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mood with devastating consequences for its people. rushing full caesar about a kilometer in that direction. do you crate in military is scared now because motion forces of might such great gains around solid are in the knowles there now trying to completely in circle the city. ah, hello, i'm the baka, this is al jazeera live from dough. so coming up, china as a looming demographic crisis, the world's most populous nation, records declined in numbers for the 1st time and more than 60 years. a day of morning in the pole where at least 70 people were killed in the nations worst aviation disaster in decades. and on the day honoring slain u. s. civil rights leader, martin luther king junior, racial justice advocates cool for an end to cubs on voting rights.

we begin on the front lines of eastern new crane where a fierce battle for control is raging in the city of back moot and its surrounding areas. russia has been unleashing its fire power on a city almost destroyed, and nearly besieged is force, is a trying to win a rare military victory. after months of fighting while the ukrainian forces of digging in. how jesse was charles stratford witnessed a day of devastation in the once thriving city. how people enjoy the shilling and destruction defies belief. russian artillery has almost completely destroyed the town of bos, 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, o my cousin,

proper miskin up and locked 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, from, from the north, from the east and the south are the intensification, the shelling about moot is obvious. russian forces are about a kilometer in that direction. the ukrainian military is scared now because in forces of made such great gains around solid are in the north. then after a completely encircled 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. which a similar story on the other side of training army, a moving to push back a russian revolved. se, another and of colon of the situation is quite intense, all around, act moot. we have information. the russians has sent frame force much towards the city on the bottle tow. mazata was kasicoda

ukraine. an artillery fires from nearby feels the bottles for buff. mood is intensified by a day. cha, stratford al jazeera bos mode, and hundreds of kilometers west of back made hope's fading of finding survivors in the rubble of an apartment block. and dundee pro, which was hot hit by a rush of miss out on saturday. at least 40 people were killed. 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 rushes, denied targeting residential buildings. and the you and nuclear watchdog says establishing a permanent presence at all 5 of ukraine's 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 were based at the russian held zapper region eco facility. europe's largest

planters come under repeated attacks and recent months raising fears of a nuclear disaster. e priority now is to ensure the security and the safety of that. it doesn't matter what we can discuss at this moment 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 it in an operational condition. and that we prevent this, this tragedy from happening. meanwhile, ukraine's northern neighbor ballerina is taking part in the military drill with russia. the allies will carry out 2 weeks of air exercises, russian troop numbers and military activity have increased in bella roost in recent weeks. this time the bell russian defense ministry says the exercises are defensive . moscow launched attacks on ukraine from bell russian territory in february. last

year. the u. k is confirmed, it will send 14 battle tanks to key. if defense minister ben wallace has urged nato ally, germany to follow suit. there's 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. if you're using it to defend your country, i would wager that it 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. and while they're not alone, but in germany, the government slow response to ukraine's demands for weapons says force it's defense minister to resign. christine lumber act says the media's attention on her as hinted factual debate on the readiness of germany's defences. she has been facing criticism over the pace of modernizing germany's military. a successful will be announced on tuesday and another nato member nation latvia has given military

support worth nearly $330000000.00 to ukraine in august. lobbyist parliament designated russia, a state sponsor of terrorism or diplomatic editor james bay, spoke to latvian president egg. it's let vis, endeavors explains why ukraine needs heavy weapons 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 lap 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 country for 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 the war only when the ukraine will liberate their whole territory. then there would be peace and all we all are interested in peace and other news of vigil has been held in the poll for the victims of a plane crash on sunday. the left 70 people dead. this was the scene outside the international airport in the capitol cap. monday people lit candles and held signs

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 yet, a limby report 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 my 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 filters 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 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 dog allergies. with 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. 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 booker under pall. the preliminary hearing for

a class action against indonesia, drug regulator, health ministry, and several pharmaceutical companies is about to start in indonesia. nearly $200.00 children died from acute kidney injury last year off to taking tainted coff. syrups were joining me now. jessica washington, who's outside that court in jakarta, and jessica, how is the trial that unfolding? that's right. we're here at the central jakarta district court waiting for proceedings to begin waiting for the judge to arrive. we've seen several of the families who are part of this class action, arriving for their day in court 25 families, a part of this class action. suing 11 parties, including the ministry of health entities, is food and drug agency in asia, ministry of finance, as well as the pharmaceutical manufacturing companies and the, the suppliers to those companies as well. they are seeking for each of the children

who died or to consuming this contaminated cough syrup around a $130000.00 in compensation, and for each of the children who were injured around $70000.00. now, of course, a very difficult day for these families as, as they have to reflect on what happened to their children. also, they consumed cough syrup that was contaminated with ethylene glycol and di ethylene glycol substances typically found in a manufacturing capacity and paints and dies that can only be consumed safely. in very small doses. today there, calling for accountability for what happened to their children. and jessica, as you mentioned their, i guess the families main goal now is to find justice. but do we know anything more about the source of this medicine? oh, well that's exactly right. they are looking for justice and it's not just for the

parents who, whose children sadly passed away after consuming this contaminated medicine. but also for the parents whose children are still alive, but still grappling with debilitating injuries, neurological damage. cognitive impairment, often they ingested this medicine. a mother that we spoke to yesterday at a hospital told us some of the, the devastated exec incenses that her family have been going through. my child has been in the hospital since september. the child was in a coma for a month and every day as a mother she had to watch her child bleeding from her nose and her mouth. a child who can no longer speak with her ease of the circumstances that these parents and navigating and this family, in particular, many of the families are from low income households. so you can imagine the strain of these medical expenses on household such as these having to go to hospital every day. some of them say they've had to give up their jobs. they've lost their homes because of what happened to their children. and so they seeking accountability from

