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cyril van. yes, great to have you with us. this is the news, our ally from doha. coming up in the program today. israel's military says it's intercepted, several rockets fired from southern lebanon. ah, alex, the mosque stormed by his really forces for a 2nd night on wednesday, the un security council holds an emergency meeting. a french president amended like hotels, chinese leaders shooting thing. he's counting on him to bring russia to its senses and end the war in ukraine. also, the british government reveals a plan to keep 500 asylum seekers on a barge. and his sport shall see an outside temper fixed to a long term problem. former coach frank lamb pollard has been named manage in tempe capacity until the end of the season. ah. so we begin this hour with escalating tension in the middle east. the is really

army says it has intercepted 25 of around 30 rockets, fired from lebanon into northern israel. israel's foreign minister says the country is also facing rocket fire from garza in the south and will take all necessary measures to defend itself. all this coming after israeli police stormed the alex the mosque in occupied east jerusalem for a 2nd night on wednesday. they again fired stun grenades and rubber bullets at worshippers withdrew firecrackers and stones. the united nations secretary general says he is quote, appalled and disturbed by israel's actions at the mosque un security council. now holding a closed door meeting to discuss these developments. allows is here as diplomatic editor james bays is at the un following that. but 1st, let's go to what our bill hamid in occupied east jerusalem hotter. what more can you tell us about the rockets that were fired from southern lebanon? well, actually, this lady army hasn't been giving much information for the 1st 2 hours since that

happened. what we read, we heard lately, was that statement. you just mentioned that in total there were 34 missiles that were fired from southern little lebanon into, nor then israel 25 of them being intercepted by the iron door, which is israeli air defense. a system, 5 of them had landed a but there for that are still unaccounted for. now interesting what the statement does not say is that there has been retaliation by israel in to southern there. but on using artillery fire, that is actually according to the lebanese official media, but no word on this side about that. now in about 2 and a half hours at $1730.00 g m t for prime minister benjamin netanyahu should be meeting with his security cabinet,

assessing the situation. as you mentioned at the time where there's a lot of tension, not only along that border this afternoon, but earlier in the day at del axa, must compound and also along the garza border. maybe we will hear after that meeting or what a new statement from the government. but this is the 1st time the prime minister convinced the security cabinet since february. look out of the tensions shot up earlier this week because he's really police forcibly removed. muslim worshippers from alex a mosque. can you tell us about the rules that govern the mosque? this holy place during this time? well those rules come under an umbrella of what is called the statues school and those are in place now since decades since the 19 sixty's jews are allowed to enter an exam must compound twice a day from sunday to thursday, or friday and saturday. they are not allowed access there. now during the holy

month of ramadan, they are only allowed to enter the duke that compound at once a day in the early morning for about a couple of hours. the problem is that over the past few years with the rise of the sort of ultra national group the far right at the settlement groups. well, those visiting the l axa are compound, have become more virulent, some of those goofs that go there actually go as far as falling for the destruction of the mosque itself. the rules don't allow juice to pray in that compound. some of them are always calling for jews to rally, to go and pray day. so the tensions have been rising and the rhetoric has been rising. and that is why you have these moments where you did palestinians specially during ramadan, decided that they will stay in that mosque, that it is

a time where worshippers do spend more time praying during ramadan. they also want to stay there to make sure that they won't be an increase of those visits, an increase in the rhetoric or an increase in what happens during those visits in, at the company. not israel is on their side. say well, we will use our force, we will forcibly push ever use the police, have to police forcibly remove all these worshippers. 1 from inside the mouth to allow actually do jews to access that complex. and that's where you have those moments of tension. and actually the un rockport term for the us for the, for the occupy, terry, she francisco benet's. they have issued a statement condemning that excessive use of force by israeli police towards the palestinians who were inside the most dilemma reporting from occupied east jerusalem. thank you very much. james bayes you are at the united nations in new

york. tell us about this emergency meeting that was called what actually happens behind those closed doors. yeah, the meeting is taking place as we speak. now, just through that door, you maybe see the sign restricted area authorized personnel only only members of the security council can go through that door to the consultations room where the meeting is taking place. they are being briefed by the us special coordinator for the middle east tool when a student who is briefing them from the way where you just heard my colleagues speaking from east jerusalem about the current situation on the ground. obviously when the boston came in here, we spoke to them, we spoke to as many as possible about the situation. and 2 of those i think were important comments. because the 2 countries that have some influence on the situation, one is the united states. we spoke to the deputy ambassador robert wood, who is attending that meeting that's going on right now. and the other one is the

