from fax, all 3 versions of the story and then some and then the chair and the full story remains in control and packing the stories you're being told, it's not a science story at all. it's a story about politics. the listening post your guide to the media on a jesse era. ah, archbishop desmond, to, to south africa's anti apartheid icon and a noble peace prize winner has died at the age of 90. ah, plugs of a roman you're watching out, is there a life more headquarters here in doha, also coming up? human rights groups accuse me of miles military of massacre after dozens of bird

bodies are found in chaos. state. also hundreds of palestinian protest as are injured in the occupied west bank as tension escalates over attacks by israeli settlers to re scenes in the rocky city of rebel as bodies of migrants who drowned while trying to cross the english channel. i returned home ah welcome to the program, we begin with breaking news coming out of south africa where the nobel peace prize . when a desmond tutu has died, appointed the 1st black archbishop of cape town to, to rose, to prominence in the 1980s as a vocal opponent of apartheid. he was 90 years old. let's crossovers while corresponded for me. the miller, who's in johannesburg again, it's what late morning, back now for me to the news has obviously reached most people across south africa in the tributes are coming in. they certainly are and the

hearing a number of a lot of words of compassion and sadness around the death of the archbishop as to has been described as a giant amongst men. and, and one of the things i want to read out is from the presidency where he's been described as a man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility, against the forces of a party that he will always be remembered for the work he did in terms of the struggle and fight against a party, especially at a time when they were prominent political leaders imprisoned. and he was somebody who kept the fires burning both within south africa and abroad in terms of eradicating a party and the justices that millions of south africans faced. of course there were 2 main, pivotal points for him, but he always said he could never really forget the short vill massacre of the 19 sixties and then not the ongoing sweater riots. they were pivotal to the to the way he thought. on the way he spoke about apartheid on the international stage,

very much of that, what he had to say always had to do with the rights of people and injustices. and even after those 2 particular events that you mentioned, even after the dawn of democracy, post 1994 and his role as the chairperson of the truth and reconciliation commission with these particular events. and the atrocities of a party were doubted. he continued to wants to face the issue of justice he had on as well as his opponents people he saw as not fully embracing a new dawn, a new south africa and a rainbow nation to a point even way, even if it comes to issues like corruption, for example, in south africa, he would face the ruling party. he would face political leaders had on. he always had a stand point. there was based on his conscience. and this is what i think he was revered for. what he was respected for. and we are expecting to get new news in the

next hour or so in terms of what will happen in the coming hours. we know there is a service going on in cape town at the moment are where they're also dealing with the logistics of his burial. but what is also interesting and going back to who the archbishop was in the role that he played no matter how prominent he was. he was also very humble and sincere in his dealings with people. and we've heard from the current archbishop who says that despite all that he would, doesn't want the pomp and ceremony or rather didn't want the pomp and ceremony that goes with the parsing of such a prominent personality. but never mind that the anglican church says this is desmond to, to and, and he will be honored in an appropriate way indeed for me to provide for us. and john, as like, thanks for the update of the meter. now journal turn, hope looks barker desmond to choose lot. this is desmond to, to hearing the news that nelson mandela would soon be released. he was seldom one

to contain his feelings. it just to get me off this to twos responses, head of south africa, the truth and reconciliation commission on hearing details of atrocities committed by both sides. if not to mention, then we have the blood from his desmond and pillow too too was born in a mining town outside johannesburg. at a time of strict segregation, things would get much worse. as he grew up to 2 was 17. when the national party came to power in 1948, racial inequality became law. apartheid. he wanted to be a doctor, but became a teacher instead witnessing 1st hand the government's policy of depriving black south africans of education, consigning them to servitude. and the protests that followed the show like the sharp fil massacre in 1960. ringback 59 people were killed and most of them were

short in the bag as running away, protesting against the past. last, i remember as a moment when you realize that black life was cheap, the 22 must have thought he could do more in the church. he joined the clergy eventually obtaining high anglican office as dean of johannesburg and later archbishop of cape town, it propelled him into the public eye as an unflinching moral voice. why our struggle is going to succeed. is lot just because of number i believe rate was a big because it is a just by 984 desmond to to had one global admiration. he was awarded the nobel peace prize. it was the kind of recognition that south africa's anti

