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ah, hello i marianna mozy, welcome to the news, our ally from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. russia it says its forces have taken control of the east and ukrainian town of sola dar. and what would be its 1st battlefield game for months. but keith is saying its troops is still fighting a russian victory would allow his forces to then push on to the nearby city of bachman, which is already been devastated by months of conflict. and germany is really embarrassing itself, right now. climate act of his greater turned back visits, the german village where police are, are trying to evict, protested, been blocking the expansion of a coal mine. and all we want is justice agreed. court drop spying charges against activists involved in rescuing migrants, but orders the prosecution to refile the case on procedural grounds. i don't

pieces for everything bo, with your sports the draw for next month's club world cup has been made and matches the cities. benjamin mandy has been found not guilty on 6 counts of rape. am one count off sexual assault. ah, hello and welcome to the news. our russia is saying that it's captured the east and ukrainian town of sala die. what would be moscow's 1st gain in the da boss region since july, but it's in his evening address present. rosamille zalinski said ukrainian forces a continuing to fight with russian troops in solider and all the cities in the east . the area around solid are, is seen months of some of the conflicts deadliest fighting. it previously had a population of around 10000 people. most people though, have fled. solider equate in official say more than 500 people do still remain. and

that includes children. a been trying to evacuate as many of those left as possible . both sides of met heavy losses and all buildings and facilities have been orbit destroyed. visual dialogue for real. on the evening of january, the 12th, the liberation of solid all was completed. the town important for continuing the russian advance on don't yet sk, taking full control of solider enables russia to cut off the ukranian forces and supplies in brownwood, which is located to the south west from solid door and after that to block and, and circle the ukrainian army divisions that remain their logo as just look at why solid are is significant around the now ruined town ly large salt mines with almost 200 kilometers of underground tunnels and cabins. before the war. the mines hosted whole football games, 80 to 100 meters below the ground. and in 2007, an orchestra performed for 350 people. efforts to take it have been spearheaded by

of guinea reagan. he is the leader of the mercenary wagner group. he is stressed the importance of capturing the minds to store equipment and troops safe from ukrainian missiles. capturing solid are also allows russian forces to concentrate on take india by backward, which ukraine has been defending for months. 60 percent of it has been destroyed by some of the conflicts most intense fighting out his arrows at charles stratford is that he sent us this report. ukrainian defensive positions whist of the front lines. city of bar mort. russian infantry are slowly advancing into northern and eastern residential areas. over the hill, the center of town is almost completely destroyed. the streets virtually deserted. the blasts of exploding artillery and rockets is almost constant. soldier

with the ukrainians, special forces leads us to their bunker. warm, dark tunnels, lined with weapons, and ammunition boxes, drones feed, real time, video of russian infantry movement. only a kilometer and a half away. they have a lot of manpower, sol, as is sent every time it looks like a ways. so we cannot stove every time because we have a less guys. and unfortunately, the also lost a lot of the guy said this moment, men rest before their next mission, often close combat were trenches are only 20 meters apart. commanders insist we hide their identities and don't film landmarks near by the could give their positions away. i want to protect my hope of a child. they split into small groups in order to avoid artillery, and they infiltrate to residential areas and tree lines. but they also suffer huge

casualties. military intelligence from our western partners is often not distributed to us quickly enough on the front lines where we needed to target command centers, logistics hobbs, and weapons depos. the shelling is getting closer. this made an intensification of shelling in the last few minutes. the soldiers here are telling us that up to 600 russian soldiers are moving into new positions. in the northeast of the city, we climb the stairs of a destroyed residential building. smoke rises from crest strikes, a few streets away, close to russian hill sections of town. what remains of the lives of people who fled the fighting lies abandoned and destroyed home. washing forces

a gradually surrounding buff mode from solider around 15 kilometers to the north. to villages in the southeast, strangling what little remains of life here as the ukrainian army prepared new lines of defense. char stratford, al jazeera of mort and alley. hashem has been following that in his voice on the ration capital moscow. the mystery of defense announced that the 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 here to moscow between the wagner group and other officials. while the ministry of defense emphasized that this a battle or taking solid thought was with the help of the to that he 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 other than wagner's fighters in solid dod. and that all attempts to dis, can i did the group from taking the city is due 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 dina. fight from this from this row. it seems that most quiz dealing with the post office box christmas truth period as a new beginning for this war. well, patrick bari is a defense and security expert in of us, your boss and a former analyst for nato join. just now live water rushes plans. the solid are after it's consolidated control of the area. good evening,

