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this is the news our alive from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes, the british and swiss central banks raise interest rates, the curb inflation. we look at the impact this will have on the banking turmoil. a very dangerous moment. the i m f, was lebanon, to implement, changes to prevent a total economic collapse. 8 more cases of the mob o'bar as the report is an equitorial, guinea of to 5 people die from a disease in tanzania. and more protests across france against the government plan to raise the age of retirement. the president is standing firm on the issue and in sport, chris john, rinaldo was sent to break another world record in the coming hours. the portuguese start is about to become the most capt men's international player of all time. ah,

it's just gone 1500 g m t and we start in the u. k, where the bank of england has raised interest rates of the 11th time, in 18 months. the move follows similar measures by the u. s. federal reserve and swiss national bank is brought the rate to 4.25 per cent, a central bank, se curbing inflation remains a priority. despite market concerns about turmoil in the banking sector, the rate rise in the u. k. comes just a day off the announcements that inflation went up last month. hitting 10.4 percent . that was driven by high food and energy prices. pul brennan begins al coverage from london. the inflation that was announced on wednesday from 10 point one percent going up unexpectedly to 10.4 percent of the force in the hands of the members of the monetary policy committee of the bank of england when they made that decision this morning. i have to say there are some chinks of hope in the

predictions that the bank of england are putting forward saying for example, well, 1st of all, it was not unanimous deficient. it was $7.00 to $2.00 in favor of increasing the interest rates from 4 percent to 4.2 to 5 percent. the other 2 members of the monetary policy committee actually would prefer to keep interest rates where they were. so there are signs of, of a weakening results from the m p. c. there. the other thing is that the bank of england no longer predicting but the economy will go into recession. there is an expectation that the economy will grow in inverted commas slightly over the next year. so a little glimmer of hope that the other thing though, is that they also expect energy prices or the energy price contribution to inflation to turn negative during the course of this year. we of course, have the ukraine war, which bums up the price on energy, mainly rushing gas because of the shortage of that. that is expected to come out

of the inflationary pressure over the next year. those pressures easing, as people find all alternatives. that said, though it is a stone increase that all concerns that as the bank central banks around the world continue to try to put the brakes on, on inflation that it might spill over into a water recessionary pressure on the economy. so it's a very delicate balancing act that the central banks are having to try and tread well earlier. the swiss national bank increase its interest rate by half a point foot from key rates now cents at 1.5 percent. the bank signaled more hikes were possible. the move comes on the heels of the tunnel and this was banking system, the state break, and a deal for banking joint you'd be asked to buy as troubled arrival, credit suisse on sunday, feel i m f is wanting lebanon urgently needs reforms to prevent hyper inflation a conditional agreement was reached last year on a $3000000000.00 bone, but loan to save its economy,

but needed changes have not been made. protesters tried to stone government headquarters in beirut on wednesday. please find, take us to break up the crowds. many of those are todd soldiers demanding a living pension. well, i mean, salam is lebanon's minister of economy and trade. he's in bay root forth. good to have you with us. the i m f is saying that lebanon is at a very dangerous moment. would you agree? yes, absolutely. not. been on the very, very, very critical transition period and our staff level agreement with her as well as witnessing a very critical point now of discussions we had the team visiting from the i m f this entire week with all the stakeholders. and i'm to go see ations team and deliver government which,

which i'm but off and they share with us was very, very serious. i'm just them, it's concern regarding the speed to move towards reforms versus the, the speed of the incline and the economy and the speed of, you know, the collapse in our monetary system as well. so how is it, how is it got to this point? i mean, it was, every year ago that lebanon and the m. f. agreed to the reforms. why have they not been implemented? it's a very, very, very simple answer to that, that's the political will, the political will, in lebanon. unfortunately has been started to think of every

potential beam of hope or action that we've tried really, even though we are part of this political system, the government. but it's way the decision making 11 on the was not only revolver on the government. unfortunately, we have the parliament, we have all the political parties. we have the influence of the regional stipulation as well. that really decides a lot of what is happening or what is going to happen in lebanon. and despite the fact that our government has produced and delivered most, if not all of the of the dock close to the parliament, we are still due to the lack of political will or a decision to let love on on really began making a breakthrough with the i am making a breakthrough towards the recovery. we're still discussing negotiating with them

the parliament laws that need to be out immediately and they are more than exhausted. they have been with us. they exhausted the discussions on those laws. so one of the particular forms that need to be made and the people a blocking, why are they blocking these ones? well, you know, i mean, we have witness that, you know, what's going on is going through now. is it in a transition period from an old system to a new system? we are working towards a complete change. we want to start with a clean slate because we know that the old system, the old way of doing things with them that have any government, whatever. if it's a monetary, fiscal or economy policy, it has proven failure. and we're trying to really start on a new with a new framework with that's why we are emphasizing the importance of di amounts

