to see that despite the monarch being designated as endangered, there's evidence that conservation efforts are working. but ultimately the future of this iconic insect depends on the continued protection of their natural habitat . there was a time to be direct. they're basically on the verge of legalizing racial, jerry battery to cut through the rhetoric. this isn't a universal death, totally crisis. the seems to be one of the particular populations to dismantle the sound bites. there are lots and lots of women who are likely agenda a kind of anti feminist agenda and demand the truth. those the size of fascism. we have to really recognize what we're off of here. we are determining what is the future of democracy in this country. join me martha mon hill for up front on al jazeera. ah. ready a warning of a sea of human suffering across the world. human rights watch releases its annual

report on abuses. ah, pillows of around the watching out of their life. my headquarters here in dover, also coming up the fight for the ukrainian town of solid arm. keith denies, claims that russian forces have taken control. flights resume in the us after thousands are grounded for hours due to a technical problem. also live in the indian town of josi mouth where buildings are crumbling, forcing a mass evacuation, but people say they have no way to go. ah, gotten to the rogue on the 2023 human rights watch, report says, unchecked. all thorough terry and power is leaving behind a sea of human suffering. it spotlights abuses happening in 100 countries covering

everything from war, media, freedoms, gender rights, and refugees. amongst others, it puts the war in ukraine at the top of it's a gender saying, russian president vladimir putin is operating with impunity. it welcomes the international communities response including the you and agencies collecting evidence of war crimes. but it says other crises are being ignored. and is calling on governments and international organizations to take action or correspondence have this update from some of the countries mentioned in the report. ready ready ah. ready 2022 was your estimated one point. 2000000 people came to germany, claiming refugee faces the vast majority of them. ukrainians, many of them thunder at germany's berlin's main central station here where their application process could begin. but it's estimated and 200000 people from syria,

afghanistan, iran, iraq also came to this country, the treatment they received ever so slightly different because koreans have freedom of movement around europe. as others don't. ah, lebanon's political class is accused of denying people their basic rights by failing to address an economic crisis that has pushed the 80 percent of the population into poverty. low income households have cut back on foods, while the large refugee population has been hit hard, decades of corruption and mismanagement has nearly bankrupted the state, which is no longer able to provide services like electricity, financial losses are in the billions of dollars. ah,

ah, for the reporting kelvin litany of apparent russian war crimes, including in butcher, a town north of heath was occupied by a russian forces. you edison within the 70 people were unlawfully killed or again, in my pole, in the south of the country. russians formed a theatre that had been clearly marked out as a severe shelter. hundreds of people were killed, including children. ah, 230 palestinians were killed in conflict and conference patients with israeli security forces in 2222 and a further 9000 were injured los vegas,

the palestinian health ministry, and that includes those killed in 3 days. i was rarely african garza in august the paid them and israel is further time in the financial school on the palestinians. and now deduct more than a 3rd of the $256000000.00 a year. it collects on behalf of the palestinian authority and duties and taxes. mexico is one of the countries featured in the human rights report where the focus on false disappearances. thousands of people disappear every year, and most of the cases remain unsolved. manuel rapids reports now from mexico city, despite pledges from mexican president under s, manuel lopez over to the order to apply a different approach to reducing biling crime in the country. levels of violence have continued to soar under his administration. the number of people who have disappeared since the start of the lopez over to the administration now stands. and more than 36000 authorities here believe that many people who have disappeared have

ended up in mass graves scattered across the country. one of the biggest challenges facing this problem of force disappearances is impunity as noted by a report published by human rights watch when families of missing persons report disappearances. the response from authorities is notoriously slow, and a majority of these cases are never even investigated. let's bring in fil robertson . he's deputy asia director. human rights watch. enjoys going out from jakarta, miss roberson. always good to have you on the program or your organization publishes a report like this each year. and each year you say the situation is getting worse . i mean, how bad has the last 12 months been just as a brief overview, please? well, i mean, if we look at what's happening in afghanistan for women in the girls, and we look at what's happened, obviously in ukraine with the russian invasion, the situation across the world. unfortunately, it has gotten worse. but we're also saying is a, it's

