the mayor valley and alexandra ravenna, but one that was me or something that social housing can not provide, which is personal expression fry studio b unscripted on al jazeera one mm. ah, al jazeera, with ah, explosions and gun bustles, continue and see don's captain called to me as the un hints of possible talks

between the warring sides. gone for, it continues to take a heavy toll, the you and warns of an exodus of more than 800000 people into neighboring countries to escape the bloodshed ah, and i why money inside the salvage their life from doug also coming up, barrels of russian missiles hit ukraine's railway and logistics hub in the east, killing at least 2 people and wounding over 30 of it. i may day, march is around latin america. we look at whether the new wave of left wing leaders is making any progress on like the rights. ah, the un to dawn and voice says the countries warring generals have agreed to send

representative to talks, possibly in saudi arabia. full carpet as was speaking to the associated press. but he also warned that they are challenges to overcome before any negotiations can begin. the fighting between sedans, army and the power military rapid support forces has now gone on for more than 3 weeks. monday was another day of air strikes and explosions despite a sci fi. the un has warning that the humanitarian crisis into dawn is turning into a full blown catastrophe. here morgan reports from call to sudanese army fighter jets flying over battery and east nile in dance capital hard to targets. in positions of the paramilitary rapid support forces, residents of battery in the northern parts of the capitol say a fuel san kurt belonging to the rapids support forces was head leaving clues of dark smoke as heavy gun battle between the 2 sides reached on for

a 3rd wheel of other parts of the capitol also witnessed intense fighting between the 2 sides. he is too frightened to leave her apartment and her phone. my dana, that he can. we hear the sound of artillery falling in the street. we are traumatized . every time we hear the fighting, we feel like we will die. the family is running out of basic supplies. the guy didn't get them. the rapid support forces are station in front of our home and they won't allow us to fix the electricity port. there is no electricity and no water. the un says the scale and speed of what's unfolding is unprecedented info. damn. it also says the humanitarian crisis. is that the breaking point? the the head of the army, general abdel, put, the han has agreed to extent of faltering cease fire, allowing civilians to leave an 8 to be delivered at the sarah military

group. the rapids support forth is also agreed to the temporary to but on the ground. fighting continues, including in her 2 and 350 undermined local communities and her film warrants people to stay at home. and miss eric tries and artillery fire millions still remain in the capital, seeking opportunities of brief love to go and get basic necessities where possible . those who can make their way out of the capital have already left evacuated, import dancy. they feel a sense of shock at the sudden spiral into civil war. many have lived and worked in fidel for decades. so then i thought don is living through a moment of real terror. i'm talking about dead bodies on the streets. we smelled the dead bodies as we were coming to cartoons and firing the shelling. sou done is seriously in the real war. we hope god brings peace through every one in sioux.

down. we are su, denise, people residing in the us. people should not think that su down has been destroyed . no things have happened, but we wish to stay strong. this group of somalis arrived in mogadishu from 4th to down. and once i had the focus, i am pleased that i have finally arrived at my country. however, what we have been through is unusual and hard to describe, but i am grateful for the opportunity to survive. but for millions of food and these there is no way to go there trapped by fighting in a country the un says is falling apart. he but morgan ultra 0, how to united nations has issued a stock warning about the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries. the un refugee agency, in consultation with the governments and partners, are planning for up to 800000 people who mayfly fighting and sudan to the 7

neighboring countries. with our quick resolution to the crisis, we will continue to see more people forced to flee in search of safety and humanitarian assistance. the latest figures from our teams on the ground confirmed at $73000.00 people have arrived in neighboring countries, including sudanese refugees and also returning refugees. notably from south sudan, south sudanese refugees, united nations as reported that 73000 people have now fled sea down since the start of the fighting on april 15th egyptian officials say at least 40000 sudanese refugees have entered the country some of have to wait for days of the border, many others across into south sea dawn on ethiopia, or sailed across the red sea to saudi arabia on evacuation boats. and 20000 people have made the treacherous journey into neighboring chad. their making the dangerous journey from sit down on donkeys on by foot. the contract is also affecting the

residence of charred with the flow of goods being disrupted, causing food prices. to wise. i met interest reports from tongue doughty west for the sudanese side of the border, which shot right behind me is a local police station here in $10.00. it is deserted, completely deserted, and the lock and key, and it looks like they how did they left this place when fighting, broke out in sudan over here, the same board. and now seeing the presence of the police station, it's constructed by the united mission mission in the for as implemented by the slime relief agency. many of the residents who fled these town of 10 delta after violence broke out. we understand that a lot of houses have been burned down. our security forces took to the hills and crossed over along with civilians. over there is the river bed, the dry river bed, which is a crossing point for people who live in this town and not found themselves inside chad. now a lot of people are moving away from this area simply because they feel that it's

no longer safe to be here. now over there also is the towns. busy court house, it's also under lock and key, like many other government establishments. yeah. intended to simply because people don't believe the saved in this community. if you look at the streets, everything, every ways empty, except or cation of people, one or 2 people who come and check on their belongings. their houses take about probably and then free across the drive have a bed into child, despite the hutch, if they prefer living in open spaces exposed to the elements. and of course, despite the fact that they don't have enough to eat in those camps, how many degrees algebra from pendalty inside dot for west of, for region. also down south to don is another country where people from sudan fleeing to harm a tougher is the capital juba holding. so the more people are coming to south to

dive and people are totally by thousands of people still making their way from saddam to south diamond is putting a lot of strain on limited resources in this country. already had its own problems resolved. will they still conflict in biking, in some parts of the country and ad agency said that there's not enough money or resources to help everyone to sub local have been taking the initiative on the street here. for example, some of the businesses here been collecting items like food and medicine. the there are taking to be a ford put on cargo planes and flown to the border area where people be and need assistance, need help aid exit to the or to doing the base of trying, mobilizing, get as many people as possible. but working in this country can sometimes be very difficult, logistically, in terms of the route the road network. there isn't much of it when it rains has been harder to move. it's rating now near the border areas. so a lot of the roads are dropped and dropped some of the east of siding damage so they need to be maintained. first of all, pay exactly land for logistical issues,

have to play out 1st. before enough aids can actually receive people who are waiting along the border for transport, food, and medicine. some of them are from south to died for when they come in. they'll go to family and friends, those who have no way to go, we'll probably end up at one v cabs for this place, people scattered across the country. dahlia. adult manime is a sudanese activist journalist who was recently evacuated to egypt. she recounts her experience of escaping cartoon. it's still quite hard to grasp or to understand. i had to leave my country and leave in our family and loved ones and friends behind. and i'm here and it's, i mean it's nice to feel faithfully to know that you're in the secure area. but still, i keep thinking what's happening by comb. scrolling through social media to see any updates. what's happening, you know, so you can't mean you really physically,

you may be the country, but you're still where you're still very much involved and they're much wanting to know what's happening. just escaping from my house to a safe housing car to was an ordeal. you know, it took a lot physically and security wise and then from the safe house support saddam bell is another 10 to 6 hour check on the bus friendly terrain and join to avoid arthur soldier travelling with elderly. and so the, the chips, the car was pretty straightforward, they'd be, it was just the wake, not knowing if i was able to get on the pain the flight or not. and if, and what time they were, just give it a very, you know, get to the, to the playing, didn't take off until i think it's 37 in the evening. something like that. so, you know, we've gotten used to it just waiting and hoping that you're one of the lucky ones

and you'll be able to get away or to get out. saudi arabia is held to evacuate iranian citizens from the fighting in see don. saudi navy carried 65 urena citizens from ports to down to gender, where they would fly to, to her on riyadh and to her on broke off formal ties in 2016. but they began resuming diplomatic relations in large iran's foreign ministry, thank saudi arabia and the holy shuttle. and the transfer of iranian citizens from sudan to these la mc republic of iran was a positive event in line with the framework of co operation between saudi arabia and iran. i thank saudi arabia for their decisive humanitarian act. and he's 65 palestinians arrived safely in the occupied westbank on monday escapes saddam through saudi arabia and jordan. the palestinian authority says 500 palestinians

have been evacuated since the south of the fighting palestinians from the besieged garza strip. have been fleeing violence and sit on only to return to a place which has been described as the wells largest open air prison. nor collab has been studying medicine incidence since 2015. she was days away from graduating when the violence erupted, forcing her to return home to garza and will, la, can finish all the and the whole. it was horrific when you see body scattered right and left, dismembered people, torched banks, you feel it's totally unsafe. i felt like the future of it was on hold and all my hard work while i was away from home that disappeared in a glimpse and in one day, all my hard work during 8 years has gone. when i got on the golf, our it is true that we had war in gaza, but we used to be among relatives there in sudan. it was horror. and thanks to god, i am safe. ah,

