and that's protected and that's, that's from public cross or church. and despite the recommendations made by the truth and reconciliation commission for this former warlord, liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country. ah, germany begins a new political era as parliament. the legs are left sholtes to take over as chance left from angela. michael. ah, hello there understands ya. and this is al jazeera life and are also coming. an air force helicopter,

carrying india's defense chief and other senior military officials, crashes, and someone who is fictional policy with the british prime minister. and the pressure off to lead to video shows as officials joking about holding a party during last year's private, my team lockdown and australia joins the us diplomatic boy, host of next year's winter lympics in beijing. china says nobody cares if they don't come. ah, now germany's a federal parliament has confirmed or laughed sholtes as the new chancellor massaging democrats in the mattel. he's now leaving office of the 16 is he'll be sworn in very, very shortly. he is already at the bunder stock. well, seltz's,

incoming coalition government has promised to step up efforts against climate change and the pandemic. let's take you to some live pictures now of the buddhist dog, where they've gathered a head of the swearing in. we'll be bring you all of that live here on our jazeera in the meantime, let's bring in the steadfast and our correspondent. she joins us from the presidential residence in berlin. a step i see schultz was then not very long ago to see the president, but is now about to take his official oath. can you talk us through what happens now? yes. all of shows the new chancellor is sir any minute now to be sworn in by the wounded stock by parliament. it's happening any minute now. he was here at the presidential residence of for a while to shine maya just an hour ago to be formally appointed by the president. it's all part of this procedure here in germany, and then he had it back to parliament where he was actually voted in by

a majority of parliament earlier this morning. now we're waiting for him to be formerly sworn in as the new chancellor, after 16 years of anglo merkel here in germany, a whole generation grew up with only knowing her as the chancellor. all young people in germany have known no other chancellor than anglo merkel. and now to have a new for us, an olaf shoals, he was the finance minister under merkel, also device chancellor. he's a very experienced man, but of course completely untested. yet, as the chancellor and we are actually watching these pictures, there are laptops as literally just as you is speaking, step is just been sworn in and now he's being applauded there by the bundle stag. this is a huge change that for germany and potentially europe in the world, i understand will also be seeing his new minister has been sworn in today to help big her policy shift. should we be expecting him?

well absolutely, it's a big day of course, a historic day and he has already appointed a very diverse cabinet. it's a people who have been in office for a while, but also completely new minutes so. so very crucial post the foreign minister has gone to analyze bear book. she has left the grades during the election campaign. she was have a chance look candidate as well, but now she will have this very important foreign ministry position. and he, she already announced you will have a thoughtful stance on russia and on china. so sort of announcing a new era also on foreign policy, all of shows himself aside, his strengthening the e. u. of course, germany, the largest economy here in europe. everyone is waiting for germany next steps. also looking at russia attentions at the ukraine border, also the migrant crisis. that all happened during this transition. and of course, germany is an important play and everyone is waiting for the new government and what the new, the next steps will be. well, step,

i'm curious as well. actually watching people go up to schultz and shake his hand, congratulating him in the button to the dog. obviously, a huge, huge legacy of that angle of michael leaves. do we have any sense of what she might be doing that? well, she hasn't said much about what she is going to do next. so it's everyone's gas. but she has hinted up, taking a long sleep before she's going to do anything else. of course, she's been in office 16 years. she actually decided to stop and go out of politics, even though she might have been voted in again this time. but she really decided this is it, this is going to be enough. the 16 years she really needs arrest. that's what she has been hinting. i'm who knows what she's going to do next, where she will pop up. i will keep an eye on that indeed. step thanks so much. she's outside the presidential palace, the for us in berlin with all the laces. thank you. stuff. now moving on and at

