best to gates was a tech no optimism is helping or hindering the fight against climate change. it's a destruction self delusion is he just masking over it all hail the planet episode to on al jazeera but drought in the horn of africa. 6 rainy seasons huttfield more than $100000.00 tamales of crossed into kenya since last year. i last saw aiden lack of village in somalia, when how 4 grand children died because she had no food to keep them in the last drought in 20 live. in the surviving on goat skin and wild fruits in this drought. we can't even get that. most of the people who are coming to this area are not registered as refugees yet, so they are struggling to survive. they have very little water and foods. this is the longest, dry spout in fort decades. ah

finland swings to the rides. prime minister, santa marian can seize defeat after the conservative leader baterri ogle claims victory in a title election. ah, play you watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back. people also ahead. a prominent russian military blogger is killed in an explosion in a st. petersburg, cafe 25 others were injured in the blast. israel's cabinet approves major budget cut to fund a new national guard that will report directly to the far right. security minister and oil prices. serge, after several of the wells top producers, announced costs in production. ah,

ah, thank you very much for joining as we begin in finland y prime mesa, santa marion has conceded defeat in the parliamentary election. the right wing opposition national coalition party won with 20.7 percent of the votes. a state of baterri also says he will work to form a coalition. the ncp is closely followed by the white wing populace party the fence with 20 point one percent. while the governing social democrats came inferred with 19.9 percent for a challenge, 3 fourths smiling and seemingly at ease the se, but santa marines. political star has follow been ins. prime minister gathered with supporters of her election headquarters as panic results came in and showed her social democrats slipping behind the bright wing national coalition party and the fins policy. shortly after she conceded defeat the santa maria nearer is coming to an end n c p leader per terri, or po, is on track with the one assembling

a new coalition government. i very happy. we got these results a, this is very strong and we have, we have very good campaign and i think that's an election day today. we have more votes and i'm quite sure that we can people with but not the national coalition policy. and the nationalists of rica, poor as fins party have both benefited from worries about the economy, living costs, the surgeon, and finland is teetering into a recession. with how youth and progressive politics, santa marin, has been popular among young moderates at home and abroad. marin has presided over finance, biggest geopolitical transition in decades, applying to join nato in response to neighboring rushes, invasion of ukraine. last year. opponents were quick to jump on

a leaks video of her drinking and partying with friends, saying she wasn't fit to govern. marin was cleared of rom, doing that arguably criticism of her government public spending. i hit her more than the head in ism scandal did for me. i'm burdened by the economics actually read like too much dept. i think i wish you would have a beaufort. 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. i noticed on the mice 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 the new crisis that we have. and some of us still believe that she does very good job. other people who need on something, you know, having become the world's youngest prime minister at 34 santa marin will be an ex

prime minister of 37 with them. a lot will re challenge al jazeera, his loyalty of al jazeera mohammed, al, my tone has more from the headquarters of the national coalition party in helsinki . yes, the winning party party in the national clinician poses a worker with the support doesn't add to the, to the printing. and she's the one of the leader of the policy overall. and now this is his focus has one also a son, a 1000000 a came out to with to word improve with mistakes that might have been made for the coalition. national coalition policy is coming back to government for years. very momentous for you looks of 2 political changes and then

it started with war. brin applicant will join it today, will work on continuing that notion of pollution policy and all the thinking now about how to form the new governments, especially with the rise. the exception of rice, i'm president plus defense, a nationwide policy led by a rica flora that women who, who did the party and who managed to be the 1st, that this individual targeted to win votes even more, more than santa maria. and she defeated defeated her the number of course that she middle school in montenegro, former economy minister. yeah. cough me lot of h as one the presidential, one off a lot of a secure 60 percent of the vote. swaby incumbent, me load, you can of it's got 39.9 percent under present, yukon of asia, small nation joined nato, started negotiations for you membership and moved away from russia. but his party

