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ah hello. i'm adrian finnegan. this is, these are live from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes is really forces storm jerusalem's alex, a mosque beating and arresting palestinian worshippers during ramadan press. after that violet re rockets were fired from garza and israel launched air strikes fronting fears of a wider escalation. this fate case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election and it should be dropped immediately to files from a president turned defendant, donald trump pleads not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business. reckless french

president emmanuel mccall arrives in bay jane to talk trade on the war and ukraine with china's leader. seizing ping and scotlands political funding scandal deepens. as the husband of a former, the 1st minister is arrested and his fault saga would sincere see is a realistic title, consented to heading into the 1st major golf tournament of the year. the 47 year old targeting his sick picture, the masters it's, he's off on thursday. oh, violet, great by his really forces inside his lamps, 3rd holiest sight. the alexa mosque is touring condemnation and demands for de escalation from countries in the region. the arab league has called for an emergency meeting. in the early hours of wednesday is ready forces stormed the mosque,

firing tear gas and stung grenades. video has emerged of palestinian worshippers who gathered for ramadan. pres, being assaulted with pythons. hundreds of people were arrested. israel says it was trying to remove youth, sued, barricaded themselves inside, overnight, along with stones, sticks and fireworks. out of here as natasha can aim reports now from western whistler. the police say that masked juveniles entered the old moss ox the moss compound, early wednesday morning. armed with fireworks of stones and clubs and barricaded themselves inside the moss as part of a prior agreement with the compound officials. no one was going to be permitted to spend the night in the mosque during ramadan to avoid just this type of scenario in advance of jews visiting the compound on passover today. in any event,

the police say they were unable to coax the, the people outside of the mosque. and that is when officers forcibly entered the mosque. firey, stun grenades, rubber bullets and using buttons to beat people. this was always going to be a tense period. you have ramadan and passover overlapping. this happened last year and the visits by jews during non muslim visiting hours is always a very tense situation. and also one that is a very sensitive one for muslims. l. oscar. ok, so mosque is the 3rd holiest site for jews. the compound is called temple mouth, and it is jude isms holiest site. also there's always concern of palestinians having restricted access during ramadan, which also becomes a flash point. shortly after the raid rockets were fired towards southern israel from gaza. israel then carried out and strikes on the besieged palestinian enclave

humid. outside report shout from gaza. these railey airstrikes where on the military sites belonging to hamas in different areas. in the gaza strip, there was only military, there was only material damage in these military sites, as they were empty. there used to be empty or one that there is any kind of escalation that is predicted or any tension. no casualties or injuries were reported. of course, in retaliation off the earth strikes and while they were still going on, a marriages of rockets were launched from the gods. this strip as well. and that's response in retaliation between the israeli army and the policy infections in godsa. i will say that for a while in the early hours of when is day to day, they were a then

a strong international in egyptian mediations taking place. they seem to have been a successful to restore the call back to the gaza strip. we have not witnessed any launching of rockets or air strikes in the past couple of hours. a mass on its side or in with many statements it through many of its officials abroad and in garza said and confirmed that this is really aggression is and presented. and it has, it's a serious shift as it has been cold in these really aggression towards it. ok, so mosque and the worshippers, they've cold on the palestinian people to resist and to fight back with all their tools, this ease really, aggression and crimes. here with the news, i'm from al jazeera still to come on the program ukraine's president for local news . zalinski receives ponens, highest honor,

out of pledge of more fighter church with eyes on north korea. the us, japan on korea, hold their launches. joint naval drills, ice force, this young south korean player is making a name for himself in major league baseball wars. i thought it might have story coming up later in the mid wrangle here. yes. ah, for us president donald trump stay in court as marked an extraordinary moment in the nation's history. his appearance could also have far reaching political consequences for the 2024 presidential front run up in new york. a subdued looking, trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, linked to hush money payments ahead of a 2016 election back home in florida, though he was to find claiming that he was the victim of a political politicized prosecution designed to derail his presidential campaign,

trump called the new york district attorney, a criminal and said the judge and his family. what trumpeters? they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations, russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment hoax, number one, impeachment hoax number to the illegal and unconstitutional rate on mara lago right here. but now they have really stepped up their efforts by indicting the 45th president of the united states who received 075000000 votes, which is more than any sitting president in the history of our cochran itsyana from missouri. is gabriel alexander, who followed events in new york,

