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to bring about in to the warn you crying. ah, i'm told mccrae this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up. israel's finance minister draws condemnation out to comments that there is no such thing as a palestinian sri lanka welcomes a $3000000000.00 bail out from the i. m. if to help rescue it's crumbling economy and 20 years on from the invasion of iraq, we assess the impact of the us as decision to disband the countries army. ah, the leaders of russia and china say, responsible dialogue as to why out of the war and ukraine shooting penguins. vladimir putin signed a joint statement up to talks and moscow,

but cave and the west say any pace agreement must include a russian withdrawal from ukraine's territory. ha shamella barrow reports. oh. 2 they say it's an alliance without limits. china and russia are expanding trade and diplomatic corporation. the 2 countries insist their relations are far from being a military and political alliance. but she jumping and redeemer, put in, share a growing concern of what they perceive to be an american dominance across the globe for the chinese leader has secured an unprecedented 3rd term earlier this month. this trip could be the moment to establish his country as an international peacemaker. there her worship gowns under. we shall always respect and abide by the un charter. we will always promote peace and also promote negotiation and

discussion. our stance is always based on fairness and justice. we will always be on the side of peace and we are always on the side of dialogue. we are always on the side of stark venus and justice literally republic you see, but ending war in ukraine who may not be an easy task. china is yet to elaborate on it's 12 point piece plan urge. tim beijing has called on russia and ukraine to address their security concerns without mentioning russian troops withdrawl, it's a key demand for keith. the u. s. has dismissed the peace plan as a stalling tactic. in the mean time, western nations are stepping up military assistance to ukraine. luis didn't glowing ministers for our per day. we learned that the minister of defense of the u. k declared, he would supply tanks to the ukraine, and also you rainy him in rich weapons to ukraine. i think that the west will now fight russia to the last ukranian chief facing growing international isolation.

ladiva put in is turning to president. g. jumping and allies largely shaved, following russian invasion of ukraine last year. after the e, you imposed a ban on russian energy import. china stepped in, buying large quantities of tea russian oil provide in cash strapped moscow with much needed revenue. the u. s. considers china the biggest threat to its national security and fears. bay g could be exploiting, rush as in battle, standing to expand its geo political influence. hush about obama. al jazeera journalist, julia ship hovel over, has more from moscow. the visit all the chinese present to russia called the cage wavering, tries, according to analysts, is largely due to beijing, south nomination for the role of pacemaker in ukraine. patients arose that the key

or resolving the company could be found during shooting pains. talk with russian president vladimir putin followed by possible talk with ukrainian leads, volunteers the landscape. if china makes a little progress on the issue of a peaceful settlement. and this will be a great victory for all, for ukraine, russia and chinese diplomacy in the hands, the russians and the son. how influential the chinese economy is, and how it's affecting the everyday life. and the influence continues to grow so many on how to go into play out in the future, according to present in the country should multiply the bullying trade as so many off the going to happen after the visit. will china help russia if a function were russian bonds they allowed in the chinese payment system? so as the visit continues, it's believes at least some of those questions will be answered. us national security council spokesman john kirby says,

the way for the quarter end is for russian troops to leave ukraine on ukraine. i would note that the 2 sides just said, call the purposes and principles of the un charter must be observed. an international law must be respected. well, we agree following the un charter would mean that russia should withdraw from all the territory inside ukraine. the territory of another member state of the u. n. a member that it has invaded. which pens prime minister from yoke is shita has made an unannounced visit to ukraine. it's the 1st time since the 2nd world war, a japanese prime minister has visited the country during a conflict. cash sheet amid president followed me zalinski and keith and assured him of japan's continued support. earlier, he visited the town of butcher, where more than 400 civilians were said to have been killed by russian forces last year. russia,

