tony, being alone to get that episode to of all hail the locked down on al jazeera ah al jazeera, with every ah ah, a pro democracy hong kong use website shuts down after its editor and other journalists are arrested. ah, oh, $900.00 g m t. here on al jazeera, mundane down on come all santa maria with the world news. in limbo ra hangup, migrants south stranded and indonesia and still waiting for

a decision on the future. the u. s. and france report their highest daily co run of ours cases. since the pandemic began, the micron variance continues to spread experts in the philippines. now say climate change is to blame for the devastation, goals by super typhon right. ah . mode of elements in hong kong this wednesday with the independent media outlets, outlet stand, news has now announced it's shutting down earlier to been rated by police. 7 current and former staff members have been arrested or accused of publishing articles, inciting hatred against the authorities. their homes were righted to all of this. just the latest example of cubs on press. freedom in hong kong since china imposed its national security in june of 2020 brit clinic is in hong kong following developments today. justice is moving fast to deborah. is it a case of that?

they were shut down. all that they just had to shut them. that made the decision themselves, hey, well, it depends how you look at it, come out. but certainly they have decided to disband the soft turn the same day as the ride. and they have said that they will no longer be speaking to media about this issue. now, at the same time a, this is wednesday afternoon, the place held a press conference. they announced that $7800000.00 us dollars worth of assets had been frozen belonging to stan news. and they also talked about the kind of articles, seditious articles. they say that was seen in the newsroom in that building behind me the stand news rate that took place this morning. so certainly it's a, you know, you can't say for sure that they are related, but it certainly seems to be the case given the climate,

this media environment that we find ourselves here in hong kong, vincent chan, one of the people who were arrested, he was a deputy assignment editor in hong kong, he's also the chairman of the hong kong journalists association. and they have fairly been wrathful by this. they said that they would deeply concerned by the event. and they urge the hong kong government to respect the freedoms, the press freedoms that are meant to be guaranteed on the cities. many constitution, the basic law, those terms were great when the hong kong, when hong kong was handed back to china from british roll in 1997. come, you talked about the media landscape and hong kong. bert, i'm wondering actually what's left of it now? an interesting question. i mean, let's not forget, it's only 6 months since hong kong last remaining pro democracy paper. the actual daily was forced to close. after a strikingly similar newsroom raid is at assets were also frozen. and it

found a jimmy lie as you know, was arrested in that as well. so what was remaining in hong kong was little outlets like stand use online outlets that unknown to be very well respected here in hong kong and known to be, you know, catching corrupt corruption in hong kong to tackle local issues and, and, and have quite a stellar reputation behind hitting journalism. so as the last remaining openly vocal pro, to mac, democratic, i'm out in hong kong. there certainly are a range of concerns and there are now also serious questions over where this will go next and whether what that means for the small are online outlets here in hong kong. as this intensified environment continues. brick. gwinnett reporting from hong kong. thank you. britt mistaking it as you were more than a 100 range refugees, mostly women and children remain stranded in indonesia and waters. their boat ran

into trouble off the coast of indonesia is actually proven soft to trying to reach malaysia. government is helping them with food, water, and fuel. the un says the boat is unstable and is cold on the indonesian government to allow the refugees to disembark. hundreds of her anger have reached indonesia over the past few years after months that see more of this with jessica washington in jakarta, any movement? jessica, from indonesia, authorities come out still no movement and still a lot of uncertainty for the ring. refugees on board this vessel, which remains around 100 kilometers from the coast of entre on the indonesian island of sumatra. all we have heard from the indonesian government is that no plan has been made and no decision has been reached. they are still discussing what to do regarding these refugees. what they have stressed is that they will factor in the humanitarian considerations, as well as the co,

with $900.00 situation. we that message from the central government in countries. what we heard from local authorities yesterday on tuesday here in indonesia who said that they would endeavor to assist those on board by supplying food gasoline and other essential and also assisting with repairs at the vessel. and then allowing them to continue on to the intended destination, which they say is malaysia, but we do have to wait for direction from the central government, which ultimately has the authority in cases such as this. just the un talks about the boat being unstable, which is kind of a generic term. other any, is there any more information about the state of things there was discovered by fishermen if i'm not mistaken. that is correct. commodities fishermen who encountered the vessel on sunday. there is still a lack of information about the condition of the vessel from what we understand by

