law a will the law when with neither side, willing to negotiate is the ukraine war becoming a forever war is america's global leadership, increasingly fragile. what will us politics look like as we had to the presidential election of 2024. the quizzical look us politics. the bottom line ah, al jazeera with no, i escalating tensions in the middle east? several rockets have fired from southern lebanon towards israel. ah, it follows

a 2nd raid by israeli forces on the alex um mosque on wednesday. ah, i'm sterile then. yeah, it's great to have you with us. this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up french president emanuel mac hotels, chinese leaders shooting, paying. he's counting on him to bring russia to its senses and end the war in ukraine. i'm natasha bonnie, in paris. when people are back in the streets, protesting against the french prisons pension reform reform, he says he likes ah, we start with the escalating pension in the middle east, where rockets have been fired toward israel and from lebanon. is really government says most of them were intercepted, but a handful have landed in the part of the country. several rockets were fired from

gaza overnight and this comes after israeli police stormed locks a mosque and occupied east jerusalem for a 2nd night on wednesday. they again fired stun grenades and rubber coated steel bullets at worshippers, some of them through fire crackers in stones. the united nations secretary general says that he is appalled and disturbed by israel of actions at the mosque. the un security council now holding a closed door meeting to discuss the developments, but don't need reports on the rocket attacks. then those are, there were 34 missiles that were fired from southern little lebanon into northern israel, 25 of them being intercepted by the iron dough, which is israeli air defense system. 5 of them had landed about the 4 that are still unaccounted for. prime minister benjamin netanyahu should be meeting with his security cabinet, assessing the situation at the time where there's

a lot of tension, not only along that border this afternoon, but earlier in the day at the most compound. and also along the guys border. maybe we will hear after that meeting what a new statement from the government, but this is the 1st time the prime minister conveniences security cabinets in february and diplomats of the un security council of being briefed on developments in the region or diplomatic editor james bays has the latest, 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 a way where you just heard my colleagues speaking from east jerusalem about the current situation on the ground. obviously when their bosses 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 context with israel and these, the current current member of the security council from the arab league. we spoke to. busy their bus to learn a new said, this is what the 2 of them said to me. it's an issue calling for attention to be reducing. the reason we don't want to intention to get exacerbate because the region of course is very sensitive time years. so it's going to be important for everyone to do what they can to come the way he's extremely concerned by the escalation. finally, territories. extremely concerned that that was happening in the very early months

for all 3 or how many religions for muslims, for christians, and for the jewish people as well. we call on all sides for cooling all sides to restrain themselves. go back to the dialogue, but really the sanctity of alexa mosque must be protected and the role the custodianship at the house might kingdom of jordan must be upheld. so that is our position. the status quo must not be changed in jerusalem. and the u. e 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 in to a close session. french president, the manager and mccoys urging chinese leader shooting, paying the reason with russia to help end the war in ukraine. they've been meeting in beijing to discuss the conflict mccoy's on a 3 day state visit there,

along with european commission president or su, live under land. robert bride reports french president manuel macro being given the owner of a state visit. welcome by his chinese counterpart, she's in pain. one of your, of the 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 that, you 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 west and leaders, including macro, have criticize 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 chair, china insists on a peaceful resolution and as willing to work with front 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 us, you live 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, the signing of lucrative trade deals on this trip is seen as beijing's attempt to maintain good european relations, even as ties with the us sour. i hope china will tell president macro on the one hand and then toe. madam of on the they are the other hand that it is absolutely impulse want to have a european perspective which may or may not be exactly identical to that of the united states. chinese and european leaders. hoping traditionally strong crate links can lead to a diplomatic breakthrough. robert pride al jazeera, the kremlin, has china, has strong potential as a mediator, but sees no prospects for peace in ukraine. in fact,

presidential spokesman dmitri pest golf said the situation in ukraine is too complex for now, and requires russia to continue its military campaign. 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 citizens as part of a chinese mediator deal. it follows talks between saudi and iranian foreign ministers in beijing. the 1st such meeting in 7 years to her on in riyadh are now working to reactivate trade deals and reopen embassies. hundreds of thousands of people are rallying across france for another day of strikes and mass protests against pension reform. there have been confrontations between protesters and police in paris if comes after talk between the prime minister and labor unions. this week failed to break stalemate. natasha. butler has been covering his protest movements since the beginning in paris. natasha. this has been lasting for weeks, but it appears to have become more violent recently. why is that?

