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ah, i'm 0 venue. this is elsa 0 life from doha. also coming up in the us, the man arrested in connection with the league of top secret pentagon documents officially charged in federal court. long awaited reunions. a prisoner exchange brings hope of an end to the war and yet, and al jazeera exposes a criminal networks, turning dirty cash into golden. southern africa implicates some powerful people, including seen bob waste. first lady. ah, frances constitutional council has given the green light to president a manual macros, controversial pension changes in spite of weeks of protests demanding that the bill be struck down. the rejected the idea of holding

a public referendum on the issue in the reaction. well, it's right there on your screen. these alive pictures in front of city hall in paris. the bill is said to raise the retirement age and franz from $62.00 to $64.00 . so let's go to city hall. natasha butler, standing by there for us. the cash at this was a make or break moment for the president. the last few weeks of the leading up to this day, is it fair to say that he wins on pension reform? i think is fair to say that president about michael has wanted to push through a pension reform since he was supposed to make it in 2017, it is repeated. he said, reforming the pension system is important because the pension system needs to be modernized and also needed to be streamlined to re economically viable and sustainable for future generations. so it is a win win because you have frances constitutional council validates in this more

agreeing to the one of the main and key points made that racism times i turn 62 to 64. so a good day for christ. michael in many respects, but look, this reform has come out a price for the president because he faces perhaps a challenge and through my few months, even a challenging few years. because is, government has alienated a number of law makers in parliament that are unhappy about the way that this law was pushed through force through parliament by degree, by passing debates and empties and also alienated to a large section of the french public. some 2 goes to 3 quarters or french people say that they disagree with this pension. repeat that they believe it is unfair. it has come out of price, even though in the short term. it is of course, a good news. your manual, michael. natasha. we're looking at the live pictures of where you are right now, and people are out in the streets, protesting voice senior discontent. so where do we go from here?

i mean, is this the end of the story? does everybody go home and work to 64? now it doesn't look like it. huh. well, that's a big question. look, we've been speaking to some of the protesters we had gauging their reaction. now do they feel, are they going to continue to protest and come out into the streets more all of them? i said, is, we're not going to stop, we're going to continue to demonstrate against to reform the we feel is deeply unfair. they're unhappy with the way that this recall was pushed through and managed. they all, i'm happy because they feel that the presidents in the government is disconnected. i know i'm not listening to people who have been demonstrating now. let's remember since january week off to wait. there been strikes and demonstrations and people simply feel that they are living in what they have told to ski. they feel it's not democratic in order not to listen to people in the street. so they say, baker and continue to process. but not the reality is some of the last few prioritize. some numbers have gone down slightly and will. so there will be some

who will say, look, now that this bill is going to be assigned to more is there any points of going out to demonstrating perhaps is all over. so is unclear. which way is movement goes, gave natasha butler reporting from city hall. thank you very much. we'll continue to monitor developments now a 21 year old member of the u. s. air force national guard has appeared in a boston federal court jack, the cheryl was charged with the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents and materials. this in his 1st court appearance, he is accused of one of the largest classified information leaks since edward snowden. what do we know about jack to share at this stage? well, we said he's 21. he's a reserve of the u. s. air force, he joined the massachusetts air national guard in 2019, where he was a member of the intelligence wing, to sure was reportedly the leader of a discord, a private chat room created in 2020 members. there shared a love of guns, racist means, and gaming. also, report by the belling cat investigative journalist organization suggests that the

files that he shared emerged on discord in march, but may have been posted as far back as january al 0 is kimberly, how can this washington dc monitoring this forrest kimberly we got a 1st look then of to sure today when you appeared in court walkers through what happened yeah, this was just a put preliminary hearing. so what happens is, this is the 1st chance for the accused jack to share, to appear before a federal judge and to hear the charges that he is facing. those charges include, as you mentioned, the unauthorized removal and retention of classified information and also the he is facing the possession of an authorized documentation pertaining to national security. now, each of these crimes, if convicted, would have half the penalties and there could be more that could be um

he could be leveled against him, given the fact that this investigation is still ongoing. but these are just the 1st charges. so what we can tell you is just to sort of set the scene. this was a crowded court room, the respect taters that were present. there were also, as we know, at least 3 of his family members. and at times we understand that he made eye contact and there were even a few sort of tears we understand from some of his family members. so a, it appeared to be a very tent seen at times, and also particularly moving one, given the fact that his family members, understandably, were fairly emotional, as they saw their family member facing such serious charges of past examples of alleged military leakers or anything to go by he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. what apples to him mel

