inching ah hello, money inside this now does there lie from doha also coming up with facts. when ruth, with a philippine court acquits the nobel laureate journalist mary, rest of tax evasion charges the un sends it's my senior woman official talk honest on the schools grow to restore women's rights on to the taliban. and tesla basil must is going on trial for fraud in connection with tweets. the shareholders say calls from billions of dollars again the program with breaking news. a helicopter has crashed near a preschool in the ukrainian town of bravery, which is near keith. this is,

according to the regional governor. there are reports of casualties or emergency services are now on the scene. let's go straight to correspond. natasha butler, who joins is on the phone from keith. natasha, one more. can you tell us where we are getting more details now? about what happened a bit earlier today. it was just off the 8 o'clock local time in this town is just on the outskirts of the capital keep. a helicopter came down in a residential area near kindergarten. kindergarten is pretty much in the middle of the residential tower. blocks now according to police and they are reporting that at least 3 people have been killed and 5 people injured well we on the. a days, the other people in the area with the vacuum is emergent. 55

seen mobile. and some of the residents in the surrounding blogs shows that the norm as 5 is already spread out in the area. we can hear from a residence or a panic on screening. so very difficult. seems that coming out to, for very this morning. i don't know how it is much about helicopter, whether it was, for example, a military helical. whether it was i'm afraid we're losing a connection to you, natasha. i'm going to try with another question on the sound that they were the that the nursery was occupied. it was full of children at the time. do we know if there were any casualties from the nursery? i'm afraid we've lost natasha butler, who was after us on the phone. we will try and bring up the line to her again later on in the program to start breaking news. helicopter has crushed near

a preschool in the ukrainian town of broberg, which is near keith. our court in the philippines has acquitted the nobel prize winning journalist, maria ressa, of tax evasion charges as a still faces 3 other criminal cases which are on the appeal. once groups say it is part of a large, a crackdown on media freedom that began on to former president rodrigo, to tennessee, or as the one the nobel peace prize and 2021 for protecting freedom of expression. now the tax case was one of many initiated against murray, arrested during former president rodriguez to today's term a news website raw play extensively investigated to today's anti drug campaign. the kill thousands of people. staff faced harris men, death threats on legal action. the company caused the legal investigations targeted attacks. last year, the securities and exchange commission ordered wrapper to be shut down. that's where one of the case is still pending appeal. now, shortly after acquittal,

maria russell spoke to my colleague, ne, palka, ne, began by asking 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 like i would get because we were preparing, i guess you could call it p 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, as of course i will 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 se, see 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 and it's her 1st, 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 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 for a 4th year in prison. french make will feel, 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 think 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. well, i say the sensitivity of course,

but this is potentially a huge reversal of fortune for you. you were 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 were exactly where business. so look, a nomics rule of law and press freedom meet our president. president mark was his in davos, 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. the un has sent the deputy secretary general, the organizations most senior woman to afghanistan. i mean it, mohammad is part of the highest level delegation to visit cobbles,

since the taliban to power. she's expected to discuss the crackdown on the rights of women and girls. christian silly me reports from the united nations. in afghanistan, the announcement that women could not attend university brought protesters to the street that and 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 voted on government in afghanistan has been very disappointing for us. and we've been warning them from taking such a to such as this 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 jose, 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 you ends 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 afghan, a sans neighbors 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, from this approach. and we pride ourselves on, on the progress that you're seeing across the mussman will be soupy women's rights

. but the solution is to engage the con 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, a course in japan has found 3 former executives not guilty of negligence in the fukushima nuclear disaster. and upheld a ruling by lower court, declared the former employees of tokyo, electric power company. 3 men were in charge, went us in armies struck japan back in 201140 salami has moved from take it was, it was the expected to get to this. but many people were hoping that the high court would, 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 goal, 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 or thought during the to see the defendant also reliable in their neglect and promotion negligence. that is, i'm thinking about the been on to, to big point 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 referred to such and use it to me is not consider the unreliable and they could have expected subject to not me to have the patient on the nuclear does not have been seen in 2011,

a european union delegation is an occupied east jerusalem to visit the l axiom. last compound, it's in support of jordan jordan guardianship. the muslim holy sites, their fears, israel's new far right government will take control of the compound. iran. com is that this has been described as a solidarity visit with the what company who are in charge of the alex, how most compelled now the walk for actually jordanian the status quo. the compound is always been that it has been run by the jordanians. it has been the center of control vesee in recent days. the jordanian bassett was actually turned away from a visit here just yesterday because he hadn't got permission from the israeli police. it was some pushing and shoving going on with a delegation that was here. eventually he was allowed into the mosque and he did visit, but they had the jordanians were very clear. they don't need israeli police permission

