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death of her husband, prince philip in april, taking the compliments. but he has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years. and i and his whole family and this and many other countries owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim. or we shall ever know. although it's a time of great happiness and good cheer for many christmas can be hard for those who have lost loved ones this year, especially. i understand why, but for me, in the months since the death of my beloved phillip, i have drawn great comfort from the warmth and affection of the many tributes for his life and work from around the country, the commonwealth, and the world. his sense of service, intellectual curiosity,

and capacity to squeeze fun out of any situation where all irrepressible, that mischievous inquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when i 1st set eyes on him. but life of course, consists of final partings, as well as 1st meetings and as much as i and my family miss him. i know he would want us to enjoy christmas. we felt his presence as we like millions around the world, read it ourselves for christmas. while carry it again means we can't celebrate quite as we may have wished we can still enjoy the many happy traditions. be it the singing of carol's as long as the tune is well known. decorating the tree giving and receiving presence, or watching a favorite film where we already knew the ending. it's no surprise that families so

often treasure their christmas routines. we see our own children and their families embrace the roles, traditions and values. that means so much to us as these are passed from one generation to the next, sometimes being updated for changing times. i see it in my own family, and it is a source of great happiness. prince philip was always mindful of this sense of passing the battle as why he created the duke of edinburgh award, which offers young people throughout the commonwealth and beyond the chance of exploration or adventure. it remains an astonishing success, grounded in his faith in the future. he was also an early champion of taking the seriously r stewardship of the environment. and i am proud beyond words that his pioneering

work has been taken on and magnified by our eldest son, charles and his eldest son, william admirably, supported by camilla and catherine. most recently at the cop climate change summit in glasgow next summer, we look forward to the commonwealth games. the baton is currently traveling the length and breadth of the commonwealth heading towards birmingham. a beacon of hope on its journey. it will be a chance to celebrate the achievements of athletes and the coming together of like minded nations and february just 6 weeks from now. we'll see the start of my platinum jubilee year, which i hope will be an opportunity for people everywhere to enjoy a sense of togetherness,

a chance to give thanks. the enormous changes of the last 70 years, social, scientific, and cultural. and also to look ahead with confidence i'm sure someone somewhere to day or remark that christmas is a time for children. it's an engaging truth, but only half the story. perhaps it's true to say that christmas can speak to the child with in us all adult swim way down with worries, sometimes fail to see the joy and simple things where children do not. and for me and my family, even with one familiar laugh, missing this year, the will the joy in christmas as we have a chance to reminisce and see a new the wonder of the festive season through the eyes of a young children whom we were delighted to welcome formal this year.

they teach us all a lesson. just as the christmas story does says in the birth of a child, there is a new dawn with endless potential. it is this simplicity of the christmas story that makes it so universally appealing, simple happenings at form, the starting point of the life of jesus. a man whose teachings have been handed down from generation to generation and have been the bedrock of my faith. his birth marked a new beginning as carol says, the hopes and fears of all ears mash in need to night. i wish you all a very happy christmas. o

e ah, ah a v i b b, e o b o. b ah, so britain, queen elizabeth trista and delivering her christmas at her annual christmas message lecturing. and andrew simmons is joining us from london in the queen. andrew was striking, quite a personal tone in this particular message. yeah, really do you see queen elizabeth being as should i almost say motive as that and

in the way she talks about her own personal life. but this obviously was a tragic ear for her 95 years of age. 73 years of marriage to prince philip, who died in april. she described him as my beloved philip. she talked of his strength and stay term used before by him actually under, under how queen it's his strength and stable he's. she's used it in different context. ah, he said, she said that he could squeeze fun out of any situation and he have a merciless sense of humor. and she also moved on to remark that a familiar face may have been missing book children were key to out the christmas in the royal family and the key to every one. indeed, she made a reference to

a how there is a special need to look through a child's eyes at the world. and, and really this was, that was some reference to cove it. and indeed, a year ago, she did refer to cove it as being a factor that had actually brought people together. and for people who were sick or her were missing relatives, she assured them you are not alone. and that was the highlights of last year's speech. this speech will be remembered for her opening up about how she misses her husband so much and that she really feels that christmas is a special time. but obviously it plays hard when you consider her loss and we are mentioning, covered just a moment ago. there's her on that now there's been a record daily numbers of infections over in the u. k. and in fact, across europe. and does that trend look likely to continue?

