is what i'm most proud of. every time i travel there, whether it's east or west africa, people stop me and tell me how much they appreciate coverage. and our focus is not just on their suffering, but also on the more uplifted and inspiring story. people trust algebra to tell them what's happening in their community in a clear and unbiased. and that's an african. i couldn't be more proud to be part of, you know, ah, re, i'll jesse with of 68 people on board. passenger flies are killed in the worst air crush in the

pole the century. ah, adrian forgot this is al jazeera, alive from de, also coming up a race to find survivors in the central ukrainian city than he, bro. or through a russian asked strike, destroys an apartment complex. the state of emergency is declared in the u. s. state of california after a wave of storms causes widespread damage. ah, and unesco honors the food, the popular musical instrument of the middle east is included in the world heritage list. ah. the such for those still missing after a plane crash in the paul has been suspended for the day. at least 68 of the 72 people on board, the yeti airlines flight,

were killed. the accident is the country's worst the century. this is where it happened, around 200 kilometers west of the capitol cap bandu. the crush site is between backorders new international airport, which only opened 2 weeks ago at its old one. the plane went down in a forest along the settee gum barky river. a report from rome after limbo contains images that you may find distressing. the plane was flying low and to you to land. when it came down in the tourist town of poker. martin will you this the plain made a loud noise. we turned around and saw a bamboo tree fall down. i told my friend that the plane was falling to the ground . then we heard a blast. play rescue workers raced to the scene, finding parts of the wreckage on fire. local people joined officials to search for bodies and survivors. but now got why i know about your school. the incident was very tragic. the full force of the nipple army and the police have been deployed

for rescue operations. guy will tell him that mission, security agencies have to accept the challenge. difficult is the work that has not been all vocabulary. we are actively working to retrieve and identify the bodies as soon as possible and hand them over to the family. so in the airlines flight from got monday was full of passengers. 15 of them were foreign nationals. footage posted on social media shows the flight 5 moments. the twin pro 80 are appears to make a sharp turn before coming down by standards captured footage of flames rising from the wreckage. it could be that the cross gold. i mean, that's an errors or not. so when the speed is too low, and one of the wings stops flying. in theory, that should never happen. if they had a sudden engine failure off the sake off,

they should have been able to continue on the remaining engine per maintenance. and deluxe standards have led to several fatal accidents in nepal in recent years. here in nepal, flying can be challenging as it has some of the world's most remote runways, surrounded by mountains and difficult terrain. it can be challenging for pilots to land in the yeti airlines. a craft was reportedly 15 years old and equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data and investigation into the course is underway from you to limbo? i just 0 guzman do would have been dozens of plane crashes over the years in the pall last made an accident in the mountainous mustang district. killed 22 people. in march 2018 and aircraft landing at kaufman do came off the runway and crashed. 49 people on board died. 19 passengers on a side seeing flight around mount everest lost their lives in 2011. 167 people were

killed when that play and had a mountain range near cap bandu. in september 1992 a month early up a ty, airways flies also crashed into a mountain near the capital. 99 passengers and 14 crew members died. sean moffatt is a navy ation analyst. he says that the pol has a pool, air safety record. they actually recently and he had 5 aircraft not only got full and so they're not a very big line. but in general terms, a nepali alons are not thought of globally as being particularly safe. in fact, no airline from nepal is allowed to fly into the european union because their safety record. and it does appear though that the aircraft stoled. and that's the ation term. when you lose lift from the wings, and usually you lose one wing before the other, which is what seems to have happened here. the aircraft was pointing upwards,

and then one wing the left wing drops and it then spirals into the ground, which suggests that the left wing had indeed store but to say and the asian term for running out of lift when it's not got enough airflow over the wing surface, basic part of training for all pilots to be able to cope with stalls and to recover from them and particularly not to get into a stalled condition in the 1st place. so we don't know how that happened. and by the time they were trying to recover, it was already too late. ah, russia's president says the military operation in ukraine has gained what he calls positive momentum. it comes a day after a barrage of missiles struck several ukrainian cities. but little brother, a massage strike, was carried out against ukraine's military and infrastructure site. gentlemen, that all assign objects we're hitting,

