examining how propaganda and profit shaped content all hail the algorithm on jessie, you know, once a month, social workers pay michelle nie a visit at her. michel is a single mother struggling to get by on a meagre income in one of the world's most expensive cities. she can barely afford the basics for her and up to stick daughter since the start of the coven 19 pandemic. there's been a big rise, and people seek relief for charity work, as it's been particularly demanding. 28 percent of social workers quit that jobs. the last year, many of them left the city altogether, the district and them and cuts and political uncertainty, many relying that help find it difficult to get the support they, me. ah, russia says it's forces have captured the eastern ukrainian ton of sonata to weeks

of fist fighting. ah, i'm to clock this is out 0 live from to also coming up. police in germany, begin removing the last climate activists protesting against expansion of a coal mine. a new study fi injects on my build, publicly downplayed climate change despite it. sanchez predicting global warming from fossil fuels to 19 seventies. china's export shrink in december as global demand falls on the mind, me super global economic recovery this year. so we began with breaking news. russia's defends ministry saying its forces have now captured the eastern ukrainian town of soda. the strategic town has been the side of fierce battles in recent days between ukrainian trips and mercenaries from

russia's wagner group. so that is just 12 kilometers from the regional capital apartment that russia has been trying to take now for several months. we have 2 correspondence on the story. natasha butler is in case, but 1st let's talk to eli hashem, who's standing by 1st in moscow. so what a russia saying about the latest situation? well, next few hours of reluctance, see the russian defense ministry announced a few minutes ago that it is now in full control of solid aud. and with this will give russia the chance to siege back more completely. now, yesterday there were announcements from the wagner group, the mercenary group, that they are in full control of fully da. they even, it should publish some videos for the fighters walking in the in the city. however,

russian kremlin spokesperson best call was also reluctant to go ahead with the announcement. and he said, despite the achievements that however, it certainly appear to, to have such an announcement today. and just few minutes ago, as we said, the defense ministry announced that the full control off of solid dog. and that in this and this box of the use of artillery add $4000.00 ground forces. what all together, a big element in this, what they described as an achievement. so this is the picture from, from more school for now. this is going to give, the russian forces may be a chance to and will of the, the city of the strategic city of black mood that they've been fighting for the past few months to, to get to it. and this is,

this is also maybe in the beginning of a new year because the russians were during the past few weeks on hold with respect to the military operations. also, there were many setbacks during the past week. so it's very possible that the russians are going to invest a lot in this in this announcement, or they believe that moment. thanks very much in moscow. let's get the perspective now in ukraine. keith isn't tasha butler and, and tasha. so what's being said by the craniums about this, what russian say well, there's been no response yet, sir. from the ukrainians about said this came by roches, defense ministry that russian forces have now taken. the eastern town of sola dar no word from the ukrainians. i'll of course be lucky this very closely treating it with caution. what ukrainians have been

a saying all along until now is that some of their forces are continuing to resist . hold on to positions. we heard earlier from one ukrainian unit on the ground saying that it was carrying out a number of counter attacks in solid. all we know that the russians have been cautious until now to say that they've captured the city. they said, he said that they had the upper hand there. the wagner, russian mercenary group, however, had posted this video online. we had that, that from alhashan there in moscow showing what it said with some of its fighters in the center of the city. so not a totally clear picture for now, we'll have to wait to see a what keith says. what we do know though, is that there are still civilians in solid are still stuck in solid, all, and least at $500.00, including were told 15 children. you can only imagine what oblique and frightening and dangerous situation it is for them. we know that ukrainian a troops have been trying to evacuate them,

but until now it's been simply too risky to do so. or natasha, thanks for that. i'm in touch with her and keith. all right, now let's turn to climate change in the decades, decades long battle to limit carbon emissions from fossil fuels. according to new research oil, john ex mo bill knew about the effects in the 1970s, but played them done in public, yet those repercussions are all to real. u. s. government report says that 2022 was a joint 5th hottest years since records began more than a 140 years ago. all the while in germany, climate activists are trying to stop the expansion of a coal mine and will start our coverage with step, fasten, who's lifeless in resource math. so this is me going on for some days now. is that what is the latest? yeah, well it seems at the end of the village of fer loops around is now a very, very near list of ard is a small village. it had 50 to a 100 villages residents, but they have left in the last couple of years in the last couple of months after long legal battles, but they'd lost all these battles. but then

