolic that it's exactly 10 years ago when we 1st met it was your 1st visit's as the chairman of the chinese people's republic and rush, hampton. since then, we'll have taken a very significant measure setting from in our corporation. we have more than doubled our trait turnover, grab a lot of common targets missoula. i know that all our chinese friends who she is.

i'm very keen on developing rush china relationships on the phone. you have a well balanced stance on that wide range of relevant international challenges, much than we have of considered your proposals for settlements of the green crisis course. we will have an opportunity to discuss this. but do you still with me though russia has opened a criminal investigation into the international criminal court, prosecutor and judges. the move comes 3 days after the court issued a warrant for the rest of president vladimir putin. and i was for the alleged deportation of children from ukraine to russia. russia's investigative committee call the warrant, a deliberate attack on an innocent person. and the u. k. and the netherlands are hosting and international conference to shorts for all the i. c. c. britain's justice. secondly, dominic, rob said that the court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for putin was a historic moment. it sends

a much stronger and more far reaching message right around the world to desperate some dictators everywhere that they will be brought to justice. but they will be held to account and as we come together today, i hope and i believe it serves to underlying the importance of ensuring that the i c c. as every support for the crucial work that it is doing the window of opportunity to beat climate change is rapidly closing. extreme weather events will only get worse unless the world acts now to secure a livable future for all the star predictions outline to the un report is expected to shape climate policy in the years to come to our environment editor nick clark has mall in every country. on every continent, the climate emergency is taking hold. this is malawi, hundreds dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, the cause, a record breaking cycling on the other side of the world in argentina, endless brutal,

heat compounding and droughts with farmers facing losses estimated at $14000000000.00. so now we have this latest call to arms from the united nations with what should become the fundamental policy document for shaping climate action . it is the distillation of years of work by hundreds of scientists. and these are the key points in the past decade that had been 15 times more deaths from droughts, floods, and storms, and more vulnerable regions, carbon emissions, they need to drop and rapidly. in fact, they need to cut by almost half in just 7 years. if global warming is to be limited to one and a half degrees celsius baths a rapid and far reaching transition could pull us back from the brink and to help do that, developed countries need to stump up hundreds of billions of dollars every year to vulnerable nations something they've so far failed to do whether or not swelled lead as were that is another matter. it's not as if they weren't warnings long ago

. this was for men, nasa, climate scientists, james hanson way back in 1988 altogether. this evidence represents a very strong case in my opinion that the greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now. well, as we now know, the well didn't listen 35 years on fossil fuel emissions continue to increase along with colossal profits for the oil, johns, and temperatures. as of course, they're going up to a now say the experts once and for all we need to act before that window of opportunity slam shut. the french government is facing 2 motions of no confidence over president manuel that calls controversial pension reform bill. protests had been held every night since the bill was announced 4 days ago. it would raise the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00. opposition has stiffened since the government evoked a constitutional power to allow it to pass without a vote in the national assembly. let's get more this fantastic butler who's at the

national assembly in paris and the government faces those to know confidence votes . what's the timeline in terms of when it happens and what we can expect? or just in a few hours, we will know whether or not the french government has survived, not one to no confidence. here in the parliament. now, they've been tabled by 2 parliamentary group. we seem to have lost her natasha's sound. thou as we'll slack technical problem, we'll try and catch up with her at later in the program. still ahead here on al jazeera, more must protest in south africa or against rolling power cuts, corruption, and unemployment. ah, the

hello. there was that in south asia and things are looking a lot more settled and they were over the weekend. we had some fears, thunderstorms breaking out across parts of india with some flooding in chennai will showers, do remain behind much of the wet weather has gathered up in the north. we are expecting a thunderstorm or 2 in new delhi over the next few days before. before things start to clear up, the wet weather skirts towards the north east, bangladesh seemed some heavy. falls rain as well from the pool. come and do see no showers through the week. we are like to see more snow on the mountains, but for the west coast of india, a much clearer picture. there'll be more in the way of rain coming into pakistan over the next few days. and rain is on the cars with central parts of china. we've got that system pumping. those heavy down pools across eastern eastern areas into shanghai. and the rain will intensify the southern areas of japan over the next few days. we have a key a few days before that wet weather comes in. we will see some of that coming into