syria says one soldier has been killed and 7 others injured by his radio strike song, aleppo, state media reports that aleppo airport is now out of service. following the air strike, several missiles were reportedly intercepted. least 2 people have been killed and dozens injured, including children in a series of russian missile strikes in ukraine. extensive damage was reported in the eastern city of pablo, rod tall stratford, his more from the capital, keith, a massive explosion, light shop the night sky over the public road region. in easton crone smoke trail suggest possibly exploding ukrainian weapons, but not so say officials who rarely admit to russian missiles hitting military targets. they say this was an industrial enterprise and that at least 19 apartment buildings 25 private homes and 6 schools were damaged or destroyed or the attack

valued with sergei was at home with his wife when the early hours of monday morning there was an almighty blast was different from their naturalists. once i heard the 1st explosions, i shouted to my wife, let's quickly put on clothes and get out to the right. we'd only got to the cordele when i heard another explosion, i was thrown by the shockwave windows were blown out. it's good, we went out doors because i don't know what would happen is ruby ridge shadow schedules. if you have a solution, you know, we were in the corridor putting on shoes when both doors were smashed out by the explosion. wayne, then there was fire. i ran outside and saw the garage was destroyed in one of the ukrainian officials say russia launched 18 missiles of the cuban tinney, proper troughs regions 15 of which were successfully intercepted by air defense. victoria superman's daughter lies in bed. lucky to have escaped injury or worse,

official say dozens of people were injured in the attacks including children. and we took a rescheduling guided door ballinger. we rushed to the hallway and laid on the floor, and then the explosion waved, twisted the door. had we stayed for 5 more seconds, we would have been trapped here with you, then there were more explosions. my child will need the psychological help. it's horrible. these attacks come just 3 days off to $25.00 people including 6 children, were killed by a russian missile hitting an apartment building in the city of mine and central ukraine on you can love your brochure repeatedly says it doesn't deliberately target civilians. thousands have been killed by missiles, drones and shelling of densely populated towns and cities since it invasion of ukraine in february last year. russian missiles and so called kamikaze drones

strikes, targeting air is deep inside ukraine have increased in recent days. now it's impossible to confirm as to whether these are, in fact an attempt by russia to hit the ukraine supply lines ahead of an expected ukrainian counter offensive. but u. k. defense ministry says russia has for months been preparing what it describes as some of the most extensive defensive lines seen anywhere in the world. in decades, charleston al jazeera give. still ahead on al jazeera, bought in confrontations on the street from up to 2000000 people, protest on may day against the president's pension reform. i'm clods partnership leaders of the us in the philippines, me attentions rise as china's growing military and economic life. ah

they're great to see. let's go with your weather report for asia. great to have the along. we had some violent hailstorm the other day and his mom, aboard and roll penny. i think the nasty weather on tuesday will be over punjab province in bucharest on around the horn. by the way, karachi had, it's called his april in 10 years. you had some big downpours but centered across certain areas of the city. the other day. the storms are also leaking into the northwest of india. severe storms there and pretty much stretching the other side of the country from west spain. gall rate down into town will now do and careless states. that's where we're running the risk of st. under storm severe thunderstorms inhales runs mixed in there as well for the philippines needed now island, the southwest corner there are severe flooded visor is in play here for how intense the rain has been. and as we dropped further toward the south, i think the biggest pulses of rain on board, borneo island will be for the malay side as we head toward tuesday. in turn,

this warm feet of air off the south china sea is helping to spark some severe thunderstorms. it's an ingredient any way for it as they run across the river valley. so big storms around wooten on tuesday, it is fairly calm pitcher up and down. japan looking good and to care with the high $23.00, which is pretty well we're, you should be for this some of the year. that's it for me catch her later. ah, one 3rd of all the food produced is the wasted with tens of thousands of put out. so well in south korea has been transformed from west to offender if the bill by leader in full recycling. i have been reporting on how your technology is making as possible in kenya. i need the pharmacy and sundays. what do you think for the lab nodes dependent wall pain life off, right? or a 0 lou

. ah ah, you're watching al jazeera minded on top stories. the salad b, u. n. c, john envoy has told the associated press that the country's war in general have agreed to send representatives to tool, possibly in saudi arabia. fighting between sea, john's army and the power ministry rapid support force is now going on. 3 weeks. you on his pricing for as many as 800000 people to escape to neighboring countries because of the humanitarian crisis in saint john is turning into a full blown catastrophe. at least 2 people have been killed and dozens injured in creating children and

a series of russian missile strikes in the eastern city of pablo. rod is a major ukrainian railway and logistics help president joe biden says that the u. s. commitment to defending the philippines is i'm glad he was speaking during a visit to the white house by the president of the philippines ferdinand marcus junior was making a 1st visit by leader from the philippines for more than 10 years. he has significantly improve relations with us since taking over from rodrigo to test a in june. top of the agenda is defense corporation with worries over increased chinese activity in the region. the united states also reminds are, aren't clad nor remains aren't on our commitment to the defense of the philippines, including the south china sea. and we're going to continue to support the philippines military modernization goals. it's only natural me health care for the philippines to look to its sol,

treaty partner in the world to strengthen, to redefine the relationship that we have and the roles that we play in the face of those rising tensions that we see, you know, around the south china sea asia pacific and in the pacific region our white house correspondent, kimmy hawkins, has most u. s. president joe biden welcomed the president of the philippines to the white house to discuss what the 2 liter say is a shared concern and threat. namely, what both leaders say is the increasing assertiveness of china in the indo pacific region. the meeting comes on the heels of joint military exercises, some of the largest in the region in quite some time and as a result. now these men would like to build on that joint exercise. as a result,

there will be a number of key announcements emerging from this meeting, including the transfer of military equipment, including 3 c, 130 aircraft, as well as coastal patrol vessels. and there will also be a setting up a new us trade mission in the philippines to increase economic investment. the goal of this is to not only deepen military cooperation, but also an economic partnership. to not only expand on the military cooperation to counter china, but also to try and counter what the united states says is increasingly provocative chinese government. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house. the united nations organized conference off on afghanistan is being held hearing castle, a meet ongoing concern in the countries di humanitarian situation. the taliban

administration has not been invited to take part in the 2 days of closed or meetings in doha. the taliban designated ambassador to the un has issued a statement saying that any meeting without their participation is unproductive and even counter productive and has a legitimate right to express its position. he questions how the decision was taken can be acceptable or implemented if the taliban unknown part of the process. finally, the statement goes on to say that the move is discriminatory and justified and calls for the issues to be solved through a pragmatic approach or diplomatic it is a james base has more the un having a conference here in doha and they've not invited the taliban and then not invited the women. the un though say there's a reason for this and actually i've just come from new york on the flight from new york and on the same flight was the insect general antonia terrace. and he made it

clear to me that the, the international community need to be on the same page. and that's the purpose of this meeting, not to engage with the women, not to engage with the taliban, but to get the international community in the same place. because there are different countries with very different views. now one thing that he believes is strengthened. the u. s. position is at the end of last week, the un security council came up with a resolution condemning the taliban and its policy towards women. and particularly the ban on female un workers doing their jobs in afghanistan. he believes that the 1st real sign of unity on this issue from the security council could mean unity for this meeting, which is with a much wider grouping its western powers, its regional powers, its our powers, all coming together. and the un is trying to get them on the same page. while since returning to power, the taliban has restricted the participation of girls and women in education, from holding most jobs and even visiting public spaces beyond is considering whether it can maintain its relief operation in afghanistan. after the taliban

bought afghan women from working with un agencies, fuzzy cookies, a former member of the afghan paul parliament. she says the international community has given way too many concessions to the taliban. i believe taliban are using, you know, women's rights goes into cation woman's rights. to work to public engagement, to political participation as a bargaining chip her with the international community. and the international community also does not really have a firm unified position over this issue. over the last 4 or 5 years of the world engagement with ton of on the will has continuously, you know, given a way to as taliban. what they did not really have a unified position. i believe the world, especially them, was them countries you know, that y c member states, the regional countries whose, you know, if you look at countries like you eat cutter, where the meeting is being hold. and many other muslim countries,

if you look at them, they have woman at the top leadership. but if you look it up on a sun, despite the progress that we have had, and despite like being historically as a place for everybody as a country. now you see women are being deprived and pushed to their 0, basically corner they have, they are deprived of any of their rights. i'm in contact on daily basis with a lot of women who express how it actually affected their mental health as well. so it's not about economy or security of atlanta since about women's mental health. and i think and taliban will not, you know, make it if they continue to suppress a woman who are 55 percent of the population. and therefore, the world must have a firm unified position on this and need to address among themselves. daily $300.00 people have been arrested in france during protest smoking international workers day protests to say they're angry at president pneumonia, maxwell's pension reforms, which have been signed into law last month,

