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ah, the world is on a dangerous path towards what the united nations is calling a looming water crisis or the consumption pollution and climate change a combining to create dangerous conditions for humanity. that is the message from the 1st conference on water and sanitation in 45 years being held in new york. it says more than $2000000000.00 people don't have enough water for at least one month a year. 26 percent of the world's population doesn't have safe drinking water. nearly half of them don't have adequate sanitation. that you end up wanting war shortages will get worse in the coming decades, especially in cities. unless there's better international cooperation and diplomatic editor james base begins our coverage from the un headquarters in new york. this is the 1st conference of its type for more than 40 years. some presidents, prime ministers, as well as many ministers from all around the world have gathered here in new york

. they know the problem is very serious. the estimates suggest that water demand in urban areas around the world is likely to increase quite 80 percent. by the year 2050. i been speaking to the foreign minister of bangladesh, about the challenges his country faces regarding water is really important, proven, but this because really the weather in country, we will eat and improve to 7 rivers, criss crossing the country. in addition, we in the p, bob, the bel, been all and the in the emotion into specific region. what is our life every day life and their poor album laid to the had been lot of abuse or water and waters. so the ocean, so great reserve for it on the carbon emissions, the global warming. and nowadays since will abuse in water. and i, the chemical plastic as the dissolved the global warming is, these absorber is not absorbing as much this. and we want to save this planet act,

and one way to save the splendor, besides and dest equity been, this is also to upkeep the waters. and therefore, this conference is really very important to my dish. in addition, we also have many diverse which comes from other countries, $57.00, the bus comes from other countries and we have to develop it. program policy said that all the people of dipped in the line and cashman should be benefit. so what needs to come out of this conference to make it a 6? i think we need to look forward to universal code of conduct in utilizing the what are the sources maintaining the water and also you must protect and preserve the water, the cross donations. it tells us the good news that so many countries are talking about water and talking about cooperating on its use privately. though diplomats

will tell you that all the commitments that come out of this week's conference will be voluntary and there will be no final binding agreement. james bays al jazeera at the united nations. we even countries with huge water reserves like columbia dealing with shortages and the last 2 decades axis has been declining because it's climate change in population calls out of the or heard from one woman living in a poor neighborhood and bulletin with supplies of scares. he has her story in her own words. i mean, i'm going to do on our lindsay. my name is joanna valencia. i'm 28 years old. i live in the to be no new neighborhood in the fact of quarter miss. that was what i read with my 3 kids 4 years ago, displeased by the violence in the chuckle region. when you said, wow, but i said, she's the 1st day we never had access to water for a house was cause personal hygiene, cleanings. it's very complicated. kind of the parts of the neighborhood receive

water leak at night times every 3 or 4 days. i depend on the good heart of neighbors that share some of the water with me. well, the own. okay. me though? no. i don't really. i am working as a security guard. there are days that i don't bring any food at work because i have no water to cook it and i work tomorrow, but my uniform is dirty because i haven't been able to wash it the same with my kids. school uniform, their shoes. i have loads of dirty dishes because i haven't been able to wash them either. them again i, i hope to be able to buy a big tank or find an organization that could help us get on the menu of the money for a given that this country. so rich in water. it's kind of the logic that we're living in a neighborhood where access to walk through the main issue. but when i get to where i would episode, i think we have a right to watch or because water is life. we never mentioned one and 4 people,

that's 2000000000 worldwide. don't have access to safe drinking water. $1400000.00 people die annually of the disease is related to poor sanitation and hygiene in low income areas around venezuela's capital. could some say they haven't had tap water for decades. they buy. salvi has more life in one of the world's largest oil producing nations. venezuelan say shouldn't be this difficult and access to a basic human right should be easy. i guess they will, they must they to just 2 or 2 and a half dollars for water. it's too much. we can't do it anymore because nobody can put up with that. sometimes the guys have brought us water from the well and sell it cheaper, more than 20 years. we haven't know what it's like to have tap water. no running water has long been a luxury in the sprawling low income neighborhoods around caracas. a state owned company is in charge of supplying water practically free of charge,

but it is unable to keep up with rising demand on some residents. a pottery venezuela's largest villa benefit from a nearby well where they can collect groundwater. others siphoned tap water from broken pipes or any mo got lucky we come here to get drinking water every 2 weeks. the use of the house i have to fish and carry every day because we only have running water sometimes once a week. and for 2 hours or an hour and a half if that otherwise we don't have water shrinking wages and rising prices make access to water more difficult. even informal traders are increasing prices for jugs and tanker water. but these sources are still preferable because they are more reliable than the state for access to the most essential resource for life is in basra, v o g 0. let's get more on this where joy nie by rich had corner. he's the editor

