ah ah archbishop desmond to do as we know a more compass. but he's also been our national quanch's. recreate for and i called south africa as well to an anti apartheid hearing. it was inspired resistance movement across the world. ah. around what they were like, what headquarters here in coming up on the program, you can re opens up to one of the strictest and longest crow virus locked downs in

the world. also wrong top general concept. cilla money is remember, massive rallies. take place in iraq. 2 years after his assassination and the new law banning plastic packaging on most fruits and vegetables come into effect in from ah, welcome to the program, the crusader in the struggles of freedom, justice, equality, and peace. that's how south africa apartheid hero. archbishop desmond tutu was described during his funeral service in cape town. his ashes are being interred at george's cathedral hill. he preached against racial injustice figures. for me, the miller looks at the back of the day the 2 people around the world, archbishop desmond tutu, was a champion of freedom and the fight against racial segregation in south africa to

others. he was simply a husband, father, and grandfather. many of the messages we received have said, thank you for sharing him with the world. well, it actually is a 2 way street because we shed him with the wall you shed part of the love you held for him with us. and so we are thankful among the speakers at saint george's cathedral, michael newton, who served as tu tuesday pretty for many years for the chief more. no, no my dear america many times with your husband for the owner. he cry easily. and in the life of our country, both post and prison,

he had my about the service for many was deeply personal. much of the proceedings down, according to archbishop to his last wishes. a plain pined coffin adorned with the symbols of the church, while the eucharist service sent it around to tis anglican beliefs and spiritual leadership. his activism against global oppression. and as the leading voice against apartheid laws in south africa was to the full o. bishop doesn't want to do too much without question a crusade in the struggle for freedom, for justice, for quality and for peace. not only in south africa, the country of his best around the world as well. 0 $1.00 at times shalom the service also celebrated. the archbishop to his favorite hymns and scriptures. his last moments at saint george's cathedral,

marked by final blessing. archbishop desmond tutu was loved by many, but coven 19 restrictions limited, how they would have liked to pay the final respects. instead they participated in services of small parishes across the country. ah, no gee, and bishops form a god of honor as a final, goodbye to a remarkable man, simply known as the arch. he's ashes to be late to interred at the church. he called home for me, the miller al jazeera cape town in new york, and washington dc, oregon. the epi centers of america's cove at 19 outbreak recording the highest number of daily infections to date, as thousands gathered in times square to welcome the new year in 2022 began with more than 45000 people testing positive for the virus and new york nationally,

the number top 647000. let's go over to washington dc where john had drill correspond. this is standing by and john, not really an entirely happy new year across the us by says in all honesty, the u. s. isn't the only country really with the same woes? every country had trouble celebrating new years this year, but it was especially muted here in the us. new york was the biggest of all the celebrations usually. but this year, 15000 people came. they all had to be masked and vaccinated, but that's a fraction of the 1000000 who usually attend that celebration in new york city. also, there is a testing problem in the united states. so many people have either contract it on the kron or have been concerned that they have that they've been flooding testing centers. president biden. his says, bats has said, that's a problem that he will fix. he has made a 500000000 free home tests available. but that still has not quite solved the

problem. meanwhile, industries are being hit. the airlines, especially on saturday, globally, 4000 flights were cancelled 2500 of those were in the u. s. and nearly half of those were in chicago. that was partly due to a major snowstorm that hit the midwest, but it was also due to the fact that airlines are having staffing problems. they can't staff as many plains as they usually would because many of their crew members have refused to accept over time. over the christmas holiday rush, also colleges are beginning classes for the 1st time for many of them in a couple of years online rather than in person. so the beginning of 2022 here in the u. s. is starting to look a lot like the beginning of 20211204 the update. thanks very much. uganda israel thing after one of the strictest lockdown to the world. schools will start up again after being closed for 92 years. and time can,

