and really cited with milan, let us love one another. loved doesn't cost once and makes your heart happier. my heart happy. he doesn't bring any loss foot a new symbol. let us practice this. ah, thousands take to the streets and through gone to protest against the military takeover. several are injured as security forces. fire a tear gas. ah, you're watching al jazeera life from a headquarters and so high and getting you navigates. also coming up 3 migrant, both capsized m a. g and c. as many days, dozens killed, a smuggler switched to a more dangerous route from turkey. us lift off from

a tropical rain forest to the edge of time itself. now saw launch has the largest most powerful telescope ever built to unlock new clues about b universe. ah, we see what happens. i my foreign cancer army cron throws travel plans into disarranged raising cases very enforced thousands of flight cancellations worldwide . ah, hello. thousands of people are back on the streets of the sudanese capital to protest against the military takeover tear. gas has been fired on protest. her and her to number of processors have been injured. there's a heavy police presence said internet services have been cut. mama valve as jonas from hearts room. so how wide spread are these protests or how much? yes, during the day progressed and particularly after sunset,

we have noticed that the protest has begun to wayne and there has been failure on the path of for testers. to cross the bridge is linking to making central cartoon to both their own doorman and battery. so that hasn't happened, unlike in the previous, on the previous occasion. and that hasn't really reduced the momentum of protests today within come to me is some central cartoon. there have been 2 or 3 attempts to reach the presidential polish house and tried to march, and they came as close as one or 200 meters. but they were all dispersed by police . we noticed that the presence of the security forces this time around is 3 times bigger than during the previous occasions, particularly the last one, the military or so out of visible in the streets. but they did not participate in

the clock down. so the gist of it is that right now the protest ease disperse is being disbursed, not completely the still from pockets of protest as here and there. but it did not reach the level and the 5 and the strength that the put us as having a spider spider and how and we know that the internet as well as phone lines have been cut off and disconnected in parts of the country at least has not impacted the number of people who plan to turn out as well. the internet. this happens every time there is a major process like this. they call it the 1000000 pounds from march and both 5 prepare for it. ahead of time, the protest as it prepared for it because they know, thought the internet will be down during the day of the protest. so whatever type of coordination or level of coordination they need to do,

they do it ahead of time. they know where to meet. they know where to march when they meet and so on. on the side of the forty's, they, yes, the both the internet and the internal phone networks are down. since this is this morning and that has really affected, particularly it affected news coming from the regions from the, from the other cities of sudan. because usually when the network is not down, then you're coming from the other parts of the country and impact what's going on in cut tone. if there are protests in the cities that impacts us here, and it gives a better morale for the testers in come to them. but we were not receiving any news from the other cities. and also he certainly has affected the coordination during the day. there have been some comments by the, by the you an invoice to sedan who said that the quality is not only half

to protect the demonstrations, but they also have to guarantee the freedom, freedom of expression for the poor testers. and nobody should be prevented from being able to communicate. ok, thank you so much for how much val, reporting from cartoon at least 13 people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants capsized nay, g and c. it's the 3rd such disaster and greek. water is in as many days bringing the combined death toll to 27 smugglers are increasingly using a dangerous route from turkey to italy to enter europe. there. avoiding patrols around the aegean islands or turkey correspond that results. are there has more from here into ha, mostly there is a refugee is, are being taken by this smugglers from cheshire mer, an boardroom. and also the city is like either an easement also or the, or stay horse provinces for the ross

a. but that how we can say that it's actually keeping changing due to the security issue of the smugglers are well aware of the security concerns and the security forces are up to them. so they keep changing directly location or get into people on board and taking them to the agency and then to the mediterranean sea. but as i said, waldrum churchman, ivan and his mer, are the main location. so then these refugees are being taken by the bought by. it's my of the smugglers to greece, italy as a pain animus sometimes to malta and the cypress as well. do you, an refugee agency says that in just this year, in 2021, 116000 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, the did the agency and did it had any have been to, has to have been turned into a graveyard for the refugees. because the un virginia says that just in last year,

