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ah, my money inside this is out there, alive from doha. also coming up is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu arrives in the united kingdom, as protested, speak out against his policies. i'm natasha butler in paris where they have been more violent pension reform protests overnight and now king charles's visits has been cancelled and adding color and flavor to ramadan. people in garza observed the fasting month in the shadow of conflict am located. ah, we begin in india where parliament has disqualified senior opposition, figure a whole gandhi, an mp on thursday,

co found him guilty of defamation and sentenced him to 2 years in prison. a 52 year old, a member of the narrow guard. the political dynasty was convicted for comments he made about prime minister miranda murray, surname as an election rally back in 20. 19 of the matter has been following developments from new delhi. 2 there is growing anger among opposition, parties who say that democracy in india is on the danger ra gone. thee is one of in just most recognised politician. he is the de facto face of the opposition. he's also someone who has led a lot of the criticism against 5 minutes to narrate moody ranging from allegations of crony capitalism, like favoring big business houses for lucrative contracts to up targeting minorities and, and shrinking space for minority rights in india. and his with disqualification comes the day after he's been sentenced for defamation. for comments he made about

4 years ago. opposition party say that this is just the latest infant off try, millicent arrange remote is partly junk, a party or b j. p. miss using government agencies ranging from courts to investigative agencies, to tax authorities to target opposition leaders. and so about 14. 1 political parties have now approached the supreme court up with these allegations and our hearing is scheduled for the 5th of april at about $10.00 to $12.00 days. it's also important to point out the gone these, not the only opposition leader under the so called scanner, at least 2 other members of opposition. parties are being questioned o for a legit corruption. they say investigative agencies have found nothing and this is just an intimidation tack. attracted by the mo, the government per wan, kara,

is the chairman for media publicity out role gone these national congress party. he says the policy is ready to fight legally and politically. we are in the ports of the people and that's part of the legal options, are concerned. legal experts are looking into the options available. they may be options available to having said that, it's pretty amusing to see that the man who's questioning the governing, questioning the prime minister, always silent on crony capitalism on his brain. but them a dummy on the hindu book report demanding the joint parliamentary committee. the person who is demanding all of this gets punished and growing the capitalists will scott see, i think they should, the government realize that if they don't realize they will realize that gandhi in the parliament may not have been as little or dangerous for them. but can be on the seat of india, will be far more into the for them to be. people are with us. people of it

is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on an official visit to the united kingdom. he's met with u. k. prime minister richie sumac talks between the leaders that taking place against the backdrop of protests against netanyahu. trip, when he is rightly israelis in the united kingdom on abroad, all against his governments, judicial changes which they say we can, the supreme court. ok, let's go to our correspond jonah haul, who is live for us outside downing street. so now his visit isn't off to the best stock given the purchase. what does he want from this trip? when he left, in fact, downing street in the last 20 minutes or so getting a full view of the protests outside, he knows the way he goes. now benjamin netanyahu protest as follow london is no exception, broke palestinian protest is a 4th, but also m. c. that's an yahoo!

protested here outside downing street people who believe that he and his coalition of far right out and actually elk grove, politicians is leaving israel down the ball was or talk percy, what did he come here for? well, he came here principally to focus attention on iran, what he considered to be an existential threat to israelis trying to build an international coalition. the stand in the way of iran efforts to expand its use. their program is visited for european countries in 4 weeks, including signatories to the valid, to thank the funky around deal, and members of the security council from city and here use of the u. k as well. what he absolutely doesn't want to be talking about on this visit is what these people do want to be talking about. and that is his government efforts to push through controversial judicial reform in israel that they say is an abuse of power that undermines the judiciary. the supreme court that gives government power to

appoint judges, at least essentially they say, an attempts to shield netanyahu himself, of the worst defective corruption charges against his will in lights of everything that's been going on at home. and israel, what sort of, well can do you think he got in downing street? i mean, it would have been a perfectly warm welcome inside inside the downing street that i did to talk about . he needed his hey, prime minister, not just the wrong. of course, the war ukraine as well as a bilateral prize. the big question is, and we don't know the answer to this because we haven't had a read out of that meeting whether this is not raised in any way these additional changes. us johnson shelton, germany did no thing. his government's extreme concern. we don't know whether that happened. i'm sure it was all pretty civil. of course inside downing street, much less on the road outside. okay, thank you for that. jonah hall just outside done street for us unions and france,

