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hello, i'm rob matheson, this is the news i live from dill. hard coming up in the next 60 minutes. rushes photo ministers in south africa, part of a push to build ties. as muscle goes increasingly isolated because of its wall in ukraine. a massive power outage in pakistan, almost 220000000 people without electricity after a widespread breakdown and the national grid protests and the ocoee by west bank as israel plans to demolish a vintage to make way for more illegal settlements. and hong kong welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors from mainland china, from lunar new year's celebrations. october 19th, restriction, some lifted. i'm far as small. i have all the days a sport as our small boss, macau ar. test. as his belief is growing among his idol chasing players, the gunners have a 5 point lead at the top of the family table after eating old rivals. manchester united.

ah. fallen says at once approval to send german made tanks to ukraine. berlin is coming under increased pressure to give the go ahead. as being discussed at a meeting of e u foreign ministers in brussels. moscow's been squeezed by international sanctions because of the invasion as foreign ministers in south africa to drum up support. pollens prime minister has expressed his solidarity with ukraine and his adam, and they will give them the hardware they're requesting. now there's something mother, we will seek disapproval from germany, but this is a secondary issue even if we don't get such an approval in the end, we will give our thanks to ukraine anyway, within a small coalition of countries, even if germany isn't in that coalition. and leave a family miller who is standing by for us in pretoria. natasha butler's in the ukrainian capital fee. keith, 1st we're going to go to dominant cane, who's in berlin, does it look dominic as though ukraine is going to get the hardware that it needs

that's a serious question for many people in the german government right now. it's basically being one that's been posed to them buying closed doors for many, many weeks. the question that really is central to all of this is, what does all our shots, the german chancellor make of such requests. we know that his cabinet colleagues, several of them not, not the least of which angler, adelina, bell bach, the german foreign minister and the green parties already said that although a request has not been made. if a request was made by our country to release german made leopard to tax to ukraine than the german government wouldn't stand in the way of that request. interestingly, today, representatives from the german press government press agencies have said that no request has been received and that would a request be received. then it would get a swift reply in the way that these requests are treated. all of which means there

is still a sense that it's for all our shots to decide exactly what he wants to do. the point to remember though, is that at every stage it seems over the course of the period of time since russian forces invaded ukraine. mister shots is government has been perceived by many as being while the slow to provide military aid sun is being sent eastwards to day. but it's only going to poland, namely patriot missiles, systems and some mama personnel carriers. mr. shots is government said on the 5th of january, that some of these deployments would eventually reach ukraine. they haven't yet. donna king in berlin, thanks very much indeed. dominant. well, let's go from berlin to keep. that's where natasha butler is joining us now. of course, the ukrainians and amongst all these discussions are fighting a war. what's the reaction in key to all of this?

yes, ukrainian present flood him is. lensky says that what he's waiting for ukrainian people are waiting for is a very clear answer from berlin on whether or not germany will st tanks to ukraine . ah, he gave an interview to the german press in which a zalinski said that he was trying to reassure germans that ukrainians. don't want these tanks for offensive purposes. they've got no interest in trying to gain a russian church. they want them for defensive purposes in order to defend the country from ongoing attacks and a russian forces. now, a keeps government to sit in the path that it needs about 300 tanks in order to do this. and there's also the sense of real heightened urgency here in ukraine because many officials believe that russia could launch a new offensive in the coming weeks in the coming months. and they say, if germany does decide to send these tanks or allow others to send them and send them now because every day counts because you're gonna have to have soldiers that

are gonna have to be a trained to use those tanks, maintenance or experts going to have to be a people can have to be trained, i should say, in maintenance on those tanks and also even getting the tanks into the country. all of this takes time and time at the moment is not on any one side here in ukraine because every day people are being killed. whether that's a civilians or soldiers in parent, places like back, mostly east where they're fighting a russian forces again in the last 24 hours, very heavy shelling in some parts of the south of the countries upper asia and care . so and so that is why ukrainians really all getting increasingly frustrated with all this or lack of decision making, coming from berlin. they want those tanks. and really they want them now as natasha . about bringing this up to date from keith well, from the russian response will talk to ali harsh. hm. he's got more nar, from moscow. moscow has been reacting to news of western weapons supplies to keep

the deputy foreign minister said j at yahoo. gov warned that these weapons are going to be destroyed by moscow. we up. gov also down played reports of long range ballistic missiles supplied from the u. s. to ukraine and said that this is an element of psychological warfare. now mosque has been over the past few days, escalating his position with respect to the weapon transfers. dmitri pascoe, the spokesperson for kremlin, said that this is taking the whole conflict to another level and that nature would be involved him directly in it. this is kind of an attempt to a deepened that he looked and see on the european side mainly in germany. but to ref, called, he said that the u. s. ambassador to moscow, the new ambassador will arrive within the coming days and issues between moscow and washington are going to be discussed with you on buses are still on the diplomatic

