upbringing, never knowing whether the next explosion will echo one step closer to the place they call home the distant barking of dogs. a witness documentary on al jazeera. ah, australia and new zealand send recognizance rise to the pacific island of tawna, which has been cut off after an under sea volcanic eruption. ah, player watching al jazeera alive from doha with me for the battery board also coming up. china's both rates dips to a record low raising concerns. it's rapidly aging workforce could affect it's economy growth. south korea calls for the resumption of talks with north korea

after pyongyang launch its 4th messiah this month. and ukraine's former president petro shanker. returns home to fight treason charges. ah. australia and new zealand have sent air force of alien strives to tonga to serve a damage caused by saturdays volcanic eruption and some ami. a tiring ash cloud had prevented earlier flights, and while report suggests have been no mass casualties, agencies are considered lower burden. manley hasley to st. 2 days after this massive under see a rupture in the pacific island nation of tonga remains cut off from the world. a fiber optic cable said to be its main line of communication. now broken nose, this joint explosion, which scientists think is one in a 1000 year event. this so volcano it takes about

a 1000 years. a fully reach answer would just happen to be around the point where is i'm least a vast amount of is migrant really explains away. and was probably one of the mercy and energetic explosions of the entire 21st century. new zealand had sent in the rhine surveillance plane to assess the damage australia is author sending a military plane to help. we will be working closely with the government of toner with her. all highness, the high commissioner of toner in canberra to ensure that we are able to deliver the sort of support that we provide to our pacific family and our pacific friends at this is a very challenging time. communications are deeply, deeply affected by the events of the volcanic eruption. it has been felt in other parts of the region. both countries at wait is for $20000.00 meat of cloud with ash to clear. those ash particles have been falling across tongue as islands racing

fears about its fresh water supply. and that also thought to be widespread damage after tsunami ways washed up in target main island target tarp, who and buildings in the capital knock were low firm, including this church. there was lots of shock because even though people have been experiencing these smaller options for the last month or so, and this really came out of the blue in terms of the size in scale of disruption. and so they were, it had taken people by surprise as had be an inundation from this, an army wave with communications and electricity disrupted. the full impact from saturdays, larger option, remains unclear as that the scale of aid needed to help the people of tonka. with us, manly al jazeera and al jazeera sarah clark is falling developments from brisbin in

australia. la humanitarian, and the relief effort has begun. on monday, we've got the, like some new zealand, it's deployed the iran aircraft, and that was to assist in surveillance. and that's looking at just not just talking about the low line areas. and in particular, looking at the infrastructure, the buildings and bridges to assess the damage there in australia has also joined new zealand in that relief effort. on monday we also deployed a surveillance aircraft not to lift from the amberley air force base, which is not far from where i am now. in. australia's also said that they will send humanitarian aid. i h a miss i adelaide which is one of the large a navy ships. it could also be deployed now. maurice pine, who's australia's defense minister. she has noted a press conference on monday that australia will do all it can now. astrology and the pacific nations, they begun this coordination if we're also looking at the communitarian groups, oxfam has local teams on the ground already throughout the pacific. unicef is

already deploying prepositioned emergency supplies, and that's from its warehouses in fiji and where i am in brisbin as well. and that includes the likes of sanitation hygiene kits. water containers are buckets, tarpaulins, and tents and all that is being mobilized for distribution. now the estrella prime minister scott morrison has noted that there is some hurdles already for the relief effort. and it's, it's the lying is simply on the grounds at the aviation access has been a problem and not simply because of the volcanic ash are spread throughout the region. earlier i spoke to sharona alley whose chief executive officer and saved the children fiji. she says a situation in congo is dire. how many names at down the connection, the cable between v t and all that has been damaged extensively. and for that reason, it's very difficult to obtain that information at this date. we have met you in a just these and you dimensional organizations afternoon and what we have is that

it's been immediate need for hold and also for water because they used to be for that has been reported. and as a result of that, you know, what i have been in most of the island, the problem that is when you read, who would obviously have had mental trauma because once in a lifetime event and they probably have something so traumatic advice from the mineral resources department the erection, there may be an option thinking and advise people to be prepared to stay indoors, even. in fact, there was an advisor that you know, advising us to be rain falling in people state doors and basically to go out in the rain. so from today, as you know, as a sequence,

