return to please punishment specific crimes. everybody will be safe. nobody's kid will be kicked out again for rats. now together, they're feeling they weight forward it to the new reality. ah, well, it welcomes in the new year, but my lease had abrasions are again, dancing by the robin's right of coven 19. ah! hello i marianna isaiah london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. hundreds of homes are engulfed in flames off to strong winds. find foss moving wildfire in suburban, colorado, businesses and aid across the tie border to me and mom as fighting ease is between

government troops and ethnic correct rebels and fighting to save her daughter the battle to so afghan children being sold into marriage. so the rest of the family can ah, people around the world of bidding farewell to 2021. but for the 2nd year, running many new year's celebrations are being held in the shadow of the corona virus pandemic. as the only covariance of coven 19 runs rampant around the globe is, is the scene live in the great capital athens, where is just 10 midnight on them? it is failing to cubby enthusiasm in the greek capital. o. y fi works have been lighting up the skies over the acropolis, gillian wolf reports now on the celebrations elsewhere in the world. and how cove it has crash. the posse yet again. ah zealand was one of the 1st to ring

in the new year. its neighbor estrella didn't hold that tens of thousands of people gathered around sydney harbour bridge in a tribute also to the front line workers in the fight against coven 19. ah! in north korea, there were fireworks taiwan, 2 lighting up the night sky. but elsewhere, there were bands on big gatherings in china. we're 2 years ago. corona virus 1st emerged, events were canceled with the nation on high alert and the city of she an under locked down soccer, soccer awesome. since the 1st reported case, more than 5400000 people have died around the world. and with your micron very and taking hold. many governments have re imposed restrictions to try to ease the strain on overwhelmed hospitals. even in those countries where gatherings are

allowed, many people have chosen to stay home with the one wish shared by people around the world. this year is the 2022 is better than the last 2 and sees an end to the pandemic. wolf, al jazeera or french government is introduced to new measures aimed at reducing the spread of the only con varian. everyone in paris is now required to wear face mosques, outdoor is the capital to cancel the new year's eve by what display on the shoulder, silly se, authorities of hold on people to avoid large gatherings. but no coffee has been imposed or germany's uni appointed chancellor has used his 1st new year's speech to try and rally the population against virus. oh, laugh schoultz called on germans to get vaccinated even as protest continue against restrictions. germany announced 41000 new cases of the varied on thursday.

i appeal to you again, get vaccinated. i know that some a skeptical, they fear it will have negative consequences. but to day, almost 4000000000 people worldwide vaccinated without major side effect of you. k reported another record number of new infections on friday. more than a 189000 british prime minister boris johnson hasn't bad news. eve celebrations in england said encouraging people to take a covey test. even though the u. k is facing a shortage of rapid answer. jan test is also urging people to get vaccinated as soon as possible. the people who think the disease can't hurt them. look at the people going into hospital now. that could be you look at the intensive care units and the miserable needless suffering of those who did not get that booster. that could be you. so making your new year's resolution far easier than losing weight or keeping a diary. find

a walk in center or make an online appointment. get that job and do something that will make 2022. a happy new year for russell. and roy challenge has been reporting from london. what any normal new year's eve this embankment here in london will be absolutely rammed with people coming down to watch the big firework spectacular. well, for the 2nd year running, the public event has been cancelled. people are being urged to stay home or watch whatever does happen on tv. now, despite the fact that every day there seems we, new or infection, recalls being broken and hospitalizations are now over $12000.00 because omicron looks to be less severe than delta boris johnson is hoping that his light touch approach will pay off the bars. restaurants, the cafes and i clubs are open, people can still gather it's a party in england's, in other parts of the u. k, scotland, wales, and northern ireland. that is not the case. and it does seem as if there are

concerns that people are going to be coming from those parts of the country in so england, because this is where you can party that of course is being actively discouraged. united states is recorded its highest number of cases yet and a single day, more than 647000, with nearly one and a half 1000 deaths. get more from john hendrick in washington virus. they're setting new daily records. how much was, could it get in january after christmas and new year's celebrations? but mary, i'm just in time for the new year, at least here in the us. we have a potential answer to that question. columbia university researchers say they believe virus will peak the week of january 9th, that is weeks rather than months. sounds like good news. bad news is that peak could be very extreme. in the past few days, we've seen on wednesday 300000 new cases on thursday, 562. and on friday that astounding number. you just mentioned

