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chelsea to look at the been a bit. ah, despite driving wind and rain, large crowds have turned out to welcome you as president joe biden. as he begins, a 3 day nostalgia tour of ireland are in town, and dundalk button responded enthusiastically to those waiting to see him taking selfies and speaking to many is in the region to visit his ancestral route. earlier he was given a tour of calling for the castle by irish deputy prime minister. me how martin the us president travelled south after a brief trip to northern ireland to mount the 25th anniversary of the good friday peace agreement for brandon has more from country laugh. it's been a super warm welcome for president joe biden and dundalk, despite cold on wet weather conditions for most of the day. this county county

allowed one branch of his ancestral home the finnegan's off from here before they left america in the 1814, he stopped for an extended period in the center of town, stopping at a gift shop which doubles up as a restaurants and also a delicatessen. and the whole town has been festooned with stars and stripes. flags from lamp posts, from window sills. and you can hear the chairs as the presidential homeboy goes early. this just the 1st day of president barton's trip had to sell on the island. he will take the boxes on both the diplomatic. i'm a personal with this trip and the people check open for a glimpse. i'm not sure how much attention catch you through those very darkened windows, but the excitement is very much present. now let's talk to some of the people that room standing here in the crowd with me for so long during this, after that,

the o'reilly family, i've been my companions for most of the afternoon, brita riley high. i while he's, he's passed us thought we waited a long, sorry wait on time, but it was really where says what, what does it mean to you as a dundalk residence to have the president coming here? i think it's a great honor and i think it some tasks attain. it's a great opportunity in raising really raises the profile design in terms of like terrorism. but i'll take novice development and investment here in the future, like in the past the time that's i kind of bit of a like a bad reputation time. so it's really like shown that like ad to pick to sign a very positive like that's really brilliant for design and given i would be such a base that deposit of faith. he didn't rush, did he hung around for quite a long time. he really got to know that, okay it's, it's a fantastic and it's printing from the businesses. wow. you know, to get that publicity in brilliance, you know, assessment task and thank you very much. it's been a long way now. i'm also going to spin around as well. jenny duffy, you are. that's an all that previous visits you were here when bill clinton was

here in the year 2000. and when you compare and contrast this one with that one. and i like clinton's on this one. he set up a little bit longer up there where she had to stop in here. but you know, we're still here and it was good for. does it mean to have the u. s. president and come here to them. doctor counselor just means that i am at mean does. good goodness for the dog. yeah. puts on dog on the map again for good purposes. the private, his family heritage is from this part of the well yeah. it is it, it means a law public to the people off came to load just the 2nd time in our president has been done on county laid so it's really good. thank you very much and if it's okay, i going to say i was running for all of the afternoon and then just as you're bob and began his walk about, the skies cleared and the rain stopped and they call out the luck of the irish ho brandon al jazeera dundalk,

earlier barton was in belfast to mount the 25th anniversary of the good friday peace agreement deal and it's 30 is a violence. it breaks it has threatened that peace, placing a trade border between northern ireland and the rest of the u. k. under simmons reports from belfast, joe biden had 2 main messages in belfast. congratulations on a deal. it's given a quarter of a century of peace and a warning that no volunteer future is dependent on restoring it to both power sharing. at a major new campus host, 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 that i believe democratic institutions establish the good friday agreement. rank critical for the future of northern iowa. are government that works to find ways to heart problems together. gonna draw even greater opportunities this richard for hope. the assembly and the executor will soon be restored as

a judgement for you to make that made. 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 only pointing the finger at northern ireland and saying in a ye, me to work harder, especially elected representatives, but just sort of point out how vulnerable all lesson democracies are. and how and that requires lightship census, to take up their responsibilities. people in northern ireland are divided about the u. s. president. many union this se 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 shed. you're 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 were good. a white house firmly denied a claim from a former democratic lewis leader biden. the u. k. invest 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 the institutions here back up and running. that's what people and businesses and all knowledge deserve. 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, coming up on the news hour from london. and the russian bill that could ban men from leaving the country and make it far easier to be called up to fight in ukraine . hundreds of migrants this embark in