as well, days in the next couple of days. in other world news, china's economic growth flowed at the end of last year after a strong start. the current, a virus pandemic and real estate troubles are being blamed for the slant newly released data shows the world's 2nd largest economy grew faster than expected in the 1st half of 2021. expanding by 8 point one percent. but it slowed during the 2nd half of the year for kenneth has more from hong kong. the chinese economy grew by 4 percent in the last quarter. that's flowing from 4.4.9 percent in the quarter before overall year. it grew by 8 point one percent. there are a number of reasons for that. china had a very strong start the year and 2021, but it started to lose steam in the 2nd half of the year. and that's as we started to see those regulatory clamped down on a number of sectors including the education sector, the tech sector. and of course,

we remember the ever ground crisis as well. crackdowns on the property sector to now we heard from the national statistics bureau, they said that they, it's important to be aware of external environment. it's more complicated and uncertain. there are loading, of course, into the pandemic and external forces. they mean they can't control other countries and how that's going to impact supply chains as well. but the i, m f and the world bank had cut grow full costs for china. so these numbers in some ways were expected. and china's birth rate has have its lowest level in more than 70 years. it fell to ron 7.5 for 1000 people. according to the government asked to draw from $8.00 to the previous year. the downward trend has prompted officials to allow couples to have up to 3 children. last year's birth rate is the lowest in common is china was founded in 1949. and the mock is a senior research fellow at the center of china and globalization. he says it

presents the chinese government with a significant challenge. what is necessary, but not sufficient miss changing government policies. so we've seen from a one child policy to a to child policy to reach her. but there are many, many complicated factors. yeah, mostly socially. so i think we really do have to see how this plays out in the long term. one of the things the government has been doing that is having a ripple effect is starting with the state or across the circle example is one policy where the 1st one to a so the family gets subsidies. 30002nd child. 63rd. so certainly there are some, i think, so one of the biggest is a societal terms that we're seeing not just a,

as women have access to with that research as well as rising expectations, especially in terms of having your children have a good education. good. so i think this is really for 7000 miles and it's only south korea's military says north korea has fired 2 projectiles. believe to be ballistic missiles that were launch or an area close to the capital pyongyang. it's the countries 4th may i launch since the start of this year, south korea's national security council called the action regrettable and has called for talks robert kelly's professor of political science and diplomacy at pusan national university in south korea. he says north korea's renewed mesa launches are partly a test of the biden administration's tolerance. why hasn't been aggressive nor

through live donald trump was in 2017, but it's pretty far down his list. and so the north koreans are probably figuring, you know, whatever came along when trump for president, that's all over the, by, people haven't really done much for us or they're not talking to us or whatever. and to we can go back to the, the testing, right. and they are developing pre, clearly and missile for so for somebody want to test it. and there's really no reason not to anymore because there's really not much going on negotiation. the regime in north korea is always what regime security is sort of its own protection against outsiders and its own people ahead of the interest and welfare of its own population. i mean, the great tragedies of north korea is a country the country. the lead is willing to basically let its own people suffer terribly in order to stay in power. and they kind of expect from the outside to sort of do more for their own people than they do themselves. one of the great ironies of dealing with north korea right from north korean, lisa said for many years, i mean going back decades, right, that they were sort of interested in for getting the economy off the ground and operating more functionally and being less brought than things like that and that

stuff is just never really come through north korea. it's been an on, has been dependent on food a now for at least since the 1990 is arguably going back further than that. and you know, i mean can, could change that, but it really would require, like a major redirection of state resources away from the military, some kind of effort to get the sanctions roll back to really sort of boost north korea collective sort of internal self sufficiency and the regime hasn't done that, i mean, really be a significant change in the way it spends money. and that that would be a big deal at home. former ukrainian president petro for a shank o has returned to keir from poland. despite the risk of arrest. prosecutors accused pershing go of financing for russian separatist in the east or shanklin says his innocence. his greasy has been greeted by supporters and a said there must be a united ukraine. at least 13 people have been killed in nigeria, northwestern cabbie state dinners, hot by dozens of gunmen on motor bikes. it happened on friday night in the village

