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hello, i'm all about this, and this is the news ally from doha coming over the next 60 minutes. the battle for bach mo, to russia intensifies, it's acts in the eastern ukrainian city as it tries to seize more territory. china's population declines for the 1st timely 60 years coupled with an economic slowdown. a 60 percent increase in the price of bread people queue for supplies as pakistan grapples with a shortage of wheat, flour and recovery teams. nepal continue the grin to us from searching for the last remaining bodies from sunday's plane crash. and on far as small, i have all the latest sports news, including a massive performance by andy marie at the australian open. the 3 time grand slam winter turns back the clock to stand 13 said mateo, they're a teeny and focus boston the 2nd round.

ah, we are going to begin in the front lines in eastern ukraine, where rushes intensifying, attacks on the city of back moot. moscow is trying to secure a rare victory in that region after months of fighting ukrainian troops, a digging in president vladimir zalinski says there is no place that is not covered with blood or going to speak to our correspondent charles stratford. he's just returned from back moat. and you trains don't boss region, he's joining us now live. so russia absolutely determined that it is going to get some sort of victory, but the ukrainians determined to stop them. charles that's right. yeah. we've been, it's about one of the last few days. it's fair to say there is an intensification of russian shelling of the center of the city and various areas of the outskirts as well around the knolls because of these gains we understand that were made by russia around the town. and in the town of solid hours,

similar scenario coming from the east and increasingly from the southeast as well. there is a town in that direction called calistoga, where we have heard a lot of shelling in recent days in the last couple of minutes so so we've seen no ukrainian soldiers be pulled to this point. they're being evacuated, our injured soldiers put into the ambulance, is here suffering. you can imagine some horrific injuries. meanwhile, the situation for the remaining civilians in buck moot is sir. is horrifying. i mean it's estimated is around about 2000 civilians still inside the city of a population that used to be pre war around 70000. they're living in horrific conditions. many of them go to a. ready a center, a volunteer center in the center of town to get hot food and hot drinks. there's no hot water or no water in the city. there's been no water there since october. no

electricity since august. so yeah, this the situation inside bomb mode is increasingly tenuous. we're also hearing reports all from increasing shelling around the towns of the iv co, which is south of here, opposite the russian occupied town of donetta guts. been off a hot spot full full months now. but again, russian forces are struggling to make gains there. the ukrainian army are saying we have no way of confirming this, they are saying that russian forces are trying to push reinforcements in towards bar, which is only a few kilometers behind me. you might be able to hear the dell sat there of artillery. there's a lot going on here. ukrainian, artillery positions spread, right. the way across these fields we understand using various weapon systems as well, whether it be rockets or tanks even. so we're yeah, it is an increasingly tense situation. bob. moot under more attacks than arguably

has been since this war started. and let's not forget that the battle for bar moot has been going on for months. now, it seems as if this prescription dr by the russians, is putting increasing pressure on the ukrainians, ukrainian military telling us that one of the reasons why they lost so much ground around solid all to the knowles of buffalo was because of the shape pressure of numbers they describe the wave of the wave of a russian infantry. it's acts as a say we were inside bar moot yesterday is have a look at our report. help people enjoy the shilling and destruction defies. belief. russian artillery has almost completely destroyed the town of bottled. 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 provoked munchkin, up and looked up to say 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 of them, from the north, from the east and the south. ha. 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 of made such great gains around solid are in the north. the 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. at 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, the blast broke the windscreen. which a similar story on the other side of rain, an army of moving to push back a russian revolt. se, another of colon of the situation is quite intense. all robert, we have information that the russians have central enforcements toward the city on the bottle. tow missouri was customers

