this is the image of hong kong that dazzles visitors, a bustling, glamorous city. but under ground a different reality appears. official figures released in november show the number of people experiencing homelessness is the highest in a decade and is a shop rise in the number of women experiencing housing insecurity. that report also said there's need for better services and more funds for hostile accommodation as the situation was, since it's the middle of winter here in hong kong, and the temperature often drops below 10 degrees at night. people in this underpass of repairing for another night exposed to freezing conditions. ah . in a wide ranging state of the union address, russia's president is defiant on ukraine, announcing the suspension of

a cane nuclear treaty with washington. in poland. joe biden says us support for ukraine is unwavering, and russia's invasion has only served to strengthen the nato alliance. ah, norton taylor, this is al jazeera alive from london, was coming up with a report from jim doris assyrian town, reduced to rubble, residence salvage what they can from the ruins. and the rescue operation continues off to floods and landslides. in brazil, dozens of people are still missing. ah hello russian president vladimir putin says wall scary suspending its role in a treaty that limits stockpiles of nuclear weapons. the so called new start

agreement is the last remaining between russia and the us. both nations account for about 90 percent to the wells nuclear warheads. washington says putin's decision is deeply responsible. united nations warned the world without nuclear arms control is dangerous edged returned to dialogue, which i'm going to jump age reports from moscow. easy dealing or a c p, if you do not see below d mirror image, or tomb a year since his last address to the nation. and his 1st since the thought of what russia calls it was special military operation in ukraine. president vladimir wooten said the country will do whatever it takes to when you go to his room. he said moscow's attempts at dialogue have only been met by hypocrisy and nato expansion. a pretty dissimilar going toward what was the fault of the rested cheese . you get that, i need brazilian, it was the western started, the war, and russia is using force with stop it. the goal of the west is unlimited power. the special operation was launched and to protect the russian federation and

eliminate the nazi threat that he just figured he was beefed up in moscow with hundreds of members of russia, political elite, an armed forces, attended his state of the nation speech, put an announce benefits to help people away and said russia had maintained its economic strength of best and sanction. but the fight critics challenged the russian president narrative. this whole decision was based on miscalculations by russia. he overestimated the power of the russian military. he underestimated the power of the ukrainian military. he underestimated his all of the western countries to stand up against russia was more accused the rest of plotting to send nuclear weapons to ukraine before the invasion. his wide ranging address was meant to assure the audience at home and warn will perish, including by announcing the suspension of russia spot vision in the start seduction, p t. but the united states. could i hear them now?

louis russia is suspending participation and start with the nuclear arsenals of the u. k. france, as well as the u. s. are directed against the russian federation. moscow will take this into account. it is unacceptable that the u. s. has started to reshape the world order only to suit itself in the last year that parisha nuclear plant in ukraine, which is the largest in europe, has come close to nuclear disaster. and the possibility of nuclear weapons being used, if the war escalates has been widely reported me, isn't the grossness, did you quote ranch and acknowledging the impact of the war the all those gathered at this conference center incent, moscow stood in silence to commemorate russian service people who died, put in announced a special fund to assist families of soldiers and veterans. russia was do whatever it takes to win the message from a defiant president. putin was to assure his people what you're hearing from the rest is untrue. according to him, the rest has been unable to isolate russia. if he gets military or break it's economy, but as a bar drags past the one year mark,

there is no denying that the people are beginning to feel the impact summer media without that era. moscow? yes, president joe biden says, vladimir putin was wrong about ukraine. wrong about nato, and wrong about the i'm will of america. he case speech to live in warsaw button reiterated his unwavering support for keith and said nature is more united than ever gardener with fracture. and why instead, nato was more united and more unified than ever, than ever before. he thought autocrats like himself were tough. the leaders of democracy were sought. and then he met the ar rural america, the nations everywhere. they refused to accept the world governed by fear and force . he found himself in war with a nation led by a man whose courage would be forged and fire and still president zalinski. alan fisher in warsaw and has more on javan and speech. a year ago he was seeing to

allies look. russian troops are gathering on the border of ukraine. he is planning and invasion. the russians themselves said, no, they went going to invade. and many of the allies couldn't quite believe that a vladimir putin would begin at the largest groan defense of that europe has seen since the 2nd world war. but joe biden was right about that. he speaking just a couple of hours after vladimir putin addressed at the people of russia and the white house didn't want this to become a competition of ideas. although he did point out that flooded me opinion, had moved up the date of his speech. to coincide with the time that joe biden would be in poland. but he is said to the russian people, look, you are not the enemy. this is not about america or european countries wanting to conquer you and rule over you. he understands that many of them want to live in peace and they don't want to be at war. but we've seen these appeals before from

the white house at the difficulty, of course, is that message will not be wide spread in russia. it is unlikely to be reported in those terms in the russian media. so this was joe biden, really addressing the larger audience outside of russia, hoping that somehow the message will get through. many people believe that the war could be over quite quickly. joe biden made reference to that. the fact that many people thought ukraine and keith would fall within 3 days. that was certainly the russian plan, that within 72 hours, they would have control of the capital and they would have installed their own government. yet, here we are one year on. and joe biden is aware that this war critique another year, at least, unless that is movement to bring about some sort of peace settlement. but he was making it very clear to the ukrainian people and also to his colleagues, to his friends, to his allies that they are in this for the long haul. and america isn't going to.