calling for more strikes and protests on tuesday against the government's plan to raise the retirement age. a state visit by the case. king charles has been postponed. more than 1000000 people demonstrated nationwide on thursday to voice their anger at the pension, changes, or 157 people were arrested, and 441 security forces were injured as go straight to natasha butler, who is live for us in the capital. paris natasha. these protests really taking an increasingly violent turn way off. things going well, look, that we're more than 200 demonstrations protests across frauds on thursday, and most of them were peaceful, but it is true that there were some series of violence at some of them take leave here in paris in the capital where we saw police and protests as cash,

some of protesters deciding also to a smash some buildings up. if you look behind me, if i to step out of the way of the short here, we'll see a part of residential, a building that is bodily burns and bins. also a lot of mess on the ground in this street. it also has cafes an average street in paris. what happened is some protest is set light to some of the garbage that has been pining up around the city on the streets because there is a stripe by garbage collectors, not to force. the fire lit some of the front of that building. it was a similar situation in the south western city of bordeaux unesco world heritage city. there some protesters set fire to the door of the city hall. now those, the images that have shocked many people in frogs here today across the political spectrum. most people all condemning the violence for their own will. so those who say look, this is what happens when peaceful protest is all not heard. some people end up

resorting to violence to get that message across course. pressure is mounting on macro on to pull these reforms willie hold firm well, there is a certainly a lot of pressure on the french of president. he says though that he's not going to scrap his pension reform, that it is necessary in order to sustain the pension system for future been generations. but there is no doubt that as the social on rest goes on, it's not a good look domestically or internationally. we've now heard from the elisa palace thought of the upcoming visit by king charles. the 3rd is actually been cancelled now. he was supposed to arrive on sunday and stay a few days here in paris and then go to the southwest institute bordeaux where the city hall was set, where the door of the city hall i should say was set on fire by some protesters on thursday. look in the past few days, a lot of people have been wondering if that visit would go ahead because of the disruption trade unions that already made it clear that they were going to continue

with some of those strikes and disruption next week, particularly on tuesday, that would have been right in the middle of the visit, so perhaps no surprise that this visit has been cancelled, or i should say postponed. says the lisa. okay, thank you for that. natasha butler, their 1st live in paris. the u. s. has carried out air strikes on targets and eastern syria. the pentagon says the operation came all to 5 american soldiers were injured, and a contractor was killed in a suspected arrangement. ling drone attack earlier on thursday. well that attacked targets in the us led coalition base near al has soccer. in the northeast, united states navy has asserted what it calls navigational rights and freedoms off to stand off with the chinese military in the south china sea. beijing says that a u. s. warship was driven out of waters near the parasol islands for the 2nd time this week. a washington denies any one doing saying that its vessel,

the u. s. s. millis was conducting a routine operation in international waters. china, of course, claim sovereignty over almost the entire south china sea, despite an international court saying the claim has no legal basis. north korea says that it's military has tested what it calls a new under water drone state media. se lead kim john owned over saw an attack simulation using the device as well as cruise in this context. young young has stepped up missile testing this week to coincide with joy military drills between the u. s. and south korea. well, mcbride has more from sol. this would be the 1st time north korea has tested what it calls a nuclear capable underwater drone. it was apparently conducted earlier this week when the drone traveled under water for nearly 60 hours. busy before hitting its target, it's claimed it would be capable of unleashing a radioactive sir,

no army against an enemy's naval facilities. and it comes as the us in south korea . an armed forces conduct large scale joint exercises, the largest in 6 years, which include joint naval exercises. north korea state run media says the task was overseen by leader kim jong ern, who was also a picture to attending the lodge of new types of cruise missiles, or part of the north efforts to develop it tactical nuclear arsenal to threaten its neighbors with south korea. and the us do to hold more exercises in the coming week . so the weapons testing by north korea also look set to continue. rob mcbride al jazeera, so still ahead on al jazeera out there, it goes down the cover, and some barber, a investigation finds that a senior debt to match, offering to launder millions of dollars and tough questions for tick tock to sierra

