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hello there, i'm the styles the attain. this is the news i live from our headquarters here and are coming up in the next 60 minutes. the 1st u. s. president to be charged with a crime. donald trump is indicted over payments to an adult film stop. he says it's a which rushes closest ally calls for truce in ukraine, fellow russian president, alexander lucas, and can makes his annual address for his nation. italy's privacy regulates at bands, the artificial intelligence system chat gpc over days that and privacy can fax and i'm harder matessa in south africa, the governing african national congress. liza supports a powerful to aging is to maintain its majority, but it worked as a straight to buy the economy a getting agitated. keep wanting to find out more. and i'm far as small with the sport to new era has begun for major league baseball. we'll take a look at the rural changes aimed at making the game faster,

more exciting type degree with well, for the 1st time in history, a former us 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 is under begins our coverage now 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 likes 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 laws. 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 of 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. if not made public, it's expected early. next week. trump will arrive here in new york to turn himself in 2 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 in new york. well, let's speak to kristen salumi. she's outside the manhattan district attorney's office in new york for us. kristen, just how soon can we expect to see trump inside that caught up? been? well, we do expect president trump to appear at the court house on tuesday now for the formal procedure known as an arraignment to be charged formally before the judge with the charges that are now under seal at that time will learn exactly what the

district attorney is charging him with we expect dozens of counts related to that hush money payment to the former adult film star story daniels. but in order for those charges to be elevated to a felony, they will have to include some sort of cover up for proof. for the president. of course, security is already being ramped up around the court house. here in lower manhattan, president trump has already called for his followers to protest. his charges, secret service is likely to bring the president in by a private entrance so that he does not have to wade through the crowds that are expected between the media and bystanders. here at the court house, all of the n y, p d,

the new york police department has put on high alert for the next couple of days. given the sensitivity of what's happening at the court house here. so will we see donald trump outside the court house? it's hard to say, but we know that he has used this indictment to rally his base to raise money and to raise awareness of his candidacy for presidency, which he is not backing down on. he is calling this indictment in these charges at which point. oh, well, it's interesting you say that kristen, because i know the new york district attorney is an elected official. right. and recent polls already suggest that this case is being regarded by majority of americans as politic came motivation. yeah, like many issues in the united states right now, the public is very divided on this. and while president trump has called for demonstrators to rally on his behalf, we've seen i just as many protesters and demonstrators around here that are in

favor of indicting president sean. so we have buried divided public and very divided public officials as well. the district attorney when he 1st took office, declined to continue with an investigation and prosecution that his predecessor had started against tromp. he came under pressure from the left for that. now with this going forward, he's under pressure from the right. republicans in washington, d. c. have already demanded that he appear before congress and justify what they are calling a political persecution. meant to interfere with the upcoming election. the district attorney has pushed back on that, calling it interference with his job in the independence of the judy of the justice system. as so very tense situation, very divisive situation. i and we will get a better sense of how that's playing out on on tuesday. i should also point out

that president joe biden is facing a lot of questions about this as well on the south loan of the white house. this morning, reporters were peppering him with react for reaction to the indictment and what it means. and he refused to answer questions on this, apparently attempting to stay out of the fray and, and not wait in or inflame the situation any more than it already is. kristen salumi there with all the laces for us from new york. thank you, christine. now, alexander lucas shank us has russia might deploy nuclear weapons inside batteries. at his request, the beller, russian president, a friend and ally of russian president vladimir putin, was making his annual address to the nation. he's also called for a truce and talks without preconditions between russia and ukraine doth jibari has more. now, from moscow, the bell russian president said that he is willing to host lot of mere zalinski. and he urged the ukrainian president to come to the negotiating table as soon as

