re key is up to about filling a promise of connecting the world, connecting the future while the cato got to gateway to whoa trade. ah hello i'm, i am noisy and not going to quit. look at the main stories now. more than $3000.00 flights have been cancelled around the world on christmas eve, with an airlines blaming the on the contrary to the corona, virus of cancer, united in delta airlines. also, the wires has taken a toll on their staff. gabriel elizondo, is it new it airports in new jersey where we're at? we have definitely seen the strain of this. it's not only the um recon variance that is now affecting people on the ground, but affecting travelers trying to get up in the air to go home on this holiday

season. the biggest cancellation here in the us are with united and delta united, about 176 cancel flights today. and the delta with a little over $160.00 and they're already starting to cancel flights for the coming days as well. meanwhile, the british government is urging people to get a booster vaccine over the christmas holiday. appointments for covered 900 vaccines are being made available on christmas and boxing day. the country is battling the false part of the the on the convent. it's confirmed another record number of infections with london being me up the center in our all the headline, south korea is pardon for president. hey, who's been serving a 22 year prison sentence for corruption? in 2017 part became the country's 1st democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office. at least study 9 people died when a fire root through a ferry carrying hundreds of passengers in bangladesh. police, the blaze broke out in the engine room in the middle of the night and quickly

engulfed, be entire boat. people come a better route as border with pole and say they're staying put. despite the freezing temperatures, they're nearly a 1000 refugees and migrants hoping to eventually make it into the e. u. the temperatures dropped below minus 10 degrees in recent days. but poland is refusing to let people in. the pandemic has cast a shadow of a christmas eve celebrations in bethlehem in the occupied west by with relatively small crowds in the buff town of jesus christ. normally christmas is beth lamb's busiest tourist season. but israel as band, almost all international travel, including it to the occupied palestinian territories. bring him more from bethlehem in the news hour. it's coming out with myself and 25 minutes time. i'll see you then. portal is next. ah.

welcome to portal. i'm sandra. gotten back with more great content from the digital side of al jazeera, that's our website, social media and podcast. now for many people around the world, this is a festive time of year. so this week we've got a mix of stories that all have something uplifting about them. call it are still good episode if you want. we've got a story from jordan about female footballers, you surprise themselves and the people around them with the power of sports. and we'll show you a beautiful film from italy about a photographer taking an old school approach. and by that, i mean, really old school with a camera from 19 o 7. the cameras are for later in the show, we're actually going to start with refrigerators. because all across the u. s. fridge is full of free food, have been popping up on street corners. the idea is you take what you need and you donate what you can in this episode of the 80 plus series,

eat this jamara. alum. sure, he goes to philadelphia to see how it all works. ah, this is me opening the fridge in the middle of the street in philadelphia, and it's bursting with free food. here's another one, and another one, and another one, b yogurt, o. waffles. and again, all the food is completely free. these are community fridges, basically fridge is full of free food that anyone can help themselves to. they're popping up in major cities all around the world, from bangkok to one osiris. and there's a ton of them here in philly. many of these community fridges were started as a local form of covered, really helping neighbor struggling to feed themselves during the pender. but now they've become a massive grassroots movement for food justice. a lot of supermarket closed in our community, our friends on the ferry state were knocked down. how can you expect us to thrive when you are not allowing us to? hi, i'm your and i'm here to talk to the organizers behind this 900 pound fridge. a fridge,

they say, gives us 1200 pounds of food every week. it's a story about how community came together to help one another when the powers that be couldn't act fast enough thought left over aid at law. you can have whatever i don't need, whatever i have you have and whatever you have i have. and that's what makes it a mutual aid. i'm traveling to west philadelphia to check out the people's fridge and find out how community fridge works and what it takes to keep it running. you fill it when you can and you take from it when you need it that's own improved. so it has been running the people's fridge with their sister sonia, since they opened it in september 2020. and it's such a simple idea any reading and feels that they are able to of you can contribute. it's kind of an autonomous zone for giving the food is a human right? everybody should be able to access food at all times. as long as something can stay in. the friend has like an hour and a half maybe can stay or like literally stay on the day before someone or someone

