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now russia says its captured, the east ukrainian town of solid. dar ukraine denies that though, sang severe fighting is still ongoing. i shall, butler has more now from keith from above the scale of the destruction in solid. dar is clear and so is the danger. smoke billows above buildings as ukrainian armoured vehicle weaves through what's left of the eastern ukrainian town on a mission to evacuate injured servicemen. ukrainian military officials say the situation in solid are, is critical, but that their soldiers are holding on. so toward cervical, none of the situation is difficult but stable. we are holding bags and nobody lose the position. so we are fighting bag some ukrainians, fighting in solid r say they need more ammunition and back up ukraine's president says that they'll get everything that they need. the time i was in raleigh,

we have analyzed in detail the decisions needed the reinforcements needed on the steps to be taken by commanders in the coming days. we have also discussed the situation with the supply of weapons and ammunition to the troops used for months solid r has been the scene of relentless and intense fighting, but roches defense ministry now says its forces have taken solider, visual neurological reorder. on the evening of january 12th, the liberation of the city of solid all was complete, which is important for the continuation of successful offensive operations in the de netscape regional, grownup, early a russian mercenary group. wagner posted a video online saying that it's fighters with ready in town. i work with russia has focused on taking solid hours part of a push to capture the entire eastern ukrainian don bass region. but it has come at a very high price. russian and ukranian losses have been high for civilians. the

situation is been devastating. most people have fled solider, but more than $500.00 people remain, including children, ukrainian forces are racing to try to evacuate them while they're still time. natasha butler, al jazeera keith on charl stratford has more from outside bah words in ukraine's dumbass region. we have just come out of van mood, having spent the morning in there with ukrainian special forces, they were pretty candid in their sorts. they said that they believed if it hadn't fallen solid are that is then it was going to imminently full. and they said that they were very few ukrainian soldiers left in the city and they were plans potentially for getting the remainder of those out. but as you say, things remain unclear and there has been no, any kind of her official recognition by the ukrainians that indeed it has fallen.

but of course, that puts huge pressure now on the town of bah, moot, which is only a 1012 kilometers further south. the scenes inside the city are truly incredible. hardly a single building, certainly in the center that isn't it partially or completely destroyed the streets virtually deserted, very, very few civilians as well. and interestingly very few military, the special forces guys that we spoke to and had been there. so 3 months or so there was a hell of a lot of very heavy shelling when we were there. and i suppose after about 2 hours or so, we were given the alert by them that it was we had to move because according to their intelligence, they said around $600.00 russian soldiers could be seen entering the north east of bar mood, taking up a new position, so the situation in bar moved as well, seemingly increasingly tenuous. we asked them, why has this escalation,

seemingly happened so fast? and they said, the main challenge that they have faced in recent weeks is the sheer numbers of russian forces that they are being attacked by wave upon wave alley hash him has nor. now, from moscow, the mystery of defense announced that solid dot is under control. and this was after a statement by the wagner group that also emphasized that it's in full control of the city. however, there is a kind of conflict going on. he had a most go between the banking, the group and other officials. while the ministry of defense emphasized that this battle or taking solid thought was with the help of the jewelry forces the aerial forces on the ground forces without any mention of the wagner group, the group itself came on,

went on and telegraph on its own official channel and in the form of an answer to a question, said that there was no other forces, although than wagner's fighters in solid r. and that all attempts to dis, could i did the group from taking the city is add you to bill chris c caught option. and what are some of the officials wanting to keep their positions that it seems that most school is de la fight from this from this route? it seems that most grace dealing with the post office box christmas truth period as a new beginning for this war. ah, japanese prime minister for me because she does in washington for his 1st visit since taking office in 2021. because she the and president job,

i'm not expected to discuss north korea and the war in ukraine. china is also a top issue. together with strayer and india, japan and the u. s. a form the security alliance known as the quote it seen as a response to china's growing influence in the, in the pacific region. silencer has more now washington, dc. japan is, is, is proposing a new national security strategy, which includes spending more money on their defense up to 2 percent of g d p which would make them among the biggest spenders in the world. and also addressing the threat that comes from china and also from north korea as well. this is a change in japanese policy since the 2nd world war, they've had a passive its constitution. and no, this is a change is one expert said at japan has had the, the shield for years. now it wants the sword as well. the tip of the spear. and so they will certainly talk about the threat posed

