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nato calls latimer pensions, rhetoric dangerous and irresponsible as he says, you'll station tactical nuclear weapons in bella roofs. ah, you're watching out, is there a life from a headquarters in ohio, eddie navigator also coming up? what an honor it is to be here in town. and on the continent of africa. you as vice president pamela harris touches down in ghana. we'll look at why the african continent is at the center of a global power struggle. cuba votes for the 1st time communist cuba holds an election without a castro as party leader. and 8 years since the saudi led invasion of yemen will have a window to what the united nations is calling the world's worst humanitarian crisis. ah,

dangerous and irresponsible. that's how nato has described. russian plans to base nuclear weapons in bella roost. president vladimir putin announced the move on saturday. ukraine says russia is holding bella roost nuclear hostage and is calling for an urgent meeting of the un security council. hooton's had the move as comparable to the u. s. stationing nuclear weapons and european countries. a sandwich. but of gluten houston, alexander lucas shank was right. he said, listen where your closest allies, why do the americans deployed nuclear weapons, add their allies on their territory, train the crews, pilots. how to use this type of weapon if needed? we agreed there will do the same without violating our obligations. even. i emphasize without violating our international obligations on the non proliferation of nuclear weapons. susie snyder is the program coordinator at the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. she says the agreement between russia and bela

roost could have catastrophic consequences. it increases the risk of the use of nuclear weapons by adding more actors who might potentially have the ability to drop nuclear bomb. it creates a potential for, for chaos and miscommunication. and that's a risky scenario at the best of times. and a time of conflict as it relates to stabilize and very these weapons are, if used would be, would have results similar or greater than what we saw in russia and nagasaki in 1945 there. hugely, they can cause huge catastrophic harm. and there is no recovery from any health care system they could deal with that type of contest reach. it doesn't matter the size of the weapon, the long term consequences are also something that we just don't have the capacity to cope with. it's highly problematic. the nonproliferation treaty is not

explicitly say you cannot store weapons in another country, but the pilots in those countries are trained to use those weapons and that would require a transfer of control. and that is prohibited under the nonproliferation treaty. russians, the media is reporting a ukrainian drone loaded with explosives has injured 3 people. the explosion occurred in the center of baton, a cure of esque and russia to the region. it reportedly damaged 3 residential buildings in the town about 220 kilometers south of moscow. russia has previously reported drone attacks in several towns and cities, some of which are hundreds of kilometers from its border with ukraine. on doris has formally broken off decades long diplomatic relations with taiwan and switch to china. it comes after the honduran foreign minister travel to beijing to discuss establishing ties. this leaves taiwan with only 13 diplomatic allies. china

consider a self rule taiwan as part of its territory to be retaken by force if necessary. adopted hamid reports with old friends make way for new ones. that's the result of the latest round of diplomacy for endures. as the country establish his relations with china, the foreign ministers of both countries, putting on a display of solidarity. shortly after signing a joint committee key for china, there is more to this than just to endure us to one the republican honduras said, was that so called diplomatic relations with taiwan as of his day and undertakes not to have any further official relations or exchanges with taiwan, under his fine ministers, confirmed a break in relations with k one saying the decisions based on the economy needs of the country, men and better than the 100 dollars for women. perfect, generally speaking, they are interested in how the countries moving forward and how to continue working

together based on mutual interests, defense, security, and the fight against organized crime. these are the themes that are normally on our agendas, laney tay, once president, however, hinted china, has been learning away its allies through financial diplomacy that they said the yachting way. here. we will not compete with china in the meaningless checkbook diplomacy or would, in the past years, china has been trying, every mean was to suppress they, once international participation escalate, the military threats to us and impacting regional piece they one is now left with only 13 countries officially recognizing the island as in pending from mainland china. do united states being its main backer? even though washington hasn't establish official relations with the country gather at stake, is china's growing footprint in latin america, where it has so far poured more than a 130 $1000000000.00. as salvador nicaragua,

panama, and the dominican republic, have already switch allegiances from do u. s. honduras. his announcement is also a blow to job biden's administration. assign washington could be gradually losing its grass and latin america. with that that made ogazio the u. s. vice president cobbler harrison's arising gone on the 1st leg of week long trip to africa. she's the highest ranking official from the biden administration to visit the region and recent months show also travel to tanzania and zambia. we are looking forward to this ship as a for this statement of the long and enduring and very important relationship and friendship between the people of the united states and those who live on continent of africa. i'm very excited about the future of that. i'm

