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up. brazilian football legend pele has died at the age of 82. he was considered by many the greatest player ever ah process and a high profile resignation as the most right when government of israel's history is sworn, it led by benjamin netanyahu. and russia was a barrage of missiles at cities across ukraine, knocking out power and sending people under ground for safety. the shoot level of destruction in this residential area of cube. and the fear amongst people living here shows how even a successful intersection can destroy people's lives. ah one welcome to the news are good to have your company. we begin with the news that legendary brazilian football or pele has died at the age of 82. it been undergoing

treatment for colon cancer, the south paolo hospital, but his condition had worse, and in recent weeks he was reportedly surrounded by his family. in his final moments pele is considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time. the senior man looks back at his life and career. he was born ed soon at anxious not to mentor what the world do him simply as believe. he was regarded by many as the greatest football player of all time. small, strong and exceptionally gifted belly played for the famous simplest club in small bough. look at the age of 15. the brazil national side by 16 and by 17 he won the world cup, scoring 2 goals in the 1958 against injury hamper his world cup in chile 4 years later. but he still played a part in brazil's triumph again and by 1970 and mexico. panell star was still in

the century as he provided unforgettable memories on the way to the world cup victory. number 3, before he hung up his boot, his star just was used to try and ignite soccer in the united states with the new york cosmos. by this time, believe the brand had taken over, and product endorsements were as prolific as his goals scoring. he was an instantly recognizable global ambassador and his personal life was equally colorful. married 3 times. ready and divorced and with 7 children were trained to have bothered more . his son was sentenced to 33 years in prison in brazil for money laundering. one of the biggest debates in sport is whether he was better than argentinian legend might go now with himself died in 2020. in the year, 2000 people awarded them both joined player of the century. but billy was unique. his name is almost synonymous with football. he died who fell,

pound or after losing his battle against cancer. but for brazilians, he will always be remembered as a hero, who gave them and the world such joy with a football at his feet or police delta kelly, enough men so posted about the death on instagram saying everything we are is because if you, we love you infinitely rest in peace. bazillion took all confederation. role pele was far more than the greatest sportsman of old time. our king of football was the highest exponent of the victorious winning brazil. never got scared in the face of difficulties promised his father, a world cup and presented us with 3. the king gave us a new brazil, and we can only thank his legacy. thank you. paley, i'm brazilian president lewis in our seo lula da silva too. he said that he had the privilege that younger brazilians didn't. i so pele, play live, he wrote, play,

know. i saw pelley give a show because when he got the ball, he always did something special. let's how can i to football coleman, say to john co thrill who joins us from sao paolo. hi there, john. this was a man who star power extended all across the footballing world. and of course, beyond it. yes. at one time, perhaps most famous person in the world, it is, i hate him with 7 to his pe recognized by everybody near everybody. one of the stalls. one of the greats, as you said, not only on the pitch but also off the pitcher, he had it. oh, he did everything. he had no weaknesses. he was the king and so on. is it true to say that he also transformed brazil into a footballing superpower. he, when he came to 4 in the, in this, in the late fifties in sweden really is as a teenager, he had other players around him. gahan was also a great not quite up to police standards, but ironically by many perhaps

a little bit. all of them play that. you probably won't hear that right now, but it's just suddenly comes to mind that people would always say again. she was a little bit more of a favorites, too many brazilians, certainly in days gone by, obviously not today. but he had a great place around him as well. police or perry group at that time. brazil became the force from the belief is they want to again in 62, got injures in england and 966, and then back to his best in 1970. we grew up with other players around it. he was by far and away that the man who could do everything he could have played in any single position. perhaps he could even have paid a goalkeeper. and john, i wanted to asking what you think about what kind of football or he was specifically. i've heard just spoken to lots of people this evening. he talks about seeing them play when they were at school. and one gentleman was telling us that the stadium literally went quiet when he had the ball because they knew that there was some kind of magic coming. so when we talk about unique talent in terms of pele,

describe that for us was it is creativity, was it the joy that he brought to the game? what had that joy had that kind of brazilian movement about in the brazilians have that dynamism, that kind of magical feeling about that air of an expectancy which pele could produce. and it looks so easy for we made it look sirizi. of course, the game has moved on since the 70s in the sixty's, when pele was very at ease paul. miss foster nowadays, could he of thomas say in things now that he did then well that's questionable as well, but i don't know about science certainly when he scored there was no sinus around the arena's where he played, but he had the you had the lot see like i said before, he could do everything. there was no weakness to his game right. for left foot headers. some players messy, for example, pretty much all afoot, a fabulously book fabulous player. but pele had everything he could do. it all