the targets of the strike has been achieved in the eastern city than a pro russian missiles hit an apartment complex. at least 25 people were killed. after that 9 story building was struck on saturday, latasha butler reports from keach smoke billows from the rubble is rescue as continue to search for survivors in ukrainian city. often pro, emergency teams had worked through the night in the cold and dark, sifting through the debris of an apartment block that was destroyed by a russian missile. some people were pulled out alive. some were badly injured. among the dead was a 15 year old girl, less emergency work as tried to console. one woman who had lost her son in law live in that why? what have you done to my son? you cowards. i'll curse you for ever. let the whole world curse you. the missile strike was part of a wave of russian attacks across ukraine on saturday. that official said targeted

power infrastructure in a village. nick heave, one bizarre landed near this man's house. elsewhere in the capital, people took shelter after a series of explosions while cities including hockey, even the viv, we're plunged into darkness. it's terrible what happening nipple, i hope there aren't any more victims. it's a shame that the whole world is watching this, and that no one can stop this horror. they could, of course, but they don't want to. ukraine's military says a shot down more than 20 of over 30 russian missiles that were launched in the biggest wave of attacks on the country since the new year. could see yogurt in auction years, napoleon will green ukraine's president said, only way to stop what he called russian terrorism was for the west to send with more weapons even does broy jak idea with weapons that are partners having their warehouses are the ones all warriors are waiting for you, if time runs out,

we cannot stop the tourists who are methodically killing or people with missile wire. o britain says it'll send some of his challenger to tanks to keep zelinski hopes. that'll persuade other western powers to do the same and help ukraine better defend itself against more attacks. like this. natasha butler, al jazeera keith ali hush him in moscow has more and more russia saying about the strike. they're saying that this was planned attack on infrastructure and that the, the targets that were aimed at what into civilian targets. this is what the, the, the russians are saying, the voice books us and for the, for the ministry and money as a how of also wrote on how to social media say, using ukrainian politicians claim that these rockets were intercepted by ukrainian,

anti miss. i assist them and this time if a system had one of it's like it's hitting the building and then it goes up and precise with respect to the russian position. with regard to the, the pros attack, there are kind of denying that this was a, this was the civilian targets. however, all of the other side is also we had president tutoring, had an interview today. and i think that the economy situation is, is positive. the, the military operation, as he called in ukraine, is going on the plan. and that, that is no, really anything outside the agenda. nothing surprising for the russian government as part of the presidents. well, here's a closer look at the fighting in eastern real crane right now. than april isn't far from the front line. it came to attacks in the early days of russia's invasion. it

had received an influx of people from the don bass region as well as harkey cason and zapper raj, ia. and this strike comes as the fight for control of the eastern ukrainian city of blackwood is escalating, shall stratford his near back boot with more on the fighting. we just spend the last few hours inside the besieged city of buff mode. where are they? new ukrainian tank defensive position, else goods for the town effectively. the reason why these men are here is because of an intensification of the shelling of backwards in recent days. we do know that russian forces have taken control of a loss, at least of the town of solid on the surrounding areas to the north apartment. and we also know, and we saw to day the intensification of shelling from villages to the south east of bottom route as well. an indication of rushing force is trying to completely surround the city of bar mood. we spoke to some of the estimated to 2 and

