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play with now for the 1st time in history, a former u. s. president is being charged with a crime. donald trump has been indicted by a grand jury in new york. the charge or charges have not yet been made public, but the jury was investigating a hush money payment made by trump's former lawyer to an adult film star. gabriel, his owner begins coverage from new york. after more than a week of intense speculation and anticipation, manhattan district attorney ivan bragg leaves his office in new york. having just made history minutes later, a spokesperson confirmed that a grand jury bragg convened had voted to indict former president donald trump over alleged hush money to a former adult film star. and that prosecutors were working out the arrangements

with trumps lawyers for the former president to turn himself into authorities. it wasn't long before a typically combative. trump responded through a post on social media. trump calling the indictment an attack on our country, the lakes of which has never been seen before. stormy daniels and her alleged sexual encounter with donald trump is at the center of the criminal case against the former president. after she threatened to go public about the affair in the final days of trumps, 2016 presidential campaign trumps. then fixer michael cohen paid her a $130000.00 to keep quiet. cohen, who testified before the grand jury has said he made the payments at trump's direction, and in 2018 pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance was not revenge. right. what this is, is about accountability. i don't want to see any one, including donald trump indicted, prosecuted, convicted incarcerated,

simply because i fundamentally disagree with them. this is all about accountability . he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. trump has always denied the affair, and also initially denied any knowledge of the payment, but now says it took place as a legitimate legal expense ah. under new york law, it is the falsification of business records, not the payment itself. that would be trumps cr time. a misdemeanor, and only if prosecutors can prove he made the payment and falsified records. specifically to hide the affair right from voters or the iris. would it be a felony or a more serious crime that could come with jail time? the force of the cation of records for the purpose of committing tax evasion would be the addition,

tional specific crime to elevate falsification of business records from a misdemeanor to a felony. the exact charges against donald trump in the indictment are still under seal. net not made public. it's expected early. next week. trump will arrive here in new york to turn himself into authorities. he'll then face a judge and then be released. trump is the 1st current or former president of the united states to ever face criminal charges. gabriel's ando al jazeera new york. well that's now speak talk correspondence. kristen salumi, she's outside the manhattan district attorney's office in new york for us. kristen and i believe we are expecting trump inside the court house next door that next week. that's right. at this stage, we do expect that the former president will prevent and present himself to authorities in the court house behind me to formally acknowledge the charges. what

is known as an arraignment. ah, he will have to turn himself into the district attorney. have his mug shot taken his fingerprints taken? it's even possible. he could be escorted in handcuffs to see the judge and formally be arraigned on the charges, which we don't know specifically yet. those will not be discussed until publicly, at least, until the indictment seal is lifted. when he does appear before the george the judge, you can see a little bit behind some of the barricades that have been set up at police are already on the scene here. it's early in the morning before the start of the business j. obviously a big concern about security when you have a president of the united states appearing at a court house like this. the secret service has made it clear that it does not want to escort the president through a crowd of people. that would be a huge security concern, but when you have a man like donald trump, there's

a lot of unknowns and the president has really tried to get out in front of these charges and turned them to his advantage by rallying his bays. using the accusations against him at to rally them, fire them up to raise money. so anything could happen. and, and also the police here in the city of new york are, are worried about rally or is protesters showing up on either side of the issue and president trump playing to those crowds as well. so already on friday before the present is it expected to be in town next week we have a huge media presence here are huge security presence. ah, and we've seen protesters coming in and out just a few here and there over the last week as these charges were brewing, but that could increase as the time comes closer. now chris, and this is clearly a very, very polarizing moment. i know the district attorney,

there is an elected official. right. and polls suggest that this case is regarded by a majority of americans is politically motivated. yeah, well, you know, republicans have already in congress. republicans have already some in the manhattan district attorney alvin brag to appear before them and justify his actions. here they have adopted the language of the president, calling this a, which on a political persecution saying that the district attorney is beholden to left wing of thunders left when donors left. when causes he got money from an organization that was funded by george soros, who is vilified by right wing politicians in this country. so he's under a lot of pressure, but remember the district attorney all so when he 1st came in to office, just over a year ago was a under pressure from democrats as well. and he declined to take on

a case that was being worked on by his predecessor against donald trump. and he received a lot of criticism from democrats for that, that he said at the time that there wasn't enough evidence to proceed. ah, he is proceeding, we will know exactly what he has up his sleeve in terms of the charges, but several counts are expected. related to that hush money payment to stormy daniels, the adult film star. the payment itself is not enough for a crime. the da will have to elevate that and show as my colleague gabe said earlier, will she have to show that he made the money and attempted to cover up in an attempt to cover up another crime. and that's what it would take to elevate his actions to a felony charge that could see him convicted and if convicted even possibly, although experts a very unlikely served time in jail. oh certainly and very interesting few weeks