tokyo, but still the temperature remaining relatively high at 18 degrees celsius on tuesday . so some of the story for northern areas of china, clear skies and sunshine coming through the cloud for beijing. 19 degrees celsius. 17 degrees celsius in shanghai. but it's so that'll see the sunshine. ah, with talk to al jazeera, we ask, who is really fighting? is russia visit wagner, or is it the russian or military? we listen, we started talking to me on my own, so that this via yours who does it, is sure to come back. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matters on al jazeera. here are some of the media stories. a critical look at the global news media spread on al jazeera government shut off access to social media. lou

ah, we'll go back to what sheila deservedly. so robin reminds me of all the top stories showing as present. she shipping has met with russian president vladimir putin in moscow. she has called for close relations with russia. pigeon says he views china's proposal for a resolution of the ukraine conflict with respect view at his warning that the window of opportunity to beat climate change is rapidly closing. and you reports as extreme weather events will get was to lead the world acts now to secure a livable future for all in kenya, police and the capital nairobi. her 5, tig set demonstrated protesting against the rising cost of living and fuel

shortages. some of the crowd are throwing rocks at the police more than 20 people have been arrested. including 2 opposition. m p. 's opposition. neither i loading it now or the last last year's presidential election to william retail. and he's cool for kenyans to come on to the streets and those despite the ban on demonstration, catherine. so he has more from nairobi. security is very tight in and around the city. we are an opposition area. obviously we're seeing a lot of security forces here. people are not allowed to move outside of this area. we have seen t. gus that has been deployed, young men are throwing stones, the police, and now the end game of the protest is to go to the city center to go to the president's office and state how to lay that demand. what they're saying is that they're very frustrated by the whole of leaving inflation is very high. you talk

about taxes, place us, a president, had said we will see some change in 90 days. basic commodities will go down, but we are protesting because life has become so difficult. so i was, the president said no to subsidies like mayflower and fuel when the former president, who kenyatta was helping with that these products have been caused by rile. oh, dear god, the opposition needs and he said that you will keep the pressure on until the government yield. and we have been talking to a lot of people who is saying that they are very frustrated. they are angry and you can see i'm from their tone and you're all going and say that one of the things is that they see a very low tech government that even carrying all these expenses. yet, on the other hand, the government thing it doesn't have money,

highest possible. it doesn't make sense to them. so that the thing that they are going to keep on and feel that demand is met. one of south africa, the opposition parties, the economic freedom fighters, as calling for a national shut down mass protest, it says it was the president to be removed and rolling out. so just to end, the party is warning businesses to close or risk being looted. security has been tysons at government buildings on the army has been deployed. private matter says the co founder of afro barometer and independent research network based in a crop joyce be now life landscape could help you with this a mattress on the program. now the protests on the surface, the same really or similar cost of living crisis increase in fuel prices and in some cases, no electricity, but the angst against the ruling parties and those respective countries is very different for the organizes of these protests. one thing we know

from our research is often important to distinguish between what the. ready organizers say, and claim, and what ordinary people, why they get involved, economic frustration clarity is one of one of those factors that we find in our data. why people tell us that they've been involved in protests where one of our general questions we ask every round of surveys every 2 years across africa. have you participated in a protest rally and the people who tell us these things actually aren't far from this kind of image of trust, of an act of frustration and desperation. these people are often ordinary people, are the people who already belonged to community groups. they're engaged in politics and they're not necessarily of course to the poor. oftentimes there are people who cedar upward mobility. ready being dash, and that's one of them, the big i think, reasons why protest has become such a call on an african. the last kind of 15 years is that you've had to go to africa