a by china and by north korea. and the possibility of any military action against taiwan, that, of course, has been a concern around the globe for some considerable time. they will talk about at russia action in ukraine. they also look at things like climate it. they will talk about energy supplies. they will talk about the economy, the global supply chains, and they're also going to talk about space now, just a couple of days ago, the united states and japan agreed that any defense part should include action in space, if anything were to be fired from there that clearly, i know oblique reference to, to china as well, but certainly the position with china is something that is concerned. the biden white house since before. joe biden moved into the oval office. it's something that he's talked about on several occasions. he's looking for partners in the area. japan is a long term partner. so clearly he would like to work much closely, much more closely with them and to combat any possible threat coming from beijing. and then spring in david bolling in washington,

d. c. he's the director for japan and asia trade at the erasure group. good to have you with us. so 1st of all, what can we expect from these 2 leaders when it comes to policy towards china and japan? which seems to be a big common concern? yes, i think the main theme of this summit is national security. it's really the alpha and omega of this summit. and may prime minister cas shita promised to president biden, that he would make a substantial increase in japan's defense spending. and so i think what he'll be saying today to president biden is promised made, promised capt. there's just been a real sea change in japan when it comes to defense spending. a lot of it has to do with the russian invasion of ukraine. it's like a, a t, v serious t v series. i see the 1st episode is the russian invasion of ukraine. the 2nd

episode is china invasion of taiwan. it's a real tough national security environment right now in east asia. and you're seeing the japanese respond to that or the public as well as prime minister can sheeta, is japan moving another step away from its path of his constitution? me the past of his constitution remains in place. all of this is happening happening within that framework of their constitution. undoubtedly, japan has a strong passive this streak in his politics. but these changes in the region, china's increasing lee aggressive stances in the south china sea, the east china sea taurus, taiwan, north korea, with all of its ballistic missile testing for having fired one last year over japan . and now russia has become much bigger concern. japan was very tough on economic sanctions to russia. russia has stepped up military exercises in the region

directed at japan. so it's really understandable that japan feels like it needs to to step up to increase defense spending and also to send a message to china that look, hey, you may be bigger than we are. but we have a lot more friends than you have. and his trip to the united states, french, u. k, canada, italy, all before this. it really emphasized that point about the importance of these me things. full cause sheet is domestic standing. that's right, he's not a tough. 2022. his opinion, po, approval, writings were quite high up until july of last year. and that's when the assassination of former prime minister ave occurred. and since that time, he's really struggled for a variety of reasons. and he ended the year with about a 33 percent approval writing, which is really rock bottom since the beginning of his prime minister ship. so i'm

sure he's looking for a bit of a political win here today on the foreign policy stage. but my assessment honestly is he won't get that much of a bump up because what it's concerning, the japanese told like right now is more domestic issues related to the economy. inflation, high energy prices, high food prices. so i doubt he'll get that much of a bump up, but it's always, it's always good to show that he has a strong relation ship with united states and with president biden, because for japan, that's really the most important foreign relationship. or i will leave that thank so much for your analysis of that. now a judge in the i state of new york has ordered the trump organization to pay $1600000.00 for tax fraud follows criminal charges. last month on 2 affiliates of the former president's company, they were convicted of scheming to defraud tax authorities full 15 years.

plenty more still ahead on the news out including. 2 i using to back down, supported the photos out, the president mom new election. and in for why many athletes from a small town in the rift valley are embroiled in tow thing scandal. ah, great code has dropped espionage charges against 24 activists involved in rescuing migrants. the activists were accused of human trafficking, money laundering fraud, and the unlawful use of radio frequencies. the court has admitted the case had procedural faults, including insufficient translation of prosecution documents and the lack of access to interpreters for defendants. the routing came just hours after the united nations called for the charges to be dropped. i spring in gray,

so sullivan in brussels. she's a member of the european parliament from ireland. good to have you with us. so is this a victory for humanitarian work? it's a step in the right direction. clearly, it's all together victory. and they're still telling the charges that are being investigated. so the $2400.00, some step for today, but now and they have to wait to see if charges would be brought against them in terms of felony. and look, this kind of sam, this procedure and the military workers were in charge of 2018. it's taking a long time to come to trial, and today it was dismissed because of procedural errors. but it is definitely unfair to see the humanitarian workers search and rescue workers and be facing