ahead. kristen silly me there on the ground forest in new york. thanks so much kristen. well, now bring in scott lucas. he is a professor of politics at university college, dublin. he joins us from birmingham in the united kingdom as scott, thanks for joining us again on al jazeera, just picking up there where i left off with kristin. i was looking at a recent couldn't, if he act pull and it's just that what 57 percent of americans think that this indictment is politically most aveson. i know we'll know more next week, but some of the legal theory also seems a little untested. is this in your mind, a bit of a risky move there by brag? look, i think the standard mental here is, will the you, us legal process and legal system be allowed to work without being prejudiced by politics and political manipulation. and the faxes we have them so far is, is that witnesses and evidence were presented to a grand jury of dollars off peers. that grand jury of his peers in manhattan

concluded there is sufficient evidence to vote for felony charges. and they are felony charge is not misdemeanor. indeed, while they are not, no, we wait for the charges to be unsealed. as trump will be formally indicted, arraigned next week. there is a report circulating that we're talking about 30, where he 0 felony charges. now that's a serious case whether trump is he acquitted, whether he is convicted, you should left the legal process play all because i thought him on a part of the american system. ready course chopin's allies don't want that legal process to play out, so they will gas light and they'll just let you in the media. i'm not talking about it's actually case, but by spreading, blaming, insulting others as being part of a political prosecution. so will scott, there are also a number of other possible indictments in the wax, right. other investigations where grand juries have been convened,

most of which seem to involve even more serious and some of them federal charges. is this potentially just the beginning? well, i think the beginning actually, if you walk it back just a bit late, it's important to understand why this case then proceeded in manhattan was actually a few months ago. i think the breaking of the damn terms of comp being immune from the legal system was when the trump organization, his business was convicted in a civil case in new york state and find and when it was convicted in a criminal case in new york and find and one of its leading officials, given a prison sentence, once that wall of unity broke down, then the manhattan case proceeds to the point where i now. but as you point out, there are multiple chases. there are other cases against trump's business. there is a serious case in georgia about alleged electoral interference by trumpet his allies, including the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and of course, if possible,

civil and criminal cases arising from his alleged instigation of violence over the capitol attack. and january 2021. well, it's got this is really sensitive. timing that how do you think this plays out when it comes to the politics? and in most on the seem to think this might help him in the primary, for instance, that could hurt him in a general election if he is actually the candidate a younger to return to fundamental. the judge escaped you. when you are analyzing brandy, when any one is going through the legal process, political speculation and we should do that, but it should not have any bearing on the case moving forward. and what has happened is, is that trumpeting supporters as a warning not to proceed with the case said, well if you indict him, he will win reelection. if he goes to trial, he will win reelection. we don't know. there will be multiple people campaign for the presidency on the republican side, such as rhonda sanchez, nikki haley, my pants possibly. tim scott. there will then be of course,

the democratic candidate probably joe biden. and the course of politics in an election. it is twisted and it is very long. i think the fundamental is, whatever speculation is about the course of that should not, should not impinge on how this case proceeds. so that as it may be, scott, i'm curious and in your mind as a political analyst, whether you think any of this might change people's minds, it does feel like people have brought decided that they like trump or not and are going to believe what they want about this case based on that as well, pretty this way as a person, as well as an in house law. i know people who have supported donald trump come helen high water for years. some of them are my relatives, they supported him despite all the evidence about his businesses, they supported despite all the evidence about trump, roger, about from ukraine, about the capital attack. and those people were likely to continue to do so because of the polarization of american politics. but quite often we build up these people to be supposedly the leading possibly even the majority force. and they're not. we

saw that in 2020, during the course of the election. we sought with the majority, the vast majority of americans, how they reacted with revulsion about the capital attack. and we seen it recently when pulls of indicated that a majority of americans believe that if donald trump isn't died and is convicted, he should not hold federal office despite the fact that he is legally entitled to do so. scott lucas, that professor of politics at university college. dublin, thanks again for joining us. announce is eric scott. it's always really great to hear your thoughts. thank you. on living on and the bell russian president has been delivering his annual address there to the nation. alexander lucas, anchor of friend and ally of russian president vladimir putin, has called for a truce in ukraine. he also addressed prisons, recent announcement that moscow would station tactical nuclear weapons on beller russian territory, saying that the deal was made at bella reese's request door. so jabari has more now

for us. for moscow. the bell russian president said that he is willing to host lot of mirror zalinski and he urged the ukrainian president to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible. lucas shinkel said that nobody wants to fight, and his proposal includes a complete freeze in all the forces that are fighting in ukraine. he said, all those forces the russian forces will basically hold their positions where they are. and that is when the ukranian president could come to the go shading table and continue a process that would not involve any western or eastern countries in those talks. the alexander lewis hankle also said that people don't want to fight. he did also say that his country is under attack. he accused the polish defense minister of saying that nato should consider opening a 2nd front against his country if ukraine fails. and he also made the accusation