yeah, he's already going to be held in a federal jail because he's going to have to go back in front of a judge in about 7 days time. what we know is that he is going to have what's known as a detention hearing next, and this is where the judge will set bail to determine whether or not he can be released. and i can tell you that it's pretty unlikely, given the fact that these are such grave charges that he is facing, the fine will be very, very high. it's unlikely that an ordinary person would even be able to come up with this kind of money. what we do know in all of this is that the u. s. president has no commented on the federal response to the arrest of jack to sarah. he has released the statement, praising law enforcement and directing military intelligence to take further steps to secure and limit the distribution of sensitive information. classified

information intelligence, such as the information that has appeared on the chat room, such as discord, where this information has turned up. we should also point out that the white house is not confirming or denying that any of this military intelligence was in fact valid. in fact, the validity of this information is still being assessed. but we should point out the white house statement is saying that is coordinating with partners and allies because again, there have been serious revelations that have been made as a result of this information going out into the public domain, including there is the allegation that there are now. 8 are from various nato countries, in fact, special forces on the ground in ukraine. so you can imagine that this is making it very, very uncomfortable for a number of countries, including the united states who are now having to have very difficult policy

discussions. as a result of these revelations, absolutely. kimberly how can reporting from washington? thank you. and it's been a major step towards ending the 8 year war in yemen for the 1st time since 2020, who the rebels and the saudi led coalition are holding a large scale prisoner exchange. more than $800.00 detainees are expected to be released over the next 3 days. in the capitol center, the forest groups of hope, the prisoners have arrived home was a vehicle. in march, i was taken detained in an area of yaktel omeka. i was imprisoned in an iron factory for 7 years. are young enough to die is victorious day of the day when my brother was released off to 7 years. we never lost hope and i do not feel like i had in my home. it feels clear now in the release as part of broader diplomatic efforts to end the war. stuffy decker has more on this free men at last a momentous moment. not only for them personally, but politically to,

ah, around $900.00 prisoners will be released as part of a prisoner swap between saudi arabia and the iran back to these. the exchange will happen over 3 days. part of the deal reached in switzerland last month. the international committee for the red cross is overseeing the transportation of these men to saudi arabia in yemen, among those being freed, yeomans, former defense minister, and also the brother of the president. the result of negotiations between the 2 sides to seek an end to the near 9 year war. i think that the visit of that with the ambassador to santa has actually moved at this said this year, but he's never the exchange a with those. and i have seen bickley, the message to was o d r a better. they are already a full, full exchange of but isn't that is in both sides with j at could be about $15000.00, but his net is, of course it's yet a quite significant step. oh, it's the bidding damage. well,

a trust between the legitimate government and dad ot and also her parents the way. so that is a black and yellow. yeoman's un brokered 6 month truce officially ended in october, but still largely holds. the recent diplomatic push comes as the 2 main players in what is often called a proxy war, have made peace last month. saudi arabia and iran agree to end their 7 year diplomatic rift and re established diplomatic ties in a deal broken by china. in a statement, the u. s. special envoy for yemen said that yemen is witnessing an unprecedented opportunity for peace a significant moment. most definitely. however, finding common ground between saudi arabia and the who thieves for a long lasting piece will take more work. and more time. stephanie decker, i'll g 0, all zeros hush him a hell bar has covered the conflict extensively,

and he says yemen is divided mainly between 3 groups. competing for control and influence. human is a beautiful country. fascinating, complex political landscape for my brother dahlia ballasa that once said ruling human was like dancing on the has of stakes. he was killed because of those complex political reality. his predecessor, le let us me was killed just a year after he took over and before him at handy was killed in 1986. there was a bloody civil war in the southern part of the country. it's this political device that makes life very difficult in a place like your many other health is her control vast her to, with us, stretches from for santa all the way to words are sad on the border with saudi arabia. so these are the houses that is when you move south of ties, you have the southern ur transitional council, which basically would like to have the marxist linen estate that prevailing of the south until 1990 to be restored. of the secessionist had been bailey,

backed by the united arab emirates. now they have a 3rd party the, the, the president's leadership council, backed by saudi arabia. it was, it's predecessor, was part of the i bought muscle, had here recognized by the international government last year. the saudis decided they wanted to reshuffle that council and they put a new guy as a leader that council as last grout in not all the controls pockets in the province of madame and the south of dies. likely the one to suffer, the biggest, the fit in this political deal between the saudis and the iranians. it's the last friday of the muslim holy month of ramadan and after weeks of tension and violence in occupied east jerusalem. just finally, an atmosphere of carmen celebration in the alex and mosque compound, tens of thousands of worshippers gathered for prayers. but as a sorcerer reports, it was a difficult pilgrimage for many in alex the most compound,

