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consequences. sports people rush in full seizure about a kilometer in that direction. do you call union military is scared now. the big coast wash enforcers of might such great gains around solid are in the knowles there now trying to completely in so cool the city ah, hello, i'm how much room this is. how does your live from doha. also coming up a day of morning in nepal, where at least 70 people were killed in the nation's worst aviation disaster in decades. italy's most wanted man, the sicilian mafia boss mateo messina, dinero has been arrested after being on the run for 30 years and in ecuador aid agencies, warren, of acute levels of hunger and malnutrition, among indigenous children, which is spiraling out of control. hey,

we began on the front lines of eastern ukraine where a fierce battle for control is raging in the city of buckman and its surrounding areas. russia has been unleashing its fire power on a city, almost destroyed and nearly besieged it forces, or trying to win a rare military victory. after months of fighting, while the ukrainian forces are digging in algiers, here is charles stratford witnessed a day of devastation in what's left of what was once a thriving city. how people endure 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 shilling on the streets o my cousin pro bach munchkin, up and looked up the door. sir, when we talk about the direction of battle mood. so selling your frontal,

we're talking about the whole front line where they're trying to get into the city from every direction on from, from the north, from the east and the south are the intensification, the shelling of bus moot is obvious. russian forces are about a kilometer in that direction. the ukrainian military is scared now because wasn't forces of made such great gains around solid are in the north. they're 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 to windscreen, which a similar story on the other side of crane, an army of moving to push back a russian involved. se, another of colon of the situation is quite intense, all around, act moot. we have information on the russians has sent frame foresman towards the city on the bottle to missouri was kasicoda ukrainian artillery funds from nearby feels. the bottles for bus route is

intensifying by a day child stratford. al jazeera, bus, moat, and hundreds of kilometers west to buck, mood hopes, fading of finding survivors in the rubble of an apartment block and denise pro, 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 company pro shows why his country needs more western weapons to survive russian assault, russia as deny targeting residential buildings. the you and nuclear watchdog says establishing a permanent presence at all of ukraine's nuclear facilities. the director general of the international atomic energy agency. rafael grossi announced the plan when he visited south ukraine, the south ukraine plant. until now i. e. a. safety experts were based at the russian held appreciate facility is come under repeated attacks in recent months, raising fears of a nuclear disaster. the bravery t now is to ensure the security and the safety of the plant. it doesn't matter

what we can discuss at this moment, own own own own high legal issues. what we need to prevent is an accident. and what we need to make sure is that these plant is in safe condition, it in an operational condition and that we prevent this, this tragedy from happening. meanwhile, ukraine's northern neighbor, belarus, is taking part in a military drill with russia. the allies will carry out 2 weeks of air exercises. russian troop members and military activity have increased in bella roofs in recent weeks. this time, the bell or russian defense ministry says the exercises are defensive. moscow launched attacks on ukraine from bell russian territory in february. last year, i had some reports from moscow. this is not the 1st minutes to drill between. bella was sandra, should have been many ones before. however, this is the 1st time in 2 years that both countries are conducting area limited

food. now the coming 15 days more stuff better uses an add ports, but if you add the ports are going to be busy with these adrift, most goes insisting these are defensive drills. them technical meant for operation incompatibility. i saw by that who's the defense ministry issued a statement saying that that drugs would focus on supplies and patrolling. how about afford to take these roads into a why that respect that perspective grassy, take into consideration resident got him. it within the visit to a better was last month. his meeting with president luke, i shook up them, agreeing on, providing the better was pilots with training in order to be able to man across 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 were all shy, strained to push a bit out. it was a gradually towards taking part in the warning ukraine. however, the russians are denying, and they've denied this rapidly, insisting that all kinds of corporation ministry, cooperation between them on the better side is part of this stuff. did you correlation 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 volota me. zalinski has said that all the gods must be alert, ukrainian forces of the building extra fortifications along that border because it was on the bell of russian territory in for every 2022 that a russian launched its invasion. even if true sample of roost will not directly involved in this or not argue involved in this conflict. the u. k has confirmed it will send 14 battle tanks to keep defense minister ben wallace has urged nato ally, germany to follow suit. that is a debate in germany. the moment about whether a tank is an offensive weapon, or defensive weapon, well, depends what you're using it for through using it to defend your country. i would wager literally as a defensive weapon system. secondly, we are not on our era,

