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ah, hello, i'm how much of room this is out as you're alive from door. how also coming up a high ranking you and delegation arrive in cobble for talks with the taliban. as the spotlight grows on women's rights. a long and bloody battle grinds on and back moved in eastern ukraine, where russian forces have intensified their attacks. bella roost puts exiled opposition leaders, svetlana chicano, sky on trial for treason along with 4 of her allies. ah, we begin to brazil where the prosecutor general has filed the 1st charges against $39.00 people accused of storming government buildings in the capital of this month . the charge's include staging a coo more than a 1000 people, were arrested when supporters of former president, shire bull sanara,

ransacked congress, the supreme court, and the presidential palace. they'd been calling for military intervention to overturn the result of october's election won by president louisa oscio lula. da silva, monica in ocoee of his live in rio de janeiro, monica, what do we know so far about who's been charged and is it expected that more people will be charged yes. well, the majority of the people that have been charged $22.00 of them are men. 17 are women. we know that they are from the states of some follow, which is the biggest, the richest state here in brazil. and they're also from the capital brazilian. we are we expecting more? yes, they're investigating who financed this operation because there wasn't just something that people just came out of nowhere. a brazilian is in the middle of brazil, so there were people that paid for buses for these people to arrive there from

different parts of the country. they had been camped out in front of military brett, the barracks for a long time, 2 months. and that requires having generators, electricity, so there's a long way to go to find out who paid for this. also, another man ah, has just been in prison for trying to stage an explosion. this was in december before the inaugurate sion and it was the 1st sign that people were trying to do something more violent to stop us president lula from, from my taking power. so this is what we know so far. also the man that used to be the head of security of brazilian and before he was the minister of justice of former president, j bowles, so not a who was in miami is also waiting to be interrogated by the police. he

is suspected of omission and of having by not having taken the necessary steps have allowed all this to happen. and monica, the brazilian president removed 40 troops who had been guarding the presidential palace. the fact that this is coming after luba da silva expressed distrust in the military for failing to act against those who stormed governor buildings. how significant a development is that? yes, well this is one more um sign. he has been giving several signs, like one of them was of to have the intervention of the government of brazilian because it did not stop that from happening. and that is his way of saying a, well either your afford democracy or not. if not, there will be a federal intervention. now, of course, he's taking out the people that are closest to the palace, the ones that are guarding him directly. there's a cabinet of institutional security that works. that has the military's of,

of different forces that are supposed to protect this area. this presidential palace, which is made of glass and easily broken. since that did not happen. of course, there is distrust with those that are closest now the ministry of defense, the minister of defense, named by lula, is going to have a meeting, organized the meeting between the president and the leaders of the armed forces. also because although there is distrust you have to reorganize the whole institutions. i mean, the doesn't distrust the whole armed forces in general, but the ones closest. yes. all right, that's monica in our care with all the latest developments for us from rio de janeiro. thanks. so much monica for you and has sent its highest ranking woman as part of a delegation to afghanistan for the 1st time since the taliban seized power. last week, the un secretary general antonio terrace voiced concerns over what he called gender based apartheid created by the telephone. clear consensus was evident on the issue

of women's and girl's rights. it to work and have access to education. there was a broad sense that the region and the organization of this lamb at conferences, leadership on these issues was critical and needed to be strengthened with a full support. and collaboration of the international community may bring pakistan was one of the many countries who had expressed their disappointment over the crackdown on women's rights in afghanistan. our diplomatic editor james bay spoke with pakistan's foreign minister at the world economic summit in davos about the significance of the un visit. it's almost 18 months since the taliban took control of afghanistan and the deputy 2nd general amena mohammed is the highest ranking member of the international community to visit in that time. she is female. she's a muslim and the u. n. believe she may have the leverage to get the taliban to change their position, particularly on the issue of women's rights here. and i've also been speaking to the pakistani foreign minister about her visit. he's been speaking to her ahead of her arrival in afghanistan. foreign minister, we've learned that amena mohammed,

the deputy secretary general, the united nations is now in afghanistan. that would make her, i think, the highest level of intern member, the international community are one of the highest levels to visit afghanistan. since the taliban took over. i know you've been in touch with her before her visit . what did you discuss with her and how important is this was a so i believe i have been in discussions with the deputy secretary general, and i must say that i applaud and a command this initiative the united nations has a responsibility to find solutions to problems and pakistan is long advocated for the engagement um, of for engagement to solve problems within the of non contacts. so whether it is the issue of women's rights, whether it's the issue of terrorism, where this issue of angio, whether it's the issues, the so many issues or the, the answer is engagement. i think it's a powerful message that the deputy sector general of the united nations is going to have canister. i'm sure that she will press the inter moran government on i'm

