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bobo, laurie up journalists, maria ross are, is acquitted of charges of tax evasion by a court in the philippines. ah, money box, this is out. is there a life de, also coming up? russia cannot get away with let it has done to the ukrainian people. the european commission president tells al jazeera the world must hold russia accountable for the war. new crane prosecutors in brazil present the 1st charges against dozens of supporters of former president jabal sanara, for storming the nation seeks of power. and high ranking un delegation arrives in kabul for talks with the taliban. as the spotlight grows on women's rights. ah, a quote of the philippines as acquitted nobel prize winning journalist marie

arrested on charges of tax evasion. ross is still faces 3 other criminal cases which are under appeal rights groups say the cases are part of a larger crackdown or media freedom that began under full president, rodrigo de tirty rasa won the nobel peace prize in 2021 for protecting freedom of expression. while i spoke to her shortly after the acquittal and 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 rep law 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, 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, the president of the european commission urge world leaders a diverse to keep up a to ukraine. on the lame was speaking to a diplomatic editor, james bay's, he started by asking what she thought would happen when the war started. the, i'll hoped that russia would be reasonable and, and not do with this invasion because we had prepared massive sanctions. and we couldn't imagine that you'll destroy your own 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 was 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 a 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. 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 are 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 as yet been convinced, but also you have the international criminal court and the key figure there is the

prosecutor kareem khan. he says, no, my court can deal with this. we don't need to have a special truck while 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 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, in 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 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 successful and 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 . and on the ground, a new crane rushes intensifying. attacks in the east, moscow trying to secure a rare victory in the dumbass region as aiming to take back moot where months of fighting as lead to heavy losses on both sides. russia has been unleashing as firepower on the city there. most of its residents have now fled. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says there is no place around but boot that is not covered with blood. charles stratford is there hearing

a lot of heavy shelling as you can imagine shelling 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 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 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. um, 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 these surrounding towns brought 2 ambulances

here and taken to hospitals, back from the front line. ukrainian authorities of caught off search and rescue operations in the rubble of denise par. 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. we were russia says it will boost the capabilities of his armed forces over the next 3 years promising what it's calling major changes . the announcement came as video was released, showing defense minister said, go sure, go visiting troops fighting in the war last month. the defense ministry said it plans to create new units and increase the number of military personnel to one point. 5000000. ukraine's top general has met with his us counterpart for the 1st time in person in poland, ukraine's pushing to secure a fleet of modern battle tanks from western countries. general valeri is a loosening says he outlined cubes. urgent need to general mark milly,

the chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of staff. united states has been key of biggest supply of military aid. they to remember state the netherlands is considering offering patriot missiles to ukraine. dutch prime minister margareta raised the plans for the u. s. president joe biden joint talks at 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 faces growing pressure to deliver battle tanks to ukraine. berlin's being cautious about approving the delivery of weapons that could be seen as an escalation. b, u. n has sent his top rung to women as part of its highest level delegation to afghanistan. since the taliban sees power is expected to push for women's rights could titled on to taliban rule to be restored. kristin salumi 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. it, what's happened recently in the recent measures 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 those half ago. 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 deos, 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 the slimy conferences leadership on these issues was critical and needed to be strengthened with a full support and collaboration of the international community. i. afghans, neighbors say the international community can't walk away from the struggling country or it's women in the muslim world is moved on from such from this approach . and we pride ourselves on, on the progress that you're seeing across the muslim will be so be women's rights. but the solution is to engage the of can 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, an 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. the contest flow from oakland new zealand has landed safely in sidney. after issuing a made a cold g 2 engine fadia flight radar data shows the plane lost altitude and speed during the flight. more than a 100 people on board merger, see services were deployed as a precaution made ala as a issued when by pilots. when a plane is in critical danger. still heading down to 0. twitter basil on mosque is going on trial for fraud over tweets on his also company, tesla that shareholders say cost them millions of dollars. ah.

when's a really big story? how 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 a 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 hours, so it's going to happen all day. but at certain points of the day, the winds were brought to 55 kilometers per hour through pakistan. what, whether into baluchistan province, no for k p k. and those temperatures have now come up in turkmenistan. so asked about on the plus side of things with the of 3 degrees on wednesday. for turkey, ha, winds have turned to route. so this is now a southerly flow of air. it's popped up the temperature to 17. it is star ball. so almost 10 above where you should be for this sub the year. what in windy for that northwest corner of africa. 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 cookin up that's going to slam into the east and the north coast of madagascar, particularly on thursday. i ah, ah, ah, ah,

ah, you're watching out a 0 reminder. our top story is to sell a course in the philippines says, acquitted nobel prize winning journalist maria raso on tax evasion, charges rights group say the legal case is a part of a launch, a crackdown of media freedom that began under former president rodrigo, to turn russia is intensifying its attacks on the ukrainian city of buck moose. his forces are trying to secure a red military victory after months of fighting ukrainian president, florida. museo lensky says there's no place that is not covered with blood around the city. the u. n. has sent his top tract woman as part of its highest level delegation to afghanistan. since the taliban sees power, it follows concerns about gender based discrimination in the country. now brazil's

prosecutor general has filed the 1st charges against $39.00 people accused of storming government buildings in the capital this month. the charges include staging, a coo monica yet. okay. of has this report. these images just released by the brazilian congress. show how the attack on the capital unfolded. one week after the inauguration of president, reason, national leather silva, thousands of supporters, the former president j april. so narrow storm the presidential palace congress in the supreme court. in an attempt to overthrow the new government. 1500 people were detained. 9 days after the brand page, the 1st group of suspects have been indicted. 39 defendants have been charged with armed criminal association, violent attempt to subvert brazil's democracy and damage to public property.