handled the influence other players, john and i'm thinking, you know, back in his heyday when he was and racing up the ranks of world football and other football is when i was out watching him. how. how did he influence that the style and direction of again again, it's quite hard to say because i think he lent by his ability on the page and it was such a massive figure as well. we talked about his, the worldwide influence off the page. so he was a man who advertise just about every single product under the sun. he was never on the screen speculate seventies and also into the eighty's and ninety's as well. became a huge, huge figure. so god like figure, maybe not in the proportions that mom donna is in argentina. you're kind of see the, the big huge paintings of pele around as you do not into with matter dollar, but we have an influence on the pit. she was the number 10 sure which became famous around the world. it is the shirt,

which every single brazilian player wants to have the number 10. many people can't think of them a strike cody wasn't really a strike is more about attacking misty order. despite the amazing number of goals you score, so every time who's on the pitch, he's got record is like point 9 of a goal per game, which is absolutely phenomenal. so when you've got a machine like that on the page, what only scoring goals doing everything, every single touch was a little bit of magic, something which no one else could do. it appeared, and he could do it. and so you just look at it in all i think the other players around it, especially is the parents. my god is play. what are we going to lou? fantastic. to talk to john. fascinating. thank you frontier. well, this is the scene. i would say the albert einstein, hospital in south palo, where pelley was being treated. we can talk to monica gannon, keith who joins us live from rio de janeiro. and monica pelley had been in hospital

were just looking at the pictures right now for a while. but nonetheless, this is it very sad news? indeed for priscilla when it came yes, it was saw it sad but expect it in a certain sense. we were there at the same same hospital just a couple of weeks ago during the world cup when he was taken to the hospital because he had colon cancer which was being treated and then ah, he stopped treating it because there was not, not much more they could do, but the reason he was hospitalized was because he caught coven 19, and that led to an infection in the lungs, and that was what was being treated. and at the time, i remember all the journalists were outside the hospital, and his family was saying, ah, please don't give us the condolences now. it's not his time yet. we're going to spend christmas with him. the idea was to take him home. but obviously that was not

possible. so his family spent christmas with him at the hospital. and then the news came that his situation got worse and people were expecting this to happen at one moment or the other. now the interesting fact is that his mother is still alive and she just turned 100 years old last november. and, but i also already had made, i had taken all the measures for his own of funeral. he had already bought a space in a vertical cemetery which overlooks the stadium in santos, where he played santos as his home town, some 2 hours away from so follow, which is brazil's a largest city, monica. what kinds of commemorations, sir? are we expecting over the coming days and weeks perhaps? well, not much has been said a we do know that ah, a he will be buried in sound. those are in the place that he chose. ah, when

a we have heard rumors, but nothing confirmed yet that that might be on monday. this says saw a happens just before new year's eve and just before a presidential inauguration, which will happen on january the 1st. so our people are speculating that they might and bomb him and that they might wait until next week to bury him. but these are all rumors which have not yet been confirmed. but basically this happens at a time when a lot is going on in brazil. and, but although people were expecting this, it is, it is, it came as a sort of a surprise, monica ganna k of they're joining us live from rio de janeiro, monica, thank you for my colleague, al jazeera sandy richardson spoke to pele back in 2007, here's his interview with the football legend. the

news 30 years of the cooling time on his incomparable career, i remained arguably the most famous football on the planet. he was in ketosis at the spar academy, a center designed to spot and develop the best young sporting talents in the country. the multi $1000000.00 facilities offer here launches away from what the young kelly experienced when he started out. the brazilian club sense of the idea is to prepare the men to give it occasion to the youngest. because a lot from good, the player they lost, they go here because they didn't have support. i think the philosophy of this, by the known, this process is to make the men 1st to give it occasion because the football player,

the athletes, they come naturally and they come in the beach. they come in the states, you know, but the main, the real man you need to give support to them. how much of a motivation was your father because his own playing career was cut quite short by injury. as i know, my father said ok. i don't want to be a sucker play football player. you have to have to be a duck though. profits. my mother used as a place. i've had to get the knee injuries and then they have to stop for no one near that time. they didn't have the, the facility to do the operation, and then he has to still, we have a little problem financial problem. then my mother was against that about the have a luck because with the $0.50 as imagine with 16,

i did my 1st game in the national team of brazil and the with 7 to now was in the world cup in sweden. i have a luck, but the not is not the everyone who has the kind of a but i finished his playing days in the united states with the new york coast most attempting to conquer the one frontier that had remained impervious to football chums. 30 years old and a certain david beckham, his heading in the same direction with a move to the galaxy. while peggy's legacy varies footballs, enduring dress, roots popular and see the professional league back in his joining remains some way . short of being world class murray, we promote a lot of the football soccer the next day to know and then today is reality. they have good team, they have a leak. but fortunately, the pro level is to has a problem no. against the american football and baseball and basketball. and then i remember linda wasn't cosmos known george best,

