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. and the 3rd vibrant votes thinking of greece this week, plus with georgia, gwinnett decker la slipped off from a traumas, powerful space telescope ever build, sets off to unlock secrets by galaxy. ah, protests as have been back out on the streets. officer don, it was the 10th major demonstration since the military takeover in october security forces fire tear gas internet services were cut and large areas of the capital were locked down, the protested say they won't back down. bahama vall has more from cartoon, several of the groups of protest as godhood in the outskirts of up to him on saturday afternoon for marching toward the city center where the presidential policies located. well, i'm not sure that any of these people are going out on the streets to reach this

military are 30 and now slogans are clear off the no negotiations, no partnership, no bars and what the army is for the barracks. the militias do not rule us and we demand the hand over a full power to civilians. we demand civilian democratic rule, but least quickly. it is fun to do. forcing the protest this city, of course, security forces closed on the bridges leading to central cartoon. this, along with an unprecedented police presence in the street, made it difficult for the dumb of plato that balance. on one or 2 occasions, however, the clouds managed to get close a few 100 meters away from the warmth of the presidential follies. but they were soon dispersed, several went into the book. this is chanted slogans, calling and military leaders in the ruling 70 council. to see the polish civilians

done the state has promised to organize another day, a protest on december 13th. they insist not that they will stop their rallies, only when power is completely restored to civilian government, $100.00 funds. i just got to me. well, let's bring in cameron hudson. now he is non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council's african center. and he's joining via skype from north carolina. very good to have you. with us on al jazeera, the security forces seem determined to stop protest of cut off the internet clothes major rose to call to, but hasn't deterred protest as those. so where to from here with both sides determined to continue on their current course. well, it's hard to know. clearly, there are some negotiations happening behind the scenes that are not public, both by the prime minister, meeting with members of these resistance committees and meeting with members of the political parties in the country, trying to find a new way forward,

a new political agreement that all sides can agree on at the same time, i think the military and security forces are also trying to build a stronger political coalition for themselves. and i think you're, what you're seeing is the prime minister stuck between the democratic opposition to taking to the streets week after week, and the military with whom he is in a political partnership with right now. and so i really think all pressure is on the prime minister to try to cut a deal that allows him to govern, allows him to pick a cabinet and satisfies the needs of the st. want to see more democracy. and what about the role or the leverage of the international community right now to stop the military from consolidating more power, especially given the state of sedans, economy, for instance, the help that it needs from organizations right now, like the international monetary fund. well,

i think the greatest leverage that the international community has right now is the fact that it has frozen the majority of the financial assistance, several $1000000000.00 worth of financial assistance that had been promised to sudan as a function of the democratic transition. so on october 25th, when the qu happened, the debt relief process from the i m f. world bank funding. and then bilateral funding from the e, u. united states, and e u member states was all frozen. and so the, the military is quite anxious to see that money turned back on the international community. and is, is in a position right now to dictate the terms under which that money would be restarted . and i think there's 2 sets of job, you know, packages that, that, that the international community wants to see. first on the political side, the military allowing the prime minister to choose his cabinet, allowing him to make political appointments at the state and local level. and then secondly,

on the financial side that the military agrees to open its books and allow military corporations to come under federal control under government, civilian government control and begin to relinquish some of the, the power of the purse that the military has held for. so for so long in sudan, so i think the number of, of agenda items to seeing that money turned back on by the international community is very tall right now. and we're not anywhere close to, i think, meeting those conditions to seeing that money turned back on. and what about and national crash or leverage when it comes to things like human rights? you know, the un has ordered an independent investigation into reports that 13 women were raped or gang raped by security forces during protest last week. and the international community right now have any leverage to protect protest as, and their democratic rights. well, they do, i mean, they can, they can make threats, which we've seen very few of actually we have seen more please from the

international community asking the military to respect the right of free assembly and free speech in the country. but what, what we haven't seen is the threat of any kind of punitive measures like sanctions . so even going back to october 25th in the qu, there have been no punitive measures applied to the military targeted or broadly speaking, sanctions on any, any members of the military who conducted the crew or who have carried out abuses against the protesters over the course of the last 6 weeks, we have to remember that 45 people have been killed in these protests. going back to the end of october and there's been no punishment, no consequences for, for those killings. and so i think the international community is in a position to begin to articulate a set of consequences if it doesn't see the military, both on a day to day measure respect, human rights and the, you know, the, the freedom of assembly that, that, that, that the protesters are asking for,

