business critical on al jazeera cheers from school children in the island community of east end. the excitement is over the arrival of their teacher. fransisco velasquez. there's only one school and co sketchiness infancy school is the only teacher. the fact that these children are able to have an education at all the result of years, hard work from the local community here in coyote sketchy at the store. this year the u. s. government announced $33000000.00 to increase access to education. part of a broader strategy by the by did administration to address the root causes of migration from central america critics. in honduras, however, warned that ramp and government corruption means that foreign assistant too often goes astray. ah rooks to a welcome jo button on his 1st trip to ireland. as you, as president. earlier he urged northern ireland not to attend to the violence ended

by the good friday agreement. aah! nor intent of this down to 0 life and also coming up. great. he's president edge is well leaders to act as he condemns a gruesome video which appears to show russian forces heading a ukrainian soldier. men most military says tuesdays are strikes which killed 100 people were aimed at restoring peace and stability and major thus ah, celebrations in chinese. went on to 6 years of debate. congress has voted to count the working week. 45 as to 40. ah, a huge crowds. i stood in the rain for hours waiting to great

u. s. president joe biden, as he visits the republic of ireland ogden is in the country for 3 days. ah, in the town dundalk burden responded enthusiastically to those waiting to see him taking selfies and speaking to many of them is in the region to visit his ancestral roots. earlier he was given a tour of calling for castle by irish deputy prime minister, me howl, martin o brennan has more from the county laugh. well, it's been a take the personal segments, all president bonds agenda today. he crossed the border from northern ireland. first going to dublin for some diplomatic niceties, meeting embassy staff that i'm being greeted by the t shirt that the irish prime minister leo, veronica. and after that, he came straight up in pour and gray. and i've got to say up here, it's a county laugh which is kind of halfway between dublin on belfast because the bite and family line goes back to the finnegan's upon the truly peninsula. that's why he went to calling for castle visiting there with the to last of us,

the deputy prime minister, me whole martin, and i, we understand that he's somewhere behind me of my shoulder when i, when done dork, which is this town just on the border. you can see the police out riders over my shoulder on this old part of a very personal kind of always called a pilgrimage for joe biden. here because of the family connection that he has with this part of ireland. tomorrow he meets with the irish president michael higgins in the morning. he also meets again with leo, veronica, the irish to ship the prime minister. and he will address both houses of the irish parliament the coming back from the east recess early in order to hear that address by jo bought. and after that, he had sought to the west of ireland, where the bottom family has a separate branch of the blue. it section of the family over in fallonaw hill also stopped a holy shrine for the catholics of knock. so you can see that the u. s. president,

the 2nd catholic u. s. president, after the john f. kennedy. really playing not playing but really emphasizing his cap. his catholicism in this most catholic of countries and he abandoned was in belfast to knock the 25th anniversary of the good friday peace agreement. do you and it's 30 is a violence that breaks it is threatened that piece, placing a trade board between northern ireland and the rest of the u. k. under simmons reports from now fast, joe biden had 2 main messages in belfast. congratulations on a deal that's given a quarter of a century of peace. and a warning that normal and future is dependent on restoring it to both power sharing at a major new campus, but also the university. he addressed a mostly young audience. many who weren't born before the good friday agreement. much of his messaging though, was to politicians. but i believe democratic institutions establish the good friday

agreement, rank critical for the future of northern iowa. a government that works to find ways to heart problems together. kind of draw even greater opportunities is richard for hope. the assembly and the executive will soon be restored as a judgement for you to make that made. and i hope it happens. it's here the seat of devolve government, stormont, where power should be shared between nationalists and eunice, the democratic unionist party, the d u. p. walked out in protest, a post breakfast trading restrictions more than a year ago. and its leader doesn't show any sign of changing position despite the presidential warning. so it's fight something really when you think about it, the president of the u. s. not any pointing the finger at northern ireland and saying, you know, you need to work harder, especially elected representatives. it's a sort of plan to have venerable all lesson democracies are and how and that requires lecture representatives to take up their responsibilities. people in northern ireland are divided about the u. s. president. many units say his visit is

