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i money in sight is it out, is there a life from doha also coming up tributes for in from around the world for all my pope benedict, the 16th who has died at the age of 95, australia and canada become the latest countries to impose cove and 19 checks on travelers from china, way infections off soaring. ah, well, well, in the new year we'll be in new york with 2023 day explosions have robbed ukraine's capital less than an hour into the new year. they follow a barrels of missile strikes by russia, targets, and keys and other cities. the 1st bloss 2023 had 2 districts, gave may of the tale says that the defense system was working to defend the city

residence, shouted glory to ukraine from the balconies. as the explanations hit. charles stratford has the latest from keith. a residential street on file homes destroyed real good. obama. a dead woman covered by a plastic sheet hold the rosa marble, whom the aftermath of yet another barrage of russian missiles when the ukrainian capital keep not almost awesome and growth of america me and my husband were literally thrown into the corridor. we regained consciousness. we heard glass chattering, and then there was an explosion, one after another. we ran to the basement mode. now when we came out into the street, we saw ambulances, and there are casualties. scoring for hip, seeing the so tell was reportedly only closed down in recent days was also hit by what's believed to have been an intercepted russian missile. the walker's mother,

the hulu. it was a nightmare. it was a massive explosion. we have a strong building, but it still shook. i was standing by the window and went to the corridor and hid. i can't believe it was so close yet and i show you another neighbourhood. police gather shrapnel, nearer to me to the crater of a single building, isn't partially destroyed. people rush to repair their windows in winter cold. this is the 3rd consecutive day roches launched missiles, or so called kamikaze drones, cranium capital, and numerous cities across the country. alexis with his wife tatiana in their sitting room. it was a sun, deafening blast. there were bristol fell to the floor. i entered my head. my

husband face was cut. it was terrifying. what can we do now? is cold and they are afraid of ma. strikes is a constant fear for safer with perpetual hon. there was a crash and glass flew. i was afraid for my wife, more than myself. briefly were she, she was a blood covered pavement in a park where children lay, shock fear, and the terrifying uncertainty of not knowing where the next one will land scenes of utter devastation in this residential neighbourhood, the level of the destruction here. it's incredible that more people were injured or killed. this is new years eve on the cranium. capital chance travel al jazeera cave, he cranes president says his country will never forgave russia for the latest barracks strikes. giga lincoln or several waves of missile attacks on years eve, missiles against people, the non humans did it,

and non humans will lose you. and i know it terrorists can not change it or easter be carried out such attacks. and at christmas now at new year, they call themselves christians. they are very proud of their orthodoxy, but they are following the devil till no one will ever forgive you for the terrace . no one in the world will forgive you for this. ukraine will never forgive, and you yourself will not forgive putin, everything he will destroy, and every one he will kill. or russia's leader has spent new year's eve with soldiers who have fought in ukraine. vladimir putin says moral and historical rightness is on russia side. says 4th is a funny thing to protect people in what he called historical territories. it's a reference to areas of eastern ukraine illegally annexed by moscow. during the conflict, frances has paid tribute to his predecessor benedict to the 16th who has died at

the age of 95 for the head of the catholic church from the world. when he resigned and 2013, he was the 1st pope to step down in 600 years by francis called him a noble kind man who was a gift to the church, the world and louis empty laser quest, a momento. at this moment, our thoughts go to our dearest hope, benedict, the 16th, who left us this morning. it is with emotion that we remember this person so noble, so kind of young and we feel in our heart such gratitude, gratitude to god for having gifted him to the church and the world. gratitude to him all the good he has accomplished. and especially for his witness of faith and prayer, especially in these last years of his retired life is only god knows the value and strength of the intersection of his sacrifices offered the good of the church al jazeera, as poor. brandon takes a look back at the form of pope's legacy. benedict the 16th final actors,

pope arguably changed the catholic church more than anything else he achieved during his entire ha papacy. on february 28th 2013 benedict became the 1st pope in nearly 600 years to resign. and with his departure flight over the rooftops of rome he officially left behind the vatican the enclave where he'd held key leadership positions for decades. the official reason for the than 85 year old decision was frail health. the vatican stress benedict didn't suffer from any specific illness. but even by 2011, his physical deterioration was obvious. and he had to use a wheel platform to make his way down the long aisle of saint peter's basilica. in his room is indeed her getting in these last months i felt my energies declining, and her boss got insistently in prayer to grant me his light. and to help me make the right decision or not loving the church means also having the courage to make