a russian invasion of ukraine is an aggression that shakes the foundation of international order, which i strongly feel after i visited cave and boots at a day where i saw the tragedy of the russian invasion with my own eyes. russia says it will be forced to react if the u. k. supplies you crime with armor piercing ammunition containing depleted uranium. president vladimir putin accused the west of deploying weapons with a nuclear component. but the u. k. has had back accusing putin of deliberate disinformation. stephanie decker has more from cave. moscow is always made it very clear that there against the increase of weaponry being sent from the west. remember, this is a conflict, not just between russia and ukraine. this is a geo political ah chess board, if you will, is one of our political unless called it recently. you have many different countries involved supplying ukraine with different types of weapons. a stepping it up recently. of course, all the talk ahead of a potential spring offensive by the ukranian army trying to push russia back and

recently, just yesterday in a written statement, the u. k. defense minister admitting that part of the challenge are 2 tanks that the u. k. will be sending at some point here to keep are going to be including armor piercing ammunition that includes depleted uranium. so this is something that vladimir putin picked up on. something that says, our lab rav picked up on earlier today called calling it against mediterranean law . vladimir putin saying that if the west, the collective west as equals, it is going to use weapons with a nuclear capability. they're going to have to go all the way israel's parliament has repealed a 2005 lord benning settlers from living in parts of the occupied wis. bank a paved the way for settlers to return to a number of areas near the city of nobliss. they were abandoned under that law introduced during israel's withdrawal from garza and the prime minister ariel sharon. the us state department says it's extremely troubled by the move. we've

been clear that advancing settlement is an obstacle to peace and an obstacle to achieving his duty solution. and that certainly the what this legislation would do would be create new settlements or buildings and legalize outposts. all of this one would further insight tensions and put a negotiated to state solution. i'm further away the u. s. has criticized israel's finance minister for denying the existence of palestinians cooling his remarks. dangerous and offensive. at a conference in paris this week busily small trick described palestinians as an invention. oh there's no such thing as a palestinian. there's no such thing as a palestinian people. do you know who's palestinian? i am palestinian. ah ah my late

grandfather whose 13th generation at jerusalem night is the true palestinian. ah, ah, the palestinian people on invention that is less than a 100 years old. the use foreign policy chief address a barrel is urging israel to reject that statement, while the palestinian prime minister called the comments an incitement to violence in not possibly had looked the ad labial was utilized lately. the statement made by the israeli minister, smart rick saying that there was no palestinian people and that it was invented in the last 100 years is conclusive evidence of the extremist racist zionist ideology that governs the parties of the current israeli government. no, no, levine, i'll play merrily. philos theme is maha. we are the ones who gave palestine his name and the land. it's value and status. this land is ours. and israel is a colonial state established by the colonialists and settlers. and it expanded like any settler colonialism, mrs. m. ron con has more from west jerusalem the far right in israel. i've always

said this type of thing. it goes back to go to my ear or the as rarely prime minister in 1969. she said she used to say that there was no such thing as the policies this, despite the fact that the 1st recorded use of the term palestine was 3200 years ago during the bronze age and the land between the jordan river and the mediterranean sea has always been referred to as a palestine all the way up until the establishment of the state of israel, in 1948. if that hadn't happened, it still be called palestine. but the far, i have always said that there has been no state of palestine, and that's partly true because of the occupations that the land has actually been under much recently by the british in 1948. so these comments are inflammatory, they're designed to really erotic tensions, but they're also designed to play to smart reaches base, which completely agrees with the kinds of things he say. and now benjamin netanyahu

through a tweet, her said, now is not the time to go to the u. s. meet with prison bio. so he's actually on the back foot. now he's trying to defend his decision not to visit, but the simple fact of the matter is, according to the state department officials, is that there simply isn't the invite there. a magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck northern afghanistan and parts of pakistan killing a live and people. the epicenter was in the hindu kush mountain range near the remote northern afghan province of but action. it had a depth of 194 kilometers in pakistan's, khyber park don't quote province. the wall of a house collapsed, killing a child in cabal. some people spent the night outdoors after the earthquake. the tremor was felt as far away as india's capital, knew deli floods worsening the plight of thousands of displaced people in northwest syria, opposition groups. a heavy rains have damaged houses and roads. people have taken refuge in towns and schools. many were left homeless by earthquakes. last month,

