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with devastating consequences for its people. rushed forth, she's her about a kilometer in that direction. the ukrainian military is scared now because motion full, she's of might such great gains around solid are in the knowles now trying to completely in circle the city. ah, i'm how much of doing this is al, does your alive from doha. also coming up a day of morning in the fall for at least 70 people were killed in the nation's worst. aviation disaster indicates italy's most wanted man, the sicilian mafia boss mateo massena dinero has been arrested after being on the run for 30 years and on the day of honoring slain us civil rights leader, martin luther king junior, racial justice advocates call for an end to on voting rights,

we began on the front lines of eastern ukraine where a fierce battle for control is raging in the city of buck, mood and its surrounding areas. russia has been unleashing its fire power on a city, almost destroyed, and nearly besieged its forces. are trying to win a rare military victory. after months of fighting, all the ukrainian forces are digging in algiers. charles stratford witnessed a day of devastation in what's left of what was once a thriving city. how people enjoy the shilling and destruction defies. belief. russian artillery has almost completely destroyed the town of buck, mood. most of the 70000 people who lived here have fled. it's even rare to see ukrainian soldiers in the open exposed to shelling on the streets. oh, my cousin problem was kidnapped and looked up the door sir,

when we talk about the direction of battle mountain. so selling your frontal, we're talking about the whole front line where they're trying to get into the city from every direction of them, from the north, from the east. and the south of the intensification, the shelling about moot is obvious. russian forces are about a kilometer in that direction. the ukrainian military is scared now that because russian forces of made such great gains around solid are in the north then now trying to completely in circle the city. as we walked back up the street more rounds explode, close by. we begin filming, and to more come in around a 100 yards away. the

city we run for cover, skidding here. our camera on the col dashboard captured the moment 2 of what's believe to have been a 120 millimeter motors slammed into a residential building across the street. the force of the blast broke the windscreen. it's a similar story on the other side of rain, an army a moving to push back, a russian revolved. se, another of colon of the situation is quite intense. all around pack milt. we have information that the russians had sent frame force much towards the city on the bottle to missouri was kasicoda

ukraine. an artillery fires from nearby feels the bottles moved is intensifying by a day cha, stuff that i'll just 0 buff mode and hundreds of kilometers west above the mood hopes fading of finding survivors in the rubble of an apartment block and denise which was hit by a russian missile on saturday, at least 40 people were killed, but dozens more are still missing. ukraine's president says the attack on an approach shows why his country needs more western weapons to survive. russian assault, russia has denied targeting residential buildings. some of the wounded are in hospital receiving treatment, was almost sudden way of not one girl is in grave condition. she's 19 and now in the emergency ward, not with you. and there were 3 people in the ward, including the girl. they were admitted with wounds after the explosion to have relatively severe conditions including head trauma. meanwhile, ukraine's northern neighbour bella roost is taking part in

a military drill with russia. the allies will carry out 2 weeks of air exercises. russian troop numbers and military activity have increased in bella roofs in recent weeks. alhashan reports from moscow. this is not the 1st minutes to drill between bella was sand, russia. there have been many once before. however, this is the 1st time in 2 years that both countries are conducting eddie element 3 . now, for the coming 15 days, most of the better uses airports bill, if you add the ports are going to be busy. with these drifts, moscow's insisting these are defensive drugs, them technical meant for operation incompatibility. i thought that was the defense ministry issued a statement saying that that drugs would focus on supplies and patrolling. however, for to take these visits into a why that respect that perspective rather, take into consideration president vladimir putin visit to a better was last month. his meeting with president luke,

i shook up them agreeing od, providing the better was pilots with training in order to be able to man, a aircraft stuck on that are provided with unconventional weapons. and this is very significant. this was very significant at the time. now, there are many concerns that would all shy strain to push a bit out of was a gradually, through or staking forth in the water ukraine. however, the russians are denying, and they've denied this repeatedly, insisting that all kinds of corporation, military cooperation, between them on the bid on his side is part of the strategic relation between the 2 countries. from keith, natasha, butler, has more on ukraine's reaction. is clearly a lot of concern in keys over these exercises what, what, whatever activity happens on the board. therein. fuller,

belarus in terms of military activity is a worry for authorities in ukraine. now what we know is better says that it's been carrying out a number of military exercises over the past few weeks that it started, apparently, these aviation exercises, they all supposed to last a 2 weeks. and even though the a better person, defense minister says these are just defensive exercises. well, you know, kids not having any of that, because as far as they are concerned, they have to be as cautious and careful as possible, which is why ukraine's present fellow to me, sir lensky has said, little bored gods must be alert. ukrainian forces have been building extra fortifications long enough to hold it because it was on the bell of russian territory. in february 2022 that a russian launched its invasion even if troops from but of ruth were not directly involved in this or not darkly involved in this conflict. another nato member

nation latvia has given military support worth nearly $330000000.00 to ukraine. in august, lot of years parliament designated russia, a state sponsor of terrorism. our diplomatic editor james bass, spoke to latvian president. echoes limits in davos. he explains why ukraine needs heavy weapon systems urgently. this should give all necessary support for the ukraine, especially because russia is preparing in february and march are offensive in ukraine, and the ukraine should have a or necessary weapons or a necessary support in order to assist elisa, offensive, and therefore her all tanks all. so i should be given to ukraine, but these are possible and her in ramstein, where would be a ball to decisions in this respect? i know you don't have tanks to give parts yet. you're spending on ukraine,