front. a most gotta announce that its downgrading its relations with estonia. following colleen's downsizing of the you of the russian embassy. deb on another note, the f. s. b, the russian foreign intelligence service said that they have reliable sources stating that the ukranian army is a stock filing weapons and nuclear plant in euclid. as we mentioned, russia's foreign minister, saggy la rose in south africa for talks is be missing. foreign minister, now lady ponder in pretoria last week, south africa's military announce plans to hold joint exercises offered coast with china and russia. south africa among the countries that abstain from voting in the united nations, to condemn russia's invasion of ukraine. we are all in say, look, in favor of peaceful resolution of disputes. and though will be, will be bold as regular discuss,

negotiate of solution to any conflict on earth in september, president zelinski, sorry, to sign that you agree prohibiting all ukrainian officials to negotiate on anything with the russian federation. so i believe it is absolutely obvious as regards to the origin of the problem of lack of negotiations. our sincere wish that the conflict currently between russia and ukraine will soon be brought to a peaceful land through diplomacy and negotiation. as we believe this is the desire of all of us in the globe. fundamentals donors, leitner from pretoria vomited a south africa, has remained neutral with regards to the ukraine warrants cal, having to try to fairly fine line with this visit, sir, by the russian delegation. isn't it well,

especially considering it's also the 2nd visit in just 6 months by mister lever, off 2 countries in africa. and undoubtedly to try and cement relations with countries who are friendlier to russia. especially considering that russia is facing increasing isolation from the european union and within europe as the south african, a foreign minister who we heard from a moment ago. the lady ponder, also went on to talk about these naval exercises as of africa. will be engaging in with russia saying that when other countries such as the usaa that wasn't said, but implied when other countries engage in such exercises, nothing. he said there's no criticism. but to when developing countries like south africa do the same. the is that criticism, they are questions and that's a double standard. so this really is about russia approaching countries within africa. away i suppose. there is a willing audience,

especially when these countries have faced threats or, or uncertainty with regard to the relationship with the united states. or am with in europe, and here you have russia offering perhaps economic a trade deals military assistance on a friendlier terms, especially at a time when they are those kind of global tensions of africa has said that it once it seeks a diplomatic her resolution to what's happening in ukraine, and as you mentioned, they abstaining from a boat at the united nations condemning russian russia's actions. and that's what be. so from many african countries, less than half of them a voted in favor of that condemnation from the united nations. that's the kind of reception that the russia is getting from a several african countries, whether it's a bar where ethiopia, our miley or sedan, men, in some cases, assisting them in terms of peacekeeping resources, training arm, or any sort of

a military or intervention, depending on what's happening in those specific countries, but this is what we're seeing from russia here in africa seeking friends allies and especially with in the bricks group where it's about brazil, russia, india, or china and south africa. i looked as an alternative block to or perhaps are relations in the west. pharma miller in pretoria farmer to thank you very much indeed and will relations between russia and south africa go back decades after the cold war, russia through its support behind the african national congress, the party of nelson mandela as the and c 4 to end apartheid south africa is going to be cheering this year's summit of the bricks, economic and security blog, and it includes brazil, russia, india, and china's farm. at a said, in recent years, rushes expanded political, economic, and military goals across africa. and it is the biggest supplier of arms to the continent, families, suffolk with him as a political analyst and

a senior research fellow at africa, asia dialogues. he says, despite historic ties, there is little support in south africa for the russian invasion in ukraine. the public opinion in africa, any sort of skin general is telling against russia, given that we continually seeing those disturbing pictures all want on destruction of infrastructure and killing of innocent women and children and did just general mayhem. so i think the sake of love ross is here to want to try and explain to sort of against why they have done what they're all they put you to do it doing and rash up activities. also 2 and 2 green extent, you know, re, i saw african, vince are africa that to be flow of goods. but color grain, dental becoming strong. my ukraine will reach the shores of african countries. of course, no, not disbanding, that russia has got no control of that ticket. got much more control because be controlled waters that to visually lead to the mediterranean and eventually to various roles in africa. del appointees that sort of the case as soon to be

presidents of bricks and russia and china are pushing for the expansion of brick. so i think one of the discussion that we'll be having with melanie to bundle the they did the minister, the international relations incorporation, sought after gaze to no labels though, foundations. and by the time the summits occur or case later on this year, the bricks i'm, it's at least those talks that have taken place. many more had in the news are including iraq's failing economy. we're going to look at the driving forces behind the depreciation of the country's currency. the main suspect and a mass shooting in california kills himself after a stand off of police and his sport, manchester cities, gall machine, early harlem, hit hattrick against wolves. details halley up ah, much of pakistan has been paralyzed by

