for the profit episode, one of all hail the love down on our 0 o a, down the top floors on the al jazeera news, our at least 39 people have died after a very caught fire in bangladesh. rescue teams managed to save some passengers. a local source and save the death toll is likely to rise. the ferry was overcrowded and it was carrying up to 800 people. chris and celebrations, taking place right now in bethlehem, in the occupied by bank of the biblical birthplace of jesus christ. but the outbreak of the con variance has been far fewer event this year. more than 2000

flights have been cancelled globally on christmas eve. the latest blow served by the con variance of the code of iris over the u. s. lufthansa, united delta airlines here. the virus has taken a tool on their stuff and standing by for us at liberty international airport that's in newark is gabrielle, is on though. so gabriel, what do you seeing at the airport? what's the situation like well, in some of the airlines, so you see quite long lines we came here to delta airlines check encounter. because it is one of the 2 major us carriers that is most effective. so far as you can see behind me, it is very quiet and no major delays here yet. but that is not the case in other airports throughout the united states. both delta and united have cancelled over $300.00 flights so far on this friday. those are the 2 major us carriers.

and as you mentioned, tons, the german flag carrier is also canceled over at long haul international flights as well. the situation is not good and it's being attributed airlines say to the armor con berry, and many people around the us are now being infected by that a particularly here in new jersey where they saw a record numbers on thursday, as well as in new york city. just across the hudson river for me, where i'm at now. and essentially so many people are being infected. it's also affecting flight attendance and airline staff and pilots who are not having to call in sick. and that's why you're seeing these airlines preemptive. we cancel so many flights and it happens at a very difficult time. this is the busy holiday travel season. and just to give you an idea, according to transportation security administration, the security personnel that screens, passengers, if they go into the gates after they check in on tuesday,

they screened at $2100000.00 travelers at airports in the united states on thursday . that is more travelers than they scream and 2019 on the same day before the pandemic. so essentially, more people are traveling now in the us via airlines than they were even 3 pan demik. so or it comes up, it's a very high travel season in the us right now. thank you so much. gabriel does on the reporting from newark airport. thank you. south korea has pardon the former president parkin. hey, who's been serving a 22 year prison sentence for corruption part became the country's 1st democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office in 2017. alexey o'brien, reports park on hays removal from office and erased in 2017. was

a dramatic fall from grace that saw her go from south korea's president to prisoner . she's been serving a 22 year sentence for corruption that the government's pardon will see her released on december 31st along with around 3000 others. how are you putting on your credit score? we have included former president park and he and former prime minister, hung young, shook to list to overcome unfortunate past history and cries of covert 19 about realized peoples unity and provide a chance to take a new step forward. to the future, park is currently in hospital and analysts believe that's played a part in her imminent release. i think it's really heard dancing age and her health issues. she's had physical and mental health issues since impeachment i am, she's pretty clearly not going to have any kind of meaningful political role in korean life. she's allowed, gorman's appears going to happen. hawk was one seen as political royalty

the daughter, former president part young. he, she served as acting 1st lady after her mother was killed in 1974 to you young. so yes, i got one young oh, in 2013 patheon. hey, became the country's 1st female leader scoring a decisive victory for her conservative policy. but she suffered a sharp drop in public support after more than 300 people, mostly children drowned when a fairy capsized in 2014 just 2 years later. and now the political scandal engulfed her administration after an old friend choice. and so was alleged to have used her influence over the president to meddle in state affairs. hundreds of thousands of people gathered every weekend to demand parks resignation. they were celebrations when she was impeached, thrown out of office, and later jailed for collusion with joy to receive billions of dollars from major

companies. the scandal also landed heads of 2 conglomerates and prison. what occurred in the blue house during her reign was unacceptable. our boy and their corruption indeed, but o overall i personally didn't feel that she was deeply involved into these, into the entire scheme and so on. she has been jailed, she's in poor health. i feel like the time is right to let her go and give her the pardon. at the moment of the palmer, i feel upset as a citizen, i feel that it's regrettable. at such a decision was made all of a sudden when it would undo what was achieved through the candle lit vigils. almost all of south koreans, former presidents have been implicated and corruption scandals. leaning back, the only living ex president aside from park is also in prison. he didn't receive a pardon. alex o'brien al jazeera, hundreds of refugees fled across the myanmar border and to thailand on friday,

