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t gets has been fired on protest is in the capital cuts, or at least one person has been injured. there's a heavy police presence and internet services have been caught, the reinstated prime minister has been trying unsuccessfully to appoint a new cabinet for more than a month covering this story. is mohammed val, whose life rest in cut? so hello there, mohammed, what are you hearing on the ground there? yeah, you just mentioned dirt that push that we talked about her just less than an hour ago. a coming from the south of captain, approaching the presidential palace, has now been thwarted and dispersed by the security forces. and as i mentioned, also that presence of security forces his time around is 3 times more than during the last demonstration more than a week ago. or we have also some group, so are in on the man and in come to embody the 2 other cities creating occur, composing the capsule. the 3rd type outside capital of sudan. people there are

gathering in hundreds in thousands, but they are not able to reach the central cartoon because the bridge is leading to santa cutting from those places are completely closed. heavy presence of police heavy presence of security forces. and it's very clear that they will have to push hard, they will have to enter into violent confrontations with those security forces to be able to break the lines and reach a presidential palace. we are expecting another wave. and yet another week from the south of cotton because that's the only area that is directly connected with the the, the area. well, the presidential palace is located thus the area where there is no bridge to cross just the streets. but that's where the confrontations of south taking place and where the demonstrations have just be dispersed. now that as you mentioned, these protests have become a regular feature in cat zoom and surrounding cities. what a protest is calling for. well the protesters have been

calling for the complete, complete withdrawal of the military from power. that's there ultimate goal. they are saying that the military have renamed and on their promises to enter into a meaningful partnership with the super lawyers. but the civilian components of the government who have been now ousted from power they, they are also divided between the central forces of freedom and change and also split the groups from that movement. and they have been trying to unite their act, which is not taking place. and they have also been a, been trying to have a kind of dialogue with the military through the middle man. there was a prime minister. we have seen the prime minister designing and was seen him also threatening a few days ago to resign again ab and thus because he has been unable actually to unite or to reconcile between the 2 sides. so the protesters

have from the very fundamental demands, they are not even trying to return to the, to the status quo before the cool the top and on october they are pushing for a complete revolution. they are things that now it's very clear that the military cannot be a part of a meaningful partnership total to them, where things images now as some protest is being injured, some bang sort of carried a make shift to a case and some have been injured by the looks of t guess you mentioned earlier that the internet is now down, is this having an impact on the turn out of protest is in there sort of define of course the, the more the crackdown or is violent and strong that i mean it, it is dense to the resolve of the protest us at least for a while, we have seen about several times during the last 3 years. but also you remember

that, you know, the momentum of these protestors attempts to return any time they can make some gains. last time a few days ago, they were able to break into the lives of police forces. they were able to cross the bridges and to reach emitter, the immediate vicinity of the presidential palace, the gates of the possession of police. i spent one hour or 2 there before they were dispersed. so the expectation is that at that moment, that success which they achieve last time, they're gonna build on it, capitalize on it, they're going to try to do the same as time around. and probably they have intentions once they reach the presidential palace to make to start a city because last time they thought about it, they were surprised because they were able to reach a palace. some of them said let's sit, let's sit in let stay here, but they were not planning it. they were not ready for it. this time if they reach that place, probably they will stay there and they will say for, for for longer time. all right, mohammed, what we'll cross back to you as the afternoon progresses. so i thank you very much

for that update for the time bang on this is our to latest on the pandemic now in christmas travel plans have again been trying into chaos. the highly transmissible ami con variant has fullest airlines to cancel more than 4000 flights worldwide. in the u. s. second ice letting airline employees at causing survey staff shortages gay rail. alexander reports from newark, apple watch in new jersey. the surge of the army kron variant and not only affecting people on the ground, but also those trying to get in the air to visit loved ones for the christmas holiday. hundreds of flight cancellations in the united states united in delta, 2 of the largest carriers accounting for the most united sending out these alerts to passengers. your flight is cancelled due to an increase in coven cases, limiting cru availability. we have a really concern last night when i saw on the news that they had canceled a 100 white that i'm like, oh my god,

