have never had to fund anything for the party. there was about $7000000.00 to head on alex's era. the last sentence reached to deal with mediators for the release of more than 600 palestinian prisoners. the g to be freed by israel. last week. the i'm carry johnston, this is all just here a lot from the also coming up, thousands of soldiers and a democratic republic. congress don't charge a cheese to desist. thing that positions a boost and the case defense spending 5 minutes to says you with faces grave threats that require

a generational response under blackouts. and should i, as a major power outage causes disruption across the country. the mass says it's reached the deal to result the delayed release of palestinian prisoners from the last exchange of israel is ready media reporting confirmation of the agreement. according to her last statements, approximately 600 palestinian prisoners who were initially meant to be released last week. and hell be freed in the coming days. and that says as well as also release for palestinian women and children. the group says that were released for both days of is very captives earlier than planned. their returns is where i will be facilitated by egypt. exchange of captives and prisoners, as part of the goal is to cease fund deal between israel and from us. a legitimate

set of un security council urging is relevant to mass to conclude negotiations for face to all that's agreement. the un special coordinates for middle east peace process says a tend to was not an option. gabrielle is on the reports. to start the monthly briefing on the middle east in the un security council, a clear call for the ceasefire and gaza to hold. the resumption of hostilities must be avoided at a cost like coal on both sides to fully owner their commitments to the cease fire. do and conclude negotiations for the 2nd phase. when a permanent ceasefire is reached, rebuilding gaza could begin in earnest. the un e u and world bank estimate $50000000000.00 will be needed in that effort. but the council was told, there is more to be done on the political front 1st. as we engage in planning for gas as future, we need to ensure one goes out, remains an integral part of

a future policy in state to guys and the westbank, including these drawers to them are unified politically, economically, and administer to for the 3, there will be no long term idea of prisons in gaza and israel's legitimate security . some concerns are addressed, but the pressing issue during the meeting was to cease fire. we urge all policies to sustain the sci fi do implement the agreement in full and support efforts to move to phase 2. despite being long overdue and facing persistent challenges. a sustain ceasefire is our best chance. it seemed. peace intermediaries, many words were spoken in the counsel about the necessity for the cease fire to stick. the big questions are, who is listening, and how to achieve it. gabriel is on to i'll just say to at united nations in new

york at least 6 children have died and gone. so because of a lack of protection from the cold weather, one of the victims was a newborn girl named. she passed away inside, displaced families, tenzing on eunice, tens of thousands of palestinians across the street from the thing is worn out. tense among the rubble of the destroyed homes, you cannot a tear in crisis across gauze there has been west invite is, rose continued, blockade obeyed. it's my understanding from our humanity and colleagues is that there's been a lot of challenges in getting tens and caravans and carpets and we continue to push some of going in. but we need, we need more. is that the restriction from these really all 30? that's why are you standing? correct? the israel says it's been carrying out as strikes and southern civic lost were

reporting there. damascus is really major. was reporting that the strikes the capital head of ministry basis. that's what previously used by the syrian only one person was killed in a drug strike, south of drab, the city in the east and left the countryside. the conference on serious political future has wrapped up in damascus. but the country's president, but i'll shut off from his democratic reforms off the years of civil war. he calls it a rare historic opportunity to discuss the country's future after the civil war, advocates of aside how many will set up a post from domestic a shuttle for the 1st decades and opportunity for city is to discuss the nation's future, the city and national by the conference, 60 unified companies for the amount of communities and address key issues like transitional justice, constitutional reforms, and you called them because the company and the, this is

a period of rebuilding our country off to decades of destruction. i'm devastation, syria is indivisible, and that one might slice in our unity. during the conference, more than $500.00, the syrians from different backgrounds and officials were simply put into suits comedies, each focusing on a personal issue. the most important is the constitutional calamity, which was draft a new constitution for the country over the next 2 years. the national battle conference on the and advisory buddy, it means by the decisions about serious challenges. school is shared understanding and eventually national consensus. syria has just come out of the state and civil war that caused the divisions alone, security and ethnic lines. the national, the corpus aims to promote unity. but the company, some of them to use or subtracted in the salt by is way as army. and the name of governments will 20 is china is by um, codes as groups in the northeast which go to nearly one total of the company's