very excited about the impact of the future of africa on the rest of the world, including the united states of america. and china accelerated a global post for influence on the african continent when it launched its belton road initiative. in 2013, it focused on developing infrastructure. moscow has increasing, we looked to africa after being sanctioned by the west, over its invasion of ukraine. the foreign minister surrogate library visited the continent twice in 6 months. china's new foreign minister, king gang, went on a 5 country tour of africa in january to start his term. the u. s. first lady joe biden visited namibia on kenya in february. her visit was followed earlier this month by the u. s. secretary of state anthony blinkin, who stopped in ethiopia, an easier judy more as a senior policy fellow at the center for global development on a former liberian minister. he says the biden administration's charm offensive as in stark contrast to what we saw under donald trump. the previous administration

didn't see strategic value to deepen in the relationship with africa. the by the administration was to step away from that. the u. s. has been present on the continent for a long time, but as mean would be through humanitarian assistance, development, aid, and security. and so engage in africa through a prison of a problem. what we're seeing now, the difference we're seeing here is engaging africa to a prison of opportunity. and so this built on the, you have the new africa strategy that was launched in august of last year, and then the african liter summit. and so this is the 4th high level visit us going to be another one. the secretary of the church of day of education is going to be in zambia. so we see this as sort of high level engagement with africa. see in africa, apartment and not simply a problem. for the last 20 years, there has been a significant increase in chinese influence on the continent. china has been such

a massive player in africa infrastructure along with back came a rise enough in china's inch influence on the continent. now because the u. s. and china are with power. competitors are the u. s. c's china as a peer competitor. and so if that is the relationship in which a 0 sum interpretation of it, it means any game for china is pursuit. as a loss for the united states, voters in cuba are electing a new national assembly. no campaigning has taken place and there are no opposition . challenger's voters will instead endorse nominated candidates, the countries facing rolling power blackouts. and the cost of living is a major concern for voters series ago reports from the cuban capital. we're here in the polling station in havana where people have been coming since very early in the morning to cast their valor to their picking the members of a nation assembly who will eventually elect this country's next president among the candidates, our former president. we've got the current president, me in the mail and people we have to pick among the candidates in there. this you

can see right here. some of them in this case is mighty like after she is the daughter of a will gap. and once they go inside this building, they'll have to select in ballard like this one, whether they would vote for every one for some of them just for one. and they can also cast a blank, a blank of rolled up, but candidates had chosen by a commission that loyal to the communist party. there's $470.00 candidates for $470.00 seats. and that's why critics say that humans do not have the possibility of choosing members of the opposition are not present among bills. candidates and abstention has been on the rise into recent years, especially if compared to the times of fidel castro, where a q or every q and a voting age will cast a ballard. this election is happening in the middle of an enormous economic hardship. wherever you go, people tell you about the difficulties. they have to find medicines and food,

long lines of people trying to get gasoline and constant blackouts. eloy vieira as a lawyer and political analyst, focusing on cuba. he doesn't believe the elections will result in any real change for the country. i believe that they are not at its significance for the majority of the cuban people, because we are not elected anything, but even a cuban people are voting, but they are not elective. you represent the if they are just boating, were candidates at where previously elected by do communist party. we're not whole been any change. we're not expecting any change in the island because the electrons in cuba are just the side to gave this symbol of legitimacy to the regime. so any regions need some kind of legitimacy and the electoral system in cuba is the sign for it. i can say that in cuba, we didn't have campaign, electron copies, like, you know, in the rest of the war,

on least not in the way that the rest of the world no or, or create. but in cuba with the government, the regime creates electric campaigns only the actual electoral campaigns. they gave a lot of resource for those being. they move, those for percent are on the concrete, they have contact with the people. they have the state media for them. they create content related with the candidates at blood, least with the most important, for example, the president of the republic. so just they spent money in electron campaigns, but they just spend money to elevate, ah, their own candidate, a ship crews to rescue 180 migrants and international waters has been detained and the italian porter lamp. and you saw the libyan coast guard has also reportedly fired warning shots at a charity vessel as it tried to rescue a migrant votes. you has trains and finance libya's coast guard to stop migrants

reaching the continent. and the tennessean coast guard says it's recovered. $29.00 bodies after 3 migrant boats sank off the coast of the southern city of facts. it also rescued, 11 people. the coastline has increasingly become used as a departure point by those heading to europe. sunday, march 8 years since the start of the saudi led invasion of yemen. the war has caused what the un has described is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. the world health organization is calling for $392000000.00 to cover the immediate health needs of human is zane bas robbie has more shame or was only 6 when she lost her leg injured in the early years of a war that's been fought for most of her young life and i said, i was playing with the boy and while we were walking the shell hit us. i didn't feel anything until the next day when i found myself in the hospital and tried to

reach for my leg. and i asked my father, where is my leg? he told me that i'd been injured. so i asked him to from today onwards, i will live without the lick. but shame i was lucky, the child next door she had been playing with was killed. her father encouraged her to focus on what remained not what was lost earlier, not complaints that aid groups often overlook parts of either one of them at some organizations did not include the syrian, the aid hand or the residential part of the cities in the line of fire and no aid is entered for a while. the women who the rebels took control of the capital santa and 2014 forcing the government into exile the conflict wide. and when the saudi led coalition invaded in 2015, with the stated purpose of restoring the internationally recognized government to power. despite its proximity to the fighting,