this is a joint international coalition, and i know there's been concerns in the german political body that they don't want to go a low a while they're not alone. but in germany, the government's slow response to ukraine's demands for weapons has forced its defense minister to resign. christine lomberg says the media's attention on her has hindered factual debate on the red readiness of germany's defences. she has been facing criticism over the past of modernizing germany's military or the pace of modernizing. germany's military. rather, as accessor will be announced on tuesday. dizzy on a visit. ha, the federal minister of defense, christie lam. brains has asked the chancellor to day to dismiss her the chance forever. speaks miss lambert's decision and thanks for the good work she has done during this difficult and challenging time as to feed smith stacked the chance to level submit a proposal for replacement to the federal president in a timely manner lesson. china's population has declines for the 1st time and over 60 years, the birth rate has been slowing for years and it's

a challenge that could threaten the country's future prosperity. in the 1980s, china imposed a one child policy to control it's rapidly growing population. this policy worked and birth rates slowed. now china needs people to have more babies. again, the one child policy was abandoned in 2016, and people can now have up to 3 children. but so far, the birth rate has continued to decline. if these trends continue, a shrinking number of workers will have to support a growing number of retirees. labor shortages and a smaller tax base could have a major impact on the economy. i did here is katrina. you joins us live from beijing, katrina, the china introduced a 3 child policy in 2021. but this doesn't seem to be working, does it? that's right mohammed. so china has been doing everything. it can to avoid a demographic crisis, including a 3 child policy. it's increasing parental leave and subsidies, but these things do not seem to be working. and what we've seen now is

a decline in china's population for the 1st time since 1961, which was a year of great famine in china. and we've just had the data out and trying to population is lower by about 850000 people. and if we delve further into the figures, it says that china is birthright. it was 6771 people and it's death rate has climb to the highest that it's ever been as well. let me see death rate at $70.00, a deaths per $1000.00 people now is still waiting on more figures regarding the individual fertility rates that reach women. but in china and 2021, that fertility rate was about 1 point, one fly, well below the 2 point one needed to maintain the size of the population. and i think the big question that health authorities have been scratching their heads and asking is why on more, when no more found these in china having babies? i think one of the reasons is the soren, coastal living here in china, especially in the cities when it comes to housing. when it comes to education,

people are delaying marriage or choosing not to get married or not have children at all. and also one of the major factors, certainly, the last few years has been the pandemic. we've just come out of 3 years of a strict, 0 coven policy, where there was intense lockdown throughout the country, and the access to medical care for women who are pregnant. all of a found these that was thrown into question and just we had this huge uncertainty level of disruption and people were just choosing not have families or not to expand the elise during that time. and katrina, many in china are also concerned about the economic impact of a declining population too. right? that's right. so for decades, china's huge working age population was a major engine behind its growth. decades about 70 percent of china's population were working age and we saw this huge been china's economy,

but now that working age is shrinking. and the number of elderly people in china that is growing it is about one 3rd of the population. now in few of birds, mean if you are young people, if you are consumers, reduced market revenue and increase debt as well as the country has the burden of having to care for so many elderly people. and many experts are concerned that what mister ultimately means is that china has failed to become rich before it's gotten old. all right, that's under 0 is katrina you live for us from beijing. thanks so much. katrina saying in china where it's recording a fall in economic growth. official data shows that g d p growth between october and december was 2.9 percent compared to a year earlier. that's higher than what analysts predicted. but 2020 two's overall growth rate was 3 percent. far lower than the government's 5.5 percent target. in 2021, it grew 8 percent. beijing abruptly lifted, covet 19 restrictions last month,

