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set ablaze, and president, having to fled the country unceremoniously a little port or based in south asia. i half covered numerous pro. yes. or what a decade. but nothing compares to what she, lunk a witness this year. what, how did things go so bad? she long gone. biggest industries out to resume and agriculture explored say, why the corona wires spend to make cans? the 2 of them sector, a ban on chemical fertilizers, introduced by the then president goes, i be a roger buckshot damaged the agricultural sector. the import dependent country ran out of money. as in susanne completely depleted in november 2019 our foreign exchange reserves were at $7500000000.00. however, today it is a challenge for the treasury to find $1000000.00. we must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices in face the challenges of this period. i'll be bid good bye to 2022 . the q was have gone away, but not being the supply is have somewhat priest on what the inflation remains. the new government was hoping to get a $3000000000.00 bill out package from the i. m f. my december. but to secure that and had to renegoti

we begin in south asia. rescuers in nepal have recovered two more bodies from the site of sunday's plane crash. they say they don't expect to find any survivors. 72 people from at least nine countries were on board yeti airlines flight 691. a british man, ryan calum crighton, is one of the latest victims to be named. the plane was on an internal flight from the capital, kathmandu, to the tourist town of pokhara when it crashed just before landing. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from the scene. scattered across the riverbank, fragments of flight 691. windows still intact. seats mangled close by. like pieces of a broken toy, the remnants of a national tragedy. so, you saw the plane come down from the sky? yeah, yes. people living near the gorge, like indraprasad sapkota, say they are thankful the plane did not land on their houses close by. translation: i looked at the sky and saw the plane was slowing down. it was shaking. to me, it looked like one of the propellers was not

now as we move to south asia, things have settled up in the very north, the places like pakistan and india, the wintry weather starting to ease away. instead, we are going to see the wet weather increase down in the south that thanks to a developing system. pulling out of the bay of bank goal is going to completely engulf sri lanka. by the time we get into choose day that wet weather starting to creep its way into southern parts of india by the time we get into wednesday. but north of this much kira possibly some fog issues. ah. the latest news as it breaks, forties are about a kilometer in that direction. do you agree in military is good now with coverage where it will have the palestinian economy on the verge of collapse decade from around the world. this process will be expanded too broad. a social movement not just, again, is increasingly a different time, but also the continuing cost of living crisis hulu. ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the salad. the u. s. secretary of state is calling for urgent steps to restore. com between israelis and palestinia

and as our south asia correspond reports, the situation was exacerbated by western sanctions on russian energy. 2022 has been a year or stronger for sri lanka. the country faced its worse our economic crisis since it got independence and 1948. the economic crisis soon spiraled into a political and humanitarian one. in april, sri lanka defaulted on billions of dollars of external deb, leaving died in nation with no food, nor fuel and no medicines. at least half a 1000000 people fell into poverty and then not to forget the western sanctions on russia and 2022 that dragged the whole world into economic chaos. and further bunch of countries like sri lanka, that we're all ready struggling. do you think sanctions will help? it will only push prices up. so let's start with what's possible. let us look at the sanctions that have been imposed and ask ourselves if it's necessary, the sanctions won't bring russia to it's nice, but they will bring the rest of the 3rd world to each nice was all on the was daily parlor blackouts. widespread protests on the streets. lendy here was outside petrol stati

pakistan is bound by long-term friendly relations, our important political and economic partner of south asia in strengthening cooperation, mutual interest today, the parties expressed confidence that 2023 will be very successful in terms of the development of belarusian pakistani relations. the united nations expresses its gratitude to belarus for helping ukrainian refugees, this was announced at the meeting of the un high commissioner for refugees philippocrates with the permanent representative of belarus in geneva larisa participants of the meeting noted the long-term constructive and fruitful nature of cooperation between belarus and the unhcr. in addition, they discussed possible directions for its development. grandia. she reaffirmed her readiness to expand cooperation with minsk, including in support of the belarusian authorities in ensuring, proper reception and integration of refugees. in addition, the high commissioner, he stressed that the construction of walls on the border with belarus is counterproductive and discriminatory by the way since february in 2022, according to the co

