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finland. swain's to the right, prime minister, santa marion concedes defeat after the conservative leader to terry opal cadence victory in a tie election. ah, play you're watching al jazeera life from doha with me fully back. people also coming up a prominent russian military ball grayscale going an explosion in a st. petersburg. cafe 25. others were injured in the last oil prices. serge, after several of the wells top producers announced unexpected, caught in production and abolishing capital punishment. malaysia has no or house of parliament votes on removing the death penalty for some offense. ah,

ah, thank you very much for joining as we begin in finland, where prime minister, santa marion has conceded defeat the parliamentary election. the right wing opposition national coalition party, one with 20.7 percent of the votes. as leader baterri also says he will work to form a coalition. the ncp is kelsey, followed by the right wing populace party the fence with 20 point one percent. while the governing social democrats came in. 3rd was 19.9 percent. while we challenge reports, smiling and seemingly at ease the se, but santa marines, political star has follow billions prime minister gathered with supporters with her election headquarters. as bandit 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 was 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. it is very strong. and we have, we have very good campaign, and i think that in election day today we have more votes. and i'm, i'm vital that we can, people believe let's see. 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 surging and finland is teetering into a recession. with how you feel and progressive politics, santa marin has been popular among young moderates at home and abroad. been 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 wrong 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 debt. 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 merits, very popular, and she's done great. the most of the fins also think that she did an amazing job with the current wires, but maybe we have to look at the new crisis that we have. and some of us still believe that she does very good job. but 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 of them. a lot will re challenge al

jazeera is all yoke and al jazeera is mohammed al. mad horn has more from the headquarters of the national coalition party in helsinki. yes, the wedding party party and the national coalition partisans work with photos and add to the, to the printing. and she's the one of the leader of the policy opal. and now in the states that his focus has one on. so a son, a 1000000 came out to the support and see that the defeat and see to work and proven her party. fixing the mistakes that might have been made for the coalition mission of collision spoke to is coming back to government for years, very momentous for years. lots of political changes and

then it started with war. bryn applicant will join it. they will work on continuing that, the national pollution policy and all the thinking now about how to form the new government, especially with the rise. the exception of rice i'm president, was the finance party, the a nationwide policy led by a rica laura, that women who, who did the party and who managed to be the 1st that this individual targeted to win votes even more modern santa maria and she defeated, defeated her, the number of course that she met with a leading a russian military blogger who supported the invasion of ukraine, has been killed in a bomb blast at a cafe in st. petersburg flatland petoskey, whose real name is maxine foreman was a member of a blogging group which had rented out the cafe in historic center of st. petersburg

for an event at least $25.00 other people were injured in the explosion dosage. barry has more from moscow this was the moment security cameras captured the attack as the busy street food bar number one cafe in the heart of st. petersburg on sunday. the explosion killed 40 year old military blogger, rosalyn petoskey, who was delivering the speech of the events, organized by the cyber front, that movement an association of people with k to out. if you say, who talks of this test a, every over a 100 people were in and around this events at the time of the time that all mass 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 in to deal with the incident. loveland to starsky launched his own social media channels to report on the activities of the russian military liam in. it's so called special military operation and has

a following up over 500000 subscribers. so starsky was invited to the lavish ceremony last september at the kremlin, where russian president proclaimed the annexation of 4 regions of ukraine. who are he was a well known figure among kremlin supporters seen here with daria. do you know who was killed in a car bomb attack last august in moscow region? her father, alexander, duke, and a far right political philosopher and crumbling supporter, was believed to be the intended target. the russian foreign ministry has issued a statement condemning the attack and praising his work as a journalist and his service to the country. these types of attacks are rare in russia, but the planning and plotting behind them just proved that the battles are not confined to the dumbass region. doors such a worry al jazeera, moscow. you are secretary of state antony, blinking. his call for the immediate release of american journalists. evan gosh kevin, during a call with the russian foreign minister,

say gay lover of garish coverage is a correspondent with a wall street journal. he was detained by russian security agents on thursday on allegations are spying lover off, says washington shouldn't rock politicize the case. and go cove ish, fate will be determined by a court. article haine has more. this phone call's notable for a couple of reasons. first you are secretary state antony blinkin 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 last month and the sidelines of the g 20 a very brief conversation. the fact that this call is coming just days after evan girth greevich was arrested, is also significant. now it was the normal read out word. you 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 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 their consulate 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 and there are several more resources that can go into this case. so likely this is anthony blink . and 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. particle haine al jazeera washington in the world news oil prices have search. after sante arabia and other oil producers from the opec master lines announced production cuts. they'll come into effect in may react, describe the move as a precautionary measure to stabilize the oil market. the u. s has oppose up what card saying the world needs lower prices to support economic growth. it also wants to limit russia's earnings from oil exports. earlier i spoke to jim crane and energy fellow at the rice university, bacon institute. he says, the oil production costs are not so surprising. the pretty big deal. i mean, you know, they were picked plus, had been signaling 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 and months, i mean, not so surprising, right?