criminal charges. and it's definitely having a chilling effect in the mediterranean sea. i'm just a hearing on tuesday and i can see, and your workers, humanitarian workers are really concerned about and these trials and these kinds of charges push against when you say you say that their concern is that concern translating into a reluctance, a decrease in humanitarian work precisely because people are worried about this kind of legal action coming out precisely. i mean, people, they started having a deep chilling effect and that's good because we still see that migrant coaching and seeking refuge in the european union. and we were still seeing

the regular driver driving, etc. and the fact that these and your search and rescue are now a reconsidering whether to come here because of the charges against them, differently turn on and in the case and the time today in court today, the legs are being shown binder who has grown up in ireland, i mean they still, they're not all scott freeze. that will be an investigation into other charges. and so they're still alive so very much for the next number of years charge. so it's really a kind of a mix today feeling the minute

charges. and i have been out. all right, let's hope it's over 4. thanks so much for your thoughts on that. thank you to the white house now where prospect trickery. john pierre is speech. my documents be mixed with personal. what i can say, look, what i can say is what the president has said before. what i have said multiple times, we take this very seriously. the president takes a classified information, classified documents very seriously. but look, you know, i said this say this before, we have addressed this issue multiple times at length and we have been fully cooperating with the depart department of justice. and now we will be doing the same with the special council office out of just to be prudent here. and just to make sure that we are consistent, i would refer you anything that is related to this, to as it relates to the review, to department of justice or my colleagues at the white house council office. and

this is the we see as the best way to move forward. we want to respect the process . and so that's what i'm going to do. i'm going to refer you to department of your company fall over under protocol. again, this is something that he takes very seriously the president, when it comes to classified documents, when it comes to classified information. i'm not going to go into any specifics from here. if you have any questions, anything further that's related to the review or i refer you to department of justice or my colleagues over at the white house counsel's office, who i know many of you staring right right now has been in touch. good and few things during thank you for following up on the union. i believe it was the president who suggested he has spoken with speaker mccarthy. very plans for them to meet in person before they spoke. and i think we actually share that with all of you. the day that speaker mccarthy became speaker. you you heard you saw a statement from the president and the 1st lady congratulating congratulating kevin

mccarthy becoming speaker. and then the next day, i believe it was that was on a friday, i believe the next day, which was a saturday. the president had a direct conversation connected with the speaker mccarthy and congratulated him in personnel for i don't have, i don't have a plan. i don't have a, a scheduled meeting to share with you at the time i wanted to follow up on a few things from yesterday. when was the president informed me that the attorney general decision to point a special counsel? how and by hope. so the specifics on that i can to, here's what i can tell you. i can tell you that we were not giving you a heads up. i was asked that question yesterday. we did not know that that will be, announcement was going to come yesterday until after it happened. so i can clear the deck there and let you know anything else specific to when the president knew or anything that's related to this. i would refer you to the white house counsel's office. i know many of you that i'm looking at right now has been in close touch with my colleague there and. and so i would continue to refer you to,

to my colleague at the white house counsel's office. one of the things that they finally confirm for bob lauer is indeed the president's personal attorney handling some of this given that the justice department cited the personal council is having made this initial outreach to national archives. and it has been in touch with the justice department. is that the person who these questions should be directed by the white house council? i will say this again, i would whatever the white house council my colleague told you in your conversation, i know you guys just spoke or connected earlier today. i would ask them that question and anything related to the review, i would refer you to the department of justice and regarding the debt that extra name measures that the treasury secretary announced a little while ago. and it passed notice to congress. is there a policy that requires her to give advance notice in those plans you would have to

you have to reach out to the department of treasury on how that process works. what i can say is just so that everyone knows the folks who are watching the debt limit is projected be reached on thursday, january 19th, at that point, treasury will be good to take extraordinary measures to prevent default secretary yellen did not name a specific ex date if you will, the day treasury would know the day treasury would no longer be able to pay the government's obligations, but quoting from the secretary's letter, it's unlikely that crept that cache and extra measure measures will be exhausted before early june. but does that does not mean that congress should not wait until then to raise the debt ceiling. as we have been saying over and over again, the sooner congress acts the better since even the prospect of not raising the debt ceiling will have to damage the full faith and the credit of our nation. and again, we are going to continue to, to encourage car congress to act. but as far as the steps and how this all works,