the repealing for humanitarian assistance. but he used foreign policy chief, has warned that tennessee could be at risk of economic and social collapse. joseph burrell, it says the situation is dangerous and could lead to new flows of migrants to europe, tennessee. it has been through years of economic and political upheaval since its revolution and 2011 is foreign ministry dismissed barrels. comments as overblown which shall anchor will receive an almost $3000000000.00 bail out from the international monetary fund over the next 4 years. as part of efforts to rescue its better economy, president frontal were chromos thing. i said his country was no longer a bankrupt nation. in l fernandez reports from colombo, the government celebrate securing a $3000000000.00 loan for leads national monetary fund. that mostly luncheons are battling to make ends meet foreign currency reserves, fiscal management,

dead sustainability mean little to many people struggling to put food on the table . then they said our enemy, unlike before it is very difficult and we find it difficult to go on. these are so difficult now. i really think that the cost of food is really got up. i don't know what's going to happen in the future. we suddenly given the money we invest, we can't get a proper return. it was different before but making a profit is very difficult. a series of bombings in 2019 and the pandemic, coupled with economic mismanagement corruption and unsustainable debt at bushland. going to its worst economic crisis since independence. in 1948. after months of negotiation, the government finally secured a full year loan from the international monetary fund and trash will be made available sooner in the next 2 days or so. and

so going forward, disbursements will be tied to reviews that take place every 6 months. the loan comes at a price with the government forced to impose a major austerity drive to secure it. this includes taxing more people and introducing higher tax rates. the price of electricity and water have risen and fuel costs almost 3 times as much as i did. 2 years ago. prison drawn, as the commissioner addressed the nation on tuesday, it automatically beaming approving the learner. so supplies that's real anchor has the ability to restructure dance and will no longer be considered a bankrupt countryman, by what we can resume normal transactions and remove import restriction. as a foreign currency situation improves, creaking down on corruption and improving fiscal management is a major part of the program and central to the reform. the i m f has insisted on important importance to improve the fiscal institutions in particular public

financial management, which is to improve how the public money is end either from tax revenues or financing from ah, lenders like us. but some have questioned how effective the program will be. i am. if programs are often designed to treat the symptoms of the problem and not the cause and more than ever, i think it is clear to the i m f and everyone else that 3 long cause fundamental problem is in governance and in corruption. ah, this program as it's been published, fails to engage backed causal issues in the country. the i am if bailout will provide much needed funds to allow shanker to buy essential goods and help struggling businesses. but analysts see much still needs to be done to allow she longer to begin to recover. minute fernandez, o 0,

colombo. the still ahead on l g here as the u. s. banking sector appears to stabilize. we look at the mixed signals coming from the world's largest economy. and how the world's most famous mime artist is inspiring a new generation of performers. 100 years after he was born. ah. hello we had some lovely warm spring sunshine across eastern parts of the u. s. at the moment. well, the clear skies nice area of high pressure keeping it settled actually has got to start to stare. these weather systems are the pushing in into the plays, pushing up towards the far northeast and steer them around that area of high pression. yeah, there's another one now in the process of making his way towards california. so

we've had recent spells of heavy rain and some snow over the mountains over the sierra nevada. gonna see more of that as we go on through wet and stay as we go on in to where thursday, that'll just push its way. a little further, reese was not quite as heavy on the rain in the snow for california. they stayed wet weather more disturbed weather and some snow up towards the pacific northwest in the western parts of canada lie the shower. so just around the central place is pushing up anywhere from a route eastern texas. our castle ride up to was a higher through pennsylvania into new england. as slipping, further east was, remember we have got that area of high pressure temperature fall back in d. c. from route 24 to ran 18 celsius. still warm enough as we go on into friday. big down. pause right across the place with possibility of your tornado. as for the car, been not bad at all. just wanted to shout penny sunshine. ah . the when the news breaks, some buildings that had already been damaged,