that the west is preparing to invade bella ruth, to destroy the country. he also use this occasion to highlight the fact that his talks with the russian president vladimir putin, our ongoing, and they are going to secure an agreement that would see the return of nuclear weapons to bella luce. there is a lot of details that need to work out, but it's clear by the speech being delivered by the bell russian presidents that he feels his countries under attack. and that the return of nuclear weapons to his country would be a defensive maneuver. but certainly it will see a increase and tensions in this region. for me, miles, finland is a step closer to becoming a member of nato to carry parliament has now passed a bill approving the finish application to join the military alliance. the turkish vote was the last one needed for the country to join finland and sweden, both applied for nato membership after the russian invasion of ukraine. anchor initially blocked both bids exciting disagreements on the script that it considers

terrorism. well, let's speak to tarika was new. he is a professor of foreign policy and security. it is stumble iden university. he joins us now live from there and tara, this was essentially announced a couple of weeks back right when the finished president was in town. but it's mostly now makes it official how much convincing did out of one need. i think that ok, government feels quite happy with the latest. they will not once because the finished government has fulfilled its commitments to turkey. so t o k has been quite ready to give its green light to it. please send them before the next upcoming summit meeting of nathan alliance to be held in july in between. yeah, so historically speaking actually to cancel and have been all, all based on good terms, the 2 countries did in the shade in a conflict fuel a problem. i think a relationship in the past. and we should also make it very clear that the finish government, the, the number of kurdish people who live in finance is less than 10000. and also the

finish. a government is very keen on the idea that they need to comply with the terms of the turkish government from the day one. so turkey is quite happy because turkish government also want to give a positive message positive signal before the upcoming elections because the pressure on turkey has been piling into some months, you know, to key and hungry. it used to be the last number of me to decide on this membership issue. so turkey did their very strategic decision before the upcoming nathan alliance meeting. great timing for the so i see they have national elections coming up there. but i also need to finish president said that this wouldn't be the same without sweden. has there been any movement there on turkey stones? might there be? i don't think that before the election said in turkey turkish scholar, my daughter, the parliament will take a decisive action on this issue because technically impossible. but assuming that

the ruling coalition in turkey remains in power after the elections, i mean president go on, remain in power. i think to keep them continue to stick to its original demands that had been put on simply the government's because this is a bit of coordination. security issue, and we should also not forget the fact that he has been on good terms with russia. a very important country we have so they can take current in this consideration. but if we assume that the nation alliance positions focusing 30 to governments after the parliamentary presidential elections, they may be the process my, if you will, much more smooth me because the nation alliance on like the ruling party cooperation is much keen on the idea that should improve its relations with the rest and powers. so nation allies in power will make it much easier for turkey

to keep it in line to see the dish membership the crack. so the issue here is that the pressure on turkey has been too much, so it's going to be extremely difficult to get to hold off as kind of pressure after the elections the sofa. i'm sure can't had techies bid than to join the european union target. luckily, the professor of foreign policy and security at stumble, iron university, thanks so much for joining us here on out the return. my collision. all still plenty more, had you this news, allan shooting, we look at the conditions of pakistan's, overcrowded and aging prisons. hundreds of wildfires sweep through northern spain as temperatures reach record highs for this time of year and in sport, it's lucky 13 for the form player and women's tennis forest. here with the latest miami ah,

for malaysia's highest court has dismissed an attempt by former prime minister nat geo browser to have his corruption conviction reviewed. now jib is currently serving a 12 year sentence. the case relates to the embezzlement of the states investment fund and one of the biggest financial scandals in the country's history. he is the 1st former leader of the country to be jailed. florence louis has more often put dia this was not to abrazzo final chance to have his corruption conviction overturned through the judicial process. now that he has failed, he will have to return to prison to serve the remainder of his 12 year sentence. while he seeks a royal pardon, his lawyers had hoped the highest court in malaysia would review its earlier decision. not your browser was found guilty of corruption, abuse of power and money laundering in 2020. that position was subsequently reaffirmed by 2 different appellate courts. in 20212022. now

on friday, 4 out of 5 judges voted to dismiss nah, chips application. the majority decision said they were satisfied that there was been that there's been no miscarriage of justice. and even said nadia was the quote author. a of his own misfortunes, unquote. not your faces. 3 of the trials related to the one m d b financial scandal, although he was recently acquitted of or did temporary, lawrence hooey outages, era who tra jaya, malaysia, now synagogue opposition leader guzman. sancho has been given a 2 month suspended sentence for defaming the tourism minister. the opposition leader has denied any wrong doing and says the case against him is politically motivated. nicholas huck has more now from docker outside opposition. leaders guzman, so goes residents, police fire rounds of tear gas, the car, a normally quiet city,