a power outage to countries. energy ministry says the national electrical grid went down early monday morning, nearly 220000000 people lost power or thought he se average to restore the system are under way. but getting all the system back online could take several hours. come on hiders in islamabad with more for the 2nd time since there is new government doke. power in april after the award of no confidence against enron con, the country has seen a major breakdown in the country electricity power system. today, august on experienced yet another outage, the 2nd and they have gotten the affected life across the country where the steel woke head in islamabad. they depend on electricity, so they can use their vending machines, as well as be able to cut that steve. but as you can see, these people are just waiting for electricity to return, and that means

a lot. so for days, rages, they cannot afford to go bob for it's filing inflation anyways. nobody believe me. i think got a year since morning. we are waiting for the trustees that we could start our daily chores. unfortunately, there isn't any hope, and that has made us worried about how we will make our livelihood for the day. i'm not to go to not barney family, do it monday, which i the boyish on we are all daily wage earners. and our work is totally dependent on electricity, which is cutting and welding and can't be done without power. the shows the incompetency of this government who has not been able to restore the power since this morning and are making it hard for us to earn anything for the day. he's in the back over. i to dad frequent fall wilcox, which of course is now also affecting out for many industries are shutting down because of foreign exchange shortages. and also because the raw materials are not being and bordered into the country. because the government, as important to ban on import, this electricity crated only showed the incompetence of the bread and government,

which had said that it would investigate the last time the country. so a major breakdown in its electricity supply system. however, there was no action taken despite promises, and it appeared that this time again, there will be no action from the government. the ball was sick, the can not be face. as long as it is in the traditional public sector and as long as it is controlled from one office in islam, we have 9 distribution companies in the country or 10 or whatever it is. whether we were the management outsource, whether we were to privatize whether we will work out something with the better with the federal government in the provinces. the discourse needs to be fixed, but indeed a warning trying for the people of pockets on and origin power that the country cannot afford to lose electricity on such a large scale. depriving tens of millions of people of electric bala, sorry,

but honor is an energy expert. i think you can make analysts. he says the energy crisis in pakistan is simply because not enough money is being invested at the moment. most of our stations are down and the at experiencing this cd. yes. power shortly since morning and just to conclude it get the power is the lifeline of a country. and you know, if some one is something that is a shortage, how can they be able to survive and move in the present that they're the one is progressing a lot and you are neck and behind just because of the non availability of power a sufficient amount of which is required to gun feet at present be on making one was 33 percent shocking. and this is not just because off the blessings with this country or if there is any shortage off for other resources. you only being this

can be, are making it do merely to, or you could say into that. the only thing is that the bad governments and at the same time, the improper utilization of resources, you know, our power system. our national grid is such an outdated and we have been experiencing of assistance and still there is no investment. seriously, there is no investment in our sector. residents have a better one village in the occupied was buying saying they won't move even though their homes are threatened with demolition. israel's fall right. national security minister in bang via has demanded that the village of con alamo should be destroyed in 2018 israel. supreme court approved to plan to bulldoze it,

to make it way for illegal israeli settlements. the court now asking the government why that hasn't happened. it able to him has moved from kind of law palestinians are protesting here against the visits by israeli lecount members over there. they are members of the ruling party in the government of benjamin netanyahu in israel. and there are calling for the demolition of hannah mud village now 2018. these really supreme court greenlighted the demolition. but as many palestinians save international pressure the i c. c prosecutor. even warning that this could constitute a war crime, transferring people living here. so. but then ard, renewed calls now and there is a court case in the israeli court against the government. not demolishing a. the structures here and at hand a hammer. now as far as people here tell us, they have no intention of going anywhere. we're seeing children that have been born

after 2018 after the courts are green lighting, the demolition and palestinians say they want to build on their lands and they have nowhere else to go out. and you still have a job and well, a good, a dinner and all the toner. there are 3 generations here. our children will raise their families here, like our grandparents did, were here before the settlement, and still, for our doman was established in 1984. but we have been here since 1952 before the occupation of smith. ringback here save that, their simple way of life has always been under threat living under israel's military occupation. but they're saying that now that threat is becoming more and more imminent. they're telling us that the only thing they're left with is persevering. the euro says it's captured to members of i saw in syria us central command, says the operation will disrupt the group's ability to plan and carry out attacks

in the area. my kind of reports from washington, dc. well, a reminder about the ongoing us led coalition operations in the east, in syria, in particular, a spokesman for us central command says that to i saw members were captured in a helicopter and ground assault carried out by the u. s. and he says, members of that coalition operate in there, one was described as a facilitator, the other as a facilitator and largest edition. now the spokesman says that one civilian was injured in the attack. he was taken to a nearby hospital and is now being returned to his home. a few days ago, a us base in syria came under attack the touch base base, where there are some 900 us soldiers stationed. that came under attack by drones to drones with shut down the 3rd drone actually hit the encampment injury at least 2 democratic syrian fighters. now whether these 2 events are connected,