speaking with fishermen who observed the vessel close up. but now say they are unable to do so. what they told us, based on what they saw yesterday, is that it appeared that water was entering the vessel. now, according to this statement from the you and hcr office in jakarta, they say that the vessel is unfit for to continue carrying passages, particularly women and children. we understand that the military is keeping a close eye on the vessel and monitoring those on board, but it is unclear as to what repairs on needed. and if, if it is possible to conduct those repairs while the vessel is at sea, or if it will meet, need to be brought to shore in a. jessica washington with the latest from chicago. thank you, jessica. me covered news and the picture isn't great. the world health organization warning the macro and very still poses a very high risk of current of ours case and searched 11 percent worldwide in the

past week. the us reported a record high of more than 440000 you infections on monday. the centers for disease control says, both dale turn on the chrome, though are behind the search. in france they reported a record high of nearly 890000 cases in just 24 hours by far the highest number. since we started the pandemic, italy, greece and portugal levels are reported to you, spike encoded 19 infections, and in england, another record here. this one involving children 512 of them admitted to hospital width covered in the last week, which is double the number made in the final week of november. half the patients are under the age of 5. it doesn't seem to be a more severe illness, particularly for kids. however, we're seeing many, many, many more children infected at this point. and being admitted to hospitals, we're seeing record numbers of missions of all children of all ages from newborns, all through 21 years of age in hospitals and a nice use with homer, conked me,

my district lockdown of 13000000 people in a chinese city of shyanne has ended its 7th day residents. there have been largely bod from leaving, but case numbers showing no sign of dipping more than a 150 domestically. transmitted infections reported in the last 24 hours. now, vaccination rates in bosnia and herzegovina, they are very low, many are reluctant to take jabs, but we have fun. one group is bucking that trend prisoners, 80 percent of inmates received at least one back thing. dose in stark contrast to the overall vaccination rate, which is blow with the 3rd. the outbreak has caused 113000 and death in a country of just over 3000000 people. now the un secretary general thing the world is becoming more unequal, but humanity can unite to find solutions to fight the pandemic in its pre recorded new years. message antonio good head is called for a bold plan to vaccinate every post and everywhere. the world welcomes 2022 with

our hopes for the future being tested by deepening poverty and worsening inequality by an, an equal distribution of coffee vaccines by climate commitments that fall short and but ongoing conflict division and museum formation. these are not just policy tests . these are moral and real life tests and that guests that humanity can pass if it could need to making 2022 year of recovery for everyone. amass has denounced the 1st meeting in 11 years between the palestinian president and these rarely governments. israel's defense minister been a dance greeted mahard abbas to discuss security coordination and economic issues, a palestinian officials of the meeting stress, the importance of having a political venue to find solutions more on this with high false it and wester islam. i think there are a couple of things prompting this american pressure almost certainly to see progress or at least some indication of willingness to talk by the israelis with

the palestinians. at the same time as the prime minister natalie bennett is still rejecting the idea of the u. s. reopening, it's palestinian focused consulate in jerusalem. also the security situation in the occupied west bank and inside east jerusalem as well in recent weeks has deteriorated. and so there is some imperative there for the 2 sides to talk each side, giving a slightly different appraisal of exactly what was spoken about the israeli side. saying that it was both the civil and economic message that it, that had been providing in the previous such meeting in august between the 2 men in ramallah, but also focus on what it called terrorism and security issues in the occupied west bank. as far as the palestinian side is concerned, they say there was discussion of a political horizon settlement to be conflicts along un resolution lines.

