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with devastating consequences for its people. rushed full caesar about a kilometer in that direction. due. ukrainian military is scared now because most impulses of might such great gains around solid arlknowles. the now trying to completely in circle the city. ah, hello, i'm debug. this is al jazeera alive from dough hall. so coming up china as looming demographic crises, the world's most populous nation records a. busy decline and numbers for the 1st time in more than 60 years. a day of mourning in the pole where at least 70 people were killed in the nation's worst aviation disaster in decades. and italy's most wanted, ma'am, was the city and mafia boss mateo massena dinero has been arrested off to being on the run for 30 years.

where begin on the front lines of east in ukraine where fierce battle for control is raging in the city of buck motes. and its surrounding areas. russia has been unleashing its fire power. the city almost destroyed, and nearly besieged his forces of trying to win a rare military victory. after months of fighting while the ukrainian forces of digging in, i'll just here was charles stratford witnessed a day of devastation in the once thriving city. ah, how people enjoy the shilling and destruction defies belief. rational hillary has almost completely destroyed the town of buck moot. most of the 70000 people who live to have fled. it's even rare to see ukrainian soldiers in the open, exposed to shelling on the streets. oh, oh, my cousin proper miskin up and walked up to say 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, from, from the north, from the east and the south are the intensification, the shelling of bar 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, they now try to completely in circle the city. as we walk back up the street more rounds, explode, close. hi, 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 training army, a moving to push back a russian evolved se, another of colon of the situation is quite intense, all around, act moot. we have information. the russians has sent frame pawsman towards the city on the bottle tow mazata, customers ukraine. an artillery fans from nearby

feels the bottles. the basement is intensified by the day chance dr. al jazeera, bottled and hundreds of kilometers west of buckboard hope's fading of finding survivors and the rubble of an apartment block and denise pro, which was hit by a russian missile on saturday. at least 40 people were killed by dull and but dozens more still missing. ukraine's presidents as the attack on to the pro, shows why his country needs more western weapons to survive. the russian assault, russia has denied targeting residential buildings. the u. a nuclear watchdog says it's establishing a permanent presence at all if you claims nuclear facilities, the director general of the international atomic energy agency. rafael grossi announced the plan when he visited southern ukraine. until now the i. e. a safety experts would base that the russian held zapper region nuclear facility. europe's largest planters come under repeated attacks in recent months, raising fears of nuclear disaster. even priority now is to ensure the

security and the safety of that. it doesn't matter what we can discuss at this moment on the, on, on, on high legal issues. what we need to prevent is an accident. and we need to make sure that this plant is it safe condition in an operational condition. and that we prevent this, this tragedy from happening. meanwhile, ukraine's northern neighbor bella roosters taking part in a military drill with russia. the allies will carry out 2 weeks of air exercises. russian troop number's military activity, have increased, and valerie some recent weeks. this time the bell russian defense ministry says the exercises are defensive. moscow launched a tax on ukraine from bell russian territory in february, february, last year. you case confirmed it will send 14 battle tanks to keith,

defense minister ben wallace, urged nato allies. germany to follow suit. and as a debate in germany amendment about whether a tank is an offensive weapon or defensive weapon, well depends what you're using it for. if you're using it to defend your country, i would wager that is a defensive weapon system. secondly, we are not on our own. 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 alone. well, they're not alone. meanwhile, in germany, the government's response there to ukraine's demand for weapons has forced its defense minister to resign. christine lumber act says the media's attention on her as hindered facial debate on the readiness of germany's defences. she's been facing criticism over the pace of modernizing germany's military successor will be announced on tuesday. now china's population has declined for the 1st time in over 60 years. the birth rate has been slowing for years and is

