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as it tries to seize more, tara trick. ah, i'm robot this, and this is all 0 life. and doha also coming up for almost one year. now. ukraine has stunned the world to the war in ukraine, dominates the world. economic forum in dallas as leaders, vas support for key fears of a demographic crisis. china's population declines for the 1st time in 60 years coupled with an economic slumber. and a dire situation unfolding in ecuador as agency say, children are facing chronic malnutrition. we're going to begin on the front lines in eastern ukraine where it rushes, intensifying attacks on the city of bach, moved moscow's trying to secure

a ray of victorian don bos region after months of fighting ukrainian troops are digging in. president vladimir zalinski says there is no place that is not covered with blood. charles stratford is just outside dock boot. we hearing a lot of heavy shelling as you can imagine shelling that is increased in recent days. interestingly, to put a timeline on it, or you can say that a lot of this fighting has actually increased since we saw rosen forces make gains in and around the town of solid are, which is north of back, moot in that direction. we understand now according to ukrainian, the ukrainian military that russian forces are trying to win circle that city of buffalo. and interestingly, since we've been here this morning, the town of cut a shift co which is to the southeast of it is also getting heavily shell. does a lot of heavy, heavy fighting being heard there. we've seen smoke rising. some of the blasts we speculate could well, have been asked strikes interestingly in the last 10 minutes or so. we've seen

certainly what the ukranian military tell us will ukrainian jets in this area. they were still throwing out those flags that chaff. time to try and deter any kind of heat seeking weapon that went after it. that was aimed at it. we understand that that is just a precautionary measure that the ukrainians take. i'm of course, trying to avoid friendly fibers the 1st time that we've seen jets in this area. we were in bar moot yesterday, the scenes of also destruction. they're a terrible situation for the estimated 2000 or so civilians still. they're refusing to leave. mostly the elderly in the firm saying that they've got no where to go, that the town has had no running water since october, no electricity since august. so you can imagine in these kind of conditions, these winter temperatures, how difficult that is. there was a lot of heavy shelling of the center of the city as well as on the outskirts we've seen caught a lot of injured bread brought in to this point over the last few hours. this is

injured. ukrainian soldiers, they basically made a vax out of back moot, and some of the surrounding towns brought to ambulances here and console hospitals back from the front line. like i said, we were in buffalo yesterday, and this is our report. how people enjoy the shelling and destruction defies. belief russian artillery has almost completely destroyed the town of but not 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. oh, oh cousin pro bach munchkin, up and looked up the door sir, when we talk about the direction of battle mountain. so selling your frontal, we're talking about the whole front line where they're trying to get in to 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 was and 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 to more come in around a 100 yards away. we run for cover skidding here.

our camera on the col dashboard captured the moment 2 of what's believed 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 brain, an army of moving to push back a rush of involved. se another and of colon of the situation is quite intense, all aerobic moot. we have information that the russians have sent reinforcements to war. the city of the bottle to missouri was possible ukrainian artillery science from nearby feels the battles for basement is intensifying by a day chance profit al jazeera boss mote was as president vladimir putin says,

the country's economy performed better than expected last year. speaking to top finance officials, he said rushes gross domestic product foul by 2.5 percent and 2022. that's better than the 4 percent predicted by some experts. sanctions in response to the warning ukraine have curbs rushes fuel exports and cut it off from global financial markets . losses defense ministers visited troops involved in the ukraine war saga. shaw, who thanked the servicemen and presented them with awards at the headquarters in voss stock. in december, he announced plans to increase the armed forces to 1500000 soldiers and create multiple new units. the master plates to ensure supplies were delivered to frontline soldiers and improved medical and logistics units. ok, let's head to ali hash in his life. it is now on my in moscow for more on this alley. and much of the urban delegates of the world economic forum would have been hoping that ad, that was going to be a significant impact on russia's economy,

russian president vladimir putin seeing it's actually not that bad. while president suitably rotated today in front of his visits as that the economy is doing better than predicted. and this is not the 1st time that he tackles the economy question, because as we all know, economy is about people's life and. and when people are kind of concerned about their daily life, then things are going to be difficult for the government on several locations. the president has repeated that the economy is doing well, at least it's not doing that bad. that the numbers with respect to jobs with respect to recessions are better than predicted. this is what he said to day. also, it's the same thing that he said. also few days ago, however, i also stated that the military complex's, outer wall king at on the hour and that this is going to continue because that it