so, you know, all had been showing weakness. it had been under $80.00 a barrel persistently, which is seems to be an informal floor now for, for the saudis. at least you see oil at, or under that level, you have to figure that the, the saudis, or at least thinking about taking action. you know, well last big cut they may, was in october of last year with oil around $90.00 well below that level now. so, you know, the saudis want to maintain that the notion that, that october cut was based on market fundamentals, not based on a desire to help by november election. so they cut with $90.00 will then and you think that, you know, price is now under $80.00, it would be looking at another round of cuts. anybody's, it's producing oil is going to benefit from this oil producing countries. lots of spending going on in those countries. lots of lots more investment 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 the persistently high inflation. this is not going to be welcomed step in those countries. israel's cabinet has approved the plans of a far right ministry to form a national guard. critic say it will be nothing more than a private militia for each my been given who has a criminal conviction for inciting racial hatred against palestinians. then it's made 3 for some west to flip the protest as much as the idea of a so called national guard. but the israel fall, right? security minister, it's no joke. it's my bank of ears as the new force will tackle what he calls nationalist crime and terrorism. i think it a we need to strength existing force of the police,

which is lack of 2000 police officers for joy regularly, bullied singer duties. and no, it will be blessed if they will air doors. this budget hinder the police officers which they want to wear to the to do in this say, brock route 3 months or 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, siddur. the priorities of this government are ridiculous and despicable. it existed 3 months and the only thing that keeps a busy is crushing democracy and promoting extreme fantasies of delusional people. netanyahu's cabinet has agreed to cut budgets from all other ministries to provide

the estimated $270000000.00 needed to fund the new force. it's an indication of how reliant benjamin netanyahu is on support. on 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's security agencies. they have 90 days to make their recommendations. bernard smith, al jazeera wester, russo thought francis has led a palm sunday service at vatican a day after he was released from hospital 30000 people gather in st. peter's squares christians around the world, mark the day. any 6, your pontiff was in hospital for 3 days, being treated for bronchitis, despite concerns about his health. the vatican says a pope well take part in a full array of easter events. this coming week, still ahead on al jazeera reporting in haiti. we look at how journalists are risking their lives in the face of an economic and political crisis. and paris put

the brakes on rental east cougar's in a victory for road safety campaigns. 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 brings very heavy rain flooding rains potentially across central and eastern parts of china. with a winter we edge to the northern flank. that's going to drop the temperature in beijing will continue to head further south and it's a similar story for shanghai. we will 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 attempts to 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 p, a skies across much of india as we move to south asia. certainly for 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, went to other thoughts to ease across the northeast. for places like bangladesh, heavy rain coming in for places like an apple was seen, some hefty shop was well across northern parts of pakistan. but it is an improving system as that wet and winter weather shifts east. ah, unflinching question is war with will wonder in minutes rigorous debate, people who are dying because of lack of medical treatment black lives don't really

matter in the police will join me more of them on hill for a while now to 0 talk the law will the law with, with neither side, willing to negotiate is the ukraine war becoming a forever war? is america's global leadership increasingly fragile? what will us politics look white as we had to the presidential elections of 2024. the quizzical look us politics, the bottom line. ah, ah ah, welcome back, a recap of our top stories on al jazeera, this our finland's right wing opposition. national coalition party leader baterri opal has claimed victory in a tight parliamentary election by minister santa marian has conceded defeat

a russian military blanca who supported the invasion of ukraine, has been killed in a bomb attack on a cafe in saint petersburg. witnesses save lapland petoskey was presented with a statue which exploded. 25 people were injured in the blast. and oil prices of sir shafter saudi arabia and other oil producers from the opec class alliance amounts to production costs. we are described to move as a precautionary measure to establish that oil markets now to militia, where the lower house of parliament is voting to abolish a mandatory death penalty for crimes such as murder and drug trafficking. the build seek to substitute the death penalty with life imprisonment of between 30 and 40 years as well as caning as go lie to our correspondent florence to we inquire lamp or for this is something that's been in discussion for several years now. that's right. in 2018, it was actually part of the manifesto of the coalition that eventually won that

year's general polls to abolish the mandatory death penalty. but during its 2 years in power, that administration failed to introduce. i'm to reform the look of the laws. and then last year we had a different administration tabling similar bills, but before they could be debated, parliament was dissolved and here we are in 2023 again, a different administration. tabling those bells and members of parliament are expected to vote on it. on monday, it is expected to pass because it has bipartisan support. now, the mandatory death penalty or the death penalty even has been part of the malaysia criminal justice system since british colonial rule. but it was originally enforced for murder. and then when malaysia toughened its drug laws in the 1980s to show that it has 0 tolerance on drugs, it made the death penalty mandatory for drug trafficking. but the conversation around the death penalty has been taking place around the world for decades. now, there's been an understanding that the mandatory death penalty is not on the unjust because mainly it takes away the discretionary factors of the judge. but also it