their images that will go down and us history. donald trump, arriving at a court in manhattan. gone, was the traditional swagger that is defined trumps persona. to day, the former president was uncharacteristically somber. as he became the 1st current or former president to ever be charged with the crime. and this is what he's been charged with. the indictment being unsealed before trump in the court room. $34.00 felony counts, including falsifying business records, and other charges stemming from a $130000.00 hush money payment to a former adult film star. donald trump pleaded not guilty to all the charges. the case against trump laid out later by the manhattan district attorney alvin brag. 34 false statements made to cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not

normalize serious criminal conduct. however, the indictment did not impress trump's legal team. this is frustrated. he's upset, but i'll tell you what he's motivated and it's not going to stop him and it's not gonna slow down. earlier outside the courthouse, the anticipation had billed to a fever pitch as both supporters and detractors. of the former president gathered outside phony case. everybody knows that political persecution today is the beginning of a long series of potential passengers. and finally, after hours of waiting trumps motorcade arrived right past our camera. donald trump's motorcade arriving here at the court house. he's in one of these vehicles a historic moment. it's a very scary times, a very fragile time for american democracy. and not only should americans be nervous,

good people around the world should be as well. this is just the start of what likely will be a long legal battle. the next phase will be a trial. trump's lawyers argued to the judge that they don't want that trial to begin until the middle of next year, putting it right smack in the middle of a presidential campaign, one in which it's probable trump himself would be a top contender for the republican nomination. trump left court without comment after more than 2 hours inside. later in the evening when trump returned to his mar lago, a state in florida, he broke his silence. this fate case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election. and it should be dropped immediately from showing his defiance against did you does show process that is very much in motion. gabriel's armando al jazeera, new york and games with us now live from new york game. it's just after 9 in the

morning. what headlines are americans waking up to, to day off to that historic day yesterday? yeah, they're waking up to headlines of a blaring headlines of that historic day that we had here in new york. let me to show you a couple of them. this is the new york times right here. trump charged with 3 felonies. this is obviously the biggest paper in the united states. you can see that photo on the front showing trump in court. that photo that will go down in history books now surrounded by his lawyers on each side of him with to court police officers as well. trump charged with $34.00 felonies. is the headline there of the new york times. also on the new york post. this is a tabloid here in new york. a conservative tabloid owned by rupert murdoch, has

a tendency to, to favor trump a little bit. a lot of times and you can see the difference here. headline on the new york post says trumped up. is that it question mark brags historic case versus dawn falls flat. so that see sort of the opinion from the conservative tabloid here in new york. and you can kind of get a sense still using that photograph. of course, of course, is photographed that if we can't mention again is going to go down in history of trump sitting there in a court room. the 1st former or current president ever of course to be charged with the crime. i will say that there was the new york daily news, which is another tabloid here in new york. it's little more anti trump and there headlines they were sold out. couldn't find any of them in the, in the local areas that didn't, they normally sell them. that to a newspaper, the new york daily news just had a big photo of trump in the court is saying, trump arrested. so you're getting

a really good perspective here of how the newspapers and the media at least here in new york. the tabloids are portraying this day from yesterday, gave our republican party's written leaders reacting to what happened yeah, you're kind of getting the spectrum here. i think within the republican establishment, if you will, there's real concern that if donald trump gets the nomination, the republican nomination, and he's the candidate in the general election, it might be difficult for him to win back some moderate voters, given a what's, what's going on. he says at the trial, if it goes to trial, which most likely it will will happen most likely next year, right in the middle of the presidential campaign. but you have other republicans, more conservative ones that are really rattling to donald trump's defense in the last 24 hours saying that kind of echoing what he says saying, you know, we've got

a stick with donald trump. that's kind of the view for more of the conservative wing of the republican party. so republican party is very much divided right now, and quite frankly, a little bit in shock of how do they move forward now, knowing that they're, they're one of their top candidates who's leading the poles. and all republicans running for presidency might be on trial. and this is donald trump, who it's highly likely he could be the republican nominee, he's not running 3rd, 2nd, or 4th, he's running number one right now in the polls. listen, we have a long way to go here at the republican party has a big question to answer moving forward and that, do they decide to stick by donald trump? so far it feels like the conservative wing of the party is the more establishment party. not quite sure yet. how serious gabriel alexander live in new york gave many thanks. indeed. well those changes in new york or just some of trump's muddy legal

troubles. he's also been investigated for his alleged row and the attack on capitol hill. on january the 6th 2021. a committee has recommended trumpet charge for inciting his supporters. the storm, the capital building, after he refused to concede defeat in the 2020 presidential race. another criminal investigation is looking at attempted election fraud in the state of georgia. prosecutor say that trump pleaded with election officials to try to overturn his last joe biden. and last year, the f b, i rated his florida home to retrieve hundreds of classified white house documents that were not returned at the end of his term. let's bring in richard good stain, who's a lawyer and the principal at goldstein and associates, he joined us basketball from washington, d. c. richard, it's good to have you with us. so we have this indictment, then over osh money, as we indicated there, it's quite likely, isn't it that further indictments will come?