we won't be able to get home. but luckily we kept checking the fight that a 2nd the fight that has got here and everything was fine. so we were really grateful for that. had new jersey, newark liberty, airport passengers. mostly we're trying to remain calm a little bit worried about cancellation. so we see what happens. oh, my foreign cancer. i got the, you know, all the vaccines, 3 of omega, i got a mass, doesn't worry about ready to go. all good. well on the crown is surging. so to is holiday travel. officials say more than 2000000 people passed through airport security screening. and one day, more than pre pandemic holiday travel with 2019 airport workers say they are feeling it does last are were other times i we get get along great. is, is lost albert non stop holiday season. yes, i was,

it is crazy. i know when you, it was like this. aside from the check encounters, the longest lines at york airport, where the covey testing facility and airlines in the us are already starting to cancel more flights for the days. ahead and with the army kron variance and not expected to peak for at least another couple weeks. it likely will mean more canceled flights, especially if the flight attendants and pilots who operate them continue to get infected. gabriel's hondo. how does it newer, new jersey. okay, let's bringing angie simmons, his line for us in london with the lightest travel disruptions in europe and around the world. hello there, andrew. it's been a not so merry christmas for many travelers. there is certainly not, not a lot of christmas cheer around when it comes to traveling with this current emergency. the position is that on christmas day alone,

we're looking at nearly $1800.00 canceled flights and counting on that in europe. the biggest disruption really has been the trans atlantic flights coming from coming from the united states. and so many families affected by this, you know, heartbroken, that not seeing loved ones or, or friends. and then also there is that word, self oscillation, that term shall i say, self. isolation is part of christmas. now, so many families across europe in that situation. and also where finding that the restrictions on travel are getting more and more confusing in europe, particularly in countries like the u. k. where there is such a high level of our micron variance in the infection rates. here, there are now austria, spain, and sweden measures for travel restrictions. and also of course, france, which is allowing only essential travel,

which is disrupted massively. people wanted to get across the channel to france either way, and certainly from the u. k. a big problem. andrew, there's been reco daily numbers across here and does that training likely to continue? it certainly does. as gabriel was saying in that report enough, there's by no means a peek to this infection rate yet. france, italy and the u. k. of the top 3 in terms of the rate of infection, the u. k. standing out as the number one, effectively the epicenter of on chrome in europe. a 122000 cases recorded on christmas eve friday. that is the highest yet. furthermore, the april at the on the 16th of december and there was a rate of something like one in 20 in london, suffering from cove it that's now being revised by the office for national

statistics to a figure of, of one in 20. and so a 10 in 20, in the u. k. as of sunday, that's the likely figure. so the, you know, it is getting to the stage now where people are really concerned. however, all the research as has been touched upon many times already, is suggesting that the hospitalized hospitalization rate is less with on the crohn than it is with delta a. so a lot of hope is being put on that. the government here is not taking the, the sort of measures that are being taken in the rest of europe. they're much more liberal with things in the hope that that data will show that the hospitals under the pressure. but that is getting more and more possibly unlikely. in the sense that the national health service is saying that 40 percent or increases in the hospitalization right are taking place because it's such

a rapid rise in the infection, right? so even though this may not be in serious, and even though the intensive care units may not be under the pressure as last year at the mission rates, and the pressure on staff will be colossal. so there is mountain concern about this area off of the whole crisis. ok. okay. miss updated as to how it unfolds. angie simmons laugh, press inland and thank you. the philippines may moll has shut its borders to foreign service during the christmas holiday period. citizens are allowed to enter the country, but the stricter rules and lung quarantines and made it impossible for many migrant workers to go home for the holidays. and to be learn filed this report from manila after having to suffer one of the world's longest and most restrictive locked downs filipinos are out and about daily coping. 19 cases are down to hundreds, from a peak of 20000 a day during the delta wave of infections. most restrictions have now been lifted.

