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ah, also the golden girl of comedy, betty white passes away just week shy of her 100th birthday and al jazeera looked back at 2021 and the stories that shaped the year. ah, hello and welcome to al jazeera, very happy new year to all of you. wherever you are watching across the world was just turned midnight in western europe and west africa. here are the scenes in london right now. there you go. look, studying with even another presenter there as well on the millennium bridge. people ringing in the new year in the british capital under the cloud of micron. and i earlier the celebrations in spain's capital madrid didn't look very different from normal years and quite adult soul. but numbers were limited and please monitor the crowd with drones. over in the french capital parish,

si fi work show was cancelled, but thousands of revelers were only trans. alisa, as you can see, brightly colored trees, a fantastic backdrop in the count down to mid march and public celebrations were bombed in italy, but on different stop. some people gathering at rhymes coliseum to mark the moment . victoria gave me reports on the scale that celebrations elsewhere in the world. and how cove it has crushed the party again. ah, thailand welcomed the new year with the fireworks display in bangkok on the heavy cove 19 restrictions. oh, it was one of the few places in the country to host end of the year celebrations after other events were cancelled due to the spread of omicron my mouth at bedtime. today's kind of compensation for the past 2 years that i don't get to celebrate. that's why i decided to bring the whole family here today. my kids are happy and we will come back again next year. so. oh,

in hong kong, fireworks lit up the victoria hobble waterfront. ah, and the music concept by the cities film on orchestra marked the beginning of 2022 . ah, better me better home call, then cool with go. we hope everyone will be healthy and happy and we hope to find them in the older food so that we all can open the border and get trouble. yeah. in north korea, that will say fi works ah, taiwan to lighting up the night sky hours earlier. new zealand had been one of the 1st to ring in the new year. it's neighbor, australia didn't hold that. tens of thousands of people gathered around sydney, hobbit bridge in a tribute also to the front line workers in the fight against k. the 19 but else

ladder were bands on big gatherings in china where 2 years ago corona virus. first emerged, events were canceled with the nation on high alert, and the city of shan under locked down. since the 1st reported case, more than 5400000 people have died around the world. and with the omicron variant 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 at home. the one wish shed by people around the world. this new year is that 2022 is better than the last 2 years and sees an end to the pandemic. victoria gates and be al jazeera all times we're in new york is one of the most famous places in the world to ring in the new year. but once again, the pandemic has curtailed plans. hundreds. gabriel is under a pulse. it's hurting local businesses, trying to bounce back on

a recent day at jasmine's caribbean restaurant, the staff were busy getting ready for what they hoped would be a bustling dinner crowd. the restaurant which opened a year ago is in the heart of times square and christmas and new years are usually one of the busiest times of the year. but with new york now the u. s. epicenter of the coven outbreak owner jasmine gerard says there is a problem for all business. i mean, we are suffering at this time right now. i mean, for me, thank the lord. i was able to open up in the pandemic and i had an opportunity to do so. but everyone is really struggling and we definitely need people to come back to new york city. ready last month, the by did ministration reopened us borders to vaccinated tourists for non essential travel. visitors have trickled back in to new york city, particularly times square, but not nearly to the pre pandemic levels. according to local officials, about $270000.00 people walk through times square each day during the month of

december. that's about $100000.00 less than before the pandemic. and about 25 percent of all the businesses in time square remain closed. many our restaurants look closely on the side streets and it's noticeably quieter. just on wednesday, more than 43000 people in new york city, tested positive for over 19. the numbers are rising so high, so fast that officials decided to scale back the famous new years. the ball drops. celebration here in time square from 70000 spectators to just 15000 and everyone will have to show proof of explanation. and we're a mass. i think more cautious. i think that at this point, you know, we're keeping an eye on the positivity rate, but it's not worrying us to a point where we're back at jasmine's. they've seen this movie before having

struggled through last winter's covert wave. we were able to survive at that time and then you know where the mouth spread. broadway opens, but now it's the sequel. and another covert surge taking it's toll on times square . and on its biggest night of the year, why this gabriel's hondo al jazeera new york. though the united states as recorded its highest number of cases, yet in a single day with more than 6 140000 infections with more than 1400 people having died. 200 has the latest washington d. c. researchers at columbia university say they think they know when it's going to peak and according to their model, it would happen within weeks, not months. that would be good news. they say that they think that the virus, according to their model, will peak the week of january 7th. here's the bad news. they say that during that 7