to go into the companion. can just see the police guys all hear that. now the you delegation, like i say, they had to pay a solidarity visit to the jordanian walks and to discuss the events of recent news, which includes in the last $2.00 weeks, the visit of it, the mar ben givers, a v, a national security minister who's actually effectively and child, the police force who came here, that's what that visit sparked an enormous amount of controversy, including criticism from the european union. so head on al jazeera, india is poised to become the wells most populous nation. we look at how the growing numbers could based its economy and prosecutors in brazil present the 1st charges against dozens of supporters of the former president, jerry boston, our if a storming the nation seats a power ah

hello, they a heavy rain has gone flooding in some parts of northern spain, we could see more of that as a novice system, weights and the wings. on wednesday it's fuel by some very cold northwesterly winds . it's likely to blast into the bay of biscuits the by thursday, but it's feeling a lot cooler for the north, west, britain and island. we've got amber warnings out for snow and ice. the scotland yellow for western parts of england and wales. those extended down to the south island, seeing a similar conditions by thursday. there was some improvement in the south, but the ne, continuing to see that wintery weather that extends across much of scandinavia, heavy snow like clean for finland on thursday. we are, we could see some flooding in places like latvia as that much of snow moves across the baltics. but the one the winds are leading to some snow mouth across the south . well this is where we are seeing the worst of the weather in. torrential rain,

continuing to effect italy. even behind a bit of a wintry mix is going to push across the adriatic adriatic, bringing possible flooding to the likes of serbia, where the rain is set to fall heaviest. but still some wound coming in for places like romania book, rest a 20 degrees celsius. once again, however, it's spain and portugal that's going to contend with the worst of that wet and windy weather. another blast in the bay obisky on thursday, a to bleaching the issues of the day. the 5 largest polluters of the world are in india, jump into the street, they made their money on coal. they made their money on the field. convincing those folks. no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult. giving a 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. oh, walking back watching al jazeera and linda thought top stories this hour. philippine court has acquitted nobel laureate journalist maria restaurant on tax evasion, challenges rights groups say the case is part of a knowledge, a cracked on on media freedom that began under the former president, rodrigo detaching the un has sent its top ranked woman as part of its highest level delegation to have got us to tell about the power. all his concerns about gender discrimination on the rights of women and girls. helicopter has crashed into

a preschool in the training in town bravery, which is near keith. this is, according to the governor. they all reports of casualties and emergency services india is poised to overtake china's, the wells most populous nation. more than half its people are younger than 29, something india hopes will boost its economy. and 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 were eligible. she's a good. so i wanted to have another boy i wanted to. i'd rather sibley doesn't matter,

but now her 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 has one of the youngest in the world. that is good for i think on the knee level, young workforce and back to something that just very, very advantages to us. but the downside is that, you know, there is going to be the height population of woods of extreme on our food. on our health. 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, probably some good year govern 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 can we develop further for nathan, a population ok. it's not good that the population will be like this. in india, the government should do something about it. there is 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. the climate activist gretta thornburg has been released by german police officer being briefly detained on tuesday. she and other demonstrators have been protesting in the town of loot that out there trying to prevent the demolition of the village to make way for coal mine expansion investment. and the development of renewable energy is high on the agenda is the world economic form enters its fed day. europe has been seeking the way to reduce its reliance on russian fossil fuels,

european union, as planning legislation to make life easier for its green industry and back it up with state aid. on the president of the european commission or isler vandelay in spain town is there on the sidelines of that form. she said clean technology is now the fastest growing investment sector in europe. we have diversified away to a friends and a partners that are reliable. dikes like the united states, like norway for example, we haven't parallel filled our storage is we have massively invested in renewable energy because it's home grown at gives us independence. we have doubled the deployment additional deployment of renewable energy, and we are now doing joint procurement for natural gas. all these steps have helped to bring the prices of natural gas down. actually since the peak in august last year, we're now down by more than 80 percent with the gas price. this is good. the warm

weather in the winter helps, but it's not the only factor. we're still not out of the woods, but a much more positive today than i was 6 months ago. for sales, prosecutor general has filed the 1st charges against $39.00 people accused of storming government buildings in the capital this month. the charge's include staging a coo monica yankee reports now from rear diginero. these images just released by the brazilian congress show how the attack on the capitol unfolded. one week after the inauguration of president, wheezy nash should lula the silver thousands of supporters. the 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 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 pal. last week, he accused members of the security forces of helping the rioters out maybe point the gent to pony french. many offices were collaborating with riotous 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 be