which increased the retirement age from $60.00 to $60.00 full made a martyrs have also been held in several parts of latin america in columbia, supporters of president gustavo petra, rallied in the capital and support of his controversial proposals for social reforms. i was on the run pierre, 2 reports from bogota, taking it to the st. unique indigenous and pro government movements. march to the presidential palace heating the call of columbia, the president to defend this controversial social reforms. it is settled, faithless, preferred strategy in times of crisis. graham get better day thought opponent patrol would abandon the ideal of a great transformation, but this is not our destiny. that's not why we are here. all function in the history of colombia is to make the reforms succeed. he stumbles in woman. c. c will, but on patient comes just days after peter. this made almost 7 cabinet ministers,

mostly members of the country's political establishment, replacing them with close allies who right part of your c panel up at the heart of the crisis. is beatrice controversial, health care reform plan? which would reduce the involvement of private entities and give the state more control over funds. but his plan has been lacking in congress, but up green party sen, area lab says the cabinet breakup signals. the end of peter's broad governing coalition. but his reform agenda could be difficult to realize with a weakened base in congress, but we are not present thing. they think the government presented 35 reform of this for the so called social reforms are the most controversial and have led to the breakdown of the coalition. government now will try to negotiate votes with each congressman. then when seized many of his reforms on fail, better will try with the 3 democracy. he will try to promote the referendum to prove the reform. critics consider the abrupt shake upcoming,

just 9 months into better that ministration is a possible radicalization. i'm part of a precedent that has shown little patience for the same and the move as also sent shock waves through the currency and bond market. the most worrying last for the markets was the sacking of finance minister was antonio cam for an internationally admired economists, who many observers saw as a wall of protection against radical moves. better to replace them with regard to bony. yeah, and other season economists, but one who observers fear, will simply do as he stoled the president may be keen to make some decisions about cost controls. price increases for, for fuel additional subsidies, or even an extraordinary increase in the minimum wage. so each of those lines in the sand represent opportunities for bonnie, just to say, stop, know, and show if he will rise to the occasion and feel the big shoes that accomplish

behind. peter will be hoping to push labor pension and help reform to congress in the next couple of weeks, but it will have to do it with declining support in the folds and shake it comic times the head showing just how difficult it will be to fulfill his promise of change. i listen that i'm the i just gotta until the clashes of broken out during may day rallies in santiago, processes have been cooling for an increase in the minimum wage and tax reform loss . not surely sawgrass parcel or reducing the work week. 45 hours in brazil present lula. the silvers announce an increase in the minimum wage to mock international work a day he said the increase will help citizens cope with rising inflation. ah,

this is al jazeera, these, you top stories, the u. n. c. don and boy has told the associated press that the countries warring generals have agreed to send representatives to talks possibly, and saudi arabia. the fighting between su dawn's army and the paramilitary rapid support forces has now gone on more than 3 weeks. united nations has issued a stock warning about the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries. the un refugee agency, in consultation with the governments and partners, are planning for up to 800000 people who mayfly fighting and sudan to the 7 neighboring countries. with our quick resolution to the crisis, we will continue to see more people forced to flee in search of safety and humanitarian assistance. the latest figures from our teams on the ground confirm that $73000.00 people have arrived in neighboring countries, including sudanese refugees, and also returning refugees. notably from south sudan south sir. denise refugees, syria says one soldier has been killed and 7 others injured by israeli,

as strikes on aleppo, state media reports that aleppo airport is out of service. any 300 people have been arrested in france during process marking international work a day. protest is angry at president and manu mac homes pension reform. as you headlines up next 11 east. ah, the united kingdom will crown a new monarch on may the same. king charles, the 3rd is planning a ceremony. the owners historic traditions. while embracing a new modern world followed the pageantry from westminster abbey on al jazeera. there is no channel that covers world news like we do, we revisit places, mistake, i'll deserve really invest in that. and that's a privilege. as a journalist with island nations and resource companies are exploring the possibility of mining at

the pacific ocean for renewable energy on the prime minister of the cook islands is one pacific leda considering extracting minerals from the deep sea. we've been blessed with a resource that sits and lp potion. it's so good sitting on the surface and being afraid of the unknown. but some islanders via it will have sophia impacts. our sion cannot handle that if i really do not feel like the technology as via catch all to be even considering doing this in a sustainable fashion. in the 2nd of 2 special reports, $11.00 east examines how deep sea mining is dividing the pacific. ah, ah, it's easy to sell the cook islands as a postcard paradise because of

a 19 told the prime minister mark brown, a valuable lesson, he needs to diversify his country's tourism reliant economy. when the pandemic heeds in 2020, many of the resorts shot down in a single year. the economy dropped by 25 percent. it was tough when cobra came, the 1st in school suite, it was close our borders. and essentially we closed the borders for 2 years. that was very, very difficult on our industry and on, on the, the private sector in particular cove, it was definitely a wake up cool for us, that we must diversify our economy. we don't know what the future holds in terms ofa, the tourism industry globally, and regionally. so definitely for us, the need to diversify has taken on greater significance much more importance, which is why our minerals industry is going to be so important for us in the future

. if given the green lights, the minerals industry will involve to reaching the se for 5 kilometers below the ocean surface. a remote controlled mining vehicle used to suck up gulf full size rocks. these unknown as holly metallic nodules and gets high in co boats, manganese and other minerals needed to palate, green technology, the rocks of palms from the deep sea through a hydraulic crime, to a shade on the surface. we see our country being a leader of this particular industry. not only is i deriving income to help protect our sales, but also playing our pot in helping the world transition to green energy. now even before the pants american, the cook islands, economy was facing it's fair share of challenges in a country that's 99 percent water. agriculture is small scale, like out of pacific nations, many young people in overseas seeking high

a paint jobs to save money back home to their families. for as of 5 cook islanders leave and work in australia or new zealand. a sign of the exodus abandoned houses in villages across the country. the prime minister says c mining could bring social as well as financial benefits by providing jobs that will encourage the population to stay. people go where the money is. so currently, many of our people, our children, or grandchildren, they've moved overseas to work in industries that pay them more money, such as in the horticultural industry in new zealand. picking apples, well we referred, we are minerals, these are our golden apples. and if developed properly, we have an opportunity for our people into collect our own apples which are sitting at the bottom of the ocean, whose tourism,

with the result swelled from deep sea mining, the prime minister has boldly claimed his small country could become the dubai or norway of the pacific, we've got in place a financial regime ah, which involves taxation royalties, so and so forth. and we are certainly looking at the establishment of the sovereign welcome. the cook islands is given out to ocean exploration licenses, to 3 mining companies. which of or says home shop on the biggest islands, main street, assign these potential new industry could help these small south pacific nation emerge from the doldrums, the ra, economic risks. the cook islands isn't the 1st nation to try deep sea mining. in 2011, the mexican government issued an exploration licensed or raises company, but decided not to go ahead with the mining permit. it's now being sued for $2000000000.00 in alleged losses of future profits. the company in that dispute

odyssey was denied a mining permits on the grounds. its projects could hum buy, so total habitats. however, a mexican legal tribunal found the government's refusal was unlawful. some lawyer who's fia, a seamless scenario, fia because odyssey is a contractor and shay hold out of see, i see one of the 3 been stories exploration licenses, and odyssey spokesperson told one or one east. it has no legal right to sue in the cook islands. but jacqueline evans and environmentalists who help set off the cook islands moraine park. one of the world's largest says it leaves her nation vulnerable. i'm very concerned because actually in the legislation there is no possibility to just decide not to issue a license just because we changed our mind and decided to take up a different development option. and so we could potentially be sued for that. are you worried if you don't go ahead with

a mining permit that your government could be sued? i think our legislation has a safeguards that are in place in terms of our legislation in terms of our regulations to ensure that we are protected as a people. one of the things that we made sure that when we embark on this journey, that they're up levels of protection. both from a legal perspective, from an environmental perspective, but also from a financial perspective that these measures are in place to ensure that we operate as it with good sound regulatory laws and regulations. if it's not feasible, if it's not viable, then it won't be done. but it's as simple as that. across the pacific people's livelihoods depends on a healthy moraine environments. the threats of fisheries is a key reason why 7 nations in the region, vehemently oppose deep se mining the with the cook islands and 3 other pacific countries in favor of mining. there are fees, it could divide the region. they are already rifts in the pacific islands at the

moment. so if we don't work with our neighbors that could be affected by this activity, i do see the us as continuing. rather than looking at the potential of creating a rift, i would encourage countries to respect the decisions that each country is going to make in regards to any resource in their own jurisdiction. mm. despite the briscoe of in flaming tensions, the prime minister believes deep c mining could help us city nations boost their finances. was tackling climate change. the region is one of the worst affected by global warming. bassett, by rising sea levels, droughts and psych, lawrence. we have been that the front line of climate change for a number of years while the world is trying to get our g 20 countries to commit to reducing carbon emissions and reduce impacts of climate change. we are feeling that

he is so we can do how part to help the world, these minerals not only provide an opportunity for income for our country. but it also provides an opportunity for us to contribute to the world's pushing to green energy and reducing carbon emissions. we're doing them a favor if you like. astray, leon has filled it strongly economy of the back of fossil fuels like coal. but in a push to co climate change, it's one of the many nations committed to mitzy or a calvin emissions point 2052000000000 electric cars will be needed globally to meet that targets at these green energy festival in sydney is a lot of interest in such vehicles,

