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ah, am laura kyle? this is al jazeera alive from dough, also coming up. 8 more cases of the mob virus reported in equitorial guinea. after 5 people die from disease and hands and air will protest across france against the government plan to raise the age of retirement president is standing firm on the issue. we do not promote or remove contact a chinese government and tech talks. chief executive faces tough questions in the u . s. congress over the companies alleged ties to china. ah, we saw in the u. k, where the bank of england has raised interest rates for the 11th time in 18 months and moved follow similar measures by the u. s. federal reserve and swiss dash bank

is for the rates of 4.25 percent, the central bank, se kirby inflation remains a priority. despite market concerns about turmoil in the banking fact. so rate rise in the u. k. comes just a day off the announcement that inflation went up last month, hitting 10.4 percent. it was driven by high food and energy prices. pul brendan has more from london. you can interest rates are already at a 14 year high before today's monetary policy committee. meeting, and this 11th consecutive monthly rise, puts more pressure on believe it businesses and u. k. mortgage holders. but the policymakers here at the bank of england really have the hand forced by reasons economic data. firstly, there was an unexpected increase in inflation up to 10.4 percent announced on wednesday when many economists expected it to fall below 10 percent. second of all, various food inflation and that's running even higher than headline inflation. the

latest increase, 18 percent in the price of fresh food and non alcohol drinks. and the cost to borrowers is also significant. the average tracking mortgage compared to december 2021. now $394.00 pounds per month. more expensive for mortgage, hold us them or borrowing pain for businesses and mortgage. hold us here in the least in the short term. but the awesome sign for optimism from what the bank has had to say. first of all, the monetary policy committee was not unanimous in deciding to increase the rate 7 voted in favor to were in favor of keeping the rates where it is done. the thing was that it was a quarter percent rise, as opposed to the recent monthly half percent rises, that the bank has imposed. and finally, the bank of england is now forecasting that britain will avoid recession in 2023. the bank now forecasting that there will be a slight increase in the u. k. economy, or that means that there is the hint of funding will positive in

a month to come pull brenda, and i'll just 0 at the bank of england. and the 1st national bank increase its interest rate by hung of a point. so it's key right now found at 1.5 percent signal the bank signalled more hikes were possible. move comes on the heels of turmoil and the swiss banking system. the state broke it a deal for banking giant, u b. s. to buy as troubled rival credit suisse on sunday. the i m f is warning, lebanon urgently needs reforms to prevent hyperinflation. a conditional agreement was reached last year on a $3000000000.00 loan to favor the economy, but needed changes have not been made artistic, tried to storm government headquarters in beirut on wednesday. please find, take us to break up the crowds. many of those retired soldiers demanding a living pension. or earlier i spoke to, i mean salam, he is lebanon's minister of economy and trade. he says that needs to be political will for lebanon to recover from this economic crisis. we have witnessed that,

you know what lebanon is going through now. is it really 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. whether it's a monetary, fiscal or economic policy, it has proven failure. and we're trying to really start on a new with a new framework with i m f. that's why we are emphasizing the importance of the items because it's splitting a new framework that over 3 decades, none of that have any government's past liberties. government have managed to put together to build it 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 new system is really, that's the stall, main point that we are all now fighting over and other 8 cases of mob virus have been confined by the world health organization and kentoria guinea that brings a total number to 9 and probable cases to 20 does, an outright was 1st declared in february, and these 5 people have died of the disease and hands. and in the cases were confirmed in new regions of the country indicating a wider outbreak. there are no vaccines or anti virus treatments approved to treat the severe viral fever. this is feeling fears. it could spread further in the region with alarm sounding and cameroon. and kenya, lamazzo virus disease or m v d as a rare hemorrhagic fever that affects both people and non human primates. that's the same virus family as a bowler. marburg has an average fatality rate of 50 percent, which varies and different strains the worst outbreak in angola in 2005,

the fatality rate was 88 percent that killed more than 300 people. dr. my city. so my dad, he is the world health organizations regional director for africa. she explains what steps need to be taken to contain them are burg virus. first and foremost, do 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 who are some of the 1st contacts. and we have had a couple of health co workers die in a pictorial 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 case is to make sure that we 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 community is 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 contact with the population, so people are reminded and enabled. so minimize the transmission. more protests are