have been further pushed over to one side. others that were close to collapse when people need to be heard. and the story told, i couldn't tell them that i was a musician when i was supposed to be burned with exclusive interviews and even death to poor. each centimeter of this stump represents a year of life. al jazeera has teens on the ground tip when you, when document trees and lives. lou ah, you watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the south, the presidents of russia and china, calling for responsible dialogue to wind the warn you crying. choosing pagan,

vladimir putin help talks and moscow hooton's had chinese proposals, could be used as the basis of a peace settlement. which pens prime minister from yoke is shita has made an unannounced visit to you cried the joint press conference with president zalinski casita condemned russia invasion as an aggression that shakes the foundation of international order. the u. s. has criticized israel's finance minister for denying the existence of palestinians calling his remarks dangerous and offensive vessels. small trick described palestinians as an invention of the past century. a devon report by an independent member of the u. k. parliament has found london's metropolitan police force to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic house of lords member lewis. casey has called the comprehensive reform harry faucet reports. luis casey's report is comprehensive,

and damming the metropolitan police is. she says institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic it needs wholesale reform. the scale of the problems laid bare shocking even to those who seen some of them 1st hand devastating in terms of both of your, such and such. and the base system and homophobia within policing office is trying to make changes in placing it just seems that nothing has changed. some of the most searing testimony comes from members of the force, talking of discrimination against women. i have witnessed senior officers and supervisors prey on females like predators. there was a culture of hit lists, targets and trying to asleep with female officers and staff against seeks. one officer had his beard cut because an officer thought it was funny against muslims. i found bacon left in my boots inside my locked locker. at generates the whole

series of emotions, of anger, frustration, embarrassment. it generates some pride as well as my son, old men and women who care about placing of london have given most the evidence from that report to louise casey taken as a whole. this report is entirely condemning of this organization. it says the metropolitan police has lost public support and consent needs to wake up and engage in comprehensive wholesale reform. the report stems from the outrage off the rape and murder. sarah evarado by serving, met officer wayne cousins, and it finds major deficiencies in handling an investigation of rape cases something kashmir, owen whose waved her right to anonymity recognises from her own experience with a detective after reporting rake. he would frequently shalt at me, he called me a lawyer and then he eventually said to me that he didn't want me contacting him unless this person showed up at my house. and then he corrected himself and said,

no, not just showed up at your house unless they are breaking all your limbs, then you can call me the metropolitan police told us the incident was investigated . and one officer instructed to undertake reflective practice. louise casey says public trust in policing in london is broken and the to rebuild it the entire force, not just its leadership needs to be accountable and improve frontline policing, hurry force it al, jazeera, london or 2 deer heads on many iraqis. the still criticizing the united states for inviting the country without a plan. among what they say were failures was the decision to disband the iraqi army. a lot has changed, including the emergence of new threats. a warning as our been jobs report from baghdad contains disturbing images in a battle of iraq. the united states and our allies have prevailed. the iraqi army essentially was dissolved either they were killed or they've gone back

a back to their homes. one of the 1st decisions the youth lead force is made after invading europe was to defend the country military, which used to be one of the largest in the middle east. 20 years later, the country is still dealing with the repercussions. one former commander of the re, constituted forces, believe law, it was a calculated move. as for carol, a leader, it was the worst decision. it led to the destruction of a rock. we are paying its price until now. i think the decision was deliberate. a lack of force is enabled months of robbery. the rashid military camp was the biggest in the middle east. and there was an estimate of theft of 8 to 10000000 weapons, such as the one that by my products either were formed in part of if you escalate coalition forces and demanded their withdrawal. sectarian fighting between cheers. anthony's was one of the results. it killed tens of thousands of people, the chaos lead to the rise of armed groups such as either an idol and the newly