because it's putting a new framework that over 3 decades, none of the value is government. past liberties, government have managed to put together to build a through economy to build a true financial system to build a resilient economy with a vision. this is what we're trying to do. the fight between the old system and the system is really that the store made a point that we are all now fighting over the above. yes. you're basically trying to overhaul a system that's been in place for at least 30 years. are you optimistic? but you're actually going to be able to do that. they call me one of the optimistic ministers and i have to be optimistic because we have to take lab on, on to another place we have to take on out of this miserable situation that

we are going to now, especially the, the social conditions on the, on the conditions and given that it has been proven all that and all that again, that's the old system. the old way, the old methodology that has been followed by the previous governments has proven complete failure. we need to go to a new place. that's why it's important to follow the framework. it's important to have the political will to take the country out of this situation. i'm to begin really going on a path of reform and recovery today, rather than to model. i mean, time is our worst enemy know every day of delays, and it's taking the country into a more difficult place, but making the livelihood of people more dangerous. that's what i want to touch on

because the i m f has said that everybody will need to take losses, but so far it's only really been deposited at banks that have really suffered and loss savings. is there any form of recovery plan in place to help the people of lebanon? yes. who i mean for, for, for, for myself, for the new government deposit the right is really a secret that i and i have said that many, many times before. we can not allow any agreement, we cannot allow any deal. we cannot allow any structure to jeopardize the rights of deposit this. they deposit those that have put their money within the trust that the government, the central bank, along with the private sector banks, will preserve and protect their deposits by no means at all. i accept or any government should accept that the money is of the deposit. those will be the

most jeopardize or will or they will be the ones to pay the fees or to pay the losses. this is the responsibility of the government. this is the responsibility of the private sector bank that have a 5 year period duty to protect the money of the people invested in those banks and put them those bags. and we are trying, you know, along with the private sector, the central bank and of any government to find the best scenario to come out with an agreement that protects those deposit the money. any agreement that goes in any other direction will be unfair, will be in my own opinion, but there's us that on the economy and on the credibility of this, or any following of them. i mean for the minister of economy and trade for 11. thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us. you're welcome. thank.

now another 8 cases of marlborough virus have been confined by the w h. well, health organization in equitorial guinea. that brings the total number to 9 and probable cases to 20. as an outbreak was 1st declared in february, at least 5 people have died of these intense and ma'am, the cases were confirmed in new regions of the country indicating a wider outbreak. there were no vaccines or anti virus treatments approved to treat the viral fever. as a feeling fit, it could further spread in the region with alarm sounding already and cameroon, and kenya law. but the virus disease or m v d is a rare hemorrhagic fever. it affects both people and non human primates. it's in the same virus family as abolla, marburg has an average fatality rate of 50 percent, which varies in different strains and the worst outbreak and go to in 2005 the fatality rate with 88 percent. it killed more than $300.00 people. ok matter sheet,

a mighty as the world health organizations regional director for africa, she explains what steps need to be taken to contain them all by the virus. first and foremost. so we need to intensify the epidemiological surveillance so quickly confirming contacts of cases, cases themselves. and the most important thing to do, of course, is to stop the transmission of the virus. the virus is transmitted in body fluid, so blood, sweat alive, other body fluid. so what is very important is 1st of all, for health care workers was some of the 1st contacts and we have had a couple of health co workers die in equitorial guinea. so to make sure that they are aware of all the precautions, even as they do the clinical care of people and investigations of the disease, they have the knowledge that they need. and they have the equipment that they need . so personal protection, equipment, gloves, masks,

and so forth to stop them being infected. and then very importantly, at the same time, as we are understanding further confirming the cases, isolating the cases to make sure that they minimize contact with other people. we have to progressively build up these systems so that we're not starting from scratch each time. and one of them, most important aspects of this is really the population's understanding communities, understanding and the role that they can play. because at the end of the day, our health systems don't penetrate the community to the degree that we can do without their own triggers of suspicion. and recall of this is what we were told we needed to be careful about. that needs to be reinforced. of course, we need community health contacts with the population, so people are reminded and enabled to minimize the transmission. as 20 mostella had hair on this new though, including who protest in israel is parliament ponce's. the 1st laws aimed and

