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i'm sammy's ada. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up on the day of those high stakes meetings, china deploys warships and waters around taiwan for the islands. president meets us officials or the 2nd night in a row israeli forces storm alex, a mosque injuring several. palestinian worshippers and accusations of police brutality in france against protest is gearing up for another day of rise against pension reforms. ah poppy you ladies are in china for a high stakes meeting with president. she ging ping. it could set the tone for the blogs future relationship with its largest trading partner. french president, emmanuel, my crawl is meeting is chinese county. she didn't ping in beijing. she says,

china of france have the ability and responsibility to transcend differences across said he can count on begging to reason with moscow. bring russia and ukraine to the negotiating table. i'm calling to be joined later by european commission president sort of on the land was on my 1st visit to china since taking office 4 years ago, the head of a visit, she had said, china's position on the war. ukraine will determine future relations with baking. go live now to senior asia correspondent, rob mcbride is live for us from sol. so micron of on the land. do they have the same message or is there a good call back call going on? it is an interesting combination and an interesting balancing act of trying to apply diplomatic pressure at the same time trying to maintain good trade relations

between these 2 very important trading blocks. the e u and, and china. but macro has been one of the more consider 3 voices among nato leaders . in fact, in his meeting we see gen paying. he was being given an official, a welcome in front of the great whole of the people and these opening remarks with his chinese counterpart. she g paying. he told she that they are counting on the counting on the chinese to bring russia to its senses. he said, saying that china has the ability to bring all sides to the negotiating table. china, of course, has laid out this road map, has laid it out some time ago about how it says the 22 sides. ukraine and russia could start talking. so we are going to be seeing macro and bun delay and trying to use the diplomatic pressure over china to exert its influence on russia. and at the very least in the negotiations. and there will be

a trilateral meeting with joined by van de land later on thursday in beijing they will be making sure that china is deterred from offering lethal aid or munitions and weaponry to russia, which will be taken as a very serious escalation. and well, what is china looking for from these european leaders in practical terms of because of the importance of their trade relationships. if is looking for to sign new deals or macro has brought with him a large number of ceo's of french companies, they are expected to sign various agreements on as supply of air buses or of nuclear energy, et cetera. for china, it's important that recovers from cove. it also are looking to replace some of the strategically important technologies which have been denied by moves taken by the united states, which have been seen as very unfriendly or by china. so it's important for them to

keep open are these are trade relationships diplomatically. it's very important for china to show that it is a diplomatic force to be reckoned with in the world. it has now for over a year or with this war in ukraine, find itself aligned with this increasingly isolated russia. and it wants to show to the united states hoops of relations with which have soured badly that it still has a friends and relationships are typically ad specifically with europe. all right, rob mcbride there, thanks so much. while those meetings were happening in beijing, china sent an aircraft carrier to conduct patrols and inspections in wards is around taiwan. taiwan defense minister says the timing of the operation is suspicious. the government has lodged strong protest against the move. amelia. how may i get you on this occasion,

a maneuver by the shan dong aircraft carrier is different because although it's been out on the open sea many times, this is its 1st time in the south china sea. this is also part of training. that's how we see it. but as this is a quite sensitive period, there is a reason for that. and our military is also doing its research. we may have plans, but i won't be going more into that. a 3 day chinese operation was launched. soon after a highly symbolic meeting between taiwan president, sighing, glen and us. how speak kevin mccarthy and los angeles, china claims taiwan as its breakaway province and had warned of retaliation if those talks were to take place. my cana reports the meeting began with a handshake. one that's likely to infuriate a chinese government vehemently opposed to any official us recognition of taiwan. more than a dozen us lawmakers accompanied speaker kevin mccarthy, signaling that congressional support taiwan is completely bipartisan. this is not

a republican or democrat, this is a bipartisan meeting of members of congress who are under discipline some time with you and discuss the important issues of moving forward. the taiwanese lead sank, the law makers, a presence and wavering support to reassure the people of taiwan that we are not isolated. and we are not alone the bite and administration attempted to get ahead of any chinese retaliation for the meeting. so our channels of medications are open and we have had a consistent message, a has urged restraint, and in recent days, we have conveyed directly to the chinese at high levels, that escalation is uncalled for. last month, the us state department approved a potential sale of more than $600000000.00 worth of weapons to tie one, including mussels, fritz f. 16 fight. is this in the wake of

a diplomatic dispute about what the u. s. insisted were chinese spy balloons. and the subsequent postponement of a scheduled visit to china by the us secretary of state they've been going on and now a high level meeting on us soil that could be yet another blow to the normalization of relations. the us insists it once mike had out of jazz era, washington israeli forces a storm dog for mosque for the 2nd night in a row, several palestinian worshippers were injured. there are fears of further violence during ramadan. the jewish holiday of passover natasha name reports from occupied east jerusalem. the wednesday began and ended with violence inside his lamps, 3rd holiest site. police say as worshippers were praying in the evening, dozens of young people through fireworks and stones, into ox, a mask. then they tried to barricade themselves inside israeli police evacuated the