more like a stop over on his way to the republic of ireland. no walk about for joe biden, because security is so heavy. but that's not the reason for the shortness of the schedule. only 16 hours in northern ireland, and only a brief meeting over coffee with the u. k. prime minister richie soon act downing street said relations with the us. we're good. house firmly denied a claim from a former democratic lewis leader that biden fatally u. k. been that sooner supported biden's views on power sharing. and i think that's incredibly exciting or been growth jobs and prosperity to northern ireland. and i know he shared my ambition to see it's to should say, back up and running, that's what people and businesses and all knowledge dissolved. president biden left for the irish republic. having made it clear, the peace in northern ireland needs bolstering. and that can't happen with political instability. andrew simmons al jazeera belfast

ukraine's president has urged wild leaders to act after a disturbing video, an edge which appears to show a ukrainian soldier being beheaded by russian forces. the miss lensky said the killing would not be forgotten or forgiven, and russian forces would be held responsible for such act channel has more from keith. this footage appears to be children. a mobile phone appeared overnight. it is extremely gruesome to watch in no way fit for broadcast. i must ad we cannot independently verify it, although he's getting an enormous amount of traction on social media. here in ukraine and ukrainian government is certainly treating it as though it is genuine to videos. in point of fact, the 1st appears to show the corpses of 2 ukranian soldiers lying on the ground

beheaded beside a destroyed military vehicle. the 2nd video, much more graphic than that appears to show russian soldiers torturing a ukrainian prisoner of war and then beheading him. and at the moment that the beheading begins using a knife is there are signs that this soldier may, in fact have been alive at that point. as i say, no independent means of verifying this video nor its context, nor the units involved, nor where or when it was shocked. although the lush green foliage, particularly the 2nd video, indicates that it probably took place well before the beginning of winter. last year. ukrainian reaction, as you can probably imagine, has been swift and angry. ukrainian politicians suggested that russia be stripped of its presidency of the un security council, another the foreign minister dmitri labor, likening russia to the stomach state and the coast presidency. lensky has made

a video statement, which he called on every world leader to react that he said, don't expect this to be forgotten. we are not going to forget, here's what he had to say. is something that no one in the world can ignore how easily these beasts kill this video. the execution of the ukrainian captive, the world must see it. there are no people for them. a son, a brother, husband, someone's child. this is video of russia trying to make this a new norm, such a habit of destroying life has also been international reaction. here in ukraine, the un mission says it's a polled by the video. and the european union says, if confirmed this, these images are yet another brutal reminder about the inhumane nature of russian aggression. you reiterating its commitment to holding all perpetrators and

accomplices of war crimes to account the criminal says the footage is horrible, but needs to be verified. dosage. barry has more on the reaction from moscow. well, according to the kremlin spokesperson, dmitri prescott, that this with his does need to be verified, but he did call it appalling and very disturbing. this is the only reaction we've had so far from any of the officials here in moscow. but of course this is not the 1st time that the russian military has been accused of carrying out the legit war crimes. during this conflict, the main one being that the events that took place in the town of boucher last march there was a lot of evidence. the ukrainian government claimed that the russian military carried out what they believe to be war crimes. and the russians for their part said that the footage was altered and edited to create the illusion that those crimes were committed by the russian military. but for the time being, during,

for this latest video that surfaced, the officials are waiting to see when it can be verified. before they comment any further, he crane's military has rejected russia's claim to have captured more than 80 percent of the city of back moot. ukrainian soldiers posted this video to social media walking in the streets of back route on wednesday. the head of russia's wagner mercenary group has said his forces were advancing in their bid to seize the city. after months of fighting back looters in the eastern denette screeching. a small city has seen some. the fierce is fighting in the conflict with thousands of soldiers killed, rushes up, a house of parliament as approved a controversial bill to create a digital draft system that could band men from leaving the country. senators, back the bill after parliament lower house, the state duma passed the legislation on tuesday. existing rules required military service notices to be delivered in person, and many russians avoided the draft by moving away from their recorded addresses.

