me be the hero, the world needs right now. i was ah ah . a guilty verdict for 3 pro democracy campaign. as in hong kong. they're charged with taking pause and offend vigil. ah, hello there i'm off, you pay and this is and is there life and also coming on top of cove in 1900 restrictions imposed in the u. k. but the government is on the fire and off the senior officials are accused of ignoring previous measures. keena foster as president 5, the prime minister. the government angers growing over the handling of

a ways of attacks by armed and determined to snuff out smoking. new zealand avails a plan to ban the next generation from lighting up. we'll be speaking to the countries associate health minister. aah. in hong kong court has convicted 3 pro democracy activists, including business tycoon, jimmy ly, overcharges linked to an illegal vigil last year. the trio pleaded not guilty to unlawful assembly. there among more than a dozen activists accused of organizing, participating in and, and fighting others to take part in the event commemorating the chinaman square massacre. they haven't been sentenced yet. hong kong bands that annual vigil due to the pandemic. while tom grundy is the editor in chief and co founder of the hong kong free press, he says china is trying to raise all memory of the 1989 africa. it was

a short session today about a 100 people cuing of hot side people in the public gallery waving and shouting birthday to jim ally who turned 20 or this week already behind bars, awaiting a security or trial outside court. there was a loan protest known as grandma wrong shouting cody, amongst the slogans and coming for the release of political prisoners and also lots of course, plainclothes, police, and uniform police, as well as probation protest. calling for a heavy sentencing, as we know last year can number to visual was banned on covey grounds. usually you would see a sea of people tens of thousands holding candles quietly in the city, the largest part. but today, these 3 po, democracy figures. the only ones who pled guilty were charged with convicted of on the rise assembly. this case itself is part i would say you have a wider cropped down on the memory of the $989.00 massacre textbooks have been

since the museum exhibits confiscated visuals. organizers have been put behind bars and you can see the commemoration has been ban, let alone a monument to the gentleman massacre isn't the threats which stands on university, hong kong campus. but it's been about a year and a half now of hong kong under the national security law over a $120.00 odd activists in jail than the to i've been put behind bars only 2 of actually in convicted so far. but many more set to go to court. now england is returning to title corona virus restrictions has the on the convent cost the shadow of the coming christmas period. but there are big questions over prime minister bars. johnson's will 30 these measures renounced shortly after he was forced to apologize for a video of his staff. joking about holding a christmas party during austria's lockdown. john hall reports now from london.

deny deny, deny has been the strategy at number 10 downing street over reports of a staff christmas party last year when they were banned under cobra rules. the government says no rules were broken, leaked video recorded 4 days later, during rehearsals by senior staff for a news briefing offers damning evidence to the contrary. i went home, old and all the cheese and the chief in line. all right. this is recorded. inspection policy was a business meeting not associate just one of those involved has now resigned. it recalled and perhaps eclipsed previous pandemic rule breaches. like chief advisor, dominant cummings, lockdown family road trip, the former health secretary math hancock's office affair, and the prime minister's own failure to wear a mask on

a recent hospital visit. at prime minister's questions on wednesday for his johnson was under extreme pressure to step up his response. i can understand how infuriating it must be to think that the people who have been setting the rules have not been following the mississippi. because i was also curious to see that and the to pick up. i apologize. i apologize unreservedly to the offense that he just called up and down the country. and i apologize to the impression that he gave he barely took the sting out of the opposition attack from much the, the queen since alone when she marked the passing of the man she'd been marked for 73 years. leadership sacrifice. that's what gives leaders of moral authority to lee the just the prime and to think

he has the moral authority to leave off the british people to stick to the wrong. that question would be put to the test later. at a news conference, baris johnson announced new public health measures in response to the highly transmissible omit crohn variant. i know this will be hard for many people. they include mosque, wearing in more indoor settings, guidance to work from home, where possible, and the use of the vaccine passports in large public settings. it is for the public now to decide if they will listen things in by making his statement offering his apology in parliament bars. johnson will have hoped to move events on in a story that has the potential to do him great damage. the problem is that a new conversation may now emerge, one about the public's willingness to follow new measures in the face of the army, chrome variance, and whether this government has the moral authority to enforce the jona whole al