is accused of corruption and links to organized crime. jacko's lot of age has pledged to fight corruption, improve leading standards and bolster ties with the e. u. n. cbs. in other news, a leading russian military blogger who supported the invasion of ukraine, has been killed in a bomb. black and a cafe in st. petersburg flatland petoskey, whose real name is maxine for mean was a member of a blogging group which had hired out the cafe in the historic center of saint petersburg for an event at least $25.00 others were injured in the explosion. dos jibari has moved from moscow. this was the moment security cameras captured the attack at the busy street food bar number one cafe in the heart of saint petersburg. on sunday. the explosion killed 40 year old military blogger loveland petoskey, who was delivering his speech at the event, organized by the siber front, that movement, an association of people with patriotic use. they hold talks at this cafe every

week. over a 100 people were in and around this events, the time of the attack that almost native was given the statue of himself as a gift, moments before the blast. according to the mayor of saint petersburg, all the cities emergency services have been called then to deal with the incident. loveland to tar ski launched his own social media channel to report on the activities of the russian military liam, in its so called special military operation. and has a following of over 500000 subscribers. touch barsky was invited to the lavish ceremony last september at the kremlin, where russian president proclaimed the annexation afford regions of ukraine. that's our sky was a well known figure among kremlin supporters seen here with daria duke, you know, who was killed in a car bomb attack. last august in moscow. regent. her father, alexander duncan, a far right political philosopher and kremlin supporter,

was believed to be the intended target. the russian foreign ministry has issued a statement condemning the attack and praising satarsky, his work as a journalist and his service to his country. these types of attacks are rare in russia, but the planning and plotting behind them just prove that the battles are not confined to the dumbass region. doors such a worry al jazeera, moscow. israel's cabinet has approved the plans of a far right minister to form a national guard. critic say it will be nothing more than a private militia for a to my ben giver who has a criminal conviction for inciting racial hatred against palestinians. bernard smith reports from west jerusalem, ah, protest is marked the idea of a so called national guard, but for israel's far right, security minister, it's no joke. it's mar, banga says the new force will tackle what he calls nationalist crime and terrorism . i think we need to strength the existing force of the police,

which is lack of 2000 police officers flores in general, a regularly policing system and it would be blast if they will, air those. and this budget and the police officers, which they want to, to the, to do in this program 3 months of protests and strikes against plans to get politicians more say in the appointment of judges eventually forced prime minister benjamin netanyahu to pause the judicial overhaul. the price extracted by banga there to agree to the pause was the promise to create his national guard opposition . politicians say it will be nothing more than a private army of thugs said the priorities of this government are ridiculous and despicable. it existed 3 months and the only thing that keeps busy is crushing democracy and promoting extreme fantasies of delusional people. netanyahu's cabinet has agreed to budgets from all other ministries to provide the estimated

$270000000.00 needed to fund the new force. it's an indication of how relying benjamin netanyahu is on support from the far right. the plans for the so called national guard have suddenly been advanced. the prime minister's office says the exact powers of this new force will be discussed in a committee made up of all israel security agencies. they've 90 days to make their recommendations. bernice smith al jazeera western lucel. oil prices have search after sante arabia and other oil producers from the opec plus lines announced production cuts. now coming to effects from may react, describe the move as a precautionary measure to establish that oil market. the u. s. has a pulls output car saying that well, needs lower prices to support economic growth, and also want to limit russia's earnings from oil exports. when i speak to jim crane about this is an energy fellow at the rice university baker institute,

and he's joining us from houston in the u. s. thank you for, for being with us on al jazeera and what do you make of this move by opec class? how big of a deal is this was a pretty big deal. i mean, you know, they were opec plus had been sig going previously, and that's kind of the steady as she goes output strategy. but if you take a look at their market behavior in recent years in march, so it's not so surprising, right? so, you know, oil had been showing weakness, it had been under $80.00 a barrel persistently, which is she seems to be an informal floor now for a, for the saudis. at least you see it will add or under that level you have to figure that to the saudis, or at least thinking about taking action. you know, the last big cut they made was in october of last year with oil around $90.00. well below that level now, so you know that sadie want to maintain the notion that that october cut was based