i would refer to department aspect phase 2 years ago. she did it about 10 days before i as i understand, i would refer to department of treasury, nothing to it being in a day, i mean ration violent suspect. i would refer to department of surgery and just to be very clear here, and we have, i've been in here almost every day since we got back from mexico city standing here taking your questions at length so that we're not avoiding anything here. and we've heard, you've heard you've heard from the president at least twice and you, we have put forth multiple statements from the white house counsel's office. so that suggestion, i just disagree with. go ahead, chris and pre thank you so much. in the white house, the president agreed to fully cooperate with the special council can we have said that we are going to continue to continue to fully comp cooperate. we have been the president's lawyers and team has been fully cooperating with the department of justice. and we're certainly, they're certainly going to do that with the special counsel. and by that reasoning,

would the president agree for it on the record in person? if not, i'm not going to get into specifics or get ahead of what's going to happen. i'm not going to get into hypoth because hi, pathetically. what i will say is, we have addressed as multiple times at length and we are going to continue. the president's team is going to continue to fully cooperate with the department of justice. and we respect that process and that's what we're going to do. said he hope to speak about this. when can people expect to hear from? don't have again, that's, that is, that is something that i can't, i don't have a magic wand here. i don't know when that's going to happen. what i can say is his team is going to fully cooperate with the department of justice. let's not forget, the president said during the campaign that when it comes to the department of justice, independence, he respects that. and that is something that he had said was incredibly important to make sure that they had their independence. that's why we say we're going to

make sure that they have their independence and that's why i'm saying that we're going to refer to department of justice. and let me just ask you big picture question here. does the white house, broadly speaking, have an obligation to share, not just with the national or with the american people when they classified information in the private location. again, there is a process in this, we're just not we will, but it is a policy. it's a white house that they should share that information, not just with with the american. so i will say this kristin, we have been transparent in the last couple of days in member there's an ongoing process and we have spoken when it is appropriate and we have shared get, i've been here almost every day, every day, but from wednesday yesterday. and today, taking your questions on this, the white house council has put out a very extensive multiple statements on this as well. and you all,

i know you all have been talking. many of you here have been talking to my colleague in the white house council. so what the, the, the actions that we took were right, right action that his team took. indeed in dealing with the department of justice and also the archive. look, i have, i have, i have answer questions when the prep has broke in because it's an ongoing process because again, it is an ongoing process. there is a process here. the department of justice is independent. we respect that process. but again, i have taken questions. i can take 22 questions through a 100 questions. i have answered your questions as almost every day on this issue. and again, anything else that you may have, anything that's related to the review, i would refer to the apartment of a lot of questions. but you gotta move on here. but the president campaigned on the argument that he would restore, you know, that he's in the process of deciding whether to officially now he's running re

election, does a bit under that argument that he would restore competent. because here we have in the headlines that he is now under that story, independence in the department of justice. that's what we're doing here. when we're say we're going to refer you to the department of justice. that is restoring independence as it, as it relates to issues like this. and that is important to the president and it's been consist hi, we are taking this very seriously the woods there of the white house spokes person carrying john pierre. saying that when it comes to classified documents, we will continue to fully cooperate with the special council. of course, all of this is coming on the heels, the announcement that we heard, that's classified documents were found in the u. s. president's home and in an office, an unsecured office in washington, dc, dating back to the days when he was vice president. last talk about let's bring in

panica, hang joins us now from washington, d. c. so patty, a lot of referring you to other departments there. i think is what we take away from that not getting drawn into a lot of detail now this is pretty much press secretary 101 in the almost the exact repeat. not verbatim, but a pretty close repeat of the question she was getting just yesterday. this is what she's going to say. she's going to say look, if you have questions about how we're handling it, talk to the white house counsel's office. and if you have questions about the investigation, well then you're going to have to go to the justice department. this is pretty much what they do in washington. so it's, it's, her answer is probably are going to change. that's probably not why this matters. what matters is how many more days the reporters are going to keep their focus squarely on this issue. to just say again, to recap, we believe that joe biden present jo buttons, lawyers were going through an office in dc. they found some classified documents.