who was in l e. we did the same time the same promotion. and now beckman gonna have the opportunity to do the same. i think it's been for them to have a big name to keep this with the boy in life. when i say, what do you remember about those days in the seventy's? the st. me it almost showed is coming to football than that. oh, of the beginning of a little tough for me because the 1st year was $75.76, the claws muzzle of the colors team. you have 2 of the good players, and then we make a good team with the beckon bo georgia canada. and the colors are better then become a very strong but the, the to 1st he is, was very tough to me. later on in the 7677, new york cosmos used to play with the 55065000

every every game in new york. then the average of called to us very, very high. you think back him on his own condemned because you mentioned you with, with plasma croix and best he needs of the plays over there as well. doesn't really make an impact. i think the bought them to have a, another big name is another good players to, to, to play with him because they had to do those things alone. and the l. a is not incentive. the, the, the leak, you know, l a normal is a little know, quiet. he's going to need a lot of support. so well beckon has the future of united states football to worry about police. current concern is about the development of young players worldwide. the young to they,

they didn't have too much of paternity to be themself. they cannot to have a creativity because all the poets from the 14 and 15 in the courts, they went to play for when hello every game they want to win them. the players who has given us the they didn't the lot that know you cannot do this. if you do a mother driven, they will not pick up them. i think this be done for the future of the book. you'll see you have a very few skillful players loan because of the person on the years. i think this is the one thing a week with the girl north asia for the future. coming up on this news are from london, at least 19 dead and up to 30, missing after a major fire hotel casino complex in cambodia. fears the new year's holiday will feel the spread of coping 19 across china.

ah. the most right wing and religiously conservative government in israel's history has been sworn in promising the countries ambassador to france to resign in protests, yell german said she can represent its policies, or the coalition will be led by benjamin netanyahu, whose returning for 6 term as prime minister, just 18 months after he was hamster from power is government includes ultra nationalists and also orthodox jewish parties. on wednesday, more than a 100 form, it is really diplomats and ambassadors signed the letter warning of damage to israel's international reputation. ah, protests as opposed to the new government rallied outside israel's parliament kinessa sit netanyahu's parties said it will pursue expansion of settlements in the occupied west bank despite it being a violation of international law. this commitment is raising fears of an escalation

intention with palestinians. we can to demons states against a government. that is, it may be legal but not legitimate. a government that wants to break down israel's democracy after the laws that they are planning to pass. israel will continue to exist, but not as a democracy. campo demonstrate against the, the government to the about to rise up in the loyal, horrible government. local criminals are shipping a wish to destroy these what a democracy who came to demo source begun, or sour carrot has more now from west jerusalem. he's the longest serving prime minister in israeli history, but to get this fall he had to partner up with a coalition which is a mix of an ultra orthodox and right wing block. and these are the most right wing

politicians. we seen there was some points on the fringes of politics and now he, they are on the main stage to get him. there was an agreement made that they would pass several new laws, the bank of the law there, renewal and march, you know, with some of the laws that were passed through the last 48 hours morrison of getting these decisions through these decisions, mixing things up, it means that someone like ben cafe, who has also has, has a conviction of racism is now going to have an unprecedented power over the police . for example, there is a law that has been looking into which is to undermine and the way the supreme court, if a law is put down by the supreme court, they can bring that by. this means that a lot of politicians, including benjamin netanyahu, if they have any convictions or for him in his example, he's on trial for corruption case. it means that gives them that power. now, even though locals we've spoken to has said yes, processes,

democratic to get to this place. they are very deeply concerned of. some of the laws have been put through. and the question is, what happens next? now let's take a closer look at some of the controversial figures in the new government. will the leader of the far right religious zionist party base, a level small trenches, the finance minister. he supports israeli settlements and occupied palestinian territory, even though they're illegal under international law. his party also has a post in the defense ministry altar nationalist hardliner. it's m r been given, who was convicted of incitement to racism in 2007 will be security minister and newly passed law will give him unprecedented power over the police force and avi moles. a religious nationalist known for anti l g b t q views will hold a deputy post in the education ministry, and netanyahu himself is still on trial for alleged bribery fraud, breach of trust. he is always though, maintained his innocence was spokesman of the palestinian group, hamas which governs the gaza strip as one that israel's new coalition may trigger