criminal critics say the bill will greatly facilitate the mobilization of men to fight in ukraine. ukraine's defense minister says the alleged pentagon document leaks contain a mixture of true and false information about his country's military. dozens of files were found circulating on social media last week. will eskew ethnic off believes the leaks are a deliberate attempt to so discord among heaves allies, suzuki. as for the leak, it was certainly unpleasant to hear things like that. but i carefully reviewed information which was available publicly. there was a lot of information there which does not correspond with reality. so it's a mix of truth and untruths. therefore, i assume it was done deliberately. i call it a special information, psychological operation, gardener. she returns his life for us in washington, dc. she have what, what's in the latest leaks? well, just, just to remind everyone, these appear to be daily updates to the joint military chiefs of staff, the,

you know, the military leadership in the us. that's why there's a breath of, of topics and regions and countries that are coming up. reuters says it's exclusively going towns on, on a new document which says that serbia agreed to supply alms to ukraine, despite professing neutrality on the, on the conflict and refusing to sanction russia for the foot for the invasion. say that that's rather expensive if true. but again, these are the assessments, off allegedly, the assessments allegedly off the pentagon as to the state of play when it comes to supplying alms to ukraine. the b, b. c says it's going to hands on on document which shows, which suggests extensive spying and un headquarters. to be honest, we know about goes on because we have the wiki link, state department cables and 2010 at which from edward snowden. which sure there was extensive spying. whether you as a complete flouting of the vienna convention at un headquarters. you name people would be like you taking dna of diplomats glasses and things like that. so they're

surprised that the u. s. a spying of the un. but it is where this is always very embarrassing when it comes out, i guess. and it seems that monitoring antonio gutierrez, the secretary journals, personal conversations and private communications. so i'm telling you got her as, according to this later stripes, the u. s. field, he's to accommodating to the russians. specifically, as he was trying to shepherd through the black fi grain deal, that was the deal that ensured that ukrainian grain fertilizer fuel could make it to, to the actual markets and low prices for supply chains. and the u. s. went terribly happy. they said that maybe gutierrez was, was, was to accommodating to the russians on that. then there is a private conversation between gutierrez and his deputy amena mohammed where gutierrez apparently express his dismay at a call from the commission president to produce more weapons and ammunition for the war in ukraine, which is interesting. and then the deputy, i mean i'm

a 100 also talks about a recent summit of african leaders apparently and says that she feels that can use president william router is ruthless and she doesn't trust him. and not are any further clues as to who licked him. no, i mean this is the big question. there are clues in the actual screen grabs and pictures of some of the documents that whether there is a red herrings or not, we don't know, we'd have the department of justice in the u. s. as an investigation underway, and at the defense secretary lloyd austin said that every rock will be turned over to find the source of the leaks. but, you know, kelly, this is doing a lot of us probably a lot of people. so maybe the americans were leaking as opposed to both of the case, but ukraine needs more weapons. but now it's pretty clear that no, i'm happy about these leaks. and in fact, lincoln teddy think of a secretary of state defense, actually austin, of apparently been on the phone calling anger, i think was the phrase that was used in capitals around the world because it's so clear that you know,

the extent of us spying again. we're not surprised by that. again, from wiki leaks, edward snowden, we know the national security agency routinely spies on world leaders. everyone else. memorably bugging angular eccles cell phone a few years ago, but still it's always been embarrassing. i feel for the us, even though everyone kind of knows it's happening, she have a chance to thank you very much. indeed. our student has admitted that it carried out an asteroid that killed more than a 100 people. on tuesday. the military said the dead were fighters from the people's defense force and adjustment military target. spokesman of the attack on a village of procedure was aimed at restoring peace and stability in the sunshine region. the story train reports evidence from the scenes just most of those killed were civilians. many of them children, and a warning. his report contains disturbing images to people shelter in a ditch. the sound of heavy caliber gunfire could be heard in the distance. the sound of an army firing on its own people,