of dunk cutty, which was set on fire by the bandits. 3 members of the security forces are believed to have died in an exchange of gunfire. it's the latest in a string of attacks in the north west. last week. dozens were killed in some fara, in iraq to explosions, have hit central baghdad, with reports of several people injured. video posted on social media showed the aftermath of the blasts which targeted to banks in the rocky capital. there's been no claim of responsibility still ahead on al jazeera, demanding an end to some of europe, stuff as restrictions. why people in the netherlands say the easing of some of it measures is not enough. plus the united states is currently way behind other countries when it comes to offshore wind power. i'm prison salumi on the east coast coming up. i'll tell you what's being done to change that. ah,

ah, look forward to brutus goes through with sponsored boy cutoff airways. hey, there are getting going on your weather report for europe in africa. if it is garbage day, where you are in northwestern europe, your been maybe find a way here's why we've got some pretty brisk winds through the north sea also for the baltic sea. so this is going to impact germany pulling right into the baltic states in the zone we could see winds were up to a 100 kilometers per hour. that is enough to cause some damage and knock out power farther toward the south. it's much calmer. we've gotten an abundance of sunshine across siberia, and temperature is pretty well where they should be madrid, a higher 11 degrees. central parts of europe. right now we do have some snow check . republics. the vacuum. ukraine break into romania on monday. but next i want to take you to the eastern med things are quiet now. plenty of sun to go around is stumble, hiv 10 degrees. but i'll take you out to tuesday. we see

a developing disturbance around the eastern met. so some heavy falls of rain for cyprus and the levant, snow over the higher ground, and that wind shifts around, so it knocks down the temperature and it's stumble to 6 degrees back to the here. and now for monday it is still cloudy and cool for the ne cairo's got a high of 15 degrees and we also have some showers into what strengths a horror which may leak into new ac shot on monday. that's it, caesar. oh, with sponsored by casara, always casa, one of the fastest growing nations in the won the cause of needed to oakland and development school international shipping companies to become a p middle east and trade and learning skillfully. my 3 key is of develop who filling up from it, so connecting the world, connecting the future. ronnie, cuts out those gateway to whoa trade. ah

ah, welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera, new zealand and australia have sent air force planes to tanya to survey the damage caused by saturday's volcanic eruption and some ami communications remain limited in our reports of casualties. but there is significant damage. china's economy go faster than expected last year by 8 point one percent. but it's low to nearly half that in the final months of 2021 because of the kona virus pandemic. and a real estate from a ukranian president petro shanker, has returned to kia to fight corruption charges. the 1st came to power the po

western agenda in 2014, but lost a landslide election in 2090 the self isolation period for people testing positive for corona virus. in england has been cut from 10 to 5 days. people will be required to show negative rapid tests on day 5 and 6 of their quarantine, the government announced to move to help be staffing shortages caused by a surgeon army connie infections. meanwhile, austria will be the 1st european country to bring in a general vaccine mandate. the 3 phase system will come into force next month. the 1st phase involves reminding people to get vaccinated and increase police checks. people will eventually be fined for not getting jobs. it's there to fantasies does in the 2nd phase is one we are seeing the vaccination progress is still lacking. there will be a reminder letter to those who still aren't vaccinated. and in the 3rd phase,

if all of this turns out to be futile, there will be a letter with a vaccination appointment followed by a penalty mandate upon non compliance. then he's done high. frances parliament has approved a contrary, shall bill that will require people to have a vaccine certificate to enter public places. at the moment. people can enter restaurants, cafes, and cinemas with a recent negative cove. at 19 tests, nearly 78 percent of the french population is fully vaccinated. the government wants to enforce the law as soon as possible, as it struggles to contain a 5th wave. protestors have rallied in amsterdam calling for an end to all colbert 19 restrictions across the netherlands. i minister mach router announced the easing of some measures on saturday, but actually they say they want more freedoms restored. set boss and reports from amsterdam. the diverse group marching for freedom in amsterdam, war veterans extreme rights activist, anti factors and other lockdown protesters. would