in chief of the united nations world water development report, and he's joining us from the u. n. and new york. very good to have you with us on al jazeera, we've been going over the numbers of people who don't have constant access to safe water and sanitation and absolutely alarming. if we're going to achieve the sustainable development goal of water and sanitation for all by 2031 would hope so. but if we, if we manage to do it, it's because we will, but on not more effort, then, then we have been putting so far towards water and sanitation. i've been listening to attentively to the, the last stories we've been his way in the columbia and bangladesh. and these are places where it's not a question of water, truly physical water scarcity. what we're talking about there is economic water scarcity, the water is there, the resources are there,

but they're not getting to the people that really need it. and certainly not in an affordable way. so that's the number one place in terms of making a difference in people's lives where we really have to focus our attention. and so, as well as focusing the attention, there's also been talk that, you know, countries have to quadruple their efforts to be able to ensure safe water and sanitation for or what else needs to happen to achieve that goal. well the just the quadrupling the efforts it didn't of itself is, is a very tall order. it's the question it's, it's a lot of talk about investment and indeed investment in water for annotation has to increase. but it's not just in terms of investing in pipes and treatment plans and then so in infrastructure, what's really missing is capacity so that, you know,

the municipalities themselves have the expertise, not only to build but to actually operate these systems and provide the level of services that people require to meet even the most basic needs which are which is the human rights to water and sanitation. and what you're mentioning, it sounds like, you know, those things are more applicable to lower income countries. whereas the risks related to water quality. i mean, there's just as many risks i was quite surprised to read with in relation to water quality in low income countries as they're in higher income countries to well, that's true. in low income countries, the, the number one cause of water pollution is untreated wastewater, 80 percent of the world's waste water is released to the environment without any

treatment at all. and in a lot of developing countries, it's 99 percent. it's pretty much everything. but in developed countries, the water pollution is caused by agricultural runoff. so these are in efficient irrigation systems that use more water than they should. and the agricultural run all is filled with nitrogen, basically nutrients or fertilizers, herbicides pesticides. and so even in developed countries, there's a lot of efforts that need to be done to rittenhouse pollution and thus protect the resource. yeah, i mean some of the issues that you just mentioned about higher income countries. i know they're very applicable to, you know, where i'm from new zealand, where people have no idea that run off agricultural runoff is a huge problem in regards to water pollution. we've been covering this conference that is taking place on water that the united nations in new york,

where you are the 1st of its kind in 45 years how hopefully you, that it will be able to produce something concrete. given that, you know, there's no binding agreements expected and the commitments will be voluntary. well, it's a matter of opinion, of course, some internationally binding agreement would be fine, but how really useful would it be? it's really up to up to different countries, member states, to make sure that they, that the populations do receive the services that they deserve at an affordable price. and that the resource is well managed and protected as well. and so it's not really international laws or agreements that are going to protect the ecosystems and the, you know, the basic, the rivers, right? that's really at the national level. so hopefully this meant them created by this

meeting or this conference will actually push member states to, you know, a lot of them might have an environmental protective protection laws, but they're not necessarily enforcing them so. so the idea is to give it to put pressure on the members dates to adopt these laws, but also enforce them and make sure that that water is well managed and protected. alright, that is wretched corner. the editor in chief of the united nations world water development report. thank you so much for your time. we do appreciate it. thank you . elizabeth o. 2 other news now. police have 5 tick asset people protesting on the streets of bay route against lebanon's ongoing economic crisis. many of those demonstrating over time soldiers demanded living wage comes after the lebanese lira had

a record low last week. inflation has been skyrocketing since 2019 making essential daily purchases, increasingly unaffordable and problems for the banking sector have meant some struggle to access their own money. st holler is at the protests and they wrote year for of an economic collapse. the currency is now worthless. the devaluation started in late 2019, but in recent weeks there was a sharp evaluation. the central bank intervenes now and again to try to regulate the market by pumping billions of dollars. but many experts will say this is not solving the crisis. the li, ross value recovers at all and then it depreciates yes again. and what the central bank is using is a dwindling foreign currency reserves. money that belongs to the depositors who have been locked out of their accounts. in back there is anger. people believe that the political and business leads, if you can see many, here are public public sector servants. they believe that the political and