caught between fear and anger. it's muzzling streets, overrun by security forces, as supporters of sancho fight with police. over the world going, i got lucky with him, brother. we looking come granite of nevada. we have members of parliament here to support sancho and we are getting guessed. what is this? we are honest citizens, not criminals, of violent people, more gorgeous sancho stayed at home sick as a judge. sentence him to wait 2 months suspended sentence, and $8330000.00 fine for defamation. after he accused the minister of tourism of corruption, your position accuses synagogues government of using the courts to crack down on political rivals. if president magnet south mar wouldn't this idea, but the verdict is saved, sancho from losing his civil rights, allowing him to run in the next presidential elections at least for now. sancho has another case pending against him. it's a victory for the senegalese demo. crazy for us because it was not about persons.

it was not about individual. it was about our institution. what have you done this morning? is a strong message for the world. that cynical ease a strong democracy ahead of the trials, schools and colleges remain closed. authorities suspended bus services and banned motorcycles from city streets and police conducted random searches. the conviction has brought some relief to the existing political tension, but also anger about what rights group describe as an increasingly repressive states. with just a year to go before the presidential election, amnesty international accuses the government of restricting civic space, bounding protest, but also detaining journalists and opposition figures. nicholas hawk al jazeera de carr. now pirates have abandoned, a danish owned oil tanker in the gulf of guinea. but are holding some crew members their hostage. the armed men bordered the vessel,

250 kilometers of point were in the republic of congo on saturday. the ship's owners say the rest of the 16 strong crew are safe and warm. in pretoria, we'll decide on friday. if a former south african paralympic oscar pastorius can be granted parole, he was jailed in 2016 for the murder of his girlfriend. grievous gen camp. if the cord was in his favor, he is expected to be released the same day, but the stand camps family lawyer says that they will oppose any sort of early release. pastorius claimed he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder the night that she was killed. first of all, it's a beautiful magic experience. as you can imagine, it's painful, you know, has to face osgood for stories again this morning. he's the killer of her daughter for them. it's a life sentence is eligible to be considered to placement on parole. they don't feel that he should be released. they feel that he has shown no remorse is not rehabilitated. because if he had been, he would have come clean and told the true story of what had been that night. how 5

people had been arrested in mexico in connection with the deaths of 39 people during a fire at a migrant detention center. the attorney general's office there 6 warrants were issued against immigration officers, private security staff, and the person who reportedly started that fire ensued our juarez or at least $35.00 people have died after a floor collapsed as a hindu temple in central india. it happened in the city of indoor dozens of worshippers celebrating a religious festival plunged into a communal stair line. well, when the floor gave way rescue, as there had been working through the night, her pull people out and to try to recover bodies or dozens of palestinian football fans or were choosing the israeli army of attacking them with tear gas. while they were watching a local league fine on trips, stormed the stadium unoccupied, east jerusalem, and fide tear gas while the match was underway. some players also affected by the

gas and 3 people were injured. a greek rail inspector has been detained in connection with last month's train. disaster. 57 people were killed when a passenger train collided with a freight train running on the same track. the employee as the supervisor who was on duty at the time of the accident. he's been charged with a disruption of traffic safety, causing death, or firefighters or northern spain are battling more than a 100 wild fires. with art is one that record high spring temperatures and dry conditions have resulted in an early start to the countries wildfire season. for troy gating be reports and out of control. wildfire scorches spain's northern coast . the rough terrain, high winds and low humidity, a hampering fire fighters battling the flames. spain's wildfire season started early this year in the east in valencia regis. more than 4000 hectares of forest were destroyed last week. and 1500 people were forced to abandon their homes. they

have only just been allowed to return on the way to witness such a delicate it's a feeling of joy for all of us that are coming back home is fundamentally a very important thing. we love the community, we belong to the community, so you can imagine how relieved i feel dope were the same of the u. n. environment agencies as climate change will spark a 30 percent increase in severe wildfires by the middle of the century in spain that already dealing with the fall out. the countries wildfire season now runs from spring to autumn, not just during the summer. and spain's meteorological agency says temperature in march have been up to 14 degrees higher than normal. it's a new reality. people are struggling to adjust to full media. your jo, not until you are. why do you, authorities have brought us a bottle of water because they have told us that we can not drink from the taps all the food in my freezer is defrosted. it's bad and everything is ruined. with warmer