if you will also be lifted. on january, the 10th, the president says a high vaccination rate means it's now say for the country to reopen, but cases have been increasing lately. i still, i was at home always care that we were worried about the future with coven 19. and then it became one of us, maybe 45 months into it. and we've stayed way too long. acting like we are scared of it in terms of the measures and all of that. yet in reality we're ready to live with. it doesn't look like it's about to go away. ugandans of stuff. i don't know that posture yes. but look, that get you me nice. i'm quite optimistic that will stay open and never look down . now people run my me inclusive. i run church of a trina is arrived from commentator on uganda and affairs. he says these strict locked down has had a devastating effect on children and young people. there has been

a huge increase in a child molestation particularly team a pregnancies across the country reported to been huge cases of jasmine re gate and above. it could be argued that the government has rather regret the but i know there's not like that. but generally if you look at the country like run, we had 110-0000 cases with just 1300 debt. in fact, you find they can be like k, yeah, we, the, you know, doubled the number of the infection. so, you know, but then maybe 2000 and let the point really is that you can generally vary in population by and large, most people happy to believe in fact, some of them actually leave the president, save them from the bread and save them from infections in many ways and because

also on the other hand, ronda had to do to be possible those who can paint around the thing because they got, they came out rather than rather repressive. so people were beaten and really po based. so generally people went ahead and paid now generally does mean ok. why school, how to me close will this long is a question that bond life. nobody can even the government to 700. it's been completely. francis reported more than 200000 positive cases for a full day in a row. it's the 6 country to report more than 10000000 cove in 1900 infections. and the pandemic began some of the bigger cities like paris and leo, her reinstated face mask for indoors and outdoors. island is the latest country to cut the isolation period for people who test positive to cope with 19 to 7 days. instead of 10 fame. portugal agrees of also reduced their isolation period to week

dr. pung, connie, from the university of exeter medical school as a specialist at infectious disease control. he says it's safe to come out of quarantine if after 7 days vacillation. what i would say is we can be the change that we want it to be and, and it would mean be fully immunized. take your boosters. and whereas the quality mosse and f, b to mosque, and avoid those indoor closed, fully ventilated races. if we were to exercise all of those measures ourselves, we buy our own ethics would bring down the case numbers. it is easier and back up to mix with people that you know, and you've agreed to a given protocol. whereas when you are meeting and mixing with total strangers, you are going into a no. unfortunately, with the arrival of on the chrome,

it has put us back several steps. and unfortunately, this was foreseeable because people like myself, i've been saying for at least a year that unless we surprise infections in other parts of the world where i'm so concerned with arise and it could be a setback. and this is an example of what has happened. the good news, of course, is that the vaccine program in the richer countries is protecting the population and preventing the large number of serious illness and debts. but we've still got a long way to go, especially with immunizing the oral box of the world. in india, almost 23000 people have tested positive cove at 19, in the past a heavily populated areas including will by called casa and new delhi, all seen, some of the sharp is rises. india was part it during the 2nd way because it 19 last year, but cases have since dropped significantly and remained quite low. now the philippines

government is also tightening restrictions of the capital and biking cave in 1000 cases last week. starting on monday in person classes, context bull fairs and live performances will be banned in manila, the capacities of cinema restaurants, and other commercial businesses will also be limited. nationally, nearly 3000 people tested positive for the virus. on friday, $100.00. 33 people died. the united arab emirates is banning non bank sedated citizens from travelling abroad from january the 10th under the rule change fully vaccinated citizens will also require a booster shot to be able to travel. now the foreign ministry says the rules will not apply to those with medical. all humanitarian exemptions of villa had here on out there are these 12 pilgrims killed in a stampede. the hindu shrine and indian administered gash me. and after while i was destroyed nearly 1000 times in colorado,