major unrest. little oberon as in a gloom. it's clear that to day with facing a new zine, us government, the most extreme terrorist, racist and fascist government with policies that clearly escalate the aggression against what we hold sacred up people and palestinian land. this opens the way to rio escalation on the ground in all the arena's will. you will see veiling as a form israeli minister of justice and member of the canal that he joins us now from its hello video surveillance. welcome to the show. and what does this coalition government now sworn in? been for israel? well, the jury is still good, but i cannot to say but the, the, i'm very sick today. it isn't a very extreme, a government a we don't know exactly what will happen. i don't think that they will live on an island, and i think that there are people in this coalition, in the record,

mainly here who are no, not too too happy here to have these, their partners which were now just they mentioned and would not let them do whatever they want, though, is also a world, especially united states, especially the american president biden, a hulu, which are watching us. and they are not a good deal on our own to daughter we want. so my hope is that the, despite the fact that there, i cannot hide my sadness head the government a will a surprise us, i can tell you only one thing. it is true that it is the most extreme a rightist party. but there was an extreme right, you spell your ready and maybe not his extreme is this one in a 90 led by its function meal with very right you stay parties. and

then eventually this was the party which is participated in the madrid conference of a 91, which opened the door to talk with our neighbors and eventually to the osler agreement and to the peace with day jordan. so i, i don't want to say that there, there, there we are sure that they do, it will do. they are all the bad things that some of us are worried about, including myself and i hope that it will not happen like that. and you'll see, and without suggesting that we've been trying to look into a crystal ball, what, what do you think could mean for israel's relationship with the palestinians, given that top of the list of the priorities and seems to be settlement expansion will for the time being i am not sure that we know what will happen. i mean,

we are worried. there are agreements that already a los which is passed in the last days before the government, even a it was sworn in a b because of their majority, which they are right wing has already in the parliament a. but deb, i hope that the government will still be killed for an day in nathaniel himself. hail haul was not joined by the sent to the left a parties because he was he indicted to for bribery a but that, but team san physician and experienced a politician, a who knows that one should be a very kill for and not to, to give up on the huge advantages of israel has said democracy, even modem or critique than united states. he'll say, i wanted to ask you, you, you've worked with and netanyahu at many years ago. what do you think this is kind

of ends came apart from? obviously holding on to power in being part of designing this coalition. well, i am not sure that they know exactly. he is a right is there. idealogue is a very intelligent person will read in his a good connections with many leaders in the world. and because of his a long experience and there he's in his way, me patriot no question. have i think that he should be the one his rarely to blame me blamed for it the fact that if we did not continue, we dos law agreement. of course, it is not only israel to be blamed for it, but if it is the part of israel is, is led by yay, nathaniel hayes. so i, i personally,

cannot they, be, he, his advocate, a, but the, i cannot ignore his personal advantages and intelligence and day because he is in his very patriot i, i don't believe that he will allow, they are very extreme parties, which are now for the 1st time in the coalition do whatever they want. yes, even in joining us, they are from a telephone. yes, ethan keith. thank you very much. there's lots more still to come this hour. anger on the streets of bolivia as a leading opposition figure is arrested over the 2019. i'm sting of president evil morales. oh, i'm as exciting and in doc has the bangladesh capital gets his 1st met you aligned with huge cues forming. i've signed stations ah,

hello there, let's have a look at the weather across europe as we end the year, and it's looking pretty unsettled, yet exceptionally warm. this is a winter cleaning on in some places such as scandinavia and western russia, with snow set to fall in moscow, the temperatures even here well above the average for this time of year. and that thanks to approve of warm air, rising up from the southwest knocking temperatures to exceptional highs in places like berlin, 15 degrees and powers by saturday. now that's not to say it's not going to be unsettled to get across the west. we've got those rounds of rain rolling in from the atlantic, bringing some heavier falls to northern areas of france. we're also going to see some snow effect. most northern areas of the u came places like scotland and that heavy rain piles into scandinavia, turning into snow, smudging its way across sweden and onwards to finland,

where we have got warnings out for that wintery weather. but it's not so dry up across those central areas as you go into saturday on it's a similar story for the se, lots of fine and dry conditions to be found for greece, turkey as well as a city with just some showers up in the north, affecting the a dramatic coastline as well. have you arrange for nolan? areas of spain, but plenty of warmth, boss, the lona at 20 degrees celsius. ah . the african narrative from african perspectives embark on a new series of short documentary by african filmmakers from nigeria, south africa, and cameron rule. you buy property proper space and turn it into a stone cautious song. get really got it. and the modern peanuts of camel africa, diving on al jazeera,

