ah, ah, a reminder now the top stories on how to 0, the on the con variant is driving a surge of corona virus infections globally. but some countries are reluctant to heighten kobe restrictions in the us isolation. periods have been halved for people with no symptoms while the u. k. has promised no you restrictions before the new year in me and more, a military offensive against ethnic cut and armed groups is intensifying driving thousands of people into thailand. the military has been accused of committing atrocities against villagers and in the knees, in official say they will not offer refuge to a group of ro hinder on a stranded boat. here the country's archie province. they say the vessel will be turned away, although they will help repair it. the 1st one of russia's most prominent human

rights groups has been ordered to shut down by the country. supreme court memorial international has been documented, abuses committed by the former soviet union for more than 30 years. but prosecutor say it's distorting history, which the group denies. here's bernard smith with more over the past 12 months. this is become a familiar scene. the human rights groups and activists in russia this time, the axis fallen on an organisation made famous for identifying the millions of victims of starlings purchase. as the judge finished reading the order to liquidate memorial shouts of shane came from a public gallery. ah, that is dealing to worse than russia is moving from the, or the re, variance in system for some kind of was more than totally theory

system in russia, which would be kind over linkage with a soldier review and even partly to the stolen. so it's very dangerous. more recently, memorial has spoken out against the discretion of critics. under president vladimir putin was o, outside court as elsewhere, there's little room for that. in today's russian, prosecutors accused memorial of organizing large scale media campaigns aimed at discrediting the russian authorities. what happened today was very sad, although it would be untrue to say we weren't ready for it. it was one of the unfortunately predictable outcomes of the present judicial system. of course, nothing is over with us. we will appeal and the maria will live on with the people because it's the people behind it serving this great cause. first and foremost,

their work will continue the move against memorial caps a year that has seen authorities jail or outlaw individuals or groups. the criticize vladimir putin but the ban against memorial international stands out even in the current climate and would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. bernard smith, al jazeera. earlier i spoke to rachel denver human rights watch deputy director for europe and central asia. i asked for her reaction to the decision by the supreme court in moscow. it's a completely outrageous decision to close memorial international. this is russia's talk human rights group. it's been documenting atrocities during this, of the, of the saw on era. and also it uses a soviet union's period for 32 years. it's not really just decision and it should be reversed. so if you say it is an outrageous decision, why do you think it was taken?

i think this decision was taken because the look that the, the authority and russia have been on a trajectory towards limiting speech limiting free speech towards high on things civil society towards marginalizing civil society. and this is a turning in some ways, it's really a turning point because the prosecutor and his speech today said that memorial had been the starting soviet history. and why should basically, why should anyone put up with that anymore? so that is a, that's a very aggressive statement and, and it's also completely outrageous. memorial has extremely diligence, organization that takes responsibility for, for its fact finding. the reason that this decision was taken apart was also due to the foreign, the agent to a law. now explained to us what that is and also the impact that it's having beyond

this case. but, but in general, when it comes to silencing descent in russia. right? so, i mean, we, you, from the foreign agent law has been around since 2012. and it means that under the law, any organization that does any kind of public advocacy and even gets a co peck of fund funding is supposed to humiliate itself by declaring itself a foreign nation or fourthly, get to clarify an agent and then comply with all kinds of expensive paperwork, and this has caused many organizations to close because they can't afford the find the can for the time to do the paperwork. it's an, it's an effort to stigmatize any kind of organization that in any way doesn't conform to government views about just about anything. the term foreign agents in russia means, and it can notes, spy or trader. so the signal a sense that people shouldn't have anything to do with the organization or with any

individual who can also now be labeled a foreign agent. and the other important, i think key thing about what the, what this decision shows is that the, the prosecutor's office one after memory l, because allegedly it didn't fully comply with all of the extensive and frankly, quite ridiculous of requirements for an agent. so the prosecutor's office went after me right off for that, but the prosecutor speech indicated the real reason was quite different. the real reason that he put it was, you know, that memorial was distorting soviet history. and so that's a very strong there are several simple tickets that have been sent to the site society to the public with this rolling one is that only the state now is in charge of who can, who can't talk about history. so he's history of russia's history and, and in what terms and in what format, public or private? in the last week of 2021, we're looking back at the years. biggest stories and those likely to continue