on market fundamentals. not based on a desire to help book binds poinisan november election. so they cut with $90.00 will then, and you'd think that price is now under $80.00. it would be looking at another round of cuts, but the customer announcing now are quite important, quite big cuts. who's going to benefit from these high oil prices? anybody that is producing oil is going to benefit from this show oil producing countries, lots of spending going on in those countries. lots of lots more investments upstream in producing more oil, as well as, you know, social programs, construction plans, you know, lots of infrastructure, spending, those countries. i suspect that's going to continue. and it's also going to push, you know, inflation in the rest of the world. i mean, central banks around the world are still grappling with persistently high inflation . this is not going to be welcomed step in those countries. how does this affect

the russians? i mean, sanctions have had so far, limited impact on restriction, restrict thing russian oil supplies where russia is, you know, the sanctions are supposed to allow russian oil to move to market their just supposed to cut the amount of funds that are flowing to russia. so, you know, those sections are actually having some effect. they are reducing the revenues going to russia. this is probably going to undo some of that. so i would suspect this will allow more revenues to, to flow, to russia, to help it with it's spending on it. you know, it's, it's operation ukraine as well as everything else. right? so it's going to be, you know, i would suspect more oil revenues flowing to russia after this. yeah. as you mentioned, the us by an administration has called on saudi arabia and other allies to increase production, try and bring down prices. how much is this move by opec plus going to further strain relations between washington and we are to think but you know, it's

a good question. i mean, i, you know, re odd has sort of set out this notion that it's going to be more proactive. it's going to preempt when it sees weaknesses you all market. it's not going to wait around for that to have a big effect on prices before it moves that. it's going to, you know, sort of take action 1st and ask questions later. and this seems to be another side of that. you know, it's not going to make by the ministration happy of course. right. so, you know, we're sort of at the beginning of another election season. i mean, it always seems to be that way here in the united states, but, you know, body has used the strategic petroleum reserve last time around. we had opec cause it sold off a substantial amount of oil from our emergency stocks. it's supposed to be refilling that reserve now, and it's going to be more expensive and more difficult to do with price is higher. so not going to be popular here in the u. s. i mean, you know,

here we are also still grappling with, with high inflation. so, you know, any importing country is going to have a tough time with this. jim, thank you so much for talking to us about this jim crane joining us from houston, texas. my pleasure. oh, francis has made a palm sunday service at the vatican a day after he was released from hospital $30000.00 people gathering saint peters, squares christians around the world marked the day. the 86 year old pontiff was in hospital for 3 days, being treated for bronchitis, despite concerns by his help. the vatican say the pope will take part in a full array of eastern vents. this coming week we have you been to the head on al jazeera. i will tell you why malaysia is moving to abolished a mandatory death sentence on summer fences and paris puts the brakes on rental lease quarters in a victory full rope safety campaigns. ah,

how about on a time of spirituality reflection and gratitude raised the flags all the floods every cold? oh, i wonder is there a world well, how leo, how he reveals the stories behind some of the arab world songs and chance for the holy month. jodi this song touched the hearts of all arrows for amazon songs on al jazeera ah, a pushing with

one a global perspective. mm lou . ah, welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera, this, our finland's white wing opposition national coalition party need. okay, terry, opal has claimed victory in a tight parliamentary election. prime minister, santa marian has continued defeats and a russian military bronco who supported the invasion of ukraine has been killed in

a bomb attack on a cafe in saint petersburg. witnesses saved ladder in ta ta ski. was presented with a statue which exploded. 25 people were injured in the glass. us secretary of state antony blinking his call for the immediate release of american journalist, yvonne gash cove. h during a call with russian. foreign minister said, love rav garage cabbage is a correspondent with the wall street journal. he was detained by russian security agents on thursday, on allegations of spying love, rob says washington shouldn't politicize the case and gush of his fate will be determined by a court particle haine. has more from washington just phone calls notable for a couple of reasons. first, you are secretary state antony blanket and his counterpart sergey lab. rob don't speak often. in fact, since russia invaded ukraine, they've only had one conversations, and that was his last month on the sidelines of the g 20 a very brief conversation. the fact that this call is coming just days after evan