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a pele has died at the age of 82. he been undergoing treatment for colon cancer, the south pedro hospital. he is considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time. tributes have been pouring in from around the world. the most touching was from his daughter who posted on instagram. everything we are is because of you, we loved you infinitely rest in peace. and the most right wing and religious, the conservative government in israel's history has been sworn in prompting the country's ambassador to france to resign and protest. the coalition is led by benjamin netanyahu, whose returning for his 6th term as prime minister. well, let's bring you more on our top story. the death of pelley, henry went his chief pupil re to from the times. he joins us from lester here in the u. k. m. hi there, henry. great to have you on the show. and one of the, the joys this evening of, of being on air, apart from the news obviously being very sad, is listening to the joy that people have in remembering pelley, especially how he played on the pitch. and he seems to have been that carried to

the had that absolute unique character and brought something magic. if i can put it like that to the game, he could draw a crowd whether it was to american. ready was to as tech and in 70. people wanted to watch him play because of his genius as a footballer. but also he could draw a crowd off the pitch, whether he was doing a venue from what you know, he did so much good work for disadvantage kids in riverdale, but also closer to home for us and long grade on the state hospital. he was in a basset of them the work he did them for this year, and that was echoed in countries around the world. and, you know, i was fortunate to, to interview him as a journalist 3 times and in my career. and they will always high points, and he was fun. you know, you did say like the london lympics 2012. he turned up because he wanted to support name or brazil in the, in that bit to win the limpid gold. and he turned it off. flesh really events in

victoria and albert news in and then he was the great pell, a walking past, all the sort of beautiful chinese wall hangings. a truck and pottery and smiling, drawing a crowd. i saw the great the good of london dbi aaron. and he was just bought, i mean, you see, you know, you've seen the tribute tonight, you've seen it in films like escape to victory. what he even acted, michael k, one. know. and he said he bought from alive. so there are people quite right. if the paying these wonderful tribute to him tonight, you'd be doing as well as what an amazing buffalo and sportsman he was. but he was a great man as well. the world has lost one of the truly great men of the last 2 years there. and i suppose has been ongoing to be married or not and poorly. and i heard from one of my colleagues earlier that when he was in a place where they both met even my resume and you know, referred to pelley as being the greatest. yeah. the you have to includes lionel

messy in the mix. now that the grey arjun tv has one the well carpet have that performance against france. well, 11 days ago or so. so yeah, the 3 of them, the graces populace of all time and i was lucky to cover messy, i'm the owner and well cups and oversee saw the footage of the great pele in inaction. and i think pelley has to win because of the number of goals, 77 for brazil alone and for the 3. well, cause, you know, he played, he's one of the great. he was the greatest play all the pitch in. probably the greatest game in terms of a match up with that great brazilian team of 970 and the great italian team got to the file in 70 as well. and, and they stood out in such esteemed company, 3 well cops, patty, which is so much more than this great book. he was a great individual. he was a great, great sportsman in the true sense of the world. you know, some of the pictures you've been showing tonight, defense walking shirts with will be more in

a way that's what the games about is about that respect between 2 ferocious competitors. who the moment the final whistle went. they were ferns, bobby, bobby golden banks as well. gold banks passed away 3 years ago to the great english goalkeeper palace trip. the tank was so pointed to he reference that extraordinary save the gold banks, made in 1971 polish downward head of that great addresses. and that great spring that the small man had. and he rose and he headed down. the banks amazingly managed to flip the ball over the bar, one of the safe of the century. the fee for cold it anne's pet. i said the, even though he was, he was frustrated in school. he felt he gave friends that evening in that much and he had built this relationship and had this great friendship with golden bank. so that was the mark of the man, the genius as a football. but a great man, a great friend, as so many folk was found down,

he is so lovely to tell you m. henry, thanks very much for joining us. places a british fashion designer, dame vivian westwood, has died at the age of 81 in a statement on twitter. her fashion house said she died peacefully and surrounded by her family in clapham, south london. westwood was one of the leaders of a punk fashion movement of the 19 seventies and she is credited with bring modern punk and new wave fashion into the mainstream. she was made a dame by queen elizabeth in 2006 for services to fashion was still running. with russia has launched one of its biggest waves of missile strikes on ukraine since the start of the war. ukrainian military says air defenses shots, i am 54 of 69 rockets launched by russia, but residents were forced to seek shelter under ground. and many were left without power. charles trafford,