leading to a surge of infections and deaths. but there is hope, the opening and hundreds of millions of people traveling for lunar new year will boost the economy. andrew, the young is an independent china consultant. he's in hong kong and joins us via skype. andrew, thanks so much for being with us. how bumpy will the road ahead be for china when it comes to economic recovery and rebound? and how long might it take for things to improve? one is just wrong for the so called the 0 co it strategy. because the, according to from where it is experts and in fact express around the world, and then it is now changing into and then make with the new only con mary being much more infectious. but nevertheless the death rate has been maintained extremely low. ready rate, now you look at the data recorded by john hopkins university from countries around

the world updated and the 31st of december, only less than a month ago. the mortality rate of china in comparison with all the other countries around the world has been extremely low. for $100000.00 population, the mortality rate is only $1.00 persons. and for india, it is something like 3.8 and for japan is 40 for the in the us 38 and in japan is 45 and the united states is over 300. so it is by the fact that china has been using is owned vaccine, which is a relatively less effective. and of course, china has a much inferior health and medical system. but it is, it made at 3 years. lockdown has caused

a lot of damage to the chinese economy and to people's patients. and you can see the reason car protests and also the modem is taking the huge it. and so the decision has been that the 0 a strategy need to be dropped for perhaps a drop to abruptly without preparing the people all the necessary ordinary medicine. and so you could see that there was scramble all no medicine and so on. but these are temporary setbacks. you look at the data which was released and even less than 3 point percent. this is a lot lot better than the rest of the world because the content of the i m. s the whole world. ready will be heading to for a recession, recession means not only is not growth, but negative growth. so i think the china is likely to, to be a relative in some, the sport amongst a crown around the world. andrew,

a one major area of concern has been the property investment sector, which had fallen to its lowest level and decades of policy makers have been rolling out support for the sector that includes things like equity, financing, and credit lines from banks. but are there indications that any of that is actually helping o c. and so as a grand, probably the crisis last year was a huge lesson to get with all it is. and because the property market course accounted for a huge sector of the economy and representing hard and savings for a lot of people. so i think that there is a political repercussions. and so as a result, and the time of all of these have been putting a lot of money, bailing out some of the bands and also avoid a massive wave of the fault. and also controlling some of the

more. and if areas. ready in the sector, so i think the public sector is now being relatively stabilized. and people, of course, those speculators are taking a big lesson. but coming back to and the earliest story about the more graphics which seems to weigh down all economy. and of course, the kind of declining both rate is not just a china is longer than most of the world are facing similar problems, even amongst especially the developed countries opinions and even to united states. but i think that one thing that china has been doing is to boost up is productivity. and is the innovation style. robotics works on a china, in some of the 1st tier cities as a, some of the, the super markets asked. software is without people, they all, everything is automated and even some of the restrooms, this also stops, you know,

the things on a robot and serve to the customers using intervals. so i'm in this case auto nation and are starting to run the i just want to ask, i just want to jump in and ask them economy. i want to ask about about another. another issue of how much of a threat to china's economic outlook is the country's declining demographic profile . yes, i was, i was, i was, i was responding to that. and of course, this is going to to be a huge problem facing china because there will be more elderly people to support is going to exert a burden on the social welfare next. but against that is the increase productivity and labor saving technology. as i said, even you go to factories a lot of the factories, you bought it, the calls and so on,

so that even you go to the agricultural industries. and previously china's agriculture was characterized by a small boss. but now you go to some of the big agricultural centers, you see boss tracks of agriculture. ready land, everything is mechanized, you would have thought that you will be in the united states in a huge harvesters. and so, so, so all these saving devices is going to be a part of the pressures of the declining demographics. all right, that's andrew young. he's an independent china consultant. thanks so much for joining us. thank you. so had on al jazeera, ah, on the day of honoring slain us civil rights leader, martin luther king junior, racial justice advocates call for an in to current on voting rights. 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 out 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 there. much wire 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, how to fix controlled information. moscow is one of the keys in the world. it has an incredible facial recognition technology. how does the narrative improve public opinion? no wonder how is citizen journalism. we phrasing the video spread like wildfire. they do know super bowl in ukraine. the listening post dissects the media