addressing some of the reservations of the international community. i understand she's planning to go to kandahar, do you think it's likely she will get a meeting with the surer? and can i ask you about her as, as the emissary of the international community because she is a female islamic woman. she comes from nigeria, is that sending the right message? do you think so as far as her schedule within our honest man is concerned? i don't, i don't have the details. i'm not sure whether she would be going to kandahar or or not, but i think it is a powerful message or that she's in the sort of highest level an international figure going to be honest on happens to be a woman happens to be a muslim as well, but it's not, i'm sure she's not just going as some sort of figurehead, she has a very expensive agenda. and as the united nations has a responsibility on the international stage to deal with the various issues emanating out of atlanta stuck, it's important for us to continue to engage and convince the interim ratio to live up to the international expectations of their promises to the international

community and for us to honestly work together to try and solve as some of the problems that aren't normally effective on a stock effect pakistan. and could have been forbid, you know, effect the international community such as terrorism that either such as is in recent months, women's rights have been further, restricted things are going backwards. but mister bhutto zidari says the only way forward is further engagement with the taliban pop ups. foreign minister is also in davos where he called for the international community to engage with the taliban to help bring about change. he what's happened recently and the recent measures by for the fight of on government in afghanistan has been very disappointing for us. and we've been wanting them from taking such a de, such as their thought. going just to make the situation much worse for the afghan people, but also for the international community to be able to deal with them. or does it

mean that we are going to stop our efforts nor we should continue? we always remain hopeful that are the way we are engaging with others. we are engaging with people who are sometimes difficult to talk to is the only way forward to find a solution. meanwhile, 3 leading international aid agencies have partially resumed operations. after the taliban said, women are allowed to work in areas such as health. david, right, is the chief operating officer, save the children international, which is one of the organizations. he thinks women still face restrictions. what's actually happening is that certain ministries and the governments are saying that they are supportive of mix teams, mix male or female teams working, doing work that is relevant to their responsibility. so the we are allowed to start health and nutrition work. so that is started in the last few days. there's also some education work happening. so necessarily

a nation wide thing. it varies from problems to problems. so some purposes we are able to restart the activities, some purposes, we are not, but it really is only in those to narrow activities. what's happening? i've done this and if you have the worst monitoring crisis in the world, they're just the worst you monitoring license. they've had in their history we were only able to do productivities of the population of 30000000 in a ton of time over our food insecure over what's going on. so even if you're monitoring community or operating a full truck, we wouldn't be able to meet those needs. but at the moment the band on female staff is husband us it's, it's good that we are able to restart our life saving activities and health nutrition. but there's not a lot of other work there that needs to be done. if you want to keep children away from already marriages if we want to keep them away from, from practices like a child labor. and indeed,

if we want to protect the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of 100 last guns, the russia is intensifying attacks and eastern ukraine. moscow is trying to secure a rare victory in the don boss region. it's aiming to take by moot where months of fighting has led to heavy losses on both sides. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says there is no place around the city that is not covered with blood. charles stratford is there hearing a lot of heavy shelling as you can imagine of 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 kelly schiffer which is to the southeast of it, is also getting heavily shell. there's a lot of heavy, heavy fighting being heard there. we've seen smoke rising. some of the process 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 fires. it's 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 these surrounding towns brought 2 ambulances here and taken to hospitals, back from the front line. ukrainian authorities have called off search and rescue operations in the rubble of a denise ro, apartment block hit by russian missiles on saturday. at least 45 people were killed in the attack, but emergency services say at least 20 others are still missing. russia has deny targeting residential buildings. russia says it will boost the capabilities of its armed forces over the next 3 years promising what it's calling major changes. the

announcement came as video was released, showing defense minister survey show you visiting troops fighting the war. alhashan reports from moscow going to the russian defense minister. that is going to be a drastic change of the army between 20232026. this is going to be a plan through the 1st, the fall boosted a little soldiers to 1500000. i'd also create 2 new districts, the most good district on dillard in grad district besides enhancing different sectors of the admitted 3. the ground forces aerospace at navy, so it's mainly kind of re boosting their army. this is kind of, if we want to take it into context as to why the topic started with the beginning of this year, we can take it back to the war with the, with the launch of the water, ukraine. everything became, became miniaturized in, in russia. ukraine's top general has met with his

