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a kilometer in that direction. do you find in military is scared now? because russian forces might such great gains around solid or in the north. now trying to completely in circle the city. ah, i'm ne barker. this is al jazeera life and also coming up china's looming demographic crisis, world's most populous nation records a decline in numbers for the 1st time in more than 60 years. a day of morning in the paul where at least 70 people were killed of the nations worse aviation disaster in decades. and in ecuador agencies raised the alarm over mount nutrition and hunger levels among children.

ah, we begin on the front lines of eastern ukraine where a fierce battle for control is raging in the city of back moat and its surrounding areas. russia has been unleashing its fire power on a city almost destroyed and nearly besieged. his forces are trying to win a ram military victory after months of fighting while the cranium forces digging in . out as there is, charles strafford witnessed a day of devastation in the once 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 problem was going up 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, 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 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 to windscreen which a similar story on the other side of rain, an army a moving to push back, a russian evolved se another of colon approve the situation is quite intense, all aerobic moat. we have information that the russians have central enforcements toward the city of the bar. wanted to know that it was possible it ukrainian artillery funds from nearby feels. the bottles for bottled is

intensifying by a day chance drafted al jazeera boss mote, and hundreds of kilometers west of back made hope's fading of find of survivors in the rubble of an apartment block in dundee pro, which was hit by a russian missile on saturday. at least 40 people were killed, but dozens more still missing. ukraine's president says the attack on to be pro shows why his country needs more western weapons to survive. the russian assault, russia has denied targeting residential buildings. the un 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 grossey announced the plan when he visited southern ukraine until now the i. e. a safety experts were based at the russian. how does upper region nuclear facility, europe's largest planters come under repeated attacks in recent months, raising fears of a nuclear disaster. the brady 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 in safe condition in an operational condition. and that we prevent this, this tragedy from happening. rescue teams in nepal or presumed the search for the 2 remaining passengers from sunday's plane crash, the killed 70 people crowds are gathered outside a mortuary housing. the bodies of victims in the city of porker. rescuers have found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder which could help determine the cause of the accident. meanwhile, vigils being held outside the international airport in the capital catman do. people lit candles and held signs to pay tribute to the dead. paul observed

a day of national morning on monday over the countries deadliest crash in 30 years . and rob yaller sumeet simba is outside the hospital where the bodies have been taken in pork around the process of locating and identifying the dead continues. there i'm not a ah, yes, we've actually moved up from the hospital to the airport as the army prepares to our transport or 45 bodies or, and air lift them to gut man. do these include the bodies of the 4 crew members? are foreign nationals and bodies that the medical facilities here have not been able to identify. i'm so far, 3 bodies have been handed over to local families here. and the post mortem work continues on, on an 18 or more bodies. and it's been

a stressful and emotional time i spoke earlier to families gathered out the outside the hospital as they've been waiting since sunday to clean. busy their loved ones, and many of the bodies are in an unrecognizable state, and the few that have been identified were on the basis of personal items found on the bodies lake on a phones, an id cards, name tags. and it has been a min emotional time for families. sure. i'm sure has indeed an all the while of course, from yes of the authorities continue to try to establish the cause of the crash or yes, yesterday, or the black box. the recorder was retrieved from the crash site and an investigation. a commission has been established and i'm so they are looking into the a cause, but no one can see

a right now or gauge what exactly are cause did. but because the back box was found yesterday, observers whole families hope experts hope that it will provide some answers to the tragedy that took place on sunday. here from your so many thanks from your to limby, live in parker. in other news, china's population as declined for the 1st time and over 60 years, the birth rate in 2022 was the lowest since records began. in the 1980s, china imposed a one child policy to control it's rapidly growing population. this policy worked and birth rates slowed. now though china needs people to have more babies, again, the one child policy was abandoned to 2016 and people can now have up to 3 children . but so far the birth rates continue to decline. and 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 can have

a major impact on both domestic and world. the world economy, katrina, you has more from badging. china is doing all that can to avoid a demographic crisis, increase the 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 you've seen announced today on tuesday was the 1st population decline for china. since $961.00, which is the, which was a year of great fun and 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 per $1000.00 people, we have $7.00 deaths. that's the highest 1970 s, and the lowest birth rate ever, just 6.77 birds. so 1000 people. now this decline and population does not come as a big shock. we've seen a drop in the birth rate for several years now. an expert here and certainly the

government here is asking the question, why aren't more people having more babies? well, that's really multifaceted answer and one of the answers as 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 through the hard to change and other reasons, all the reasons that we've seen in other countries around the world store 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 as well. and one may just back to here in china has also been the pandemic. we've just come out of 3 years of strict 0 cove and policy. well, you had constant locked throughout the country. the access to good medical care was thrown completely into question and we had much uncertainty and much disruptions when it came to both income and just lifestyle. so many said that it wasn't a time to have children to have the found the old to extend the family and staying

in china where the economy has slowed. and 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. it grew 8 percent. a jing 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 as a china consultant, he says the chinese economy is still strong. despite failing to reach the official target. yes, lockdown has caused a lot of damage to return is economy and to people's positions. and you can see the reason car protest and also the economy is taking

a huge hit. and so the decision has been that the 0 over a strategy to be dropped. but perhaps it dropped to abruptly 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. you look at the data which was released in 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 be a relative is some of the sport amongst a crown around the world, of course that the economy declining both rate is not just a china is longer than most of the world are facing. similar problems,

courses 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 the labor saving technology. families of those killed in the 2020 bay report blasted lebanon of accused the judiciary of targeting them. several people were cool for questioning on monday of the holding protest last week. they say the investigation has stalled made political roadblocks. last killed 220 people. an injured, more than 6000 still had on al jazeera families and indonesia are getting their day in court after nearly 200 children died away. and on the day ordering slain us civil rights leader, martin luther king junior,