300000000 euros as a 3rd of your military budget. do you think other countries like germany has plenty of leopard 2 tanks, the u. s. has the abrams tank time for them to step up in this regard? or there is a lot of potential for a western countries from a nato countries to increase their support for ukraine. because it is in the interest of the whole world, especially also for her own nato countries for all european countries, or to give her support in order to let you play in the when there was only when the ukraine will liberate their whole territory. then there would be peace and all we all are interested in peace. the u. k. has confirmed it will st. 14 battle thanks to keep defense minister ben wallace has urged nato ally, germany to follow suit. there's

a debating job at the moment about whether a tank is an offensive weapon or defensive weapon. well, depends what you're using it for what you're using it to defend your country. i would wager the to the is a defensive weapon system. secondly, that we are not on our own. this is a joint international coalition, and i know they've been concerns in the german political body that they don't want to go a low. well, they're not alone. but in germany, the government slow response to ukraine's demands for weapons has forces forced its defense minister to resign. christine lomberg says the media's attention on her has hindered factual debate. on the readiness of germany's defences, she's been facing criticism over the pace of modernizing germany's military. as accessor will be announced on tuesday. jessica berlin is a political analyst. she thinks germany's approach towards ukraine has been unclear since the conflict began. from the beginning of the full scale invasion of russia and ukraine, the schultz government's response has really been highlighted by a lack of clear strategy that has also been not clearly communicated. the

government has struggle to identify what really is it's goal to achieve in its support of ukraine. for a long time this government struggled to even articulate that ukraine clearly should win, and russia should lose the war. on this has been going on for a good 1011 months. germany support ukraine started with the offer of helmets, which was roundly criticized as almost an insulting offer in face of what kind of threat ukraine was facing. so there's not so much a shift in the german communication or strategy because the german response over this past almost a year now has been mostly marked by a lack of clear strategy. so far ukraine's western allies are committed to providing weapons more than 30 nations, have pledged military age since the start of the war. the u. s. is the largest single supplier followed by germany and the u. k. they promised missiles,

rocket launchers, drones tanks, and other armored vehicles. but some will take several weeks to reach the front line. several countries of ramped up their own defense spending, further straining, manufacturing, and global supply chains are yet to recover from the disruptions caused by the pandemic, interrupted shipping and semiconductor shortages are affecting many companies. and there is concern the rush to help ukraine could delay the ability for western countries to replenish their own stockpiles. donald jensen is the russian director of the u. s. institute of peace. he says that this agreement is about the lethal weapons that ukraine needs. what we're seeing now is not really just a supply chain issue. we're saying politics emerge, its ugly head, which is to say the germans politically are ambivalent about giving the credit and what they call office weapons, which is sort of a meaningless distinction in the war. and france poll should be lithuania, poland and the other countries have have german leper tanks, need german approval to pass those tax on to ukraine. so this is the kind of

political discussion are going to have to see later this week when the allies, me to see what, how best to help you crane and struggle against russia. what you're seeing from the beginning of the war has been that the west has tried to respond to your needs without provoking russia. russia has escalated, our weapon systems has gotten better. but also we have given the craniums more offensive weapon, right. and the boundaries are shifting, that red line is shifting toward giving ukraine more lethal stuff while russia is the 2nd largest arms dealer in the world. but their equipment as jones to be unable to the kinds of things that we've seen ukrainian armed forces have done so well. adaptability, flexibility on the battlefield. for that you need western assistance. high tech tanks, high tech artillery, the kinds of anti ballistic anti missile systems. we see,

give it we're giving ukraine more and more frequently and will try to prevent the kinds of repetition of what we saw tragically in the, over the weekend a vigil has been held in the paul for the victims of a plane crash on sunday. that left 72 people dead. this was the scene outside the international airport and the capital kept men do people with candles and held signs to pay tribute to the dead. the pall observed a day of national morning on monday and set up a panel to investigate the country's deadliest crash in 30 years from yeah, to limbo reports from poker. this is the site where a yeti airlines flight carrying 72 people crushed in the nepalese tourist town of poker. a search and recovery team worked through the day monday to retrieve bodies from deep within a narrow gorge. the plane took off from cut by do less than an hour later, it came down near its destination. the newly opened booker international airport. it narrowly missed homes on either side of the city gorge and river,