ukrainian artillery funds from nearby feels the bottles, the basement is intensifying by the day. chaw stuff it onto 0. but most people in the center ukrainian city of near bro have paid tribute to the victims killed and saturdays russian missile strike. they laid reefs and played candles. i'm the destroy the apartment building. at least 40 people were killed. the mayor says there's little chance any more. survivors will be found. it. i did, nations human rights commission says 7000 civilians have been killed in ukraine since the start of the war. natasha bottler is joining me alive now. fung chief natasha. this is a bleak reminder estimate of the impact of this war. a real reminder of the impact of this war on ordinary people and the suffering that they are experiencing this un report saying the more than 7000 civilians and

ukraine have been killed since the beginning of the war. many of them children and teenagers also more than 11000 people have been injured and some of those people of a life changing injuries. now what the un report says that these injuries and these deaths have been caused mainly by a weapons by artillery, by shelling by air strikes. it doesn't attribute any blame or responsibility bought . there is no to house in the minds of ukrainians that this is the work of a russian forces war to moscow. his said though, since the beginning of this war is that it's not targeting civilian infrastructure, it is not targeting a civilian population, but you know, the reality on the ground really does paint a very different picture indeed. and it was just on saturday that an apartment block in the central ukrainian city of denise bro, was absolutely destroyed after a ballistic missile fight by russian forces slammed into it. so emergency workers

have been looking under the rubble ever since to try and find some i this the mares denito says look and say unlikely. now that any more survivors will be found, but again, dozens of ordinary people killed. dozens of people injured and more and more people in ukraine and some western powers starting to say, what's happened to denise pro was a war crime that i should thank you very much indeed. as natasha barbara talking to us from keith or ross's defense ministers visited troops involved in the ukraine war saga. chicago thanked the service men and presented them with awards at the headquarters in voss, stock and east in russia is announced. major changes to the armed forces last month, the master said the war plans to increase the russian military to $1500000.00 soldiers and create multiple new units. we're going to head to ali hash m life for us now on moscow in moscow. for more on this m ali we're hearing from a correspondent char stratford. earlier that ukrainian forces had told him that

their job had been more difficult because of the increase in russian numbers on the front that they were fighting. now we're hearing that russia still planning significant changes to its armed forces of facts from the beginning of this year. 2023, there are big changes and it started with the changes in the command appointing, the chief of staff as the commander of the operation, as it's called here in russia. the operation in special explanation and, and ukraine. and then the gradual offensive is that all that already started at the bottom for fully daughter. that's according to the russian has been under control now and continuing the, the route to, to be moved to our. ready our colleague charles was having was, was doing the slide before. now with respect to showing goods statements showing go

was speaking while visiting the was talk a group to the east of the country on the borders with, with ukraine. we don't know whether show you go was in the don't boss area or was inside the russian borders. this is not not known yet. however, what he said is that there are going to increase the army to 1500000, and this is going to be over 3 years from 2 to 2023 to 2026. also there's going to be 2 military districts, the most school district and the learning broad district i'm trying to read. so are the specific also there are going to expand the investments in the navy eurostar aerospace forces and the strategic mis 5 forces. so the minute 3 in russia, according to the defense minister, is going to undergo a drastic change,

drastic expansion. and that gives an indication that the russian leadership sees a very long war. in this, we got all these investments and means that the army is going to be very essential in the future and from now to the future. and this gives clear indication that this war, after the russian leadership is going to be a long war. thank you very much. indeed. that's holly ash and bringing some 2 dates from moscow. they more had on the news r, including a dire situation unfolding in ecuador, as agencies said, children of facing chronic malnutrition, seeking justice, families in indonesia, go to court. after $200.00 children die from tainted cough syrup in sport, jose rock have beat and cut out to claim a place in the arabian gulf cup. final action from that game on the way. ah!

