when people need to be a stop to tell us what's going on with exclusive interviews and in depth reports, i get on my break. right. the wind and just be al jazeera, has teens on the ground to where you are award winning documentaries and lives on air and online. ah, protestors in sudan faced te gas in the latest demonstration against the military takeover ah flu. i'm fully back to boy. you're watching al jazeera ly from doha. also coming up . human rights groups accused me on mars military of a massacre. after dozens of burned bodies are found in kai estates. israeli

soldiers injure hundreds of palestinian protesters as pension escalades over attacks by israeli settlers and co. 19 causes more fried cancellations and travel chaos and hospitals start to buckle under the huge number of cases. ah, tens of thousands of protesters have riley dins to don, demanding the military leaf power and calling for a transition to civilian role security forces. hi t gas, while phone and internet services were shut down. it was the 10th major demonstration since the military takeover in october and protest. so say they won't back down. while i'm at von report. some cartoon, several groups of protesters, godhood in the outskirts of to him on saturday afternoon. before marching toward the city center. where the presidential paula,

he's located law. i'm not sure that these people are going now to know 3 to reject this military or 30. and now slogans are clear off know 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 see a golf, forcing the for the 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 said, 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 where entered 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've just got to cameron hudson is a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council of africa center. he says international community can put pressure on the military to strike a deal to in the crisis. 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 r 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 rosen. and so the,

the military is quite anxious to see that money turned back on the international community. and his isn't a position right now to dictate the terms under which that money would be restarted . and i think there's 2 sets of rob, 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 in other world news, human rights groups are accusing me unless military of committing a massacre as it intensified and offensive against treble forces. the charred remains of 38 people have been found in chi, a state witness. they say civilians including women and children, were rounded up and shot dead. save the children. charity says 2 of its staff are missing in the area. thousands have been fleeing attacks and as strikes along the border with thailand and as follows, a week of government bombing and artillery fire the rest force, thousands of people from their homes. but it has also seen fierce resistance from local ethnic groups, lower burden, manly reports. these fighters from the current national defense organization or k n d o. it's one of 2 ethnic fighting groups operating on the border between thailand, amanda, and for the past week, it's been involved in fierce fighting with government forces. made

a general notable near it's leading his units on patrol near the current state, help post to strengthening unified local forces. i think the main reason they're dropping bombs at night is to terrorize the people and also to encourage or to encourage their troops by saying ok we, we, we're behind new right now. we're trying to talk with all the current on group to unify themselves and to fight against the the worst enemies that we're, that we're facing right now. who know who? many scientists thought here the k into had quarters. it's early morning in this remote village. you recruits a quote out for vocal and this tiny arrive just days ago along with fighters from the korean national union or k and you that's off. they fled military

air rates in the nearby town of lake who. oliver mcgregor wrote an elderly hole in front of our troops. a gun battle happened one. i saw it, but we got the protection by the karen national union soldiers. when the troops backed up, we travelled with them as a group at the russell dirty hydra warm and we'll go, we were always mia mars army attach later using heavy air strikes and artillery, they aim to crush resistance. but on his part, heavy fighting local groups, independent media, myanmar reported the government troops sees dozens and discipline. thousands of people reported to have escaped the fighting summer being recruited. but many just want out of the conflict. these people are collecting whatever they can and escaping if the crossover in to thailand. back in the training center teacher another down in never imagined. she would end up here. she said she joined after

witnessing atrocities been carried out by the army against the protesters. how they led to where they learned fame gown pivot their one. i am very angry that a burmese army used to yard tax. i'm very sorry for the people. i want to revenge to the burmese army, for the brutality that they have inflicted under people had the heavier color that they were, bernard olivia, the conflict ease during the rainy season. but now the weather has cleared and fighting is intensifying. those who stayed in myanmar now fear for their lives and those their families. nor about a man the al jazeera is rarely soldiers have injured more than $240.00 palestinian protesters in the town of broken north of nablus. according to the palestinian red crescent security forces 5 t gas live ammunition and robert cody's field, bullets tension when escalating in the area since. and he's really said i was shot dead by 2 palestinians on december 16th. hundreds of settlers attacked worker

