all basil, i don't have any money to pay laborers and because there are no schools nearby to accommodate all the children to help with the farmer. children as young as 4 are brought to farms to become conditioned to such an bottom and just a grow active. you say more than half of all children living in agricultural areas . i engage in work. most of them dangerous work across west africa, one and a half 1000000 children. i involved in cocoa farming many workers comp laborers and, and less than a dollar, or nothing at all. how much they attempted by western cocoa, biased to force down prices, is keeping hundreds of thousands of children out of school and condemning them to a life of poverty. and they argue only by them receiving better prices and education being approved. can the lives of children like, you know, keep poor to ah, the us department of justice names

a special council to investigate the discovery of classified documents and president jo biden's home and his former office. ah, phillips obama watching all does ever life my head or said indo also coming up standing up against al chabad, somalis answer a government call to demonstrate against the on group. i. 2 not backing down supporters of bruce alice did president federal castillo back on the streets, demanding new elections. and ukraine says his troops are holding off against a fierce russian offensive in the town of sali dog. but wounds the situation is difficult. ah, a social council has been appointed to investigate us. president joe biden was handling a sensitive government documents. a 2nd set of papers has been found this time at

his private home in delaware. the 1st batch of files is covered at one of biden's former offices 2 months ago because any made public on monday or white house correspondent can be held, kit has more. the discovery of a 2nd batch of classified documents. this time inside the garage of president jo biden's private residence has made it difficult for bided to quell this latest political controversy. people know, i take classified documents, classified material seriously. whitehouse lawyers revealed the documents for found recently and relate to biden's time as vice president under president barack obama . the white house lawyers and says they immediately turn the documents over to the national archives. still, the department of justice is appointing us attorney robert her as special counsel to investigate whether biden broke the law. i will ensure that mister her receives

all the resources he needs the conductor's work. the white house insist it's cooperating and is denying any impropriety. it's in the statement of from his lawyer, richard, somber, and at the end he said, we are confident that they are thorough review, will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, still, it's in administration under increased scrutiny earlier this week, while biden was at a summit in mexico, the white house admitted lawyers found similar secret papers and a washington d. c. think tank called the pen biden center. the president says he doesn't know what's in those documents, but the discovery has prompted charges of hypocrisy. in january 2022 classified documents were found at the florida residents of former president donald trump. a justice department special council is also looking into that case.

biden has called trump totally irresponsible from his handling the classified materials. another fo paul by the, by an administration, but treating lot differently based upon your political beliefs. each one president trump one way, but treats president by the whole different way. president biden's republican critics are also questioning why it took so long for the biden administration to reveal the existence of the documents. the 1st batch was discovered on november 2nd just days before the congressional mid term election. it only became known to the public this week. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house resign. as a former us associate deputy attorney general, he says, boggling should wave some of his presidential privileges to help restore trust in the political system. you'll notice that mary garland, the attorney general said that the special counsels gotta comply with the policies

of the department of justice. well, there's one policy which has been around for a long time when i was there. but i wasn't, did a since support it that says you cannot indict or prosecute an incumbent president . and in fact, when mr. trump was being investigated by mr. miller, he didn't answer questions that were raised by him. he said he would only respond to things that he did before he was president, or they didn't push it. they didn't subpoena here. if we really want to restore trust in the system, i would hope that mister biden would waive all of these privileges. he would waive the department of justice policy, which is not in tried in the constitution and says, i'm an open book. smalley as president, has called on his studies citizens to come together to fight al chabarise. hassan shaped more. describe the arm group as bed bugs who must be eradicated, and he addressed crowns in mogadishu during a rally,

