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ah, hello, this is the news hour on al jazeera, fully back to go live in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. south korea's president calls for better air defense systems. i day after north korean drones entered, it says space taiwan changes. it's compulsory military service rules after china sends aircraft in to his defense zone. also this, our serbia's president orders the army to be on the highest level of alert as tensions grow with kosovo over recent shootings and locates. and the united nations warns more ra hang a refugees will embark on desperate journey as a 2nd boat arise in indonesia. ah, thank you very much for joining us. south korea's president has announced

a plan to develop stronger air defenses. yoon soak your wants to create a special military unit with south drones. it follows an incursion by north korean drones, on monday, airports near the capitol sol were closed temporarily when the aircraft were detected near civilian areas. zachary is military has apologized for, failing to shoot them down. as a noun says, the incident has highlighted. the military's lack of preparedness. eunice kim has more from sol. right? so present you insomnia. and his 1st comments on this did not means his words saying that south korea's military readiness was simply not there that the years of training left much to be desired. and he did pose that possibility of bringing up the creation of a new military drone unit that he said would have stealth capabilities and also feature cutting edge technologies and would monitoring north korea's a military

a facilities. but it remains to be seen whether he will have the budget to do so. as there has been a, a pretty sizable $20000000.00 budget cut in anti drone expenditures. meanwhile, south korea also working on a drone jamming technologies, but that also is several years away from hitting the market. early i spoke to robert kelly who's a professor of international relations at pusan at national university in south korea. he told me that this type of behavior is typical of north korea. i don't think it's too much of a surprise that the north koreans have done these kinds of things. i don't actually think that this is the 1st step towards any kind of an escalation or something like that. the north koreans have been known as for pick and prod, if you will, along the shared border. right, which is very contentious. as you might imagine, north koreans minutes are known to cross over and provoke in this manner before they do this often at sea to the really sure,

i think it's the south response or rather the poor response. apparently there was a helicopter fire in the drones and missed several deer, and one of the aircraft was scrambled in response, crashed on the pilot, apparently managed to escape into this raise the issues of a readiness. and i thought a bit concerned because healthcare has spent a pretty big chunk of its g p on defense closing and on 3 percent, which is pretty high for us. ally and the goal is ultimately that's south crew. be able to defend itself without too much american assistance. this is called the transfer of operational control to south korea. we're trying to, with the americans are trying to do that. and if that's how koreans look like they can handle, i've drone incursion. that's going to sort of push that whole agenda back. so it's kind of a surprising failure. and it is surprising, isn't it? that they were car off god, they were caught by surprise as he said, this probably has happened in the past. we've had, as our report mentioned, that the south korean parliament passing budget slashing the government's repose on ty drone operations by half. do you expect a change in policy now? as a result of this incident,

you have probably depends on much traction. this gets in the media to come, i mean, i hate to sort of think of suffering defense decision made a sort of driven by media exposure. but this is something i'm an embarrassment to the government, actually quite rare to have an apology from the military on this. if it looks like this is going to be something on a north rural do in the future. if this continues, then there will probably be funding for this. but like i said, sort of, we're moving away from sort of seeing hers, i guess for the air incursions that too surprising drone technology come a lot cheaper. and what do we know about north korea's drone program? not a whole lot. it's actually one of the things that these kinds of curves is actually valuable sometimes wouldn't shoot the bound actually get back what they have with what we have gotten to date is fairly primitive, are basically sort of like homemade kind of stuff with sort of like a regular standards or a commercial camera mounted on it. so we think it's pretty primitive. my guess is the north koreans, if this is really going to probably start to go look on the, on the international market, probably won't make them. but we have seen ron kelly over the past few months. north korea carry out an unprecedented number of miss. i launches artillery

exercises m movers. you talked about earlier about the fact that this may not necessarily be a new escalation, but isn't this a dangerous moment on the peninsula with, with everything that's happened in the past year as far as north korea is concerned, what do you think their end game is here yeah, it is, it is somewhat, i don't want to get too carried away or about this. i think the missile launches are bigger concern. right. because it looks like our things really are developing and ability to strike all over the region. not just south korean to hand more widely. i'm rather surprised that china has gotten more concerned all the launches and the drones would be useful for intelligence on north korea. really don't have those kinds of capabilities. you might imagine are created satellite and things like that. so i would imagine that the drones probably feed into that, right? you're looking for information by which to actually sort of use these weapons in a better manner than just hoping you're pushing a button, hoping they land on a city. but the larger concern is, yeah, as you said, sort of the many, many missiles, right? and then of course they want to marry that with a nuclear weapon. has been