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india's parliament house disqualified opposition. politician ronald gandhi, as m p on thursday at court, found him guilty of defamation and sentenced him to 2 years in prison. unions in france, according for more strikes and protests on tuesday against a government plan to raise the retirement age state visit by the case king charles has been postponed all than a 1000000 people demonstrated nationwide and it's really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is met with you. k prime minister, where she's soon act in london, talks between the leaders have been taking place against a backdrop protest against netanyahu strip. now, a final day of un public hearings on israeli rights obese is being held at the united nations in geneva. the commission is examining the allegations of both israeli and palestinian authorities,

a part of the enquiries focusing on the killing of al jazeera journalist showing novel oc lee, who was shot by israeli forces in the occupied west bank last year. out zera's arabic bureau chief, while lead omari has testified. wesley was a big and grown model for journalists in the middle east, especially women, journalists, and ultimate sacrifice for journalism. and the flow of information will not be forgotten. we went to the international criminal quotes, icpc on the 6th of december as it as the assassination of our, the article in the journalist and senior course. one done for it is about the it month. we went to demand justice for city. we submitted the fire of this was crime to the international criminal court after all, investigations were completed and all evidences. and this one is where provided

we fully convinced that the vision poses are the ones who killed city in the morning of the events of may 20 to 2022. and if there is, invest, gets a unit, has uncovered a scheme, ends and barbara, involving a top official, senior diplomat agreed to launder more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. in a meeting that he believed was with chinese criminals as part of investigation by al jazeera into networks and part of africa that use gold to loans of vast sums of money. i bet angel is a british zimbabwe, businessman and the presidential envoy, he claims have made it on to africa. forbes rich list in 2013 net worth is believed to be around $60000000.00, and he calls himself the profit of success and exam. james has this exclusive report to see him under cover reporters posing as chinese criminals. meet one of

cimbawe boys most senior diplomats that i'd like them. um, was it a bit of a compass? but on the special envoy? i'm a representative of the prison. let me look and find conference i can find to different government without the prison getting for women with a trip. no libertine jill is also an evangelical preacher. that only goes, he says he has the gift of prophecy with powers, to heal the sick. it takes the power of god, but it takes somebody to believe it was something to happen. ladies. angel was personally appointed by president emerson, man and gaga, to bring investment ins as in bob way. use my assist ambassador. it lodge assigned to promote zimbabwe brand. zimbabwe economy has been devastated by corruption and more than 2 decades of sanctions imposed by the united states and europe. the local currency has no international value. the country's biggest owner of us

dollars is gold. you want to gold, gold, we're going to do it right. and we can make the call right now. it is done with the address they go from my, my naturalization right this minute. the president of zimbabwe minus federation is henrietta rash. wire, the warning prison, golden by gordon, maybe send a private j. big biggs of gold every week. i do it for $5000000.00 can be cleaned every week. they get going with 5000000 in me . green. finally, the ambassador is not bothered that the cache is being laundered. its money cannot be declared in the country warren with. ready the no, we don't want to, so he explains a plan to smuggle the dirty cash into zimbabwe using his diplomatic status, plano, again, to do, i did with 1.2 video and put a written,

written diploma he conducted under the vienna convention states agree to exempt diplomatic luggage from airport searches with elizabeth with good. well and did you politically, ambassador angel henrietta rash wire and president, man and gaga did not respond to our request for comment. alexander james al jazeera and he can watch the 1st of all full part series in the out. is there investigation? gold mafia, the laundry service coming up at 12, she empty. now the head of the worlds fastest growing social media has faced 5 hours of questioning by u. s. house committee. take talk, see i was grilled about data security. my can reports from washed t. c,

thinking it was a rare moment of bipartisanship in a divided congress. welcome to the most bipartisan committee in congress. we may not always agree on how to get there, but we care about our, our national security here at issue here of free speech rights. federal control of social media and national security issues in recent days shows the 2 and his team had been lobbying in washington, including meeting with each member of this committee, the charm offensive carried on tick tock itself. i'm super excited to announce that more than 150000000 americans on take talk decimal half of the us. but congressional critics, we're not deterred, chick talk, is a grave threat of foreign influence in american life. it's 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. and i'm pretty sure and shown to

the committee disturbing, tick tock, content that was found on the feed of a 16 year old, who killed himself by jumping in front of the train. it's alleged the content contributed to this suicide. we must save our children from big tech companies like yours. number one, we will keep safety, particularly for teenagers as a top priority for us to insisted talk didn't share information with the chinese government, saying the company would take steps to ensure independent monitoring of data use. all protected us data will be under the protection of us law. and under the control of the u. s. that security team, a few liberal members of the house of oppose the moved to shut down, tick tock. the primary fear that this would be against the 1st amendment, the freedom of speech clause, and the constitution. but it appeared the majority support either shutting the app down or forcing the sale to a u. s. company. the f