647000 cases. and researchers in that colombia study, if they are right, say that number would peak it 200. i'm sorry, 2.5 to 5000000 people. so a really, really high peak. and at that point that is when it could come down. meanwhile, thousands of flights have been canceled across the u. s. some due to weather, but some of them also due to oma crime, not just people getting sick who work for the airlines, but also people working for the airlines who don't want to take big incentives to work overtime during the holiday because they're so worried about the macro invariant, vaccines and boosters have been blunting that surge, or at least blunting the effect for people who get sick that lives allowed joe biden to focus on the economy and not on new restrictions. but meanwhile, this comes as people are gathering all over the u. s. for those new years eve

celebrations, the biggest one traditionally has been in new york city. are gabe elizondo will be covering that from the site later on. but there are a lot of people who say those shouldn't be going on even though they're outdoors because this virus, this variant of the virus is so so dangerous and spread so quickly. thanks very much. john, 100 in washington, or in india, daily infections have more doubled in the past week. experts fear the countries entering a 3rd wave, fueled by the army kron variance, or than 16000 new cases reported on friday. highest number of daily cases since october. authorities are imposing the restrictions to prevent mass gatherings in some states while in go arrival is there of flooded the beaches night. curfews of also been imposed in all major cities avenue. michelle has more from you dolly this duration here is quite alarming. the government says we are in the initial phases off, it called way, but in this that it is better prepared. in fact,

new jelly where we are and we're actually outside in just largest core with 900 facility. the government said it can handle up 200000 new cases a day and 300000 test daily. at this point because of how far the infections are rising, most of the country is under some form of restriction. delhi has been put on yellow, a lot of schools and cinema, and jim's are shot. what restrictions are there on restaurant and public transport? one by which is in just financial capital has also seen a huge 3rd. and the government there has put a cap on gathering vaccination, though. we'll also get a big booth because starting monday children about 50, we'll start getting jobs. and many people will also be eligible for boosters, which will start or later in january at the time they are wearing signs that people are not necessarily following corporate protocol. for example, the images of markets that are crowded, where people are not social distance think,

nor are they're wearing mom. the other place where over 19 protocols are not being followed. i lecture valley, you know, their continued because india is headed for the state elections early 2022. it's a stop reminder. what happened this past summer when the dental very it was infecting millions of people in india every day as election valleys and religious gatherings continued. ah, a mayor in colorado says he saw houses exploding before his eyes as the usa or some of its most destructive wildfires on record. almost 600 homes have been destroyed, the 10s of thousands people forced to see their neighborhoods to towns near denver were hardest hit by the fires, which came on usually late in the year and were fanned by high winds or but manly

reports. this is the moment a huge fire came rolling down the foothills of boulder, county and colorado. the 4th moving blaze engulfed hundreds of homes. local say they haven't experienced anything like it. you know, this is the 1st time i've really been involved in anything like this and i'll tell you it is really scary. did you some things in the trees. oh, they're all up in flames, like there's embers everywhere. so it makes me very frightened, of course, with the wind that it's gonna continue to spread to other homes. strong winds and dry conditions are fueling the flames. officials say some of the fires was sparked by falling power lines, which ignited prairie grasses. estates were merchant fees being declared and tens of thousands of people effectuated from the towns of superior and louis phil. many getting stuck in traffic jams as they tried to escape. this was

a disaster in fast motion, all over the course of half a day. nearly all the damage, many families having minutes, minutes to get whatever they could, their, their pats, their kids into the car and leave or the last 24 hours have been devastating. we currently have thousands of individuals in the south, south part of our county. and in the areas of superior and lewisville who have been evacuated, we know that there are structures, both homes and businesses that have been burned and loss. speaking about hundreds of structures in boulder, county, tens of thousands of people have been left in the dark with power lines down or destroyed. patients in critical care, a being moved out of hospitals because of the threat from smoke winds, a gradually weakening, giving fire fight as some respite. but the billowing smoke could be a bigger hazard. as it travels across colorado. lore about manly al jazeera,

just a bit more news from colorado, a truck drive, a sentence to a 110 years in jail. his role in a fatal collision is on his prison. tom caught to 10 years by the states governor in a letter to rogo aguila maderos governor. jarred, police said that the crash that killed full motorists in 2019 was a tragic but unintentional act is that the sentence was disproportionate compared to other inmates. the criminal justice system was public outrage over the severity of the sentencing, with nearly 5000000 people signing a petition, calling the clemency watching al jazeera ly from london. still i had for you on the program of to 28 days at c, 105 wrangler refugees are allowed to leave the sinking boat and disembark and indonesia telephone tests taken with what might be 12 months. many would prefer to forget, but we look back at the year. that was 2021.

