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inauguration of president. he liked louise and osceola da silva. we live from brasilia. north korea's lead a promise is an exponential increase in the production of nuclear weapons class. i'm john hendern, in guyana, where despite an oil boom, the country is investing heavily in solar power. ah, crecia has adopted the euro as of sunday january. the 1st becomes nearly 10 years after it joined. the european union also becomes part of the shingles zone, meaning unrestricted, travel to other member nations. stephanie becca has more from zagreb. it's not just a new year. it's also a whole new currency and here and crecia feelings are mixed or seems eminent. every country who took on the euro, you less than the top leaving went down, i think is going to be the same and gray shorts. danny,

so sorry. i'm not happy because i think everything will be more expensive to be honest. i don't really care about it that much. so i think it's probably a natural transition and that's fine with me when it comes to business imports, exports, and the tourism. the crecia is hugely reliant on many say it's a benefit. more than half of our external trades is done with the euro zone countries, and approximately 2 thirds of the tourist overnight face a done by the tourists who are coming from the euro area. so for us, it's a huge, it's important for our tourism, for our economy, the jeweler, mario not guy agrees, i think it will be easier to, to work and many levels and we don't lose money on conversions. the challenge in the short term, however, is that for the next 2 weeks, the local currency can still be used to buy, but the change must be in euro's. we will be a little exchange,

but though i will push more kind of payment and just to slowly transition i think i hope the card payment will work with if the brakes, other than we are in the 1st day of 2023 has another 1st 2 as the euro currently takes over your career is also entering the shank and zone. it's the 1st time a country adopt both on the same day. and that means that from now on, if you're entering or exiting from the change in zone know more identity or board of trucks, most of creations, foreign visitors, a european se needs a lot indefinitely. num border sandy in and border control center for the movement of people and everything. yeah, for now, it's the new euro, that is one of the main subjects of conversation. and prices will continue to be displayed in both currencies as the people navigate their way through the transition. minis, austell, i'm sorry, we are losing the corner,

but nobody as the people, i feel sorry, because i think a country which has its own currency, maintains its identity and historical values. not just an economic and political change, but for many here. the loss of a small sense of creation identity, even if it comes with benefits. stephanie decker, al jazeera zagreb, european commission president does have underlie and says it's a historic day. to day grace had joined the shannon area and the euro zone till immense achievements for the youngest member state of the european union and both reached on the very same day. so indeed, this is a day for the history books. krasier is adopting the euro at a difficult time for the content. the european central bank is trying to curve inflation after years of providing stimulus packages to support growth,

or cray sure is hoping it's new cars. he will bring economic stability as it baffles the $13.00 inflation rate. and despite not adopting the euro, when it 1st joined the ear in 2013, the currency is already widely used across the corporation economy. earlier we spoke to a divorce again aero a political analyst in croatia. he says this march remove is a good one for creations as the country solidifies its integration into the european union. by just putting this nationalistic group oriented people in gray show door that this good cause the problem decrease losing monitoring, so serenity. and that is not a good choice for creation, but really great is not a, using its monitors or anything for the last 25 years, at least. so it has

a fixed exchange rate for euro. and now we're entering in a euro's own a very it has the opportunity for 3 good issues. one is substance substantial one because the interest rate will be lower and the credit ratings will be better. the 2nd reason is stack and go gratia use. most of it business doing in euro's and creations are making their savings over the now in euro. and finally, it's a symbolic issue when grey, she's becoming a part of hard main

integration. also, european union explosions have shaken the ukrainian capital just after the country . welcome the new year, half an hour into 2023 kids air raid sirens rang out with la following. shortly after the cities man says that defense systems are working to protect people who are a barrel of attacks on saturday. that killed at least one person and rational state media is reporting one person has been killed in ukrainian shelling officials in the city of nevada here and the russian held don yet, screech and release. the statement that sang a woman was also injured when the training forces fired at the city on sunday. that either mister play, she doesn't, you would lose him next year. won't be easy. that's russia's enemies will continue to break it, but they will not succeed. we have become stronger because we are united because