the spokesman did not mention. he did not in any way connect these 2 events. but at the same time you've had a couple of days ago, a drone attack on a us space in the north of syria. now you've got a u. s. lead raid in eastern syria capturing to members of i saw as the u. s. claims. i mean, i was talking to you on strike and a dispute over pay. it's the 1st time workers from old see you is walked off the job in the same day, hunting warnings for the public to only call emergency services in life threatening situation is false. it is more from london. this is the 3rd strike, 5 minutes workers in the last 5 weeks and it is a major 13 separate unions calling out their members and large areas of england and wales affected attends of the impact on public health. it is likely to be considerable in terms of serious life threatening emergencies. they will still be attended by ambulance. is there a manager here at this picket line? for example, who will assign such calls?

to striking paramedics will come off the picket line and go and attend those, but still serious but non life threatening cases, they are expected to be delays. and i'm going to is attending those and in less serious instances, that may be no ambulance at all. that will be on its way as far as the people we've spoken to here can said this is an issue of the cost of living. the low pay that they say they have been suffering with for many years. the impact on service of the kind of stuff turnover that, that creates the head of one of the striking unions says that the answer to all this is staring the government in the face. it is raising pay. the government though in the shape of the health sacrifice barkley has called this hugely disappointing. he says he has been having constructive talks on 2023 to 24 pay, but the unions won't pay awards immediately. they want the current situation to be tackled in terms of what's going to happen in the coming weeks. well,

we're told that could be some 11 strikes between now and march the 20th. so that is an intensification of what is already a very major around a strikes the situation look set to continue. police in the us state of california say the main suspect and i'm shooting has been found dead 72 year old who control and shot himself as he was cornered in a car park. officers believe you open fire a ballroom dance studio in town. eastern los angeles and saturday, killing at least 10 people rob reynolds has been following the developments in monterey park. a massacre in a quiet community celebrating lunar new year. 10 people, 5 men and 5 women were killed when a gunman entered the star ball room in monterey park, california, saturday evening. 10 others were wounded. some critically, one of the county's most heinous cases. hours after the killings police in torrence 48 kilometer south west of the crime scene surrounded

a white van believe to be linked to the shooting. as officers closed in a single shot was fired from inside the vehicle. at 1252 p. m. r sheriffs, a swat team approached and cleared the van, and determined the suspect sustained. a self inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead. at the same. investigators conducted a search of the vehicle and determine the mail inside the van was the mass shooting suspect. the gunman was, who can train a 72 year old man of asian descent? police said he had several firearms including a semi automatic machine pistol. police have not disclosed a motive. we want to know. we want to know how something like this. something this awful can happen, and congresswoman judy chew represents the area. there are also other rumors about

this being. i a dispute, ah, by a husband who are caught his wife, dance, and heir. please say shortly after the monterey park shooting. there was a related incident at another nearby dance studio who can trans, entered the studio with a gun, but was disarmed by patrons. he was disarmed, ah, by 2 community members who i consider to be heroes because they saved lives. this could have been much worse. people in monterey park, a city of 61000 whose residents are pre dominantly, asian american, were stunned by the violence. i was shocked. i was because the bar, i'm dancing studios where i go dancing on monday evenings with friends. and i was a hit close to me, you know, my kids were afraid to go to sleep last night because they were afraid the sheet on my break the windows and come in or something i had to tell them. now this is okay and i'll come for them to go to sleep. the killings came at the lunar new year, normally a joyous family oriented festival. monterey park now joins

a long list of us towns and cities, scarred by deadly gun violence. what should have been a time of celebration is now a time of morning in a community that may be changed forever. rob reynolds, alger 0, monterey park, california. harvard, a check of the world. whether he is jeff. we've had some records setting cold in the northeast of china. hi there. we're talking temperatures about minus 50. so this is cold air out of siberia painted on the colors, dark, the blue and purple, the lower the temperature. i mean, look at hard ben. this could be your coldest nights of the season at minus 35 and when we get this cold, they are leaking out of siberia over the sea. that gives us see and do snow for haunt, you and hope cato but it's running up and down. japan's main island of haunt you and there's that bitter cold through the korean peninsula as well. young gang, top temperature of minus 4. now really it's south of the games to river valley. we're temperatures. not too bad way, lynn,

looking good with the high 14 degrees and off to india. we go active whether toward the northwest, some sundry downpours. here i think we may even see some hail mixed in that includes for new delhi and blanket it in rain across the mall, deeds getting ready for another cold snap through pockets. dawn karachi, 23 degrees. somewhat weather for as long as the bad and snow up against the foothills of the himalayas off to the middle east. and it's a bit of disorganized rain falling right across the saudi arabia. but that is also coming into the gulf is walls. so another chance of showers in doha, on tuesday with a high 21 degrees. that's it. that's all season i still had on al jazeera, another blow to view case conservative party of prime minister re, she's cynic, launches an investigation for that tax affairs of the party. chairman and peruse most popular to its destination closed indefinitely because of ongoing protests. i'm in support action from yesterday, an open as this plan goes for her 1st have