also saying that my one of us had raised the settler violence issue and also had called for the ending we'll be reversing of the banning of 6 human rights organizations defined as terrorist organizations by been against recently some opposition to orders from hamas. a cartoon tweeted out showing what about washing the feet of any guns and also from views really right from the could. which is saying that the government is dangerously putting the palestinian issue back on the agenda. and the new for hard will be in cape town, south africa, where tribute to being paid to the late anti apartheid hero doesn't 60 and conflicting messages out of the iran nuclear deal. talk as to whether any progress is being made at all. ah

hello there, let sat in southeast asia and there's more heavy rain on the way for the malay peninsula thanks to the north eastern monsoon, bringing those enhanced reins to eastern areas, but we'll see thunderstorms in koala lumper through to the we can i, the time we get into friday, lot of that wet weather is going to move into parts of indonesia so much in particular, we could see some flooding issues. here is also some heavy rain across more than areas of borneo that's expected to last the weekend. and i was moved down under to australia. the wet and windy weather pushes off further east. thanks that tropical disturbance. we are likely to see some very strong winds and heavy rains. edging into eastern areas of queens and a few thunderstorms till popping off across the top end. but it is a little dryer here, and it remains largely fine and y across the central and western areas. it winds up for sidney, we're going to see the temperature pick up in the days to come. there is going to be significant heat moving into the se, in particular for melbourne, if we have

a look at the 3 day, the temperature is going to be touching $38.00 degrees. by the time we get to friday's a well above the average there with lots of sunshine. now as we move across to new zealand, it's a largely settled picture with lots of spells of sunshine, 23 degrees in christ church. ah. the end of the country with an abundance of results, trade and walk indonesia whose turns forming we moved full to growth and frock. we balance for green economy, blue economy, and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs invest . let's be part linda. this is growth and progress. invest even easier. now,

lou ah, on al jazeera, these are the top stories they saw the united nations. as urging the indonesian government to accept more than a 100 range, refugees, stranded at sea in an unstable boat, mostly women and children on board. they became stranded in indonesia waters, baton, to reach militia. the old health organizations warning the armstrong variant of cove. it's still poses a very high risk current of ours cases worldwide searched 11 percent in the past week. the us britain prompts initially a rural reporting record, hives as well, and police and hong kong of right at the office of stand to news and independent online media outlet. 7 current and former staff members have been arrested for publishing articles and citing hatred against authorities. here is

a little look at some of the people who were arrested. the editor in chief, patrick lamb, has been detained, as well as deputy assignment editor ronson chant, who is also the head of the hong kong journalists association. margaret ng is a barrister, former pro democracy politician and the local well known pop singer denise. whoa. who served on the board of stand use until she resigned in june. and the result has been that san has actually decided to shut down earlier. we spoke to samuel, choose the founder and president of the campaign for hong kong. he says, private sector organizations across the region have a responsibility to safeguard freedom and democracy. i think that this is obviously a dark time for those of us who are born there were bender who lived there was family there's this is not a hong kong that we recognize. but i think that this part of what makes this such a unique and confrontation, or are or, or campaign is that hong kong represents so much more of the intersection between

the democratic free world an communist china. and so there are gonna be opportunities just to outraged that has been, you know, poured out over to ace arrest and all the attention that have been focused on china, an upcoming beijing olympics. these are all opportunity that pressure can be applied and that's what we're trying to do here. and i think the fact that we're talking about it and that media outlets and governments and politicians around the world are responding to it today. it's a sign that they're still home and they're still basis for advocacy a just a few weeks ago, the state department and the usaa updated a, the hunk autonomy act report, which add an additional sanctions to officials in hong kong. i think that's one piece of the puzzle, but ultimately i think that beyond even just government or even angels and the non profit like ours is that we need a cross sector, the business community,

the corporation that are continuing to operate, have to be held accountable as well, for in there, in action, in protecting and defending freedom and hong kong and memorial services are being held across south africa for the anti apartheid icon. and nobel peace prize, laureate desmond to south africa observing a full week of national mourning for tutors dived, aged 8090 im sorry. first black archbishop of cape town who rose to prominence in the 1980s as an opponent of a partied tutors renewal. be held on new year's day, so those are like pitches from cape town. and that's where we will find our correspondent family to miller, a whole week of morning. what's happening specifically today? oh, we were at the st. george's cathedral, where we continue to see hundreds of warners file passed through the day paying tribute to the late to archbishop. but the, as you said, there are number even

