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i'm sammy's a dan. this is al jazeera live from dall hall. so coming up in social community has been absent minded in relation to the damn of the people of somalia. the un pleads for health to somalia drought force is hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes. class under simmons reporting live from both foster u. s. president joe biden is here to march the 25th anniversary of northern islands . good friday, east agreements. and we look at why several states in the western u. s. could be forced to count their water consumption. ah man miles john to has admitted a cow to nest drive that killed more than

a 100 people on tuesday. the military said the aim of the attack on the village of a c, g was to restore peace in the region. the un human rights chief says he's horrified by the strike. valcall turk said, school children are believed to be among the victims. they were performing dances at an event organized by opponents of the government, even after them out on the national at 8 am this morning. the national unity government and the people's defense force conducted an opening ceremony of the public administration office at passage village. don't remember who the owl. oh yes, of course we had launched the attack on them. we were informed that pdf were killed at that event under the attack. they are opposing our government. and tony chang sent this update from bangkok. the while ago i spoke to the defense minister for the national unity government and asked him that in the face of these fighter jets

helicopter gunship in heavy artillery. was there anything they could do to protect the territory? they seemingly control? and most importantly, the people that are there, he admitted that they really only have small arms hunting rifles, in many cases, to go up against mere mas military. but the one thing the military don't have is manpower. and that seems to be corroborated by reports on the ground that suggests that mere mas military is having large problems. recruiting new recruits into the army. they're also having problems controlling large areas of the countryside were support opposing military rule is still very strong. we've also seen a set targeting sanctions from the united states from the united kingdom and other countries, trying to count off supplies of jet fuel to me, emma. but there are neighboring countries in this region that still supplying the fuel. they need to keep those planes in the, in this stage there doesn't seem to be any shortage to stop these types of salt is

going out and fight the last couple of days. there had been similar, their strokes reported in other parts of memo. delighted nations secretary general is wanting, a famine is looming in somalia as it faces its worst drought in decades. and tony retired, i says the international community must act to prevent the catastrophe. urgent humanitarian assistance is needed for 78300000 salmoneus. and we must now act to prevent a capacitor from the 2023 medicare and response plan which seeks 2 point. $6000000.00 west dollars is just 15 percent funded. when famine lose these historically and acceptable? catherine sawyer in margaret issue, she says people want help building resilience not just stayed rom poppy to many perry and efforts because he's saying many,

many people in somalia are suffering. so went with him to a region in the south, west, west, thousands of people are making their way to that area in by just trying to get help. but then at the assistance there is very, very limited and people are leaving rough. so the secretary general basically had conversations with people who displaced their about their needs, which are massive and he also calls on didn't. can the international community do more of voc farm in thousands of people? 40000 people lot to the top died and the last one and a half. yes. the secretary also help with the president about the, you know, the security situation in the country. we have been talking to many somalis who is

saying that beyond the, beyond the help that they need, they want to see more in terms of measures of resilience because a lot of commodities are saying that they need to break away from the cycle of violence and dart and drought that we have seen for so many. yes. the us is investigating how dozens of top secret military documents ended up on the internet . some documents appear to show south career reach to deal with washington to supply weapons for ukraine. leaks include private conversations between senior south korean officials of mcbride explains that's causing outrage in sol as one of its strongest dial eyes claims that south korea has been spied upon by the us has sent the administration here into damage control. overdrive south korea

. defense minister has spoken with his us counterpart to reassure each other. their reliance is as strong as ever. both pointing out they believe a number of the legal documents are false, even 0 and many of the disclose documents a fabricated and joint assessments are consistent with each other. but the government hasn't said if it believes the documents relating to south korea or fake, or genuine, reportedly relates to sensitive government conversation about the provision of artillery shells needed by ukraine. sol doesn't supply them directly, so as not to anger moscow, but south korea and officials are alleged to have discussed ways of supplying shells in directly through 3rd countries. the alleged discussions are not that revealing, but what's more concerning here is the fact that they might have come through east dropping my neck. you guess how she is? i mean, we believe that if it's straw,

it'll be very disappointing situation that damages the trust base alliance between korea and the us. it's also led to questions about how the security conscious administration of president human circle could allow itself to be spied upon. and whether his decision to move his office away from the traditional blue house compound allow the security lapse when he got elected that here. and prepared, lee move out of that long established for jose off his and move to this current. a former military had headquarters. so the opposition party has criticized among many other reasons, the security issues. it's all the more embarrassing coming just 2 weeks before long anticipated summit in washington with us president joe biden, seen as a reward for south korea unstinting loyalty. when the 2 men will be smiling for the