yeah, what we've seen in recent weeks is more violence and more anger. these protests ever since the french government bypass parliament pushed the refer pension reform through by decree. a lot of people saying that's unfair and on democratic. but i have to say the violence that we are saying is carried out by a minority of protesters and trouble makers. who often infiltrate these sorts of protests in order to damage property, a lease a short while ago, we actually saw a bank very close by the, with fire to buy some processes. you might even be able to see some smoke quite, quite thick in the air behind me. that's because there are some been some property on fire down there as well to sort of thing to we've been seen in recent weeks. but what rights groups are saying is that the french police are fueling the tensions and the situation because they are using excessive force against some of the

protesters, right? group fate that instead of targeting the troublemakers what the french police often do is indiscriminately target all the protest as many of whom are here just to walk peacefully. but they're sure it looks like the government and the protesters are trying to outlast one another. where do you see this going a look, it's really hard to predict where it is going to go. you know, you have 2 sides. that of a firmly entrenched their positions. just on wednesday, the francis main trade union leaders met with the french prime minister elizabeth board. it was their initiative to call this meeting to discuss the situation to find a way out of the debt low. but that meeting lasted less than an hour. trade union leaders say the, what they want is the french government to scrap this pension reform that they believe is unfair. that makes people world longer. but the french government have made it very clear that they have no intention of doing that. so it's hard to see

where it's going, where we have again, is immensely leverage. nationwide day of strikes and protest, people back in the street trade unions of ready called another day of action for next week. and at the end of next week, a key date to look out for frances constitutional cool. we'll be looking at whether or not it will approve this law. if it does, that means the person can sign it into law for good. it will be interesting to see what happens after that. i will mark our calendars for that day, then natasha butler reporting from paris. thank you. mexico's president has written to the chinese leaders shooting ping urging him, urging him to help control shipments of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. the u. s. has called on its southern neighbor to do more to halt the trafficking of the substance. john hallman has more from mexico city. it's been a red button issue in the us for the last few years. fenton knew the synthetic o p u it up to 50 times stronger than heroin, with the overdose rate to match. and some republican lawmakers had been ratcheting up the pressure mexico to stop it,

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 group he's trying to introduce legislation to designate mich can cartels, his international terrorist organizations, and potentially all for the us military to head into the country, to stop them. maybe the mexico is not happy. they meant to. so these proposals are in themselves a lot of respect in a threat to our sovereignty on funding for my young president lope is 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 is in process and smuggled into the us. lopez over the doors letter of his chinese counterpart. she's in 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 theater said. it's a graham's proposal to send us troops into mexico was never going to get off the ground. likewise, president pink 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 with fentanyl and the u. s. government is talking with met coke about how to stop them. the problem is that you can't stop one drug on it. so without reforming a whole lot and all the system security, unless falco burns 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 on. busy 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 drugs running from mexico into the u. s. john holman, al jazeera met her city. still ahead on al 0 will tell you why the british government is planning to house hundreds of asylum seekers on a board. and this, have you wondered why eggs have gotten so expensive lately? i'm kristen salumi looking for the answer to that question. lancaster county, pennsylvania. ah.

hello there. the weather is looking largely quiet across much of south asia. at the moment. we're expecting lots of sunshine to come into pakistan as well as northern areas of india further south. this is where we see the cloud and the heavier rain picking up friday into saturday. some showers as well edging into coastal areas of corolla and the potential for some storms popping off in sri lanka to the north east. it's a quiet to picture as well, with lots in the way as sunshine coming to bangladesh. and for pakistan where we are expecting some heat to pick up the horse seeing 30 degrees celsius on saturday, the temperatures may be on the up here, but they slowly coming down places like japan as we move to east asia, that slow moving weather system. finally, edging its way further east from friday into saturdays, still gonna bring some heavy rain on fridays and southern parts of japan, trickling down in to taiwan. but it does edge its way further east behind it. lots

of fun. enjoy whether to be found with sunshine stretching across northern parts of china, down to coastal areas in the east temperature, picking up the shanghai as well as beijing and even as far north places like mongolia, lamba tar coming in at 14 degrees celsius on saturday. that to weather update. ah, a ah

ah, you're watching l 0. a reminder of our headlines. the israeli military says 34 rockets have been fired towards israel from lebanon in the largest such barrage since the 2006 war 3 people are reported to injured. several buildings have been damaged. rockets have also been fired from gaza. all of this coming after is really forces, stormed alex, a moss for a 2nd night in a row, several palestinian worshippers were injured. amanda mccoys urging china's choosing thing to reason with russia to help bring an end to the war you crate. the french president is in beijing for talks with she and european commission president or su live on de leon. 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. this is 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, rural and inadequate. the government says living conditions will be quote, basic and functional or brennan has more from london. this is the latest in a long line of british government proposals to try to get on top of the backlog and the cost associated with that backlog of asylum seekers arriving on these shores. we've heard, for example of trying to house asylum seekers in full spaces in our seasons, holiday camps. now this idea of a bond which will hold $500.00 people. well, the barges currently in italy as we understand it. and when you ask the government exactly when it might arrive here, some months away is the answer. nevertheless,