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a blue ah, you're watching are the 0 reminder, our top stories, this are russians. follow ministers saga love rob is in pretoria meeting south africa's foreign minister. now lady ponder moscow has been squeezed by international sanctions because of the invasion of ukraine. and it's now turning to its allies to drum up support. authorities in pakistan are working to restore electricity after a nation wide power outage. the energy minister blames

a fault and the national grid. nearly 220000000 people have been affected. protesters have gathered at a bedouin village and occupied westbank that threatened with demolition in 2018 is a supreme court approved a plan to bulldoze can alarm or to make way for illegal israeli settlements. the chairman of the you case, conservative party says he'll fully cooperate with an independent inquiry into his tax affairs that eames a. how he is resisting calls to resign. after details of the multi $1000000.00 dispute emerged by mr. richie's center, had ordered an investigation. but the opposition says it wants him to come clean about his knowledge of the matter. so he sat on saturday, he'd settled the outstanding tax bill on the demand is, is coming recovering this forest, no, from london. how sillies are these questions about the hobbies tax affairs? well, i think that gathering momentum, if you like, just a few days ago, the prime minister was a telling parliament that nadine's holly,

the conservative party chairman, had addressed the matter in full. that was amid calls from the opposition labor party for which you see not to sac mr. how we are now, which you see not because said, but he's off his independent ethics advisor to actually look into the case saying in mister c. next words, there are questions that need answering. statement has come out in the last few hours from that into how we welcoming what he called the prime minister or ministers refer to this matter. to. so to lori magnus and his team, he says he's competent that he acted properly throughout, looks forward to cooperating, but very much insisting that he's staying in his position. now, the investigation senses around reports that a dispute between the dean's or how we and her majesty's revenue and customs was

resolved last summer when the teams are how we was actually chunk of the exchequer . and in effect in charge of h m r c. the report saw that he paid around $6000000.00, including a 30 percent penalty for not disclosing everything that he should have done. now the, the, the tax was allegedly related to shares the names of how we had. and you got the famous polling company, which he helped to set up. and it's been reported that the money that he gained was actually put in a gibraltar base trust, where his father is a director. the dean's a how we again refuse any suggestion that he acted dishonestly. he has described what he calls an error as a careless one and not deliberate. there are plenty of people here in britain who don't quite believe everything. he said, you wish you said i can totally body are also facing another few problems. one of

which are allegations that the man who became the chairman of the british broadcasting corporation helped to arrange a loan for boris johnson. when bars johnson was prime minister and then got the top job, the bbc, what's the government reaction to all of that? well, it's obviously embarrassing something wishy to not re, could have done without a reminder that the appointment of the share of the british broadcasting corporation is a political one. it always is now. bars, johnson says that term, the bbc chair, richard shop has and has no knowledge of his personal finances. but richard sharp can so says that the board of directors, the, the governing board of a b, b. c, will be looking at any potential conflict of interest. the claims all that he richard shot was involved in securing a loan of up 280-0000 pounds over $1000000.00 us dollars. when the boys

johnson was prime minister, back in 2020, which had shop has written t b, b. c. stop saying that he simply introduced sam bly. you a friend of his to the cabinet secretary. he wanted to make a donation to or to financially help baris johnson. but he said i was not involved in making a loan or arranging a guaranteed. i did not arrange any financing for his johnson again has dismissed this as nonsense, but wish he soon like again on the pressure both for his parties and alleged scandals, but a reminder as well. but looking in the background, there is the previous prime minister barak johnson who's some within his party would like to take his place that he and baba from london. i didn't thank you very much. indeed to balance population is shrinking much faster than forecast. the decline is so rapid, in fact, that the prime minister says the country might not be able to continue as

a functioning society. the number of births has fallen every year for more than a decade. it's a common trend in developed countries, but it's a particularly serious problem for japan because almost 30 percent of the 125000000 population are elderly. some of the many reasons behind the population decline include rising living costs and more choice for women. the government says it will urgently introduce more child friendly policies in an effort to try to reverse the trend. well, johnny, me now from talk, it was annual rossetto. she's a journalist at japan forward. very good to have you. with us here on al jazeera, we've been covering over the last couple of weeks. so similar situations in places like south korea and shine and other parts of southern asia. what's significant about the situation in japan? i think because you already mentioned that there are trends that can be seen also in other countries. so in that sense, i don't think it's necessarily a unique thing. and the things that are happening here are the things that are

