hazy all keys, they finally have that o football team training was launched in october in the city of karbala. this specially designed to both was duty to play a japanese trinity. it created cracking sound to allow players to locate these players hope to join football clubs and represent their country in competition. but other iraqi provinces don't have their own teams because there are only 5 elise specially designed to hold for me the battle. so above marius, russia pounds a front line in the east as it tries to wrestle more territory from ukrainian

forces. ah, and i why money inside as now? is there a lie from day also coming up? for the 1st time in 60 years, china's population falls, coupled with a dramatic economic slowdown. recovery teams in the pool continue the grim task of searching for the last remaining bodies from sunday's plane crash. and the dan situation unfolding in ecuador agencies, we won't have chronic malnutrition, among children spiraling out of control. hello and welcome. we begin on the front lines in east in ukraine, where russia is intensifying attacks in the city of bach moot. moscow is trying to secure, rare victory in the region off to months of fighting ukrainian troops on digging in

precedent for luxury. zalinski says there is no place that is not covered with blood. out there is chance drop and witnessed a day of devastation in the once thriving city. how people enjoy the shelling and destruction defies. belief russian artillery has almost completely destroyed the town of bar mort. 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, own 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, from, from the north, from the east and the south. are the

intensification, the shelling of back 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. there now trying to completely in circle the city. as we walk back up the street more rounds explode, close by. we begin filming, and 2 more come in around a 100 yards away. the city we run for cover skidded here. our camera on the call 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 of moving to pushback, a rush would fall. se that other local, no group, the situation is quite intense. ball aerobic moot. we have information that the russians have sent reinforcements toward the city on the ball until 2 mazata of those ukraine in all scenery, funds from nearby feels the bottles. the basement is intensifying by a day chance. profit al jazeera boss mote. well, people in the central ukrainian city of denay pro have paid tribute to the victims of a russian missile strike, a laid reeds and place candles,

the destroyed apartment building a nice 40 people were killed. there may a says there is little chance any more survivors will be found. meanwhile, rushes defense minister has visited russian troops involved in the ukraine war sag showing you thank the service men and presented them would state awards at the headquarters in vall stock in december. he announced a plan to up the military counts from 1000000 to 1500000 and create multiple new units. the united nations atomic watchdog says it is increasing its presence at all ukrainian nuclear facilities to help prevent a disaster during war ahead of the i a e, a raphael grossey made the announcement during a visit to southern ukraine. currently, staff are only based on the russian health, patricia power plant, which had come under repeated attacks in recent months. the brake t now is to ensure the security and the safety of the plant. it doesn't matter

what we can discuss at this moment on high legal issues. what we need to prevent is an accident and what we need to make sure you said this blunt, or is it safe condition? generational condition? and we prevent this, this tragedy from the u. k is urging germany to supply and ukraine with lap and 2 tanks. london says berlin will not be acting alone, as it's sending 14 battle tanks to keep pulling in finland wants to donate some of their latin to tanks, but need berlin's permission of the debate. and job at the moment about whether a tank of an offensive weapon or defensive weapon, well depends what you're using it for through using it to defend your country. i would wager over to lose a defensive weapon system. secondly,

we are not on our own. this is a joint international coalition, and i know there's been concerns of the german political body that they don't want to go a low while they're not alone. on german chancellor, all of scholes is due to a point, a new defense minister this tuesday. christine lambert resigned as the country faces pressure to increase its ministry supporting crane. she said the media attention has hindered factual debate on the readiness of germany's defences. lambert's has been blamed for failing to modernize the army. another nato member latvia has given military support, was nearly 3 outings $30000000.00 to ukraine in august. it's parliament designated russia, a state sponsor of terrorism on to promote to get a sec. james base spoke to the last in private president in doubles. he explained why ukraine needs heavy weapon systems urgently. this should give all necessary support for the ukraine, especially because russia is preparing in february and march are offensive in

ukraine, and the ukraine should have a or necessary weapons or a necessary support in order to assist elisa, offensive, and therefore her all tanks all. so i should be given to ukraine. herb is 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. yeah. you're spending on ukraine 300000000 euros as a 3rd of your military budget. using 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 countries 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 the support in order to let you play in the when there was only when the ukraine will liberate their whole territory. then there would be peace and all we all are interested in peace. china's population has declined for the 1st time in more than 60 years. a statistic spirit says the battery in 2022 was the lowest since records again. in the 1918 china imposed a one child policy to control as rapidly growing population. this policy was abandoned in 2016 and people are now permitted to have up to 3 children, but 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,

