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the polishing capital punishment. malaysia's parliament is voting to remove the mandatory death penalty for some offences. ah, i'm told mccrae, this is l 0. live from dough, so coming up, finland swings to the right. prime minister, santa marion conceded defeat after the conservative laid to terry all proclaims victory and the ty. selection. prominent russian military blog is killed in an explosion. innocent petersburg cafe. at least 25 others were injured in the blast. and oil prices search after several of the world's top produces an unexpected comes and production. ah,

ah. we begin in malaysia, where the lower house of parliament is voting to abolish the mandatory death penalty for crimes such as murder and drug trafficking. the bills seek to substitute the death penalty with life imprisonment of between 30 and 40 years, as well as caning. florence louis has the letters from colombo, abolishing the mandatory death penalty was actually part of the manifesto of a coalition that eventually won the general polls in that year. but during its 2 years in power, that coalition failed to reform those laws. and then in 2020, to a different administration, tried to do the thing it tabled bills to abolish the mandatory death penalty. but before those bills could even be debated, parliament was dissolved and that brings us to 2023, where similar bills were tabled in parliament, members of the lower house, i expected to vote on it on monday. and because these bills have bipartisan support, there is a strong chance that they will part and part of it. now the mandatory death penalty

has been part of malaysians criminal justice system since the country was under british colonial rule, but it was originally enforced for murder. even after the country gained independence, it kept those laws. and then in the 1980s when malaysia strengthened its laws against drug, it made the death penalty mandatory for drug trafficking around the world in the last few decades. the conversation about death penalty and especially mandatory death penalty has been taking place and has greater understanding, but the mandatory death penalty is unjust. because one, it fails to give the judges discretionary power and to it fails to take into account mitigating factors such as the history of mental abuse history of mental illness. a history of abuse in the inmate who can who, who committed the crime. and so that conversation in malaysia has been taking place in the last few years. oh, beneath her doubts, husband has been on death row for 13 years. he was found guilty of murder. she's

raised their son on her own a bit. and now i've been up pretty badly 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 one of his now 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 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 a moratorium on executions has been in place since 2018. the minister in charge of legal reforms 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 still really prioritizes 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 spend the winter? we 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. he gave him another trend to release him. 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 quite loom poor when now to finland, where prime minister san marin has conceded defeat and the parliamentary election. the right wing opposition national coalition party, won 20.7 percent of the vote. these if a terry or post says he will work to form a coalition government the fins a right wing populous party came 2nd with 20 point one percent. while the governing social democrats, 119.9 percent. where we challenge reports, smiling and seemingly at ease the se, but santa marines. political star has been in prime minister, gathered with supportive and her election headquarters is found that results came in and showed her social democrats slipping behind the bright wing national coalition party fin shortly. after she conceded defeat,

the santa maria nearer was coming to an end. ncp leader, baterri or po, is on track to be the one assembling. and you collection government. i very happy you got this result. this is very, we have, we have very good campaign. and i think that election day today the more bold next week, and people with the national coalition policy and the nationalists, the rica poorer fins party have both benefited from worries about the economy. living costs, the surging and finland teetering into a recession with her youth. and progressive politics, santa marine has been popular among young moderates at home and abroad. the marin has presided over opinions 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 his m scandal did. for me, i'm burdened by the economics actually read like too much depth. i think. i wish you would have it. well 1st they still in 20 years time. but if the current expenditures and dep thinking i'm worried about how we can afford the welfare states in the future, i noticed on a nice, 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 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 a wants 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 reach helen's al jazeera is all guilty of good metal al jazeera is mohammed to elmwood, who has more from the headquarters of the national coalition party in helsinki. yes, the winning party party in the national clinician poses at work with photos and that to the, to the printing. and she and the, one of the lead a pool and now in the states that his focus has one on. so a son, a 1000000 came out to support us and see that the defeat and see it to work and proven her party. the mistakes that might have been made for the coalition mission of pollution policy is coming back government up for years. very moment us 40 looks of 2 political