and president having to flood the country unceremoniously a little port or based in south asia. i have carla. numerous pro. yes or what a decade. but nothing compares to what she long got witnessed this. yeah. what, how did tingle so bad? she langon biggest industry's up to resume and agriculture. explore and see why the could own. i want to spend to make kids the tourism sector. a ban on chemical fertilizers into deals by the then president with i be a lodge above shop damage the agricultural sector. the import dependent country ran out of money as soon as completely depleted in november 2019. our foreign exchange reserves were at $7500000000.00. however, today it is a challenge for the treasury to find $1000000.00. we must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices in face the challenges of this period. i'll be bed. good by till 2022. the 2 was have gone away, but not the being. the supply is have somewhat restored what the inflation remains . the new government was hoping to get a $3000000000.00 bill out package from the i m f. my december, but to secure that and had to renego

the growing population of the planet the development of the situation in southern europe africa south asiaot very encouraging , the same can be said for south america where the climate will become drier, which is negative will affect food production, we expect population growth, especially in africa and the outlook is not very good. this is a very good reason to be more active in water mitigation. about 20 million people are at risk of flooding. the floods also cause significant damage of about 80 billion us dollars per year. one of the problems is fast-growing paphodka, which account for about 85% of all floods. they wear suddenly and fleeting the nature of the power of the flood is able to change the flow of rivers, destroy houses with mud streams , sweep away everything in its path. the downside of drought floods the world economic forum estimates that the effects of drought around the world cost $8 billion a year as a result of losses in agriculture in the framework of my creation of a global system for assessing the current hydrological situation and its approximate forecasting. it pr

i think what south asia and like it seems like a lot of post-colonial countries are like undergirded by the same logics of like urban chaos, like dealing with colonial borders and like stratification between ethnic groups. so how do you draw like make and draw parallels between, post-colonial histories, while also the specificity of each region's like particular cultures, like legacies, i guess. yeah, i think it's such a good question and it's sort of how i end the book, though. i kind of talk about it in, uh, in respect to kind of african countries where, you know, you have a lot these similar dynamics that have played out in each of the countries. so you have these to give a bit more context, especially in countries where the, the, the british, where the colonial they created a lot of chaos within each country. they implemented called divide and rule. they countries where you had a multitude of different ethnic groups these comically large countries where you had you know so like again the on average kind of most countries have about a hundred different ethnic groups or 100 people

south asia bureau chief, operator cima is joining us now from delhi. i'm rita. how is india marking this anniversary? hi, sarah will august 30th is designated as martyrs day, and it is dedicated to all the freedom fighters who live their lives for the nation . this year has special significance because it is the 75th anniversary of my, my gandhi's assassination. they've been prayers in rituals at the raj car. that's the place where gandhi was committed a day off his assassination. we've also just come back from the place where he was assassinated, a bid law house, and there you had hundreds of children gathered, never go to recite prayers and single these favorite hymns. then, of course tributes have been pouring in. you mentioned the prime minister in that movie, also the lead of the opposition that we gandy from the congress party. that is, gandhi's party paid tribute to gandhi's tremendous legacy. and newspapers, of course, also carrying a lot of articles, analyzing the relevance of gandhi in today's india, remind us of the details of that tremendous legacy,

for the development of south asia in 1600 in london , a private company of merchants of london was foundedtrading in post-india, not only merchants, but also many politicians did not invest their money was originally a spice trade. in the new age. the europeans began to establish direct control over the lucrative spice trade to european colonial sea power. yes, british politics at that time was very corrupt. if you had money, you could buy yourself a seat in parliament. india at that time brought great wealth to britain until the middle of the 19th century, india was not a colony in its purest form. these were the territories that were controlled by the private east ying company, however, it acted on behalf of the british crown, as a guide and british crown and in the interests of britain , the very idea that there can be a state governed. not that the state of the whole indian empire, not even controlled by some private individual. yes, but in general they say that the creature is not an animated campaign. this is, strictly speaking, already a political organization of the future, somethi