least 4 people have been killed in a helicopter crash in india, and the cross was carrying 14 military officials, including the defense chief general, been roland and came down in the new juris district of southern terminal. now to state an investigation into the cause of the crash is already underway. well out, india correspondent elizabeth problem has one from you getting the only official confirmation. so as far as from the indian air force, which tweet has saying that a helicopter, carrying the chief from defense staff general to robert, met with an accident. they said in canoe and some now to and that they have ordered an investigation to look into exactly what caused the accident. we know that there were 14 people on board including other senior army officials and this in raleigh life. and the search and rescue operations are continuing because

a government official and not has said that at least 4 people have died around 3 have been taken to hospital to be a burn injuries, but they believe that there might be others who are missing. now general defendant, robert is actually the 1st chief of defense staff, the 1st person to hold the position of chief of defense staff in india. he was a former army chief. this was the newly created position in january of last year to inform, to ensure rather a transformation of india's horses. and he's the head of the army, the navy, and the air force. it is the highest ranking position in the indian forces. now this helicopter was traveling from the base and salute and now due to not too far away to a defense service college in wellington, where he was to attend an event. now the british prime minister, paris johnson,

is under growing pression, about a possible coven, 19 violation by his own staff. last year, a video has emerged of senior government officials joking about a christmas party held during the lockdown last december. opposition members are urging the prime minister to urgently respond. now you recall, last winter, london was under a top tier restriction with no social events allowed even within businesses. and police now say they're examining videos, part of a review of the reported violations bought. boris johnson has repeatedly said, no rules were broken and his office insists no party took place on british opposition. leader kissed armour has called on johnson to come clean and apologize . last year at christmas, the public followed the rule so many of them didn't see their loved ones over christmas. some of them didn't see their loved ones again. they had the right to expect the government to follow the rules. are we now know the government broke the walls. they parted another laughing about it,

the treating the public with contempt, the promised news to step pop except what happened, an apologize. unfortunately, we got a prime minister, we socially distance from the truth. well, our correspondent jana hull has more from london. because this is turning into not just the latest, but quite probably the biggest breach of public trust, yet not just in the many months of the panoramic, but in the entirety. of course, johnson's time in office. think back to last year during lockdown. see if advisor dominant cummings, taking a long drive across the country with his family, think back to him at hancock and then help secretary court in clinch with a colleague on camera inside a ministry building and various johnson himself just a couple of weeks ago. failing to wear a mosque on a visit to a hospital up to now the government has tended to sort of brazen these things out. this could be different why, but because we're talking about a christmas party alleged up to now taking place inside the heart of government.

the prime minister in the government assisting no rules were broken. this video tends to suggest otherwise to senior number. 10 stuff is joking about the fact that the party happened, joking about the fact that there was no social distancing at the party when clearly, there should have been, the worry will be that they sort of thing only adds compounds and already pretty viscerally. image of hypocrisy at the heart of government, the idea that there is one rule for them and one rule for the public. and as i say, the worry in number 10 will be that this begins to impact now seriously, on public opinion. take a look at the video here to i just seen bozeman twisted there was a down st. crispin's awesome friday. my direct nurses aren't home. i old allan oh, good. ah. with briskin don't. are you, chris?

what's the answer? i don't know how to use cheese. well, okay. i think this is mine, right? with this is recorded. is fictional policy was a business meeting. i mean, it was not associated now malaysia's former prime minister logic browse act remains defiant after an appeals court there upheld his guilty verdict and a corruption case. he wanted the judge to throw out his 12 year prison sentence and $50000000.00 fine nat geo. but pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges tied to his involvement and a multi $1000000000.00 state fund scheme. florence lay reports now from portraiture you dismissed the guilty verdict against 90 percent damage. the former malaysian prime minister was sentenced to 12 years in prison and find it 50000000 dollars last year for legally receiving $10000000.00 from a former unit of state investment fund one f. b. i like to see that i am very

disappointed in the judgment, deliberate by the court of appeals this morning. i have lost my voice to file a big deal. hi, jewel coach. the court has temporarily suspended the sentence many appeal and hardship remains free on. his supporters, dozens of whom had gathered outside court on wednesday, say he's being persecuted to live, the better he will. we feel extremely said that the appeals court has upheld the sentence. now jeep is a leader who sacrifice so much for the people and the country. the court reject it, nudges defense. he had acted in the national interest and said, evidence showed the former lead in you ought to have known the money in his accounts were from illegal proceeds. the court of appeal in a unanimous decision to uphold egypt. conviction said the case in which more than

