any of us long years they at a slower pace, a handful of very brave italians of dived, head 1st into 2022. the diving event in 2 rooms that she leave river tiber is taking place annually on january 1st. for over 15 years, several divers took the plunge of the 13 neutral bridge here for the enjoyment, hundreds of workers. ah, and now the top stories on al jazeera, archbishop desmond tint, who has been described as a crusader in the struggle for freedom. justice equality and peace at his funeral, his ashes are being interred at saint george's cathedral in cape town, where he preached against racial injustice for years. the anti a part of hero died last sunday. at the age of 19 south africa, the president said it was said that he was the moral compass nation. i said he was

not content to preach about social justice from the pulpit. he was with the homeless, the helpless, the persecuted, the sick, and the destitute. in the streets, in the shallow test, and in hopes he embraced all who had ever felt the cold wind of exclusion. and they intend also embraced him. at least 12 people have died and a stone painted or religious shrine in indian administered kashmir. it happened that the hindu rational about the shrine and the last of the country where div appease, were marking the new year. at least 13 other people were injured. and thousands of marched in cities across iraq to voice their anger the u. s. 2 years after a talk, iranian general was assassinated, cast them silly money was killed in

a u. s. rule strike near baghdad. there will be protests in 4 cities, including the capital, a leader of an iranian back to iraq. the militia was also killed in the strike, which was ordered by the venue as president. donald trump. a fast moving wildfire that tours through several pounds in the us state of colorado has largely burned itself out. heavy snow has put down any remaining embers. almost a 1000 homes though, has been destroyed and more than 30000 people were forced to evacuate. 3 people are missing. investigators are trying to find the cause of the fire, which was fueled by high winds. those are the top stories of stay with us. the news continues after all hail the lock down. that's coming up next and i will see you tomorrow. thank you so much for watching. have a great year. bye bye. me each and every one of us have got a responsibility to change our patients for the better

the we or we could do this experiment and any of us could increase in just a little bit that wouldn't be worth doing. but he had any idea that it would become a magnet incredibly recipe. asking women to get 50 percent representation in the constituent assembly. hearing kidding. pick up the collect, the segregate, to say the reason this is extremely important. service that they provide to the city. we need to take america to try to bring people together and trying to deal with people who left behind me. there was a tweet i read at the start of this been demick as cooper 1940 to physically

distance from one another. society is at risk of a social recession. a social recession is marked by an increase in loneliness and isolation. it was posted in mid march by a former surgeon general benighted states. doctor visit murphy and already by appoint entire regions and key cities of some countries had been in lockdown finelli to home from the start. it was clear that beating this pandemic was going to require sustained physical distancing and parenting. but for medics and mental health specialists around the world, another thing was clear to that the lockdown. we're going to reveal the extent of another hidden public health issue. loneliness, a or social distancing, physical distancing. quarantine locked down so fascination more than any other time

in recent history. anti social behavior has become part of our global reality because to separate ourselves from one another to stay for prolonged periods of time at home to not meet with friends and family to not commit to work or even sit in a restaurant or a cafe. all of that is quite anti social. it's not how humans a while. and it's why, even though the physical health benefits of the covey triggered lockdown stepping, undeniable, the psychological impact has been inescapable to italy's experience with corona virus was harrowing. it was one of the 1st european countries to be affected, and despite strict look down, it has had more than $36000.00 corona virus related deaths. as of october this year, in early march after a coven 19 outbreak flared up near her home. 74 year old psychologists, roberta brovio, went for colleagues, set up a free mental health hotline for long body residence. she began to receive calls

immediately, literally for nancy cameron. with more you m o m a b b o z o a mean good billing for nancy shasky with . ready a c e compasses cameras. with when i spoke to roberta, she was coordinating a network of 200 professional psychologist volunteering their time. during the

