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ah, them laura kyle, this is al jazeera alive from dough. also coming up. home of brazil, former president has rated as part of an investigation into claims general snark. falsified, coven, 19 vaccine documents. so we could travel to the us, move audience and to dance capital costume despite tuesday's extension of 5 for another week. class school shooting and sub capitol hill. knowing people, a teenage suspect is under arrest. ah, to begin with what russia is calling an attempted assassination of president vladimir putin, moscow's head to drones, were used in the attack on the presidential residence in the kremlin. it happened in the early hours of wednesday morning, rational authorities,

se ukraine was behind it. the cranium, government has strongly denied those allegations saying it does not attack targets and russian territory. they've got to reporters on the story. charles dropped from standing blank. keith was picked up just a moment for more on ukraine's reaction. first, let's go to journalist shop, revolver la, who's in moscow for what more we know about the attack and the reaction that we're hearing from the russian officials to it. so the official story is that on the night of may, the, the fed to trends attempted to time the kremlin what the residents, which is the resident of russian president the residents rather of russian president vladimir putin. the germans will shut down and no one was injured. presentation was not in the kremlin at the time of the incident. russian officials immediately blamed ukraine for that time and called it

a plum act of terror and an assassination attempt on presentation. we understand there are 2 video clips so that talk dad, now circulating the media. one of them shows the moment of shooting down the drone and how was falling on the one of the crumbling buildings on the other. we can see how the dumb is burning. fast reactions are now coming in and will ready had from midst of a low didn't they had of rushes, low house of parliament to stay deemed as saying that they deem a deputies will demand the use of weapons that can cope and destroy the key of terrorist regime and he added that that should be no negotiations with the landscape regime as it threatens the security of russia, europe, and the whole world. but of course we had from us from the kremlin press, that is, and they immediately, as they said, blamed care for that talk and according to the crime in sparks pass and perchance

shed you has not changed you to that time. and the president continues working as usual, and over to the toxic place right before the victory day, which has widely celebrated here every year on may the 9th. but according to the sources, that top ones affect the parade plans. on may, the 9th, it will take place, no matter walls and presentation, will take part in the celebrations. by the way, one of the rehearsals of the victory they parade a shed yield for the evening of may before also. so we should wait and see how is going to play out by the way, it's shortly before the kremlin and reported. that's hoc moscow mass survey, so be on in bombs the launch of drones in the cap. so altogether and i made an exception, was only, has only been made for you are these used by the, your sources and now where get to report that all trends have also been bonds in the moscow region and in st. petersburg as well. right. okay. yeah,

many thanks brings the view that from moscow. well, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has said that they aren't behind the attack on a kremlin. he made those remarks during his trip to finland. meanwhile, in keith, hundreds of people have sought shelter in metro stations during air raids, alerts, her so cleans gospel. i don't think it was ukraine, the russians tend to attack their own territory and then blame us so that the west reacts and we turn out to be the aggressors instead of them. he actually, you know, well if they're not responsible for what happened or they could sell us again with me, so we need to remain in safety and take care of ourselves and i'll close once all our cars bonded, charles stratford joins us now from the cranium. capital chart says bit more about these air raids alerts. first of all, they're unusual, aren't they? yes, certainly we had a couple of arrays, alerts of the soft noun, one almost immediately after that announcement from the criminal in their unusual

for the fact that they happened during the day time. and usually when there have been a tax, these so called kamikaze drones and cruise missile attacks. they've happened at night. so that was exceptional. the situation here in the capital is calm, but yes there's, it's this, this message from the kremlin is being perceived as being pretty ominous. you mentioned president zalinski there in the intro. we understand that he is now given some sort of statement during a visit to finland, brought zalinski saying we are defending our villages and our cities. we do not have enough weapons for this. we did not attack putin. this comes on the back of some of the statements. it was made by one of his presidential advisors a couple of hours ago. mikhail pollock but all york saying that, so this is all predictable. he says that this is russia preparing for a large scale terrorist attack. first of all, ukraine wages and exclusively defense. it was,