united arab emirates, a country that more recently has diplomatic relations with israel diplomatic contacts with israel. and these, the current current member of the security council from the arab league we spoke to . busy there and busted up, lana new, say, bob, this is what the 2 of them said to me. it's a visual calling for attention is to be reduced in the region. we don't want to see tensions a given, you know, earth exacerbate because the region of course isn't versus the time of year. so it's going to be important for everyone to do with the time to call attention at the way he's extremely concerned by the escalation and final from the other thing in territories were extremely concerned that this was happening in a very holy month for all 3 abrahamic religions for muslims, for christians, and for the jewish people as well as we call on all sides, we call in all sides to restrain themselves, go back to dialogue. but really,

the sanctity of alexa must must be protected. and the role the custodianship of the ash my kingdom of jordan must be upheld. so that is our position. the state of clear must not be changed in jerusalem. and the u. 8. he called for this close consultation along with china because we were worried about the development well as this is a close consultations of the security council, there are only the 15 security council members attending. no one else gets to hear what's going on inside that meeting. even those that are involved in this situation, the palestinians and the israelis are not invited him to a close session, no sign of his rightly ambassador. that may well be because it's pass over. but i can tell you seeing the palestinian ambassador, he's just sitting a short distance away from me in that direction. so james, here's my next question. do these meetings typically achieve anything? i've covered this beat for

a long time and i've been covering the united nations for many years. i think the most you are going to get out of the day is some sort of statement from the security council for potentially urging restraint. but most diplomats, i've spoken to say that even a statement is possibly unlikely at this stage. so if you were expecting some huge announcement some, i'm huge, a new resolution or anything like that. that is not going to come out of this meeting. but it is clear that all of those i've spoken to are deeply concerned about the situation and the possibility of further escalation. i crystal clear, james bays at un headquarters in new york. thank you very much. okay. lot more coming up on this news hour, including classes between professors and police and francis hundreds of thousands rally against pension reform. al jazeera is investigative unit, reveals how goals,

smuggling operations in africa extend to dubai. and in sport, the reigning champion bow. wow, is the crowd ahead of his title, defense? of course, major golf tournament of ah, friend, president the menu and that coin urging chinese leader shooting thing to reason with russia to help end the war in ukraine. they've been meeting in beijing to discuss the conflict. my call is on a 3 day state visit, along with the european commission for the notes are still on de leon. ra mcbride reports french president emanuel macro being given the owner of a state visit. welcome by his chinese counterpart. she's in pain. one of your most influential leaders coming to ask china to exert its influence on russia to bring an end to europe, worst conflict since world war 2. just to show who will keep you. i know that i can

count on you to bring russia to reason and every one to the negotiating table. this was she jane paying visiting russian president vladimir putin last month since moscow's invasion. more than a year ago. jane had stayed neutral and proposed a roadmap for a cease fire and peace talks. most western leaders, including macros, have criticized the plan. but the french president has been one of the more conciliatory voices among nato heads of state. 2 weeks before russia's invasion, he met president vladimir putin in the kremlin, under spoken to him several times by phone over the past year. many and now watching to see if macaroni and she together can provide a breakthrough, where others have failed. come on kinship check. china insists on a peaceful resolution and as willing to work with france to maintain the rationality of the international community and avoid actions that could further

escalate the crisis. or let things get out of control. in a show of european unity, macro is accompanied by european commission president ursula on de leon who has taken a much tougher line on china's failure to condemn the russian invasion. the europeans are looking at the very least to dissuade china from supplying russia with arms. we also count on china not to provide any military equipment directly or indirectly to russia, because we all know arming the aggressor would be against international law. and it would significantly harm our relationship to the signing of lucrative tre deals on this trip is seen as beijing's attempt to maintain good european relations, even as ties with the us. so i hope china will tell press the micro

on the one hand and then tow madam of on the they on the other hand, that it is absolutely impulse to half a european perspective which may or may not be exactly identical to that of the united states. chinese and european leaders hoping traditionally strong trade links can lead to a diplomatic breakthrough. rub, mcbride al jazeera and the kremlin says china has strong potential as a mediator, but sees no prospects for peace and ukraine. presidential spokesman, mitre pest golf, said the situation ukraine is too complex for now and requires russia to continue its military campaign at china is also playing a bigger role elsewhere on the geopolitical stage. saudi arabia and iran have agreed to resume flights between the 2 countries and facilitate visa the citizens as part of a chinese mediated deal. this follows talks between saudi and iranian foreign ministers in beijing. the 1st such meeting in 7 years to iran in riyadh are now working to reactivate trade deals and reopen embassies. abdul aziz a gaussian is