a 1000 climate activists basically moved into this village around 2 years ago. to build up a camp, but now i'm standing here at the last occupied house, but most of the people, the climate activists were in there have now been taken out by police. we weren't there just some of them. okay, we've lost our connection there with steph. unfortunately, we see the pictures who can see the progresses in the trees. there are no audio coming through to us from step. i don't think yet we've lost to so we'll try and get step back and see if we can get it back a little bit later. well, we'll keep trying in the background. i sure think we can speak to a nurse is deborah, can you hear me now? i can hear you. can you hear me? yeah. you proceed. please carry on. yes. well we're,

we're with the activists at the attic. they were glued and handcuffed to the attic . they were still singing songs was actually an orchestra. police, dan burst in and they continued singing. so quite some dramatic scenes here in this house. but all these people we were with are now been taken out. but as you can see, there still some on the roof, maybe you don't see it, but they are still people on the roof. and as also some people still here in 3. so police came in with grades with the heavy equipment to take every one who is still in the village out, but police is now taking control. i would say over 90 percent of this village, except they know that there's a tunnel also underneath this village. it's a tunneled structure, at least one or 2 people are inside and i just spoke to a police chief here. he said they are basically providing oxygen to these activists are now currently on the ground or find a way to get into that tunnel. so what we are expecting now is that to more of our

sense of protest, this climate activists will come back to the village of floats, or how to have all the very large rally or with also international climate act of his credit to embark expected to attend the police once to prevent that, these climate activists can go back to the village and occupy it. so that's why they're trying to work very hard to clear this village by the end of this day, or as that. but we'll use the thinkers on thanks for that. in the meantime, you said nationally is shaneka oceanic and atmospheric administration says the 2022 was the joint 5th hot assistance records began more than a 140 years ago. it's global climate change report estimates, land, and ocean temperatures were more than one degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. and the depth of an arctic ceilings reach. the 2nd lowest ever recorded at the lowest monthly level were registered in february, june, july, and august. africa had its 2nd will was to sum and south america. it's 4th,

while europe had its 10th. will monsieur reynolds not repulse? ah, 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, they are the warmus years in the modern records sense, 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 s. they sate 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 u. s. 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 coast line and the interior of the state

causing a number of debts and up to a $1000000000.00 in damages. rob reynolds al jazeera, santa cruz, california. well, the oil, johns, exxon mobil accurately predicted climate change decades ago, but downplayed its findings. that's according to a paper published in the peer review journal science. it is the 1st a fully analyze the company's internal research and exxon mobile scientists produce more than a $150.00 studies on climate change over 40 years. and the projected temperatures would increase by 0.2 degrees celsius on average, every decade in that matches pretty much the current rate, a global warming at the authors of the study, say the research was astonishingly accurate and proves exxon mobil knew as much as academic and government scientists, the company claimed until the 2000 and ten's, but climate science was uncertain, and there was no proof the use of fossil fuels concrete to clever woman. well, stefan singer is a senior advisor at clark action network international. he says,

the ex, a mobile deliberately buried its research to protect its preface. exxon was lying. and exxon was basically suppressing the science which they had funded, starting in 19 seventies to look as a kind of plot, pleasurable exercise or entertainment, to look into what the climate would do if it keep on burning fossil fuels. and when, once it turn out that the scientists are very clear, very precise, very science based. they set all holy cow, and they dismissed the scientists. they close the unit and try to oppress all the knowledge. if an old documentation, exxon ceos lay raymond and others happy openly and publicly denouncing the what they called the siri of climate change as a kind of curtailment of energy use for poor people. because exxon was leading a very strong anti climate unto clean energy coalition,

worldwide with other fossil fuel companies. they were leaving that and they were saying, it's all nonsense. what these 3 hogs saying? all nonsense, it's wrong. i hope that litigation works at the sky is going to be penalized all fossil fuel companies in the run of the year 20. $22.00 will have profits of records more than $400000000000.00 us dollars. now us be how much money is going into renewables and energy efficiency and clean technologies, hardly anything. or going back to fossil fuels. japan says it's planning to release $1000000.00 tons of waste water from the fukushima nuclear power plant into the pacific ocean this year. it's been storing the water that was used to cool damage reactors after a meltdown. almost 12 years ago. japan says it's filtering technology can remove all radioactive materials to try to him, which is harmless in small amounts. plan has been endorsed by the international