you stand off support to see that you are my kids? that's important. my. that many infections right now in the madeline. yeah, there are bread chase, but they're not dying. what do you think of the fact that the extreme right parties are also participating in this mar? yeah, let's say it's a less than 5 percent of all the people here. and oh, we don't do anything to get. ah, mama's joined a rally showing the demonstration was not only about to look down labs, you got a real view of and who provoking walker. we want to show that farmers support other citizens to fight for a free country and for our freedom. for 2 years, we have also been under a lot of pressure from the government. you all i did a listing for review. last month, the netherlands had district us lockdown measures in europe due to a late rule out of the booster campaign and

a high number of hospitalizations and death. under mountain criticism, the government partially lifted those restrictions but kept the hospitality industry closed. in response, business owners opened their restaurants and cafes this weekend in protest. money here was clear the government to the left logs on batches and open up society completely warnings that only grown attraction. so in our large box of society, falling on deaf ears, research has shown that this trust toward one officious government institution. this high demo, we are destroying the lives of our children. families are being destroyed, the whole country is being destroyed and our business is being destroyed. just has to stop, you know, everyone should be able to decide about their own lives and have faith that people can do this and make sure we stay connected to each other. compared to neighboring countries like germany and belgium, denalis has not implemented

a so called to g policy. only dos, vaccinated or cured from covert can access public places with these protesters complaining about their lack of freedom. this measure is so far seen as politically unfeasible. steadfast and al jazeera in amsterdam, police in the u. k, have arrested 2 teenagers in the city of manchester, in connection with saturday, cj at a synagogue in the u. s. state of texas. a british national was shot dead after taking 4 people hostage. the man was identified as 44 year old from a leak face. from all the captives were rescued on harmed us present. jo, binding has called incident an act of terror. tornado has destroyed dozens of homes in a trailer park in the us state of florida. when's reached 190 kilometers an hour? the storm cut off power for more than a $100000.00 people across several states. police have reported hundreds of accidents. donald trump has held his 1st rally of the year in arizona. it's

a crucial state in november's mid term elections. the former us president said republicans would win enough vote to take control of both the senate and the house of representatives. trump also repeatedly took aim at present, joe biden, and bass at him on a number of issues. we've had more problems, we've had more destruct, should i think, than 5 presidents put together in the last year. a job of it all people are being persecuted for using freedom of speech. you talk about. 9 the corrupt election but more and more information is coming out and it's coming out far worse than anyone ever thought it could be. eric cam is a political analyst. he says arizona is important for the former president. if he decides to run for office again. it's the 1st rally that the former president has held this year, but many of the same grievances may many of the same attacks. many of the same

disparaging remarks that we have heard from the former president, not only during his presidency, but immediately after he lost the election to joe biden, in 2020. arizona is a state that for quite some time had been trending very rate. it was a deep red state, but in 2020 it was an election. it was a state fed. joe biden won by just over 11000 boat. and it was one of those states that former president donald trump fought very hard to try to overturn the election in that state. and so now what we see is arizona, like georgia and a few other states have become now the battle ground, that former president donald trump, is going to use as a me to try to get back in office. if in fact he decides to run again. but also recognizing that this is now a moment, a time for him, given that this is an election year to try to settle some scores. manney's from a president e bramble because kate had died on sunday at the age of 76. he was deposed in

a military coup. 17 months ago, i'm a decrease, has more z you, brian booker, kate has journey, tamale's, presidency, was long and difficult. after a number of unsuccessful campaigns, the politician, better known by his initials e becker, was eventually voted in as president in 2013 than reelected 5 years later on at his inauguration when he enjoyed lots of good will, he promised a new direction for molly rambler, carnita abraham bluebook arcadia came with high expectations at a time of crisis in the north, where the threat of secession was real. his phrase molly 1st impressed a lot of mullins, who thought he's a man who would change the country and stabilize everyday at all. but molly's problems continued to mount under his watch. although you reached some form of agreement with correct rebels in the north, the rebellion didn't disappear. adding to the unrest in the boston often lawless