possible. lucca 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 lucas ankle 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 ready to work out. but it's clear by the speech being delivered by the bell, russian presidents that he feels his country's 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. i spoke to stan a sub metropolis. he's a research at finance. will university, under the government of the russian federation. he says lucas shank has been forced into a close alliance with moscow since the start of the war. lucas anchor was oh, a person that all was tried to seat on 2 chairs. if we do remember what happened several years ago, dickie to go to decades ago, he always wanted to be friends with russia burton, 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. he always wanted economic support from russia without agreeing that said to join russia. and some people in russia were mad about this situation. but for now, she is forced to be on the russian side and over 5 or for russian allies. because well, she's under sanctions, he's the whole economy under sanctions. he is not able to sell his goods to europe in russian arms. he is not able to think, let's see, fertilizers to different parts of the world. we are ports, 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. all. meanwhile, finland is now a step closer to becoming a member of nato. to he is, parliament has passed a bell approving the finish application to join the military alliance attack his fi . it was that last one required both in and, and sweden applied finance membership after the rushman basin of ukraine and gra,

initially brought both beds exciting disagreements on curtis group that it considers terrorists. ontario causes li from stumbles, iden university told me that pressure has been mounting on takia in recent months. i think the focus government feels quite happy with the latest developments, because the finished government has already fulfilled its commitments for turkey. so turkey has been quite ready to give its green light to it. please fill them before the next upcoming summit meeting of the nathan alliance to be held in july in 20. so historically speaking actually can have been all this on good terms. the 2 countries didn't shave in a conflict fuel a problem, i think a relationship in the past. so turkey is quite happy because turkish government also want to give a positive message positive signal before the upcoming election because the pressure on turkey has been piling in recent months. while malaysia highest court has dismissed an attempt by former prime minister in algebra,

zach to have his corruption conviction reviewed. and our job is currently serving a 12 year sentence. the case relates to the embezzlement of the states investment fund and one of the, well, the biggest financial scandals. he's the 1st former leader of malaysia to be jail. florence louis has one out from put your giant this was not your browser's 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 nudges application. the majority decision said

they were satisfied that there was been that there's been no miscarriage of justice and even said not jim was the quote author. a of his own misfortunes uncorked not your faces free of the trials related to the one m d b financial scandal. although he was recently acquitted of audit temporary, florence hooey, al jazeera who to jaya malaysia. also africa's governing african national congress has for years relied on the support of trade unions to cement its hold on power. but labor activists be hit by the countries economic crisis say they're getting frustrated. now with the agency harm ritathui reports from johannesburg. protests in south africa happened 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 board. does it call of course, or do we want to reconfigure elias reconfigure? in dallas means that any program that these companies could grab was have a support of their lives. of course i do calmness, but the amc has governance at africa since white minority rule ended in 1994. but it hasn't been easy. unions have a lot of bargaining power here the governor at the national congress is part of an alliance, along with the congress, offset african trade unions and the south african communist party at b and c need their votes can 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 there we've always been able to resolve those differences is not the 1st time,

but some within cassandra might have felt that don't want to leave the alliance to consistently indecent fund common ground in some into common spot yet or so for that dude. one to contest elections, idleness, but those contradictions are there, but consistently we to gait president, sir ram our processes as administration is working on turning iraq economy, create more jobs and deal with those implicated in corruption elections or next year. analysts say, if a spit were to ever happen between trade unions, answer their focus, governing party, that could hurt the agencies chances of holding on to its majority. how to with us, al jazeera janice, work on political analyst. i, you, chicago says the future is uncertain for south africa's presidents are on the poser and the ruling agency party. what he's done essentially, is to increase the size of the executive, of course,

of huge cost to the taxpayer. so he's increased his cabinet. he's increase the cost from the treasury to government and he's done nothing really in practical terms to solve the electricity prices, the rampant, endemic corruption within the state and the distance between the governing party, the economic need someone to hand and the men in the street on the other, however, the, the new cabinet, the re shuffled cabinet. while it did get rid of a small amount of did were, as still kept a lot of ailing elderly corrupt ministers within it and introduced new positions as i said, a huge cost to the fastest. so really, what has he done except moved his shipment around really i would presume to, to predict that both the yet 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 more 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 hotness. however, neither here nor the democratic alliance has the political strength, the political topical, but behind it to govern on its own. and so it would need to go into an alliance such an alliance likely to be as corrupt as the current governing the unfortunately, while still plenty morehead here this news hour including we look at the conditions of pakistan's overcrowded and aging prisons. are robert broaden juno self career where the early shore side of spring is the insurance side of climate change and in sported to lucky 13 for the form player and women's tennis bar will be here with the latest from the my