government and the frank admission from the spokesman for the military government. whether on state tv there you want, where, where would a howl? oh, go on your back. yes, of course we launched the attack on them. we were informed that pdf were killed at the event under the attack. they are opposing our government. we met major generals armen, 2 and 3 weeks ago in the capital ne p door, and asked him about similar tags that have killed scores of civilians. he answered then as he does now, these are legitimate military targets and those killed a competence. but new and distressing footage from the aftermath of the attack shows bodies that are clearly those of children. as corpses are removed from the area, the death toll has risen to more than 100 people, the highest number killed in a single event since the cou. a final number of those who died may never be known because of the severity of the attack. al jazeera asked the exiled unity government,

whether this is likely to stop armed groups fighting. she against the gentle, general dalai. we started our revolution with basic hunting rifles. so this is an unfair fight in many ways. but the military's weakness is that they don't have the manpower and is no support from the people. targeted sanctions from the u. s. in u. k, to try and cut off supplies of fuel from mere mas air force seems to be having little effect on the military government appears set on a scorched earth policy. over tony chang al jazeera, bangkok, still to come this half hour, the u. n. meets to discuss, wrapping up it's peacekeeping in molly as an integer, to increasingly attend to russia's wagner. and how severe drought in colorado river reservoir could force water comes on several americans days. ah.

after unusually stormy wednesday in the british isles is expanding system of throne . it's weather right across western europe, so that's the overall picture. not exactly a settled spring like view quite clearly with wind and rain. no little less, but the rain is showing itself in france with snow showing the pyrenees throughout the alps and stretching into western austria is all this area that was enjoying spring like weather is now not quite so enjoyable and it prompts this stuff, which is also fairly wintry turkey in particular to go further east as well. so we leave a gap that have slowly warming stuff in the balkans, western turkey and greece with rain still showing up in armenia and georgia and a good part of ukraine as well. with stormy weather, near vulgar crowds, you can see but of our 10 year forward to friday,

the the procession continues and we go backwards in sarajevo 12 degrees in the rain, 6 degrees in vienna, that's only briefly caused by v anywhere else. now, in the mountains, they were back up to 14 as a rain study clears for the weekend. in north africa, winds been the thing. it's seasonal. and it's producing dust everywhere, of course, in the sa help opposing it is the rain trying to go further north in togo. and galahad nigeria, ah, we are all mom. i'm not a problem. we have a rest is a problem. when a manchester based check born, lori driver decides to take to the internet to tackle racism. he quickly becomes a significant figure in the fight for the rights of roma. people giving a voice to those least her and launching a charity for those most in need. pongo,

calling a witness documentary on al jazeera. ah ah, minor tops, or is he on our 0? huge crowd, so stood in the rain to greet joe biden as he begins a 3 day visit to the republic of ireland. the u. s. president travelled south after a short trip to northern ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday peace agreement. ukraine's president has urged world leaders to act after disturbing video emerged, which appears to show a ukrainian soldier being beheaded by russian forces. or ms events. he said, the killing would not be forgotten and forgiven. and the master inter submitted it

carried out an ass, tried to kill more than a 100 people on tuesday. some of them children, amenities of the dead were fighters from the people's defense force and an adjustment military target. the 1st 3 months of a year, if seen a surgeon, people trying to reach the european union across the mediterranean according to the un 3 times as many people made the dangerous journey in the 1st quarter. 2023, compared to the same period last year. over all the u agency from tex reported 54000 irregular crossings by all routes into the block. the un migration agency says it documented 441 migrant deaths on the central mediterranean route between january and march, making the deadliest 1st quarter on record in 6 years. when is your official? certainly 10 people have died. ultra boat carrying migrants sank off the country's coast. all 30 people were still missing. a while in italy, hundreds of people have disembarked in the sicilian fort of katana, a 700 migrants who were on board. a rusting old boat became stuck at sea when they