limiting the judiciary powers. find out how people into care observing ramadan after last month's earthquakes and in sports and the thing of to form a grand slam. cham plans at miami i, upon far as here with that story, ah more protested underway and france against the government's plans to rage. the age of retirement, protesters have been blocking ramps, and roads, and several cities, lack of a demanding that present manual micron drop the pension bill. in the city of nuns, police use tear gas to disperse crowds. israel parliament has passed the 1st of several laws that make up the government's controversial judicial overhaul. after spite nationwide protest against the changes to the judicial system . a plan would limit the power of the supreme court critic say it threatens

democracy. hundreds of demonstrators, a blocking roads in protest among con, has more from west jerusalem law. people here are calling it netanyahu's law. basically, the law allows or will disallows rather now the attorney general from declaring the prime minister unfit for office. why does this apply to benjamin netanyahu? well, he has at least 3 court cases going through the winding through the system at the moment. so regardless of whatever the result of those court cases, he will continue to serve in office and that say the protesters is undemocratic. it was one of the key things that the coalition government wanted to push forward. that's why this has been passed before other parts of the jew judicial reform bill is a series of reforms is going to limit the supreme court out. now because this bill is passed, we're likely to see more people out on the streets on saturday. the results were protest or across is wrong. 95 different locations across his world is going on

today. but the big protests there on saturday and it's likely to get more and more people out on the street. but the government is passing these laws is holding firm and it's holding firm because it does have a very slim majority in parliament and that resorts he that coalition is holding firm because this is what the coalition once it wants to restrict the supreme court . and it seems to be working so some form of this judicial reform bill will likely pass. will it pass before pass over before easter mid april. we don't know that that's the key moment in time. so let's see what happens in the coming days. people into care observing ramadan as they struggle to recover from last month. devastating earthquakes, thousands are still living, intense, and depending on aid to survive. as i said, our reports from one camp for displaced people in the south eastern city of addy, a man. oh, an unusual rumor than in

a demon. the 1st prayer of the muslim holy month is held in a mixture of moscow. oh, grandmother is not only about fast him. it's also a time for joy and celebration. oh, but not this year. father. sure, it is difficult to slip brain trauma done in a 10 city conditions are difficult. i would never have imagined slip rating ramadan without a roof over our heads. and mamma gazelle and his firmly used to live in a 3 story house. it collapsed when the 2 portal earthquakes struck trickier and syria in early february. the gazelles on among about 5000 people who, how soft shelter here. they all depend on your mac, on his mit, the video that we provide to meals p dave tower into a hole in the coming days will also have a temporary stage for traditional plays to be performed to help people overcome the psychological trauma of the earthquakes out of them julia,

but mama's wife came out, says it's impossible to forget what happened. she was trapped onto the rubble of the home for hours. i can her grandchild and wait him to be rescued. dr. lavender did scala. give salam, they provide a psychological support. but what uses it after we've lost everything we built that house with every penny we saved through our lives. during ramadan, i used to prepare meals for my family. now. i don't even have an oven to cook the hall for them. no. the earth greeks destroyed around a 1000 buildings in i. d. m. more than a 1000 people died. doses survived have turned to prayer, especially during ramadan. 2 0, many people who see the whole of their time in pants will be short and that they will be able to move into houses quickly. but nearly 2 months after the road creeks

that optimism is fading. life here is becoming increasingly difficult and they're struggling to get used to the new normal resources that al jazeera or the amana. so this tortilla well wrestle joins us now live from 80 a man. and it was us the 1st to if tom there that people a mark in the breaking of the fast. how are they coping well, it is quite a new way of breaking the fast or heaven if star here for them. so you can see that now the preparations within an hour because people are going to break their fasten and the preparations are on the way here. and over here you can see that the authorities here, the one is palatine workers. they have set up them that the tables and now over there they are distribute in the food to people. so in this camp that are roughly around 5000 people, but does that, did the only ones were coming for food?

are not the people that are just living in this densities. people at the neighboring of this town city is, are also come in and receiving the foods here that are several different food. the distribution places been spread across this camp. and also this is not the only density in the city that are tans of such pants. it is spreading across the whole cities and thousands and thousands of people are living there. and also don't to refuse here. how bills did the makes your facility sense is over there, providing the how services to people. and by tonight also, there is a mobile stage, whoever they are talking to for kids, they're going to perform the traditional arts, hear him, but people are trying to cope. however, the laws in this city was beyond the imagination soul. but a 1000 buildings have collapsed more than 8000 people died here. and still there are hundreds of people that are missing and the people that they have tortured dam