a big sort of hollow blue that they might do a 7 nuclear test that was supposed to be this year to probably do it next year. and that's one of the real concern in the drones kind of link and all of that. meanwhile, north korea's leader kim jong own has opened a meeting of the governing workers party. he's often used even to announce major policy decisions ahead of the new year. now the news taiwan plans to extend compulsory military service from 4 months to one year to counter threads from china . on monday, dozens of chinese brains cross into taiwanda defense zone, the biggest daily incursion in years. beijing is protesting against what it says is collusion and provocation. by the island and the united states, it says it views taiwan as a breakaway province. florence lee has more from hong kong. the latest measures announced by time when he's present trying. one is aimed at increasing the islands defense capabilities and one think tank estimates that the extra 8 months that

cones conscripts will now be required to serve, could potentially add $60.00 to $70000.00 personnel annually to the current setting forth by the year 2027. and that's not the only change announced on tuesday. conscripts will now undergo more intense training. they'll be more ly fire drills to learn how to handle more sophisticated weapons. the president also said the government plans to increase the overall salaries for conscripts and professional soldiers. the number of years a conscript serves will also be taken into account and the governments labor retirement plan. all this is to make, serving in its defense forces more attractive now increasing the number of months that a conscript has to serve really is not new. previously conscripts had to serve for 2 years, but that was slowly without down to 4 months by previous governments. because to make the well really to appease to younger voters. and also because at that time tension between taiwan and beijing had eased. now, time one has been feeling the pressure from china over the years,

not just militarily, but also financially and diplomatically, as china has grown from strength to strength on the global stage, as well as in the world economy. and the taiwanese government under president trying when, well it's position is that ty, ones, future is something for taiwan, people to decide. whereas the chinese government views the island as a breakaway province and sees were unification as inevitable. so these are 2 very opposing and contrasting views and preston, ch hi. she said on tuesday afternoon that taiwan wants peace, but to avert a war it has to be prepared for for attention, have been rising in east asia in recent months. bay jane is militarize in islands in the south china sea widget considers its territory causing concern among its neighbors. earlier in december, japan and down for record 55000000000 dollar defense budget signaling a move away from its post world war 2 pacific policies. north korea responded by accusing tokyo of quote, bringing a serious security crisis to the korean peninsula and east asia. well,

let's speak to joe syracusa about all this. he's a professor of political science and international diplomacy, curtin university, and he's joining us from brace been in australia. thank you very much for being with us. so we have japan beating up its military stances, china ramps up pressure on taiwan to a 30 sovereignty. a lot of nervousness as well on the korean peninsula. how concerning all these regional tensions? how high is the risk of confrontation in your view? i say it's very high and it's growing. i mean, yeah, and 665 against that probably be some kind of a conflict in 2023. now look, it's quite clear that china, north korea can see. clearly, the united states is fully gauge, no proxy or dangerous russia and ukraine, and they're testing american resolve both in south korea and taiwan. i mean,

they'd like the fruits of war without college or when i mean by that is they want to drive north korea wants to drive a wedge between south korean united states and you get those sanctions are back. and china, of course, is not going to compromise on taiwan, which is, which they thought was off the table after $972.00, shanghai communicate out of nations. i believe what prefer war to diplomacy not going to need anything else. and of course, the, the possibilities here are strategic, surprise miscalculation, right? wrong units and that kind of thing. so, you know, wow, i think we have a lot of surprises. i think it's, it's a mistake to normalize what's going on. people say, well, this goes on all the time, right? not really to be getting listening. you've talked about china testing,

american resolve in the region. and we've seen beijing ramping up military, diplomatic, any comic pressure on taiwan. what indicators are you looking out for when it comes to the likelihood of china trying to perhaps attack taiwan in 20? $23.00, or they are the ways that it's perhaps looking to dr. taiwan back to the main. well, i think, yeah. yeah. so the for conflict between united states and china is high. i don't think it necessarily has to come from taiwan. might come over in the navigation of south china sea or some incident there. i mean, i think the americans probably won't go to war, which i want to do. so go reasons. number one, it's been litigated. 972, number 2, they can't win all the war planners and the pentagon are quite sure that the united states couldn't win any kind of area. and nice place is not about to lose the 7th

fleet in the taiwan strait. but i think if there is a conflict and i think it's going to come over freedom of navigation, which is far more important. well, taiwan is a set only ish, aside from the war hawks in washing and the various groups like that. the american people are interested in taiwan because they can't when they don't think they're committed to. same thing in china, me show me a piece of paper and says, united states is obliged to come to the defense of a piece of paper that says the chart there. there are no such b as a simply are simply, i don't talk joe. joe is it mentioned that china is also in boy, again, a series of territorial disputes with several of its neighbors, including the philippines, india, south korea, vietnam. do you think, you know what, what do you see bay james foreign policy being on that issue? i will they try and mend a few fences, perhaps just says they've done with australia for example,

