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a sneeze into your elbow. oh, ah. chillies, new leader left this the gabriel bowditch promises to be a president for all the people to beating his fall right rival in a runoff election. ah, but i'm having to think of this is edge, is it alive? phone also coming up. tall people have died in britain with the army con variance of the corona viruses. the government refuses to rule out more social restrictions . a death toll in the 100 sand likely to rise. the philippines mobilizes help.
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2 victims of super typhoon ride. also ahead. i'm how much i'm roman copenhagen harbor. one of the cleanest waterways in europe. here, swimmers come out no matter the temperature and efforts continue to create a thriving aquatic environment. ah, i left this politician gabrielle village has one at chili's presidential run off election. he secured 56 percent of the vote against his fall right rival. jose antonio cast the when sees borage become the youngest president in chiles. history . our latin america editor, lucia newman reports now from santiago. oh, the sound of euphoria overwhelmed the streets of central santiago. barbara was going to let her know tens of thousands of jubilant supporters of gabrielle, but each welcomed the impressive in hard for victory. the left wing can did,
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it will become chillies, youngest, ever president. i have the hope of fatigue with social justice. attila, that's better for my daughter. the president elect a 35 year old congressman and former student leader literally had to jump over the crowds in time of a barriers to make it on to the stage. and where he delivered a conciliatory message to the country. it must, oh yes, no. our government has the conviction to look forward to the challenges that we have before us. it cannot be just changed by talking to the mirror. i'm not yours to only speak to people who think like me to change the way people who think differently. we are here to ensure that once and for all the our courses sufficient for all chileans. and we can achieve a wonderful life earlier body to received a visit from his rival conservative calsae antonio cashed cast. had conceded defeat just a little over an hour after the polls closed. you look in
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a folder full armor as much as we can get our legitimate differences him said we want to continue contributing to our homeland. he must all, once again unite all chileans, gabby, an conservative presidency, vast damping near dark, who also opposed bondage rush to make the traditional conciliatory phone call. for the 1st time in 40 years, there will be a president who will attempt to change chiles free market economic model, which millions of chileans believe is responsible for extreme social inequality in this country. i think is the, on everyone raises, reflect the questions with their new president willing that wanted spaces of congress, which is split between his supporters and his opponents with me is that he's going to have them include consensus, and that begs the question, how long will this enthusiasm last what each acknowledged that he faces serious economic and political challenges, but for at least
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a short while. it was time to celebrate a victory that symbolizes a huge leap of faith by the people of chile. to see a newman al jazeera santiago or havea fought, he is a journalist and latin america political analyst based in london. he explains how gabriel burridge managed to win by such a large margin in the runoff. more people came out to work in the run off. it was forecast at $300000.00 more people would come out to watch in areas where mr. cause was popular. however, $1200000.00 people came out to what it is run off huge, huge amount of people in areas where we suppose it well where he said he campaign campaign really heavily, but also in areas where you were very popular. i did it because cities of chile santiago to copy, tell them about bodies in the south. so this 1.1000001.2000000 people made
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a huge difference and gave him this huge victory. michael victory. why, why did these people vote for him? because he moderated his speech, he managed to get this report from from a president and michelle joshlett, i'm from a president. cutler level was very important because they belong to the motor, a window of the christian democrats on the socialist party, which is a moderate left resorts. you're a party in that when party in chile. so these combination of factors, what happens is that this is big, both the biggest turns out for a run off in the history of her children. she and the mockers he and the post because she era since 1989 on a done made a huge deal for him. he can being heavily than more than pump chilly when she was a bit weak. he managed to get roles from all the parts because she didn't have boulder for him. i'm putting all that together made it puzzle for him to have this huge market share must be margin
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i tell people have died with the army con variance of the koran. a virus in the u. k, that's according to the deputy prime minister dominick rob is refusing to rule out new restrictions ahead of the winter holidays. britain has reported record levels of cobra in 1900 cases, where the officials wanting to full effects of the latest wave are yet to be seen. don't know how is life force in london, sir john? a soaring infection, right at the moment, is the prime minister at this point, preparing new restrictions. well, you've only got to look at the numbers. you've only got to listen to what the scientists are saying to think well, he must be actively considering some form of new measures and potentially as soon as this week, because the scientists are saying that by the new year you could easily see here, hospitalization and deaths. in the several thousands per day if something isn't done and done quickly to try and limit that. now, all of this,
