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territory. ah, i'm molly inside. this is out. is there a life and go home? so coming up, john is population declines for the 1st time in 60 years, coupled with an economic slowdown. the 60 percent increase in the price of bread people queue up for supplies is pakistan, grapples with a shortage of wheat flour. on the dog situation unfolding in ecuador as agencies born, chronic malnutrition, among children is spiraling out of control. we begin on the front lines in easton ukraine, where russia is intensifying, attacks on the city of moot moscow trying to secure a rare victory in the region after months of fighting ukrainian troops and digging

in on precedent. val autumn is 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 shelling and destruction defies. belief. russian artillery has almost completely destroyed the town of buck malt. 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. owner, carson probation was going up and walked up the door. sir, when we talk about the direction of battle mode. 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 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 skid in here. our camera on the call dashboard captured the moment 2 of watts believe to have been a 120 millimeter. walters slammed into

a residential building across the street. the force of the blast broke to windscreen. it's a similar story on the other side of brain and ami a moving to push back a rush of involved se another of colon upgrade, the situation is quite intense, all aerobic moat. we have information that the russians have sent reinforcements toward the city on the bottom until 2 mazata was possible. ukrainian artillery foster nearby feels the bottles for buffalo is intensified by a day. cha, stratford al jazeera boss mote. table in the central ukrainian city of denise pro, have paid tribute to the victims of a russian missiles strike. they laid rates and highs, candles at the destroyed apartment,

building least 40 people were killed. amelia says there is little chance any more survivors will be found. whether you on human rights commission says that 7000 civilians have been killed in ukraine since the start of the war. i sketched natasha butler who joyce, we now live from cave. pretty grim statistics on the natasha. very much so grim statistics on a sobering reminder of the toll that this war is taking on the civilian population . more than 7000 people killed many of them, teenagers, and children molden, 11000 people have been injured. some people with life changing injuries, not the un report says that these deaths and injuries were caused by many weapons artillery. shelling as strikes, then not attributing blame than not attributing responsibility, but there is no doubt in the mind of most ukrainians,

that this is the work of russian forces. now since the beginning of this war last year, a russia has maintained that he doesn't target civilian infrastructure that it doesn't target civilian population. but the reality on the ground of course tells a very different picture indeed. and just on saturday, a, what we now knows of an 11 meta ballistic missile, a 5 by russian forces slammed into an apartment block in the central ukrainian city of denise pro, the mayor of that city says look, there is very little hope for finding any one alive now, thousands of people were killed that dozens of people have been injured, including children once again. so a very grim picture indeed. and a growing number of people including some western powers who are calling what happened in denise pro, a war crime. natasha butler, that for us live in caves and key rushes defense minister has visited troops involved in the ukraine. more stagger shawyer. thank the service men and presented

them with awards at the headquarters in rostock. in december, he announced to plan to increase the armed forces to 1500000 soldiers and create multiple new units. administer, pledge to ensure supplies were delivered to frontline soldiers an improved medical, and that just sticks units. the united nations atomic watchdog says it's increasing its presence at all ukrainian nuclear facilities to help prevent a disaster during the war ahead of the international atomic energy agency, raphael garcia made the announcement during the visit to summon ukraine. currently, stanford only bass, the russian held zapper is your power plot, which had come under repeated attacks in recent months. the brady now is to ensure the security and the safety of the fact that it doesn't matter what we can discuss at this moment on own own own hi legal issues. what we need to

prevent is an accident. and what we need to make sure that this plant is safe condition, generational condition and that we prevent this, this tragedy from happening. well, german chance all of shots is due to appoint a new defense minister on tuesday. christine lambert resigned as a countries on the pression to increase its military support to ukraine. she says the media attention has prevented factual debate in the readiness of germany's defences. she's been blamed for failing to modernize the german only. meanwhile, another nato member latvia has given military support worth nearly $330000000.00 to ukraine. in august it parliament designated russia, a state sponsor of terrorism. our diplomatic editor james bay, spoke to the latvian president, eager live it's in doubles. he explained why ukraine needs heavy weapons so