recently astray is just certain are on subject their main with their compliance with people in the south china sea or on a bilateral basis when they're trying to mend relations here with australia, it's really about australia and the 9 states. keep in mind there's a change of action camera. there is they're looking for some kind of independence within the usual law. and this treaty, there is a major play going on in camera to get some distance between the united states and australia. i think that's worth looking at. but yeah, i think china believes it has a legal right territorial, right. and in terms of just it's, it's borders of meaning to them, a south china sea. and so i want to belong to them. i think united states is going to go to war with them over conflict, borneo. now the problems might be good and it's, it's freedom of navigation,

no doubt about. thank you so much for talking to us about this jo syracusa joining us. they live from base, been in australia. thank you much jails for my south korean president, lini, i'm back, has received a presidential pardon. he was serving a 17 year prison term for rivalry, and embezzlement is one of $1300.00 inmates to receive a special part in the 81 year old was granted a temporary release in june, due to poor health pot and will cancel his remaining 15 years of jail time betty moorehead on this al jazeera news hour, including no power. no he's ukrainians, are freezing in and in the dark as russia targets energy facilities. tens of thousands of people remain in the dark also after the so called blizzard other century in north america. ah,

let's take a look at some of these avenues now and so be as president has raised the military's combat readiness to a highest level tension between soviet in kosovo, escalades on sunday. after shots were fired at a border town in northern ca, civil serbia refuses to recognize kosovo as an independent state present. alexander voltage says the military must prepare to defend the country's territorial integrity. nato says it's now investigating more as they speak to our correspond. angelina glueck who's in your, in ye, in northern kosovo, elena, your, in your range between serbia and crossover, i understand the border crossing there has been closed for some days. now. tell us about the current atmosphere and what exactly prompted the slater's outbreak in violence. well everything, everything is connected with those a tree arrest surgery, males, sarah versa, dessert from

a north cause of all of those arrests are the main reason for the barricades. and as you said, are we are here in urine. you, this is a therapy on the side. we are here with the permission of serbian police, a steel. we cannot show any faces of a police officer, neither from serbia or cos. civil corso is on that way. so we had to move a bit and bent, but you can see it's really quiet. it's really peaceful. and actually we are the only to the crew here at the moment. what is new is that we have some new barricades actually at the city of me through it said the north part, and one of them actually is the 1st one erected at this city center. we are talking about trucks are loaded with rocks and sand, and there are no official explanation about about those trucks. but we can see that this is kind of an answer to casa, a prime minister, or request a for

a barricades to be removed. when we talk about the atmosphere between serbia and of course of, or usually these, these are, we say it's peaceful, but with lot of tensions in the air, or i'll try to explain, or these days isn't nearly impossible to talk with people who live in north casa because people are afraid to publicly express their opinion about anything, even those questions about everyday life can somehow be connected to politics and nobody wants to express that kind of opinion out loud in front of the camera. yelena serbia is putting its forces on alert. what does it mean? is it preparing for conflict with possible? well, no one does say that that loud as you did, but the fact is, this kind of situation is the 6th, or in previous or 5 years. or we had the same situation just

a month ago in november when drawers allegedly entered the serbian aerospace from casa, before their 3rd. in september or last year there was a situation related to serbian carpets here in cost of or and before there in may 2019 we had the same situation are, were, and course of or a police are arrested. 19 police officers are suspected there are for corruption and 11 of them are were serbia nationalities. so we'd not had much detail a details about this situation. now i buy it to and this maybe is the answer to a question minister of defense or said this is not a traits, but it is a warning. yelena blue circle. thank you very much for the update. while possible, declared independence from serbia in 2008, 10 years after a war kill at least 13000 people. the u. s. and major

e u countries recognized kosovars break away, but serbia refuses to do so. cause of us membership of the united nations is blocked by serve years ally, russia. about 4000 nato peacekeepers remain on the ground after the lines intervene to end the conflict in 1999, the e u began sponsoring talks between the 2 sides in 2014, but they've made little progress. resolving the conflict is one of the main conditions for both countries to join the block. i georgia officially as a research fellow at the balkans desk of the italian institute for international political studies. he explains why he doesn't expect the situation to escalate further. the comics readiness as to a goal swan is a short term goal and a long term goal. short term goal is to sure the muscles let's say are the serbian people. so to show that the serbia and in particular the

serbian president that's on the ruge as defending the national interest and the interest of kosovo, serbs in what the still goals are that so thomas, problems. but the reality is that the serbian army can not enter the course of problems again and just a few weeks ago as send a formal request to send 1000 military personal and causal not to mission paid for, but does not received an answer so far. so this is only 2, as i said before, it's a political and military muscles to read electro bud because this is mainly our political crisis. 5 palestinians have been