busy walk away from this fight. name is wrong, joins us live now from ukraine's capital keys. any further reaction to the u. s. a show support for ukraine. well, this speech from the us president has been very positively received in ukraine. the ukranian president vladimir zelinski, tweeting a reaction just a few hours ago, quoting the president's speech: keith stand strong. keith stands proud and stands tall. and most important, it stands free. he said, the president of the united states said this today in warsaw after historic visit. the ukraine, we all stand united and brave ukraine, the u. s. in our entire coalition of victory, he goes on to say, he thinks that poses and all of them the thanks the, the president of the united states and all of the u. s. for their leadership and routing support for freedom and says that the country along with its allies is moving towards a common victory and an end to the war this year. now this tweet really showcases the fact that as important as this visit and this trip and that speech in warsaw

was for president biden to secure a cooperation with the e, u and nato, to show a unified front. it's as important for president lensky already incredibly popular, but help helping him to cement ongoing support and morale from the ukrainian people . and for president zelinski domestically that is key going into the 2nd year of the war. but in the meantime, zaleski is still not getting a weapon, as he says needed. if that's exactly right, jessie evening, another diplomatic visit, the italian prime minister, georgia maloney in town. and she has said, one of the things that have come out of the meetings between her and to lisky, they've said that they will not be getting the fighter aircraft, the jets, the, the fighter planes that ukraine says it need so desperately bite in a day earlier did commit another $500000000.00 in direct military aid to ukraine. but all of that, including the long range missiles that the u. k has promised more likely to come

from other allies. tanks and all of these weapons have been promised, but they're moving very slowly and they're not getting to the front line in time, possibly for places like the besieged city of move. now the worry there is that more villages in areas to the north of that city have slowly come under incremental russian control. and even president zalinski himself seemingly preparing the country for bad news in a speech just earlier about buck moved in his nightly addresses. recently, he did say that it is an important city, it is important for ukraine to defend, but not at all costs. and the worry is that around the time of the anniversary that it may fall to russian control. not necessarily because of russian advances, but perhaps because of ukrainian tactical retreat from the area to save lives of its own troops. saying this wrongly thank you very much indeed. ah,

rescues are again searching for people trapped under rubble into kia and syria. after more quakes late on monday, and i just tremors happen 2 weeks after massive quakes killed more than 48000 people. a team of correspondents covering the disaster, as i beg, is in guzman dep. where she said as engineers, syria and we begin with a report from robert bride and antonia turning up at what used to be that former home to witness. now it's complete destruction in these latest earthquakes. in the 1st 2 weeks ago, use of toes says he was rescued from this building after an hour and decided to come back a week ago to retrieve valuables. in spite of the danger. yes, it was risky, but these were things we could leave behind valuables like identity cars and document. although he didn't know that 3 people had been killed here the night before, while also retrieving their possessions. this is what his building and the one

surrounding it looked like after the 1st quakes. the video was taken by another resident who was also planning on coming back to retrieve possessions, but says he knew with the strength of monday's quakes, that the building wouldn't survive. have another session, i don't think anyone can if a plan, anything wrong after things like this happened. soldiers who've been stationed here for the past week have been describing to us how these latest quakes have completely transformed this one street. yet again, some buildings that had already been damaged have been further pushed over to one side. others that were close to collapse. now just piles of rubble for cities like an takia. these quakes have added to the suffering and the misery people are already enduring. bill and his family now share this one tent with another family. when the quakes came, he said they had to comfort that terrified children. then it was like we were out

at sea and we were being hit by waves coming from one side to the other. the people in this corner of southeast and turkey a having to re live the nightmare. the began for them 2 weeks ago. robert bride al jazeera and tech you had beg, is following the recovery efforts in government at last night. we saw people out on the streets unwilling to go back into their homes because of the earthquake and those after shocks. we saw picture stations, very busy people sitting up because because of the crate and saying that they would be spending the night that night in the vehicle not today has calm down a bit. many people have actually left. and the reason is because people there was a state of panic yesterday. people are fearful because they don't know what will happen next. they don't know whether they're building or secure, even those that they have not 3 earthquakes. this didn't always that risk that, that the building that the living is damaged and it could come down anytime that's