ah no, italy has blocks to the artificial intelligence system chat, g p t, it's privacy regulator, says the app did not respect personal data nor verify the age of its uses. it's launched an investigation chart g p t was created by us, start up, open a i and is backed by mac, microsoft. it's designed to answer difficult questions, write code or essays. but it's sparked controversy with teachers worry that students could use it to cheat on their exams and policy makers to have raised concerns about privacy. cybersecurity spread event of misinformation, but we asked chat g p t to respond to the news that it's been banned initially and 50 words or less. it told us that as an ai language model, it doesn't intentionally misuse, use the data nor verify edge. it says it will work with italian authorities to understand concerns and improve data protection. the program added that privacy and

data protection are important and that it would comply with applicable laws and regulations. well, let's bring in the retaliate piano. she is an ai and laura such fellow at the university of alon yoshi now joins us from that city. rooted. do you think the span of spare could be potentially see more countries perhaps follow suit? hello. i think there might be, there might be some follow up from other countries in the chat, ttp the open, i need to provide more information on how to train. because at the moment the allocations are based on assumption that it's miss using the personal data. but actually, we don't know how the data used because there's not enough information given to the public. let me ask you more about that because so many different forms of technology, social media, for instance, all the different search engines they use, use the data to how is a i or chat g p 2 different?

so g, b is different than a way that is trained on a larger dataset, so it's taking all the publicly available information online, mostly in english and training. it's algorithm. wire. social media platforms are focused on the data they are gathering themselves. so in that sense, the language model is a lot larger and a lot more powerful. however, that kind of zoning in only on t v t might be unfair, given that there are other large, large models out there. other companies will still have to see how they compare in the future. so you mentioned that a whole load of different companies were trying to get out ahead of each other. i wonder how you address something like this. when technology like this cost is so many different jurisdictions, for instance, it sounds like you need to sort of international regulatory body that doesn't exist yet. true. at the same time, if you're in union, there's a lot of new regulation being proposed. there's that. there's data service act,

et cetera. so we will have enough regulation. it will be a matter of how in flores and how much the companies collaborate and showing the information that is needed to better understand how the phonology by working. so which i'm curious because many of the people who i imagine would be involved in trying to create regulation for this whole new era. don't necessarily fully understand the technology, right. or it's implications. and then people within the industry, you don't necessarily fully understand the social consequences. so who should be actually trying to do this lead this? i think it's one of the areas where collaboration is much needed. because if the regulators perceive ignoring the company interest, the way the models are built, people get bad regulation. the same goal is if we just left the company still regulate, they might decide to ignore certain protections. and right. so i think it's

definitely a collaborative efforts from all the different stakeholders involved. usually a piano than a i and laura such fellow at the university belong. yeah, thanks so much for sharing your expertise with us. teresa here on algebra, you know, meeting on and former south african power, limpy and oscar of historian has been denied at pearl. he was jailed in 2016 for the murder of his girlfriend, grievous gin count, and is serving 13 years offenders in south africa automatically eligible for parole consideration after half a sentence. the student come families lawyer opposed an early release. now the story claims that he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder on the 9th that she was killed. first of all, it's a visual metric experience. as you can imagine, it's painful. gina has to face osgood for stories again this morning. he's the killer of her daughter for them. it's a life sentence. he's eligible to be considered for placement on parole. they don't feel that he's 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. now pirates have abandoned a danish owned oil tank and the gulf of guinea, but are holding some crew members still hostage. the armed men bordered the vessel 250 kilometers off pon why on the republic of congo on saturday, the ship's owner say the rest of the 16 strong crew, they're all safe. when at least 35 people have died after floor collapsed at a hindu temple, and central india had happened in the city of indoor dozens of worshippers celebrating a religious festival that plunged into a communal stare line. well, when the full gave way, rescuers have been working through the night to pull people out and try to recover bodies when human rights organizations say that prisons and pakistan are holding up to 60 percent more inmates than their authorized capacities, human rights watch report documented what it says are widespread deficiencies in