china's populations shrunk for the 1st time in more than 60 years. the national statistics bureau says the birth rate in 2022 was the lowest since records began in the 1980s, china imposed a one child policy to control its rapidly growing population. it 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 workforce will have to support a growing number of retirees and a smaller workforce and fewer people paying taxes could have a big impact on the economies of china and the world. could any you has more of beijing. china is doing all the can to avoid a demographic crisis. it's increase 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 biggest co, 1000 people, we have 7.37 deaths that the highest 1970 s, and the lowest birth rate of 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 to be used to having one child used to thinking that one child is enough and that through the hard to change and other reasons, 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 at all. 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 would, wasn't a time to have children to have the old to extend the family. ok, let's bring in david money's a political economist on find of mon china. he's joining us. you know, i'm province in china. thanks very much indeed for being with us. give us some context here. how does this compare in china compared to the rest of asia? i'm in deep perhaps the rest of the world. think one of the main factors is that china to have a state funded pension plan. and so the idea that there will be

a mess of economic burden as the population ages and retires is not the same as it would be in the waste. so i think that's something which has a bit of a misnomer. i companies extend pension plans to amend to the jal workers. and families also carry the burden of their retirees. nonetheless, the full in the population and particularly of particular cohorts of working age is potentially an issue. and it's always been a challenge to the chinese government. i don't think it is the economy barrier though that people are casting it as being one of the things that appears to be regularly coming up on, on way by the chat platform in china is the comment that the government is focusing on fertility rates, but actually it should be focusing on improving se, job security and supporting parents and, and health care and the structure surrounding having a family. is that a sense that the chinese government is essentially focusing on the wrong thing?

i think that is correct. so the idea that you incentivize people to have more children were the sum of money which is been experimented with in some areas. it's not really the answer. the answer is to make education more affordable and less stressful. the answer also is to look at the cost of living for young families. and those things are a critical in terms of bringing an incentive to families to actually have more children. but on the bigger picture, we don't want china to have a whole lot more people, if anything, the population of china and for that matter india, it is better that they reduce in the right of their growth. and it's, it's very helpful for actually plato. i also think the other challenges that people talk about, which is there was a diminishing workforce. that's actually not the case. i'm at the moment. there are plenty of people seeking work and of anything for young graduates and younger fam

people that are starting families. there was a struggle in some places to find jobs. so i think china with its way through this, it's an intervention into interventionist government in some, some things. so they more likely to, to bring in policies. that's more radically than a wisdom. more shy culture is one that is shy of allowing government intervention. oh said the source to think of immigration, china borders in where i am and noon on province, which is on the border of laos, of it's accessible to cambodia, which was shit with china and of course, oh, so vietnam and burma, my and my so these are great sources of labor in the future, all china has to do is to begin to look as they do find fewer workers, pertain their cultural and service sickness. they can begin to bring them in from other countries. and there's really no major barrier for that. south korea is

facing a similar problem and it has been suggested in south korea, but a and or imbalance within the workforce is actually part of the problem that the in there at least that the workforce is geared so much towards men and less so towards woman that does not encourage women to have children because they fear that if they were released from the workforce, they might not get back into it. is there a parallel to some extent with china that again the chinese government has to overcome in order to be able to encourage people to have confidence to have children? i think that's a good point. i don't think it's the same as south korea because one thing that the communist era did was create a great deal of equality in the workforce. and china was a lot better off socially in terms of the way people make assumptions about gender and employment. so then since i think women in many ways a better off, none of them, none the less, in many companies, certainly, and private companies,

the big private companies. there was a nervousness amongst women who know that they're going to get their maternity leave. but perhaps in the mandatory year been kept on afterwards. they might lose their job. so you're right, i think the government needs to do a much better job in alleviating that insecurity. really interesting to get your thoughts on this david mark, we appreciate your time. so thank you very much indeed. thank you. in pakistan, rising costs of lead to a deepening food crisis. price a wheat flour has skyrocketed because a poor hob is due to climate change and last year's devastating floods. the government's being forced to distribute flower to stop protests while hydras in islamabad with more just a few years ago, pakistan was surplus and we android. busy exporting the commodity, this country ranks at the 7 highest read producer and award,