business the, they do not want to solve the crisis because solving the crisis will involve economic reforms, structural reforms fighting corruption. if the business and political elite do that, then they lose control over the states and its resources which they have been exploiting for years now. many believe the solution is with an i m f deal. but like i said, those in power are refusing to carry out the reforms necessary for that deal to be made. so the economy continues to collapse for years. and so this crisis, the politicians are, have done nothing to come up with their economic recovery plan. and in the interim, there's also political crisis. the country does not have a president or a government, a functioning government in order to carry out those reforms. so an economic and political crisis and no and insights to the u. k. now where the cost of living is

continuing to rise and inflation is growing faster than expected. consumer prices jumped 10.4 percent from february 2022 to february this year, food and drug costs and pumps and restaurants with the main drivers. hosting the highest increase in 46 years, the price increases could prompt the bank bank of england to raise interest rates on thursday. that's bringing that correspondence that in barbara, he's joining us live from london. so inflation accelerating unexpectedly, just a week after the finance minister said in his budget speech that it was coming down with him just how much of a surprise is this? elizabeth, there is a fair, there's a fair amount of surprise here are in the financial district. and as you were saying ahead of her 1st a sufficient by the bank of england here on whether to change interest rates, it was possibly predicted that they would actually hold them. given the recent a banking worries parts with this inflationary rise,

they may move again. they've already raised inflation 10 times since sir december trying to battle double digit inflation. and in the years of february, it's now 10.4 percent up from 10 point one percent in january. largely 3 things behind that 1st lead hospitality, restaurants and hotels. much of that arise in the cost of alcohol, then you've got food and drink the headline, figure that an 18 percent year on year rise. things like milk and eggs going up rapidly. so that's going to hit the lowest income households. hardest and then clothing and footwear, particularly childrens and women's clothing and footwear, again, a worry for those on the lowest incomes and term there. there has been a lot of speculation as well about what this will mean in terms of the, the ongoing industrial disputes that the government has been in with various

sectors, including health workers and teachers and the like, demanding that their pay be increased to account for this record inflation that we've seen in the last year. so a lot of a lot of factors depending on, on this figure. and so what's the political reaction be marble? yeah, well the yeah. chunks are the exchequer, thats britton's finance minister. jeremy hunt has reacted by saying that this should simply shows no one can take falling inflation for granted. now, on tuesday, he told parliament that the government virt, i'm sorry, double digit inflation, was a dangerously high place to be. but he still insisting that his government will have inflation by the end of 2020 twin, sorry, 2023. that's a big challenge. and he knows that it's not just

a problem for the handling of the economy, but politically as well. it's huge. the labor parts of the opposition labor party, through that shadow chancellor. rachel rees. however, said that this shows that nothing in britain is working better than it did or 13 years ago when the conservatives came to power. vis from the head of the trade union council pull no ac, saying families are still under massive pressure from the rising cost of living. with food prices rising, especially foss, but they got next to no help from last week's budget. well, energy prices are due to slow down or not certainly not keep going as fast as they rose last year. but the chancellor knows that there are a huge pressures honor households around the country and he may be pushed to do more in the near future. all right, let him. thank you very much for that. that is having barbara at live for as in london. and after a turbulent few weeks of financial news, li us investors,

i'm watching a decision from the federal reserve that's tonight's her on wednesday. it could raise rates to continue traveling inflation or it might cause, given the turbulent bank market is gabriel, is on their reports from new york. the world's largest economy is still facing some challenges the us 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 economist here in 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 reserved raised interest rates. and it did the job bringing inflation down to about 6 percent where it is today. but that's still high because

most economists say that 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 conflict in russia and ukraine. higher interest rates might have helped low inflation, but it's also had a negative effect on the housing market. that's because interest rates during the pad, dennis, we're down to historic lows of about 2 percent. today. they're up to about 7 percent. what 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 u. s. 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 why don't we make of all these conflicting signs on this 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 that can alex, is this the beginning of something new, the end of something old or something we haven't seen before? that confounding us economy. certainly giving off mixed signals everywhere. unions and brazil have marched in protest against high interest rates. ah, demonstrators want the current key rate of 13.75 percent to be lowered. they're also demanding that the head of the central bank steps down. president luis and osteo new to the silver has also called for a lower interest rate, arguing the current rate hurts economic recovery. but plenty more had amuse ala,