a sicilian port after being stranded at sea when their boat run out of fuel. antonio midville of marches on and monte carlo. that's on the way with peter support. the 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. from ms. lewinsky, that the killing would not be forgotten or forgiven. and russian forces would be held responsible for soundtracks. the criminal says the footage is horrible, but needs to be verified. journal has morphin keith. this footage appears to be children. a mobile phone appeared overnight. it is extremely gruesome to watch. in no way fit for broadcasts, 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. the 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 coo labor likening russia to the stomach state . and of course, president landscape 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 killed 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. ukraine's military has rejected russia's claim to have captured more than 80 percent of the city of the moot ukrainian soldiers posted this video to social media walking in the streets of buttonwood. on wednesday, the head of russia's wagner, mastery group had said his forces were advancing in their bid to seize the city. after months of fighting, a route is in the eastern net region. a small city has seen some of the faces fighting in the conflict with thousands of soldiers killed. russia's upper house apartment is approved a controversial bill to create a digital draft system which has stopped men from leaving the country. sentences back the bill after the lower house passed it on tuesday. the criminal critic said

bill will greatly facilitate the mobilization of men to fight in ukraine. toaster bury has more from moscow would consider us a new cheese. 163 members of russia's upper house agreed to pass the law, making it easier for men to be enlisted into the military. you know, the kremlin says they will and chaos your periods of recruitment. like some reported recently at the facilities like this, people have to report here after receiving the notice from the defense ministry. russian men between the ages of $18.27 are obliged to serve a year in the military. under the new law, which needs to be signed by president where we are putting a new federal digital database will expedite the process and those in it will not be allowed to leave. the country men will have 20 days to report to their local and listening offices in their regions. if they don't, there will be severe penalties. those include not being able to rent property, get

a loan or credit card from the bank, nor to be able to buy a car or even get a marriage certificate. when you restrictions that only one politician who voted against the law and you got says are unconstitutional. mirror caterina, probably not the measure and restricting, right? so not consistent with existing law is to say nothing of constitutional law. the penalty for not receiving it for objective reasons is inadequate. let's not lie. we all understand what this lower is aimed at. the problem. a sentiment shared by many who will be affected here in taking this person to come. freedom is being restricted to me if someone of conscription age, this is bad in our country right now. there are 2 options, either prison or walking, either you go and fight and die for someone else's cause or you sit in prison, blah. you know, i think it's a strange solution. unexpected, distrusting. it's not clear how it'll work the most the most. i think electronic summons of a strange thing. you may not see this notification and have problems. i don't know

how to fight this. currently, those doing their mandatory military service or not called to the front lines in ukraine. the defense ministry says it's using contract soldiers. there, the timing of the passing of this bill is also significant, as the military is preparing to launch its annual spring recruitment. dr. rest of december, the kremlin announced that they're going to mobilize reservists that turned out that the russian system of mobilization is not really working. they don't know where their reserve is, start the system is not dysfunctional. so this is an attempt to make it more functional. according to the defense ministry, 147000 men will be called to do their military service this year. and now they will have little choice but to report for duty or face the consequences. doors the jabari al jazeera, moscow ukraine defense minister says the alleged pentagon document li, contain

a mixture of true and false information about his country's military. thousands of files were found circulating on social media last week or next he resnick off believes the leaks are deliberate, attempt to so discord among keeps eyes sure, so suitable as for the lake, it was certainly unpleasant to hear things like that. but i carefully reviewed information which was available publicly. there is a lot of information there which does not correspond with reality. so it's a mix of truth and untruths. therefore, i assure that was done deliberately. i call it a special information psychological operation. la documents contain alleged details of ukraine's plan to spring offensive to retake russian occupied territory. alexey resnick offset, he believed their attempt to so discord, as we said, among their allies, while russian officials say they believe the trove might be fake and a deliberate attempt to mislead moscow. the documents also alleged that a number of countries have military special forces operating inside ukraine with as

many as 50 or half of them coming from the u. k, between february and march this year. and washington post has obtained access to another document alleging that egypt plan to supply russia with around $40000.00 rockets in secret. elizabeth rose a senior fellow in foreign and defense policy at the american enterprise institute . it owns his life. thanks very much for being with us. so the some doubt about the, the varsity of some of these leaks. but in, in general, what you think you think these are significant nice, they are not a significant, they're extremely damaging. and what we've heard from, from american intelligence officials, former intelligence officials, is that they seem to be genuine. but where with some a, some, her fortress or alterations to them, which makes it even worse of ross the general public. because we have no way of knowing of what is true and what is not true. and,