a responsibility of many other governments. the not the traditional governments have cared about human rights from the european union north america. but governments from latin america, from africa, from middle east, other places to. busy also step up and do something about human rights to recognize that they have an important role in promoting human rights and protecting human rights and not leave it to others. i mean, you just mentioned you creighton in afghanistan as 2 locations in the world. and others might get overlooked. what areas of the world should not be overlooked and what would you like the global community to focus on as well? well, if we look at the asia region, me m r a is a, an ongoing human rights disaster. you have a country being torn apart and crimes against humanity being committed every day by a military junta, backed by china and russia. ah, you know, there needs to be a much stronger focus because this is something where there is interest in the region to try to resolve it. but the reality is that the international community is just not focused enough on dealing with that issue. certainly north korea, there's

a lot of problems in north korea, but again, you know, it's a major, major rights abusing state that often seems to get away with it because everybody's talking about their nuclear weapons or their missile technology. often when we think of human rights, we tend to perhaps focus in all rone psychology of looking at asia and africa. yet we're looking at my group problem across europe, that's being treated very differently from different eve states and the united kingdom. oh, what's your opinion about what's going on there right now? well, i mean, it, there is quite clearly been pointed out that there is a double standard. that on one hand, refugees from the ukraine have been treated very well worth refugees from syria, afghanistan and iraq who tried to reach europe have received just the opposite kind of treatment. that is a very serious concern. and that is a legitimate criticism of many of the european member states that you know,

they're not necessarily on, you know, playing evenly with everyone. and, you know, we also spend a lot of time focusing on rights abuses in the united states. i mean, human rights watch one of our largest divisions in the entire organization focused on human rights abuses in, in the united states. and if we look at the way that refugees in migrants are being treated in that country, it's hugely problematic. how do you take a report like this forward each? yeah, because you want those in power to act on it, but it's all about the lobbying process, isn't it? well, we have a group of advocates around the world who are going to use this report to go in to talk to governments and saying, look, what have you done? what haven't you done over the past year? we've been keeping track and we expected you to do much better. no, i mean a lot of it is also trying to figure out what is the actual. busy interest a particular governments what, what are the issues on human rights that they're prepared to take. busy for, you know, they're not evenly interested in human rights. sometimes you have to focus on

specific issues. you know, we have that sophisticated group of advocates with this report in hand. we're going to be able to do a lot, not only bilaterally, but ashley at the human rights council in geneva, at the security council in new york and other places where human rights should be front and center every day will be getting more reaction to your reporter as the day progresses globally, but for the moment to fill roboson, the asia director of human rights was joining us from chicago to thanks so much for your time. again. thank you. russian forces led by mercenaries from the vulgar group say the units are in control of the eastern ukrainian town of solid all. but keith denies the salt lining. thomas fallen the fighting though and in the wood, has led to some of the bloodiest battles of the war so far. the sasha butler has mo, from keith, the in solid. all the battle is relentless. the

one thriving, sold mining town and east and ukraine is now a wasteland of the months of fighting between ukrainian or russian forces supported by mercenaries from the russian. wagner group its head. yes, kenny precaution places a photo of himself and his troops online saying that taken control of folder, but there is didn't need you look logging into vox units. so take control of the entire time. so laid out, a cauldron has be formed in central city, in which urban fighting is going on. as you probably know, spokesperson for rushes, defense ministry didn't comment on the claims, but said the russian airborne unit surrounded the town, securing it with help russian forces in the push to capture the entire bus region, bought ukrainian military officials and some soldiers on the ground. se solid all has not fallen, and the ukrainian forces holding on here. but as all our positions are still holding from time to time, this close combat and artillery,