the prison system as big as a bag reports now from vice, alabama. this cell isn't 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 out 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 here what i'll put it back to find gum the flag. the main reason for over crowding imprisons across pakistan is the poured you diesel system. prisoners don't have clean water prisoners sit on cold floors and if there's a toilet meant to be used by 10 people. it's being used by over a 100, a normal person, congo inside there. it's so disgusting, kill,

but you're out. 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 a pre thing and justice system, it takes consider a 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. known her before to the recipe of this one department and what is gone fingers or holden, 9 beam prisoner in the of these do and it is definitely over overpopulated gene we are getting good starting to semen maybe slightly better for the business. and in the sooner 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, bringing it up to 21st century. western standards may take some time. i said big al jazeera fessler bud focused on her rounds revolutionary, god says one of its advisors has been killed in an israeli attack on the outskirts of damascus. syrian state media says air defense systems inception, what it called a hostile miss files over the capital. and says a similar attack wounded to soldiers on that stain. on a quarter of a 1000000 palestinian muslin worshippers had come together at the alex and mos compound unoccupied, east jerusalem for the 2nd friday of the holy month of ramadan. the mass of turn out comes despite st. restrictions by israeli authorities. only people older than 55 and younger than 12 are being allowed entry into the city through the israeli controlled checkpoint, separating it from the occupied west bank. well,

it is now time for the weather. he has everson al, i was seeing some very unsettled weather recently across northern areas of the middle east till a little bit of cloud around here. but it should improve as we go through the next couple of days that so wetter wintry weather moving across the corks is heading towards the caspian sea, northern parts of iran sing of a mix of rain, sleet, and snow. when she was still in place there across northern areas of afghanistan, pushing across into the north of pakistan. elsewhere across the region. it's dry, brighter, be high because quite a brisk wind. now, the setting in a cross, sir, southern parts of the arabian peninsula, including us here and caught our temperatures into our 27 so, so, so saturday afternoon, falling back to around 24 degrees. as we go through sunday is going to be bit breezy. as i said with that lifted dust and sandwich will sink a little further south with some showers there into southern parts there, into yemen. seen some flooding here recently, more heavy showers. just pushing in here. one or 2 showers also just ease in the way insta care. oh sure,

i was of course northern parts of africa here it is fine and dry the showers into the gulf of guinea, southern nigeria right away with cross coastal fringes of west africa over the coming days. joining up with the shows that we have across the heart of africa, still some larvae, showers into tanza near. so wet weather to into a good part of uganda. mostella had here on out as in japan, as prime minister has warned that record a low bath rates are leaving the country on the brink of social dysfunction. we'll take a look at what's behind that friend. hundreds of wildfire suite, your northern spain, as temperatures reach record high as well as time of year and in thought formula and drivers get to grips with some tough conditions that the australian grand prix . ah frank assessments justice means to give them the basic human rights. not only in the camp, but also inside the me,