but what we do know is that somebody with access to top secrets materials has decided to, to share those materials with the world, which is what happens when you take them out. not, don't just share that with one contact but, but put them in, in cyberspace. what, what do you think of implications? are some the allies of the u. s. appearing to work against, mentioned egypt. and also you e. that is a very troubling discovery or, or finding in these documents if they turn out to be accurate. so what is happening now at the moment has been happening for the past few months, is that it will this splitting into 2 camps. one is led by the west, one led by china with russia. the junior partner and countries doesn't have to choose. and the west is obviously keen for the u. e in egypt to be part of its cam . and these countries are part of the western camp in some ways. and now it turns

out that it's that, that, and he just is apparently not as deep as the west wood or hope. because if you supply russia with weapons, it really indicates a verity her allegiance to russia, and that is extremely troubling. and not just for the crane is what it means for the war, but also what it means for, for the world as, as, as the way it's not letting out how much you mentioned that the damage is leak. so could cause it about you create in particular and how much they seem to be at risk from some of the information that's in the so when you get information, as, as we have now received these links, saying that, that ukraine's defense is pretty vulnerable and needs you create needs a lot more weaponry. that is obviously not something that you asked you praying would want to have out in the public domain. obviously the ukrainians have been making the case for continued and increased weapons deliveries from the west. but they don't want to understand to be they don't want to be seen as, as being in

a week position. and the problem is that if you're seen as being in a week position than western allies and in the, the public in the west mesa what's, what's the point where we deliver, deliver so bosh weaponry and, and they still don't have a bible chance of, of defeating the russian, so should we keep going in that is i think the real damage to do to the ukrainians from this lake. and what about the claims of special forces from the west operation of the moment in ukraine? that is a very curious piece of information and again, if it's true it's, it puts the conflict in the new lives. but equally, it, we have no way we as the public, with our security clearance to access these documents. we have no way of knowing whether it's true, but now it's out there. and people will conspiracy theorists and ordinary citizens will make up their own theories about the presence of western troops and special forces operate just in ukraine. and that's incredibly damaging that because it was

less than come to subset is we, we supply ukraine with weapons, but we are not an active participant in this war ourselves. thank you very much indeed. and as a pro, thank you for your time or somebody to documents appear to show that south korea reached a deal with washington to supply weapons for ukraine leaks. and could private conversations between senior south korean officials and robert bride explains. that's causing outraging. so 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 over dr. 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 leaked documents are false, even 0 and many of the disclose documents are fabricated. and joint assessments are

consistent with each other. but the government hasn't said if it believes the documents relating to south korea are fake or genuine. they proportionately 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 korean officials are related 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 eavesdropping. and that you guess how she is. i mean, we believe that if it's true, it would be very disappointing situation that damages the trust base alliance between korea and the us. it also led to questions about how the security conscious administration of president you and sic yo,

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 on prepared li move out of that long established for a job off his and move to this current a former military had headquarters. so the oper oper party has criticized. among many other reasons, the security issues. it's a little bit more embarrassing coming just 2 weeks before a 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 midnight june turns 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 the gentlemen military target. as spokesman said, the attack on the vintage of procedure was aimed at restoring peace and stability in these again region. but as tony chang report evidence from the scene suggest, most of those killed were civilians. many of them children and a warning and report contains disturbing images to people shelter in a ditch. the sound of heavy caliber gunfire can be heard in the distance. the sound of an army firing on its own people, government and the frank admission from the spokesmen for the military government on state tv. don't waste with our bio. yes, of course we launched the attack on them. we were informed that pdf will kill that event under the attack. they are opposing our government. we met major general zalman turn 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. here 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 against the gender, general dollar e. 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 us 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. it appears set on a scorched earth policy. oh, tony cheng l to 0, bangkok. serious foreign min says, visiting saudi arabia for the 1st time since the war began in his country in 2011 is being seen as a major step towards ending damascus. his regional isolation, fossil night. dad was greeted by saudi foreign minister, prince fossil in for had in, engender in a joint statement. they welcomed starter procedures to resume canstio services and flights between the 2 countries. they also discussed the steps needed to achieve a comprehensive political solution to the syrian crisis. we ad supported the syrian opposition, a start of the complaint, a ties with the government to have improved in recent months as a busy week for saudi diplomacy. and iranian delegation has also arrived in riyadh to discuss reopening embassy and constantly general. the countries are renewing ties after they were 77 years ago. it comes days after