deep sea mining companies say they industry is vital to be with the batteries required to power these cars. we consider to being raised at these events about the sustainability of recycling minerals instead of plundering the. when you're talking about money, you can only talk about making it as sustainable as practicable. obviously, if you're taking virgin material for ground and might use with the 1st time you've got to have an extraction, we will reach the point where all of the materials that go into a battery are in fact, recyclable. many consumers here, a wary of mining minerals from the big see, do you think the need to go into the ocean for these minerals? i guess ultimately like what is the ultimate environmental impact? i think not. i think we've got enough sort of on the earth alarms outgoing sort of down into the oceans that they would want to, you know, be buying cars that are going to get more delicate environment. we probably need to,

to get out of our backyard photos. do you think we need to be going into the oceans too? no, absolutely not. in the fall i knew that that's where the metal is coming from. that would a 100 percent with me or flying that vehicle? was a license a all the interest in electric vehicles here today. that is fighting hi ashley monson. merrick is the national president of bova group, the largest manufacturer of vehicles in australia. he is company alongside b. m. w rana. and volkswagen supports a 10 year moratorium on div c mining. they avowed not to use c bed minerals in their electric vehicles until they environmental concerns admits them. needs to be a dick understanding of the risks to than vitamin before we start any d. c. bed mining and our customers really want to know in kid about where we source of material from they want it done in a responsible way. did i tell you all by group believe they can make consumer

demands? perverse cycling, and land space mining. recycling is a key focus part of all we'll group. we've made really good progress and tim solve recycling the mosquitoes and batteries today. we actually have a battery sale at that has been produced with 100 percent. recycle bt to you know, as such as they chi industry, that's thinking twice about dave same mining, there's big tag the likes of microsoft, google and samsung. they've always said noise to the mining of the world's oceans. i environmental campaigning globally as played a huge role in pushing corporations, consumers and investors to reject results extraction from our oceans. you are facing what i would call a notion emergency. we must take action as you must sustainably manage the ocean's resources for the hoover humanity. and the health of for the plant since cause for

a moratorium on mining began at the 2022. you ain't ocean's conference in portugal, a growing list of nations have backed those concerns. this includes major economies like canada, germany, spain and france, left house suton until the sooner due to exploit as shown to go from the pacific nations who want dave say, mining up pushing back. well, the, the g 20 countries are responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions globally. and i think it's mex, a little bit of ah, a patronizing attitude to try and tell us that we should not be doing what we're doing because it may damage the ocean environment. the carbon emissions of all the civic countries put together would amount to a match stick in a forest fire. we're not the countries that put plastic into the ocean. we didn't acidify the ocean. and we're not one of those countries that help radioactive storage or exploded bombs in our ocean. so it is somewhat patronizing,

i find all even insulting, to suggest that we would cause damage to the ocean by what we are proposing to do. now pacific nations who want deep sea mining are also demanding the right to mine in international voices beyond their territory. and they taking bass flies to the international segment authority in jamaica. these united nations affiliated body regulates and licenses mining in international waters. effectively half of the planet's surface, the i say is issued 31 exploration licenses to $22.00 companies to say if osha mining is viable. most of these permits they issued for a vast c trench at me. the cook islands were the biggest known deposits of felt. for a decade, the i essay has argued over rules needed to galvan osha mining. now that debate has

come to a head in 2021. the tiny pacific nation of newbury triggered a legal mechanism within the i as i, the requires delegates to come up with a mining code within 2 years. if they can't agree by july 2023 b i, as i was, does assessing deep sea mining applications. even without proper regulations, only who protections in place, new route and the missiles company planned to start mining in the pacific ocean in 2024. the early on the south field at a very in marine law explode. dr. alina jacob is concerned at the lack of governance and monitoring to ensure deep c mining is dom safely. there is a lot of work to do to, i have a fully formed mine in code. it is unclear at the my m and who would ensure compliance within the i say, and who would undertake inspections. it is unclear what the financial regime would

be. so it is unclear how much if any mining profits would have to be shared. and if so, with whom, all these questions are outstanding is the problematic the up until recently, the only compliance a mechanism has been self reporting by the mining company some states involved. and that is obviously problematic, given that we're talking about see that mining file show under water, which is very difficult to monitor. and the 1st place don't, de jacob has risen a bull kids numerous papers about the i a say. she says it's a secretive organization that rarely consults openly. i think it's fair to say that the, i say is not the most transparent organization. i'm a lot of their decision making happens behind closed door, and that's despite the fact that states have repeatedly asked for more transparency . it doesn't align with global good governance standards. but decisions continue to be might behind closed doors by and large. ah, don't de jacob,

these small nations who carry out deep sea mining, like the cook islands, could phase catastrophic consequences. under international law, these countries can be financially liable. if a resource company causes a disaster on the ocean. the risk would be quite significant. it would be significant for any country, but in particular for small economies way. of course the liability could make up at quite a proportion of their g d p. while economic and environmental concerns have been from them since a in this debate, dr. jacob is concerned, the social implications have been largely ignored. under the i, essays rose mining in international waters must benefits all of humanity. but she says there hasn't been enough transparent consultations with the islands communities. because see that mining is a high technology industry. there'll be

a lot of automation involved, so it's not a sure that's a bad mining would generate a lot of local jobs. in across the cook islands, weekly, volleyball matches, and much anticipated events that bring the community together. in this village, on one of the countries small islands, i want to find out what the locals think about. do you see money as they are the ones who will be buying fit any jobs created? after going to a government information session, one woman things, mining the ocean, own bed of foods, every one we will get so many benefits from the old age pension, your child welfare, all those kind things that others are not so certain. to be honest, i don't know much about the mining governments. sometimes i don't deal with that. i don't have enough information regarding the impact,

the negative impact from the ocean when need to harvest is i'm still reading upon it. i'm still trying to find out what the pros and cons that's going to come out of this me a lot of me once a family island is to understand the impacts of mining the ocean. ready she's the head of a local environmental in t o t a because i would say the cb mining is a very foreign concept to our people. it's a, it's a real western concept that how and faith would be mind blowing to even think about to educate local communities. a lot of troubles, to the soft reaches of the 15 islands that make up this country. the 30 year old represented the cook islands in the miss world competition, a public profile that she uses to teach them about the possible dangers of the c

mining. i feel there's been a big push in terms of what the economic benefits would be for mining and little attention has been brought to what the potential environmental impacts will be. so there's been and, and balance. and this information being presented to our people. the in goal for us is that all people are informed of both sides and, and they are able to make an informed decision based on both sides being given to them. we need to put the time and effort to keeping our people up to speed with what really is going on. who's heard of climate change? much evelyn is work is in local school educating children who benefit from the rentals and they've see mine and we're dealing with the powerpoint project. she's explaining the potential ramifications of mining the ocean. so i'm going to talk about more about this new industry that the cook islands might be looking into and they say mining. so who's head of the say mining a few of you guys. all right,

so what these guys be mining for? anybody want to take a good job also? yeah. these rocks of those with metal metal that help feel electric vehicles. they take 10000000 years to form just one. so it's not like we can have a b rocks and they will probably back the next year. it's taken a long time, so why do you come here to these schools will go to a great avenue to start with full information because kids like sponges, say taken information they, they want to understand more about it. and then they actually start discussion back into your household asking mom and dad, you know, what are your thoughts on the and, you know, you'd hope that that discussion will been trickle down into the wider community. so you've got an island wide discussion on that issue. it's important for people to

ask questions and to be aware because these are our resources. this is our environment that we rely on for our livelihoods. being well aware of what those rasa is, as k, atlanta says, the pre same moraine environments known to locals as the ma wanna is tied to the ancient ways of living. our is so much in trim about livelihood in our culture as being kyle and how and pieces have relied on our wanna for food. it is embedded in us as a kind of people to be custodians, bro, ocean on guardian go valuation so that she can also just keep giving back to us. the cook islands now has to decide if it's willing to risk then ocean environments in the pursuit or prosperity. are we not already getting enough?