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ah, welcome back to watching out a 0. i missed your day here and there. huh. let's remind you about our stories. the bell russian president called for a truce and peace talks without preconditions between russia and ukraine. alexander lucas sanker, a friend and ally of russia's president pierson was making his annual address to his nation. to carry parliament has passed to bel approving felons application to join nato. the vote was the last needed for the country to become part of the military alliance to carry has still not approved sweden's application form. u. s. president donald trump has been indicted by a new york grand jury. the panel was investigating money paid by trump's former lawyer to an adult film star on let's take you to some live pictures. now these are

from trump's mar logo residence in florida. that's where he received the news of the indictment on thursday where he is believed to still be. well, let's also take a closer look at what happens next for the former president, both legally and politically. well, it's expected that trump will voluntarily surrender, meaning he won't be arrested. he'll be processed as a defendant, meaning he'll be fingerprinted and have mug shots taken. trump is expected to appear in person for his arraignment on tuesday. next week, you'll have the charges against him, read out in court, and a plea, and then be released with a date for his next quarter parents. you won't have to post bail legal experts say it's mike has to be at least a year before any trial, meaning that he could be in court during the 2024 presidential election. the u. s. also doesn't bar people from running for office i believe. okay, so, so trump will be allowed to stand. he's also facing multiple other and instigations by the justice department, district attorneys in manhattan and georgia and a new york attorney general. and it's possible he could end up in court again in

one of those cases. when that's been in bruce fine, he's a former u. s. associate deputy attorney general. he joins us now from washington. d. c. brace. let's start with the current case. we oversee have yet to hear all the charges, but it's set to cover some potentially new legal ground and there is a risk it could get thrown out. right. what it is, it's hard to make a definitive judgement because the actual charges and the citations to the relevant statutes haven't been made public yet. so we're all speculating as to what is i think the most ah, unknown element to the crime is that we know that one element is that a business record was fraudulently represented as a payment of legal fees when it in fact was hushed. money payment to stormy daniels, but the 2nd element that's important is that you need to demonstrate that the purpose of the fraudulent representation in the business record was to conceal

another crime. we don't know yet what that another crime was. ah, most in form. speculation believes because this was hush money payment to influence the outcome of the presidential election of federal election in 2016. that the violation being concealed was a violation of federal election law because the money certainly was not reported as a campaign contribution and corporations can't make campaign contributions in any event directly. but i say that speculation because we don't have the actual document, we'll have to wait tuesday. we the latest we will actually see the dark will brace as we will, 7 hearing there are obviously a number of other investigations in the wax, some with federal charges potentially could this end up being the fast and potentially the least serious of the indictments that he actually faces the answer is yes and yes. first of all, it's the least serious because even if mr. trump was convicted,

it would disqualify him from running for president $242024.00. whereas, if he's convicted of insurrection under section 3 of the 14th amendment, and under the federal code, or he could never hold federal office again, and he would be out of the race immediately. so this is surely at the bottom rung of the other investigations that you've identified. in some sense we go back in the united states, there was a gangster in chicago and email capone was prosecuted for income tax evasion. and all the murders that he was complicit in were bypassed, but he still ended up with prison time. this has something of that nature to it because compared to an effort to destroy the united states constitution and peaceful transfer, a presidential power no payoff to a porn star, which probably couldn't have influenced many voters anyway because he had already gone on wrecked with this all he would access tape, you know, that he viewed women as sex objects seems a little bit tiny. so well,

let's talk through the timing then because we're heading into an election. how soon do you think we could see trump in court, and how long could this will drag out? but it's hard to say, i mean, it's conceivable. you could even have, you know, some kind of plea bargain where trump would plead only to a misdemeanor, pay a simple fine and move on. but my own view of this is that the fact that the ice has been broken. we have not seen any riots in the street. there been isolated threats on some of the prosecutors and some kind of a bomb sent to the manhattan district attorney. but i live almost on ground 0 for january 6. there's not been a single trump protester for weeks including today. and yesterday i walked to and from work crossing the congressional plaza were january 6 happen? no protesters out there. so i think the greatest reticence on the prosecutors before was they didn't want to provoke an upheaval socially. i think that concern

is now been dissipated by this indictment. and i think the other indictments will move forward speedily. if that's the case. i think i, i disagree with thinking that these are going to be protracted. the judges in handling preliminary measures here, claims of privilege, trying to block grand jury testimony of move extraordinarily fast. they understand the importance of the 2024 election. they understand the importance of adding peaceful transfers, the presidential power, and i would be stunned if we don't have all of these criminal cases resolved within 6 or 7 months by the end of the year. for sure. certainly going to be an interesting year ahead. priest finance for may u. s. associate deputy attorney general speaking to us from washington d. c. thanks for joining us again. bruce, always great to get your thoughts. thank you. now, japan's prime minister has announced that he is bringing in new policies to boost