racial justice advocate school for an end to curbs, on voting rights. ah, hello there, 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 east taking the worst of that weather to q 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 what with the temperature down in places like dough her, but clearer further south of this, it does clear up for coastal areas of egypt. instead it's going to be the north

west. the best 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 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, oncology, because the china strict cobit policy is over, will about health johnson thought the economy europe's energy crisis east, but the continents might not be out of the woods yet, plus weeks for why young educated, baldwin, attending to farm county the cost on al jazeera. we understand the

differences and similarities of cultures across the world, sentimental handy take it will bring you the news and current affairs that mattel to you. oh ah, you're watching out or 0 reminder, what top stories this hour, china's population is declined for the 1st time, and more than 60 is the birth rate in the world's most populous nation. last year was the lowest since reckless began. rescue efforts are underway in the pull to find the remaining 2 missing passengers from sunday's plane crash, cockpit voice recorder, and flight day to record. i have been found despite the near full evacuation of the

city, the battle for black boots in ukraine's east range is on needy pool. $70000.00 residents left. the abutment remains a key target for rushers to the tree, intensifies this assault of the city. meanwhile, ukraine's nor the neighbor barrios is taking part in the military drill with russia . the allies will carry out 2 weeks of exercises. russian treat numbers and military activity have increased at ballerina recent weeks. this time the bell russian defense ministry says the exercise is our defense. if moscow launched a tax on ukraine from baller 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 seat at the 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, that 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. but over in germany, the government slow responds to ukraine's demands for weapons as force its defense minister to resign. christine lumber act says the media's attention on her as hindered factual debate on the readiness of germany's defences. she's been facing criticism over the pace of modernize and germany's military success will be announced on tuesday and another nato member nation latvia has given military support worth nearly $330000000.00 to ukraine in august lat, via's parliament, designated russia, a state sponsor of terrorism or diplomatic editor spoke to latvian president ed guess levitz endeavors explains why ukraine needs heavy weapon systems urgently. these should give all necessary support for the ukraine,

especially because russia is prepared in february in march or offensive in ukraine. and the ukraine should have all necessary weapons or the necessary support in order to assist this offensive. and therefore, all tanks i'll so should be given to ukraine is possible. and the in ramstein where would be a ball to decisions in this respect? i know you don't have tanks to give bots 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 the western country for nato countries to increase

their support for you today. and because it is in the interest of the whole world, especially also for her own nato countries, for all european countries to give her support in order to let you play and 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. samaria says it's military has re captured the town from al chabad fighters. the coastal area has been under the control of the on great for the past 15 years. the government launch and offensive against our shop ab, in august, somali forces say they've since killed hundreds of fighters. italy's most wanted mafia boss has been arrested after 30 years on the run police detained patio messina dinero in the sicilian city of palermo, he was receiving medical treatment and a private clinic to narrow has been convicted in absentia for being behind the

killings and bomb attacks and face is life in prison. he's considered the last remaining godfather of the cosa nostra mafia. a preliminary hearing for a class action against denise's, drug regulator, health ministry, and several pharmaceutical companies has begun in indonesia. maybe $200.00 children died from acute kidney failure last year off to taking tainted coff syrups. jessica washington is outside the court in jakarta. 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 in it, ages, food and drug agency, indonesia, 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 after consuming this contaminated cough syrup around $230000.00 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 after they consumed cough. syrup that was contaminated with ethylene glycol and di ethylene glycol substances typically found in a manufacturing capacity and paints and dives that can only be consumed safely in very small doses. 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, cognitively, hammond, often they ingested this medicine aid agencies, gone the chronic mounting attrition among children in ecuador spiraling out of control. almost half of all children under the age of 2 don't have enough to eat.

their parents are struggling with low salaries and rising inflation. indigenous communities living in remote areas are hit even harder. alexander rum, petty. how's the story? 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 garza 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 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. and ronald 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 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 ferry 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 brazil's former president jaya balsam arrow says he regrets the recent riots of the capital, brazilian speaking publicly for the 1st time since the attacks. he also admitted to supporters in florida that his administration had made some mistakes with 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. and since the attack, brazil's ransacked capital has received a security upgrade. the full extent of the damage is still being determined. thousands of both scenarios, supporters, vandalized the supreme court, congress and presidential palace last week. they wanted to push out new elected

president lewis, and i saluted a silver and have both narrow back and power protests against president dina bell are to continue to spread across put peru demonstrators in the capital, lima cooling for her resignation and new elections, weeks. a violent protest broke out last month after former president pedro castillo was arrested for attempting to dissolve congress. at least 42 people have died. the death toll from 3 weeks of severe where the systems in california has risen to 20 years. president joe biden will visit the state on thursday to survey the jap damage himself. widespread flooding has effected around 25000000 people. biden's also approved disaster declarations for georgia and alabama. after a powerful tornado killed 9 people, the declaration frees up federal funds for the affected areas. people have managed in washington d. c. to commemorate the birthday of american civil rights leader, martin luther king junior,

demanding president joe biden. and the us congress passed new legislation on voting rights like hannah has more celebration for martin luther king, who would have been 1900 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 measure, 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 through the is not marked on ballot, but i will he to james was one of those who look 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 battle or because it is so convoluted. stephanie frame was sentenced to 7 years in prison. been 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 perot without being a menace to society after like, at that point, is automatically be given back to me just as quickly as it 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 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 course, 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. my cannot alter sierra washington.