but the country's main airport remains only half as busy as it was before the pandemic. the threat of the armor chron variant has halted the government's plans to re open borders. the 1st way by which the 1st strategy with employ to delay the entry of the on the crown variant is to ban the entry of travelers from countries that have the community transmission of the virus variant migrant philippine a workers are exempt from the band. but that doesn't mean they can travel without difficulty. there are around 10000000 filipinos working overseas here. many of them look forward to coming home during the holiday season. but the emergence of the american varian has disrupted international travel. john, good saga, who works as a nurse in the u. k. has not been back in the philippines for 2 years. he had hoped to be able to fly home this christmas, but the you case armor can search has made that impossible because of the new variant of a micron and

a number of cases that had been increasing. there. now, one thing back actually the, the old quote because we have been the 1st grade. i think i'm a pretty soon they will be, but they will announce that on we're going to be on that down because all the neighboring countries are on lock down already. and it's not just leaving that's difficult. john says he has friends who are having a hard time getting back to you. okay. they're in middle at the moment, but i'm, i was, they just told me that they won't be able to, to come back here. because of the child, the restrictions, despite travel constraints. however, the philippines health department has detected the armored chron variant in 3 international travelers. there's a fear it will quickly spread, but the government says the situation is under control. barnaby low al jazeera manila by the more head on the news, i including 30 years since the collapse of the soviet union will look back on one

of the 20th centuries. much pivot a moment. i'm sorry, i've been job in northern pockets on and i'll tell you how changing weather patterns are having an impact on the lives of millions of people and kind of 19 continues to impact this sporting world. as the n h l is forced to delay the return of the regular season. ah, at least 13 people have drowned after a boat carrying migraines capsized in the ag insane. it fitted such disaster in great waters in as many days bringing the combined desktop to $27.00 smugglers are increasingly using a dangerous route from checking to easily to into europe, their avoiding patrols around the ag and islands. for more on the storyline, bringing petro molina who is the associate director of the refugee law lab based at the center for refugee studies at york university. she joins us live now from

athens. thanks for being on the news. our petra. one more have you heard about what i'm folded during this deadly incident? thank you very much for having me news. horrible tragedies really are a symptom of some of the increasingly hard line, border enforcement policies that we've been tracking and seeing all around europe. and indeed the world and unfortunately with increasing border enforcement and the way that we know different context across the world are developing people as sometimes forced to take more dangerous route. but i think it's important to remember that we're talking about people who are more often than not seeking production production that's available to you and i, and everybody under international law. so even though this is sort of been a deadly tre day, even to new phenomena, is it unfortunately not. and we've been seeing a tremendous loss of life, both along the central mediterranean route and also a new g t's and as borders sharp in. and, you know, fortress, europe,

policies kind of move towards a more sharper manifestation. unfortunately, we're going to likely be seeing more and more people to get sprint routes to try and keep protection. what makes these particular routes for people who aren't familiar with the area? what makes them so dangerous? well, we're really talking about an open water and oftentimes people resort to having to keep a small boat that is often overloaded with people. and these are not really made to carry large groups of people, for example. and also, you know, just to basic kind of navigation that is sometimes very difficult, it's very hard for people who are desperately seeking safety. petra, what does this incident highlight in terms of the desperation of these people making such dangerous journey? really important for us to remember that, you know, been kind of sharp border enforcement that we keep all around europe in the book called it for to europe. it will not stop people from seeking safety. instead,