lockdown made cools from all of italy, from sicily in the south to ios during the far north. they've even received messages from us, far abroad is to buy the united states and australia. kristy kissing thing knows how to pick him up at alley, wrapped them in tie. knowing stella though, what i see me, campbell numbers, are you going to be fired with jacket and how many things going on on the am i abuse on you that you would go? i'll be going to be fired with yak, gave my dog a you doesn't zuba. want to see us people in your mouth that would in fact a thought that a place you on an english he joined in a span dope with sympathy pick on pet batch. no mail duet. oh bizarre. no. do not close range mule thought they load these abilene

n korea to cool. cool. read. ah, i see seat the near my kill in my life and delay account a good that them better. can i ask, how many calls have come through during this interview? i cannot be carried to the final cri, nietzsche. humans have an innate psychological drive to connect with others. what we're learning more and more now is that, that need to connect it's physiological to just weeks after the world health organization declared cove. in 19 a global pandemic research is at the massachusetts institute of technology. mit posted a preliminary report on social isolation and some of the new responses it triggers . the findings pointed to one telling conclusion are need to connect is as primal or is fundamental as our need to eat. just 10 hours of total isolation can leave the brain feeling starved. i spoke with julian, hope that

a professor of psychology and neuroscience at brigham young university. no, we're not wired 3. this'll huh. she says that serge of pan and cool. that sinking sensation in your stomach when you're physically cut off from people, is a biological response that has evolved in us over millennia, throughout human history. and we needed to rely on others or our survival. whether that protection or efficiency in obtaining resources or brians have adapted to expect others. and so when the last approximate, each other's particularly trusted. others this in essence, but us on a state of alert because now we have to manage the threats in our environment on our own. the latest sites on loneliness shows that acute isolation has physical health repercussions to such as an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. surgeon, stress hormones and internal inflammation. according to research published in the

cardiovascular medical journal, hot people who feel lonely at 29 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease. and 32 percent more at risk of suffering. a stroke julianne has also studied how social isolation impacts mortality. what we were able to find was that being well, lee, i was associated with a 26 percent increased risk for death being socially isolated, 29 percent and living alone, 32 percent. and although there was some low relative insurances, they weren't significantly different from little child that are meaning that both being objectively isolated and that subject a feeling of loneliness, they both significantly predict risk her earlier death. what the suggest is that we need to take our relationship seriously for, for the 1st time in human history, great numbers of people, little ages in or places

a living alone. in the u. s. for instance, the percentage of single person households has increased from 30 percent in the ninety's sixty's to 28 percent today. in europe, things a higher still with around 38 percent of dutch and nearly 42 percent of germans living alone. in fact, from ecuador to japan, this upward trend is visible all around the world. when the pandemic broke one of the catch phrases that caught instant popularity was social distancing. however, when i spoke with cecilia just eric clinton bag, he made an important point about the terminology. it isn't quite accurate and understood what was important about that idea in a distance he helps. i realize right away that there was a problem. because social distancing is very different from physical distancing. actually, people we need to get through the situation. certainly to rebuild afterwards is social proximity, you know, social solidarity. we'd be looking out for each other, taking care of each other and making sure that we are helping people who have the

greatest needs. eric was quick to point out to me that despite the increasing numbers of people living solo, they wouldn't automatically fall under the category of the people most likely to suffer loneliness. people who live alone in the ordinary times are actually quite social on average, that are more likely to marry people to spend time with friends and neighbors. they go out into public and shared spaces. the problem now is that everyone who lives alone has been forced to be socially isolated for the 1st time ever. and i fear that this has generated a spike of loneliness to and so as much as we're in an economic recession now we're also in social recession with the locked down limiting travel. everything from simple commutes to long, whole plane journeys and physical distances, restricting how close we can get to each other. many people have thought out ways to deal with the social recession. if you're like me and i've been fortunate enough