reports now from cave at least one man was believed at being in this house. what it was hit like in to sit to russian missile was rushed to hospital emergency service, you search, but any body else, dead or alive under the rubble. the mother and daughter also failed injured in the house next door to jonah, crying into her friend's arms. my grand daughter called me and said that has been explosion, and that my daughter was unconscious, undesirable. she was in the hospital now. i don't know her condition such jonah's other daughter jamara arrives or mamma stopped mail please. she says stop crying. salvage food from the fridge sits on a wall. jelena away through the destruction

william wallace. my grandmother made this. she says to some the funny uncle, but my sister is in hospital. i don't know what the latest is. my niece is also injured by shrapnel. residents climb over the rubble to inspect the damage and check that friends and neighbors of safe is mobile phone footage, reportedly shows one of dozens of russian cruise missiles soaring across the sky. they split it shows what's believe to be a ukrainian, a defense team successfully destroying another before it reached its target. 6 ah, bill saw you say the majority of miss isles in this latest barrage were intercepted with a sheet level of destruction in this residential area of cave. and the fear amongst people living here shows how even a successful interception can destroy people's lives. anxious faces hundreds of

kilometers from the eastern and southern front lines. oh, did a diesel around 9 am? there was a huge explosion and the shock wave through my grandson from his bed. we're afraid because this is the 2nd missile that was intercepted in this area. but this one seems to have exploded. the dully was, was your daughter roland? the missiles have been fighting over this area since the invasion in february. we hide in my brother's basement girls, 35 people shelter there. a blanket covers a dead dog killed in the blast. thing like that yonah finds her pet alive. maybe she cradles it, him. how arms amongst what remains of her home. don't be afraid. she says, don't be afraid. stanford al jazeera chief bell, russian defense ministry says its forces have shot down

a ukrainian air defense massage of the border region of breast. it happened during the latest wave of russian missile strikes. a bell edition military commander played the incident, dancing. there was no cause for alarm. however, the cranium ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry. immense to receive a form of protest. at these 19 people have been confirmed dead and up to 30. i'm missing after a hotel. fire in cambodia. rescue is expect the official decimal to rise when the search for bodies resumes on friday. it happened in the town of peel pet on the tie border higher force. it explains. after burning its way through the building for more than 12 hours by thursday afternoon, the fire was at last under control. but its intensity and duration had left little of the grand diamond hotel and casino complex. behind provincial government says overloaded, electrical wiring, supplying new years decorations was the likely cause. hundreds of people were

inside. as the flames raced from floor to floor witnesses saw some jump or fall from burning rooftops. one man had made an escape route from bed sheets, its end hanging many floors above the ground, long by rescue say many more likely never to have got out of rooms and corridors that quickly filled with dense smoke. because i had no of now a tie that couldn't, there is no way to be identified with the town of pet lies just on the cambodian side of the border with thailand. casino gambling is illegal in thailand and for cambodian citizens income bodya, the company has many casinos serving foreigners including ties, safety standards have long been questioned. and overnight by a cruise tie and cambodian were out matched by the size of the blaze. among the big mostly people who in their local ties i'm sad

and i think you've helped came foster. the rescue came foster, they will be the national dentist on the committee and police said hundreds of rescuers had joined the effort, including members of the military police and other emergency services. but as the hours passed, their focus switched from rescuing survivors to bringing out the dead. hurry faucet al jazeera, its leaves, right wing government is tightening rules around asylum seeker rescues. it's approved measures to find charity to rescue migraines, to see how their ships, if they break new orders. a cabinet decree on wednesday said ship should request a port and sale to it without delay after rescue. rather than looking for other migrant boats in distress. one campaign group said the new strategy increases the risk of death, the thousands of people, your guy may loan a government has a q, c, rescue charities of facilitating the work of people traffickers. amid a search in arrivals, italy wants the rest of the european union to follow its lead and bring in

mandatory covert tests for travelers arriving from china in its response to the surgeon new infections. after beijing rolled back its strict 0 covert policy and lifted its own travel restrictions, italy says it's new measures may not work if all the you, nations don't follow suit. but so far you health officials of nor agreed on one course of action and are continuing their talks. several other countries including japan, india, and the u. s. r. introducing similar requirements. will china reported only one covert related death on wednesday, but the u. k. best based health data firm ear finity says cit, leaves around 9000 people are dying in china every day. that's nearly double it's estimate from a week ago. or china center for disease control has worn the upcoming new year holiday. could mean a rise in cases in rural areas, is chief epidemiologist said infections in some large cities and past therapy. but there could be a new way in less populated areas as people travel to their home towns for the