difficult and painful decisions always look into the good of the church and not of oneself. benedict was elected pope in 2005, his reputation as a hard liner, earned him the sober k gods rottweiler. he was a traditionalist with strict views on catholic doctrine, but his was a troubled papacy. benedict certainly made numerous efforts to tackle the global problem of child sex abuse by catholic clergy. but he was also criticized for his own past failures and inadequate handling of abuse cases. and in 2012 documents leaked by his butler in the vatike scandal, revealed a papal administration, riddled with factional power struggles and financial mismanagement. i was at base complex. there was a very different feeling, a very different dynamic in the 2013 when it was as if it is a 16 by, by retiring, by standing down simply handed over a job. you know, that was that was that needed to be done straight away. he handed over as it were,

an inbox that was very clear. and so that the couples were able to say, right, this is what needs doing. who is the best person to do the job? the full reasons for benedict resignation may never be known, but the message of reform that it seemed to cent is credited with profoundly influencing the cardinal choice of pope frances has benedict successor, canada and australia become the latest countries imposed over 19 checks on travelers from china where infections of soaring from january, the 5th, they'll have to show a negative p c r. test before departure. morocco is gone a step further and pacing about on all arrival from china. john, as president, judging, paying, says the country is entering a new phase in combating the pandemic misfires comments since the government abandoned at sarah cove, its trochi, he called for unity. the televised address james handling of the outbreak has

prompted criticism at home and concern abroad florence leary reports from hong kong at this shopping mall in beijing. people take a few moments to stop and listen to the chinese precedence you your speech. she didn't ping appealed for unity as his administration faces criticism at home. but handling of corona virus from want to move back, china is so big a country and for different people will have different demands and different views on the same thing, which is normal, where you, it is necessary to build consensus through communication and consultation. this more would normally have been packed or new year's eve, but infections had searched since the government abruptly reversed it. 0 cove, it policy, and that's put a damper on celebrations or the toiletry was horrible cold law. i hope the panoramic goes away in 2023 and a country goes back to normal. what i see at home, the whole of last year, the painting is horrible. i hope i don't have to stay at home this new year in hong

kong. the mood is decidedly different. nearly all cove. it requirements were removed on thursday. people out to party and hoping for a better year ahead. good man, bring hong kong back. yeah. we oh, the hong kong is going to be back to its former glory. why? how cold it goes away earlier, cuz it's affecting everybody. so yeah, the like the only indication cove it is still a concern. here are these face masts are mandatory in all public faces even outdoors. but to all china and hong kong have relaxed hove rooms of the countries, a fearful of another wave of infections and have placed restrictions on visitors from these places. and some health experts say the increased cases in china could lead to the development of new variance of the virus. florence li, al jazeera hong kong spent a 2nd day approaches in bolivia,

sound to cruise region after the arrest. if a right wing, oppositional leisure police were out in 4000 to friday's violent confrontation with supporters to jail, governor louis and under camacho, even arrested on thursday. i'm placed in pre trial detention camacho deny is accusations of leading a qu during purchased in 2019 the 4 spend president even morales from power. one claudio legend is a political analyst. he says, support for camacho has grown in other parts of bolivia. 6 months ago, nobody of the rest of the provinces would be backing a camacho very much. they didn't have very much sympathy. they didn't have very much they didn't have a good opinion of camacho, today's different today you can see very many protest not only samples, but also in different provinces of bolivia, because the bolivian people is feeling that it's not only come out to that same

period, but everybody else that everybody else could be kidnapped, everybody else could be everybody from your position could be taking to prison. they have complete power. odyssey and the, the party in government for after 15 years in power, they have the parliament, they have the police, they have intelligence laid by cubans. and the military's all thinking crazy by humans, very humans are very keen, oper, oper, oper, active, political, military operative. so i think he will face probably the same faith that jamie, i knew, because there is no organized opposition that can stop for the time being he's doing the government, this kind of human rights violations fil, ahead on al jazeera,

i'm john henry in guyana, where despite an oil boom. the country is investing heavily in solar power. ah, ah, hello, release a little on several across the middle east. over the next couple of days, you can see a fair amount to cloud. this rattling saudi arabia right from the red sea. pushing over towards the gulf, i think the wet weather will be cross western pall. so saudi arabia to the most of that it is generally drive to the south of that. again, generate dry not fair and too badly tempered his hair. and though hot around 23 celsius that we should escape the rank but some wet weather was you can see the central and western parts of a saudi joseph. some showers too, went to the far north east of africa and went to whether a possibility, just drifting in northern parts of egypt may be the northeast of libya. much of

north africa is dry, still. a breezy hampton wind just piling some dust and sand lifted dust and sand that thus placed there for chad. furniture pushing down into northern parts of nigeria just nudging a little further west was but for much of west africa. again, it is generally dry and we have got some very heavy showers, a rod across the tropics, and you look across towards somalia. if the opiate or track could see some unusual wet weather coming in here for the time, if you any showers containing a cross angola, zambia sang some heavy shells. northern parts of botswana also sing some lavish as well with most am peak and south africa. ah, a jenny both dog because you know, there's a very for everything. there's a lot of corruption and beautiful lake and beauty for many years to be very patient and today so. so the same as us, in any case,