atomic energy agency. the latest economic data from china has prompted, fears were further slowed down in the global economy. spider reco annual trades up as last year. chinese exports in december fell to the lowest since the beginning of the pandemic in february 2020. but you can buy more now from hong kong. holding out hope for a recovery these days fruit sell it, mrs. gwen has few customers, but she's keeping her shop in waging open and hoping the upcoming loot a new year will bring some good fortune to tell you the businesses lie, restaurants are doing much better. nowadays. there are more customers sees to guffman east cove igniting policies, but i am selling fruit and nuts, and serves us do not good. these things are not daily necessities. and since people don't have their money, they are more careful with spending a widespread coated 19 outbreak in china in recent weeks has crippled consumer

spending. millions of people have caught the virus or stayed at home in the hope of avoiding it. the government says everything is under control, but there is science is rapid dismantling of pandemic policies. last month is undermining the economic, rebound exports fell in december and factory production shrink the most since long term locked downs. 8 months earlier. in some places, frustration is boiling over the factory and central china police confronted workers who are protesting against layoffs and low wages. and let's say that chinese cove at $900.00 challenges have global implications. as some of the world's biggest companies, from automakers to smartphone makers that they think disruptions to their chinese production lines. apple is reported to be accelerating plans to shift some of its operations to india and vietnam supply chain analysts say that set to become

a growing trend is sold out by you can predict it's not going to be predictable. that's the, that's the problem that borders everyone. and if you just try to draw a contrast between china and let's say, even in many countries, in se, asia, the policies are much more predictable. they are not ticking. they have not been taking such an extreme measure to, to control goal. and effect is actually basically more in ny, all of the western companies. economists are full costing a longer term turnaround. many predict that after coven 19 infections of peaked china could still achieve annual growth of almost 5 percent. but for businesses that rely on chinese spending and manufacturing a long term recovery may be too long to wait. richard kimber, al jazeera in hong kong. i still had her, i'm out is there a special council is appointed to investigate the discovery of classified document

to view as president time and former officer. ah, it's been quite remarkably warm. the last 24 hours for china, the to replace the far east of russia. reco breaking numbers. however, fairly rapidly, the cold has been sitting in the central part of siberia and then running into monga, who's going to sweep out hobbies down modest empties a drop of almost 20 degrees, which is good. the hobbin ice festival would also be felt as a rapid drop in temperature. the increase the likelihood shout even snow showers for home shoe and maybe the korean peninsula. and you'll notice the temperature is actually gone down below freezing in gene and so everywhere north of the axis. finally didn't feel a bit more winter there in pushing south there be a certain amount of snow coming out of it, but this is as it should be. rather than,

as it shouldn't have been last week or so, or the reins chased out of the way as well. and this is a rather more normal picture on sunday. those temperatures are still quite hard to say in the southern part of japan. but things have settled back into winter and has been fairly much like wind to throughout most of india, bangladesh and pakistan with the persistence of poor quality and sometimes fog in the north been chased, sweat them up by an increase in the breeze. there is really cold air around it took many stand, it will drift across into northern parts of afghanistan. so couples max on sunday minus 3, but there are people in the world want all forms of verification. they just go away . so we need people fighting against that. we are trying to see if it's a fake video, maybe in syria, but in a different time. they were great d l to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global players. we've been targeted 5 cyber attacks from russia. they're all dangers of

doing this kind of work. belling cat truth in a post truth world. on al jazeera lou . ah, and again, you're watching out 0, her mind about top stories issa and we have some breaking news, rushes, defense ministry saying it's forces have captured the east and ukrainian town of solid l. a strategic town has been the site of fierce battles in recent days between the crate and troops and mercenaries from russia's wagner group, police in germany, a trying to evict climate activists from the village of literature for a 3rd day to protest is want to stop the expansion of coal mine and expect