we are getting so much from our osha now. ocean is providing so much for us in terms of our fishery resources. fishes, our staple diet, as co callers, as pacific islanders. and so for us to be almost the guinea pigs in this area, i think that's something we need to be very aware of the risks we are willing to accept as a nation. throughout my time here in the cook islands, what has been very clear is just telling twines the ocean is in every aspect of pacific life. right now, it's a rare occasion with some of the smallest nations on our plan is making choices with global implications. the some of those mind sites and both really quite large and that pollution that could be caused by it can of course, affects all of us. there's nothing to suggest that said that mining would replace

land based money. what we might end up with is 2 types of mining happening in parallel with 2 sets of environmental damage. the decisions that are being made can have ramifications for decades to come. the c jojo deep sea mining company, milan, and minerals cancer needs, is on phase by the global criticism. he's spending big money search for minerals in the co pilot's though we're not worried, we're not going to have a buyer. we have a particular large stove. you know, we, we use cell phones, we use laptops, we, we want to drive our motor vehicles around. and in order to do that, we need metals. and the reality is, is that if we want those metals in the quantities that we, that we need in order to sustain that lifestyle, we have no choice but to go into into the ocean. after spending $15000000.00 on research. if it comes back and says, significant hob will occur from mining, do you walk away? we walk away, we walked away. that is a risk. ah,

that we knew from the very beginning. ah, if it comes back and it says this is a no go, we walk away. but we don't want to walk away because a minority group has swayed public opinion to the point that we don't get a fair opportunity to to prove out. cuz we want to be given a fair chance and a fish shake with jaclyn. evans says the rest to the ocean that is given life to these islands is too great. is definitely a portion of our community that i drank on the idea of riches from from mining year batch, the global self and the pacific. we haven't had a good track record of extracting materials without logging in our mining. and yet we're thinking that we're going to actually do this perfectly and that we're where again to succeed and they will be no environmental impacts. they will be an

environmental impact on the question is, how bad will that impact be when the taliban took control of afghanistan in august 2021. it sparked a mass exit in a special true part report. 11 east makes the chinese entrepreneur with the other one on out of europe. mm hm. with reviewing the headlines, dissecting what they say, exposing how the media is used to shape opinions. the one factor that levers, things to make a difference is if untrue, it never happened. the listening post your guide to the media on al jazeera one

would be any saying theories that this guy, every day in search of signs of rain, he has lost nearly all of his. so yeah, being crops is here. tripping drought conditions affecting the south american nation. the drought is having an impact on across argentina. this is a field of coordinates. you can see it's try and it's already been lost. producers are telling us that because of the lack of wards, they have started to notice different types of insects they had never seen before. big stream weather conditions have also cost shortages of grass, rain and water severely impacting the captain of many of the farmers in the area for saddam's, warring generals agreed to talks and saudi arabia as gun battles continue in the capital cartoon. meanwhile, the you and warns of a full blown catastrophe,

and that 800000 people could flee the bonds to neighboring countries. ah, ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is out as they are alive and also coming up a barrage of russian missiles. hicks, ukraine's railway hubs in the east killing at least 2 people. i'm runing over 31 my day marches across latin america. we look at whether the new wave of left bring leaders is making any progress. laborers. ah, but un sedan envoy says the countries warring generals have agreed to send representatives to talks possibly in saudi arabia. folk a purpose was speaking to the associated press, but he also warned there are challenges to overcome before any negotiations can

begin. while the fighting between saddam's army on the power military rapids afford forces, has now gone on for more than 3 weeks. monday was another day of air strikes and explosions. despite a shake. you cease fire that you ins warning. the humanitarian crisis in the countries turning into a full blown catastrophe. even more than reports from cartoon from the denice army fighter jets flying over battery and east nile is to dance capital hard to targets and positions of the paramilitary rapid support forces. residents of battery in the northern parts of the capitol. se a fuel tanker belonging to the rapids support forces was head, leaving clues of dark smoke as heavy gun battle between the 2 sides reached on for a 3rd week of the other parts of the capitol also witnessed intense fighting between the 2 sides. he but is too frightened to leave her apartment in hudson. i missed my dana when it hit that he can continue. we hear the sounds of artillery

falling in the street. we are traumatized. every time we hear the fighting, we feel like we will die. the family is running out of basic supplies, the alang. i didn't get down. b aetna, the rapid support forces our station in front of our home and they won't allow us to fix the electricity port. there is no electricity and no water. the un says the scale and speed of what's unfolding is unprecedented in for them. it also says the humanitarian crisis. is that the breaking point? the the head of the army, general abdel, put the han has agreed to extend a faltering cease fire, allowing civilians to leave an 8 to be delivered. the sarah military group, the rapids support forth, is also agreed to the temporary to but on the ground. fighting continues, including in her 2 and 350,

undermine local communities in hard film warrants people to stay at home amidst airstrikes and artillery. fire. millions still remain in the capital. taking opportunities of brief love to go and get basic necessities where possible. those who can make their way out of the capital have already left evacuated, import dancy. they feel a sense of shock at the sudden spiral into civil war. many have lived and worked in for them for a decade or so. then i issue a lot of thoughts to don is living through a moment of real terror. i'm talking about dead bodies on the streets. we smell the dead bodies as we were coming to cartoons and firing the shelling su, done is seriously in his state. the real war we hope god brings peace through every one and down. we are su, denise, people residing in the us. people should not think that su down has been destroyed . no things have happened, but we wish to stay strong. this group of tamales arrived in mogadishu from 4th to

down. and once i gave him, so cosa, i am pleased that i have finally arrived in my country. however, what we have been through is unusual and hard to describe, but i am grateful for the opportunity to survive. but for millions of food in these, there is no way to go there trapped by fighting in a country the un says is falling apart. he but morgan august era hutton, in chad, more than 20000 people have already cross the border to seek refuge. they're making the dangerous journey from sedan on donkeys and by foot. the conflict is also affecting the residents of chad with the flow of goods being disrupted, causing food prices to rise. but it just reports from time del t. west of foreign sidney side of the border with chad. right behind me is a local police station here in $10.00. it is deserted, completely deserted, and the lock and key, and it looks like they how did they left this place when fighting,

broke out in sudan over here, the same boat. and now seeing the presence of the police station, it's constructed by the united mission mission in the for as implemented by the slime relief agency. many of the residents who fled these town of 10 delta after violence broke out. we understand that a lot of houses have been burned down. our security forces took to the heels and crossed over along with civilians. over there is the river bed, the dry river bed, which is a crossing point for people who live in this town and not found themselves inside chad. now a lot of people are moving away from this area simply because they feel that it's no longer safe to be here. now over there also is the towns. busy court house, it's also under lock and key, like many other government establishments. yeah. intended to simply because people don't believe the saved in this community. if you look at the streets, everything, every ways empty, except or cation of people,

one or 2 people who come and check on their belongings. their houses take about probably and then free across the drive have a bed into child, despite the hutch, if they prefer living in open spaces exposed to the elements. and of course, despite the fact that they don't have enough to eat in those camps, how many degrees algebra from pendalty inside dot for west of for region also done . ah, at least 2 people have been killed and dozens injured, including children and a series of russian missile strikes in ukraine. extensive damages report in the eastern city of poplar and charles stratford. as more of the capital, keith, a massive explosion lights up the night sky over the public red region in eastern ukraine. smoke trail suggest possibly exploding ukrainian weapons,

but not so se officials who really admit to russian missiles hitting military targets. they say this was an industrial enterprise and as at least 19 apartment buildings, 25 private homes and 6 schools with damaged or destroyed by the attack. because he said a gay was at home with his wife when the early hours of monday morning. there was an old mighty blast was the could there not surely. once i heard the 1st explosions, i shouted to my wife, let's quickly put on clothes and get out. we only got to the corridor when i heard another explosion, i was thrown by the shockwave windows were blown out. it's good, we weren't outdoors because i don't know open house be it would be shadow. we were in the corridor putting on shoes when both doors were smashed out by the explosion. ways and then there was fire. i ran outside and saw the garage was destroyed,

meeting with the ukrainian officials say russia launched 18 missiles of the keven, dinny, proper drops regions 15 of which was successfully intercepted by air defense. victoria superman's daughter lies in bed. lucky to have escaped injury or worse, official say dozens of people were injured in the attacks, including children who took a risk which he was going to bore or bollinger. we rushed to the hallway and laid on the floor, and then the explosion waved, twisted the door. had we stayed for 5 more seconds? we would have been trapped here. then there were more explosions. my child will me like a logical help. it's horrible. these attacks come just 3 days off to $25.00 people including 6 children, were killed by a russian missile hitting an apartment building in the city of mon, central ukraine. on you can you brush repeatedly says it doesn't deliberately target civilians. thousands have been killed by missiles,

drones and shelling of densely populated towns and cities since it invasion of ukraine in february last year. russian missiles and so called kamikaze drones strikes, targeting air is deep inside ukraine have increased in recent days. now it's impossible to confirm as to whether these are, in fact an attempt by russia to hit ukraine supply lines ahead of an expected ukrainian counter offensive. but u. k. defense ministry says russia has for months been preparing what it describes as some of the most extensive defensive lines seen anywhere in the world. in decades, charleston al jazeera give theory, a says one soldier has been killed and 7 others injured buys. randy strikes on both state media reports that electro airport is out of service falling the strikes. several missiles were reportedly intercepted, a united nations organized conference and afghan stones being held and cut off. i

