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the end of the road for electric scooters in paris? people in the french capital votes abound them from september. ah! hello, a prominent russian military blogger and kremlin supporter has been killed in a bombing in saint petersburg, and at least 32 people were injured. an arrest warrant has been issued for a female suspect dorset jibari reports from moscow. this was the moment security cameras captured the attack as the busy street food 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 event 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 week over a 100 people were in and around this events at the time of the time that the 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 to deal with the incident. lovelyn 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. satarsky was invited to the lavish ceremony last september at the kremlin, where russian president proclaimed the annexation of 4 regions of ukraine was true . that's our sky 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? regent. 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 our excuse, work as

a journalist than his service to his country. these types of attacks are rare in russia, but the planning and plotting behind them just true that the battles are not confined to the dumbass region. doors such as laurie al jazeera moscow. meanwhile, the u. s. secretary state anthony lincoln has called on russia to immediately release an american reporter, the wall street journal correspondent evan girl of which was detained on thursday on charges of spying. the paper denies the allegations russian foreign minister circuit live, rob told lincoln in a phone call that washington should not politicize the case on gert of which is faith would be determined by a court. the ukrainian president of all of them are zalinski, has described the battle around the eastern city of buck moved as particularly hot . earlier the head of the wagner's paramilitary group fighting for moscow said, his forces had raised the russian flag above an administration building in bad moods. the keeps as it still holds. the city will cross live to keep

a little later on for an update is really forces have kill 2 palestinian men during raids near the city of nablus and the occupied west bank, the palestinian health ministries as the men were from the refugee camp west of nobliss witnesses say is really forces target at a house and several other buildings near the and as off university. 90 for palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since the start of this year. while israel's cabinet has approved budget cuts to fund a new armed unit, the security minister it m r been given us as a national guard as critical to fight nationalist crime. critics say it will be a private militia for the far right leader, who in 2007 was convicted of inciting racism against palestinians. ernest smith reports from west jerusalem protest as mocked 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 the strength, existing force of the police, which is lack of 2000 police officers for air. in general. i will regularly believe singer duties and it will be blessed if they will. air doors. this budget ended police officers, which they want doing to the, to do in this, 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 city. 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 $278000000.00 needed to fund the new force. it's an indication of how relying 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 security agencies. they've 90 days to make their recommendations. bernard smith, al jazeera western luisel. listen, go back to the battle for about looting eastern ukraine. so the wagner mercenaries claim that they control the city, something the ukrainian president involved him as a landscape denies, will bring enjoying a whole for more clarity on this jonah's joining us from keith. so is there

anything more to indicate whether about moot has fallen into russian hands or not, jonah, what well, there is, and frankly, a great deal more clarity what we have of these conflicting reports, which is not unusual along the front lines of the east, where a very close quarters fighting is taking place. it's often hard to tell exactly where the front lines are, and frankly they've been pretty static now for months. conflicting reports, as you pointed out earlier, on the one side from you have any pre goes in the head and founder of the wagner, private military contracts and mercenary group. essentially, a lot of his fight is engaged in bad mood, saying that overnight and providing video indeed, claiming that he's fight as advice to the wagner and the russians lag about the administrative headquarters in the east and part of back moved the ukrainians, pushed to the western side of that town and that therefore russia legally held buck

moved will the ukrainians certainly not conceding, anything like that military official saying that they are still contesting and defending the eastern part of the city. the situation is extremely tense. president zelinski in his address last night, talked about hot fighting inside butler got up to see how things progress in the coming hours. remember though you're getting free coaching has in the past, declared victory in back mood only to be subsequently proven wrong. how important is the battle for battle for both sides? what will of, i mean this is a pretty sizable town, but most for the population before the war. 70005, few the now of course, but it has no notable strategic value to either side in terms of the wider war. and yet for months it's been fiercely contested. they both expended huge amounts of manpower and munitions. indeed,

both sides losing some of the most their most experienced fighters in the process. so why, so why go so heavily after this face will be posted be taken on huge symbolic significance to both sides. for russia, it is hoped that it would deliver momentum in its goal of taking the whole of the don't nets region. it's just inside the regional border, one of 4 places, but russia claims of antics last year. this, despite not controlling any of them for the ukrainian side. conversely, it takes on the huge significance of trying to deny russia the ability even of that most basic of its war aims. so whilst there is this huge expenditure of military resources over about, it is a symbolic and moral boosting victory that will go to have a drug prevails there. okay, thank you so much. john hall reporting from keith. the finished prime minister, a son marian has conceded defeat and the parliamentary election. the right wing