in the back of everybody's minds. when you speak to them, they say, well, we don't know where we live, where it takes that we've given. it's secure or not for those people, the intensity or temporary accommodation, then reliving that trauma every time that says and off the shock every time this is trema, they re live that trauma is really affected by college and reading still that 5th and many people want to go home, but they don't have any homes to go back to. and many people are not prepared to go back even to the cities because because of the crate and the impact that has had their lives still to come out here, i gave the most basic supplies. there is overwhelmed health system struggles to treat earthquake victims. tackling one of the wells highest and coldest marathoners group of athletes raise awareness. but the consequences of global warming, ah

that what you would call wind to proffer is still in eastern europe, but it's tend to cross the border and exist really only in russia at the moment. however, it's still in the process of moving. so the picture still looks fairly roar for powdered, for example, and further west where it's been nice and warm recently, particularly in france. that's all change with the wind coming out of the north cloud and rain to follow. so east in europe as well. if you're in ukraine and in cave, 0 is your best if you're in mince gets minus 5. but now the wind isn't that strong . it is driving snow into georgia, but the majority is an awful lot further east now. so raw, but not as cold and not as cloudy. where as us complete changed object re rounded much of france for example, southern germany. little bit lights. now the out for the biggest change is going to be in northern spain retention. dropping 10 degrees and on shore breeze and rain,

i saw that rain will probably eventually make his way across to morocco, but we still got residual shouts from the last act, assisted me now jerry and morocco, they fell snow. there is matches not much more that come i don't think for the south africa there's a lot more dramatic tropical cyclone freddy's in the process of crossing madagascar than reforming to cross towards mozambique. ah, the, the whole world is affected by them. and the influence each other, they are critical conditions for the survival of all life forms and a must for a sustainable human life. yet there equilibrium is threatened by crises all around the world. climate change in human rights are the focal discussion points of an international conference held by the national human rights committee in guitar. it

partnership with lou ah, one of the top stories on how to 0 russian president vladimir putin says moscow will suspend its role in a treaty that limits stockpiles of nuclear weapons. so called new start agreement is the last remaining between russia and the united states. yes, president joe biden is delivered a case beach in poland just a day after an unannounced visit to ukraine. he says you as support for keith is unwavering, and rushes invasion has only served to strengthen the nato alliance. and he's 6 people have died and took here after another powerful earthquake and off to shock

on monday night buildings that were already weakened have now collapsed. the epicenter was near the city vent. takia in hatch high from its latest quake also caused panic across the border. in syria, in a region already devastated by years of conflict, as quite survivors who lost their homes have know where to go. from jan doris russell said, i report here the destruction is absolute. such epoch, elliptical scenes are so much white spread across the whole town of genders. in this town, 1150 buildings have been either completely collapse or now they are heavily damaged. they are not habitable at all. this rubble was once hamme off. many families, but now that are only remaining to memories of a life that once was here, conceded that the carpets the blankets, pillows,

the clothes cheers and the toys that once happy children were playing with. but now it is just this that is left behind. the moment that you entered the town of gin dress that destruction the scale of destruction simply shocked you. and it is quite hard to imagine that there are still people living in this almost completely destroy town. until you see people living among the rubble on the rebels and some of them steal, digging below to get some of the 4 sessions back and the worst ting for the residence of gender as is that they have no option. there is no where that they can go. many syrians here told that they had seen the worst of the enduring 12 years of civil war and conflict here. but now in the aftermath of the earthquakes here, they have even lost more their homes possessions. what was lethal, laughed,

and the sense of security rescue said that al jazeera gender is not were syria. dr. watson al jack is a program manager for the syria and expected medical association. he georgia live from id live in northern syria via skype. thank so much for being with us. i want if you can tell us what the situation is like in the hospitals in northern syria that are been hit in this as quite so it's fine. thank you. lauren and the colleagues in english. actually it is because i think it is able to think with the south that of the and i think he's really the, the whole area and the location will him back and more especially with the high

school district. and then i came from the, the morning completely near to completely destroying the town you can. and when you are working in the 3, many building, rounding partially or completely destroyed. and the something in trade thing, the, the be from the new houses and many other things in the, in the 4000 connelly plate and reviewing and gave and of the rubble and need to destroy the buildings. less than thousands of them are hosted in

a temporary or can this situation with the same, especially in p and and, and it is more of a bigger agenda is a really about the health situation is understand that you working with hospitals. how difficult is it to get the kind of equipment and the treatment that you need for, for patients who are coming in injured in the situations? yes, this the in the, the, the consumables, the medical, the consumables, stock, or houses enough for syria. even before the quick, in short, the leverage of medical consumables and the medications in

a hospital in north with syria about 19 hospital responded to the quick disaster where supplied by deluge or supply line, which is also for the from in the shortage from the warehouse embodied hours will be well provided by some consumables from the ritual, which were sufficient to respond to the, the needs re, bye bye, the, the, the quick, a significant gap in there. this is an consumables, a basic consumables, a druggist. it also suffered the from a cutting of the, the electricity and dependent on fuel and the shortage on, on the shortage of fuel in the supposed to be dense. and they requested an extra