formed army fled when i sell fighters took mosul, iraq, 2nd city, only to later unify which here malicious at the forefront to liberate almost 40 percent of the country now took on iraq. are they ever been? was toa one of the biggest problems was the relation between security forces and citizens. now iraqi security forces sol, loyalty is for iraq and the military enterprise, regardless of their sectarian ethnic or tribal affiliations, is an international coalition, comprising more than 80 nations, has helped iraq to rebuild its armed forces and counter threats from armed groups. the international coalition, which came together to fight against i, phil has taken a much smaller advisory role now as rocky, ford within their confident that they can defend their own homeland. but questions remain about the powerful, malicious and sectarian forces. 20 years on the threat have evolved. don't check in without any doubt. the biggest challenge in iraq,

his drugs were trying to eradicate the rising drug trade. then this a challenge of electronic, unorganized crime. terrorism now comes 3rd or 4th, after the development of our security forces on the retreat of the terrorist groups . or what in battery threats have changed and the forces protecting iraq have been rebuilt. but many people here say they still don't feel completely safe from a job with other viero. baghdad. stalks on wall street have climbed after the risk you're of credit suisse come to nerves about a big banking crisis. here his treasury secretary, janet yellen says the local financial sector is stabilizing after it was put to the taste by the collapse of 2 banks this month. but as gabriel elizondo reports from new york, the world's largest economy is still facing some strong headwinds. the u. s. economy is certainly giving off a lot of mixed signals, right now. on one hand, there's a banking crisis that has the markets teetering,

but there's also some positive signs as well. i spoke to maxwell and economists to your new york city to try to make sense of it. all. most americans are nervous, some are really suffering and no one really knows exactly what's going on. inflation was a big deal last year where it reached over 9 percent in june, in response to federal reserve raised interest rates. and it did the job, bringing inflation down to about 6 percent where it is today. but that still high, because most economists say the target is around one to 2 percent. inflation will be less of a problem going forward. but we have a lot of instability risk around the global supply chain and around the conflict in russia and ukraine. higher interest rates might have health, low inflation, but it's also had a negative effect on the housing market. that's because interest rates during the

pandemic, we're down to historic lows of about 2 percent. today. they're up to about 7 percent. but i think the housing markets best days for a while, are probably in the rear view mirror, not the windshield and americans are working. the us added over 5 100000 jobs just in january and over 300000. in february, the unemployment rate of 3.4 percent was the lowest since 1969. and since americans are working, they're also spending money at a record pace as well. so what are we to make of all these conflicting signs of his economy? every time we see a piece of data, we have to try to figure out if this is the new normal usual, or abnormal. that's usually how we look at things. nick and alex is us the beginning of something new, the end of something all or something. we haven't seen before, the confounding u. s. economy certainly giving of mixed signals everywhere. protestors have set off

flayson fireworks and paris as demonstrations against france as pension reforms continued thousands rarely than the french capital a day before president a menu or mac, ron was to to give a televised interview, he's expected to defend his goal of raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, fans of renowned my martin marcel marceau had marked 100 years since his birth and france. marceau was inspired by the silent actor charlie chaplin. he performed around the world sometimes more than $300.00 shows a year. natasha battle reports from paris. michael jackson was one of marcel marceau, his most famous fans. the french my martin spied the pop stars trademark moon walk, dance. ma, so was influenced by charlie chaplin. he crated a carrot to co bip, who could make people laugh or cry with gestures that told stories often better

than words, a talent that appeal to people of all generations. but it is very important to see that made public his think 50 years of career. and if you are the youngest generation, hm. for his sale, feeding them their parents or even grandparents when they came to see the show. father, he worked his muscles assistant in his later years. she says he lit up the stage. she wants to create a museum at france, dedicated to his memory and to mine le fox should hermetic coke. there is a dramatic and comic force in when men were coming by the near times. when said that marcell marceau as to theatre were charles. the chaplain was to cinema. in him . muscle was born into a jewish family in eastern france in 1923. during world war 2, his father was killed in a german concentration camp muscle joined the french resistance a painful past that helps shape his work and career which continues.