anna small attack space could have major impact by china's and the global economy. between a, you has more in this from 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 7.37 deaths. that's the highest of the 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, 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 the 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 policy while 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 and recovery teams in a pool. a searching for the 2 remaining passengers or missing al to sunday's plane crash that killed 70 people. they've expanded the search area and are using drones in the mountainous terrain. authorities have begun, releasing the bodies of the victims to their families. rescue as are found, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which could help determine the cause of the accident. a vigil has also been held in nepal for the victims. this was the scene outside the international airport and the capitol cap on 2 people lit candles and held signs to pay tribute to the dead pool observed a day of national morning on monday and set up a panel to investigate the country's deadliest crash in 30 years. as go to our corresponding rum, yet limbo who is now live for us in po kara or me at her. what is the latest? i mean, presumably still so many questions from the relatives about what happened we're

at the federation of napoleon journalists office in for cra, it's quiet at the moment, but i'm just earlier they were crowds of people gathered here to pay their last respects are 2 journalists, 31, po dill, who lost his life on the crash on a sunday. a young father and a son. 3 born was well like and liked and connected are in this area. and his body was handed over to the family this morning and will be committed according to hindu writes, and many more families continued to wait outside the morgue at the poker a hospital to receive their, our families. so it is a tense and our stressful time. earlier 48 bodies are lifted to cut man do by the nepal army for further verification and identification. and those bodies

included the 4 crew members foreign nationals and bodies that could not be identified here. ok, renata, good to speak to you were me to limbo, giving us an update that from a kara on a plane crash. so head on al jazeera, we look at just how severe pakistan's flower shortages as the prices skyrocket. and a sinking town in india, read nice debate on development versus protecting the environment. ah hello there. the unsettled weather remains for much of europe, where the front is blowing through from west to east bringing wet wendy,

an wintry weather with them. we've also got a north west, 30 wind, that's blowing cold air down dropping temperatures. we aren't seeing the warmth we did a few weeks ago, but the good news is we will see some of that come flooding back into the se, particularly the balkans. places like romania seen temperatures really touch up if we haven't looked at the 3 day for bucharest. 20 degrees by wednesday. some of that rain coming in, but it does pull away by thursday. the worst of the weather has already hit western parts of france that storms rolling in here. things are looking very blustery and wet and wintery for spain and portugal. we've got red alerts out on tuesday for possible flooding, and it's looking very nasty as well for italy at storm system pushing its way across to the across the a dramatic into the balkans. we are expecting it to rain rather wintry. indeed, florence coming in only 5 degrees celsius on wednesday. no further north of this is a wintery picture for much of scandinavia heavy snow. once again for norway,

we could see some flooding across southern parts of sweden. thanks to the rain, but we are seeing some brightest bells in the south of england. ah, ah ah. ah. ah lou. oh,

oh. oh, come back. you're watching out. as a reminder, i'll top stories this hour. russia escalates it's bombardment of the ukrainian city of moves. forces are trying to secure rad ministry victory off to month to fighting as ukrainian faces the digging in recovery teams. and the pool is searching for the 2 remaining passengers. still missing out to some days, playing crash. 70 people and confirm dead ortiz have begun releasing the victims bodies to their families. china's population that has declined for the 1st time in more than 60 years. both rates in 2022 was the lowest sense of record which began despite efforts by the government encourage families to have children. chinese academy slowed in the last 3 months of 2022 official data shows g. d. p growth between october and december was 2.9 percent compared to

a year earlier. that's higher than analysts predicted. but the overall growth rate for 2022 was 3 percent far lower and the government's 5.5 percent target. 2021 chinese economy. expanded 8 percent. beijing abruptly lifted coven 19 restrictions last month, leading to a surge in infections and death. but this hope, the opening up and hundreds of millions of people traveling for the lunar new year . obesity economy. authority say that the spot global economic hardship, china's general economic outlook, is stable tuvell. on, according to preliminary estimates, the gross domestic product was close to a 2 trillion dollars in 2020, to an increase of percent over last year at constant prices to block us. now now where rising costs have led to a deepening fee crisis, the price of wheat flour has skyrocketed since the ukraine was disrupted supply

chains. the government is being forced to distribute flour. just don't protest. let's go straight to my hot line 1st and it's, i'm about come all. how bad is the situation? i well, the cry couldn't indeed have been protested across the country. at least 2 people have been killed. and many people have been queuing up to by the weight which is being offered to subsidize, raged by the government in an effort to try to is the problem of the paper. you can see behind me, people have been queueing up behind the distribution by and read they have to show that identity guards and they're not given a print the kilo bag. now that 20 kilo bag in the open market, it's selling for about 2500 your page. which means you're almost $5000.00 page a month for a family of

a bar. typically 7 to 8 people to show people have been carrying up to people have been killed in the stan bid, which was caused at the distribution. barnes, the government of gods is saying that they're just trying to import weight from russia order due due to an agreement. but buckets on strategic resolved on food are running law. and of course, the of the fact that budget on rank 7 as far as the top 10 countries are dropped and we reduce their concern. so in this country 70 percent of the calories caloric revenue comes from wait for people and decides. but cap guns, i'm sure of 124 kilo exposure bush and blair ia which is one of the highest and was show and did a serious crisis. and the government, of course, trying to solve this problem by giving subsidies, but the economy, the trouble is climate change of control had