a bill of events planned throughout the day, johannesburg pretoria, as well as in cape town, the main event later in the day in cape town where the city will be paying tribute to the late archbishop in and during an interfaith service and that really speaks to how the archbishop transcended race and religion and what an icon he was to people across south africa, not only south africans, but also globally. i'm going to bring in to people who have come through to pay tribute to the late archbishop reverend error. it will van der us as well as reverend robin wright. as a reverend and working within the church. you. you've also spoken to us telling us about just the role that the archbishop played in terms of his, the direction he gave in terms of faith and, and, and the world. did you do? what did he mean to you? yes. a thank you very much for the opportunity. it is indeed a sad day for us in the city of cape town, but also as a nation, a but also i wanted to extend that to,

to everybody around the world did either saturday for us or where we come this morning to, to celebrate the life of archbishop desmond tutu in terms of the legacy that he has left behind for us. it is, it is, it is a and an example for us and especially for clergy to take upper the light that he has. so and, and, and the flame that he, as in his youth and in these time, while he was still alive with us, that he spoke out against corruption and oppression. and, and he was basically the voice for the voiceless and, and, and, and the, and, and it is with that in mind. and that we come and we were and we want to give honor to him and thank him for for what he has done for our country. but what is also important is that when ever bishop desmond, archbishop desmond tutu spoke on a platform. and it doesn't matter where every was in the world or whether it's in the states all in europe is, was, was always transferred all over the globe,

over oceans, and mountains and deserts. and he just had that, that compassion and passion for people. there was a press and, and, and the people that was left out in the dark so, so this morning we want to come and we've just want to honor his legacy and, and want to thank him for what you have done, especially for the people in south africa, i know that we all know the bishop decimal to to spoke up about the minority ruling this country in apartment iraq for years. but also up until recently, he also spoke out against the come government in terms of corruption. but as it is this kind of legacy that he have, that the encourage us to speak up against oppression and, and, and crime, and even speak up for the l g b t, community. so, so this man had left such a great impact on our lives. and in this morning we want to show lou to me, want to thank him for what you've done. not only for south africans,

but for people around the globe. so the archbishop certainly was a global voice and ribbon, right. you have traveled from california. what kind of influenza did he have in you as somebody observing his work in south africa was thank you for the opportunity river. desmond tutu was a huge icon in america. he some one who spoke truth to power and because he spoke truth to power, we in america appreciate that about jasmine to, to just be to choose some one that looked beyond the person's down. or if you look beyond, then there's their status in life. and he looked at the person and their humanity, and that's who desmond to to was and that's who he was to america. and we honor him as well as well as everyone else goes around, go live in an era. do you believe that the place that he held in south africa in terms of leadership, them within the church at that?

well, it's obviously very big shoes to fall. what happens from now? i think what's important now for us and especially for clergy to, to, to, to follow his example. and we should know that we as clergy, that it's called up to stand and, and be the voice for the voiceless. and that's exactly bishop need to do. but there's one thing that was also profound about him is the decimal to, to never looked at color. this one to, to didn't know about color. he speak for everybody. it doesn't matter where you come from. it doesn't matter. your, your status is reverend robert says, but he spoke for every body and that's what make him such a, such a unique person. but, but we today is the young clergy and young men and women of, of this globe. we should take them and listened and or, and take dead lee from, from his life her. today we can just say thank you to him and, and, and let us use this opportunity to reflect on how we deal with society. after all, we are called. and especially as men of the cloth,

we are called to speak up against oppression and, and all those her evil things that's happening around the globe. so. so today we can proud to say we want to thank and we want to salute him. so my call to all, especially to the church instead, let us stand up, let us rise up against the evil in this world. let us stand up and let us unite because that is what this one to to did. he unlike that people from all over the world. and as i said, you never look at color, it never look at any you your language where you come from. but he had the christ heart enjoy life. that's what it's about. so my, please, all to the church to the south africans and globally is that we should unite is one and don't look at where you come from men, or you'll, you'll your language on your color that's, that's irrelevant. and, and i hope and pray that, that we can take the legacy forward or offer the archbishop so, so i want to thank you very much personally for my children,