they noticed, notified the national archives, which notified the justice department, the justice department, then the more documents are found in his delaware home in his garage, where he perhaps not very good, and not the best move sort of joke about it for the corvette that's locked. but then there were also documents classified documents in his home office in delaware . so in the bigger context of this, this is a political headache for him because up until this discovery, all of the political headlines had been the republican party is in total disarray. now, republicans and especially conservative media, are seizing on this to criticize president joe biden, because he so fiercely criticized former president donald trump for having classified documents. now again, this is not an apples to apples story. first of all, we don't know how high the classification was in those biden documents. we don't know how many, but we believe we know about the situation with the former president. trump is that

he took these up multiple files doesn't possibly hundreds of top secret, highly classified documents, some involving news. busy weapons programs to his home in moral law. busy go when the national archives realized they were missing, they asked him for the documents, they didn't get them back, it eventually to the f b. i basically rating his home and finding those documents and then a special prosecutor was appointed for that. the reason why this matters is because of donald trump, republicans had stayed mostly silent to seine a big deal. now they've gone completely opposite way. and they said, this is a huge deal. look with the president jed, and that could actually hurt them in the long run as much as it hurts biden. if damage you, evidence comes out about trump and they have been so vocal and say what biting did is a horrible thing, unforgivable. how are they going to then say, but what president trump did is no big deal. so the cases are very different,

but it is going to be a enormous political headache for the biden administration. and another issue, although domestic, which no doubt has some impact on the world, is the u. s. hurtling toward the debt ceiling. right. what did cutting jump here? have to say about that? the never ending debt ceiling debate. it's just the perennial issue that comes up in washington. so basically the law says, the congress has to continue raise the debt ceiling to pay for the bills that they've already spent. so this isn't new spending. this is congress passed laws. they said we want to spend money on this and now the, the treasury needs to say, ok, well to do that, i need to borrow money. so you need to raise the debt ceiling. so i can do that. so here's why it's going to be tricky divided government. the republicans have the house of representatives, not by much, just a handful of votes, but those handful of votes the far this right of the party are demanding that they'll be major concessions. if they're going to raise the debt, feeling it all,

they're going to have negotiations. i believe it might feed it a little bit blurry, but i believe she said, we're not going to negotiate. look, this just has to be done. and this is something that throughout the years we've seen kind of come to the brink, we're not there yet. now the treasury secretary said, starting next week, she's going to going to have to start moving money around. they've got all these mechanisms to do that. so that they don't run out of money, but come june, that could be de day. so what happens if the don't, the duct feeling doesn't get raised? well then the u. s. default that it's dead at most economists will tell you that could be an economic calamity. us treasury, that's how they borrow money is considered one of the safest investments, if not the safest investment in the world. so if that no longer becomes the case, really, i don't think economists have been able to accurately predict just how bad of a situation that could be, not just for the united states, but for all across the globe, people from all over the world,

countries from all over the world have treasury bonds is where they keep their money, so it's going to get interesting. kevin mccarthy, the house republican speaker has show for his speaker. busy battle that he is going to be listening to the most far right, members of his party and they are going to want to see major concessions. the white house is for so far, taking the, saying no concessions do this. we have to do it. it will be horrible if you doubt, and this is it new spending. this is money that you've already spent it. so we've done this before. we've never gone to the brink. we've never gone over it, but it's a very new feeling in congress right now. so it's going to be a story that everyone not just here ever around the world is going to want to watch . definitely want to keep eyes on that. then. thanks so much fatty. how high still i had on al jazeera, the frenchman who just count on winning stages, that car rally, coming out with ah,

with the unusually clarion wet winter in the middle east, particularly re replace the continues the source of all this is usually storms that brew in the eastern med, well this latest wall is that spreading its way into the levant towards northern egypt. you will see, fall the line through iraq to western iran, right? we're down towards eastern saudi and just touching a thought as well. so the forecast specifically for bay route 3 days of rain. it won't be entirely overcast, but you've got more rain than not rain, i suspect, and not much sunshine. doha two's got a day of rain likely on saturday on often bit of bright is not especially warmer bit wall that has been the last few days. but the general picture is an unusually wet spell, after se is drawing out in iraq is by the time we get to sunday. as you can see, if you just looked the east that temperatures may look on the low side to you. they

are max with minus 3 in cowboy is well below where it should be been over night is down to minus 20 or so. the real cota city in turkmenistan and just leaking down through the valleys in tropical africa, the shower still fall. david's non sure strong breeze full somalia reign of some significance. he's like, i think it belongs in particularly in the out of madagascar. but there's a heat way from the western side of south africa ah, on calcium because the chinese strict cobra policy is over will about health john the economy. europe's energy crisis east for the continents might not be out of the woods yet. plus we explore why young educators involved with a turning to farming country the cost on al jazeera. i just see there is a country with high poverty rates, with inequality,

and these are here. it is not an exception. many of the footballers in this country come from poor areas such as this one is many of the members of argentina, national team come from places such as this one where the football field do not have to write. but the soil, just like the one that you can see right here, we've been talking to some of the children that live in this place. and they said that they would love to follow the steps of your tell missy, until the maria and other members of the national team. oh, a

