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hello. you're watching out 0. i'm emily. angling reminder about top stories this hour. more than 4000 flights have been cancelled worldwide throwing christmas travel plans into chaos. many flight crews of major airlines have been infected by the army con berry into the corona virus. at least 13 people have drowned after a boat carrying migraines, capsized off of grace in the agency existed. such disaster and grade was seen as many days bringing the combined desktops for 27 and t gas has been fired, unprotected in the capital, cuts to thousands of back on the straits to rally against the military type. at least one person has been injured and infant services have been cut covering development for us. is mohammed val, whose live for us in cod soon? hello mohammad. what's the latest you're hearing on the ground that

have been several attempt attempts to to cross the bridge is leaking the cup from sent them a couple of cartoon to the 2 other cities making up the capital that's under man. and but harry, but they have been unsuccessful. those attempts, however, in 5 central comp, time is self. confrontations between for testers and police units have been going on for at least 2 or 3 hours now. and one major push by the protesters to come close to the presidential police has been watered and dispersed, but we're understand that is huge gathering further away from that and not far from the airport. and also in the other part of cartoon protests, as i'm trying to unite to gather again and probably to try to push again towards the presidential police. and that's the pattern of what professors have been doing

. they have always been coming back again and trying to push further and to succeed time after time. last time we saw that happening to fun said after several hours of confrontations, they were able to cross the bridges and to spend some time in front of the gates of presidential police. ok, well thank you very much for that update mohammed val live for us in costume. the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built has been launched from south america. scientists hope the james web space telescope will help humans better understand times when galaxies will, than 13000000000 these old once in space. the telescope will look back in time to live from the early universe to exam the creation of stars and galaxies. manuel rapids has been covering this for us is at the lower side in room infringe kiana. hello mon. well, the launch went off without a hitch. that must have come as

a relief for those involved. celebrations are still underway just behind me and what is known as the fish bowl at the area and space center here in crew french piano underway. just as is the james web space telescope itself, mission control here in french piano has relinquished their control to mission specialists. in the united states, in the state of maryland who are now in fully in charge of the spacecraft of the james web space telescope on its way one and a half 1000000 miles away from earth. it's going to be a long journey, but it's been a long journey already 25 years in the making. that's 25 years worth of delays and setbacks. this is a launch that was supposed to take place in 2020, but was delayed due to the coping. 1900 pandemic just this month. this launch was delayed at least 3 times in part due to inclement weather. there was heavy rain this morning, a lot of nervousness from the,

from folks who are showing up at the launch site, worried that maybe the rain would possibly cause another delay. another postponement in response, but that certainly wasn't the case. conditions were at the end of the day optimal for the launch to take place. that is to say, it's still going to be a nail biting. 30 more days before the spacecraft itself reaches its final orbit at the la grunge, 2 point or l to one and a half 1000000 kilometers away from earth. and then another 6 months before all the different components, more than 300 components. that's to say more than $300.00 possible points of failure that have to unfold perfectly for the mission to be a success. we're talking about a solar array, a large solar shield that petite, that protects the spacecraft from the heat of the sun. it's about the size of a tennis score, and then of course, those large gold plated mirrors that allow the spacecraft the observatory to take in light from our cosmos and see further back in time into the earliest stages of

the universe. further back than any other space telescope before it is certainly got plenty to contend, we thank you for that update memo rebelar live for us at the launch site in korea. ok, so let's take a closer look at the james, where telescope. it's the world's largest and most powerful, ever built, and it's traveling some distance. it's final destination is one and a half 1000000 kilometers away. it's going to stay cool. it's the optimum temperature for the telescope to use infrared to view the universe. that's wavelengths that we feel as hate and look into the universe is look back into time . its mission is to view the very 1st stars and galaxies that emerged after the big bang more than 13 and a half 1000000000 years ago. it will also investigate the potential for life in the galaxies. for more on this story, let's bring in klaus pumps. pod and who is a web project. scientists and join sasa from baltimore close. thanks so much for

being on the news. our. what did you make of the launch and just how difficult and complex is this journey? one of what a beautiful launch there was, obviously a lot of nervousness today this morning. yes, we all came in very early. it's only 8 30 in the morning here. but it was just beautiful to see everything went off without a hitch. the teams were fantastic. just to see the collaboration between the massive teams and the european canadian teams and area and who provided the the rocket that the area and 5 launched on rob, i would have done. we know where you have. we have many months in front of us. lots of work to do before we are ready to do science. the telescope in for a telescope, so it has to cool to really low temperatures. only about 50 kelvin above absolute,