apartheid movement needed to become a global force for a very, very long time. i. i did hope that the world would, would hear our pretty and that is why we were to apply sanctions. archbishop desmond tutu was one of the world's foremost human rights campaign. as an active member of the elders in the cause of world peace remembered as much for his unremitting optimism and infectious laugh. when he introduced nelson mandela of south africa's new president in 1994 to to recall that he whispered to god, if i die now, it would be almost the perfect moment. someone up there must really have been on our side or betting for us. when mandela died, many worried that south africa had lost its moral compass. they may now wonder whether it's lost its guiding light. yes. trevor phillips is

a british anti apartheid campaign. and chairman of the equality and human rights commission, he was a personal friend of justin to to say, he says, should be remembered as an important moral figure. i think the important issue, the thing to remember about him is that during the last days or the end of the apartheid era, many of the people who fought that battle the out of the country or they were in jail. he had a unique freedom, which most people would probably not exercise in quite the the extraordinary way that he did. he was able to speak out. he was able to draw attention to the awful characteristics of that

system. because to some extent he was protected. but the fact that he was protected by the dog collar, if i can put it that way, shouldn't lessen regard for his courage. because all towards the people suffered during that period and were not written. he knew that there would be a price to pay for him. he himself, but also for every member of his family. and he persuaded them brought. ringback them alone enfolded them and as far as he could stood in front of them and that's what i think we should get for him. he knew that those close to him were also paying a price and that in many ways respects would be more. would have been more of a heartbreak more of a more painful for him than anything that might have happened to him. but still, he saw the greater need the bigger cause and fought it frankly to today.

right. group serv accuse me was military of committing a massacre. fighting with rebel forces intensifies the child remains of 38 people have been found in kind of state. witnesses say civilians including women and children were rounded up and short. save the children says to its staff are missing and their private vehicle has been found burned. tiny chang has more from bangkok. as i understand from reports i've had from ker, any political groups operating in the area, the attack was apparently in retribution for attacks by grips on the me. i'm on military. on friday in the evening, they came into the village of most so entire states, rounded up the number of people, including children, including the elderly, and then executed them, put them in trucks that they then burnt the villagers said they, they tried to get out there, but the there was gunfire throughout the night. they did managed to reach the

trucks on her, they were, they found the child remains of 38 people. we understand from save the children that 2 of their workers who are in the area distribution aid have now disappeared. there, unaccounted for the vehicle has been found, burned amongst the wreckage of these vehicles, and that is of course, great concern of great concern to them. and many others. there was a raid by the me. i'm a military on a village near by trying to find representatives of the n, u g, the national unity government government in exile, which has been formed to, to try and oppose the military coup. but the, the military had clearly cracking down very hard. and what we're seeing now is fighting all along the border and pushing thousands and thousands of people across the border into thailand to try and find sanctuary. israeli soldiers of injured more than $240.00 palestinian protest as in the town of butter con north of nobliss . according to the palestinian red crescent is ready for its tear gas live

ammunition and rubber coated steel. bullets tensions have been escalating in the area since and israeli settler were shot dead by 2 palestinians. on december, the 16th hundreds of settlers attacked the town in the occupied west bank earlier this week. that abraham has more for bethany him in the occupied westbank. there is a lot of increasing tension that's taking place in vertical and an older villages around the north of the occupied west bank where palestinians are saying that they've been sending for themselves. and they've been organizing local committees to try and send off the facts that have been on the rise later happening pre things ever since last week when the have been in some passing and fight as a shot at. and it's really settlers car in the field. one sefner and injured others . and ever since then,