urgently. we should give all this the support for the euclidean, especially because at us or east repair being in february in march or offensive in ukraine. and the ukraine assured her all necessary weapons, a necessary support in order to assist elisa, offensive, and therefore her all tanks i'll 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 barts. 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 that 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, 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 shrunk for the 1st time and more than 60 years. the national statistics bureau says the best rate in 2022 was the lowest since records again. now in the 1980s, china imposed a one child policy to control it's rapidly growing. population was abandoned in 2016, and people are now permitted to have up to 3 children and the birth rate has continued

to decline. if these trends continue, a shrinking workforce will have to support a growing number of retirees. labor shortages and a small attack space can have a major impact on by china's and a global economy. katrina, you has more or less facing china is doing all the can to avoid a democratic crisis. it's increased the, the child policy to 3 children increase subsidies, increase parental leave, that none of this seems to be working not yet so far. and what we've seen announced to day on tuesday was the 1st population decline for china. since 1961, which is the, which was a year, great famine here in china. now, according to the official data, we have now $850000.00 few people living in china than before and delving further into the figures per $1000.00 people. we have 7.37 deaths that the highest of 19 seventies and the lowest birth rate ever, just 6.77 birds per 1000 people. now this decline in population does not come as

a big shock. we've seen a drop in the birth rate for several years now, and 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. now the access to good medical care was thrown completely into question and we had much

uncertainty in a much disruptions when it came to both income and just lifestyle. so many said that it would, it wasn't a time to have children to have a family or to expand their family. our recovery teams in the pool is searching for the 2 remaining passengers. still missing alta sundays, playing crash, that kills 70 people have expanded the search area and using drones in the mountainous terrain. authorities have begun. releasing the bodies of the victims, families, rescuers have found the cockpit voice recorder and 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 lie for us from the size of the crash in the camera from ya set. first the, let's start with these 2 missing passengers. have we got any updates on their whereabouts? the surgeon recovery fee must still looking for those passengers. they scarring the

bottom of the gorge where they think they may be. but the team has now moved from the crash site to the banks of the city river, where the funeral of one of the passengers, a young journalist, is taking place. ironically, the waters of the river run through the gorge where the pain crushed on sunday. friends, family, family members, colleagues of the journalists have gathered here to pay the last respects in hindu tradition. and as more bodies are released, identified and released, the number of funeral ties will probably increase in the coming days. ok, thank you for that update. ron miasca, limbo that for us near the fight if the crush in a car so hes on al jazeera, seeking justice,

families in indonesia go to court health to, to on to children, die from time to cough syrup and not backing down protest as inquiry. one president dina bloss 8 gone. ah hello, there will start in southeast asia from the satellite image. you can see the worst of the heavy rain has now pulled west of the philippines. it's sitting in the south china sea, but we still have some flood advisories out for more central areas here. it's much dryer. however, for northern areas, the cross parts of indo china, but the north east monsoon. so bring some strong winds and coastal showers to the likes of vietnam. we are set to see the heavy rain, however, pick up the pots of indonesia like sumatra, and java as well as borneo by thursday. as we had down under the tropical moisture

remains across northern areas of australia. but the good news for queensland is that the area of low pressure does pull out to see we could see some flooding. however, still in the north where that rain is set to fall heaviest, over the next few days, much dry in the west, the temperature in perth, continuing to shift its way up. we are going to be somewhat of a cool down in the southeast corner as that front pulls its way through 19 degrees in melbourne. ho bought at 18 sydney. we'll come down as well. but ahead of that, we are expecting it to touch 30 degrees. finally, with some sunshine on wednesday and as we hope across the tasman settled whether to come for wednesday, that's ahead of low pressure pulling its way down by thursday. ah, oh oh,

a movie. oh, you're watching out as a reminder, fall top stories this our rush, escalades, it's bombardment. the craning city of black news is forces are trying to secure rad military victory all to months of fighting us ukrainian forces. digging in recovery