population of the planet, the scenario for the development of the situation in southern europe africa south asiary encouraging, the same can be said for south america where the climate will become drier, which will negatively affect food production, we expect population growth, especially in africa and there looms not very good prospects for water softening. about 20 million people are at risk of flooding floods also cause significant damage of about 80 billion us dollars per year one of the problems as for the rapidly developing pavlovka, they account for about 85% of all floods. they are sudden and fleeting in nature , the power of the flood is capable of changing the course of rivers , destroying houses with mud streams, sweeping away everything in its path. the downside of drought floods according to the world economic forum, the effects of drought around the world cost 8 billion us dollars a year as a result of losses in agriculture in the structure of a global system for assessing the current hydrological situation and its approximate forecasting. she provides reports on groundwater river

division across the strategy on how the national day is observed and distribute cold snap heats asia, japan and south korea shiva through record low temperatures. ah hello there. severe winter weather has swept east asia with japan being its latest victim. it's a record snowfall, low temperatures and wind gusts, and now it's the korean peninsula. turn again to see that heavy snow, there were warnings out in so ahead of that. now the temperature here has recovered temperatures across much more than china have done the same. it's really japan that once again is going to the temperatures come down, sol again by the time we get into friday and they will be more in the way of wind to weather. if we take a closer look, you can see that 5000000000 cold air blowing down knocking temperatures to sub 0 levels when to weather as well, creeping across, turning into see effect snow for western areas of japan and a developing area of low pressure. bringing some heavy showers to that south coast, we could see some snow in tokyo on friday. it is however, an improving picture as we go to sunday. now there's been some

as for the business to south asia where at least 59 people have been killed and scores more wounded in an explosion of a mosque in north western pakistan. early report say a suicide bomber had targeted people during afternoon prayers. rescue workers were quick to the scene, transferring the wounded to hospital. oh journalist, no secret dower such as this is like the name of your home for so i'm standing in front of the main gate of the head office of the provincial police in betcha ward. my goal today is suicide bomber at sack worshippers during afternoon prayers. inside the masa health authorities see they have declared a red alert and an emergency and have asked people to donate blood. all the local emergency services rushed to the area to rescue the people. after the explosion, the front part of the morsel was collapsed and some got stuck under the debris. heavy machinery has arrived to clear the area. officials here see the media is not allowed inside until the error is cleared and the rescue operation is over and they will provide the final figure of casualties in more details lat

insurgency waged by the islamic state militant group, which has in recent weeks let's speak to our south asia london. the taliban authorities as saying there was a loud explosion outside there was a loud explosion outside the entrance of the military compound in kabul which is a very protected so on. and when the forces left afghanistan in 2021 they were all there. the taliban say several people have been killed and injured and local media have given various figures. it shows that despite the taliban are promising they would bring security to people in kabul and the rest of the country, these kind of bomb blasts and explosions are happening. the islamic state group militants have admitted responsibility for several similar attacks in the past, for example, five chinese nationals were in charge —— injured when five gunmen stormed a hotel in kabul a few weeks ago. croatia has become the 20th member to join the eurozone and has now adopted the euro as its currency. emily brown reports. a new year, a new currency. croatia says goodbye to its kuna currency as it adopts the euro. this is the moment

as we move to south asia, it has gotten cold in northern areas of pakistan and india as wintry weatherorks its way further east bringing snow to the mountains. some thunderstorms in more northern areas clearer as we head further south. heavy rain is set to sweep away from the west coast. we could see more of that coming to the east as an area of low pressure develops offshore. ♪ >> this isn't my story. it is the story of my friend. >> she told us she didn't want to be here, she didn't want to live anymore. it was too hard. >> a survivor dedicates her life to educating and saving others from suicide. >> we are the ones that are dying. we are the ones losing our friends and therefore we have to be the ones to stand up and solve it because no one else is going to. >> where there is hope -- a witness documentary on al jazeera. ♪ anchor: a reminder of our main stories -- germany says it will not stand in the way if one wants to send high-tech battle tanks to ukraine. he sees the german-made hardware is crucial to its defense. it follows days pressure on berlin from ukraine's western allies.