people are false to dig through heavy snow to salvage what remains, those stories after the break. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with sponsored by cut on airways. now this is a beautiful looking satellite picture in that it gives information of cold across warm waters. there is all shower clouds, but that was a few hours ago, and the wind is stopped nurse this over here. so he's not going to different development. and by the end of sunday, i think we'll have snow warnings out again for the high grad honshu, possibly further north. otherwise, until the west temperature, about where they should be from this part of northern china. the sun is out in the skies quite warm in the middle, several degrees above average, and that includes hong kong that won't change overly quickly. the stair, they will keep piling up, least in northern han ship. tommy get to the end monday. with the ne monsoon,

the concentration of heavy re now and actually fairly recently has been rank call lumper and singapore. and that continues of pace, which is no surprise. that's what the season suggests. the rain that was heavy ranch and i has disappeared for now i might get a few more showers in this plenty more than an inch slang. but the rest of india's quiet just coming in through iran, significant range, bring snow through eventually to northern pakistan. the as to still in new delhi, which means the quality is particularly poor, but pretty heavy rain recently around the gulf states there will be a bit more on sunday, but a heads across tools. iraq. oh, with sponsored by castle right ways. americans are increasingly saying authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way where the chain of command it seems like tried to cover what's your take on why they've gotten this so wrong. that to me is the political malpractice,

the bottom line on us politics and policies, and the impact on the world on al jazeera, i care about helping you with engaging with the rest of the world. we're really interested in taking you into a play. you might not visit otherwise, it feels that you were there a the, a book about what you all get there with me. the whole rama. reminder of all top stories, bishop desmond, to, to has been described as a true say to in the struggle for freedom, justice equality and peace that his funeral, the anti apartheid era died last sunday. at the age of 19, the rapids spread of the quote of i was overcome. barriers in the us is led to a shortage of tuscan deal, and washington,

d. c. all the epi centers of america. cobit 19, according to the highest numbers of daily infections to date. and you guys are reopening up to one of these strict is locked down to the world. schools will begin again after being close, but maybe to yes and i time care if you will also be lifted on january the 10th. let's look some more at the life of archbishop desmond tutu at his funeral. he was remembered as a crusade as a freedom, but his fight for justice was not limited to his own home country. he lent his voice to resistance movements elsewhere, notably the palestinian territories. 10 years ago, the late broadcast of david frost interviewed archbishop to 2 on alger era and asked him what he learned during his visits to the middle east. you said that once you saw in israel, something that was quite attend, the situation is have africa before freedom came to the black people or south africa where in many instances was it's quite

distressing for one thing that we didn't have a war, a war and crude show very seriously on, on the territory of other people. i mean, israeli put occasions where they can get away with almost anything because the west is key. it feels guilty. it feels guilty about what they didn't do in it when the holocaust happened and they, they, they've given a cut off cut lunch. now, if they are penitent, they ought to be the ones who pay the price of the penitence, but the price is being paid by the palestinians. part of my own consent for what is happening. there is in fact, not what is happening to the palestinians,

but it is what the israelis agreeing to themselves. they are not aware that when you carry out dehumanizing policies, whether you like it or not, quite inexhaustible. those policies be human eyes. the perpetrator alley up name is a co founder of the electronic intifada. earlier he told me the late archbishop advocacy for the palestinian people were brave and influential. desmond tutu saw the clear parallels as we heard between apartheid in south africa and apartheid today in palestine. and he has the same message. he was one of the tiny handful of people of his stature, who is willing to say, as we boycott to the pockets, south africa, we must boycott apartheid israel. he was very clear about that. he said that

being neutral between those, the oppressor and the oppressed means in effect, siding with the oppressor. there is no neutrality when it comes to issues of justice. either you stand with the oppressed, you take action on their behalf or you're guilty of complicity with the oppression . that's what desmond tutors message was and he was absolutely consistent about it . he was among the very 1st international leaders to endorse the palestinian boycott divestment and sanctions movement. and he was at the time very isolated for doing so. there weren't many people willing to do that now, and i think largely due to his willingness to speak out support for boycotting apartheid israel is very widespread, and i think we should say one other thing. if i may,