but also seeing them relent on the political and economic measures that are going to be required to see sued and move towards a more democratic transition. as the people in the streets are asking for mr. hanson's great to get your thoughts on this. that is cameron hudson 2 and has live from north carolina. thank you. thank you. now is wally soldiers have injured more than $240.00 palestinian protest as in the town of boca north of nashville as that's according to the palestinian red present. security forces. 5, take ass live, ammunition and rabble close at steam, bullets demonstrations rallied off to the area was close to residence. well, let's get more on this mountain that abraham is joining us live, i believe, from bethlehem via skype near that they have been ongoing tensions in boca, at least over the past week. what's the latest that you're hearing? there is a lot of increasing tension that's taking place in vertical and in all the villages

around the north of the occupied bank where palestinians are saying that the nation alone sending for themselves and they've been organizing local committees to try and fend of secular tax. there has been on the rise lately, but the happening creasing ever since last week when seen in some passing and fight as a shot at. and it's really 2nd car and the killed one shrapner and injured others. and ever since then the 2nd they have been marching and trying to get to an illegal is really in sacramento. how much the husband, the victims from happening in 2005. but then 2nd as a blue tier and an open some sort of a sensor there. busy and this is the location where the 2nd have been, it has been killed and is waiting because i've been trying ever since to get back to the whole mission. they wanted support from their political leadership to kind

of have a 2nd. and instead of it being in that and recognize the out who 16 they didn't get that for, for they've been launching, as you read the prove that have been ending up going into passing in the villages and attacking palestinians, the leases of which was also 2 days ago but also on saturday night they organized themselves, they attempted to get to coffee. and these really army has to trust the palestinian protestants who have been trying to stop the secular tags. and also we've been hearing from our sources that the army didn't allow the subtler to get into a how much outpost through been edge through the 2nd, rounded themselves, an attempt to attack another village called from both field, seen and very situation. and palestinians are trying to get the world's attention

and they say that international protection. absolutely. at a 10 situation is it an escalation of, as you're saying, the settler violence violent incidents a growing and a lot of them have back in from the government. be the thing a lot of support in the government and getting more political reports from a lot of ministers to, to, to tell you this, even in the 2nd themselves in the occupied bank circulars. when you talk about their presence, let's say 20 years ago, you would see the numbers being less and they would be scared from the past indians who were living there for decades. but over the past few years, we're seeing them getting more, excuse me, in numbers, but also there been more courageous. let's look at if we can use that words in the sense that they've been entering villages. attacking calls thing is that is now

leaving, pulsing is very long or both there. i facts and one palestinian official has been telling me that when settlement started to build themselves and having really in them many and these people with bad where jews but they were immigrating from the well, from canada, from different places. but now they're having more of, of, it's really who were born inside. he's a sucker. mr. so considered illegal under rate law. so they didn't suck closer. they act like they have the right and the ownership to the land and they are attacking policy is organizing this and trying to make it so difficult for passing in there so that they have no option. but to me, thank you very much for that from now. and that's neither abraham with the latest. joining us live from bethlehem. thank you. now,

only 7 people have been killed in an explosion in the democratic republic of congo, the congress governments as a suicide bomber target at a restaurant. and benny now group has claim responsibility for the attack, but the area has been frequently targeted by rebels from the allied democratic forces to the club. 19 pandemic now and airlines of intervals to cancel more flights because the staff shortages, us airlines alone cancelled a further $900.00 flights on saturday, bringing the total number of cancellations globally to nearly $5000.00 highly transmissible on the con variant has seen an increase in employee sickness, airlines calling on governments to reduce the length of clothing, 1900 quarantines to allow people to return to work and convert into fueling a surge of corona virus cases across europe. france, italy, and the u. k. have a lot of the highest number of cases since the pandemic began. and although the new strain a p as a milder its higher rate of transmits ability is putting pressure on health systems