ange id during fighting with jewish settlers and israel forces in occupied easter slim. 6 others were detained when settlers attempted to seize land in the water hill area of san juan, and speak to sarah hierarchy was joining us live from seattle on unoccupied east. you will spend, sarah, tell us about what's been happening there and what spots these clashes well, the fighting was all about a plot of land that's just behind me. if you can see the israelis, settlers have been putting up a fence. it's a new spence and this plots of land extends all the way from this call park over here, and it will go all the way down there. you can see as the cameras can just sound there, there's some trees that have been cultivation by a palestinian family that has lived that for 7 years now. probably sitting in front of me has always maintained that they signed a lease with the greek orthodox church because this plan is actually owned by the

greek orthodox church. but it's very much contested plots of land. and so one because the jewish settlers say a jewish organization has bought the lions, apparently from the church a few years ago they, they had actually bought, sorry, rather lisa hotels in the old city, which is further just up the road from where i am. and this plot of land comes in a way with the these 2 host house. this has been through the court for many years. it went through to the supreme court of israel as well. and the court has ruled in favor of the the jewish settlers. 7 7 7 so this just gives you an idea over the pension in june, but let's say that they have access. i'm should have access to this land, and every so often roddic why things take place. for that, just behind me, you'll see there's a few homes that all have

b is rating flag. those tend to be the flags is the area and itself is very much an area where there's been a lot of land scrubbing palestinians move here in the majority. bought lots of their plots of land have either been taken from them. or there has been a situation with ownership over who even house demolitions and every so often every few months, the husband of a fi thing here. and in fact, just last month, one of the jewish organizations received $8000000000.00 from the government, which has also shown that there's been a loss of support from the government itself. thank you, sarah, for that update federal hi rod reporting their lives from one occupied these to see him. meanwhile, these really ami have fi tear gas in san grenades at protesters any occupies westbank approach is accounting for the bodies of palestinians to be returned. the protest started in ramallah on tuesday and reached a military checkpoint dot com and dni occupied east jerusalem ways. ready?

soldiers fired at the protesters. history. the authorities have been holding the bodies of a 117 palestinians who were killed by the army who have been killed by the army since 2015. and israel's intelligence internal intelligence service says police have arrested the man behind 2 bombings in westerville slim last month. officials say a 26 year old engineer was detained several days after the attacks. one person was killed and more than 10 injured during the explosions. that 2 bus stops, lea say, the suspect admitted to making the bombs and carrying out the attacks to africa now and a few p and airlines has announced it will resume commercial flights to mckelly. the northern t g y region from one state representatives from ethiopian guffman visited the rebel held area on monday. that was their 1st trip to the region since war broke out 2 years ago. they agreed to a cease fire in november. malcolm web has more from the o. b. very positive sounding statements,

coming from both sides. the government said that flight commercial flights will resume from the cap capital, addis ababa c mikaela, the capital of the grey region. ethiopian airlines confirmed that and it's time table. the flight travel agent say that it's already fully booked. the flight meant to take off on wednesday and will enable families have been separated or traded to resume their movements and start to get things back to normal. communications have been restored in some towns in the grey road, the following a blackout that's going on for most of the last 2 years. and then the state media has said that attic tricity has been restored. the national grid has been restored to part of great proven it certainly looks like some progress is being made on the ground waiting to see if this will hold up. because throughout the course of this

year, the flies have been broken, fighting has resumed. last si, fi that was declared in south africa following by a peace deal signed here. and 10 years capital and i read the last month, looked like more progress than has ever been made. today's the death toll from one of north america, the most severe winter storms in decades has risen to at least 50. more than half of those are in new york state. one of the worst effected regions in the us. some areas are buried under a meter of snow with the president spout stranded in their cost for up to $2.00 days. meteorologists warn more snow is expected on tuesday. now from cold and snow to rain and wind all eyes and now on the west coast of the u. s. jeff explains in our world whether update there is a pacific storm slamming into the west coast of the us. however, one here is the details on tuesday. the rain will make it as far south as so called

southern california, including san diego. but it's not just the rain. i will see winds i costing nearing a 100 kilometers per and up and down that west coast. because he rainfall amounts of about a 100 millimeters. this is also impacting candidates, british columbia province at least the lower mainland. on tuesday, off to the gulf states, we go temperature slowly, but surely starting to come up to new orleans at 13 degrees. but you should be 18 for this year. here's some good news that lake effect snow. finally starting the weekend for western new york state. as those winds begin to shift around. now that cold, we've been talking about it coming out of the us into mexico. so this is mexico city, not the city center, but some of the hills there. i've seen some snow the other day. so mexico city top temperature of 17 degrees on tuesday, rain running through the bahamas cuba and for the coast of honduras on tuesday. meantime we've got some severe storms, eastern paraguay that's going to push into the southeast of brazil,