the turn, all aside for muslims. this early in the morning palestinians have started to get into the compound to perform the last friday or from this year. it's extremely difficult to which as it's very occupation forces has set tens of checkpoint all around the occupied jerusalem. and particularly around the occupation forces was very intensely looking to who me was reading through them all. and those were coming from the west bank or gas that they particularly have to go through a nightmare. when we left nobliss, i don't to come here. there are checkpoints along the way they make life so difficult, hoping that we'll give up their own. and this is the moral can where the national vision use for this for the compound. when they get their gods by fish and forces,

they pass through this road. what color most take place and continue to the park of the contact me and to open to say national is rarely israeli occupation forces usually leading coliseum from these over a week ago. that is exactly what happened is that the occupation forces have entered kibbler moore's over there and has beaten palestinian over not worshipers injured hands of them and rushes around 400 many palestinians here see israel is trying to change the thing to school by doing so. a lot of the goal is not to allow anyone to come here at all. they want to take over the whole area and all of palestine. whatever happened in like some was compound doesn't stay here. it spills over and effect the whole, palestine, israel, lebanon, syria, jordan, and even the region beyond. electric home home regarded the max is off the legions

neutral system, and whoever cause it knows that the whole region will react. this you said that al jazeera occupied is jefferson still ahead on al jazeera, slow growth, but cooling inflation, the international monetary fun paints a picture of europe's economic future. ah, april analysis era, as the war and ukraine moves into the 2nd year, we bring you the latest reports from both sides of the comp to people to experience this one and compensation with no has. studio b, unscripted seeks to find the common solution. thousands of brazil's indigenous population will come out in the capital, brazilian, drawing the attention to land disputes and local concerns. in the lead up to al jazeera explored the environmental significance of action,

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you're wanting al jazeera reminder of our headline this. our francis constitutional counsel has given the green light to president amended that course pension reform. despite weeks of protests, the court rejected the idea of holding a public referendum on the issue. 21 year old at jack to shera has a period in a boston court charged with the removal and retention of classified documents. this in connection with the leak of top secret pentagon files along delayed prisoner swap is underway in yemen between who the rebels and the saudi led coalition. around 800 people are due to be released, forest groups of who these have arrived in santa, where they've been reuniting with their families. the international monetary fund is urging european governments to keep their finances stable or risk lower growth. in advanced european economies, growth is expected to fall from 3.6 percent in 2022 to 0.7 this year. and in

emerging economies, it's expected to drop the 1 point one percent in 2023. the i m f says that falling energy prices and less disruption to supply chains should help ease inflation. so there's that, but it does warn central banks that they risk a crisis if they do not stick to tight monetary policies. alfred cameras, the director of the european department at the international monetary fund, and he agrees that the priority for europe is to reduce inflation. first of all is not such a big picture because he avoided the recession, which everybody expected. if i saw shots of intervention because of policy making efforts and decisive action that has been avoided. but what we see now is sharp economic slowdown reflecting the impact of prices, innovation of ukraine. what that led to was higher energy prices, lower purchasing power off consumers,

higher cost for enterprises and less confidence. and that explains their slow down in 2023. it also explained by the fighting and have to be feed inflation. first order of business for europe is to be feat, inflation headlining fish, and we come down at court insulation still has not peaked in many countries, and it's only expected to decline in the 2nd half. that's underlying inflation. and that has shown much more persistent. and that means for monetary policy makers in emerging european economies that they need to stay tight for the euro area, pretty easy. it means that they need to continue on the policy re types, gun is going through the worst economic crisis in years. in 2022, the government spent up to 40 percent of its revenue and debt repayments. international monetary fund has agreed to provisional 3000000000 dollar bail out, but many people in ghana a concern that this will actually lead to more hardship. amenities report,

fitter court doing as a phase. and what he says, the medicine he needs to survive are running low. and he can't afford to buy anymore. the 77 year old is one of thousands of people in gun invested their savings in government bonds. now they've been told they can't touch their investments. let got dr. minta that to even more serious than even put in a gun on the to with thy cost of living and rising poverty of pushed canyons to take to the streets, demanding the resignation of a few ships. they blame for the country's economic crisis. the government encouraged such as us to invest in bonds, so he could raise funds, but he'd run out of money to pay them. so they don't miss you want restructuring was critical. but for us, it was never why does it involve individual? critics blame the crisis on excessive government borrowing, reckless,