the settlers have been marching and trying to get to and in legal is really in sacrament. for thomas has been the victim from settlers in 2005. but then 2nd as a tier than open some sorts of a sensor there. busy and this is the location where the 2nd thing has been killed and is waiting. i've been trying to get back to whole mission. they wanted support from their political leadership to kind of have a 2nd. and instead of it being and, and recognize our food 16th, they didn't get that for food. things been launching a few reasons prove that have been ending up going into the villages and attacking unions. and these radio army has the thrust, the palestinian protestants, who have been trying to stop the subtler attack. well, still ahead here on al jazeera flight, cancellations, trouble co founder strain on hospitals. we'll have more on the issue of the

pandemic across europe and north america. between restoration and reconstruction, killenger the divided about and intervention, a few acropolis. they stories after the break. ah hey there, here's your weather in a minute. 15. good. as you will begin in australia and we've still got this mess for the top and more than a 100 millimeters of rain has fallen, flooding a concern, and there was winds winding up to a 100 kilometers per hour. the energy move into the east. so more areas in the line of fire and now we look toward the southwest temperatures coming down per se, the high of 40 degrees, but where they're going up is adelaide and melbourne. so let me put you forward to thursday. now darker the read, the higher the temperature adelaide up to $34.00. look at the difference in perth,

just $31.00. that's where you closer to where you should be. for the his son, the year we have rain working across the south island, some weather alerts in play around the southern out center the foothills. i think it's been with a high of 20 degrees. the ne monsoon back up to its old tricks, us and heavy rain for vietnam, but we'll see it lose some intensity as we get throughout monday. it's also cutting across lose on island in the philippines. so bursts of rain for manila with a hive. 25 degrees, you know all that cold air in beijing and the korean peninsula slip further toward the south is shower day in long kong, just a hive, 12 degrees, foreign grey lin, and those temperatures have now come up in beijing, you're at 6. so you're at 0 on monday, that's it, caesar ah, coded 19 is a public health crisis that has been compounded by capitalism. alley raid navigates

the big questions, raised by the global pandemic power, the system based on private ownership in the state of profit. so the world and kind of capitalism is the pandemic cause of so much of the suffering exploit. it would take the people all the profit episode, one of all hail the look down on out is there ah ah, book back here watching al jazeera with me. so robin, reminder of all top stories, human rights groups are accusing mammals, military of committing a massacre. the child remains of 30 people having found and kaya state, the save, the children charity says to that stuff

a missing in the area. the palestinian red crescent says israeli fall suits of injured 240 protest does not blow stuff to firing. take us and live ammunition out the tensions been escalating since to palestinians killed and israeli settler on december, the 16th south african nobel peace prize winner. jasmine to, to has died to be age of 90. he was appointed the 1st black archbishop of cape town and became known by his vocal opposition to the countries apartheid system. south african writer john allan 1st met the late archbishop during the apartheid era. the 2 men became close friends and collaborators as one of the people who knew desmond to, to best he shed his memories with al jazeera. i'm john allen. i met this one to 2 as a reporter. nearly 40 years ago, i went on later to become his press secretary. and i've since written a bugger of his help, him cor rabble rouser for peace. what really drove him to public prominence?

was his absolutely uncompromising, angry outspokenness against a pot at a time when most blacks are africans, especially lexical africans depended as the people he did for the jobs or what employers couldn't voice the feelings to, to voice the feelings for them. oh no one in this country. he expressed people's anger the killing of schoolchildren. but at the same time, he did this in such a compassionate and powerful way that he, that he calmed very angry and contested and over all the situation clearly unfinished business. for him it has been twofold. the one is the enormous disparities the, the obscene disparities in this country and wealth which hostile odd la,

on racial lines. i think the 2nd unfinished business would be the failure of white for the african. they're not all that many to actually take the hand that was offered the by symbolically nelson mandela, but also to, to at least a people have been killed in a suicide. both hike in the democratic republic of congo. the government says if i could talk to a popular restaurant in the city of benny in the east, the group project claimed responsibility, but the area is often targeted by the allied democratic forces. now there been emotional scenes in northern iraq after the bodies of 16 migrants are returned from france. family members gathered a rebel apple to receive their remains. the victims drowned in the english channel last month trying to reach britain's mood of the head is in baghdad. and he's been speaking to relatives of the victims. each one of them has their own as to it. they