day period, they predict 2.5 to 5000000 new cases. so an intense surge that would then go down according to their model. meanwhile, we've got hot thousands of flights being canceled across the us. some of that is due to regular winter weather, but some of it is also due to flight cruise getting covered themselves. and also those refusing to work over time over the holidays, because they don't want to take increased incentives because they're too worried about getting the virus. as all of this is happening, 23 states in puerto rico and the district of columbia said new records on thursday . meanwhile, those vaccines in boosters are blunting the effect. people seem to be getting less sick, and that's allowed president biden to focus more on the economy than he has on cove it and setting new restrictions there. so things are likely to get worse before

they get better. so he reported another record number of daily infections on friday . more than 189000 people tested positive for coping. 19, the british prime minister boris johnson, is encouraging people to get tested and vaccinated if they haven't already. the people who think the disease can't hurt the 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. russell roach hollins has more 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 and watch whatever does happen on tv. now, despite the fact that every day there seems to be new infection, recalls being broken and hospitalizations and now over 12 thousands because all my cron looks to be less severe than delta morris. johnson is hoping that his light touch approach will pay off the bars. restaurants, the cafes, the night 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's, because this is where you can party that of course, is being actively discouraged. let's take you to our london life, which is our of many people across the british capital gathering the borrow market, sir. very close to one of london's tallest buildings, the shop,

which sat its own light display in celebration. the people quite fascinated by. as you can see, it's been brightly lit up there, over links 70 flows of the building that towers over the british capital. now, argentina is feeling the impact of the new kind of virus buried reporting a record $50000.00 daily cases. people waited in long lines to be tested for the virus that centers in the capital one as ari's on new year's eve. argentina recently reduced the number of quarantine days from 10 to 5. it recorded its 1st case of alma corn 3 weeks ago. the actual nazi will miss him with the if, which i know it to have been heading for a month and a half hour. that convention case exploding in europe and yeah, did you expected not to happen here? and if you thought it should have foreseen all of this, that people come to tet altogether, the vacation period and the end of the year lebrans were coming. what? that's what again, we are here because we run together tonight with the family. we came from the coast and we want to be sure we don't have covered thousands of runners to part in one of

brazil's oldest races. the son, sylvester road race traditionally held on new year's eve is a historical event and saw apollo that brings together runners from around the world. the 15 kilometer rung was held with strict health measures, including showing proof of vaccination. it was cancelled last year because of covert 19 restrictions. well, still had here on al jazeera sacrificing. want to save the rest how some afghan families are forced to sell their daughters just to be able to eat a temporary fix as much needed aid is said 2000 displaced by fighting and mammoth. we report tie border, the stories after the break. ah ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle airways. it's the

weekend. it's a new year. happy 2020 to everyone. here's her weather story across asia. we've still got that cold snap alert in play for the indian state. the roger sun looks at the north that that new delhi 20 degrees, and i'm right, sorry, just the high of 19 south of this. we've had some pretty intense downpours for the indian state of town to do some spots. scooping up pretty close to $200.00 millimeters of rain and the potential to see a repeat of that. on saturday, we certainly disrupted the weather pattern there. se asia that ne mon soon as piling on the rain across malaysia and singapore. i think the worst of it for singapore will be saturday into sunday, then things will back off monday into tuesday, tuesday just a high of 28 degrees below average. now for the month of january and across the philippines, that ne monsoon also cutting across central areas. so some driving rain for sebu city with the high 27 degrees or they're in areas of china that north when really digging in harbor minus 12 are dealing with some snow. also see effects,

snow for western areas of japan, and see the worst of it here will be for northwestern horseshoe snow storm warning in play. 30 centimeters to be expected. a hiv 8 degrees in tokyo on saturday, happy new year. we'll see again soon. take care. ah, the weather sponsored by katara always a right of passage and present to the generation. my cousin was laying down there was claiming she was helpless. a woman after indoors as goes through the title of paint. for what fact, my naive meets the women affected by f g m, and those reshaping perception, do you think people will abandon this eventually, but i'll just 0 corresponding because ah ah, ah

