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are killed in a helicopter crash near keith. ah . one side of the salad. is there a life of doug also coming up? did fax when through, when just is with the philippine co acquits nobel laureate journalist maria, abreast of tax evasion, charges, and a case seen as an assault on media freedom. the un sends it's most senior female official to afghan astonished cools, grow to restore women's rights on to the tell about the u. k. government, wounds, fossil disruptions of hospitals, push ahead and strike as we

begin with breaking news from ukraine, ukraine's interior minister and senior members of the interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash in the town of bro very, which is in the cave region, the helicopter went down ne, a preschool and 18 people have been confirmed dead so far. that includes at least 2 children, emergency services on the scene. let's go straight to natasha butler, who is outside the scene of the crash. natasha brings up to date about what happened yeah, well we've actually been just walking around the perimeter. this kindergarden where this helicopter crashed and i mean terrible scenes there. you can see some of the twisted wreckage of the helicopter all burns out. scattered in this playground where there are childrens slides, colorful children's toys, and a number of windows, you might even be able to see them behind me completely. a blown out, smashed out,

and part of this building has been destroyed and charred. now the emergency rescue teams out there at the scene, they are picking through the debris a short while ago. there was a bit of activity. some people thought they might still be somewhat inside, but that isn't the case. it has been a terrible morning. we know that this helicopter crash just after 8 o'clock in the morning, a low, cool time on board 9 people, a 6 top, a government officials, including the interior minister and his deputy. there were 3 crew on board. all of them have been killed and then i, in this kindergarten and around we know that at least a 2 children, possibly 3 children are of been killed or so and a number of others, many injured. they've all been taken to hospital. now, lots of people in residence standing around looking and watching. i mean for them. this is a terrible shot we just spoke to the man. in fact, he's here. when that crush happened,

he said he saw an enormous ball. the fire he approached, he saw people running away from the kindergarten, one of them with a close on fire. and his hash, i know it's still early days, but it is there any i day what may have caused the crash at this point? we don't know what caused the crash at this point. we know that the ukranian president followed him is lensky has said that this is a moment of on bearable pain. he paid tribute to his terry administers those other senior government officials. he would have been colleagues, friends, people, he has known only to well and worked so closely for so many months now since this war began. he did say that there is an investigation. we understand that such an investigation will take a couple of days. so we might know little bit more in the day to come at this stage, so we don't have any further details just at this helicopter,

crushed here. and for people in this area who live in this area. because this kindergarten is surrounded by apartment blocks. well, you know, one woman told her, so she thought there was a missile strike. somebody thought there was a drone strike happening to sort of think that they might expect nobody imagine that a helicopter would come down to people and show people still don't know exactly what the story is. we still don't know what has happened, but what we do know is there's been so many lives lot lost in just another tragedy . in both i read this small town on the outskirts of keith. natasha. tell us a little more about the people who are in the helicopter. there was the interior minister and his deputy. how much blow is it for the ukrainian government to lose such team members of the government? well, an enormous loss. you know, both person, as i mentioned before, for those in government circles,

including the prism to as pay tribute to them. you know, naming the news in their 1st names or when he passed on his condolences to their families. and they relatives a personal loss because he has been working and been so close to these people who so many months. and then of course, strategically you're talking about the loss of the interior minister, disability and others at such a key time for ukraine at a time which ukrainian forces continue to buckle russian forces. these are top ministers to obviously have a lot of information who have been working on the top doses all this time, who are really intrinsically involved a with this war and the operation that ukraine is carrying out to try and defeat russian forces. this is not a loss, of course, that any government would take lightly and it is a huge loss to the ukrainian person that we don't know who will, of course, replace these ministers because their lives have only just been lost recently in

this crash. but i mean, no doubt there will be much discussion in government circles about what happens next. i and as i said, you know, not just the loss of these officials and these ministers of course, but so many other lives to hear in bavaria and eat. ok. thank you for that. natasha butler there for us. outside the scene of the crash, nicky or niece off the helicopter crash was also discussed at davos where leaders have been meeting for this year's world economic forum. our diplomatic editor james base has been following developments from their well, clearly ukraine was always going to be top of the agenda for this year's dallas. in fact, it was opened effectively by the 1st lady of ukraine 24 hours ago. so here there is shock. what has happened to senior official for the world economic forum that the formal name of data says they are shocked by what they say are tragic events. we have the nato secretary general here with the, the un secretary general spoken to the u. n. a moment ago. second, gentlemen,