a saudi foreign policy researcher at the lancaster university project sectarianism proxies and d, sectarian is ation. he joins me from re add on this. they've announced their intention to mend relations, saudi arabia and iran have, but now they have to get down to the details. so what do they discussing? well, a good evening sir. on get to join your. i think one of the things that there will be discussing, of course, of are the aspect of commonalities in my opinion, i think that there they approach in the paradigm of trying to de escalate and focus on the grievances 1st. and where to deescalate, from that aspect. um or from that prism? probably i didn't really produce much fruit instead. i think why this is very interesting and this deal is a new job is because they're focusing on the, the a positive aspect. the aspects of commonality aspect of common interest in economy

. and that is then what we'll hopefully spill over into the other aspects of the grievances and aspects of interference in affairs and american bases, et cetera, et cetera. so it's a very different approach, but time will tell how successful it will be will if this diplomatic work actually warranties what will the saudi iran relationship look like in that case? well, i mean, i think firstly, it's going to be very important not to get ahead of ourselves. i think m, you know, there's still a lot of water to be crossed under the bridge. in my opinion, there still a lot of sentiments that need to be addressed, especially on me, people to people level. but i think the strength of this relationship is also on the people to people level. because i think people realized that, you know, there's a lot of commonalities in shared culture. you know, of course, that the,

thankfully, the aspect of sectarianism has been on, on, on the decline. there's been a time you know, this, the saudi is really the savvy, i'm sorry, decided uranium rift really came against the backdrop of, of increased sectarianism. now thankfully, sectarianism is being addressed. so i think we're going to see more cooperation i economically because i think the, the economic aspect is precisely what's driving south the foreign policy now. so we're going to see a lot of commonality than not just and just residence um, investment of business and culture. and this is just a bilateral issue between the 2 countries. i mean, this rivalry has shape the region in such deep ways. if saudi and iran do get closer and i understand what you're saying, that there's a lot of work to do for that to happen. but if it happens, how does that affect the region then?

well, i think one of the best things that will happen is that it will not make the region operate in a 0 some fashion for an a 0 some logic. in other words, the region will be will not be, i'm sorry, will not be viewed as fears of competition too much. moreover, i think initially in march 10th or just after the initial deal was mentioned early last month. you know, we heard the saudi foreign minister say, well, lebanon is not a not um, iranian issue. it's not a saudi sion to lebanese issue. so we're going to see a lot more agency in these respective countries and in other places. so we're going to see more yamini agency and a focus on a yamini dialogue and how, for example, yemen, lebanon, syria, is not framed as a competition between sector even iran. rather, that perhaps this is

a space for compet, a space for co operation between saudi arabian iran. but old sloth also, how did, how do these actors function? you know, these actors have their own voices too. and that's what i think is the most positive aspect that will emanate from this relationship glaze's of gushing, speaking to us from riyadh the day. thank you so much for joining us. my pleasure. a hundreds of thousands of people are rallying across brown's for another day of strikes and mass protests against pension reform. there have been confrontations between protest isn't police in paris. all this coming out, it talks between the prime minister and labor unions, failed to break a stalemate. as good a natasha butler has been covering this since the beginning of the protest in paris . natasha. you just saw clashes more clashes again between protesters and police. why has this become more violent in recent weeks?

there's no doubt we seen a lot more anger out during the recent protest since the french government forced their pension reform through parliament by decree. something that people feel is on democratic and unfair, but it's important to know that a lot of the violence is actually done by a small minority of protest. doesn't trouble makers infiltrate these protest, wanted to try and damage property and was often target police. in fact, we just saw just behind me, we saw some protesters smash and fret lights to a bank. the firefighters have just moved and you might still be able to see smoke. and we also saw some police and protest is a what right scripts have also been saying in recent weeks this is not one sided won't pay said they are saying. 1 french police using excessive force in these protests, instead of targeting the troublemakers, they fade the police officers, often just target protesters in discriminatory way, which means

a lot of people are just out there peacefully, protesting, get caught up, sometimes restaurant the child on you think this is going to law because the government has now bypass parliament as you say, and put this law through by decree. look, it's really hard to know exactly where this is karen you just had on wednesday of frances trade union leaders meet the french 5 minutes. so alyssa, before and single, they initiated to try to stop the situation without meeting ended, after less than an hour. trade union leaders said that that position hasn't changed . the french government says that position hasn't changed. basically, the union's want the government to scrap their pension reform, the government is refusing to do so. so once again, people are in the streets. once again, they're all strikes and protests. they are expected to continue at least until next week. at the end of next week that a key date, because the noise is examined by francis constitutional court. it could be approved