talk to. they're saying that they really hope that soon there will be either move to the container houses and later to the proper houses because that is what the government is from the sin to them. however, when you look at the progress to moms, that hope is still not realistic to be realized. but we can see that people are really struggling, particularly during nights. it's cold and this tense or mac wide, the by the electricity. but a here and other one of the other concern is, is also the clean water as well for dignity for kids and also to education. so simply kids are missing the whole educational term as well. but as i said, the psychologist elizabeth cool more. now people are trying to get used to death, but still the hopes are here. we do not know it's just less them to monster the election. and they're hoping that before that, before the me, the government will keep his promises and tough situation indeed better that at

thanks very much tony's that from that tech here. let's go back now to those protests in france that many people out on the street as you can see, protesting against the raising of the age of retirement, is a live pictures of the scene in paris. and that's where our correspondent nasa butler joins us from now since ashley streets, once again or filled was the mood like at this protest. yet thousands of people walking across until paris has been pretty peaceful and joyous for now, i have to say that that might change. but i think most people here are here to the purchase peacefully and to send the message to the french government that they're not happy. they are not happy about the government's pension reform bill, and they're not happy about the method by which president michael's government

pushed it through by decree 3 parliament at bypass lawmakers. what people have been telling us is that is really a sign of disrespect place to people in the street who are against this bill of 3 quarters of population. they are, but also sign of disrespect to francis. the institution says a lot of anger here in the street sort of tension. there was certainly far more people care in this protest and they have been in some of the recent demonstrations and strikes. i have to say as well because this is a big strike day, so there is a lot of disruption across the public sector in terms of transport, education, office, primary school, shot for examples called collect discontinuing best i can not means a lot of rubbish continues to lead to the streets and paris minute macaroni, he'd narrowly divide to no confidence vote just recently. but how vulnerable is he still? hello, 1st. oh my cause got me only

a said i had no promotion at parliament today. that really hurt and a lot natasha. i'm gonna jump in there because we are losing audio with your apologies to our views for the full quality of natasha's audio. she's, we're forcing from the streets of paris where you can see those protests continuing against the age of retirement. now he gave in government, has appointed a senior official in the t cry, people's liberation front as head of the new interim to great regional government. get a to router's appointment comes just a day after tpr laugh was removed from a list of terrorist organizations establishing a temporary government was a crucial part of the p. p. still last year that ended fighting between to grow and rebels and government troops. the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people enforce millions more out of their homes. the peace deal between ethiopian government and the tpr laugh was signed in november last year. it ended 2 years of

war. the fighting started in november, 2020 prime minister abbey awkward, ordered a military offensive against the t p. f. in response to what he said were attacks on army bases. the government declared a truce in march last year to allow humanitarian aid entity, gray, un had repeatedly called for an end to the violence, accusing both sides of committing war crimes. but after 5 months of relative calm fighting started again in august, peace was finally reached in november. by then, more than 2600000 people had been displaced. years of drought had left millions without enough to eat. ghetto ruder spoke to al jazeera shortly after his appointment was confirmed. he says he's certain the tpr left forces will support efforts to sustain peace outright. us to the good, happy people who were in the world simply for the fighting or for the shooting. there were there to address political grievances that we felt as the people

we had to do right to, to, to, to fight for. and we also believe that peace is the best given at this point in time. and as long as that can cause that address in a minute, and we have reason to believe that causes can be address it in a, in a political dialogue. and then there is no reason why we should continue fighting it because we were not there. we were not in the fighting for the, for the sake of fighting, were there because we had versus, we had to call us and we have reason to believe that our causes could be addressed in a peaceful manner. and i don't have the slightest fighters will be fully behind out if it's to, to, to, to, to sustain this and to get to get back on track and to rebuild it from ground up from here on out to sarah grub. it was of my jerome's month off the old notes were

abruptly band and replaced with new ones. and it's cool to set back for one that the titles favorite gold mass play championship. ah ah hello, we have more heavy downpours across the western side of the amazon bolivia, seeing some really heavy rain pushing up to that eastern side of peru, big foundry samples, could cause some flash flooding here as that wet weather continues to rumble away. whether to coming down across power g, y, nor the areas of art and tina twice, 6, therefore serious north of the rain is fine. it's line re temperatures of about 33 celsius could touch 35 by a friday afternoon. his shower was continuing there through the amazon particular the western side of the amazon. not too wet up towards venezuela,

