witness the human spirit, and it's a reality there fill manual believe and women, not a perpetual witness. award winning voice is telling groundbreaking stories. witness on al jazeera, 2 years alden from me and mas military cool. the balance of power is shifting. as thousands of pro democracy activists join forces with ethnic minority insurgence forming a united front to take on the military. people in power goes behind the scenes to reveal growing optimism that the coalition of people's defense forces could transform the country's future. on the mars frontline, on a jazz ido. oh, the battle football news to russia intensifies attacks in the east ukrainian city

as it tries to wrestle more territory. ah, money inside this is out, is there a life window are also coming up? for the 1st time in 60 years, china's population declines coupled with an economic slowdown. we'll look at just how severe pakistan's flu, flower shortages is, prices skyrocket. and the dies situation unfolding in atlanta was 8 agencies when a chronic malnutrition mom children we begin on the front lines in easton, ukraine, where russia is intensifying attacks on the city of back newt moscow's trying to secure a red victory in the region all to months. of fighting ukrainian troops had digging

in and present laudermill. zalinski says there is no place that is not covered with blood. out as there is, charles stratford witnessed a day of devastation in the once thriving city. how people enjoy the shilling and destruction defies belief. rational hillary has almost completely destroyed the town of bar mote. most of the 70000 people who live to have fled. it's even rare to see ukrainian soldiers in the open, exposed to showing on the streets. oh my gosh, no problem was captain locked up the door. so when we talk about the direction of battle, newton 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. they're now trying to completely in circle the city. as we walked back up the street more rounds explode, close by we begin filming, and 2 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, evolved se, another of colon of the situation is quite intense. all a robert. we have information that the russians have center enforcements toward the city, but wanted to know that it was possible ukrainian artillery funds from nearby feels the bottles, the bottom is it in safari? i had a chance drop it al jazeera, bottled people in the central ukrainian city of denise pro, have paid tribute to the victims of a russian missile strike. they laid wreaths and placed candles at the destroyed

apartment. building is 40 people killed. the maya says there is little chance any more. survivors will be found. the un human rights commission says 7000 civilians have been killed in ukraine since the beginning of the war as go straight to natasha papa, who is lying for us in cave. natasha. there is a pretty grim statistics on they grinned statistics look just another. so you bring a reminder of the told that this war is taking on ordinary people. more than 7000 civilians say the you and have been killed in this whole so far. that includes children, it includes teenagers, also more than $11000.00 people have been injured. and what the un says is the most of these injuries. most these deaths were caused by a weapons by artillery a shilling. and as strikes not view and report doesn't attribute responsibility, but there is no doubt in the minds of most ukrainians that this is the work of

russian forces. moscow, since it 1st invaded in february last year has continued to say that he does not target civilian infrastructure or the civilian population. but just on saturday, an 11th, meet along ballistic missiles slammed into an apartment block antony pro in central ukraine. the mare that says that the hope of finding any survivors now was really fading and has pretty much faded, i should say. but dozens of people were killed there, including a 15 year old girl. dozens of people injured. in fact, a, just on a monday, the sweden that currently has the head is currently the head of the e use, rotating presidency. has said, what happened into ne pro is surely a war crime when he, thanks for that. natasha butler. there for us. live in cave. now russia's defense minister, his visited russian troops involved in the ukraine. war, sagacious gay, thank the service men and presented them would stay towards the headquarters in

vast oak. in december, he announced a plan to the ministry 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 at a disaster during the war. ahead of the international atomic energy agency, raphael, gracie made the announcement during a visit to southern ukraine. currently staff only based that the russian held zap erasure power plant which has come under repeated attacks in recent months. the brady t now is to ensure the security of the safety of a plant. it doesn't matter what we can discuss of this moment on higher legal issues. what we need to prevent is an accident. and what we need to make sure that this blunt is safe condition, you know,

proration condition and we prevent this. this tragedy from the german chancellor ala shelves is due to appoint a new defense minister on tuesday, christine lambert to resign. this country faces pressure to increase its military support to ukraine. she says media's attention has hindered factual debate on the readiness of germany's defences. lambert has been blamed for failing to modernize the german army. meanwhile, another nato member latvia has given military support with nearly $330000000.00 to ukraine. in august its parliament, designated russia, a state sponsor of terrorism. automatic edison james bay spoke to the latvian president. he explained to us why ukraine needs heavy weapon systems urgently. these should give all this a support for the ukraine, especially because at asha is preparing in february in march or offensive in