. that would mean that emanuel my call to franchise find more things of law. and that's of course would only see some of the anger rising wise even further. okay, so say you're close to the end of next week. everybody watching the story closely. natasha, but we're in paris. thank you very much. and the latest now from our ongoing investigation into a huge money laundering and gold smuggling operation implicating seniors. and barbara and diplomats and major south african banks to day al 0 is investigative unit, reveals the dubai connection. alexander james reports on the rival, gangs, wandering vast amounts of money. communist putney isn't a tourist, go dealer. he lost his money using go, but he sells in dubai. he shows on the cover of horses earnings from one store. does the church? yeah. this is us dollar. rival gangs are competing to clean up what journalists posing as chinese gangsters say is $1200000000.00 of dirty cash for every day.

coming here everyday, the vision and you know like buying putney wants the reporters to join his existing money laundering. set up all the things like, you know, somebody can then it becomes too much for the finish. now then you can invest in what you want to buy has set themselves up for being the middle of the gold trade. the key to being a money laundering haven is you have to have the financial infrastructure and they have box laws and no enforcement. allister matthias is also based in dubai. he uses gold to clean money for corrupt politicians. oh, is there any current only included anyone

who is like the one where we're looking for the most but he plans to clean the dirty cash through his gold refinery allies. hell, by the way, because we can do or can you, you literally, you can pay through the 5. well, play with the people, how they can look like gold. you bet. angel is in baldwin ambassador, who is offered to launder money through gold. again, lex blog and he recently spoke to international delegates in dubai about investing in zimbabwe, free from corruption. i was in my office with no rush or any math angel is asking for $200000.00 to arrange a meeting between zimbabwe. president emerson, man, and gaga,

and out there is under cover team. that guy doesn't take bribes or no. one is a big difference in appreciating somebody. n bribe, you know, he does live with on greg novak there is somebody saying, i think the way within that you are doing for us and it a big difference. angel says president, man and gaga can help with the money laundering for a fee. i think he's in this building struggle with goodness. and this is my you know, somebody was nothing but his money. so and somebody with the money to spend on. oh yeah. you you give him 1000000 is like is living with communist party tonight, involvement in any form of money laundering and that offered to deal with funds he knew originated from illegal sources. allister matthias said that he had never learned money or gold, nor offer to do such things. he said he had never owned any refineries in due by

the other parties. feature did not respond to our inquiries. alex on the james out 0 and al jazeera reached out to them bubbly in authority. as the minister of information says, the country is committed to upholding local and international laws relating to financial transactions. the trade of gold and other precious minerals. this is a decision in this kitchen this involved with corruption for all info crime. with you can watch the 3rd of this 4 part series in the elk as your investigation. gold mafia el dorado on thursday at 20 g empty. the u. s. is currently dealing with the deadliest bird flew outbreak in

its history. when 58000000 farmed birds have died or been cold to prevent the spread of the virus is contributed to rising egg and poultry prices. kristin salumi reports from lancaster, county, and pennsylvania. chickens are more plentiful than people in lancaster county, pennsylvania, but a severe strain of avian flu is taking a toll on the poultry population here and around the country. and restrictions meant to prevent the spread of the virus or taking away a source of income for farmers like jeffrey mitchell. so how long has it been since we've had chickens here? it was january 27th on the list of love. he sells his birds for meat. his 4 chicken houses are currently empty. well, i've never had the disease on my form that i know about. so i know they're being being kept away from me for safety reasons. i'm because of the diseases in the

area. it's in the quarantine area as m. r. avian flu, along with inflation help drive up the price of eggs as much as 70 percent last year. in the united states, the world's largest producer and 2nd largest exporter of poultry. the virus is carried in the droppings of migratory birds. this latest variant has not only spread like wildfire among poultry. it's also been found in mammals as well. raising the specter of a human outbreak, a droplet of manure about the size of my finger nail. for example, would be enough to in fact, a flock very easily of scientists at penn state university are working to educate backyard chicken owners, as well as farmers to reduce the spread. humans should not be worried simply because only 2 percent of our population is actively working in agriculture. and so the majority of our, our public are consumers of our poultry and eggs. and those are safe because

