in oppertunity for fans to be created and celebrate their t. o. in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world, do you think diplomacy still stands a chance? i'm not very optimistic about any negotiation. we're already in a bit of a crypto winter. it's going to be hell holder insight story on al jazeera. ah. 43 migrants trying to cross the channel have been rescued from freezing waters off the coast of england. at least 3 others did. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up, explosions had central parts of the ukrainian capital, as russian forces continue to destroy energy facilities.

ah, peru expands that state of emergency to deal with growing protests soft, the former president pedro castillo, was ousted and detained. to form a coolly does go hid to hid in fiji selection and what seen as a test of its democracy and is not a huge semi final coming up at the fif of world cup with morocco taking on france. ah, 43 migrants attempting to cross the channel are reported to have been rescued from freezing waters off the coast of england. their boats capsized than the channel at least 3 others are confirmed. dead. 30 of those rescued were plucked from the water . the international organization for migration estimates that 205 migrants have been recorded as missing in the channel since 2014. well,

al jazeera is andrew simmons is on his way to the coastal town of dover. he joins us now on the line. andrew, what more have you been able to find out so far? well, reported at least 40 has been rescued, which is remarkable when you consider how freezing come with the u. k right now, but it would have been very hard to send to spend any length of time in the, or least 3 people killed. this is become a refill issue. the crossing of the english channel by hundreds of migrants every week. the figures now something like 44000 migrants across from france, doing gland in the past year. that's a record and it's politically charged. and in humanitarian terms, it's a polling number of people trying to get away from miserable lives by coming to the

u. k. to apply for asylum, the british prime minister re, she's sumac, only 24 hours ago. it amounts plans to toughen the laws, to stop small boats from crossing the channel, including legislation to prevent migrants from remaining in the country. so that it's is welling up considerably. now the home secretary, that's the interior minister. so right above them and have said this was a tragic incident. but she's looking into it. i had a call from both from, from the u. k of been involved in the rescue mission coast guards. the navy french navy as well. ready also engaged in it, but this has gone on for so long now. we get is going to be crossing the channel whisking by lives. it was only a year ago, just over a year ago,

the $27.00 microns died, attempting to cross the channel. again, this was in english waters just about this is well into english waters, off the coast of dungeon. s main rescue mission has been mounted from the quarter. okay, andrew, i know that we will be speaking to you throughout the day that l g here is andrew simmons for us from near dover with kremlin, says there's been no discussion of a truth with ukraine over the christmas, new year period. russia has launched a new wave of strikes on the ukrainian capital officials and came to administrative buildings were damaged. but in defense, as were able to shoot towns, 13 russian drones, preventing further destruction. russia has destroyed much of ukraine's energy facilities, causing rolling blackouts as winter sit thin, where we childrens has more on the attacks from cave. another day where russia tries to hate energy infrastructure targets. but thankfully today,

as we just heard from president the landscape at least a day when they did not succeed, 13 out of 13 drones were shot down. you can see the results, one of those shooting downs behind me. now this is an administrative building. thankfully not the residential one, but you can see the damage the joint did even as it came down. after being shot out of the sky by air defense. there were several waves the launch. we were told that they come up the denise river flying low to avoid detection so that they're only spotted at the last minute, but at offense has done his job. today. every thermal power plant has been damaged in ukraine by recent ways of ass strikes missile strikes drove strikes, so that the country has a massive energy deficit. they just cannot produce as much energy as it needs to light all the buildings to keep everything running. so you have these emergency

power app just shuttle power outages. it's the new reality for, for this country. it's why ukraine and it's government have been asking its international friends and allies for so much help and assistance just yesterday in paris at a donor conference, $1000000000.00, which was pledged $400000000.00 of that to go to fixing the energy infrastructure. the. we just hours away from finding out the 2nd world comp finalist, morocco playing france and l bites steady miser on wednesday, jim nash has more a title on the defending champions, france later on wednesday, it's al vate stadium in the 2nd world cup, a semi final, the atlas lines have already beaten belgium, spain and portugal on their way to the semi's, but they'll have to keep quiet cannon and buffet and olivia asia re 2 of the