b i director has told congress that tick tock represents a national security threat. the federal government has ordered that it be removed from all federal devices. the previous administration attempted to shut tick tock down, but the move was stopped by the courts and whatever merges from these hearings. this likely at some stage to be a protracted legal argument based on 1st amendment grounds. mike hannah, audio 0, washington o, utah's become the 1st state in the u. s. to pass legislation restricting the use of social media for minors. specific parental permission will now be required for anyone under the age of 18. to use platforms like take talk, instagram and facebook. the law is designed to make social media giants more responsible for their content. me and most military spokesman has confirmed out. is there a plan to repatriate ringo refugees will go ahead in mid april or hang arise groups

calling at a p. r campaign. last week a delegation from me and ma visited a refugee camp in bangladesh to interview potential candidates for return. but many say they're too afraid to go back more than 5 years after military crackdown drove nearly 800000 ringa from their homes. dozens of people a fear that missing following heavy flooding in northern afghanistan, least 300 homes have been washed away. meteorologist say more rains expected in the coming days. during ramadan palestinians living in the besieged gaza strip usually prepare for a month, a fasting praise and celebrations. many in preparing for the possibility of further conflict with israel. as 2 out of 4 was on guard, i have taken place during the whole month, una al fire reports from casa city. as people in garza prepare for

ramadan, the excitement is mixed with tension. for many cows since the muslim holy month is a time to come together with family and friends to break fast and share meals. but for some, the memories of complex and wars when they've previously celebrated are casting a shadow. blossom is that i bought a hall. we want to feel the joy and happiness that ramadan brings to our homes and our children. we have many sad memories, but we will not tie them with it. almost dawn. it's not fair to make this month a month of sorrow. i knew her the bar most of the year about we have referred all essential foods in dates for our customers during this whole month. we know it's difficult time and if any escalation breaks, we'll have to store all these food and lose a lot. but we hope it will be fine, and people will enjoy ramadan peacefully. despite this most constancy of preparing for ramadan, with the same enthusiasm and joy,

they have every year. families are busy decorating their homes, shopping for special foods and buying gifts for loved ones. what you see behind me is called the colored neighbourhood by the people here. they fainted. pictures on the walls of their homes to celebrate and welcome the coming of the holy month of ramadan. life has been stabling garza for many years with ongoing conflict and frequent outbreaks of violence. patrice intentions have be particularly high, with fighting between israeli forces and palestinians in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. and that sparked hears of a wider conflict. alas, i believe it would be the issue of egypt and other regional and the emotional countries us been restrained from escalating the situation with as well. but we also about this world keep pushing against the palestinians and numbers on june of

with them a lot. so most that might lead to, i'm very limited escalation with, with israel, which my mother last volume the international community has repeatedly expressed concern about the rising tensions in the occupied territories. the united nations has also expressed concern, but about the potential impact of any conflict on those in godsa whose lives are already precarious. you may see it al jazeera godsa. okay, that's it from a molly inside. the news continues here on al jazeera out inside story. the hello good. his ear. well,

tokyo saw its earliest 1st balloon of cherry blossoms on record. this picture is coming in metro. tokyo is about 10 days ago. bit of gloomy conditions there. and certainly we've had some thunder, a downpours and still showers sticking around here on fridays. so that's put in the cap on temperatures to just 14 degrees. more soggy conditions, persistent rainbow for southern china. many spots more than a months worth of rain over 24 hours and that continues on saturday. so certainly the risk of seeing some flooding here. storms in the mix, pretty much stretching from punjab state in india right down to caroline tamil nadu . but i think the worst of it will be in punjab states that certainly could have an impact on farmers crops there and we think it's a boxed on. so for below just on providence, we saw snow for the 1st time in march in 15 years about 5 to 10 centimeters here. most of the action though is up around the capital territory and in punjab, providence, that was spilling over a punjab state in india. after the golf we go get

a fairly brisk when through saudi arabia, so that's blowing around the sun and does rod looking at swing us about 30 to 40 kilometers per hour on saturday? that's it. that's all we'll see soon. ah, it's a $1000000000.00 money. no drink operation for coal, marsha is bigger than the company with financial institutions, regulators and governments complicit about with it. right, right. in a 4 part series, al jazeera investigative unit goes under cover in southern africa, pittsburgh, we control 90 percent of the government. once it's to the following, it's practically brandon good. part one on al jazeera israel has scrapped parts of a lower barring says from some areas of the occupied west bank tension has been running high and the.