it was all the arc and does not attack target sal territory and the russian federation. and this does not solve any military issue, but it gives grounds to the russian federation to justify its attacks on civilians . basically put all the ac is saying that this in his mind is a false flag attack. and of course, a false flag is something that is being fabricated to give, in this case, coatings below that russia, the pretext to attack. and we saw this kind of, this kind of thing in the build up to the full scale invasion, much specifically in the pro russia separatist held areas. the so called d n r. when the separatists claim that they'd been a. ready number of assassination attempts on their officials. and this was, as i say, only a few days before that full scale invasion. so the ukrainians obviously, staunchly denying this. but the interpretation is, is that this is a very ominous sign from russia, especially as we've had weeks if not months of this expected counter offensive,

while ukrainian forces in the east on the south. okay. charles happened johnny's there from k. thanks very much. charles. only moderately, 17 people have been killed and dozens more wounded and rush, not henry strikes on the crane in city of cas song, they hit one of the few working hypermarkets in the city, partially destroying it. victims include the shop staff and customers. some al, somebody reports from cason to watch it until he has a bottle. a landmark, we're outside the largest shopping mall in the heart, of course, on top of the venue would shout, and as a result, the entire building was damaged or thoroughly had the alco sophie had. here you can see the impact on the ground etiquette and is also one of the mini did bodies still lying around and we were told he was one of the work unless he had a marcus ang, an opponent flood. so high a simply a, a lesson middle, so i'm at and several people were killed and a dozen injured in this attack and ukrainian authority and say the russians are

constantly shelling, major shopping centers and residential communities in the city. and they also reported other fatalities on the front lines as rusher intensifies its artillery muscle and rocket attacks along the eastern bank of the nitro river and curse on which is now under rushes, control water level, seattle morris, my delicacy, mckesson here and under factory general for humanitarian affairs has arrived to ensue, don martin griffith as said to be coordinating the flow of aid across the conflict head nation may moll. there's been more violence in the capsule cartoon, despite yet another sci fi extension, a tory gate and be reports. this video purports to show fighters from the paramilitary rapid support forces at the presidential palace in her 2. it's the office of the head of the army, general abdel fat albert hand. but the r s. f says it's in control of this government building. this be more intense fighting in the capital is the 2 sides

battle for control. that despite the announcement of an extension of a cease far for one week, after mediation efforts by south sedans, president salva care looting is still a problem in battery. in the northern part of her tune, thieves have stolen clothes and textiles from every store at this market. the un says the deteriorating situation is making it difficult to deliver. aid is humanitarian chief who visited ports who dance says security guarantees are needed . even weather's the fall murph, we will still require agreements. the rights is to allow for movement of stores straws. we will need to have agreements with the highest level and very publicly, and we willing to deliver those commas into local arrangements, the company to present all the fighting and instability is pushing more families to flee the capital. this boss of a vacuum ease is heading north to the eastern red sea coast along the way they

passed through several checkpoints. some are controlled by the army, others by the rapid support forces. another than that of you will people coming from cartoon who are escaping the war and trying to find safety and security arrive here and a very difficult circumstances. some people who have passed through here don't have food, some, a sick, some of very old, you know, impulsive dan, navy ships commercial fairies and airplanes. shuttling people out of the country authority say around $13000.00 foreign nationals have left in recent weeks, but more evacuees arrive each day and the city is struggling to cope with a lot of, of food on the account of what we've had a big problem of accommodation in the area sealants are currently living on the street. some families opened their houses to families. but for us youths, we've been staying in the mosques and we have been getting help with basic needs food and drink. despite the pool conditions, the influx into ports, he down will likely go on until the warring sides agree to

