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to. ready a blast at a cafe in the russian city of saint petersburg. well no military blogger is being killed. ah, i'm sammy say this is al jazeera alive from dar hall. so coming up, we'll finland, turn to the right. prime minister, santa marines. social democrats are facing a tough parliamentary vote. israel's cabinet approves the creation of a national guard under the command of the far right, security minister, green transportation or public new since people and parents are voting on whether to do away with electric scooters. ah,

let's begin with the breaking news coming out of russia and local media reporting a high profile military blogger has been killed in an explosion at a cafe in st. petersburg. 16 others were injured in the blast. dose of giovanni joins us now live from moscow. so dos are we getting any official comment from authorities there? no, sir, i mean, not. yes, but we have heard from the group that was organizing this events where they are 40 year old blogger, and a military commentator was killed. this group was organized by the cyber front that movement in st. petersburg. and they said that they took all the necessary precautions to ensure everybody's safety. but clearly, it was not enough, and that they are cooperating, cooperating with us, or used to try and figure out who is responsible and bring those people to justice . and they also pass on their condone to the family of this blogger love to talk to

you, who has a following over 500000 people on his telegram channel. he's very well known in the country for his views on the russian military activities, specifically in the bass region. and he himself enlisted in the russian military in february of 2022. and to part in the so called special military operation, that is still ongoing in ukraine. and i think it's very important to point out this is the 2nd such attack take place in russia since that military operation began last year in february. the last one was a few months ago where. a a daughter of very well known and kremlin supporter and adviser was targeted in a car bombing and she was killed. many believe that her father was the intended target certainly. ready is going to be viewed by the authorities, your as

a very serious act of hostility and the russian president vladimir putin has said in the past that any acts carried out on russia. so will be dealt with accordingly . and this certainly in the heart of st. petersburg in a very busy neighborhood in the city known as university banquets on a weekend at the event was scheduled at 5 pm time, where we know they would have been many, many people in that area. and in that cafe where this attack took place. so certainly it's going to raise some very serious questions about the security apparatus in russia and what they had known prior to this pack and what they will do in the future to try and prevent such attacks from we occurred and give them what you said. dora, one fear is that the casualty told is likely to go off, right. give us an idea of how much of a turn out there was that we know that 60 people have been wounded. is that likely to increase? well,

according to the organizers and official reports from people at the scene, there is over a 100 people in and around the cafe for this event. so officially we have 16 people who have been injured and one person killed so far, the status of those injured. i've not been shared yet by the emergency services, so we're waiting to find out. but we do know it was a very busy and crowded cafe where this attack took place. so we'll have to wait and see what the officials say in the coming hours. all right, good stuff that thanks so much dawson jabari. let's continue this po with pablo falcon. how he's the defense and military analyst joins us from moscow. as we've been mentioning earlier, probably just to bring viewers who are joining us up to speed. that was an earlier time august last year, also targeted something of a media figure. daddy ado geena daughter of alexander to get who is seen as a figure who is close to president putin is a patton emerging here low. you can't go at the

turn because it's just dude to attacks here inside deep inside rush, one close to moscow. the other one right now apparently and st. petersburg such attacks are very frequent in being done boss against. those who are the radians believe are helping the ration of time. these were the queues of collaboration and there they are attacking quite often. and they are, there are different casualties of those who support the russians and the russian operation and, and the done by us and in her and her song and russia, the mother, these are types are kind of separated. and there's no campaign yet. may be, there will be, may be not. this was especially organized the tag very competent to report that

a woman's young woman from the audience presented to the sky would start to it, which explode today in 5 minutes. very close to him, killing him and injuring those who were sitting close in the front rows. so just to kind of kind of an audience, remember, an audience member vented an object that exploded, this is what you understand happened there. that's what you're kind of like, something like mimic of the oscars as that to it. right. ok. small small such a figure was given to him and presented and it exploded. 5 minutes after it was presented. his are standing on the, on the kind of, on the sitting beside him. so he was the only person killed and

not far away where got more injured and those who are far off west injured. so this was a very targeted tag. it's not, was, was not to cause mass casualties. it was to kill one person. you concerned about perhaps a change in the security approach, the security stance after now, what is essentially yet another attack, you know, off the gate on the outskirts of, of moscow and now this one in st. petersburg, you think we're going to see a different security posture? well, there me, of course, and decisions made to increase something the basic way with russia is a sort of war for more than a year. and so security should be tight. and i'm just, i think what they can do more, i mean, i don't believe that there's going to be any kind of care years or things like that declared in moscow or saint petersburg. so there would be