a saudi delegation visited iran capital the 1st 3 months of the year seen a surgeon, people trying to reach the european union across the mediterranean, according to the u. n. 3 times, as many people made the dangerous journey in the 1st quarter of 2023 compared to the same period last year. overall, you agency front tech's reported 54000 irregular crossings. fire all route into the block. you and migration agency says it documented 441 migrant deaths on the central mediterranean route between january and march, making it the deadliest 1st quarter on record in 6 years into the official said, these 10 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sign coffee countries coast was a 30 people were still missing. mean want in italy, hundreds of people have disembarked in the sicilian fort of catania, 700 migrants who own border rusting old boat became stuck at sea when they ran out

a few. un says delays in government lead search and rescue operations accosting lives. italy's government is now the state of emergency due to the sharp rise in people crossing the mediterranean of us in the quill of any body. and the most important part is the one concerning medical testing that we have performing with medical stuff. we are taking care of those who are sick. let me work on where to host them. we distribute shoes and food late to transfer the people to the hub where we hope they will have to wait as little as possible before they relocate to the coffee, to leave with us. more still to come this out, the u. n. meeting to discuss, wrapping up it's peacekeeping in molly as the message on to increasingly tends to rushes. wagner grid, how severe drought in colorado river reservoir could force water cuts on several american states and abroad. james leaves the la lakers in the n. b a. playoffs show you how they did it in sport

ah, after unusually stormy wednesday in the british isles is expanding system of thrown it's weather right across western europe. so that's the overall picture. not exactly 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's 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 our media and georgia and a good part of ukraine as well. with stormy weather near valley across you can see

. but if i take your for to friday, the, the procession continues and we go backwards in sarajevo 12 degrees in the rain, 6 degrees in vienna that only briefly caused v anywhere snow from the mountains. they were back up to 14 as a rain study clears. for the weekend, in north africa winds been the sing, 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 chicago, and garner and nigeria coveted beyond well taken without hesitation, brought and died for power defines our, well, we live here, we make the rule, not them. they find an enemy and then they try and scare the people with people and power investigators exposed is and questions they use them to be used of our around

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top stories, yoga 0, huge crowds have stood in the rain to greet joe biden as he begins a 3 day visit to the republic of ireland. u. s. president travelled south after a short trip to northern ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday peace agreement. min mazda inter has admitted it, carried out an ass strike that killed 100 people on tuesday. some of them children . the military said the dead fought dead, were fighters from the people's defense force, and a legitimate military target. and ukraine's president has urged world leaders to act after a disturbing video emerged which appears to show a ukrainian soldier being beheaded by russian forces. residents. he said the killing would not be forgotten or forgiven. ukraine's president has also appealed to the i. m. f and world bank to confiscate russian central bank assets held around the world to help rebuild his country. he was addressing this spring meetings,

be international monetary fund in washington dc. hydro castro is there. a hardy ukraine is also asking for a financial help. that's right, and it appears that president zalinski was met with a receptive audience to be i'm managing director said that you cranes endurance in withstanding rushes, invasion and holding up if the economy has been in her words remarkable. she called it a victory of civility over evil. but even given that praise, in reality, ukraine's economy has contracted 30 per cent since russia's invasion began. and that was president lindsey's message to the assembled finance ministers in this round table today saying that ukraine still need more help in particular, it needs 14000000000 dollars. within the next few months, he says to meet ukrainian people, basic humanitarian meet ukraine's prime minister was attendance in attendance in

person. he thinks the m f, the us and other contributing nations. but again, said that as this war continues, some more ukraine will need to depend on the international community to weather the storm and how the china has been high on the agenda, there seems to be been some disagreement between france in the u. s. over what approach to take right now, this was downplayed by the franz finance minister who was in attendance today. he told price on the sidelines of the, the meetings that indeed franz does want to pursue an independent policy pass on china. and that was in defense of the french president's a recent remarks, basically same the same, saying that the, you should be less dependent on the united states. and that should not be drawn into a conflict over tie one. now the french finance minister said that the backlash that those comments were met with was overblown. because at mac,

