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when nobel laureates, journalists, maria racer is acquitted of charges of tax evasion by court in the philippines. ah, hello, i'm the baka, this is al jazeera live from dough. also coming up. russia cannot get away with what it has done to the ukrainian people. the european commission president tells al jazeera the world must hold russia accountable for the war, new crime. a high ranking you and delegation arriving cobble for talks with the taliban. as the spotlight grows on women's rights and by the ruse puts x out opposition leader svetlana taken off sky on trial for treason along with 4 of her allies. ah, i caught in the philippines as acquitted nobel prize winning jealous. maria ressa

of all 4 charges of tax evasion, raster still faces 3 other criminal cases which are under appeal rights group say the legal case is a part of a large, a crackdown of media freedom that began under former president rodrigo to tirty. raso won the nobel peace prize in 2021 for protecting freedom of expression. while i spoke to maria reserve, surely after her acquittal, i began by asking her how she felt about the verdict. i expected it but didn't know whether it was going to happen. i mean, i expected it because there weren't, there was no evidence presented during this case, but i, i didn't realize how emotional i would get because we were preparing, i guess you could call it p d s the, you know, the 1st statement i would write for rapidly be a conviction because that's been that the, the last 6 years. well, this is the 1st time that justice wins. i, i said this earlier, right outside, you know, the facts. one truth one, just this one. so yes,

far more emotional then if a conviction had happened. yes, of course i won't signal. do you think the sens for the remaining active court cases against you? a rattler relating to cyber libel. well, there's a 5th tax evasion. charge that is on value added tax, pretty much the same principles as this that we, i testified in that court as well and that decision is expected in june. this sets a precedence that will be interesting. and then the other 2 criminal charges against me. cyber libel is already at the supreme court, and then the criminal charge of the s c. c. case trying to shut us down is still in the regional trial court. it's unclear still, right? but again, this is a ray of hope. it's her. first, the 1st time we have one something in our justice system since this nice political harassment began. so i thanked the court of tax appeals. that's been a very professional court, but it took 4 years and 2 months to get to this point. maria, you are of course,

without one of the most celebrated journalists around the world or former time magazine person of the year g. one of course, the joint nobel peace prize. to what extent of all of these international accolades helped, or hindered your case in your home country? you know, at the beginning when, when time name neither one of the persons of the year i thought it 1st was a sinking feeling in my stomach. and then i realized later on, it was actually a shield. it allowed us to bring these instances of injustice that was happening politically motivated in our country to the global stage. and that's precisely what i hope this case does, right? it gave hope not only to us, but for another journalist who's been in jail for she will start from 4th year in prison, french maker. and of course, you know, laila delima has been in prison now. she will start her 7th year in prison in february. so i think that this is, i hope that the upside down which is where we've been living for so long. turns

right side up yet, i had, i thanked the court of appeals, you know, thank you for the international focus. you have help give us as well because without that laser focus, without shining the light, things could have gotten much worse. maria, i say this tentatively, of course, but this is potentially a huge reversal of fortune for you. you are staring at the possibility of spending a long time behind bars. all you encouraged by what you're seeing and hearing in the philippines at the moment. i can't help but be right, but i'm cautiously optimistic. look these for tax evasion, charges where exactly where business. so look, a nomics rule of law and press freedom meet our president, president mark was his in douglas switzerland right now, trying to get investors to come look at the philippines. this is a good 1st step forward to restoring that. i think we have to still wait and see,

i'm optimistic, there's a ray of light. i hope it widens, and it becomes a sunny day. ah, though, the president, so of the european commission as urge world lead as a divorce, to keep aiding ukraine. diplomatic as a james bay spoke with us lavonne de lamb. shortly afterwards he started by asking what she thought would happen when the war started. the, i'll hoped that russia would be reasonable and not do with this invasion because we had prepared massive sanctions. and we couldn't imagine that you destroy your country, russia by doing this invasion. well, it came differently as we know. and i must say the world is really impressed by the courage and at the stamina of the ukrainian people. and they have been amazing, amazing throughout this year. now, right now, the latest phase of this war,