weather forecast in the weeks to come scenes like this are likely to play out again for many more months. victoria gate and be al jazeera, still a had here on out is there. i'm had a massage in south africa, the governing african national congress. these are the boards of poverty aging is to maintain the geography, but what this was rated by the economy. i didn't keep wanting to find out more and unrest in synagogue capital as the opposition leader sentenced in the case. that support to say is politically motivated in sport formula one dr. is get to grips with some tough conditions there at the australian run pre ah hello will march is certainly going out like

a lion across southern parts of england. nasty little area of low pressure. this is a named store many sweeping across the south of england. this is storm matisse and that will continue to drive its way further east, which as we go through the next couple of days, not a cloud on that. and you can see this curl of wet weather, which will make its way further east was damaging winds. potential with damaging wind across southern england. winds could gust as much as maybe a 100 kilometers per hour. northern areas of france, him for some live. he weather as well as we go through the remainder of birth friday. sally sinks him a very, very ally, the weather coming in here for the north. his case of showers there into scotland. so much weather is into the republic of ireland. wet weather into a good part of central europe. we'll see some snow there over the alps. not too bad down towards the southeast. this wet weather will sink further south was down across the balkans as we go through sas day. and things will turn rather light because central parts of the mediterranean as we go into the early part of next week. so that's certainly something to watch out for. for northern parts of africa,

it is generally try and find quiet. here we have got the usual showers now started to show their hands around the gulf of giddy across much of southern part, west africa. 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 ways altering what is it. is it right, i've described that in a 4 part series. algio 0 is investigative unit because under cover in southern africa pittsburgh, we control 90 percent of the government. once it's recalling, it's perfectly brand new good part to on al jazeera. when the news breaks, some buildings that had already been damaged, have been further pushed over to one side. others that were close to collapse when need to be heard. and the story told. i couldn't tell them that i was

a musician while i was supposed to be burned with exclusive interviews and in death to each centimeter of this stuff represents a year of life. al jazeera has teens on the ground tip when you move award winning documentaries and lives. lou ah ah, welcome back to watching al jazeera. i'm the stalls you take here and our ha, that's mind you've. i top story. for me, you as president donald trump has been indicted by new york grand jury. the panel was investigating money paid by trump's former lawyer when adult films don't. malaysia's highest court has dismissed an attempt by former prime minister,

not your brother, to have his corruption conviction. reviewed. not job is setting a 12 year center. the case relates to the losing of the states investment fund in the band. russian president has been delivering his annual address to the nation. alexander lucas, anchor a friend and ally of russia's president putin has a key of and moscow to start to peace without pre conditions of moral miss. let's bring in stunning. love me talk of it. she is an international affairs, were sacha at financial university under the government of the russian federation. he joins us now from moscow. status of i see lucas shameka is calling for this immediate cease fine ukraine, while also saying that they asked for russian nuclear weapons. i believe this is all due to happen rather quickly by july. houses will been viewed by bell russians . hello, thank you for having me to the i definite, the thing that there are changes in lucas anchors position. we all do, remember that several years ago here post, you know, the basic idea of creating

a russian military air, race and bellows. now he gets nuclear weapons. now he calls for sci fi and ukraine that now could benefit russia, because russia can claim additional territories that is required for a previous year. so it's almost like bill, or was completely churned if for russia. now, if we talk about internal situation in this country, do all people support? look a shanker, of course. no, definitely. there are for a lesson people there, especially among young parts of a garage on the whole. but in general, they all have seen that if in you conflict arrows there, if there is a large scale confrontation with the west, nobody could really get benefits of it. so they would like a to be on the russian side, meaning not militarily, but on the russian side with a point of view of conducting peace treaty for when the peace rita could be achieved and they are going to feel safe. but at the same time, he said that if there is a need for confrontation,

he read it for it. for it up. he said the river plan from the poland site to probably invade some parts of western ukraine. we've been bellows in this case. miller, ellison, our bill, russian army, and even nuclear forces can be used. so i think this position cuz to, to satisfy russia. now, all you say he's getting closer to russia. i see lucas anchor also seems to be building more ties with iran and china. you meant it facing a month ago to run? what was it 2 weeks before? is this all passive showing up anti western support alongside russia? yes, absolutely. this is a parcel showing an unto rest and support for russia and russia allies, or at least countries that are moralist neutral or friendly to russia, including china and iraq. of course. well, lucas anchor was a person that always tried to seat on to cheers. if we do remember what happened several years ago, dickie to go to decades ago, she always wanted to be friends with russia, but where he wanted to get support from russia while at the same time,

not allowing russian military forces to be in billers in large numbers she always wanted economic support from russia without agreeing that say to join russia, had fun people in russia were mad about this situation. but for now, she is forced to be on the russian side and over 5 or fresh air life because, well, she's under sanctions. he the whole economy under sanctions. he's not able to sell his goods to europe in watching arms. she's not able to think, let's see, fertilizers to different parts of the world. we are fort, offer european countries. so she has nothing to do now. and probably this is the western mistake. well, they forced lucas shameka to be on the russian side. very interesting. stanislaus markovich, then international affairs researcher at financial university under the government of the russian federation. speaking to us from oscar. thank you for sharing your thoughts and expertise with a stanza. and you. now south africa as governing