girth given, was arrested, is also significant. now it was the normal read out where the u. s. said they, he expressed great concern called it an unacceptable detention called for his immediate release, although he didn't put name him, he did name paul whelan and said he also needs to be released that something that the u. s. has been working for. he's an american that was sent to 16 years in prison in russia. one of the things in the statement that was fairly interesting is they said that they discussed the importance of creating an environment that permits diplomatic missions to carry out their work. what that likely means as the u. s. is concern, is just how long it's going to take to get there. constant officials to actually get to see this journalist and that is important because of a process within the u. s. basically they have to speak with him before they can declare that he has been wrongfully detained with that designation. it changes things within the state department. his case then goes to

a special department whose whole job is to try and get americans held hostage basically back home. they are then in charge of the negotiation. there are several more resources that can go into this case. so likely, this is anti blinking, trying to send a message to survey oliver of that he expects that us diplomats will have access to him sooner rather than later. because right now the fear as it could take weeks or even maybe months. patty call hain al jazeera washington. thousands of people as marsh in kosovo capital push tina in solidarity with former president. hashem touchy, touchy and 3 close associates will begin their walk times trial at the hague. on monday, the charges relate to a period in the late 1990 stirring, and shortly after the kosovo war robert angle, as he is considered a hero by many people in kosovo for his role in leading the campaign. that ended serbian rule. but former cause of a precedent. hashem tachi and 3 others,

a facing war crimes charges their road to the hague, began 7 years ago when the cause of our assembly gave the go ahead to a special tribunal to investigate allegations of war crimes. during the cost of a war in the late $19.00 ninety's under international pressure. hashem touchy, the former head of the kosovo liberation army strongly backed, the court royal or to the we need to clear our names of this unfair and unnecessary labeling of the kosovo liberation army. 5 years later, after rising to the office of president hashem touch, he resigned his position and travel to the hague with 3 others. but veterans of the war say, the indictment is an attack on the kosovo liberation army without uniforms. you're going into bit brought up here. it is not individuals who are on trial there, but the kosovo liberation army and the freedom of the people. because the prosecutor's office refers to our assistance as a joint criminal enterprise,

and indictment or the public. is it possible that indictment accuses hashim touchy and his 3 co accused of intimidating, abusing and eliminating those? they considered enemies of the kosovo liberation army. but lawyers say the prosecution may find it difficult to prove its case. first years of initial numbers, 3 to 4, we who were in kosovo inexperienced at all. know that the soldiers and the commanders did not have a chain of command or control while the kosovo liberation army was not a regular army. in many settlements, the locals organized themselves to defend their homes and had nothing to do with the care lane. that's support at home for the kosovo liberation army lead us on trial. and the campaign to support them has been launched. new dot mooned. we will not affect the legal proceedings in order to be one to that we want to provide moral support to those who are in the hague. tell them they're not forgotten. and

that's cause of a support. slim in this challenge. shamrock. yeah, the trial could last several years with more than 300 witnesses expected to give evidence. the accused have pleaded not guilty. barbara and grappa out as sarah in malaysia, the lower house of parliament is voting to abolished a mandatory death penalty for crimes such as murder and drug trafficking. the bill seek to substitute the death penalty with life imprisonment of between 30 and 40 years as well as caning, throwing 3 reports and i'm far beneath her doubts has been, has been on death row. for 13 years, he was found guilty of murder. she raised their son on her own bed. when my son went to kindergarten, he didn't have a father. it was just me, a single mom. when he started primary school, he didn't have a father then neither. he's now 16. his father has not even held his hand.