followed by ukraine. but if you look at the situation on the ground that are long queued because the country is facing severe shortage of wheat. this of course, constitute for 70 percent of the caloric rattle you intake and a poor capita consumption and bugger st on is a $124.00 kilo spoke person per year. which means that the countries barely capable of meeting its own requirements. add to that climate change and the effects of the devastating floods budget on now has to import wheat and because of the ball performance of successive regimes, there are hardly any storage capacity gauge or proper facilities. we've been able to see was warranties of weight rocking out in the open. i know k been taken to preserve what is now considered to be a lot strategic result. the people of august on have already been suffering from

the effects of hyper inflation. since the new government go forward and there's some abad told by total your time is that will buy sort of 15 kids you bag of float cost us about $2200.00 to piece and hit it. spice is 1300 a piece. but here we have to stem in long q from morning till evening. we missed whole day and sometimes miss of an office. we can't afford to weigh expensive floor at the current market price of goodman cities. and right now you can see q waiting outside to get some cheap weight so that they can support their livelihoods and their families. it is putting a big strain on the ball and the government and power much pay heed in order to alleviate their suffering spring. and unpack horses, director of prime policy research in macro economics is joining us now from london . thanks very much indeed for being with us as come all was describing there. this is essentially just an example of

a much wider economic problem that pakistan is facing. isn't it is indeed, and it's not just a problem for pakistan. we have this is a world wide problem in it. it has to a 2 main course as festival climate change climate breakdown, rather, as the speakers just said, pakistan used to be self sufficient in weed production and the floods that made it very difficult to continue that. but there's also a problem in the global market in wheat. and that's because we moved from a situation back in the 19 fifties and sixties, where countries managed their weeked, their commodity production, it production of commodities provided storage facilities. and made sure that there was provision for the people to a system which is now global. we're actually we, we just, you know, expect to be able to buy it. we turn the global market without storage, just as we in britain expect to be able to buy gas without gas storage. and,

and that, that, that movement towards globalization of prices as lead to speculation in week prices in up my part of the problem is there isn't actually a shortage of wheat worldwide. we know that everyone blames the warring ukraine, but in fact ukraine and russia between pneumonia of produce about 14 percent of the world wheat. and we also know that when, when one source of wheat declines and other countries produce more and had the capacity to produce more and i'm thinking of the united states in china. so, you know, there isn't a shortage. what there is, is speculation on global capital markets in the price of wheat, which is pushing up that, that price right now beyond the control of the pakistani government. but there is also hearing by agri business. and i think the, the, the combination of profiteering by big business providers of wheat, big agricultural global agricultural companies. and this global market in wheat is

at the heart of this problem. and also of course, the 3rd element, of course, is pakistan's debt. and the fact that it's going to be harder and harder for her to raise the hard currency needed here. i want to ask you about that because that it's not just a question of being able to get access to, to the wheat supplies. and indeed supplies of many other am um, essential food items of all materials of medical equipment. and so much of which of i understand it is actually sitting at ports in a, in pakistan. the problem is that pakistan doesn't have the foreign exchange to be able to pay for it. and that's where the international community should step in, and that's where the i m f and the world bank should be playing a role in actually obliging international creditors to take a hit in order to ensure that people don't starve of hunger. and because we prioritize in our economics, the interests of creditors of the interest of the population,

we find ourselves in this predicament. now that you know, the, the build up of pakistan's debt is been or so as a result of irresponsible policy by government. but in particular, the policy of, if you like free wheeling money or of, of the free of mobility of, of capital and allowing people to gamble and speculate elsewhere and, and create shortages in a currency. but also in the way in which the government is not managed, its finances in a responsible way. but having said that, now that we're at this point of crisis, if this is a private company and say the warehouse had burned down in a private company through no fault of the company's own, then there is a process of resolving that crisis or within corporate law and we call it in our insolvency, or there is a process whereby the creditors meet the debtor and understand that the events such as the floods in pakistan were unavoidable and not do in any way to the

