mike hannah al jazeera washington as get e some breaking news coming out of india. now parliament has disqualified opposition. politician role gandhi as m p on thursday at court, found candy guilty of defamation and sentenced him to 2 years in prison. 52 year old is a psy on of the narrow county political dynasty, and he was convicted the comments he made about prime minister and the medi surname at an election rally in 2019 is go straight to putney metal, who is live in new delhi. so this news just asked in the last 10 minutes or so. oh, tell us a bit more. what impact will this disqualification have? political parties in india have been raising the issue of what they say is a credit attract to democracy in india. they have been protesting this for a while. and a lot of these issues have come to a heck to did as you say, just a few minutes ago we got the news, the ra, gone, the has been disqualified as member of parliament a day after. he was sentenced for 2 years for making comments. 4 years ago at an election rally, and that case was filed against him by a member

mike hannah al jazeera washington, thank you. so add on out there in france, anger about pension changes, his fee that takes his protest, is that by days town and the world athletics council bands transgender women taking cars in ah hey, they're happy friday. well, that exceptional march warrants we've had across a huge slice of europe while it's coming at a cost were seen an earlier start to wildfires is one in eastern spain are too far away from valencia. so cruise trying to get the upper hand here and part of the problem is we're pumping in a heat. so look at this 30 degrees in valencia on friday at some showers near. but it's going to take a lot more than that. also got warmth through central europe and the balkans as well, many spots in the 20s. but look over here, this is what it's about to change that cloud cover, shower some snow over the alpine region that will move west to east. so some big changes here over the next few days and all of this right now is in the northwest. we get these pulses of rain off the atlantic, we

mike hannah al jazeera washington european union leaders are gathered in brussels for 2 days of talks with ukraine, top of the agenda, united nations secretary general antonio terrace is also attending the meetings will focus on the support for ukraine, as well as the single market economy and migration, all $27.00 e leaders are expected to be there. former russian president to meet you med vienna, has warned the west against acting on an arrest warrant issued for vladimir putin by the international criminal court. the warrant was issued for the alleged deportation of children from ukraine to russia. but very, i have said if any country moved to arrest putin is a declaration of war. but as those who have been out there, let us imagine, obviously it's a situation which is never going to happen. but nevertheless, let's imagine the situation came true. an incumbent leader of a nuclear state had arrived, for instance, in germany and was arrested. what is this a declaration of war on the russian federation? i most schools in afghanistan have reopened after the winter break for the nation's

mike hannah al jazeera washington. thank you. tom has become the 1st state in the us to pass legislation restricting the use of social media for minors. specific care until permission will now be required for any one under the age of 18. to use platforms like tick tock, instagram, facebook, the law is designed to make social media giants more responsible for their content . ah, your headlines on al jazeera, poor roost, they sa beginner, the man who story was featured in the hollywood film hotel. rwanda is due to be released from prison in 2021. he was sentenced to 25 years on terrorism charges that has now received a presidential pardon re se. sabina is credited with saving the lives of more than 1200 people during the 1994 genocide. malcolm web is monitoring the story from gama, in the democratic republic of congo. now, his family and his associates said that the trial was, was completely unfair. he refused to participate in it. he was given that sentence and not provoked outcry, particularly in the us as the bench in the hollyw

likely at some stage to be a protracted legal argument was based on the 1st amendment around mike hannah al jazeera washington. okay, well i'm joined by don horn, the full marketing executive deputy seo for the state of new york. he led the band of tech talk on all state issued phones within state executive agencies. welcome to the program, to look at a country where nearly half of the entire you asked us are under 50000000 users use . take talk. one your opinion. do you think it's actually so popular and influential? i think it's so popular because people's attention spans have gone down in, allows them to be able to see things very, very quickly. and some of the things on there are quite comical. so the addictive a logarithms caused them to stand there for 4 hours. and i think that's why it's so popular, because with huge influence comes concerning the f b, i raise concerns over its use in possibly harvesting data and manipulating software . all these fees grounded in fact, in your opinion. yeah, they're absolutely grounded in fact. you know, we've seen this out of the chinese government before w

former president of the united states to ever face criminal charges. gabriel is on dough al jazeera new york. mike hannah is in washington dc and has reaction to the indictments reaction to the indictment has largely been along a partisan lines. republicans generally criticizing the decision to bring an indictment against donald trump. many describe it as a with an eye zation of the legal process. that is the words used by the speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy echoed as well by the governor of florida run to santos. who importantly also said that he would not cooperate in any attempt to extradite trump from florida to face trial in manhattan. this an important point should trump decide not to surrender himself to face the charges in a manhattan court. but on the other side, we heard from representative adam shift, who was typical of the democratic reaction. basically saying that trump's criminal acts as he put it, have caught up with him and saying that no matter how rich and powerful nobody is above the law. but the interesting point from hearing from republicans that the electro system has been unde