mean, ongoing concerns of the country di humanitarian situation. but the taliban administration has not been invited to take part in the 2 days of closed or meetings in dough of the un considers african. it's done. it's biggest humanitarian crisis. well, the taliban is designated ambassador to the un has issued a statement saying, and the meeting without its participation is unproductive and even counterproductive. it has an adjustment right to express its position. and he questions how decisions taken can be acceptable or implemented if the taliban are not part of the process. finally, it says the move is discriminatory and unjustified and caused for the issues to be sold through a pragmatic approach. diplomatic editor james base has more the un having a conference here in doha and they've not invited the taliban. they're not invited . the women, the un say there's a reason for this. and actually i've just come from new york on the flight from new

york, and on the same flight was the insect general antonio terrace. and he made it clear to me that the, the international community need to be on the same page. and that's the purpose of this meeting not to engage with the women, not to engage with the taliban, but to get the international community in the same place because there are different countries with very different views. now, one thing that he believes is strengthened the u. s. position is at the end of last week, the un security council came up with a resolution condemning the taliban and its policy towards women, and particularly the ban on female un workers doing their jobs in afghanistan. he believes that the 1st real sign of unity on this issue from the security council could mean unity for this meeting, which is with a much wider grouping its western powers, its regional powers, its arrow powers, all coming together. and the un is trying to get them on the same page. some breaking news now, a permanent palestinian activists called none has died in and israeli prison after $86.00 days on hunger strike. ad nun was

a leading member of islamic jihad. he was arrested by israeli forces near his home in jeanine, in early february, and had been an anger strike against his detention without charges. let's bring anita abraham. she's on the line from from ramallah in the occupied west bank. nita, what more can you tell us about how to add non the events leading up to his death, clipping the food to food climate to had party with the father of 9 and a total of 8 years in israel prisons. now while this is not his 1st time to try to do that, this is the 1st time he was on strike 4 charges to the he announced his home district the 1st day he was arrested in february and said that the charges that the, that they've sent and that they're asking for the charges that he's presented with

do not compatible since then we've posted a $186.00 of the tri q ms downs in his so i mean it's moved to the hospital. it's mentioning that called that man who was the pioneer claimed to the ceiling is probably the strikes for palestinian prism is as individual. so in 201200 strike. and he succeeded in ending his detention without charging charges using the lease of more protestant prisoners to go on hunger strike when there are vested without charges. so the statement with the frontier is presented with the charges, but he said that they are not compatible with the ssl that he was presented to. it now has been a thrive in june. and of course,

the bank $237.00 pounds have been killed. the type is 1967. neither just quickly is his death likely to lead to an escalation and violence across the west bank. do you think? well, it had party has a good if you guys do hunger strike. going to be considered fascination and the husband truck and all across. but it's hard to tell how that is going to be played through. it probably depends on if you had and what kind of a reaction that are going to have. ok, i need to abraham live there in ramallah in the occupied westbank. needa. thank

toms. i saw break out as a rock when we come back and i am glad partnership leaders of the u. s. in the philippines meters tensions rise of a, china's growing military and economic one. ah . with off we go with your weather story for the americas. thank you. so much for joining in and we've seen some severe thunderstorms to the southeast of brazil, eastern paraguay that knocked down the temperature in places like a sasan. so you're up to $23.00. on tuesday, off to brazil, we go in for this state of esper seat del santo. we've got some soggy conditions here as well. have befalls, of brain, in the forecast around men else with the high of 31 degrees. you know, for central america, there was windsor picking up through the caribbean sea that's gonna generate showers along the caribbean coast, but also on the other side too. for the pacific coast. got some pouring rain in the

forecast there to the u. s. we go and we are bringing up warm air from the gulf of mexico. so houston, new orleans, re temperatures are closing in on 30 degrees. but let's go to where the active weather is. it's around the great lakes, really raw feeling conditions here, cloudy, gloomy sherry at times is wall toronto, 7 degrees for you, that is well below average. now that we're in the month of may to the west, we go still some warmth for western canada, the pacific northwest, actually a seller. they'll can forecast plenty in the way of sunshine. seattle at 21. and for california, you know, the name of the game right. more what, whether moves in, including for at safe with the high of 16 on tuesday see later. ah, a meeting of mine when i was studying the cannon and the curriculum that we were taught to was handed down from elsewhere, it was an inherited curriculum. that is the image of architecture in the west

architect in may of valley and alejandro ravenna pope one. there was, you mean or something that social housing can not provide, which is personal expression. fright studio, p. unscripted on al jazeera lou . ah, welcome back to them about top stories at this hour. the un sudan envoy has told the associated press the country's warring generals how debris de talks possibly in saudi arabia. the fighting between saddam's army and the our miniature rapid support forces has not gone to more than 3 weeks. humans bracing for as many as

800000 people to escape to neighboring countries because of the problems it's warmed, that the humanitarian crisis incident is turning into a full blown catastrophe. that these 2 people have been killed and dozens injured, including children, and a series of russian missile strikes and ukraine. the eastern city of popular route is a major ukrainian railway and logistics up. now the international monetary fund has just released a report that full cost, the state of economies across the asia pacific region. growth is project to increase this year to 4.6 percent. that's up from 3.8 percent in 2020 to jessica washington joined us live from beijing. jessica, how important is this i met for casa? what more can you tell us about the report? and if we take a look at this report, it's really a positive indicator for the region as a whole of the regional economic outlook has raised asia's economic forecasts for the year of 2023, under this broad,

a theme of resilience. despite the global economic challenges, the report notes, of course that 2023 is a challenging year in terms of the outlook for the global economy. but despite the challenges, despite that rather gloomy outlook, the asia pacific remains in i and i quote, a dynamic region that is, is said to sort of power growth for the global economy through 2023. and you mentioned some of those statistics that the asia pacific is set to see a growth rate of 4.6 percent for the year of 2023. and another interesting statistic in this report is that the reading is set to contribute around 70 percent of global growth for the year of 2023. and most of that is powered by the economies of china and india as well. if we take a look at some of the reasons behind this positive outlook, despite the rather gloomy global economic outlook. one main factor of course, that can't be overlooked, is the reopening of china this week. or we're seeing this this holiday week, millions of people around the country travelling and the, the i,

m f has flagged that as we see this increase mobility increased consumers spending . well, that can only be a positive indication for china's economy, but also for the, the broader region as well. one other interesting thing to note from the report is that there is likely to be some, a slight decline in growth for ozzy on economies for the economies of southeast asia. nothing to be to alarmed about that's certainly expected. after last year we saw a boom in commodity prices that benefited the economies of indonesia, malaysia. as we see those prices start to normalize, it's only expected that there would be a slight decline. jessica, just quickly, what are the potential issues then to watchful across the asia pacific economies? well, the issue is beyond this year, some of the, the mid to long term risk. so factors to watch that the i m f has flagged is this concept of stickier than expected inflation. what sticky inflation refers to is, is even if the prices of the everyday goods

a start to sort of normalize. if there are services such as education, where prices remain persistently high, that can also have a broader impact on the global economy. another factor is this concept of g o. economic fragmentation. certainly as, as tensions over the war and ukraine continue, that's likely to have an impact on the global economy, including the economy in asia as well. and one other factor that the i m f has flagged as a sort of mid to long term factor to watch is the broadest slow down that's expected here in china. the ramifications of that would have not only domestically, but on the region as well. all right, jessica washington lives there in beijing. jessica, thank you. now, president joe biden says that the u. s. commitment to defending the philippines is iron clad, who, speaking during a visit to the white house by the president of the philippines ferdinand marcus junior was making the 1st visit by leader from the philippines, the more and 10 years, a significantly improve relations with the u. s. since taking over from rodrigo to tattoo and june, top of the agenda as defense corporation with worries of the increased chinese

activity in the region, let's bring in. richard white sees a security unlisted with a strong global consultancy. it joins us live from washington, dc rich, a good, happy back with our so the 1st official visit by philippines president to the u. s . i think for many years, how significant is the trip and what you think the focus will be them? is this all about china? yes. pretty much it's all about china. i mean, the, they were president biden was clever enough to lead the conversation by talking about how can just like climate change and building good job dealing with other issues. but it's pretty much about china managing china, particularly it's rising military, our economic course and, and this is something we've seen a big, a major theme of the president binds administration. we saw that last week. but the, the, the bedside out the president saw as a korea and we'll probably see this going forward. and richard,

what role is washington been expecting the philippines to play and pushing back against china? is this about enhancing military cooperation? well, the, the, the philippines of a small, kind for, with limited military capacities. so it's main, the main idea is to help defend its territory against chinese claims. by frank mean it's, it's in digital capacity by frank corporation with the us. we've seen new military base has been nouns, we've seen some more exercises. so the philippines contribution mainly be to defend itself. that differs a little from the us, use the pan and policies. now we're having a larger role, but the beans also could i have a contribution in helping shape that overall you last down, which is your corresponding china noted. it's very important. economic play for the