to have access to a laptop or a phone and a good, why fi connection? then technologies been an undeniable benefit. what's that we chat face time? scott zoom, tick tock. all of these apps and many more have made staying in touch with people so much easier. and yet so many have still felt played by sense of isolate action and inc, diety, many of these tools feel very synthetic, right? i thought about the idea that this may be somewhat analogous to where they have been incredibly beneficial in making food more accessible to many more people. but i also come with potential baggage and you know, just like process food, mary, like blindly in the degree to which they are nutritious. so do many or beans tools . they still lack that personal touch. you can't reach across the screen and get someone. yeah, i think my mom and dad and i really would understand agreement i'm grateful that i

can have a conversation with my parents who are in a, in other states and based time or that i can teach my students and i knew him. you know, here we are doing this interview through our screen, but i think the majority of people at the end of this just can't wait to get back in the life to be in a restaurant or a cafe, or a library or playground or soccer field to spend time with susie, you know, safe, and we feel secure enough to do it. i think we'll, we'll realize just how much we depend on and should value the social infrastructure those take for granted in london. this is not a single emotion. it's a complex feeling that consists of many different emotional states, from anger to fear, to grief, to insecurity and uncertainty. in january, as the chinese government implemented, the 1st major locked down the world,

was to see this year in whoo, hon city. not only when medic smith did to deal with coven 19, but there was an infusion of psychologists and psychiatrists from the start to deal with the mental and emotional impact of the distancing isolation and fia. even mental health professionals not physically in move on, got involved. then you're in shanghai and you started the one psychological assistance project. how does a functional, a name? yeah. ashley mean a. ready ready was a shit daddy vision. a

ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, i no longer. sure i, we chat the chinese messaging up was the main point of connection between the psychologist. the aide work is making refer girls and the people needing help. what started as a group of 17 shanghai base counselors in grew to 50 professions from the question . how do you know? sure. woman. yeah. sure. well, you know that yeah, i oh, yeah. not. how do you not actually sit down with me. oh, how you doing when you come in?

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watching communities of diverse and distance people try to cope together was fascinating. in italy balconies became spaces for music and dance, and even enabled people to share food with those who couldn't afford enough of thereof. they were half humorous. huff, wistful video is a line of people in different countries trying to play sports or getting a workout to get in malaysia. people flickered their lights on and off in a symbolic and often poignant show of solidarity. and back with a look. dance 1st began in woo hung when no one really knew much about the virus and even fewer understood the pros and cons of physical distancing. chance of wound joe, or keep fighting between ha ha jo, mean long. now the wrenching those jenkins then who was your shaw? you go, you do all she needs to be there in chair. passion. male: she is the true for john her. since you have been gentle before mentioned, you saw when out that i knew me that you you hung as you, as you begin congress,

are you gonna neither watch home how we should do i really uncle who not jamming, which i your it's in the di should i have your money, you should. yeah. i know it really comes back to we are social beings. we are not meant to be alone. you know, it's analogous to. ready the idea of hearing that the water is not safe to drink and yet we're all so thirst he, he and so we're looking for opportunities in a variety of ways. and i'm, and i'm actually loving some of the creative ways that people are. i mean to, to try and connect under these incredibly strange circumstances. but this being something else as well. laughing together, finding humor, it's everything that's going on. we may not see it quite like that. but that's a coping mechanism to. well, you know, like life goes on and, you know, we need some relief and it's just too much to face pressure and anxiety all the

time. and i think the laughter is what keeps us saying, you know, it's, it's hewick ah, it's renounced. and so, you know, they're clearly moments where you can't last. i've seen videos that people, you know, in the hospital find ways to make light of the situation as medical workers take time to sing to their patients or play good music. and to let people spirits early that on the limb of gabriel and i was like a bunch of gaudy ladies. nancy. so we did with the army or throw sophia, we average her katie unemployed. they were at the height of them, of down so much more than $100.00 countries had instituted either partial or full, looked down. that's more than 3000000000 people indoors, physically distancing it was a radical change to how so many of us so used to living. and there were significant concerns that there would be