a. her region 14 fighters, led by al qaeda, strengthening their grip on a large slave of territory. electro bashir, he slipped on many fronts. we lost kettle bells along the line. it was realised out he really didn't grasp the craft of leadership. he kept changing his ministers resulting on chaos in governance. we saw the rise of ethnic violence crisis. in short, we can say, because government has really failed to live up to expectations. the dollars that on the con, the french lead military intervention in 2013 helped to civilized many parts of the north. but between 12172020 attacks by armed groups increased killing hundreds of civilians and military, including foreign troops. ethnic violence in the center of molly, it's piled out of control. national reconciliation efforts launched by cater failed to bring lasting peace. with on august 18, 2020. a group of military officers took up arms in what started as

a mutiny at this military barracks, outside the capital. i run italy, it was where other military officers at large their qu, it turned to 12 that paved the way for elections, which eventually brought catered power in 2013 the slow pace of political reforms, corruption, the failing economy and port infrastructure fed and decay to sentiments the fall out of the $22.00 inch parliamentary election was a final straw to brazil the yet below, every prism that see should have a school called so the population can assist it. unfortunately, abraham kate, his government was a catastrophe. nothing, no one. on the contrary, the country found itself in a difficult situation. the government was acting as if everything was okay. second to him was a fiasco, yankee, mushy. but katy supporters placed him for improving the lives of marliss 19000000 population of william m le. to read his army, when you look at the military, you see he is equipped them with both hardware and supplies. to deal with. the

crisis in the north is also increased wages paid to civil servants and the military . it's sad how people have politicized everything in this country. wanted kate, his presidency was also dead by rumors of ill health. but he assisted he was fit. construction has began on the 1st large scale wind farm off the coast of the united states, a country lang's far behind other industrialized nations in clean energy. but the biden administration is pushing to make commitments made under the paris climate agreement. christian salumi reports from new england. it's a project years in the making a wind farm off the coast of massachusetts. we're looking out to the ocean. so 35 miles from here. that's where we will see the turbines. 62 turbines known as vineyard when one enough to power 400000 homes, the ceo of the danish company behind it says it took the approval of more than 2 dozen state local and federal agencies to get to this point. it was not easy and

definitely not the easy because it's also the 1st of its kind. oh oh, the white house hopes to fast track another 7 offshore lease agreements by 2025. at the groundbreaking ceremony in november, the secretary of the interior discussed the biden administration's clean energy goals. the united states is making giant leaps in building a clean energy future. it's a solution that can create robust and sustainable economies that lift up communities while also ensuring future generations have a livable planet. offshore, wind power in the united states currently is next to nothing. 5 turbines here, off the coast of rhode island and other to further south in virginia, that's it. adding hundreds and hundreds more is crucial to the biden administration's plan to cut carbon emissions. but it won't be easy. infrastructure improvements will be needed, including new transmission lines that must be built,

2 densely populated areas. the grid capacity has basically run out or at a point where we need to proactively plan for this. next generation was next round of big wind and solar projects. fishermen and environmental groups worried about the impact on marine life have filed lawsuits attempting to halt vineyard wins construction. all these guidelines that are in place for protection of being bypass everything is getting streamline to produce permits to go into place quickly. and that is good sir. the industry is promising to bring thousands of jobs and millions of dollars to the coastal city of new bedford. already the country's largest fishing port. so this is the 1st purpose built facility for offshore wind deployment. for the mer, it's a balancing act, a go out fishing. in some cases where the wind farms are going to go and so determinant where wind farms go, how far apart turbines are, how they're aligned, are all very complicated questions that affects both industries. still the industry

and its advocates say the u. s. is ambitious goals for offshore wind power can be achieved and also that they must be to keep us clean energy targets incite kristin salumi al jazeera on the new england coast. ah. hello again. i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera, australia and new zealand have sent air force grains to tongue i to survey the damage caused by saturdays will kind of corruption and synonymy communications remain limited. there no reports of casualties, but there is significant damage. we will be working closely with the government of toner with her rural hon is the high commissioner of toner in camera to ensure that we are able to deliver the sort of support that we provide to our pacific family.