u. s. counterpart for the 1st time in person in poland. ukraine is pushing to secure a fleet of modern battle tanks from western countries. general valeri solution. he says he outlined keith's urgent needs to general mark milly, the chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of staff. the united states has been keeps biggest supplier of military 8, nato members, states and nato member states. the netherlands is considering offering patriot missiles to ukraine. dutch prime minister mark router raised the plans with us president joe biden, during talks at the white house. the dutch government has committed to a further $2700000000.00 worth of aid for keefe. the netherlands is working closely with germany on boosting ukrainian defenses. the german chancellor has appointed a new defense minister boris pastorius, as the government faces growing pressure to deliver battle tanks to ukraine. berlin has been cautious about approving the delivery of weapons that could be seen as an escalation. still ahead on al jazeera ah twitter ball,

you must go on trial for fraud over tweets on his auto company test and cremation, and the paul for victims of sundays plane crash has search cruise look for the last missing passenger. ah, once again, more rain comes pouring into the us state of california. hi there, thanks for joining in. but i think that bulk of the rain will actually fall to the north of san francisco. we're also seeing rain right along the coast of oregon, washington state. it's pouring in to the province of british columbia in canada, after the east, where we had that nor easter dropped some snow for boston serious amount of rain, halifax, things are mostly quite a down temperatures above average in new york at 12. and then we've got snow right through the plains and storms actually extending down to the lower mississippi river valley. got warm air colliding with cold air. so that's what sparking storms

there. winds have turned around, so temperatures into a more southerly direction coming up in nasa $24.00 that's more in line, closer to where you ship heat for this year. and there's been some deadly flash flooding in better gene in columbia. those storms extend to the southeast of brazil . i think the heaviest pulses of rain will be for cell paulo state on wednesday, the showers in storms mean temperatures are lower and by blanca. but let's put this day forward. will paint the colors on dark, the bread, the hard, the temperature here. so by blanca, we've got in for 34 degrees. not too far away. and commodore read the data. not bad with the high of 31. that's it. that's all see soon. ah, with there are people in the world want all forms of verification to just go away. so we need people fighting against that . we are trying to see if it's a fake video, maybe in syria, but in

a different time. they risk a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global play is we'd be targeted by cyber attacks from russia. they're all dangerous of doing this kind of work welling cat truth in a post truth world on al jazeera. ah ah, you're watching the 0 a reminder of our top stories this our brazil prosecutor general has filed the 1st charges against 39 people accused of storming government buildings. this month. within a 1000 protesters were arrested supporters of former president valuable sanara. wanted to overturn the result of october's election. the you in has sent its

highest ranking delegation to afghanistan for the 1st time since the taliban seized power. it follows concerns about gender based discrimination in the country. russia is intensifying its attacks on the ukrainian city of buckman. its forces are trying to secure a weird military victory. after months of fighting cranium, president low to mid lensky says, there is no place that is not covered with blood around the city. the u. s. has imposed visa restrictions on 25 people in belarus after it put exiled opposition leaders of atlanta chicks and sky on trial in absentia. she's charged along with her former campaign manager and 3 opposition figures. if found guilty, she kind of sky could be jailed for 15 years. new charges of also been filed against chicago sky. his husband was serving an 18 year sentence, sergey tranowski was arrested in 2020, around 1500. people are estimated to be in jail on politically motivated charges. they include nobel peace prize winner alice b ali elliot ski. svetlana gunner sky is attending the world economic forum in

davos. she is branded the trials of force. all these trials are revenge on those who are opposing it to their regime who question got or goes into the war. actually, i would known from about this a trial from media. nobody informed me. i immediately sent a letter to the voice over to the court to provide me with all the necessary material information about this quote, because i'm not sure what i'm accused of. i have never read about this and but to the lawyer who was said designated by the regime didn't contact with me. and i actually have a question, what will be his position to d id during the day, how he's here willing to defend me, not knowing my position. so it looks like strange. it looks like 1st bubble latisha is a former bella, russian minister and diplomat. and as one of the 5 people put on trial,

he says the trial shows how the judicial system in belarus is far from being independent. lucas shanker created a new system of terror, was the support of his apparatus. police could you be judges? he wants to shows it, he has absolute control and he has all that power. many times he said in probably exec stollins, saddam hussein, milan mcduffy and slab on mula who's to reach our parts heroes for him as a heroes for him. zam motivating him. so you can imagine what the system we have now in reality, bill was what courts. so cold calls we have in billers. this is a drama in builders. now, if i tried to go to bruce, i will be detained in the border. but i am sure as a, i ruled beck, no near future, maybe tomorrow, maybe after to morrow, maybe 2, a 2 years later,

