election had happened as of course or what signal do you think the sens for the remaining active court cases against you, a rap 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. so it's half 1st. the 1st time we have one something in our justice system since this nice political harassment they can. so i think the court of tax appeals, that's been a very professional course, 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,

a former time magazine person of the year. and you want, 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 and 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. re, 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 of 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 you can nomics rule of law and press freedom meet our president. president mark was is 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, russia is facing stiff resistance, as saw me intensifies a time in easton ukraine moscow's trying to secure victory in the dumbass region. it's, i mean to take buck moose when months of fighting has led to heavy losses on both sides. rush has been unleashing its fire power on the nearly besieged city. most of its residents have fled. ukrainian, president lodge means that on ski says there is no place around the city that is not covered with lot on stuff. it is that hearing a lot of heavy shelling as you can imagine shelling that it's increased in recent days. interestingly, to put a timeline on it. or you can say that a lot of this fighting has actually increased since we saw rosen forces make gains in and around the town of solid are, which is north of back,

moot in that direction. we understand now according to ukrainian, the ukrainian military, that russian forces are trying to win circle that city of buffalo. and interestingly, since we've been here this morning, the town of cut a shift go 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 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. um, of course, trying to avoid friendly fire, but it's the 1st time that we've seen jets in this area. we were in bar moot yesterday, the scenes of also 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 oldest. 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. 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 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 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 drug. 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, and there needs to be a very clear, strong reaction and condemnation of the international community. wouldn't the main problem with the special tribunal be that just like amex, 17, and 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 raising? that is something that the russian people have to decide. and what we're doing, we're showing very clearly to president put in um 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 so successful and withstanding this brutal aggression or for decades, a russian economy is ruined and in regression. so it is a question of the russian people to decide on whether they want to go on like this . the un has sent it's top ranked woman as part of its highest level delegation to afghanistan. since the taliban sees power, it's expected to push for women's rights curtailed on the taliban rule to be restored. kristen salumi has moved from the u. n. 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 default upon government in

afghanistan, has been very disappointing for us. and we've been warning them from taking such at the, such as the south 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 to work and have access to education. there was

a broad sense that the region and the organization of the slum at conferences leadership on these issues was critical and needed to be strengthened with a full support and collaboration of the international community. i don't know, maybe afghans neighbors say the international community can't walk away from the struggling country or it's women. the muslim world is moved on, such from some this approach and we pride ourselves on, on the progress that you're seeing across the muslim world. visa 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. philip has on out is era. india is poised,

become the wells most populous nation. we look at how the growing numbers can faced its economy and twist, abbas in on mosque is going on trial for fraud in connection with tweets about his auto company, tesla ah, europe in africa, here's your weather update. thanks for joining in. we've got acts of whether it's stretching from scandinavia right through to spain and portugal. we'll talk more about that in a sec. winds are also a factor for the se they've turned around, drawing up warmer air, so is stumble at 17 degrees. that warmth also extends into sophia and bucharest in time all about the rain for that south coast of croatia into bosnia montenegro and albania. also some big downpours to the south of rome. snow for the upsets curling

up into the baltic states. so we pick up the story there, but with higher temperatures in minsk and moscow is could fall as some freezing rain. still cold air through ireland and britain saw some flakes of snow flying around liverpool, where the wind has been really intense. the bay of biscayne northern spain and the coast of portugal could whip up those waves to about 14 meters, so that white sand windy weather dropping down to the north west of africa on wednesday. 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. and we've got some tropical activity cooking up for madagascar. so this rain is going to pour into antenna revo as we had from wednesday to thursday. and now you're in the now, we'll see you soon. take care. ah. in depth analysis of the date headlines from around the world. if i write extremely, they're real and need to be tackled as soon as possible. frank assessments,

you guys failed. it's time to back in you julio. that's why you get to get out of the minute over by the informed opinion with dorothy. this is the one inside story on al jazeera lou. oh, you're watching out a 0 mind if i top stories as our a philippine court has acquitted nobel laureate journalists, maria ressa on tax evasion, charges. whites groups say the case is policy phonology cracked down on media freedom that began under the former president, rodrigo, due to

a russia is intensifying its attacks on the ukrainian city of bach. lou talk to months of intense fighting ukrainian president. village me savanski says there is no place that is not covered with blood in the city. the un has sent its top ranked women as part of its highest level delegation to afghanistan. since the taliban ceased power. all his concerns about gender discrimination on the rights of women and girls. a court in japan has found 3 former executives not guilty of negligence in the fukushima nuclear disaster. it upheld a ruling by lo, a court that cleared the former employees of the tokyo electric power company. the 3 men were in charge when as soon ami struck, japan in 201140 solomon has moved from take care. it was, it was the expected to get to the 1st, but many people were hoping that the high course with except the 2002 government