2500 people have either died or gone missing in mediterranean hetero, mal r as the associate director of the refugee law at york university. she says, tragedies like these will become more frequent as immigration policies harden. we needed a horrible tragedy is 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're seeing all around europe in the book called it for to 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. the largest and most powerful space telescope of rebels has launched from south america decor large lifts from a tropical rain for us to the edge of time itself. james webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe. scientists are hoping that james webb telescope will help to manage better understand stars and galaxies that are over 13000000000 years old. i was 0 money. well right below was at the law site in crew and french kiana. he says the vibrations created by them lift off could be felt

throughout the control room. vehicle performance 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 of solid rocket fuel propelling 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. this is an optimal point where the telescope, it's going to have. it's back toward the sun and being and point. its powerful light collecting soul like collecting gold plated mirrors toward the cost most 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 close upon to pity on as one of the scientists who worked on that launch, he says it was beautiful to see things run so smoothly. 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 team's work been tastic, just to see the collaboration between the massive teams and the european canadian teams and area and who provided the rocket that the area and 5 that we launched on about. but we have done, we know where you have, we have many months in front of us with 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 050 degrees celsius or absolute 0. and below, because you'd have to unfold in space. we still have have almost all deployment left still to do. most of those happening over the next 2 weeks where we unfold a large and some 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 will kind of corruption on the spanish island of palmer is officially over after more than 3 months of daily explosions. the declaration was made following 10 days of low level activity from the comm. yeah. okay. no. and destroyed around $3000.00 buildings and it cause major damage to farm irrigation systems on the island. still a has on al jazeera, i'm a solid, been job it in northern pakistan, and i'll tell you how changing but the batons are having an impact on the lives of millions of people here. and we look at why applying to give visitors to the acropolis and authentic athenian experiences, dividing archaeologists. ah,

ah, look forward to brighter skies the with sponsored play cuts on airways. 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, but okay, i had set up it to a 60 percent chance on monday or temperatures here, little below where they should be for the start 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 bank hawks, 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 and beijing's got to have 6 degrees in the sunshine. can't wait for that. see soon. for the weather, sponsored by katara, always coveted beyond. with taken without hesitation, fulton died for our defines allowed it honestly, babies were dying. i did not neglect and babies to death. beeble empower, investigate, exposes, and questions the use and abuse of power around the go on out there.

ah, the color again, the top stories on al jazeera security forces use your gas as a center, the 1st for testers in the capital cartoon. thousands have been on the streets to rally against the military takeover and a number of people have been injured. at least 13 people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants capsized off of greece and the ag and see if the 3rd such disaster and greek waters. and as many days bringing the combined dental 227, the largest and most powerful trace telescope ever belt has launched from south america. so for james webb,

telescope will help human better understand stars and galaxies that are over 13000000000 years old. chris's travel plans have again been thrown into chaos by the pandemic. be highly transmissible on the con, very into forced airlines to cancel more than 4000 flights worldwide. and the u. s . second isolating airline employees are causing severe staff shortages. gabriel elizondo has more from new york 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 to 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 on 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 recon variant that is accounting for over 70 percent of the new positive coven cases. in

the united states, the philippines, a shot it's borders to foreign tourists during the christmas holiday period. citizens are allowed to enter the country, but the strict rules on longer quarantines have made it impossible for many migrant workers to go home for the holidays. barnaby low has the story from manila. after having to suffer one of the world's longest and most restrictive blocked doubts, filipinos are out and about daily coping. 19 cases are down. so hundreds from a peak of $20000.00 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, by 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 exempted from the band. but that doesn't mean they can travel without difficulty. there around $10000000.00 filipinos working overseas each year. 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 larry and on 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 there they will be. they will announce that and we're going to be unlocked down because of the neighboring countries are on lock down the leg. 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. it there in manila at the moment, but 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 army chron variant in 3 international travelers. there's a fear it will quickly spread, but the government says the situation is under control. barnett below al jazeera, manila communities or northern pakistan, say melting glaciers are putting their lives in homes, their livelihoods, and homes and danger. the country has more than $7000.00 glaciers more than anywhere in the world except the polar regions. climate change means some are disappearing and fast, and part 2 for a special series on pakistan's water challenges. some a bon jovi report from ocean near the himalayan 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 delicious meat in northern parts. but under the 3. com isn't ever present dangerous because those glaciers and melting and at different rates because of land erosion and floods are house is not only 12 meters away from a riverbank present. his family lived in constant fear, not knowing whether 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 feel after massive glacial outflows became more frequent. it's all become part of the river. the whole area in the summer is merged. we face constant danger. our village has lost cattle and lots of agricultural land in 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 dangerous tutors get any more than 600 acres of arable land when lost to the river. many people living in the past who are angry at the government, not doing enough. they said to talk about warning systems and protection involved. never lead to action. a couple of things and it's working with international partners, invest $40000000.00 into saving lives and property. these ratios don't just affect the 7000000 people, the fact 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 costs 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 emily and region, i'll find glaciers as sensitive phlegmatic changes due to their very beloved that you'd and debris governing 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 marcusson's. fresh water comes from glaciers. this is a huge challenge for august, and it's not about one making. started because of august 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 august 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 warms some of injuries under the ocean near to him 1000000 mountain system. and part 3 of our theory is a salma takes us to castanan southern pockets on a tour decline. and yearly rainfall has devastated the regions water supply. you can watch from o 200 hours gmc on sunday. greece is about to restore a grand entrance to the acropolis, athens. but that's causing controversy. among some archeologists who say the project goes beyond its intended aim of restoration. it follows that outcry earlier in the year when a concrete pathway leading up to the acropolis was laid down. john survivalist reports from athens to enter the acropolis in athens,