thousands of people will join them on saturday, such as claim exxon mcgill accurately predict to climate change decades ago, with down plates funding report in the journal science says that some mobile project to the temperature rise of 0.2 degrees celsius each decade. now later on friday, japan's prime minister, few mucous shita will make his 1st official visit to washington dc and meet us president. dr. white, regional security is high on the agenda. in december, japan announces largest military build up since world war 2, calling the threat from china, the biggest, it's ever faced. tokyo and washington of agreed to reorganize us forces on japan's southern or can our islands focusing on antiques, ship capabilities, and during a trip to london on thursday for america sheet at signed a deal to allow japan and the u. k. to deploy troops on each other's territory. so let's take this on. we can now speak to with andrew jan, who's emeritus professor at university of adelaide,

and joins us from tokyo. welcome to the show. so say rachel security, very much a focus on the agenda. how important is japan's relationship with united states? well, this is very important in japan, us security. tricky. since 1960 and defined the relationship that treaty was signed in 1960. now the men in japan wants to give. busy a wide scope of the treaty in the background of japan device, national security strategy and japan. why is defense strategy? where as you introduce japan, this is committed to increase the defense budget and acquire what they call. busy you know, destro,

i believe she also long range the size so obviously japan and dance is very important to have this discussion. busy the american president, and that's what, thanks to you mentioned that was meeting official meeting and just to washington was going to do us all with an eye on china is so it's a movements and plans around taiwan. that's one aspect because japan's leadership has been talking about what's happened in what has happened and ongoing and you bring that might possibly be in the, in the free and that me as high one place and china action. but also i think japan learned about not worrying me science launches. busy very often

and that sentence back quite a bit. it's not just china i think last year as well. so now wide ranging security challenges as the japanese. busy just tell us that's why it is very important for japan to discuss all these possibilities and what challenges out there and how they do nations and rage. ok, expanding now from all sides. not just the japan, but from all sides. is a lot of saber rattling, a lot of money getting thrown into the pot, if you like. what does this do? what does it all do for the trans pacific relations and indeed global relations? yeah, i mean look in the reality of this situation is that good? it could create that place, which is what he's gonna find is the recall security dilemma that one countries

increase on budget on defense and do another countries increase and defensive spending. that's what's happening. it besides the stage, but i think japan is interested in lot in seeking piece japan option. i just think that you have to have some kind of grade just different including what the issue that has strike up there is of course, currently an ongoing battlefront in ukraine in casita has been a great pain seem to be seen. this is a he strongly supports us policy that yes, that is japan's the force us policy and generally in on that to europe in the policy is to or you put in was one reason and what have you. one of the

reasons is that japan sees as disturbing the school and japan very much favors not to see to change any school by force. and japan thinks that this can happen in japan neighborhood. and this is what japan is trying to avoid. all right, we'll leave it that thanks very much indeed at present drain. thanks very much indeed. thank you. thank you very much. ok, a special council has been appointed to investigate us president joe biden handling of sensitive government documents has been revealed. a 2nd set of papers was found of december at this time, it is private home in delaware, at the 1st batch of files was uncovered at one of biden's form offices 2 months ago, but was only made public on monday. whitehouse cross wanted kimberly hallett as this 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 binding to quell this latest political controversy. people know, i take crossfire documents of classroom 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, a 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 her from his lawyer, richard, somber, and at the end, he said, we are confident that they are a 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 foe, paul, by the, by an administration, but treating lot differently based upon your political beliefs. it's 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, thousands of supporters of the prominent sheer politician mechanical cider have gathered in baghdad for friday, pres, it is their 1st show for since widespread demonstrations last year. calling for political reforms, mahmoud ottawa had, has the latest now from baghdad. the message left behind after this master prayers is that probably there are still a strong and they can still pose a threat to the government. taking the side of the opposition, especially this comes at a very crucial time. remember, this is coming as a rocky local. the not as falling against the hard currency is,

economic crises are still posing also a multiple challenge to the people, to the civilians, regular iraqis, so much of the southern and his support of probably want to say that we're still strong. we can make a come back at any time. remember, this is after a long interval, probably 4 months since they last took 2 streets during the violence that the capitol above dad witnessed namely in the green zone in august where and when dozens of so the supporters will killed as they clashed with security forces. so now as his rival, his rival parliamentary block managed to push or to in his state. there are no many as prime minister them how much he asked with any 3 month is on after. so then he took off, his nothing has changed yet. according to these.