attack. also now to left brazil before lola's 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 u. s. vsa, 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 planned to file criminal charges against colombia as defense minister. they accused even velasquez of being involved in a bribery scandal. when he worked as a u. n. anti corruption investigator, in guatemala, both countries have re call the ambassadors intensifying a diplomatic route. columbia's president says that the allegations aren't baseless duluth and very much we will defend him. mister velasquez will continue to be out defense minister if guatemala insists on imprisoning just people. them is really not much for us to do in guatemala, public sector workers and pensioners in 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 to reason by reports aah on the streets to demand a pay rise in a country that struggling with one of the highest inflation rates in the world. venezuelan teachers and members of other unions say the government needs to act immediately to increase their wages. oh my go him in israel, la jolla, a teacher in venezuela to day and $71015.00 in 20 us dollars a month. and those who made 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 prosecutor's office in correct us to make themselves heard last year when it's will at inflation rate was more than 300

percent. according to unofficial estimates. these people say they haven't received the salary increase since march 2022. 0, to day. not only teachers, but all public servants are 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. pamela. ah nicholas, my lord is government has been trying to reduce public spending and race taxes to lift venezuela out of the hyperinflation law, but has forced more than 7000000 people to leave the country in recent years. the government is struggling with the, with sanctions in 2019 it relaxed private sector regulations to allow more foreign currency in close. while some industries have benefited, millions continue to struggle. precedent. mother would blame the us for the parent economic situation. but cable les, look for a common destiny for venezuela,

a common goal them. this must be to say in one united voice enough with the sanctions job by the us government to lift all the criminal sanctions against the republic of venezuela. enough of these criminal sanctions feel o people here say it's not just sanctions that are hurting them, but also the governments miss ha, link 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 eda ok let's pretend to breaking news story. we are hearing from the news agency voices that 16 people, including ukraine's interior minister, as well as all the senior ministry officials have been killed today, wednesday, when a helicopter crashed outside keys in the town of bravery. now let's go straight to all corresponding natasha butler, who i believe is now nay. the crash saw what more can you tell us?

yeah, we're pretty much at the crash side just behind me is a kindergarten. that is where the helicopter came down a just after 8 o'clock local time. i don't know if you can see at all, but we can see emergency workers in place at the scene. a part of the building is completely burnt out and all around me all residence in this area. it is a residential area. they've come to see what is happening. it's very quiet. it's very still people. a very shocked and see there's still a real, a smell of smoke in the air. now, what we're learning is that 16 people. this is, according to the bovary police. at 16 people have been killed including a 2 children. we also have heard that there were 9 people on that helicopter, including senior, a political government figures here in cave and the interior minister, the interior minister that has been killed in this crash. now we don't know any more about the circumstances of the crush. why, at the public debt on,

at this point, of course, this is very much something that just happened a few hours ago, but we are in this small town of avari is just on the edge of cave. and as you can imagine, a, a rural shock for many people. indeed, i'm particularly political circles, news at the interior minister, and i believe his deputy also killed in this crash. i suppose at, at this point, one of the 1st questions is that the helicopter itself, who the helicopter belonged to why it crashed? what more do we know? do we know anything about it? no, no, not at all. what we understand it was carrying 9 people, including these see new political figures, including what we understand to be interior minister now, where was going, where had come from. we don't have any details at all. i mean, i'm sure some of those will emerge as the day goes on and why a crash. we don't know. there was some reports of from some residents saying that they assume the helicopter in the air that perhaps

a propeller was on fly. but none of that goofy burke like at that stage that we could say a very cautious and wait to hear more from the police. so tell us a little bit about the location. you said it was a residential location. the town of bro very, i believe is near keith. it's a historic town. what more can you tell us? i mean, the helicopter actually crashed into this preschool, kindergarten. yes. when a we're in a well, it's effectively a small town on the outskirts. so keep the eastern outskirts without, you know, 40 minutes drive from the center of the city. and i mean, all around me, all apartment blocks, apartment buildings where people are living in it, right? in the middle, you have this kinda garden, it's quite big. and this is where children were at school, children and stuff. we know that people have been evacuated. we don't know how many casualties the were in the nursery, but it was up and running. it was open parents that already dropped their cio.