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of course puts for his johnson and in a very awkward position it sees him caught between what the science is saying. and his own m. p 's and some cabinet ministers on the right of his party, who, of course, revolted in large numbers last week over covert measures and will do so. again, they say more time is needed. more data needs to be acquired to examine the effects of mac on to decide what the appropriate response should be. and there are already, murmurs, loud murmurs, in some quarters, among those empties and cabinet ministers. that boris johnson's time could soon be up. if he doesn't start doing things the way they want things done, and in terms of cobra, that means no more locked downs, no more damage to the economy. the prime minister, meanwhile, is reported to be looking at a range of options. as i said, potentially with a decision do this week, options that go all the way from what would please the right of his party, me
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a guidance to people to limit their, their mixing over christmas, all the way to what looks like very much lockdown style measures no indoor mixing, no hospitality, effectively christmas cancelled. and frankly, sadly, we have seen that happen before. and it seems like one scandal after another with this prime minister, the latest revelation of the pictures, a picture of the prime minister enjoined cheese and wine in the downing street garden last year. what, what further reaction is, is they likely to be from that? it's not going to do any favors at all. it takes us back to the christmas party gate as it's become known. whole slew of allegations about social events taking place in different quarters of government during last is may lockdown. this refers to an event on may. the 15th, last year in the dining st. gotten that dining street had said was not a social event. it was merely
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a work meeting. now our photographs flashed across the front page is showing for his johnson, his wife carry a whole range of aides and officials as well. 19 of them clearly enjoying wine and cheese downing street now says look, these were work colleagues interacting in a work space event and therefore no rules were broken. it'll form part of a downing street investigation, but it piles more and more pressure on boys. johnson, who's authority, is already diminished with his m fees and with the public as well. all right, for the moment, john holl life was in london. thanks, john of hospital staff in france. say there intensive care units are being flooded largely by those who are on vaccinated against coven. 19 frances government spokesman says they expect to see 4000 patients in. i see you wards by christmas. the countries recorded more than 60000 new cases in a single day. france has banned all non essential travel to the u. k. the german
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governments medical advisors are calling for title corona virus restrictions. the health care system, under pressure from a surge of on the kron infections, their cases already doubling every 2 to 4 days and hospital admissions. also on the rise, germany's health minister has ruled out a christmas locked down. but cuff travel restrictions for people from the u. k, already in place. israel is banning its citizens from travelling to the united states, canada, and 8 other countries because of concerns about the micron variance. the measures will take effect on tuesday is largely close this international borders after the new variance emergence last month. the country's experiencing a 5th wave of infections. many americans are reconsidering their holiday plans. as corona virus case is search. new york reported its highest number of cases for the 2nd straight day, but officials are resisting another lockdown. kristen salumi reports for new york.
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a week before christmas and break through coven cases are forcing the cancellation of several performances from the rockettes annual holiday show at radio city music hall to harry potter on broadway with the alma cron variance spreading rapidly. worried new yorkers lined up to get tested among them, the vaccinated and boosted broadway. actor katy roper, it's been really scary with the new very, very, very scary and i definitely wanna get it more. i've had a couple of friends as positive. it's not good. new york city has a 90 percent vaccination rate and some of the strictest vaccination requirements in the country. so despite a new record number of daily infections, new york's mayor says more lot downs won't be necessary. we have better treatment than we've ever had. we have won the highest levels of vaccination anywhere in the country and we have the ability to get a lot more people vaccinated or to get them boosted very, very quickly. still,
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many americans are reconsidering their holiday travel plans. nationwide. hospitalization, rates are also on the rise, though still well below. last year's peak. clearly when you travel, there is always a risk of increase infection. but if people need to travel and want to travel for the obvious family reasons during this holiday season, if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings, like airports, to make sure you continually where you mask, you should be okay. health experts say, even though micron appears to be less deadly than the delta variant, it spreads more quickly and that could spell trouble for the nation's health care system with hospitalizations also rising, particularly in areas with lower vaccination rates. kristin salumi al jazeera new york, south african president. so ram officer has recovered from coven 19 and his back at work. he's been in self isolation in cape town since testing positive. 8 days ago.