territory. in a closing statement, the attempt is said they are determined to address these challenges in the ab. we condemn is rarely military incursions in syria, which are a blatant violation of serious sovereignty. we call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of is riley forces. we also emphasize the necessity forming one professional ami, no other groups except the army should hold any on any other group except the army is on the phone. none of these, syria is relatively cool, but many serious fear. if the challenges are not full for the address, the fragile of these put in another term. well, this you said that was a 0, damascus. the ukraine says it's agreed on in mid arrows deal with the us spot. there's no

confirmation yet from washington present. donald trump has been putting pressure on keith to make a deal to be paid the us for war time aid, the president, while the minister landscape rejected previous to months with billions of dollars in middle as well. because they didn't come with any specific security guarantees. i hear that is coming on friday. certainly it's okay with maybe like 2 and a he would like to sign it together with me and i understand. busy it's a big deal very big deal and i take the american people even if you're looking for . busy like they're very happy because, you know, by the way, throwing money around like it's cotton candy and it's a very big deal. it could, it could be a trillion dollar deal. it could be whatever, but it's rivers and other things. and look, we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars or ukraine and russia fighting a war that should and never, ever happened. well, get reaction from keith. but 1st i'll just here is adam fisher explains that few

details a note about the deal. well, donald trump has been speaking in the oval office, but never gave a hand the deal had been done. he says he's the weight of reports. the blood to me as the landscape would like to come to the white house, perhaps as early as friday to sign a deal. but we know that if there was a package that had been agreed, donald trump would be bragging about the it'd be saying that it's a cute, a great deal for the american taxpayer. he believes that the united states has spent somewhere in the region of $350000000000.00 to help ukraine during its 3 year war. the government supported monitoring unit size is much more in the area of a 180000000000. and of course we had that staggering moment in the oval office on monday. when donald trump criticized how much you could spend in ukraine at when at emmanuel macro and put his hand on donald trump. r, uncorrected him at the united states also wants access to really f minerals is thought about 5 percent of the minerals in the world are under the soil. and you

create including the likes of granite and lithium, and to be able to exploit that with essentially take china out of the supply chain . something that the united states has been very keen to do, particularly since the cobit pandemic, ex, expose floors in the supply chain. so the united states very keen to get a deal done. what is missing from this, of course, is any security guarantee from the draft that they was seen that the us will under pen ukraine security. but it does promise to what for the long term economic stability as liability of ukraine. so it ties the name in one way, but not exactly the way the blo domino. so landscape was looking for. so perhaps, there is a deal in principle, but still a few eyes to door and teased across before both sides will be hailing that they have an agreement all and for sure, i'll just do the washington a. this data is being described as sent,

sold to ukraine's hopes in trying to win back the favor of the us president donald trump of to effectively a couple of weeks of a war of was we know that the ukrainians initially rejected the 1st draft proposal . zalinski saying that they didn't offer sufficient security guarantees from the us latest saying that he wasn't prepared to basically sell ukraine out. and we are getting reports. now. certainly, according to the reuters news agency that the presence of lensky could be traveling to the us on friday to meet donald trump officer. an agreement over this deal has now been made. there are various other reports being um, being reported on the international media. one goes into detail about exactly what this and potential deal may mean. it says that involves jointly developing mineral

resources, including oil and gas off to the us dropped. it's to mullens for effectively 500000000000 in compensation for the aid and the contributions that he's made. to for ukraine in the war so far. um, there are also reports that this will involve the setting up of some sort of fund of funding which ukraine would control 50 percent. and the proceeds would go towards the, the funding of, of projects. one can only imagine in relation to the pre construction of ukraine, but as i say, this is usually significant because it has been such a difficult time for ukraine in dealing with the kind of pressure is that seemingly the us administration has put on it with respect to this deal, and we are wait for further confirmation and details from ukraine in the coming