. we don't cover the news over the way the news is cover. ah ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories this hour. despite the near, full evacuation of the city, the battle for buck moved in new cranes, east rages on. nearly all 70000 residents have left, but buckman remains a key target for russia. as the military intensifies its assault on the city, ukrainian authority, se there's little hope of finding any one else alive in the rubble of a denise pro apartment block it by russian missiles. at least 40 people are confirmed to have been killed and saturdays attack. but dozens more armed this new

figures from china show the population is in decline for the 1st time in more than 60 years. if these trends continue, labor shortages and a smaller tax base could have a major impact on the economy. a vigil has been held in the paul for the victims of a plane crash on sunday that left 72 people dead from ya 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 men 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 tragic, but we lost $72.00 people on board the plan, but if it had crushed a couple of filters on either side, well, 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 plane 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 he 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 alive is with us as a runaway. we'd like to do the last right soon, but there's a lot of process and red tape involved is frustrating. i'm waiting on the hospital staff. try to play kate 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 booker and there pal. italy's, unless wanted mafia boss has been arrested after 30 years on the run police detain mateo messina dinero in the sicilian city of palermo, it was receiving medical treatment and a private clinic. dinero has been convicted in absentia for being behind killings and bomb attacks and faces life in prison. he's considered the last remaining godfather of the cosa nostra mafia. aid agencies have warned that chronic malnutrition, among children in ecuador is spiraling out of control. almost half of all children under the age of 2 don't get enough to eat. among indigenous communities. the issue is even more prevalent. as alice hunter, i'm peer to reports. he let you blame his entire life has been one of subsistence one of 12 children she remembers going to bed with an empty stomach like and so my family struggled often. we didn't have enough food. sometimes we ate once a day, sometimes nothing at all. it was shameful. at times i went to bed hungry,

so my younger siblings could eat. not much has changed cbs 8 months pregnant and unemployed or husband is employed as a bus assistant, but she says she struggles to feed 2 year old gayle allan wrestling with both of her salary isn't enough for even one person. we spend the $200.00. he makes on food and necessities for my son, no clothes or anything else. celia stories are familiar. one among indigenous families living high up in the andes region of chin brass, so brace. most meet less than half the national minimum wage of $480.00 a month. equity suffers from chronic levels of malnutrition, among children. indigenous communities in remote areas are especially vulnerable. charities, say the coven, 19 pandemic, and soaring inflation of worse in the situation. what brought the car that was for out of every 10 children under the age of to suffer from chronic mal attrition and

with it come growth issues and learning issues. this problem is much worse in rural areas, and we believe the number has doubled since the pandemic. the rising cost of living lead 2 weeks of protest by indigenous communities in june. it's back on for a while since then president guillermo last. so as pledge to spend $350000000.00 a year to improve healthcare in bill 6 services, 2023 is expected to be tough for ecuador has the government as imposed as stary to measures to tackle the budget deficit. giving families like seal be as little hope of ending the vicious cycle of hunger. allison, the beauty i'll just either rallies were held in washington dc to commemorate the birth the birthday of civil rights leader. martin luther king junior among the many demands is the restoration of voting rights to those convicted felonies. mike hannah has more. this is the 16th march for martin luther king that happens every

monday after his birthday. and martin luther king's birthday was yesterday. he would have been $94.00, so this is an occasion of which his legacy is remembered. but importantly, it's also an occasion on which it is remembered. what work still needs to be done. and part of the focus of this margin, all the groups that have been flooding past here is the voting rights. now, this is a major issue within the united states. and in the wider political context, it's about the struggle between those who want to decrease voting rights and those who want to increase em. martin luther king struggle was voice about getting the vote for all, but now you have a situation where they are sectors of this country that are attempting to remove voting rights from people not just take one example. for example, in 48 states. there are the felons who are not allowed to vote. this is a number of 4 and a half 1000000 people throughout.