mary. i'm well essentially, you know, solid are from a operational and seizure perspective. don't really matter if you zoom them up by look where it is, 6 miles from back. move back mood itself. you know that the strategic relevance is his questionable so. so i think this is really about showing again, as your last reporter said, post post orthodox christmas truce. and just trying to show the russian population that the detroit is turning in, rushes favor of which you know is highly questionable at the moment. so solid does capture, would make it much harder for the clients to keep a hold of backlit, that you are saying that neither buckland or solid are of any significance on the battlefield and in the east of the country compared to this, the ukrainian successful attacks the defense of a successful camera attacking her song. and also in car kid, this is about

a minute ago. there is a possibility, is your 1st reporter set of ukraine already preparing lines behind even back, move them back, move. you know, the russians aren't ready even to move on back, move immediately as far as i understand solid are the western half, sorry. the western last piece of that probably the last quarter is still in ukrainian hands near the road. so it's in this winter where there's been less offensive, grinding additional bottle and an intense bottle of moot you saw that our, of course is made the headlines. it's very useful, i think, for russia politically and has a lot of as your roster border said, there's a lot of internal shenanigans, shall we say, going on now ask you about that. and what has this revealed, perhaps more justine, about the sort of relationship all the fishes between the kremlin and jenny, for collision, who had the private military contractor wagner group. i'll tell you what is to

reveal my m. it's revealed, russia isn't fighting this in a militarily common sense way. it's shocking thousands of people into a death trap and making very slow, somewhat steady gains in areas that don't really matter. that's what it's showing. they're fighting for politics, the political infighting in moscow. this is what's going on, rather than all the unified command structure with a clear coat here and strategic plan for how they're going to push on. how is that going to affect that next steps? presumably they are fortifying their a set of troops and equipment on the ground full when the weather becomes warmer in the the ice now. absolutely. so, so in the, in the coming months, what could we expect? you know, russia's got at least we reckon, a $150000.00 to those mobilized troops. maybe even 200000, which have been trained during the winter and haven't been on the front line. they're gonna try to use them in some place. at some point in an offensive way. so

i think ukraine's gonna have to weather the storm. ukraine's been doing the same. it's got a lot of russian kid. yes, it's taken to heavy casualties too. but there's more western cape coming in. overly . we see more tanks coming from germany and the u. s. and really lean into it as a war because that's what ukraine needs come to summer to launch successful. came to retire. ok, well thank you very much for joining us and sharing your analysis on the story. patrick barry, defensive security ex, but at university of buff and former nato analyst. meanwhile, a close ally of present writing and fusion is suggested, confiscating the property of russians who move abroad and who insult the state in its armed forces. the proposal from the just the holiday, the speaker of the low house of parliament, single doubt, citizens who have criticized the war from abroad. hundreds of thousands of russians of left the country in response to the conflict and ukraine. many to avoid being called up for military service. russia has made discrediting the armed forces

a criminal offense, as well as spreading what it seems to be false information about the conflict with some of the developers who've been following over the past few hours. a gas pipeline connection, lithuania and latvia, exploded gas operator. amber grid says last happened in northern lithuania, but that there is no immediate evidence of an attack. police were preparing to evacuating them by village, but no injuries or fatalities have been reported. the gas supply was cut off while cruise work to extinguish the fire. it was the news ally from london was still to bring you on this program. the trombone quantization is ordered to pay a $1600000.00 fine for $815.00 yet tax fraud scheme. at least 9 people a dead after 35 tornadoes tear through alabama and georgia destroying homes and knocking out power and in sport. why many athletes from a small town in the rift valley are embroiled in typing scandals?

