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when nobel laureate and journalist maria ressa is acquitted of charges of tax evasion by a court in the philippines. ah, hello, i'm how much room this is, how does your live from doha. also coming up, prosecutors in brazil present the 1st charges against dozens of supporters, a former president valuable sanara for storming the nation's seats of power. a high ranking you and delegation arrives and cobble for talks with the taliban. as the spotlight grows on women's rights. and bella roost puts exiled opposition leaders, svetlana chacandra, sky on trial for treason along with 4 of her allies. ah, a court in the philippines has acquitted nobel prize winning journalist, maria theresa of all 4 charges of tax evasion. races still faces 3 other criminal

cases which are under appeal rights groups say the legal cases are part of a larger crackdown on media freedom that began under former president rodrigo to turkey. reesa won the nobel peace prize in 2021 for protecting freedom of expression. this accredo died mitchell with the dental and is not just for rapp learn. it is for every filipino who has ever been unjustly accused houses here is barnaby low as live for us outside the manila court of tax appeals. barnaby, did this verdict come as a surprise and what might this signal for? maria, theresa and other journalists in the philippines going forward. well, either way, mohammed, this is a surprise given that maria reza and raptor have lost 40 cases one after another.

in the past 2 years, but you know, a color beat a couple of days ago, we were able to speak to maria. and she said that she was more confident of a win in this court because she felt that this court was more professional for in, for instance, she said whenever she asked to travel abroad, she was given that premier to travel abroad. and it wouldn't ask god for an astronomical price for the travel bond. and so to day that materialized, she won her task cases here. and she said, she said that today that she's always believed that all the cases against her are political in nature. and she's always believed that if it's only the truth and the law, then she'd always win these cases. i mean, she also said that today truth wins, justice wins back swim. and she said that there's hope for other trend that is where being intimidated and harassed. she cited the case of french, you made a coup. you're a journalist who has been in jail for 4 years now for illegal possession of

firearms. she said that there's hope for her now to win her case. and she said, now that filipino journalist can do their jobs for freely more courageous b as long as the truth and the law are on their side mohammed and born to be a maria rest may have been acquitted in this particular case. but this is just one of other legal proceedings that she's had to contend with, right? that's right. so just over an hour ago, there were a total of 7 active pieces against maria and rap learn more than half of these cases for these past cases. so that's now gone. there are now only 3 cases remaining against maria, theresa and rap learned there's another task case that is under the purview of a regional trial court, but the 2 other cases are the ones to watch. there is that case before the court of appeals that petitioned by rap there of a final decision of the securities and exchange commission to revoke the license

operate off raptor. and this case in particular, the tax cases in particular are important to that case because the documents in question are the same. the philippine depository receipts or the pd ours, which are special investment instruments here that are designed to kind of circumvent foreign ownership rules. ha, here in, in the country. and so, maria sawyer said that by winning this case, it proves that the philippine depository receipts are legal and that wrapped her did not deal securities that wrapped their only raise capital. using philippine depository receipts is in effect wrap. their did not get control through a foreign entity. that is the one that is in question at the fcc case. now the other case that is to watch is cyber libo. berea has already availed of the final

remedy that case is already before the supreme court, and she's been sentenced to up to 6 years in prison. if she loses that case, then she goes to jail for up to 6 years mohammed. all right, that sounds as you're as barnaby low life for us from outside the manila court of tax appeals. thanks for breaking it all down for sponsoring brazil's prosecutor general has filed the 1st charges against 39 people accused of storming government buildings in the capital. this month, the charges include staging a cou more than a 1000 people were arrested when supporters of former president julia wilson aro, ransacked congress, the supreme court, and the presidential palace. they've been calling for military intervention to overturn the result of october is election one by president louise in our seo led to silver monica and he has more from rio de janeiro the majority of the people that have been charged 22 of them are men, 17 are women, we know that they are from the states of some follow, which is the biggest of the richest state here in brazil. and they're also from the

capital, brazil. yeah. 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 brat, 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 our stage an explosion. this was in december before the inauguration, and it was the 1st sign that people were trying to do something more violent to ours. stop our president lula from, from our taking powers also of 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. fernando who was in miami, is also are 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. the u. n. 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 garish voiced concerns over what he called gender based apartheid created by the taliban. 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 the slamming conferences. leadership on these issues was critical and needed to be strengthened with a full support and collaboration of the international community. neighboring