actions of the local people themselves, but largely due to the activities of rich northern countries emitting emissions, and in those circumstances there would be an action to resolve the debt crisis and ensure that pakistan has access to hard currency to pay for essential food. that would be the ideal solution. but unfortunately, our policy makers don't have that kind of vision and, and if you like, intellectual courage to create a framework which would enable a oh pakistan to resolve this crisis on. but if we appreciate you giving us the benefit of your expertise in this, thank you very much indeed for your time and q recovery teams in the paul are searching for 2 remaining passengers. still missing after sundays, plane crash, that killed 70 people that expanded the search area. they're using drones and the mountainous terrain. authorities have begun,

releasing the bodies of the victims to their families. rescuers have found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which could help determine the cause of the accident. maryland was joining us now. life on the site of the crashing pl kara. do we have any further update on the 2 missing passengers and any more about what may have caused the crash? not really not really. the recovery team continues to look for the 2 last passengers of the plane. they've been scouring the. busy ghoulish, where the plane crashed on sunday. the civil aviation authority of nepal received the black off or the data recorder from the army yesterday, and had only a set of an investigation committee, which is looking into the court. all the team actually is on the premises at the

moment of the hospital, more with a 70 bodies of passengers were 1st the 1st brought to after the crash in the d. 40 age bodies listed to got my new where there are more facilities and human resources. the bodies of 22 passengers. the post mortem will be, is taking place. he'll be up passengers from in and around the area. so far, 6 bodies have been released to. busy families and. busy more, the more bodies that are released, it will provide some relief to the families of the believe from yes, so thank you very much. indeed, we're going to be checking in with you as this investigation goes on, but run the limbo for now. we'll call it a thank you very much indeed. let's bring you to some of the pictures. it found

that the world economic forum, which is taking place in a doubles in switzerland at the moment. this is of course, an annual occurrence when people are and meeting together like this decision makers and business people and, and so, and politicians are meeting together who can decide that than state of the world and where, what actually should be taken in future. ukraine's 1st lady lensky elena lame. zalinski has been addressing this years. world economic forum a diverse, she's one of the many dignitaries meeting is worthless for excellent, for the ongoing war in ukraine, as well as the state of the worlds. it cannot economy our topic. so up for discussion and let me listen and briefly unprecedented and imaginable challenges demand. exceptional leaders, it is said the panel to have few was us to present you vision for the future. a few up and you up. so is the world i'm

convinced said your commitment and your wish and re leadership to a strong goal and closer union. but typically doing so as times where europe is to really test it. have been so essentially your leadership and will continue to be. so. madam president v. i excited to help us route you today. so stage is ceos jerrell heinous is excellencies. ladies and gentlemen who that laos, my dearest adena for almost one year now ukraine has

stunned the world on that fateful february morning. many predicted that chief would fall in a match of days. but this did not account for the moran and the physical courage of ukrainian people. dearest helena, you and your people. you have resisted the russian invasion and pushed back against the aggressor against all odds. not even russia's relentless attacks on civilians and you have described then are the spectre of a brutal winter have shaken your resolve. in this last year, your country has moved to a world and has inspired to europe. and i can assure you that europe will always

stand with you. many doubted whether that european support would be so unwavering. but to day ukraine is a cat in that country to excess the european union. european can you have been countries that providing more and more critical weapons to ukraine. we're hosting around 4000000 ukrainians in our cities, our homes and our schools. and we have put in place the strongest sanctions ever which leave the russian economy facing a decade of regression and its industry starve of any modern and critical technologies. there will be no impunity for these russian crimes. that's ursula vonda lane, president of the european commission talking at the world economic forum in davos,