jazeera london or the us senate has passed a republican measure that would overturn the vaccine mandate on private employees. the policy would make it compulsory for companies with more than $100.00 workers to require employees to get back to native or weekly testing. not mandate has now been temporarily put on hold by a federal appeals course is a deadly pandemic that has ended the life of 700000 of our mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers, prematurely 700000 americans have disappeared. but apparently, the inconvenience of a weekly test is so odious, so revolting that is worth another 700000 people dine. the federal government has no authority to make any one shoes between getting a back saying, and keeping their job. we are the united states of america, home of the free land of the break, that we are

a people that make our own decisions and live in a free nation. whole thing in the us and the house of representatives has voted in favor of banning imports from china's western shins. young region of a forced labor concerns and parts of washington pushback against asians treatment of muslim wiggles, which the u. s. as amounts to genocide in order to become a law, it needs to pass the sentence and be signed off by president joe biden. the u. n says at least a 1000000 week is being held and counter extremism centers inch. and yeah. well, adrian's, and is a senior fellow in china studies with the victims of communism. memorial foundation, he says, action on the issue of important goods made using for slave a long way for you. some voices say that the by an administration has some interest to delay this. some voices also say that the state department is interested in a more targeted approach rather than

a blanket ban of goods mate and change young that create a rebuttable presumption that companies basically have to say if we want to import anything made from january 1st, have to prove that it's not made with forced labor, which is actually the proper way to tech a this companies have long tried to look the other way and they were not sure what to do about this because dependence on shinji. cotton is huge. it's very hard to divest from it. companies now are gradually realizing the problem is not going anywhere. and they will have to look for a tentative supply chains. and i believe that has started because companies realize, sooner or later they will have to find a tentative, but it is going to cost them more money. so they've not been in a hurry to really try to push the issue. the 1st labor situation is, is really vast. firstly, you have the internment camps and one of the main strategies of aging is to push people from the internment camps after they've been brainwashed, and re educated, involving some torture to put them into factory work. and

a lot of that involves textiles now and new documents that late last week to show young papers show that she didn't ping himself and other government lead us in beijing, likely could young. i actually behind the schemes. and this is a major, major concern, a major human rights violation on an industrial scale. while now more countries are announcing a diplomatic boycott of the beijing winter olympics, canada and the u. k. have joined the u. s. and the strain is decision to protest what they call china's human rights abuses. athletes from all formation that will still be able to attend and compete in the game. so as a country indeed, as many partners around the world, we were extremely concerned by the repeated human rights violations by the chinese government. that is why we are announcing today that we will not be sending any diplomatic representation to the beijing olympic paralympic games this winter. our

athletes have been training for years and are looking forward to compete the highest level against athletes from around the world. and they will continue to have all of our fullest support now moving on, but keena, fafsa is president rock aboard a has dismissed the prime minister and the government. the move follows a wave of protests that linked to rising violence in the country an attack last month, so hundreds of fighters storm accounts in the north healing thousands of police officers and 4 civilians. president bora pledged reforms to the military since that ambush. nicholas had his following that story forth from deco. this announcement comes as no surprise there was an ultimatum set by the opposition, asking for change in the leadership in burkina faso or else there would be more protests. there were protests just 2 weeks ago calling on the resignation of president hawk marked kimberly. and it seems, with the dismissal of this government critic say,

it's him deflecting responsibility for the uptake of attacks just 3 weeks ago as security forces came under attack from groups affiliated to tied up. and when it came turned out that the security forces had done 2 weeks without food ration. there was uproar and national condemnation. there's been an increase in attack in the north of the country. the president has since dismiss 30 or so higher ranking officers, replacing them with younger ones. now, with this announcement of the dismissal of a prime minister is expected that a new government will be announced a much smaller when a $33.00 a member of cabinet. and this will be done before sunday, when ricky fosset will celebrate its independent state, but there is a sense on the streets that not enough is being done by the leadership of ricky fosset. specifically, the president to tackle the deteriorating security situation with millions of