tournaments, top gold scores, the winner. this one takes on argentina after that. when on tuesday, his samantha johnson, to give us more context to this fixture, ah, so are you ready to watch? history being made a few days ago, rocker were known as the last team in the world cup from africa and to be arab wells. now they stand as be plus african, all abs quotes to make this semi fido's. this is huge. hyams about the johnson. this is world cup one or one a truly sunny thing is that morocco hadn't got here through love. they haven't lost again. no team has got past goalkeeper. yes. include the man, they simply co, banos, not croatia, nor portugal, who are now out of the competition, leaving massive questions over the future of christiana and aldo, spain can even school with penalties. no. the only goal he conceited, was from

a member of his own t, as they defended against canada. and now they take on france the old european master, which ran morocco for decades. hundreds of thousands of robbins live in france. many more hoboken descent and many in these 2 teens will know each other. ash every came you plays will power essentially, man, captain rowman size was born and raised in france. paris born so free amble, foul plays for the french side always yet. so when all the bit lindsay wilkins will be cheering on their side, some rabbits ran car horns will be hung king from magic cash to loss said, standing directly in their path to the final. all anton grissman, the midfielder who ran rings around england, libya she read, who scored the winner against england. and then of course there's clint. busy embodied he, andrew, awaiting their own, maybe better to see you can for the most goals of any side in keta and my pay has 50 has walker and their massive base of exuberant or your support is what be hoping,

believing. praying that they 9 go tally stays at night, and that the arab after can dream stays alive all the way to the fido. ah, nicholas huck is following the will copper in casablanca for us, but 1st that speak to joe, and i guess a raska who's outside the hotel where morocco is staying in der, how's wis bye. and the excitement must be building down the ajar. well yes, tom excitement but also tension and nerves because we've seen grapes of broken fans coming here since this morning and they just keep coming more and more of them. many of them nervous about this game that's coming up in around 8 hours time. but also lot of them just looking for tickets. they come here under the mistaken them misconception of thinking that they can get tickets and i've been told no you can't . so lot of them have come from the airport to the team hotel to try and get the tickets vamps, to witness what could be historic match with their very or nice they've

arrived in that thousands in the hope of witnessing a historic upset. never before has an african team got to the semi finals of a welcome and it could be a once in a lifetime chance to see morocco go step further as they faced france. 30 extra flights have been put on over the past 2 days. boosting a bass of supporters who've already made sure the atlas lions as they're known, have been one of the best and most loudly supported teams at this tournament. so here's the thing history. we've never witnessed anything like this before, and everyone is excited about it. everyone is cheering for we, it's very overwhelming and walk. it's very nice to see everyone. and united with morocco going to the game as giant killers having already beaten belgium, spain, and portugal. they've conceded just a single goal in cattle. and that was an own goal. that coach is pushing his place

to continue to rewrite history normally course on his shaw solid emission. and i've noticed that for 2 or 3 days, we have wanted to be satisfied with make the simmons that whatever happens, we will have succeeded in this world county. and i want to change that mentality. you might think i'm crazy, but we want to get to the final of the world comp. we're facing the best team in the world. and when you have desire commitment and the support of your crowd, then you can win it. the france, the defending champions and have a star studded lineup, which includes the tournaments joint top scorer, killian and pappy still they know that morocco will turn up to al bait with a 12 man on their site. mitchell franklin, you. i told the players about the noise from morocco funds, but that's not gonna score you goes. although it is something we need to take into account and it's great to morocco's place to have such a loud support when you prepare for a match. you've also got to prepare for the atmosphere for matching. we know what to expect. oh,

it's not just neural confines getting behind that team is lyons had united supposes from across north africa and the arab world, making sure that cattle 2022 has felt like a home well cup for them to ah, well, as i mentioned, many american fans here at the moroccans team hotel, it speak to some of them, sally, this is z at 0. you have come from her. okay. yeah, exactly. do you have a ticket? yeah, i have a ticket. i took it yesterday. i landed yesterday about her aids in the airport by they tell us that we can have tickets for free in friends on nick's dear to the airport. i went there and i took my ticket. i am so up here because i with a 5th to the much more and today at the moment i don't have lunch because i want to have dinner or chicken. oh i'm so listen,