5000 people. civilians are still living inside the city, most of them refusing to go, they say because they've got nowhere else to go. but most of them elderly and the infirm as well. living on the desperate, desperate conditions. i mean, the town has had no electricity since august. and you can imagine how cold that is in conditions like this. no water since october. as i say, the big fear now is that wasn't forces or trying to completely surround bama. what you can hear there is artillery far in over our heads. we understand at positions of russian positions on the eastern side of the city, of the conditions there. absolutely atrocious. we spoke actually to one man who described having to finally leave his house in that area of the city around 4 days ago. because he said that the russian forces were coming in there. we know suddenly,

according to the military that we've spoken to in recent days, they say that the russians are making advances in that area. and as this defensive position is an indication of the ukranian army or high alert for further russian advances, iraq, president joe biden, has declared an emergency in california. a storms continued to battle, the state and new weather, simple, heavy, rain, snow, and storm winds to the region of the weekend. tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes and baby 26000000 were under a flood watch on saturday. probably call him reports the storms in california have gotten so bad that joe biden to you as president has made a major disaster declaration. what that does is it frees up federal money to help the state with recovery rebuilding efforts. it goes to individuals for temporary housing and small businesses and people without insurance help with low interest

loans so that they can start to rebuild and tens of thousands are going to need it . this is this massive state, and much of it is been impacted. what's happening is this is now been the 8 atmospheric river to hit the state. basically what that is, is when a large group of moisture gathers over the tropics, in the warm, moisture over the pacific creates this immense total of rain and snow. just to give you one example in one part of the state, they have now received half of their yearly precipitation in just 16 days, wild fires the california has had over the last couple of years making matters even worse. because all of the ground cover was burned, the soil can't absorb as much moisture that's leading to landslides. mudslides huge boulders falling off the mountains, hitting cars, hitting roads were seen, roads washed out. many communities flooded. and it's not over yet. starting sunday evening, the 9th of these atmospheric rivers is expected to hit the state,

bringing even more suffering to people who are already dealing with so much pain. still to come here on out a 0. the philippine presidents plan oil exploration scuttled up to the supreme court gifts and will tell you oh, have a 32 year olds record was broken at karachi airport. it dipped down to a chile 4 degrees. hey there, here's the details. i think similarly on monday and expect much of the same, you'll wake up to just 5 degrees and can really see where this cold pool of air is through this stands, but it has come as far south as the radiant sea. now, by monday afternoon karachi is up to 21 degrees and we are seeing an improvement. we had set some record low temperatures in whose becca stand and turkmenistan asked

that rate at the freezing mark on monday. off to the middle east, we go still some rain to be found. so let's go in for a closer look here. it extends somewhat from the red see rate through to the golf in doha, we're entering our 4th week of cloudy and rainy conditions. and in that time period, we've scooped up to a years worth of rain, still cloudy, conditions on monday, and may even see a few spits of brain as fall. got this disturbance just wobbling around in the eastern mediterranean. not too far off the coast of syria. that's really where the worst of the weather will be, but i think most of it falling over the open waters, disturbed weather along the coast of egypt could even see a few showers mixed in there. and we've got bursts of rain for the western side of democratic republic of congo. and the heat waves still persist for the northern cape province in south africa, susan ah. in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world right extreme, either he's real and need to be tackled as soon as possible informed opinions. why

is the opposition concerned about this rather small with frank assessments? you know that was a joke about the interim government that it's not interim. no, does it got inside story on al jazeera lou? ah, again, this is al jazeera. let's remind you of the main use the saw plane carrying 72 people as crushed in the pole. the yeti airline sackcloth went down there picardo airport, around 200 kilometers from the capitol cup. on 268 bodies have been recovered.

rescue workers in ukraine are continuing to search for the survivors in the rubble of the pop up block. hit my washing missile on saturday. at least 25 people will confirm dead in the eastern city of any pro. and u. s. president joe biden has declared an emergency in california. the state has been battered by storms causing flooding power outages, amongst lives. at least 12 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a church in the east of the democratic republic of congo. that's according to the army. for the 15 were injured, including children. it happened during a baptism in the city of ca, cindy, in north keeping province. israel's president is wanting of, i story constitutional crisis over the government attempts to make changes to the judiciary. isaac hertzog says he's trying to mediate between prime minister benjamin netanyahu. government and those opposed to the overhaul protests had been held for days. the plan changes would severely limit the power of the supreme court