the prime minister richie soon knock on a campaign visit in the middle of the k today said something had to be done to provide value for money for the british tax pay. we call and have a situation we all collectively spend a 1000000 pounds a day on hotels or illegal us on and because that can't be right. i said that i would do everything i could to stop by and reduce the pressure on all community from as long as they could, being in hotels. and that's what we're doing. we're bringing for what alternative sites really 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 show that if you arrive 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 alternative country alternative like rwanda argument that the government is trying to save the taxpayer money has been staving lee. vis a rated by the opposition party is

a labor party. it's the the kiss sama saying today. the answer isn't more expense for the tax, but it's stopped the boats on process the claims. just one percent of those who arrived by small bows last year he said actually have had the asylum plays process . it's the backlog. that is causing the problems and the fun, i'm sorry, i missed the international also reacted saying that confining hundreds of people in isolate was just more of the political fear that this government has created to obscure its gross mismanagement of the asylum's system. not the reality is that it's not a done deal. the local people, the local and p where this barge would be situated is threatening the prospect of legal action to stop it. being more where the government wants to more it's, this is not by any means a done deal. pull, brennan, i'll just era london. as they are, both nora had been questioned by police, investigating jewelry worth millions of dollars,

which he received from saudi arabia while he was president of brazil, both and aro, denied trying to import the gift 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. families and teachers have held a vigil outside a 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 kathrina. he was arrested after he surrendered to police president lucy, now hewlett silver has called the attack. a monstrosity. protest is demanding government action on poverty, and inflation have blocked, busy streets in the origin. tina's capital, the more than $120.00 blockades were set up around when a situs and provinces around the country. the new government figures showed that poverty increased to 40 percent last year, with inflation rising above 100 percent in march. more than 18000000 argentinians

are unable to cover their basic food needs the latest now from our ongoing investigation into a huge money laundering and gold smuggling operation implicating seniors and bob and diplomats and major south african banks. today, l 0 is investigative unit, reveals the dubai connection. alexander james reports on the rival gangs, wandering vast amounts of money combination. putney isn't a tourist, go dealer. he lost his money using go that he sells in dubai. he shows on the cover reporters earnings from one store. does the cash? yes. 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 you know, like buying putney once the report is to join his existing money

laundering setup or is it not like, you know, somebody and then it becomes to get him for the loan to finish that now then you've been involved 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 have and 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 you included with who was much the one we were 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 it through the 5. well, play with the vehicle. i'll make it look like your goal. you get angel is in bob when ambassador who is offered to launder money through gold. again, lex blog and he recently spoke to international delegates in do by about investing in zimbabwe, free from corruption. i was in my office with no russian or new math. angel is asking for $200000.00 to arrange a meeting between zimbabwe, president emerson, man, and gaga, and out there is undercover team. that guy doesn't take bribes or no. one is a big difference in the proceedings on pushing and bribe, you know,

he does live or good on right now that there is somebody saying, i think. ready within that you are doing for us it a big difference. angel says president, man and gaga can help with the money laundering for a fee. i think. ready is in this building, dotted with good girl. and this is my, you know, somebody was in london but soon somebody with the money to spend on. oh yeah. do you give him one we did is like is living the communist partly denied involvement in any form of money laundering and that also to deal with funds he knew originated from legal sources. allister mathias said that he had never lauren did money or gold, nor offer to do such things. he said he had never owned any refineries in dubai. the other parties featured did not respond to our inquiries. alexander james al jazeera in zimbabwe, the minister of information says that authorities are committed to upholding local

and international laws relating to financial transactions. the trade of gold and other precious minerals gathered dishes with it in a kitchen with brown info. with you can watch the 3rd of this 4 part series in the al jazeera investigation, gold mafia el dorado. on thursday at 20100 g m t. at least 5 people have died after a tornado swept through the us state of missouri. the storm ripped roofs from homes and brought down trees and power lines. the governor said recovery will take a long time,

and severe storms have killed more than 60 people across the southern and mid western us in the last 2 weeks. but u. s. is currently dealing with the deadliest bird flew up, break in its history. when and 58000000 formed birds have died or been called to prevent the spread of the virus. this is contributed to rising egg and poultry prices. kristin salumi reports from lancaster county in 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 are 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 last of left he sells his birds for meat. his 4 chicken houses are currently empty. wow, i've never had the disease on my farm that i know about. so i know they're being

being kept away from me for safety reasons. i'm because of the disease as in the area. it's in the quarantine area as m. i. 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 state 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 of the industry say vaccinating chickens should also be on the table of $60015.00, a number of different outbreaks, billions of dollars spent on indemnification. ah, you know, 100000000 birds put down. it deserves serious sir. 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 ah or headlines on.