which runs through the town. it's project that we lost $72.00 people on board the plan, but if it had crushed a couple of meters on either side where we would have lost many more. an army and police recovery team has worked to retrieve bodies and identified personal belongings found in the wreckage. the player was carrying 57 nepalese and 15 foreign nationals flying in the palace. challenging as the country is surrounded by mountains and difficult terrain. in the past, the country has witnessed, numerous crushes early in the day, a search and recovery team retrieve the black box of the ill fated yet airlines flight experts hope it will provide answers to the tragedy. tensions run high as families and relatives outside a hospital wait to claim their loved ones. the brother in law of this indian businessman was on the plain tanya jess, while had traveled to the town to see his older sister who had just had a baby died. allergies was out of her, nobody would like to do the last right soon. but there's

a lot of process and red tape involved is frustrating. i'm waiting. hospital staff try to placate distressed family members, but they'll have to wait at least another day before they can lay their loved ones to rest from me at a limbo. al jazeera in poker and their pal. so had our mel 0 a blow for osha barb in somalia. the government reclaims territory controlled by the on group. and i thinking town in india reunites debate on development versus environment ah hello there. we've got a high pressure area keeping things largely calm across much of east asia. temperatures have come down rather dramatically. thanks to a cold front. the 1st snow of the season to shanghai,

but we will see them start to pick up. you can see clear skies and sunshine, the temperature touching up once again by the time we get into thursday and a lot of that warmth spreading further south to southern coast coastal areas of china, the korean peninsula as well. getting a break from those sub 0 temperatures. it's japan that sees the windy weather pick up coming up from the far east of russia. that's gonna bring some snow flurries to her condo stretching down towards western areas of han shoe, but still from warmth in tokyo. double digits there. now we aren't seeing double digits across more than a areas of south asia. in particular for india we've had fog issues here. very cold conditions, thanks to the cold wave, but devoted still dipped into the ganges over the weekend, braving those bitterly cold conditions. it is set to ease as we go into the week. but ahead of that they are still, they're much dryer towards the south, some heavy rain coming in to sri lanka. we will see that start to ease by the time we get to wednesday, that should weather update. ah,

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you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories. this our despite the near full evacuation of the city, the battle for bach mote and ukraine's east rages on nearly all 70000 residents have left. but promote remains a key target for russia. as the military intensifies its assault on the city. ukrainian authorities say there is little hope of finding any one else alive in the rubble of a deep roll apartment. block it by russian missiles. at least 40 people were killed and saturdays attack. and dozens more are missing. a vigil has been held in the paul for the victims of a plane crash on sunday that left 72 people dead. the paul observed a day of national morning on monday and set up a panel to investigate the country's deadliest aviation disaster in 30 years. italy's most wanted mafia leader has been caught after a manhunt that lasted 3 decades. material. messina, dinero had been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murders and bombing attacks. and were simmons reports?

i, bradley, it's not every day that sicilian anti murphy police are congratulated on the streets of palermo, but they've just arrested it is most wanted mafia boss, my tale, messina, dinero, who's been on the run for 30 years, the man reported to, of wants boasted that he could fill a cemetery with his victims, didn't resist. oh, it was a major pre planned operation. and at least one other arrest was made. the police and prosecutors are now celebrating congratulated by italy's prime minister, georgia maloney. the police had accused massena dinero of bombings on the italian mainland, but kilt and people, the prime minister went on to pay her respects to murder judges, including $1.00 of messina dinero, 2 victims giovanni falcone. ah, it's a day of celebration for respectable people, and it's

a day of celebration for the relative to the victims of organized crime because the sacrifice of so many heroes was not in vain because some others took over the legacy and the war has been carried on right now, messina, dinero doesn't look like the godfather, but the 60 year old is seen as the last in a line of old school senior figures to have either died or been arrested in the cosa nostra. that's the sicilian crime syndicate portrayed in the godfather movie. matthew machine and denado was the youngest member of a leadership group within the sicilian matthew that took control of the sicilian, my fear in the early 19 eighties century young massacring all their rivals. a man mounted a major attack on the italian state. now the question is whether massena dinero will reveal any of his many secrets among them, the names of politicians suspected of conniving with the mafia. andrew simmons al

jazeera somalia says its military has recaptured a town from alicia fighters. the coastal area had been under the control of the armed group for the past 15 years. the government launched an offensive against shabani in august. some opt somali forces say they've since killed hundreds of fighters. the government in burkina faso says gunmen have abducted around 50 women in the northern province of psalm, the women were kidnapped around 12 kilometers south east of r binda on thursday. and in another district, north of the town on friday says 2015. the landlocked west african country has been in the grips of an armed rebellion, which swept across the border from neighboring molly 1000 to people have been killed while more than 2700000 have been displaced and forced to live in makeshift camps. fighters have also blockaded parts of the countries north in recent months, causing food shortages. 39 countries at the united nations are calling on israel to stop withholding funds from the palestinian authority. the series of new sanctions are blocking millions of dollars in palestinian taxes. the un secretary general has