a lot of facial statements that the security services were going to look into the how this was organized to try to find everyone to cope birds and tried to kind of root out the or the structure that organize this attack with bus likely they are already on the run because such a sales tend to be rather small. and after their one time use is there, i don't believe that there is right now, yet massive time to throw your cranium underground that could organize that campaign, that tax hopefully. right. all right, thank you so much travel bargain. however, now let's change gears a little bit and talk about what's going on in finland. vote count that's underway

and legislative elections there. right wing policies. well, they're hoping to unfit. the prime minister santa marine took power in 2019 becoming the world's youngest leader. but she's not popular with conservative and nationalists who say she's been reckless with public spending for challenge now. with each slip of paper, finland's next government is being decided, but it's been too close to predict a winner. neither the social democrats nor the national coalition party, nor the fins party held a significant lead in pre vote. opinion polls coalitions are the norm in finland with a winning party getting the 1st attempt, but forming a government. i know it's on a nice, very popular and she's done great that most of the fins also think that she did an amazing job with the current wires. but it may be, we have to look at new ad crises that we have. and some of us

still believe that she does very good job. other people who need on something you with her youth and progressive politics, santa marion has been popular among young moderates at home and abroad with bart's living costs surging and finland is teetering into a recession. made a by finishing up campaigning on saturday. marin acknowledged she's fighting for her political survival. that the chase, i mean very highly upgrade. are you that hard? i did other any one of these, a 40 kind of with mariners presided over finance, biggest geopolitical transition in decades. applying to join nato in response to neighboring rushes, invasion of ukraine. but opponents were quick to jump on a leaked video of her drinking and partying. the friends saying she wasn't fit to

govern. marin was cleared of wrongdoing, and arguably criticism of her government's public spending has hit her more. for me, i'm burdened by the economics. actually read like too much debt. i think. i wish you would have a belfort. they still in 20 years time, but with the current expenditures and dep thinking i'm worried about how we can afford the welfare states in the future having become the world's youngest prime minister, 34, it's possible santa marin could be an ex prime minister at 37 rory challenz, how to 0 ball guerria is holding its 50 election in 2 years home to 6500000 people. the country is a member of the e. u and nato, but also has historical ties with russia. same before he has more to former prime ministers are neck and neck for the top job in bulgaria center, right, boy called boris of and carol pet cause who leads an anti corruption coalition

voters hope a clear result will bring an end to gears of political crisis in the european union's poorest country. why did faith this is the only solution to the crisis with this terrible warn ukraine, this partition of the world. we must very clearly stay with the democratic world of the service. this was, i didn't want a little. i voted for a normal european life. i voted for us to have a normal european government, normal european roads, normal european health care, normal european education. both front runners are pro western and pro ukraine. though the nato member has been cautious with public support for keith the walker, the victor will also have to contend with independent president room and rather have seen his pro kremlin russia's invasion of ukraine deep into political crisis. that is in gulf bulgaria. since anti corruption protest in 2020. after years of

political deadlock, people are weary and want an end to instability unseen. since the fall of communism . doctor visit the people don't know what they want, their being led on by false promises in the end. it doesn't work out, there are no big goals or ambitions. it's all tied to various spotty lines. they can do it together. they're just not willing to. they have other interests in mind . for them check things against difficult this time as well. i think no consensus will be reached, neither side will but it will be difficult to form a government in the days before the vote, a wave of bomb threats targeted schools being used as polling stations. investigators blamed hackers likely linked to russia for creating panic to reduce voter turnout and undermine this pivotal election. bulgaria has long been among europe's top producers of ammunition, even a main supplier for soviet russia. a definitive result in sunday's polls and clear