switzerland. she was talking primarily initially about ukraine. ukraine had started the world, she said morale and she praised the moral and physical courage of ukrainian people . our diplomatic editor james lays, joining us now from the devils coming on the bank of ukraine's 1st lady arlena zalinski. speaking to the meeting. there it is quite clear that the focus is very much on what's happening in ukraine. yes, absolutely. that, that i think is the thing that dominates the international political agenda. and as result, the world economic forum which deals with, with economy and with political aspects. ukraine is, i think, the central subject because of course it has economic ramifications around the world, the global food crisis in the global fuel crisis as well. in fact, the theme of this year's event is cooperation in a fragmented world. let me tell you

a little bit about what the 1st lady of ukraine said, who spoke before the president of the european commission. she addressed everyone in the room and clearly there are political leaders. there are business leaders. there are millionaires and billionaires in this audience. and dabble who are listening to her, she said you are very influential, all of you, but not all of you are using this influence and some of you are using it in a way that divides. she then try to rally the crowd. she said, the war could go beyond extend beyond ukraine's borders. if the aggressor does not lose, think pretty similar message is coming from the president of the european commission and the 1st lady of ukraine getting. i think everyone who's here to further back ukraine, of course there are some question marks about that in terms of military support the ukrainians would like to see much more the the issue on the table i think at the moment mainly is the issue of tanks. some countries like france with like tanks and

the u. k with heavier tanks have come forward. but a lot of focus, i think, on germany because it's the manufacturer of the leper to tank, which is not just one that germany has stocks of many other europeans do. and under export controls, germany sold this to many european countries, but they're not allowed to give those tanks to ukraine without german permission. so i think a lot of the focus on germany and that focus will continue this week, rob, because at the end of the week, an important meeting taking place around in air base in germany. and that's a meeting of all of ukraine's allies looking at military aid. i think the germans and the new german defense minister. we're going to come under quite a quite a bit of pressure that meeting to do a little bit more particularly on the issue of tanks. that's our diplomatic editor, james base talking to us from dallas. james, thank you. german chancellor. all of shots has named ballast historian, as the country is new defense minister. he served as an interior this and the

hanover region since 2013 christian landmarks did resign as the country faces pressure to increase its military support to ukraine. lambert has been blamed for failing to modernize the army vietnamese president went on for has resigned state medias, reporting he was responsible for the wrong doing of numerous officials. let's get the letters from florence louis and cologne poor. why is this happening? thorns? that's right. well, now new incident folk. now people analyst had been speculating that his position as president was not secure, especially after 2 deputy prime ministers was to leave earlier this month. and these 3 men officially are being held responsible for pandemic related corruption by officials under them. they've not been personally implicated. now this, they're being caught up in an anti corruption drive in vietnam. but some analysts are also saying that this is an unprecedented re shuffle within the communist party

. and vietnam is a part, is a country with single policy rule, and any political changes are very carefully managed to give the impression of political stability and continuity. so analysts is saying that this is highly unusual and some say that this is a power play by the communist parties. general secretary, you're in full chung, now his term is set to expire to end in 2026. and the president who's just resigned is a leading candidate to replace him. now is not yet clear who the new president will be, but there is speculation that the minister of public security to alarm could be the new leader. now if that turns out to be correct, then it means that the top 2 positions among the fort main positions in vietnam, the prime minister and the president, our former officials from the public security ministry. and it could indicate a more hotline stones going forward by going forward in vietnam, it could mean

a greater crackdown on dissenting voices. now, the other thing we have to watch for is whether or not this will have an impact on foreign investment. the 3 men who've just been removed or resigned, the 2 debt, the prime ministers and the president are seen as lee, as seen as competent administrators. and you have to remember that vietnam in the last 10 years has been recording impressive economic growth. it was also a, it's also a country that handled the pandemic very successfully. so i think investors will want to know whether this internal re shuffle with a change, whether the change in leadership is also going to mean that there will be a competent leadership taking place, taking over in vietnam long story in canada and for florence. thank you. a preliminary hearing for the class action against indonesia, drug regulator, health ministry, and several pharmaceutical companies is underway in indonesia. nearly $200.00 children died from acute kidney injury last year after taking tainted cough. serves