they're inspected before they're put out into the supermarkets. i think for us, the worst case scenario is seeing this continue to spread which the states governor has also set aside $25000000.00 from next year's budget to compensate farmers. another 6000000 for testing. but as this latest strain of avian flu shows, no signs of debating some in the industry say vaccinating chicken should also be on the table now says see $1015.00, a number of different outbreaks of billions of dollars spent on indemnification. ah, you know, 100000000 birds put down. it deserves serious consideration at this point in time. they say more needs to be done to keep this vital food supply safe. kristen salumi al jazeera lancaster, pennsylvania still ahead on our 0 as the u. s. battles and opioid crisis, we look at why mexico is asking china to help stop the flow of the highly addictive drug fentanyl from cataracts to clarity. in uganda, we hear from

a doctor who's bringing i treatment to underserved. will communities and in sports are famous when real madrid over there, and how low they will start in south america, and red warnings remain for much of ecuador. as the heavy rain continues to fall, it's likely to affect places that have already seen flooding and land sides. you can see that rain stretching down further south into peru stretching into northern areas of brazil and joining up with a weather front. the sports and very heavy rain to the likes of bolivia as well as paraguay that system is rumbling its way further north. we are expecting those thundering down paws to edge into southeastern areas of brazil. some of that rain in rio at the we can knocking the temperature down. but further south of this,

temperatures will be up once again in places like santiago, as well as one as there is, was lots in the way of sunshine. as we move to central america, we're seeing sunny skies for much of cuba. the wet weather for the east to this a places like the dominican republic, as well as puerto rico, temperatures also coming down from the north east of mexico. that's as the rain starts to roll in thursday into friday. the back end of that weather system that's rolling east across parts of the us bringing heavy rain as well as hail and some very strong winds. the winds continue for eastern parts of canada with snow pushing its way further east and some wet and windy weather, edging into the north west pacific. ah, it's a $1000000000.00 money. no drink operation for coal mafia is bigger than the company with financial institutions, regulators and governments complicit about with right. i've described that

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ah, watching al jazeera reminder of our top story this, our, the israeli army says it has intercepted 25 of around 30 rockets, fired from lebanon into northern israel. israel's foreign minister says the country will take all necessary measures to defend itself. earlier is really forces stormed alex, a mosque for a 2nd night in a row, several palestinian worshippers were injured. many fear tensions could lead to more violence during ramadan and the jewish holiday of passover. also menu and coins, urging china's choosing thing to reason with russia to help bring an end to the war and ukraine. the french president is invasion for talks with she and european commission presidents are still of underlay the british government has confirmed plans to hold hundreds of asylum seekers and migrants on

a barge off the southern coast of the u. k. it's designed to reduce the cost of using hotels as temporary accommodation and to deter a new arrivals. the vessel will accommodate about $500.00 men. human rights groups say it is quote, cruel and inadequate. the government says living conditions will be quote, basic and functional. we call and have a situation we all collectively spending 6000000 pounds a day on hotels for illegal us on. and because that can't be right. like said that i would do everything i could to stop that and reduce depression on our communities from as long as they could, being in hotels. and that's what we're doing, we're bringing for what alternative sites can be the barge that we've announced today that will save us money and indeed reduce pressure on hotels, all part of all plan to stop the boat. we're also putting through parliament a new law, which will ensure that if you are right here illegally, you will not have the ability to say we will be able to detain you and then swiftly remove you to your own country. if a safe or 3rd alternative country alternative like rwanda. all right,

paul brennan joins us live from london. paul, this has been pretty controversial already. how's the government defending this well, as addresses tonight, the prime minister say essentially the bottom line is they want to try and save money, but this is the latest and a long line of. busy proposals, none of which, well, many of which don't actually progress through to fruition. we heard about plans to house migraines on disused r f base of that for spaces. other plans with the use out of season holiday camps. they were scrapped. you heard him mentioned the plan to take people to rwanda and resettle people that i can say not one person has gone yet because of the various legal challenges. and as far as this barge idea goes, it's not even here yet. it's actually in italy at the moment when you asked the government when it might arrive, how many months or some months. this is the response. so you can see it's, i wouldn't call it pie in the sky, but it's certainly not