doesn't allow them to take into consideration mitigating factors like the person's history of abuse, all mental illness. so that conversation about reforming the just the sentencing system has been taking place for several years now in malaysia. vanessa dow, it's husband has been on death row for 13 years. he was found guilty of murder. she's raised their son on her own or not appropriate, petty, 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 smell 16. his father has not even held his hen. malaysia is now aiming to abolish the mandatory death penalty. they are currently 11 offences where 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 on the international law. the proposed amendments will allow the country's highest court to replace death sentences with life in prison and caning. these reforms have been on the table for several years now, and the moral 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 fantasy for all anti 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 still really prioritizes punitive punishment. we don't really ask how question once we punish a guy and once they come out, what they want with him,

do we expect to sunday reintegrate 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 trend release here you 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 port. so in many activists and anti death penalty advocates say the ultimate goal is to see the death penalty abolished in malaysia completely. malaysia is one of $53.00 countries that still maintains the death penalty and more than 70 around 70 percent of countries in the world have abolished the death penalty in law. and in practice

that some activism advocates are very realistic. they don't expect that conversation to take place in malaysia, at least for another 10 years. and that is mainly because many people still see the death penalty as an effective deterrent, even though there's no data to say that it is. and there's also the perception that to abolish the death penalty could show that the country of the administration is soft on crime. so that conversation has to take place, but before that's expected, the death penalty can be completely abolished florence. thank you for that. florence. 3 live there in kuala lumpur. according algeria has sentence, prominent journalist e, san l cutty to 3 years in prison academy is the director of my grab emergent news. he's accused of receiving foreign funds through his business in exchange for carrying out activities that could harm the state. earlier we spoke to use of wanda n, a professor of political science and international relations that cut our university . he says he saw named cody was not given a fair trial. the accusations are quite vague and there wasn't registered applies.

that he got this particular sentence receiving funds from abroad ad engaging in propaganda, but threatens the security and public called little in algeria, are quite very serious accusations whether the courts have proven done or not. it's very, very debatable human life organizations that attended to some of the her meetings abbreviated accountability is last the last month have accused the authorities of not a given mr. academy, a fair trial. he's one of his lawyers will be there soon said dud digitization. not an easy of my funds for from abroad. well actually, 25000 pounds from here says daughter who is re so child working in london and she gave him that money as a loan because she is

a shareholder in his company fate. some financial difficulties paying his stuff, and that's why he received that particular money since it said was the jail glass to dissemble, awaiting his trying. despite of these political act was perceived as an attack on freedom of expression. now with haiti's streets dominated by gangs local gen, lisa putting their lies on the line to keep the public informed. 7 journalists were killed last year. at least 4 have been kidnapped since january al jazeera spoke, tare porter, and lawyer in pato prints no reserves. i keep, my name is joseph jack, a blue. i'm a lawyer, but i work mostly as an independent journalist. i do jobs for international press and post on social media to keep the public informed about what's happening here.

he's, i see a little challenge. the biggest challenge we face is haitian journalists is getting people to see our work, especially with the country situation, the way it is. every day we are under serious threat. when there are protest, we faced the police who fired tear gas and did some neighborhoods. we risk losing our lives on it. i know several journalists who died recently. one of them was shot inside the police station where he went to show solidarity with a colleague who had been arrested i'mma. is it the old c, m, i? d was a very nice person, always smiling. he loved his job, but he lost his life, doing that job. swap one movie. oh, i'm often afraid because when you leave your house, you never know if you'll be back. the level of insecurity is only increasing. it can be terrifying, especially going from one place to another. i'm

a victim myself because i was in car patient for work. and on my way back to port a prince. gangs robbed me at gunpoint. they stole my camera with mobile phone and everything was years since then i've been a lot more cautious. every day the situation gets worse and more people leave the country. in desperation, it gets worse because everything we need to live is getting more expensive. it gets worse because arms trafficking increases and the state has no control. it gets worse because politicians don't work in the interest of the people. despite all the dangers, i enjoy my work and i do it with love, with everything that's happening in this country. the youth need journalists like me to keep them informed. iranian women have condemned a recent attack on a mother and daughter who were targeted for not wearing the he job. a video shows a man confronting the women in a shop in the northeast in city of my sod,

before emptying yogurt on their heads. in response to the government said it will reinforce strict dress codes for women. the women have been arrested in a warrant was issued for the man. operations have voted overwhelmingly to ban the rental of electric scooter. as in the city, a blow to operate as an a victory for road safety campaign is nearly 90 percent of votes cast were against rental lease quarters. the referendum means paris is said to become the only major european capital to outlaw using apps to rent the widespread devices. and it is ebay to take a french journalist right and columnist. she explains the results don't mean they'll be no east. kudos on the roads. if you own one, you can write it, that's not a problem. the maybe extra regulation in terms of a respecting the, the driving code because the scooters tend to sort of go up one way, streets and pot practically any, whatever, you know,

private ones are okay. it's the 3 rental companies that supplied most of the east hooters, of called the short duration rentals that have lost a vote, which was taken by only 7.45 percent of the paris voting and the public. so on the one hand, the mayor is delighted, she says we've got a clear victory. the east coaches are off the streets of paris, only other people say that boat was organized and complicated ways that 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 people who are going 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 impulsive.