pakistan was one of the many countries who had expressed their disappointment over the crackdown on women's rights. our diplomatic editor james bay's 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 secretary 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 of the united nations, is now in afghanistan. that would make her, i think the highest level of inter member of 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 of, for engagement to solve problems within the hon. context. 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 are there, 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 that she's and the sort of highest levels of 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 is 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 convinced 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 are not only effective, honest effect focused on and could have been forbid, in 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. copper's foreign minister is also in davos where he called for the international community to engage with the taliban to help bring about change it. what's happened recently and the recent measures by for the fight of on government in afghanistan as being very disappointing for us. and we've been wanting them from taking such a decision that are 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, it's say the children international, which is one of those 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 starts in the last few days. there's also some education work happening. so necessarily a nation wide thing is it's very some problems to problem. so some purposes we are able to restart the activities, some provinces, 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, there at the moment, it's the worst monitoring prices they've had in their history. and we were only

able to do productivities of the population. 30000000 in a ton of time over our food insecure over we're going hungry. so even if you monitoring community or operating a full truck, we wouldn't be able to meet those needs. but at the moment the ban on female stuff is husband think the 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 early marriages if we want to keep them away from, from practices like child labor. and indeed, if you want to protect the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of fundable ass guns, the russia is intensifying attacks in eastern ukraine. moscow is trying to secure

a rare victory in the don boss region. its aiming to take mood where months of fighting has led to heavy losses on both sides. russia has been unleashing its fire power on the nearly besieged city. most of its residents have fled ukrainian, president volota miss lindsey says there is no place around the city that is not covered with blood. charles stratford is there hearing a lot of heavy selling, as you can imagine of selling 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 moved 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. 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 was 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 offset destruction there. 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 brit 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 to ambulances here, and take consults little's back from the front line. ukrainian authorities have called off search and rescue operations in the rubble of a denise pro 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 denied 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 ministers survey show you visiting troops fighting in the war. last month, the defense ministry set of plans to create new units and increase the number of

military personnel to 1500000. 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 delusion ye says he outline keeps urgent need to general mark milly, the chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of staff. the united states has been keys biggest supplier of military aid, nato member state the netherlands is considering offering patriot missiles to ukraine. judge 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 keith. and the german chancellor has appointed a new defense minister, forrest pastorius, as the government faces growing pressure to deliver battle thanks to ukraine. berlin has been cautious about approving the delivery of weapons that could be seen as an escalation. still ahead on al jazeera twitter bossy law must

goes on trial for fraud over tweets on his auto company, tesla and cremation, in the paul for victims of sundays plane crash as search crews look for the last missing passenger. ah, are they been shivering through the cold in northern pakistan have her on so here's the proof floor in punjab province dipped down to 0.4. that was nearing an all time record which by the way is minus 2. and that was said 88 years ago. here's a forecast on wednesday. wet weather comes into baluchistan. we've got snow over the mountains of k, p, k. and the hor, a top temperature of 16 on wednesday. some of those cold snap alerts have been dropped in northern india. that's because we've got more in the way of cloud cover . so especially through those overnight hours acts as a bit of

a blanket and keeps in some of that warmth that we got throughout the day. the heaviest rain has now pushed away from the philippines, sitton in the south china seas. just going to meander here over the next few days, but still some berths of rain to go around manila on wednesday, the high of 26 temperatures har solidly coming up through china as the cloud deck shuffling away. so grey, linda got a high 14, a beauty of a day in hong kong. you're up to 18 pretty close to where you should be for this sub the year. or the winds coming at just the right direction. some cooler air here . so you know what that mean? see effect snow turns for western and northern areas of japan. other side of the mountains. tokyo a have taught degrees on wednesday. that's a snapshot of your weather will see soon bye for now. ah, ah

ah ah ah, you're watching of 0 a reminder of our top story is this our, a court in the philippines has acquitted nobel prize winning journalist, maria theresa on tax evasion, charges rights group say the legal cases are part of a larger crackdown on media freedom that began under former president,

rodrigo detective, brazil's prosecutor general, has filed the 1st charges against $39.00 people accused of storming government buildings this month. supporters of former president, jo, your bill snarled, wanted to overturn the result of october's election. the you in his sent. it's top rank woman is part of its highest level delegation to afghanistan since the taliban seized power. it follows concerned about gender based discrimination in the country . the u. s. has imposed a visa restrictions on 25 people in belarus after it put exiled opposition leaders . svetlana chic owners kaya on trial in absentia. she's charged along with her former campaign manager and 3 opposition figures. if found guilty, chicago sky could be jailed for 15 years. new charges have also been filed against your congress guy as husband who 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 ls