underway and france against the government plans to raise the age of retirement. protesters blocked ramps, and roads, and several cities, workers and demanding that present a manual micron drop the pension bill in the city of nance. please take us to this 1st crowd and such a butler has more from paris. oh, there are thousands of people filling the square. the plan to live in central parents are going to be picky for. and i think from the, from the office demonstration that has already left. but there are people still coming in to this classroom around. there's been a lot of destruction say it is a nationwide so i can protest the noise since the beginning. it's not affecting across the public sector transform. education help serve to say golf, but you still finding out in paris a lot of anger over president micro pension reform bill, which will raise the retirement, but not for these people. and now angry is the method by which micro government

pushed this bill through the bypass and you'll make them pay a $45.00 degree people say dr. shows the person micro look not only does not care, i should say about people in the streets and their concerns. but he also doesn't care that from this situation, say about lawmakers about opposition. and critics that he cares about what he wants is 5 minutes has passed the 1st of several laws that make up the governments controversial judicial over whole despite nationwide protest against the changes to the judicial system. the plan would limit the power of the supreme court. critics that threatened democracy, hundreds of demonstrated the blocking roads in protest, people into care or observing ramadan as they struggled to recover from last month's devastating earthquakes. thousands are still living intense and depend on aid to survive. as a 3rd, are reports from a camp for displaced people in the southeastern city of adie, a man. oh,

an unusual drama. then in a d. m. the 1st prayer of the muslim holy month is held in a makeshift moscow. oh, grandmother is not only about fasting, it's also a time for joy and celebration. oh, but not this year. father. sure it is difficult to slip away from a done in a tent city. conditions are difficult. i would never have imagined celebrating ramadan without a roof over our heads. monmouth gazelle and his permit, he used to live in a 3 story house. it collapsed when the 2 portal earthquakes structure kia and syria . in early february. the gazelles are among about 5000 people who, how south shelter here. they all depend on your mac, on his mit, the video that we provide to meals, p dave tower and to hold 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 under the rubble of their home for hours. i can her grandchild and wait him to be rescued. dotala vienna did scala gal give to school on. they provide psychological support, but what use is that after we've lost everything, we built that house with every penny we saved throughout our lives. during ramadan, i used to prepare meals for my family. now i don't even have an oven to cooks the hall for them. the earthquakes destroyed around a 1000 buildings in i d. m on more than a 1000 people died. those who survived have turned to prayer, especially during ramadan. 2 o, many people who see the whole of dear time intense will be short and that they will be able to move into houses quickly. but nearly 2 months after the earthquakes,

that optimism is feeding life here is becoming increasingly difficult. and they're struggling to get used to the new normal bristol said that i'll jazeera or the amana. so these tortilla on just over the border from takia. thousands of syrians recovering from the earthquakes or simps at the fest have ramadan nor cool marsh reports from it. lab today marks the 1st day of the holy month of ramadan in northwestern assyria, almost 2 months after the devastating to an earthquake that struck these areas which caused severe damages to the infrastructure in the area. in addition to the displacement of more than 130000 people who were already added to the internally displaced as we can see, a behind me the families ad this refugee camp are now a breaking their fast during the ramadan ramadan. 2 month we talked to

a many families as they described that the increased numbers of the people who were displaced by the twin earthquakes added more pressure on the already existing internally displaced refugee camp. and they are trying to cope with the aftermath of the twin earthquake. and the damages it god, in addition to their already attempts of, of dealing and coping with the 12 year conflict. and they still don't know if they're a suffering. and the ongoing situation will ever come to an end. no car. michelle just euro at lib slash hair on out is there on the growing. wo, says my jerry and months on the old nights were abruptly banned and replaced with new ones. ah frank assessments. justice means to give them the basic human rights. not only in

that camp, but also inside the me and map informed opinions. 5 administration are very concerned about this development, especially for what it means for china's power on the world stage. critical debate are all the both the legal report, your the see, the other thing you're going to progress in depth analysis of the day. sidelines inside story on al jazeera, we tell the untold story. ah, we speak when others don't. ah, we cover all sides. no matter where it takes us a fan sir guy from my i am power in pasha. we tell your story. we are your voice. your news, your net al jazeera in north korea supremely to kim jones sister is emerging as a likely successor. one. 0,