teams in the pool is searching for 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. china's population as declined for the 1st time in more than 60 years. the best rates in 2022 was the lowest since reckless began us, despite efforts by the government encourage families to have more children staying in china, the economy has 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 unless predictions. the overall growth rate though for 2022 it was 3 percent which is far lower than the government's for 5.5 percent target. in 2021, sean is economy expanded 8 percent or basing abruptly lift and cave at 19 restrictions last month, which has led to a surgeon,

infections and deaths. thought there is hope that the opening up and hundreds of millions of people traveling for the new new year will base the economy in august on rising costs have led to a deepening food crisis. the price of wheat flour has skyrocketed since the ukraine was disrupt to supply chains. the government is being forced to distribute flower to store protests. come all hide has moved from islam about. many people have been queueing up to buy flaw wait for which are being offered at subsidized rate 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 print de kilo bag. now that 20 kilo bag in the open market is selling for about 2500 rupees. which means almost 5000 page a month for

a ball family of about typically 7 to 8 people show people have been queueing up to people have been killed in the stamping ridge. what caused at the distribution, barnes? the government of god is saying that they're just trying to import weed from russia order to do an agreement, but budget on strategic resolved on food are running law. and of course, the of the fact that budget on the rank 7 as far as the top 10 countries are there, dropped and we reduce our 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 course, 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 country. a preliminary hearing for 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 the tainted cough syrup . jessica washington has more from dakota. 25 families, a part of this class action. suing 11 parties, including the ministry of health in asia, 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 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 dies that can only be consumed safely. in very small doses. to day they are calling for accountability for 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, cognitively, hammond, often 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 have been going through. my child has been in 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 aid agencies of one that malnutrition among children in ecuador 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, i'm here to your pause video chamberlain 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 want to get 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 resident 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. sylvia stories are familiar, one among indigenous families, living high up in the andes region of june, but i, so most me less than half the national minimum wage of $480.00 a month. equity suffers from chronic levels of moment duration among children. indigenous communities in remote areas are especially vulnerable. charities, say the kobe 19 pandemic, and soaring inflation of worse in the situation. what brought the car that 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 last. so as 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 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 protests against perused president dina blu ontario, showing no sign of easing demonstrates is in the capital lima calling for her resignation and new elections. week savannah and protests broke out last month, off to former president, peddler castillo was impeached and arrested. his 40 t people have and killed the government. and booking a facet as gunman have abducted around 50 women in the northern province of sume, the women were kidnapped around 12 kilometers, se if are binda on thursday and in another district, north of town on friday. well, since 2015,

the landlocked west african country has been in the grips and arms rebellion which swept across the border from neighboring. molly, thousands of people have been killed while more than 2 point. 7000000 have been displaced and forced to live in make shift camps isis of all se blockaded parts of the countries north in recent months, causing food shortages. safe mate, ganga is the africa spokesman. the united nations human rights office, he explains what is happening in northern keno, but there is really kind of information about what us up into piece ladies. one thing we know for sure from is that they said our to go and find some food. it's to do because fish on the, in, at the moment the region is located by groups and they've been pretty much cut off from the rest of the country. this to tell us to go and find what is good for food and why wild foods,

because they can't get any really good food. only for them to be abducted and taken away. we did not know the stage flip being held and the un mission for human rights . he's very concerned about safety and well being there has been some civilians before. there's been lots of killing and a lot of damage to infrastructure displacement of civilians. but we haven't seen, at least since the situation has detergent, this level from in the last few months. this is the 1st time we are seeing remain deliberately targeted. and this is something that is totally 50. 1 must be condemned. people have launched in washington dc to commemorate the best say, if the american civil rights lead at martin luther king junior, demanding the president jo bought in the u. s. congress passed new legislation on facing rights. my can explain a celebration for martin luther king,

who would it be in 1904 years old. the 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 discriminatory voting practices. but a recent report found that more than 4000000 people were plucked from voting in last year's midterm elections. a 3rd of those effected were black and the words of martin luther king echoed to the is that as 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 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 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 of the florida. nearly half a 1000000 people. that's close to one in 8 voters. and we have to start looking at how do we expand the electorate. and by giving 470000 people, their voting rights back is how you explained that electorate 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 courts, 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 cana auto, sierra washington. ah, this is out as.