. anderson's reports exhausted french medical stuff like last christmas. this intensive care unit, in my say, is struggling with the pressure the most seriously ill patients who haven't been vaccinated. like david supper, the vengeance. his wife esther says she thought she was going to be a widow a few days ago. david's grateful he's still alive. usually he says, if he'd been vaccinated, he wouldn't have been at this level of intensive care. while all the crony infections seem to have a lower rate of hospitalization, the extreme increases in infection rates mean the sheer volume of cases are quickly putting medics under pressure. while frances breaking records, so too is italy. the u. k. has been wanting christmas day clinics to give vaccinations. the priority is on boost japs. the government's heavy reliance on

vaccinations to try and quell the armor. chrome infection rates is in question. on christmas eve or reco daily figure of a $120000.00 was reached. and now the office of national statistics is warning. the one in 10 people in london may be infected with cove it in the coming days. oh, mass christmas. queen elizabeth assured people suffering in britain, they wouldn't be alone. this year though, her focus wasn't on cupboard. it was the death of her husband, prince philip, the duke of edinburgh. she expressed her grief on a personal level, talking of how she missed the man to whom she'd been married, the 73 years. christmas can be hard for there. she'll have lost loved ones this year, especially. i understand why that for me, in the months since the death of my beloved philip, i have drawn great comfort from the warmth and affection and the many tribute she,

his life in my egg. at 95 years of age, the queen takes her immense care to avoid any exposure to the virus. but for so many people, especially in london, that isn't the case. and the health services now warning, there's been a 40 percent increase in hospital admissions. this christmas is surreal for so many people living in the british capital, the government says that it's watching the data before making any decisions on heavier restrictions. that prediction of one in 10 people here suffering from cove . it is a sobering statistic. the government may well introduce heavier restrictions possibly before the new year under simmons, how to 0 london still ahead on the bulletin. ah, praying for a better year ahead of the 19 dampens christmas celebrations around the world.

ah. we have some exceptional heats around, said the u. s. golf. hello, everyone. good to see you. so all this warm air is moving inland. number's way out of whack here in some cases, more than 10 degrees above where you should be now for eastern canada, the u. s. northeast temperatures have fallen a bit, but still look at d. c. at 16 degrees. at the flip story, if we go toward western canada and the western us temperatures look at this, vancouver minus 4 in edmonton, alberta minus $28.00. this is bitter and dangerous. cold and we do have weather alerts in play for it. now for california, still seen some rain snow across this sierra nevada that's pushing into arizona. phoenix has a hive. 17 degrees. central america, fairly calm. we've got

a few showers costa rica into panama, but not the major here. what has been major is some of the flooding we've seen across a la pies in bolivia, not just in the northwest, but eastern portions of the country as well. and also some flooding and by yet stayed in brazil, more of these standards. storms flyer and up there, but most pushing out toward the south atlantic. it's all about the heat into patagonia $33.00 degrees in coma, doro, also $33.00, and by jablonka and santiago, under sunny skies. stay cool. see you soon. ah. coveted beyond with taken without hesitation. fulton died for our deadlines, our wild lawns, new babies were dying. i did not think it's neglected babies to deck, beeble empower, investigates, exposes,

and question in this world. the use and abuse of power around the globe on al jazeera ah ah, watching on to 0 me and as of the pull on, i'm a reminder of our top stories this. our security forces in sudan have 5 tea, a gas it protest is in the capital costume, tens of thousands rally to call on the military to stay out of politics. it is the 10th major demonstration since october. the palestinian red crescent as israeli forces have injured 240, protested t. a gas live ammunition and rubber coated bullets. we'll find demonstrators. we're

valuing in boca, after the area was closed due to set the activity and france, italy in the u. k. had to pull to the highest number of corona virus cases. since the pandemic began. experts morning that one and 10 people in london could be infected in the coming days. while many u. s. hospitals don't have enough staff to deal with a huge surge and clothing. 19 cases about $70000.00 americans were hospitalized as off christmas eve that figures up about 50 percent from early november, but overall hospitalizations for the all the cranberry and have remained lower compared to previous. train's health officials have repeatedly warned the situation may worse and for tens of millions of americans who remain unvaccinated. now, dozens of survivors of a migrant bullet thinking have arrived on the greek island of perils. at least 16 people drowned when they boat capsized in the agency late on friday. it's

a 3rd sauce disaster and greek waters. and as many days, officials say people, smugglers are increasingly using a dangerous route from turkey to italy, which avoids heavily patrolled areas around the ag and islands petracola, the associate director of the refugee lab at york university. and she says, tragedies like these will become more frequent as immigration policies harden when 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, 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 of 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 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 instead 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. now the volcanic eruption on the spanish island of la palmer is officially over optimal than 3 months of daily explosions. the declaration was made following 10 days of low level activity. from the va, have volcano destroyed around 3000 buildings and damaged by farmer vacation systems on the island. the clean up is continuing,