ron has for years been advocating for the same less dependence on the u. s. i that france wants to engage more so with china and fact that is why he went to china on a state visit recently. but the finance minister said that this still means franz is a strong ally of the us. and in fact, my crohn consulted with you as president joe biden before visiting they jane, and that france agrees with the us that china should and demands that china should deescalate its military activities around taiwan. how does your castro thank you very much indeed. you, inspector general, has warned, of famine is looming in somalia as it faces its worst drought and decades. antonio turkish urged the international community to act to prevent a catastrophe. as he wrapped up a trip to the country, about $43000.00 somalis died from a drought last year, half of them under the age of 5. catherine short reports from margaret issue,

un secretary general, spent 2 days in somalia to put more pressure on the international community to save millions of people facing balance and drought. 5 rainy season half fails in the home of africa, somalia is the most affected. more than 40000 people have died in the last one and a half years ago. many more have been forced to leave their homes. good terrorist called for much needed humanitarian support. the u. n. needs $2600000000.00, but only 15 percent donna finding has been met. the media challenge is of course, to make sure that we avoid famine again in 2020 so to the city. and that is of course, the extremely important priority. but we cannot go on and on and on just provide the new military losses we model, we must address the root cause. so we must put to save urgency in the measures

needed to build resilience of the communities. the city of pi door is body hate. many somalis are coming here from different areas, but help in the camps is limited by some are also fling conflict as a government carries out an offensive against the armed group culture. bob, president hoss and shake muhammad sees his government is winning the war. at the moment, do we work together with other international partners? this the blows issue program of the pools. i'll shop up or delivery to areas. this will look to the, to increase critical investment. and this areas, as these people, as our citizens, has been denied the accessibility of students. so services for more time the army has taken back important areas held by the group for many years. also,

bob is still able to carry out attacks and scare people with harris visit shows a glimpse of how unflagging things are here. mogadishu was partially locked down, major rooms were closed and no one was taking chances. security has been disturbed in many parts of this city. we have been speaking to a government forces who said that the aim is to keep people safe, especially now during the holy month of ramadan and sat in t is now part of everyday life. for many somalis, catherine soy, all to sera, well, good issue, somalia. it's often called a u n's deadliest peacekeeping operation. and our security council has been discussing the future of the mission. in molly several nations of announced withdraw plans including germany, britain, and ivory coast. and with violence getting worse marley's military government is

increasingly turning to russia's wagner group on to for to get to james bass has more new and headquarters in new york. the security situation in marley remains dire with the number of deaths reported by the un rising greatly in the last year. almost a decade ago. this was the ceremony. when peacekeepers from the un mission of announcement started their work, but 10 years on maneuver is struggling efforts to reach a peace deal with groups of failed constitutional referendum to the nation back on a path to democracy was due to be held last month, but has been postponed, france, which had its own force in molly pulled out whole of its troops. and in the last year sweden, the u. k. and jordan, all removed the peacekeepers from the u. n. force. germany has said its troops will stay, but only for one more year. the un secretary general antonio terrace has laid out 3

radical options for the security council to beef up the mission with thousands more trips. secondly, to close some bases, reducing the footprint of the mission, or the most extreme option of all. pull out all the peacekeepers. what would it mean for molly? if the un troops pulled out, i believe that that would lead to a rapid deterioration of the security situation. it will effectively dance. we could already seen areas where we are not able to operate where they might not me, don't operate the level of violence against the depth is extremely high, and it's triggering huge displacement. so that could be replicated elsewhere. it might take a completely different scope and it would also have serious consequences for the region right now. it's not clear which of the sectors general's options the security council would choose, but there are real divisions, particularly on human rights. western nations accuse russian mercenaries from the wagner group, which was invited in by the government to molly. of carrying out widespread abuses

. james bay's al jazeera of the united nations. the 2nd of 2 black lawmakers has been reinstated to the tennessee state legislature following a vote in memphis. justin pierson was expelled last week alongside justin jones voted out by republicans over their participation in a peaceful protest against gun violence. demonstrations followed a school shooting in nashville, but left 3 children and 3 adults dead. a 3rd lawmaker who was white, participated in the protest as well. it was not removed, leading to accusations of racism. the biden administration has proposed water cups in 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 their water supplies, as well as areas in the northwest of mexico. of 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 was you know, water. busy river, available to flow in the river to serve nearly $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 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. the bite administration proposes equal across the board cuts for each of the 7 states and 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 in the 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, colorado rivers supply runs as far as mexico and will have an effect there as well . john holman, report, you just seen him. rob's report about the river, colorado, and the problems that it's going through in the united states about same river in so runs across the border and through northwest mexico. and they used to be thousands of cubic meters of water doing just that. but when you fast forward for more than a century of dams and canals on the us side, turning parts there into agricultural hot lands and agreements between the u. s. and mexico. there is no longer those thousands of cubic meters of water. to the extent that now it does leave, or most of the time arrived to the sea of cortez. and with that much of the delta