worshippers and forced their way in throwing done grenades, tear gas, and firing. rubber bullets. several palestinians were wounded. eye witnesses, se some. paramedics were barred from reaching them. palestinian say this morning is really police for young people from praying inside the mars. i don't like to dawson publish religion. they said they will allow us in the, in the end they didn't allow it. they said only people 40 years and older can enter . that began to throw stung grenades while we were standing. not doing anything. is really police dispute that account and say people young and old, were allowed inside the mask to pray. tension intensified elsewhere on the streets of occupied east. jerusalem. ah, a 15 year old boy was shot in the shoulder inside the old city. witnesses say he

was attacked by an israeli settler from the lee say the boy is being investigated for attacking the elderly man with a stick with them 1st. wow. in northern israel, police confronted palestinian protestors condemning the violence inside l. oxer mark. a post symbol for all palestinians living under israeli occupation. maybe this is exactly what this is there any government once. they want to distract attention from their internal division for them from the demonstrations that are taking place inside israel and it's this government and they want the drug, the whole region into a totem, a. busy explosion this latest cycle of violence began early wednesday morning. israeli police emptied out ox a mask before jews were expected to visit the compound on passover. the palestinian president office the arab league and did your damien foreign ministry have

condemned the violence. there are international efforts to de escalate the situation with the ramadan passover and easter holidays overlapping this weekend. the united nations security council will hold an emergency session on thursday. natasha name l g 0. occupied east jerusalem. has also been more rocket far from garza towards southern israel, joomla say it has more alex the mosque has always been a very sensitive issue to palestinians in particular in muslims, in general. and it has always sparked and flared up light of escalations in the past. i e is specially previous from a downs and this here because our passover are coincides with from a dime, a detentions are very high. there is a very high sense of worry here in the gaza strip of any tension escalating, especially that the people who gaza will tell you that they associate ramadan. they

connected with a lot of war memories where many wars the are have been are and escalations have always erupted in ramadan because of that escalation and violence that happens in luxor mosque. and the storming of these really forces to an act. so mosque which really provo cates are the, the feelings of the palestinians, and the palestinian fractions. and are, there is always an escalation erupting because of that. france is bracing for a new round of nation wide protests against the government's pension reforms. as after a meeting between the prime minister and labor unions fell to break a stalemate, that he had been accused of indiscriminately targeting protesters during demonstrations began in january. if i have author reports ah french, riot police charge at

a pension reform protest in paris and knock a man to the ground. elsewhere, some officers beat people with battles and fighting gas rights groups in france, say the police are increasingly using excessive force against demonstrators and intimidates re tap takes including arbitrary arrests. ah, we did nothing. a legal we were carrying nothing, a legal, the arrest and detention was really aggressive and totally unjustified. oh dear. i was arrested and i wasn't even taking part in the protest. i was just in the street nearby jasmine, last week, thousands of people gathered in the city to demand change. these people have come hair to demonstrate against what they say is growing police violence in the demonstrations. there was so much police violence sharing the other bath movement and then things seem to get better. but now it's really bad again for all the just want to stop with protesting, welcomes but this is the sort of violence that the police say they face. a

minority of troublemakers who infiltrate some protests and often target officers like this one. carried away unconscious by a colleague of to being hit in the head by a paving stone. did him over the good easy, these radicalized elements from the ultra left are trying to hold trade, union demonstrations hostage. they come to break, hurt and kill police officers. and john, dom susan, their goals have nothing to do with the pension reform. i found the but some say it's the government's approach to policing. that's part of the problem lit up. it says if the french day doesn't know what to do other than to respond to violence and with more vitals, there's police union spokesman says there's also a lack of training in part for the 4th quarter. the problem is with training both at the start to the school and then during korea. unfortunately, it's not very good and problems with the trading in

favor, people should be able to protest without fear of violence, and the police should focus on the troublemakers, not peaceful demonstrators. so father, there's no sign. the police methods will change all that the pension reform protests will end of volatile situation. the could get worse. natasha butler, al jazeera paris representatives from the us and u. k. are among full diplomats to walk out of the un security council meeting cold by russia on wednesday. moscow initiated the informal meeting to discuss what it calls the transfer of children from ukraine to russia. the west says they were abducted diplomatic as to james bass, has more from new york representatives of full western countries. walking out of a meeting of un security council members. russia organized the informal meeting to discuss the transfer of children from ukraine to russia,