people. the place and in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. i'll still ahead here on out there. we speak with the families of children killed by the pakistani taliban, who don't want the government to bring the group to the negotiating table. and instagram and its impact on young people as again under the spotlight as us benefits grill, the boss of the social media ah, going on your weather report for the 9th of december. hello everyone. another push of atlantic rain and we've pretty well got disturbed weather iceland cutting across the united kingdom. western france, top and of iberia. so pick up the weather is stored there. it's been a wild ride for weather, for their northern coast of spain, and that another 50 millimeters of rain coming out yet in 12 hours. so the threat

of some flash flooding snow about 30 centimeters as we head toward the parent ease and howling winds of 90 kilometers per hour. a shield of snow through the alpine region is well specifically southwest germany. i think a were from about 15 to 30 centimeters of snow, plow of moisture for those eastern shores of the erotic c. this will plague albania, montenegro, bosnia rate into croatia as winds could crank up to a 100 kilometers per hour and 30 plus millimeters of rain, then weather alerts in play for low temperatures. in bosnia as we head toward most are we could dip down to about minus 3 much commer in the eastern med, still a few showers for the levant, but as the day goes on thursday and improvement, they rude a high of 18 degrees and what whether davina and across northern parts of africa, algeria and tunisia, so tunis we've got you in for a high of 13 degrees on thursday now. okay, i'm all out of time. i'll see again soon. ah,

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here. the south media tie korean jimmy lie is one of 3 pro democracy activists sound guilty of taking a band vigil in hong kong. last year 24 people were charged in relation to the commemoration of the gentlemen square africans held in violation of panoramic restrictions. england is returning to tie to a current of irish restrictions as the on the cranberry and cast a shadow over the coming christmas period. there are questions over prime minister bar therapy after lead video show, just joking about holding a lockdown party and became a foster as president rock of laura has dismissed the prime minister on the government. the move follows a wave of protest linked to rising violence in the country. now, the new zealand government has announced one of the world's toughest anti smoking laws. it plans to effectively ban smoking by progressively raising the legal age for buying tobacco products. the level of nicotine and cigarettes will also be

reduced. the law is set to come into effect in 2027. and critics say a law could also boost the black market for tobacco. well, joining us now is dr. sharon, the associate health minister of new zealand. she joins us now from wellington. dr . burrell, thank you so much for your time. i do see that these new laws won't be restricting vape sales, but there are obviously dangerous cancer causing agents and easy grads to embrace. and that's really been embraced by teenagers recently. is this not the case of stopping one danger for another? absolutely not. there is very strong evidence that tobacco is an extremely harmful and addictive substance, and yet the evidence will hang on. right. and it's finally, definitely a cipher or so we're taking a reduction approach by banning to best practices, future generations. but making sure currents market to quit, the sites is an alternative. well,

i see also as the cost of tobacco and cigarettes in new zealand has increase. so who will say been an increase pops on surprisingly into tobacco smuggling into the country is in order concerned that this law might contribute to incentives for growing black market and potentially more involvement of organized crime. here it looks, it is a very minor contribution to tobacco and new zealand at present. obviously, just like we had with cars that were capable of having very high order controls, we know we might have to do more with enforcement that we will find out that saving lives an absolute priority for the government. $4000.00 new zealand to die each year from tobacco and we might take action on it. well, i also understand in new zealand, different proportions of adult smoke when you look at different communities. so overall, i believe it's about 13 percent, but in the mallory population it's around 31 percent and they already have the lowest socio economic status this. so if you decrease the amount of nicotine and

