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many believe was the greatest of all time, has died aged 82. the only player to have 13 world cops had been undergoing cancer treatment out of south pardon hospital or latin america editor lucille newman. begins our coverage the he was born and then she's not him in thought. 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. they played for the famous samples club and some follow up 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 final against injury hampered 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 us injury as he provided unforgettable memories on the way to the world cup

victory. number 3, before he hung up his boot, his star dust was used to try and ignite soccer in the united states with the new york cosmos. by this time, i 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, he was 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. mother warner, who 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 shall fall 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. will pallet's official twitter page posted the news of his death, saying, inspiration and love the journey of king pele, who peacefully passed away today? love love and love forever. her pallet's daughter, enough mental posted about his death on instagram, saying everything we are is because of you. we love you infinitely rest in peace. and the brazilian football confederation wrote play was far more than the greatest sportsmen of all time. or king of football was the highest exponent of a victorious winning brazil who never got scared in the face of difficulties. he 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 monica and i care for joins us from rio dish near monica, a wave of sadness and respect for a man who transcended football. yes, it's true. i am, his death was a surprise in some ways, but it was also expected. um, he had been taken heat taken to the hospital some weeks ago he had coven 19. and that developed into an infect, a lung infection which was being treated for. but what really i got him was the cancer that he could no longer fight because the medicine wasn't working any more. so we were expecting his death at a even in the middle of the world cup of the journalists flocked to spittle. ah, his family said they were getting condolences ahead of time because it was in his

time yet there were going to spend christmas with him which they did um. and after that his situation got worse. although during the world cup, he still cheered for the brazilian national team and he watched and he thanked to everybody that was sending him their best wishes from guitar and from across the world. and interestingly, interestingly enough, ah, he is survived by his mother said less. she just turned a 100 years old. last november. the wake will be on monday in sun fills his home town. he already had his funeral preparations made. he had acquired a space in the vertical cemetery, the 9th floor overlooking the sun, the stadium. and the funeral will be on tuesday. the 2nd right after the presidential inauguration because on january the 1st,

which is also new year's um president elect wheezing. now sula, the silver will be sworn in so right after that, we will have bella's wake and his funeral. and many, many people are expected to be there, not only from brazil, but from other parts of the world. ok, monica, not here. stir. lie for us in rio de janeiro. thanks. well, some of the sports biggest names have paid tribute to pay on social media argentina as well. come, when captain little messy posted a photo of himself with pele on his instagram accountant bid farewell to the football legend. and brazil forward naima said hello, changed football as a sport. he went on to say that he turned football into art and he gave voice to the poor. he's gone, but his magic will remain well at sir, bringing football,

journalist, santiago? vasa. he joins us for mendoza in argentina. a good to have you with us here. he wasn't just a huge footballing legend was he but also an extraordinary ambassador for the sport? yes, absolutely. it. it feels like a anything that i can possibly say about bellis role? not just in football, but outside football the school might come short because you're just through the, one of the one that they are very, very 1st global icons of the sports which probably turn millions if not the i'm, you know, 10 sort of hundreds of millions of football fans is really one of the 1st place. a lot of people saw one of the 1st favorite players that a lot of people had. i believe one of the best place to be considered the best of all time at their own sports. i think. and well, he can find countless countless players who have been inspired by him. countless

other, you know, all the stuff happened to find the biggest barrier was such a, you be could just figure you could seen in movies because in as, and you probably one of the very 1st bowlers you could see basically anywhere in the world. and he was just the assistant before you know, um, an ambassador for the sports and ambassador for brazil and ambassador for south america and will so, so, so much more, he was a huge figure. and with that ad you lation, how much of a role model was he for underprivileged communities in brazil and beyond? well, i was actually reading from someone that it was pearly football's 1st and most famous rags to riches story, which i think is a pretty accurate description of what. but he has achieved the full will have even made possible for a football or an athlete to become not just the,

i mean from going going from middle forward here from, you know, humble beginnings into just unprecedented levels of super stardom a fame of or riches you know, i'm the only one of the re, main reasons why you can see that, that story, that, you know, humble beginnings, to, you know, global superstar. you see not so much of football. and you see how though the game has the ball and the game is wrong. exponentially, in economic terms, in the house made a mailing this out of a players who began in such such a difficult conditions. and he was the originator of all of that he made, he made that possible us as a way of life. you know, as a, as a career rule for someone to go from, from that to, you know, global global, becoming a global solid. him indeed, and how much did he bring to the world cup to that competition?