ah, climax of his gratitude bug has joined active as in the german village of let's arrive to protest against the expansion of an open cost coal mine. thousands of people expected to join them on saturday. several other activists in the village remained chained to a house resisting police efforts to evict them. some of been occupying houses in the village for the last 2 years, protested say the coal project on the mines. germany's climate goals? i think it's absolutely absurd that this is happening. the 2023 and it is that most effective people are clear. the science is clear. we need to keep the carbon in the ground. and germany is really embarrassing itself right now. and one of the actors who's been evicted from the german village of lots rough is dina. hamid. we filmed her last 24 hours that i did. i meet spokesperson for

a little late and i'm 23. i'm from around the region, so it from the will area. and i, i think i've been funded around 5 years from year i can see a police coming in through they're cutting down trees under the side of the village . and i think they're trying to take down the 1st 3 houses over there. right. this used to be our living room. now we have barricaded the window so they can come in. i mean, our strategy has to be as far up as we can when the eviction starts, though they take as long as early as possible. i've been living little got on and off for about 2 and a half years. so since the protest started in the beginning, were, were just a couple of people who thought that this village needs to stay. and,

and now it's really cool to see that thousands are coming to join our protest. you can just burn 280000000 tons of coal in a climate crisis where you know that every bit of emission that we're making right now is costing more lives on the other end of it. i leave and we're in art and had sick and this is as far up as we can go. but not quite because people are also sitting on the roof. yeah, i guess i can hear the window shattering. we're doing our best to stay calm and to focus on what's important to us, which is that we're here with everything that we've done. we're here with our bodies to protect the cold from being burned. no, i'm, i'm not afraid i'm, i'm doing all i can do right now. i'm like, you, i oh,

[000:00:00;00] a bit about keeping hold by acting now by acting together. for a court increase is dropped espionage charges against 24 activist involved in rescuing people from migrant boats. a court also admitted the years long case had procedural fault. as the non greek speaking defendants hadn't received proper translations or interpreters. they still faced charges including human trafficking, money laundering, and fraud. and the prosecutor was told to re file the case, but this might not be possible as it could collapse due to the statute of

limitations. among the defendants is the syrians. we met sarah medina whose family story and spied a netflix film the swimmers. friday's decision does not represent an acquittal that we don't get to go to trial. it means that we don't get to have a spouse and not guilty. it is simply a procedural mistake, but means of this kind of proceed. and if this same tactic gets deployed again for the felony trial, which we're still waiting to happen, it's 15 more years of weighting of errors. all we want is just if we want this to go to trial, and it doesn't seem like that will happen any time soon given what happened today. will the great court's decision comes al's after the united nations called for the charges to be dropped. charles, this are deep to concerning because they criminalize life saving work and set a dangerous precedent. indeed, that has already been

a chilling effect with human rights defenders and humanitarian organizations forced to hope that human rights work in greece and other countries. we reiterate our call for charges against the $24.00 to be dismissed. course sullivan is a member of the european parliament from ireland. she says the court could have gone a lot further. it's a step in the right direction. clearly go together, victory. how many charges. ready that are being investigated. so the $24.00 i have had some debt for which they, but now they have to wait to see if charges against them in terms of felonies and look at this kindness. and this procedure, these you monetary and workers were in charge of 2018. it's taking a long time to come to trial of today. it was dismissed because of procedure,

an errors. but it is definitely unfair to see the humanitarian worker search and rescue. workers being facing criminal charges in ash avalanche is the head of the advocacy and strategy organization. for phenix, it provides legal aid for asylum seekers. she joins me by skype from last boss. are you worried about how this case could affect your work? definitely, and it's not just dish case. there are dozens or even hundreds of cases similar to days. obviously we phenix dont do a search and rescue but as a fellow monetary, an organization, this affects all of us and potentially can affect much more. and the prove that the static words is that at the moment there are no search and rescue mission as, as the mom agency. and sorry,

do you think that's likely they're going to see more and jose, any monitoring groups or simply stay away from the kind of work that is just basically helping people who whose lives are at risk coming you saying that that has now completely ground to holton it's unlikely to pick up again for a while. definitely, while the policy did not change, it's almost a path is impractical. impossible to, to do this type of work here in greece. and it is now they're still going to be today was a positive development. yes. but it's far from over, because if the case is re file, they could still be charged with fraud. money laundering, human trafficking. do you think the case could carry on? could it drag on for some years? we'd obviously we are not directly involved in the case, but we don't want to leave a like be sad because of the start to a limitation,