cigarettes and then people try to buy more of them, is there's not actually going to exacerbate existing inequality. is there? no, it isn't substantial clinical trials done on the next day next. and i think you do have to go for a b, c to very low allowable emotional nicotine and cigarettes to avoid what you're describing, which is core competency rates margin. if you do that, they're very effective, told for helping people quit. ok. i do see that new zealand has a very ambitious target, said 2025. that in other parts of the while right now, more young people have actually taken up smoking during the pandemic. do you think the 2025 amos still realistic indeed i do. and we've made a lot of progress the calls that regulates restating with allow invite to the quit . so we made the biggest decrease we had in history in watching, right? the last year along. so we think that what 3 go is within reach

a european population as, as see to make it as i reach that goal. as we need to take bold action to make sure all parts of the community and because we're not prepared to pass the community behind. well, i am curious about how this is going to be enforced, especially amongst young people. because children and teenagers always find ways of trying to get around things. what kind of enforcement do you envision for your, your new legislation? i think the most important thing is to look at the evidence rather than focusing on the doubt that tobacco companies will always re. so when you look at the evidence of jurisdiction, but of right the legal age of purchase, you see that by hip concerns that have had an impact on smoking rights and young people. there is some level of people buying for, for people beneath the current site. overall the public health impacted very pumps

and dr. chevron there, the associate health minister of new zealand. thanks so much for your time this morning doctor. and we wish you all the best. thank you. now moving on and the bodies of 13 people killed in a helicopter crash and india being brought to the capital where they'll be laid to rest. the aircraft came down just short of its destination, which was a military training college in the southern state of tama. now do the highest ranking, military official, was also among those killed defense chief general bits in rela, will be buried with military on it. an investigation is currently under way to determine the cause of the accident. well, let's bring in india correspondent elizabeth problem. she joins is now from new delhi. liz, i believe we've had the 1st official government statement on this crush. what did we hear from the defense minister? that's trying to stop defense minister raj, not saying address parliament on thursday morning. and he went over essentially

what was the timeline of the crash. he said that the military had a call to to call from the base at 11 48 am local time on wednesday was supposed to land in the wellington defensive as college less than 30 minutes later. but at last contact with the base at 12. 08, and then people living me a new saw a very large fire and the forest that they rushed to the scene and for the record of the helicopter on fire, the rescue will then wash the scene. they tried to recover as many people as they could and take them to the willing to medical college. 13 of the 14 people died in the one surviving member is now on life support the investigation and the crash has already begun with the inquiry team visiting wellington arriving in wellington on wednesday itself. and importantly for that investigation, the flight dos record and the voice recorder from the helicopter have both being recovered. now,

the defense services are held in such high regard and india that the death is being felt around the country. both houses of parliament held 2 minutes of silence coming now to the but the crash took place or that the top government officials house held a wreath laying ceremony, bip and ra it was from the state of both rocca and they're holding 3 days of morning and that is also because of invalid was the hell, the highest position in india's armed forces. he was the 1st country's 1st chief of defense staff. he was put in that position after he was the army chief to integrate india, army, navy, and air force to modernize them. he was seen as key to the process of that transformation. he was also in charge of major operations on both of india's troubled borders with pakistan, with china, and oversold. cross border counter and surgeon counter insurgency operations with

myanmar as well. so they will be, as you mentioned, a funeral with full military honors for the pin route on friday. elizabeth bronner there with all the latest for us from new delhi. thank you less now a month long ceasefire between the pakistani taliban and the government is ending. the information minister says all armed groups need to surrender if talks are to succeed. families of children killed by the taliban. say they're angry about the government's so called main streaming of armed groups or some a bunch of aid reports. now from chuck dora in northern pakistan, a name he asked, did the dollar bond give your children? how can you talk to them? this is johanna at a protest against her government's decision to talk to the bucket funny balaban. her son was among the $132.00 students killed at an army public school by the arm