10 years laid on. nobody knows. but i'm her have a strong motivation i have for i want to struggle in this resume. and erm in you know that my cousin and now cousin now in the prison, she's sentence or for 6 years now i'm there was struggling for my daughter. she also has a criminal case ah, my mom in exile, but i want to tell you about the situation in general and billers. now we have for a thousands of political prisoners. rescuers in the pol are searching for the last missing person. at the sight of a plane crash and the tourist city a poker, the yeti airlines flight went down on sunday, killing at least 71. people react to limbo reports from poker. 3 born bowden was an active member of the journalist's association in booker news of his death in a plane crash. on sunday. her shocked many in the community. friends and colleagues

gathered near the city river to pay their respects wildly. but who are both of we've lost family, a friend or colleague. nepal has lost someone with so much potential and possibility. the wood was a father and husband. relatives collected his body on tuesday. teams have spent days searching the crash site to retrieve the victims remains. the army has their lifted 48 bodies to the capital cut man do for identification. the city has more forensic facilities. the bodies of the crew members and foreign nationals on board are among them, where outside the hospital, morgan paul cra, where the post mortem of 22 passengers from in and around the area is being conducted. as more bodies are released, it will provide much needed relief to grieving families. crishna had a good room, has lost his sister in law and 2 granddaughters. they were traveling to poke her to celebrate a local festival. i've been given before my granddaughter's early on,

but couldn't for my sister in law. finally, we heard about a last evening after what seems like an endless wait. he is relieved. their bodies have been recovered. now he says he can lay them to rest it proper family. tradition, remy at the liberal, al jazeera, in popular nepal, prosecutors in guatemala, say they plan to file criminal charges against columbia's defense minister. the accused ivan velasquez of being involved in a bribery scandal. when he worked as a un anti corruption investigator, in guatemala, both countries have recalled their ambassadors intensifying a diplomatic route. columbia, as president says, the allegations are baseless duluth and that it was we will defend timid mister velasquez will continue to be out defense minister if guatemala insists on imprisoning just people than is really not much for us to do in guatemala, twitter owner, ellen musk has gone on trial for fraud in san francisco over tweets he posted about his auto company tesla. the case goes back to 2018. that's when musk tweeted he was

considering taking tesla private at $420.00 a share. the funding, he said, had already been secured, but investors say those tweets were reckless and inaccurate. at that point, the billionaire apparently did not have the money to take tesla private. the company stock price jumped after the tweet was published, but later sank when the proposal fell. through shareholders, say mosque is responsible for the instability and the losses they suffered are let's go lie with rob reynolds in the city of los angeles. rob, what exactly is ellen musk being sued for? well over muhammad, this all goes back to in 2018. as you mentioned, when must got in trouble for tweeting, of course, that he was considering taking test love private, and that he had secured $72000000000.00 in funding. and subsequently the u. s. securities and exchange commission, which regulates the behavior of publicly traded companies in this country. a

determined that, that, that statement was false. that must never had secured the $72000000000.00. and they, uh, find him and twitter a total of $40000000.00 a month. also had to agree to step down as c, e o of the company of, for 3 years. so this all cause, while gyrations in tesla stock price and some of the investors say that they lost money. as a result of jury selection is underway in this trial. and what the investors would like is not only for mosque to pay them back. the approximately $14000000000.00 they say that they lost, but also pay a penalty, an undetermined sum that the, the judge will and jury will, will decide upon as this trial goes forward. if mosque is convicted in the civil case. now, one of the interesting things about what we'll see as,

as this trial goes forward, is the witnesses which include some of very senior executives at tesla, who worked there at the time of the co founder of the a huge software company, oracle. ah, larry ellison, and all of that should give us some interesting insights into mosque a, his decision making style, ah, his management style and so forth. all right, that's out here is rob reynolds life fresh from los angeles. thanks so much rob. china's population has declined for the 1st time in 60 years. economists or warning of a demographic crisis with the country not being able to support it's rapidly aging population. katrina, you reports from north in china. chow, to me, has lived in bite our one village his whole life. he says the streets here are quieter than they used to be. most young people have moved to bay jing 65 kilometers away. the longer liberal,

they are more and more old people now to made old people in this bill. it was early, only 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 585-0000 people in 2022. it's the 1st decline since 1961, a year of great famine in china. economist say, strict corona virus measures and poorest until late last year. accelerated looming, demographic crisis, or the pandemic has been the biggest the constraints 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 at one comes to the economic pressure. it was an even bigger problem for urban residence. as the government abandoned its 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 work force, 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 had enforced 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, living day to day having to support a large family has little appeal. katrina, you al jazeera by del, on shank, her county china.