including an israeli law change clears the way for the return of more illegal settlements. the more than occupied westbank and schools. and now the deadline day in the contest to buy one of the world's most famous football clubs. ah, ukrainian officials say 4 people had been killed in russian drone strikes. and the key region, military sources say a civilian object was damaged and the attack ukrainian forces, so they shot down 16 of 21. iranian may, drones launched over night by russia. stephanie deca has the latest from keith, ukrainian military saying that 16 out of 21 drones were shot out of the sky over night air i'd sirens did sound the ukrainian president cooling at the cooling, the murderous drones and referring to the russian president vladimir putin saying

well, as he talks of peace, ah, the orders are given for these kinds of attacks. it's the 1st time certainly that there has been a hit on a residential building in the surrounding areas of the capitol. ah, since december ukrainian authorities say one person has been killed in a russian missile strike on residential buildings and supported sia, president followed him, incense key, zalinski rather condemned the attack at least 25 people were taken to hospital after 29 story buildings will hit and and crimea, russian officials say the navy has repelled drone attack on the savannah pole port . it comes 2 days after and exposure on the peninsula, destroyed russian muscles that according to ukraine's defense ministry. eulley, a shop of oliver has moved from moscow. the morning attempt to hit russian targets and crimea and 7 topple with 3 drones. all devices were destroyed by 2 women

offices, bows well received state awards. so this is the laces from survey showing good. the russian defense minister, basically the rest of information. we have on the semester latan comes curtsey over, got the notes, have us told me how you resume shives and he's telegram channel. so the truth try to get into the bay that's according to resume jive, russian. the russian sailors fire fired a small arms at them and there were no casualties, but some windows in into residential buildings were blown out. g, 2 explosions caused by destroy drains and after successfully repulsing the drone of taco, so let's topple the ukrainian knots is according to reservation. if again, his telegram channel, they launched an informational talk, but to crimea is save according to the governor. and if anything, basically anything dangerous of going to happen, that people will be informed by the authorities. and this is not the 1st recent

a talk by ukrainian trends in crimea, as we know not so long ago, a massive tried by several ukrainian. these was carried out in john coy on the crime in peninsula late monday evening. on march, the 20th chinese president, she's in thing has left moscow after 2 days of talks with president vladimir putin . the 2 leaders issued a joint statement on tuesday, according for responsible dialogue to end the war and ukraine, hooton's as beijing's proposals to end. the conflict could be used as the basis for a peace settlement. bought that key in the west, don't appear willing to result the conflict as katrina. you reports, it's likely that the chinese leader will be pleased with the meeting. she didn't ping has quite successfully. i think use this visit as a platform to promote china's piece plan. now putin said himself that they would discuss this and, and both sides during this meeting said they would both wanted to more,

to promote dialogue, to prevent this conflict in ukraine from escalating. now it's clear that there was no concrete outcomes in terms of improving the situation in ukraine bought. what matches to be doing is that she didn't bring at least appeared to be a global statement statement and peacemaker during this trip. and the 2nd thing that aging has achieved, well, it really is the optics and your fix word that this is a strong try enough supporting and propping up a weak russia. and it does seem that putin was the junior partner here needing. she didn't kick now we didn't see trying to crossing any red lines offering, for example, military support to russia, trying to feel very much needs preserved the health of its relationship, especially economically with you. but at the same time, we did see china supporting vladimir putin throwing his weight behind him, putin and needing russia to stay strong,

no matter how ukraine war ends. and this is because china desperately needs a russia not to fail. and putin to remain in power for the increasing confrontation that it finds itself in its increasing tensions against the united states. it needs to be strong and, and back there in its corner. as that situation with the us seems to be getting worse. it's time for the whether he has everton, hello, we have clear skies across the good part of the middle east. that certainly the case in some mecca right. the way across into doha. little more crowded to southernmost parts and some showers, some longer spouse afraid sliding across iran, tennis. the snow is it pushes across into afghanistan, some heavier burst coming through here, little on the disturbed tide, just around her to care. we'll see a little bit of sherry rain just rolling into syria, lebanon, pushing a little further east was as we go through friday. but you can see it between fine and try to bad at all. temperatures here in doha can be up to 28 celsius as 82 in

fahrenheit at disturb. whether we have around that east side of the mediterranean will still bring some lifted dust. the sand into that east and half of libya pushing across into egypt. and some heavier rain coming in here on friday could cause some localized flooding slides right across the northern parts of egypt to that state. showers, gathering nicely now across west africa. wanted to live the ones there into the gulf of guinea jordan up with the wet weather that we have cross central parts of africa. we've seen some pretty wet weather recently into tanza, near shower, still here over the next few days. good scattering of showers actually across southern africa. right the way into the southern cape for saturday. still ahead on the news. al thousands spend the night on the streets in pakistan and afghanistan. when earthquake shakes the hindu kush mountain range and sport the round, the world races heading for the globe, most remote spot. and these here, with that story, awe