hours. child stuff alger 0. keith, at a $63.00 sofa is the democratic republic of congo on the isle being tried in the ministry court charged with the searching that positions allegedly fled in the face of the m. 23 level groups and violence in the very territory north keeping improvements. the wind has accused the army, the commission. i liked to the government and m 23 levels of committing rights abuses and eastern biase. i don't know why connie reports from going is this a company's government sort is in the middle territory of google pro is being played by military court for these this on the closing funding looking property of this fluid from parsing entered into labels and misleading charges. yeah, and the government wants to show that there is dental officials. for me, it's the crime. would it be punish today the actions,

the of picking this credit on it and provide on the nation towards the end of justice must speak. the law is clear. we do not want this happening again in the armed forces of the democratic republic of congo. this is the estimate of the little things place. it will be appointed by the thing. sonya is more than such a business in and around the town. the most affected it was most human to do another 75, just sort of this old. so been trading sold to do for see me though. first is, this is not the 1st i'm calling is, i mean i've been acquired for suspected white abuses been coughing to areas such this. vanity said that the official of them $2.00 and $2.00 levels of the boss, i might have been accused of killing severely and then noting their properties. the um you save this quote with multiple on spanish you and as i choose, the quote is on the 1st 30 minutes on this as well as the one on buck and $22.00 levels of committing atrocities is done deal to see in this wake up did you say

that um yup, is overwhelmed and out the guns from a different from the army isn't functional because that hasn't been any meaningful reform. this so much corruption within the military ranks, especially among top offices. what we're seeing on the ground is just the failure to resolve many of the issues within the army or the soldiers that just the victims of the system. those will opt in a little bit will say the happy, the tough. this has been save less than the ones that actually i am very happy to see that our companies are starting to take things more serious. um, i believe that our government had no loads to punish the people who stripped us of our belongings. and today they have a risk that they and those who are still at large will be afraid of him for the 2 boys are said to be on the top of the bill. everyone here, he's on page. like on the oh, the 0 go more just on the odyssey. so the head hair off of the break resigning to

make a point. a 3rd of employees, us a newly formed us department headed by pity and that, you know, must step down and dodge and tina's austerity sense. we look at what the cost of the spending means. people have a non basic services, the okay, 3 to 5 meters. this matter, science a lot is a lot, even for japan, this new device, maybe last 6 weeks. i think maybe the last, the snow chas are showing themselves on wednesdays. the wind direction changes and the trends 2 volts in northeast and china and beijing's upsetting hobbins up to plus 4, which means we don't feed in the code across the water. once again, there is some range we have some of the yangtze businesses, deleon, grays. it was recently last 4 or 5 days, still with me,

the season in blazing his visa, charles are pretty widespread. they don't particularly focus in the philippines your that's all forbid. there's increasing cloud in viet nam thailand. and also in, in uh, that looks like the orange centers could be any wherever the focus, again, incidents and malaysia, sorry, i include quite a number, maybe singing for briefly. wet weather and the range come back just for like a bit of an increase in the wind direction. ne monsoon isn't really, but it just looks like that. the more interesting maybe is the series of fun to films basically. right. but it's never tight and showers, and generally doubled by that which is persisting over the next 2 or 3 days. now that's already improved at quality. of course, it also produce a lot most by increasing the avalanche risk. again, the, the onset of cubic 19 the chinese city of wu and became synonymous with the virus.