visitors zigzag up this ramp built in the 1950s. greece as it's now going to give them the experience athenians enjoyed 25 centuries ago when they came to worship their patron goddess athena. a grand staircase, 25 meters wide envisioned as part of the gateway to the acropolis and reimagined. by artists for centuries, the peloponnesian war between athens and sputter interrupted its completion. but the man in charge of restoration on the acropolis as rebuilding, it would be a celebration of the democracy, but conceived it with the establishment of democracy. the number of citizens was 10000 and all of them had to participate to the festival. it was a duty for thee and since citizens, they participation and tear, therefore they had seriously and substantially to widen,

to increase they weight of the ramp. and finally, to create the staircase once dictated the width of the staircase, was the width of the entrance to the acropolis behind me. built 25 centuries ago. it was designed to allow at least $10000.00 athenians and dozens of sacrificial oxen on to the open space around the temple of athena, where a great sacrifice would take place each year. chorus intends to open up this gate house so that all 5 of its doorways can be used. but some archaeologists say rebuilding the staircase crosses a line from restoration to reconstruction. or, you know, getting some of them. i don't say that we should necessarily preserve the zigzag ramp, but this is not a decision of one person. there needs to be a wider discussion. it's a huge intervention. or even if we had all the original material, we don't have the right to do it on such a scale, then in and get us get plenty of new marble has been inserted into the buildings of

the acropolis as part of a 40 year restoration project, including in the gate house whose restoration, daniela's oversaw, it's a compromise between 2 schools of thought. conservationists believe in preserving the historical record interventionists would rebuild the temple of athena to its classical glory. and it is that high classical period that tourists come to mark and celebrate to day. so it would appear that goddess is merely giving the greeks and the world's visitors what they want. but critics say his view favors some parts of the archaeological record over others. jumps r o plus al jazeera athens. people around the world have been celebrating christmas day. and as jillian wolf reports many share the same wish and end to the pandemic. o people around the world are celebrating christmas, with many refusing to let the impacts of coven 19 affect the fest of cheer. in

australia, the 1st part of the world to bring in christmas day people flocked to sidney's glistening. bondai beach as summer temperature, sword strand of expect, you made the most of it. there's no flights harm aba. i'm celebrating new the bestbuy archive albino strategy. i'll i've been in bumble i been on the base for christmas visor. drink. i'm thrown him. well, what low kid you want, you got fit buddy's running up and down the big. you've got to stop and you've got the water. you've got the sunshine. whereas if you want to be people also gathered in bethlehem where christians believe jesus christ was born ammonia. i better place with a joy to the word ah, in india christian communities celebrated across the country from hyderabad to new

delhi. as did those in south korea, china thailand and the philippines, january messiah disguised. but i'm happy, at least we can now hear miss at our church before there was no chance to go to church. well, and that's why we are taking the opportunity to go to the church while it's still allowed. firefighters and mexico became santa's helpers for the day, delivering toys to vulnerable children and their families. while in venezuela volunteers gather to feed people facing hunger in the united states, shoppers pack stores to get their last minute gifts. but not everyone made it home in time. travelers were stranded at airports across the u. s. and the world as thousands of flights were cancelled. a result of staff shortages as coven 19 affected crew members. ah, this year's christmas wish shared among most people who couldn't, could,

could eat that. there's no more covert that we can go back to how we were used to living. that's if woodall in nevada camp of frances reminded the faithful to be humble and used dialogue to resolve conflict and in the gulf regions big as roman catholic cathedral welcomed its 1st ever christmas mass. in bethlehem, a smaller than usual crowd gathered to celebrate with a similar message as everywhere else. i got on on my la joy, a slab. bethany, although the situation is hard with coded people, one to live and spread joy all around this year. we hope the corona virus will disappear this lease upon own nation. the violence within our society will end and the atmosphere will stay as it is now full of love and joy between every one and a message of hope reverting across nations around the world. gillian wolf al jazeera oh.