ah, look back, you're watching, i'll to 0 of me. so he'll run the reminder of our top stories. much of europe and west africa has rung in the new year under the cloud of amazon celebrations are muted across the world with some cities cancelling their traditional firework displays, or banning large gatherings. and 2 years after the coven 19 pandemic was declared, had the situation. many countries continue to decline. many countries have been reporting a record in daily cases field, mainly by more contagious. darian mcdermott is the director of global issues at amnesty international. he says, wealthy relations have been depriving poor ones of access to cavers 19 vaccines despite promises to share them. this is the, the message that's been coming loud and clear from health experts from the world health organization for the past year. this is a global problem, and it needs

a global solution. and unfortunately, instead we've seen wealthy states including the u. k. hold vaccines. we've seen these western vaccine makers with a couple of exceptions, primarily distribute doses, sell doses to these wealthy countries. it's an appalling, unjust, immoral situation whereby the countries where more than half the world's population live have received far, far, far less than half the world's vaccines. the situation has been slowly improving, but it really is a question of too little, too late. the world health organization set a target of vaccination rate of 40 percent by the end of the year. and we know and near that, that outgoing for 70 percent by the middle of next year. and really, your wealthy countries have got to start putting these vaccines,

increase donation to the rest of the world. the pharmaceutical companies as well to go to start distributing much more to kofax, which is the entity which, which will allow for a fair distribution of doses. and critically, they also have to help other manufacturers around the world increase capacity for developing these vaccines. anthony, is mr. gunther ending 2021 in a far worse position than when the began. horrible families are so desperate for money that they're full to sell off. children and youngest 6 into marriage agency saying telephone ban on false marriages has failed to stop the practice. laura flapper has more in this sprawling settlement camp in western afghanistan. live people displaced by drought and war, but as these goals 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

where the seller should. and i started fighting with him and my heart stopped beating. i wished i could have died. i told my husband, i'm not going to give away my daughter at such a young age. as these as husband told her, he did it for money to feed his 5 children, and that without it, they would starve. he was in his words sacrificing one to save the rest. but aziz married off herself at 15 refused. instead securing a divorce for her daughter. it cost the equivalent of around a $1000.00 with money. they don't have early douglas new york. now we are not only struggling with hunger, we also owe money to the 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 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 do now, while arthur, i have another daughter. i'm even willing to sell her because i need to buy food and medicine. i don't have any other choice. and it's likely other afghan families will feel they to have to do the same. according to the united nations, more than 3000000 children under 5, a facing acute malnutrition, more mothers like these,

facing the unthinkable. laura frick burg out 0. dozens of palestinians have been injured after israeli forces find, take us to disperse weekly protests the occupied west bank. people in nobliss were protesting against the building and settlements in the villages, the best t, n and better. and it occupied east jerusalem palestinians gathered to voice their anger. and israel's opposition ongoing. pardon me, plans to force displacements of families, businesses in thailand, sending 8 across the border to me in march to help them any displayed by fighting between the military and ethnic current fighters. violence has eased in recent days, but the rebel se though only negotiate a c spot. if government troops leave areas where the violence has taken place. tony chang reports now from the border of thailand, a me and mark. 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 mamma. but live here in thailand and they're doing it because no one else will. this is say, your name, your job. and i, we're, we are just like a small groups and i, we a grass route. we have not many capacity of like funding we're, you know, they're gathering this kind of aids. but operating in me, emma is complicated. first volunteers have to negotiate with tie, border guards, who are helpful, but whose 1st priority is security. then a call to a local contact on the other bank and men mom while they're coming across the river now to get the supplies, there are boxes of instant noodles, some water, and some sold to with more than 10000 people displaced inside mamma is only a very temporary fix. on the tie side, every one retreats behind a tape barrier, a nod to cope at 19 protocols. the swimmers then load the precious cargo on to make