russia may join the gas pipeline project in central and south asia cooperation with afghanistan in the of energy, and not only when and for what purpose did william burns come to kiev in cases. what information could i convey about russia's plans to replace the western brand that left russia and how the strategy of shopping centers has changed in 202 about this in a special report in the afternoon . in germany, on the basis of rammstein, a meeting of nato defense ministers on military assistance to ukraine will begin in the next few hours , it is expected that representatives of about 50 states will take part in it . she reported that during this meeting the states of the north atlantic alliance are going to announce plans to supply ukraine with heavy weapons, and great britain and france have already announced their intention to transfer their armored car to kiev less than half an hour ago

in south asia, things looking wet and wintry, some snow coming in, trickling into parts of pakistan.here has been some unusual warmth across parts of india. kathmandu continuing to see the temperature push into the early 20's. the wetter weather does improve, slipping further south. heaviest showers coming into sri lanka on thursday. that is your weather update. ♪ >> who's there? the answer was in arabic. i was abducted by the cia. >> in two thousand four, a german citizen was kidnapped and tortured by the cia. >> he came with handcuffs and led me into the interrogation room. >> a powerful documentary tells the story of how the geopolitics of the post 9/11 world ruined the life of an innocent man. on al jazeera. ♪ anchor: welcome back. you are watching al jazeera. a reminder of our top stories. ukraine is set to receive battle tanks from the u.s. and germany to boost its offenses against russian forces. sources have told al jazeera washington will approve the delivery of m1 abrams tanks as soon as wednesday. the peruvian president has called right national truce after weeks of violen

that even these countries, such as iran, such as the countries of africa, the persian gulf, india, south asia these resources that were created by demyan we are there for hong kong for thailand for the philippines, in india, in the persian gulf, all these resources of the supreme emirates, as a rule, they were already exhausted in the first one and a half to two months, and the telegram channels actually died in the middle of march, which were aimed at this audience. but about the russians directly the russian panda inside the skidding of the russian team began to be noticeable not immediately, that is, at first this drive that we are capturing the whole country that here we are about to capture kyiv, then here we are capturing half of ukraine along the dnipro, we will go to the dnipro and similar narratives, they are generally about the goals of the war justification of these goals, they found enough ground in the russian environment, not only polls speak of this, ratings of informational energy programs, in fact , propaganda programs of the russian television but starting from may, may, jun

let's look to south asia. it's a relatively dry outlook. we're just seeing some wet weather creeping into the very south places like sure, lanka, thanks to the monsoon rains. we've had thunder downpours in colombo. we are expecting those to last into the early part of next week. much dryer farther north of this, from cloud. the blossoming across southern areas of india with some showers creeping in as well. well, settled up in the north, but we still have those fog warnings out stretching across northern areas or to pradesh. seeing some of those warnings, but they do tend to ease as we go into monday. those fun conditions continuing, however, for bangladesh and we will see some of them in pakistan. but it's going to be more of a wintery and wet mix that we deal with over the next few days. as that winter weather moves across. a mountainous area now was moved to east asia. it's been a relatively common quiet picture for much of china temperatures. well above the average for the likes, beijing and shanghai, lots of sunshine as well, but it is

now was he moved to south asia, the fog issues persist across northern areas of pakistan, india and bungler. dash for the south of this a much clearer picture, a few showers here and there possibly in carola, but wet to where that can be found in sri lanka, the rain expected to brace and sundry downpours as we go in to choose day for new delhi, the temperature sitting at 19 degrees celsius. that's your weather update. ah, activist radical and the founder of african cinema. out just a story of the mortality with making style. he made a brief find the way to me. a was a fighter, but his weapons were his mind and his intelligence met rebel african. tell me on how hulu. ah, be watching l. g era. reminder of our top stories, the salad. after nearly 3 years, china has reopened its borders lifting, covet 19 restrictions on old travelers while services between hong kong and the mainland to have presumed the passengers reclined to show a negative taste. thousands of israelis had protested in tel aviv against the new right when government, it is plans to uphold the judicial system. they say the chang