the best rates, including doubling the budget for child relation policies. a full plan will be announced in june. japan is struggling to cope with record low bass rates with $450.00 schools closing every year. they report the classrooms a few more to junior high school stand empty. for years, more students have left here than enrolled. after 7 decades of operating the small village school in japan. so cuz she my prefecture is preparing to close its doors for good job. they say, when i 1st heard from the principal that the school was closing down, it was sad, but i also thought it was such a waste to close the school with a long history like this one. it's a nationwide phenomenal. the government says 9000 schools have shut down between 20022020. as birthrates continue to decline. the cost of education childcare, and the child reason burden on women are cited as some of the main causes. last

year, annual birth dropped below 800000 for the 1st time, 8 years earlier than projected. what i hope there. this is here from the period when the school had the most pupils. they were about a $160.00 of them. while we and ita are the last 2 students who will ever graduate from the school. what does say, i don't know if there will be any children left in the village by the time i'm a nursery school teacher. but if there are, i want to come back and teach here. the government has prioritized boosting, birthrates, promising to double the budget for child related policies and program. for the small village, it may already be too late. the question remains whether japan as a whole still has time to reverse its demographic decline. lien alcohol clue, and it just now brazil's former president, gyal sanara, has returned home where he is facing investigations for crimes and creating and citing riots. party officials are hoping that he will lead the opposition against

president villa to silver monica yankee reports now from the capital brazilian. oh, hundreds of supporters gathered from the early hours at the capital z airport hoping to greet the former president on his return to brazil. that federal police had other plans for symbols, so not to leave by a side door and shattering his hopes of an open corporate through the streets of brazilian dania. so as i had travelled 1500 kilometers, just to greet her political hero, she says both. so amount of supporters have been vilified since his election loss and was disappointed that she could not see. so that they might change a keeper. and now we have been called terrorists when most of us are peaceful, brazilians who are committed to a cause, work hard to get both and our backing power. tensions in brazil have been high since bull. so now to fail to formally acknowledge defeat in october's divisive

election. i've only been going and refused to pass the sasha, his successor, president reasoned masula thus your vote. instead he flew to florida last december, 2 days before leaving office. one week later, thousands of his supporters stormed the presidential palace. congress in the supreme court, claiming the election was rigged. good fortune, also narrow is at risk of being charged and imprisoned, or made ineligible for future office won't dumb with he is the target of 20 investigations. he has been accused of spreading dis information about the election result and of allegedly stirring up the insurrection. and his supporters believe he will lead them to victory in 2026 persons. there will be so small too narrow, has already laid out his mission. he has said he will travel all over brazil to rally support for his liberal party from now until them when

a simple elections next year. he hopes to help elect at least 1000 miss, and strengthen the grip of the brazilian conservatives new. it's a global sonata told this party he will pursue oh, here we are practically holding 20 percent of the benches in congress. in addition, having the support of parliamentarians from other parties, we have a majority within congress. we want the best for our country. today the boards in your court, i'm sure that you will leave brazil to a safe haven is with great pride, but i return also not to himself has said that he will not lead the opposition in brazil, but the return of the former president from his self imposed exile has raised hopes among his supporters. they say he's the only one capable of uniting the brazilian right again. monica inactive, al jazeera, brazilian, brazil. now in south korea, crowns have been enjoying the peak of the cherry blossoms season after scale. donal cancelled events during the crane of iris pandemic. but