a devastating effect. and the fact that this was one see we're exporting country has now been reduced, do a deficient country show. indeed, a serious crisis, couple a red rising and ration the cost of living. and i've gone to high data when it comes to electricity and gas, it's putting an additional but excuse me, putting an additional burden on the speed. but thank you for that call harder that for us in some about agencies of worn that malnutrition among the children in ecuador, as spiraling out of control waste, half of all toddlers, younger than 2 don't get enough to eat. now, among indigenous communities, issues even more prevalent as alexander, i'm here to report you that you believe 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 was a bit hungry so my younger siblings could eat. not much has changed phoebe as 8 months pregnant and unemployed or husband is employed as a bus assistant, but she says she struggles to feed 2 year old gail. calling the rest of the miss. both of her salary isn't enough for even one person. we spend the $200.00 he makes on food and accessories for my son, no clothes or anything else. julia stories are familiar. one among indigenous families living high up in the and this region of chamber most make less than half the national minimum wage of $480.00 a month. whether suffers from chronic levels of moment to ration among children. indigenous communities in remote areas are especially vulnerable charities, say the coby 19 pandemic, and soaring inflation of worse than the situation. what all the 4 out of every 10

children under the age of to suffer from chronic mom 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 been demick the. the rising cost of living lead 2 weeks of protest claim dejan is communities in june. it's back on for a while since then president, yet more last pledge to spend $350000000.00 a year to improve health care and basic services. but 2023 is expected to be tough for ecuador, as the government, as imposed as varied the measures to tackle the budget deficit. giving families like seal be as little hope of ending the vicious cycle of hunger. allison, the beauty of just either teachers and venezuela calling on the government increase their salaries ah,

and ministrations were held in 6 cities, including the capital, caracas, the minimum salary for public school teachers about $10.00 a month, and with inflation at more than 300 percent. teachers are saying that they're struggling to even cover basic expenses. protests against peruse president dina blotto showing no sign of easing demonstrators in the capital, lima calling for resignation and new elections. weeks. yvonne and protests broke out last month after the former president edward castillo was impeached and arrested. least 42 people have been killed. the death toll from 3 weeks of severe weather systems in california has risen to 20 u. s. president joe biden will visit the state on thursday to survey the damage. widespread flooding has effected around 25000000 people. bought in is also proved, is also a declaration for georgia, alabama. after powerful tornado killed 9 people. the declaration frees up federal

funds for the affected areas. people have marched in washington dc to commemorate the best they are the american civil rights lead him off and luther king junior, demanding president joe bought an 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? yeah, but decades off his death, his work to get to boat 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 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 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, 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 a 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 should automatically be given back to me just as quickly if they were taken away, it should automatically am be given back to me. an ugly fact behind the beauty of

it's 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 and like to read in 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 court, 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 by cannot alter sierra washington thinking town in northern india has rig nice. the debates about on regulation development in areas with fragile environments, deep cracks of a paid across the town of joe smith in the past few weeks. how many metal has more drilling has become common in the himalayas withdrawal? it's becoming wider as this hydro power plant is being built, but people in the region wanted gone. they blame it for damaging the environment and destroying their home. see now is that article that went and they think it was a crack started appearing and my house off to the power projects came here. we do faces issues earlier. they are also using explosives to make the roads whiter. i don't know the exact cause, but my house has been totally destroyed. josh, martin,

northern india is sinking in early january. deep cracks appeared across the town. hundreds of homes are falling apart. ah. authorities are dismantling 2 hotels that were leaning on each other. the town attracts thousands of tourists every year. authorities are blaming over crowding for the damage. mainly the people of the region. people who thing out here they have to understand they're familiar with that their surroundings are not that stable and they are, are they ready? and they should add her to what i was the norm thought put in place. because gorman can not group will the thing there night the himalayas ecologically sensitive and prone to earthquakes. uncheck construction has made these mountains more unstable. the reason has long been prone to disasters. like floods and landslide, now climate change is making these more common extreme,

where the events have killed thousands of people over the last decade. experts say they've been wanting the government about the dangerous pace of development for a long time. the situation, whatever has been given some say authorities need to study the impact infrastructure projects or having in this area. developmental or activities are also required. and we also have to preserve the the ecosystem of the mala which is a for sale. but a, if fair we, we do not understand properly or what exactly the load wearing capacity of particular if the city gets developed. and if we cut a slope, john to make a road and get it horizontally, then we need to assist that region. very critically scientific we're similar. cracks are also appearing and cardinal pre out 80 kilometer south of jewish human people across the region are growing anxious and many are worried. they could lose their homes and livelihoods forever. party method al jazeera.