and many people won't be able to return to their homes for months. at least 4 people in some bob where have been killed off for a boss, collided with the fuel tanker and burst into flames. the crash happened on a busy road connecting the eastern city of natar to the capital. had already witnesses reported, some people escaped before the explosion. dozens of others are being treated in hospital for serious injuries. now the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built has been launched into space from south america. scientists hurt the james web telescope to help humans better understand the formation of stars and galaxies that are over 13000000000 years old. minor one rapids reports from the launch site and crew, and french guiana. get caught. it's a space mission 25 years in the making. the, the launch of the genes web space telescope,

the largest and most powerful space observatory ever build, is one for the history books. me as a successor to the celebrated hubble mission. scientists say the technology board, the spacecraft, promises answers to questions. we haven't even thought yet of asking in my dreams and my hopes i see eng signatures in monetary atmospheres away from our solar system that could hand to the presence of life will be one of the most important discoveries ever using an enormous gold plated mirror. 6 and a half meters across and instruments that operate in the infrared spectrum. the web telescope seeks to lift the veil on cosmic realms, that in the past were too distant or too cold for any previous telescope to detect . web is a marvel of human ingenuity made possible through the dedicated efforts of thousands of scientists and engineers, and the close partnerships between more than

a dozen countries. the politics, of course, are always there, but there's a scientist which, you know, sense try to rise above that and say what, what can we achieve together as a common goal scientifically. and that's how we can achieve so much more together by pulling our results is pulling our expertise. but always with one goal in mind, let's do the most challenging things that are possible. 20 seconds into the flight . the web launch was carried out by the private space firm arianne space, a topic, ari and 5 rocket specially suited for this particular mission. deed, ions 5 as been chosen you to it's reliability. it's like we called but that so its capacity to performance. the very specific volume we can accommodate until the ferrying so 20 years ago in the early 2000. it was decided that web we belonged by i and well, celebrations are underway. following the successful launch of the james web space

telescope. it'll still be a nail biting 30 days before it reaches its orbit. now on its way to its orbit at a location known as lagrano point to some one and a half 1000000 kilometers from earth. what is on course to redefine astronomy and begin to unfold the mysteries of our universe. manuel did up a little al jazeera peru, french guiana. now, migraines, talk of the mexican border have had to spend christmas, still hoping for a better life in the united states, though, seeking asylum, remain in mexico. after president joe biden revived a controversial policy from the previous administration and forces refugees to wait in mexico while their applications are processed and immigration cold. enough to feel for joe biden reversed the policies he initially had in mind and decided to backtrack. well now he supports basically the same policies as donald trump. i

immigrated because i believed in his promises. i'm a man who has lived in the united states and i have drone american children. so i thought i would come and seek family reunification where now people around the world of, in celebrating christmas day, once again on the cloud of the corona virus. as julian wolf reports many shared 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 festive cheer in australia, the 1st part of the world to ring. and christmas day people flocked to sidney's glistening bondai beach as summer temperature sort stranded expatriates made the most of it. there's no flights harm over. i'm celebrating the bestbuy archive. i love being australia love been a bundle. i been on the base for christmas, buys a dream come through and i'm, well, what local you, what you got fit for these, running up and down the b, you've got to stand, 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 and then let me right now . so 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 mess at our church before and 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 of airports across the u. s. and the world as thousands of flights were cancelled. a result of staff shortages as coven 19 infected crew members. ah, this year's christmas wish shared among most people who couldn't, could, could eat that. there is no more covert that we can go back to how we were used to living. that's if we're done. in the very camp of frances reminded the faithful to be humble and used dialogue to resolve conflict and in the gulf the 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 leg a joint, a slab, a thin,

although the situation is hard with coated. people want to live and spread joy all around this year. we hope the corona virus would disappear. this police, 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. a message of hope reverting across nations around the world. gillian wolf, al jazeera. ah, hello again. eleanor. the fraud and dar hall with the top stories on al jazeera security forces and sudan had fired tear gas at protest isn't the capital cartoon? tens of thousands rally to call on the military to stay out of politics. if the 10th major demonstrations since october, muhammad vall has more from cartoon.