annoying to be jointly safe until we are all safe. as long as transmission is allowed to continue the course of the fandom, it is going to be very, very unpredictable. stay with al jazeera, probably just updates. ah, australia and new zealand send reconnaissance flights to the pacific island of tonga, which has been cut off after an under see volcanic eruption. ah, play you watching al jazeera alive from doha. i'm fully back. people also coming up ukraine's former president, petro pro shinkel, returns home, determined to fight treason charges. he says, are politically motivated. china's birth rate gives to a record no raising concerns. it's rapidly aging workforce could affect its economy,

growth and south korea calls for the resumption of talks with north korea after pyongyang launch. it's 4th miss heil this month. ah, thank you very much for joining us. australia and new zealand have sent air force planes to tonga to survey the damage caused by saturdays volcanic eruption and soon ami. a tiring ash cloud had prevented earlier flights. you zealand is planning to send supplies including drinking water on tuesday. communication with tonga remains limited, but while report suggests, if been no mass casualties, there is said to be significant damage aid groups have been meeting in neighboring fiji to coordinate operations. we spoke to some more for families and relatives and also to ministry of furniture. so just before the communication was down and

i told you it was for, i'm believable and they were not able to explain to us the noise in the song and what happened at the time. so it's something that is hard for them to explain. the sounds huge and they never heard such a sound. and this is the 1st time for i think most of people talk to experience are australia specific minister says police have visited the coast and described seeing houses thrown around as foreign minister says, australia will do everything it can to help. we will be working closely with the government of toner, with her rural harness, 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. this is a very challenging time communications, deeply, deeply affected by the events of the volcanic eruption. it has been filled in other

parts of the region. we know ourselves. here in australia, we have seen the effects on our own coastline. but in fiji, in particular as well. i'll just sarah sarah clark is following developments from brisbin in australia. the 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 it's in particular, it's 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've also deployed a surveillance aircraft and that's his lift from the amberley air force base, which is not far from where i am now in. australia is also said that they will send humanitarian aid. i miss i adelaide which is one of the lodge 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 humanitarian 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, a 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 that the aviation access has been a problem. and not simply because of the volcanic ash are spread throughout the region. early i spoke to sharona i li, whose chief executive officer to save the children fiji. she says the situation in tongue that is dire. how many names down the connection? the cable between p t and 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 gym and the dimensions of my vision afternoon. and what we have been immediate need for hold and also for water because they used to be for that has been reported. and as a result, 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, direction there may be for the option thinking and i buy people to be prepared to stay indoors even in fiji. back to there was an advisor that, you know,

advising us to be green, calling people state doors and basically to go out in the rain. so from that day, as you know, that sequence well, days in the next couple of days and other world news, former ukrainian president, petro fourish ankle has returned to keir from poland. despite the risk of arrest. prosecutors accused for a shall go financing for russian san francisco. in the east, he faced his innocence, his greatest supporters, and said they must be united ukraine. well, let's speak to petro bore kosky about this, his senior fellow at the democratic initiative foundation and his joining via skype from here. thank you so much for being with us. first of all, what do you make of the timing of promotion goes return? i mean, when there's so much tension right now between ukraine and russia, why would he return now?

you're absolutely right. the timing for. ready the public positions really is really wrong is really not the best time because of what you have right now is the threats for the real struggle, the russian invasion and the accusations themselves poorly prepared by the persecutors. and i'm just want to correct that. it's not about blaming for a phone call or using, but of course, trading with separate this, but that he approved a scheme that trade scheme of just sport in energy call from the occupied territories of the government control area. however, still with the prosecutors did not release any kind of evidence that there is a link between the president and the ration back separate is so that the case is really complex and we're here in great also. i wondered, what will be the evidence presented by the persecution? my complex case says, you say, is his return, you think now a calculated move,

and if so, who is it designed to influence? well, i can only say that in this case, the president will ask you, the current presence of your grand is call him the shots. and in the to last years, he requested the prosecutors to open up to 2000 and their criminal cases. all of them are job, but right now what we see that these kinds of return and what the prosecutors drive to do in the board. all this they created, it only can boast or the popularity channel right now. per shanker, was seen as very pro western when he was elected in 2014, but that perception of him drifted to to him being seen as pro russian over time. what do you think lead to that and all these accusations against him legitimate? no, i don't think that the accusation accusation can tarnish his image as it progressed