but thomas amy junior church or that we will, that we will go forth with his legacy august to wrap up reverend, right, i mean that global presence that the archbishop had the but there's also a personal influence, some show in terms of the work that you do absolutely of because what we do is what we do. we work with people from all backgrounds and all walks of life. and we are the type of people in the clergy who want to help people who are the left over to least of these, the left for high and mass with desmond to, to was all about the was about humanity. and that spread that love spread across the globe. and so we, as clergy, want to honor desmond to, to as an icon that he is. and we know that he has done on a well done good and faithful servant that he was. and thank you again for this opportunity. thank you very much gentlemen. we continued to see mourners come through here to saint george's cathedral. there are

a number of memorial service is taking place throughout the day. and we do expect more information regarding to some of the plans going forward. as you said earlier, the funeral to be held on new year's day. but a key thing that we keep on hearing organizes, it's just about the humanity of the archbishop in terms of the simplicity around some of the plans wanting to keep things as simple as possible and continuing to honor him in terms of just that you morality that people in south africa, respected from me to mila reporting from tape town on the life of devon tuesday. thank you for me to until the news. the united states has promised at european allies transparency and solid hours. when it holds talks with russia. us state department spokesman net price bill discuss mutual goals on january tent earlier russians, deputy ambassador to you and again, to not have serious guarantees that nato wouldn't expand further into eastern europe. the us and russia still fighting ongoing tension over a military build up on the border with ukraine. relentless,

heavy rains causing or flooding in the northeast and brazilian state of vanya water levels of continue to rise up to 2 dams collapsed in the region. state of emergency has been declared in more than 100 cities. these 21 people killed in almost 80000 homeless or displaced. but i mean, this is everything to me. everything. the only thing i had was my home and now it's gone. i no longer have the courage to continue living here. marcelo declared an agricultural emergency, a forest fires burned south of santiago, thousands of heck as the forest have been destroyed, including farmers, crops, and at least 5 houses have been destroyed in the new bill region. lawrence say a lack of rainfall has caused a water shortage in several areas, causing that fire to spread even faster. and then we have the philippines, where hundreds were killed when super typhoid rise, signed in the country early this month. dozens more still missing there. the devastation is wide spread and weather experts say its intensity was unexpected.

and it highlights the impact of climate change in extreme weather events. this report from barnaby looked in manila, typhoon ry packed wince of more than 200 kilometers in our mead landfall. 9 times last week, from the east to the far west of the philippines, central and southern islands, millions of people are having to pick up whatever's left of their lives. the devastation is unprecedented. state weather forecasters had predicted a powerful ty, food, but when it hit the country, it exceeded their expectations. it actually entered the period so sorry, the arrested development where there's really much, much, not much going on in the storm based on the satellite observations. and then it is after that, which is the interesting part after the arrested development period. it's sudden be

ramped up it's development. and then that's the time that where it reach it's intention. typhoon right also hit about a 3rd of the country that has historically been spared the fiercest storms. it also sustained its strength throughout. the pattern that has emerged from this particular typhoon is that the damage can be relatively far from the eye or the center of the storm. usually when a storm barrels through our country, we know which provinces and which city, sorry, been a get hit. right is not the 1st super slack loan to devastate the philippines in 2013 super typhoon hyannis, left a trail of destruction and killed at least 6000 people. it was one of the strongest typhoons recorded. many scientists and environmentalists say such extreme weather in the philippines is the consequence of climate change. and they're afraid it's

only going to get worse. barnaby low al jazeera manila found the legend of american sports and pop culture has died. john madden, who was one of the most successful coaches in if an nfl history at the helm of the oakland raiders for much of the seventy's. i wanted to start a half of all that what cincinnati wants to do took all that energy to television screens becoming a commentator. generations of children were introduced to the game through his name psych, which was called mad an nfl football, one of the most successful sports video games of all time. john madden dead at the age of 85 ah will help us. they are, and these are the top stories. hong kong, independent media outlets stand, news has announced it is shutting down after being graded by police. 7 current and former staff members have been arrested accused of publishing articles and citing

hatred against authorities. just the latest example of curbs on press freedom in hong kong since.