in particular, when you think that he achieved so much in the world cup from such a young age, i mean, it feels like a bully has become synonymous with the woke up. it's not, no, no part of history of the, the competition can be remember without thinking l. a. but if there are certainly been players will play more games, who played out more walk ups and who also, you know, made the mark at the tournament with synthesis prudently, us this year. you know, with william, that message gets up. but also the thing with bell is that, i mean, there still has to be, i mean was the waiting for and i was there was one the competition 3 times for someone who us ignited the woke up from such a young age becoming bully, one of the greatest teenagers to ever play football, you know who i am to 2 out of out of nothing school a 100 and have been a brace in

a final at 70 years old. and to carry on and even boss is bryan still the coming the greatest player on the beach, every single type of brazil, one of the greatest football teams the whole time in $1070.00 with brazil as well. you know, it's those are absolutely remarkable achievements. even if, when we actually consider that we didn't quite so billy and he speak playing at the woke up because of that injury is 6 to and then in 6 to 6. again, even considering that we still saw, i mean versions of belyea playing football that we would probably never see from another football player for decades. and yet that's how he has become synonymous with a woke up with the way he was a winning machine. he was one when people, every time the sewing years from the, the introduction tool to, for, for a lot of people because of what he did on the woke up on. yeah, i mean, his legacy is right there. still, these achievements are still to be matched in football. ok,

football. jernace santiago? boughs at thank you very much indeed for joining us. and as with we can see her now. these are large pictures from south parlor outside the stadium where police started his career. for santos, he really was the most extraordinary gifted footballer. and as we can see, the tributes are only just beginning well, i spoke to al jazeera, sandy richardson in 2007. is that interview with the football legend? the news, 30 years of the cooling time on his in comparable korea, they remained arguably the most famous football on the planet. he was in

ketosis, is it the spar academy, a center designed to spot and develop the best young sporting talents in the country? the multi $1000000.00 facilities for here launches away from what the young pele experienced when he started out the brazilian club sent us. the idea is to prepare the man i know to give you the occasion to the youngest because the lot from good, the player they lost. they come here because they didn't have support. i think the philosophy this by the known this project is to make the man 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 that have to be a dock though processor. my mother used to say now don't place the get the knee injuries and then they have to stop for no one near that time. you didn't have the, the facility to do the operation, and then he has to, the, we have a little problem financial problem. then my mother was against that. but i have a luck because with the, you know, it's a sense as imagine with 16 i did my 1st game in the national team of brazil and the with 17, i was in the woke up in sweden. i have a luck, but the not is not the everyone who has the kind of a paternity. 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 footballs, charms. 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 know against the american football and baseball and basketball. and then i remember linda wasn't cosmos and known george best, who was in the l e. we did the same time the same promotion and now back and i'm going to have the opportunity to do the same. i think it's been for them to have a big name to keep the discipline boy in life. what do you remember about those days in the seventy's? the faint, almost show been coming to football than that? oh, of the beginning of a little tough for me because the 1st year was 75 and 76

the claws muzzle as the colors seem to have 2 of the good players. and then we make a good team with the beckon bo, as ga can learn, 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 plaza, most 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 all the plays over there as well. doesn't really make an impact, i think is important 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 in the center of 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, they, they didn't have too much for trinity to be themself. they cannot to have creativity because all the poets from the 14 and 15 on the 6 in the court. they went to play for when you know, every game they went to in and then the players who has even is the they, they didn't allowed. they said no, you cannot do this. you to do another driven. they want to pick out. then i think

this be done for the future for both the see you have a very few escape for players now because of the passion on the years. i think this is one thing that we would not asian for the future. also ahead here on al jazeera, these 19 people are killed in a fire at the casino hotel in cambodia. some were forced to jump from the burning building. ah how low there. let's look to north america, and it's a tale of 2 extremes. just days ago we had that major storm bringing a deep freeze to much of the us with things have certainly for what warmer air, blowing up from the gulf coast, pushing temperatures up particular across more central and eastern areas. if we have a look at the 3 day for new york city over the new year period will be touching 12

degrees on sunday with lots of sunshine. and we still got the risk of possible flooding to the low in mississippi valley and some of the states across the gulf coast that thanks to this rush of storms stretching their way up towards the great lakes and a spell of winter storms pulling in from the west bringing the wintery weather further east and heavy rain to the likes of california. certainly through to saturday, much quieter to the southwestern. it's a pretty quiet picture for much of central america and the caribbean long spell, the sunshine for the likes of cuba. now that's not the case, the parts of south america in particular, brazil was still got those plume. that plume of storm stretching all the way up to the amazon basin. breathe, very heavy, rain to coastal areas. in particular, rio de janeiro. we are going to see those thundershowers extending all the way through to sunday, with 27 degrees. ah,