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ramos is expected to chair a cabinet meeting on wednesday. police in the philippines say more than 200 people are now confirmed dead in the aftermath of the super ty, food, right. thousands of soldiers of joined rescue workers to search for survivors in remote areas. jameel alan dog and travelled from sunni gal city to see our go island, where the typhoon 1st made land for the philippine village. she invited a steward reconnaissance flight over the eastern part, the mid in our region to see for ourselves the damage caused by super typhoon re sure go island is where super take foreigner re 1st made landfall in the philippines. what was once a popular to his destination reduced to this, the pilot then turned towards the nugget, island, even from afar. the damage was distressing to see. it didn't matter whether their
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house was big or small. after landing in sooty go city, general admiral's order is clear, aid must reach those devastated areas as soon as possible. the magnitude of the damage is the big. it is because no one that was affected, our island robin says, if you will address this problem, bursts, inform what your problem released logistics nightmare. we drove around the mean town of saudi gough, storm damaged like this is a familiar scene here. now, at the port area, we found more than a 100 families forced from their homes. they are from the joust sufficient community once lived on houses on stilts by the sea. now this is all they have left, gone. so what resident here are telling us is that it's 6 pm. now this is going to
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be their 1st meal for the day. something that they just picked up from the garbage mostly. and this has to feed at least 5 families tonight. rous meet that i will at sun is desperate to i love, we don't even have rice, there's nothing. my children are crying. we look for a left over us, but there was nothing. we went to bed with an empty stomach. this is the human cost of super typhoon rise, destruction. it's estimated that thousands of families are displeased here. now jim eileen doggone al jazeera said he go province. southern philippines of the storm is now moving towards vietnam. heavy rain and strong winds of already forced thousands of people on the coastline there to evacuate. stay media says a fisherman di trying to anchor a boat and at least 5 other vessels have sunk. widespread flooding in malaysia has
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killed 3 people. 21000. others have been forced one now since flooding started on friday, prime minister, my summary says a month's worth of seasonal monsoon. rain fell in a single day. i think sees i move in 2012. i think this one was 70. that would have been nothing or that i'm i've seen this before back in the ninety's. this area had flooding, but this time it's really bad because nobody anticipated this level of flooding that he fell ahead on as a democrat senator breaks ranks putting biden's infrastructure plans in jeopardy and a billionaire space source returns from the i s s. and now he's got his site set on the moon. ah, ah, look forward to burritos,
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guys. the with the sponsored by capital airways. hello there. let's look to east asia. we're seeing a lot of settled weather around central areas. it's up in the north. the things are looking rather wintery, and we are going to see some significant wet weather arrive in the south. and that's thanks to typhoon roy. it's moving north, east towards coastal areas of china and hong kong issued a december warning for the 1st time in 47 years. ahead of that wet and windy weather is going to sweep by aiming towards taiwan. that's not likely to impact the island. we are going to see the heavy rain as it downgrades and weakens. now elsewhere for japan, it's not as wet, but we are seeing a wintry mix at play. a cross ball than areas with heavy snow falling in her kind of a wintry mix, pushing into western areas of han shoe and we are going to see the temperature in tokyo come down over the next few days. and it's a similar story for the korean peninsula. and some of those chinese cities, we are going to see the temperature come down closer to the averages. by the time we get to the weekend. now as we move to south asia,
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there's plenty of fine and dry weather around. we've had an intense cold way sweep across eastern areas of pakistan and northern areas of india. the temperature in delhi is going to come up slightly in the days to come, that it is going to be rather chilly at night with some foggy conditions. for the wet weather. we have to look to the north east in the days to come for the weather sponsored by katara always. ah hebron boys breathe and fly pigeons. but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched places really forces at times shot on an often arrested a delicately told tale soon over 5 years of a coming of age in a place where even a child's imagination is evidently restricted. disguise above hebron. a weakness documentary on a chest 0. ah