he has been praised in eulogies by world leaders who us, you know, say what a wonderful moral leader. he was, but who refuse to follow the moral lessons that he teaches? and we need to call out that hypocrisy the people who sell weapons to israel to kill palestinians should not be eulogy ising desmond too, too. they, they should keep that his name out of their mouth, so to speak is when the forces of last artillery that strikes in garza after rocket fire earlier in the day, the bleeds have landed in empty fields and new casualties have been reported. it seen as a show for the following, the launch of rockets that landed off the coast of tel aviv. it's not clear if the rocket fi was intentional or a test launch, egypt is mediating to defuse the situation. at least 12 people have been killed in a stampede at a religious shrine,

an indian administered gush me thousands of people had gathered up the site to mark the 1st day of the new year. alexia bron reports in the cold darkness of the early morning. tens of thousands of devoted tracked to the hilltop temple of motivational davy and indian administered kashmir. at about 3 a year, there was a surge in the crowd. witnesses describe a horrifying crash, and people trampling over bodies. leslie, it's a tragedy. many people are dead. ah, initial reports suggest an altercation between groups visiting the shrine, perhaps to offer spatial praise for the new year. but security has also been called into question. the police were very irresponsible. they did not put up dividers in the area or outside the cave. they mixed also those coming out of the shrine and those going in a saw it with my own eyes. police pushed the pilgrims and also way fashions and

blue whistles to intimidate them, which spread panic. and there was a stampede in no time a matter of ice. no davy shrine is one of india's most revered hindu sites. before the pandemic about a $100000.00 devotees would climb the steep winding track every day to the narrow cave containing the shrine. authorities had kept the daily number 25000, that witnesses suggest many more people were there going okay. corner somewhere there was mismanagement. when we knew that there was this type of rush, we should have stopped the public 1st. if we had stopped them earlier. this tragedy would not have happened and investigations underway into outs sparked the crush. all the injured and families of victims had been offered compensation deadly stampede. a fairly common during indian religious festivals as large crowds gather and small areas, often with few safety your crowd control measures. margaret albrecht not

everybody's had expressed my condolences to the families who have lost their dear ones in the sad incident of the stampede. my sympathies to those who are injured, you know, wanted access to the shrine was halted for several hours, but later resumed alexia bryan al jazeera, thousands of people of austin cities across the wrong to ma daily 2 years since the south nation of iran top general costume cilla money, i was killed in the us. drones strike along with a leader of an iranian bank. popular mobilize ation falls near baghdad. airport ceremonies killing was ordered by the van, us president donald trump, and justified as a necessary to stop what was called an imminent attack. side and our county is an iraq analyst. he says pro radian factions are losing support or challenging an accumulation of many defeats. most recently, the major electoral defeat the parties that are affiliated with these groups in the

early election last october, which also led them to another crisis where they failed to convince the leader just movement to create a consensus government wisdom instead of a majority government. and then they last and other about where their appeal, which was rejected by the supreme court, where they claimed the elections where rick, so the accumulation of 50 defeats is what pushed them to signify. their strength and presence on the streets as though preparing themselves for 1000000 protests and remembers of the assassination of some sort of money. and while i'm this, the government has been struggling a lot in managing such type of test on my should. these groups are not a coaching, be the political system with, with the government for the 1st few weeks ago. it was a very same groups that most reports for the talk, the house of the finest or what the government can do now is just wait for the

government to before because they know it's a current government. although a lot of sources claim that the suggest movement might push for a problem this, they're called me for another term, but they are dealing with the messages here. they know it's not really something, but they're actually trying to do, or we're actually attacking therefore, in forces or the us forces of the always claims to do. the main message here is that they still enjoy a powerful fan base across the country. it's messages to the suggest moving that they want to be a part of the a consensus government is that if a majority government and the electoral defeat is a great reflection off of their extremely decreasing across the country, they can get hundreds of thousands of people protesting but they will never be able to whitewash or what shall way the memories of the local violence that be committed against civil society activists and, and, and activist us there's