was a very strong momentum. of course, this is this momentum is because of the war. now the water is kind of controlling everything or the all aspects of life in, in russia. and that's why the president is stressing on this for him to because at the end this is the length and related to that policy, the new policy that's being adopted by the russian government. it's kind of minutes arising everything in the, in the country for the sake of this war. and they did the development of the defense complex, as you say, is absolutely key to what vladimir putin and moscow is planning. we're, we're talking just a moment ago about what the defense minister has been saying with a plan also to increase the forces at the number of forces. all part of significant changes to the ration on forces. well, this is, this is a big change. changing the army, a kind of boosting the, the numbers from

a 2 to 1500000 between 20232026. this is a very big number of course mobilization as a matter of concern for many options over here. and this is an issue that led several than can see hundreds of thousands of a professionals to leave the company because they are kind of afraid of mobilization. however, this is going to be the, the, the strategy for the coming 3. yes, i adding more numbers to the army, all says the defense minister showing go sat, they are going to create to new districts, the more school district, the lending rods district also boosting the at different structured off of components of the army, the navy, the aerospace and the ground forces. so it's, it's going to be a very big project on this project already started this year with the changes in the mimic military ranks in the, in the army, assigning the command of the ukraine operation as it's cold here in bratia to the

chief of staff. putting him in front of, of diet, its responsibilities in the field, and that makes it the main priority for him or of all for the whole government ali, thank you very much. indeed. it's holly cham talking to us from moscow. your friends, 1st lady, all in, as dylan's goes, been addressing this year's world economic forum endeavors. she's one of many dignity who's meeting in switzerland for the ongoing war as well as the state of the world's economy. now, topics up for discussion, sis unlikely. what will happen to inflation when the state board is, is dot to collapse, and the integrity of countries is trampled on by those who want it. how can the world combat climate change if it hasn't even stopped the burning of entire cities and ukraine? this is what russia is doing with its artillery, with its missiles, with its iranian drones. it is, and you know, the russian aggression was never intended to restrict itself to the ukrainian borders. this war could go further if it does come to promote to get it. james base

is joining us now from davis ukraine. quite clearly. one of the main topics being discussed at davos, but by no means the only one being disgust. no. in the corridors here, there's a wide range of subjects being discussed, underlying global issues involving the economy and the political situation. let's discuss this further with arkham steiner. from the u. n. d p. my job is to decipher you and acronyms that's you and develop a program. he's the administrator. that means he's the boss. can i start by asking you about ukraine? because in some ways it is sucking the oxygen out of the suddenly the media environment and perhaps overshadowing really big issues like climate climate. we had an underwhelming cop in egypt that didn't achieve what many of the campaigners wanted. and the war and ukraine has created a global energy crisis and perhaps

a resurgence of fossil fuels while a lot of questions in their one particular conflict. but i think it is no question that what is happening in ukraine and what the implications of. busy that conflict is in terms of everything else that's happening in the world very quickly, brings us back also to other settings. so let's recognize and the warren ukraine, the suffering, the destruction are a catastrophe and has taken the united nations has taken many different parts of the world into a different focus, but right here and ours. and we may not see that necessarily evening news, but the discussions here are still focused on some of the underlying challenges. the ukraine is an immediate crisis. the implications and energy security. the implications are our global economy, the food prices, cost of living crisis. now the debt crisis is, are all unfolding in a sense, being amplified, also by what's happening to ukraine. so i think as the united nations, but also business leaders here, we are in fact discussing many of the concurrent and simultaneous downfall in

crisis in the world. in terms of globalization that used to be, i think, the big theme of divorce and what we used to see here for years and years and years with all the talk of the you a small the world and very much with us leadership. if you look at divorce this year, globalization is become a bit of a dirty word and there's no u. s. president here, there's no vice president, there's no secretary of state, pretty low key u. s. delegation is world as well. is the world changing? i think it is changing, certainly because of cries is also sometimes leaders within their own countries may not feel they're traveling to dollars. right now is their top priority. but let's be clear. the world economic forum this year, after the pandemic current and after the meeting and may, the corridors are full of people are here. i think it's a time of great insecurity uncertainty and globalization that has not only in the last year or so, become more contested. it's been an underlying debate about whether the kind of singular economic and globalization liberalization is really the best way in which

a population of 8000000000 people can really exist together an operator get on this planet. so i think they're seeing a re calibration of what it means to bring development, sustainable development, energy security, poverty reduction into this reality of globalization. let's be clear. they're not all going to retreat back behind our national borders. but i think there is a reset underway that is going to be very interesting to observe and hopefully not one that ends up being simply right nationalism, whether economic nationalism or political nationalism that though is the big danger, isn't it? with regard to protectionism with god, particularly to the 2 main powers in the world, the u. s. and china, your big boss, and 2nd general of the united nations, antonio terrace has talked about the great uncut playing. so a separation between china and the u. s. different economic spheres. we're already seeing it in the technology sector. to some extent. yes. and i think it is one of the contradictions of our time we've just lived through