it will strike where they are not protected, that is, in the middle east, south asia, latin america, make money out of thin air, and then we will start talking about the scale of the real scale and comparing this is so that it was 100 years ago. in the meantime, this special operation can be compared, well, with the russian japanese war with the balkan war with such a prelude, because the redistribution has not yet begun. still getting ready for the redistribution groups understand, so to speak , a new world is being concentrated. there the systems went. well, i haven’t redone it yet, but here our friends there on the other side of the so -called yes, some understand that it can take off and not seem a little, while others have nothing to lose when you’re 80 too you have a corvette with documents in the garage, well, a corvette burned down there well, what will jean-perera say, well, there was no country, countries, few, well, they threw ukraine well, it produces. well, yes, yes, how much has the party become? how many countries left american money to maintain how many billions we ha

militant group — which has in recent weeks targeted a number of key installations in the city. 0ur south asia, has us the latest. the taliban authorities are saying there was a loud explosion outside the entrance of the military airfield in kabul which is a very protected zone. and when the forces left afghanistan in 2021 they were all there. the taliban say several people have been killed and injured and local media have given various figures. it shows that despite the taliban are promising they would bring security to people in kabul and the rest of the country, these no group has admitted responsibility yet. the islamic state group militants have admitted responsibility for several similar attacks in the past, for example, five chinese nationals were injured when five gunmen stormed a hotel in kabul a few weeks ago. celebrations take place around the world to herald the start of 2023. as russian missiles strike kyiv — a former international criminal tribunal prosecutor calls for vladimir putin to be tried in ukraine for war crimes. and croatia begins the new year with a new currency — swit

even in these eh countries such as iran, such as the countries of africa, the persian gulf, india, south asiaanda reaches only in the form of official quotes. that is, all these resources that were created by the demyans there for hong kong, for thailand, for the philippines, in india, in the persian gulf, all these resources are michael numbers, as a rule hmmm, they complained already in the first one and a half to two months, and the telegram channels actually died even in the middle of march, which were aimed at this audience. but regarding the russians directly, the russian panda inside the slippage of the russian team it began to be noticeable not immediately, that is, at first this drive that we are capturing the whole country, that here we are about to capture kyiv, then here we are capturing half of ukraine along the dnipro, we will go to the dnipro, and similar narratives they and in general about the goals of the war, the justification of these goals , they found enough ground in the russian environment, it is not only polls that speak of it, ratings of informational energy programs

always dreamed that ukraine would return to africa, er, i reached a qualitatively new level in south asia latin america, and there will be a lot of news . to the un general assembly, and concluding with the promotion of ukrainian business, exporters, and attracting the necessary resources to ukraine, therefore, from all points of view , it is extremely important. last year, we started the renaissance of ukrainian-african relations, i talked with my colleagues from africa, tour therefore, everything is just beginning, well, open the embassy, ​​it ’s not easy, but we will do it and by the end of the year they will be working, what expectations does ukraine have from cooperation with african countries, there is also a very strong russian voice absolutely and this was one of the reasons why, but i emphasize only one of the reasons why we decided to significantly increase our efforts because, unlike russia, which since soviet times has not lost africa from the influence of that from the focus of its attention, ukraine has been gradually pushed out of africa for almost 30 years large villages a

almost 62,000 tons were transported, 220 containers of cargo, this is a connection with iran strange south asia the persian gulf for comparison for the entire twenty-first year , only 700 tons of cargo were transported; now we really see the formation of new logistics. and this is the foundation. this is how the notorious new world is being formed with new routes, new centers and in all this updated configuration. turkmenistan plays far from the last role we will discuss what is happening with andrei grozin from the cis institute so what is happening now in turkmenistan what does such a reform of the parliament mean in general, and how will relations between father and son be built now uh became. it is known that on march 26 , elections to the parliament, as well as local authorities of all regions and districts of the country, will take place. these changes were announced by the president sirdar berdimuhamedov, the change in these formal ones. the forms of parliamentarism are changing, in fact, the functionality of the hulk maslohoty of the people's council. what the parliament will be called,