but for the felonies, according to greek who the criminal law does not off limitation is 20 years. so there are still 15 years that did this, this group of persons can be waiting for a final decision to know if they go to trial or not. how we already seen arise in deaths at sea. would you say that, you know, particularly since these, if these rescue missions, ah, no operational people are not going out in that boats and doing this sort of work? would you say that there has been a spike in the number of people losing their licensee? yes, definitely. i would say i would go even a little bit more and say that for sure that have been an increase of the number of beds at sea. obviously is difficult to connect to one thing to another. but the reality is that it was an increase of that, but also right now is awesome. almost impossible to monitoring doc dvd of

a degree called sorry, it is, etc. so if there are other types of violations, it's also impossible to, to wanted to ring or sort of violations you're referring to am allowed not allowing people to, to arrive at the shores of the greek territory. ok, thank you very much for joining us. thank you. and you judges ordered the trump organization to pay a $1600000.00 fine for tax fraud. the maximum penalty could impose trump's lawyers, a plans to appeal the fine manhattan district attorney is still conducting a criminal investigation into trump's business practices as get more this. now from my cana, who's live 1st in washington, it's been any reaction from trump on this. mike? no reaction as yet, but we have heard from his lawyers who once again say that this is a political witch hunt. they are going to appeal this judgment. $1600000.00 doesn't

sound much given the amount of revenue that trumps companies take in. however, this is the maximum under law, so the judge did impose a maximum sentence that he could, which is in itself very damaging to bran trump. the district attorney, albany brag, speaking up to the judgment, insisted that the courts have got to revisit the law to be able to impose foster for punishments and corporations that carry our tax fraud as what's happened in this particular case. now the trial center around ellen vice will burg, who's the, was the former chief financial officer of the trump organization. he pleaded guilty to a number of connected charges last year. he's just begun a 6 month sentence in reich, a prison to other members of the trump organization will also convicted of tax fraud in relation to this particular case. one of the other cases being in the

investigation is being force against from yes indeed. well, the big one has been brought by the new york attorney general leticia james, who has charged a trump and his 3 children who been running the companies with inflating the assets of these companies of various properties in order to reduce income tax in some cases. and to drive up the value and others that she maintains is a massive fraud. scream that has been undertaken. now these, this case will actually begin in october. a judge has set a date for that particular case. so that is a major case in the offing. remembering to that trump insists that he's going to run for a nother term as president. this case is going to have a massive impact on that. and perhaps to the judgment that's been handed down in the court today. $1600000.00, as i said, not a large find the less than the cost of an apartment in trump teller. but the image, the damage to the trump image,

very substantial in terms of his ability to lend money in the future to borrow money. so certainly this may have an impact on trump political career as well. but the other case being brought by the new york attorney general, that's a major case involving what amounts to a criminal trial. there are other legal actions connected to trump. obviously, the special counsel investigating the documentation, the hiding of documents alleged by trump. and then of course, the special council also looking into trumps actions in the events leading to january, the sick. so a lot of legal trouble still on the horizon for donald trump. all right, thank you very much. mike kenner, in washington at least 9 people have been reported dead after tornadoes and thunderstorms at the state of georgia and alabama. dental is expected to rise is rescue crews are still searching for missing people. drone footage filmed in the alabama town of selma, shows dozens of damaged homes over 35 tornadoes,

reported by the national weather service across the se, united states on thursday. the storms of course, blackouts for thousands of people across 4 states. i mean, you do okay. it, we, it pick up the great. and if i don't, don't, you could, this will all last go one everywhere. if you the room really going all over here, a go that you had a shot for yourself right there. wow. so that is not your home. it's your business, all my home or business. i move, i had a house or move up there. how to this house i just removed from a house and sell their house. go. and there's still much more to come on this news out from london. a study in china says 64 percent of the population has been

infected with cove ed thousands, 10 alpha friday pres and iraqi capital. baghdad in a shell of support opponent she at clark, tundra santa, and have all the latest from the dachau rally in sport. ah, with after a month's worth of rain fell in 48 hours in antalya. things are beginning to dry off on saturday. everyone hears those details. the rain now falling over that eastern side of cyprus, beginning to roll into the la bands. but i don't think it's going to generate as much rain as we saw in on talia, for example, flood alerts across the united kingdom and we've got more rain falling on top of that on saturday. so rivers will be rising rapidly. meantime, while the roller coaster mince to degrees on saturday last saturday,

you are waken up to minus 20 degrees. here's the situation. central europe, we got some pulses of rain moving through, but temperatures are high here. so i don't think we're gonna get much more snow added on top of the else is a quiet pitcher now right across iberia. but we've got this rain swooping in on sundays, so that's going to cut across the peninsula and give us some snow for the pair needs. top end of africa still breezy condition so long. the coastline of libya and egypt could see some showers mixed in there. and still, that heat wave persists for the western interior of south africa. so for the northern cape province, tips are up to $41.00 degrees and up into it. but for the western cape province, at least cape town, a $24.00 that's actually a bit below where you should be for this of the year. that's a snapshot of your weather soon. ah. in 2021. the turkish security services arrested 15 suspected 5,