i think it's a certainty, and i think if you had a rank order, the legal jeopardy that donald trump is in this indictment yesterday is maybe worth behind obstruction of justice in connection with these classified documents in connection with the fake elector scheme. where in many states, not just georgia, he tried to get people to assert to the u. s. government that they were donald trump, electors. they were going to vote for trump. it was a fraud on the u. s. government and the pressure on officials in george as you mentioned, as well as whatever role he seems to have had in connection with january 6th. he's got a lot of legal issues hang over him that are quite consequential and that his people should get used to having to deal with or at the case that he was arrested for yesterday, as you say, is kind of forth in the, in the ranking of how serious they are, to what extent though, could it because it was the 1st one to 2 to, to get this far

d rail, the more serious cases against him, at least in the court of public opinion. well, the good thing is i think in the us and elsewhere, no person is above the law. that's the fundamental principle that we're dealing with here. let's don't forget that trump organization was found guilty last year. a felony is for exactly the kind of conduct the donald trump is accused in its indictment that was released yesterday. so i don't think it's a question of public opinion. there are clear when don't come famous. we said you could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th avenue and we wouldn't lose any supporters. i think that's true. the difference is that a legal that's a crime. and i think finally, the chickens are coming home to roost. and then he can't call all the shots and he didn't business or the did as president in a different venue now where he cannot control things. and that's what got to be

scared to him. and yet, and yet his big, i think, is the biggest one in the republican party. and i think it's going to be very hard to dislodge him as the front. let's just speculate for a moment. if he were to be convicted or to receive multiple convictions, how would that impact upon his campaign? is there a legal scenario in the us where he wouldn't be allowed to run for office or even devote well under the us constitution? one needs to be 35 years old and a natural born citizen says nothing about somebody having a clean criminal record. i don't think that they wouldn't have to specify. so yes, there are state many states where when you have a condition like this, you weren't denies the right to vote. but it's not at all clear that you have been denied the right to run for office or even served account crazy. the notion that

somebody would be out of jail elected. that's why the department of justice has a rule against prosecuting an existing president. but that doesn't really speak to the possibility of electing somebody who himself has already been found good. now again, there will be appeals after appeals. this is not going to end next year and down from has to praise, frankly, that he gets elected so that he can quash the federal investigations and prosecution. but that doesn't do anything with the state one in new york and in atlanta, georgia. good to okay. richard many thanks. richard christine that husband scotlands former 1st minister nicholas surgeon, has been arrested. peter morrow was detained on wednesday, as part of an investigation into the scottish national parties campaign financing. let's go live out of london. i'll just pull brandon as far as pull tell us more

about this investigation. while it's a startling development, the police sending up the home address of pizza merrill and his wife nicholas sturgeon. he the former chief executive of the scottish national party. she recently resigned leader of the not of the scottish national party and what they're investigating. what if the contract so far of an 18 month investigation into the parties finances now specifically, the police are looking at a $748000.00 money raised that was supposed to be ring fenced for the purposes of funding a 2nd scottish referendum. but which appears at 1st glance, at least 2 have been spent on day to day party expenses, which it shouldn't have been. the other thing that the police are looking at is a, an interest rate alone. the peter morrow gave to the party 107000 pounds of around $134000.00. which

a lot of that. so i should really have been declared within 30 days, and in fact, it wasn't officially declared for for a year. so there's a sense that the reporting rules were not followed correctly. and that's what the police look not fair. so they've arrested him this morning. they have 12 hours to hold him before they need to make a decision on whether to extend that detention for 12 hours or charge him or indeed release him without charge. on the moment the police scotlands simply saying a 58 year old man has been arrested in suspicion of connection with an ongoing investigation. he's in cuffy and other such as are ongoing. where paul does this leave the piano troops, the scottish independence? well, it's really tough. i mean it's the latest and a whole series of setbacks, i think for the scottish national party festival. in february you have nicholas sturgeon, a long standing prominent leader of the party, stepping back. not mentioning anything to do with financial inquisitions or