it certainly looks like it says continue. in fact, it's going to get worse. france, italy critical stage is there also with record numbers of the, from the on the chrome variant in the u. k. a 122000 is the number of infections on christmas eve at a record figure. the government here is more, has a lighted touch on restrictions to the rest of europe. and that is coming into question now, because the latest information from the office for national statistics, which had quoted on the 16th of december, a figure of one in 20 people in london is suffering from the current of ours. now that figure within 24 hours, it predicts will turn into one in 10. that is a sobering piece of data that the government has said that it will look at the data

across the board before it considers any heavy restrictions. well, it is relying on the booster, which is being rolled out in ever increasing numbers. in fact, the booster jobs are being given out on christmas day right across the country and with big pick up that they're relying on this, mr. jab as being a serious measure in terms of getting on top, but there are no indications it's, it could possibly deal with the micron are increasing in infections so that, that is a real worry now. and there could well be, moves towards out further restrictions are more than just passes that a large venues needed coded passes at large venues need, but increasing that perhaps a possible with some sort of partial lockdown, possibly in parts of the country. but whatever the measures are, they could be in place before the new year. that's a possibility. although the prime minister barak some will have to recall

parliament if he's going to do it because under pressure from within his own party to be giving a lighter touched on the situation. sake of the economy. and for the sake of people's freedom, that is getting to be a tight situation. thank you so much. andrew simmons reporting from london. now thousands of people are back on the streets of the sudanese capital to protest against the military takeover. chicka has been fired on protesters and hard to me, and a number of protesters have been injured. there is a heavy police presence and internet services have been cut. home involves covering the story for us. he's joining us from hard to me. so 1st of all, talk to us about the tier got that's been fired and, and the latest the casualty figure is with a number of people who have been injured done and we don't have a specific, specific figures in this regard. but we know that confrontations have been on an off during the day since the protest is particularly in the central capital area,

began to try to push towards the presidential poly said, well at least 2 or 3 ways. for testers, which come to the, in the 1000 and they were close to the presidential police, actually one or 200 meters from pawleys and some of the, some of the occasions they spent some time there before. there were this past and police, as you mentioned, you made heavy use of t a golf, which caused injuries among cortes says, while this happened in central cartoon, we have a much stronger control of this time around by police security forces across the bridges, lincoln called to him to the 2 other components of the capital, own doorman and battery. unlike last time, when the crowds were able to push and cross those bridges and gather into thousands in front of the possession of bodies, that situation was not repeated to day. which was explained by the triple number of

security forces that was deployed across the states, not only police, but also the military, but the military have not participated in the, in the cock down on protesters in central capital. i do tend to sense come on to say that there are still attempts to push towards the presidential police because that area is, is open and there are no bridges to be closed, leaking it, or separating it from their presidential bodies. usually this goes on until after fun set, and after sunset the clock on becomes more serious and more entries happen. and that's when the crowds who turn home, how much we also know that there are reports, in fact, that mobile services as well as the internet has been cut. so how is that impacting the number of people who are turning out on to the streets while certainly it affects coordination between the protests and, and there are complaints,

not only from the puerto system, some things, but this is a violation of the freedom of expression. but also even the un envoy to sudan vodka pressed, as he said that this is, this should be, should not be the case. the policies should not only protect the, the protests, but they also should go through the freedom of expression including from access to the internet. this has been a pattern behavior by the government. before every protest like this, they shut down the internet and even today also the local domestic, regular phone networks have been shut down. you can receive calls from outside to that, but you can't make calls these to them or make a call to the, to the other countries, which has complicated situation for the, for the test as well. usually they go around it, they, you know, that it will happen and usually they make the coordination before the closing down of the, of the shocking down of the, of the networks. all right,