the 1st community which was also the for us to emerge from unlocked, the city reopened. to make it into the realm of a society to ensure a tale of the scene. distress inflicted by a devastating pandemic who hans had control a witness documentary on al jazeera, the, the, [000:00:00;00] the, you without us here a mind of the headlines now this out. a mass says it has reached

a deal of the release of palestinian prisoners who were meant to be free last week is where i lived in late there. when the switch was off of an exchange deal, a mass fence to return the bodies of 4 more is very comfortable to and that's why the national conference on serious political future has wrapped talking. damascus said of goods to prove the formation of several committees. westcove the next 3 years of constitutional reform, transitional justice, and kind of coverage on ukraine says it's agreed on the minerals dealing with us. but there's no confirmation here from washington. president donald trump has been putting pressure on teeth to make a deal to be paid in us for more time. 8 k prime minister can estimate, has announced a large increase in defense spending head of a trip to washington to meet us president trump. he says it's an opportunity to create jobs and rebuild the case. industrial base probably answer that explains what's behind the spending boost. this announcement has come as a surprise to many

a commitment to increase defense spending to 2.5 percent of g d p. by 2027, that's the equivalent of $17000000000.00. the biggest sustained increase in defense spending since the end of the cold war and to pay for it a cost in for an aids funding from point 5 to point 3 percent of g d p, which will take britain's development policy back to the 1990. so previous labor governments have always raised development to age and the prime minister did look uncomfortable at times. but he did say, making this note is going to be the hard choices he's had to make. he says that the country security comes fast. russia is a menace and britain's hold of proof to defend spending must now change labor ahead committed to increasing defense spending in the manifesto. but it's the timing of this announcement that is key. the prime minister is due to meet president trump at the white house on thursday. and with this he might be hoping to peace from who is

being repeatedly cooling the native governments to increase the defense budgets. you might also be hoping to find some common ground with trump, who is also recently caught his countries for an age spending no storm and says that the u. k. will continue to play a humanitarian role in places like don ukraine. and because as well as choice continues to tackle climate change, the charities or recording these cuts catastrophic say say that this is just a political decision coming so soon off of the cuts in us 8. and it's just another lifeline that is now being taken away from those tests. brittany, charlie, on to the algebra and the 3rd of us government employees who work for the trump administration. so cool departments of government, the efficiency of quit, let's say you don't most cuz trying to make them dismantled. critical public services office is resting. jordan as well a more than 20 career us government employees quit their jobs on tuesday. according

to the associated press, the senior level tech employee, say the department of government efficiency or don't run by you on most is endangering both us citizens, private information and the integrity of government's computer system. in a statement, the white house spokes person said the resignations would not stop president donald trump's efforts to make government smaller. the latest resignations come as a few of the thousands of federal workers all ready laid off. crowded inside republican center to release him or koski is office to protest. i can tell you, i said, intending on staying there for as long as i could. i really loved the work that we were doing and how i don't know what to do. and i have cried every day i'm i think that that's normal. i've a 15 month old at home and i'm looking at him and thinking, well, what's this country that we're now living in the meantime, other fired workers, including some who voted for trump, joined to a conference call with

a democratic congressman. but to talk about the impact on their lives. obviously, i never would have expected things to go this far. um, so i mean i, i, i'm still in shock and to say is the at all whether i regret that. but what i, i don't, i don't want to go as far as to say that, but it's a, i mean, like i said, it's a shock, ordinary citizens protesting on capitol hill. applaud the judge workers decision to quit. i am have a little bit of a of optimism that these people have a concern. some of these people have a conscience in resigning. ask for doses own performance so far. its own website says that nearly 40 percent of the $2300.00 federal contracts and it's cancelled won't save the government any money. but that doesn't mean the white house is going to a band and it's cost cutting mission, russell and jordan elders. era, washington? oh, it's insane as president is go ahead with his plans to reduce the size of

government and how the and the le took office. in december 2023. he cut the number of ministries by off a script, 10 percent of public sector jobs, trades about reports from point as all right, so on how is austerity funds are affecting the people who need basic services, the most construction sites in some of the poorest areas of when a site is these buildings used to be part of a housing project, hilalem i've done so. part of i know about a station plan sponsored by the federal government. the that the i would eat and her 3 children were promised to receive a new apartment. but things come here to me, they took office, it's not clear when or if it will be completed on the lab. i was told leave your home and rent because in 8 months or so, you'll have a new house. i have 3 children and tour disabled all i hear when i ask what's happening is there was no money. no, no. but many of these projects depended on the territorial development,