inquiries of the reason why she stepped down saying more that she'd run out of steam and didn't have the energy for it anymore than the following month. husband peter merrill was, was essentially forced out by the national executive. you've got the scottish national party who last month were forced to admit the party membership dropped by the most recent thing is the opinion polls showing that by clear 12 percent majority people would if asked. right now currently, votes know to scottish independence. so a combination of political setbacks and now financial difficulties, it appears or at least financial investigations scholars national party from the pipes of just a couple of years ago. now not in a great place for brandon live in london. many thankful francis president mary macolon says that china is close ties with russia made it could play a major role in finding peace in ukraine or kronos on a 3 day state visit to beijing for the 1st time in 4 years. it also be joined by

ear commission president, us love on the lion trade and the war. and ukraine are expected to be the main topics of discussion, looking for their name. this is latoya benjamin faith. we must not be naive. our european union taking this step of europeans over in t that i defended 5 years ago, is establishing trade instruments that are necessary. but the, you must also be voluntarily committed to continuing to have a trade relationship with china. and so we must, in a way reduce the risk to our economies by never being fully dependent on one country. this is what china ones for itself when dealing with europe and the united states. we must not distance ourselves in a way that suggests that ultimately we are meant to do nothing together any more. the european union and china, 2 of the world's biggest trading partners, european countries imported more than $600000000000.00 worth of chinese goods last

year. and exported around $230000000000.00. some european leaders see dependence on china as a security risk and want to reduce it without suffering for economic ties. and tension is growing over bay james claim of neutrality in the war and ukraine use your foreign policy chief use a barrel, has accused china of taking sides with russia after president. she is in pink season thing visited moscow last month, and a thank it is a senior fellow at the time he institute where he specializes in china, political and economic affairs. he joins us now live far from begging on a good teddy with us again up, what will china be looking to get from this visit? well, it's not so much. so what they're looking to get is starting this kind of conversation . they, you know, it started with the 12 point piece plan that they put out there, but it wasn't a complete one. it basically setting the table for what they hope will be

a piece process. from china's perspective, you have to engage in dialogue and right now, since there is not and they want to start one, there are real concerns in, in beijing that this thing is going out of control with nuclear weapons being mentioned. being positioned. this is not the way to go, they're very concerned that if russia feels completely backed into a corner, it will strike out if it has no other alternatives to china. feel that despite the, the internal division we've been talking about in the, the over at stance on or over, it's relations with moscow that it could be a genuine part of a piece that it could brokers some sort of piece to where that was the 1st person perspective here is that the, you, it's one of the biggest losers, other than ukraine and russia themselves. and, you know, it's really just reeked havoc on the economics of the, you. it's a, you know,

obviously it's a war on the doorstep. people are concerned. so china believes that the you with the most logical partner to begin a process, which is about diplomacy, not bombs. i, not many thanks to deep ida tank in there. ah, at sir. the ah, china political, an economic cup, or i'm sorry, the tie, he institute at there. right, right. thank you. the nato secretary general says that it would be a historic mistake for china to provide weapons to russia. he and the stolen burg said any such move would have profound implications. china's ties with russia have been on the agenda for day 2 of the nato foreign ministers meeting at brussels. they also been discussing defense spending. meanwhile, ukraine's president followed him as lensky has been awarded. poland, highest civilian honor during his official visit to warsaw, he thanked the neighbouring nation for its support since the russian invasion.

zalinski says that ukraine wants poland to become a main partner in reconstruction efforts when the war ends. poland is hosting more than 1300000 ukrainian refugees. let's call that a cave. al jazeera jonah haul is their so jonah, ukraine's president in poland. an important ally. what are we to make up this meeting? but it's come at the invitation of the polish president, see a full state occasion, pomp and pageantry, as you probably seeing in the pictures there. and as you said, president zalinski awarded the highest state honor in the company of his wife, alina so, you know, certainly one aspect of this is that this is a broadening, a deepening of a very close alliance. they weren't always close allies, of course, at between these 2 neighbors at poland has been hugely instrumental in coalescing european support behind ukraine taking in all those refugees. clearly ukraine wants all of that to continue. there is another aspect to it though,