$10000000.00 was transferred to no jobs, personal bank accounts was a national embarrassment. this is the 1st of 5 trials involving one entity chip faces. u. s. in malaysian, unfortunately, one half $1000000000.00 was stolen from the state investment fund. it was anger about the one and did you put your allocations that lead to market? and that was the 1st time it lost power since malaysia gained independence in 1957. now chip has been trying to mount a political come had since the bank and his party returned to par last year analyst . so while the convention is set to work for the legit, it's too early to write him off to you and as long as the legal view of the legal process on going you will try very, very hard the standing mass general election. i mean, possible get back to the office of the prime minister. pulls are not due until 2023,

but could be called as early as the middle of next year. florence louis al jazeera put to jaya malaysia, also had here on out as in paying respect to a sri lankan man biesen to death in pakistan. after being accused of blasphemy, we talked to some of the workers helping to bring cash as one cup stadiums to life ah ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored boy cattle airways. and away we go with your weather story for asia pacific, beginning in the philippines. were that ne, upon soon as picking out not only for the philippines, but also central and southern parts of vietnam. so this is again, hope you've been city with the high of 30 degrees going for a closer look right now for the philippines doubts with what weather toward the

east and central areas. also around devoured wall with a height of $34.00 degrees. here's the situation across china. clouds are starting to dissipate through central eastern portions. grey lena, high, 21 degrees. but where the cloud deck is thickening is, as we head toward the northeast, we may even see a few sprinkles of rain and snow over higher ground. same goes for korea and whites and windy conditions we had in tokyo, that's now scooted away out into the pacific. next we're off to the sub continents and we're going to talk about this disturbance in the bay had been gods pushing on shore pretty much the entire east coast of india is going to be plagued by rain on thursday. got some heavier birth and therefore entrepreneurs show dish and westbank also. that's the situation thursday, as we head toward friday, really fragments and breaks apart. but we'll see the return of more wet weather across your lanka. and same goes for the mall div molly as a high of 30 degrees on friday, and now you're up to date season. oh,

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are left sholtes has just been sworn in as the new german chancellor. he's replacing angler, michael, who's leaving office after 16 years. at least 4 people have been killed and a helicopter crash and india. there were 14 military officials on board, including the defense chief and came down and then the mil garris, district of southern terminal. now who states a course in malaysia has upheld the conviction of former prime minister nazi brother in a multi $1000000000.00 corruption case. but he'll stay out of jail and now he wanted the judge to throw out as a 12 year prison sentence and $15000000.00 fine. now the funeral of a sri lankan man biesen to death and pakistan on friday is underway and him in his home country. a crowd attacked prion to deal with donna before dragging him into the street and setting him on fire staff at the factory where he worked, had accused him of destroying a religious poster. pakistan's prime minister says more than

a 100 people have now been arrested. but linelle fernandez has more from outside the victims home in camp aha, in sri lanka, there's been a sort of almost disbelief, particularly standing here in his home, having spoken to a members of his closest family. it's very, very clear that the reality is yet to set in his wife is trying to come to terms with what exactly transpired on friday. she did sort of urge the justice be done that the full arm of the law be used to ensure that perpetrators of this, essentially this dastardly act are brought to book to ensure that in future this doesn't happen again. but she is, she is very much a sort of, you know, taken aback by the proceedings as are his young sons. now it's a very close knit family. there were 6 siblings in the family. and incidentally, the 3 boys of which brianna was the youngest. all walked in pakistan, ah,

did or been working for more than a decade there. and they have never come across any violence of this scale or nature. so they are always trying to come to grips with the fact that their, their, their youngest brother or son or husband is no longer, i mean, his mom is sitting right at the entrance of the house, which you see just over my shoulder, a rib proceedings with the final rights have started mustang and sri lanka, and a salvage company has been contracted to remove a chemical ship that caught fire off the coast there. in may. the end, the express pell tanker was environmental damage after it's built hundreds of tons of hazardous chemicals and plastic into the ocean, dead marine life, including turtles and whales washed up on the beach as their sri. lankan authorities said it was the nation's west marine disaster. are you, as president, has repeated his warning to russia's leader, invade ukraine and face severe sanctions?