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lou. ah, ah, welcome back, a look at the main stories now. russia says it's captured the eastern ukrainian town of san adar, and what would be moscow's 1st gain in the dumbass region since july? but ukraine says that heavy fighting is still ongoing. capturing solid dark as russian forces control of the towns extensive salt mine network, and allows them to concentrate on taking nearby backward. a court increase is dropped espionage charges against 24 activists involved in rescuing people from migrant bows. court admitted the long run in case of procedural faults and ordered the prosecution to refile it, meaning they could still face other charges, including for human trafficking, and climb, act of his gratitude, burger's joint activists in the german village of la seraph,

trying to stop the expansion of an open cost coal mine thousands more expected to join them on saturday. now oil giant exxon mobil accurately predicted climate change as far back as the 19 seventy's, only to deny and describe at similar findings to protect their business. this is according to a study by harvard and pot summer searches. exxonmobil site is projected temperatures would rise by point 2 degrees celsius on average every decade because of human activity. more than a 150 climate studies were produced by exxon over 40 years. they were found to be astonishingly accurate and prove the company knew as much as academic and government scientists. but they claimed until the 20 ten's climate science was uncertain and that there was no proof the use of fossil fuels. tribute to global warming. exxon has responded to this, and they are saying

a new york judge kid of misleading investors in 2019 over the cost of climate change regulations. the judgment did not clear the company of contributing to climate change. steven singer is senior climate science and global energy policy advisor at climate action network international. he says exxon mobil buried the research to protect its profits. exxon was cheaper exxon was lying and exxon was basically suppressing the science which i had from mood. starting remind him seventy's to look as a kind of clerk, pleasurable exercise, or entertainment, to look into what the climate would do if it keep on burning fossil fuels. and one, once it turned out that the scientists were very clear, very precise, very science based reset. oh, holy cow. early dismissed the scientists that glossed the unit and tried to oppress

all the knowledge us and all the documentation. now peruse, chief prosecutor is launched. 11 inquiries into the death of civilians. during nationwide protests, the ousting of the former president pedro castillo last month to get some of the country's most violent unrest. at least 47 people have been killed. 17 people died on monday alone. some of them as young as 16 human rights groups accused police and soldiers of using excessive force including live ammunition. this week the attorney general opened a preliminary genocide investigation against president dina polite a and several ministers am i on a sanchez has been following the story. she joins us live from lima and the last hour. diana, we've been hearing from the entire american commission for human rights. what have they been saying about these deaths in a red? yes, mary. i'm the commissioner of the entire american commission,

a commission for human rights. a lot of law loan has been is speaking for the last hour and he said that the situation in peru is very complex. this after meeting, not only president w out there, but different groups in different areas of the country is that a commission went to places like i yeah. cool. top who know equity mark and places where people have been killed. and he said that the situation is very complex. there is a lot of expectation of what will happen in the next few days. and he said that they expect there will be no more death. they've gotten a compromise from the government that they will be acting according to international standards. he also said that among the findings they have found that there has been the excessive use of force by the security forces, but also vandalism. by protesters in the country. he confirmed that there have been 47 people killed,