happening in other developed countries. so you know, as people get high education then they work, they put more stress on their worker and women go more in the work for us and digital people get married laser and there for me and then a few kids to be had. and that sort of thing, but i think what is particular about japan, that is the proportion of the population that is over $65.00 and therefore is putting a financial stress on the budget, but just also on a country that has to sustain what is now becoming and increasing part of the population that will not be working and it will not be contributing to the productive workforce. so in that sense, i would say that this is a unique thing about japan. it's also been led to quite a distinctive statement from the prime minister of the country. he says, might not be able to continue to be a functioning society if this continues,

what do you take that to mean? well certainly it's, you know, like, it's a trend that we've seen that for example, there are so many people that are moving to the big city, but then fewer people are getting married and so on. and then if those few kids, then they will be few people that are contributing to society. so for example, there would be few people that can be want to work in agriculture. and this is like effective, which is hugely important for japan. so there is already, you know, talk off all of the timber that is in japan. does nobody to take care of these, these big plots of land we're going to happen to us. you know, there's a lot of repercussions for society, the cost, the economy has to reshape itself. you to the demographic shifts like there's going to be a lot of things that need to change and hence not function as a prime minister said. so this is a very big transition for society. i think i know the chinese government to try to

revise. it's a drop in fertility. rates has been offering tax breaks and better health care for from others as well as other incentives. what would japan be doing in order to try to deal with this? so what to pan, what the prime minister has said to day. and his sort of speech at the national guy is of the year is that he spent a very long time talking about young families and breaks for those who do decide to have children. and this includes like several demographics. so you said families, but also for example mothers. and i think actually this is not just to deal with the declining birth rate, which is obviously the important thing in the agenda. but it's also a little bit learning from the pandemic, because these are also some of the demographics and stuff at the most during an economic upheaval that happened during coven 19. but quite apart from that, he also specifically mentioned, for example, financial breaks. for those who have kids in schools or you know,

for education purposes and so on. and so there's several things that i think will be addressed in this. essentially, it is financial breaks though to make it easier to raise children. really interesting to get your thoughts on this. hon. bessette. thank you very much indeed for joining us and you thank you very much. the rocky turns is fast losing value to the us dollar. prices continue to climb and it's making the economy even more fragile after years of war and corruption muffled otherwise head has more from been gun prices are going go up in iraq, is tours since mid november. the denali has declined against you as dollar losing about 10 percent of its value. a board on it says he double, it checks the price tags every time he comes to the supermarket and the seller i will, we're having a little bit of shopping is blame it on the dollar exchange rate because most of

the products are imported. in this case, the government should pay our salaries and dollars what the official exchange rate is fixed at $1470.00 d not as per dollar, but recently it's been trading as high as 1600. since november, the u. s. has tightened the rules on international transfers to prevent money laundering. it's reduced cash flows to iraqi banks by about 80 percent lou other 100 for guided and rekey. it's cleared u. s. federal reserve scrutinizing foreign transfers from iraq, especially to those countries unfriendly with 2 u. s. army such as iran, lebanon, but syria and yemen. consequently, iraq steel wire transfers from the u. s. have been cut from $240000000.00 to only $22000000.00 on a day. the government has launched a campaign to combat illegal currency trading and promised to hold further

discussions with washington to stabilize the exchange rate. we're hard edges on. this is one aspect of an economic challenge that requires a brave response and practical solutions to end the wrong financial policies inherited by the current government. in the meantime, the prime minister has extended credit to small businesses by half a $1000000000.00. despite government promises to contain the depreciation, many iraqis are worried about an increase in prices ahead of the holy month of ramadan. especially in imports such as gas and wheat, a number of currency exchanges have stopped trading until there is more certainty about trades. some iraqis blame the central bank for the shortage of dollars. others accused the united states of we promising the dollar. either way, it's the iraqi people who bear the brunt of the changes. ma'am, would have that were algebra, but that celebrations for the lunar new year are happening around the world. people

in hong kong are ushering in the year of the rabbit for the 1st time since the beginning of the coven, 19 pandemic. the territories welcoming hundreds of houses of visitors from mainland china. jessica washington reports from hong kong. oh, i don't comes, won't i soon? temple felton's and welcoming the here of the rabbit. this temple is well known for its fortune telling practice known as calcium. most visitors come here with hopes for the coming year family. i am here to pray for luck. i wish to have good health and more money and stay happy with my girlfriend. with political unrest and the pandemic recent years have been difficult for hong kong, and the territory is now in a shop economic downturn. but many want to put all that behind. then. this is the 1st learning new year holiday since hong kong ease to most of its total 19 regulation temples around the city, a resuming constant that weren't allowed when attend demik room with killen plate