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, the policy word and birthright 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. and if these trends continue or shrinking, number of workers will have to support a growing number of retirees, labor shortages and a small a tax base could have a major impact on the economy. what catarina, you joins us now live from beijing with more in this and katrina and china introduced a 3 child policy back in 2021. but this doesn't seem to be working. ah, no, that's why china is doing all that. can to avoid a democratic crisis, it's increased the, the child policy to 3 children increase subsidies,

increase parental leave, that none of this seems to be working not yet so far. and what we've seen announced to day on tuesday was the 1st population decline for china. since 1961, which is the, which was a year, great famine here in china now, according to the official data, we have now 850000 fewer people living in china than before and delving further into the figures co, 1000 people. we have 7.37, data sets the highest since 19 seventies, and the lowest birth rate ever, just 6.77 birds, her 1000 people. now this decline in population does not come as a big shock. we've seen a drop in the birth rate for several years now and exits here and certainly the government here is asking the question, why aren't more people having more babies? well, that's a really multifaceted answer and one of the answers is, well, we've had decades, the social conditioning from the one child policy. people simply used to having one child used to thinking that one child is enough. and that's really hard to change.

and other reasons are that reasons that we've seen in other countries around the world. so are in cost of living, especially in the cities when it comes to housing and education, a delayed marriage, many young people, and many not choosing to have to be married or have children at all. and one major factor here in china has also been the pandemic. we've just come out of 3 years of strict 0 coven policy, while you had constant lock towns throughout the country. the access to good medical care was thrown completely into question and we had much uncertainty in a much disruptions when it came to both income and just lifestyle. so many said that it would, it wasn't a time to have children to have the family or to expand their family and katrina. this of course has big economic implications for china and indeed the rest of the world. that's right, so so decades, china is huge. working age population does

a major driver of economic growth. but for some time it was 70 percent of the population was china's labor force. and now that number is rapidly decreasing it. instead, we're seeing an increase in the number of elderly people living in china, an x that say we're heading towards one 3rd of child population being elderly, not what that point to is increased in data and reduce revenue and reduce labor, reduce red consumer power and ultimately many economists fear that china has fallen into this chart becoming old before it's able to become rich. katrina, many things katerina you there live in beijing, was saying in china where the economy has slowed at the last 3 months of 2022. 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 are lower than the government's 5.5 percent target. in

2021, it grew 8 percent begging abruptly lifted cove in 19 restrictions last month leading to a surge of infections and deaths. but there's hope the opening and hundreds of millions of people traveling for the lunar new year will boost the economy. and early young as an independent china consultant, he says the chinese economy is still stronger despite failure to reach the official target. 2 years lockdown has caused a lot of damage to the chinese economy and to people's positions. and you can see the reason car protest and also the economy is taking the huge hit . and so the decision has been that the 0 over a strategy needs to be dropped, but perhaps a drop to abruptly and without preparing the people all the necessary ordinary medicine. and so you can see that there is

a scramble for medicine and so on. but these are temporary setbacks. if you look at the data which was released and even less than 3 point percent is a lot lot better than the rest of the world. because the content of the i m. s. the whole world 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 is some, the sport amongst a crowd around the world, of course that the, and it kind of declining both rate. it's not just a china, the longer than most of the world are facing similar problems. horses 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. but against that is the increase productivity and the labor saving technology. and i do use italy's most wanted my feel leader has

been caught after months. that's last 3 decades. but taylor messina to now has been sentencing up sent here to life, imprisonment for the murders and bombing for multiple murders and bombing attacks. andrew simmons reports i, it's not every day that sicilian anti murphy police are congratulated on the streets of irma, but they've just arrested. it is most wanted mafia boss. mateo messina, dinero, who's been on the run for 30 years. the man reported to of once boasted that he could fill a cemetery with his victims didn't resist. 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, the kilt and people, the prime minister went on to pay her respects to murder judges, including one of messina dinero as 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 their 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 modell machine. and an auto 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 and 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. so i had on al jazeera families and in today's sarah getting that day. and course, after nearly 200 children died from trying to cough serves. i don't the day of honoring slain us civil rights leader, martin luther king junior, racial justice advocates cool from and to curbs on voting rights. ah