after fighting between the me and my army and the korean national union fighting has been going on for more than a week following a raid to says dissidence opposed to the military crew, but it now seems to be growing in intensity as tony chang reports the video posted on social media from missile on the border with me on my gunfire. so loud it's clear. fighting is very close elsewhere video. so people playing towards tie, learn the thump heavy artillery in the background. here the river is relatively easy to cross and obvious route for those trying to escape the fighting. overnight hundreds had left on the cover of darkness to be met by the ty army time media reporting that that come on the aerial and artillery bombardment. fighting in the town of lake a go broke out last week. after the me, i'm a military rated the town looking for suspected dissidence. the ethnic korean

national union, the control, the area, are reported to a full back for ruthlessly. since then, several 1000 people have crossed into thailand, many with only the clothes on their backs. your, my child and random, mediately across the river. now ty soldiers told us to run fast. toy soldiers have allowed the refugees to stay. unlike during clashes earlier in the year when they were pushed back. and thailand's prime minister provisions have been made for others to come as more fighting is anticipated along the border. the corral in particular, have been hom bring formerly or informally, some of the resistance groups that have been set up to counter the coup. and i think the, ma'am, our army is going off to them with something bigger. and these are the lucky ones. safe for the moment inside china and with basic food and shelter across the border, 20000 more have played their homes fighting, intensifying,

they to may try to seek sanctuary inside thailand. tony cheng l. desert police in the northern indian state. if we are a count of lawns to a speech investigation following a meeting of hindu religious leaders, videos from last week's events showed them calling for a genocide and use of weapons against muslims. it sparked outrage on social media after that footage went viral. have limited reports from new delhi a week off to this event. the police has registered a case against one bus and now the event in question was a concave of thought, organized by villages. him the leaders in a template town in order in the other towns consider to be wholly by many. now, as this event, many inflammatory features were made the call for genocide, similar to what we saw on man mar again. so we'll have all of this is on tape the features went viral. so the police has evidence of radiographic evidence,

but nothing else has actually been done. in fact, the, the organizer of the event is a repeat offender. this is not the 1st time that he has made an 2 minority or rather anti muslim statement statements. in fact, he recently gave an interview saying that we stand by watson says and is not afraid of getting arrested. and the reason is that many of these leaders who are there and may enjoy support and friendship of members belonging to prime minister in the range of the political party that is opposed to just party or the b j b. interestingly, the one person who, against whom the case has been registered. if someone who recently converted he was muslim and now goes by him, do name and pockets on tens of thousands of people have had to move inland. sea water encroaches on the land and underground water. it's largely due to raising sea levels and there are warnings. the country could have 2000000 climate migrants by

2050 summer. bon jovi reports from southern pakistan a 600000. hector forest is focused on natural defense, again, salt, water intrusion and rising sea levels. this is that he generation nature, region nation, conservation to say the number of trees and forest cover in the industry over delta has increased in the last decade. the diversity and focus on mangrove is dying. most of the 17 major creeks from the river no longer provide fresh water. that means no filled or new soil, and necessity for the carbon capturing roots of the mangrove plant. the climate vulnerable since problems are successfully rehabilitated. hundreds of hectic mangroves, but it's not enough. a lot about your mangrove, good belly. i bare previously. we had 8 species of mangroves, but now we are left with just 4 species due to fresh waters, not being available. 2 of the surviving species only made it because they adapted

to sailing water. they gave the fresh water creeks which provided a fertile delta, are now sea water, creeks, dams and excessive water use upstream leaves little water for the south despite laws and treaties. the river agriculture is destroyed by sea water. parkinson's ranked among the whirl stopped and countries and the threat from climate change. the climate action network believes by the sun could have around 2000000 climate migrants by 2050 in coastal communities. a 1000000 people are believed to be at risk from the decrease in fresh water. people here have been telling us the thousands have left it and says 2 homes. due to a lack of water. and villages like this are slowly dying. f. c, water encroaches drown water tables for hundreds of kilometers. people angry at the government's lack of solution, see they can only pay for rain while i have plenty of ally and water is a huge problem and our children have to walk 10 kilometers to get it because of this out of a 1000 homes, only 4 or 500 are left and families are scattered all over. the migration towards

cities added pressure to bring water and lack of opportunities are causing social problems as well. the women who work in the fields have children and run households are under tremendous pressure. young girls have to pitch and to help their mothers . we couldn't speak to their mothers as in this remote part of a son. we were not allowed to film the women. everything which can hold water is utilized here, but even that's not enough. why one is out, my god, i'm and a lot of there is no water in the whole village and we can't fund drinking water anywhere. i have to come and refill multiple times a day. if i take one container from to swell, maybe we have enough water to cook, but there isn't enough water to drink. these much skippers are in february the fish who in their attempt to live on land, provide nature's preparation for the mangrove forest. they have adapted for generations to the changes around them. but unlike them,