organized by the government. as de la mood declared war on the group when he came to power last year. now algebra has been fighting the government since 2007. we can only imagine if you see some one you don't know in your neighbourhood, please ask him. who are you? if you can't ask him, he please call us and tell us that there's an unknown person in your neighbourhood . then we will ask him, what are you doing? where did you come from? nothing wrong with that. it's not as of your bothering the neighbors. who donnelly is a senior advisor to this molly president, she says it's important for citizens to publicly oppose the armed group. the president has been on this quest to sci fi shout from somebody since his election time in may. the somali government has been on the offensive fighting show rob, particularly in southern central region of somebody, and the government has already successfully cleared up from 2 major strongholds

of charlotte. so the central somalia, today's gathering in militia really is an extremely important gathering just to indicate that the government around eradicating shamrock from the country, but also militia, being the capital of the city and has suffered extremely by the brutality of i shall rob it is only befitting that the city comes out and in support of the president's agenda to eradicate you shall have, has been a brutal enemy of the people, especially in the capital. people have been under attack the last 15 years, particularly to the last 5 years. just maybe a month or 2 ago, we've had a massive bombing. and the capital had claimed the life the lives of 130 people. so the more you know, the residents are not based at any day at any minute at any given time. so i think

it's, it's about time that the citizens actually rise up in claim their own security back by the government. the me says, original fall switch back to the government of pulled out of the city of to dry as part of a peace deal. the hot, our special forces of withdrawn from the key strategic city of sheree. the french and german foreign minister visited ethiopia, day after 2 guy in rebels, announced they were starting to surrender their heavy weapons to rise. separatists have been fighting the all be for more than 2 years. china is reporting a record trade surplus for 2022 of $877000000000.00 loss, despite its ongoing credit virus restrictions last year. but the export for december was the lowest levels since february 2020. the weakness was due to storing inflation around the world. fed as well as president says his country's economy grew around 15 percent last year. during the transmitter,

his annual state of the nation address, he credited expansion and diversification of the oil focused country. while some industry benefited, many people are suffering economic hardship and struggle to pay for food that are to blame for that on us sanctions. will kamal, let's look for the common destiny for venezuela, a common goal for venezuela. and this common goal must be to say in one voice enough with the sanctions. joe biden government lift all the criminal sanctions against the boulevard and republic of venezuela and enough of criminal sanctions. people peruse marching once again and demanding the removal of president dina velocity. the crowds in the capital, lima also want to end police violence against demonstrators purchase for account. last month after president federal kasteel was impeached and arrested in support of what new election, at least 41 people have been killed. the demonstrations began suntrust more from lima. people have been marching in the center of the capital. it's been quite

chance after our protesters in different parts of the country have marched in class with police and security forces are open to fire. and many or most of the people who have been killed in these protests have died by firearms. now people have been marching around the center of the capitol demand in the recent nation of precedent, de know a lot of the they have, they are holding her enough faster than saying that she's responsible for the deaths. not prime minister. i just thought that a lot of that will not resign, that she is solidly conducting the country and that her resignation wouldn't be like opening the door to anarchy. this our response to a statement without, by the governors of different parts of the country, saying that an urging her that she must resign because it only weighs a price. at least 6 people have died in a series of tornadoes that swept across southern parts of the us. they ripped apart

homes and down trees in kentucky. while in alabama, a state of emergency has been declared. the city of selma has been extensively damaged and dozens of people have been taken to hospital both and 30 tornadoes touchdown across 6 states. 2022 was the joint 5th hottest. yes. his records began more than 140 years ago. and as, according to the global climate change report, land and ocean temperatures were estimated to be more than one degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. antarctic sea ice cover was the 2nd lowest ever while february, june, july, and august had the lowest monthly levels ever recorded. africa had its 2nd warmest december and south america. it's 4th, while europe had its 10th war missed year. rob reynolds has mall 2002 was the 5th hottest year on global record stretching back more than a century. the government report says, when you look at 9 of the past 10 years,