0 degrees celsius, absolute 0. it has to unfold in space. we still have have almost all deployment left still to do. most of those happen over the next 2 weeks. we unfold the large sun shield to keep the telescope cold. and the primary mirror itself has to be unfolded as well and focus in order to take sharp images. so we're excited to get going and do this, this job that we've been practicing for so long. it certainly sounds exciting. it also sounds incredibly expensive. class costing about $10000000000.00 a we getting bang for the buck here. oh, absolutely. when we build big flagship space, telescopes like that, and it is really because that is what is needed to answer some of those most fundamental questions that humanity has had wherever you know, where do we come from? are we alone in the universe? where are we going?

and so we certainly think that that is worth the cost of it because you just can't do that any other way. we have to build a telescope, i got to get the answers. and ultimately, the answer, the data that comes down it belongs to the world. anybody, any scientist out, the world is eligible to propose, to use the telescope for their general astrophysics. so we just can't be more excited than right now. if you had a crystal ball and you can look into the future, what do you think that this telescope will discover in 6 months time? oh, so we certainly hope that we can see the 1st galaxies that formed the universe. almost 13 and a half 1000000000 years ago. so this, this very early baby stage of galaxy is never been seen before. and so anybody who has, who has a children know that 1st year, you know,

your baby changes so much thing with galaxies. so, so just discovering that to be able to find planets bad, we think may be potentially habitable, may potentially contain life for the 1st time, we may be able to do that with web. and then finally, when, when you, when you put such a powerful telescope into space, we know that bed, sometimes the most exciting discoveries just unknown that we can predict right now . so just to see what, what will come up with that nobody's thought would be there is perhaps one of the most exciting things for me. the mind boggles. thank you very much for breaking down for us class so pon to pied and a web a project. scientists appreciate your time, miss. thanks. i think moving on now and in his christmas blessing, the head of the roman catholic church has urged people to talk more to each other. speaking from its in painted square in the vatican,

pope francis said only dialogue could sell conflicts whether within families or between nations. he drew attention to violence in syria, yemen, ukraine, and elsewhere. simon know if he knew the money, we continue to witness a great number of conflicts, crises and disagreements. these never seem to end by now. we hardly even noticed them. we have become so used to them that immense tragedies and now being passed over in silence. we risk not hearing the cry of pain and distress of so many of our brothers and sisters, christian communities around the world are doing their best to celebrate christmas . despite the pandemic churches in india's capital, new jelly brightly late, but summer main close to worship is and prayers have been held outside. the gates are open and go and chin i and people have been found liberating by seeing carols or christians in south korea gathered for socially distance services. the churches are at 70 percent capacity and all worship is, must be fully vaccinated. kind of

a desk fair, a heating record highs, and more than 100 a day. a record high number of coven 19 cases of put a damper, damper on christmas celebrations in australia, mosques, a mandatory in most states, people attending traditional church services. i've been with queuing to get tested for the virus to be able to cross state borders. christians in the besieged gaza strip, say they are unable to celebrate christmas freeling. some israeli security personnel have blocked them from accessing wholly sites in jerusalem. bethlehem, making it impossible to mark the festive season with family members. human or al say it has no a little more reset. sorry i was trying to create some christmas cheer at her home in garza the tree self and her grandson is helping with the decorations. for his sake, she's trying not to let her disappointment show. she'll not see many members of her