tanya, terrorist is aware of the news. he says he's shocked by the news and sends his condolences to the breed families. we have many leaders from the european union and nato countries. here one of those e u foreign ministers is the foreign minister of finland earlier. he gave me his reaction, and of course it's a very tragic event and and minister of interior test met our finish minister of interior. so it's a very sad day, of course on, and the children are involved in the accident or the moment that the cares intensive care. so this is very, very dramatic. even more russia, the foreign minister said a lover of his, his house at the us and the e. u for its involvement in ukraine, saying what is happening is the result of a hybrid war level. says the crisis began way before the outbreak of the war last february. the foreign minister was speaking from moscow with a news conference as part of an annual review of russia's foreign policy. alhashan

has moved from laska surgery. i love robes, but us conference today was an attempt to put the whole war and the whole war into the context of the russian west and confrontation as he described it. he even used that term. the final solution when he was describing the us led coalition as he described, that's trying to find the solution for the russian questions. he also compared the u. s. and weston attack on under and russia. he said to napoleon and hitler. so it was like more into a historical context then he went into some detail with respect to negotiations with ukraine, saying that russia is open to the ations. however, it needs some solid points to stand on. also,

he mentioned the meeting between the head self intelligence in russia and the u. s . and said that this happened when the president biden's request also went to address the issue of the sanctions on russia. said that his country is working on creating and enhancing some new supply chains in order to avoid the west and interruptions. of course, in the philippines have acquitted nobel prize. winning journalist, maria ressa of tax evasion, challenges the still phases 3 other criminal cases which are under appeal law group say as part of a large, a crackdown and media freedom again. on the form of present, rodrigo, to test a won the nobel peace prize in 2021 for protecting freedom of expression. well, the tax case was one of many initiated against mary arrested during former president, rodrigo detective term honeys website raptor extensively investigated to today's

anti drug campaign that kill thousands staff faced harassment death threats and legal action. the company calls the legal investigations targeted attacks. last year, the securities and exchange commission ordered rob plot to be shut down. that's one of the case is pending appeal was shortly off to her acquittal marie arrest spoke to my colleague ne banker. he 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 t s d, 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 will 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 these 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. united nations has sent the deputy secretary general. the organizations most senior woman to afghanistan, amena mohammed is part of the highest level delegation to visit cobbles since the taliban took power. she's expected to discuss the crack down on the rise of women and girls. kristen salome 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 jose, after several aid organizations 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 slummy 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 struggling country or its women in the muslim world is moved on from such from, from, from this approach. and we pride ourselves on, on the progress that you're seeing across the mussman 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 shall head on al jazeera, india is poised to become the well most populous nation. we look at how the growing numbers could boost its economy and prosecutors in brazil present the fast charges

against dozens of supporters of the former president, bestowing the nation seats of power. ah hello. there are lots of quiet whether to be found across east asia at the moment. in particular for china, we are going to see it get rather cold. however, across more northern areas, as winds blow down from mongolia, there's bitter winds already dropping the temperature dramatically in land. but tom will see a similar story spreading out towards the east. not the sunshine. however, for now extending down to that east coast and down to the very south said, turn rather, wet and wintery however formal weston areas. and you can see that dip in temperature, pushing out further east. as those winds kick more snow into northern parts of japan, does snow shower is expected to stretch all the way down from her kato to western

areas of han, schubert, toko, coming in at 30 degrees celsius. that's not similar story for so we're going to see somewhat of a cool down here. by time we get to friday minus 2 degrees celsius, at least the skies will be clear and was moved to south asia. that's not the case. the cold wave conditions have eased across more than parts of india, but we still got fog issues persisting with a warning out for a deja as we go in. so friday, a bit of a wet and winter mix is blown across pakistan. that's going to tend to snow in the mountains and we could see some wet weather next week in new delhi that should weather update. ah oh, on a ah . ah.