aaliyah mate says he chose to stay because ties. 6 is his home, his daughter's lifelong injury forever. a reminder of the cost is in basra. v o 20. stella had anal 0 waking up in a different time zone. how a dispute over daylight savings in lebanon is causing chaos and confusion. joe biden declares an emergency in the u. s. state of mississippi, where a powerful storm has killed 25 people. ah frank assessment just just means to give them the basic human rights, not only in the camp, but also inside the meal mach informed opinions. 5 administration are very concerned about this development especially, or what it means for china's power on the world states critical debate. now only

both legal root or a spirit in depth analysis of the days headlines inside story on al jazeera, april analogies, era from tokyo and syria, al jazeera reports on how earthquakes, survivors are coping during the holy month of ramadan. one, a one east meets the young russian men refusing to fight newton's war in ukraine as they seek safety in past 25 years since the good friday agreement and the decades of violence. we report on how bricks it is forging newly added in ours. in the lead up to date, i would just say we're exploring the environmental significance of action. and inaction, paraguay holds general elections with corruption and organized crime. high on the agenda can the wound, colorado park, you hold on to power. april on al jazeera lou

. the color we're going to top stories on al jazeera. the use foreign policy chief is warning bella ruth, not to host russia, nuclear weapon saying it could face further sanctions. the comments come after president vladimir putin agreed to deal with president alexander lucas shanker. us vice president common harrison's arrived and gone on. the 1st flag of a week long trip to africa. she's the highest ranking official from the biden administration to visit the region and recent month, voters in q bar like the new national assembly. no campaigning has taken place and there are no opposition challengers. voters will instead endorse nominated candidates. the cost of living is a major concern for voters. a growing number is really politicians are denouncing

planned by prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the government to overhaul the justice system. usually it'll find had to connect that foreign affairs in defense committee, and just calling for more time for the proposed bill to be discussed and revised. on saturday, the defense minister also calls for the bill to be halted saying the public unrest could threaten national security. hundreds of 1000 defense release have been demonstrating weekly against the proposed changes. i keep the elder as a political analyst and he doesn't think there's enough political resistance stop the legislation from being passed. now actually doesn't need the 61 majority. the simple majority is good enough to have to pass this serious of just ratios and to lead us to a judiciary crisis. and this is how it looks like now. they know that there is one boss do is one show in this town. and the actor

is benjamin that danielle, maybe also his son has been in your role, especially on tick tock. but you know, it is controlled by our own and the members of difficult are concerned about the their own future. and i think that in a very good day, we may get 3 or 4 members of the good abstaining not voting against legislation. just because you know, they, they care about their own seats. lebanon is facing a political and religious dispute over its official daytime hours. if caretaker prime minister says daylight savings will now begin at the end of from a don in april. and that allows muslims to break their daily fast earlier. but

christian authority say they'll stick to tradition and have already put their clock forward an hour. zanna hood that has more from beirut, there is more chaos in lebanon, a country already close to collapse because of an economic and political crisis. this morning, the lebanese woke up to time zones, usually at the end of march of this country shift into the summer time. but this did not happen because of a decision, an unexpected and surprised decision taken by the caretaker prime minister, along with the speaker of parliament. be buddy. this really this decision a caught people by surprise. some institutions like middle east airlines has adapted to the decision. yes, their electronic devices, their clocks remain the same, but they've had to change their flight schedule to comply with the international flight schedule. but, but there's uproar and there's opposition,

and there are institutions which are rejecting to comply with the decision. the argument is it was in discriminant and chose the way this country has been governed for decades. and it shows how officials and not state institutions are taking decisions without resorting through to parliament to cabinets. and most of the opposition is coming from the christian community. the head of the maronite church christian parties, because they are concerned that the post in lebanon, sectarian power, sharing system of the president is now vacant. and it is the muslim leaders who are taking the decisions on their behalf. and it's not just that, while those empowered did not give a decision on official reason why this is happening, it coincided with the start of ramadan. and in the leaked video, you hear the how speaker say, you know, people will, will fast, less, less an hour during this month. so a decision on whether or not lebanon will change to summer timings,

which it really has done for, for years now, is causing a lot of confusion in the country polar jacobi on in bay routes as a lebanese member of parliament. and she says, the move is a tactic to distract the public from corruption. it is because there's so much happening in lebanon, the financial meltdown. we have read drums in the country. this is a kind of distraction base trying to divert that really social economic problems to you know, again the sectarian lines. this is where they can win again, this is how they can reinforce their 60000000 base. they have nothing else to sell . they have no, they had had they hadn't, they can do any reforms. they can't elect a president. we live in a condition that are not non human at all. there's no electricity. there is no achievement at all. only a set of cliche that you every day. so again,