there in mexico is also gone and the wild life and the plant life that went with it . but there is a 944 treaty between the u. s. or mexico, that guaranteed this country a certain amount of water that's mostly stopped at the very last time. and then administered between farm lines and between different cities. but subsequent agreements between the united states and mexico meant the when there's cuts in the united states and scarcity in the united states. and there can also be cuts made to mexico's water supply. so this country is going to be looking at the situation right now. perhaps a little bit nervously. at least 9 people have been killed in a major attack on a port in northern ecuador, close to the border with columbia. at please say it about 30 attackers arrived in the city of esmerelda us in boats and vehicles. then opened fire and fishermen, traders and workers at a port warehouse and surveillance, which each captured the attackers. opening fire then fleeing the scene. the

interior minister said this had happened because the fisherman preferred the security of one criminal organization and were targeted by another edition, as protests, as in southwestern columbia have kidnapped 16 soldiers after they tried to arrest a community member. the army says the soldiers were surrounded by around 700 people who stopped them from arresting the man. it was wanted for homicide and possession of firearms. indigenous people in the region accused the authorities of miss treatment. when a man's family claim, it was a case of mistaken identity. a hippopotamus that was descended from animals illegally brought to columbia by pablo escobar as dined after a collision with an s u. v. please say the vehicles occupants were unharmed in the accident in the north west, on a highway from return to madeline. there now more than a 100 hippos, that have spread around the area of the late drug lords, hacienda. they have no natural predators in the country. and have been labeled, an invasive species. every new york city met has battled rats.

but for man era count eric adams, the war and rats has become his focus. we are just really happy today to say are that we have bout our rags all. and she is focused on wednesday, adams appointed the city's 1st director of rodent mitigation, also known as new york's rats. all catherine karate, previously worked on a rodent mitigation of the cities department of education. we need system wide solutions, strong leadership, and an engaged population to join the efforts. that's where i come in as new york city's 1st director of road mitigation. i will bring a science and systems based approach to reducing new york city's rap population. with a strong focus on cutting off the food, water and shelter,

rats need to survive. all of us a want to improve the quality it is expressive enough to live in a city with our families and children. we don't meet outside tenants like rats in our home to arise in us every day. still had this news out o celebrations in chile were off to 6 years of debate. congress is voted to cut the working week from 45 hours to 40 and is a bad day for a 3 time grand slam tennis champion in monte carlo. peter will be here with the action in sport. ah.

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ah, chinese congress has passed a bill to reduce working hours from 45 to 40 a week. it seemed by many as a wind for the government and a step for it for workers' rights. alex, no our report. 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. who now get on a league, 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 is 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 a small businesses. if dorsey look at our work, your more to this is much easier for large companies who can adapt working hours, but is harmful for smaller medium enterprises for struggling to survive in this economy. crisis president, gabriella burridge 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 gonna give them a him, it's good because people have more time for the family and with to days where just

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 for alex nora al jazeera or as peter in the sport. lauren, thank you very much. spanish super club rail madrid hold the advantage of a chelsea in their champ ensly caught a final tie after a to know when the 14 time european champions made full use of playing at home at the burnaby in the 1st leg against the english side. her him, benjamin scored after 20 minutes to put carlo, enter latino men in front, and then in the 74th minutes lead was doubled. marco a sincere left foot, sending the ball into the back of the net shelter will host the 2nd leg at stanford bridge. next, ah,

ac milan, we're also winners at home by $1.00 against napoli. milan actually hammered the italian leaders for no just 10 days ago, but it was a much closer fe on this occasion. ishmael benefit with the only goal of the match . each for when things got worse for napoli in the 2nd half, they were reduced to 10 man, but andre shrunk on keesa, received a 2nd yellow card. for that challenge, shot milan have won the champions league 7 times previously, but not since 2007. whereas napoli have never want, at least they will hope to turn things around at home next week. in the 2nd at lake ridge nationalist, the 5 football associations of england, wales, scotland, northern ireland, and the republic of ireland have submitted a bid to host euro 2028. the joint bird committee or promising reco breaking crowds with 3000000 tickets available across the 10 stadiums you