truth and victory on our side that everything will be done to ensure that the lives of millions of residents of our country and its new land are safe and prosperous. we will always defend the rights and freedoms of our people as their language, culture, and religion, and protect the present and future of our homeland region. 14 people have been killed, pack enough gas, towns, capital cobble. it happened in the early hours of sunday morning, near the international airport. 18 people were injured. the body of the tackle was found near the scene. now group has claimed responsibility yet. security has been increased in brazil's capsule ahead of the swearing in the president like lou louise and little silver on sunday. last week's bum plot by a supporter of outgoing liter javelle. so narrow res tension and but as the leader most sonata narrowly lost dog. so it was run off after a devices and busily faults campaign. the country has become deeply divided since

lou left office in 2011 after serving 2 terms as president. he's promised in his words, to make brazil happy again. but he faces many hurdles, monica anarchy of explains not long ago seems like this were common room out of every 10 buffoon children receiving their regular vaccines. 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 and medical professionals say the vaccination program has been all but destroy in just the last 4 years. well, but i think the muffled daughter, young, the worst blow inflicted by president job also narrows right when government was to our credibility. we spent 30 years convincing brazilians to get their free shot regularly. but both scenarios caused so many doubts about the efficacy. that not only 60 percent of our children are been vaccinated as a result,

diseases like measles and polio, which had been eradicated, are making a comeback. revitalizing brazil's public health system is but one of many challenges president like moved to nassau, luna, the sober we'll have to face once he takes off his son. january 1st. education is another. they're 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 gather siege, always after resolute of both scenarios, wanted to end the affirmative action policies establishing racial quotas and universities. he couldn't but stopped giving students financial aid for transportation and accommodation as a result of 30 percent of those he benefited from quote his head to drop out because they had no money to travel back and forth with the pandemic that went up to 50 percent. the virus all so close public schools, 9 year old these years like many who live in reels for vellows,

forgot much of what he had learned about your money. i was unemployed, i just had another baby and had no money for why fi or food for vinicius, starting on his on, on an empty stomach was almost impossible. and that is perhaps a little as greatest challenge curbing hunger. brazil is one of the world's largest exporters of grain and meet like 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 living 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, will less biggest challenge overall are now joined by monica anarchy of live in brazilian. so it's been a tense time in the build up with bomb scares. how's it looking to day

yes, it's a very tense situation because the country is still divided even the indigenous people are divided. we have here, you adam, behind me there indigenous leaders that are against our president lewis in nashville lula, the silver selection. they say that it was rigged. um, they have been camping out here many people for 62 days in the rain in the sun. they say they will continue here even though presence able so now to himself has left brazil and has gone to florida in the united states. it's a similar situation to what happened in the united states of america, where tromp supporters doubted the results of the election. well, both on out of supporters also doubt the result of october 30th presidential elections in brazil. and i'm here with one of these protesters. ah, it dwaa huddle, wood outta and dar, he'll will explain what they want. well,

we been here over than 62 days. but because on the m supreme court of brazil ah, has deny it to give access to this source code of the electric belts that didn't very important. that's the only way to recount defaults was, is knows about it. people who talks about it has, has been going to jail. and this is, this is not democracy. we're fighting for liberty. we fighting for freedom refining for our real stage of the more democracy. and will you stay here until when in front of the military barracks, until we can, we are afraid of the next. her minister of defense sent us out of here. where's care of this? ah, because they are, they are trying to sciences. i not afraid. i am much fight until we can, but this is not easy. this is not easy. we have to to hold her emotions because you have no idea what we have been true over than 62 days. we really want whole

war world knows about it. sort of a roster english but oh, okay, sorry to be emotional here. let, let me finish please. you need to understand we're not, we are not only a few people. there's taunts, tens of millions of people in whole, brazil, and indigenous peoples are together, which white people, which black people and this is whole, brazil you need to know about it. thank you. okay, so as you know, oh wow. now now there are saying that lula is a thief, and they don't support that so. so now they're asking for the source code again. so it is a very divided nation that ha, reason us you, lula, well inherit in his one of his mean challenges be to unite this country once more. okay, thanks so much monica on here. now i, brazil is in