. jessica washington has morphin to carter $25.00 families, a part of this class action, a 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, cognitive hammond, officer, 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 agencies are warned, but malnutrition, among children in ecuador, is spiraling out of control, almost half of all told was younger than to don't get enough to eat among indigenous communities. the issues even more prevalent as alessandra were amputee

reports. she via chamberlain as entire life, has been one of subsistence, one of 12 children she remembers going to bed with an empty stomach like and so my family struggled often. we didn't have enough food. sometimes we ate once a day, sometimes nothing at all. it was shameful. at times i went to bed hungry, so my younger siblings could eat. not much has changed cbs 8 months pregnant and unemployed or husband is employed as a bus assistant, but she says she struggles to feed 2 year old gayle allan wrestling with both of her salary isn't enough for even one person. we spend the $200.00. he makes on food and necessities for my son, no clothes or anything else. sylvia stories are familiar, one among indigenous families living high up in the andes region of chim bourassa place. 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 cobra 19 pandemic, and soaring inflation of worse in the situation. what brought the bad 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. it's back on for a while since then president ski, yet molasses 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 that i'm

getting. i'll just either protests against peruse, president dinner bullet walked in, showing no sign of easing demonstrators in the capital, lima, a calling for her resignation and new elections. weeks of violent protests broke out last month. after form a president pedal kasteel was impeached and arrested. at least 42 people have been killed. teachers in venezuela, mccartney when the government to increase their salaries oh, demonstrations were held in 6 cities, including the capitol crackers. the minimum salary for a public school teacher is about $10.00 a month, with inflation at more than 300 per cent. teachers say they're struggling to cover basic expenses. brazil's former president charitable sonata says he regrets the recent attacks by his supporters to the capital brasilia speaking publicly for the 1st time since the riots in january. the 8th is also admitted that his administration had made, with some mistakes,

were still flooded. i 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, the death toll from 3 weeks of severe. busy the systems in california has risen to at least 20 you as president joe biden is going to visit the state on thursday to survey the damage. widespread flooding has affected around 25000000 people. president biden's also approved disaster declarations for georgia and alabama. after a powerful tornado killed 9 people, the move freeze up federal funds for the affected areas. people marched in washington dc to commemorate the birthday of american civil rights liter. martin luther king junior, demanding president joe biden. and the u. s. congress passed new legislation on voting rights. my kind of reports a celebration for martin luther king who would have been 1904 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 plucked from voting in last year's midterm elections. a 3rd of those effected were black, and the words of mountain luther king still echoed through the is not marked on the ballot. i will he to, james was one of those who look right to boats 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 parole without being a menace to society. i feel like at that point, it automatically be given back to me just as quickly if they were taken away, it should automatically 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 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 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. hundreds of people have gathered in a village in central spain for the traditional fire festival known as a lust lu manadis. when riding horses, leap over huge bonfires in the street. according to tradition,

the flames purify and protect the animals event takes place annually on the eve of st. anthony's date. still head on al jazeera sports. lebron james lifts, some of the gloom that's been hanging over the alley, lakers basketball action coming up as well. ah, ah

with me. oh, you generation of young people in making demands to be balanced? society welcome to generate contains a global series attempt to understand and challenge the idea that mobilize youth around the world in london to activate tackling the root causes of youth violence. many young people perpetuated violence against other young people themselves have also been victim multiple times. my generation can, i mean design and we shape this generation change on al jazeera, the world economic forum returns to dabble in january to assess the global economy,