ah hello, thank you for joining in your weather stories. gonna begin in japan. nice to see you. we've got more snow on the way for western areas here. and i think actually, the worst of it will be toward the northwest of honshu, some snow war, snow storm warnings here, a could scoop up to about 30 centimeters of snow. those north winds digging in across northern china as well. so a harbinger, it's a high minus 12. you're also dealing with some snow there for the southeast of asia, the ne monsoon kicking into high gear here. so cutting across central areas of that, philippines, a militia into singapore. and i think the worst of the rain for singapore will be saturday into sunday should start to back off monday into tuesday. we'll keep the thunderstorm risk in there, and your temperature is a bit below average for january. now that we're into a new month. okay,

for australia we've had that tropical cyclone form. i just saw the coasts of queens on. it's going to stir up the waves here also for new caledonia. catastrophic fire danger toward the northwest and southwest of western australia and temperatures in adelaide. prepare for, they're going to drop over the next few days. we're in the clear across both islands of new zealand, danita and 20 degrees wallington 23. and we're going to keep that stretch of a beautiful weather. go and for wellington a bit more cloud cover though on tuesday. that's it. see sir? ah, i'm counting the coffee climate emergency the price of going green and why it doesn't need to cost the earth dealings and unlikely meter and economics come to the test bed for controlling prices plus no gold deposit. so why is that one of your walks biggest sports? counting the cost on out of the room. oh,

would winning documentary from around the world? well now she 0 a ah, the main stories now as a wild welcomes in 2022 celebrations, have again been held and a shadow of the corona virus pandemic. many firework shows did go ad, including the famous send me home, and despite but several cities cancelled public gatherings. the u. s. s sat another new record for daily infections of the navy, 650000 people testing positive in the past day. and then in india, daily infections thereof, more than doubled in the past week,

when 16000 new cases were reported on friday, which is the highest number of daily cases since october. now, businesses in thailand, ascending 8 across the border to me in march, how many people displaced by fighting between the military and ethnic ran fighters? violence there has eased in recent days, but the rebels say the lonely, negotiate a ceasefire. if government troops leave the areas where the violence is taken place from the time me and my boy, the attorney chang reports, bags of rice and beans, loaded up from a warehouse in the tie town of mess up. it's emergency aid desperately needed by people who fled from fighting inside myanmar. the relief package has been put together by local businessmen who come from murmur, but live here in thailand. they're doing it because no one else will. this is their, your name, your job. and now we're, we're just like a small groups and a we a grass route. we have not many capacity of like funding we're, you know,

be gathering this kind of aids. but operating in murmur is complicated. first volunteers have to negotiate with tied border guards, who are helpful, but whose 1st priority is security. then a call to a local contact on the other bank in miramar. were coming across the river now to get the supplies mirror boxes of insta, noodle, some water and some sold to with more than 10000 people displaced inside murmur. this is only a very temporary fix. on the high side, everyone retreats behind the tape barrier and not to cope 19 protocols. the swimmers then load the precious cargo on to make shift rough, waters shallow, so ferrying across the river isn't hard. that they can't afford to lose anything. looks of relief on the opposite bank and not just because of the food fighting between government troops and the ethnic current fighters has eased over the last 2 days. and the time military say that come to them. yeah,

most me will step back eventually go back. i guess a little all this time we've always received good cooperation when it comes to asking them to stop so that there won't be any threat to the safety of ties and their property and what you mean. the current fighters aren't so sure they've been in conflict with mia mars all me for decades. and there's little trust that i don't know, we don't trust the cease fire and they've been destroying villages killing villages and leaving on the ashes. so how can you trust them all know why? how can you have a cease fire? all of that bad news for more than 5000 mia? my refugees on the tie side, there now assembled in one camp. the tiles, doors his are installing infrastructure, suggesting an extended stay. that could mean it will be weeks if not months before they can cross these hills and return home. tony chang al jazeera. on the time, ma'am ma'am. border. on a $105.00 wrangler refugees from me and my had been a draft on a sinking boat and now safe and indonesia, after almost

a month at sea. the bow, which had 47 children aboard, was spotted by fishermen on sunday night nations humanitarian agency. the you and hcr is praised indonesia for taking the men. jessica washington reports now from jakarta, indonesia anti province. a dangerous and exhausting journey has finally come to an end. these were hunger, refugees are finally safe. intending to reach malaysia, they perilous journey, saw them stranded in indonesian waters for days. for now they're staying in an empty government building in northern uh, j with oh, they are off fellow muslims. so we aren't going to complain about having them here overnight. a navy vessel pulled their boat to shore an effort that was complicated by strong waves and heavy winds. representatives from the you and hcr and local and g o is waited anxiously for their arrival. ready to assist them. yamaha marcella.