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has died at the age of 80. he been undergoing treatment for colon cancer at a south park hospital is considered by many to have been the greatest player of all time. albany is now the most right wing and religious. the conservative government in israel's history has been sworn in leading the countries ambassador to france to resign in protest. a coalition that will be led by benjamin netanyahu, his returning for his 6th term as prime minister. so a hierarchy reports from western recent. the look at the, the, the benefits office, 2 months in the making and the loss of political wrangling, israel now has a new government the most fall right on, religiously conservative one in the country's history. despite the corruption trial, benjamin netanyahu returns asked prime minister, thanks to a coalition of an ultra orthodox. i'm nationalists block heckling from opposition. members in the can, i didn't. him for making is message clear. israel security continues to be his top

priority. i'm seem obvious, you know, we will guarantee israel's military advantage in the region through unceasing empowerment. the 1st mission is to make sure that iran but a ny, later with nuclear bombs. also high up on the agenda is the normalization of relations with more are countries under the 2028 for whom accord netanyahu's new cabinet promises to expand illegal settlements in the occupied west bank raising phase of an escalation intentions on a domestic level. most controversial netanyahu is granting major concessions to the far right coalition, made up of policies until recently was still on the political fringes. hundreds of anti government protesters gathered outside the connecticut, demonstrating against some ministerial appointments and it out including that's of it's a may have been convicted of incitement to racism in 2007. but now security minister

had a personalized law passed in his name on wednesday, giving him unprecedented powers over the police force. are the controversial laws passing through the dairy and smotts rich laws. the 1st allowed aria dairy leader of the shafts party to become the interior minister despite a recent suspended sentence for tax fraud. the latter giving smotts rich head of the religious liners and party, a role within the defense ministry, overseeing illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. critics are concerned that some of these new policies will have far reaching consequences, including the undermining of the judicial system whereby the supreme court could be overruled. these were all preconditions set by the coalition for the government to be sworn in in the 1st place. and we will probably see weaker nathan yet because his body is much weaker with the v bodies, like the religious zone is because of a trial. and because he has no moderate policy within the coalition, like in the past, this is the 6 government in less than 4 years. and netanyahu already has

a lot on his plate with the country at its most divided. netanyahu is back as prime minister, and he says he will be the one setting the agenda for the current government. he also says that red lines won't be crossed and he won't be stayed by what he calls ride the call ideology. bazzi is mostly in this position, thanks to a fart rights coalition. now the big question is, who will have the upper hand side? a height of al jazeera went through filane. russia has launched one of its biggest missiles strikes from ukraine since the start of the war. ukraine's military says its air defenses shot down 54. 69 rockets . far crews have been fighting a place that what's been described as ukrainian electricity infrastructure site in hong kong. and not everyone made it to safety. as far stratford reports from keith

at least one man was believed had been in this house. when he was hit by an intercepted russian missile was rushed to hospital emergency service, he search, but any body else, dead or alive under the rubble. the mother and daughter were also found injured in the house next door. tatiana cries into her friend's arms. barbara, my grand daughter called me and said that has been explosion and that my daughter was unconscious. undesirable. she is in a hospital now. i don't know her condition that yarn as other daughter yana arrives more. mamma stop now please. she says stop crying. salvage food from the fridge sits on a wall. jelena picks her way through the destruction

william wallace. my grandmother made this. she says, this lovely garden falco with 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 are safe. his mobile phone footage reportedly shows one of dozens of russian cruise missiles soaring across the sky. ah, the spotted shows what's believe to be a ukrainian, a defense team successfully destroying another before it reached its target. 6 ah, bill storage you say the majority of miss isles in this latest barrage were intercepted with a she 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 would be to be careful 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 below 35 people shelter there. a blanket covers a dead dog killed in the blast. we went to john. i find her pet alive. maybe she cradles it, him harms. amongst what remains of her home. don't be afraid, she says, don't be afraid. shall stanford al jazeera. give. rescue is expect the death told to rise when the search for bodies resumes from

a hotel fire in that come buddha, at least 19 people died in the blaze and a ton of point on the tie. boy, the hurry force, it has more 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 the provincial government says overloaded, electrical wiring, supplying new year's 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. it's end hanging many floors above the ground a lot. we don't rescue say many more likely never to have got out of rooms and corridors that quickly filled with dense smoke. isn't it that we know of now? a tired,

couldn't there right there now waiting to be identified with the town of point pet lies just on the combo de, inside of the border with thailand. casino gambling is illegal in thailand and for cambodian citizens income bodie, 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 a blaze. sometimes mostly people who are in their local ties. i'm sad and i think you've helped came foster. the rescue came faster, they wouldn't be the national 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. harry full sit al jazeera.