a fully fledged plan. because there are so many unknowns about the cost, whether they'll be a legal challenge from the local people. exactly. you know, how many people will actually be able to put on this boat? yeah, it's ribbon with with, with well, difficulty should we say paul brennan, in london. thank you very much. we're gonna talk about these difficulties with steve valdez simon's a, he is the refugee in migrant rights program director at amnesty international u. k. one of the groups as spoken out about this against this, you're joining us from london. steve. have you ever heard of anything quite like this before? and sad to say i have a very long time ago. something broadly similar was done by the british government and indeed other european governments have done things like this, although not quite in the same context. and what's very important to understand and what makes this

a pulling decision even more atrocious. is that the reason the u. k. is currently experiencing an enormous backlog and it's asylum system is for one single reason. the government has decided to start processing people's claims. and what it is meant is that as people end to the asylum system, the backlog has to get. ringback bigger because nobody is leaving it. they've wrecked this system. and indeed the legislation that the prime minister refers to is purposefully intended to make this worse away. okay, hold on. educate us about that. how do you just stop processing claims and how does that help the government? well, it doesn't help anyone. it's produced these enormous backlogs. but how do you stop processing planes? you just pass originally rules and now laws to say that you won't decide the cases

that people have made. and so you leave people in this limbo, they've made their claims quite properly to you. they've come forward. they've asked you to decide whether they are refugees and permitted to stay, or whether they don't have good claims of whether you could take steps to remove them. and you, the government have just simply said, oh no, not going to bother looking at that. we're just leave you in limbo then of course, now there are more and more people stuck in that limbo and the cost of that gets f a bigger. consider this, the government says that this and by this i mean pudding housing, hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers on a barge will help deter other asylum seekers away from the u. k. your thoughts, i think is our silly for the birds. people don't make journeys to the u. k, except foot basically 2 reasons if they're seeking asylum. one is that they have

a very strong connections here, like family. so this is the place they're quite reasonably desperate to try and reach to have asylum because that's where they'll be safe with their loved ones. alternatively, they come to the u. k because they have experienced violence and exclusion elsewhere. and this is the last place that they may seek safety. they don't come in particularly large numbers. the u. k doesn't see very many people seeking asylum compared to most other european countries, let alone countries elsewhere in the world. and it could perfectly well deal with its system as it used to, if it would only decide the claims people make. steve, the u. k. government has been very creative. it, that's the wrong word. let me rephrase. the u. k. government seems to be going out of its way to make headlines with its immigration policy headline after headline,

and whether it's sending people to be processed in rwanda, which still hasn't started turning back. people crossing the channel boats at some point, you have to wonder how much of this is political theatre for the domestic audience or thoughts on that? i don't think you have to wander very long at all. it's obviously precisely that there is good politics to be made. ministers have concluded from stirring up suspicion division, even hatred of people seeking a signer. that is why our home secretary stoops to the level of calling a relatively small number of people arriving on our southern coast an invasion. it is a disgraceful way of doing politics, utterly racist, and contemptible. and unfortunately, all of these measures are simply more of the same because the government believes there is votes in this, doesn't matter what harm it does to people,

doesn't matter what caustic does to the taxpayer, doesn't matter what wreckage it is doing to our asylum system. and any effective means of managing immigration, but this is what is happening when steve l, this simon's at amnesty international u. k. thank you very much for joining us today. thank you. as i your boss, an arrow has been questioned by police investigating jewelry worth millions of dollars, which he received from saudi arabia while he was president of brazil, often aro, denied trying to import the gifts illegally. they were not declared to tax authorities. he's also under investigation for allegedly inciting january's riots in the capital brazilian after his election loss. a families and teachers of held a vigil outside of preschool in southern brazil, where for children under the age of 7, were killed in an attack. a man with an axe broke into the campus in the state of santa katerina. he was arrested after he surrendered to police president luis,

ignacio lula. da silva has called the attack. a monstrosity. protest is demanding government action on poverty and inflation have blocked. busy streets in argentina's capital, ah, more than a $120.00 blockades were set up around when a cyrus and provinces around the country. you government figures showed that poverty increased to 40 percent last year with inflation rising above a 100 percent in march. more than 18000000 argentinians are unable to cover their basic food. mexico's president has written to the chinese leaders shooting, paying, urging him to help control shipments of the synthetic opioid fennel sentinel. the u . s. is called on its southern neighbor to do more to hold the trafficking of the substance. john mal homan has more from mexico city. 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 mexico to stop getting into the states led by senator lindsey graham. that nol is a killer, and the people killing you. americans reside out in the open. in mexico. we're going to designate these group he's trying to introduce legislation to designate met, can cartels as international terrorist organizations and potentially all for the us military to head into the country to stop them. maybe a mexico is not happy plugged them into. so these proposals are in themselves a lot of respect in a threat to our sovereignty on funding for my 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 the letter he just sent to the president of china. why not? because some fentanyl comes from china, intimates can put either a separate ingredients ready, fully produced, and his m process and smuggled into the us. lopez over the doors letter of his