650 people wounded. $290.00 police officers wounded, but he condemned that among the dead there are 7 adolescence killed. ah. then he brought up the fact that i was among the top of the list of their worries because they said that they have found that in a quarter when protesters were trying to take over the airport, the army opened fire and people were killed there. 10 people killed there, she said that the shooting was indiscriminate, and that the pointing was why to lyrics with lethal web. so lauren has said that the investigation of this case is a priority and he also gave some recommendations to the government. he says that the government should establish a dialogue that has to be sincere. that has to be inclusive with agreement based on respect. and there has to be a respect for the rule of law, mary,

i'm one of the situation in the country now. they see reporting that 40 people have been killed some as young as 16, but of course, protested demands haven't been met. that's right, mary. i'm so professors demands like if they haven't been met and that's why in, in about, in 8th provinces, there are 80, at least 80 highways that are still that remain blocked. and of course, that is causing a lot of make him in many parts of the country. for example, in cosca, which is a poor is magnet and a very important area in the country. there are nearly $500000.00 families that depend on tourism, but the highways are closed, the trains have been stopped, the entry too much to be too close to. and so a lot of chain of,

of reaction there for people effect at restaurants to risk paraders, producers of food distributors of food and so on. the situation in school is dire to say the least, and there are more voices demanding. the resignation of president said not only governor, self 3 southern provinces last night. the labor minister resigned because of the amount of deaths in the country. and he said that he had to resign because the situation is untenable and they to be elections called not in 2024, but now. so there are more voices asking for the resignation of if precedent. the novel not among them. schools of lawyers, schools of professors, but to us we reported in the last 24 hours,

the prime minister. pamela has said that there is absolutely no way it's out of the question that preceded the know will. they will resign. thank you very much from lima. marianna sanchez, catholics don, is revived law. the gave immunity from prosecution to his previous president, northville tom or by of let the country for nearly 30 years. he continued to retain political influence after stepping down in 20. 19 nominating is allied, custom jermarta, kayak to succeed him. but the 2 fell out early last year after the oil which nation so massive protests which left almost $230.00 people dead. the kind of distance himself, from his previous pastor of cold, fresh shift from super presidential rule a period of deep political transformation in kazakhstan, where we are following a democratic and pluralistic call. it is important to exclude any possibility of any person reserving power. and that's why a group of modulus members proposed this low,

which is based on what the vast majority of people of kazakhstan thing was, the japanese prime minister for me. ok. she dories in washington for his 1st visit since taking office in 2021. is she there is met with president joe biden in the white house where the 2 are expected to discuss north korea and the ukraine war. china is also topping the issue, the agenda together with australia in india, japan in the us, a form to security alliance known as the quad, seen as a response to china's growing influence in the endo pacific region. each. oh you were japan and the u. s. are currently facing the most challenging and complex security environment with recent history. and in order to contribute to peace or breath fruit in the region on safeguards, the piece of security of japan tongue and also new national security started you last year. police in south korea recommending that $23.00 government officials be charged in connection with halloween, crowd crash that killed a $159.00 people. special investigation team found the crush was

a man made disaster caused by the failure to develop prevention measures that the authorities also fell to respond promptly to the emergency. and at an estimated $100000.00 people were in the area on october 29th. many of them packed into a narrow alley. the recommended charges include professional negligence, resulting in death. now a study suggests that around 900000000 people in china, that 64 percent of the population have been infected with covered the report by peaking universities as gang shoe province as the worst head, where 91 percent of people are appointed to be infected. experts of warning that cases will surgeon rural china of the lunar new year holiday, which is coming up next week. hundreds of millions of chinese are traveling to their home towns many for the 1st time since the pandemic started. china has sought providing daily statistics the virus cases, but insist that it's been sharing data with the international community. but the latest economic data from china is prompted,

fears were further slow down in the global economy. spite a record annual trade surplus last year. chinese export contract 9.9 percent year on year in december. this is their lowest level since the beginning of the pandemic, and february 2020 demand has been hit as china's largest trading partners, the u. s. in europe risk slipping into recession. the reuters news agency estimate that outbound shipments to the u. s. fell about 20 percent. 2023 growth forecast for the world's 2nd largest economy have been cut from roughly 8 percent to around 4.9 percent. this is after corona, virus infections rocketed following beijing's decision to ditch at strict 0 cove at policy just last month. richard kember has won the story now from hong kong. yeah, we'll go over. what is your holding out hope for a recovery these days? fruit salad, mrs. graham has few customers, but she's keeping her shop in bridging open at hoping the upcoming lunar new year

will bring some good fortune to us. taiyah lira, businesses lay restaurants, our day, much better nowadays. there are more customers seized, a government east cove igniting policies, but i am selling fruit and nuts, and sells us do not good. these things are not de the necessities. and since people don't have spare 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, at this factory and central china police confronted workers who are protesting