a for has worn though. in the event or more than 2 co hosts, automatic qualification will not be guaranteed for those nations. the winning bid will be decided in september will number 5, daniel medford evers through to the monte carlo masters. 3rd round off to beating italy's lorenzo soniega italian managed to give medford of a workout in the 2nd round, but nothing much more than that. the tournament 3rd seed coming out on top in straight sets 6362, meditative meats, alexander viv, in the last speaking of his very heavy oh became spain's robert about easter, a good. the german getting the job done in straight set 6464. he'll be happy to have also had an hour and 48 minutes on hold with us only his 3rd match back after devastating ankle injury at last years. french open. bad news though for 3 times grand slam champion, stand for brinko. the swiss crashed out of the hands of american taylor fruits of rincon whose rank 90 of these days losing 7662 for fritz. it is his 50th 80 p

masters 1000. when he faces yeti la hitchcock in the last 60 dominique team is also be knocked out the austrian who has been runner up at roland girls twice last out to hold the ruiner of denmark. luna booking these place in the last 16 for the 6264 . when the danish 6th seed plays mateo better team next. meanwhile caspar rude has also made his way into the monte carlo masters 3rd round the norwegian world than before to care of both the funded sun scope of the netherlands. even though to the straits it's, we rude, had to work hard to come out on top $75.00, said. and yet exxon is also 3 to the last 16. the italian took the 1st say it's against diego schwartz from 6 love, $31.00 down in the 2nd, the argentine retired with an injury allowing senate to progress and faces. he did her catch. next. lebron james led the la lakers into the n b a playoffs with

a dramatic come back whenever the minnesota temper wolves. james, top scored with 30 points of the lake, is over 10 to 15 round deficit. to take victory, it was an action packed finished to the game in a schroeder foot 3 point, or with 1.4 seconds left on the top to give the lakers are $9895.00, lead anthony davis then failed. mike conley with 0 point one seconds to play. allowing conley to make 3 free throws to take the game to over time. but it was the lakers who came out on top 108 of 102. they now face the memphis grizzlies in the 1st round of the playoffs. routine the or analytics i say we had a 0.3 chance megan opposing saw. i saw you asked for the chance, i guess, and it was a turn around our season and yours of an opportunity to copy for larry o'brien shall feed us like an actual mr. duffy a playoff game play of atmosphere. playoff intensity refs allowed us to play. i

felt like the playoff, so i was good again to to play off feel of the game. but alex is a different match up there. we have coming this weekend. i with memphis in the eastern conference, the atlanta hawks set up a playoff series against the boston celtics for the 116105 decree of the miami heat . tre young school. 25 points for the hopes by army will have another chance to advance when they faced in plain game between the chicago bulls and the toronto raptors on friday. missus. but in major league baseball, the tampa bay rays of made it 11 straight winds. brandon lau homered for the 4th game in a row to help his side beat the boston red sox 7 to the raise on our 2 victories shy of the all time record. for most winds, the storm season. that's held by 1987 milwaukee brewers and 82 atlanta. great. and in the n h l, the boston bruins of set another record, they 5 to victory over the washington capitals hush. they points total to $133.00. that is the most in a single season. the bruins with one more point than the 97677,

montreal canadians. this latest achievement came one game of the boston set of new winds, re called in the li. lauren: it's back to you in london. h a. thank you very much. need to and just a quick reminder. it was catch up on our website address that is andre zororor dot com a set for me and our intent of 1st news out of here and amendment not more than days like sorting. ah ah. and

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or just the pursuit of endless economic growth has caused the planet as a number of things that threaten our civilization, as we know it as an existential threat. otherwise asked if overhauling entrenched economic systems can help reverse the damage, we must go from degenerative systems to regenerating the living world and meet the businesses balancing the books by making the planet as important as profit. that is a dramatic change for society. are we going to collapse, or are we gonna write business critical on al jazeera, the u. s. is always of interest to people. all right, the world people pay attention to what was on here. and i'll just, he was very good at bringing the news to the world from here. ah .