states that have been hit by flooding, including rio grande to sol. so what day and puerto lake ray on tuesday, that's your weather update season. jeff, thank you. still ahead on the news, our inflation and no jobs we meet syrian refugees struggling to survive as her keys economy. we can we rise together, back to the boom, and john and the sky was not the limit in 2022. i will tell you about more mission smashing asteroid and some incredible views help the universe, things ah . the native news, as it breaks this particular substation, has been hit in 3 separate effects. why 6 russian missile with detailed cover, bad health, the u. s. would relax water pandemic restrictions this week, which would likely have shattered their odds of getting in from around the world

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you're watching the news hour on al jazeera with me fully by people. a reminder of our top stories this hour. zachary is president. you and so key all says his country needs better air defense systems. sol detected north korean drones in his air space on monday. the person now wants to fast track a specialized military drone units. taiwan has announcer planned to extend compulsory military service to counter threats from china. dozens of chinese planes cross seem to tie, wants defense. so on monday, the big, his stadium cation in years and serbia's present has raised the military's combat readiness to the highest possible level. tension between sylvia and kosovo escalated on sunday. after shots were fired at a border town in northern coastal serbia refuses to recognize possible as an independent states.

ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says 9000000 people as sale without electricity, despite his government's efforts to restore power. electricity great has been damaged by drone and missile attack, says russia targets energy facilities. child stratford has more now on presidency. lensky remarks from keith. incredible figures there mentioned by the ukrainian president last night. 9000000 people. he says, still without reliable 24 hour electricity and heat. and that's despite these ongoing 247 efforts to try and repair these facilities damaged substations, right, the way across the country and the winter temperatures. i mean today, uncertainty here without a hassle. and that's because it's probably been cold, it's positively mild, in relation to how it's going to be in the next couple of months in january and

february where you can see temperatures literally 20 degrees below 0. so an incredible challenge the ukrainians facing and trying to repair some of these facilities. we spoke to the head of the national electricity provide yesterday operate to yesterday and he was candied. he said that the repairs as we stand could take years. and he said the main difficulty, one of the main difficulties at least was that just on the parts there wasn't a stockpile of parts that that is available for these repairs to be made. so they're having to rely on billions and millions of dollars of donations of help and parts from the western backers. and of course, they're all phase of another biology of attacks at any time. it's been just over a week since we saw the last biology of so called kamikaze drone attacks across the country. but there's no indication from president putin that moscow is going to

stop this campaign, targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure. another boat with vo hang and muslims. a refugee says, come ashore in northern indonesia. the 2nd arrival in his many days, at least a 185 people arrived in our, cham monday and, and now receiving medical care, refugees say they left bangladesh in november and had been drifting at sea for weeks. in a separate incidents, the un refugee agency fears that at least a $180.00 of a hanger. i dared after being stranded on a boat since last month, tanveer chandry has more from chapel, deep in bangladesh. that's way many of the going a boat journey's begin. this area is known as shopper it did. this is the last end of se, bangladesh, before hits me and mar on my left, and this is enough river. this is one of the several hot spot in cox's bazaar. the area is very removed, and the smuggler used the cover of late night to smuggle people to other southeast

asia by large engine boats or fishing trawlers. lot of this board you see behind me are smaller, the larger one can carry up to 7200 people. the crammed, the refugees on those with very little acute men on navigation told maybe sometime to have satellite phone. nearly 1000000 growing a cramped into a densely packed refugee camp in cox, bazaar desperate to get out. no hope of returning to me and mar nothing. and as far as reparation goes, there's no concerted effort by the global community for them to return to me and mar. many of them are making desperate attempt to get out of this camp and look for a better life in southeast asia. now, this year alone, there's been 5 full increase in attend by the rowing out averages to had to, than the muncie taught, se asia, compared to last year, we spoke to law enforcement agencies here in cox's, but they said they're going door to door and making public awareness of the situation of human trafficking, their tracking down heavy but they said much needs to be done and the public needs

to be aware of that. this is a major problem, not just in bangladesh, but just behind me as me and my, many of the writing us from there also are attempting to leave me and mar, 2 of southeast asia and major tragedy unfold every year because of this serious deadly journey. well, now speak to a tv in bangkok, he's a spokesman for the international organization for migration, and he's joining us via skype. thank you so much for talking to us on al jazeera. we've heard back from our correspondents about some of the reasons that pushy is running a refugees from the on more to make the dangerous journey. can you please bring us up to speed 1st with the latest numbers in terms of those of arrives in indonesia and those who haven't been able to make it? thank you for now just for picking on is very, very tragic situation that we're facing in southeast asia. so if you stayed in your introduction,