earlier this week. either abraham has more from bethlehem in the occupied westbank . there is a lot of increasing tension that's taking place in vertical. and in our vintages around the north of the occupied west bank where palestinians are saying that they've been left alone for themselves. and they've been organizing local committees to try and find offset facts that have been on the rise lately happening precinct ever since last week when the power in some policy and fight as a shot at. and it's really settler's car in the field. one second there and injured others, and ever since then the have been marching and trying to get to an illegal is really in sacramento toll much that has been from settlers in 2005, but then 2nd as a blue tear. and then open some sorts of a sensor there. and this is the location where the 2nd half has been killed and is

really sometimes i've been trying to get back to whole mission. they wanted support from their political leadership to kind of have a sucker him and instead of it being and, and recognize out who 16 they didn't get that. the 4 things been launching as series of protest dot have been ending up going into palestinian villages and attacking palestinians, the least of which was also 2 days ago. the cone of ice pandemic now and airlines have been forced to cancel more flights because of staff shortages. us airlines alone called offer further 900 flights on saturday, bringing the total number of cancellations globally to nearly 5000. the highly transmissible only con variant has seen an increase in employee sickness, aligned to calling on government to reduce the length of copy 19 quarantined to allow people to return to work on the chronic ceiling. a surge of cases across

europe as well. france, italy, n a u. k. have reported the highest number of cases since the pandemic began. andrew simmons reports exhausted french medical staff like last christmas. this intensive care units in law say, is struggling with the pressure the most seriously ill patients who haven't been vaccinated. like david supper this and then his wife esther says she thought she was going to be a widow a few days ago. david's grateful he still alive. you see your reply. he says if he'd been vaccinated, he wouldn't have been at this level of intensive care. while all the crawling infections seem to have a lower rate of hospitalization, the extreme increases in infection rates me the sheer volume of cases are quickly putting medics under pressure while france is breaking record. so too is italy.

the u. k. has been running christmas day clinics to give vaccinations. the priority is on booster 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 month since the death of my beloved phillip, i have drawn great comfort from the warmth and affection, and the many tribute she, his life, and wag. at 95 years of age, the queen takes immense care to avoid any exposure to the virus. but for so many people, especially in london, that is 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 al jazeera, this big ocean decker large lift all from a tramos baffle spades,

telescope ala bell said soft, unlock the secrets. so volcanic, see, and we meet one of the last light housekeepers in south africa. he shows us how technology is replacing manpower. ah, ah, look forward to really, to scully's, the with the sponsored boy cutoff airways. 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 brit squint coming down from iraq is shamal. so we'll see wind gusts in dough to about 50 kilometers per hour there. some of those showers could work into re add into bahrain into northern portions of cats are these could be some thunder. downpours

as well, and temperatures in riyadh well below the average of 22 degrees. thanks to that cloud cover. really putting a cap on things, lot of clouds and also showers work in across a pakistan. the hor, at 16 degrees, islam abad. 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 closer record you may get there. so we'll keep tabs on that. also seen storms through botswana, zimbabwe, eastern portions out south africa, cape town at 29 degrees, but prepare for your temperatures. are on the way down. that's it soon for the weather sponsored by katara always. if the political debate show that's challenging the way you think have agencies fail hayton,

this intrusion was done before the different found lice and digging into the issue is a military advancement. going to stop the family ticket i is. and that a company who drives people out of day, how will climate migration differ for those who have in those who don't have lot of countries see, we will pay poor companies to keep up with me, mark lamond hill on al jazeera. ah, the me welcome back, a recap of our top stories on al jazeera security forces in some dont have 5 tea gas at protesters and the capital cartoon. tens of thousands, right, to call on the military to stay out of politics. it was the 10th major