the virtual call between joe biden and vladimir putin on tuesday ended with no breakthrough. putin complained about nato's attempts to develop what he called ukrainian territory. our white house correspondent kennedy huck. it reports with a massive build up of russian troops, new ukraine, shared border, and u. s. intelligence indicating an invasion of ukraine could happen early next year. u. s. president biden met virtually with russian president vladimir poo. good to see you again. the pair spoke for 2 hours. potent denies. russian tends to invade ukraine, calling it fear monitoring. but the u. s. president made clear today that if russia did tough economic sanctions would follow. i will look in the eye and tell you as president biden looked, president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014. we are prepared to do now. that reference is to the russian annexation of crimea from

ukraine. that prompted us sanctions biden also told putin the u. s. was prepared to assessors militarily. we would provide additional defensive material to the ukrainians above and beyond that, which we are already provided. and we would fortify our nato allies on the eastern flank for its part. russia is seeking assurances from the west that ukraine will not become a member of the north atlantic treaty organization, something the ukrainians have pursued for years. the u. s. national security advisor reiterated ukraine can associate with whoever it wants. when analyst believes joining nato is unrealistic, it ought to be clearer to them that we're not coming to the rescue. so you get to have to live in nest. russia are you are security guarantee. there were also questions about the controversial nord stream to pipeline which runs from germany to russia and whether it could be used as leverage and discussions over ukraine.

the white house says it will pressure the german government to stop it. if russia invades the biden administration, will continue to work with its european partners promising a coordinated response. should russia ignore their warnings? president biden will also speak with ukraine's president lensky on thursday. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house? well, china has now hiss out at a stray li assets joining the u. s. diplomatic boy, cause of next year's winter olympics and beijing, the ministry of foreign affairs, as the move goes against the games, as policy of political neutrality. prime minister scott morrison says, athletes will be able to attend to the games, but there will be no government representation. it's got mars and also says china's failed to respond to several issues including accusations of human rights abuses. all mean while china is saying that it's trailers decision is against the olympic motto of togetherness. to help me or your team during her,

china is not invited. any australian governmental officials to the beijing ones or olympics, or whether they come or not. nobody kiss. australian politicians, political posturing, and selfish games, not impact beijing success in hosting the winter olympics under woodward is a sports marketing consultant and also the public relations manager for sidney is $992.00 olympic sped. he says, other countries will probably follow washington's lead here. that actually just sent a signal through diplomatic circles to the chinese government that you know, hey, we're not happy in australian sport and politics folklore as a phrase that sport and politics don't mix astray, leans hated when sport and politics come together and sport is used for politics, but this will largely be seen is just something that politicians and bureaucrats do . and as long as eric lights good to go there, the public of australia will be comfortable with that is so look at is a loser going in the same direction as i understand it. and look,

this is something that will spread around the rest of the world. there are multinational alliances and yeah, they will come into the 4. but what i don't think anyone wants to see happen is a, a boycotted b olympics from an athletic point of view. a think of how the world came together for the tokyo olympics earlier this year. and the joy that there aren't many, many people, certainly there are major human rights issues in china to address it on the whole. let's keep the sport politics 2 separate here. and let's not forget that sport has acted before to bring about change in various countries. we did have the protests and you know, the party protest with the commonwealth nations banding, south africa from sport, and back in the sixties and seventies, most particularly cricket and rugby. and that had some effect in bringing about change in south africa. upside drivers are too big for that, but certainly it is sending a very strong signal to beijing with cove