one east investigate north korea's most powerful woman on elgin's, iraq. oh, the me again, you're watching out there. it has remind you of our top stories this the bank of england has increased its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 4.25 percent. and so the 11 consecutive right wife and just a day off the announce when that inflation has also gone up. 8 cases of mob virus disease have been confirmed in equitorial guinea. these killed 5 people and tons of this week, and more protests on the way and from,

against the government plan to raise the age of retirement protests as a blocked ram, some bridge and several. stacy's workers demanding that present to my new micron. drop the pension bell, tick tock, c, o showed z to is test find between the us house energy and commerce committee is facing questions about the social media platforms, alleged relationship with the chinese communist party and is use of data. session began with the chair of the committee hitting out against take talk. chick talk is a grave threat of foreign influence in american life. has been said is like allowing the soviet union, the power to produce saturday morning cartoons during the cold war, but much more powerful and much more dangerous. banning your platform will address the immediate threats make no mistake. this committee is also look into the future . american needs to be prepared to stop the next technological pool or weapon china

will use for its own strategic game. we must prevent any ap website and platform like to talk from ever find on americans. again. a had a ceo made a series of promises to the u. s. congress. there are more than a 150000000 americans who love our platform. and we know we have a responsibility to protect them. which is why i'm making the following commitments to you. and to all our uses, number one, we will keep safety, particularly for teenagers as a top priority for us. number 2, we will fire wall protected usda from unwonted foreign access. number 3, take talk will remain a place for free expression and will not be manipulated by any government. unlike hannah has been lessing into show g two's testimony for us. and mike, this is a session that into its 4th hour now. how's it going protect up? well, it certainly is the most bipartisan display i've seen in congress in

a long period of time. there is no political division in terms of the criticism of tick tock from all members of the house committee, in particular, tick tock, alleged relationship with china, with the speaker off to speaker. arguing that kick talk may intentionally or not be providing data to the chinese government. there were questions about tick tock, spare and company by dance, which is based in china. and which some that said congress, people without any hard evidence argued contained members of the chinese communist party. so the very hostile questioning of the tick tock, c. o, and also brought up the impact of the app on teenagers. in particular, one disturbing example, given up a 16 year old who jumped in front of a train and killed himself after watching a series of apps, allegedly promoting suicide on tick tock. so although

a few liberal members of congress have supported picked up mainly on 1st amendment issues, free speech issues, none of them are on this committee. and so far on this committee, there has been no or little support for tick tock. one of the legislators proposing to do well, the c o came up with a proposal called the texas project. now in terms of this, he says, all the servers would be moved to the united states. they would be effectively run by an american company with american monitors who would observe the use of the data collected by tick tock. he says, this is further than any other media company would be prepared to go arguing that this would be a great way to ensure that the usage of the data is not going to some foreign control or that it is misused in any way. but once again,

members of this committee, not engaging with this particular proposal, arguing that they are concerned about what tick tock has done in the past, what it's doing now, rather than what it may or may not do in the future. but basically there was complete disagreement about the c o protestations that there is no link to the chinese government, and that there is no loose of tick tock data by the chinese authorities. mike hannah, joining us from washington d. c. thanks very much, mike. of your pin government her the point to the senior official in the t grey people's liberation front of the head of a new interim. why regional government get to, to re does appointment comes just a day off the t p l f was removed from list of terrorist organizations establishing a temporary government was a crucial part of the peace deal. last year that ended fighting between to grow and rebels and government troops, the conflicts of kill tens of thousands of people enforce millions more out of

their homes. well, the p still between the government and the t p l f was fined in november last year . it ended 2 years of war. the fighting started in november 2025 minutes to be met order the military offensive against the p. p l. f. in response to what he said were tax on army bases. the government declared a truce in march last year to allow humanitarian aid entity gray. the u. n. had repeatedly called for an end to the violence and using 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 we'll them 2600000 people had been displaced and years of drought had left millions without enough to eat. cafeteria, rudolph spoke to out there shortly after his appointment with confirmed he says that in the pillar forces will support efforts to sustain peace, outright of good happy people who were in the war simply for the fighting or for