a spike in loneliness and all the associated issues. ready but a study conducted between january and late april in the united states by research as a. ringback florida state university college of medicine reported some interesting early findings that spike in loneliness that mental health specialists were bracing for. it seems not to have happened. of course, there were people who felt a nuisance of oscillation. there were others who loneliness momentarily intensified . but over all the fees of a raging epidemic of loneliness didn't materialize, i don't actually think there's a moment. i don't like the use of that contact. i mean, we're living through a panoramic right now. we know what it means to have major health crisis. ready and i fear the language of the academic doesn't really help us get the precise tools that we need to feel better remaining part of it is, is finding the threat of connection, a shared experience. this isn't global phenomenon. it's affecting people of variety of backgrounds. and so they're in the collective experience that we are not only

facing this together. we're grieving together, but we also in order to fight it, we need, we need to work together, right? and so there is what i hope a growing sense of quality or a hero and comfort as we are staying home. if you protect those in our community, our faith are linked to the, to the people who live around us. you know, whether it's in the next room or the next building or the next block or the next state. we're deeply injured. and, and for me, recognizing our interdependence helps you to think about how to build solidarity in the sense that we're in together and refusing it thing the way to get through the way you can close the door and turn into an individualist is a formula for more division,

it's not me personally at home. everybody else is having an exciting life at tardy them so and i hope that you are able to. ready take comfort in that fact. here's the thing about loneliness and you can be surrounded by other people and still feel lonely. because just being in a crowd isn't enough to create the kind of connection human need. and it's counterintuitive, as it may seem very feeling of loneliness that serves as a trigger for us to find ways to make things better for ourselves. we become aware of which emotional needs being lift unfulfilled and we make the effort to reach out, talk to people. there's a lot of things that we get in life because we feel occasional, and it pushes us to go out in the world and build friendships that can cause us to get introspective, can help us, you know, think creatively. it's only really dangerous. why devolves into something more

durable and biting. and you know that when that happens, you really do stress and is horrible for health. a good point. the emergence of the are more on out of a. she puts you on it or for me please that cynthia of secrecy. and that is what i think it should be. so my, you the subject, a new series born a priestess. just continue mean to see could all go pick him up with a stigma around talking about love. and so one other hope that i how is

that from this situation given that i think so many people are really lonely. even though lose some of that stigma, other people may be more open about talking about that and their experiences. so that didn't better address and recognize that we're not in january on i just i you year we look back on us president joe biden supposed you in office 12 months on from the capital building by it be part of the stream. a dorm out social media community as sierra leone recovery from civil war continues. we mark 2 decades since the end of one of africa's most brutal complex, the bottom line, steve clemons dives headlong into the u. s. issues that shape the rest of the world

. as we enter the 3rd year of covey 19, we go back to woo hm. where it all began, and investigate how far we've come. since the pandemic january on a, just the lot from the al jazeera london rural car center to special guests in conversation. this is the chance to start the revolution, unprompted, uninterrupted. we need to do away with the what evil, because it stops conversation. where should we get our land deposits on? meets i, asia, i can be. this is the beginning of friendship, beginning of love, right? like getting somewhere we can really break through the barriers studio, be unscripted on al jazeera, a rite of passage and present to the generation. my cousin was laying down there until was claiming she was helpless. the woman who after indoors as go so far talk of paint for what fact my night meets,

the women affected my f g m. and those re shaping perception. do you think people will abandon the so eventually, but to those take higher al jazeera correspond the kind of a recent study shows with interval disease and cancer. 15 percent of all deaths of children and with reach with

ah, archbishop desmond to do do has been our moral compass. but he's also been our national crunches. recreate him for i called south africa says farewell to an anti apartheid hero who was inspired resistance movements across the world. ah, ha ha ha robin you what you hoped? is there a locked headquarters here in des hall coming up in the next 30 minutes, testing times the u. s. struggles twice.