i'm so excited and why are you here at the team hotel? or just to, to leave the experience with the fans and see the national team leaving the hotel for the stadium. and that's it. i am with my cousin. everything is good. i will go with him to the stadium, drive into the stadium. relax. everything is good. do you think it's gonna be a good result for you at the end of the day? i hope i think wrong. go into a chicken tonight. i have you eat chicken now you get to thank you. a chicken. now you go. well let's speak to mohammed. unfortunately, mohammed, we speak to you skis. lisa mohammed you just arrived from brock. i was well that you're waiting to try and find a ticket. tell me about them, i'll know just where to go to more. i can go in tomorrow. but no, i don't know what to do. it had to go to take the tickets or go into iowa

portico. not do it. and go into world. where will you watch the game? if you don't get a ticket? i don't know. maybe gotten this. we haven't gotten this. why, why was it important for you to be in cat off? will this game does follow? does this my call to family just for? well, i hope you find a ticket gentleman. you also telling me that you weren't able to find a ticket either. you came here thinking that they were giving free tickets. so i, so i came here, i have mac chicken about phil, but from my brother you know, so. busy my brother come from dubai and i will love to go with him. i can not go in my ticket, not leave him alone. so this is what. so what do you think of morocco's chances to diet this game? but we're not exactly 100 percent. we're going to leave a lane, we can move from various dubai, morocco, so we gonna put all our effort to help our team. we saw thank you very

much. i hope for those who need tickets. i find tickets if you have sped tickets. of course, just come down here because there's many people who need them. it won't be hard to get rid of them. thank you so much. that's a genetic as a raska for us down at our house with bye. let's go over to morocco now and nicholas. hark isn't casablanca for us and nika? i'm a jan. excitement levels. there must be off the charts. yeah, absolutely, absolutely. electric were just a few hours before the game. and we're here in casablanca, there was a heavy down for this morning. and for people here, that's a good omen. it's a sign that wrong who will take the world cup by storm? people were taking pictures of the rain. there's a sense here that morocco is going to beat friends. if you talk to anybody here, it's on the question of, if it's a question of what the school will be, it will be, will it be 2131. but people are convinced that they will do well. now,

most people will be watching the game in cafes like this one. there's a few fans zone, the national carrier, the royal air morocco has organized 30 flights to cut our fans to go and watch the game. in cats are but make no mistake. millions of people, the 40000000 people, morocco will be watching this game tonight. i spoke to one wait earlier and told me he's hoping that the restaurants will close so that everybody can watch the game and that no one will be working. there's a sense of excitement in anticipation. you can see it in the headlines of the newspaper this morning. this is my cell, the appointment with history. it says here with the morocco, friends, game, and then here occurred from the iconic. now, the manager of the rock inside what he'd read, groggy, saying, we will be, we will win and we will go to the finals end of the final one. there's you who says that morocco a breeding ground for talent. and of course,

if you look at the rock in team, most of them were born abroad. many of them are dual citizen from european countries and moroccan nationals. but what's interesting is on the french side to have many people who are from african or era this sense, and it feels like a brotherly fight between the 2 countries. but in this sense, the success of morocco, when i speak to people here, they say it's on a coincidence. these players are talented in their own rights. some of them have been spotted by major football club since the success of the team who now need to midfielder number 8 has been spotted. so have so has other players from the national? so there's a sense here that be on the world cup. finally, error football is being recognized. well, it's is a good i'm and thank you very much this nicholas hard for us in casablanca. well, still a hit on al jazeera, smoke free in 3 years on new zealand plans to stop future generations from buying