ukraine. and the ukraine a should have a or necessary weapons or a necessary support in order to assist elisa, offensive, and therefore her all tanks, all so should be given to ukraine. these are possible and her in ramstein where would be a ball to decisions this respect. i know you don't have tanks to give, but 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 a 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 winds, reward only when the ukraine will liberate the whole territory. then there would be peace and all we all are interested in peace. china's population has shrunk for the 1st time in more than 60 years. the national statistics bureau says birthright in 2022 was the lowest sense reco. it's began in the 1980s china imposed a one child policy to control is rapidly growing. population that was abandoned in 2016 and people are now permission to have up to 3 children. but the birth rate has continued to decline. if these trends continue as shrinking wag for us will have to support and growing number. if retirees, labor shortages, ana,

smaller tax base could have major impact by china's and the global economy. she, a, you has moved from beijing. 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, which is the, which was a year of great fun and here in china now, according to the official data, we have now 850000 few people living in china than before and delving further into the biggest po, 1000 people we have 7.37 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, and experts 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 storing costs 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 found the old to extend the family recovery teams

in the pool are searching for the 2 remaining passengers. ill, missing off the sundays plane crash that killed 70 people that expanded the search area and are using, drove in the mountainous terrain authority, something releasing the bodies of the victims to their families. breski was found the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, which could help determine the cause of the accident. that's going to correspond from y'all to limbo who is now live from the size of the crash in port cora. let me answer. firstly, any news on these 2 missing passengers? well, i just spoke to an army officer who's on duty here and they are have narrowed the search to the bottom of the gorge. and apparently 50 army and police personnel are scouring on the bottom of the gorge to see if they can find

any indications or body parts of the 2 remaining passengers. and they are of course, using drones to help them. he did see it is extremely challenging and dangerous. so the officers down there are trained cavers divers at the bottom. it's about like a 150 to 200 meter drop or at least a it may be up to 300 meters dropped down into the gorge or he did also indicate that they might not be a possibility of finding on the final or 2 passengers. because during the search. busy earlier they have found various or recovered, retrieved various body parts. and so we would just have to wait and see what

happens with the a post mortems process that is going on in the hospitals to see if the last 2 passengers could be among those currently at the hospital, more ramirez are we just looking at those live pictures you cameron showing us the down plain, any updates at all on what brought that plane down. what caused that crash? um not, not at the moment on yesterday. um, the voice recorder and the date of birth, the black box was retrieved by the army and handed over to the civil aviation authorities of nepal, who are basically in charge of the investigation. so far we haven't heard anything . ah, but i think it will take a while for information ah, to come out. ah,

but till then our families experts observes evie from the observer's hope that it will provide some answers to what caused this tragedy. tragedy indeed. okay, thank you for that rum yacht. her limber bare for us in paccar just next to that plane. still ahead on al jazeera, seeking justice, families in indonesia go to cause up to 200 children. died painting on not backing down for justice and for want president dina watson. oh hello there. it's been one storm system after another bringing unsettled weather, particular to western parts of europe, and causing disruption in western france. that thanks very strong winds,

as well as heavy rain and a bit of a wintry mix with it. now, warnings remain, not just for france, but also also for spain and portugal over the next few days. that wintry weather as well as sending up to the north west block of cold air, bringing warnings of snow and ice to parts of britain and ireland and wintry mics continues for much of scandinavia. you can see that much of snow pulling across the baltic states by wednesday, but still from funny spells coming through the clouds with central parts of europe . it's really down in the south. we are dealing with really ferocious weather conditions except he strong winds blowing across the mediterranean italy, dealing with very wet weather. that'll shimmy its way across the adriatic, bringing some warnings to places like bosnia and herzegovina as well as serbia. it turns rather wintry as well. it's called northern parts of italy, snow to come on the alps. now we are, however, seeing some exceptional warmth, still come into that southwest corner,