worshippers. and visitors returned to this temple. since we started its practice of burning incense this week, i think it is good to if the matter is before new the new year. so that be po can celebrate together. at west helen station, thousands of people from mainland cities are crossing the border with hong kong for the 1st time in 3 years. a sang and i did sla, we visited many times before, dap and demick. we come from chanson and we love hong kong. the ro, network suspended operations in january 2020, and only resumed them this month. omby. we are here to visit our feminine hong kong . i haven't seen them for 3 years, and i missed them. economists say the recovery for industries hit hard by the pandemic won't happen overnight. but there's reason for some optimism describing a confidence that when the mobility is that would be like a repair all sectors growing, mall growing and also supporting the business that already has been 3 years suffer

from the panoramic. as people gather the festivities with their families, many a hoping this year will be much better than the last. jessica washington out to sierra uncle still had on al jazeera castiano. rinaldo makes his debut in the saudi pro league. i was going to be here to tell you how he got on that's coming up in sport. ah ah with

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me calorie. how says that confidence and being belief among his players is growing? as the gunners fight to win the premier league huddle from the 1st time in nearly 2 decades on sunday they beat old rivals. manchester united, 32. at the emerett stadium. the visitors were fur to find the back of the nation. marcus rochefort, with this outstanding strike. well, when you didn't have a lead, lasted just 6 minutes, eddie, and had yet levelled matters for the home side to make it all square at half time. me howard had his man then took the lead early in the 2nd half because stock on the man of the moment for the gunners. hey, bud. shortly thereafter, the match was level again with sandro. martinos is header equalizing for eric tan hogs man, and what was turning out to be a see saw encounter with handle him would swing one more time and it was in favor of the house and cathy as late go winning it for ourselves. who are 5 points clear

at the top of the table? with us get much better than that. it was a beautiful moment, especially one because were pushing and pushing and pushing and dingo was and come in and he came up didn't anavia made it even more difficult, but he was just electric and it was really emotion on really passionate and i lost it. manchester city is a goal scoring machine, erling holland helped himself to hattrick in a 3 know when over what they're, what each in striker now has 30 goals and all competitions for path 40 on team or maybe not all of them of come as easy as this courtesy of a goal, keeping howler from jose, south east 24 hours of his permission job i would say a passion, a love is not distressed much when he's going well going,

bud stable and he feels the defeat so you guys is really good. the numbers are incredible. so this is what the table looks like. we're halfway through the season and our snow have a 5 point lead and a game and hand sundays when means they've reached 50 points quicker than arson vendors, invisibles. when whole league season on beaten, we've been speaking to charles watts, are some correspondence at the football new service goal. he explained why were things to turn around at the club after leak finishes of 5th, 8th and 8th. it was incredible whether it had been received and i mean the same thing like that was for a long time and it is just a special place with my funds team manager, everyone united, everyone pushing the same way and have a big impact. no doubt about it. i had to speak about it was

a time to speak about it all the time a minute ago to match. yes, exactly. that is the connection that they have with the atmosphere to create something very, very special with that real driving force behind the coke kid. what mean had done with applied to improve them? you know, some of the young talent they got planned for improvement and got romaneli the improvement in talking about too young to come in. well, was there with that division in the world and i didn't catch up. we comes in, i'm sorry, i'm asking montgomery, i'm going to be able to cope about him with you and he's done it. there's also a top score this the, the now is big moment yesterday score and just so much that it changed to the belief that the unit was a very broken club just a few years ago. it all come any change and it's all just played and they

said and just caught a lot of people by surprise. none of us are expected started. we thought that the well that it could be the end, but it was, you know, a lot of progress. you can see in our favor, but the level that they've raised to now and them i mentioned that you've got, they've got the, they're gone in behind them is something very, very special. and that has to be to no blog credit for what he's just been incredible. christiana, and although has made his debut in the saudi pro league, but 5 time ballon door winner, captains his new club all now sir. as they took on l at facts in riyadh, fans had already caught a glimpse of rinaldo earlier in the week when he led and all star 11 who lost a friendly to lino messes. p. s gene, a post where he got that black guy, rinaldo scored twice in that match state office score sheet than this one. all nasser, 11 know and top the table. well,

to talk more about rinaldo is ali khalid. he's the sports editor of saudi new service, arab news, and he joins us now from dubai. and ali, how do you think rinaldo did performance wise and his master debut? and he did very well actually. i mean, he played well. he was quite involved. a lot of touches, of course we would have wanted to score, but he was, he was involved a lot like that right from the beginning. you know, he had a couple of good runs, you know, a couple of misplaced passes. took an early shot as well as was deflected at a free kick, you know, and you know, in the territory that usually it's, but you know, he's kind of renowned for taking a lot of freaks from, from that range. you know, again, missed by a, by a bit. there was a lot of efforts from outside the area. he was trying, you know, you could see it was desperate to score. it was trying both in the 1st and 2nd half, took a few shots somewhere, blocked some like were a little bit too high. but he wasn't bogged to get the reading chances for his