which is taking the opportunity perhaps to just paper over a couple of very small cracks beginning to show in the alliance before they become any more divisive, notably, the flow of cheap ukrainian grain into the european union into poland. in particular, free and bringing the price of grain down and upsetting domestic producers, domestic farmers in a number of countries. indeed po to pharmacists threatened to try and disrupt this visit. they haven't done so yet. but during the course of the morning, the polish agriculture minister resigned in protest at the european commissions decision to continue to allow cody ukrainian grading terrorist free all the way through 2024. so it is an issue of concern. it is a small crack, but they will be a deep interest in making sure these divisions don't grow as foreign ministers meeting in brussels right now to what we expect any more military aid to be offered to ukraine. but jen stolt. burge,

you were pointing out his comments at the end of that meeting, they're talking about ukraine reaffirming ukraine's future in the euro atlantic alliance. he said, and with a program of work to begin now over a number of years to help you create and bring up its political standards to nato levels. pursuant to eventual membership, but pursuant more urgently to what is expected to be a spring counter offensive launched by ukraine potentially in the east of this country to try and dislodge russian positions there? yes, as you say, more aide offered the americans that come to the table with another $2600000000.00 of military a, bringing their total to $35000000000.00 since the war began. delivering things like surveillance radar systems, anti tank rockets and so on. the spaniards have said they will eventually now be delivering 6 never to tanks that they had pledged. they arrived late, but they are on their way. and the pose also reaffirming president duda that they

have in fact delivered. 8, make 29 fighter jets with 6 more shortly to come out. 0 sterling, how live in ukraine's capital? keep many thanks. indeed, joe. we are at the midway point in this news out. let's get a weather update. his kara hello, there was dot in south asia where the weather is set fair across many areas, particularly india, we're seeing lots of heat coming into northern areas. now that that system has pulled its way further north and south left, largely clear skies across much of pakistan. after we saw some flooding in the north west, the rain picks up for the south. some showers coming in to places like carola, as well as tom will not do. and the possibility of shop a thunderstorm in sri lanka, logic here as well across north eastern areas of india and into bungler dash. so a bit of rain creeping into pots of nipple, but it is a clear picture of the days the head, lots of heat coming back into new delhi. the temperature sitting in the early

thirty's now will move across to east asia. we're going to see temperatures tumble in places like japan as that system pulls its way further east. it's already brought some very heavy rain to the korean peninsula, places like south korea and disrupted flights there. it does work its way further east into thursday and friday, taking the heavier rain to more southern parts of japan. so those thunderstorms are popping off for taiwan stretching down to hong kong as well. but a much clearer picture across central and northern parts of china and we will see the temperature in beijing dipped on slightly before picking up. that should weather update. kara, by the thanks still to come on. these are perused, president, survived the impeachment vote for failing to stop violence during empty government protests last year of courting tourists to the face of violence. maribel tries to revive a vital industry in the middle of a civil war that in sport a loss, but it penalty and the hopes of the title favorites to the german comp. i be here with it around 20 minutes.

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campaign in france's president mariama. com says that china is close ties with russia. been that it could play a major role in finding peace in ukraine corners on a 3 day state visit to bay jane for the 1st time at 4 years. trade of the war in ukraine are expected to be disgust. china is closely watching a highly symbolic meeting between taiwan is president of the u. s. how speaker in los angeles, in the coming hours, beijing claims that taiwan has its own territory and says it's strongly opposed to washington arranging sy in wings, trends it and her meeting with kevin mccarthy. the u. s. maintains close. unofficial ties with taiwan. chechnya is a research fellow at the institute of international relations. he joins us now live from taipei good to have you with us. so what do you make of the, the timing of a president her the president's visit? how important is this?

this meetings, at least in, in diplomatic terms. i think, you know, a precedent tie one to, i'll have her like a c before she'd department office next year. so she wanted to know her visit to the us. maybe a chris, a dental in president in a way that she might have some kind of breakthrough and it will be a, you know, something to reception or b r never happened before. but i think, you know, there is a lot of we call a minor adjustment of, of her schedule. so she, 1st of all, she didn't go to washington d. c. i some, you know, in time one pro came like she might be and someone says she would have an official visit. it didn't happen. so the only thing she has is a transit visit to our,