making headlines in 2020 to one neighborhood in the occupied part of east jerusalem has become a major flash point in these really posting in conflict. the threat of force displacement of palestinian families and shake sierra sparks protests and set the scene from may's war on gossip. how we force that report deepened to december and the temperature inside shakes. jura was going up yet again . jewish nationalists, marching in to jewish woman, was stabbed and injured. earlier in the day, police raided a school to arrest the suspect. the woman's neighbor, a 14 year old palestinian girl from one of the families threatened with forcible displacement. the latest incident in a tumult she was here when this tiny neighbourhood became an international focal point. at those fatty is cathy has been one of those thrust into the glare after years fighting to keep his home gentle. however, photos of the for the last few months has been very difficult. we walked on our

case and our case reached the international level. but we suffered a lot because there has been violence against us by the settlers and the police and the police 1000000. the pressing issue here is the fate of for extended families awaiting a supreme court verdicts in their long running battle against israeli settler corporation. but claims ownership over their homes, but this is one of many cases across occupied east jerusalem over many years. so why did this case take hold in such a way this year? i have one fact, it was a hugely effective social media campaign, challenging israel's argument that this was a private property dispute. then in april came weeks of protest and confrontation, starting at damascus gate, encroaching into the courtyards of the alex or mosque compound or temple mount. and flaring repeatedly in shape. sure are you are engaged in the left of nuclear fusion . so it's not an accident that when you had

a confluence of events surrounding the temple marked and shaped europe in may, the tremors were felt in garter. hamas explicitly cited the events in shakira and alexa as justification for its launch of rockets toward jerusalem in may. the 1st act of an 11 day war which, according to a new report by the air, was monitoring group killed more than a 150 civilians and garza, as well as 12 in israel. one leading gaza analyst says hamas was motivated by events in jerusalem, but also by the palestinian authorities, canceling of planned elections to go or into a new round of escalation with israel to uh, basically a claim that that um, as, as a major, a palestinian faction and a major determinant in palestinian and deland elections and also to undermine the palestinian authority and the leadership of the palestinian authority in november shakes euros, palestinian families, and the settler corp rejected

a compromise deal from the supreme court. it's now down to the judges to deliver their ruler one which could well raise the temperature again, harry force it al jazeera, occupied east, jerusalem rental prices are going up in the libyan capital, pushing many into homelessness most were displaced in libby as a decade long conflict malakai now went to one parking tripoli, which is now home to 13 families. it's winter and it's cold here in the small pork in the heart of tripoli. but it's where a number of displaced families are forced to live. they say increase in rent prices, and the government's lack of action means they are now homeless and unable to afford a roof over their heads and dance as her home. and diana was destroyed during the fighting years ago. she was renting an apartment in tripoli, but her landlord increased the rent and she ended up on the street. ha!

she's been living in this park, and for the last 2 weeks, i have 2 young children in our money goes to diapers and milk. we can no longer afford rents, we have nowhere else to go when we need the government to provide housing for us, or give us a housing stipend until then. we will stay here with our children. in 2018, dove, now witness months of fighting when war, lord holly for halftime launched a military campaign to capture the city. it was part of his move to cement his power base and eastern libya found after it was widely accused of war crimes. he's also put in a bid to run in presidential elections. after months of international pressure, a humanitarian corridor opened to allow people trapped in the city to leave. they fled to western libya. according to the united nations, there are almost 200000 internally displaced people in libya. more than 500 families from the eastern city of delena are scattered across western libya. 13 of

them are living in this park and the capital abdul hamid at how saudi runs. the association of internally displaced families from dogma. he says previously the families were receiving help from domestic and international aid organizations. what about 5 months ago? they stopped receiving stipends, and that has made things very difficult for them. you can allow resort, a global, i like that it is not possible for most of these families to return home to the seat of delano after they were forced to leave the authorities of control east in libya. lucas, in one opposite. the opinion of policies is a criminal mohammed. allah says his ill and can't find the job. you truck rent prices and tripoli a too high were now homeless. i am sick. my youngest son, a 2nd my oldest has handicapped. how can i feed my family with no salary? it's winter, it's cold, and i am only god knows our struggle. the government should help those of us who

were displaced by force or in dire need of help. it's feared many other families will soon become homeless, and those living in this park will struggle even more. my latrina, l. 0, tripoli, the chinese foreign ministry says the u. s. is ignoring obligations under outer space treaties and exposing astronauts to danger. this comes after the government said satellites owned by the entrepreneur, a long mask had to close encounters with its space station earlier this here, china has complained to the u. n. space agency and is now urging the us to act responsibly. users of their way, boat messaging platform have labeled space ex satellites as space junk and are threatening to boycott tesla. katrina, you has more from beijing, china's foreign ministry has lashed out at the united states saying that countries should be responsible for the actions of their private companies. they jingles like

