protesters have taken to the streets again in anger, over the pension reforms ran through by president manuel michael. the deeply unpopular changes have lifted the retirement age by 2 years. despite the fury, the government shows no sign of relenting after narrowly surviving 2 confidence boats. in parliament, an earthquake has shaken large parts of northern afghanistan and pakistan, killing at least 13 people and injuring many more. yep, center was in afghanistan's mountainous buckshot province. but the 6.5 magnitude quake was powerful enough to send people fleeing for safety. hundreds of kilometers away. 2 fell as a saying, you may know dead is a dodo meaning something that's gone forever and can't be brought back. well, it refers to a bird species, humans made extinct hundreds of years ago. but now, a biotech startup has announced it wants to bring the dodo back to life. the ground breaking attempt will face complex, scientific, and ethical issues. native only to maricia us, dodo is we're flightless, but fearless birds well adapted to life on an island in the middle of the indian ocean. but after a

for the large protest across france and the later show of anger against president manuel michaels plans to raise the retirement age. in the city of bordeaux demonstrate to set fire to the front of the town hall, those days on rest was some of the worst and 3 months of protest strikes. the u. s . is carried out what it calls precision air strikes on targets in eastern syria. the pentagon said the operation came up to 5 american troops are injured, and the contractor was killed in a drone attack. earlier on thursday, the attack hit a us led coalition base near al haka. in the northeast, the international monetary fund has told lebanon it urgently needs to implement reforms to unlock a vital $3000000000.00 loan agreed on last year. the country's economy has been in free fall since 2019 pushing most of the population into poverty. and that's field public ganga, which spilled over again on wednesday as protest has tried to storm government headquarters. and i am f delegation visiting the capital says action must be taken to avoid high inflation. israel defense minister has cancelled and addr

thousands of people have joined protests and strikes across france nearly 2 weeks after president manuel michael pushed his pension reforms through parliament. public public theory shows no sign of abating, but my call has refused to budge on the deeply unpopular moved to increase the retirement age. to 64, you ministers have given final approval to a law banning the sale of new c o 2 emitting cars in the block after 2035. it comes after germany, one a last minute exemption for internal combustion engines using climate neutral fuels . the synthetic fuels aren't yet mass produced, that requires an expensive and energy intensive process. and ukraine's defense ministry has welcomed the arrival of british challenger 2 tanks in the country. defense minister alexei resume cough released this video of himself riding in one of the newly arrived tanks. the u. k has pledged to send 14 challengers to cave and recently competed, competed training ukrainian tankers. germany announced on monday that had also delivered 18 long awaited leopard to battle tanks to ukraine. while in the countries east, back lieut

elections in december were boy cultured by the opposition accused him of a paragraph which president manuel michael has arrived in the democratic republic of congo on the last leg of his tool of central africa. he was greeted by the country's prime minister in the capital kinshasa. macro is trying to find new ways to maintain the french interest in africa, in the face of competition from russia and china. so let's take a look at frances relationship with its former colonies on the continent. will frances withdraw from molly last year? and the keen offensive this year has highlighted a shift in politics in central africa, of to decades of colonialism. a near colonialism buchholz to aims to freight a more co operative vision, to his host nations, and gala, the republic of congo upon and the d r. c. the emphasis now is on partnerships and culture, science and education. but it also includes maintaining military bases where french troops, operators, trainers rather than commanders. milgar samba cilla is an economist who wrote the book africa, his last colonial currency, the c f. a frank story shows us

manuel met paul says you pull back down. even as more demonstrations are expected in the coming gates. ah, i'm michael ok. welcome. united nations has condemned evidence of abuse of prisoners of war by both sides in ukraine. the un human rights monitoring chief matilda wagner has accused russia of widespread summary executions. enforced disappearances within ukraine. documented abuses by russian forces out numbered those by ukraine by 6 to one. wagner says both sides have been executing prisoners captured during the conflict. we are deeply concerned about the summary execution of up to 25 russian prisoners of war and persons, or to combat by ukrainian armed forces, which we have documented this was often perpetrated immediately upon capture on the battlefield. while we are were aware of ongoing investigations by ukrainian authorities into 5 cases involving 22 victims, we are not aware of any prosecution of the perpetrators in relation to the treatment of ukrainian prisoners of war. we are also deeply concerned by the summary execution of 15 ukrainian prisoners of war shortly after being captured by russian armed f