others die at sea. in the midst of the despair, one group is often overlooked. they don't have enough pocket money to buy something to eat. al jazeera goes to the heart of palestinian refugee camps in lebanon to full report stories of a forgotten people on al jazeera. oh ah, france begins testing passengers from china for coping 19 and urge is other european union members to do so to ah, i'm carry johnston. this is al jazeera, well live from denver. also coming up a grim economic outlook has the international monetary fund warns of

a tougher year ahead than the previous one. moscow international airport reopens off to an israeli attack that kills 2 syrian soldiers. due to silver becomes brazil's precedence for an unprecedented 3rd time bang out his plan to rebuild a divided country. ah, we began in china where a recent surgeon, cobit 19 infections, has prompted a growing global response around a dozen countries and now imposing restrictions on travelers from the country of france has begun testing arrivals ms urging other you members to do the same. the block has set to hold a meeting this week to discuss the joint response, australia, canada, and the u. s. are among the latest countries to announce testing requirements follows a dramatic increase in cases off to beijing abandoned. it's strict 0 covered strategy,

which lead to protests with australian health minister explains the reason behind the decision calling it a modest measure. well, the key factor in modification over the last couple of dies was the view that the world health organization port i think on saturday, that said that there was an absence of comprehensive information about the situation in china. i think people are particularly concerned about the lack of genetic sequencing bang, shared with the rest of the world, and that, that is the wine which we identified a very early stage, the possibility of new variance of covered emerging. this is something that's pretty much share in real time by other countries, but isn't being shared right now by china. katrina, you has more on beijing's reaction to the growing list of travel restrictions. according to china, cdc, they reported just one new death from corbett today on monday, and for the entire month of december, they said that that nationwide, there were only 10 coven depth efficiently reported now,

health experts around the world, finding it very difficult to take these biggest seriously, they say that's dramatic under reporting here in china, not only of depths, but also of corvette infection, especially given that according to some scientific estimate, 800000000 people across the country are expected to catch proven over this winter alone. and they see hundreds of thousands are just like to die over the next few months. now here in beijing i see one publication did a survey of screwed as 70 percent of respondents for the what's covered in green weeks. and we do know the hospital to cross aging or full, especially of the elderly and crematorium and federal homes are saying that they are busier than they have ever be on his foreign ministry. spokespersons that it is not scientific to close a border, that's not going to prevent the spread of corvette, and that's what many, many medical experts are saying. the w h o has said that it is understandable that many countries wants to protect that population, given the lack of comprehensive corporate information that's coming out of china.

they say that they need more real time information given to the w h. they want information about infection, how many i see your beds are taken, they want real time information, more accurate information regarding deaths and your response to that aging is simply said that they are not withholding any information from the w hydro, and that they all being transparent as possible with the, with the w hydro 40 international monetary fund says a 3rd of the global economy will slide into recession. this year is warning 2023 will be much tougher for hundreds of millions of people that i'm f blames a similar kind of slow down of economic activity in the us, europe and china, caused by the war and ukraine inflation high energy costs and rising interest rates, vicky prices from the center for economics and business research in london. she explains the headwinds, the global economy so facing that had been the expectation that perhaps was the

removal of covey restrictions. china would re merge if you like, and reunited with the rest of the world after the problems that he has had for a number of months now and or slowing growth. but of course, in the next few months, i think what the, methinks, is that they're going to be problems. because of course, covered the spreading and the, there's the question of course of traveling to the rest of the world by us story about chinese citizens, where they go to the u. s. with the go to the u. k. whether they go to france and italy and spreading low cost to many other countries as well. and that's a big issue for china. so over the next few months, we're probably going to see what a slow down there as well. what they are anticipating is the growth in world trade will slow down to just one percent. now, one percent growth in trade means lowes of countries that depend on it in a developing world as well. are going to suffer from this. this is one of the slowest growth rates that we have seen and of course we had coverage. but since the development since coverage with using restrictions, that is

a pretty poor outcome to have in 2023. so i think that's going to slow down everybody, and that stems took a significant extent from what is happening in the biggest countries in world. but with inflation slowing down with a bit of like it's going to carry on. what we're seeing is energy prices slowing down depends, of course, what happens in china in the next few months, we're seeing gas prices being very substantially reduce was in food prices internationally coming down as well. it takes a bit of time until that's reflected for the consumer in what they're paying at the end of the day at the shops. but i think it's coming and i think that's going to be the big cost. damascus international airport has reopened off to on is really attack on southern parts of the syrian capital. it was out of service for several hours off. the missile strikes, not killed to military personnel will come 6 months off. the syria briefly halted flights. flowing is really strikes on the airport, the damaged runway under terminal. i'm a curry is a preschool analyst. he says the latest attack is part of a long running campaign. these attacks have been going on for years and syria,