us. another 3. yeah. richard and worth pointing out. the philippines is trading a very careful diplomatic tightrope. hey, i mean, china remains the philippines, top trading partner, furden, and marcus june even visited beijing in january. is there a danger richard? that mom calls will be caught up between the 2 superpowers buying the influence? well, this is a challenge, a lot of countries are facing within europe and we see the especially in asia. so often you've got that, that situation in which the main economic partner of countries in asia is china. but there, that's also one of their main charity concerns because of china is rising our and as sort of stands about territorial claim. so all the countries struggling to balance the philippines, the more vulnerable most do the front lines status. they tried in the previous ministration that still closer to china that did not work. so i think that the new

balance will be working with the u. s. military, but also remain open for trade in diplomatic. i was with the public china. all right, richard, we have to leave it there. richard white's there. thank you for your insight and analysis for washington d. c. now, the treasury secretary, janet yellen says the us government could default on its debt as early as june 1. if legislators don't raise the debt ceiling, president joe biden, republicans in congress. i want to stand off the how much the us government can borrow murders never, ever, ever fail to pay the debt to put in the capillary and colloquial terms. marika is not a dead beat nation. we have never ever fail to meet the dead. now as a result, one must respect the nations of the world. we pay our bills, and we should do so without reckless hostage taking from some of the mega republicans in congress. nearly 300 people had been arrested in france during

protest, mocking international workers day authorities saving the 800000 people running. that was the country answering calls from the trade unions to demonstrate. but as to say, they're angry. president emmanuel microns pension reform sign into law last month, which increases the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00. well made a marches have also been held in several parts of latin america in columbia. supporters of president, gustavo petro, rallied in the capital and support of his controversial proposals for social reforms. out his arrows, allison from pet reports from a capital border, taking it to the streets union if indigenous in pro government movements march to the presidential palace heating the call of columbus president to defend this controversial social reforms. it is, was settled, beatrice preferred strategy in times of crisis. graham get bedrock,

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reforms are the most controversial and have led to the breakdown of the coalition. and the government now will try to negotiate votes with each congressman. then when sees that many of his reforms will fail, betral try with the st. democracy. he will try to promote the referendum to prove the reform. critics consider the abrupt shake upcoming just 9 months into better as administration as a possible radicalization and part of a precedent that is shown little patients for the same. and the move as also sent shock waves through the currency and bond market. the most worrying last for the markets was the sacking of finance minister was antonio cam for an internationally admired economist, who many observers saw as a wall of protection against radical move faith or replaced them with the capitol beneath another season, the economist. but one who observers fear, will simply do as he stoled the president may be keen to make some decisions about cost controls. price increases for,

for fuel additional subsidies, or even an extraordinary increase the minimum wage. so each of those lines in the sand represent opportunities for bonnie, just to say, stop, know, and show if he will rise to the occasion and feel the big shoes that will come for left behind. peter will be hoping to push labor pension and help reform to congress in the next couple of weeks, but it will have to do it with declining support in the folds and shake it comic times the head showing just how difficult it will be to fulfill his promise of change. i listen that i'm the, i just gotta, ah, for christian headlines this, our, a prominent palestinian activist called the non has died in his reading prison after 86 days on hunger strike. abnormal was

a leading member of islamic jihad. he was arrested by israeli forces, new home in jeanine and early february and had been on a hunger strike against this detention without charge. the un sedan envoy has told the associated press, the country's warring generals have agreed to talk possibly in saudi arabia. the fighting between sedans, army and the paramilitary rapid support forces, as now going on for more than 3 weeks. united nations as it should start warning about the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries. the un refugee agency, in consultation with the governments and partners, are planning for up to 800000 people who mayfly fighting in sudan to the 7 neighboring countries. with our quick resolution to the crisis, we will continue to see more people forced to flee in search of safety and humanitarian assistance. the latest figures for more teams on the ground confirm that $73000.00 people have arrived in neighboring countries, including sudanese refugees and also returning refugees. notably from south to

death, south sudanese, refugees, serious as one soldier has been killed and 7 others. injured buys, rainy air strikes on aleppo, state media reports that a leper airport is now out of service falling the air strike. several missiles though, were reportedly intercepted. treasury secretary, janet jaelyn, says the u. s. government could default on its debt as early as june. first, if legislatures don't raise the debt ceiling, president biden, and republicans in congress on a standoff of how much the u. s. government can borrow. last week, the us house of representatives, now the past a bill to raise the debt ceiling to $31.00 trillion dollars. the bills likely to be rejected in the senate. nearly 300 people have been arrested in france during protest smockey international workers day or to san an 800000 people running across the country, protested or angry. president manuel michaels pension reform. in columbia supported the president, gustavo petro, marched in support of his social reforms,

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it was an inherited curriculum that is the image of architecture in the west. if you were given all the budget in the world for doing a building, you still would like to make a building that has taken out the superfluous the unnecessary in social housing. your forster is not a choice. oh i am on the sandra rena. i'm an architect from seattle to me. ah, architecture, indiana is nothing but giving form to the places where people live. not more complicated than that, and also not easier than that ah . i'm samantha lee, i'm an architect from johannesburg, south africa. ah, i think the role of architecture is that it is

a vessel for our identities and a manifestation for who we are in the world. and it allows us to see ourselves reflected in my practice element done, we see the city as a shortcut towards the quality inn. if you identify strategically, projects of public space, infrastructure, housing, or transportation, you can improve people's quality of life in the short period of time with my practice, county space west formed by us the challenges and the inspirations that exist in my city. ah, johannesburg is

a case with deep segregation, but also a place which is incredibly vibrant and full of creativity. ah, i would like to use floor and the dialogue with some maya. how can we as architects, face inequalities and the built environment through our practice? and what does the future of architecture look like from voices of def, friends who have been left out of the architectural cannon for most of history? ah, ah thing. we start by addressing one of the elephants in the room,

all women in architecture. i think there's been criticism about this issue ah, recently, and i'm interested not so much in the, in the book a c or let's say the activism. but i wanted to know about the tipping points that brought you to be where you are today. um, so the elephant in the room, woman in architecture. i think that for me, i've always seen all of the facets of my identity being a woman being of color, being south african of indian heritage as fuel for my practice. and i've never seen it as a challenge, but as a power, really, i think that these are important things to bring to the architectural conversation . because architecture has always been created in the image of a very particular entity that of metro, normative white male. and so anything that we can bring to trouble or challenge or

compliment and supplement that we should. and if i think about the tipping points, when i graduated and i volunteered for a friends and g o called one to one agency of engagement. it's run by john bennett, and john o was looking at a project that had to do with informal settlement upgrading. and something that came into the conversation was the idea of a 2 story walk up for this community to 10 sci fi. and you know, to think about how we limit sprawl and so on. and one of the community leaders stood up and said in their particular belief system, they don't want to have to story walk ups because the, everything above the 1st floor or the ground floor is the realm of the ancestors. and when the soul leaves the body, it needs to have

a clear passage for the ancestors. and this was the 1st time i heard an indigenous belief system described specialty like that. and it was an incredibly profound moment for me to be able to reckon with that idea that architecture can hold belief systems and ideologies like that. but until that time, all of the ideologies that i saw held in architecture didn't come from my own city or my own context and our own conditions. so that was an incredibly formative moment. also that time of being immersed in the city of johannesburg. and in being able to study and learn from its conditions, made me fall in love with the idea of architecture again. so that's a tipping point for my practice. yes. what about you? what were the tipping points in your trajectory? before going into that, the things he just said, i'm at a very telling because you could have chosen not to have listened to that need to

have the 2nd floor free. the fact that bad matters, which is a symbolic thing, as is of course smaller g as a way to look at the world that not necessarily falls in what we have been trained as architect, which is measurable, budget time frame. and i think it tell us a lot about the nature of the questions that we have to deal today in this world. some of them are very concrete, very urgent. some of them are in tangible, symbolic, and talk about the mysterious nature of the human condition. and it's both and in this synthetic condition of architecture, i would say it's very telling from your, your own tipping points. but about my own room. oh, i'm going to try to make it as less boring as possible. maybe 3rd year student are having to do a house it private house. and then many of our am our friends chose an artist, a philosopher,

a filmmaker on the assumption that the better the client, the better the architecture. and of course, ah, i chose to go the other way around, may be a question of age question of t lay in the middle of the dictatorship. you just want to provoke, and i want, i bade the house for a taxi driver because i want them in big words being discussing the university heidegger, the void, the space. and this guy was a friend of my father. i wanted to have the refrigerator in gleaming room because it was a sign of status. it could have gone horribly wrong. ah, but it, it went well. so you then, of course, accumulate some courage to keep on provoking. maybe then the other thing a tipping point would be your 1st building, so i'm always grateful of this particular professor of mine. ah, that proposed me to be the architect of this building in the university. ah, once you get an opportunity,

you grab it with teeth and nail and i was almost leaving on the, on the construction side or was so nervous because you were doing some lines on paper. and this lines become a couple of months later, some tons of matter and hundreds of workers there. and that building lead to be invited to harvard. i asked myself one are arriving to her, but what can i say here that matters. so i thought about social housing coming from a country like chili worse car cities of means are all around you, which i thought worked a said great filter, an antidote against arbitrariness. you can't do things just because you want to or because you can amend that. but these are so tight, and if you make a mistake, families get a subsidy only once in their lifetime. you can't fail and on, i would stop there. and maybe building on that

a little bit. i think there's something very interesting in your practice about naming 1st the name of the practice itself. and then i'd also like to hear how that ethos is embedded. also in this idea of the half house. yeah, the name matters. and actually when we started with this initiative of at harvard, i met a person there, a transport engineer or under his yakobelli. so he asked if to learn architecture recently has drawn so much international attention and supposed to be so good. why social housing? so back? ah, i think he had a point and they said, why don't we do something? what the say in my are good x mine was do something meant a book, an exhibition. ah, in my wildest dreams, a want to one prototype in his engineers mind. let's make a company that can compete in the market and prove the market wrong. we wanted, among other things, the name element fall in spanish is something that can not be farther decomposed.