there, the warmus years in the modern records shan't 1880. now that's pretty alarm ah, climate scientists say the warming is caused by industrial age, heat trapping, gas emissions, which have been rising steeply since the 1960. they say rapid reductions and emissions are needed across the globe to slow or reverse the greenhouse effect. extreme weather events in 2020 to include devastating floods in pakistan caused by heavy rainfall and severe drought in europe. that dried up rivers and sparked wild fires. in the u. s, there was catastrophic flooding in the appalachian region and hurricane ian. one of the strongest storms on record lashed the state of florida. it's warning. all of us

force fires or intensifying hurricanes are getting stronger. droughts are wrecking havoc. sea levels are rising. the economic cost in the us of extreme weather events was more than $165000000000.00. we need to be prepared, the impacts of climate change that are happening here. and now, like the more frequent in distraction extreme, that's at least 474 people died in those extreme events in the u. s. last year. if 2022 was a bad year for whether 2023 isn't shaping up to be much better already here in california, a series of severe storms has battered the coastline and the interior of the state, causing a number of deaths and up to a $1000000000.00 in damages. rob reynolds al jazeera santa cruz, california levels hire judicial counselors, fails, 4 points, an alternate judge in the case over the 2020 they route port explosion. the move

was a wind of victims. families have been demanding justice for 93 years. but then i held a report, the battle is not over as the investigation remains blocked i. they won this round. but families of the more than $200.00 victims of the explosion at bay with port are far from achieving the justice they demand. 7 it's been nearly 3 years since one of the largest non nuclear blasts in recent history. and lebanon's leadership has been standing in the way of accountability, trying to replace the judge with a church that politically alternated with us again for recalls. so it's a big, big deal. we all know that they managed to do so because of the board's just gone so far, the authorities haven't been able to appoint

a 2nd judge. every judge in den must know that a percussion of them are contributing to the divergence and to the coveting of the justice. but officials have blocked the investigation for more than a year. now. they have filed lawsuits against the lead investigator tonic baton, preventing him from proceeding with his investigation. it has been established that officials as high up as the president were aware of the presence of highly explosive material at a port warehouse and did nothing about it. an investigation by human rights organizations concluded that multiple authorities work at a minimum criminally negligence. many hearsay. the answer lies in an international investigation which authorities have repeatedly rejected the international community to frontier that's believe and human rights should act. i mean, how long would they wait?

can't they still had with that the hide here is dormant, and it will be dormant for ever. if nothing comes from outside. it's been a long battle for families who are up against a political and security establishment in a country with a culture of impunity. xannon with their elsie's 0 battle well still had, hey, on al jazeera, we report from the indian hill town of joshua by buildings, a crumbling forcing. a mass evacuation on europe discovers its largest deposit of wrath. minerals will find out what it means for the continents energy demands stories after the break. ah, to still raining in some parts of turkey. this big revolving storm can arrive for

a couple of days now. in 2 days. it dropped 2 weeks worth of rain around and talia . the rain is easing. now. natalie gets assessed, he'll be gone. miss spreading through cyprus into the levant. probably some snow for the mountains of lebanon, and a bit of snow left behind the higher ground. come down, i have to say it little in turkey, the real cold air that represents real cold winter has been sitting in sob. ears leaked now across that was took many stalen into the oven. afghanistan, where my site is, 13 degrees below normal. as a day high for cobble now, some of that code i will, leaks into iran adding towards pakistan, but not to that extreme degree. i don't think. and his repeat of what we seen as a disappointingly wet winter so far in iraq, down through saturday, rabbit q wait even indicator, once again, while 2 shells possible on saturday. in africa, things are a bit more like normal. the tropical rains are going slowly south. the still as far north as like victoria, did you go south of that?