to the united states on the way to the central american ally, honduras, and belize. so on her way there, you know, she stop in new york, which a lot of our former president has done that before. and then all the way back to that stop it l a. the same thing here. the difference is here in the past, a lot of congressman or senator will either or local government official like governor or mayor, or will visit our, our president and the hotel or, you know, kind of basically maybe having a phone conversation. so this is the 1st time that a speaker at the house will, you know, shared the floor with her b. l. a. ok, so that might be you can consider that a great through saw, you know, nancy pelosi actually came to taiwan here. so some people say, you know,

if for kevin mccarthy wanted leave his mark, he should come to ty walker, but so maybe no government has given consideration. so given, given that how to, how to people there in taiwan view, the, what's going on with the presto, to love it is this sort of, is this being perceived as well, a bit of a mis and embarrassment? well, in the way it time when we would never has our, you know, initiative on a lot of things. a lot of time are we try to, you know, arrange a trip. but it is at the, i would say, at the mercy of the american, you know, administration now sometimes they will allow because sometimes they will not sometimes, and they will, you know, make a visit more official by explaining to visiting a different tone. but this time, i think we were disappointed that are, at least from the bitin administration the briefing didn't happen. and then are,

you know, are there was not a lot of officials meeting, no officials from the admin. it's the democratic biden administration to meet with our, our president, our so only be, you know, the representatives are an mostly republican by in california. she will meet some of also democrats as well. but they are, you know, parliamentarians. yeah, they are not government administrative official. so we're in a way us, it's not breaking the wine. china. ok. just just very briefly. the president then leaves office next year. what can we expect from the the, the next president in 2024 who's? who's not likely to be ok right now. the korean vice president ally is running for the d p. b, the ruling party as he is going to be the candidate. and he might windy election by

he is he always consider himself a time, want independent nist. so that's a problem and he is not going to get the kind of trust from the united day as they have in presidents. higher tie is more pragmatic. but her vice president is committed, you know, independent is even though right now he is trying to modify his saw lying of argument, but i don't think the u. s. has the same kind of trust in him. i asked they have in president time. so are the, the big problem is, before we have a lot of presidential candidate will visit the euro, us and get the endorsement oil ease acquiescence of the u. s. but since he is the current vice president and he can opposite the us. so that's a big problem. in other words, or there will be no interview for our vice president life or where he is running

for president on which is different from the previous one. good to talk to so many thanks to change. anyone in taipei, not hear us. south korean and japanese warships of ended that to day exercise in the east china say was aimed at increasing readiness, following missile launchers by north korea. rob mcbride reports from sal this exercise was led by the us aircraft carrier limits and its escorts, which have been in the waters of the korean peninsula, conducting large scale exercises with the south korean counterparts. exercises that have also involved drills between air force jets and land forces and the largest scale drills to take place here in 6 years, much to the anger of north korea, which has responded characteristically with multiple missile launches. this trilateral exercise. now, with japanese war ships, we are told involved anti submarine drills and also search and rescue the intention

being to increase the preparedness of the 3 navies in the face of increasing threats from north korea, but also sending a message further afield as a counter to china and its growing influence in the region, much to the displeasure of paging itself to ship and are you sure we hope that all parties will move in the same direction, resolved the legitimate concerns in a rational manner and maintain peace of stability on the peninsula. the united states actively pursues a policy of freedom of navigation, sailing through the contested waters of the south and east china seas. seas that china regards as its own backyard. and this exercise is ended with a joint statement from the us, japan and south korea, saying that all 3 very much share a vision of an indo pacific, which is open and free. robert pride al jazeera sol. japan says it plans to offer

financial assistance to friendly nations to help him strengthen that offenses. it marks a departure for tokyo from rules that prohibit use of international aid for military purposes. the program is part of its plan to count on china's growing power in asia . japan will fund security project to the philippines, malaysia, bangladesh, and fiji. finland's outgoing prime minister as a said that she will step down as the leader of the social democratic party and september santa marion made the decision of our party, came 3rd and last weekend's general election. marian says that she'll stay on as an m p and will lead coalition talks with the 1st place national coalition party. it's not guaranteed that the s t p will be part of the incoming government. frances labor union say they will continue fighting new pension changes after failing to reach a compromise with the government over its plans to raise the retirement age. union bosses walked out of negotiations with prime minister elizabeth born on wednesday