i was introduced to when my father and my mother were arching for king, for the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from headland on al jazeera. oh, the me you're watching out the reminder of our top stories, if our explosions have shaken ukraine's capital less than an hour into the new year, they follow firewalls of missile strikes by russia. ta, everything keys and all the cities. first class of 2023. it to district leaders around the world, paying tribute benedict to 16 who has died at the age of $95.00 and let the

catholic church. but just on the 8 years step down and 2013 because of ill health. canada and australia have become the latest countries compose cove and 19 checks on travelers from china away. infections all storing morocco has gone a step further, imposing a ban on all the arrivals from china. and north korea. leda is promising an exponential increase in the production of nuclear weapons state media, se kim john and has ordered new intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear capability. says he won't see off to out class the u. s. and south korean forces as get more with units came, who is live for us in? so you know, how serious are these threats by came john? well, it certainly suggests more of the public cations, in to the new year that we saw in the last year, 2022,

where some 70 ballistic missiles were fired. king john then, as you said, ordering redoubled efforts for a new intercontinental ballistic missile system in lightly reference to solid fuel missile over liquid fuel. these comments coming from a 6 day expanded plenary meeting of its ruling workers, party, which wrapped on saturday in which the state lays out its plans for the new year, came down with also called for a mass production of tactical nuclear weapons. this comes as north korea opened the new year with what south korea is military cause a single short range ballistic missile shortly before 3 am this morning that flew some 400 kilometers east into waters, ah, east of the korean peninsula. now it is rare for a north korea to fire,

a ballistic missile in violation of multiple un security council resolutions on the 1st of the year. but we are hearing from kung young that this particular missile as well as a 3 other short range ballistic missiles that had fired on december 31st came from what it called a super large multiple rocket launcher, or m r l. some 600 millimeters in size, which is double your a conventional m r l. elsewhere in the world, he was young and reportedly said that 30 of these systems were ready for deployment in order to overwhelm the enemy in reference to south korea. there, once again, this comes on the heels of a record breaking, smashing a ballistic missile lunch in 2022. and we are, we often talk about icbm, but many of those were short range, ballistic missiles,

tested and launched from random places in north korea suggesting that it was ready to launch an attack for any time at any place. again, setting up for another volatile year here on the cramping henslowe with neither side, backing down. thank you for that unit. kim, the for us live in sold. now securities been beefed out in brazil's count. oh, before the swearing in no president elect louis in oscio new la da silva on sunday is suppose has been gathering for the event. last week's foiled bomb close by supportive outgoing lead, a gyal ball snar, his res tension in the country. also, nar, narrowly lost october's runoff election, often divisive and bitterly fort campaign. well, the country has changed a lot since lula left office back in 2011 off to serving 2 terms as president. he has promised in his words, to make brazil happy again. but he faces a long list of hurdles from rising poverty to

a public service in crisis. one can yanna keep reports from re edition era not long ago whose eyes were comments, 9 out of every tender zone children receiving the regular vaccine. it took 3 decades of hard work to build the public health system in brazil, reaching the most remote areas of latin, america's largest country. but medical professionals say the vaccination program had been all but destroyed just the last 4 years. well, but i just threw me up to it and it was blow inflicted by president job olson, autos. right. wing government was to our credibility. we spent 30 years convincing brazilians to get their free shots regularly. but both scenarios costs so many doubts about the efficacy that not only 60 percent of our children are being vaccinated. as a result, diseases like measles and polio, which had been eradicated on making a come back. revitalizing brazil's public health system is but one of many

challenges president like we've seen as soon as possible we'll have to face once he takes off his son. january 1st. education is another, the called the 19 pandemic, coupled with a lack of investment, has increased the education gap between rich and poor, and between whites and blacks. the goddesses, always affable as a lead of both scenarios, wanted to end the affirmative action policies establishing racial quotas and universities. he could it but stopped giving students financial aid for transportation and accommodation. as a result of 30 percent of those he benefited from quotas, had to drop out because they had no money to travel back and forth. with the pandemic that went up to 50 percent, who actually the virus also caused public schools 9 year old these years, like many who live in rios fellows, forgot much of what he had learned by just didn't wannna,

i was unemployed. i just had another baby. and had no money for why fi or food for vinicius, standing on his on, on an empty stomach was almost impossible. and that is perhaps an illness greatest challenge. curbing hunger. brazil is one of the world's largest exporters of grain and meat, but volunteers here are scrambling for donations to feed a small portion of the countries growing number of hungry being cio citizenship action has collected 1500 tons of food. this is enough to feed 600000 brazilians, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the 33000000 that have nothing to eat. that is the same number of hungry people. brazil had 30 years ago, a number reduced to 4 and a half 1000000 by 2014. now the country is back to square one. citizenship action, blame successive right when governments for reducing by 96 percent investments in social plans to reduce poverty from 2016,