we have to go to rivals over 2 days. and this is taking the number 24 that arrived since mid november. and in talking $460.00 refugees, obviously in children and a lot of companies minus, sadly. so a lot of that up to $26.00 refugees that ever be lost at sea will have died during the journey is stating your, you know, they've been out to sea for 4 weeks. and that, that situation that they're facing. and at this moment we're very wires. you also mentioned about the boat that we seem to have lost track with. we should anything up to a 180 refugees. where do i contact by phone? but so family members, they can pop up saying that they have not had any contact for 4 days now. and i think that's what a lot of international attention is paying for. right now it's, it's, it's quite a dire situation. i have to say, are you hearing of more both,

perhaps fail stranded at c? yes we, we don't have an exact number, but we always know that around this time especially after season for a. ready correspondence in books, those are said a bundle dish and they go around trying to mostly make it player where a lot, a large role in your plumbing community already know best. and then they tried to get it, but no money. they end up reaching indonesia, especially actually in all right. and at this point, i think i have to also with knowledge and thank the indonesian government and people for having taken into my terry stance and some of his boats to december left a month at c. i was going to ask you about that. you talked about unaccompanied. mine is arriving in indonesia. you know, can you tell us a bit more about the conditions in which they make it to indonesia and what sort of

assistance they're receiving went when they arrive on land. quite a lot of them as you can imagine, after spending so many weeks, sometimes months at sea belt, the hydrogen, they're not hit my food. there's not much water quite a few with some medical conditions that needs taken care of immediately when they land in iowa and it's toughness, especially the local authorities provide like immediate health care. when we see a situation where the black desperate we had a case last year where the boat was out at sea for 3 months. and it was hard to comprehend it without any support, getting these groups, either one of those. yeah, you talked about indonesia, a tie are providing assistance, but they have been report. so some countries in the region turning back these boats or not helping the refugees were stranded. what, what do you think needs to be done to address the bro hanger issue considering that

these arrivals have become more frequent? well, it is a very, very important question that we have been presenting to the regional countries. here we have some mechanisms, like for example, the body process, we should present a more coordinated response to the situation that you're facing. so for example, we could see a situation where there's more sherry, where when does the rivals data initially, then that can be sent to other countries to make sure that the owner is not just the cost of them. and then obviously further down the track, you have settlement options, but it is because most people know that takes a long time. but from now it's all about saving lives. ensuring that all the books that i see for to show and people are given the support and treatment that they need before and long term solutions for each i. e, v b. thank you so much for talking to us. the time varies, a spokesman for the international organization, for my question,

joining us there from bank of we appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. and millions of people in turkey are struggling to make ends meet after inflation ballooned in 2022. life is particularly tough for the 3 point. 6000000 syrian refugees in the country. how they are cynical, civil reports may stumble as people hope for a turn around in their fortunes. next year. much rog spends his days in the support been in a stumble. the 29 year old hasn't been able to work since he fell and injured his west 2 years ago. canyon surgery, but can't afford it. and his landlord, once inquiries the rent, ahmed, like many other syrian refugees, is struggling as a turkish economy. we can see that on the hop, i'm very frustrated. i can't go to another country i can get treated here, and i can't return to a liberal to see my family accounts, enjoy simple things in life like other people. my age here, i'm a stranger. the worst thing is that i'm young,

but can't work. i have to sit at home psychologically. it's very upsetting. one failed as a success story among emerging economies. her kids, inflation exceeded 85 percent this year, coupled with wising nationalism ahead of an election and mid 2023. as far as the backlash against syrian refugees, the opposition has promised to send them back. most serious, we have a approach and some will do not want to be interviewed on camera because they're afraid of being deported this by deter rating economic conditions in turkey. they don't want to return home because they say a feature and syria doesn't hold much promise. well, it osmond is an exception. he spent 8 years in turkey, working all the jobs, but paid poorly in to call them 20. he moved back. charles also realize his dream of going college even though the diplomas are not international. recognize now, well, it works for local media organization. so my friends told me not to return to syria

and start over. they said i wouldn't be able to improve myself, but here i am. any achievement in my country is better than in another country. this is more valuable to me. i hope all those syrians into kia can return home to better conditions one day, soon as a position held areas are also affected by the inflation across the border as they use a turkish currency. instead of trying to make basic food items available, but we make, we are small profits because of the changing prices go up. in a year, the turkish era has lots for the per cent of its value against the us dollar. and inflation is expected to remain high in 2023 despite government promises to reduce it, leaving syrians, whether they live as rough, reducing true care, or have returned home to opposition health areas with limited opportunities. see them casala, l to 0 stumble. japan will require travelers arriving from china to provide negative covered 19 tests. prime minister from your kisha says passengers who test