lou. oh, welcome back you watching out 0 linda. i'll top stories as our bushes, foreign ministry, say gay lover off his his house at the us in that you 1st involvement in ukraine at a news conference in moscow. he compared the u. s. these policies towards russia, headless treatment of the jews philippine cause has acquitted the nobel laureate, journalist, maria russell on tax evasion, charges,

whites groups say the case is policy and large, a crackdown on media freedom that began under the former president rodrigo, to testing these 18 people including ukraine's interior and astonished deputy of them killed in a helicopter crash native 9 of the victims. well bored, the emergency senses helicopter get more or less. we can speak to patrick barry. he's a defense and security alice out the university of boss in the united kingdom. thank you for your time, sir. so the ukranian government has now lost 3 key members of its interior ministry in one. go. how much of a blow will this be to that war? effort to morning melinda. yes, it's a tragic trash. and we'll wait to see what the causes are over the coming days. but it is a blow in the interior minister denise monitor as a law background. he was appointed by zalinski in 2021 and he's a good friend of his, i understand. and essentially his brief was,

was legal reform. that's why he was in there at the top to talk to the ministry in terms of the conduct of the war. actually the, the more important potentially is a, who was the deputy 1st minister and he had a long career in both the ukrainian internal and external security services. would have known a lot of the contacts that you need to keep. ready to remain safe and being important to the counterintelligence counter espionage piece about finally, the 1st secretary who's also killed, owns the ministry from day to day. so essentially some ukrainians assigned this is this is like using the top of the ministry a decapitated decapitation. what you will find a course is that there's a lot of experience below these people who people are more than capable of staffing . but it will, it will be a blow and it will take a little bit of time to, to get the wheels back on the wagon after this. are you surprised that so many key

members of the government were traveling together and a helicopter like this? it's a good question and the as far as i understand the emergency services, which, which i have the helicopters have 2 kinds and it looks like, given the mileage people are in this woman, i'm looking at some of the records, it was a euro, but we'll have to wait and see, and clearly putting everybody out, you know, i served in afghanistan and if there were a v i, b, or whatever. they were usually separated in the airframes, if there were available air frames and coding everybody of such a high caliber seniority into engine one aircraft. they, they, if they were going on board mission, maybe it was absolutely vital a roller. but it does indicate a confidence, a confidence in the airframes and the maintenance of confidence in the pilots, a competence in the security situation where. busy we're flying or over flying because in high threat environments, you know,

a few pacified it is that you probably would try not to put everybody in the same in the same airframe. so patrick, unfortunately we're out of time but really good to speak. tina that will speak to you again and patrick barry, defense and security, unless the university off nurses in the united kingdom are pressing on with the 2nd strike and as many months demanding higher pay as the cost of living stores. patients have been worn to expect disruption to health care services on wednesday and thursday. under simmons is at that protest in london. the government dusty ball play, the health secretary has said that demanding money that is really meant for patients that it's like get more money that going to damage the health service even more now with me here is be joy, sebastian your a critical care nurse. right in the front line. tell me how much do you need

more money and what is the level of pressure right now? it's not just about money and pay. it's actually one of the reasons why analysis. i leave it just at the moment or off the pandemic vanderbeek actually destroyed notice physical and mental health. so analysis are not able to like in a stretch as much as they used to do in the past, so they are 40 or partially leaving. and i just and some of them leaving the country and some of them leaving for private agencies and private hospitals. so therefore, we are lacking expedients nozzles working in it. just as a result, we are working with a less experienced workforce. i'm one of the feed analysis and i'm seeing resignation letter with the same poster living crisis mentioned in there. so people who cannot afford to stay in and it just with this level of b. so this is causing delays in care admissions, distort just in treatment. so this is pushing lives and i'm doing this for my wife,

my child, and my community and my friends. and for everyone who is out there today, demanding this from the government because we love and it was and we want to am situation to change. so am previously before the pandemic i've used to do extra fits to compensate for the low grades as systematically taken away from us over the last 12 years. but now we cannot do that because we simply cannot have that physical and mental ability to do that. india is poise to overtake china as the wells most populous nation. more than half its people are younger than 29. something in the hopes will boost its economy. but providing opportunities for the new generation could be challenging for 10 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 ran a boy yesterday morning, so i feel good about it always wanted to have one of each. i have her in the child, she is a good. so i wanted to have an under my boy and i wanted to, i'd rather sibley doesn't matter, but now i one of each so and 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 new media, well 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 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 population get here, government government should do something to stop the population growth to didn't. 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 need any population? ok, 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 thousands of people, accused of storming 3 seats of power earlier this month. the charges include

staging an attempted coup, monica dana key reports from re edition air. these images just released by the brazilian congress show how the attack on the capitol unfolded. one week after the inauguration of president wheezing ass, schuler, 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. the silver 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. maybe point the gentry upon 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 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. visa, the former president. a soon after.