let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here and now japanese prime minister from your computer is in washington for his 1st visit since taking office in 2021 because she the and president job i know expected to discuss north korea, china and the upcoming g 7 summit inhaler shima. russia says he's captured the eastern town of solid das crane denies. russia controls the town and says they're fighting is still ongoing. your brain says battles in the area of don yet greeted, been some of the heaviest of the war. kid roodick is a member of the ukrainian parliament and leader of the holiday party. she says the situation is less clear than russian announcement suggest. what you know right now and what is definitely confront by ukrainian force it, there are still heavy fighting in solid r as well as in bought are here rushes announcement about taking so they don't.

but i want to remind everyone that is this 5th announcement of taking solider over the last 5 days. and especially that running a group that was announcing that is acknowledged as a terrorist organization. and this is why we are calling for everybody use only they checked data and not anything else. as for the civil s a inbox with an install, the dark people who remain there, people who decline to recreate. and it is incredibly hard for us to provide all the supplies and the support for them. however, it was a time and prosecution procedures to the create from solid are and are right now, the only hope that we have is that our forces will re establish and the control of their city. what i want to point out critically is that russia is throwing an

enormous resource on getting small city or solid or in getting small city of buckled, leading climate activists growth come berg has joined the other activists in the german village of lou, et cetera, to protest the expansion of coal mine thousands of people are expected to join them on saturday. several other activists in the village remain chained to an abandoned house. protesters are arguing the coal project on the mines, germany's climate goals. so fossil has more. we were right inside who were on the attic with a group of activists who have actually a handcuff themselves to the attic, glued themselves to the attic, blew themselves together. and the moment police burst in they came, the latter was up. we were locked in, sunny police came in the ladder, came up, a police really came in with like 2030 at the same time. and they tried to convince them to still leave. but of course they are stuck. they are now trying to

remove them with all kinds of equipment that they brought with them. but during this whole scene, the activist continued to sing their slogans to their songs about climate justice songs against the expansion of the mine a despair. it was still high. i have to say that they were quite a bit, but of course it was quite a 10 situation with such a force of police coming into this building. we were removed and we are now standing outside as you can see. but the climate activists are still in there, the still a few also on the roof. and there's also some people hanging in ropes. so they have showed some serious acrobatic skills here to have been training for this. so they were trying to make it as difficult as possible for police to reach them. but please of course has brought all kinds of equipment and i can show you here on the other side, the village has been cleared quite a bit already. you can see the machines over their trees have been cleared. there's been roden structures because climate activists have been camping in this village

for around 2 years. the residence of this village around 50 to a 100 of them half left already a while ago because they have had long legal battles with the energy company r w e, and they lost all these battles. but instead of the residence, this climate activist came in, now voters in the check republican going to the poll, says 8 candidates compete to become president. the winner will replace miller's there man who won't be able to run again, having serve to 5 year terms. if no candidate gains more than half of the votes, 2nd round will be held at the end of january. david on the is a political analyst and the former head of transparency internationals, check republic office. he says the elections are very symbolic to checks. i think it, that's the system is actually more like french style, so we really have to round and it's very unlikely that one of the going today would make 50 percent in the 1st round. yes. brief rundown who are,

who both actually indicated they were. they are the ones who have been chances and in my view, the game is the or the selection is important. not only practically, but also symbolically because it actually and then you are a former president and his last days in office we're kind of shameful because like he was out of shape out of the shape healthy, but also a very inconsistent in the policy. so i believe a lot of people actually expect someone new in the position is the head of state who can represent come to the latest economic data from china, has prompted fears of a further slow down in the global economy. spite of record annual trade surplus last year, chinese exports in december fell to the lowest since the beginning of the pandemic in february 2020, which had kim, but has more now from hong kong. holding out

hope for a recovery these days fruit salad, 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 that our businesses lie, restaurants are doing much better. nowadays. there are more customers sees the government east cove igniting policies, but i am selling fruit and nuts, and serves us do not good. these things are not daily necessities and seen. people don't have their money. they are more careful with spending widespread coded 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 signs. it's rapid dismantling of pandemic policies. last month is undermining the economic rebound. exports fell in december and century production shrank 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. i miss say that chinese cove at 900 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 salt by you can predict it's not going to be predictable. that's the, that's the problem that borders every one. 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 taken such an extreme measure to, to control go. and their practice actually basically are more in ny,