reshaped by the pandemic. and the war and new crime can lead us from government and business. prevent a promised decade of action becoming a decade of uncertainty. extensive coverage on al jazeera lou. ah, so i for the sport here is for rob. thank you so much free time. grand slam champion, andy murray, is into the australian open 2nd round after a thrilling wind over 13th a seed. mateo bare a teeny murray who is currently ranked outside the top 50. looked to be cruising to victory after taking a to set lead. he then however dropped the next to with the match. going to a dramatic 5th, a sat all in the and no man murray babbled through. even same to match point with

the last set. going to 8 high break. it's the scotsman, $11062.00 effects. and i'll be feeling this evening and tomorrow. but right now i'm just still unbelievably happy, very proud of myself. i work in the la last, the mountains with my team her here yet to get me the opportunity to perform on stadiums like this and matches like this, against players like mateo on that paid off to night world members 6. andre group love has reached the 2nd round in melbourne. a russian player rushed through to a straight satin when against austria's dominic team for extreme heat brought much of the tournament to a standstill. temperatures rising upwards of $36.00 degrees celsius is

more what it is. it's a tougher to think to take a writes decisions and tougher to move because you feel as you start to feel exhausted faster. and but when you start the thing about a guy, he feel the same, it would be easier. so in then we're in the, in the same conditions if i feel tough for sort of, he also feel the same. so that's helps a lot women's world number 2, ons de burs currently in the 1st round action on the rod laver arena. the tennessee and is facing tomorrow is the downside of lavinia. and the match is gone to a deciding sites, no earlier former world number one carolina please about cruise into the 2nd round with a straight fence defeat of china's wing shoe jack player needed just 64 minutes to seal the 6163. when the former australian open finalist garbage, michael ruetta has crashed out in the 1st round in melbourne, the spaniard was beaten in 3 sets by 26 seed elise,

martin belgium. the 2 time grand slam champion has now lost her 5th consecutive match, the star thier liverpool. stops 3rd season faces at the latest test against wolves on tuesday. when the teams meet and f, a cap, replace liverpool manager, your clocks and finding new players won't necessarily salt fides problems. so if the solutions for us would be out there available and doable and stuff like this, of course we would be would bring in players to help. but we have an existing squad as well on beyond the performing. definitely, i know that house iraq are through to the final, the arabian gulf cut their home team beat katara to one. all the goals came into this in the 1st half in front of a capacity crowd. a more than $60000.00 fans at the bus or an international stadium . or i haven't won this title since 1988. i man who things for the winter for his

country are rapidly taking on oman in that huddled decider. they b, bahrain. one know, thanks to a late call from jimmy o l. d. o fan's are enjoying their team's success with iraq hosting and international tournaments for the 1st time. in more than 40 years, rock has are rarely been allowed, are able to stage competitive matches during the last 2 decades due to security concerns. home world cup qualifier against hong kong. back in 2019 was one rare example. the gulf cup finals had placed in basra on thursday. the dallas cowboys thrash tom brady and the tampa bay buccaneers to dance to the next round of the nfl playoff. dallas' star quarterback deck press car start on the night. the cowboys leading them was 3114 trouncing and back in years. if it's

seated cowboys who are in their 1st playoff wrote victory in 30 years, will face a san francisco 49 years next. for tampa bay. their season ends with 45 year old brady refusing to reveal his teacher cross guy. this has been a lot of focus on this game. so just wanted time truly. not the way we wanted to end. a lot of credit. they play the game. made a lot more plays and we did. and so tough night. le bron james has posted his best points total of what's been a disappointing season for the lakers for time and be a champion bagged 48 points to help us change the houston rockets, 840132 victory and the 3 game losing streak with the laker is floundering down in 13th place in the western conference and jason tatum has passed larry bird for the

most regular season. 50 point gains in boston, celtics history. it's 51 points against the charlotte, warn it with bits such effort and help decide to 13218 when it was boston 7th street victory and the top of the eastern conference. okay, and that is all your support for now. back to you rob bar, thank you very much. indeed. a modeling saying it's going to be here in a couple of minutes with more a these stores staples account. i'm rolled bothersome to buy. ah ah. and

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