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ah, welcome back here watching al jazeera mind on top stories this our russia escalates is bombardment. the crating city of newt is forces are trying to secure, rare military victory. often long sufficing as ukrainian forces have digging in recovery teams and the pool is searching for the 2 passengers still missing off to sundays plane crash, 70 people have been confirmed. dead authorities have begun releasing the victims bodies to their families. john is population now's decline for the 1st time in more than 60 years. the best rate in 2022 was the lowest since records began. that's despite efforts by the government to encourage families to have more children. china's economy 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 is higher than unless predicted. but the overall growth rate for 2022 was 3 percent fall lower than the government's 5.5 percent target. in 2021. chinese economy. expanded 8 percent. will beijing abruptly lifted coven 19 restrictions last month, leading to a surge in infections and deaths. but there is hope that the opening up and hundreds of millions of people traveling the lunar new year will boost the economy . 30 say that despite in global economic hardship, china's general economic outlook is stable, hulu. hosanna. according to preliminary estimates, the gross domestic product was close to a $2000000.00 in 2020 to an increase of percent over last year at constant prices in pakistan, rising costs have led to a deepening fear crisis. the price of wheat flour has skyrocketed since the ukraine wor, disruptive supply chains. the government is being forced to distribute flower to

stop protests. come out hider has more from islamabad. many people have been queueing up to buy flaw with flaw, which are being offered to capture, dies raised by the government in an effort to try to is the problems of the paper. you can see behind me, people have been queueing up behind the distribution point. read to have to show that identity guards and then are given a 20 kilo bag. now that 20 kilo bag in the open market, it's selling for about 2500 rupees. which means you're almost $5000.00 group page a month for a ball family of about typically $7.00 to $8.00 people show people have been queueing up to people have been killed in the stan paid ridge. what caused at the distribution, barnes? the government of god is saying that they're just trying to import weed from russia order due due to an agreement,

but budget on strategic reserved 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 there, dropped and we reduce their concern. so in this country 70 percent of the calories caloric revenue comes from wait for people. but the economy, the trouble climate change of color has also had a devastating effect. and the fact that this was one see, we're exporting country has now been reduced to a deficient countries. a preliminary hearing for a class action against indonesia, drug regulator, health ministry, and several pharmaceutical companies is on the way in indonesia. nearly $200.00 children died from acute kidney injury last year to taking tainted cough syrup. jessica washington has moved from jakarta $25.00 families, a part of this class action, a suing 11 parties,

including the ministry of health and 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 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 alter, they consumed cough syrup that was contaminated with ethylene glycol and di ethylene glycol substances typically found in a manufacturing capacity of paints and dies that can only be consumed safely in very small doses. today they are calling for accountability of what happened to their children. 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, after they ingested this medicine. a mother that we spoke to yesterday at a hospital told us some of the, the devastated in circumstances that her family has 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. these are the circumstances that these parents and navigating agencies have worn. that malnutrition among children in ecuador is spiraling out of control. almost half of all toddlers, younger than 2 don't get enough to eat. among indigenous communities issues, even more prevalent. as alexander ambia to reports senior chamberlain, 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 once a been 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 gail. elizabeth, 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. sylvia stories are familiar, one among indigenous families, living high up in the andes region of cham bourassa. most meet less than half the national minimum wage of $480.00 a month. equity suffers from chronic levels of malnutrition, among children. indigenous communities in remote areas are especially vulnerable.

charities, say the coven, 19 pandemic, and soaring inflation of worse in the situation. what brought the car that was for out of every 10 children under the age of to suffer from chronic mal attrition and with it come growth issues and learning issues. this problem is much worse in rural areas, and we believe the number has doubled since the pandemic. the rising cost of living lead to weeks of protest by indigenous communities in june is back on for a while since then, president guillermo last saw us pledge to spend $350000000.00 a year to improve healthcare in bill 6 services. simple. 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 protest against peruse president

d number water showing no sign of easing demonstrators in the capt. lima calling for resignation. a new elections weeks. a violent protest broke out. last month after the former president peddler castillo was impeached and arrested. 42 people been killed. teachers in venezuela calling on the government to increase their salaries ah, demonstrations were held in 6 cities, including the capital, caracas, the minimum salary from public school teachers about $10.00 a month, with inflation at more than 300 percent. teachers say they are struggling to cover basic expenses and people of march in washington dc to commemorate the best say, if the american civil rights lead. martin luther king junior, demanding president joe bought and on the u. s. congress passed new legislation on voting rights like canada reports celebration for martin luther king. who would it

be 900 years old? the decades off his death, his work to get to vote 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 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 not as my town 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 battle 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 after like at that point, it 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 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 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. ah.