but still some showers here over the next couple of days, not too wet across the caribbean, but i think most parts we'll see some wet weather. a line of cloud here. sinking further south was across cuba to make a catching a shower too much of central america. we'll see some of that where to weather the showers will slide across the eastern islands too. i suspect for barbados, grenada, pushing down towards trinidad and tobago. should stay largely dry as we go on through the next couple of days more in the way of sunshine. it's warm sunshine for the southeast of the us. we got more wet weather coming in across the plains, up towards the northeast. snow to the north of that and still a chance of water to flow flowers for that western side view s. ah, the frank assessment just just means to give them the basic human rights, not only in the camp, but also inside the map, informed opinions. 5 administration are very concerned about this development

especially, or what it means for china's power on the world stage critical debate. now only both legal route for your be see the progress in depth analysis of the days headlines inside story on al jazeera, all coveted, beyond well taken without hesitation, brought and died for power defines our world. we live here, we make the rule, not them. they find an enemy and then they try and scare the people with people in power investigating expose days and questions they used and abused of our around the globe on out to 0. lou

ah, hello again. you're watching out there as a reminder of our top stories this hour, the bank of england has increased its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage points to 4.25 percent. this is the 11th consecutive right. rise on just a day off the announcement that inflation has also gone up. another 8 cases of mob virus disease have been confirmed and equitorial guinea disease killed 5 people in tons in air this week. and we'll protest her underwear and france against the government's plans to raise the age of retirement. protesters of blocked ramps on roads in several cities, lack of demanding that present manual micron. drop the pension fell, tick tock, c o showed z to is tested, testifying before the us house,

energy and commerce committee. he's facing questions about the social media platforms, alleged relationship with the chinese communist party, and it's use of data. and baker explains how to talk and other social media platforms use data. tick tock is a leader in grabbing people's attention to do this. it needs lots of their data. users need to give access to their phones, camera, microphone, photos, video, contact, location information, and to their behavior online. now, this is all similar to what other major social media companies asked for to. this is an industry practice as a whole to violate our rights to privacy, to sell ad. and this is why we need term data protection world to end is damaging attitude that everyone is preaching privacy. so why shouldn't we most of us know about cookies, which put code from the web onto our devices. companies also use what's known as a pixel tracker to keep tabs on users as they browse the web. these are bits of code hidden as tiny images and web pages or e mails that report back to the company when you visit pixels are deployed by most

big companies. on most websites. they're not always consented to, but they are mostly legal. in a study by ferret a canadian security company pixel trackers from tick tock were found across the web as were pixel trackers from the other major social media giants. but tech talks were also found on government websites that did not know they were there. and the u . s government has find 2 american health companies for using pixels to track users . while they were looking at sensitive personal health websites. you start with the violation of privacy by just following people by, based by following people online and trying to know what they're doing. but once you get inside in those habits, then the company have an interest to try to see how they can exploit that. and company me explain that to sell you more either. but then other i to makes for that to, to try to, to change your political views. tracking is now a big part of our browsing experience because our data has become the most valuable commodity for companies. oh, my hand has been listening in to show

d. two's testimony for us my what's been happening well, the chief executive officer has faced a very hostile grilling over the past 19 minutes, largely hostile from all members of the committee. this is ongoing. the basic point was accusations that tick tock is controlled by china and infectious it's data with china. now this was denied strongly by the chief executive officer who denied that the data is shared with the chinese government. or indeed, even with the parent company bite dawns, these were very serious accusations the f b. i director watson congress recently and said that to talk presents a national security issue. this was the 10 of many of the questions asked up issues the chan and certainly a very, very hostile questioning from the members of the committee in the course of the

morning was tick tock defense. well, the chief executive officer insisted that tick tock was taking measures to ensure that it states her did not move outside the u. s. for example, he is outlined a project called the texas project in terms of which all the service would be brought within the united states. they would be supervised by a u. s. tech company and they would be constantly examined by independent observers . he says very clearly that this is something that no other media company has offered. no other tech company has offered. however, this was largely pushed aside because those in the committee asking very closely about what is happening now with tick tock, not what it proposes to do in the future. that they have also been those observers who contend that this is a freedom of speech issue that to outlaw tick tock would be to infringe the 1st

amendment of the us constitution. then there are those perhaps cynically who are arguing that the us authorities are using all these issues against tick tock to we assume us ownership of the company and therefore, thereby reclaim you as dominance in the tech sector. something which i tick tock being in china is denying the u. s. at present. okay, mike hanna, many thanks for keeping us across. events there in washington will crystal cold walker attack and digital culture writer and the author of the book, tick tock, boom, china, that dynamite app, and the zip power race for social needs. and he joins us now from newcastle upon time in the u. k. and so much for being with us showed the you the means prepped ends a see for this committee hearing, how do you think he's doing so far? i think that he had a pretty rough barking at the start. are these people who are part of this committee are, are kind of pretty much already decided,