holiday. hello. this is the development of the epidemic is relatively fast and big and medium sized cities because of the large and dense populations. it's slower and smaller cities and rural areas. it's been a severe winter and with the upcoming spring festival, when many people will be traveling, the risk of infectious respiratory diseases may make the epidemic situation more complicated. or would you know by delta, simon. hi, can associate professor salia microbiology at the university of reading simon. very one. welcome to the program at washing the situation, developing in china. what are your initial thoughts? i think we see a situation in china. it's arisen because of a, a low frequency of vaccination. and vaccines which are less effective than other alternatives that are available, such as the ones that have been used in, in europe. and in the case specifically, i'm, so that's really what's causing the problem. and it seems that because they was

civil unrest about a month ago because of a lot downs, the authorities there have basically just thrown all the restrictions away. and that has led to a situation, potentially, if this is this analysis company or right where, where the infection is getting out of control. and the simon, at one end is the likelihood of new variance mean and not just for china, but potentially for the rest of the world. wow. well, the more infections you get, the more you variance you will get. and most of those, the variance will be useless. there they'll, they'll be of no consequence. ah, but occasionally you'll get one that causes more problems. so the more people get infected, but particularly if you've got a low level of immunity in the population, then i think you're more likely to get immune evasive. new variance crop up,

and that's really where the problem lies. we should also remember the japan next door to china has been reporting high numbers of deaths recently. um and that is well vaccinated. it is, you know, comparable to what we have in the u. k. in terms of the types of vaccines that have been used and the overall coverage, in fact, they've given more vaccines out doses per capita than the u. k has. so they have a problem. why is that? we need an answer, i think. and so simon, does that mean in the mean time where we have a lack of answers to what you've just described, that it is right to put some sort of and testing regime around travelers from china . but also on top of that, i think if we're not testing our own populations, what kind of data picture then do we end up with? well, if you collect this data and don't any anything, whether it's pretty pointless. um, but i think that. busy what some countries will probably do is look at what's

coming across their borders and look at the variance and look for new ones that will come along. that's fairly easy and straightforward to do. but the day to takes time to, to, to get on the, the united states. it seems a has a no fly policy if you've got cove it within 2 days of propriety of travel. and i think i'm writing saying the italians will have a quarantine system in place as well. i can't imagine our government really wants to get out either of those. so either of these routes and it doesn't seem to have the political will to tackle this. simon, what, what do you think we've learned this pastor years of, bout pandemic response that can be helpful to address this moving situation in china that potentially might affect the rest of the world. are there any things that we've learned that actually we should be thinking about now? act quickly, because if you don't act quickly, you'll have to act bigger later on. and the people point to, to lock downs and say,

well, they didn't work, they didn't get rid of the virus, will. they were never going to get rid of the virus. they were just there to squash the sombrero, slow things down. and that's all they were ever in place put in place for. so really, i act quickly or act bigger. act more expensively. simon, joining us there from raising simon. thanks very much. hong kong has scraps? most of his coven 19 restrictions following a. similarly, by mainland china, now the roles had threatened to damage his reputation as an international finance center. many business operators had welcomed the move as florence louis reports. now from hong kong. people arriving in hong kong from abroad no longer have to take compulsory p c r tests. that's despite the territory still recording around 20000 proven 19 cases a day. and the reaction among travelers is mixed. i was expecting our going to have

a vcr desk, but it's good. it feels like it's back to normal. think it's increasing the cases. i think the implement that again, like that timing to cancel it right now. vaccine certificates will also become a thing of the past. previously, only those who had been vaccinated could anticipate in places such as restaurants and supermarkets. social distancing is also out. we can take away a few the tables and give people more room to stand or dance or what have you so. so we're looking forward to it. i think in the under public sector there's going to be a bit of, of worry for the 1st couple weeks. i don't think you'll see the mass rush of people coming out. i think it's gary more of a gradual thing. hong kong has largely followed china's lead in tackling corona virus. it had some of the most stringent cove. it rules in the world,

but it's lifting most of them, just as china abandoned it 0 covey policy. earlier this month, we've been hearing from chambers of commerce, up and down hong kong that they desperately need to have these restrictions removed, that they need to get back to a sense of normality. and in particular, we need to have visitors coming to home, coal on coast very dependence for tourists. but while the opening up of hong kong is largely and here some countries are being more cautious. japan has restricted passenger flights from here to says in airports. a decision, the hong kong government says, could affect tens of thousands of people. and if the number of cases continues to rise, more rules by other countries may follow florence louis al jazeera hong kong. the u. s. military says a chinese find to jet has come within 6 meters of one of its aircraft over the south china sea. the american plane was forced to take evasive action to avoid amid

