a, a ah ah, mall protests in sudan against the country military rule will have a live update from cut to ah, hello, i am emily ang, when this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up for you. see what happens next. worthington, ami, cron throws travel plans into disarray, rising cases of the very enforced thousands of flight cancellations, world wives, 3 migrant boats capsizing grace's agency in as many days,

dozens killed the smugglers switch to a more dangerous route from turkey to lift off from a tropical rate for us to the edge of charlottesville and nasa launch is the largest and most powerful telescope ever built to unlock new clothes about the universe. ah, we begin with breaking news in sudan where thousands of people are back on the streets to protest against the military. take over t gets, has been fired on, protest is in the capital cut soon. at least one person has been injured. there's a heavy police presence and internet services have been cut. mama val has been covering developments for us from the capital. hello there, mohammed. what's happening right now? right now,

the confrontation between police units and for testers are continuing across capital and particularly in on demand. and how do you, because that's where the huge numbers of us are trying to cross the bridge is to we're central comp to them. but the biggest confrontations ever to happen today happened in central culturally self, particularly to the southern part of it. thus, with thousands gotten and since the morning the, the hours of the morning and they try to march because there is no bridge separating them from central call to them. well, the presidential policies located and they were met by a huge numbers of security forces. they used to golf, they dispersed that 1st wave, but to understand that there are other ways gathering in that area. and southern come to me as the expectation is that they will push again and try to reach the president of police because mouth time it happened after several attempts, they were even able to open up the bridges for themselves and to push back security

forces. they spent some time in front of the presidential balis, and they consider about a strong success that they have to improve and build upon about giving them momentum, which they are trying to use this time are and mom and what are for testers, cooling full well since since the beginning, they have been very clear about what they wanted. they wanted a total withdrawal of base of the military from power. they said that they are a pollution has been stolen by the military. they entered into a partnership on 2 and a half years ago. with the military thinking about in the military would on their pledges to seed paula to civilians at a certain time. but it became clear during the last several months, but of the deadline of that, of that withdrawal of the military from power. as it approached,

the military created obstacles and 3 texts to stay in power. that's what the civilians are saying, and they are demanding. as i said, complete, complete withdrawal of the military from paula, they want a civilian role in sudan. they want to complete or as they say, complete set of illusion of 2019. and that can't happen as far as the military or impulse. thank you very much for that update mohammed val live for us in come to me christmas travel plans have again been thrown into chaos by the pandemic. the highly transmissible ami chrome very inches for a limes to cancel more than 4000 flights worldwide in the us sick and isolating airline employees, causing severe stuff shortages. we'll have

a live update from our correspondent gabriel elizondo, shortly moving on now and at least 13 people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants capsized in the adrian c. it's the 3rd such disaster in great waters in as many days. bringing the combined death towel to $27.00 smugglers are increasingly using a dangerous route from turkey to italy to enter europe, their avoiding patrols around the aging and islands. russell santa has covered turkey for us and he joins as live now from the studio. with the latest reaction from ankara. hello, there were so to us, more about the roots migrants are using to get from turkey to europe. well, mostly there's a refugee is, are being taken by this smugglers from church mare, an boardroom. and also the city is like i done and is mer also, or the or state or horse provinces for the roars above that now we can see that

it's actually keeping changing due to the security issues. the smugglers are well aware of the security concerns and the security forces are up to them, so they keep changing their actually location or getting the people on board and taken down to the agency and down to the mediterranean sea. but there's a set boredom churchman. ivan and he's more of the me location, so then there's refugees are being taken by the bought by. it's mobile smugglers to greece. italy are so pain animus, sometimes to malta and the so bruce as well do you? refugee agency says that in just this year and 2021116000 refugees have been crossing the mediterranean sea and a 55 percent of them were trying to reach italy, 25 percent to subpoena and 7 percent of them to greece. but we can see that the agency and the mediterranean have been to, has to have been turned into a graveyard toward the refugees. because the un virginia says that just in last

year, 2500 people have either died or gone missing in mediterranean ref. so and the, so can this despite turkey and e, e, having this deal to prevent the flow of migrants. so why are we still seeing such a high flow of them? well it is that the nature off did the issue is, is, is quite a fluid went turkey and you're saying this deal in 2016 the, that the refugees in turkey were roughly around 3 or 3000000. but now it is exceeded at 5000000. so it is put in a more and more pressure one ah, what site? so by the time the deal was simply based on some of their agreements, there did the illegal immigrants who try to cross the agency and reach degrees were supposed to be returned back to turkey and turkey. taken ezra measures to, to prevent the new military raw's and also you promised turkey to, to is the result restrictions for turkish citizens. and also to revisit their