humans in towns like gayety, but they have had to move multiple times because of encouraging sea water. and in less drastic measures have taken to replenish that over delta. the floods and droughts will continue to cross the park and find the economy an estimated bill $1000000000.00 a year. some of the other there are tucked up suddenly impact on part 2 of our special series on pakistan's water challenges. summer been job a. it takes us to the himalayan mountains, were melting glaciers. pose a risk for communities. you can watch that starting at 200 hours, gmc on saturday with just a week less than 2021. we're looking back at some of the biggest stories of the year and looking ahead to what might shape the news agenda and 2022. there are concerns about the growing use of facial recognition technology. government say it's for security, but other is predict a terrifying future. rob reynolds explains in this dramatize ation of

a potential dystopian future technology watchdog group. the future of life institute portrayed killer autonomous weapons. using facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence to commit crimes, attack military and civilian targets, and spread terror all without direct human involvement. if it's not science fiction technology experts say you can actually create a drown that you say, just go hunt this specific individual and kill them. promote little and i think it's an extremely dangerous situation to be facial recognition technology or f r t doesn't require billions of dollars or dozens of super computers. we're talking about being able to do something with commodity hardware with freely available tools. that stuff has been around for, you know, a few years now. and there's no reason why that couldn't be used by. i folks, even, you know, you don't have deep technical expertise. the prospect of non state actors employing

the technology is troubling. but countries are already using mass surveillance, f r t. in the u. s. police used f r t to identify specific black lives matter. protesters then scrutinize their social media accounts and check for outstanding warrants. other countries have massive networks of interconnected cameras. london is a city that comes to mind, it's one of the most, you know, it has one of the widest networks for surveillance. and they have a processes in place to manage some of that. china uses f r t to curtail human rights. in china, there are specific a ways in which they're trying to recognize the weaker minority so that they can again surveil and curtail their movements and harassed them and put them in concentration camps and saw ha,

there are also positive light saving applications of the technology for example, in auto safety, most people may not realize, but many new automobiles now have a camera that's built into the car that actually is, is observing the driver. and those sorts of technologies can be used then to help you know, recognize that somebody's using drowsy. or, you know, is to repair, to driving those sorts of things. like many technologies that have burgeon in recent decades, f r t is largely unregulated in september a united nations report singled out a, i enabled f r t as posing special threats to human rights. the un human rights chief michelle bunch, a lead called on member states to issue an immediate moratorium on artificial systems until researchers fully assess what she called the catastrophic risks they pose rob reynolds al jazeera,

still head on the al jazeera and he's our winning words, senegal slammed with 3 competition is empowering the youth and their voice. we'll hear from talking them is coach. he wasn't impressed with what the premier league how to say about the covet situation, affecting the season. jammah. how's the details up next? ah.

a whole lou ah ah. with a sportsman serious drama. thank you. during a 3rd, a premier league match has been postponed from sundays of full round of fixtures. everton way be traveling to burly because they don't have enough players available

due to coven 19 cases and injuries. with many teams hit by a rise in current of ours cases, the league held a virtual meeting with managers on thursday to discuss the congested fixture list, player welfare and other key issues. but talking about santeria conte believes it was a waste of time. some coaches are oh trying to try to to speak and to ask about to solution on but i think it, it took everything who also decided to attend girl yesterday and it was a wall. you can or speaker, you can ask her what you want. but every thinker was or every decision water pickin area. i spoke to sports correspondent rob harris from the associated press and asked him about the possibility of the premier league, pause the season. well, the permanent god desperate to try get many fixtures played as possible because

once the season starts to be pause or a lengthy break, that it comes back into the discussion about rebates, the broadcast, as we had during the 100 day shut down. and it really is a problematic situation with the right of ours in the u. k. at the moment, 1700000 cases, they estimate over the last week in the country. the premises had a record 90 and the premier league will be say, the, the players do have an obligation to, to get vaccinated. only 77 percent are fully vaccinated in the primarily 16 percent yet to receive a single dies compared to sorry i where it's about 98 percent molig. 94 percent of plays fully vaccinated. so as it stands now, let the government put sport on hold, the family is determined to play on that as many fixes as possible despite this disruption in the m b, i washington, god, spencer. and when he says there's no way the league was going to cancel the iconic a christmas day schedule because of the 19 that was it's are among 75 percent of teams affected by the health and safety protocols. and on