a ceasefire. that holds victoria gates and be al jazeera out there. as mohammed alti reports from the city of berkeley, in northern cartoons states. so side should i live, you know, i mean us welcome lee. this is one of the major markets in the body area, of course, to me for selling clothes and textiles. and it came under a wave of them and looting has happened because of the lack of security that he took off. as you can see, the shops are robbed of whatever stocks they had as we speak. we can hear the sound of the anti aircraft fire by the rapids support forces against the sudanese armies warplanes, which have been hovering over this area. ok that he has a soup fighting embody, has been mostly distant chilling in artillery throughout the past 3 days. the army has intensified the airstrikes. as you can see, the fighter jet directly above our heads, faces aircraft fire, defended off by

a lot to me. for the dumbest city about. some shop owners have come to collect whatever is left from their property. large numbers of these jobs have been totally empty of their stock. this is a result of the recent crisis and the fighting regime within the capital. and want to serve an hour where a 13 year old boy has been accused of opening fire in a school in the capsule belgrade, at least 8 children, and one security guard were killed. lisa, the suspect views his father's gun in the attack and was arrested at the scene. but he's not expected to be charged because he's below the legal age to face trial out there. and though it is in belgrade with more fully said that suspect planned this shooting, for at least a month that he had 2 guns that were legally registered to his father to mala doves, a plan of school facilities and the least of potential victims. they also said the dad's the shorter called the police by himself. sugar was arrested in the

schoolyard as well as his father. couple of hours later, police is still working on this case to find out all the details as well. the motives that lead to this thread to the what they know in this moment is that the shooting started in a hallway and the security guard was the 1st that you have seen him. shooter killed the guards and then started to shoot in direction of other students. 3 days of morning have been declared in serbia and all schools in belgrade have closed classes for to day. tragedies like these sands, mass shootings are very rare in serbia, which has very strict gown lowes. and this is the 1st time that this happens in a school. that is the reason that the schools in serbia clothing the one with tragedy has happened have be their surveillance, but not the metal detectors. police and brazil have conducted a raid at the mansion of the former president chapel sanara as part of an investigation into falsified cove at 19 vaccine documents that will police suspect

fate. welds were entered into public health systems that he could travel to the u. s. last night says he has never taken a coven 19 vaccine, but also denies of forging documents. will could afford my mobile phone has been seized. i have nothing to hide. not only about the vaccination card, i have nothing to hide about anything. it would be good if we had a democratic country where we could discuss all subjects. there are subjects that are forbidden to talk about in brazil, and one of them is about the vaccine, alive now to want to kind of get that care of who's in read dictionary. when you tell us more about this investigation. well yes, for standing at the federal police headquarters here in rio de janeiro where 2 of the 6 people detained are now being question there being question for allegedly entering the health care system and altering the data, putting in vaccines that were supposedly never taken by president shay, annabelle, so nato and his daughter now are people while he was in government since he had

made a campaign discrediting the vaccine and, and, and at a moment were brazil had the largest 2nd largest death toll after the united states . and they were, he was being investigated and he was asked to show his vaccination card, which he never did. and now apparently this system was altered so that it would seem as if he and his daughter had been vaccinated. also now to said that he never did that he was not vaccinated. he repeated. and he's, when he talks about being able to discuss openly, the coven 19 vaccine. it means being open to question them. question would whether they are about whether it's a, what good way of combating the pandemic or not. because that was one of the big issues during his presidency was allowing so many brazilians to die. when brazil could have imported vaccines before it actually did both scenarios,

finding himself in all sorts of trouble, isn't he? what else is he being investigated for? well, just last month, he was a, he was questioned twice by the federal police. the 1st time for bringing in 3 sets of jewelry that he received while he was present from the saudi arabian government . these jewels entered the country without going through the normal protocols. that was one question, the 2nd one, the 2nd time he was question was for his the legit role and instigating the january 8th uprising on january the 8th are both on our supporters stormed the presidential palace, the congress and the supreme court asking the military to over throw our president losing us who rule or the silver who had just taken office a week before again, bill so now to said that he was not responsible for that,

that he was in the united states during the uprising and that he had condemned the violent attacks but there was a video that he had posted where he once more call made unfounded claims that the elections could have been rigged. one again, not giving us the latest that from mergers. no thanks very much. monica cilla has hair on out to sarah, man, miles military pardons, more than 2000 prisoners, arrested during its crackdown on descent. plus i'm rob rentals in los angeles, where thousands of movies and tv screen riders have put down their pens and picked up there. ah. with here's how your weather story goes across asia.