have retired and housing secretary at the ministry of economy. but the unit has been dissolved as part of the residents restructuring plans. precedent have you had, i mean, they says he would continue to slash public spending and reduce the role the origin time state plays in people's lives. 14 faces like this one, there's lots of concerns about what will happen with plans to build housing, sewage, and water systems that for now have been placed on hold at least 12 percent of origin. tina's population lives in areas without access to basic services and the impact this evidence. when you walk around the province of when a site is, we're almost half of the population lives in poverty. one entity guess is in opposition. political activist who works in a former slum called valley to it's home to 10000 people whose lives improved in the past decade. thanks to an organization plan. to go for the

a little bit that we weren't able to rebuild around 95 percent of the houses here, build road sewage systems to nursery schools. and this is what makes a difference. people have better lives through the release of daily plan has not only frozen infrastructure projects, labor, union, se, shutting down the housing secretariat will leave around $500.00 people without jobs and cnn they need and is one of them with the federal government, has to be involved in solving the housing problems, because if not, the divisions are much bigger. we have regions that are rich and others that are very poor. they needs to be coordination. the government says corruption and mismanagement were widespread and development projects. it also says the problem says should be in charge of addressing housing shortages. but for now, it's failed to explain how it plans to improve the living conditions of millions of people living in need. that is, i will, as i see, that when

a site is on groups and hate. they have lost a new wave of attacks and the capital forcing people to flee the homes. you and says gang violence has left more than 6000 people to print homeless in the past. month. guns control almost all the capital city leading to the collapse of health services and triggering food and security and massive power outages hit. should they affecting regions across the country. the blackouts has left millions without electricity, including a residence in the capital. well, that's in america to let's see a name and explains how the power outage is affecting the countries a whole it was shortly past 3 in the afternoon, when 2 thirds of the chilean population suddenly lost power. it took hours more for the and to minister to address the country to say that she didn't know what was the cause of this. finally, we've been told that it is because a 500 kilo volts plant in the north of the country has quotes been disconnected.

this power outage on blackout starts an id card in the far north of the country to more than 2600 kilometers to the south. that's about to search or more of the population of chile that's been impacted. we've been hearing reports of people fighting to get on on buses to get home. the metro here in the capitol of course has been shut down. you can see that there are huge, huge traffic jams behind me in the middle of rush hour. and people are also jamming the petrol stations choose blocks and blocks long apparently for fear that it will be a long, long time before the electricity is re established so far, there are no clear reports about when that will happen. but in the meantime, the, into your ministers say that if this last until after dark, which will be long from now, that will be special measure. she says taken to guarantee security. lucy and human al jazeera santiago, chile. the use board agency says

a number of refugees and migrant surviving. the bulk institute has decreased the 1st half of 2023. nearly 50000 people were into septic trying to enter the e u overland via bulk and countries. last year that number fell by 75 percent. turn a whole is on the to cuba who gave me a border with that and reports of extreme violence against my friends. and a warning is report contains some distressing images. the byron fields and frozen forests along bulgaria is border with took here once a highway to the e. u for my grandson, refugees on the so called balkan route, its a route that activists under threats of reprisals anonymously tell us spoke area is trying hard to close. i think by the purchasing the new and maybe in the year in particular. i rely on holler and guidance and yes, the goal is to make care of others as silent as possible to make sure that people are not to come. well. 19 late december,

the hara became real. 3 egyptian boys in the teams rose to death in the forest after their companions called for help and help was prevented from arriving. we made it as needed tried to, to reach the location. and because we know by experience that then the immigrants in service or not actually helping the people and but on the way we were stopped by several different scars and forests during act, a volunteer to generate the run medical center tells us of a syrian woman crossing the border on foot pregnant with twins and badly beat shots and a lot of injuries, the police force it on to the station and to the hospital. but at that point, the moment it was already too late, at least for the twins international in g o's, of recorded tens of thousands of cases of alleged brutality by bold gods and people being pushed back a little be used in houston,

frontiers in the practice. illegal under international law, much of it is said to be happening in bulgaria. this is where those seeking asylum