custom unions agreement between the 2 parties and earth plus to provide sister 1000000000 euros to turkey. or when it comes to financial issues mosley, the promises had been kept worth the cost of unions and there and did there, there, there the other issues researchers, lamb in the ease off the restrictions or for turkish to this is that haven't been cap. but as i said, the, the parties are accrues in each other, particularly greece and turkey. but the officials at the end of this, as that is a change in issue and the ground is, is quite full. it is almost impossible to reduce the flow of the refugees to 0, but at the end of the day, i still believe that was a successful agreement because at least 85 percent of the refugees have been prevented to take the road to agency or the mediterranean thank you very much for that update wrestle, sat, our life for us from ankara and petra mama is the associate director of the refugee law lab. a york university. she says,

tragedies like these will become more frequent as immigration policies hadn't mean these 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 you know, different contexts across the world are developing, people are sometimes forced to take more dangerous route. we're really talking about open water. and oftentimes people resort to having to take a small boat that is often overloaded with people. and these votes are not really made to carry large groups with people, for example. and also, you know, just the basic kind of navigation that is sometimes very difficult is very hard for people who are desperately seeking safety. really important for us to remember that, you know, this kind of sharp border enforcement that we keep all around europe in the book called it fortress, europe. it will not stop people from seeking safety. instead, it'll compel people to take more dangerous route 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 at sea, and it's incumbent upon all of us to think about how we address the root causes that force people to migrate in the 1st place. returning to one of the top stories now in the travel chaos during the holiday season to, to the pandemic. gabriel elizondo is live for us in new york. hello. they gave. what's the latest on these slight cancellations while there were a lot of play cancellations on friday as we know over 3000 globally just within the u. s. over a 1000. and it's now starting to carry over into the weekend into saturday as well . already united airlines is announced that they plan to cancel dozens of flight saturday in the u. s. delta airlines saying that they also, throughout the next 48 hours,

are planning to cancel as many as $150.00 flights as well. this all comes down to again cru, flight attendance, pilots, even ramp agents, all the people involved with the airline industry at the airport, getting people from point a to point b coming down either sick with a corona virus or thinking they might have symptoms or even simply exposed to somebody that has a corona virus, they have to of course report that and then the immediately need to corn teen for 10 days, which means they can't work. this is sort of the domino effect if you will, of what's happening all over the world. but particularly hitting hard here in the u . s. and especially in the northeast. and that's why there are so many cancellations. this is probably going to go on for a while. airlines are planning for at least weeks at this point because the health experts are saying the army kron variant won't peak here in the us until probably

after january. of course, a big travel holiday travel time right now, including going into the new year as well. and gabriel army crone has been raging across the us as we know, is that trend likely to continue? yes, it did. that is what health experts are pointing to. and you know, you say it is raging, but it is to put it in perspective. there were 44000 new positive cases in new york alone, just on friday. that is more than at any time during the pandemic in the last 2 plus years. and new york, as we all know in about march of 2020, was a global epa center of the krona virus pandemic. well, now, new york is the national epicenter of the army. kron variant 44000 new cases in 24 hours. is astonishing. quite frankly, and just within the united states,

u. s. is averaging about 185000 new cases nationally. so the, in the last 14 days, the number 7 have gone up by about 55 percent. that's the bad news. the good news is the death toll within the u. s. is only going up by about 3 percent. so health experts are saying, well this is not good. well, it's very dangerous. this new variant, it is appearing like in other parts of the world that the vaccinations the vaccines are helping to prevent people from getting deathly ill. the hospital numbers are going up in new york, but they are still not nearly as high as they were. the death toll or the, or the hospitalizations as they were during the height of the pandemic in march 2020. with that said though, testing lines here in new york and elsewhere in the us are around the block. there is a shortage of testing. as people want to get tested before they travel or just spreading

so fast, clearly though, there could potentially be more closures already. the new york mayor has said he's scaling back the times square new year's eve celebration that famous ball drop that we're also familiar with. there were going to be $60000.00 people. he's now scaling it back to just about 10 to 15000. all right, thank you very much for that update. gabriel alexander live for us in new still ahead on al jazeera. i'm a solid, been job it in northern pakistan, and i'll tell you how changing but the buttons are having an impact on the lives of millions of people ahead and des, columbia criminalizing dissent, human rights groups raised concerns as a controversial security bill is passed by congress ah,