they put this garb once again and they divide that in the newspaper. yeah, we feel that we're in a war time again. you feel that the country is divided? i mean, as if it is the eighty's, the seventy's. but what's worrying me, it's that even use people you know, buying again this card and, and starting to, to wage a war on twitter and on social media instead of not buying this. but this is, this is my main concern here. nothing will happen. it's 3 more weeks till the end of from i thought everything would fall back to normal. they would find new ways back to live in east from their re brothers. nearly 2 months after powerful earthquakes had turkey and syria, millions of displaced people are still without proper housing. the turkish government has launched reconstruction projects, but safety concerns remain. bristol, sorry, there are reports from come from on the rush. these rocky hill is being prepped to

house people displaced by there are make the construction workers have laid the foundation. they say the 1st section of the $310.00 structures will be completed in 4 months. 2 kilometers away. hello, she lives in a tense city. is she last 4 of her relatives in the quakes? she desperately needs to move into a new house. so lemme get an on dish de la de la la is the whole time. oh, absolutely. we want the government to give us a house. we've received little i'd so far. we have no other options. if we at least get a house, we can mourn in a decent way. live in her village, pens of houses have collapsed or had been heavy, damaged. the village used to have a population of 90 people, one 3rd of whom have died of global more than 2000000 people in turkey are now living intensities across 11 provinces. people want to move into houses as soon as

possible. an official, safer way than permanent accommodation is a priority. but for many experts here, lane, the foundations now maybe risky because of, of the shocks in less than 2 months. but to give you a whole general elections, unit coach must is an engineer living in caught him on mash. his worried that the government is rushing into construction to avoid the political cost of earthquakes . he says, dividing effort, augmenting the city without a master plan will result in city losing its center to that in numerous boulevard. our main concern is that as an aftershock still continue, the ground is not stable and samantha crash, but even more image only if we don't act according to a master plan, the city will gradually get closer to the fault lines. again. a proper planning is needed because of the message destruction customers estimates. half a 1000000 new buildings would need to be built in possessor areas. despite the

government's promise to complete his large undertaking in a year, he believes it will take much longer to rebuild the diversity. the city's neutral said that al jazeera caught him on my dash, southeastern took here. a state of emergency has been declared in the u. s. state of mississippi, after tornado tore through communities on friday, at least 25 people are confirmed. deads only consume sharif reports, a trail of destruction that stretches more than 270 kilometers. a to nato swept through several towns on its our long journey in mississippi, ripping about everything in its path, rolling folk in the room, mississippi. delta is the hardest hit. nearly half the beds have been reported here . i have seen better days, but this is the worse i ever visit. devastating fran law. damage. it is hot break. the tornado was so powerful. debris was

reportedly thrown thousands of meters into the air. tens of thousands of people in alabama, mississippi, and tennessee, all without power. he could hear with ruffian by filter high of kellen drifting a little bit. didn't drink more, but it's doing a 20 minute hold on. come through, and we don't have power no more, no. to nato's that difficult to predict, but are relatively common in the central and southern parts of the u. s. but friday's trista was set to be rare. it was on the ground for more than an aw, causing extraordinary amount of damage. because some sharif under cedar faster from me, the news continues on al jazeera, after inside story, bye bye. ah

ah, here's your weather update for the middle east and africa. thank you for joining in . so for the middle east, this is what it's looking like. rain transfers from iraq, right into iran, and around the bottom end of the red sea. there are some showers that's going to clip the western side of yemen and the hugest mountains in saudi arabia. closer look at the golf now, some hit and miss showers around here. doha could certainly catch one thunderstorm, not out of the question. if we do see those thunderstorms, the winds will whip up to about 65 kilometers per hour. place it had a lot of thunderstorms as of late northern pakistan, but things have quieted down for now. but here comes our next westerly disturbance, it's parked over iran. so some showers and ted on with the high 15 degrees for turkey, 8 those windsor shift and out of that south, that's going to pump up the temperature and it's stumble to 17 degrees on monday. off to africa, we go in the rain really concentrated around nigeria wrapping around

a cameroon and equitorial guinea. and you know, it's that some of the year were our seasonal rains moved further toward the north. so to renshaw, rain, in southern somalia has led to some flooding there and it has turned deadly biggest verse of rain. i think northern tanzania, toward the southeast, as wall in some pretty powerful southerly winds, are going to drop down the temperature and my puter big time on monday, we'll see you soon. take care. ah, from the al jazeera london, gro casenita 2 people in thoughtful conversation with no hate, and no limitation of the artist by nature, the person who on last part t love i way way and in me hippo society is not interested in the individual ality. the freedom, the spirit don't the young person studio be unspent date.