opposition national coalition party won with to 20.8 percent of the vote. the leader baterri or post says he will now work to form a coalition government. the fins are right wing populous party, came 2nd with 20 point one percent. while the prime minister, social democrats secured 19.9 percent, where we challenge reports, smiling and seemingly at ease for the se, but santa marines. political style has fallen, finance prime minister, gathered with supportive and her election headquarters is planet. results came in and showed her social democrats slipping behind the bright wing national coalition party and the fins party. shortly after she conceded defeat, the santa maria nearer is coming to an end. ncp lead a pottery, or po is on track to be the one assembling a new coalition government. i very happy you got the result. it's very,

we have, we have very good campaign. and i think in election day today, we have more votes lights on the weekend. people in the hotel, the national coalition party and the nationalists of rica poorer spins party have both benefited from worried about the economy. living costs the surging and finland is 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 fin, the biggest cheer political transition in decades applying to join nato in response to neighboring rushes invasion if ukraine last year. opponents were quick to jump on a leaky video of her drinking and partying with friends, saying she wasn't fit to govern. marin was cleared from doing that, arguably, criticism of her government public spending. i hit her more than the head and isn't

scandal it. for me, i'm burdened by the economists actually read that too much step. i think i wish you would have a both. are they still in 20 years time, but the, the current expenditures and depth thinking, i'm worried about how we can afford the welfare states in the future. i know it's under my rights and she's done. great. most of it is also think that she did an email and check with the current wires. maybe we have to look at new crisis that we have. and some of us feel guilty of that. she does very good job. other people need, wants something, you know, having become the world's youngest prime minister at 34. santa marin will be an ex prime minister at $37.00 and a lot, rory, challenge out there is malaysia, lower house of parliament is debating whether to abolish the mandatory death

penalty for crimes such as murder and drug trafficking. so the bill 6 is substitute . the death penalty with life imprisonment or caning, depending on the crime, florence louis reports from kuala lumpur. o, venetia, dow, it has been has been on death row for 13 years. he was found guilty of murder. she's raised their son on her own. and now 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 there currently 11 offences where the 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 countries highest court to replace death sentences with life imprisonment and caning. these reforms have been on the table for several years now, and the more for him on execution 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 aspect of its peano system including rehabilitation, most of us in asia pacific specific race to really prioritize of punitive punishment. we don't really ask how question once we punish a guy and once they come out, what to do with him, do we expect to sunday reintegrate better society and do good or do we expect them

to re offend on the road? 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 up. give him another trend, 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 quite loom poor, the former kosovo presidents hassam touchy has pleaded not guilty to all 10 charges he faces at the beginning of a war, crimes at the hague. 3 others have also pleaded not guilty to raise your younger seed for young, i confirm the same plea. i'm totally not guilty. may tachi the 3 senior politicians who are former leaders of the kosovo liberation army have been detained

since 2020. and the charges relate to a period during and shortly after the course of a war, barbara and go by reports. 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, touchy and 3 others are 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 back to the court 1000000 or so the we mean 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, you know, put your goes into that. but 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 odd assistance as a joint criminal enterprise in the indictment of. so this, that indictment accuses hashim touchy and his 3 co accused of intimidating, abusing and eliminating those fe, considered enemies of the kosovo liberation army. but lawyers say the prosecution may find it difficult to prove its case. first years of on it shall never see it for we who were in kosovo inexperienced at all. know that the soldiers and their 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 laid their support at home for the kosovo liberation army leaders on trial . and the campaign to support them has been launched. new dot mooned. we will not affect the legal proceedings in order the one to that we want to provide moral support to those who are in the hague. tell them they're not forgotten and that cause of a supports them 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 grip her out as sarah well ahead of that trial, thousands of people march in the cost of in capitol the snow in solidarity with tachi. his supporters include war, veterans, and nationalist groups who consider a freedom fighter. still ahead on al jazeera risking their lives to tell the truth, we'll hear from a haitian journalist about what it's like to report in the middle of a security crisis. ah