the hello. thank you for joining in. here's your weather report for asia to see you will begin in india where we've got some clouds floating in towards the northwest that's very likely to generate some showers out of season showers for new delhi. we look at the next 3 days, 40 percent chance boat. okay. i had that up. it to a 60 percent chance on my day temperatures here. little below where they should be for this side of the year. rain is starting to back off across sumatra. still falling, just not at the same intensity. and we've seen a months worth of rain on indonesia as pop. you are island over the past 24 hours. the ne monsoon given us problems once again for vietnam. wet weather pretty much from hanoi rate down to denying but toward the west. we've got some sunny spells. this includes you bang, cox some sunshine and your temperature locks in pretty close to about 30 degrees for the next few days. for areas of japan, some heavy snow for that western portion, those winds will be winding up as well. i think we'll see wind gusts here about 80 kilometers per hour. let's talk about that called will paint the colors are dark,

the purple, the lower the temperature, but it's short lived. so this is about the worst of it on sunday. look at solve from minus 6 by monday, 0 ambitions got a high of 6 degrees in the sunshine. can't wait for that. see soon. ah. ah, mother nature's gift. coastal landscapes. a strong infrastructure governance arising were investments are waiting to flourish with even supplied by tradition. ah, we're beautiful. a

the hello are you watching out there? i'm emily angland. reminder about top stories this hour. he guess has been fine and protested in the capital costume. thousands of back on the straits to rally against the military takeover. at least one person has been injured. internet services have been cut more than full 1000 flights have been cancelled worldwide. throwing christmas travel plans into the highly transmissible coven, 19 ami chrome variance has effected flat crews of major airlines. and at least 13 people have drowned after a boat carrying migraines, capsized off grace from the agency. it's the 3rd touch design in great waters. and as many days, bringing the combines in depth tote to 27. the largest and most powerful

space telescope ever built has been launched from south america. caught it because the scientists hope the james web space telescope will help humans better understand stars and galaxies that are more than 13000000000 years old. once in space, the telescope will be yours to look back in time to live from the early universe to examine the creation of stars and galaxies. algae zeroes. meanwhile, rappel was at the loaner side in co room in french piano. he says the vibrations created by the lift off could be felt throughout the control room. seems like all systems are nominal here. the excitement is palpable behind us in that control room . just moments ago we could hear the sounds from those powerful rocket boosters. more than 480 metric tons of solid rocket fuel propellant just enough to blast off

and send the spacecraft more than more than one and a half 1000000 kilometers away from earth. you can just really feel the vibrations here in the building and really hear hear those sounds. but as far as we can tell, everything went off without a hitch in terms of that initial lift off. but again, this is really just the beginning. 27 minutes after lift off is the part that the rocket itself is doing. it's job that powerful, heavy duty area and 5 rocket that's carrying the james web space telescope. in that very, at the 27 minute mark that faring is going to open up and release the telescope itself. at that point, the telescope becomes independent on its way to the lagrano 2 point or l to 1500000 kilometers away from earth. this is an optimal point where the telescope it's going to have. it's back toward the sun and being and point. it's powerful light collecting sol like collecting gold plated mirrors toward the cosmos,

collecting light, observing the infrared spectrum, being able to peer back into the early stages of our universe, further back than any other space telescope before it. again, this is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built ever sent in the outer space. and many people are seeing this as a promise to rewrite the history books. communities in northern pakistan say melting life is putting their homes and livelihoods in danger. the country has more than $7000.00 of them more than anywhere in the world except the polar regions. but climate change main, some disappearing and fast impact to a vast special series on pakistan's water challenges. the sound we've been jervey reports from shoot me the himalayan mountain. 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 legal issues meet in northern parts of firm. but under the 3 come,

isn't ever present dangerous because those glaciers and melting and a different rates because of land erosion and floods are house is not only 12 meters away from riverbank present. family lived in constant fear, not knowing where the another flood will sweep it all away. is that john said that 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 of gloves as they locally known. out of the 3000 or more glacier lakes in northern pakistan. the united nations development program says $33.00 dangerous prescript,

any more than $600.00 acres of arable land. when lost to the river. many people living in the past who are angry at the government for not doing enough. they say they talk about warning systems and protection was never going to action a couple of things and it's working with international partners to invest 40000000 dollars into saving lives and property. these ratios don't just affect the 7000000 people affect the 30000000 people who live in pockets on 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 these racial 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. focus on $7000.00 plus known glaciers make it home to more glacial