group in 2014 bless them and say the microphone. taliban said it was in revenge for the military's operations in tribal areas. the good may will such as it gets a beloved though, shawna is now angry at the bucket. finally, government and military for starting negotiations without punishing the culprits of that attack. so get their bows if she those are the how do i forget everything? they say 80000 people have been killed. you're not the only one. i sympathize with everyone. but how do i forgot my dad? sorry about miss up kelly. do you this is wrong. they are criminals. how can you forgive murders? the goblin says the state has the right to talk, but the group will have to, in its words, bow its head before the constitution. in addition to releasing a large number of its prisoners of august line, he thought the bonds demands reported the include opening a political office in the country. we're seeing the merger of tribal areas with the

northern cape, the province, and the enforcement of its version of islamic law and buckets fund moves, and my litigations are underway. law enforcement team said they are carrying out operations against what they call criminals and terrorists. this is not the 1st time the government is talking to the pakistan taliban or t t p. but simultaneously a database is being established or make sure they have the details of the sympathizers, the supporters and the factors which belong to the group. now by august on special security department says it's implementing a research based strategy to understand trends of terrorism. this new process it helping the police to carry out hundreds of targeted operations across the northern k p province. which is a border with a lot of sun crime and terrorism has a lot of nexus also they do not have a very legit rented or a structured organization. they keep moving from one dennis group to the other. we've been able to double it and then give guideline to our feel units,

and they are now going for target operations. but budgets on highest court is not convinced the strategy to hold talks is well thought out. it's already someone prime minister, him wrong hon and the judge of asked him quote, are we going to surrender once again? he was told you brought those guilty to the negotiating table, all the group, individual and your other groups to have to surrender. before any box can see. the government maintains the packets time you thought of on have safe havens across the border in earnest on the latest the fly was broken by the gun tyler bond, which used its influence with the pakistan he thought of on mobile cush school with the salad seek of the other we are acting as an intermediary and we can only try. we will continue to do it so that the talk should reach to a fruitful ending between the 2 brothers on eg foods. tommy, as the murky talks that under way shall hon, shows us the steam, who are sons,

blood on his shoe. victims of the buckets, timing lavonne, demanding justice before making deals with who they see as murderers. solemn java, thousands era tucked up northern buck, a son. now the head of instagram is calling on politicians to help regulate social media platforms with new laws specifying what's expected. adams area has divide before us senators who are scrutinizing the abs impact on children, leaked internal documents have revealed that instagram discovered the platform does negatively affects teenagers, mental health. now i recognize that many in this room have deep reservations about our company. and i want to assure you that we do have the same goal. they all want team to be safe on line. internet isn't going away. and i believe there's important work that we can do together, industry and policymakers. and we have a specific proposal. we believe there should be an industry body that will determine the best practices when it comes to what i think are the 3 most important

questions that you guys to safety. how to verify age, how to build age appropriate experiences, and how to build parental controls. well that price is the digital director of accountable tech, and he says instagram's call for a group to regulate online safety. isn't the answer from my perspective, a lot of the announcements instagram is made leading up to this hearing today. our magic fixes to unfortunately, a system that far more broken and at the end of the day, we have to step back and ask ourselves, well, how does instagram make money? and i think it's important to look at their toxic business model that at the end of the day, is about hooking users for as long as possible to run as many ads as possible on there for you to generate as much revenue as possible. so when they propose a simple fix, like taking a break, i think they do that because they know they have the ability to hook users and more than back to the platform. ultimately, i think it's incumbent upon governments to look at how it is we can better

structure the incentives behind companies like facebook that rely upon this toxic business model surveillance advertising. now, japanese billionaire has become the 1st a fee paying tourist to visit the international space station in more than a decade. this was the moment the hatch was opened and you saw who my is. our entered the orbiter greason. as you can see that by the station's crew, the flight launched from kazakhstan on wednesday, the visitors will be spending 12 days in orbit to flight blue. her this is al jazeera and these are the headlines media tiger and jimmy lie is one of 3 pro democracy activists convicted of taking part and a band vigil. and hong kong. last year, 24 people were charged for organizing and taking part in the commemoration of the gentlemen square massacre held in violation of pandemic restrictions on england.