i think on what they think of tick tock in there. they're deciding to use this almost as a, a staging post beginning across quite how angry they are. of course, we have to bear in mind that there are larger geopolitical issues around this and discomfort around here. the 1st kind of major social media platform of origin outside of the united states, starting to become a big thing. and it has been a really tough time at a minute and quite a lot of heat and not a lot of light into actually what some of the issues are. i, how will is the u. s. is fair, that tick tock might make some private data of us use as accessible to the chinese government holding that fear is absolutely fine and abs valid, but that there is very little actual evidence of that. in fact, non, whatsoever of some of the more outlandish things that have been set. and it has been notable just quite how tech illiterate a lot of these questions have been asking for instance, that the seo tick tock to,

to answer relatively complex questions of how algorithms work and how data processing and transfers work which are very, very concerning. these are things that we need to get answers to, but you can't answer them as has been asked in this hearing with a yes or no, which is kind of doing you to service, i think to both tick tock because they want to get across their point of view, but also to those who really want to try and understand whether those fees are real worth pointing out so far. no real evidence that these things that are being claimed are actually true. and tick tock does, of course, to neither here. the other fear of course, is that tick tock has the potential to manipulate it uses with the algorithm and, and predict and, and provide what it wants to show to people. that's it, it, it, some people would say that that's not also possible. it's not really realistic. what was your opinion there? because this is something that most social media companies can do anyway. yeah,

i think that's, that's the key thing. and the idea that social media networks and platforms can manipulate us into consuming content that we maybe didn't know we wanted to watch is a real risk. it's also not one that's unique to tick tock. we have seen mass manipulation campaigns on all platforms of large audience in the past. and i think in some of this kind of headwind behind tick tock spine is a bit misguided. because ultimately, if the chinese communist party really wanted to try and overthrow the west, which is what some of these more outlandish statements seem to claim they could do that quite as easily through state sponsor campaigns on twitter, on instagram, on facebook. indeed, they do try that already. so i don't really thought this concern that does seem to be shared by kind of the more strident antique china hawks in the u. s. that, that this is somehow a unique proposition for tick tock. oh, what is interesting as well? as this is quite a bipartisan issue, isn't it? as paper across the board whom

a pretty wary of take talk. you've got the biden administration saying that the company could potentially be sold to the u. s. company. and if it's not, then it could face a potential band, but either really realistic not really and, and that's in large part because there are 2 sides to this story. a tick tock does still have some links to china in terms of its business, just in the same way that the united states can put export bombs on companies leaving its country. china can do the same and the commerce secretary of china came out earlier today and said that they would be minded to oppose any false shock on sale of tech, talk to the us entity which leaves the tech talking to kind of invidious position. i don't think it necessarily would want and welcome that, that chinese statement which kind of prove the point to that. what we're trying to get across, which is, if this was a deep state communist party plot,

then they would surely be kind of not getting involved in it quite so much. they would want to be making the pass music for tick tock to try and ingratiate herself . into the west, rather than making it more difficult. really interesting. speak to chris, so go walker. thanks very much. taking the time to join us. washington is denying china's statement that a u. s. destroyer has been forced from the south china same on facilities. notice that it drove the vessel away from defeated waters near the parasol islands that the navy says its destroyer is continuing its routine operations in the area and has not been expelled. and there is katrina you has more on the story from beijing . certainly not the 1st time we've had differing accounts from the u. s. in china about what happens in the south trying to see what is dangerous about the timing is that distrust and tension between washington and aging are at an all time high and making any potential confrontation, extremely risky. now,

according to trying to navy the u. s. guided miss all destroy the 1000000, entered an area that being shipped by the parasol island illegally and commission. china's navy then monitored the ship and ultimately drove it away. and now it accuses the u. s. of causing instability in this region for washington has not released a statement saying that what the chinese say is false. and it says that the 1000000 continues to conduct what it says, a freedom of navigational operations in international waters. now, much of the resource rich south trying to see if claimed by beijing, despite competing claimed by many of its ne visit building a pos which are island and intensifying military activities in this region. now, the u. s. and other governments have accused that bullying and the area where this incident took place is about a 7 kilometer square kilometer area by the power. so island also claim flight high one and v nan. most schools in afghanistan have reopened after the winter break,