their collision. the close encounter happened in international airspace on december . the 21st paras supreme court has upheld the decision to keep former president pedro castillo in pre trial detention for 18 months. while he's investigated on charges of rebellion, he was voted out of office earlier this month, been arrested for trying to illegally dissolve congress. while his successor, dinah blanche has for mister thorough investigation into the death of 22 people, during the weeks long protests over his arrest and impeachment loss, he says she will provide all necessary resources for prosecutors to investigate. while bolivian prosecutors that have requested 6 months pre child attention for opposition. figure louis fernando camacho saying he has several criminal investigations against him. tension flared in the past in santa cruz on wednesday, after the arrest of camacho is a former presidential candidate. civic groups in santa cruz were camacho, as governor, have called for a general strike on friday for highways to be brought in protest. the state

attorney's office said camacho, as detention is connected to the ousting of former left his president, moralist. in 2019 his communication seemed said he'd been caught brutally kidnapped by fleece and was proud of his part in the fight for freedom and democracy in bolivia. lewis, fernando camacho ran for the presidency in 2020, following the ousting of evil morales. but he finished 3rd, santa cruz, where he's governor is an affluent region that's often at all with the use of the capital, le, pause or commercial lead. some of the demonstrations in 2019 the cold for morales to leave office. he's also backed recent protest urging the government to proceed with a delayed census, which would probably give regions like santa cruz or tax revenue and congress seats, or the right wing camacho has long pause the left wing government of louis. okay, an ally of evil morales and is pushing for a federal system. what respects province rights to reasonable has more now from

when his iris we're hearing now that there is a request for a pre trial, the tension of 6 months. and we're going to have exactly to see how to follow up, you know, come up with being accused right now of terrorism charge is something that's being related to the ouster of morales back in 2019. we can remember how much you're going all the way philip and carrying a bible and a resignation that there and also leading the process that ended with a will mortality cleaning the contract. i said before he was arrested doing a police operation. he was thrown on the floor, handcuffed and later on, taken to la bath, where he was right now being questions and he remains there. he's not the, he's the 2nd high profile figure related to the out there of able model is the interim precedent. i mean, was also a pre trial, the pension and with recently sentence to 10 years in prison for sedition. and again, for plotting against the constitution. she was sentenced 10 years in prison and

many believe that that could be can not just fade what were being hearing is that the former president has also presidential candidate for example, capital miss that is questioning this the tension thing of the government of research to say is using the judiciary to go after political opponents. however, many in the country are celebrating that this detention happened, accusing him again of leading the protest that many say in bolivia ended with a cool one with the as to what i live, brazil's president elect lewis in our seo lula da silva has finished announcing his cabinet ahead of his inauguration on new year's day, one of his final picks is amazon activists. marina silva as environment minister silva was responsible for brazil's most effective strategy for reducing deforestation in that role during lola's 1st presidency, a re appointment as seen as a sign. the new administration will crack down on illegal logging and powerful agri,

business interests. hula has promised to end all deforestation by 20. 30 freezing temperatures in the deep south of the united states have severely damaged water systems, causing an emergency for local officials. water distribution stations have been set up in jackson, mississippi, with bottled water being handed out to locals. the city is experiencing severe water shortages because of pipes bursting across the city from the drop in temperature. officials are working to repair those leaks. the historic winter blizzard, the swept across the us and canada has turned one ontario town into a fairy tale like ice town. drone video shows lake front homes in the fort, erase community completely frozen over local said waves from lake iraq crashed over their homes. during the storm and then froze ethnic serbs have been removing barricades in northern call. several hours after christina reopened

the main crossing with serbia protest this had been demonstrating for weeks over the detention of a former sir police officer who's now been moved to house arrest. the serbian government has pulled back its troops from near the constable border. they were deployed there this week as tensions rose for section of bangladesh as 1st their metro rail service is opened in darker hundreds of excited residents formed long lines in the early hours to wait their turn on the rail service. once completed, the network is expected to carry around $60000.00 people an hour across 6 lines of japan, provided most of the funding for the, the near $3000000000.00 project. it's already said will help reduce traffic and densely populated city paths to help my brother to laser to my door. and i've been here since morning waiting in line to ride the metro rail because it was a dream project for us. now that the dream has come true, i'm feeling great. a feminist. yes, yolande. know what? i'm taking the train ride with my family feeling very good. by the grace of god,

i want to give thanks to our prime minister. i feel like we are progressing day by day, like this so happy and i'm not able to express it with words who waiting to get to get since 7 am in the morning. and now i finally got this chance to ride the train . that's it for me, julie mcdonald's on the team here for this news hour. i will be back in just a 2nd though with much more of the day's new. see then ah, with across the globe ecosystems under immense stretch,

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