the stories not been so much one of rain the last couple days or the next couple were in forecast surgery now. with temperatures above 41 up to 46 in some parts of western south africa. there's a heat wave. ah witness inspiring films from around the world. they so knocked off the violin and killed the power is witnessed intimate portraits and epic struggles. because the leadership is also not just the people witness, the human spirit and the to reality. there been men of believe women, a property witness award winning voice is telling groundbreaking stories witness on al jazeera. ah

the book you'll see on there with me. so robin and reminder of all top stories, a special council has been appointed to investigate job by the time they have sense to government documents. it's after a 2nd set of papers have found us the president delaware home and says he didn't know he had the documents. molly, as president, has called on his fellow citizen to come together to find out about us in shape. describe the group as a bed bug. you must be radically unkind. it is reporting a record of traits at the $20.00 to $20.00 to $877000000000.00 up the size of the funding crew by which restrictions are full for december, the lowest level since february 2020

the that says it forces are still holding onto the eastern town of salida, but the fighting is tough or not despite the russian mercenary. wagner group saying it's taking control of the town. but the kremlin has warned against declaring victory prematurely suggesting the fighting is not over. ukraine has said the battles in this area have been some of the bloodiest in the war so far. oh yeah, she will fly. she is fierce in the solid, our direction, the back mosh. despite the difficult situation, ukrainian soldiers, a desperately fighting rusher, is trying to break through our defense lines without any luck to capture sola dar and the enemy has high losses. the area outside the city is covered with the bodies of persians, troops. the russians are moving over their own corpses. solider only has a population of around 10000, but it's location makes it

a key. strategic target is just 12 kilometers from the regional capital bar. more to which russia has been trying to take the several months on the network of tunnels in the town. salt loans could be used to safely house troops and equipment for an advance. charl stratford is near the outskirts of the town with more on the fighting. were about 5 kilometers outside of buff move solid ari's around 10 kilometers in that direction. i'm not sure whether you're going to be able to pick this audio up, but there's a lot of heavy sharing going on all around this area. we in the last few minutes as well heard heavy machine gun fire. this is checkpoint very close to us as well. we will prevent you from going any further towards. that check point seems as if there are only allowing the military through i was a 2 and a half, 3 months ago. and it's fair to say that the situation has dramatically changed since day. and i mean, we used to go down this road and into buck moved,

then it is a lot louder, a lot more heavy shelling than then. we've actually been speaking to soldiers this morning who beat inside buck mood and asking them about the situation in both moot and solid. they said to us that russian forces were in the center of solely dog. they said that they were in control of that salt mine. they described russian tanks in the center of solid r as well. they said that they were concerns appropriate suds, that there are concerns among the ukrainian forces about possible escape routes for the ukrainian forces inside solid. all he said they were trying to do was protect a western roots out of the town. we've been speaking to some of the soldiers behind his head this in this vehicle. these people have been getting ready to evacuate soldiers out of the moods. they say that there's still a lot of civilians inside, but we also how many civilians they were inside solid. he estimated around 500

civilians still inside sorted as the fighting goes on job and please of return to the village of luther off where they continued to vic, climate activists for a 2nd day protested 3 stains and fireworks officers were against a plan to demolish the village in order to expand the coal mine, please save $200.00 activists left voluntarily on wednesday, but around $300.00, a still in the village, and some of them hiding instructors underground. the largest known deposit of rare earth minerals in europe has been discovered in sweden's out take. a mining company says it's identified more than $1000000.00 tons they, one of it's i and all mines, including a yon mushroom is the ceo of iron or producer al camp. he says, efforts are under way to speed up the process of getting the minerals out of the ground. if we are proceed according to to standards of how

we conduct environmental apartments. as of today, then it will take roughly that time. but, but we have an ongoing dialogue, both with the union and with the swedish government is how to find ways to, to decrease those timeframes. and as to perhaps or a barrel is the european commission barking. ready the critical role, material leg, which actually will, will, will focus on the issues. how can we bring in domestic mining of these material, falster, in, within the union? we have it down to 5. now is a part of this, the pulse at the port. we have them defy this quite large but we will continue with our expiration activities in the parallel. ready with that, we will bark continuous with the known the pulse and develop it into