against layoffs and low wages. i must say that chinese cove in 1900 challenges have global implications. as some of the world's biggest companies from automakers to smartphone make is that they think disruptions to the 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 sought out by you can predict it's not going to be predictable. that's the, that's a problem for those everyone. and if you just tried to draw a contrast between china area 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 goals and their practice actually basically are more in ny, all the western companies. economists are forecasting

a longer term turnaround. many predict that after cobit 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. thousands of supported the prominent sharp politician with tiger outside their packed bagdad streets for friday. presently, all this was at 1st shows supports in last year's widespread demonstrations which calls the political reform. fathers supportive claim that since his rival mohammed us, the donnie took office 3 months ago has not been any positive change with why it has more on the story now from baghdad. oh, thousands of support, that is all. but she, oddly, that most of us other have come to perform a friday mass congregation. prayers in outside of the city in the iraqi capital. but meanwhile, other supporters are performing the same players and other provinces across iraq as well. they say that this is

a religious occasion because visit the anniversary of the birth of a party, missouri, the daughter of a prophet mohammed, and also it's then adversity of the fittest mass congregation friday prayers called the poor by the late bahama the so that the father of another, but at the same time, it could also mean political message is because a lot of the southern himself has been using, utilizing such religious occasions, to deliver messages to say that he supports out of out of 10 throng. and we can make a comeback at any time, especially it comes at a very special at the time, only the months after his arrival, his arrival at prime minister, how much he asked, who done it took up is it comes also an economic price, especially with a writing out has been polling against how the currency is not so nothing of the

promises that his rival at his rival positions promised have been achieved on the ground. so now i'm up to the southern. his supporters want to say that we're still here. we're strong and we can make a come back at any time how film and music stars have been paying tribute to lisa marie presley, who's died at the age of $54.00. the sanger was the only child of elvis presley. she was taking a hospital in los angeles after reported cardiac arrest on thursday. east murray followed in her father's footsteps and forged a career and music shirley's 3 albums and was well known for a high profile marriage to michael jackson. in the 1990s slat for you on this news out from london. the you takes a 1st step towards launching satellites from the european mainland. find out why know about jokers, which is dancing on the tennis court that's on the way with peter and sport.

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whole news ah ah, they want to take you to sweden now where the european union has inaugurated its fast mainland satellite launch pad to strengthen its capacity to send satellites into all bit a seat on the line, joined sweden's king and prime minister to within a space for strange. it's an extension of an existing facility in the arctic far north of the country and is aiming for its 1st launching 20243 days earlier, a launch from a new project in the u. k. failed equate more is severely curtailed. the use of russia satellite launch site in kazakhstan,

the current geopolitical situation. not least, of course, the russian invasion of ukraine has demonstrated how important it is. but the european union has access to space as range unique, geographical position and long service makes it ideal for launches of satellites in polar orbits and other space activities. peters here now at all, as for marian, thank you. manchester city, footballer benjamin men, b has been found not guilty of 6 counts of rape and one candle sexual assault or to try lasting 6 months. the jury was unable to reach verdicts on 2 other charges, one count of rape and another of attempted rate. he'll now face or re trial on those 2 charges, said he suspended and stopped paying mandy of who was arrested in 202128 year old french defenders contract with the club finishes at the end of the caesar the draw of next month's club world cup has been made in the host country,

morocco took place in the capital city, roberts and fee for president johnny infancy, though, was in town to watch. and once all the teams had been drawn, does pretty good news for the seattle sounders. who are the 1st major league soccer side 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 will enter in round to where they'll face all actually. all oakland city who played other in the 1st round tenure is home so many of the world's leading distance athletes. but it's also top of the doping rankings. dozens of canyon runners are serving bands, are using performance enhancing drugs. as catherine sawyer reports from all the rats in the roof fairly. the countries of that exploration and some band athletes avowed to tackle what they call a doping crisis. this small town in the rift valley, with its breathtaking scenery and high altitude as a renowned athletics harb here you'll find athletes known for middle and long