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have your say, want to broaden this conversation by bringing more voices into it. live on you to people commenting. i want the whole world to know that cherokee are not headed to refugees. overstreet with the powers that be this gene on the al jazeera lulu. ah, ah, no. watching al jazeera time to recap all headlines, an explosion at a cafe in the russian city of saint petersburg is killed the military blogger. at least 16 of those were wounded. and also jabari joins us now live from moscow, and also looking at the official news agency. some details coming out about how

that explosion happened. something involving a gift. tell us what we're hearing. well, we understand that the investigation committee has now officially opened a murder case after this incident, and that they've also increased the number of those injured in this attack. to 19 the last number we had was 16 people, but it is now up to 19 we all also hearing reports that there was some kind of a gift that was a given to this 40 year olds as well known military blogger. and that is what contained the explosive devices, but still nothing official. yet. these are preliminary reports according to eye witnesses that we're getting from the scene. we also have heard from the committee that organized this event and that was held and that group is known as the cyber from said move. but they said that they did everything to ensure the safety of all

those in attendance of this event. there was at least a 100 people we understand in and around this cafe for this event where this blogger was speaking, but still they could not prevent this attack from taking place. we also understand that the officials are speaking to witnesses on there at the scene. this was of course, a very well known and busy area of st. petersburg known as university embankments in the heart of the city. and of course you have to remember this is a weekend here on a sunday afternoon, 5 pm is when the event started. so they would have been a lot of people not only in this cafe but also in the vast the of it as well. so it is very important to see whether or not the fatality rates will increase. but it appears that the main target for now, according to unconfirmed reports, was this well known blogger, who has over 500000 followers on his social media counts. and he's been very, very vocal about his opinion of the so called special military operation that

russia launched into brain as a february last year. he's written a number of books on russia's military past. and history is also what we was also one of the people who was invited to the kremlin during that lavish ceremony that was held last september when russian president vladimir putin decided to annex for regions of ukraine and include them as part of our russian territory. and this man who was part of that ceremony, said that it was a very important day for russia, and that things are, as they should be. and everything will be as it should be when this return to russia. he also has been quoted as saying that he wanted to achieve the complete destruction of the ukrainian states, and that he was still, he was a didn't expect at such resistance from the ukrainian people. it gives you an idea of the mindset that he had in the course, the audience that he was speaking to in his followers. so the attack itself is

something very rare in russia. such attacks are not common at the last known attack of such a an incident that took place a few months ago, there was a car bomb that went off outside of moscow. and a daughter of a very well known kremlin supporter, an adviser to the president, was killed in that attack. and it was believed by the authorities that her father was the intended target. but this attack still nobody has claimed responsibility officials have not started to point a finger a but certainly will no more in the coming hours. and it does appear that it would certainly increase tensions and escalate the back and forth that has been ongoing between the government and kids and the from the official as well. all right, thanks so much dosage a body that moscow israel's cabinet has approved the creation of a controversial so called national guard. this will be funded through major budget

cuts across its ministries. the national guard will be controlled by the far right . security administer. it's a mob been give here. he says it's critical in the fight against what he calls terrorism. opposition. neither you either le paid is accused the government of trying to create a private militia for its amount of been given. shall i show boca, to keep us? will the government approved? horizontal cuts to fund been give is private militia. they will cut health, education, security, all to finance a private army of thugs, the tick tock. the priorities of the government are ridiculous and despicable. the only thing that keeps it busy is running over democracy and promoting extreme fantasies of delusional people. bernard smith has the details from west jerusalem. now bend of has been pushing for more and more recent over the past couple of months. because you haven't been given any control over the police or the military

. now with what you've heard, we've heard critics of cold, his own private militia. he says he will be able to stop terrorism of a national security incident. now the thing is, this wasn't really getting off the ground until last week, and then all of a sudden that these mass protests, i'm then the national strike, last monday for things. benjamin netanyahu to promise to at least postpone plans to introduce it over whole of the judiciary, to get bank of a and his fall right. our lives in the cabinet to agree to the spokesman. netanyahu says ok, you can have this national guard both issues, very important bank and the settlers, he's back in support. and he's other allies in the cabinet. so there's a long way to go before it gets off the ground. but it's an indication of sort of chaos we've seen in israeli politics over the last few months that were once bank of it was not going to get the national guard. all of a sudden because netanyahu's face, there's massive,