fire trains president, all those dismissed racking claims, additional money that developed earlier they know the terrorist state. and it's propaganda to try to pretend that some parts of our city of solid are almost completely destroyed by the occupiers, is some kind of achievement of russia. they were present and are already presenting this to their society in order to support mobilization and to give hope to dos who are for aggression. but the fighting continuous dynamic front is holding 30 as lengthy, was in the western city of louise to pay his respects, the soldiers who died in the conflict. he also met the less way in your presence and foolish present. andre, due to the said poland with send leper tanks to keep as part of an international coalition to help create keepers on fed, that among the heavy weapons that it needs tanks all essential. but western powers have been reluctant offend, offensive weapons that could be regarded by moscow as

a sign of escalating the conflict. but the tide is turning to pledged heavy armoured vehicles and the u. k. is considering send to give them a challenger to tank. some european countries or increasing pressure on germany to do the same tanks alone, clearly can't change the walls direction, but they'll certainly help both ukrainian forces in the face of moscow's ongoing fire power. it's actually butler, this era, the flights of resumed in the united states. troy technical glitch saw thousands of planes grounded for hours. the problem is being blamed on a computer outage at the federal aviation administration. the government's transport agency had to do a counter report now from ronald reagan at port in arlington, virginia. it was a sight not seen since $911.00 thousands of plains round. it all us airports due to a nationwide stoppage called by the federal aviation administration. no,

nothing like this, so it's been a love and obviously, you know, everything just happened because of the system. i think they should just punch control alt delete the as a says a computer failure was to blame. specifically the notice to air mission system or not m suffered a temporary outage without it, like crews could not access the latest safety alerts about fly conditions and runways. we still consider this to be a vital safety system because this is the one that moves messages that pilots need on anything from a taxi way or a runway being out to an issue with the navigation beacon to maybe an upcoming military or space operation of in a certain sector, the outage did not impact quite already in the air. the ground stopped lasted about an hour and a half until yes, a said the computer problem was fixed. the cause of the outage remains unclear. there is no direct indication of any kind of external loaner various activities,

but we are not yet prepared to rule that out. president joe biden has ordered an investigation. the white house says there is no indication of a cyber attack. the f a, a is working aggressively to get to the bottom of the root causes for the system outage, so that it does not happen again. meanwhile, thousands of delayed are canceled flights, have colored flight status for the airports read. this is the domino effect of the ground stop and it's impacting travelers already battered by a chaotic holiday travel season. try to wilford smith hopes his flight from washington to fort lauderdale. florida will take off on time. his wife is waiting there, he said, and he hasn't seen her in a long time. oh, my 1st thought was freaking out. like no, i haven't seen her in 5 months and now it may be a day or 2 more that in a parent technical glitch in house, the u. s. air travel industry impacting millions has drawn renewed scrutiny to the

systems, vulnerabilities. a full investigation has been promised. how did your castro al jazeera washington well still had held al jazeera tens of thousands of opposition? supporters gathering the bangladesh capital with a message for the government and cleaning up in california ahead of yet another powerful storm. thousands remain under evacuation orders. the stories after the break. ah, whether in the arabian peninsula has been particularly western windy this winter so far. usually this disturbance emanates from the east in meds, rain. and this is the latest one generating rather went well if a sudden turkey with snow readily on the higher ground that raged for the across cypress towards the levant. if you stay on the same line of latitude,

the next thing that stanza is the amount of coal, the sun kin to turkmenistan, giving that codes leak and we're leaking really through the valleys, into afghanistan, to shambles at minus 1210 below the average is a daytime. high carbone gets down a minus 20 for friday morning. it's near reco but not quite there, but we really don't warm up very much for the following 3 days. i coldly dr. dancer iran as well start to generate showers. i think in the year eastern or mile and helped to generate these shows throughout the empty quarter lastly of saudi arabia . but it's still cloudy, co the cold and should be particularly in cat though half. for example, though, around about 20 degree mark will have to see the breeze die for it to feel anything like normal. this time, the year tropical africa is full of rain. now put sick lee in west nag, garland. but the south that the problem is a fi risks. it's hot and dry western south africa. ah