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jazeera lou ah, watching the news al with me and of the for on him and doug ha, reminder of our top stories, the falla, the united nations, has issued a warning saying humanity is on a dangerous path of or the using the water won't lead as in new york, trying to come up with a cohesive plan to address the issue. police have fire tear gas at people protesting in bay route against lebanon's ongoing economic crisis. inflation has been skyrocketing since 2019 making essential daily items. increasingly unaffordable and ukrainian officials say full people have been killed in russian.

john strikes and key keeps forces say they shot down 16 of the 21 drawings involved in the attack. south korea's joints are chief of staff, says north korea has test launched another series of cruise missiles. it coincides with souls, large scale live fire military drills with the united states. brought mcbride travel to the city of portugal near the border where the exercises have been taking place. these annual spring drills haven't been held on this scale since 2017. for the past 6 years. they have been drastically scaled back partly because of the pandemic, but mainly to allow the process of dialogue to work with north korea. this extended period of summit diplomacy. that now seems all but a memory, as well as this live fire exercise, which allows south korean and us forces to put its armor and our hillary. through its paces, there are aircraft drills involving some of the latest jet fighters and also

nuclear capable bombers from the u. s. air force out at sea there on navy drills taking place, involving a u. s. aircraft, carrier group, and also marines in joint time, february landing drills. these exercises always infuriate north korea, which claims their approach you to war. but according to the south koreans in the us allies just the opposite is true that by having this level of preparedness, it acts as a deterrents to any attacks ensuring they say, the continued peace and stability on the peninsula. everything we're doing right now is defensive in nature. we are not being offensive, we're being defensive in nature. and it's what we expect to do in conflict. and he'd be good at it, which i think everybody in south korea are in the world, wants us to be good at it. we have to train at north korea has been expressing, gets angry with a series of ballistic missile launches, including last weekend with drills that were overseen by north korean leader,

kim jong and, and what state run media tell us was a rehearsal for a tactical nuclear counter offensive against its enemies, robert bride al jazeera poach on south korea. israel's parliament has overturned part of the northern band and legal settlements in some areas of the northern occupied west bank. it's been in place since 2005 when israeli settlers were all to leave during as wells withdraw from garza or mickelson sheriff has more victory for his wally settlers as the knitted lips been on for settlements in the occupied best plan. it allow settlers to return to illegal outposts. 18 years after they were ordered to leave in 2005, then prime minister ariel sharon agreed that israel would be drawn from casa and see the settlements under the future deal with the palestinians. is well,

has now reneged on that agreement, a called a ample, everything exists fair except for the people, the houses, the people who were evacuated and the houses that were destroyed. now we came to fix it and there will be a town there. the palestinian authority has denounced to move most amongst i'm at home slavery, i think when they return to the so called homage settlement and other settlements. this will show us that this government is going head with its plan to take an annex the lands and continue its open battle against the palestinian people. the e. u and israeli allied the u. s. have condemned the decision. last month, the israeli government announced would recognize 9 settlements in the occupied westbank. since the 1967 war, israel has established more than 100 outposts on palestinian land. the settlements are illegal under international law, and the un has previously described them as a war crime is really regretting from international commonwealth.

israel is denying the seizure. it's also bring calls to return the land of those settlements, goods, dry goods, palestinian owners any also denies low the law of these against mans, which was accepted into some 5 when when is pulled out from gaza. the changes are the latest and the cds of controversial moves by prime minister benjamin netanyahu was far right coalition government, which took charge in december. it comes at the time of height and pensions and the worst violence between israelis and palestinians in recent years. and we consume sharif us as well as bringing our correspondent iran con. he's joining us live from west jerusalem to tell us more about the reaction since the renounced run both in israel and abroad. well,

let me give you some background. first, we often talk about the word unprecedented when it comes to israel. certainly we've been using that a lot and this is a situation that is unprecedented. it began in sharma, shake earlier in the week. there was a meeting broken by the egyptians between his railways and the palestinians with the americans in attendance at that meeting. they agreed that there would be no more settlement buildings that were the a freeze on settle building to hold up buildings that were going on. now are just 24 hours later israel past that the disentanglement law repealed that law rather saying that they were going to build on these 4 settlements. this angered the usa angered the palestinians that angered the egyptians, but there was an unprecedented moment from the united states, the u. s. ambassador, as, sorry, the really ambassador to the u. s. a. mike hurts. i was actually summoned by the u . s. deputy, a secretary of state, wendy sherman. apparently at that meeting she,