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the me again, you're watching. i just reminder of our top stories this our left wing politician gabriel burridge has been elected chili's next president. bush 156 percent of the vote in the run off on sunday fall right candidate jose antonio cas congratulating parish and urged his supporters to put political differences aside. so people have died with the on the crime variance of corona virus in the u. k. says the prime minister, deputy prime minister dominic prob, is refusing to rule out new restrictions ahead of the winter holidays. britain has reported record levels of covered 1900 cases with officials warning the full effects of the latest wave are yet to be seen. typhoon ryan,
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the philippines is left more than 200 people. dead dozens more still missing. the military has been flying into remote charles to help survivors who are in urgent need of food and drinking water. a chinese tennis player punch. why has denied making an accusation of sexual assault against a senior government official in her 1st on camera interview since posting the claim . peng said there have been in her words, many misunderstandings about the story. the women's tennis association which is suspended, all events in china, says he remains concerned about pangs. well being. priyanka group reports and she was interview with the singapore, ian chinese news outlet on the sidelines of a skiing event in shanghai. seems impromptu having gone, but it is here that china's best known tennis stall, spoke publicly for the 1st time about her allegation of sexual assault against
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a former top communist spot. the official should come on to eleanor. what we saw was you want you is since she she this she are these hometown noticing, ah, you know, when we was in shewn war good in, you know, in your come on to go that i often with only so you know, woodson very for john news she did it last month punch. why social media post shocked many in china and the tennis community, she said she was assaulted by former vice premier zango lee and was forced into relationship within 30 minutes. the post was removed. pang wasn't seen in public
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for 3 weeks. and colds, crew for proof of her safety videos like these soon started emerging on social media in sundays video pack says she's always been free. oh, towards the yama. that abeline question. yeah, i do. the answer towards the yama to here we on our lives. jane sheila with his of young region although the women's tennis association has to spend a tournaments in china because of concerns over beaching, censorship of pang and her well being. it reaction to sandy's interview. the w t. a says the video is not enough to address their concerns about her safety plank up there are 0. hong kong leader, kerry lamb has praised the outcome of sunday's legislative election despite low turn out pro baking candidates, sweat to victory, winning
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a seat in every district about 30 percent of eligible voters cast the balance. it was the 1st election since beijing made controversial changes in hong kong electric system. boeing lawyer, go go home. if a high turner treat was based on poor politics or some candidates using that as an opportunity to hijack the country's government, that is not desirable. if a hydra now treat is based on the polarization between so called blue in support of the police and yellow camps in support of the protest movement. this is not something we should be proud of. if high turn not create work based on smearing. this is not something that can cause progress or the head of the united nations says the world is not doing enough to help lebanon avoid economic collapse. antonio good parish visited by root poor to meet survivors of the massive explosion. the killed more than 200 people and ended 6000 last year. the secretary general called
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for more international support for lebanon's, overwhelming debts and to cope with more than a 1000000 syrian refugees. government forces in yemen say they've killed dozens of hold the fighters in an attack on areas surrounding the oil rich province of martin . a fierce battle is on the way for the government's last stronghold in the north government forces, backed by a saudi led coalition on trying to repel hudy's rebels control much of northern yemen, including the capital. santa seized 7 years ago, one of us president joe biden's, signature pieces of legislation hangs in the balance after santa from his own party, said he want supported joe by needs every democrat in the senate to support the nearly 2 trillion dollar bill back. better bill. it's aimed at improving education, cutting health care costs and tackling climate change. jo, mansion says increasing public debt will hinder the u. s. fight against the pandemic and geopolitical threats. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of