family and hasn't seen some for years because of the blockade on garza. some had to leave home to find work overseas corners a man then his grandma was in the past. we used to get together and gather all the family at christmas. but to day there's no one left. they've all gone abroad and christmas has no flavor. we can't even travel from here to meet them because of the restrictions. ah, those christians left in the gaza strip, had to abandon any hope of celebrating christmas and the holy cities of bethlehem and jerusalem. because of israel is security restrictions. in 20192020 no permits were granted. and although this year israel said $500.00 at the $1000.00 christians in godsa would be allowed to go there. still a major problem. yeah, i hear people here say israel only granted the permits to one or 2 members of the same family, which would mean entire families being split up at christmas if they traveled with

long us alone. possibly her permits could be granted to half of the same family after we all apply either just the parents or just the kids. but either way, it means that we can travel or sense of joy is missing. we wish israel would give us our right to visit our holy sites, like everyone else in the world. ah, muslim seemed. garza had lunch here at christmas celebrations with the minority christians lighting the tree and sending christmas greetings to each other. this year. we are ever her daughter angry and hooked to the way it's this humble for long. 8 please freedom and we will continue doing yes. we hope. next year we will go farther to hell did jojo and freedom for for the senior coupon, bruised on just a brief. and we hope that we're all on the scene and people live in such a freedom across what is dying. prayers are held in the soul orthodox church. she

god so. but there is a feeling christians here are missing out on the experience, enjoyed by others of their faith. christmas for christians in gaza, remains incomplete. but they pray and hope that next year they would be able to reunite with family and friends in bethlehem or elsewhere. in the seed, elgin's iraq, godsa still hey, don't al jazeera, as the ro about releasing plays for the african combinations, rumbles on. one of manchester cities is. don names is heading for the tournament. more on that coming up in spoke with jemma. ah, power defines our wow. the lawns knew babies were dying. i did it, nothing about people empower, investigates. expose is and questions they use and abuse of power around the globe

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mother nature's gift of cultural landscapes. a strong infrastructure governance arising where investments are willing to flourish with even supplied by tradition. do where beautiful possibilities are offered. ah ah, it's time memphis ford, he's jim. thank you, emily. as the world's top football leagues raised concerns about releasing players for the africa cup of nations, french wild cup went out. awesome legend, patrick viagra says the tournament deserves more respects. the crystal palace

manager who was born in senegal, thinks the competition is as important as the european championship. european clubs have been threatening not to send plays to commerce the torments after raising doubts about the current of iris protocols in place. but the era says he would never stop any of his palace squad, members from competing. his comments come off to the organization about presenting the walls, leading domestic leagues, wrote to fifa, and the confederation of african football. to say that teams i shouldn't have to release place until january 3rd. that would be only 6 days before the start of the tollman, that complaining that it's starting earlier than usual. and they're also concerned about the corona bar protocols in cameron. but the tone of the letter perhaps go down badly in parts of african football because the world leaks for me do say you're getting these players for nothing. basically incense of that being paid by the clubs and they're helping to generate the revenue for asking football while lamb going out to play in the african. but of course clubs in countries like

england, you benefit from players being developed in africa. so they get the talent, but this is a rumbling round. now, when to build up the stuff of the account with clubs determined as well. not to lose their players too early for liverpool, they could get that plays for an additional 2 games. if they aren't released until the 1st week of january, for the african combinations and the as such an influence potentially on things like the title, rice, but no word back yet from caff over. how they're going to respond to this demand from the world leaks for manchester. cities rad morris is one of the biggest stars competing at the tournament. he's been named in algeria scott and will captain, the defending champions, morris. they wasn't parts of the jury aside, who on the fif, our cup and last week ask with 19, continues to impact, weld sport the an h. l. us decided to delay the return of the regular season. the holiday break started 2 days early after a rise in cases and the season was due to begin again on monday. but this is now

being pushed back by a day to allow the league more time to analyze testing results and to assess if clubs are ready to resume playing. it means all 14 games shadowed for december 27th has been cooled off. that's now a total of $64.00 payments for this season. it's been a pretty incredible 2021 for british sprint cyclist, mark cavendish. he's described it as a fair retail offer to your absence or from the sports most prestigious race. the 36 year old, one for stages, this is total france to equal the all time record held by mux. the treatments made all the more remarkable after battling back from depression and at the bar virus, which meant he could hardly walk up stairs, left alone, right, his bike satellite, before i was, i was going out fishing, but we hold him manette and being told to catch fish on your like with locker, can probably catch fish, but that holds them or not. if you make my job water is making it quite impossible