shift rafts. the water's shallow so faring it across the river isn't hard, but 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 korean fighters has eased over the last 2 days. and the time military say they're confident. yeah, most army will step back eventually go and i got got 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 already me. the current fighters on so sure. they've been in conflict with me, amazon me for decades, and as little trumps, i know we don't trust the ceasefire. they've been destroying villages killing villages and leaving on the ashes. so how can you trust them? how can you have a cease fire? all of that bad news for more than 5000 refugees on the high side. then now assembled in one camp over the tile stores. 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 border. a fascinating wall father toll through several towns in the us state of colorado has lost. we burned itself out. almost a 1000 homes are destroyed. heavy snow is forecast and is expected to dance any remaining embers. tens of thousands of false to flee, but there's also been so far, no reported deaths. jennifer bluff is an associate professor of geography and the wildfire expert at the university of colorado. the wildfire starts just a few kilometers from her home in boulder. and i don't have power still some in my office talking to you. i can see the smoke billowing very dark smoke, which means that it's from urban structures. it's been a scary a couple firefighters are going to be able to contain this fire. but it's been,

it's been a wild ride and seen winter wildfires. i mean that should be an oxymoron. we've. we've seen fires in the last 24 hours that have been very unusual and very remarkable for what has created the situation and there's 3 ingredients for fires. one is a warm climate, the 2nd is fuels to burn, and the 3rd is an ignition source and we had all 3. we had a very wet spring that grew up graphic then essentially try it out during a very warm and dry fallen winter. in fact, the period from june to december has been the warmest on record that really makes i feel, and the mission source is still under investigation. there's some thought that it might be power lines or it might be another source, but i can tell you 100 percent that it's. ready not anything, lightning or natural, it's either infrastructure related or it's human caused. and they're still trying to determine that. but all 3 of those things, climate, fuel and ignition,

to created the conditions for this fire to happen. and then with 100 mile an hour winds, which we saw yesterday, that fire burned through entire neighborhoods. tributes are poor in full hollywood actress and comedian betty whites, whose di just 3 weeks short of her 100th birthday, the get his world records named her the female entertainment. with the longest television career she'd been acting for over 2 years. barbara and cooper report in a youth driven film industry. betty white was a rarity. she was one of a few actresses maintains top power well into her ninety's. this is something you did to mrs. miller began her career in the 19 thirty's on radio and in variety shows. i'm sorry, this is a very critical touchy one to best supporting actress emmy awards for her role in the mary tyler moore show in the 19 seventy's. oh,

oh. oh. but her portrayal of sweet and quick heroes nyland in the 1980s sit com. the golden girls shot her to super stardom and and her new legion of fans. she won an emmy in 1986 for the role playing a widow living and retirement with for all the ladies and the antics in miami. she wasn't afraid to laugh at herself. ah, here was her response when she unveiled a wax work of herself at madame to sorts. you know, the only thing that hurts me. why did they wait you builders till i was 90? i mean, a few days ago would have been around, i guess she was starring in the t. v show hot in cleveland at the age of 92 until it was cancelled in 2014. betty white continued to make new audiences smile. darker,

saying a glass of wine a day can extend your life. and that perhaps was the secret of her lengthy career. let's say we're a little infer over bessie, why 2 dog at the edge of 19 arts. now in 2022 begins. it's time to look back at some of the biggest stories, al jazeera is covered in the past 12 months. let's walk down pennsylvania avenue. ah, the u. s. capital building under sous cannot however terror from our responsibility to validate with robin bye. your new songs were notions of what just is not guilty. is cherry always just me? i'm on democratically elected leadership retained as the military stage to

the general thought of a bit bloodless qu. they couldn't have been more wrong. the taliban has taken over the final departure of the u. s. military up to 20 years. i believe this is the right to switch a violent day over dangerous days, still ahead. nowhere in gaza feel safe, right? i'll just 0 will not be silenced. ah, didn't i bought him is ripping around the world? you see that right? and that by the tragedy of the lack of political will selfishness and music to us

the new all mccomb very and to spread it. 2022 must be the year we end the funding i read and emerge. broadwell face, no planet. there is no plan and blah, blah, blah, blah blah blah, i'm deeply sorry. ah, the theologian government us call the fight against the tickler rebels. alexis, social to them. general kathy: a say they don't want committed at all.

there is always liked only we're brave enough to see it only who are brave enough. ah, he won't be able to stay with me, said he'll robin. a reminder of all the top stories, much of europe and west africa, has rung in the new year under the cloud of ami kron celebrations are muted across the world. with some cities canceling that traditional firework displays, or banning large gatherings. t, as after the coven 19 pandemic, was declared on the situation in many countries continues to decline. many countries have been reporting a record in daily cases filled mainly by a more contagious variant. the united states announced its highest number of cases yet in a.