. and rita, in fact, he remains one of the most western politicians, the grain you can speak about. the current government that i can get is a part of a political struggle by using the landscape is trying to present himself as a leader or anti corruption campaign. how about do we have to acknowledge that there are some cases even inside the circle. so by using production for the price to protect himself as a production. why does for a shanker risk or some risks right now? according to prosecution, they would ask the court about the house arrest or about the religion on bail, and the sample band can reach up to 35 to $6000000.00. these are the official statements of the prosecution. thank you so much for talking to us about this federal cough sky from the democratic initiative foundation. thank you for clarifying the case for thank you so much. now china's

economic growth slowed at the end of last year after a strong start. the world's 2nd largest economy grew by 8 point one percent overall last year, but growth flow down to 4 percent in the last quarter. the cone virus pandemic and real estate troubles are being blamed. rich kenneth has more from hong kong. the chinese economy grew by 4 percent in the last quarter. that slowing from 4.4.9 percent a been 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 and the 2nd half of the year. and that's as we started to see those regulatory clamped downs 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 i'm certain there, alluding, of course, to the pandemic and external forces. they mean they can 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 forecasts for china. so these numbers, in some ways were expected. and china's growth rate has hate its lowest level in more than 70 years. it fell to 7.52 bursts for 1000 people according to the government. that's a drop from $8.00 to the previous year. the downward trend has prompted officials to allow couples have up to 3 children. last year's birth rate is a lowest since commerce. china was founded in 1914 i. i spoke earlier to andy mark, who's a senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization. it says it presents a chinese government with a significant challenge. what is necessary, but not sufficient to miss this change of government policies. so we've seen from

the one child policy to a to child policy now to reach ha ha patterson. but there are many, many compet student factors yet, 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 of crisis. so for example, is one policy where the 1st child who on to iraq and so when the family gets her subsidies, 30000 to the 2nd child, 63rd 9000. so certainly there are some i hear from him center. i think also one of the biggest pieces of societal charms that we're seeing not just from china, a globe as women have access to increasingly better food that raises opportunity cost upon children. so that's certainly room for the rest

as well as rising expectations, especially in terms of having your children have a good education with mrs. cooley on for 2nd, a 1000 mild charity and it's only feel a head on al jazeera protestors in the netherlands. call for an end to go over 19 restrictions despite a search and infection. and major winter storm has the eastern united states with snow and ice gases worn. the worst is yet to come. a hey there. welcome to your world's weather update. we're going to begin in australia, still keeping tabs on leftovers of what was tropical cyclone tiffany,

spreading brain across south australia into new south wales. we're going to get down with rain a for sydney in the days to come, but it completely different story towards the southwest temperature and perth at $38.00 degrees. again. have a stretch of about 5 to 7 days above 35. it's not going to be record breaking, but that's not the point. there's not much relief both by day and night, your temperature wednesday dipping down to 26 degrees after new zealand. great now and post tropical cyclone cody moving farther away. so there's waynesville die down across the escape and a bad day and gets there with a hive. $25.00 degrees over the past 24 hours areas of indonesia, and to the ways the island scooping up half a month's worth of rain. and still those heavy falls come natur on tuesday. the same goes across java and that flooding risk will be heightened for sumatra with the amount of rain that we're about to see. rain falling across the pearl river valley has mostly petered out, so a cloudy day in grey lin at 15 degrees, which showers in type pe. and we're flip the switch on for the see effects,

snow engine, some heavy faults of snow over western horseshoe, and hill cato, caesar aah! from the al jazeera london protocol center to special guest in compensation. when you say a lie, a 1000000 times, it becomes a fact. you then can create whatever narrative you want on prompted uninterrupted. you know, i realized i was working for something that you bought, you know, being a part of actually creating that. maria red meat, christopher wiley. the death of journalism is only the 1st signal for the death of democracy studio. be unscripted on al jazeera lou.

ah, welcome back. you're watching al jazeera live from doha. a reminder of our top stories you zealand in australia has sent air force planes to tonga, to survey the damage caused by saturdays volcanic eruption and some ami communications remain limited. there no reports of casualties, but there is significant damage. former ukrainian president federal bureau shank go, has returned to keep to fight corruption charges. prosecutors accuse him of financing pro russian separatists in the east, but he denies those charges. and china's economy grew 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 a current virus pandemic. and a real estate slung and the birth rate has hit its lowest level in more than 70 years. avenues. now in south korea's military says north korea has fire to

projectiles, believe to be ballistic missiles. there were launch from an area close to the capitol pyongyang is the country's 4th miss. hi launch since the start of this year . zachary is national security council called the action regrettable and has called 4 talks. robert kelly's professor of political science and diplomacy at pusan national university in south korea. he says north korea's renewed miss r launches are partly a test of the biden administration to tolerance. why hasn't been aggressive nor through live donald trump wasn't 2017, but it's pretty far down his list. and so the north koreans are figuring, you know, whatever came along when trump was president, that's all over the, by the 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 them and they are developing pre, clearly a missile for so if somebody wants to test it and there's really no reason not to anymore because there's really not what's going on negotiation the regime in north korea is always what regime security sort of its own protection against outsiders and its own people ahead of the,