a major pandemic. we are living in the midst of a unprecedented challenged, namely climate change and almost synchronized response that takes us down the d, colonization path, cybersecurity, international, migration, political radicalization. all these are phenomena that no country can address on its own. so while the sea, under these conditions of uncertainty and, and disruption a reflex to perhaps retreat is actually the opposite that we need. and i think this is not the 1st time in history. so let's also keep perspective out of this crisis. we will, for example, see a much more rapid transition to clean energy. i think you will see a different way of looking at energy secure in the years to come. and we will also realize that a world in which a 1000000000 people fall back into poverty is simply not tenable. christina, the administrator of u. n. development program. thank you very much for joining us today on al jazeera, some of those issues we'll be discussing later in the day among those we'll be talking to the foreign minister of pakistan. james, thank you very much and that's a diplomatic get as a james base and diverse stella had on al jazeera,

not backing down protesters and peru, one president, dina bought a warranty to go and we look at the reasons behind the resignation of vietnam's president. ah hi there. it's been intensely cold across parts of south asia recently in particular, northern areas of india not been coupled with a fog issue. now the fog does remain, but we are going to see things start to warm up and temperatures pick up that could also get wetter. thanks. so wet and windy and wintry system that's pulling its way across iran, afghanistan into pakistan, and we will see some of that wet weather, trickling into northern parts of india before it turns to snow on the mountains. further south of this largely quiet and settled picture lots of warms coming

through. it does start to dry up as well for sri lanka, bangladesh, seeing lots of sunshine. it's going to be a similar story as we had further west. warmth coming back into new delhi. certainly by saturday the fog will remain an issue. now we moved to east asia, a laundry, quiet picture for much of china was at high pressure, clinging on here, bringing sunshine to the likes of beijing, stretching down to shanghai and hong kong. a bit more wintry weather, however, on the cards for japan that says those winds blow those conditions over the sea, the snow showers, stretching into her. hi joe, we'll see some intense cold up in the north. but so seeing the temperature at 4 degrees on thursday, that should weather update. ah, a

ah ah ah, you're watching or does it remind our top story is this are russia escalates? is bombardment of the ukrainian, the city of bach moved its forces of trying to secure a rare military victory. after months of fighting as ukrainian forces are digging in russia as president vladimir putin says,

the country's economy performed better than expected. last year. speaking to finance ministry officials, prudent presented figures suggesting the drop and g d. p was not as high as predicted by some that starts. the world economic forum has gotten underway in davos, switzerland, with world leaders wanting to continue their support for ukraine. ukraine's 1st lady addressed the governor, wanting russia's invasion, could spill over the border into europe. jordan says israeli police, it's stopped at some basset to israel from entering b alex, a mosque in occupied east jerusalem. a foreign ministry summoned israel's ambassador in amman. we're going to get more on this from him on come. he's joining us live from western usa. what did we know about what happened? well the incident took place around $1230.00 so a few hours ago now at the jordanian buster and one of the senior shakes of the alex of mosca. ah, we're visiting the site. they were actually inside the compound on the incident

took place, and israeli police official actually shoved one of the top with not i have to say the jordanian ambassador. there was then a heated discussion, the jordanian say that they can visit the alex on both compound whenever they want . they were then held briefly, not hell, but they were briefly stopped from entering was the pick is really policed, tried to get permission for them to go in. this actually angered the jordanians who then left the site. now this goes to the heart of the relationship over jordan is right. when it comes to alexa most come most compound, there is something called the status quotes, an agreement effectively that allows the jordanians to be the custodians of that compound. they say they do not need was railey police permission to enter the site . these ready police actually issued a statement. they said n a. we note that the had the group gone through the standard preliminary

coordination procedure with the police. any delay in the ambassador's entry to the temple mount would have been prevented. it's all regrets that there are false reports about this, this referring to some of the news that came out immediately after the incident. however, the jordanians have reacted. they've summoned these really ambassador, no doubt, to reiterate the fact that the jordanians do not need a police permission to enter the alex or mos compound and to find out what happened . it's also worth noting here that the relations between the jordanians, ali israelis are at a low points. there's absolutely very little contact between king of de la jordan and prime minister benjamin netanyahu. so this is just another one of those incidents that will make that relationship even worse. it's a very controversial, always been a flash point when it comes to a politics here in israel and palestine. the alex and most compound has any time anybody's tried to change that status quo that i'm talking about. it's always been seen as a flash point and is lead to clashes. however, this is going to be