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ah, welcome back your challenges there at lisa hill robin in doha. reminder of all top news stories. human rights watch has released its 2023 report looking at the conditions of human rights in more than 100 countries. it says all 4 terry, this across the world is leading to a degradation of the human condition. russian false is that by miss reese from the voc, the group say that they've gained control of the east and ukrainian town of sunny dahl keith denies the claim. finding the airings intensified in the past days, as russia tries to gain ground applies to resumed the u. s after a technical glitch, so thousands of planes round to for hours. the problem is being blamed on a computer outage of the federal aviation administration. mr. pine has ordered an investigation. will you a secretary of state on steep lincoln at us? defense secretary lloyd austin, a hosting that japanese counterparts in washington dc. they signed new agreements expanding their military ties and have been discussing the growing threat from

china's ambitions in the region. lincoln commended japan's decision to double its defense spending by 2020 japan has been a key american ally since the end of the 2nd world war. first, japan strategies align closely with our own national security strategy. both of the key challenges that we identify as well isn't how to effectively address them. we're committed to upholding shared values of democracy in human rights, defending the international rule of law. continuing to lead the world and tackling global challenges that no one country can solve alone. like the climate crisis delivers. political lane is in washington dc with more in the agreements that have been signed. one of the things that the japanese officials say they're going to be doing is they're going to go to an, an inhabited island and they're going to build a training center. they're complete with to run runways from the defense side. what the news they made there is that they're going to sort of change the way us marines

are grouped on the island. they're not going to increase anymore in japan because obviously that's very controversial with the japanese public. but they're going to be doing these things where they create a basically 2000 man, grouping their focus will be answer valence. and being able to launch missiles and ships, we believe that the u. s. has agreed to said more missile more missiles at ammunition that can target ships. we don't yet know if that's going to be us based equipment that is based there. or if the japanese are going to buy that, one of the big asked has been, japan wants to buy tomahawk missiles, the tomahawk missiles are a very sophisticated weapon to cruise missile. you can go up to 1600 kilometers, is precision. it's an important thing to realize the us only actually sells tomahawk missiles to one other country because their potency and that's the united kingdom. so we'll be looking for that to see if that develops on friday. they also

said that there were to sign agreements involving japan in the us space force. so it is a sign that japan feels that it needs to shore up its allegiances. another sign that the u. s. e. 's, china, as their biggest, is what they called the pentagon. pacey and threats. iceland came responsibility for a suicide explosion that killed at least 21 people in the african capital tolerable, a dozen more were injured in the blast, which happened near the foreign ministry. a chinese delegation was reportedly in the building meeting with the taliban. when the blast happened. the indian, himalayan town of josie mouth is being evacuated as its buildings crumbled. the problem is being blamed on a non stop construction in the area and the changing environment. about 600 houses and hotels are sinking down as close to a number of important religious size in the himalayas. attracting thousands of pilgrims every year. partly methyl is in just the mouth for us and joins us now above me. it does look horrendous for the people whose lives have just been turned

upside down there. people in this town arguing anxious more than 700 homes. ah, i have developed crags and have been damaged, were actually in one of those homes. and as you can see behind me, the ground has developed deep cracks inside the walls or on was falling apart. the family that lives here says crack started appearing more than a year ago, but at the time they didn't get much of a response from authorities. now that more than nearly half the town has been affected by situations like this, authorities are being heed to their concern that this family has been moved to a temporary are home. they're, they're basically been put up in a hotel. the government has a sort of, given a temporary habilitation to about 400 people. it's also giving compensation of about $1800.00 to these people. to hotels are set to be demolished,

but the honor see the compensation or they need compensation and the money is not enough. so they are out there, protesting and of course are the himalayas is no stranger to earthquakes, but various people, depending on who you ask, have the various thoughts about what the cause of this is. what are the authorities saying about it? were right now the authorities are serving the place. they are marking homes and areas that are considered to be high risk. but. ringback technical term for what's going on over here is land subsidence in plain english. the land here is thinking, and the government has blamed inadequate drainage system and over population. now, josh, how much is a busy place? how's ins of tourists come here every year? it's an important gateway to several hindu and sick pilgrimage sites. many people who come here are checkers. there's also a military base over here because the town is close are to the border with china.