demonstration since october human rights group star accusing the mars military of committing a massacre. they charge the remainder of $38.00 people have been found in tie, a state. the favorite children charity says 2 of its staff are missing in the area . and the palestinian red crescent says, is there any forces of injured 240 protests as near novelists security forces? 5 guys live ammunition and rubber coated steel crowns tensions been escalating fins to palestinians killed. and israel said now in december, 61 are on the corner of i span demik and many u. s. hospitals don't have enough staff to deal with a huge surgeon, infections about 70000 americans were in hospital with corporate 19 as of friday. that figure is up about 50 percent from early november for the number of people hospitalized with the on the con. variance remains lower compared to previous strains. health officials have repeatedly warned the situation may worse and for tens of millions of and vaccinated americans. doctor alley roger is executive vice

chair, the department of emergency medicine at massachusetts general hospital. it says the us health care system was ready under pressure before only connie matched over the past 2 to 4 months, even before omicron. we had been seeing a surge of patients in emergency departments and hospitals around the country. patients who had put off care during covert. and unfortunately, patients who were dealing with the consequences of having put off that preventative care earlier. we're already filling our emergency departments and hospitals. and so now dealing with an oma, cron serge were stressing and already strained system. with these breakthrough cases, what i'm seeing is when i bring a patient into the hospital for a heart attack stroke, a gunshot wound, something completely unrelated to cove it and they then test positive for coping because they've had a breakthrough case even with the vaccination or because they didn't get the vaccine in one of the vaccines in the 1st place. what ends up happening is that we

then have to isolate that patient in the hospital from other patients who don't have covered we, every time we go in and need that patient, we have to don full personal protective equipment. even if we're just bringing them a tray of food and then unfortunately, that also means that they might potentially spread the virus to health care staff. what we're running into is that the staff who we are counting on actually can't come to work. the problem is that we don't really have, we don't have many backups in place. we were already facing nursing shortages and physician shortages and how and, and housekeeping shortages as workers had left for other industries just being burned out from cobit. so we don't really have a reserve force to call up when people call out l. at least 7 people have been killed by an explosion in democratic republic of congo. the government says a suicide bomber targeted a restaurant in benny. now group has claimed responsibility for the time for the area has been frequently targeted by rebels from the allied democratic forces. when

i was just, when i went inside, i saw a movement, a motorcycle turned around. i heard buying and i lost control. i didn't know what was going on when we left the restaurant. when i learned that they had been people killed, i saw those alive and wounded. being taken to the hospital was very emotional scenes in northern iraq. after the bodies of 16 migrants were returned home from france, family members gathered at urban airport to receive their remains. the victims were among a group of people who drowned last month trying to reach britain and age. group has filed a lawsuit against strange and u. k. authorities accusing them of ignoring distress calls. dozens of survivors of another thinking have arrived on the greek island of perils. at least 16 people drowned when their boat capsized in the j and c made on friday. it's the 3rd such disaster in greek water is in as many days. officials say people smugglers

are increasingly using a dangerous sort from turkey to italy, which avoids heavily patrol areas around the tray and islands. petra molnar is the associate director of the refugee law law, but york university. she says strategies like these will become more frequent. does integration policies, honda in 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 context 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 routes 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 for people to migrate in the 1st place. the volcanic eruption on the spanish island of la palmer is officially over after more than 3 months of daily explosions . the declaration was made following 10 days of no level activity from the convey via have ok. no. it destroyed around $3000.00 buildings and damaged vital farm irrigation systems on the islands. now, the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built has been launched into

space from south america. scientists hope the james web telescope will help humans better understand the formation of stars and galaxies that are over 13000000000 years old. new rapid reports from the launch scientists, coral, in french kiana sketch plot. it's a space mission 25 years in the making. ah, the launch of the genes web space telescope, the largest and most powerful space observatory ever built, is one for the history books. as successor to the celebrated hubble mission, scientists say the technology aboard 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 would 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, by pulling our resources pulling our expertise. but always with one goal in mind, let's do the most challenging things that are possible. 20 seconds under the flight . the web launch was carried out by the private space firm ariano space a top in ari and 5 rocket, specially suited for this particular mission