also condemned the move. she notes with deep concern and the recent is rarely measures against the palestinian authority. and he heard the parties once again to refrain from unilateral steps that would undermine trust between them and the path towards resuming a political process. and he also adds that there should be no retaliation with respect to the palestinian authority in relation to the international court of justice. there been violent confrontations between protesters and the police and sri lanka, capital colombo, hundreds of students were calling for the release of a permanent activists who was arrested 5 months ago. the detained student played a major role and anti government protests which eventually led to the resignation of president got a buyer as a pox. people at martian washington d. c. to commemorate the birthday of american civil rights leader of martin luther king junior, they're demanding president joe biden. and the u. s. congress passed new legislation on voting rights. my can are reports

a celebration for martin luther king who would have been 94 years old. oh, but decades after his death, his work to get to boat for all is still not complete. in 1965 president, lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act. thanks to martin luther king, the measure outlawed discriminatory voting practices. but a recent report found that more than 4000000 people were blocked from voting and last year's midterm elections. a 3rd of those affected were black. and the words of martin luther king still echoed through the years that are marked on prowler, crocker. he to james was one of those who lost the right to vote because of a conviction on drug charges. as the lawyer quito was able to get through the complicated process of regaining the right to vote, and she now helps others do the same. for some people,

it can be an extremely lengthy battle and you know, for some people they, they have given up because it is a lengthy matter or because it is so convoluted. stephanie frame was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment on a conspiracy to commit murder charge. she's unable and willing to pay the thousands of dollars in fines to regain the right to vote. and i came home and i completed that parole without being a menace to society. i feel like at that point, it automatically be given back to me just as quickly as they was taken away. it should automatically be given back to me. an ugly fact behind the beauty of its capital. nashville is that the republican state of tennessee has the 2nd largest number of disenfranchised of the florida. nearly half a 1000000 people. that's close to one in 8 voters. and we have to start looking at how do we expand the electorate. and by giving 470000 people,

their voting rights back as how you explained that electorate. and again, and i think, you know, if and when we do that, that will have huge political implications. what the marches here wanted to restore the vote to 10 times that number more than 4000000 people in 48 states who were prevented from casting a ballot last year in the wider political context. it's also above the struggle between those who want to reduce voting rights and those who want to increase them . it's not just about congress, it's about who controls the courts, the police stations, and the scoreboards. b. u. s. has over half a 1000000 elected officials and the demand in this crowd on this day is that they represent all the countries people, not just some of them. mike, hannah, archer, sierra washington. a thinking town in northern india has re ignited the debate over unregulated developmental areas, fragile environments, deep cracks of appeared across the town of georgia much in the past few weeks.

poverty, metal reports from there drilling has become common in the himalayas withdrawal. it's becoming wider as this hydro power plant is being built, but people in the region wanted gone. they blame it for damaging the environment and destroying their home. so now is that adequate that one to and if they're sick or what a crack started appearing in my house off to the power projects came here. we didn't face these issues earlier. they are also using explosives to make the roads wider. i don't know the exact cause, but my house has been totally destroyed. joe, she might to, northern india is sinking in early january. deep cracks appeared across the town. hundreds of homes are falling apart. ah, authorities are dismantling 2 hotels that were leaning on each other. the town attracts thousands of tourists every year. authorities are blaming over crowding for the damage. and they leave the people of the region people hoyt thing out here

. they're going to send their premier day with that they're set on names, are not decked to stable and they are all said for you. and this should add her to what i was the norm thought put in place, because gorman can not boot bullet thing there night the himalayas ecologically sensitive and prone to us quakes on check construction has made these mountains more unstable. the region has long been prone to disasters like floods and landslides. now climate change is making these more common, extreme, where the events have killed houses of people over the last decade. experts say they've been wanting the government about the dangerous space of development for a long time. the situation, whatever has been given to some say authorities need to study the impact infrastructure projects are having in this area. developmental activities are also required. and we also have to preserve the the ecosystem of the mala which is a for sale. but a, if fair we, we do not understand properly or what exactly the,

a load wearing capacity of a particle or if the city gets developed. and if we cut a slope region to make a road and get it horizontal, then we need to assist that region. very critically, scientific we're similar. cracks are also appearing in cardinal period. 80 kilometer south of jewish human people across the region are growing anxious, and many are worried. they could lose their homes and livelihoods forever. pat you met then al jazeera jo, she much northern india. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. despite the near full evacuation of the city, the battle for bach moot and ukraine's east ridge is on nearly all 70000 residents have left. but.