chinese counterpart. she's him paying for help in stopping that, but only off the several paragraphs of denouncing the demands of the us politicians . it's just the latest in what's been largely political theater, sent it to graham's proposal to send us troops in to 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 may, 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 it. so without reforming a whole lot or the system. so security analysts focus earns to actually make a dems in groups capacity to operate and mexico. you would have to fix very deeply

rooted problems. and that includes getting corruption, collusion out of the digital 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. a researchers in the us have tested the ability of artificial intelligence to assess heart function. so they compared the performance of an algorithm with human cardiologists on a routine diagnosis and their findings published in the journal. nature show that the i did surprisingly well. calling baker reports on the findings. it takes years to learn to read the human heart. one test cardiologists use called left

ventricular ejection fraction, or l v e f shows how well a person's heart is functioning. it shows how well blood is pumping through the left ventricle and whether a patient has had a heart attack or heart failure. it's typically performed by a human snog refer and reviewed by a cardiologist, but researchers at cedars sinai hospital and los angeles had been training an artificial intelligence system to interpret the results. this is a deep learning convolution of neural network that's video based as opposed to image based. it's been fed the oregon of 6 to 8 years worth of a co credit grounds from a large hospital. so about a $150.00 k 1000 images. and this allows the model to be very precise and accredited, assessing our function to test the system. researchers took around $3500.00 scans and assigned half to an a i, reader, and half to humans. the results were assessed by cardiologists for more than half

of the set. they were unable to tell the difference between the analysis produced by ai and what humans had done. and when looking at the diagnoses that a i generated, they needed less correction, less often as the scans analyzed by humans. in many ways, a i leverages the expertise, wrote great clinicians, but it doesn't take away the, the art of the inside of the actual diagnosis and putting the whole picture together. it's very complementary and very helpful for the clinical workflow. radiologists are also beginning to use a to detection tools for breast and lung cancer. very good. a finding fine detail and human was had a lot of time looking for. another aspect that i might get very helpful for he's following on something overtime with computers are good at measure and dr. seen human gets bigger or smaller be treatment patients responding or not to nitric fire

change of treatments. doctors say these tools will compliment humans in the clinic, not replace them. because at the end of the day, they're all tools and they will make what they currently are not perfect, they make mistakes. so you do need that expert radiologists to, to make that final decision. and that means doctors could potentially work faster and identify risks more accurately, to improve health outcomes for patients to ne, uganda. now where people are struggling to access treatment for eye diseases such as cataract intra coma al 0. heard from the 1st and only i doctor in the camera mosier region. oh dr. glad. is that a l and a doctor looking in a hospital in this area and this community is purely pastoral, is community, then move from place to place. what is the public search committee endemic here?

and so they suffer from a lot of tacoma there with c. so work on this cases then there was a have cataract, which is the commonest cause of blindness here. and also in the world accessibility general to health care is so poor and is what affix that people here. and then those are believes given that this the had to rec, area seems to be cut off. they have their own criteria believe. and so they prefer to use traditional medicine before coming to that i hospital and must have them come with complications already. i have a qualified team of a co worker really fully trained. i have of the mcclintock officers, i have of them make nurses a, have the attendance i have it of, i'll make equipment technician so that kind of, tim is willis palace specialist than i care. 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's the next day for patients for vendor going to say is if someone has

gone been blind for 5 years and then you work on them. and the next day they can see. and for that, that is a kind of impact with the, 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. the still ahead on al jazeera, this baseball star makes more major league history, but also all the wrong reasons. and he's got the details in just a moment. it's time with