african national congress has viez, relied on the support of trade unions to cement its hold on power. but labor activists hit by the countries economic crisis say they're getting frustrated with the agency. jaime test reports now from janice bank protests in south africa, happen a lot. sometimes every day, low ages rising poverty, the high cost of living and corruption, a some of the issues raised by workers. the country's biggest trade union group casado to feels the governing african national congress at times excludes it from crucial decision making processes. we hope that will begin as we started to reconfigure the alliance to what does the call of course are to we want to reconfigure. elias reconfigure in dallas means that any program that these companies could grab, it must have a support of their lives. of course i do calmness but the amc has governance of africa since white minority rule ended in 1994. but it hasn't. anything. unions

have a lot of bargaining power here. the governing african national congress is part of an alliance, along with the congress. also, african tate union and the south african communist party and the agency needs their votes in con, afford to ignore them. differences about who in house of africa should be run, has seen some unions threatened to pull out of the alliance with the agency and form their own political party. those differences have no loose been there, and we've always been able to resolve those differences as not the 1st time. but some within cassandra might have felt that don't want to leave the alliance to consistently indecent, who found common ground some into common spots yet or so. felt that no one to contest elections or rule, mr. plugged those contract actions out there. but consistently we to gate president, sir, am our process is as administration is working on turning iraq economy create more

jobs and deal with those implicated incorruption elections. our next year, analysts say if a split were to ever happen between trade unions entered africans governing party that could hurt the agencies chances of holding on to its majority. had with us al jazeera janice worked well that's not bring in. i shook her. gee, she is a political analyst and she joins us from johannesburg. asia, i know i saw her on the person was re elected leader of the n c because he was being seen as their best chance. right. in elections next year. do you think that still a case? i think that's a, it's still a case because the n c is struggling for its own survival. if it is seen to lose confidence in the president at this stage, then the country will lose confidence in him if they haven't already done so, which i think by and large is the case with in the country and specifically outside of economic leads in the urban areas, so certainly mr. i'm opposed will remain with the amc as the choice,

but it will be a choice that is written by current policy. and when you talk about losing confidence with the huge ongoing power cuts, unemployment, the grey listing capital flight on the phases, obviously had his work cut out for him. but i see he's also been trying to centralize more power in his own office, making appointments without asking for permission. how's that going with i think that that's going pretty well for him because what he's done, essentially, is to increase the size of the executive, of course, a huge cost to the taxpayer. so he's increased his cabinet. he's increased the cost from the treasury to government and he's done nothing really in practical terms to solve the electricity prices, but rampant endemic production within the state. and the distance between the governing party, the economic lead, someone to had and the men in the street on the other. so that because jenny coefficient is at its worst ever worse, even then upon type,

this is shocking. it is an acceptable and really it is time for the answer to step down because the corruption within it is so ramp and so endemic that it is unstable at unsolvable. at this point, i see he, we shuffled his cabinet as well last month. do you think he's trying to get rid of the old god here? how's that going over with the potential new god like judas molina say well for them as in a party of his own. remember, so he's not really part of the new guard in terms of the a and c. however, the, the new cabinet that re shuffled cabinet while it did get rid of a small amount of did a still chipped a lot of ailing elderly corrupt ministers within it and introduced new positions. as i said, as a huge pause to the 5th. so really what we've done except move this chest men around group at the expense, as i said,

of the man in the street. i saw no, i want to, i want to ask you about a good me that the future of the a and see because i see the opposition democratic alliance is now not ruling out in alliance with the agency potentially if it comes to that in elections and i wonder what the e f f. julius melendez group is also thinking here i would presume to, to predict that both the and the democratic alliance would consider an alliance with the and see if there was, for example, hung parliament in the elections next year. which is likely, it's likely that the n c will lose the majority of his health for so long, or at least that that majority will be cut to a very, very fine level. and then we need alliance parties. however, neither here nor the democratic alliance has the political strain, the political capital behind it, to govern on its own,

and who would need to go into an alliance such an alliance likely to be as far as the current governing. unfortunately, we are in a position where south africa is not just the field state, it is rapidly becoming a mafia. and once that happens, really all we can hope and pray for is the recent, just last week, president, president double embed said we're heading was south africa's own version of the arab street. i think he's fucked on actually i shaggy they're politically unless speaking to us from the johannesburg. thank you so much for joining sasha. some really interesting thoughts. you're welcome. thank you for having me. human rights organizations and prisoners say, sorry, as human rights organizations say prisons in pakistan are holding up to 60 percent more inmates than their actual authorized capacity. human rights watch report documented what it says are widespread deficiencies in the present system are for bag reports now from phase alabama. this cell is meant to hold this many people.