reports about the possibility of heights. and i mean as reliable. and if they could, if that was the case, then we could have 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 i know to another trial which is supposed to take place or thought during the year to see the defendant also reliable in their neglect and production negligence . that is, i'm thinking about the bins on 2 big points. one if they were able to expect the heights and i mean, 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 me is not consider the unreliable. they could have expected subjects. and i me to have the patient on

the nuclear, the doctors that have been seen in 2011. india is poised to overtake china as well, most populous nation. more than half its people a younger than 29. something in the hopes will boost its economy, but providing opportunities for the new generation could be challenging. as fenton monahan reports, nikita buller 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 in the child . she's a good. so i wanted to have an end of my boy. i wanted her to have her sibling doesn't matter, but now i have one 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 as well, the youngest in the world that is good for i think on the me, me level young workforce and back to something that just very, very and by gauge is to us. but the downside is that, you know, there is going to be the height population of woods and stream or food under hell. i know 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 get here. government government government should do something to stop the population growth in it. 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 can we develop further. so new to the population, okay. it's not good that the population will be like this in india, the government should do something about it. there's inflation on the population is

booming, so the government should provide solutions. the next generation of indians may help drag millions out of poverty like china before it. but it will be up to the current generation to start creating policies that mitigate the problems of an aging population in the future than to ma him. al jazeera, brazil's prosecutor general, has filed the 1st charges against that. c. 9 people accused of storming government buildings in the capital this month. the charges include staging a cru, monica yankees has to support these images just released by the brazilian congress . show how the attack on the capital unfolded. one week after the inauguration of president wheezy, nashua luna, the silver, thousands of supporters of former president j. able so narrow stormed the presidential palace congress in the supreme court. in an attempt to overthrow the new government. 1500 people were detained. 9 days after the rampage,

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. thus 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. every point against your point event, 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,

and brazilian authorities are also investigating who helped finance and plan the attack. also now to left brazil before lol as inauguration and his in florida on a diplomatic visa. but with brazil supreme court investigating his role in the riot and growing calls to revoke his usb so the former president a soon have to return home to face his accusers. monica and i give al jazeera rio de janeiro public sector workers, and pensioners and venezuela have marched in several cities to demand better salaries as the government struggles to fight soaring inflation. union, se wages haven't risen in line with the cost of living tories available. oh, on the streets to demand a pay rise in a country that struggling with one of the highest inflation rates in the world. venice will, and teachers and members of other unions say the government needs to act immediately to increase their wages. oh my god, i have been israel up or yet

a teacher in venezuela to day or in $71015.00 in 20 us dollars a month. and those 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 the march to the prosecutors off hitting back us to make themselves heard. last year, venezuela inflation rate was more than 300 per cent. according to unofficial estimates. these people say they haven't received the 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. bob. yeah, bob. ah nicholas, my little, his government has been trying to reduce public spending and race taxes to lift

venezuela out of the hyperinflation. oh, but has forced to more than 7000000 people to leave the country in recent years. the government is struggling with us sanctions in 2019 it relaxed private sector regulations to allow foreign currency and flows. while some industries have benefited, millions continue to struggle. precedent. mother would blame the u. s. for the current economic situation. but kamal les, look for a common destiny for venezuela, a common goal, them. these must be 2 scene one united voice enough with the sanctions job by the us government to lift all the criminal sanctions against the republic or venezuela . enough of these criminal sanctions from fuel o people here say it's not just sanctions that are hurting them, but also the government's ms handling of the economy. and that's why they say they will continue to protest until their demands are met. oh that he said, well,

i'll just cedar. the climate act of his gretta thornburg has been released by german police after being briefly detained on thursday and began other demonstrators have been protesting in the town of lutes, at aunt. they're trying to prevent the demolition of the village to make way for coal mine expansion to it owner. ellen musk is going on trial in the u. s. fraud in connection with tweets about his auto company, tesla and jerry's been selected with opening statements expected later. this wednesday now the case dates back to 2018. when must tweeted that he was considering taking tesla private. he said more than $70000000000.00 in funding had already been secured. but vest to say that tweets were reckless and inaccurate, and that at that point the billionaire did not have the money. the company stock prize jumped after the tweet belated sank when the proposal fell through. shall to say musk is responsible for the instability and the losses they suffered. remeasure

and of aston is a professor at the university of california in los angeles. he thinks must 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 has 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.