not only the pharmaceutical manufacturers, but from the government as well. they say the ministry of health and the food and drug agencies failed then and failed their children. a truly shocking case that jessica money, thanks for that. just a watered to live in jakarta. now china's population is declined for the 1st time in 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 slow, 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, as 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. caterine you has more than beijing,

china is doing all the can to avoid a democratic crisis. it's increased the child policy to 3 children increase subsidies, increase parental leave, but 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 and fewer people living in china than before and delving further into the figures per $1000.00 people. we have $7.00 deaths that's the highest since 19 seventies. and the lowest birth rate ever, just $6.00 birds per $1000.00 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 experts 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 of 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 cove and policy row. you had constant lock downs throughout the country. that 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 wasn't a time to have children to have a family or to expand their family. sheila had an hour 0 more on china where the economy has hit a bump under pressure over 19 restrictions and a policy

a blow for our sher bob in somalia. the government reclaims surgery, controlled by the on the roof. ah, hello, they're heavy rain across parts of the middle east flooding to central saudi arabia . now the good news is we are going to see that weather system that brought that heavy rain start to push its way further ease taking the worst of that, whether to queue weight and western parts of iran, we are likely to see some flooding here. and some snow in the mountains, but the good news is it starts to clear up after some gloomy weeks across the gulf, places like a guitar. finally, think some sunshine come through, but the shamar wind is set to pick up on wednesday and that'll drop the temperature down in places like dough her. but clearer further south of this,

it does clear up for coastal areas of egypt instead is going to be the north west. the bears, the brunt of the wet and windy weather. we have a look at algiers. in particular, we are going to see possible hail come into play by the time we get into wednesday, that rain lasting through to thursday. and it does get significantly colder for the south of this, those seasonal rains, falling heavy from the con, goes all the way through to madagascar. we've got something of a swirling system bringing some heavy rain to northern areas here for south africa . cape town, in particular, still lots of sunshine coming through. it is going to get steadily cooler with some foggy starts to the mornings. ah. debating the issues of the day, 5 largest polluters that the world are in india, jump into the street. they made their money on pole, they made their money on field. convincing those folks, no,

we need to go. green is very, very difficult. giving all of voice we chose to do because we wanted to escape war and violence. when you humanize this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality and break down misconceptions. the street on al jazeera ah ah, bug a bucket watching out was era remind of our top stories this hour. despite leave me a full evacuation of the city, the battle for black mountain ukraine's east rages on it. all. 70000 residents have left but black boot remains a key target for russia was the military intensifies its assault. and the city of

rituals being held in the pole for the victims of a plane crash on sunday, the left 72 people dead. the poll observed a day of national morning a monday and set up a panel to investigate the country's deadly association disaster in 30 years. china's population has declined for the 1st time in more than 60 years. if these trends continue, labor shortages and a small attack space could have a major impact on the economy. and staying in china where the economy has slowed in 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 far lower than the government's 5.5 percent target. in 2021. at grew 8 percent. beijing abruptly lifted coven 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 really young is a china consultant. he says the chinese economy is still strong. despite failing to reach the official target. 2 years lockdown has caused a lot of damage to the chinese economy and 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 that 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 is not just a china is lower 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. somalia says it's military as we capture the town from our bob fighters. the coastal area has been under the control of the on group for the past 15 years. the government launch and offensive against our ship up in

august, somali forces say they've since killed hundreds of finances. brazil, former president john boston r. o says he regrets the recent rights of the capital, brazilian speaking publicly for the 1st time since the taxi also admits. so support us in florida that his administration has made some mistakes with, with i regret what happened on the 8. it's unbelievable and unfortunate people learned 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 was since the attack, brazil's ransack capital has received a security upgrade. the full extent of the damage is still being determined. thousands of both in our support is vandalized, the supreme court, congress and presidential palace last week. they wanted to push out needed elected president, loosen asi la da silva and of boston aro, back empower protests against president. deena ballasa continued to spread across

peru, demonstrators in the capital, lima, a calling for her resignation and new elections. weeks of violent protests broke out last month after former president pedro castillo, was arrested for attempting to dissolve congress. at least 42 people have died. teachers in venezuela or, or calling on the government to increase their salaries. ah, demonstrations were held in 6 cities, including the capital, caracas, the minimum salary for a public school teacher is about $10.00 a month. with inflation of more than 300 percent protests to say they're going hungry and struggling to cover basic expenses. aid agencies of warns that chronic mount nutrition amongst 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 alessandra rom,

petty reports. she 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. etching bourassa most meet less than half the national minimum wage of $480.00 and once it,

whether suffers from chronic levels of malnutrition, among children. indigenous communities in rural areas are especially vulnerable. charities, say, the coven 19 pandemic, and soaring inflation of worse in the situation. what are the ballad law 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 to weeks of protest by indigenous communities in june is back on for a while. since then, president guillermo lazarus pledge to spend $350000000.00 a year to improve healthcare in bill 6 services. but 2023 is expected to be tough for ecuador, as the government, as imposed as 30 measures to tackle the budget deficit. giving families like seal be as little hope of ending the vicious cycle of hunger. allison that on beauty,

i'll just either people have marched in washington dc to commemorate the birth of american civil rights leader. martin luther king junior, 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 would it be 900 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 outlaws discriminate re boating practices. but a recent report found that more than 4000000 people were blocked from voting in last year's midterm elections. a 3rd of those affected were black and the words of martin luther king echoed through the is that of 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 menace to society. i feel like at that point, it automatically be given back to me just as quickly if 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 off to 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 explain that and like to read and again, and i think, you know, if and when we do that, that will have huge political implications. but the marches here want to, to restore the vote to 10 times that number more than 4 1000000 people in 48 states who were prevented from casting a ballot last year in the wider political context. it's also about 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.