the last 3 months, has been very much a focus on the civilian infrastructure, bombarding the russians and bombarding civilians. i know you believe these are war crimes. there's this idea of a special tribunal to bring accountability. what do you make of that idea and how exactly would it work? well, i think this is, these are so atrocious war crimes that we witness. and that indeed it might call for special tribunal am. and this shows that this is an extraordinary situation, and that it really needs a strong reaction of the global community. because this is, sir, not only a fight for his ukraine, of survival and of defending at serenity in territory. but it's also fired of democracy against autocracy. and for the respect for the international law, and therefore, we think this needs a special tribunal. there are others who are not on board with the idea of a special tribunal. i'm not sure present. biden's yet been convinced,

but also you have the international criminal court and the key figure there is the prosecutor cream car and he says, no, my court can deal with this. we don't need to have a special truck. well, i think important is that there's a strong reaction on these war crimes, and i think we have to discuss it. we have to sorted out. and, and the result count. russia cannot get away with what it has done to the ukrainian people. and what we've seen, and therefore there needs to be a very clear, strong reaction and condemnation of the international community. what is the main problem with the special tribunal b that just like amex, 17 on the trial into the downing of that plane in 2014, russia won't cooperate. it won't hand over the suspects. and the only way you'll ever get justice is if there is regime change in russia. so is that now the policy of the, you, the end of putin, the end of the regime? that is something that the russian, people have to decide on what we're doing. we're showing very clearly to president

putin and the price he has to he and we did said in advance before the war started, the costs will be massive. his economy is crippled by the sanctions. ah, he is completely isolated. ah, we see that is the ukrainians are amazingly courageous and so successful in withstanding this brutal aggression or for decades or their russian economy or is wound and in regression. so it is a question of the russian people to decide on whether they want to go on like this well, on the ground and ukraine rushes intensifying as the tax and the east. moscow is trying to secure a rare victory in the dom bass region, is aiming to take back moot when 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 his residents of fled, 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 selling, as you can imagine of selling that is increased in recent days. interestingly, to put a timeline on it, 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 calling 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 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 fires. it's the 1st time that we've seen jets in this area. we were in bach 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 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 ambulance is here and taken to hospitals back from the front line into the pro ukrainian authorities of called off search and rescue operations in the rubble of an apartment block hit by a russian missile 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. while russia says it will boost the capabilities of its armed forces over the next 3 years promising what its calling major changes . the answer came as video was released, showing defense minister. so guy shaw group, fisting troops fighting and the war. last month, the defense ministry said it 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 tags from western countries. general valeri,

the allusion, the says the outline key is urgent needs to mark milly. the chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of staff. the united states has been keith's biggest supplier of military aid, where nato member state the netherlands is considering offering it, offering patriot missiles to ukraine. dutch prime minister margareta raised the plans with us president joe biden, during talks of the white house. the dutch government is committed to a further $2700000000.00 worth of aid for keith. and the german chancellor has appointed a new defense minister boris pastorius. as the government face is 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. the un has since its top ranked women as part of its highest level delegation to afghanistan. since the taliban sees power is expected to push for women's rights curtailed on the taliban

rule to be restored. kristen sleep reports from the united nations. in afghanistan, the announcement that women could not attend university brought protesters to the street. that in a ban on women, working with international aid organizations brought a new round of global condemnation for the taliban. you, what's happened recently in the recent majors by the thought of on government in afghanistan has been very disappointing for us. and we've been warning them from taking such a de, such as this all to go and just to make the situation much worse for the afghan people, but also for the international community to be able to deal with the taliban restored the ability of women to work with international and g o's, after several aid organization said they could not, or would not carry out badly, needed humanitarian work without them. but the un says that isn't enough. the un

security council has repeatedly called for the rights of afghan women and girls to be restored. and now the u. n's, most powerful woman, deputy secretary general amena mohammed, herself a muslim, is in afghanistan to make the case along the way. she's enlisted the help of several muslim countries and organizations. clear consensus was evident on the issue of women's and girls rights at to work and have access to education. there was a broad sense that the region and the organization of this land conferences leadership on these issues was critical and needed to be strengthened with a full support and collaboration of the international community. i afghan, a sounds neighbor, say the international community can't walk away from the struggling country or it's women. the muslim world is moved on from such from some this approach and we pride ourselves on, on the progress that you're seeing across the muslim world. these would be women's rights, but the solution is to engage the current government and try and convince them to