hello. they will start in north america, and both coasts are dealing with some pretty nasty weather conditions. we've had a nor'easter bring some heavy snow to pots of new england like boston, and that wintry and wet weather continues to haunt eastern parts of canada. but it's really the u. s. west coast. it's been dealing with the worst of the wet and winter weather. we've had one storm system after another rolling to california. we're hoping this will be the final blast bringing some very heavy rain and some snow as well on wedding stay. now for the east coast, it has been an improving picture. we've got a line of storms that are going to push their way further east bringing some rain to that east coast for washington dc that'll arrive on thursday. we are expecting, however, a steady decline in the temperature through the weekend, but still some sunshine and further south of this in the deep se, had a lot of hates come through in that turns into down across central america and into the caribbean. some heavy rain expected to lick into nicaragua, and we've got some wind warnings continue for north western areas of costa rica as

we go into the mid week of the worst of the wet weather. we have to head once again to brazil in south america. severe thunderstorms expect to be got warnings out for much of the country. some of those pulling in to that east coast. ah, the new generation of young people are making demands to we balance society welcome to generational change, a global series, the attempts to understand and challenge the ideas that mobilize you around the world in london to activate a, tackling the root causes of youth violence. many young people back a petri and violence against other young people themselves have also been victim multiple times. my generation can try need his i'm, we shape this generation change on al jazeera hulu.

ah, what about your watching al jazeera, remind of our top story, this our despite the near full evacuation of the city, the battle, if a back luton ukraine's east rage is on the the old 70000 residence of left. but back loot remains a key target for russia. as the military intensifies its assault on the city, ukrainian or authority say there's little hope of finding anyone else alive in the rubble of a denise per apartment block hit by russian misses. at least 40 people to confirm to have been killed and saturdays attack the dozens more. i'm missing. you figure some china show you the population is in decline for the 1st time and more than 60 years. if these trends continue, labor shortage is at a small

a tax base could have a major impact on the economy will shoot. jen pung is a senior research fellow at victoria university center of policy studies. she's with us live in melbourne for more on the story about the plummeting demographic situation in china. can i start by asking you why all of this is actually happening? yeah, i think why the tiny population suddenly becomes and they see that the atm parties and the element please could be a lot the so the mainly thing is my package for 50 constance and was on the 18. so yeah, lots savings time. not public incentives shows that the total for the re, she's the only 1.16 percent. so these are much lower than that. you bought at the company like us a australia and even lower than japan. so these is

a lower 40 degree combined with a, the last 3 years. so i'm brings i talk for a p t at brush member. and meanwhile, because the cold me to and, and also con, i use a company for aging. so is the dice number or the climbing so the common dice combined with a corporate attenuator, a larger number of why we store that because of the population in chinese, the 1st time since 961 because some predict the population decline by 2050 in china to be equivalent to the entire population of the philippines are slightly lower than egypt. so a lot of around 109000000 people. how unusual is it for the chinese authorities even admit these figures? yeah so so i think our time is government to have a do not expect that he's afraid to because i use it for the idea of such

a big job. so that's why they already begun to relax these us to we tell the policy with was, i'm $21.00. i bought this all because i'll call it and also either affect her. so, you know, as a, as a policy that does not look of our well, as i mean, reason because diagnoses are increasing house price and also my expense. and i do can cost and or to the store, but you use a will is dropping security. so it's a lot of reason behind just make the call is not encouraging. 14 policy doesn't work. so we can see that charge for community i took the left for the and is ash a for that that time is gone and didn't have more incentives, policies that as a for us you can, we, with all the even below asked me use the filter and try to publish when we were at the cloud, continue on route of this century. so the see that we'll have a big impact on kiners calling me. ok, sure. jerry pung,