cameras, in spite of allegations that one ally has been spying on the other, rob mcbride al jazeera, so us president joe biden is in northern ireland tomorrow. the 25th anniversary of the signing of the good friday peace agreement. andrew simmons is in belfast for us . so what's going to be getting up to today? ah, well, it's a fairly short scheduler has to be said in the next few minutes. in fact, i minutes or he'll be meeting richie soon at the u. k. prime minister. after that, the only public engagement is here at the university of auster, a brand new campus, a shining example of how northern ireland does move forward in this quarter. that used to be a dingy, very, very depressed part of belfast. more than 25 years ago. now a vibrant area of the cathedral quarter. so much to celebrate according to the

white house, very much so because of the u. s. involvement in that good, good friday peace agreement reached a quarter of a century ago. it changed the lives of everyone here in northern ireland and it brought peace, a really serious, solid piece that still exists. but there are threats in their growing threats, political threats and paramilitary threats, particularly the political instability here because the democratic unionist party, which is part of what should be a power sharing agreement and power sharing rule that is defunct right now. because the d u p walked out of governments more than a year ago because of post wrecks, it trade deals. so there is a real element of political tension and security tension, certainly know. walk about for joe biden on this visit, because there's a serious security threat here. and that visit is attracting some

criticism. why andrew? well, the criticism is about the length of time here. joe biden will only be here for something like 16 hours of you could say nearly a half of that will be pleasant. presidential sleep as, depending on how much sleep your button gets. so there is a feeling that he could be doing more. however, this instability, the political instability means that it's sensitive and the americans are very keen to be something like a low key type of approach to it all. he will be meeting the leaders of the 5 northern ireland political parties, but it's more of a m, a greek than a meat that will be substantive talks. there is a hope that he will actually in a speech at this university touch on economic involvement of the united states and or not. and this has been done before. but joe kennedy, the 3rd,

who is his economic envoy for northern ireland may well, it's speculated have something to offer in the way of investment, and that will be conditional on good government here. now, can leo can only do you be the eunice be persuaded to go back into government? that remains to be seen. it is unlikely because even of what's called the windsor agreement, which was negotiated with european union. so ease restrictions on trade. these restrictions imposed because they wanted to avoid a land border a for security reasons when breaks it took place. so this windsor agreement lessons the impact of of know that i'll of being able to trade with the rest of the u. k. but still eunice are not happy with it. they want to be treated like every other part of the you k which is a mantra after all political mantra. they are concerned about giving way on this issue because of that, the whole of backing that the voters are won't want to see this sort of thing not

taking place. so it has to be said, this. northern ireland is divided still, not just between it's people to communities who need more reconciliation is divided an opinion about what the gender is of the u. s. president. because irish american, he's very spending most of his time in the republic of ireland on this 4 day tour. and he is known to back a unified army. that is really a red flag to the unit community here. all right, thanks so much. andrew simmons, the biden administration, has proposed walter carts in several american states to prevent the colorado river's reservoir from dropping to critical levels. its source is in the rocky mountains and its bands more than 2300 kilometers. 7 u. s. states rely on the river for their water supplies. areas in the north, west of mexico depend on it to rob reynolds has more. after 23

years of severe drought, the colorado river in its reservoirs have dwindled too alarmingly low levels. if they dry up even further, it could cut hydro electric generation and water supplies over a vast area. worst case scenario where everyone will void with you know, water. busy river, available to flow in the river to serve yearly. $40000000.00 people in the west depend on the colorado for drinking water and electricity together with billions of dollars worth of foreign products. even though we have a largely above snow above normal snow pack in the colorado we still, it doesn't mean we're going to have great run off at this point on top of the fact . the drought has been such a long standing drought over the last, you know, 5 years to a decade, plus that it's going to take

a number of years to overcome this deeper drought that we have. western states or allocated water under the terms of a 100 year old treaty. but despite protracted negotiations, the states have been unable to agree to changes and cuts needed to address the shrinking water supply. divided ministration proposes equal across the board cuts for each of the 7 states in the compact up to 25 percent. if approved, that would certainly cause some pain, perhaps, especially for farmers who use 75 percent of the water pipe from reservoirs. but also for city dwellers, certainly move to transition or adapt to less base. you're sure cuts more additional over here in the western united states. we've seen extreme rainfall over the past several months, but scientists say one with winter is not enough to make up for 23 years of severe