changes and the next started with war. bring them that was right. do they wouldn't work on continuums that the national commission party and all the think it now about how to form the new government, especially with their eyes, the exception of rise unprecedented drugs. defense hockey, the nationalist party, led by a rica laura, that women who, who did that party and who managed to be the 1st, that this individual candidate to win votes even more, more than santa maria. and she defeated, defeated her. and the number of course that she met as a leading russian military blogger who supported the invasion of ukraine, has been killed in a bomb blast at a cafe in st. petersburg. flatland to task. he was a member of a blogging group that had hot out the cafe for an event,

at least 25 others were injured in the explosion. dorsey jibari has more from moscow. this was the moment security cameras captured the attack at the busy street with bar number one cafe in the heart of saint petersburg. on sunday, the explosion killed 40 year old military blogger, rosalyn tusky, 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 100 people were in and around this events, the time of the attack, there's 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 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 its so called special military operation. and has

a following of over 500000 subscribers. starsky was invited to the lavish ceremony last september at the kremlin, where russian president proclaimed the annexation of 4 regions of ukraine. starsky 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 that's our 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 as laurie al jazeera moscow georgie ravish really is a former senior advisor, the national security council of georgia. he says the bombing is very significant.

darcy was jailed in 2011 or armed robbery after the russian invasion of ukraine in 2014, he escaped the escape the prison, and joined the russian forces there and fought against the premium defenders. the gross too prominent juries. telegram channels and he had more than half a 1000000 followers there. he also putting ceremony at the so called proclaimed annexation and payment that will kill everyone in ukraine. we will rob everyone in ukraine and it could be like the target was ugly in the past. because he was given the patio use of himself at the meeting and reportedly bumble was in that and said, which went off and killed. but we have to follow being used how it unfolds.

the propaganda already accused ukraine of attack that is expected. and it happened in downtown petersburg and its are and the bar itself was according to some report the was owned by guinea. regarding the wagner, a boss saw some sources, speculate that it could be a message for regarding because of his strange relations with the russians. different ministry of the fast oil prices have surged out to saudi arabia and other producers from the opec plus alliance announced production cuts. they will come into effect from may. re, ed says it's precautionary measure to stabilize the market. the us, as opposed to kept saying the world needs low oil prices to support economic growth . it also wants to limit rushes, earnings from its oil export exports,

which i'm crying is an energy fellow at rice university's bacon institute. he says higher oil prices will raise inflation around the world. a pretty big deal. i mean, you know, they were open 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, oil 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 it will at or under that level you have to figure that the saudis, or at least thinking about taking action. you know, the 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 buy points november election. so they cut with $90.00 will then and you think that, you know, prices now under 80 it would be looking at another round of cuts. anybody that's producing oil is going to benefit from there. so 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 persistently high inflation . this is not going to be welcomed step in those countries. mozilla hid on al jazeera reporting and high seats. we look at how journalists are risking their lives in the face of economic and political crisis. and paris puts the brakes on

a scoot is in a victory for road safety campaigners ah hello. there was seen a little bit of a warm up across pots in the middle east over the next few days. suddenly across the event, with temperatures edging up. things are settled down as the weather system pulls its way further east. got another one coming in behind the moving its way across to kia. by the time we get to choose, they bring in some heavy rain and small blustery winds. and the winds are set to die down across the gulf, the temperatures in places like doha, and do by edging up slightly over the next few days. we will see more in the way of wet weather, affecting western and southern areas of yemen, and is more windy and wet, whether to come across the mediterranean,

that's gonna trickle down into northern areas of africa. algeria, as well as to nicea and parts of libya, we are expecting some rain to touch into bang garvey. certainly the winds will be felt here. the temperature touching down slightly below average, but lots of fine and sunny weather to be found on wednesday. the winds pick up across northern areas of nigeria. wet weather to the south of this no seasonal rains have pushed their way further north and heavy downpours to come for uganda and into kenya as well as from southern areas of somalia. but for the south of this, a dry a picture by tuesday, ah, of breaking down the headlines to exposing the powers attempting to silence reporting what to do, what to to investigate. why didn't you ask if there are many joins with censor. people have a feeling effect on public when the listening post doesn't cover the news,

it covers the way the news is covered to suppress moderate. and in some cases amplify the content. you see on your formula, the listening post now to sierra lou blue ah, watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the salad, the malaysia, the lower house of parliament has voting to abolish the mandatory death penalty for crimes such as murder and drug trafficking. the bills seek to substitute the death penalty with life imprisonment. the leader of finland's right wing opposition national coalition party is claimed victory and closely for parliamentary election