there was a fierce rebuke about the fact that this a law was repealed, or by old account sir to local u. s. media were hearing that the meeting was incredibly unfriendly. now that's something that never happens before the u. s. never react when the co knesset repeal or pass a bill. but in this case, because of the tensions, the us felt a had to do something. and then these really government how to react. they actually issued a statement saying that they weren't going to repeal the repeal of the law, but they weren't going to build on those settlements. however, a settler organizations have said they will be back, they will be building on those settlements and nothing is going to stop them. so all of this for the re upped for the u. s. to react like it did is like a say that word again and president really interesting. and ron, thank you very much for that. and man can life for us in west jerusalem at least 13 people have died. are through a magnitude 6.5. earthquakes, track,

northern afghanistan, and parts of pakistan. it was entered on the hindu kush mountains near the northern afghan province of buck shon, or people, and couple were outdoors when the quake head, as there was celebrating the persian new year. many chose to spend the night out doors, at least 9 people died in pakistan where hospitals were placed on jaila. more than 70 people were injured. several dozen houses were also damaged. charities working in camps were people have lost their homes and east and democratic republic of congo, so they're supporting at least 10 rape survivors every day. rights group, say, section violence has got worse, as the conflict in the region escalates. malcolm web reports from a camp near goma in north cave who end of warning. some viewers may find parts of his report. distressing. all of these women say they've been raped in the last 2 months, is almost no support for survivors of sexual violence in this camp near the city of

goma. so they counsel each other. most of the people here fled as the m 23 armed group advanced through messina territory. claudia, not her real name, says she was going to collect firewood with a group of women and girls when they ran into armed men wearing military uniforms. when you come with duck on his finger, they tied me to a tree and i was raped by each of them. the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, and then the 4th. the others were raped by other men. one of the girls in our group didn't survive. she was too small, she died during the rape. we spent 2 days being raped by those men. claudia says he doesn't know which armed crew her attack has belonged to peter congos army refused of backing armed groups in its fight against him. $23.23 widely understood to be backed by neighboring rwanda. those governments deny supporting the groups. in spite of overwhelming evidence and 23 seized swathes of territory from the

government forces over the last 9 month, people ran away from their homes and their farms up in the hills because it was no longer safe but life down here and the camp comes with many other problems, whole families have been scattered, people, sharing shelters with complete strangers. they've been left traumatized and vulnerable. claudia says it took her weeks to finally reach the camp. then she says she was raped again by a man who attacked her in her tent. she says it's the survivors. great. it's helped her feel like life is still worth living. floss be a re k started it. we 1st met her last year after she was forced from her home. had been helping people in the camps ever since. she has time for everyone to stop, to talk or ask for help. she says she's recorded more than a 120 reports of rape new arrivals this year while i was on and i saw though

the majority of them were raised by m 23. when the villages were attacked, others who hid in the bush were raised by scientists from other groups and some also on their way here. but people who are out of control will listen to them and encourage them. we do whatever we can and give them what later we have. they have almost nothing. a small shelter, and a handful of donated medicines. some of the survivors told us they have infections, injuries or severe pain. but they say just being listened to help malcolm web al jazeera, berlin, go democratic republic of congo to france malware president emanuel mac. com has appeared in a televised interview, hoping to com, protest as angry about his pension reforms that would increase the retirement age from 62. to 64, he stuck by the changes saying the country cannot stand still were demonstrations

have intensified since the government's decision to force. the changes through parliament without a vote in me is protest is blocked. the train station by dumping the mascot of the president on the train tracks. let's bring an uncle responded. natasha butler. she's joining us live from the french capital and micron. finally breaking months of silence on these pension reforms and protests latasha. what did he say? yes, and he was in a defying mood and fact you'd be hard pressed to imagine that this is a french president who is the middle of a political and social crisis whose own governments are barely survived. a low confidence merchant vote in the parliament just days ago. emanuel mackerel defended his pension reform bill, he said it was necessary for the country that it sustain its pension system into the future. at the moment he said that couldn't be the case. that is just too