and give the government a power to choose judges any covering how we can. we are in the groups of a profound disagreement. those tearing our nation apart is conflict words, me deeply as it were, as many across israel and the jewish diaspora. malott. so i'm sure that the world health organization has spoken with china's health ministry about the latest release of data on cove at 19 related deaths. b, james says that nearly 60000 people have died in hospital since it lifted severe corona virus restrictions in early december. china had previously reported just over 5000 deaths since the start of the pandemic. katrina year reports from aging. almost 60000 people have died from corbett 19 in china in the past 5 weeks. that's according to new data released on saturday. it's a huge increase from previous figures. and health officials say the elderly has been hit the hardest you love it, really ill patients. i mean the elderly people with the oldest being 105,

the average age 75 and a half. and those each 60 and above accounting for 89.6 percent of the cases are, is also common for them to have a variety of underlying diseases. the world health organization and several countries have acute china of under representing the scale of the outbreak. early last month, meeting abruptly lifted at 0 corvette policy after almost 3 years. hospitals nationwide were overwhelmed and medical staff under enormous pressure, including american dr. howard bernstein. everything was just completely clot, clogged up, you know, the emergency room was full, every bed was full. the waiting room was full, waiting in to get to the emergency room. the clinic was full and then all the i see you in the hospital beds were taken previously. only people who died from corona virus induced for spirit re failure were included in the official death toll. now

those who died of the virus in combination with other illnesses are being counted. the government says the number of people being treated in phoebe clinics like the peak and late december, but that number has now declined by about 80 percent. doctor bernstein says his hospital is no longer crowded, but the outbreak is far from over. there is a sort of shocking of the illness and degree of the illness and and now now we're dealing with different coded phenomena which, which on identifying is people who are ill in december, who have still still do not feel like dave or millions of chinese are traveling from city to remote region, the lead up to the luna year movement that's expected to cause a surge infections. authorities are focusing on improving medical facilities and

access to medicines in rural areas. in national health experts have welcome to the new data, but as the figures only include those who died in a hospital, they say the true death toll could be much higher. katrina, you all to 0 aging. the philippines supreme court has ruled an 18 year old agreement with china and vietnam to search for oil in the south. china sea is unconstitutional. analysts say it could be a major obstacle to plans by president ferdinand marco's juliet revived. talks for joint oil exploration with china. barnaby. lo has more from manila, it was a success philippine government official said when president ferdinand marcus junior returned home from a state visit in beijing earlier this month with billions of dollars in investment pledges in more than a dozen agreements. marcus and president, she did being also agreed to restart discussions on a possible joint oil venture in the south china sea mow the friendship with one on

tuesday. the supreme court delivered a surprise burden it declared an oil expiration agreement with china and vietnam, dating back nearly 2 decades unconstitutional ownership. teddy casino is one of the former congressman who filed the case in 20 o 8. the constitution was very clear it's, it's basically very categorical. that exploitation of natural resources are reserved for filipinos and filipino corporations being views almost the entire south china sea, 3000000 square kilometer area as its territory. the $25.00 agreement covers less than 5 percent of that, but includes waters, manila considers its own a claim reenforced by an international ruling. in 2016 oil exploration in the south . china sea has been on and off the government's agenda for years, while a 25 agreement languished in court. the 2 countries signed another deal in 2018,

only for it to be terminated 4 years later. so the big question now isn't if marcus can succeed, but whether such an undertaking with china is possible at all. and the said the ball is in china's court. whenever the philippines cox to china, it always ends up with bay jane. telling manila, what is ours is ours. what is yours? we fair. it's difficult to come up with a workable agreement. if the premise of the discussion is in that framing named on china, what president marcus believes searching for oil in the south. china sea is crucial and i think there might be a greater my to ease around it not to let in thing i government, the government partnership. that divinely. it may not be a necessity, china, but these for us would reserves of the countries only offshore gas plant shrinking and an economy that relies on oil imports. they portions of the south china sea to the philippines. future energy sources is something on which everyone can agree.