live up to their expect that their, their promises to the international community. and that is exactly that pakistan's approach and approach all the more crucial for afghan women as taliban attempt to take away their ability to be seen or heard. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations still ahead allowed his era. twitter basil musk is going on trial for food of a tweaks own his also company. trust tesla ah, and go over spiraling inflation and low salaries spills on to the streets of venezuela. ah. when's a really big story across the gulf? those details right here, right now, thanks for joining in here is

a wide look at the middle east. is this wind blowing down from iraq? it's in northerly wind. it's gonna try again, some cooler air. so doha, as a top temperature of 19 on wednesday, cooler, still for re odd coming in at 15, but check this out. the wind gusts up to 55 kilometers per hour. so that's not gonna happen all day. but at certain points of the day, the winds were about to 55 kilometers per hour through pakistan. what, whether into baluchistan province, snow for k, p k, and those temperatures have now come up in turkmenistan. so ask about on the plus side of things with the high of 3 degrees on wednesday. for a turkey ha, ha, winds have turned around. so this is now a southerly flow of air. it's popped up the temperature to 17 and is stumble. so almost 10 above where you should be for this sub the year. what in windy for that northwest corner of. and we've got concentrated rain along the coast of gap on right through to the congos in angola. and it's now been a week of temperatures at or above 40 degrees in up in 10 in the northern cape

province in south africa that continues on wednesday. and we've got some tropical activity cooking up that's going to slam into the east and the north coast of madagascar, particularly on thursday. ah, debating the issues of the day, the 5 largest polluters that the world are in india, jump into the street. they made their money on pole, they made their money on field. convincing those folks, no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult. giving all of voice we chose to do because we wanted to escape war and violence. when you humanize this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality and break down misconceptions. the street on al jazeera lou.

ah welcome back at watching out just here i reminder of our top stories this our a course in the philippines says acquitted nobel prize winning journalist maria ressa on tax evasion, challenges rights group, say the legal cases of part of a logic crackdown of media freedom. the began of the former president, rodrigo de touching b, u. n. has sent its top to rank women as part of its highest level delegation to afghanistan. and taliban sees power follows concerns about gender based discrimination in the country. roches, intensifying as the tax in the ukrainian city of buck loot force is a trying to secure a rab, military victory after months of fighting ukrainian president. flow to me as a lensky says, there's no place that is not covered with blood around the city. united states is imposed visa restrictions on 25 people in ballard,

you software put exiled opposition, lead us for atlanta, taken off scar on trial in absentia. she's charged along with her former campaign manager and 3 opposition figures. if found guilty, taken off, sky could be jailed for 15 years. new charges have also been filed against kicking off cons, husband who serving an 18 year sentence. so guy took an off sky was arrested in 2020 round $1500.00 people are estimated to be in jail and politically motivated charges. they include nobel peace prize winner alice bernacki. sweetwater ticket. no scar is attending the world economic form in divorce, where she's branded the trials of foss. all this trials are revenge on those who are opposing it to their regime cooper shanker or goes into the war. actually i would known for 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 with me. and i actually have a question, what will be his position to day it during the day? how he's here to defend me, not knowing my position. so it looks like strange 8 looks like force and pebble. the to sky is a former bellow, ocean minister and diplomat. and is one of the 5 people put on trial. he told al jazeera, the trial shows how the judicial system in belarus is far from independent. lucas shanker created a new system of terror, was the support of his apparatus. police, could you be george's, she wants to shows it, he has absolute control and he has all that power. many times he said in poverty, exec stollins. saddam hussein mama to dorothy and slumber on mill offers to reach