a 3rd day of national mourning for pele, widely known as the king of football. his wake will be held on monday at the club stadium in santos, where he 1st made his name. tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral procession carrying his coffin through the city. on tuesday. john holman visited santos, where there's a museum dedicated to the football legend. this is the saloon of all. hey, the king badge! hello, private room. this own museum used it when doing interviews, meeting friends. the cloudy and the staff here is showing us around. let's do a photo of him with his parents. say the chair, he sat in bad silly that was introduced as ordinary objects made somehow important by the presence of one enormously famous as it is now gone to india. she got to know during her time working at a think he was very kind, always treated everyone as if it was a pleasure to say them. he was a special person. pele was more than a person. he was

a brand important enough for the brazilian government to build this museum to because the strategy had us up all of the foreigners used to visit the museum, because hey, the kang was so important. he was an idle m f. now he's a canon marshal and we had a loaner, but he was only to mortal vulnerable to begin with. it's quite fine and actually that the museum starts with the shoe box. the pallet built with his uncle, knew his shining shoes at a very young age. the local railway station, this is where it all started for him, the sort of poverty i suppose is family was in that boy became the man of a 1000 goals who could shoot with both the run the 100 meters and 11 seconds hover, seemingly supernaturally in the air, everyone wanted a photo with him. they still do so for him were mucous along. i traveled pills and kilometers to take a picture with a keel. i mean, he was a really good player,

but what makes it so special that he was worth driving a 1000 kilometers for our warrant that all my daughter who has 3 stars, he says, referring to police 3 woke up wins. he still be only one from there to the pinnacle of celebrity meetings with monica president, movie stars, endless endorsement bills, the little boy who grown up shining shoes in brazil, the comb global. and he stayed there till his day. oh, but it didn't, did the affection for him back home in the night air santo's the town whose team he played, pu, where his museum is a 1000 voices. suddenly, sometimes i'm coming home in the last moment to return you hello, departed. whither would it enormous affection remains for him? here john hohmann al jazeera central and north korea's leader is promising an exponential increase in the production of nuclear weapons state media. st kim jolen

has ordered new intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear capability. he says he wants the arsenal to surpass the u. s. and south korea newness kim reports from saul. there was dancing fireworks and a ballistic missile launch. north korea brought in the new year, not just with best devotees, but also by firing what it called. it's super large, multiple rocket launcher officials showed out the systems on saturday, capping a 6 day meeting of the ruling workers party in which they laid out their goals for a 2023 king john then said 30 such systems were ready to be deployed to quote over well and the enemy, south korea, young young also warned, it would significantly increase the production of tactical nuclear weapons. shuns highland tones were, hang, will get the current situation, highlights the necessity to mass, produce tactical nuclear weapons,

and calls for an exponential increase of the countries nuclear often o n, as in north korea declared itself a nuclear estate in september, calling it's program irreversible and not up for negotiation in announcements made on sunday, a new intercontinental ballistic missile system would also be built with a quick nuclear counter strike mission issue likely to run on solid fuel. it was already on kim johnson's wishlist of military modernization, outlined in its 5 year plan. along with a nuclear power at some marine, analysts say report so far, i said just to spite strides, made 2022 was a still unfulfilled year of military targets for up young young. and that north korea would forge forward while intimidating south korea. in response, south korean president use on your says soul stood ready to punish any provocation by the north. his defense ministry warrant. any attempt to use nuclear weapons would spell the end of kim jong in government units. kim al jazeera soul.