thank you so much. mohammed well, reporting from hard to plenty more had on the 0 news hour including this. we look at why a plan to give visitors to the acropolis an authentic athenian experiences. dividing archeologists luck. i'm a solid job in northern sun and i'll tell you how changing weather patterns are having an impact on the lives of millions of people here. $900.00 continues to impact world for it as any child is forced to delay the return of the regular season. gemma will have more later in the shower but 1st christmas travel plans have again been thrown into chaos by the pandemic. the highly transmissible micron variances force airlines to cancel more than $4000.00 flights worldwide. in the u. s. sick and isolating airline employees are causing severe staff shortages. kimberly's condo is joining us from new york. so

what is the latest on the flight cancellation is gabriel. well, on friday, of course there were more than a 1000 flight cancellations just here in the united states. and were starting to see more cancellations here on saturday as well. united airlines saying they've already got dozens of flights that are either been canceled already this morning here in the east coast to united states or could be as the day moves along. it's only a little after 10 am here in new york. so as the day moves on, we'll likely see more cancellations. delta airlines and other one of the major carriers here in the u. s. is saying they anticipate more than a 150 white cancellations over the weekend either today or saturday or going into sunday. the issue here is basically pilots flight attendance ramp crew ticket agents that are either calling in sick because they have symptoms or they have

tested positive for corona virus or, and this is the big one. they think they've been exposed to somebody that has tested positive that's a big issue as well. because even if you're exposed to someone, of course you have to corn teen for 10 days, which means you can't go to work, which means the airlines can't fly if they don't have people that can fly them and operate the air airplane. so that is being a huge problem here. and this is what we're seeing with the spread of the armory con variant. that is accounting for over 70 percent of the new positive covered cases in the united states. airlines anticipating that this could go on for weeks because health officials here are saying that the peak of the armor con barion won't hit until the early part of january here. so this is going to be a long term issue as the airlines around the world, and particularly here in the u. s. or having to scramble to figure out how they're

going to keep their how they're going to keep their planes flying and get people getting from point a to point b, especially during this busy end of the year travel season. yeah, gabriel. and on that point you just mentioned health officials. so what you're saying is that they expect this on the cross surge trend to continue then for at least the short while. yeah, that's right. at least here in the united states, and particularly here in the northeast to the united states, new york city, where i'm at right now has become without question that the u. s. epicenter of the armory kron variance just in the last 24 hours on friday. if you will, there were 44000 new positive cases in new york state. that is an all time record for the entire length of the pandemic. here in new york, there were about 3360000 people tested in new york daily. but

the fact that there are over 40000 people a day now testing positive is quite frankly, alarming. the positivity rate here in new york has jumped up to 10 percent just to give you an idea pretty much all through this past year. the positivity rate had been under one percent in new york, so it is just skyrocketed. that's the bad news. there is a bit of good news and the good news is, is that nationally in the u. s. the death toll is only increasing by about 3 percent. so what it help officials are saying are the numbers of positive people getting positive are high. but the vaccines appear, as we know to be working. the death toll continuing to be much lower than it was during the height of the pandemic here. okay, thank you so much. gabriel is on the reporting from new york. now. the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built has been launched from south america. any date, it will find his hope. the james web space telescope help humans,

better understand stars and galaxies more than 13000000000 years old. once in space, the telescope will look back in time to light from the early universe to examine the creation of stars and galaxies. 0 so many well rep, hello, was up that long sight and crew and french kiana. she 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 its 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 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 soul 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 build ever sent in the

outer space. and many people are seeing this as a promise to rewrite the history books. well, let's talk about this. where the meredith and mcgregor of and joining us from boulder, colorado. she's an assistant professor, astrophysical and planetary fine says at the university of colorado boulder. welcome to al jazeera, thanks for speaking to us. so, you know, the telescope launched after years and years of delays as well as setbacks. now comes the hard part though. so how significant and historic 1st of all is this launch? yeah, it's great to be here. i mean, this is really the biggest talk of we've ever launched into space. it's more than 20 feet across in diameter on the mirror. and in comparison, you know, hubble space telescope, you know, state of the art instrument is only about a meter across. so, so this is, you know, an enormous feet to actually launch this into space. how difficult and complex is the journey though. yeah. so the launch is really kind of the 1st step here. what