life than anywhere on earth outside the polar regions. and within the himalayan region, i'll find glaciers as sensitive to climatic changes due to their very will out that you and debris covering 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 spring 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 parkinson's. fresh water comes from glaciers. this is a huge challenge for bargain on. it's not a lot of one on making start because the farthest on the missions because of what is happening around the world on climate change. and we are getting affected by this. an average countries store about 40 percent of their water, but in pug saw, the figure is 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 warms, some of injury down to the ocean near the him 1000000 mountain system. and in part 3 of our series, the summer been ga, takes us to call her son in southern pakistan, where a declining nearly rainfall has devastated the regions water supply. you can watch that from to jim tate, this sunday rights groups in columbia saying you security law violates human rights and could criminalize protests. the bill was approved by congress this week and is expected to be signed off by president yvonne to k. but the opposition says though, challenge it all the way to the constitutional court. alexandra romp yet reports from the capital. margareta in a last minute special session, columbus conservative majority congress passed. and you controversially security law, that the opposition says violates human rights. they see and see what those already

see. the bill is the government response to a wave of crime that followed the pandemic locked downs. the critics believe that while the claims to guarantee citizen security with penalties, it also violates the constitution dangerously expanding. self defense laws among other provisions. why get a better foreigner where i said it was a matter my this bill allows private citizens to use a weapon on the property. let's say of peasant farmers invade the land of a big landowner. it can shoot and killed them and take justice in their own hands. it will bring new violations of human rights in a country that already has a terrible record. in that regard. the law increases penalties for damaging public infrastructure or when protesters where a mask and it comes as the government is under pressure for the police, responds to the economic and social protests, the rock, the country in 2019. and again, this year,

everything un reports documents various instances of unnecessary in disproportionate use of force by police officers that lead to does instead and criticize arms to video shooting at them, traders. but the country's defense minister who controls the police, said the law does not legalize these actions than what it was got into this law does not violate peaceful protests in any way. but when crimes are committed, it is sure the police and the justice system that they can bring those responsible to justice. this law responds to people's needs for security and protection. well, some mayers applaud elements of the bills, especially the tougher penalties. critics say they will challenge the law in the countries constitutional court and will then now set internationally in the story of the cute the experts have already, but it says the court will likely reject the most liberal articles of the bill is when a handful of the people, it's

a typical example of punitive populace. people want to see those who commit a crime rotten jail. and you can understand that from the victims perspective, look when, but the rule of law regulates things in a different way. we can't forego people have constitutional night. columbia have been hoping for an improvement in security. and at the same time or you mean police for a long time. the government says this new law will do that, reducing crime across the board. but many are asking if it indeed will and at what cost i listen to the i'll just, you know what that saturday march, 30 years since the fall of the soviet union. mccallegh. whichever resigned to soviet president on this day and 991 mark in the end of the 70 s u. s. s. that was after failing to contain the fall out of an attempted coup months earlier, and independence 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 romanov empire, and established communist rule. the new government was led by letting me live in until his death. in 1924. joseph stalin took over for almost 3 decades which contributed to its status as a world power. but by the time mikhail gorbachev, it became communist party. later and 985 economy was weak. it led to industrial strikes and military tanks, taking over a red square to chelan, she's room a crew was attempted, but president boris yeltsin led a successful campaign against it in $991.00 go. but you have resigned and the red flag was lowered over the kremlin as the russian flag was raised. samuel romani is a cheater and specialist on russian foreign policy at university of oxford. he says gorbachev's reforms were the most fine reaching and many have been reversed since persian overtures legacy initially all through the jet transition towards an

attempted democracy. the transition doors of free market privatization, the easing of cold war tensions was followed by an improvement of us russia relations intermittently over the next 15 years. but now under vladimir hooton's leadership, we've seen these act reverse. we've seen authoritarian consolidation. we've seen, di, stayed on companies taking over private enterprises and even more importantly, seen a return to systemic confrontation between russia and the last that was arguably sharper than it wasn't ranking. in the former soviet republics, when a multiple different trajectory sound like the baltic states is sonia lothian, the mania were able to enter the european union were able to decision towards market economies were able to develop dynamic, innovative, private sectors. if those that were presented by corruption others, i, bella rues, largely stayed the same as the, as always has done with minor tweaking the planned economy. so largely in place and sound like russia and ukraine. i do one partial reforms in russia in particular. it was a cute economic depression and deb organized crime and

a breakdown of law and order in the 1st decade after the so the claps. and now we've seen a degree of stabilization lease on the streets, but also a resistance to diversification of resistance to reform. as early resemblance of the late 19 seventy's and early 1980 s. and he is christmas blessing the head of the roman catholic church is urged people to talk won't. so he chemba speaking from cin, painted square in the vatican poem for frances said, only dialogue, consult conflicts, whether within families oh, between nations, he drew attention to violence in syria, yemen, ukraine, and elsewhere. oh, hello, you're watching al jazeera and these are the stories we're following. this. our t gas has been fired on protest is in the capital cartoon in sudan, thousands of back on the streets to rally against the military take over at least one person has been injured. internet service.