b eliot ski scott lannigan. the sky is attending the world economic form in davos. she's branded the trials of force. all this trials are revenge on those who are opposing it to their regime represent got or goes into the war. actually i would known from about they say a trial from media. nobody informed me. i immediately sent a letter to the voice award 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 the but to the lawyer who was said designated by the regime with didn't contact me. and i actually have a question, what will be his position to d? it during the day how he's here willing to defend me, not knowing my position. so it looks like strange 8 looks like 1st twitter owner, ellen musk has gone on trial for fraud 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. he said more than $70000000000.00 and funding had already been secured. but investors say those tweets were reckless and inaccurate. at that point, a 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 suffer. all right, let's bring in ramesh renovation. he's professor at the university of california los angeles department of information studies. he joined us by skype from los angeles. ramesh. what exactly is at stake for ellen musk in this trial, and how much could all this potentially be a referendum on mosques management style? very, there's a great deal of stake, musky use some of his tough, less shares, which at that time were doing quite well to fund his purchase of twitter ever since

he's purchased twitter. and i've actually spoken with you, you all on all of your about the real time management of twitter has been pretty whimsical and erotic, you know, on 1st of all, there were, you know, major firing of different twitter employees. then there was a vote, a straw poll that, that must consult, put online on twitter itself, asking if he should step down as the, and the vote with 6040 for him actually stepping down. basically what's happening here is his, he or must cause always use twitter as something of a base for him to play with different ideas. at times i would troll others and sort of have the kind of, sort of whimsical and unpredictable nature has been his persona on twitter. you know, he trolls various people at various time and so on twitter and he's pretty loose. you know, and he mean he basically made some comments that are now getting him in trouble

that ended up shifting and impacting the stock prices. so many different levels on many different count. what must cause done as the public persona who in many ways is quite unpredictable, has impacted his cure, his security with as well. so i think it's important for us to, to look at must as a public figure, but also for investors to get someone who is not dependable with not predictable and not the cure. so the real drawstring that, that may have actually some power over math are the investor and advertiser drawstring. and in those areas, as we see, be awkward be we see huge impacts actually emerging and file is ramesh on must have had wanted the trial to be moved to texas. the argument from his lawyers was that negative coverage of mosques, twitter purchase may have poisoned the jury pool in san francisco. but that request

was denied by the judge will holding this trial in california, make things more difficult for you on most likely will in this but, but, but also these potential violations were committed while he was in california. but i don't, but i think again this is sort of a, a very simplistic take, you know, whether the trial is in texas or in california. you know, that must the attorney is and must himself is voicing on what's a much more major issue, which is the fact that mosque is not showing consistency in his leadership. right. and that is scaring away investors from his sort of defiance of norms, of decency decent communication with, you know, basically saying hey, content, moderation and journalists who really should be hired by platforms like twitter to ensure that these algorithms are not privileging inflammatory and hateful sense. right, all of these there's been at least

a dozen. i would say significant missteps. that mosque has taken ever since he purchased winter and that is having a chain effect. it's having a very, very negative impact impact. obviously having impact on users who themselves in many cases are leaving the platform, but it's now having a chain effect on advertisers and investors, which can hurt must, which can really hurt must in the way that really matters. and remember, you're talking about this chain effect. you know, the fact is, there are all these legal complications for both tesla and law must. how much does this complicate the situation for both musk and test going forward and how do you keep a company like tesla float? it's a huge, huge challenge. i think the main way in which the viability of mosque with tough mach with twitter, and perhaps the viability of both companies themselves. the main way in which room are there for profit valuation oriented companies. twitter has been, has not been profitable for quite

a bit of time before. must even took over. it's been and even worse situation since he has. so at the end of the day, you know, mosque at one point with consider the wealthiest person in the world, or at least the wealthiest person in the united states. there's some debated estimates on this. now the situation is quite different. we're seeing tough tank was marked. we're seeing twitter be, are profitable, not a good situation there. and that is really at the right of the day, you know, in social media companies and what are all about money and valuation. and the way in which they can be negatively impact, even their viability metal on my why. with those 2 i've is through the evaluation and profit. all right, that's from estron of our professor at university of california, los angeles department of information studies. thanks so much for joining us. recovery teams in the paul are searching for the last missing passenger after sunday's plane crash. that killed at least 71 people. they've expanded the search area and are using drones in the mountainous drain. authorities have begun

releasing the bodies of the victims to their families. rescuers a found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which could help determine the cause of the action. prosecutors in guatemala, say they plan to file criminal charges against colombia as defense minister. they accuse ivan of law scares, of being involved in a bribery scandal. when he worked as a un anti corruption investigator in guatemala. both countries have recalled darren bastards, intensifying a diplomatic ro, columbia, as president says, the allegations are based. many parts of argentina have been put under extreme alert due to an extended drought caused by wildfires. firefighters in the region of santa fe are struggling to contain the flames. argentine as experience 3 consecutive years of severe drought and heat waves. the world's oldest person has passed away in france at the age of 118. lucille rondon who is known as sister andre died and her retirement home on tuesday. she was born in 19 o 4 and was believed to be the longest living person on earth.