distance running. many have worn numerous awards and gold medals. yet as the runners continued to break crackers, dozens of them are being suspended from competition because of doping. canyon mark con goggle, was a rising sty until recently. he competed in the mountains of switzerland and 11 of this seasons, toughest trail events. his path showed the presence of 2 prohibited substances in his system. he was banned for 3 years and stripped off his title, saw missy would rather say i did not, nor those pills will bring mistress ays them to deal with a knee. injury to language admitted to taking the drugs annoyingly kenya has been dealing with the rising use of performance enhancing drugs for years. as of the end of november, $55.00 canyon athletes were band and 8th, provisionally suspended, according to the athletics integrity units. recently,

world athletics president sebastian coal praised kanyes 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 war again, a stopping wilson keep song a former world marston record holder is finishing his 4 year ban after he missed mandatory doping tests. he says he's helping to educate other athletes about the problem to the fed as to what goes into a mock. not anything that goes into a model that is, was ability of that it. so this, that kind of ignorance fatherly, one of the most misuse 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 are easy, available in tennessee or you need is cache, and a good pharmacist. people will talk to say it's a lucrative business. some of the athletes like come go, go who are under suspension, say we just want to keep their heads low, continue training. wait out there. bon, and hope they can compete again. katherine sawyer, all the 0 in the room. volley teenage olympic figure skating champion camilla valley ava has been cleared of any doping violation by the russian anti doping agency risotto, conducted an investigation into the then 15 year old valley ages failed drug faith at the russian national championships. shortly before the paging winter games, we saw to say that although valley commits advance doping lou violation she bore no fault or negligence forest world anti doping agency and sort of 4 year battle valley even says it is concerned by the finding. it may still exercise its right of appeal to the court of arbitration for support. the australian open is just days

away and home favorite nick curious, has confirmed he will retire from t as if he wins a grand slam singles title. the 27 year old warmed up for the tournament by playing an exhibition match with mine time champion in melbourne. never talk of it. it was the serbs 1st appearance at the rod. laver arena. says he was deported from australia last year. he's covered 19 vaccination status and he certainly looked like he enjoyed being back. but out of curiosity took the victory and now he is targeting a 1st major title. now to the n b a and the boston celtics, and they won't. they have beaten the brooklyn. that's in the battle of the top 2 teams in the eastern conference than at said $118.00 of the last 20, but who without the injured kevin to rent? well, there's some slick passing from ben simon's helps give them a 6 point lead in the 2nd quarter of the southwick's head back with some good moves of their own. they're white finishing this one off with a 3 pointer. jason tatum was their top score with 20th. they pulled away in the 4th

quarter to win at 10998 for their 1st straight victory. you couldn't hitch, stole the show of the dallas mavericks beat the los angeles lakers. he landed, he's 10th, triple double of the season. 35.14, rebound them. 13 assists. don. hitch school in some crucial 3 quarters to take the game into overtime and then double overtime. before the mabe's eventually beat lebron james and co in their own backyard. 19115. it's dallas fort straight win over the lakers team. tom brady is gearing up for the nfl playoffs, hoping mondays wildcard flash against the dallas cowboys as nazis final game. the quarterback came out of her time and to play the season, but it's expected to call it a day once this campaign finishes sample on the nf c south division and they beat the cowboys in their 1st game of the season. but alas, are excited by the prospect of sending brady into retirement good embrace his

opportunities, i'm think about, i mean, you're talking about you know, clearly probably the most decorated player of our generation. maybe even the history of the national football expert. i know his competitors were, were all excited about this opportunity to compete against tom hughes. this is just like any other quarterback he blew the same way he go. you know, i was just a better quarterback than well, so you know, the challenges are on out there, letting them go out like that. i mean, we've got a great career legendary but we get to knock them out. we can set up as well. i to the 2023 hockey world cup has started and house nation india or up and running. thanks to a to know when i was spain, argentina, also of the mark. they defeated south africa in the opening gaming by nashua, michael casias, with the only goal of the game, australian in the rural. so when is on day one, frenchman, sebastian lube has won an incredible foot straight stage of the deck already, but he's so far behind,

lead in us are lots here. let's look the owners in friday stage 12. he was rewarded for his remarkable runner form by moving up the 2nd over all. however, he is still nearly 90 minutes behind arlexia, like a sorry is on calls to winnie's 5th, dec already title. there are only 2 stages left in this year's events. and that is all i have to say for now. marry him, it's better you in london. okay, thanks. highlight peter. as for the news, al, but i'll be back in a couple of minutes and more the days. news around up at the top. stories coming up . my show in east haven out there ah

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