the senior research fellow, victoria university center policy studies money. thanks for joining us. thanks. by our vigil is being held in nepal for the victims of a plane crash on sunday, the left 72 people dead. this was the scene outside the international airport in the capital cup. on 2 people lit candles and held, selling us to pay tribute to the dead. the poll observed a day of national morning on monday and set up a panel to investigate the country's deadliest, crashing 30 years from y'all to limby reports from poker. this is the site where a yeti airlines flight carrying 72 people crushed in the nepalese tourist. town of booker. 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 man 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 that we lost 72 people on board the plan, but if it had crushed a couple of voices on either side, my 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 plague was carrying 57 nepalese and 15 foreign nationals flying in a palace challenging as the country is surrounded by mountains and difficult to reign 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 plate, tanya jess, while had traveled to the town to see his older sister who had just had a baby died last night. and i would like to do the last right soon, but there was

a lot of process and red tape involved is frustrating. i'm waiting on the 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. happy at a liberal, al jazeera it booker and the pal, or a preliminary hearing for a class action against denise is drug trail regulator, health ministry, and several pharmaceutical companies is about to start in indonesia. nearly $200.00 children died from acute kidney injury last year after taking tainted cough syrup. we're joining me now as jessica washington, who's outside burke court in jakarta. and jessica, of course, the death of one child is tragic. but true, $200.00 is truly staggering. how is this trial unfolding? well, that's exactly right, even here at the central to atlanta district court, where we seen some families beginning to arrive. we expect proceedings might stars

in coming minutes. this is a class action of 25 families who were affected in some way by this tainted cough. syrup. cough syrup that was contaminated with ethylene glycol and dietary glycol substances which would normally be found in manufacturing capacity and paints and dice, and can only be used safely in very small doses. now, these families will be suing government agencies, the ministry of health innovations, food and drug agency, as well as the ministry of finance. and they will also be selling the pharmaceutical manufacturers. and for some of these mom suitable companies now, they have also requested for the ministry of health to declare an extraordinary situation. and that would allow these families, his children are still after ingesting this contaminated composition, to achieve some kind of support in terms of the ongoing medical expenses that they

is facing every day. as you mentioned, almost 200 children were killed, dr. ingesting with medicine. but this is very much an ongoing daily tragedy for the many families that the children who are severely injured off to taking this medicine until they are seeking support in any way they can a staggering story there in jakarta. jessica many thanks for jessica washington. now brazil's former president john bolster, narrow, says he regrets the recent riots in the capital, brazilian speaking publicly for the 1st time since the attacks. he also admitted to support his in florida that his administration has made some mistakes we filled with, i regret what happened on the 8. it's unbelievable and unfortunate. people learn the understood more about politics, the political powers, and they started to value freedom. i spoke to some people about freedom, they said it was like the sun, it rises every day, but it's not like that. we believe in brazil. well, since the attack, brazil's ran south capital has received a security upgrade. the full extent of the damage is still being determined.

thousands of both in our supporters, vandalized the supreme court congress some presidential pilots. last week. they wanted to push out newly elected president looseness, hulu, da da silva. and how both narrow back and power people have marched in washington dc to commemorate the birthday of american civil rights leader. martin luther king junior that demanding president joe biden. and the u. s. congress passed new legislation on voting rights. my kind of reports celebration for martin luther king who wouldn't be 19 years old. the decades off his death, his work to get to vote for all is still not complete. in 1965 president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act. thanks to martin luther king, the major outlaw discriminate re boating practices. but a recent report found that more than 4000000 people were plucked from voting in last year's midterm elections. a 3rd of those effected were black,

and the words of martin luther king echoed to the is that's my ballot. i will he to, james was one of those who look the right to vote because of a conviction on drug charges. as the lawyer kita 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 have given up because it is a lengthy better 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 unwilling 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 man assist society. i feel like at that point, it should automatically be given back to me just as quickly as it was taken away. it should automatically be given back to me. and the 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 is how you expand that electorate. and again, and i think, you know, if and when we do that, that will have huge political implication. but the marches here wanted to restore the vote to 10 times that number more than 4000000 people in 48 states who would prevent it from costing a ballot last year in the white a political context. it's also about the struggle between those who want to reduce voting rights and those who want to increase them.