takes it yet. it's not just sonya and sony. we're working on the fridge. we have an incredible team of volunteers who put in some serious hours to keep this thing running. we do grocery runs around like 90 an full t. m and, and 3 p. m. and then we do it like a nighttime run, which is really, really important to do that. when supermarkets clear out their stocks outside of us, there's about 60 hours of labor put into the bridge on a weekly basis, at least. and of course, the bridge couldn't run without electricity. that comes from mean as a cafe in community space. that sona owns with their partner, key a car. but electricity isn't the only thing that powers the people's fridge. it needs a lot of food, since donations alone aren't enough to keep the people's fridge operating. we're heading out on a groceries for sonya and so on, on the people's fridges about more than just keeping people flew to survive off or try to make things really like worked together somehow. but people concrete, neil weaver thought, 360 ag, 30 kerry car, egg,

1200 baby carriage. we bought about 48 apple. this is a very thoughtful sort of purchase produce. it's really important not to just tell people. here is what's left over here. is what you've asked for here, the ingredients that you specifically requested from me here for the q immigrant population in west philadelphia and as the children of immigrants, it feels really good sometimes to see something from home in a place that isn't at home. we saw a lot of community for just during our time in philly. most of them were well stocked with good nutritious food. this was pretty good, capital onions, pasta. most of all the bridges by to use for service in their communities to there's a specific philosophy behind the people's fridge. more on that later. for now, we're heading over to village products. it's like a truck market. it's like an impromptu ad hoc truck market to grab some more fruits and veggies that you might not find in your typical supermarket. better men,

her. wow. baby on coconut. we have a how much you guys spend on the fridge every week. we probably send $3500.00 a week. wow. yeah. every week. that's a lot of money, which mostly comes from grants and demo donations. anyway, after that, we loaded up the truck and i did my best to help. oh spits. pretty perfectly, i think. until i was invited to stop helping you do good at the interview. i thought it might be my and then headed back to the fridge to fill it up. a long after we started loading up the shelves, people were arriving to see what the fridge had in store. and suddenly folks showed up to drop off even more supplies. so cool, don't and people are showing up to donate food. is like better tail to the supermarket. now there's my house,

uses the people's fridge. i spoke to some of the folks stopping by to find out we had a very, very hot month where the health related financial needs that, that really impacted our budgets. when i come for 30 years, have their own home. it is great is keep me live. mm. philadelphia is one of the poorest major cities in the u. s. as of 2018, nearly a quarter of philadelphians lived in poverty. the city council had an action plan in place to help 100000 people out of poverty by 2024. but then the pandemic happened. a lack of healthy shopping choices was already a problem in philadelphia. and as the spread of coven 19 worse and started to close down a lot of food spaces, shut down in our community, having no place to buy food, is its own agony. in 3 months into the pandemic. 90000 pennsylvania workers still have not received any unemployment benefits. when the stimulus checks finally came

through, it was too little too late. as it was for many americans, a number of things and fire the threats. there is a huge upset can police violence. there was a pandemic that was global and just personally affecting black and brown community, especially this one communities like ours had been taking care of each other for hundreds and hundreds of years because the government has failed to. we strongly encourage folks to just open their own fringes. we can all share this incredible after giving and doing together. so if that doesn't get you feeling all the fields are next story. definitely. well, i just love this film. it was made in jordan where football is not usually a sport that's open to women, but that hasn't stopped this group of women getting a kick out of playing while making a point at the same time. ah no, don't smoke darlin allowed them to my last shirt and they are needed me to you the ifa. you shall have to go look, let's play a little committee, a shot,

and now we can and hit him and have us look up the corner to stop him. i'm not my more. i'm not getting him the he but good luck into the lab. be it did so we put both was more than a game. it was an act of defiance. it was a demonstration of resilience. ah. 2 in with, ah,

a double credit, lovell said a couple of deadly la. i wish you wouldn't lose a while. obvious blockage a deal at the libo. and with jonathan atlanta, heart of atlanta, i like the last bill that he bought where i live at the catalog lea, i mean with i a pod was shot at hooked up here to my doesn't hit my when my daughter, nyah, elder law had the pool hot tub, but stay outside. absolutely, a shop with a can to be to utilize the ballistic, the lid, the delivery of the piano, the all dog must on whom shall robert best, manu load the switch. when he announced her jani, my barbara has not a few directly colon jani, my bishop, and i'm sent when i send him another that's go, wow, that's what he on what i even when he had gotten one on again, it could be a big luggage here that it only begged him that will come with them for lunch l'oreal dea. i'm not going to come here to help you.