but taliban authorities are still boring, teenage girls from attending. since it's all about takeover and 2021 only girls age 12 and under have been allowed to go to school. the taliban government is also banned. women from higher education. united nations cools at gender based apart. have any option now available to older girls is islamic schools known as my dresses . they provide religious instructions that freshman call me back. i don't know if some of them address can help me in becoming a doctor because that's done through the schools. and unfortunately schools are closed, but still them address. it is good for increasing our religious knowledge and it's a good place to enhance our skills. so i want to get all the time, day and night. i imagine may be some day schools mark reopen and my education will progress further and i'll be more knowledgeable. i will never lose hope. and if it isn't through schools, then maybe through the addresses or online courses, because now there are telephones and the internet for it is prime minister has

revealed details of, of the referendum that will give constitutional recognition to the nation's indigenous people and the albany. he spoke as an emotional news conference on thursday, outlining the plans assailants will vote on that later this year. if it passes a panel will be set up to advise parliament on issues that impacts the lives of aboriginal people. t. she's a, what us request. i said, i said it was stria. don't miss it. don't miss it. so i want this done for indigenous australians, but i want it done for all a straight lines. we will feel better about ourselves. if we get this done, we'll just feel better. and you know what i've said this and this has been contested, but the truth is the australia will be seen as

a bit of notion as well for the rest of the world. that's just a fact. marcell lankton as foundation shy of australian indigenous studies of university of melbourne. she says constitutional recognition for indigenous people is essential to the la stock, 50 years. government after government have abandoned, ah, advisory bodies representative bodies made up of aboriginal entire stride on the paypal are usually for political electoral purposes. ah, and the inequity that indigenous peoples suffering australia has become worse and worse and worse. and so we have a very unstable policy and legislative environment. and indigenous people have very little sy in the policies and laws that affect them. ah, most policies are imposed ah,

and out. the results have been measured in the closing the gap reports which a table in parliament each year. we see almost no progress year after year on the key indicators. indigenous people ah, the poorest the sickest, the most incarcerated. and i asked, i think most australians feel an obligation to fix these issues and have confidence that in an indigenous voice to parliament will play a significant role in that. i gerry's informal economy and struggling because there isn't enough cash. every design of the local currency, as well as a recall of old bank notes as being blamed. only half the population doesn't have a bank account. i'm going to address reports from cano goods arrive of the single market by the truckload. but with not enough bank notes in sight,

que leisha traders are struggling to find buyers for their goods. other than what they are going to spend got cut and de would able gotten that he bill people from rural areas who used to buy a 1000 cartons of goods with cash can no longer do that. most of them are on banks . why he was the one in october last year, nigeria central bank announced the redesign of the highest denominations of the local currency than ira. but the bank then took the bank notes out of sight correlation to discourage their use. that's left millions of nigerians queuing it. banks full months desperate for the new note. there isn't enough money to go round . commercial banks of such cash withdrawal limits to just $20.00. sometimes they have no cash to dispense at all. informal trade me except 60 percent of nigeria economy and most transactions take place in cash. i shortage of bank notes and unreliable money francois system are making life difficult for small businesses.

shoe more blames the government's monetary and fiscal policies for the collapse of his business. but didn't did a yog idea of ahmad that evolve a day? it's difficult to feed my family as we speak. i only have $0.50 in the shop. i don't even have enough to give the shop assistant money to catch a bus. home. nigeria, supreme court has intervened and ordered the central bank to put the old notes back into circulation until the end of the year. that was after some governors took both the central bank and federal government to quote, when the economy does down. and you need to activate it, you reflect it, not deflated. what happen is lead, deflated the economy, and it is impacted negatively on the default economy, sworn of dangerous ahead for an economy that already st tool recessions in ages. once economy's experience in this,

it simply means that the economy can collapse at any time. and before you ginger people to production and give the, to tick tock because that trust government and its policies is no longer there. despite the order from the supreme court, the cache crunch continues. it's causing can only be 2 millions of nigeria lives and small businesses might decrease al jazeera come and i jetta said i had hair on out his era or was born with far up and the reigning european football champions, get ready to start the defense of that title ah ah