thank you so much for your company and pakistan will see the rain pick up in below just on k p, k province and punjab as well. you know the name of the game, right? some sender downpours here, the potential for a hail storm as well, and the northwest of india has been active as well. those storms have now swept through by thursday. so temperatures are starting to come up in punjab state. um, rates are 30 degrees really, most of the action in india is now on the eastern side here, stretching from west bank, all right, into town. we'll now doing careless states, and we're seeing this southwest monsoon begin to kick in. so it is a very wet pitcher in the mall div molly as a hive 29 degrees for the philippines. these storms are rolling through to the south of manila. so for, for zion in mindanao, closing in here on plow one island on thursday. there is a potential to see some flash flooding here. big downpours also across china from the gang see to the yellow river valley about a 100 millimeters of rain. and we're getting a lot of this energy off the east china seas. so thursday into friday. this is going to drenched the korean peninsula, sol, looking to pick up about

a months worth of rain in 24 hours. and then by saturday, top to bottom right across japan, this becomes the weather maker for you. that sure weather update will soon take care. ah, a meeting of mine when i was studying the canon 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 architect simeha 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 .

the me again, you're watching out there has reminder of our top stories this. our russia says it stops on the fascination attempt, but talk to president putin. it says to drones were used in the attack on the presidential residence in the kremlin. ukraine denies allegations it was behind the reported attack un humanitarian defense understand or tre. martin griffith says right. and su dawn has been more violent from the capital cartoon. despite a sex these fun, griffin says he's been talking to you and stuff on the ground. and serbia capital, a 13 year old boy has been accused of opening fire in a school, killing 8 children and a security guard. please say the suspects been arrested, but it's not expect to be charged because he's under age at least

109 people have been killed and flooding, triggered by heavy rains and western rwanda. officials say the been many injuries, many people have been trapped in their homes. rescuers have been deployed to affected areas the wrongs president of damascus for the 1st official visit by an iranian leader since the syrian war began in 2011. iran and russia have provided crucial military and economic support. syrian president bashar assad, helped him. we gain control of much of the country, abraham, racy and assad signs of agreement covering industry such as oil ation and agriculture. jabari has more from tehran. the iranian president has, according to his age, who were with him during this meeting with the syrian president, have signed at least 15 documents covering a number of lucrative economic agreements between the 2 countries. one of the main parts of the iranian delegation that is in damascus with the iranian president is

that of the people from the private sector that are hoping to strengthen economic ties between the 2 countries. the re, new president, of course, also is accompanied by a number of his ministers, including the defense minister, the foreign minister, the oil minister, as well as the telecommunications minister of her on this visit comes at a time when iran has been behind syria throughout the over a decade long, the civil war and the country and the reigning president, abraham bracy, being the 1st to visit damascus since to 2010, highlighting the position that iran has had throughout the years and standing behind one of its strongest allies in the region. of course, the officials here believe that they are providing assistance to our country. that is very much as they put it helpless in the face of a number of air strikes from israel. one of the main points of contention between iran and israel has been that the attack sets and carried out inside syria

targeting various depos belonging to the revolutionary guards. who, according to reading officials, have been there on an advisory role on the part of the syrian government asking for help from the revolution regards. the hong kong government is reducing public participation in local elections and vetting all kinds of who wants to stand for office. and says, this will ensure social and political stability. critics say it's a step backwards for democracy, which akimbo has this report from hong kong, centralizing control, the hong kong government is slashing public involvement in local elections. fewer than 20 sent of district council, as will be chosen by public democratic vote. the rest directly appointed by the government or voted in by state controlled committees, all candidates will be vented to assess their patriotism. yeah, hong kong political leader says this will create the most stable future of the