the shooting. there were there to address political grievances that we felt of the people we had the 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 they can course in a peaceful manner, and we have reason to believe that of course, his company address it in, in the 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 doubt that fighters will be fully behind 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. indian opposition, politician role gandhi has been sentenced to 2 years in jail for defamation. in a 2019 speech, gandhi made references to prime minister and are under moody and to fugitive indian businessman, all sharing the modi's surname and called them thieves. and he says his comment wasn't against any community and will appeal against the ruling. and sentence has been suspended for a month from insur modi's governing b. j. p said nobody is above the law. most schools in afghanistan have reopened after the winter break, but taliban authorities are still barring teenage girls from attending since the taliban takeover and 2021. only girls age 12 and under have been allowed to go to school. the taliban government has also banned women from higher education. united nations calls it gender based apart, hates the any option now available to older girls as islamic schools, known as my dresses. they provide religious instruction. they got their style of

critical america and with all of them address a can't help me in becoming a doctor because that's done through the schools. and unfortunately, schools are closed, but still them address is good for increasing our religious knowledge and it's a good place to enhance our skills as i want to get all the time day and night. i imagine may be some day schools might reopen and my education will progress further and i will be more knowledgeable. i will never lose hope if it isn't through schools, then maybe through the madras us or online courses, because now there are telephones and the internet. but it, my dear is in for economy is struggling because there isn't enough cash, a redesign of the local currency as well as a recall of old bank notes as being blamed. and the half a population doesn't have a bank account. i can't address reports from cano goods arrive at the sink market by the truckload,

but with not enough bank notes in sight, correlation traders are struggling to find buyers for their goods. um, other than what they are gonna be and got cut and de would able doesn't that he billable 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 you are 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 that 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 up 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 mer, blames the government's monetary and fiscal policies for the collapse of his business. but it did a yard yog, i get 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 saturation until the end of the year. that was up to some governors to both the central bank and federal government to court when they economy those down. and you need to activate it, you reflect it. not deflated. what's happened is lead defeated, the economy, and it is impacted negatively on the people. economists warn of dangerous ahead for an economy that already st tool recessions in 8 years. once economies experience in

this, it simply means that the economy could collapse at any time unless before you ginger people to production that give the to tick tock because that trust government and it's bonuses, it's no longer there. despite the order from the supreme court, the cash crunch continues. it's causing economic pain to millions of nigerians and small businesses. i'm a decrease al jazeera kendall, and i, jerry, that's it from me, norah clark, i'm a teen hampton. now we back that with the news, our full hour of news after inside story that started

hello, we've got some really nasty weather across the east side of the red. it's radiant at the moment. big area cloud just rolling through the levant and it's bringing some very disturb whether some pretty windy weather as well. you can see some rain there, some snow over the, the mountains into care that will make its way further east was expect to see some showers there around syria, lebanon jordan, the occupied as to me in territories. israel that will sly, further east, which as we go one through sas day, so very much a case of some dry weather, but also wet and windy weather to watch out for times. central pastor, saudi arabia also seeing some ryan fine here in carter doha, at around 28 celsius. they'll be some shower, some of the wintry slowly making the way across afghanistan that disturb whether we have a cross at east side of the mediterranean. also affecting the north east of africa, northeast in libya, seeing some wet and windy weather at times, and push his way further. reese was cairo 32 celsius on friday, falling back to around 23. as we lose as suddenly when that pushes through towards

the sinai peninsula and the rain sitting in here, lot of showers there across west africa. now joining up with a heavy shower rod across the heart of africa, warwick, where the coming to you gander into kenya. and tanzania ah. ready too often of cornerstone is portrayed through the prism of war. but there were many of bannister, thanks to the brave individuals who risked their lives to protect it from destruction. an extraordinary film archives spun for decades, views the forgotten truth of the country's modern history. the forbidden real part for the ear of darkness on a j 0 israel has scrapped parts of a law barring sets in some areas of the occupied west bank tension is the.