to catch a fish. and i just wanted to get a net that was a net denominator was in it, you know, at or from depression and how somebody that fought with an excuse. and that's why i'm so happy a talk about it now. because if i for that i know i'm the only one thinks that, you know, am i really like, what would think somebody could snap off and think it's just people being weak. and it's really not that. so many people are being through bad times last year. and slide by times, connie would come close to, to, to what people have been through in the last year and put to know that people can take hope and you know, on the stand, if you, if you persist with something, you can, you can get back, you get what you want and then i said job well done more than more than the winds.

i guess a speaking of great comebacks, england's cricketers will certainly need one of those to rescue the ashes that to narrow down a must win the 3rd test to keep the series alive. but as well as a confident australia side to contend with the $80000.00 strong crowd at the melbourne cricket ground on boxing day, we of course largely be routing for the home team. but besides looking forward to the special atmosphere, it was all for me. i'm still a good crowd locked out for a few years. it's going to be hard as they could actually series. well, my grad little bit louder and 40 not wide. it's both books guy. he's one of the families around, it's always special ones got of a it's a brilliant event to be involved. and i mean, just an actual series out here is assuming it, every player wants to be able to get a chance to plan it up. so that's, that's much very special and with where the, the series is post currently. so it's

a really exciting opportunity. clearly we're gonna have to play a lot better than we have done so far in the 1st 2 games. but i expect you to do it yourself at that. so we have support for now. i'll have more for you later. emily. thank you very much jim. and before we go, we have a story about technology, which has spell the end of millions of jobs, including centuries old work of the lighthouse keeper. in south africa, there are 6 remaining who was still keeping ships, and their crews safe from may to mila spoke with one of them in cape columbine. 45 lighthouse as a dotted around south africa coastline. and for passing ships and fishermen, they offer a vital beacon for navigation. this lighthouse had cape columbine on the west coast was both in the 1950s. it's one of just 60 manned by a keeper. it's the 1st landmark of the southern african coast, seen by ships traveling from europe. wayne brown has been here for 17 years,

but to be like, does keep it. this is actually a blessing for me. for, for a personal point, does your daughter might be the times change and so does technology. wayne is one of the last few lighthouse keepers in south africa. we had a radio beacon with the old moscow with people with the most cult that changed. then they had the gps and from the gps it changed to yes, yes, means what? the medical dental vacation system. what happens if the suppose by the supplier didn't defy? and she up to the lighthouse into light does identify even to the sub that possible . the light from the 15 me to tool lighthouse is magnified by a lens which on appeared day can be seen as far out as 32 nautical c miles. that's

almost 60 kilometers. when says he takes great pride in keeping berlin clean and working at its best. lighthouse stands above the west coast village of pots and last known for its heavy gales and thick fog. that obscures the coastline is likely return to modus. but in the old days, it works like a grandfather's clock. the light does keep, i must come up during the night in 3 hours. he must wind it up for this like to turn it on. but nowadays with 2 motors, the extra 2 in the old insert on the lights is now also automated. and if anything goes wrong, head off is alerted by an app. even the traditional fog horn doesn't require manual labor. it automatically measures the is humidity, blasting warnings were necessary, but wayne says nothing can replace the human touch. it's a sad thing and also a bad thing because if you're most of the station really and then no, like those capers on that,

it's not fair to be honest. it would be the 1st lighthouse in south africa, dates back almost 2 centuries. this lighthouse in cape town is the oldest in south africa, and the 1st light keep began working here in 1824. back then the light was powered by oil and later gas and all the work was done manually. but advances in technology mean a light keeper is no longer needed. definitely, these are that i am very proficient. so does our duty to our fellow staff members that we do educate and up skilled him to change direction, change the career direction so that they can get involved in different other projects. it may be difficult to tell how many lies have been saved by the diligence of members of this humble profession. and for one of the last generation of keepers like wayne, this is more than just a job for me. davila alta 0 cape columbine, south africa. and that's it for this is our i'm emily angland,

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