controversially invited russia's children's commissioner, maria leuva below, but to speak by video link. she was issued an arrest warrant by the international criminal court. at the same time, last month, as the russian president vladimir putin accused of organizing the abduction of children. she though, said they were being rescued, al jazeera is blurred, the faces of children who are now in russia, who appeared in a video that she played to the meeting kind of the actual, but i want to stress that unlike the ukraine inside, we don't use children for propaganda, when she spoke to reporters, the u. s. ambassador to the united nations condemned the participation of miss luther biloba kennedy. a woman who has been charge without war crimes. ah, who has been involved in deporting and removal of other children, ah, from their homes add to russia so controversy again. these are only the 1st few days

of russia's presidency of the un security council, but there was some hope for ukrainian families when the russian official who the international criminal court consider a war crime suspect spoke. she said that if you cranium, families requested that children will be transferred back. james bays al jazeera of the united nations said i had on our da 0 as the u. s. battles and opioid crisis. we look at why mexico is asking china to help the fight against fentanyl and from cataracts to clarity. we hear from a doctor who's bringing ocular health to rule uganda. ah.

hello, there was dot in southeast asia. we've seen some extreme heat effect, northern areas of indo china in particular for vietnam. but the heat does shift its way further south and got heat wave warnings out. as we go into the we can for southern areas of vietnam. the different story for southern parts of thailand, we are expecting some heavy rain here in the days ahead. and the rain continues for much of indonesia was very heavy rain to come for eastern areas. and to that swirling system, the philippines could see some wet weather as we go into next week. ahead of that, it is looking more settled with showers, but also some sunshine. now that heavy rain, you can see further south on the screen, holden to northern areas of australia and thunder. downpours and thunderstorms expected across the north to her to the top and over the next few days, wide spread showers and thunderstorms expected for western parts of australia. the rain is set for heaviest, along that east coast, with thunderstorms rolling their way further east over the next few days, and

a bit of a dramatic cool down to come for the southeast corner. we could see one of the coldest east isn't a very long time. we look at the 3 day for melbourne, only 14 degrees celsius on sunday with light rain as we hop across to new zealand. heavy rain to come for the north island. ah. the arctic all to the semi people and natural resources needed for combat climate change. an important part of the country supply china for europe is people's at the same humorous. other people can nations made wealthy from oil and gas. now balance that green obligations with the rights of indigenous people, choose solutions that for us gives us know for future voices from the optic. the money talks, money winds on it just 0. lou

. the me you're watching out, is there a time to recap on headline french president demand your my crawl is meeting is chinese counterpart shooting, picking in beijing president. she says relations between china from maintain the positive and steady momentum. they'll be joined later by european commission chief sort of denial for further talk. china has said deny cross carrier and warships and waters around taiwan for petroleum inspection. the operation was launched after a highly symbolic meeting between taiwan president, sighing. when you asked how speaker kevin mccarthy is ready for a storm the log some off for a 2nd night in a row,

several palestinian worshippers were injured. fizz pensions will fit in for further violence during ramadan. jewish holiday of passover, saudi arabia and iran of agreed to resume flights between the 2 countries and facilitate visas, the citizens. it follows a meeting between saudi arabian foreign ministers in bay, james, for the 1st time in 7 years. it's part of a chinese mediated deal to re establish relations of the years of tensions to run and we are now working to reactivate trade deals, reopen embassies of us. our son is a senior research fellow at the center for middle east strategic studies. he laid out what's next for iran and saudi arabia. the 2 sides establish new relations. these 2 countries have had ups and downs and lots of tensions in the past decades. and they have been mostly focusing on rivalry and tensions, but now they are talking about focusing on common grounds,

which includes 2 previous agreements back in 90982000. and one earlier, one includes cooperation on economy trades in the 3 on the tourism as well. they have been stressing, cooperation on economic and trades filled in for the past weeks. and we have to watch that, how they will proceed with the process and how they will walk the talk. but it seems that they are somehow the term mind according to their stances, in order to expand their cooperation. i think mostly onregional issues and cases including yemen, syria, iraq and lebanon, bought in the bilateral level. they will also plan some, let's say, travels or visits by the people these 2 countries, as well as, let's say, cooperation may be on economy. but what, to what extent they can go ahead that depends on how so these, you know, because iran has been on the economic sanctions by the worst. that's why we have to

see how they will proceed. form a brazilian president jeff ball. so nora testified on diamond jewelry gifts he received from saudi arabia when he was empower, denied any wrong doing while being questioned by police. so nora and his wife received the gifts from the sound, the king, 2021. but he did not declare them to taxes for authorities then the juries were returned after an order from an old court, families and teachers of held the vigil outside the preschool where 4 children were killed in an attack in southern brazil. a man with an axe broke into the campus in the state of santa catalina. the 9 was arrested after he surrendered to police. president louise in a little silver has called the attack a monstrosity. protest is demanding government action on poverty and inflation