drought. so it seems that one way or another, the people of the west are going to have to get used to using water. more sparingly . rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles, peter gleick, his co founder in senior fellow at the, the civic institute for studies and development environment and security. he says the federal government had to get involved because states couldn't agree on how to handle the was a shortage. significant drop in the amount of water in the colorado river, and there is a mix of demand. there's always been for many, many years now or well understood that the demand for water exceeds the reliable supply. and the states have not been able to come to an agreement about how to share that shortage. and as a result, the reservoirs have dropped and they're simply not enough water now to meet all the demand. while the problem has been that the 7 states that share the water resources

of the colorado river have not been able to come to an agreement about how to share that shortage. so now we have the federal government stepping in which managers, the big reservoirs on the river saying you're going to have to come to an agreement to equally share, the shortages. the states themselves will have to decide internally who gets cut within the state, whether farmers or cities do. but the federal government is stepping in and suggesting we're going to have to see equal cuts among the states equal proportional cuts. i and hopefully that will break the impasse that we've seen up till today. because without an agreement among the 7 states, the reservoirs would eventually be drawn completely dry. the ecosystem would be damaged and we would still see impacts on farmers and the cities no matter what. so the fact that the federal government is now beginning to step in hopefully will lead ultimately to a solution for all the states. but given the risks of climate change to the threat of climate change, now something is going to have to be done. said i had an al jazeera why indigenous

people in one of brazil's largest reserves are putting pressure on the government to protect their land. ah, there will be more flooding in the philippines is a little early to get significant rain, but that is what's happening here. that's an expanding area or are dying circulation, which was a tropical depression, still full of moisture as it hits manila. and if you follow the line down here to solar ways he to java, that's also an area of weakness in the atmosphere, which means big thunderstorms. now, beyond that, not particularly wet as you can see. however, it does extend the northwest of australia, where the name storm elsa is heading up to be the strongest one since 2009 is about

to make landfall thursday evening somewhere in the northwest that it'll move across the red interior. in the mean time, this onshore breezes cool things down and will be persistently cloudy if not wet from sydney to the capital down to was easton, victoria. and that'll carry on during friday with some breaks in the cloud along a bit of sunshine. where's this system then edges in towards adelaide, warmer head of it, eventually will turn wet for new zealand. well, it is the right season to get a differentiation in the weather day to day. so you have on thursday a wits southfield is not sweat nor fallen. 20 to and gibbon. tommy get to friday. the rains transferred northwards. ah, the african countries have struggled to reclaim many of the artifacts taken by european colonizers. this is our experience of identity in the final port of the

seas, museums, and collectors to hold precious assets like the bin rooms. few have been returned, but there's still a long way to go and progress is painfully slow. restitution africa stolen with pottery ation on old. you 0. lou ah, come back to watching al jazeera time to recap on headlines now. man miles jumped as admitted to carrying out an air strike on tuesday that killed more than a 100 people. the military said the aim of the attack on the village of pathology was to restore peace of the region. united nations secretary general antonio hotel

. his warning of blooming family in sumani answered places it was drought in decades. says the international community must act to prevent the catastrophe. us president joe biden is in northern islands. mont the 25th anniversary of the signing of a good fight, a peace agreement. scheduled to meet representatives from all nova island spain political policies. ukraine is accusing russia of beheading a captured ukrainian soldier. be no comment from the kremlin. jonah hall joins us now from cave. however, there has been comment from the cranium president. right jonah that's right. you know, we, we've gotten used to seeing there are other gruesome imagery of war over the last year or more, but this makes for particularly unpleasant viewing. and for obvious reasons, we can't show it to our viewers. it is video that emerged over night. the ports to show russian soldier, a russian soldier, be heading

a ukrainian prisoner of war looks like a b, ukrainian prisoner of war. some signs in the video that the soldier may indeed have been still still been alive. as this process began, there is no way to independently verify this footage. ready nor its context when it was shot where it was shot, although some suggestions for to the foliage in the background being particularly green, suggest to get may have been before the onset of winter last year. there has been reaction politically, as you say, is this video has gained traction online because for the an adviser to president zelinski say good points to russia's bloodthirsty this once again, president that entity himself releasing a statement, a video statement in which he urges every world leader to react, he says, don't expect it to be forgotten. we are not going to forget. and he vows to be

exact what he describes as legal responsibility for this act. all right, thanks so much john hall. russia's parliament has approved legislation that would allow authorities to issue electronics summons to draft fees and reservists. current rules require military service notices to be delivered in person. many russians have avoided the draft by moving away from their recorded addresses. the legislation will now go to the opera house and president vladimir putin for final approval of the navy, a citizen who hasn't appeared to his draft notice we'll see restrictive security measures apply. this includes a ban on exiting the country and a warning about other measures that will follow if he does not appear within 20 days. heavy sand storms have hit bay jing and several provinces in china. large areas in the north have been blanketed with sand after wind carried it from mongolia. in some places visibility was down to 50 meters with the authorities