2022. that hungered roles from 4500000 people to 33000000 people. that's 50 percent of the country leaving the incomplete hunger lula has promised to continue distributing a $120.00 monthly emergency handouts to the poor as bill so now did. during the pandemic. you also promised an additional $30.00 for every needy child. but finding the money to solve so many pressing social demands at a time when the economy is in crisis, will be perhaps less biggest challenge. overall monica in ocoee of all jazeera rio de janeiro. brazil is in a 3rd day of national mourning for pele, widely known as the king of football. like football legends wake will be held on monday, the club stadium and santos, where he fast made his name. tens of thousands of people are expected to attend a funeral procession carrying his cough in through the city on she stay. as i've

been reporting cities around the wells have been ringing in the new year with countdowns and of course be spectacular fi. whack displays many of seen a return to full scale festivities on to the removal of pandemic restrictions. eeoc is the latest to hold its celebrations. let's go to gabriel, alexander, who is bad for us live, and you've been enjoying the countdown that which took place in the last 10 minutes as i took us to what's been happening. yeah, there are a lot of new years parties throughout the world, but nothing quite like what we see here every year in times square in new york city . it's a really festive event that brings tens of thousands of people here to this most famous area of new york city and one the most famous areas anywhere in the world. and this year was no different despite a light downfall of rain throughout the evening. this so time square was packed

throughout the evening as people from around the world were here ringing in the new year. now this was the 1st time in the last 2 years since the beginning of the pandemic, that there were no restrictions here in times square of for new year's eve celebrations . and so it was sort of a new beginning, if you will. and then new york city certainly hoping that this will lead to better times here in the year and years ahead. quite frankly. there was confetti that fell from the sky. i people cheering music hugging. of course, when the ball dropped down when the, when they hit midnight, of course that bull very famous crystal waterford crystal ball that weighs 6 tons about the size of a weight of an elephant. and it has 2688 crystals on it. they can

up to 6000000 different types of lights that can emanate from it. so certainly it was a fantastic evening here in times where as it has been since 19 o 4, that's the 1st time people started gathering here in time square to ring in the new year. certainly as a mayor here, new york city said, he said, welcome to everyone and said, spend your money in new york city and he said, new york city is back, but certainly an incredible event here bringing in the new year here in time square . thank you for that. gabriel. as on the that for us live in time square guyana is undergoing an energy be a month. huge oil fields were discovered off its atlantic coast. now it's using that new found wealth to funds solar projects benefiting isolated mainly indigenous communities. john henry reports from georgetown. i

deep in the remote jungles of gayana far from the coastal power grid where the kite 2 or falls me to rain forest, the blankets, the landscape. a new generation of guy and he's our indian. seeing the light before solar power panels in during the village, this underdeveloped bridge, and ran on expensive diesel generators, or no power at all. it is hard to find that didn't have lead time in the village kato, an hour and a half flight from the capital of georgetown solar energy now powers the school's new computer lab, the lights and air conditioning that cools this tropical climate. quite comfortable here in a remote area. so it's beautiful in terms of having solar energy and electricity open running. even fetched roof huts are energized off the grid. it for all of the help. even government didn't like who they are or the village off if

this renewable renaissance was previously possible, but unaffordable until now, beneath the waters off the guy and he's coast lies a newly discovered bounty of oil, enough to transform a country with a poverty rate near 40 percent, according to the world bank, to an oil rich republic. now the nation's newfound oil wealth is funding in energy project that is electrifying the rural landscape. we are pursuing a program to provide some 30000 solar home systems to communities that are distant and far removed from the national well going on is just beginning to export oil to the world president. your fun only wants to replace carbon based fuels at home with renewable energy, with a goal of cutting the cost of power in half. we have a very or writ, system, or power is driven by fossil fuel. the demand for power has grown exponentially. so

we're investing in solar hydro, when our natural gas, as part of our energy mix, the nation's energy planners are harnessing the rain forest rivers to power. hydro plants like this one near kato, even in the capital of georgetown were guy on his oil boom is being felt the most solar power is transforming the landscape and the power grid event boom, can continue. experts say the fossil fuel bounty of the guy in east coast has the potential to provide clean energy to the countries remotest regions and lift the fortunes of the next generation. john henderson, al jazeera georgetown, guyana ah, says out, there are these, you'd help stories, explosions of shaken ukraine's capital less than an hour into new year. they follow a barrel of missiles drawn by russia targets and keys and other the see if

a lot of 2023.