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ah, let's get all this bought now and hes borrow laura, thank you so much. oh christiana, we're all though is set to break it the world record and the coming hours of portuguese star is about to become the most common to men's international player of all time. at 38, rinaldo says he's not considering international retirement. and if he features against a lichtenstein and his country's year 2024 qualifier, it will be his 100 and 97th game for portugal. rinaldo is currently tied on a $196.00 international appearances with former kuwait player a bother elma tower is li portugal. first game under new coach roberto martinez could go to the school there. go to the requisite, always positive. it's my motivation. as you know, i like to break records, but this is a special london being the most cut player in history. i have to confess,

it's something that will make me very proud of, but it's not just about this one game coming up. i would like to play many more international matches in the future. raining european champions, italy cake also there qualifying campaign at home against england to the team. they beat to win the title 2 years ago. it leave failed to qualify for last year's world cup. england lost to france in the quarter finals in katara and haven't won an international in italy for more than 60 years. we haven't won a since 961. so we're also it's another bit history that we're trying to break down . and that's a great challenge for this thing because they've not been so many of those barriers in the cost. so you know, i know to the didn't qualify for the won't count for this to have some outstanding players for balls. european governing body wafer has started its own investigation into payments made by barcelona to a refereeing official. the case is already being pursued by prosecutors in spain or

documents show. barcelona paid more than $7000000.00 to the former vice president and spanish footballs refereeing committee. josie maria, and request the dera. the club has said no glare as a company was paid to work as an external technical consultants. well, the athletics is likely to tighten rules around the participation of trends, gender, women, and female events. the sports decision makers are meeting in monaco, track, and field global body say it's preferred option, is to use limits on testosterone as the key determining factor covering both transgender athletes. and those classified as d. s. d, those with differences insects development, the most high profile d s d athlete is double limpid champion casters. the menu of south africa, somalia was unable to compete at the tokyo games due to the current regulations. the new rules are likely to further reduce the acceptable level of blood testosterone for an athletes competing and female events. other sports have

different approaches. last year, world swimming, effectively bent all transgender athletes from elite competition. marty smith is a former us college swimming champion who now heads up and advocacy group supporting female athletes. she says world athletics is failing all competitors with its current policy. what we're finding is the governing bodies are trying to find a way to accommodate male athletes in the women's sports category in every type of way that they can. i think it's a motivation to appease everyone. when in actuality, it's failing, every actually, you know, it's putting trans, identifying accolades in a position where they're targeted because of outrage over unsafe an unfair

competition. and it's surrendering those opportunities for women and girls in the process. so everyone is really let down. we need to continue down this movement towards their competition and inclusion of all women and girls in athletics and, and just protect the women sports category, war female athletes. first, canada as bianca andrassy, who won a contest between 2 former us open champions and miami. jessica beating am i right to can you in 3 sets with both players aiming to recapture the form that saw them lifting grand slam titles is teenagers 22 year old address sco winning this deciding sex 6 to to progress into the 2nd round. i think the key for me today was just sticking with it, fighting as much as i could, and i kept telling myself,

it's not over until it's over and i also stayed positive. i tried not to drain my energy too much with like focusing on negative emotions. and all that stuff was always going to be a tough match both of us. you know, we both won a slam like we both good plays is always going to be a difficult match up. but yeah, i think that though, definitely patches of some pretty good tennis in 3 time grand slam champion. adie murray was a 1st round loser in miami. but murray has won this event twice during his career, but he lost out in straight facts against descend levels of serbia. comes a week after his 3rd well as it wells. one of the tunnel favorite suffered a day one, sat back at goals world much play championship. well, number 2, john ram was beaten by rickly fowler at the event in austin, texas. the spaniard was the only player from the top 4 seats to lose fanny champion . scotty scheffler won his opening match shop against seems. riley layers are in

groups of 4 with only the group winner qualifying for the next rounds or a macro. also made a winning started t lead from the opening t in this victory over american scott's stallings, the world number 31 this event back in 2015. okay, and that is all your support for now, laura, back to you are great. awesome. thank you very much indeed and that's it from me laura kyle and the news our team. but i go anywhere as over back in just a moment with a full listen of these for you. ah . mm hm. a,

the levy reach on the powder river is widening that's ominous for the town of pyro downstream. as more storms bear down on the farming community this week, out of 1700 residents were told to evacuate. the county of monterey has performed more than 170 high water rescues. as a result of this flood, the storms are the result of atmospheric rivers, long currents of waste, your in the air that caused rain and snow fall. california has experienced no less than 10 such once rare phenomenon since january an impact of climate change and probable trend into the future. inspiring story from around the world. ah. ready human life and it's fost. mm. groundbreaking.

with what is going on in new york city. on a just it's a $1000000000.00 money laundering operation for coal. marsha is bigger than the company with financial institutions, regulators and governments complicit. and what is that? is it right? i've described that in a 4 part series al jazeera is investigative unit, goes under cover in southern africa, pittsburgh. we control 90 percent of the government. once it's the following. it's practically brandon, good. part one on al jazeera. ah, the british and swift central banks raise interest rates to cub inflation when it could be impacts as we'll hop on the banking town. oil.