complicated. cost too much money and it was necessary, but he also asked the french government to push this reform through parliament by decree and bypass parliament. that is one of the things that is really inflamed attentions and good. many people protest is and politicians. we've already seen some reaction to his speech, some politicians on the far left and far right. saying that michael simply doesn't understand people. the other thing in this speech is that michael didn't offer any form of concessions or olive branch is if you like to some of his opponents, it was expected that he might announce that he was going to reshuffle his cabinet or perhaps change his prime minister just something to show that he wanted to try and calm the situation. that wasn't the case at all. as i said, a very defiant emmanuel mac or business as usual for the french president. yeah. and given that defines how likely is it that his tv interview will do anything to quell these demonstrations? the, this,

they didn't look very unlikely that this television interview will quote, the demonstration. probably the opposite. it's likely to feel the need a lot of anger on the streets. we see over the call, few months anger against the pension reform bill and the government one piece raised in time by couple of years ago. the method in which this bill was pushed through parliament, i said to bite to creep in. so democratic message is constitutionally legal, but people say it is a political failure. they also say that amount michael isn't listening to people. he's disconnected and out of touch with people's concerns. so what we're seeing is tracy and saying that they will continue with that protest. the big day is striking process expected on thursday, and also seeing a hardening of the movement in some respects with a sporadic violent overnight in most cities in france and seen that in the past few days. some people saying that this could be that this is almost reminiscence,

i should say of the yellow vest for a few years ago. some wondering whether that to find them from the process will continue whether they'll just fade away. but certainly what the government would like or write natasha. thank you for that. that is natasha butler. joining us live from paris, former u. k. prime minister balls, johnson asked you to give evidence to a poly mentary committee and here and that could determine his political future. he's accused of deliberately misleading parliament about gatherings held at downing street during cloven 1900 locked downs. the privileges committee is made up of 7 am, pays for conservatives, and 3 of position members. johnson has admitted misleading parliament, but deny he did it deliberately or recklessly. if the committee was against him, it could recommend the faction that could mean an oral, a russian apology, a temporary suspension from parliament, or even an expulsion at the committee issues a suspension of 10 days or more. an automatic recall petition is held and that

means johnson could face a new election for his parliamentary feet. more than 200000 people in the u. k. have now died from call the 19 as joint report from london. the emotional cause has been enormous for families. morning they last loved one. amanda henry remembers her dad robert in happy at times. so i swung his air nearly as high as my cousin spoke, his tarnish on to her what she will all pause. she tries hard not to think of him at the end, with it by dimensions stricken with covert in the east london care home where he died. we trusted the government to protect all of us, especially the most vulnerable in our society. and if they just didn't do it, cove, it 19 ravaged homes across the country. places with tests and p, p e were in short supply. people like amanda will be watching closely as former

prime minister boris johnson gives evidence about his actions at the time. the privileges committee isn't investigating whether boris johnson acted illegally with respect to those brings gatherings in downing street that became known as party gates. the police have already decided that he did. what's the issue here is whether he deliberately misled parliament, live to pave when he told them at the time that no rules had been broken. i'm sure that whatever happened, the guidance was followed. the rules is on it at any time. at stake potentially is johnson's future as an in p and his career in politics is the problem is this really is high stake, high pressure bar as jonathan. because if he does get it wrong, it's game over, back to the drawing board. but if he's able to come away from this looking favorable then who knows the come back might be back home after all. but i think we also stacked against him. maurice johnson intends to mount a robust defense. he'll point to advice he received from officials that drinks

parties at the heart of government were work events and therefore that he was unaware. any rules were being broken. the committee will counter with evidence from downing street employees, including one quoting johnson, joking at an event that this is the most unsocial distance gathering in the u. k. right now, i don't think he should have a career in go in government. he shouldn't be an em pay. and after what he's done, it upset may that he's not being held accountable. amanda and families across the country may have to wait years for the findings of an independent inquiry into the government's handling of the cove at 19 pandemic. for now, the public grilling of the prime minister many feel, let them down is the closest to vindication they can get job. how al jazeera london

train service has have resumed in greece for the 1st time since last month's head on collision between a passenger train and freight train. the crash killed 57 people on the lars, the route services on that track and some longer still suspended for railway workers are in custody. as investigation continues, grace has seen demonstrations of the past month as people demand, railway safety and accountability homes, roads, and farmland, underwater, and parts of california. the u. s. state braces for even more cold and stormy weather. the region has been battered by repeated winter storms with tuesday, bringing the 12 so called atmospheric river of the season. more than 200000 people don't have a tricity, large parts of farming region, so it's been flooded. that's just as the spring harvest season set to begin. it's time for sports. now he is, andy, thank you so much. elizabeth will match it between 2 generational talents to sort