blocks busy streets in argentine as capital. the more than $120.00 blockades is set up around one, the scientists and provinces around the country. the new government figures show poverty increased the 40 percent last year. more than 18000000 argentinians are unable to cover their basic food needs. with their salaries, mexico's president has written to chinese president shooting ping urging him to help control shipments of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. the us has cold on it, so the neighbors to do more to whole. the trafficking of the substance, john holland, has more from mexico. it's been a red button issue in the us for the last few years. fentanyl, the synthetic o period, up to 50 times stronger than heroin, with the overdose rate to match. in some republican lawmakers had been ratcheting up the pressure met scope to stop getting into the states. led by senator lindsey

graham fentenol is a killer and the people killing you. americans reside out in the open in mexico. we're going to designate these growth he's trying to introduce legislation to designate, met cartels as international terrorist organizations. and potentially, or for the us military to head into the country to stop them. my city, the mexico is not happy they meant to. so these proposals are in themselves a lack of respect and a threat to our sovereignty on telephone inform us young. president lopez over the door was speaking in his tuesday morning press conference, and that he wasn't addressing the us, but actually reading aloud from a letter he just sent to the president of china. why not? because some fentanyl comes from china, intimates compose either is separate ingredients ready fully produced and is them process and smuggled into the us. lopez over the doors letter off his chinese counterpart cheese him paying for help in stopping that. but only off to several

paragraphs of denouncing the demands of the us politicians. it's just the latest in what's been largely political theatre. senator graham's proposal to send us troops into mexico was never going to get off the ground. likewise, president easing pain of china is highly unlikely to intervene and still fence no precursors from getting into mexico. but it does give everyone the chance to beat that drum just before election season. meanwhile, there is a real problem. meds can cartels all doing big business. we offend to know and the u. s. government is talking with met coke about how to stop them. the problem is that you can't store one drug on its own without reforming a whole lot and all the system security, unless falco burns to actually make a dems in a criminal groups are capacity to operate in mexico. you will have to fix very deeply rooted problems and that includes getting corruption,

collusion out of the traditional and the policing system and also the out of the forces. and so there simply is no such thing as magic bullets to solve the situation. so the outcome of all the talk likely some saber rattling until the political expediency is gone. meanwhile, the laws of supply and demand keep the river of drugs running from mexico into the u. s. john holman, out into met her city. britain has confirmed plans to hold hundreds of asylum seekers, migrants on a bon jovi, southern coast, part of efforts to reduce the use of costly hotels is temporary accommodation. while the silent claims are being processed, the vessel will accommodate about $500.00 male adults. the government says it will provide basic and functional accommodation plan has been criticized by human rights groups. an international police operation as shutting down once believes to be one

of the world's largest online market stealing and stolen identities. yours policing agency, europe pulse says more than a 100 people were arrested in the operation which span 17 countries. genesis market offered more than $2000000.00 identities sale with prices ranging from 70 us cents to hundreds of dollars depending on the nature of the stolen data. dalton, d of tim the one engine, this is the data offered on the so called genesis market made its way to the operators of the platform through criminal acts such as ransomware, attacks and malware on the platform. cyber criminals use the data to commit acts of fraud. they attempted to commit a crime with falsified data to hide their identity. the investigation is far from over. at least 5 people have been killed when a tornado swept through the u. s. state of missouri. the storm ripped roofs from homes and brought down trees and power lines. the governor says there's

a long way to recover. to ne, uganda where people are struggling to access treatment for eye diseases such as cataracts and tra. coma al jazeera, heard from the 1st and only i doctor, the carol mode your region, and dr. glad is at her as an ad dr. looking in low take no for hospital in this and you again, this community is purely pastoralists. community then move from place to place, what is a public search committee endemic here? and so they suffer from a lot of tacoma, there. we see they work on this cases. then there was a cataract, which is the communist cousin, blindness here, and also in the world accessibility general to health care is so poor and is what affects the people here. and then those who believes, given that this, the head to rec, area seems to be cut off. they had their own criteria and believed. and so they

prefer to use tradition of medicine before coming to their a hospital and must have them come with complications already. i have a qualified team of a co worker, so it really fully trained. i have of the mcclintock officers, i have of them make nurses a, have the attendant to have it off. they'll make equipment technician so that kind of, tim is willis palace. the shell is an acre, and those are the people i work with. you would know what it means actually to see . so the impact of our say here is actually that the next day for patients for vendor going to say years is seminars gone, been blind for 5 years, and then you work on them. and the next day they can sit and for that that is a kind of impact with the independent, someone comes, you know, and they're being guided by a child or some of that and then, and then now they can work on their own. ah.