have women and children among them. they have a 24 year old woman, was that she had planned to travel to the u. k. to meet her fiance that they also include children, a family husband, wife and 2 children who wanted to seek asylum in any are the victims of families. it say that the migrants left iraq or no to the iraq because of the lack of jobs because of it can only get decline and because of any stability in some areas in north iraq, there are also victims. companies have been speaking, blaming the french authorities for not doing enough to rescue the victims or to respond to their distress. goals. protests are expected to continue in sudan to

tens of thousands of people rallied to demand an end to military power on saturday . security falsified, take us while phone and internet services were shut down. it was the 10 major demonstrations since the military took over in october and protested say that they won't back down the 100 vall, husband from the capitol cartoon. several groups of testers gathered in the outskirts of cup to him on saturday afternoon before marching to where the city center, where the presidential policy is located. the law, not the short and nice people are going now to new street to reject this military or 30. and now the slogans are clear off. no negotiations, no partnership, no bars. one. this is the army. as 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 police quickly this fun to do, forcing the full test as city of course,

security forces closed on the bridges leading to central cup to me. this, along with an unprecedented police presence in the streets, made it difficult for the demo. plato said, balance on one or 2 occasions. however, the clouds managed to get us close a few 100 meters away from the warmth of the presidential follies. but they were soon dispersed, several were entered the port this is chanted slogans, calling and military leaders in the ruling 70 council. to see the power to civilians demonstrated thomas to organize the day of protests on december 13th. they insist not that they will stop their valleys only when power is completely restorative. civilian government, 100 funds. i've just come to me in many hospitals in the u. s. don't have enough staff to deal with

a major surgeon cases of cove at 19 about 70000 infected people are being treated in hospital on friday, but it is up about 50 percent from nearly early november. but the number hospitalized with the mccomb barry remains low compared to other strains. health officials have repeatedly war the situation may west for tens of millions of unvaccinated people in the us. the restrictions are also being imposed in parts of the united kingdom head of new year's eve, scotland wales, northern island, clumping down on large gatherings as they tried to curb the spread of mccomb variance. though new restrictions have not been announced that england, which has the highest infection rate and over in europe. mccomb is also fueling a surge of cases. france and italy have reported the highest number of cases since the pandemic began under some reports exhausted french medical stuff like last christmas. this intensive care units 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. davids grateful he 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 me michelle 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 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 morning 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 would 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 with 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 in wag. 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 heavy or 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, australia's most popular state, the south wales has reported a record number of caves. 19 infections. people have been forming long keys to take pcr tasks, despite the premier urging those who feel well to avoid taking one. the health minister says most people should get fully vaccinated as most unlikely to contract armstrong. i to very clear from i see you presentations that the majority of people who are, you know, i see you are unvaccinated. i that is at a time that is at

a time when 95 percent of our people here in the south wiles have received their 1st dose, vaccinations, so the numbers don't lie up, please go and get vaccinated. crease is restoring a grand entrance to the acropolis in athens, but that's causing controversy. among some archaeologists, john serrato. this explains from athens to enter the acropolis in athens, visitors zigzag up this ramp built in the 1950s. greece says 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 that conceived it with the establishment of democracy. the number of citizens was 10000 and all of them had to participate to the fest. with that, it was a duty for thee and since citizens, their participation and tear therefore they had seriously and substantially to widen, to increase their weight of the ramp. and finally, to create the staircase, what 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. caress 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 from up there though, 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. 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 to nulast 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. jobs are open, las al jazeera athens, a volcanic eruption of the spanish island of la palmer as officially, over after 3 months of daily explosions. the declaration was made after 10 days of little activity go via destroyed around $3000.00 buildings and damage farm irrigation systems. people are cleaning up, but it'll be months before many can return to their homes. ah, he will channels is there with me. so he'll run the reminder of all told stories south african nobel peace prize when a desmond to to his die to the age of 90. he was appointed the 1st black archbishop of cape town and became known for his vocal opposition to the countries apartheid system. human rights groups are using the military of committing a massacre. the child remains of 38 people have been found and kaya state. the save

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