and have promised an 11th round of nationwide strikes. president manuel macro says the changes are necessary to sustain francis pension system in new will flow, georgia and i once again today we demand together that the retirement age be 60, not $64.00. it's something that does not apply to work, isn't in this country that once we all had our say, we finally asked the prime minister to confirm whether she was withdrawing this reform, which is what we are all asking for. and the answer is no say, wanted you to i to her 2nd, i listened to each of the trade union organizations in turn. i heard their disagreements on raising their retirement. and i was able to repeat my conviction, and that of my government of the need for this reform did is said then as a nation has told its staff in afghanistan not to come to work for 48 hours due to security concerns the you and says it's seeking additional information from local taliban authorities, about a ban on african women working for the organization. that sort of female you and

staff in anger har province were prevented from carrying out their duties. african women are banned from secretary and higher education as well as working in non governmental organizations of most of the public sector. james bays reports. this is something that the united nations had greatly feared already. most women in afghanistan are banned from work, including those who are supposed to work for humanitarian organizations. now it seems that ban has been extended to the united nations and its agencies, the spokesperson for the un secretary general says if this is not reversed, it will have a devastating impact on their work. for the secretary journal. any such band would be unacceptable. and frankly, inconceivable. this is the latest in a disturbing trend undermining the ability of aid organizations to reach those most in need. it goes without saying, but unfortunately it does need saying that female staff members are essential for

the united nations to deliver life saving assistance. such orders as we saw today, normally violate the fundamental rights of women and infringe upon the principles of non discrimination. if the taliban do not reverse their ban on women operating in the country, can the un continue to operate? what is clear is that we cannot do it without women, right? the women are the, the backbone of our humanitarian of our humanitarian opera operations. the secretary general is urging the security council to meet to discuss this issue. i understand that senior un officials planned to meet with officials from the taliban in the coming hours. it's not clear who will represent the united nations of that meeting because the top you an official enough going to start is a woman special representative rosa. autumn by eva is the former president of kingston. james bays al jazeera of the united nations peruse president has survived

that impeachment, bit of a handling of anti government protest, some motive to remove dina, but once a was rejected by congress, the unrest broke out in december after her left, his predecessor federal kasteel was ousted dozens of demonstrators calling for new elections were killed during confrontations with security forces. mexico has asked china help control shipments of fentanyl mexican president. under asthma, lopez, orbital has written a letter to the chinese president seizing thing, seeking his help follow some criticism in the us, accusing mexico of not doing enough to stop drug trafficking. fentanyl has been by and been blamed. rather for feeling a surgeon overdose death in the us, that was the most stable she and we come to president. she's saying for humanitarian reasons, to help us control shipments of fentanyl that may be sent from china to all country

. according to available information is produced in asia and freely sold for export to canada. the united states and our country is ellen's former prime minister to cinder arden has delivered the motional final address to parliament. she thanked her family, the party and supporters, and urge them piece to take the politics out of climate change or don't step down in january of to 5 years and office. so she had no more in the tank to leave the country. the military government and me on my as trying to encourage visitors to return despite ongoing fighting was tardy. chang discovered in the ancient city of bygone and central me on mom. the violence is never far away. the sleepy stupors began ancient pagoda has some more than a 1000 years old. this was once the capital of what would become a unified myanmar even here, people protested against the military coup in 2021. and even here,

the military showed no mercy in the crackdown as one resident told us anonymously. or gar, unit. gotcha, even though began, is he unesco heritage site, the military shot massively. during the protests. i saw 2 people die right in front of me. 2 years on, some locals are coming back, keen to soak up the spirituality of a place. many people from myanmar considered sacred, but they don't spend like the foreign tourists. things have gone from bad to worse for tour guides. first, the curve at 19 pandemic. then the qu, when business really dried up doris guerrero, dan b dot, the economy of began, relies entirely on tourism. the rate of this it between international tourists and local gas is different and also their demands. the area is also home to some of mere mas, ancient crafts. in a nearby village, they make lacquer where the old way twisting finely cut bamboo before applying the

dark resin. once harden the finished product, carved and colored a skill that takes years to master. but this workshop has already lost 85 percent of its customers and 2 thirds of its craftsman. if their tourist no come to began. so we wear loose, were loose ah, generation like a weight generation and your businesses were? yes, yes. oh. and while life has returned to normal here, the fighting isn't far away. the military has told us, we can go no further than this. here what a river has become a dividing line, and central me on my, on this side, the tranquillity of began on the other, what appears to be a full blown civil war. and they say at night, if you listen carefully, you can hear the shooting on the other side of the river. the day before,

there were reports that 50000 people had fled the fighting in nearby meal, some of whom are now seeking shelter in the historic temples and monasteries of this ancient town. tony chang al jazeera, began central myanmar. just ahead here on that is our in sport. we're here from a 3 time champion whose out to prove a point of the 1st major golf tournament of the year. ah ah, with