barnett below al jazeera manila. tens of thousands of people across india have taken a dip in rivers to celebrate a harvest festival. they believe the ritual and waters that are considered wholly computer a fi. their bodies moccasin crohn t marks the end of the winter solstice in the beginning of longer days. positions of welcomes unesco, placing the craft of old playing on its wold heritage list. one craftsman and cutoff says the ancient instrument is gaining popularity, but for the recognition can help to secure its future. laura com reports. oh, i, musician and master make a polish croft shape and bends will not poplar an ebony. this will create the tones and sounds of this pear shaped instrument that so beloved in this region.

oh, please help to establish the biggest food shop in cotton said selling for, ah, enough cup of nest, the field of a head boil. many people cut all of using the food and no one else makes the instruments here. the way i do more people make them in egypt most in gutter. i'm just an extension to old egyptian ood making skills. oh it's origin. stay back to the 1st century, b, c and central asia. and then it became popular across iraq, persia, syria, turkey, and egypt. these countries developed their own distinctive styles and sounds and his favorite is egyptian. oh lord, the bananas, belyea. oh, well, i owed for me life. it's enchanting. i dropped out of studying mechanical

engineering to work with. because from a piece of wood, i could create an instrument that speaks expressed his emotions until storms do united nations culture agency have now recognized the importance of food. which post says is a great step towards global exposure. for so many in its region, the food, if king, captivating music or instance the century's inclusion on the unesco was heritage less. so it's historic importance in keeping the ancient sounds alive. but it's also appealing to you more experimental musicians with jet up to rock man up any is one such musician. he plays the turkish food for me, choosing an instrument that is relevant to the kinds of music i want to composite as arabic music or would, is the most versatile instrument we have in

. i try not to be locked up in the tradition, but use it as a basis and then create whatever new sounds i can come up with in the sense of not only just trying to import from different practices, but trying to create new brock. ah, he says the root is becoming very popular among young people and most a self brute they to, to learn. he wants to see more support the food in musical education. so it's rich . heritage can be developed using modern techniques. ah laura con, out as the right to harmony the man's hand ball while championships are underway in poland with denmark eyeing a 3rd consecutive title to sport the danes have excelled at using the country. small size to their advantage is pull reese reports. we've had the football welcome . now it's humble, it's grabbing the global spotlight even if not quite to the same extent. 32 teams

are competing at the world championships held in poland and sweden. they include the likes of egypt, france, brazil, even cut off. but it's another small country that is dominating its big arrivals. denmark the 2 time defending champions, having also one olympic gold at rio 2016. they claim to have invented hannibal, which helps, but this is just one example. danes punching above that white. humble. as the 2nd or 3rd most popular sport in much of europe and north africa. so denmark's titles, the no mean feat, given its population of just 5000000 for the danes excel in many more sports than just this. using the small size of that country to give them a big advantage, their football team were euro 2020 semi finalists a dane, is the raining toe to friends, champion on that madman to play is the biggest challenge to asia. the olympics. danish around talent is helped by the fact that even children in remote villages

have access to high cost facilities. and coaching that's after denmark's welfare state, created a building boom for sports holes like this one. the village of lighter in the 19 sixties and seventies. they would put up a well, so to speak, and we have more like more than thousands of these facilities in them. not at the moment. in fact, there is no dane in denmark that has more than 5 kilometers to the nearest to the nearest port facility. denmark start lucas johonson, who's from lighter plate, nearly every sport except hannibal until he was 1211 years later, he's making his world championship dabby. it will be, he is a little crazy. 5 years ago i, i was co sitting, stunned, to humble because i missed play football so much like train us advised me to just try have some fun. you don't have to play at my team all the time. try something else. and let, gave me like a lot of love he to the sport. danish research is found that the best children.