here's washington of having double stand and saying that it often calls for safety and space. but at the same time does not abide by international space treaties. us endangering other crews that now the aging has confirmed that there were 2 close encounters between elan musk, stalling satellites. and the chinese 1st permanent space station, the tin gold one in july. and the 2nd occasion happened in october. now china space station itself is quite new. it's called modul was only sent into space and april. it's not yet completed. it's due to be completed next year, which probably explains well, so the crew, they're all fairly nervous. interestingly, the beijing didn't have any specific reference to either mosque or his company tesla at all, and that quite a huge name here in china. very popular electric brand called they had the factory in shanghai. and elan must sold about a 4th of all his cars to chinese consumers here just over night,

more than 19000000 comments about this. and although beijing itself was very hesitant to mentioned elan, moscow test by name these chinese internet uses were not. they had a lot of critical comments. they accused laska, being shameless and reckless and of his company is causing trouble in space. well, it's not just about space junk does call a lot of junk on ours as well. and now companies in chile are turning plastic into products that have the same look and qualities as would our latin america editor, the see a newman has more from santiago and he defied fine, gave up her job as an executive secretary to become what she calls a transformer, making these mountains of plastic waste disappear is impossible. but at this small factory on the outskirts of santiago, but fan and her partners transform it into wood, except that it only looks like it or the are. but i've also made her recyclable plastic is everywhere. and her properties are even better than those of wood. for

example, can you believe that this plastic wood is more resistant? it doesn't chip or bend or allow micro organisms to contaminate her, and it won't swell because this waterproof has breath affairs or no one abberley for that. we tested for our shells. we're going to see how strong this stuff is. not as guns, no marks. the plastic waste is minced into minute particles and then melted avoids turned it into. these would like slabs. they're being used by n g o's, for rollerball boardwalks or furniture. let's see what we've got here. this is a motor oil container fabric softener chlorine. there's lots of that more and lots of little yogurt, liquid yogurt jars, tons of detergent, shampoo, hair conditioner, the sort of things people use every single day. but the problem is there's no way

to make it disappear. i want to look in for him for what plastic doesn't disintegrate, not even in hundreds of years. i've been looking at multiple temp with the little did his plastic number 7, because it has polyethylene and aluminum. nobody recycles, does it go straight to the rubbish dumps or the ocean laura foundation produces eco would out of waste? no one wants making picnic tables, desks, flowerpots, while teaching children in schools all over chile, the value of recycling, muscle, mental provost. this is more or less what a single person chose out a week and soviet by children to put it in the bottles. what chris it in, and we pick it up at their schools and we transform it into this, which recall eco vote. collection centers have been set up everywhere, but critic say this type of circular economy has a fundamental flaw novel and it doesn't promote

a fundamental change in our consumption happens if we continue generating the same amount of waste without changing the productive model that generates it. we're just kicking the ball forward perhaps, but there's one important advantage to this still, fledgling industry made from waste. it should help reduce the need to cut down more trees. yet another environmental casualty of our times. you see in human al jazeera santiago, still to come this news our, the train on platform one is the 1st new service for 16 years as cynical and who's the page of the train us in sport, a humiliating basically this cricket left from another ash is the feet coming out ah

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ah ah, how amusing in senegal just got a lot easier. the country's 1st commuter railway since independence has made its inaugural journey. i said beg reports now on the what the milestone means for the country. at a cost of $1300000000.00. this new rel project is aimed at modernizing senate goals, transport system, and traffic, and pollution to train that's made. popcorn con, enter, just done in old countries, and i making a commitment to myself to take the t e o for the next visit to the picking. and the gymnast seo to show that it's a modern tool at the disposal of all senegalese. what ever status

for now? it connect docker and gemini, joe, 40 kilometers away with a journey time of 45 minutes and the plans are for it to be extended to other parts of the country. our plan, we need again, usually spending a ticket costs travelers $3.00 with half of the population living below the poverty line. that's expensive for many given the average monthly wage and synagogue is $150.00. a daily return journey would cost many people, most of their pay, but support to say, they will be solid economic benefits. no much you palletized, as an industrialist, i'm not going to use it because i'm a business manager. but maybe my employees, those who work for me who live in the suburbs, will be able to use it and will allow us to have our employees that take time to boost production. and it's estimated that more than 100000 passenger the day will use the trains. and officials say they are designed to protect the environment of