human rights watch says these prisons are overcrowded, and detainees are keen to tell us what they're going through. debit card numbers on it. every time i go to court, the judge is in there. if you're late, the police beat you and ask you for bribes. then they tell you to get ready, how can you get ready on time when there are 3 washrooms for over a 100 people? bathrooms on that? there aren't enough bathrooms. there's no cleanliness and the food is terrible. lewis have to speak to the clients through boss bill what i'll put it back to find gum, his leg. the main reason for over crowding imprisons across pakistan is the pulled you diesel system. prisoners don't have clean water prisoners sit on cold flaws. and if there's a toilet meant to be used by 10 people is being used by over a 100, a normal person, congo inside there. it's so discontent crill. but, but some are making attempts to increase standards authorities here. knowledge that

there is an issue of overcrowded within prisons, but they say it's not a problem for the prison system. they say the problem is with the policing and justice system, it takes considerate time for trials to start and for verdicts to be handed out. at this prison fessler paused, vicki show was their arrangement for visitors to acknowledge the facility is holding twice its capacity. 9 hope, according to the recipe of this is one department and what is gone big is door holding 9 beam prisoner in the of these do and it is definitely a we're overpopulated in we are getting constructed to 7 multi story better for the business and, and so let us do this problem before populated before they tell us medical staff are available for prisoners 24 hours a day and meals have been put together with the help of nutritionists from the cities university. the prison is a legacy of colonialism. it was built by the british in the 19th century,

but with the country in economic and political crisis still bringing it up to 21st century. western standards may take some time. i said big, i'll jazeera fessler both focused on not indonesia and russia have signed an extradition agreement. it's the 1st extradition treaty that indonesia has signed with any country on the european continent. russian justice minister konstantin church anchor called the agreement key for their relationship and says it will help combat trans national crime. firefighters and thailand are struggling to contain a wildfire that engulfed a large area of forest, a 100 kilometers north east of bangkok. the fire started on wednesday night, but firefighters couldn't immediately access the area because of the steep terrain more than a 100 heck. there's a knock on nail province have so far been destroyed, a decline and the number of pine trees in southern brazil is posing a threat to the local indigenous community. their one group is trying to save them from dying out from here. mm hm. and reports the vast evergreen,

otto carrier on goosey folio trees, also known as the brazilian pine, have long been revered in brazil's southern highlands, standing up to 40 meters. they can live for 400 years. they're deeply intertwined with the local ecosystem. and with the culture of the indigenous, chuckling people. but now the trees are close to disappearing. this family are doing what they can to save them prior to dialogue his fame in order to be able to take the tree out of the extreme risk of extinction. we need millions of trees so far. we've succeeded in planting thousands, but we need to reach millions. the loss of trees is threatening the communities way of life going out. ok. it, it was to us inches thick. you know, is the easy. say that the chuckling did not exist without order cardio is to says there is no oral carrier without the shock language. therefore, both our people and our culture also at risk of extinction because we no longer have our traditional food. they eat the seeds similar to the large pine nuts and

rely on the trees for medicine and spiritual practice. before planting the shock line, begin a ritual with dance and prayer. o. calling for the seedlings protection ah, gone, it could take a tree 12 to 15 years to produce seeds of its own. around 97 percent of the pine forest has been lost to deforestation through logging and urbanized ation. the shock lang, people say, former president terrible scenarios, hostile attitude toward them has made their lives worse off the decades of persecution. last cover in ozone, thumbs up with them. but a lot we indigenous people are not in care of this only for ourselves. we're think care of it for the whole planet. so the challenge is to keep this force intact, because there are many people who invade our indigenous land to hunt, to extract the wood that we have, which is our wealthier they are also miners gold miners. they see planting the

trees as a form of resistance trying to save their culture and environment for generations to come. really mohammed al jazeera mostella had here on al jazeera in sport, baseball's biggest star begins the new major league season on a high, far will be here with that story. ah