amount of a fuel door to continue operating the generators to meet the needs of electricity in these was because dr was 100. thank you very much for giving us the picture there and syria. thank you. thank of rescue teams in brazil continue to search for dozens of missing people after devastating floods and landslide around south palo state. within 40 people have been confirmed dead. ok and a half reports from south sebastian. this small beach here in bar huddle site is the only way in to one region that was flooded. the roads have been totally blocked on both sides of the road. so the people here have been isolated since sunday. they have no way to get out no way to get supplies just by this with these boats. here are the ones that are bringing supplies, which as you can see here,

they're loading on to trucks and to take to the village. this was the area that was most affected by the floods by the torrential rains on sunday that left our at least 40 people dead. and many missing. 3 united nations peacekeepers had been killed after their convoy hit a roadside explosive device in central molly. 5 others were seriously injured. un peacekeepers had been supporting the country in containing an insurgency in it's central sahara region. come and have killed 7 nigerian police officers. the latest violence had of planned elections on saturday. recent attacks, of course, concerned among the public outgoing president will hammer dubois hurry, had promised to end violence by the arm group book or her arm in the north. it is 100 degrees reports, for my degree more fresh points have emerged. oh, boy,

no state in northeastern nigeria has seen 14 years of bo corum violence, but it's slowly emerging from the crisis with improved security. hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on new buildings and roads, and rehabilitating lives and livelihoods. what we did was to ensure that we created the enabling environment for the population to add them info level would by themselves. with that little thought in bunkerville too, there in jeff, in order to address the good coffee from the inside and fee which are not limited to include in potty and korean climate will never really design include in buffalo to thanks to the biggest military spending in nigeria areas over run by bo caught on fighters have been taken back. the significant robin attacks. my boy cor, i'm an i sell affiliate is boosting commerce in the northeast here at the main market in my degree trade us from china, cameron. and is your are loading of merchandise to take across the board and that

is creating more jobs and incomes. what the ne gained in terms of peace are the areas of the north have lost. the thought has to be accepted. there are still people there as to the villages that are under control or bandaged. there are a lot of atp that and in that area, farther south are you. titian for independence has led to the killing of hundreds of people in attacks on civilians, security forces and government buildings. policy, there are at least $88.00 am. groups across nigeria, from bandits to fight isn't malicious, supported by state officials. this and not the group are the number one security element or threat to the 22 in 3 elections. in the past, these groups, the ads have the capacity to not only disrupt the upcoming presidential election, but plunge nigeria into deeper crisis. i'm goofs, you have killed tens of thousands of people in the last 15 years that jude and voters consider security has their biggest concern and would want whoever wins

saturdays election to tackle it head on. one of them grew so some politicians accused of using violence as means toward their objectives. even the election voters want to use to effect change now appears under threat amity grease al jazeera, made good. a group of athletes has tackled one of the world's highest and coldest marathons. an event takes place thousands of meters above sea level in the indian himalayas. that climate change means it could be a last time anyone can run on a frozen lake cavity metal. ah, and with that, they set off for a historic one, dozens of athletes based for 21 kilometers and the frozen pang only more than 4000 meters above sea level. the 1st of its kind in india are absolutely thrill and unfortunately, that am bodily sleeve, which is in the making because these kind of runs all the apple in europe or in

russia, where the temperatures got all the st. louis. bang on lake is nestled in the himalayas . it extends to nearly 160 kilometers. must have witches in china. temperatures far to minus 30 degrees celsius in winter, only 75 people who have run at high altitudes was selected for the race. runners changed for days to acclimatize, even though you have a good cardio base. oh, you're running a lot or did you but still coming at 4200 meters challenges yorg arabic system. your your o die from and your lungs are very challenz. oh, and you got to learn to breathe harder. the event is called the last run to raise awareness about the consequences of global warming. looking at the rapid melting glacier imposed by global climate change, a v thought moved to send a strong message to the world and saying that this could be the last on,

on frozen bengal lake. similarly, this glaciers on the hill in mountain men or fries and stay forever, the dark is a cold desert in the himalayas and home to many glaciers. people here have been demanding more protection for their land. they say increased human activity in the area like large developments and to resume a melting glaciers and threatening their livelihoods. these black unburned carbon, my new, we're at 11215000 feet. so fuels don't burn properly. so the fuels go up as suit which is black cabin and fly to the glaciers and cover them up with a darkish tinge, which means the glaciers absorbed the sun even more. the event has set a world record for the highest frozen lake, half marathon runners. hope this would inspire action against the biggest threat facing a planet. pardon you met that al jazeera ah.