tobacco. ah, anticipation is rising. and so with sibling at all anyways. hello there. let's look to east asian. it's a very cold picture across northern areas of china and the korean peninsula. and we are going to see those wintry conditions sweep into northern areas of japan to some heaviest snow for new cross western areas of her kind o minus 3 degrees in supports. a similar story for places like beijing, it's going to get colder yet further south, however, for places like tokyo, still some sunshine coming through the temperature. not too bad, but done in the south of china as well as the hong kong and taiwan remains much cooler and wet or we are going to see those rains intensify. by the time we get

into friday, some of that rain trickling up to more southern areas of japan. by the time we get to the weekend for beijing. however, let's have a look at the 3 day. you can see minus 5 degrees. by the time we get into saturday, but clear skies and sunshine, and it's looking much clearer for southern areas of india as the remnants of the sy clone pull their way further west. so from cloud behind, if you showers here and there for corolla, heavy rain for sri lanka, but much dryer along that east coast. and as we go further north, some popcorn cloud and a few showers here or there. but overall, a largely dry picture as we go into the end of the week. but some heavy arrange for the and man and nick by islands to with sponsored by cats are they ways our new series follows football is from 6 countries hoping to make it to catch our 2022 at some point that i had to choose between football and my studies this episode meets 3 young men from morocco,

striving to make their childhood dreams come true. i know my capabilities and they know where i want to reach the world cup, dream. morocco on al jazeera. ah ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. the solid 43 migrants attempting to cross the channel are reported to have been rescued from freezing waters off the coast of england. they boat capsized in the channel. at least 3 others are confirmed. did the ukrainian presidents is, keeps it. defenses have shot down 13 russian drones. russia has destroyed much of

ukraine's energy facilities, causing rolling blackouts as winter sits in morocco, support as a flocking to doha hit the semi final against france cell joint thousands of fans already in the country. but made sure morocco has been one of the best and most loudly supported, tames, and the tournament of horrors. government has expanded a state of emergency as protests continue to spread across the country. demonstrate is that demanding that former president pedro castillo, be released from jail. he's accused of and attempted to and was arrested last week . at least 7 people, including teenagers, have been killed in the unrest. marianna sanchez reports from lima ha violent protests continue. mosquito moved in to me. and the whiteness and explosive winter wounding, at least 15 police officers in lima. 5000 police have been deployed to contain the

protests. when they say they've been authorized to use rubber pellets. he does. defense minister says the armed forces will take control of key infrastructure like airports, highways at women with plants in light of protests. 8. so the regions are now in a state of emergency. was he didn't, he never wanted to pleaded with demonstrators to stop the violence. will yell at the young man i left back, i calling you to ask the social bases to come down the violin week. peruvian said, don't deserve these deaths. the situation of gales peruvian. do not deserve it on what it be, has formed a crisis committee. the defense and interior ministers have been tasked to whole talks with demonstrators, but many protesters say they will stop them tweedy and to former president did with us to you is free and well, you know, we want freedom for president castillo,

not mrs. blue or that she has done on the presidency, that number for now castillo will remain under arrest. a judge denied his appeal to be freed up or corporate, or cathy, or have gone beyond beatles borders. the left wing president of mexico, argentina columbia. believe you have said that he is a victim of harassment and he was legitimately elected to foreign ministry has responded st. castillo was hosted for attempting to dissolve congress illegal. these put the 1st one because the you freed calling for general elections. now proceed in been what the has committed to bring them forward to 2024, but for now she's pleading for comb with in the front to. so just see that in a bit of a vote counting is on to i insidious general election which has to form occur leaders vying to become prime minister turnout was low and an election seen as a test of fidgety democracy. white hi reports. as they went to the polling stations,

voters in fiji echoed the concerns of so many others around the world. the cost of living crisis and rebuilding the economy after the coven $19.00 shut down. this government is doing so much for the people. they are giving was fears, food vouchers, even the lot of things the government is done. people are just really nervous about how things gonna turn out and am excited. also. i'm for the possibility of change that nervousness was because the election was largely a choice between 2 men with a history of interfering in the democratic process. prime minister frank viney mariama led a military coup in 2006 and has been in power ever since. as with the previous vote in 2018, his main challenge, it was another former military man sit beneath rumble cap, who led to coups in 1987 before being democratically elected as prime minister.

