New figures from China show the population is in decline for the first time in more than sixty years. The national birth rate hit a record low – 6.77 births per 1,000 people. If these trends continue, a shrinking number of workers will have to support a growing number of retirees. Labour shortages and a smaller tax base could majorly impact the economy. Economists say strict Covid-19 rules are partly to blame. They expect a low birth rate and a rapidly ageing population to have far-reaching effects. The latest data comes as government implores people to have more children after decades of doing the opposite. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu reports […]
In South Africa, the wealth disparity is clearly evident in Alexandra township. Located a few kilometres from the Sandton district, it is often referred to as “Africa’s richest square mile”. Talking to Al Jazeera, one person there described the dire economic inequality in the area. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #SouthAfrica #economy
A fierce battle for control is raging in the city of Bakhmut and its surrounding areas on the front lines of eastern Ukraine. Russia has been unleashing its firepower on the city, almost destroyed and nearly besieged. Its forces are trying to win a rare military victory after months of fighting while the Ukrainian troops are digging in. Al Jazeera’s @CharlesStratford reports from Bakhmut, Ukraine. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Ukrainewar #Russia #Bakhmut
Aid agencies have warned that chronic malnutrition among children in Ecuador is spiralling out of control. Almost half of all children under the age of two do not get enough to eat. Among Indigenous communities, the issue is even more prevalent. Al Jazeera’s @AlessandroRampietti reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Ecuador #foodcrisis
Italian police have arrested the country’s most wanted mafia boss, who had been on the run for 30 years. Prosecutors say Matteo Messina Denaro is a boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia. Police on Monday morning swooped in on a private hospital in the Sicilian capital Palermo, where the 60-year-old was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, to make the arrest. Messina Denaro has been sentenced in absentia to a life term for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. He also faces a life sentence for his involvement in bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan the following year, which killed […]
Rescuers in Nepal have been searching for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years. Videos posted on social media offer clues about what caused it. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News
At least twelve people have been killed in a church attack in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The explosion, which wounded 52 others, including children, happened in the city of Kasindi in North Kivu province. Al Jazeera’s @HarryFawcett reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #DRCongo #Churchbomb
The death toll from a Russian missile attack that destroyed an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 23, regional council head Mykola Lukashuk says, while 73 people were injured. Russia carried out three air raids, 57 missile attacks and 69 attacks from heavy weapon rocket salvo systems on Saturday, Ukraine’s top military command says. Rescuers have managed to pull out dozens of people alive, including a three-year-old girl. Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports from Kyiv. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ #UkraineWar #UkraineMissileStikes #Dnipro #Kyiv #AlJazeeraEnglish
Russia has launched a new barrage of missiles at targets across Ukraine, killing at least 14 people in the eastern-central city of Dnipro and disrupting power supplies in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, officials said. The attacks on Saturday smashed a nine-storey apartment block in Dnipro, reducing an entire section of the building to rubble and sending smoke billowing into the sky. The deaths included that of a 15-year-old girl, according to officials. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ #aljazeeraenglish #BreakingNews #AlJazeeraLive #Russia #UkraineWar #VladimirPutin #aljazeeraenglish #newsfeed #news #aljazera #latestnews #latestwhatsappstatus […]
The Philippine Supreme Court has ruled that an 18-year-old agreement with China and Vietnam to search for oil in the South China Sea is unconstitutional. Analysts say the decision could jeopardise plans by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to revive talks with Beijing on joint oil exploration. Al Jazeera’s @BarnabyLo has more from Manila, Philippines. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Philippines #SouthChinaSea #oil