positive perhaps quarantine for 7 days. speaching has been easing his restrictions in recent weeks. on monday announced that people entering china won't have to quarantine starting on january the 8th. now at the start of this year, chinese president cheating being said, he was committed to eradicating corona virus infections through his 0 colby policy . that meant entire cities and millions of people under locked down mass, daily testing and lengthy quarantines. but many of these measures are now a thing of the past. after protesters made their voices heard, adrian brown has more on the year that was in china. ah, this is the year, china's leaders shooting thing, double down all his efforts to eliminate of iris that most of the world, but learned to lou instead of the communist party congress in october. he promised not to waver in the battle to eliminate kobe 19

o. a month later that policy, was it written with people that had enough? do they read there? there's some even pulled the she to stand down. oh. but it was the diversity of the protest is it may of alarm the president knew the depth and breadth decided action with the government, which ran across to many sectors. so students, young people on the streets, household workers in factories all seem to be saying the same thing that they were absolutely fed up with this policy that was counterproductive and that they blanked the government. the government though appeared to listen. 7 just days later, 0, cobit began to be dismantled with chinese scientists. now saying the virus wasn't that serious. after all, there is definitely a back down from presidency if you look at that way, but he's done

a very carefully in that he's given all the power to local governments. so something goes wrong at the local government's fault, not his and something goes right then the credit is, is his. she did 6 weeks earlier with president cheese leadership had been on question one as he secured a 3rd historic term as party ching you to him. so with no obvious successor, it's the position that in theory he could hold for life. a while his leadership seemed secure. the protests, along with his relentless anti corruption purge, have made him many enemies. i think what it has done is revealed the degree to which people are not buying into the idea. that changing is wise and, and deeply loved by the people. congratulations. like mainland china. people in hong kong don't get to choose their leader. john lee was selected by committee

to be the territories next, chief executive in a contest in which he was the only candidate. lee was a former security chief authorizing the use of tear gas rubber, bullets, and occasional live rounds to disperse, protested during the 2019 unrest. in contrast, there were local elections once more in the nearby democratic island of taiwan. but they didn't go the president's way, foreseeing zion went to resign as chair woman of the governing party. the victors, the k m t traditionally favour stronger economic ties with china. the mainland economy, though is no longer the global engine for growth. it once was mainly because of president she 0 cobit strategy of particular concern. rising youth unemployment. we have for example, in china cities, a use unemployment bait estimated rank,

18 to 20 percent. we have people coming out of the university to finding it difficult to get jobs so that other net cost is content. at the other end of the spectrum, you have migrant workers whose factories were forced to close. it was a year when president she's frail, predecessor huge in towel, was mysteriously removed from the party congress. speculation as to why continues a month later, another former president jang zoom in, died age 96. his passing, bringing to mind a china that one seemed more open and connected to the world. soon, adrian brown al jazeera and 2022 has also been a year where we seen astronomers make some important discoveries and it seems they are more to come in 2023 cohen bacon has d t. f. in 2022 outer space grew clearer, bigger and

a bit safer for the scientists studying it from earth. in a year of dramatic discoveries, astronomers captured images of the oldest known star, the furthest known planet orbiting, another sun, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. and details from the surface of our own sun. the number of people living in space grew china. now has a permanent home in orbit 24 years after the launch of the international space station. but 2 missions shattered targets. the 1st literally, the half ton dart satellite slammed into a 160 meter wide asteroid called di morphis, at 6 kilometers per 2nd. it was a test of an earth saving defense system and it worked. the shimmering debris thrown up by the impact was captured by observatories around our planet. but nothing was as spectacular as the 1st images from the james web space telescope to

the edge of time itself. more than 20 years in the making. 14 years late, the world's largest space base telescope, flu, one and a half 1000000 kilometers, and looked at a point in the sky smaller than a grain of sand held at arm's length. that grain contained a myriad of stars. webs. first picture revealed the oldest and furthest objects humanize have ever seen ancient galaxies at the visible edge of the universe. now, these tiny dots of color are helping to fill in the picture of how everything began . the image provoked more questions we are looking as far back as currently humanly possible. and that is our goal is to keep trying to study further and further back so that we can understand better at the time in cosmic history, that we've only been able to really see, arrive webs, astronomers spotted, water, carbon monoxide, and gases that volcanoes release into atmospheres of planets far beyond our sun,