it'll help people to take more dangerous routes to try and circumvent being captured by border forces. and at the end of the day, it's really more about thinking about the humanity of it all. we're talking about human beings that are losing their lives that be, and it's incumbent upon all of us to think about how we address the root cause of that for people to migrate in the 1st place. indeed, i think that's a perfect way to and thank you very much for your insides. petra mon, the associate director of the refugee lab. thank you for being on this these. our thank you. bending on and saturday marks of 30 years since the fall of the soviet union, mccalla gorbachev's are resigned to soviet president on this day and 991. mocking the end of nearly 70 use of the u. s. s. that was after filing taking time to fall out have an attempted cool months earlier anti dependents movements among soviet republics. so let's take a look at the events that led up to the end of a world power. it began with the 1917 russian revolution workers and soldiers

overthrew the roman empire and established communist law when you government was led by letting me and then until his death in 1924. joseph stalin took over for almost 3 decades that contributed to its status as a world power. but by the time mikhail and colbert chairs became coming to the party later in 1985 economy was weak. it led to industrial strikes and military tanks, taking over red square to challenge his rule. a crew was attempted by president boris yeltsin, led a successful campaign against it. in 1991 go, whichever resigned, and the red flag was lowered over the kremlin as the russian flag was raised. for more analysis on the storyline springing, dimitri babich, who is a political analyst for the russian state and news media company, he joins us from moscow. thanks for being on this and use our to make tree. first of all, what did gorbachev's resignation symbolize? 3 decades ago. well, you know, i was already a journalist,

they will know very young one at the time. and i remember that people did not graph at the moment, maybe during the 1st 3 or 4 months that was already there. and on the soviet union, people thought that some of the country would emerge. you know, community jo, independence, they people thought that these could be something like a new country. and only in spring and maybe you went in some on a 92. they realized that yes, the saw that union was bound and we're going to have 15 new independent states on the stair retreat. as for what about you off? i remember that he was already very popular at the moment. was the norman crisis most terrible? not in the life, you know, we have programs now about the show on the same scale. the price is so dramatically and this was basically one of the reasons why there were no

protests about that collapse on the show. the union, people did not realize that the country was gone. second, but you cannot make hardships were so accountable that everyone will be, how been, he's a family to survive. people simply have no time for 40. so, dmitri, how much of the old russia is still present in today's russia? i think you can go away from history. i see a lot of that when deal russia, you know, the classic russia. all right. and you go to the 1st exam to the 2nd and especially alexander, the 3rd not elements or soviet called sharon august mentality. also present in today's russia, bob, the general, i will say that the main,

the main thing about the bays russia is that it is selfish, sure, more self assured them back. so we're doing in an, in late the year, we have a more into quantity which helps us to withstand the sanctions that the sort of union simply will not be able to withstand. and the in general, we find that it was the face of success. you know, when i was a young journalist in the morning, so the union people credit strong inferiority complex about being russian. it look like we don't manage to do it. it's in now it's a completely different story. what do you say about the impact that the collapse of the soviet union played into the current tensions between russia and ukraine now? well, every one though understands that the collapse of the soviet union was not so peaceful as the west and brown described it on the rush. and the bro brother described the basically it was a surgical operation box on the anesthesia. now,

when you for years wait station stop and do, you know, does soul with self and with suddenly, if you're playing, when the boy and your brain start that does during the violent protests against the legally elective government in the 101-301-4140 policemen were killed in the and way where on the east or the brain rebound against the new government. and we see that's a tragedy, a not only your brain, but also raj, and we will see it doesn't read it well, it will be interesting to see how things unfold in the coming weeks, months, and you thank you for your insights. dmitri babich a political analyst, appreciate your time. think moving on now, and communities in northern pakistan say melting glass is and putting their homes

and livelihoods in danger. the country has more than 7000 life is more than anywhere in the world except the polar regions. the climate change means some disappearing and fast impact to about special theories on pakistan's water challenges. it's. i'm a binge of a report from earth shoot near the him lane, mountains living 2500 meters above sea level. there are no grocery stores nearby, present as day begins with getting milk for her family. she lived in the idyllic past village with 3 glaciers meet in northern parts. but under the 3. com isn't ever present dangerous because those glaciers and melting and a different rates. because of land erosion and floods their house is not only 12 meters away from a riverbank present. his family lived in constant fear, not knowing where the another flood will sweep it all away. is that john said the,