our parts heroes for him. their 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 they i will beck now near future, maybe tomorrow, maybe after to morrow, maybe 2 a 2 years later, 10 years later, nobody knows. but i'm her have a strong motivation i have for i want to struggle in this resume, and durham knows it, my cousin now cousin, now in prison. she is sentence air for 6 years. now i'm not 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 billers now we have for a thousands of political prisoners. brazil is prosecuted general, has followed the 1st charges against 13 people accused of storming government buildings in the capital this month. the challenges include staging a coup more than a 1000 people were arrested when supporters of former president john bo sour ransacked congress, the supreme court and the presidential palace. they been calling for military intervention to overturn the result of october's election won by president lewis. and i say, lila da silva, monica ganna. k of has more from rio de janeiro. 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 of 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 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 um, interrogated by the police. he is suspected of a mission and of having, by not having taken the necessary steps have allowed all this to happen. anti government protests in peru was showing no signs of easing demonstrators calling for president dina palatez resignation and the release of jailed former president pedro castillo. thousands of people from castillo strongholds in rural areas. are expected in lima this week. they've been violent, processed since he was impeached and arrested last month. at least $42.00 people have been killed and the unrest so far, prosecutors in guatemala, say they plan to fall criminal charges against columbia's defense minister. the accused ivan velasquez of being involved in a bribery scandal when he worked as a u. n. anti corruption investigator, in guatemala, both countries of recall,

their ambassadors intensifying and diplomatic rel columbia, as president says, the allegations are baseless gilligan minimum, we will defend him. mister velasquez will continue to be out. defense minister in guatemala, insists on imprisoning just people than is really not much for us to do in guatemala, public sector workers and pensioners and venezuela have marched in several cities to demand better salaries. as the government struggles to fight spiraling inflation, union, se wages haven't caught up with the soaring cost of living there. to raise a bow reports. oh, on the streets, to demand a pay rise in a country that struggling with one of the highest inflation rates in the world. dennis will and teachers and members of other unions say the government needs to act immediately to increase their wages. oh my go him in israel app or yes, a teacher in venezuela today or in $71015.00 in 20 us dollars a month and does will make between $20.00 and $25.00 are earning a partial salary. why do i say partial salary?

because it's only enough to buy half a carton of eggs, half a kill of meat, we don't have a salary to survive on. ah, the march to the prosecutors off is incorrect, us to make themselves heard. last year, when it will, it inflation rate was more than 300 percent, according to unofficial estimates. these people say they haven't received a salary increase since march 2022. 0, today, not only teachers, but all public servants at a scraping by president madura. this is not a lie. this is reality. we're eating chicken feet and chicken next while you, you scoundrel eat at the best restaurants. mammogram. yeah. bye bye. ah nicholas. my lord is government has been trying to reduce public spending and raised taxes to lift venezuela out of the hyperinflation law that has forced more than 7000000 people to leave the country in recent years. the government is

struggling with the west sanctions in 2019. it relaxed private sector regulations to allow more foreign currency and flows. while some industries have benefited, millions continue to struggle. precedent mother would have blamed the us for the parent economic situation. but kamal les look very common destiny for venezuela, a common goal. and this must be to say in one united voice enough with the sanctions job by this government to lift all the criminal sanctions against the republic of venezuela. enough of these criminal sanctions some few. oh, people here say it's not just sanctions that are hurting them, but also the government's is handling of the economy. and that's why they say they will continue to protest until their demands are met. oh, did he said well as a cedar twitter, erna isla musk is going on trial for fraud in the u. s. over tweets he posted about his auto company tester. a jury has been selected with opening statements to later

on wednesday. the case goes back to 2018 as well mosque tweeted he was considering taking tesla private of $420.00 a share. he said more than $70000000000.00 in funding had already been secured. but it best to say those tweets were reckless and inaccurate. at that point, the billionaire apparently did not have the money to take test the private the company stock price jumps 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. ramesh 3, they've arson is a professor at the university of california. los angeles, he thinks must unpredictable management star is spooky. investors muskie 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 is management of twitter has been pretty whimsical and

erotic. first of all, there were 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 at the and the vote with $6040.00 for him actually stepping down. many different level on many different count. what must cause done as a public persona who in many ways is quite unpredictable, has impacted his secure his security with itself. 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 secure. so the real drawstring that, that may have actually some power over mosque are the investor and advertiser drawstring and in those areas, as we see the opera, the, we see huge impacts actually emerging.