all the western companies. economists are forecasting a longer term turnaround. many predict that after cove at 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. now police in south korea are recommending $23.00 officials be charged in connection with a hollowing proud surge that killed nearly a $160.00 people to the south. to tell prosecutors on friday failures to plan for and control the crowd, lead to the crush in october, sol, police expected a crowd of 800000 people and deployed 137 officers to tackle drugs and crime. weeks long protests in peru, a forced authorities to close rail and airport services to the countries famous

matcher. peach you sight at least $43.00 people, including a police officer would kill your and violent confrontations. following the removal of former president pedro castillo, now president deena boulevard is facing increased pressure to step down on a, on a sanchez reports from lima. oh, demonstrators march on the streets of the capitol, carrying the photos of the dead and banners between precedent. deena will not be as a murderer ah, thousands of people in lima and southern be to blame her for the kings. most of the victims were young, poor indigenous gun down in confrontations with the army and police who used live ammunition to disperse crowds of anti government protesters. i am upset, angry traumatized, and shocked by what's happening here. i believe that people are going to force dina bellotta and congress out. ah,

the worst style is edwin to dickins has also prompted the governors of 3 southern regions almost hit. the protesters were killed to urge the president to resign. they say it's the only way to start resolving the spiraling unrest you sooner or diesel of the brother in a massacre when albert to for him, when he was in power, she says the current government must go. yeah, i think i think that a government that has presided over so many debts is unsustainable. we are all in favor of democracy, but it does not make sense if they don't respect the lives of the people. but prime minister alberto tattler, his loan, we're facing controlled and stepping down is out of the question. we do, you know, get all that. i want to say very clearly, the president is not going to resign. that, that will not happen. nobody is leaving the presidency. was going to open a very dangerous door to anarchy, and they cover made us and that will not happen. see noble good in knowing the

south families of the 17 people killed by security forces equally, aka, earlier this week, hailed a funeral procession accompanied by thousands of mourners. dina, you killed my husband. why? i hate you. do not proceed in but one of these indian she grew up in equity, mac, one of the country's poor's regions. angry peruvians accused her of turning a deaf ear to their complaints. many brokers in the south of the country say they will come here to lima. the waiters because they say they're by says, i'm not being heard. they're threatening to march to lima in the coming days to join ra, leasing the capital and see they will keep up their protests until the want to pay is office medina, centers and just kinda still had on al jazeera. find out why know about yoga bench

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with full oh. a catch up on all the news now with peter. let me thank you very much. mentioned the city football of benjamin mindy has been found not guilty on 6 count of rate and one count of sexual assault of her trial. last thing, 6 months, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on 2 other charges. one account of rape and

another of attempted rape. you'll now face a re trial on those 2 charges that he suspended and stopped paying min b of he was arrested in 2021. the 28 year old prince defenders contract with the club finishes at the end of the season. the dwarf and excellence club world cup has been made in the host country morocco. it took place in the capital city, robot, and fee for president johnny infant tina was in town to watch. and once all the teams had been drawn, it was pretty good news from seattle sound is. well, the 1st major league suck aside to make it into the tournament, which starts on february 1st. that's because they've got a potential semi final against european champions, rail, madrid, seattle entering round to the face of lee or oakland 50. you play each other in the 1st round, brazil's south american champ, flamingo, stopped in the other semi final, where they'll meet other african champions. we dod, casablanca, all hello from saudi arabia, kenya is home to many of the world's leading distance athletes. but it's also top

of the doping rankings. dozens of canyon run is serving bands using performance enhancing drugs. as capitan saw a report from alba rates in the rift valley, the countries updated federation and some band athletes avowed to tackle what they call the doping crisis. this mall town in the rift valley with its breathtaking scenery and high all to toot the renowned athletics hub. here you'll find athletes known for middle and long distance running. many have worn numerous awards and gold medals. yet the runners continued to break records. thousands of them are being suspended from competition because of doping. canyon mach can goggle, was a rising star until recently. he competed in the mountains of switzerland and $11.00 of the season's toughest trail events. his task showed the presence of 2

prohibited substances in his system. he was banned for 3 years and stripped off his title. thought me. missy would rather say i did not know those bills will bring mistress. i used them to deal with a knee injury admitted to taking the drugs annoyingly kenya has been dealing with a rising use of performance and haunting drugs for yes. as of the end of november, $55.00 kenyan athletes were banned, and 8, provisionally suspended. according to the athletics integrity unit, recently world athletics, presidents, basking coal, praised kenya's efforts to tackle the problem. government has already committed $5000000.00 a year for the next 5 years. that is $25000000.00 us dollars. and that money will support that all out or again, stopping wilson keep song a former world marsan, record holder is finishing his 4 year ban after he missed mandatory doping tests.