and just build a little middle class. but. busy a lot of people feel comes, have been stagnant, so the growing inequality. busy and the vision and the visible inequality between those 2 people often mean the serving gosh, them can, progress becomes a scene is just a normal part of the process. so people do protests, the family didn't look at the protests. i mean, for example, in south africa seems to be very much on the division of what the ruling party, the a c professor has to be able to deliver to the public. and yet in recent weeks, we've seen legal cases against the president over what is described as far gage, a theft from his saw missing cash. and what happened to it and why it happened yet over in kenya, where just months after you might say a disputed election of a co selection. that is still rule for many people. but people still want to come

out onto, onto the streets, to you might say exempt, exemplify the frustration. why is it so important for them to come out onto the street and not anywhere else? or ours. our surveys also show that it is high across to africa, usually about $1.00 to $10.00 people tell us to be part of the photos event in previous months. but those numbers are considerably higher in kenya, and especially in south africa. but again, i think it's important not necessarily to take the organizers like the best claims of base value that people are participating. it might be to peter of intimidation. in this situation, the economic free of writers have been very clever. tomorrow it's human rights day and south africa it's going to be a holiday. so lots of people are already going to be taking the day off schools. we're closing anyway simply to have a long weekend so. ready so there's some strategic value and, and calling and stay away today and be able to saying that all the,

all the. ready closures are due to them rather than other things that we're going to happen anyways. and how important does it to, for governments and full authorities to be very clear in their messaging about what the direction is of governments and what they aim to provide. in fact, what they don't mean is messaging an issue or i think it's south africa become very of the of the amc simply has lost the ability to rejected, consistent credible imaging its own ability to handle. ready most pressing issues, especially now with electricity you're getting very contradictory messages out of different parts of the government, different parts of the state. in some respects, the amc itself was calling for protests against his own government. so the present around father really needs to worry about the image of just growing this organization and, and amongst his fall are all are amongst the government. the ability to. ready his

altogether to tell people that things are going to get better in the future. we'll just see what happens for that matter. thanks so much for joining us from glasgow. like if you a little bas risk for switzerland. that's how the leader of the 2nd biggest party in parliament has described the takeovers credit suisse by main rival g b. s. the commons came at the end of a tense weekend as bankers regulators and government officials struggled to save the swiss lender. well, credit suisse managers around $1.00 trillion dollars around the world. its profits dropped significantly in 2022, falling nearly $8000000000.00 after leasing to believe in 2021. credit suisse shares have been in sharp declines in 2021. they've not last more than 95 percent of the value in the past 5 years. investors took their money elsewhere last week and the banks, the shareholder refused off a financial help. after that, it's even a $54000000000.00 lifeline from the swiss central bank. couldn't stem pessimism

that left the buyout solution was cbs acquires credit suisse. it'll have access to more than 5 trillion dollars in assets. the bankruptcy of a global, systematically important bank would have cross irreparable economic term oil in switzerland and throughout the world. for this reason, switzerland had to take the responsibilities beyond its own borders. these efforts have paid off. the federal council is convinced that u. b. s. take cover of credits with has laid the foundation for greater stability, both in switzerland and internationally. chris roy back has a bank leadership x that explains what the merger means with and international customers. obviously you vs credit suisse. they have investment banking arms across the world, wealth management for ultra reach individuals across the world asset management across the world. so in, in those areas there isn't

a monopoly because there are other banks like goldman sachs, morgan stanley, barclays, hsbc, certainly for the swiss, there is an issue about, you know, there will be one major bank on the high street that said switzerland has a significant number of smaller local banks do provide perhaps much more than many other countries, a significant local service. so for your average swiss person who wants a current account just to keep their personal finances running there well covered in the high street. but for customers that want to take on more banking services, around asset management, potential investment banking and private banking. then yes, there is a question and the switch government need to think about that. but certainly from the perspective, all employees in credit suisse, ah, there is a problem because there is fundamental duplication. the thousands of farmers from

across india march to parliament, demanding financial assistance from the government. of the missile was more from new tele oh thank by indian pharma how you have a. a nissan from across the country, the most important demand is the one element. again, i do want to go to an investment in want no, we leave a number, but the sub keys on bank was the only aware 90 percent of farmers have bank loans. we're really struggling just 3 days ago rinse destroyed my fields. we are not educated enough to pursue insurance companies along education on the out.