a changing climate means that the flowers are now blooming earlier every year. from brian reports, it's the sure sign of springs arrival that is eagerly anticipated in south korea. more so through the pandemic when from the 1st year in 2020, the cherry blossom season coincided with the end of the 1st surge of the virus. delicate beauty of the bloom coming to symbolize the hope of new life. and it's great to come back with friends and even better with my baby daughter. oh wait a minute. it's nice coming that you see the flowers after such a long time from now the one blessed with a 3rd of a 1000000 cherry trees or long gold railway lines and streams. the town of gin hay has the longest established blossom festival in south korea. and in this 1st full year of welcoming back the kraus,

it's hoping for nearly 5000000 visitors with warming temperatures. this southeast corner of south korea traditionally sees the cherry blossom 1st before it rolls north up the peninsula in a wave of color. but it's already bloomed in soul. the 2nd earliest date on record, the earliest being set just 2 years ago. in this district in sol, the annual celebration of the forsythia bloom has been brought forward a week because the flowers have bloomed early. neighboring japan is also experiencing earlier cherry blossom tokyo this year, equaling the record for the 1st bloom and back in the southeast of south korea as the city of young ju prepares for its festival. the blossoms are already falling with several days to go. by listening to him, it seems to be passing earlier each year, which makes you think about the environmental. nature is beautiful, but seemingly ominous barometer of dangerously changing times. rub, mcbride,

al jazeera, young jew, south korea, or the effects of climate change driving cells and other parts of asia to fighters and thailand are struggling to contain a wildfire that's engulfed. a large area of forest, 100 kilometers in north east of the capital bank hawk. the blaze started on wednesday night, but cruise couldn't immediately access the area because of the steep terrain land. more than a 100 heck, there's a knock on nail province of so far been destroyed. and in europe record high spring temperatures and dry conditions have resulted in early start. the contents one fire season in northern spain, fire fighters and are battling more than a 100 wild fires. as victoria getting the reports and out of control. wildfire scorches spain's northern coast. the rough terrain, high winds and low humidity, a hampering firefighters battling the flames. spades 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 a report with nursing 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 for you belong to the community. so you can imagine how relieved i feel dope literacy muffin of the u. n. environment agency says climate change will spark a 30 percent increase in severe wildfires by the middle of the century. in spain, there already dealing with the fallout. the countries wildfire season now runs from spring to autumn, not just during the summer, and spain me to a logical agency says temperatures in march have been up to 14 degrees higher than normal. it's a new reality. people are struggling to adjust to formula your jo had died. oh wow . 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 the frosted. it's bad and everything is ruined with warmer weather forecast in the weeks to come scenes like this and likely to play out again for many more months. victoria gate and be al jazeera. meanwhile, a decline in the number of pine trees in southern brazil is posing a threat to a local indigenous community there. one group is trying to save them from dying out . are here. manage reports. the vast evergreen i'd o korea on goosey foliage 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, tries 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. we are caught, it was to us, injures vicky. noisy, you re say that the chuckling did not exist without order cardio 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 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, problem, 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 asian. the shock line, people say former president terrible scenarios,

hostile attitude towards them has made their lives worse. after decades of persecution, most of them didn't open 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 wealthy. 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 while still ahead here. all alpha 0 and support new rolls of same old are tawny. baseball is biggest, all begins the new season on the high, far will be here with

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oh, i love back. it's time for sport and his far no fancy. i thank you so much. wimbledon has lifted its ban on russian and bell russian players organizers of the grand slam tennis tournaments, bard them from last year's event and response to russia's invasion of ukraine, was sports, world governing body, find wimbledon for imposing the ban, and no ranking points were awarded. and 2020 team outside of wimbledon and other british tournaments, players from russia and ballad ruth had been able to compete as neutral or russia. daniel madame was one player who was forced to miss out on last year. when will

then the well, number 5 is been an action as mine, the open, where he beat chris for you back to the united states to reach the semi final hell play another russian. karen catching up in a lot of spanish teenager carlos alcortez is the dominant player in men's tennis right now. well, number one is also 3 to the semi finals in miami. after is when over taylor fritz has has won his last 10 matches without dropping. he play italy's younique's, cynic pain from the best lang's 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. alena river keena is closing in on her 2nd straight tournament when the wimbledon champion claimed your 13th consecutive victory by defeating