hello there. it's a divided picture across europe. at the moment. we've got high pressure sitting up across northern areas, keeping things comma and clearer, but down in the south. well, this is where we are seeing the worst of the weather. we've got a deepening area of low pressure that spoke warnings across much of a city for the heavy rain. and you can see it's starting to skirt its way further east. the south west of this, spain and portugal, largely fine and dry with lots of sunshine, possibly the chance of a shower coming through into southern areas as we go into tuesday. but the worst of the rain across more eastern areas got wind warnings out red warnings in croatia. we are going to see that system tunnel wintery as it creeps its way further east knocking temperatures down dramatically in places like bucharest, a drop of what? 10 degrees? for romania, they're into whedon state. now we are seeing temperatures sit slightly lower than

the average for this time of year across the north west. but lots of bright spells pushing through the cloud. lots of quiet, mild weather to be found, particularly in places like london with the sunshine that monday into tuesday. lots of sunshine as well across scandinavia, temperatures picking up slightly for places like low, and it's an improving picture of northern areas of central europe, much more wintry and west in the east. that should weather update. the in 543, across takes on the big issues. this is the one, all right. it's a stomach issue here. don't really matter in the police world unflinching question is war with one minute rigorous debate. people who are dying because of lack of medical treatment, challenging conventional with the fact that people are starting to get angry about

it in itself. a sign of program join me mark of mine who upfront one out 0 ah ah, hello again. this hospital is on al jazeera, this, our ukraine's president has described. fighting around, back, moved in the east, was particularly hot. the head of the wagner paramilitary group earlier said his forces had raised the russian flag in the city. but keith dispute to claim a prominent russian military blogger on kremlin supporter has been killed in a bombing at a st. petersburg cafe. at least 32 people were injured in that block. a female suspect has been arrested. the finished prime minister's son marian has conceded

defeat and sundays parliamentary election leader the right way national coalition party pet terry or po says he will not work to form a coalition. government oral prices have surged after soda, radia and other producers and the opec plus alliance and else production costs. so they'll come into effect for may re odd, says it's a precautionary measures to stabilize the market. the u. s. as opposed the reduction saying that the world needs lower oil prices. this for an economic growth . washington also wants to limit russia's earnings from its oil exports. jim crane is an energy fellow at rice university's baker institute. he says higher oil prices will lead to higher global inflation. pretty big deal. i mean, it, 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 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 bind bonus 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 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 ya, 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. an algerian court has sentence, prominent journalist, a son called the to 3 years in prison. he's the director of mother of emergent news, one of the countries last independent media firms. because he's accused of receiving foreign funds and exchange for carrying out activities that could harm the states. and with haiti's streets, dominated by gangs reporters are risking their lives to keep people informed. 7 journalists were killed last year and at least 4 had been kidnapped since january. i'll 0 spoke to

a reporter and lawyer and porter prince no reserves and 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 say 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 protests, 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, he brought home. 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. the death toll from storms in the midwest and southern us has risen to 30 to the region, braces for more extreme weather this week. a major storm system cause tornadoes and several states on friday. us president joe biden has pledged federal aid for clean up and recovery efforts. parisians have voted to ban the hiring of electric scooter. as in a victory for road safety, campaigners nearly 90 percent of the balance cost were opposed to the rental of the battery powered vehicles. however, less than 8 percent of eligible voters took part in that referendum. paris is set to become the only major european capital to outlaw rental e scooters. and elizabeth, which is a french journalist, writer and colonists. she says, the result doesn't mean an end to it scooters in paris. if you own one,

you can write it. that's not a problem that maybe extra regulation in terms of a respecting the, the driving code, because the scooters tend to sort of go up one way street and hawk practically anywhere. but, you know, private ones are ok. it's the 3 rental companies that supplied most of the east hooters of called show 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, only other people say the boat was organized and complicated ways. there was no voting. even though most users of east who choose all people between $16.34, who would have like 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. on the other hand, the not only is it almost impossible now for a private call to be driven in paris at that lot cost, also fuel and more expensive, right? share apps and, and even fewer metal trains and feel buses. so the schools were seen as a solution to a city that hasn't sold its rascal problems. australia is morning, a death if one of its most influential indigenous leaders. you know, penguin died monday at the age of 74. he was a land rights activist who fought to have traditional ownership documents recognized by the australian parliament. his death comes months before a referendum is due to be held on the recognition of indigenous australians in the constitution. the minister for indigenous affairs has set a great sadness has settled on the nation. he fought with a passion for his paper.