you later for new zealand after the shock resignation just into ah, how low they will start in south asia. and things are going to get cooler across the north west of india as cool air floods in the likes of rochester. we are expecting some low temperatures, certainly as we get into friday, and the following conditions continue to dominate across the northwest. but where to where the creeps down to more central areas. marashi seeing those showers and cloudy skies. but further south of this, a much clearer picture, the east coasting lots of sunshine and warm for the wet weather. we have to hop down to sri lanka. we are going to see some intense thunderstorms here. as we go into the end of the week, the winter weather starts to clear up across nepal. lots of heat coming through here. the temperature continuing to climb in catman do. now that's not the case of pots of east asia, in particular japan, it's dealing with the worst storm in about 10 years. that winter storm dropping heaps of snow in the west, bringing exceptionally strong gusts of wind. and of course, blizzard like conditions we

snow into japan, the temperature in tokyo, however, at 10 degrees celsius, that was a move at to south asia. up in the north, it's been exceptionally cold for the likes of pakistan and india extending across to bangladesh. we've also had a fog issues causing problems with disruption here for visibility, searching down to the south, however, it's a much clearer picture. some show was still coming in to sri lanka, but it has dried up relatively well. some wet and windy weather, however, moving across the likes of afghanistan as well as pakistan from a disruption. it'll bring some snow to the himalayas on thursday. things will start to warm up for new deli, ah, there are people in the world walk all forms of verification to just go away. so we need people fighting against that. we are trying to see if it's, if it can be of you maybe consider, but then a different time. they risk a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global players. we've been told by you cyber attacks from russia. they're all they just do this kind of work. belling truth from the post

and as we move to south asia, it's down in the south. we are seeing the wet weather with some strongest showers and storms pushing into sri lanka, affecting the mold eaves as well. and some of those scattered showers, touching into coastal areas on the east of india, from cloud as well in the south were much clearer as we had to work towards the north. this is where we've got the so called cold wave conditions, new delhi thing. it's coldest day of the winter season. on wednesday we are going to see things improve. the fog will clear slightly, but it does extend up into north of pakistan where it is looking much colder. the whole coming in at 15 degrees celsius on saturday, ah, in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world, which it did was it to them they have to sign because he didn't get frank assessments. do you think diplomacy does it's on so i'm not very up to about any kind of negotiation informed opinions. everybody to read. everybody's on tick tock, tick, tock doesn't vote. you have a winter. it's going to feel co

let's get more from our south asia. purity from rita cima, who joins us from a deli welcome, amrita. how is india marking? massage? re fill. the 30th of january every year has been designated as martyrs day. and thus to commemorate mart my gandhi and other freedom fighters. this year. of course, this anniversary has special significance because it's mark my gun these 75th anniversary of the assassination. and they were religious ceremonies into religious ceremonies held a judge cart. that's the place where mahatma gandhi was cremated just a day after his assassination tributes are being coming in the prime minister and that in the more he has been speaking of gun these a legacy as well as his ministers and also the leader of the opposition. resolute gandy himself from gandhi's congress party. and of course, newspapers are also analyzing and looking at gandhi's relevance on this very sad day for the nation. and on that point i would you assess, gand is contribution and nationally and, and globally on rita with phil, his single biggest contribution was really to lead the freedom strugg

ah hello, that will start in south asia where a cold wave has tightened its grip across more than areas of the region in particular pakistan, india, as well as bangladesh. now we are going to see that cold start to ease over the next few days and the foggy conditions as well, but they will still be there stretching all the way from the to the east auto pradesh. i've still got those amber warnings out for those foggy conditions, but further south of this, it does start to clear up with just some popcorn cloud pushing into western areas. a few scattered showers in the east before the heavier rang, we have to head further south to the likes of sri lanka. we are expecting some thunderstorms to roll into colombo as we go into sunday, pretty clear picture things are going to turn rather cold. however, across parts of central asia that'll drip down into northern areas of pakistan, the temperature in the horse sitting at 18 degrees celsius for below the average. not where we expected to be for this time of year, but temperatures in china as we move to east asia or above average. lots of 2nd wan