prosecutors have requested that the defendants be preventively detained in over $7000000.00 of their assets, be frozen. president lula da silva also dismissed 40 military personnel from the presidential palace. last week, he accused members of the security forces of helping the rioters valuable britain out. if you wouldn't, the gent, your pony french, many officers were collaborating with writers. when any people in the military police were complicit. many people from the armed forces here inside were complicit . i am convinced that the door of the plan, alto palace was opened so that these people could enter because there was no door that has been broken down. additional rioters are expected to be charge in brazilian. authorities are also investigating who helped finance and plan be attack also now to left brazil before lol as inauguration and is in florida on a diplomatic visa. but with brazil supreme court investigating his role in the riot

and growing calls to revoke his us visa. the former president a soon have to return home to face his accusers, monica, and i give al jazeera rio de janeiro, 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 and anti corruption investigator in guatemala, both countries of recall, the ambassadors intensifying a diplomatic ro. columbia's president says the allegations are baseless, see killers and animals. we will defend him. mister velasquez will continue to be our defense minister in guatemala insists on imprisoning. just people then is really not much for us to do in guatemala. the court in japan as found 3 former executives not guilty of professional negligence in the fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 and upheld a ruling by a lower court that cleared the former took your electric power company. the 3 men

were in charge of the nuclear plants when a soon army struck the japanese plant in 2011 or 40 slammer is outside the court in toko and joins us live now at 40. how's the court reached this conclusion? what had been saying? well this has been going on 40 years now actually in the 1019 the same the same problem has been in the course on the 3 managers they were acquitted, but then they took the prior again to the high course. so basically they didn't provide any new evidence of their group neglect and negative negligence. the 40 for patients with us

when they were or that the back you wait during the focus, your, my, these to 1011. so not any new clues or any evidence that i've been provided, but during to 1000, from 20192021. there was to be a trial about the consent of the same the same. think about that group of fukushima designs that on how we defected the evacuation in factories and the district course. that's fine. that's fine by the government in 2002 about the possibility of that that's put the results in a very he was not me, could focus your plan. that's fine. that was considered to be unreliable. but in 2021, your court considered this,

the report reliable on the born back that the defendants, they fit again in this new trial, which ended sitting in 2000 to 22 in june. and during the 6 months until the rule was 100, now that court didn't accept any new evidence is at any neuro. and so this was, he was expected to get so many people hoping that the high course would except the 2002 government reports about the possibility of heights and be liable. and if they could, if that was the case, then we could have seen dozens of cases against the zip code, which is your electric company and also the manager. but now we because of the criminal trial, the eyes are sent to another trial which is supposed to take place during this year

to see if the defendant sold so reliable in their neglect. and bruce negligence, that is on thinking about the bins on to 2 big points. one if they were able to expect the heights in on me. and the other one is if they were able to prevent that . and on the expectation point, as i said, the 2002 government report which refers to use it to not me is not consider the reliable make with an expected subject. so not me to have the patient on the nuclear does not have been seen in 2011 for the body. thanks for the update for the slumber there in turkey and other news. climate activists griffith sumburgh has been released after being briefly detained by police at the demonstration in germany. some bug was among hundreds of other activists protesting in the town of loots rough. they've been trying to prevent the demolition of the village to make way for a coal mine expansion. twitter owner,

eli musk is going on trial for fraud in the us over tweet see posted about his auto companies. tesla. a jury has been selected with opening statements to later on wednesday. the case goes back to 2018. now we must tweet it. he was considering taking tesla private of $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 he, the billionaire apparently did not have the money to take tesla private. the company's stock price jumped after the tweet was published, but later sank when the proposal fell through shareholders. se mask is responsible for the instability and the losses they suffered. remish freely. wanston is a professor at the university of california los angeles. he thinks bus unpredictable management style is spooking 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 for him actually stepping down. many different level on many different count. what must cause done as the public persona? who in many ways is quite unpredictable, has impacted his, the cure, the, 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 the cure. so the real drawstring that,

that may have actually some power over mosque or the investor and advertiser draw strings. and in those areas, as we see the opera, the, with the huge impacts actually emerging. now as challenges population shrinks, india is poised to take its place as the world's most populous nation. more than half of people are under the age of $29.00, something india hopes will boost the economy. but providing opportunities for the rising generation could be challenging as printed modern reports. nikita paula is welcoming the newest addition to her family. she has no regrets about having a 2nd child. she'd always known that one would never have been enough. i've had a boy yesterday morning, so i feel good about it always wanted to have one of each. i have her and the child . she's a good. so i wanted to have an under my boy. i wanted her to have her sibling doesn't matter, but $91.00 of each, so nothing better than that. it's babies like nikita that will soon propel india to

become the world's most populous nation, projected to overtake china sometime this year. and while china's population is getting older, india has one of the youngest in the world. that is good for, i think on a new level, young workforce and back to something which is very, very advantages to us. but the downside is that, you know, there is going to be the height population of woods at the stream on our food under held on. no education indian policy makers are hoping that a young population will propel the economy forward just as it did for china in recent decades. but millions of young indians entering the workforce each year will need millions of jobs. as left many apprehensive about the future population, goodyear government government should do something to stop the population growth. they should bring out some rules and regulations that help control our country's population. when the country's population is under control only then.