all women in the air worlds do not enjoy equal rights. but in the gaza refugee camp, it's that much worse. it is one of the most oppressive communities for women. enjoy them. if he is going to be to nurse or not, and tom will not other luck, mom nor etched of an air duct, it could've called that north law. no suffer had help. and what it's law, he got a few american mom. no, he got a luggage and a hiding home open at the corner shop that i love. excellent. had you hope m. i'm not my mom and mama, i sent bradford her leg toys to upload, but also i sobbed at 1st study am, et cetera. in mara, eh, how can they mom by when they 1st started to train and to play football. and there was very strong pushback against allowing the women to continue to play

a wooden schwab. alma couldn't eliminate any bethel in the lip. lip said little yellow lab to plug it in. as the lackey a leprosy methylated, lib is new is shape. it took an incredible amount of courage from these women to decide not to give up even under a tremendous amount of pressure from at home and from the community. gillian martin going to be deaf and had the one with him and him him you dilemma. father of bill and i mean they member how in the ethnic the message museum and they let the man started back. not the notion that said it is she any moves out of school with the latin issue? i'm mm. oh . ready i

in the last 2 years, instances of violence against women and jordan has skyrocketed. and with the onset of the global pandemic, it took a bad situation and made it even worse. this is not only a local problem in jordan or a regional problem in the arab world, but it is a global problem. and here at the gen ended the most amount of infant my band for at fellas, but yeah. and he cleared the, i knew it just said the lovely air, matt, no enough. see if you're going to see that a map is that it was in the motherland, etcetera. and of been joseph dutch. take it out. have deduction, blissfully. no, anna is here to make it off the hoffman at the lead will add that no less than $10000000.00 doesn't mean nick. they're dead. the she is

a marina abbey and mom in a dp in the empty with a safety ah yes, still, absolutely. bank been market and as its big ones lake, i'm gonna switch the director without honey. how did she even show formed? and how it been to who had shandy, a kiddo out up? hopefully the choice waiving the pretty much the said i did not raise your stuff. lamar with people, but anyway, yeah, we must though i love your copy of the love she feel comfortable, softly to korea, to the cookie. enough to sort it up, walk by 40, hello. sorry. who do i she and i did see that of sunday. we chose to play the

tournament on a hilltop at the base of the temple of hercules, the symbol of mail, power. oh, come to the city. yes. it will it, and he would like to job a lot of good job will manzona, who's deborah and how she got to get what would it and also could thought that job it has had to connect back to, to, hadn't gotten into blood with he and create to the space where women could speak up, they could be themselves, they could play sport, they could dance, and they could fight for those very things that they believed he would be day of course this, but then a man. yeah. and he a, what do you live to nibble shifting blacks and bus up, up, lex said, it had been the nf upon my. hm. oh, good him. so it must have

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with notice of that and no, uh hm. i had a kid go with although the guys a team didn't win, the overall champion trophy, they were awarded the action champion trophy because of the incredible transformation that they were able to achieve both for themselves and for their communities. a year and a half ago, there was a dilapidated field in the middle of the guy's account,

where boys and men were allowed to play that women a. now they have a brand new field in the cam where they have their space to to bring about that change of perception is one of the hardest things to do in the community. and in just one year, they were able to do that and they were able to do that through football, through sport these days we've all become so used to snapping away on our funds. we barely even think about the photos we take, but one photographer in italy is taking the complete opposite approach, spending hours to capture just one picture. and it all started when he came across a camera that's more than a 100 years old. take

a look. ah it's catching light it's catching a kind of visible light. very different. i don't know whether i catch dreams most probably my own dreams. ah my name is kirk moser, and i am the light kitchen ah, ah, i was born not very far away from here really in the middle of the mountains on the 1000, let me just cielo. if you grew up in the mountains, then of course you have a kind of relationship to this month. this month. are you the full day out here since $200.00 millions of years? most program they will be here audit $200.00 millions of years. and when you go up there, you can feel it's, it just a little small person up there in the middle of this immense,