run out of fuel. the u. n says delays in government lead reset, search rescue operations accosting lives. italy's government has announced a state of emergency due to the sharp rise in people crossing the mediterranean as often called you ends deadliest peacekeeping operation. and now the future of the mission in molly has been discussed at the security council, germany and britain as well as neighboring i re coast or among several nations to announce withdrawal plans and with violence getting worse. marley's military government is increasingly turning to russia's wagner group. nicholas hacker pals strung together in haste. this makeshift camp lies on the outskirts of molly's capital by miko. it's been built by people who have recently fled violence, sweeping the country among them. fed to me at the quantity, she says, when maryan soldiers marched into her village, she thought she would be safe, but instead they killed her husband. she then describes

a wave of attacks carried out by fighters linked to al qaeda and government back militias. she says, a un peacekeeping force base not far away, but has never come to protect the people in her village. i came here because it's no longer safe in my village. there's so much uncertainty and the un soldiers, they just come after the battle. look at what has happened and then leave again. un peacekeeping troops, mostly from african nations, are stationed in molly. after french troops intervened to stop armed groups from invading the country. in 2013, costing nearly $1000000000.00 a year. and with more than 180 soldiers killed, it's the most expensive peacekeeping operation carried out by the u. n. in terms of money and the lives of its personnel. the un peacekeeping mission, also known as the newsman, as it has the mandate to protect the population, ensure the peace agreement is respected and assist molly and authorities, and building reconciliation. in an interview with al jazeera, molly's prime minister says, the mission is not delivering on its mandate to protect the population. that won't

laguna to international end to renew my li, unless it is only shown. then 1000 w. demetrius to 1000000 company is simply metro fair and i get debt. good luck or did there is a little and then as soon as the new chinese did keys open, when you get the food lab 11 exist, let me enter a new movie. the new will lead judy must dare this you to it will be read to you. forces from several european countries have left the un mission. after molly's june to hired russian mercenaries from the wagner group to support its own troops, un independent human rights experts accuse fighters from wagner, of carrying out extrajudicial killings and torturing people in molly they are meant to protect. and so the un security council is meeting to discuss the future of the

mission. at stake is the fate of a people seemingly alone and vulnerable in the face of mounting violence. nicholas hawk al jazeera. the vitamin administration has proposed water count since several american states to stop the colorado river's reservoir, dropping to critical levels. its source is in the rocky mountains. 7 new estates rely on the river for they watch supplies, as well as areas in the north west of mexico. reynolds reports from los angeles. 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 void with, you know, water river 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 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 are 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 administration 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 water. phase sure cuts more additional out here in the western united states. we've seen extreme rainfall over the past several months, but scientists say one wet 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, denise congress has passed a bill to reduce working hours from 45 to 40 a week. as seen by many as a win for the government and the step forward for workers rights. felix now are the pros. oh,

a breakthrough in she lays congress for 6 years. politicians, i've been debating whether to reduce the length of the working week. this was the moment many who argued for that change had been waiting for him on money for that and i get annually. we want to express great joy because we've shown that it's possible to advance towards a better quality of life for the workers of our country. here, 127 out of 155 members of congress voted in favor of cutting working hours in chile. it now joins ecuador introducing the working week to 40 hours. 14 voted against say, a shorter work week. we damage small businesses. if dorsey look at a worker more to this is much easier for large companies who can adapt working hours, but is harmful for smaller than me to mentor prizes for the struggling to survive in this economy. crisis president gabriella breach came to power last year,

promising social and economic reforms ha, but his approval ratings have plummeted. as the economies worsened and inflation has risen to nearly 12 percent, a new constitution he championed last year, was widely rejected for his administration. the passing of this legislation is a much needed when walkers, in the capital santiago, welcome to the changes of them. we're going to get the money and it's good because people have more time for the family. and with today's wages, people can find another source of income. so it's not bad. latin america has some of the longest working hours in the world. but chili's government says it's possible to improve productivity and the quality of people's lives. and many are watching to see if other nations in the region start to agree fedex nora al jazeera .