the roles in the capital gridlocked with polluting old cars and buses. senegal has one of the fastest growing economists in africa and president mackie sell says, this is only the start of his plan to strengthen that. with more railways, roads and sports stadiums to come. i said, bake. i'll just do kids going to andy. and though ha, who is here with all the sport. thank you so much, barbara. well, australia's crickets is all celebrating, and in fact, sick ashes series, victory over england, wraps up the melvin test inside 3 days to take an unassailable reno late australia test between scott bowl installed in the 2nd inning. he took 6 wickets for the 7 runs, as england's boxing line up from they were dismissed to 68 to lose bindings, and 14 runs australia continuing their dominance at home of england. having not lost much in the previous to ashes series. they've hosted

everything on the planet feels, you know, i think a ball is may fantastic in that. there. i haven't felt this been one session where it's really going away from this. yeah, it's just, it's what you know, james might of everyone in that dresser room is good. you know, that's not good enough performance. we all know that we need to put some pride package, the badge and, and, and make sure we come away from this tool which is something that is as simple as i well, england's a 68 all ounce is the lowest total in australia for more than a 100 years, it's been a decade since the last one, a test i with that i was in sydney on their way to winning the ashes in 2011 and england have lost 9 matches in 2021. the highest number of defeats in a calendar year. been talking to forming about a month, kind of sorry about what went wrong for the tourists. but i think england have made

some selection errors and also decisions, you know, on the feel of your new brisbin. they should have both fuss sure. brought you to play in the 1st test much, you know? wristband and you know, i think, you know, e c, b, for bravo ties. why will cricket a red bull and they're in danger. you know, killing the goose that laid english in english crickets, golden egg, which is test cricket is the bread and butter it brings in the big box. and they need to kind of, you know, reset the box and like they did with what will cricket 2015. and now they have to do that with variable cricket driver. it's been in tremendous. won't disease, averaging 61. nothing is only the 3rd batsman into his test cricket in at the school, $1700.00, you know, runs in a calendar year and then the rest of the top 7. i think that would be like $22.00. so it's a huge reliance for the whole year. you know, on jo reed scoring the runs and that's something that they need to address. we see

a lot of young domestic batsman want to play t 20 cricket, you know, and then the living there, which is, you know, both a living and they were on the do that then actually i'm going to play so test cricket and that's one area they were to look into possibly, you know, produce flat to pictures, to encourage you know, some of the young about some to think, right? you know, you can by law on learn how to about long and then they can take that full into test cricket. and that's something that needs to be addressed because at the moment this was a typical so county performance at test level. and we just see too many games in a domestic level definition, 2 and a half days. and it's just not good enough at the moment. if we want a prioritized test cricket, which is you know, which, which is, you know, i think england strength, while liverpool have been having to close the gap on premi legally to manchester city. they're playing a white o. s the not going to plan for you going club team. i mean, semester 1st of penalty unless i went ahead after the break through out of look

when with full time approaching, it's still one no less west time of moved up to 50. they have come back from a go down against jerry's. i'd been wrong putting them to and then they went on to secure a for one victory. having gone into the match for just one way in 7 games in this year. we're now getting talked about team sol compete and the top half of the week you're 2 years ago, we'll get to a team who compete, right, the bottom. so we're enjoying this position much better. and as i said, we've got a lot to do. we'll go improve what standards again no, we've got you up what we're doing and we're going to have to play batch of samson health funds or a 11. drill james, or proud of the games. opening goal retain equalized from the spot, the spurs south. hampton down to 10 men by this stage, but just about held on for a point. them had 2 goals, disallowed this f,

it ruled out for foul on the goalkeeper you fair and services join ball. so i'm from manchester city and a $60000000.00 deal boss. to say that 21 year old for us on a contract. and so 2027. any team hoping to buy these spanish international during that? so we'll have to pay a release course in excess of $1000000000.00. i never sucka has signaled her incense or since the top level tennis she's rocked in melbourne ahead of next month . frustrating open. she's the defending champion with a hasn't played since september after taking a break from the sport to focus on her mental health. no sony had of last year's men's champion of a joke, of which he still hasn't confirmed if he's vaccinated only though. he's had coven 19 jobs, or have a medical exemption are allowed to compete. ok, that is just for let's get back to barbara in london. and the thank you and that is it for this news? our do that with us though, going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the days for watching as soon

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