huge nature. i spent 30 years as a cameraman. i was slowly over the planet working. i think there was something deep in me after shooting in wards on sun, done shooting scenes, that you really should not see something gross in you. it does a deep neat of they can picture of something completely different. the exact opposite beauty with something like 3 years ago by mistake i found or maybe she found me this beautiful old camera that was covered with blankets were 5 centimeters of dust on it. we took the blankets off and we discovered his piece of history and i restored it for 4 months and then worked. there was this big question, what to do now with this camera? i mean, it was really nice to look at,

but that's not enough. this camera was made for taking pictures and not for being in a museum. i don't go to a shop and say, i would like to have this lands that would like to have this light meter. and i would like to have this filters. nothing exists. so i have to look for everything that i need in 8050. they found out about this kind of photography, the system from the sanctioned photographic system. i think this was amazing. i, i could not even imagine that to day somebody could invent something like this. so for me this guys were here us, there are a huge amount of error was in 90, have to get rid of one by one. so the learning process and it never stops. you take a black glass plate and you cover it with collodion, which is a substance made of gun powder and bower and it with some allan ether in it and

different sauce. and then you put it on the glass plate and thrice down and you bring it in a silver, but it completely absorbs the silver crystals. you expose it on the camera for fear . but and as soon as you have done the picture, you go back in your dark room immediately because you have only 5 minutes and you have to develop it. if i make a mistake just by one second, that's kind of a catastrophe. when you've succeeded with your developing done, you fix it, you wash it and you varnish it. it's like complicated system, sometimes slow as the on the edge of saying, hey, come on, forget about. but then there were photographers in 8050, they were able to work with isms or why should i not be able to when the 1st time a picture showed up, i was kind of blown away to a sense like wal war. it was kind of a miracle. now what i'm doing is one photograph every 3 days and it's just

this one. i can catch it. i can feel it it last for some 100 of years. i earth and believable in this kind of time said we are living now. i photographed something that we don't see. i photographed some kind of invisible light with u. v. light, and that makes it very interesting. i think it's worse doing this. if you have this one picture in front of you and you look at it than you say, ok, that's why i do it. if i take a photo of, of to those camera, it takes me something likes 2 or 3 hours just to make the light to fix the camera, to prepare the blades effect. so i have a lot of time to speak to this person's and they kind of learn something of them. you have this huge camera in front of you. you have this really strong lights in front of you, and you are sitting there for a long time. that changes you, you don't even try any more to have to smile for a 2nd. so something very, very sincere,

of your soul comes out. i wait exactly for this moment. and the reaction when people see their portray is, wow, yes, that's me. but i have never seen myself like this. ah, i completely quit my job as a camera man, and i'm focused on completely concentrated on what i do just in this photographic project. other people still don't understand what i'm doing and for them it's completely crazy when i'm doing it in a way to write because you kind of risk your whole existence and just to follow a dream, there is no guarantee that it will work. i don't have insurance. i'm living my life today because i have no idea if in 10 years i'm still alive. i have to live my life now. my aim is not to send the message to the word i just tried to

a little, but the eyes of the people, you know, it is a love, sorry, as innovative enough. there is a kind of a crazy love story about wraps up this season of portal. we hope you enjoy the mix of content that we brought you, and that is given you a taste of some of the original audio and video you can find on our website and social media channels. i'll be back in 2022. but until then, see you online to happy new year. ah, we've switched on the ne monsoon once again. hello everyone. so that steering some heavy rain into central and northern areas of vietnam. also getting striped with some rain for high man on saturday next to northern china, bitter cold. here we'll talk about that in just a sec. but 1st, the winter wall up toward the northwest of how kind of look at the winds associated

with this is the type of conditions you're driving. and you have that wind swept snow quite dangerous, in fact, and looking to pick up about 50 centimeters of snow. ok, we'll paint the colors on right now the dark or the purple, the lower the temperature, beijing minus 4. but this is just going to be a quick shot of cold. by monday, you're back up to plus 5, which is actually above average. we may have some tropical trouble brewing for the top end of australia on saturday, whether it's a tropical disturbance or not. this is still going to cause a mass, a lot of rain and wind, and then we're sweating it out in the southwest perth at 43, very likely to set her record as so the darker the color, the higher the temperature here. so your christmas day record 42, we've got yes for 43 and i think okay, you'll do it again on sunday. the all time december temperature record is 44, and you're in for 45, quickly will and often new zealand. plenty of sun, but a few showers for gives ben with a hive 23 on saturday. enjoy sir. ah

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