issuing the highest level of warning. people being told to m face masks because of the dropped him quality of the united nations says it's considering ending its mission in afghanistan because of the thought of bonds ban on women working for the organization. the un says the restriction violates international law. totally bond is reimpose strict regulations since returning to power in 2021. they include banning women from education. they're also not allowed to work for agencies, most of the public sector international monetary fund. this warning, the global economy is in a perilous phase with historically low growth and a rising risk of international recession. the i my forecast global g d p growth of 2.8 percent this year, and 3 percent next year. that's lower than the previous year. mung. the group of 7

nations. the case economy has the worst forecast. it's expected to shrink by north point 3 percent this year. the us economy is the world's largest, is predicted to grow by 1.6 percent. the m f is predicting 3 percent growth through to 2028, the lowest 5 year outlook since forecasts were 1st published will therefore entering a tricky phase during which economy growth remains low by storage standards, financial risks of increased yet inflation as not decidedly decisively turn the corner policymakers will need a steady hand and clear communication. first, financial and with financial instability contained monetary policy should remain focused on bringing inflation down. but stand ready to jumps promptly as financial developments my demand. us treasury secretary,

janet yelling is optimistic about america's economy and the banking system. despite the i m f warnings. i believe our banking system remains strong and resilient. it has solid capital and liquidity, and the u. s. economy is obviously performing exceptionally well with continued solid. i jawed creation. inflation gradually moving down um, robust consumers spending. so i'm not anticipating it down turned in the economy. although, of course that remains to risk. indigenous leaders from brazil's giovanni valley reserve are putting pressure on the new government to protect their land. the territory is home to the world's largest number of on contacted tribes. violence is increased recently as poachers and drug cartels invade remote areas. monica anarchy

of reports from jibari valley arm body guards accompany eliezer marrable as he returns to the shop id valley reserve. it's a 700 kilometer boat ride into the heart of brazil's amazon, a territory, the size of austria, home to the world's largest number of un contacted indigenous peoples. yep, with the fulton who are the phase of it. it's a risky journey. many indigenous leaders like me have received death threats for trying to protect the valley from poachers miners and drug traffickers. black, but it's a journey we have to make. we're holding an annual assembly to discuss our future and survival. hundreds of indigenous leaders have gathered to participate in the 3 day conference at the parent village. they represent 7 different tribes, some of them at war with each other,

not long ago. now their united against common enemies, those who are invading their lands, us get insecurities at the top of our agenda. but we're also discussing how to provide proper health care and education for the inhabitants of the valley as well as projects for sustainable development. just getting these various groups together in one place is very difficult to organize. i know some of these people have traveled up to 7 days in a small boat like this, just to reach the bottom, not village and participate in the assembly. and they could do it because it's the wet season in the dry season. it's very difficult to navigate the river. the logistics is complicated and involve stalking up on food and 2000 leaders of fuel. there are no roads, no petrol stations, and there is always the risk being attacked by river pirates. recently, pirates grabbed to indigenous men who had driving a boat from the health minister,

distributing medicine to the villages. the pirates threw them into the water. we were warned by a couple who were passing by and so what happened? it took us time to give it and we were lucky to find one alive. in the past the shove, i, the inhabitants relied most the and jills to purchase equipment for their surveillance teams. and to provide internet access to the villagers, former right wing presidents able sonata dismantled government agencies that were in charge of protecting indigenous rights. and many observers believed he turned a blind eye on the exploitation of valuable resources and protected areas. a lot of times we think about protecting the rain forest as something, something pleasant, something interesting, something scientifically compelling. but it's a war on the ground. and these guys are on the front line since left as president lucy, not to let us to, but to coffee in january. indigenous leaders said there, hopeful things will change,

and that brazil's government will take its constitutional responsibility seriously to protect its indigenous population. one sign of new times was the visit by supreme court president jose vba. on the final day of the meeting, she arrived by helicopter to hear their grievances and demand. you are um, you know what, the lead the way i'm committed to protecting the amazon. and that is why my 1st trip a supreme court president has been to this valley. i want to know 1st hand what is going on here. at the conclusion of the meeting, they shall, by the tribes came up with the 3 year plan. it includes pressuring the government to build more outpost, to protect their lands, as well as training doctors and teachers to work in the reserve. oh, later this month, many of these leaders will travel to the capital, brazil you to participate in a camp out with indigenous representatives from across.