pending and corruption. they say the economies on the brink of collapse and people are becoming skeptical about the financial system. in december, the international monetary fund agreed in principle to a $3000000000.00 bailout. but it would depend on the economy being structured, something most people believe would lead to harsh outcomes for an already impoverished population. of yeah, like if by sam times are hard. we can't sell, we can buy everything is expensive. it's a lot of hard to work to feed our families. it's very stressful. you go home looking tired as if you went to war. as economy slows, factories are shutting down, and thousands of people are losing their jobs. investments in new infrastructure has also scored as a government seeks to meet the demands for a bailout economy, say this could mean more people like peter codes or would be unable to feed their families and be unable to afford any medicines they need. how many degrees al

jazeera and the u. m. world food program says it is just weeks away from being unable to feed hundreds of thousands of refugees and chad w at peace country director called the situation catastrophic. 2023 is another very difficult year. where my we are absolutely no funding from may on the world or the refugees and displaced people that's really catastrophic. we did receive an extra funding in 2022, but the need to are to import and because we need to add the 2 millions of charge and suffering of celia, 40 security during the season, plus another 300000 that were floods affected people. and our resorts were far too much on needs analysis your investigation has uncovered a multi $1000000.00 money laundering operation involving gold smuggling in southern africa. under cover journalists of the investigative unit have exposed the extent

of the operation in zimbabwe, where some of the nation's most powerful people have been implicated, including the 1st lady. alexander james reports. out there is under cover, reporters, want to launch a $1200000000.00 of criminal funds by building a fictitious casino resort overlooking victoria falls for we're going to do hotel casino in the gold market a bit that's. that's one of the big thing. you can come on that pitching to ambassador you, but angel, zimbabwe senior depth and the lease isn't in one of his big going green angel says that president emerson monongahela owns the land for the proposed development. in the town we drove horses. so if

a lot of land that is on divide cost, you get, you get to say that, then it's easy to dispose of a just call i listed. let's put it this way, this put it this way. thank you. and then when i say that, ah, so becomes the dirty cash for the projects needs to be smuggled into zimbabwe undetected. the ambassador makes a call to the 1st lady, what i'm told, celia, man, and gaga. remember those people at once more kiss they would want to know why we providing the plays would like to play with them about father refers to the president that my daughter blown in essex. and if you don't read my present, you and your meta, so i'll quickly did to them been discussed which lindsey uses these all their own but, but i don't want to learn about

a day. they discussed flying the cash into zimbabwe on the presidential plane. mom, the redoubtable but running whether it be sometimes you with that it we, we spoke about. so i'm just going to present day day notice or else. right. okay. or go do that. me a little bit. but just let you guys as a z, like zebra, as him with his pin. okay. august, august 1st. okay, well thank you so much. i was under some good liberal, my local level that you brought me this. he says the plan will succeed because it has the president's approval. i say to you, what you want to do is happening here with you, but angel, 1st lady, auxiliary and presidents. emerson. madame gaga did not respond to our requests for comment. alexander james al jazeera. well,

you can watch the final episode of this exclusive 4 part series in the else as your investigation. goldman, your have the king with you. that's on saturday at a 100 g, empty. in australia, north west coast is been hit by the most powerful tropical storm in years. cyclone elsa made landfall near port headland. that's a major hub for iron or exports. people in several communities have been told to stay in doors. many living in the cyclones path have been evacuated as it from me 0 venue as always, more information on our website, al jazeera dot com weather is up next with everton fox, then ah

hello is a fair amounts of cloud across sea middle east at the moment said disappointingly dull, i would say big arc of cloud here, bring you some outbreaks of rain into saudi arabia that will cause flooding, flash flooding at times. something to watch out for see some sliding, fresh weather, making his way across. central asia took medistat, missing temperatures, touching 42 celsius recently, hottest a full weather on record. it should freshen up a little temperature a little closer to what they should be, just as some sleet and snow across northern parts of afghanistan, the wet weather. continuing across that saudi arabia still a little doubt, a route del, around of the gulf here, 28 celsius in doha, but not too bad. and he can see as dry and fine for the most part to the north of that one a to shout into northern parts of turkey, troy, and find a cross northern parts of africa. temperature on the rising, kara once again 30 celsius here on sash dedicated scattering, a showers across southern parts of west africa. along the coastal fringes, i think southern areas of nigerian particular seeing some funder down pause,

shutting up the seasonal range across the heart of africa. more heavy showers coming through here as per usual, just around the rift valley. some live you storms there into tans in there. but for south africa is not a fine and dry. when clouds meet, mountain west struggle gives birth to true passion, where faith is more just where humanity defies. expectation with freedom is always was quite bold and untold. stories from across asia and the pacific 101 east on al jazeera military players. and so.