the interest and welfare of its own population. i mean, the great tragedies of north korea is a country the country to 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 getting the economy off the ground and operating more functionally and being less and things like that. and that stuff is just never really come through north re, 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 rollback to royce or 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 least 13 people have been killed in nigeria,

north western kepi state in an attack by dozens of gunmen on motor bikes. it happened on friday night in the village of dunk caddy, 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 fire. frances parliament has approved a controversial bill that will require people to have a vaccine certificate to enter public paces. at the moment, people can enter restaurants, cafes then cinemas, with a recent negative covered 19 tests. nearly 70 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. austria, meanwhile, will be the 1st european country to bring in a general vaccine mandate. the 3 face 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 vaccinated. it's their devices 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 vaccinate. 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 noncompliance. protest as have rallied in amsterdam, calling for an end to all covered 19 restrictions across the netherlands. prime minister ma quarter announced easing of some measures on saturday, but activists say they want more freedoms restored set by send reports from amsterdam. the divers keep marching for freedom in amsterdam, war veterans extreme rights activist, anti factors, and other lockdown protesters. would you stand up for the future of my kids? that's important. but i have many infections right now in the netherlands. yeah,

there are branches, 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 that. ah, mom was joined to rally, showing the demonstration was not only about the locked down. lavish got a real view of on the who of evoking wilka. we want to show that farmers support other citizens to fight for free country and for our freedom. for 2 years, we've also been under a lot of pressure from the government. you all, i did a listing for over a year. last month, the netherlands had the strictest lockdown measures in europe due to a late roll out of the booster campaign and a high number of hospitalizations and death. on the 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 for

money here, it's clear the government to live on batches and open up society completely warnings that only grown infectious phone power. large spots of society are falling on that for here. research i showed that this ron towards one assertions and government institution level is high. give it a 100. we are destroying the lives about children. families are being destroyed, the whole country is being destroyed. and our businesses are being destroyed. this has to stop, even though because 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, the netherlands has not implemented a so called to g policy will only dos, vaccinated or cure from cove with can access public places with these protest us complaining about their lack of freedom. this measure is so far seen as politically

unfeasible. steadfast and al jazeera in amsterdam. tornado has destroyed dozens of homes in a trailer park in the us state of florida. wins reached a 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. a massive winter storm along the east coast of united states has knocked out power supplies to thousands of homes for casters safe freezing conditions. good worse than as the psalms, a storm rather heads. ne, faith emergencies have been declared in georgia, virginia and both north and south carolina. north carolina is now feeling the effects of a winter storm. that will continue to move through the state to day. as much as 8 to 12 inches of snow is fallen in some counties and significant icing is causing trouble in the central part of the state. conditions very across north carolina and

are dangerous. molly's former president e bramble bach 8, had died on sunday at the age of 76. he was deposed in a military coup. 17 months ago. i'm address, 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. if i'm lucky that abraham will book her, katy came with high expectations at a time of crisis in the north, where the thread 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 elk aida, strengthening their grip on a large suite of territory. electro, michelle, he slipped on many fronts. we lost kettle bell 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 factory. in short, we can say, because government has really failed to live up to expectations. the dos on the con, the french lead military intervention in 2013, helped to civilized many parts of the north. but between 20172020 attacks by armed groups increased killing hundreds of civilians and military including foreign troops. ethnic violence in the center of mali spiraled 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 launch there. cool in 2012. that paved the way for elections, which eventually brought catered to power in 2013 the slow piece of political reforms, corruption, the philly economy and port infrastructure fed and to cater sentiments. the fall out of the 22 inch parliamentary election was a final straw to prison though yet below, every prism that see should have a school code so the population can assist it. unfortunately, abraham cases, government was a catastrophe, nothing, no one. on the contrary, the country found itself in a difficult situation, and the government was acting as if everything was okay. second to him was a fiasco yankee machine. but katy supporters praised him for improving the lives of marley's 19000000 population of why i am glad 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 wasn't. katie's 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. the country lacks far behind other industrialized nations and clean energy, and the biden administration is pushing to meet commitments made under the paris climate agreement. kristen salome reports from your 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 bind administrations 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 lawsuit attempting to halt vineyard winds construction. all these guidelines that are in place for protection or being bypass . everything's getting streamline to for these permits to go into place quickly and that is a concern. 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 porpoise 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. insight. kristin salumi al jazeera on the new england coast. ah, her again, i'm fully back to bo, with the headlines on al jazeera, new zealand and australia has sent air force grains to tongue to survey the damage caused by saturdays volcanic eruption and synonymy communications remain limited very ports. are there no reports rather of casualties, but there is significant damage. we will be working closely with the government of toner with the rural hon is the high commissioner of.