hopefully producing mine. these materials will be vital for the electrification it could bring in this thing the become the volume of material needed within your not nearly to be sufficient, but it's the 1st, the important step slunk as former president has been ordered to pay damages for sailing to prevent the 2019 easter sunday bomb attacks, the supreme court found the maryland bar so much santa and to received enough intelligence to act now flanders, husband from colombo. it's a bittersweet day for gloria. 3 years after her father george under the 2nd and was killed with 268 others in churches and hotels across re lancoste capital on easter sunday. there's some accountability as a citizen of this country. i'm happy because at some point we got, oh, just this, it's kind of a winning regard for us. but as an order of jobs,

i'm not happy because i may get again, 1000000000000000, or killian's men, those that money can and bring my that are back on tuesday. the supreme court ruled for michelle duncan president my to palace, arizona. and for seniors, security officials violated the rights of the bomb victims by failing to protect them. they were ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation to the victims families. then secretary of the ministry of defense, the police chief and heads of the 2 men intelligence agencies were the others who were fined at the center of the petitions file in court was the fact that the government had received intelligence regarding a possible attack. nearly 3 weeks before the bombings and did nothing to prevent them. the court said, we conclude that the former president citizen has been lacks, in affording the protection and guarantees enjoined under the constitution and other laws. and he has breached his duty to protect adding that this dismal failure

on the part of the former president sidney santa, resulted in disastrous consequences for this country ahead of the attacks. the government was divided after president citizen has failed attempt to sac his prime minister. the now president runner vicar, missing her, and replace him with the defeated president man, the roger boxer. many here, believe this division may have affected crucial aspects like national security. observers say the 2 camps were so busy fighting each other. they failed to act on valuable intelligence. the supreme court acknowledge this fact saying there was specificity, exactitude and clarity as to the likely attackers modes of attack and their targets . the victims families welcomed the decision, but say there's more work to be done to find those who carried out those attacks and bring them to justice. a few days after the bombings, i said, claimed responsibility. but many doubt that claim the government has filed more

than $23000.00 charges against a group of at least 40 suspects. accusations of possible involvement by intelligence operatives claims of cover ups and allegations, by the archbishop of colombo, that the bombings were part of a plot to bring the raj bucks a brothers back to power have not been investigated. i don't want justice. i please, i can sleep faithfully my dad. i died because of these people for the reason i want that. and i v v. as victims die for justice like gloria, many victim said they will continue their campaign until they find the truth. mina fernandez, are 0, colombo indian authorities have promised to give reparations to homeowners in the himalayan town of josi mouth. as they begin demolishing unsafe buildings. hundreds of people were evacuated after the houses began to crack and sink into the ground of the middle reports. now from the town in northern india,

cracked in damage. this home enjo, she month has become unlivable. as he surveys the damage regime to rely tells us he 1st spotted cracks in 2021 but. but he says, authorities ignored him. these became wider and destroyed his home in america. my only v are living in fear people that we don't know what the future holds for us, isn't it? we haven't eaten properly for these. the children are missing school up. now our daily routines have been distracted, me go with the are struggling and don't know how to handle the situation. similar damage can be seen across this more himalayan town. in northern india roads have fishers, many homes are falling apart. nearly half the town has been effected, josha made the gateway to hindu and seek religious sites. it's also an important military base near the chinese border. authorities are blaming badges, systems and over population for thinking this land. brooklyn young authorities have

moved hundreds of people to temporary shelters. families are sharing one room and have brought a 6 advisory over. the robert family says this meant all their savings to build their home. they're anxious about their future if timely to today, but you only don't when i'm the are shivering in the school it. it's tough for the children. we have to warm milk for them. it's becoming difficult to look after them . every authorities are giving us food. so at least that is taken care of, but what about our future? what will we do? are you experts say they've been wanting authorities about the pace of development in the area for decades? they are blaming corruption and lack of leadership for the disaster. now government has tackled this issue probably as they didn't listen to scientific advice. it's not just joshua, there are several other towns which have come out in similar locations and could face similar disasters. in the future. authorities are marking high risk areas and homes. they're also offering each.