for example, only one businessman of indian origin came. at the same time, the representation of south asias of the persian gulf, on the contrary , has increased significantly over the past 3 years. but the movement of ships along the bosphorus strait was temporarily suspended this morning due to the fact that the ukrainian cargo ship mk1, which transported grain, ran aground there, according to information turkish media on a dry cargo ship left building steering. just now, a rescue vessel has arrived at the scene, accompanied by. e two tugs. they're just trying to get this, uh, cargo ship swept away, but so far it hasn't been successful, according to reports from the scene. today, traffic has been launched on another section of the moscow high-speed ​​diameter. home transport news the capital agglomeration today, where exactly this important event took place. what area? as a result, you can breathe more freely, our correspondent anastasia pankov will tell new site the moscow high-speed ​​diameter is located outside the moscow ring road; it will reduce traffic to the eastern south-eastern p

in this terrible plane crash, in detail about what is known by this time, our correspondent in south asiary melnikov tomorrow, the nepalese authorities declared a general national mourning in memory of the victims of the tragedy in the plow. this plane crash was the largest in nepal over the past three decades, four russians, elena bandura. victoria altunina yuri viktor lygina flew this ill-fated yeti airlines flight and scotmandu to the city of pokhara in western nepal, these 33-year-old elena bandura posted photos on her social networks from the plane. traveling to nepal in anticipation was written by a russian woman at 10:30 am local time, a twin-engine aircraft atr-72 took off from the nepalese capital, the total flight time to pok-hara usually does not exceed 25 minutes. on these frames, filmed by eyewitnesses, it can be seen that on approaching the airport, before crashing into the gorge, the rivers of the network, the plane abruptly lay down on the left side. obviously the pilot was trying to get the car away from a densely populated city, where this the day was a fair. a few hours

tell you how elvis presley's helping australia's tourism industry ah, how low they will start in south asia. and the fog continues to cause visibility issues. not just cause the northern parts of pakistan, india, but also bangladesh. we are expecting those fabi conditions to continue, but amber warnings out across northern areas of india much more settled down in the south of clear skies. little bit of cloud here and there barely there though with one or 2 showers potentially for corolla. the weather weather however, can be found in sri lanka. we will see some thunder. we downpours here over the next few days and we've got wet and windier where that working its way across parts of central asia, places like afghanistan, seeing some bitter cold. and with the move to east asia, largely clear for much of china temperatures, remaining above average for the likes of beijing, as well as shanghai 70 degrees celsius. on monday, west down in the south, we are expecting that to shift its way further east. some heavy rain to come for the likes of taiwan. he is up from the northeast corner of china as w

we begin in south asia where it's just gone 9.45am in nepal, and a day of national mourning has begunhe victims of the country's worst airline disaster in 30 years. all 72 people on board a yeti airlines plane are believed to have died after it crashed near the town of pokhara, about 145km or 90 miles west of the capital kathmandu. the bbc�*s rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from nepal. footage thought to show the final moments of yeti airlines flight 691. first, you see the plane veer off course. then you hear it. thunderous roar a raging inferno. the twin—engine plane crashed into a gorge, close to the tourist town of pokhara, minutes before it was due to land at the recently opened airport there. translation: we heard a loud, thunderous crash and raised our| heads to see what had happened. we saw a lot of smoke and realised it was a plane crash and we rushed to the site. chaos and confusion, as some sprayed water to douse the flames. but efforts to save the 72 on board were in vain. as the day drew on, a grim sight... bodies pulled from below in red and black plastic bags, then

south asia bureau chief. i'm right. a cima told us how india is marching this anniversary. they've been prayers in rituals at the raj car. that's the place where gandhi was committed a day off his assassination. we've also just come back from the place where he was assassinated, a bit law house, and there you had hundreds of children gathered. there were going to recite present thing, gandhi's favorite hymns. then of course tributes have been boring and you mentioned the prime minister in that in that or more the also the lead of the opposition and as we gandhi from the congress party that is gone. these are party paid tribute to gandhi's tremendous legacy and newspapers. of course, also carrying a lot of articles, analyzing the relevance of gandhi in today's india. where remind us of the details of that tremendous legacy, both nationally and globally of gandhi said, the biggest legacy that gandhi left is his struggle for freedom for india. and that also completely through non violent moves, non violent struggle. and he also what he called civil disobedience and the uniquel