jessica pickle and straight sat miami. again, semi final because exam player came into this event. having just won the indian wells, title shall face either patrick, minima or serena passed out in saturday's a file. he sent the receipt over the 1st time since 1968, all 30 major league baseball teams played their opening games on the same day in an effort to attract more fans. new rules have been introduced to make the game faster and more exciting. john 100 has more from chicago's wrigley field stadium. wrong with opening day bringing back festively dressed fans peanuts. everybody likes and a hint of spring baseball is testing new rules designed to make game shorter, faster paced, and more exciting. i think it would be fun to try and grow a bigger audience video. the game, adding moran more heads, only allow more people to be interested in the quicker phase. the 30 teams of major

league baseball or carrying out an experiment they hope will save the american pastime 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 boy 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, seeing 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 swim. pitchers took

their time, game time stretched on for 3 hours or more, and fans found it tedious. it least some of them did. you think it was getting a little boy? no, never base was never going called baseball. never born. it was here at wrigley field did 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 in the whole thing now games will be more thrilling than they've been in decades. oh, oh, the die hard fans will always keep coming. oh, baseballs organizers. hope the changed rules will bring new fans to the game. i don't cover john henderson al jazeera chicago. i'm the exploits of show how tiny will be another big selling point for baseball this season. we go on to it to a strike o total degree with fresh from his

when with it japan of the world baseball class that he struck out. 10 players over 6 scoreless innings wasn't quite enough to secure a win for his el angel. his team, as the oakland 8th went on to speaking to one was former england cricket captain michael bon, has been cleared of using racist language and bringing the game into disrepute. it was claimed that vaughan made races comments to his ex yorkshire teammates as in rossi and 3 other players of asian descent in 2009 are thinks allegations about racism at yorkshire have prompted wide ranging investigations and reforms at the club. informal one as to martin's fernando alonzo is doing his best to challenge the seemingly unstoppable red bull team. alonzo went quickest in a rain affected 2nd practice at the australian grand prix and mountain red bull pair of master stop in. sergio perez had finished a 1st and 2nd in the opening to races of the season. but alonzo has started the year with 2 consecutive

a 3rd place finishes. the awesome celtics thumped the m b a leading milwaukee bucks to move within 2 games of eastern conference leaders. jaylen brown scored 30 points, but his boston teammate, jason tatum's. start with 40 to lead the celtics to a 140 to 99. when austin knocked the box out of the conference semi final last season. okay. and that is all you sport for now is fancy. i back to you. thanks so much for. well, that's it for me in the stalls. you take this news out, but don't go it. i'll be back in just a couple of minutes with more of the days news do stay with us here on the al serra ah ah and

a around 3 quarters of sub saharan african cultural heritage is on display in western museums. it didn't happen overnight. we were rob colored time. the 1st episode reveals how europeans colonization removed tens of thousands of artifacts and the uphill struggle to reclaim them. restitution africa stolen on episode one blunder. oh, now jazeera zora begum, fled to bangladesh, looking for safety after facing military crack down in man. but this is what she is dealing with now are make shift home at this refugee campaign. cox's bizarre went up in flames on sunday, and the fire has swung the spotlight back on the struggles that charmers and tragedy is based on daily basis by everyone here. this fire, as a reminder of the many challenges facing their own hang,

or refugees there caught between the increasingly dangerous situation in bangladesh and a new political reality off a homeland now led by the same military hunter responsible for the crackdown that forced them to flee in the 1st place was breaking down the headlines till exposing the power attempting to find in reporting what to do, what to investigate. why didn't you off this extra question? there are many during that head fencer it will have but you think effect on subsequent story. the listening post doesn't cover the news. it covers the way the news is compet to suppress moderate. and in some cases amplify the content you see on your timeline. then the theme own which is era with the 1st us president to be charged with a crime.