family. the 1st thing we need to do is check their health, give them food and drink after their day stranded at sea. 47 children and 50 women are among those rescued from the damaged, with local fishermen. from the town of beerin 1st spotted the ship on sunday, near the coast of archie and immediately tried to assist them. some local said they felt solidarity with those on board as the plight of the ringa reminded them of our chaise own struggle. of allah get, get us. we got for la martha people here have experienced needing help from other countries. we can never forget was our situation was like when we were hit by the soon army, we thought although it took days for the government to confirm it would allow the refugees to disembark in indonesia, the you and hcr has thanked them, saying they'd saved lives in a statement for you and hcr said it was grateful to indonesia for once again proving its humanitarian spirit. it also praised indonesian authorities for it said,

setting an example by once again, assisting ro hanger, refugees in distress at sea. human rights groups have also welcomed indonesia decision that said the process should be improved, so rescues can be faster. so i bring by improving this residential regulation on your browser. no, ever. i think there won't be confusion anymore in the future, and there will, there should be a quicker decision to help people in dangers. every denisia regards itself as only a transit country where refugees cannot permanently resettle. so for these were hunger, the danger is over. for now, but the uncertainty remains as to what the future holds. jessica washington al jazeera to carter. iran is saying it's space launch on thursday fell to put 3 payloads into orbit because it's rocket was unable to reach the required speed.

according to state tv, a payload needs to reach 7600 meters per 2nd to be launched into orbit. there's reached 7350 attempt to launch was criticized by the us, germany and france as violating un security council resolution. iran which has one of the biggest missile programs in the middle east, has suffered several fail satellite launches in the past few years. almost afghans are ending 2021 in a far worse position. and when the year began, more and more families are so desperate for money. they're forced to sell off children as young as 6 into marriage. agencies say a taliban ban on 4th marriages failed to stop the practice without the international aid with held onto the taliban takeover in august. more children will suffer this fate or fruit cause this report. now. in this sprawling settlement camp in western afghanistan live people displaced by drought and war. but as these

suffering doesn't, and there she is now trying to save her 10 year old daughter after her husband sold her into marriage without telling her she thought is fighting with him and my heart stopped beating. i wish i could have died. i told my husband, i'm not going to give away my daughter at such a young age. aziz's husband told her he did it for money to feed his 5 children and that without it, they would starve. he was in his word sacrificing one to save the rest. but these married off herself at 15, refused. instead securing a divorce for her daughter. it cost the equivalent of around a $1000.00 for money. they don't have i barely douglas me. good. now we are not only struggling with hunger, we also monitor man, if we cannot return the money and he comes to get my daughter, what will happen? i would rather die than let him take her. despite

a taliban ban on forced marriages, the practice is continuing with many afghans unable to afford even basic goods. a payment from a perspective groom's family can amount to the difference between life and death. in some cases, families are now also giving up their sons. it's hot break, so it's the right time for the humanity in community to stand up and stay with the people of abandon, pleasure. in another part of the camp, her meet abdulla says he too is desperate for money to treat his chronically ill wife pregnant with their 5th child. 3 years ago he received a down payment for his eldest daughter. now 7 to be married when she's older, but he needs the money now. worth the dear grinnell? well are i have another daughter? i'm even willing to sell her because i need to buy food and medicine so i don't have any other choice in our town. and it's likely other afghan families will feel they'd to have to do the same. according to the united nations,

more than $3000000.00 children under 5, a facing acute malnutrition, more mothers like aziz facing the unthinkable. laura frick burge al jazeera of her 2nd day south africans have been paying their respects to desmond to, to as his body lay in state and cape town, to 2 simple pine casket spending the night in saint george's cathedral. out of his funeral on saturday. he preached and served his archbishop there for decade. some 3000 south africans filed by to say good bye to the anti apartheid lady railed against white rule in the country. to 2 died on sunday at the age of 19 legend re us actress and comedian betty whites has died less than a month before her $100.00 birthday with a career spanning 9 decades. she was named the female entertainer with the longest television career by the kenneth wall records. betty white began acting as

a child's in the 900 thirty's and worked right right up until 2019 with a voice art in toy story for. but she was best known worldwide for playing rose nyland in the eighty's t. v. show the golden golf. this is our last bulletin out of london for 2021 way. the new year is just 19 minutes away. time to back at some of the biggest stories al jazeera, has covered over the past 12 months. let's walk down a building under two's or not. however, with her, with what is known as a just me,

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black of political will. selfishness and music. the new all the comb very and to spread it. 2022 must be the year we end the funding. ah, paid red no planet. there is no sign of blah, blah, blah blah blah blah blah. i'm deep with governmental school before i suggest that security reports, especially with general have a say they don't walk me through the rules.

there was always like, only were brave enough to see it only were brave enough. mm. ah. oh main stories. now people around the world are bidding farewell to 2021. but for the 2nd year running many nissan abrasions are being held in the shadow of the corona virus pandemic. the official firework display was cancelled any zealand one of the 1st countries to ring in 2022 in its place was a light shone, opens at sky tower and.