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legislation. i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. you're done. this is, it says or no. this is a no. on this legislation, i have tried everything i know to do. a funeral have been held in guatemala for victims of a truck crash in mexico. the bodies of 55 migrants and asylum seekers were sent back home. after the crash, earlier this month, the crowded truck overturned while carrying around $250.00 men, women, and children, all hoping to reach the united states. the middle of winter in denmark doesn't sound like the best time to go for a swim. but taking a dip in copenhagen harbor is the perfect tonic for some asthma jam. june reports on the danish capital. what used to be a major industrial port has been transformed into one of the cleanest waterways in europe. on a danish morning, this cold and grey as anxiety deepens over the surgeon covered 19 cases. you might
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expect to encounter a somewhat darker mood. but for power vote, who started swimming in copenhagen's harbor during the pandemic. this is the one place where his worries get washed away, is dead like dancing. like when you go and dance your shows, your dip heavy, and it's the same when you go into the water just for 30 seconds, you could up, and you just can injection of pure happiness. a few hours later in another part of denmark's capital, it's not much warmer, but that doesn't stop joseph in north gren, who's from finland on mara. one mara. it's one of the reasons i really love living here that we have the opportunity, like you don't have to go far away to be able to swing. copenhagen is one of the rare european cities with harbor water clean enough to jump into. but this wasn't always possible. pair shoes works on new developments for the harbor. he says for
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many years the water was too polluted to swim in. but all the efforts that went into transforming the harbor from an industrial area into a recreational one have paid off. we actually call it the, the blue park. we have a lot of green parkson in copenhagen lot of green areas. but we also have this blue park where people can enjoy themselves. no big polluting ships here. even the transport options are more eco friendly, like this electric powered ferry. having a clean harbor is a real point of pride for copenhagen, but the work is far from over. these days the aim isn't just to make the area safer for humans, but also to protect the ecosystem that exists beneath the water. these are bio huts also known as fish hotels, dozens of steel cages that contain boxes filled with empty oyster shells, where algae and small organisms grow. the initiative is
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a partnership between the world wildlife fund and the city of copenhagen, vertical roles of peers as don't show a lot of complexity. and this is a bio hats can help. and these bio had had stay in. they give space for kind of an nisha is where small fish can list that a good chance and etiquette. food like the other harbor projects, an attempt to ensure locations that will comfort and in aquatic environment that can flourish. ma jim, jim, a visitor, copenhagen, a japanese billionaire is the 1st to us to visit the international space station in 10 years. he landed back on us this morning. i said bank has more. se of just has gone back on us for you stuck whom i as our spent 12 days in space, a practice run for when he hopes to become the 1st space tourist on ilan mosques. space x trip around the moon in 2023. the 4 to 6 year old took off from carfax,
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then on december 10th, his assistant and video producer, yours or herano, through along 2 documented journey. it took months of training before the flight into space. my as our updated, he follows on social media. he said he was fulfilling a childhood dream that soon he get an and i didn't think i'd be able to go to space . i used to like the starry sky and heavenly bodies. i feel fortunate to have this opportunity and to finally fulfill my dream. it's not known how much it's exactly cost to reach for the stars and burn, but it's thought to be around $50000000.00 with the u. s. company space adventures . miser was a household name in japan, making his fortune with an online fashion company in the country known for its conformist corporate culture. the businessman stood out documenting in detail his experiences of every day activities on board the space station. i know in the haunting, know,
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he has the 1st japanese civilian to go to space. i'm very proud of him. he's courageous upon him. what i think his rich and amazing, normal people can't do that, but he became the 1st japanese to do so. i'm envious. that's my candid opinion and left off. but if you don't have millions to spend on the trip to the moon, when the billionaire hopefully bless off in 2 years time, he's pledged to take 8 people with him for free or you have to do is apply to stand a chance. sage i said, bake. i'll just, sir. ah, this is adults get around up now. the top stories left wing politician gabriel burridge has been elected chili's next president. polish 156 percent of the vote in the run off on sunday. far i candidate jose antonio cast congratulated porridge and urged his supporters to put political da.

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