but expert said they have been avoiding authorities for decades. they are blaming corruption and apathy as far as the people, you know, most of them work in tourism, so their jobs are tied to the place. so best scared that any sort of rehabilitation or re development could mean that they could lose their livelihoods forever. poverty mickle, foresight in joshua. thank you. lisa hunting. people have been killed in storms, continued to advance of the u. s. state of california. emergency work as a struggling to clean up the wide spread damage. thousands of residence is still under evacuation orders in some parts of the state. officials expect to know the powerful weather front to hit the state on friday. rob rentals has more of the seaside town of capitalism. one of the reasons that this series of storms has been so destructive and deadly is that people here in california, as in many other places around the world, often build structures in places where they might be better advised,

not to. there's an example here where i am in capital la. you can see these are brightly colored buildings behind me that are right down on the shore line. they were just battered and heavily damaged by waves high surf that has come in over the past several days of waves up to 7 meters tall. ah. and you could see that some of the windows and doors are actually boarded up. so a nice place to be when the weather is good, not so bad, not so good when the storms come. ah, as they inevitably do. now thousands of venezuelans have marched in the capital, caracas, demanding better wages. the group included public health workers, teachers, and pensioners. the employed by the government to them between $3100.00 a month, but inflation is making it hard to make ends meet and it rose to 155 percent. last october, brazil's capital is bracing for more demonstrations from supporters of former

present. dr. also narrow security force is a setting of barricades and shutting down main avenues of traffic. on sunday, protest has invaded the supreme court, the presidential palace and congress in an effort to overturn the general election since then, messages have been circulating on social media, urging crowds to rally against president lewis in su, lily, to silver's election, a tens of thousands of opposition supporters held a mass sitting in the bung mother she capital on wednesday, and they want the government to resign a new elections to be held under a non partisan caretaker administration. tom v chandry reporter from the capital tucker o. during the past few months, the bangladesh, a government has climbed down on opposition parties, but that didn't stop tens of thousands of opposition, supporters and people from all walks of life from taking part in protest rallies like this one in the capital data. oh,

we are here to show solidarity with all who are protesting against his carrying government once democratic elections. and i can take her governor. many are also angry at the government for failing to stop soaring energy and food prices. i'm not going along, but we are here to demand democracy, protest against the rising price of essential food items. it's hard for us working class to make ends meet. security has been tightened across the capital. wow. and later and their political life, democracy movement taken as a country. and erin nap all done in the capital donna on wednesday main opposition leader futrell islam was just released on monday after a month in jail. told us a large number of opposition leaders and activists are still in jail and says they are living in, in human conditions. he has called for the release our by d,

b and b and as well as the other bodies to building 2 different t r more chez france, daverson. and that same around that retain point program for iteration democracy. and as well as to have also, i'm a tennessee and now it program which will just go for that inform. some does state after the election if the election is adult here under a kid here, government, the government remains defined in recent months. several people who have been shot dead by police, hundreds and thousands have been arrested. that opposition rallied across the country only gabriella gordon. we have been able to meet any challenges in the past. and today under shake has seen as leadership of amo league compared to any other time is much stronger and more united the opposition align phase. it will continue to pass home. it's 10 point demand that includes the

resignation of the government and the transfer of power to a non partisan caretaker administration before the next general election to be charged re i'll just say to dr. a full, the iranian defense ministry official has been sentenced to death on charges of spying. for the united kingdom, ali raised the body was arrested in 2019 and accused of spying to m. i 6, which he denied the case as the radio authorities to release a and he results from billions election suggests the opposition will return to parliament for the 1st time in full years. the democratic when 28 feet south of the 109 member assembly. it was borrowed from running in the last election in 2019. but the party won a court order in november allowing its members to stand in sundays pole. the gyptian pound is plunged to a new record low against the us dollar. one year ago it was worth around $15.00 to $1.00. now it's the value to $32.00. 1. this fresh bout of volatility comes 2