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a make over that. hi. yes indeed. thank you so much. this has yeah, for the 1st time since 1968, all 30 major league baseball teams played their opening games on the same date. and then after to attract more fans, new rules have been introduced to again, a faster and more exciting. don hanjin has more from chicago's, frankly felt stadium that wrong with opening day bringing back festively dressed fans peanuts. everybody likes freedom, and a hint of spring baseball is testing newly designed to make games shorter, faster paced, and more exciting. i think it would be fun to try and grow a bigger audience, speeding up the game, adding moran more heads only allow more people to be interested in doing a quarter pays for the 30 teams of major league baseball or carrying out an experiment they hope will save the american past time from boredom. pitchers will have to start their motions in 15 seconds with no one on base and 20 with

a man on. when you go to a baseball game, you're gonna, you're gonna feel that the pitcher has the ball. he throws the ball and it's going to increase the intensity of the game bases are getting bigger both to make stealing easier and to avoid collisions. and fielders will have to stay in position so they can no longer crowd the field where a batter it's expected to hit. dave has to be faster. we're look, worry, see, and times being reduced by 20 minutes. we're get under the 3 hour mark, which i think is very important. ever since babe ruth made his famous called shot in 1932 pointing to center field before batting a pitch over the fence. at that very spot. baseball has been increasingly focused on the home run. in recent years, batters have dawdled positioning for that perfect home run. swing. pitchers took their time, game time stretched on for 3 hours or more, and fans found it tedious. at least some of them did. you think it was getting a little boring now?

never bass was never going. companies. well, never boring. it was here at wrigley field that babe ruth made his famous called shot against the cubs with the cubs now opening against the milwaukee brewers fans . you're showing a measure of that excitement and a hope that now gay, you will be more thrilling than they've been in decades. oh, the die hard fans will always keep coming. oh, baseball's organizers, hope the changed rules will bring new fans to the game. right. okay. john henry m l g 0, chicago. all the exploits of show how tony will be another big selling point for baseball this season. we're going to it to a degree with fresh from his win with japan of the world baseball classic. he struck out 10 players over 6 scoreless innings, wasn't quite enough to secure a win for his el angels team as oakland a's went on to win the game to one former

english cricket. captain michael vaughan has been cleared of using races language and bringing the game into disrepute. it was claimed that vaughan made races comments to was ex, your sher teammate to as emer fee can $3.00 other players of asian descent in 2009 or fixed allegations about racism. yorkshire have prompted wide reading investigations and reforms at the club. had a world football jeremy in 15 o says new house will be selected for the mens under 20 world cup in the next 2 or 3 days the future president was talking and paris why when he confirmed argentina had made an official offer the stage the event which is due to kick off in may fif, removed indonesia as house on wednesday, indonesia football federation council. the tournament draw after the governor of bali refused to host israel's team. well, there are other countries that have announced an interest, but as a candidate with government guarantees and of the details,

argentine is the 1st and will make the final decision in 2 or 3 days soon as possible because it starts on may the 20th. that is soon we'll know about football in argentina. it's a country which can organize a competition at this level. but we have to follow the process and we'll know very soon what the outcome is. alaina ruby keena is quality and closing in on her 2nd street tournament when a wimbledon champion claimed her 13 consecutive victory by speeding. jessica, 13, that's in miami because exam player came into this event, having just won the indian while title shall face either patrick, commit law or puts out in saturdays. fine. spanish, teenager carlos alvarez is the dominant player in the men tennis right now. the world number one is 3 to the semi finals in miami. after this, when over taylor fred opera has won. his last pen matches without dropping his hel, play janik center,

and k in from the best lines in a i feel i felt really, really good. you know, i was really, really solid and aggressive the same time, you know, and it was that's a preference for me. and for me, one asked martin fernando alonzo is doing his best to challenge the seemingly unstoppable red bold team. alonza went quickest and around effected 2nd practice at the australian grand prix in melbourne. the red bowl, a pair of macs for stopping sergio perez had finished 1st and 2nd in the opening to races of the season. but alonzo has started the year with 2 consecutive 3rd place finishes. and if you to, you said there was just 20 minute session only. so then some from up to the morrow petroleum, the dyess, into the raise some lawn brands. so something that we were missing today,

but so far i think the, the cut seems to behave well. so let's see the model and the boston celtics from fan be a leading milwaukee box to move within 2 games for the eastern conference leaders. jaylen brown score 30 points, but as boston teammate jason tatum start with 40 to lead the south 140. the 99 when the knox in the box at the conference semi finals last season. all right, that is all your support for now. it stands. yes, back to you. thanks so much for. well, that's it for mean spell here, dave, this new though. tom will be here in a moment and i'll see you after that. ah ah, along with

around 3 quarters of sub saharan africa, cultural heritage is on display in western museums. it didn't happen overnight. we were robbed over time. the 1st episode reveals how european colonization removed tens of thousands of artifacts and the appeal struggle to reclaim them. restitution africa stolen on episode one blunder. oh, now jazeera landmark cases, but the sent shock waves around the world. it's enormous. it's phenomena, it's historical and paved the way for the potential to penalize climate in action is the will wake up call for the government. this is really something that can make a turning point or thrice, meets the citizens using the mo, to hold governments and corporations to account if they don't want to do it by asking, then let's go to the court. the case for the client on

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