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a realistic title contender heading into the 1st major golf tournaments of the year, the masters tees off guster in the united states on thursday. the fox hum, champion watchfulness tournaments in 2019 but says kind of course the stuff about career threatening coll crash. it's still affecting his mobility. what's last competed at a top level tournaments in february on that occasion. you finish down in full t 5th abilities. it's not that or i would like it, but it's i, as i've said here, said t as before that i'm very lucky to have this leg. yes sir, it has been altered and there's some hardware in there. but it's, it's still mine. and it is, has been tough and it will always be tough, you know, the ability and endurance and what my life will do going forward. it will never be the same. i understand that when the reason why i can't prepare, i can't play me term. it's like but you know that's,

that's my future and that's ok. i'm ok with that. as we all know, we never contact tiger i and you know, and he can do incredible things and but you know, you watch him on the range and you watch him to chips and puts and you know, he's got all the aspects of the game that you need to succeed or on this place that the question is just you know, the tool that it takes on his body to, to, to make her on 72 horse. and i'm not able to compete and play as my term. it's or do things. i bill i was, i've been able to do on over the years, but to be able to still share this game and share some memories and create new memories with my son. and then also pass on some of the things that i've learned of a lot of things in this game. so we'll pass that on to him and others as has been fantastic. well this is the 1st master to take place in the start of the live golf tool, the saudi raving banks, competition which launched last year is caused a huge split at the top of the well game. 6 time major champion, phil mickelson was one of the highest profile names to join the lucrative. so when

he's hoping, one of the 18 live plays taking part can win this master's title. live place is being bound from competing on the north american tga toll, but they are allowed went to the majors and the nice to, to validate the amount of talent that is over there on our, on live. but and i think a lot of guys are playing really well heading in sort of, i think it would be fun to watch. now in football, the dates have been confirmed for next year's asian cup in cat saw, the tournaments will kick off on january the 12th and finish on february, the 10th the tournament will be staged across 8 stadiums, 6 of which were used during last year's world cup cattle stetson as host when china i gave up the rights last year due to its covered 19 policy, $24.00 teams. are we taking part with cats, all the reigning champions after that title? when in the united arab emirates, back in 2019, at the head of european football says the threat of

a break hoist super league remains a present danger either the chaffin has been reelected as you a for president, with his term sets around until at least 202712 of europe's top clubs signal their intention to set up a european super league in 2021. the plan collapsed within base g to fierce opposition from fans governing bodies players and in some governance. there have been the dishes and even attempts to create new models, but they conflict with the european model that we know so well and cherish so deal our model is based on sporting merit always where we come from met it doesn't have of rice, we must explode the myth did the privatization of football is an unstoppable process. it's a present danger as we have seen, but together we can, and we will inevitably turned the day of history. now rolling cartridge management, famous had the in seminar play, was racially abused by events who stands up to screen

a late equalizer in an italian cup game conklin to be sent off to celebrate coming in front of your fans service 90. 5th minute penalty will the 1st like of the semi final finishing in a 110. we did find meaning we knocked out of the german cup this late penalty. so fryeburg b. c. want to secure a place in the semi finals this only from a single 2nd game in charge of bonds and taking over from nuclear novels and his final soon reached the spanish club. all right, fun of the 2nd time in the history, an extra time goes from pablo bonnie: as a jim them process, i think bill bio waiting for them in the final will be boss alone or rail madrid, possibly to one new going into wednesday. the 2nd, like an outside of philadelphia, $76.00 is out played the boston celtics and a match between the m. b. a 's eastern conference puzzle. contenders joel and bead led with 52 points for the fixes and read. now the 1st sentence record at least

$354.00 games in a single season since kareem abdul jabbar that it more than 50 years ago. philadelphia going on should be boston 13211 and major league baseball a memorable night. the south 31 bank pitch the 2nd basement taking bath catch by the wall. just minutes of his growing his 1st run, but it is only a 2nd, but originally agency got it. 23 year olds at helping things to a full one. when over the game. ok more for me in a couple of hours time, but that is the high school's looking for the many thanks indeed. and that'll do it for but he's out. but of course, when he's at a stop, so i'll be back in just a few moments here on out vera with the news. i'll see you then a

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