of the outcome of the will baseball classic pans show. hey tony, getting the better of american mike trans, this title decide to played in miami, florida, pretty sight concept. a solo home run a bunch of pounds because in the most so for his country, 31 up in the whole thing against the defending champions game ended with our tony strike, says les angel, teammates, i trans you're facing the united states, 3 to 2 when the truck people a 3rd time a pony was named the tournaments most valuable? i think with showing tanya, my trout kinda and in that game the way they did, i think i think baseball one again, and i just think there's w b c as a whole kind of elevated the game. and i hope, you know, i hope that the exposure that it got, you know, creates baseball fans all over the world. and i can't even imagine being in that

moment the 2 best players on the planet locking horns as teammates in that spot. the fans one to night. i'm just i'm chaffed way them when i mean, if you are going to write a script that was hoping that was going to go our way with mike the top one again, so tiny, but like i said, i mean the baseball world. this thing is real. the w. b. c's real, the whole world got to see. oh tani, come in big spot battle in. it's kinda how it was kinda scripted, i just wish it would have went different. now the concern to by manchester, united football club is answering a crew short few hours potential owners have been told to submit 2nd bids for the premier league side. by the end of the day, the glaze of family announced who was interested in selling united last november. the americans bought the club in 2005 for just over a $1000000000.00, the looking to sell it for at least $6000000000.00. now the chairman of one of

castles biggest banks shake justin been hammered off on is one of 2 publicly declared bidders. british billionaire, jim ratcliffe, also in the running representatives from both parties, met with united officials on last week or wednesday deadline, also a chance for other bid, as you haven't gone public with their interest to submit offers. the next big question, once the offers are in, will the glazes actually decide to sell? or we've been talking to neil joyce of the c l. v group as a leading data company for the sports industry. he says the club like united still has unlocked financial potential, g to its global fanbase. we looked into all of the various large europe in teams that, that large be a franchises and also nfl. and the insight that we found was the huge sporting and entertainment brands because that's what they all now are only monetizing one percent of their fan base is directly. and what do we mean by that?

that means non match day ways to monetize fans. so today they monetize that one percent by getting people to go to the stadium, buying much and dice, and all of the federal revenue around that live event. 99 percent of those fans on spending money directly with those teams. new digital propositions and technology making. this possible now, so when we look into analyzing and all use my just united, as example what the global monetization opportunity could be on top of what they already do today. we found the across the us market. there was close to $100000000.00 of revenue. we lend to india and indonesia as well, and total number increased up to about 250000000 as well. germany is walker winning the fail them as a has announced his retirement from football. the 34 year old from austin,

realms play as a key member, the germany team that one will come from brazil in 2014 as well. who's of both turkish and german ancestry return from international football in 2018 saying he'd faced racism and disrespect over his turkish heritage. now, sweetie superstars, lathan abramivitch has given lost his castle world cup. his personal seal of approval. sweden fell to qualify for the phones, but abraham of which did attend so much is in castle the 41 year old. now getting ready to represent his country in your 2024 qualifies against belgium. and also by jen. fantastic. o jim summers from anna. it was fantastic for me as awesome as it gets all dog. i was there for 2 days with the family of fuel the organization, way 10 points, the experienced 10 points. martian, the matches turn points, probably crowd way. 10 points more to fool your point and points says the journey weighing 10 points, every single shot quince, alpha,

tipwing and bobby le doors. what look, did you want to her something else? it ma'am, and to call upon me in effect and, and this is what happens when they don't mess. he attempts to go out for quite dinner in argentina massey's back in his home country to play an international game for the 1st time since winning the world cup in december. argentina will be taking on panama in friendly on thursday in one is aries and competitors in around the world selling event could be forgiven for feeling a little lonely at the moments organizers of the ocean race. say right now, astronauts on the international space station or the closest humans to the right fleet, the boat saw selling their point nemo, in the southern ocean, that is more than 2 and a half 1000 kilometers away from any land. there's no other place in the plant at reagan, farther from land ah,

with i think they're really with what we're doing in perspective raising. there's no one else down here that is very apparent when you look at be charged and you talk about what you know, what it represents. okay, more support coming up in a couple of hours time, but that is how we are looking for. and in fact, you very much for that and that that's it for me as the one for this new south, but we will be back in just a few minutes. but more of the days news. thank you very much for watching. ah ah long with

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