unprecedented protest against plans to overhaul the judiciary. suddenly you have to cave into been given, given what he wants so that he can try and move forward with this over whole of the judiciary. and now the jury, and call to sentence the prominent journalist a 3 years in prison, no call the is the director of margaret emergent news. it's considered one of the last independent media films in the country. he's accused of receiving foreign funds through his business and exchange for carrying out activities to harm the state. the court ordered the dissolution of the media company and confiscated its assets. is the one bill is a professor of political science and international relations at coffee university. he says if donna cosby was not given a fair trial, the accusations are quite vague and i wasn't really sure blazed that he got this particular sentence receiving funds from abroad ad engaging in

propaganda, but threatens the security and public called little in algeria and quite very serious accusations, whether the courts have proven done or not. it's very, very debatable human life organizations that attended some of the her meetings abbreviated, got a bill as his last the last month have accused the authorities of not a given. mr. cody felt trying. he's one of his lawyers will be there soon, said that documentation that he see of my funds from abroad. well, actually 25000 pounds from here. sounds daughter who is a reseller child working in london and she gave him that money as a loan because she's a shareholder in his company fate. some financial difficulties, bay in his stuff. and that's why he received that particular money,

since it said was, the jail cluster dissemble awaiting. he's trying, despite this particular act was perceived as an attack on freedom of expression. electric scooters are a cheap fan green way to get around. most cities are they also pose a danger to pedestrians. the vote is being held in paris on sunday to decide whether to allow scooters in the city that i shall. butler reports from the french capital. nunez unit is a big fan of paris is electric scooters. he says he hires one most days to get around the city could present him. he scooters are really useful because paris is so busy, especially in rush hour. it's impossible to move around. so thanks to these, we can use the cycle lanes. it's much better than a car available. e scooters were introduced in france in 2018 since then. they've become part of the landscape in most cities. but some people say they're

a nuisance cluttering pavements and endangering pedestrians. now the french government launched a new plan to regulate them. writers will have to be at least 14 years old and they'll be tougher penalties for misuse. court on industrial to people on an escrow to his forbidden that day, but the find is only $35.00 euros, so it will be raised to a 135 years. the messages that dangerous behavior will be paralyzed, dedicated parking zones, and lowest speed limits are already in place. while the french government is stepping up, its regulation of electric skirt is here in paris. the city hall is asking people to vote on whether or not to panam the 3 companies that provide paris is he's good to say a band would make no sense in a city that's often led the way in promoting low carbon alternatives to cause and motor bikes. we very hope indeed that's our vote will be positive and that perishes . people will continue to welcome scooters in the safe and sustainable way in the

city opinion. on the streets though, is divided saucers. webs, anchors, i can see they offer an alternative form of transport, but at the same time they can be dangerous for pedestrians, the elderly, as if it with don't sizes. i think they've not been around long enough to just scrap them. we need more research on things like dangers, mortality, and perhaps we need better infrastructure for them. because the folks taking place in poland stations rather than online, it's expected to be dominated by older people who are more likely to favor upon. once results rinn, it'll be up to parents is mer to make the final decision on whether it's really the end of the road. the scooters in the city. natasha butler, al jazeera paris. that's it for this show. her news continues here now to sierra right off the inside story. stay with us. ah

hello there. it's set to warm up slightly across the middle east over the next few days. but things still are looking largely windy and that was windy across iraq over the weekend. a sandstorm blew into baghdad, causing poor visibility. the air quality still remains poor here, but there will be some improvement coming through on monday, the temperature touching up slightly, the winds are still blowing down the gulf. they will start to ease over the next few days and temperatures in places like doha and dubai will pick up that wind whips back round, bringing some sand to northern parts. the saudi arabia dust in the air here, lots of hazy sunshine. but it will also pick temperatures up across the levant. now a weather system, you can see it behind me is starting to work its way further east into turkey as we go into choose. they bring some wet weather here,

but the wet and windy weather is 1st going to be felt across northern parts of africa with some heavy rain to come from north eastern areas of algeria to nicea with the blustery winds. for libya, last ruins cause could also affect parts of nigeria, particularly up in the north. down for the south is all about the thunderstorms that are rumbling through as though seasonal rains shift farther north, looking much dryer across places like botswana. the temperature picking up in hub eroni on tuesday. ah, al jazeera sets the stage 3 and i've been here by, i haven't been deployed to think just one enemy, global experts and discussion. idea of being do comes from venice dumpster and democracy. it's was bumped to explore and abundance of world class programming of it least with.