partner. and i talk, you know, 11 was for the i continued by our martinez calling from the left cross and it was that saved martinez shuffle. who said it's something similar, a lot of stuff over is what you know, straight from the right path to this until it's got the brazilian who took a share shop and what was all saved. you know, so they set up a couple of chapters in the 1st half hour. the goal came from telescope, long cross. ronald actually jumped for like, again, very trademark jump very high, but just missed it until mr. came behind him. scored was good performance by now, but we have another late chance, i think in the match went and he caught him from the left shots. well, let me ask you this. there's rinaldo going to saudi, have a similar sort of impact as david back and going to the i'm a lapse in the united states, you know, giving those league sort of more credibility. yes, i mean, i think it's

a good, it's good comparison. obviously we will wait to see, you know, like with, with the, with the am, unless we saw what happened the horse with back and going back. this is early days, but clearly, already, i mean, it's already made a massive difference. and let's say it's a very good capacity. the back i'm solving has been going well. anyway, you know, it's, you know, you could probably say some, maybe the japanese or the chinese, these were the stronger ones, winning the chocolate leaves and all that. but in the last few years, until i have really comes before that they are the current asian champions, already giving lee and a lot of credibility, a lot of flags from south america. few from europe, you know, played in dependent league and other places. but this is a whole new level, you know, or novel joining. as you say, it gives the credibility and really allows you know, like it will attract other players that maybe in the past would be reluctant. you know, there was an image that idea that maybe go into the store, going to saudi arabia or asia. it's a drop down and career whether or not doing it. it's really going to open the doors

and, and other players will look at this and say, well, you know, it's, it's good enough or, you know, it's going to be good enough. yeah. will be interesting to track when all those progress fair. thank you so much. ali holiday for joining us now that chalk of which has been for a record extending 10th australian opened title remains on track the sir. b. the home hope august seminar to reach the quarter finals and melbourne the former. well, number one, put on a master class to demolish his australian opponents in st. john's, which has been struggling with a hamstring injury. and his last 2 matches that seem bothered by it as the steam roll to his 38th consecutive when on the street in soil. he faces a 5th seed, andre rude black. now. yes, i keep on going. obviously, i don't want to celebrate too early. i'm feeling the tournament. i was feeling very good in the 1st match that can match not so great. so i know the things can change really quickly and you know,

i don't take anything for granted. i'm really pleased with the way i played with the way i moved today. the way i hit the ball. so let's keep it going. meanwhile, in the women's tournament arena, federal lanka is through to her 1st australian open quarter final. the bell. russian overpowered belinda advantage of switzerland 7562 to reach the last date. the 24 year old is aiming for her 1st ever ground clam title. she'll play donna deckervidge and croatia. next buffalo bill safety damar hamlin has made his 1st public appearance in suffering cardiac arrest during an nfl game on january. the 2nd handling came out to support his team against the cincinnati bengals. on sunday, the 24 year old collapse during a regular season game against the bank olson had to be resuscitated, but still receiving treatment. but despite his presence, hamlin couldn't inspire when the visiting bangles went on to thrash the bills. $2710.00, ending their post season. beautiful. triumphant story that galvanized on the san

francisco 49 years, be the dallas cowboys. 1912 to reach their 2nd street of the championship game. meanwhile, the cowboys lost for the record 7, st. time in the divisional round. haven't made it to a tunnel game since winning their 5th super bowl, a crown following the 1995 season. okay. and that is all your support for now back to the wrong. thank you very much indeed. and i'm going to be back in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories on robots and 5, and i'm a ah and

for the 1st time in his young life, you know, gets his 1st taste of chocolate. he's been walking on his complex, cocoa fall for 7. yes. you know, father says he put his son to work to prepare him for life's challenges. they do have a bad so i don't have any money to pay labor. and because there are no schools nearby to accommodate all the children, they help with the farmer. children as young as 4 are brought to farms to become conditioned to such an environment as they grow. actively say more than half of all children living in agricultural areas. i engage in work, most of them dangerous work across west africa, one and a half 1000000 children. i involved in cocoa farming, many workers farm laborers and, and less than a dollar or nothing at all. pharmacy attempts by western cocoa, biased for stone prices is keeping hundreds of thousands of children out of school and condemning them to a life of poverty. and they argue only by them receiving better prices and education being improved. can the lives of children like you know,

can poor to there are some of the media stories a critical look at the global news media got spread on al jazeera government shut off access to social media. what is the price of luxury and undercover teen travels deep into the illegal coca plantations of the ivory coast. simple solutions are very hard to find for something as complicated as the child labor chocolates hots of darkness, and count as unpaid child labor. as working in a 100000000000 dollar industry, over half of the countries cocoa produces live below the poverty line. on al jazeera. ah, pressure grows on germany to supplied leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. poland says it's ready to do so with.