a washington played without the best office, including top school read broadly bill against the new york knicks washington. it didn't confirm if either plan tested positive that the wizards overcame the setback to win by 7. feel that no way who, what a bag has an a christmas day game trip. and we bought the short cover protocols may show we played in christmas games for most money. gonna rain doing it again when people get back to read again. name be a in all of us as players random check back right now, you know, it's kinda tough because sometimes you just never know if you're going to play or not. know you never know if, if you have it or if it's all positive or you might have contracts tracy and just giving it given all a realtor. 11. it is. is it no game? is this a game? no game. and again his days doesn't align baby. mean

a bay and that money back. hello, sandra. he's like is missing 6 players on the coach because of the 1900 protocols and injuries. but they did have a bron james when they hosted at san antonio. he top schooled with 36, but it wasn't enough, as the lake has failed by 28 points, that full consecutive law literally that's always comes to the cell in the homes. now, like people been out and about right now, you know, and you're getting these positive tests, you know, knock on wood help out of, i don't run into it again, but it's really known. you don't know where it's coming from. you don't know where it's at. and just try to stay as healthy as possible. steph curry delivered another shooting master class for the golden state warriors. he managed 46 points against his grizzlies, including 83 pointed warriors just behind phoenix, the top spots in the western conference. or by the way, the warriors in one career gave england the cricket captain j rate says his site

must eliminate basic mistakes to have any chance of wrestling control back from australia in the ashes. the tourist, a tino down after a couple of crashing defeats and go into the boxing de test match in melbourne, needing to win to keep the series alive. i think he's asking all of our buys, whoev, whoever is it does play to do basic things very well. get yourself into an, in a give yourself an opportunity to go make big runs and, you know, build those big partnerships. i mean, i bang on about that all the time, but it says it's a fundamental batting and willing to concentrate for long periods of time. australia captain pat come ins, returns after missing the 2nd test because he was a close contact, took over 19 case a draw for the all these will be enough to retain the ashes and that is all useful for me. for now, it's back to you to me. thank you so much john. well, before we go, take a look at the story. slam poetry in senegal is getting nationwide attention. the

spoken word competitions are a blend of hip hop music and politics and it's popular across french speaking africa. nicholas hoc has more from the capital, the car. a moment of hesitation. perhaps stage fright before delivering a message from i remember 16 year old number 2 says when she was like the earth to me like a father to me like the ocean to me. she loved when you protected me before suddenly disappearing and owed from a son to a mother that left the earth too soon. in this national school slam poetry contest, teenage students speaking french of arabic, were mixed of all of them. there is no barrier of language, no theme or rules to follow, no mistakes to be made. number, this is slam poetry move into your freedom of expression. all of her chummy g ring

gave a declaration to announce her love for god, for women, for the city and her ancestral libra culture only by a common thread. faith. trust her words speak to her riveted crowd of hundreds of teenagers who for a brief moment are not distracted by their phones, but captured by poetry. the few to judge are famous lamp, which we already now my love, just as the crowd grows into the night. silence spread broken by the green voices of poets beneath the car's monument of their own. they slam poetry is about the delivery, the diction and the depth of the woods. i'm really amazed the level of these students is pretty impressive. semi goals, 1st head of state, new belted, our finger known as the poet president, a prolific writer, fingered devoted

a 3rd of the national budget to arts and culture. despite most people living in poverty and being illiterate. sanger was following the countries long tradition of using poetry, music, and art to transmit knowledge and faith. we just necessary to promote the sample trip through the computer that can help them develop that occasion. that because they tell him that occasion develop their right to us and we can over a 1000 students took part in the event with only a dozen left and competition. the judges have to decide a winner and runner up. oh mama do is announced runner up leaving the trophy to 18 year old. charming jim gary, good me. slam is democratic poetry. she says it allows our soul to travel a gift of simple words for the masses to just be present and feel the moment.

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all be the hero, the world news, right? mm. mm mm. for on con, dampens holiday plans. hundreds of flights are cancelled just before christmas is current of ours infection surge globally. ah, you're watching life from headquarters in delphi and also coming up an overcrowded ferry catch fire in bangladesh, killing at least 39 people. plus i must have been job aids in a mangrove forest just off theory b and c. and i'll tell you how the lack of fresh water is.