a diplomatic incident, dealt with between the 2 countries, but the jordanians are absolutely clear. they do not need is really police permission to visit the alex most compelled. a man, thank you very much indeed. and ron can't talk to us from western rosalyn, china's populations declined for the 1st time in 60 years. the economists say strict coven, 19 roles are partly to blame. they expect a low birth rate and rapidly aging population to have far reaching effects. katrina, you reports will shanghai county in northern china. dow tune me has lived in by dal one village his whole life. he says the streets here are quieter than they used to be. most young people have moved to beijing, 65 kilometers away. dental on area where there are more and more old people now to made old people in this building. carol, older 5 passed away recently due to the cove it there were over 80 years old. the

situation is similar in many parts of china, where increasingly, debts are outstripping births. the population shrunk away. 850000 people in 2022. it's the 1st decline since 1961, a year of great famine in china. economist say strict corona virus measures in poorest until late last year, accelerated looming, demographic crisis, or the panelling has been the biggest the constraint for people's family planning in the past 3 years. and a lot of chinese people believe that the vaccination would be bad for fertility. so many families have been postponing, and one comes to the economic prussia. it was even bigger problem for urban residence as the government abandoned it's one child policy in 2016. and now allows families to have up to 3 children, but many are unwilling sighting soaring housing prices and education fees. meanwhile, china's workforce,

a key driver of economic growth is rapidly aging. analysts predict the elderly will make up one 3rd of the population by 2050. in by del one, most of the residents are retired. the cost of living in villages like this is far less than the biggest city, the locals tell us, the problem is being able to find a stable income. many of the young people who born here hadn't forced to leave in order to secure a job. job tuning says he understands. he and his wife have no children, but still struggle to make ends meet. for many here and living day to day, having to support a large family, has little appeal, continued out his ear by dela shanker county, china funerals have been held for some of the victims on board, a plane which crashed in nepal and sunday. the yeti airlines flight was approaching the resort, said you for quarter when it went down. 72 people including 4 crew members,

were on board. 71 bodies had been recovered. the plains black boxes were found on monday. vietnam's president, knowns on fork has resigned. the ruling communist party has blamed him for wrongdoing by officials working under him during his time as prime minister florence that he has more from colon and poor. there had been speculation that vietnamese president unison folk would leave his position. after 2 deputy prime ministers were asked to leave earlier this month. now these men had worked under him when he led government. these men have not been personally implicated, but they are being held responsible for corruption scandals by officials on deck. and the government has launched a crackdown on corruption with hundreds of people caught up party members, ministers, either prosecuted or disciplined. but analysts are calling this an unprecedented reshuffle within the communist party. now in vietnam, a one party state, all political changes of usually very carefully managed to give the impression of

political stability and continuity to some analissa saying that what this really looks like is a power play by the general secretary of the vietnamese communist party un food troll his term is set to expire in 2026 though he holds the most prestigious position in the state. and the person tip to replace him is the president shaun folk. and not only has unison for resigned, but he's also no longer a member of the politburo or the central committee of the vietnam. calmness party essentially leaving him powerless. and the other thing we have to watch for is what sort of impact this will have on the stability of the government going forward and also on the confidence of foreign investors. seeing that these 3 men, the 2 deputy promised as andy president johnson folk was seen at the very competent administrators protests against peruse president dana boulevard, showing no sign of easy demonstrators in the capital, lima calling for her resignation and new elections. weeks of violent protests broke

out last month. after a former president pedal kasteel was impeached and arrested. at least 42 people had been killed. aid agencies of wandered malnutrition, among children in ecuador spiraling, out of control. almost half of all told was younger than 2. don't get enough to eat . among indigenous communities, betia is even more prevalent. as alexander amputee reports, she let you blame 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 once had 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 gayle allan vanessa. miss. both of

her salary isn't enough for even one person. we spend a $200.00. he makes on food and necessities for my son, no clothes or anything else. silly 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 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 2 weeks of protest by indigenous communities in june. it's back on for

a while since then president guillermo lazarus pledge to spend $350000000.00 a year to improve healthcare in bill 6 services. but 2023 is expected to be tough for ecuador. as the government has imposed a stereotype, 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 hundreds of people have gathered in a village in central spain for the traditional fire festival known as last luminary, us men 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 day. ah.