this used to be our agricultural 9. when i was a child, we had fruit, orchards, and field. after massive glacial outflows became more frequent. it's all become part of the river. the whole area in the summer is submerged. we face constant danger. our village has lost cattle and lots of agricultural land and this area has become more dangerous. 7000000 people at risk from glacial league outburst floods or gloves as they look in the known out of the 3000 or more glacier lakes in northern pakistan. the united nations development program says $33.00 dangerous shooters get any more than $600.00 acres of arable land. when lost to the river. many people living in pos who are angry at the government for not doing enough. they say they talk about warning systems and protection involved never lead to action. a couple of things. it's working with international partners, invest $40000000.00 into saving lives and property. these ratios don't just affect

the 70000000 people affect the 30000000 people who live in parker fund. we have a project which is looking at setting up early warning systems so that we can at least get, you know, humans out of harm's way. but the challenge is the infrastructure, the infrastructure gets damaged. 70 percent of the damage caused by the geisha birth is on infrastructure. and that creates and creates an economic cost for august on scientists. so assessing glacial fluctuations to understand the complex and directions involved in climate and glacier response for its far reaching impact on global weather. buckets on $7000.00 plus known glaciers make it home to more delay sion life than anywhere on earth outside the polar regions. and within the himalayan region, find glaciers are sensitive to climate. the changes due to their very will out that you and debris govern the ice on the foothills of the himalayan mountain range. that is erotic whether excessive rains cause flood, and a lack of rain means that waterways and springs such as this have dried up. and

there's very little snow on the mountain tops and that, but most of the population that risk is more than 80 percent of focus on fresh water comes from glaciers. this is a huge challenge for august, and it's not about one making stock because the biggest on the missions because of what is happening around the world on climate change. and we are getting affected by this an average country store about 40 percent of the water. but in buckets on the figures, 9 percent, and the rest goes to the sea. and environmentalists say unless water consumption is reduced in farming and in urban areas, the precious resource will become increasingly scarce. as the planet forms some of injury down to the ocean near the him 1000000 mountain system. and in part 3 of our series is sama been jervey, takes us to call her son in southern pakistan, where a declining yearly rainfall has devastated the regions water supply. me. you can

watch that for me to jame. take this sunday. it's time now for the weather. he's jeff. hey there we've been dallas with heavy rain for southern california. let me show you the scene. hello everyone. good to see you. mud slides here. we're about to see a home about a meter of mine just up against the heaviest. rain on saturday will be for northern portions of california, heavy snow through the sierra nevada and just the spirits of rain, los angeles in san diego. but we look toward the east dallas 30 degrees, exceptional heat here. so what's going on is we're getting this surge from the gulf of mexico moving inland. number's way out of whack here, about 10 degrees, more than 10 degrees above average, eastern canada, the us northeast. we got some brain, some snow for the northern portion of new england, maybe even some freezing rain, so dodgy travel conditions, and look at d. c. 20 degrees. now the flip side of things, western canada, western us temperatures are about to plunge for now, vancouver at 0. let's go to monday. the dark of the purple,

the lower the temperature, vancouver minus 5. look at edmonton minus $26.00 central america, few spits in spots of rain for coast to rica and panama, and for the top band of south america. some explosive storms for brazil is by yes. state where we have seen flooding in the past. and we've got heat in patagonia commodore over 30 degrees on saturday. stay cool. that's it. see soon. still ahead on al jazeera. ah, praying for a better year ahead. it's kind of 19, dampens christmas celebrations around the world. and in sport, we hear from british cyclist at mock cabin h, as he reflects on a remarkable year ah, in the country with an abundance of resource rate already won indonesia

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