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my time that's for andy here for that. thank you so much. so will frank lan parties back as chelsea's manager this despite the fact he was fired as the clubs both just over 2 years ago. for now he's been given the job and it's him pre capacity until the end of the season. on part previous, he spent more than a decade. chelsea as a player premier league side, still looking to hire a permanent replacement. the grandpa who was sacked on sunday chelsea in the bottom half of the premier league us despite spending more than $100000000000.00 on the fires. this season. we're in a statement. chelsea cohen is said we want to provide the club on our phones with a clear and stable plan. the remainder of the season, we want to give ourselves every chance of success. and frank has all of the characteristics and qualities we need to derive as to the finish line. when you become a manager, you understand manager and your company, you said you're up forever. and obviously i've been on a different path since i left chelsea for to come back in

a time where the kind of asked me to come and take the rope process. the most important thing though, so i wouldn't believe i can come and help the coles in this period to the end of the season. oh chelsea will face around madrid in the champions league, quarter finals next week, and rail will be full of confidence after a big win our boss alona in the spanish cup rail going into the 2nd. like at this point, i go down on to the same distance 2nd behind boston, spanish leave, but 3 2nd off goals from benjamin gave his team a for warn aggregate when with the french strike, the 2nd half chicken as many games. after a similar effort in the league and rail via the late last sunday railway faced also, sooner in the final, on may, the total holders would add casablanca face tons, and a inside symbol. in the quarter finals of the african champions league. the drill was made in cairo without have made it to this stage of the competition for 8 years in a row now, lee of egypt,

the most accessible club in the history of this tournament with 10 titles will take on another moroccan, c, roger, casablanca, to be good game and would respect so much weight it. we've been to morocco play to roger, but we respect so much as well. a did. they said with him, one of the best in africa, that equally we have played john's in africa. we knocked gently in africa. the believe going to be a very good game on all new africa, super league for the continents top clubs is due to launch later on the she has yet to be confirmed if it will replace or run alongside the existing champions league. the plan, how's the support of the president johnny and cantina with at least $100000000.00 available as prize money? confederation of african football president, patrice, mate, says he says he hopes the competition will close the financial gap on the european leagues. up to 24 teams could take part with a super bowl like final pencil. then the 2024 with

a precise thought dates will still be announced. we've been talking football, right? so my name is all he about how the new league may or may not work. i think it's easy to really, you know, criticize anything that has a super league label and fair enough because i think people don't really like the anti competitive nature of how it was revealed in europe. but in africa when i spoke to some of the players and just books, some of the administrators, they were saying that the chip is in its current state is broken because travel is so difficult in africa. it can be very, very pricey to play the champions. they can, the prize money is not, you know, very rewarding. so in a group, the single group stage, for example, a few years back, i remember, and all dreams i've had to travel 35000 kilometers. and each match can cost anywhere from $30.00 to $50000.00 when you consider accommodation and everything like that. so many sides, many clubs are participating this competition and they're losing money every time

they're participating in it. so. so for the rebranding, and if that's going to be more sponsors and more money and regional qualifiers, which makes more sense than you know, playing qualifies for, we'd have to flight thousands of kilometers. i think they would want that. so as long as there's no anti competitive nature, as long as it's not a close super league, i think it could actually be welcome in africa and japanese baseball stall show, hey, tanya has made some slightly unfortunate majorly history. the angels fire call for clock correlations on both the plate and mound making in the 1st place to break the new rules is both better and pitcher these rules brought in this season to try and speed up games just by that set back. a tiny thing going to win this game against the seattle mariners, and i'll know we'll keep rocks of clinch that places top seat in the east for the m b a. playoffs, the bucks beating the chicago bulls today. of course, history place the injured jonathan k. folks for 27 points through holiday added 20 more as the books are up. so

a 15 to 9 to see when will he of 3 games ahead of boston. we'll see games left in the regular make i los angeles. the cliff is beat city rivals. the lake is to seal the 5th c position in the western conference play norman powell and co. i leonard, leading the clippers to see where 125 to what i see when the clip is 11 straight. whenever the lake is the lake is i still in with the chance of getting through to the and the early start, as it said, for the 1st major golf tournaments of the year, the u. s. masters underway, adult gusta. on wednesday, defending champion scotty shuffling in the dark blue shirt. they're wearing the crown in georgia with a hole in worn during a pa 3 contest. the world number one will start the 1st round of his title defense just after 1730 g empty. that was pretty fond. i mean, we're trying to make one all day and i was just, i guess

a slammed unfair at the end. it was definitely very fine. and it was the guys were pretty focused watching their shots. i didn't see it quite go and they just heard the noise. i was like yellow and that one. and that was mine. okay. plenty more from the masters over the coming days. but that is how we are looking for any, with all the sports news, appreciate your coverage, as always. thank you so much. you can find much more on our website. all our news on al jazeera dot com to go there, and that's it from me, sir. of any for this news hour, but i am back in just a moment with more of the days you stay to dallas. ah ah, a

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