at 19 cases and south korea have surpassed 7000 single day for the 1st time. prime minister kimball kim says he is concerned about the increasing number of critically ill patients. he says the army con variant is contributing to the rise and infections. home treatment for patients has now been considered to reduce pressure on hospitals. dr. alliston specializes and disease prevention at them is many women's hospital and is also a former associate professor at some some medical center. she says, cases started climbing there after south korea east measures back in november listed many restrictions, including allowing visitations to long term care facilities such as convalescent hospitals and nursing homes. unfortunately, we did not take into account the amount of waning of community that had occurred, especially in people older than 60 years old. and so with measures lifted,

there was an increase in community transmission which we expected. but unfortunately, there was also a huge spike in break infections, especially in people age 60 and above. and that's what caused a huge increase in the number of hospital admissions. and unfortunately, in november, i saw the largest number of public belated dust in south korea since the onset of the pandemic. i think it's too early to say what the true virulence of the on variance is throughout the whole spectrum of disease. although we do suspect that it is much more transmissible than the tell to variant. and even in korea, we are seeing cases of breakthrough infection. our 1st 2 cases had been fully vaccinated with them during the vaccine. and then they had got the chronic infection. i was traveling in africa and so the army,

cranberry and is, is in the community already in korea. and my biggest concern is that if we see huge increases in cases that inevitably always leads to increase in hospitalizations, even if the disease is last severe ever since cat, her one, the right to host the 2022 wildcat. the golf nation has faced scrutiny about its treatment of workers, especially involved in building stadiums for the tournament. organizers say their commitment to workers welfare has their to big improvements and living and safety standards. andy richardson reports next year catherine lucille stadium will host the world cup final the now it's home to some of the thousands of construction workers who helped realize this countries footballing ambitions. they include v j in nor do i met their accommodation block near the stadium. the jazz working

capital for the last 15 years. order of about the i've seen big changes during my time here in my previous job, i had to spend a lot of time cooking my food and washing my clothes. now i don't have those worries. our food is cooked for us, my clothes go to the laundry, and the salary is paid on time. when we know that during the hot months, we get a 10 minute break every hour and don't work during the middle of the day. there's a rest area and we can have water and glucose drink organizes say there have been 3 work related deaths and 35 non work related fatalities on wilco projects in the last 10 years. in that time, there also have been significant reforms introduced, including a minimum wage and the ending of a system whereby in the past work is had to get their employers permission to either change jobs or leave the country human rights group. amnesty international

says progress on work is right to stagnated in capital over the past year, but it did make an exception for those directly involved with the world cup. we do recognize that those workers working on work of project have better standards of protection. the supreme committee introduced the workers was offering better standards, and i think that even a fruit to sometimes 1st class workers because of the bridge by virtue of working on his very important project. but again, i think we need to see beyond these 2 percent. and then make sure that the remaining 90 percent also enjoy the same protection surrounding some of the world cup stadiums a so called walls of gratitude. pictures of all the workers we've helped builds them. it's their efforts, their skills, their persistence, their patience, while they were away from home to her, really help us bring these are, you know, dreams to reality. videos, workers from that, his own construction projects,

a new house back home in india, where he plans to rejoin his family after the world cup. and b. richardson al jazeera lucille. now, a japanese billionaire and his assistant are the latest tourists heading to the international space station. use our crew. my though on yours are here and i will spend 12 days and all that where they also plan to hold a badminton tournament with astronauts. but avenues pair blasted off in a rush and saw years a rocket from kazakhstan, realizing a childhood dream, a space travel with blue higher than this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. olaf sholtes has just been sworn in as the new german chancellor. he's replacing angler, michael, who's leaving office after 16 years shots his incoming coalition government has promised to step up efforts against climate change and the pandemic. these 4 people

have been killed in a helicopter crash and india. there were 14 military officials on board, including the defense chief, had came down in the nil garris district of southern terminal, now do staves. and houghton malaysia has upheld the conviction of former prime minister niger brother in a multi 1000000000.