d. i n t 5 as been chosen you to it's reliability. it's like we called but that so it's capacity to performance, the very specific volume we can accommodate and also ferrying, so 20 years ago in the early 2000. it was decided that web we belonged by i and while celebrations are under way 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. web is on course to redefine astronomy and begin to unfold the mysteries of our universe. manuel rap, hello al jazeera, carew, french, guiana. tanya harrison is a fellow at the university of british columbia aerospace institute. she says the telescope will allow sign districts for planets beyond our solar system. we always

assumed the launches the tricky part. but james webb has over $300.00 separate deployments that have to happen. and all of them have to go essentially, flawlessly, for the telescope to function at all from the deployment of the high gain antenna, which should happen in the next day or 2. the sun shield, which is the big, shiny parts that you've probably seen in a lot of the renderings and the telescope itself. so all of those gold plated years that we saw earlier as well, it's going to let us t things that are up to a 100 times dimmer than anything hubble was able to see about 10 times more clarity them things we could see with hubble. and we're looking at things in a different wavelength. so hubbell took a lot of images in the visible wavelength range, and a little bit beyond bad. but we're actually focusing on the infrared with james web . so that lets us see different types of features that we couldn't necessarily resolve with hubble before. and we're going to be able to see back in time,

so to speak even further. all the way back to about 13600000000 years into the history. the universe, which is a huge deal, because we think the universe is only 13800000000 years old. so this gives us a chance to see the universe right after it was forming those really early stages. now most of the wealth lighthouse is now managed by robots, computers in fin, hardly any by people. the job of a line housekeeper is a dying profession. in south africa, just fix remain family miller. i met one of them in cape columbine, 45 lighthouse as a dotted around south africa coastline. and for passing ships and fishermen, they offer a vital beacon for navigation. this lighthouse had cape columbine on the west coast was built in the 19 cities. it's one of just 6 still manned by a keeper. it's the 1st landmark of the southern african coast, seen by ships traveling from europe. wayne brown has been here for 17 years to be

like those keeper. it is actually a blessing for me. for a personal point of view, that might be the times change and so does technology. wayne is one of the last few lighthouse keepers in south africa. we, we had a radio beacon with the old moscow with people with the most coat that changed. then day at the g p. s, and from the gps, it changed to s. yes, means what a medical dental cation system. the light from the 15 meter tall lighthouse is magnified by a lens which on appeared day can be seen as far out as 32 nautical sea miles. that's almost 60 kilometers. when says he takes great pride in keeping berlin's clean and working at its best. the lighthouse stands above the west coast village of pots, and auster known for its heavy gales and thick fog that obscures the coastline.

this is likely return to modus, but in the old days it works like a grandfather. clock. the light does keep a must come up during the night. it is to the hours. you must wind it up for this like to turn it on. but nowadays with 2 motors that exclude the old insert on the light is now also automated. and if anything goes wrong, head office is alerted via an app. even the traditional fog who doesn't require manual labor, it automatically misses the is humidity, blasting warnings when necessary. but when says nothing can replace the human touch . it's a sad thing and also a bad thing because if you most of the patient and then know like us keep us on that look bay to be honest. the 1st lighthouse in south africa dates back almost 2 centuries. this lighthouse in cape town is the oldest in south africa and the 1st slide people began working in 1824 back then the light was powered by oil and lay

to gas and all the work was done manually. but advances in technology mean a light keeper is no longer needed. definitely it is it that i am dying proficiency? does our duty to our fellow staff members that we do do kate and upscale team to change that addiction change the carrier that it can so that they can get involved in different projects? it may be difficult to tell how many lies have been saved by the diligence of members of this humble profession. and for one of the last generation of keepers like wayne, this is more than just a job for me, davila ultra 0, keep columbine sub africa. ah, her again, i'm fully bachelor with the headlines on al jazeera security forces in sudan have fired tear gas at protesters in the capital cartoon. tens of thousands rally to

call on the military to state, out of politics. it was the 10th major demonstration since october mom and ron has more from carter.