given the collective history of the 2, there's been plenty of apprehension in fiji about what could happen after this votes. i accepted a mighty peep mighty 90. my congratulated mr. cherry october. ah, president's house and office. and i hope we can do that, though. we cannot live forever with them our blue forever. as bonnie madame a went to cast his vote in the capital sousa, he was in no mood to discuss with the media whether he would respect the outcome. i haven't got any tilden her report from australia to come and ask me questions. better questions and thank you. this year fiji found itself at the center of a geopolitical tussle between china and the united states and its allies, australia, new zealand. while fiji cheered the pacific islands forum, beijing launched a diplomatic offensive, attempting to sign a regional security and economic packed with pacific countries,

which was unsuccessful. any military intervention after this election would again, tast regional relations and potentially add to the economic concerns of fijians. wayne, hey, al jazeera mexico has shut down a large migrant camp in the southern state of while haka the camp was used by thousands of migrants to obtain transit documents for the united states. the move comes just days before and into restriction sit by a u. s. federal judge that expelled asylum seekers crossing the border will police and protest is in greece. have fought after a routine shot by police last week died and hospital. ah, hundreds of people marched in the boy's home city of to salonica, a small group through molotov cocktails of police who responded with tear. guess it was a renewal of days of protests immediately after the shooting. the officer accused of firing the fatal shot is facing charges. it's now been 10

years since 20 children were gum down at sandy hook elementary school in the us state of connecticut. the coal hotley's 6 year old son dillon, was killed on that day. she has turned her grief into advocacy. my name is nicole hartley and the co founder and ceo of sandy, her promise, which is an organization i helped launch one month after the shooting at sandy hook elementary school where my youngest son, dylan was killed. dylan was a very beautiful and joyful little boy as 6 years, and he loved to cuddle and make gigantic purple dots and eat garlic bread and carrots and red delicious apples. and he was, he was really the center of our family. he was just pure love. a lot has changed in 10 years since the sandy hook shooting a movement has been born. this is a movement that is stronger than the gun lobby. and there has been significant

change at both the state and federal level and also at a behavioral level in communities where we know that we can prevent these acts of violence. if we know the signs and learn to take action to intervene, the more significant barrier that we face is apathy and hopelessness, and people thinking, nothing's going to change. this is just an inevitable part of american life. and that's a notion that i completely reject. you can't just passively be a bystander and say someone else who's going to take care of this, or it's not my problem because we have an epidemic of gun violence in the united states in, sooner or later, it will impact you if it hasn't already. whenever i hear about mass shootings, i am re traumatized and i think back to 1214 when it's a school shooting, it hurts that much more. and then once i get through that, i just double down on the work because i know i need to work harder and faster to reach more kids and stop these tragedies from happening. i.

i have real difficulty reconciling the fact that it's been 10 years since my son was killed times become quite warped. and while i'm proud of what my organization been able to achieve, all i really want to have is that day have never existed. and then i have my son back you zealand is imposing a lifetime tobacco ban on future generations and new set of laws will make it illegal to sell tobacco products and cigarettes to any body born after 2008. this means the number of people able to buy tobacco will shrink each year. is eland smoking, right, is all ready at a historic low legislation is designed to cut the number of retailers able to sell tobacco by 90 percent and 3 years. there is no good reason to allow a product to be sold, that kills half the people that use it. and i can tell you that we will end this in the future as we pass this legislation. this bow will create generational change

and it will leave a legacy of be the house for our youth. it will reduce hospitalizations and reduce the burden of smoking related illness. it will save thousands of lives and billions for the future health system. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. the south 43 migrants attempting to cross the channel are reported to have been rescued from freezing waters off the coast of england. their boat capsized in the channel. at least 3 others are confirmed. did andrew simmons has more from greater london will reported to at least 40 have been rescued, which is remarkable when you consider how freezing co it is on the u. k. right now those will, this would have been very hard.