happens now is actually in order to fit the telescope into the rock, it had to be folded up. and so now that the telescope has been released from the pairing, it starts this journey to l 2 and it's going to slowly start unfolding itself. and i think if i remember correctly, there's more than 300 different pieces that have to sort of unfold and lock into place as the telescope makes its way out to the garage point. so it's quite a complicated engineering feet and in terms of its mission. so what we understand will do is that the telescope will look deeper into the cost most. and then as a consequence of that, further back in time. can you explain that a little bit? yeah, so you know, the history of our universe, we started with sort of a big bang and since then everything in the universe has been expanding apart. and so you can kind of think of it like if you put a loaf of bread in an oven with raisins in it, as the low fries, as you know, the space expands, the reason stay in the same places,

but the bread kind of expands apart. and so you can think in our universe, as the galaxies are like the reasons and a loaf of bread. and so our whole universe is expanding. and that means that these galaxies in the space between them is getting stretched, and the light that's being emitted by these kind of early galaxies is getting stretched apart. we call that a cosmological redshift. and it basically means that the light from these kind of ancient 1st galaxies is actually in what we call the inference spectrum, which is sort of read word, longer wavelengths of light than we can actually see with our visible eyes. so by using james lab, this is now an infrared telescope, it's going to allow us to actually detect that light for the 1st time from these really early galaxies. and also another go from what i understand for web will be to probe the atmospheres of distant planets. what will that tell researchers? yeah, so i mean, is really going to do kind of all the science we can do everything from because

knology and galaxies to studying help planets for him and looking at them in their birth environments and then even characterizing their atmospheres. and so the real question there is to try and look for what's in these, you know, atmosphere, that extra plants, no more than 4000 planets orbiting other stars. but we have no idea what they're actually like, you know where the surface is like, where they're atmospheres are they habitable. and so these will be the 1st observations where we really can look for things like carbon dioxide and oxygen and methane in the atmosphere. next, the planets, and then we can hopefully move that towards looking for what astronomers called bio signatures or signatures of life on other planets. ok, we'll leave it there. thank you so much for speaking to us from colorado, meredith and mcgregor, thank you. thank you. still had on the al jazeera news, our a dying profession, there is only 6 light housekeepers in south africa. we've spoken to one of them about technology replacing manpower, 30 years since the collapse of the soviet union. and we look back on one of the

20th centuries, most pivotal moments in sport, we hear from british cyclists mar, cavender, says he reflects on a remarkable year. ah ah hello, thank you for joining in the rain risk is still there for us on sunday, across some of the golf. let's go over those details right now. all has to do with this ribbon of cloud. the could very well generate some showers. let's go for a closer look, try and pinpoint where this will be. and i also wanted to mention this risk when coming down from iraq is shamal. so we'll see when gus and dough i to about 50 kilometers per hour there. some of their showers could work into re add into bahrain into northern portions of cats, or these could be some thunder. downpours as well, and temperatures and re add well below the average of $22.00 degrees. thanks to

that cloud cover. really putting a cap on things. lot of clouds and also showers working across the pakistan. the hor, at 16 degrees as lama bod, 17. and off we go to turkey. those winds will be winding up through the boss for us about 50 kilometers per hour. is stumble has a high of 14 degrees storms, once again, bubbling up around kinshasa into congo. a gap on southern portions of cameroon, lagos, exceptional heat at 36, pretty close or record you may get there. so we'll keep tabs on that. also seen storms through botswana, zimbabwe, eastern portions of south africa, cape town at 29 degrees, but prepare for your temperatures. are on the way down. that's it soon. ah. ah, they travel thousands of commerce in to pick berries. due time with exploitation in the course of sweden when it went east investing aids on out to

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