so we wanted to turn a negative aspect of social housing into something positive because if you're given all the bad in the world for doing a building, you still would like to make a building that has taken out the superfluous. they're unnecessary. what everything that is not strictly the case in housing and social housing, you're forced to, there's not a choice. and the question of the have house, i think it's important to be clarified because who on earth would like to receive half of a house as a solution and socio housing. but point was when you study informally settlements and social housing in, in developing countries, which is the reality for $2000000000.00 people in the world, would you get in the best of the cases is around 40 square meters. would then reality shows is that the need for making it grow because a middle class family can't leave in such a tight space. they double lean is the size would market and government do with

type budgets is that they take the mill class house and make it a small one and called architects to make it look nice. but it's still a tiny small house. so the only thing we did was why don't we look at those 40 square meters, which is a fact we can not afford more than that, not as a small house, but as a half of that middle class good one that we would have liked to deliver but we don't have enough funds, but more than you reframe the question as half of the good house instead of a small one. the key question is, which have to do? the definition of a public policy is that you do the half that families can't do on the role and weird and to find a set of design conditions that allows families over time. if you can't deliver everything on day one, then over time incrementally, you achieve that standard that you cannot afford in developing countries. so the name limit value is about that. what about counter space?

so counter space were started when i was still a student and it was started with a group of friends at the time. we were very much engaged and in love with johannesburg. i also was very aware that when i was studying the cannon and the curriculum that we were taught was handed down from elsewhere, it was an inherited curriculum. that is the image of architecture in the west. and it was not an architecture that was made of and for the same credible city that we were living and studying. and, and so counter space was born a to be able to imagine other spaces. so johannesburg, it's incredibly segregated. of course, we know we still love with the histories and the ongoing legacies of a party. but despite these challenges and segregation, it's also incredibly vibrant. it's incredibly rich,

and we see that people's belief systems have, in some instances, been resilient enough to surface. so we have many, for example, economies that have developed in the cracks of the city. these incredible conditions that exist in johannesburg. i really wanted to be able to see architecture that's made from these conditions and also architecture. that's not just about this idea of a lack of infrastructure or you know, only purely service delivery. and then i also really like the idea of the counter space as a surface across which to share and come together and defer the counter space conjures spaces to be together to cope together to interact over it brings to bear economies. and all of these definitions i think, are interesting because architecture is really how we convened in space. so it's

a shirt practice. i mean, the question of working with communities, not just us, would be end users or the clients also your own creative process. i guess it's, it's collective, isn't it? yes, counter space has evolved over the years. but the way that we work is such that we collaborate on every single project with different design disciplines, with communities and voices from various fields on every project. so when we worked on the serpentine pavilion, there were several neighborhoods and several community arts institutions that became part of the project as well. for example, the same on the islamic arts, b and i lay there were several different institutions from all across the world, as well as many different facets in the design team. so i think, collaborating and bringing different voices to the design discourses. i hope something that's inherent to the practice,

and i really hope we'll continue to talking about listening to communities. should we open the field to the audience? my question for you. some are you, you mentioned um that you felt that the curriculum you had was an inherited curriculum handed from the west. how did you keep yourself from being corrupted for want of a better word being corrupted by that m. by that curriculum and still have your voice and still have um your, your unique identity to bring to your work. oh, i had to for better or worse, learn to listen to my intuition. and that's something that a, i still am stubbornly kind of focused on. and i also lined not to trust the system too much because i didn't do particularly well in design school. and that really taught me to just focus on what i was interested

in. and in the purpose of that, so i've never looked for validation outside. i've always judged my project by a kind of inner guiding intuition. i. but i can't say that i am not corrupt because i think that all of us have and, and maybe it's not necessarily a corruption. we all have pieces of each other inside of ourselves. we exist in the world and we interact with others, which is a beautiful thing. and so i think we all have pieces of east west, north and south inside of us, the conditions and the cultures that we live in our hybrid, my own identity is so hyphenated that it combines so much just in who i am. and i think that that is a strength and power because what type realty does is it allows us to resonate with

many different contexts. and many other people were able to empathize and see humanity in, in everyone else. and, and it also there's less of a risk of either ring when we acknowledge and embrace out hybridity a 100, a question for you in the ongoing context of housing shortages and crisis all over the world. what have been your takeaways from the current who projects and what you feel is most critical in housing design, right. my 1st is the wood, apparently is perceived as something to be corrected or are replaced, meaning informal settlements are part of the solution, not part of the problem. the reason for that is that the migration towards cities did happen,

or the scale speed and cost with you means of $1000000.00 people per week with which we have to respond with $210000.00 per family. but that's a fact with all the resources of governments in marcus were not even close to answer that question. and people had put a roof on top of their head despite having no help from outside. the thing is not to romanticize that the way that has been happening because individual actions, even if well intention cannot guarantee common good. and that's what happened in informal settlements. so the question is to identify what your role as an architect is there. and i would say framing and channeling the, those forces instead of her replacing them is the attitude. so the role of design there is slightly different from controlling an electron not long ago, a membrane. the panel was referring to architecture, splaying against rafael,

nodded. i mean, your, he tells you that he was serving that corner. exactly. you're waiting for the ball he serves. and nevertheless, the ball is behind you behind you before you realize that's the case of housing. and i my reaction to that comment, which i think it was very brilliant, is that more than tennis is a mix between rugby and surf because it's brutal, it's surfing a wave that is so much bigger than yourself. this other big, big forces and those forces can not be air repressed. you have to channel them. there was room for something that so shall housing cannot provide, which is personal expression fright. there was a drawing in the window, one of the housing projects we did or not, maybe not long ago. and the drawing was from a kid that was saying that this part of the house that was an arrow pointing at the void will be done my mind, that, that seeming of pride of all,

you're not given everything that you're still wait to go over that completion of the enterprise, it's thanks to people. so that was something that was not theirs. and we have been asked by some communities that it went with the money. don't finish everything alone room for this things to our lead. the diversity enter the system and as i with i would say that the richness of the urban environment that we are sometimes missing in cities. so i'm, our architect seemed to agree. 3rd, architecture communicates through form, through scale, through material, through air, through light. if the architecture can communicate in that kind of implicit way, is it possible, do you think fritz, who communicate in more explicit way about particular stories?

for example, stories of hybrid african and islamic identity? i think form embedded in form is every thing a politics, economies ideologies. a belief systems about a color, about patton, if we think about a ways of being that oral and oral and atmospheric things that are grounded in ritual practice, those also can lend themselves to form making. but those forms might not necessarily look like the forms that we have all around us in most traditional cities. the project of architecture is to be able to absorb those rituals in those ways of life and ways of being and then translate them into form. and i think that all of those things they happen,

people make them happen despite architects and despite architecture. and we haven't had discourse that thinks about how we continue or evolve those ways of form making in the present. earlier we talked about the serpentine pavilion being fagged mentored, and having piece is located in different neighborhoods for me that logic came from thinking about diasporas and thinking about things that route themselves or approve themselves from one place and travel to another place and then take on the conditions of that other place. so with the pavilion in particular, i looked at spaces that were important for migrant communities when they 1st moved to london. and i thought about some of the 1st mosques, churches, synagogues, but then also market places where people would be able to find traditional ingredients for recipes or some of the 1st venues to play black music in

london. but then i also wanted to be able to take the pavilion back out into london and wrote the pavilion in neighborhoods in london. so in some of those same community arts institutions, we embedded pieces of the pavilion that then posted programs over time and beyond the form. what that did is it created collaborations between the serpentine gallery in kensington gardens and london and community arts institutions across london. so the building became a kind of communication device between places and the method for me of that way of working really came from thinking about dias barrick logics and thinking about how people have moved across places. i started to think what if architecture did that as well? there are material dimensions there i aesthetic dimensions, but they are also methods of practice and ways of working that are waiting to inform architectural practice.

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