months of anti government protest in 2019 is the black balance. it is the attempt to make calls on independence and the attempt to cos disaster to hong kong society as a whole that we need to protect. we did to prevent i think that has to make very clearly we'll let through that. don't forget it. we have to bear that in mind, so as to ensure that in the long run, the system will protect us from all these chaotic and harmful situation to arise again. district council elections during those protests, sore, a record of voter turnout and land slide victories for pro democracy candidates. critics of the new election rules say that designs to marginalize public participation next time around, it is about control and it indicates that the government doesn't trust the people

of hong kong. they don't trust the people as hong kong to do the right thing. they don't give them an opportunity to voice out their views, yet these district counsellors councils are supposed to be allowing the government to gauge public opinion. there are reasons to be happy everywhere you go and hong kong. the changes come as all thirties are aggressively promoting hong kong as a tourism and investment hub. the government is spending millions of dollars on campaigns from free flights for visitors to discounted movie tickets for residents . all in a bid to improve the public mood and help the economy recover from the link, the covey 19 restrictions. the campaigns are attracting a lot of attention, but so 2 of the amendments to the election laws that's prompting concern. it'll be hong kong politics rather than publicity campaigns that seal it's international

standing, which had kimber al jazeera hong kong man was military gentle, has pardonable than 2000 prisoners to mark. but as festival says, gathered outside young guns in the same prison where inmates were jailed, they were detained under a law which kinds of 3 and jail time, criminalizes defense against the military or the $21000.00 people have been detained since the military took power in a 2021 came to a chain has more from bangkok for the charge of 5 or 5 a. the inclusion of the pin, the pin code of descent against the military, punishes those who are responsible for fake news or inciting against the military. these were new laws which have been imposed since the military coup in february 2021. so it is a very narrow group of people. nonetheless, it was very unexpected. a prisoner amnesty and not uncommon in myanmar, but they usually happen over big national holidays. like the new year festival

independence, they are armed forces day. this is not one of those days. and i don't think anyone in young gone was expecting this. nonetheless, it is a significant number of people. we're not expecting any high profile political prisoners today. those who are charged under 5 or 5 a are usually sentenced to that 3 year jail term. we are, however, expecting a number of journalists. in fact, al jazeera has spoken to a photojournalist who was in the 1st batch of releases to come out of insane prison . he said he was, he was very relieved to be out. he'd been arrested in december 2021 during one of the silent street protests. but he did also mentioned that some of those arrested with him have died in custody. and i think this will highlight the apply to those who remain and jo, thousands of film and television races in the u. s. have gone on strike, demanding better pay and conditions and stuff which is already causing most late night chaise to air repeats. reynolds reports from los angeles

i now members of the writers guild union, marched on picket lines outside amazon studios in los angeles. they want better compensation, better residual payments for their work when it is broadcast or streamed. and minimum staffing requirements were asking for a reasonable amount of the profits that they, that the studios make on our work. i would to meet our total demand and it would only take 2 percent of the profit they make on our work. some of the effects will be immediate production will cease on popular late night talk shows that rely on up to the minute political satire. nevertheless, actors and talk show hosts expressed support for the guilt. we have a lot of a staff and crew that will be affected by this, you know, but you know, they've got to get a fair deal. so i'll do whatever i can to support them. other impacts will be felt

. the longer the strike goes on over time, the production pipeline will start to dry up. some studios and networks have stockpiled scripts and programs, but they won't last forever. viewers may see more reliance on unscripted reality tv show. the trade association that represents the entertainment giant said it had offered writers, what it called generous increases in compensation. guild officials are sounding the alarm about advanced artificial intelligence, taking writers, jobs, and demanded restrictions on it's use a i is a threat to everybody in business. and i think that's part of the reason that we have the support of all the other major unions. if they can replace human beings who do this work, the economy's going to collapse. there's just no reason to do that. and the companies refuse to even discuss a i knock on effect of the writer strike will be.