malaysia is now aiming to abolish the mandatory death penalty. they are currently 11 offenses with death is the automatic punishment of the $1300.00 inmates on death row. nearly 70 percent were convicted of drug trafficking in malaysia carrying even a small amount of elicit substance comes under that definition. human rights group say it doesn't meet the threshold of most serious crimes under international law. the proposed amendments will allow the countries highest court to replace death sentences with life imprisonment and caning. these reforms have been on the table for several years now and more for him on executions has been in place since 2018. the minister in charge of legal reform says the abolition of the mandatory death penalty is aimed at valuing the sanctity of life while ensuring justice and fairness for all. and he death penalty advocates. welcome to move and say malaysia

also needs to look at reforming other aspects of its peano system, including rehabilitation. most of us in asia as a fixed pacific race to really prioritize punitive punishment. we don't really ask how question. once we punish a guy and once they come out, what do i do with him? do we expect to find the read, the better society and do good or do we expect them to re offend on the route? for neetha, there is at least a chance that her husband's case might be reviewed. i know he did wrong, but please don't hang. can you give him another trans release he can change? the changes will still have to be passed in the upper house of parliament and signed into law by the king before they come into effect. florence louis al jazeera cor loom poor apparitions have voted overwhelmingly to ban the rental of electric scooters in the city. a blow to operators and a victory for road safety campaign is nearly 90 percent of the votes cast were

against rental lease quarters. the referendum means paris is set to become the only major european capital to outlaw using apps to branch the widespread devices. and it is a bit more tase, a french journalist, right, and columnist. she explains the results don't mean they'll be no east coders on the road. if you own one, you can write it. that's not a problem that may be extra regulation in terms of, ah, respecting the driving code because the scooters tend to sort of go up one way streets and pot practically anywhere. but, you know, private ones are okay. it's the 3 rental companies that supplied most of the east hooters of called short duration rentals that have lost a vote, which was taken by only 7.45 percent of the paris voting the public. so on the one hand, the mayor is delighted. she says, we've got

a clear victory. the scooters are off the streets of paris on the other. people say that boat was organized in complicated ways. there was no e voting. even though a most users of east coaches are people between $16.34, who would have like an e vote other or people who need to be happy with them because it is perfectly true that the, the, the scooters have become a nuisance. on the other hand, the not only is it almost impossible now for a private car to be driven in paris is at that lot cost. there are also fewer and more expensive, right? chair ups and, and even fewer metal trains and feel buses. so the scooters were seen as a solution to a city that hasn't sold its rascal problems. passing is phenomenology here, am for the back people stay with us inside story is next on out here. thanks so much. ah

ah hello, that was taught in east asia and a change has come to northern parts of china. we saw some exceptional heat here, with temperatures about 10 degrees above the average in recent days. but they have come back down that thanks to a weather system, bringing very heavy rain flooding rains potentially across central and eastern parts of china with a wintery edge to the northern flank. that's going to drop the temperature in beijing. we'll continue to head further south and it's a similar story for shanghai. we'll see that trend continue as that system pushes its way further east, but ahead of it, we are still seeing some fun and dry conditions for the korean peninsula and japan . the temperature touching up to 20 degrees celsius in tokyo on tuesday, but they will be falling in pet paces like beijing from recovery. however on thursday,

with pure skies and sunshine and whizzing more in the way of clear skies across much of india as we move to south asia. certainly fill that west coast and down in the south, just a few showers coming in here and there, and small, fierce thunderstorms, kicking off in sri lanka, the went to where the thought to ease across the northeast for places like bangladesh, heavy rain coming in for places like nipple was seen some hefty showers, well across northern parts of pakistan, but it is an improving system as that wet and winter weather shifts east. ah, many of us living with the effects of ecological breakdown. the stories in which technology helps the promise of salvation. the planet 1000000000 is big tech and an unwavering faith in innovation. ali re, investigates with a techno optimism is helping or hindering the fight against climate change destruct .