he says he's helping to educate the athletes about the problem. you have to be fair district or what goes into a mock that anything that goes into a model, that responsibility of the so this, that kind of ignorance fatherly. one of the most misused drugs is prescribed for anemic patients. it's a job that increases the number of red blood cells which carry oxygen to the muscles. drugs like this one, i easy, the available in tennessee. all you need is cache and a good pharmacist. people talk to say it's a lucrative business. some of the athletes like come, go, go who are under suspension, say he just wants to keep their head low. continue training, wait out there. bon, and hope they can compete again, katherine sawyer, all the xerox in the rift valley. the australian openness just stays away on home. favorite nick curious as confirmed he will retire from tennis if he wins

a grand slam singles title. the 27 year old warmed up for the tournament by playing an exhibition match with 9 time champion in melbourne. oh that shaka, which was the serbians 1st appearance at the rod laver arena since he was deported from australia last year and we covered 90 vaccination status and he certainly look like he enjoyed being back. but i was curious who took the victory, believe it or not. and now he's targeting a 1st major title. like you said, like last year he'd retire. if you're 11200 percent. ah, it's a lot of training. it's a lot of work and i just want to be able to 8, whatever i want, drink what i want to drink and then just relax. it's a hot hot lost all, you know the dedication that they've got show down there. i mean, i did the bill bill got lost, he had a great year last year to show the world. i'm still one of the best now to the current generation of n b, a stars and the boston celtics have beaten the brooklyn. it's in the battle. the top 2 teams in the eastern conference burnett said 118 of the last 20 but were

without the injured kevin duran's will though some slick passing from ben summons helped to give them a 6 point lead in the 2nd quarter. but the self accept back with some good moves of their own. derek white finishing the swan off with a 3 pointer. jason tatum was their top score with 20 of they pulled away in the 4th quarter to win 10998. for the 5th straight victory. now in the western conference look, don't judge stall the show as the dallas mavericks beat the los angeles lakers. he landed, he's 10th triple double of the season with 35 points. 14 rebound from 13 assists. don church schools, some crucial clean point is to take the game into overtime and in double overtime before the mabe's eventually beat le bron james and co in their own backyard. 119115. it's dallas's 4th, straight win over the lakers. and from the n b a to the nfl, tom brady is gearing up for the playoffs of mondays. wild card clash against the

dallas cowboys is not. he's final game. the quarterback came out of her time and to play the season, but it's expected to call it a day once. the campaign finishes temper one, the and if the south division and they beat the cowboys in the 1st game of the season. but dallas all excited by the prospect of sending brady into the time and good embrace these opportunities. i mean, think about, i mean, you're talking about you know, clearly proven most decorated player of our generation. maybe even the history of the national football league. but i know his competitors, we're, we're, we're all excited about this opportunity to compete against tom. he's, this is just like any other quarterback he believed the same way he go, you know, i was just a better quarterback them. well, so you know, the challenges are on out there, let him go out like that. i mean, he's got a great career legendary, but we're going to knock them out. we can set up as well as a frenchman,

sebastian lube has won an incredible fest straight stage of the back already, but he's still far behind lead and nasa ala thea lead took me on as in friday stage 12. he was rewarded for his remarkable run of form by moving up the 2nd overall. however, he is still nearly 19 minutes behind. i lots he up. the category is on calls to when he's 5th, dec already title. there are only 2 stages left in this. all right, so beer again later with more sports. nice. sammy, thanks so much pico. that brings us to the end of this is out of town to back with all of the bases. ah.

there was a time to be direct there basically on the verge of legalizing racial cherry battery to cut through the rhetoric. this isn't a universal death felony crisis. it seems to be one of particular population. it is men of the sound bites. there are lots and lots of women who are whitely agenda, a kind of anti feminist agenda, and demand the truth, those the size of fascism. we have to really recognize what we're up and yet we are determining what is the future of democracy in this country. join me more from on hill for up front on al jazeera. ah al jazeera. when ever you. oh, wow. west struggle gives birth to true passion. where

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