a since october 2019 at least 6 people have been killed after a tropical storm, a cycle the fact slammed into oman. strong winds, and flooding began on thursday, and the storm was expected to continue until wednesday prompted warning for people to stay away from dangerous areas. more than a 1000 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in colorado. heavy snow help bring the fire under control. 3 people are still missing. several towns were hit by the wildfires on thursday with the flames fanned by strong winds. we didn't think that the fire was going to come back in this part of the neighborhood. we were trying to stay hopeful and then all of that came crashing down with our house up in flames. make you want to check out the price like christmas just passed and then you know, everything that they went through, it just gone. they say one more christmas morning. their house was a week ago, and now when i wrote a news, very unfortunate the case enjoyed the war with me as dale record,

with high temperatures set for a 2nd consecutive day. the weather was unusually mild in central london, with temperatures reaching 16.3 celsius. the last time the turn of the was this war was more than a 100 years ago. a new law has come into effect in france, banding, plastic packaging on most fruit and vegetables present. manuel macro has called the move a revolution showing the countries committed to phasing out single use plastics by 2040 larger packs and chopped all processes. fruit will be exempt from the ban. later this year, public spaces will also be full to have water fountains to reduce the use of plastic bottles. and elizabeth is a french german writer and columnist. she says there's been mixed reaction to the new law. it is a friendly because on the one hand, the french a very much aware of the need to reduce plastic use. those brought support to the general use sort of not using so much plastic and they complain about those at the

same time. ah, the ones you buy the vegetables yourself, you realize that nothing has been calculated to find new ways of wrapping vegetables that doesn't sort of make them decompose too fast. in the case of, i'll give an example that i've been through myself during your shop. i often by and when to on and on, which i will, the french went to the table and they were wrapped all the little plastic tray and wrapped in so thing. and now the plastic trade has been replaced in both of the, the, the, the cut off for the rule by a cobbled one. and you put those in the fridge and the, the, the, the, the end of the moist and soon the called bolts sort of melted them. and the whole thing is completely rotten. so that now i buy ziploc bags, which are made of plastic to put them because otherwise i cannot keep them more than a day in my fridge. and on the, the center is very much aware of that. and they say they're all things that people

will not touch because they can't keep them the same way. and the, you know, when, as long as it's something like bananas, nobody chose something that you have to appeal. nobody cares. there's one implication. the other thing is that this comes right at the time of committed and quite frankly, people were just happy not to have lots of people pulling the vegetables and trying them and selling them and then, and then buying on, not buying them. so it's, it's, you know, people do not know exactly how to take it as plus and minus on this. but francis has focused on social injustice in his knee message, including the plight of refugees and displaced people. the pontiff called on people to achieve peace by promoting justice and to focus on their shared humanity. is that images of mary and jesus reminded him of the many mothers and children fleeing wars and famine. the pope also decried violence against women, calling it an insult to god the the mon calling tempe in charity. the future. we

are still living an uncertain and difficult time because of the panoramic. many of frighten about a future unburdened by the facial situation of a personal problems by the dangers coming from the environmental crisis. from the injustice season from chronic tree economic imbalances. looking at mary holding her son in her arms, i think of the young mothers and children fleeing was in family waiting in refugee camps. there are lots ah you know, i'll just bear with me. so he'll rob the reminder of all top stories. archbishop desmond tutu has been described to the crusader in the struggle of freedom, justice, equality, and peace. during his funeral service in cape town, the anti apartheid hero died last sunday. at the age of 90 the rapids spread of the crew. along with all the cold barre into the u. s. is led to a shortage of 10 skids new york and washington d. c. r. the epi centers of america's co.