france is among the e u countries that will require a negative p. c. r test from travelers arriving from china. the french health and transport ministers are at charles de gaulle airport to inspect the new cove with 19 testing facilities. from january, the 1st french authorities will also carry out random cove with 19th tests upon people arriving from china. earlier in the week, italian prime minister george maloney asked all you nations to impose covian measures against time. chinese president, changing pink, says his country is entering a new phase in combating the pandemic in his 1st comment since the government abandoned its controversial 0 cobit strategy, he called for unity in a televised address. aging handling of the outbreak has prompted criticism and protests, foreign slurry reports from hong kong. at this shopping mall in beijing, people take a few moments to stop and listen to the chinese precedence new year's speech. she

didn't ping appealed for unity. as his administration faces criticism at home, that's handling of corona virus from watermark. china is so big a country and different people will have different demands and different views on the same thing, which is normal, where it is necessary to build consensus through communication and consultation. this more would normally have been packed uneasy, but infections have searched since the government abruptly reversed it. 0 cove, it policy, and that's put a damper on celebrations. arriaga got has actually to was horrible cold lot. i hope the panoramic goes away in 2023 and a country goes back to normal. what i see the term, the whole of last year, the pandemic 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 hope that hunk on 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 masks are mandatory and all public faces even outdoors. but while china and hong kong have relaxed, covey rooms, other countries are fearful of another wave of infections and have placed restrictions on visitors from these places. and some health expense say the increased cases in china could lead to the development of new variance of the virus . florida 3, al jazeera, hong kong. in uganda, at least 10 people have died in a stand page during new years. these celebrations, the tragedy took place inside a shopping mall of kampala, there was a crush when people tried to get back inside the mall, off the watching a fireworks display. many of the victims suffocated to death. it was

such a means to lead me. then he told us that we should go up on which by alex, from the fucking up. then as we were going up, they told us, no, you have to go back. so people, some people have reached the packing. so the 1st them to come back to the main hall so that patricia from up under pressure from don't lead to bring to some, some colleagues of ours, which literally had this. now relatives of a mind, a boat that sank off the coast of 11 and have tried to enter the port of tripoli to meet survivors. soldiers pushed back relative the fact that a shipwreck that killed 2 people and other 200 of the my rents for rescued by the lebanese navy. most of the people on the boat were from syria and about 50 lebanese trying to reach europe. its been a 2nd day of protests in bolivia,

santa cruz region, off the arrest of a right wing opposition leader police went out in force off the friday. the violent confrontations with the forces of jail. governor lewis fernandez camacho. he was arrested on thursday and placed in pre trial detention camacho denies accusations of leading a qu during protest in 2019 false, then president, if what others from power. john claudio la chin is a political i list. he says, support for camacho is grown beyond this stronghold and santa cruz. 6 months ago. nobody of the rest of the provinces would be backing a commercial 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 the 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 that because there is no organized opposition that can stop for the time being. he's doing the government, this kind of human rights violations. the vice again has released the 1st images

of the body, a formal po benedict, the 16th it line states in st. peter's basilica from monday and will remain there until the funeral on thursday. hope benedict died on saturday. at the age of 95. he'd been ill for some time. earlier on sunday, pope francis on it is free to says during new year's day services transfers call him a noble and kind man. leave the funeral form of pontiff. you know g as today we leave our beloved pipe ameritas benedict. the 16th is in the hands of the holy mother. say that she may lead him from this world to god. the guy honor a thing and energy boom after huge oil fields were discovered off its atlantic coast. now it's using that new found, well the fun solar projects benefiting isolated mainly indigenous communities. john, 100 reports from georgetown. i deep in the remote jungles of

guyana far from the coastal power grid where the kite 2 or falls meet a rain forest, the blankets, the landscape, a new generation of guy and he's our indian seeing the light before solar power panels 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 anything that starts at the study as met in the village of kato, an hour and a half flight from the capital of georgetown solar energy. now power is 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 fetch ruth huts are energized off the grid for all of the

help. even government didn't like who they are. the village office. this renewable renaissance was previously possible, but on affordable until now. beneath the waters off the guy in east 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 new found 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 with 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 all right system or power is driven by fossil fuel. the demand for

power has growing 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 going on. as 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, let's take a look at some of the headlines here now just here and now creation has adopted the euro as of sunday january the.