. current prime minister, san america has conceded defeat and the russian military blogger who supported the invasion of ukraine, has been killed in a bomb attack in saint petersburg. witnesses say lead linda to tusky was presented with a statue which exploded at least 25 people were injured in the blast. us secretary of state and sleep, lincoln has called for the immediate release of american journalists. if a guest greevich during a cool with russian foreign minister, sir guy left off gasket, which is a correspondent with the wall street journal, he was detained on thursday on allegations of spying, a lever. all that says washington should not politicize the case. and guess give it as fight will be determined by a course, petty cal, hine has more. this phone call's notable for a couple of reasons. first you are secretary, said antony, blinking and his counterpart survey leverage. 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 given, was arrested, is also significant. now it was the normal read out word, 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 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. 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 is it could take weeks or even maybe months. particle haine, al jazeera washington. israel's cabinet has approved the plans of a fall right ministers or form and national guard could excite it, will be a private militia for it. a mob been given who was previous convicted of inciting hatred against palestinians than at smith reports from west jerusalem.

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, bank of it says the new force will tackle what he calls nationalist crime and terrorism. i think a, a, we need to strength existing force of the police, which is lack of 2000 police officers for air. enjoy regularly bully singer duties and no need will be blessed if they will air doors this budget and did police officers which they want to way to the to do in the say, brock route 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,

sydel. 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've 90 days to make their recommendations. bernard smith, al jazeera wester, russell, an israeli officer, has been summoned to a hearing after a video emerged appearing to show mounted police, harassing and beating a demonstrator. in the footage, a young woman is being beaten with

a baton israeli police initially said she had a horse with a protest flag. and i responded with reasonable force. the processor says she was tramp between 2 mountain placement. when one started to hit her and algerian caught her sentence, prominent journalist, ill son, al county to 3 years in prison. he is the director of marguerite and merchant news . al caddy is accused of receiving foreign funds through his business in exchange for carrying out activities that could harm the state would use if bewanda al is professor of political science and international relations at cat i university. he says al county was not given a fair trial. the accusations are quite vague and wasn't registered obliged that he got this particular little sentence receiving funds from abroad or engaging in bob baganda, but threatens the security and public or little in av julia. are quite really

serious accusations whether the courts have proven done or not. it's very diverse, debatable human life organizations that attended some of the per meeting. so previewed dakota peters is last the last month have accused the authorities of not a given mr. little cody, her trying, he's one of his lawyers will be there soon, said doug, doug, you say sure what it is you my funds are from a blog. well, actually 25000 bounce from here says daughter who is re so drilled, working in london. and she gave him that money as a loan because she's 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 a jail last december awaiting his trying. despite this particular act was

perceived as an attack on freedom of expression. with haiti's streets, dominated by gangs journalists are putting their lives on the line to keep the public informed. 7 journalists were killed last year, and at least 4 had been kidnapped since january l. g. 0 spoke to a reporter and lawyer and portal prince holmes was there's a good 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 in the hotel is the biggest challenge we face his 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 i my d was a very nice person, always smiling. he loved his job, but he lost his life, doing that job. swap, one humble doorbell. 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 cap 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 . 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 every thing 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. parisians have voted overwhelmingly to ban the renting a village excuses in the city. it supply to operate has an, a victory for road safety campaign as the river into means. paris is set to become the only major european capital to outlaw east scooters and elizabeth natasha as a french journalist, writer and columnist, she explains the results don't mean there will be no excuses on the rods. 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 anywhere. but, you know, private ones are ok. it's the 3 rental companies that supplied most of the east scooters 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 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 that when a 16 and 34, who would have light an e vote, other people who need to be happy with them because it is perfectly true that the, the, the scooters have become a nuisance.