one system orbiting a sun known as trappist one looks tantalizingly similar to our own. so now we have kind of our 1st chance that studying another star system that has a bunch of small rocky point. that's to say ok, how different are they? what does that mean about their potential for supporting light? and astronomers used web to make discoveries much closer to home. when i saw the 1st image of neptune with james web space telescope, i actually started to cry. i had been waiting for over 30 years to see this planet again, like that. when i saw the 1st and foremost was the ring system of neptune, the last time we had seen it was in 1989. when the void, your spacecraft flew over the cloud tops of neptune in 2023 web will study hundreds of new targets and probes will reach new asteroids that says india aims for lunar landing and europe plans of mission to the icy moons of jupiter. collen baker al

jazeera while i speak to space on less per lima who joins us live from london now. thank you so much for speaking to us. there is certainly been an eventful year for space exploration. tell us 1st about your personal highlights, the biggest achievements in your view in 2022. well i think the biggest one i was obviously include james white telescope, these incredible images that we saw coming down for the 25 square meters. the big mirror takes x are going to mirror that's been put up that made of gold and barium, allowing us to effectively take a peek into the origins of the universe. i mean the early galaxies, this is big, big news. and the very big breakthrough for sure. it is 6 times more power, bigger and powerful than the hubble telescope. so. so if you percent, the scent is true that this is fake stuff going back to the origin of life. but more generally does all spin other things that's been really big in 2022. we saw

the 1st awesome is one mission that finally off the bit of the lake with where the got off the ground, which allows to spill into autumn is $23.00 and $4.00. which is like the apollo missions, apollo 10, and eventually 11 allowed us to land on the moon from the the mission with autumn is full. so we also kicked off an, a very big program the 1st as the last rocket from nasa in november this year. so really it's been, it's been a significant year for space. and if we go for the east, which we don't talk so much about. china actually completed the 60 almost 60 space launches. we sent a rock record for them, but also the national space station, their chinese space station. this is all correctly pronounced. indeed. now 2023 pair. effectively another busy year. what's the most exciting mission to watch out for? there is a number of very exciting developments. first that we're going to see the area and

6 rockets of the rocket that was due to launch in 2022 but got delayed and has the potential of being sort of a new falcon mine. if you'd like. cheap access to, to overload space. that's coming on line. we got the to 1st the saudi astronauts going into space, including a woman, which is delightful. and i'm so excited about that. plus we'll see a target as you know, going into space. and actually i'm one of the private company, but we'll so spirit hit that right. and eventually they will also be looking into building as a space station up there, just like jeff bases from blue origin has the ambition out. so lots, lots to come through. yeah. a lot of exciting things to come, you know, with, with so many old advances and launches happening in 2023. many say that we're entering a new phase similar to the golden era of space launches in the 1900 sixties and

seventies. what do you think has foxes renewed interest and why should we actually care about what we should care? because what happens in space has big implications of what goes on just from an into an innovation point of view. just like the apollo program, some would argue, created silicon valley and all the tech technical advancements brought with when you saw lots of dollars and things. and schuman ingenuity, and we're trying to create difficult things in space. it has a big benefit on planet earth. i think there's a big change in change. there has also been private capital coming into this space . and now the equivalent amount almost of the entire nasa budget is going in into the space arena. and that has big implications here. thank you so much for talking to us about this pair. we met in london that now back on and in the nigerian city of lagos. hundreds of thousands of people live on the street. they come from rural

areas hoping to find work, but many struggled survive. we met one woman who credits a rehabilitation program for turning her life out. my name is amol neil. well, i'm 30 years of live on the street for 3 years now. i'm from dusty home. i finished my. my book knew when we are getting the money for everything and we went to the village to see and we could not get one also to rain. so i asked to just come back. i was being abused by my dad. my uncles, my aunt, when i was a kid for me, st. gill, i found new. we are home. my dad now is in prison. so i started up on day, i was be ripped by 3 guys. then i was dancing to close as

a dancer. so from day my life force was horrible because you most of them the distance b, u i o p. what time in the streets from when you think evening, i sat in the group after watching food i planted for the boastful, fostering loads which i don't expect any more to be in this condition. i don't pre, diane, you want to be in this kind of condition and because he's not the place for someone to speak for seeds i mates, ira, i'm greedy as a lead to change it as change my life. even most people see me know like, you know, deleted ourselves, feel without the hope, feel with that and outcome. does she do it? ready? she pleasant dusty miracle is i receive all because he makes me a few different makes me feel different. posting,

worn out syria twist and family call. i promise me on my chide. oh, well, come back, look my daughter, linda, outbound i live music. so i'm working with especially a sing love song. i sing gospel what's for now? let's go school and out the song to death, which i've composed which i used to sing when needed. church anyway, think speak wally's happy and the all is inviting me to come on sing. yeah, i think school that said for this news hour on al jazeera 20 more and i website is always at al jazeera dot com born at least stop stories on there. i'll be back in just a few minutes with more details to say, ah genuine analogies era. almost a decade after joining the e. u croatia, adults,

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