the israeli is attacked. sometimes syrian positions, sometimes iranian positions, as they call them and sometimes has his bottle of facilities. so iran and syria are very united front confronts israel. and israel constantly tries to make it difficult for them to coordinate their activities and arms and ammunition and things of that nature. these readings never announced the details of what they're doing. so most of what we hear a lot of this attack comes from people within syria, and sometimes you have conflicting reports as we had a couple hours ago about how many people died. so from the syrian government this year and opposition, you will get conflicting reports. so this is retained, this is, there's nothing new it's been going on for years. they've had targets all over syria and they'll keep doing it. the likelihood is that this is driven by the new

government had to buy benjamin that to sigma probably to many different people, the iranians, the arabs, the syrians, the russians, everybody that, that israel is going to maintain this policy of striking and target that it things as a danger to its own security authorities and ukraine. se rushing drones strikes on energy facilities and the capital. keith, of course, heating and power outages earlier russia and ukraine accused each other of bombing civilian areas. years eve, russian strikes hit homes on a hotel and keep killing at least one person. moscow says it was targeting drone factories when in the new year's address to the nation, that president zalinski thanked the ukrainian people for staying united the legal again, it's okay. i wish you house dear ukrainians, new year, new day, 45 shy heads were shut down on the 1st night of the year. i thank our ear forces

pilots and to year craft warriors, gratitude to the air defense of our ground forces for another 12 down iranian drones. our sense of unity, authenticity, life itself, all those contrast dramatically with the fear that prevails and russia, they are afraid you can feel it. and they are right to be afraid because they are losing drones. missiles, anything else will not help them? because we are together and they are together only with fear, and they will not take away a single year from ukraine that will not take away our independence or russia says, all strikes i targeted at military infrastructure or the governor of the dish, a lot for or on december 31st, the armed forces of the russian federation carried out a strike with high precision long range air launched weapons at the facilities of the military. industrial complex of ukraine evolved in the manufacture of combat. drones used to carry up terrorist attacks against the russian federation,

storage areas and attack u a v launch sites were also hit plans by the key regime to carry out these attacks in the near future have been thwarted then about israeli forces have arrested 15 palestinians in different areas of the occupied west bank overnight, raids were concentrated men in nablus. hebron and janine huston and media say the detainees were taken to israeli jails on charges of resisting the occupation and engineering to palestinians have been killed. and another area of the occupied west bank by israeli forces is where the police entered the town of confident to demolish the homes of t. palestinians accused of killing an israeli office. and last september incursion sparked confrontations with local fighters palestinian sources. same war people were injured during the operation. now people in nigeria are still struggling to find shelter and food weak soft a devastating floods. thousands of homes have been destroyed along river banks and

all that 6000 people were killed. i'm an address reports from of a girl in southern nigeria. pamela joseph returned to salvage what she can after floodwaters wrecked out. a single room is all that's left for 6 bedroom bundle and it's tuesday precipice. when night by when night comes, i have to go somewhere else to sleep. my house is finished. the government has promised help, but so fight hasn't reached tens of thousands of people across nigeria. we feel like we have ticking is adequate for the moment, but the sub nationals also have the responsibility to see that idea as citizens. i've been in a supported some flood victim say nothing has been done. sincerely, there is an app from gov ms. cecilia. this used to be someone's bedroom before the

flight. the debris here is what's left of it and of 38 at the houses that was swept away, the foundations of some of the buildings. i in the middle of this river. the flats between june and november who are among the worst to hit nigeria in half a century. infrastructure like roads and bridges have been damaged or swept away. 2 months after the disaster. officious are still taking stock of the damage, but the government says it needs $2000000000.00 now to fix damage infrastructure. analysts say it's clear authorities at all levels what ill prepared for the disaster. they just don't have an incentive to address this. because when you have a system where emergency funds are released without accountability, we have processes where there's no for procurement, for those points. a lot of people benefit from this, there's a whole political economy around these flights. i worry that we may not be able to

recover quick enough before the next one. with politicians focused on the general elections entombment. some flood victim say they're worried. their troubles are only just beginning. how many degrees al jazeera a bow girl said a heads? heron, l 0. the coffin of football legend play arrives at the stadium where his career began, thus skilled migrants. welcome with my germany's we thinking it's immigration policy . ah hello, we've got the usual rush of showers across much of se date, a little clutches, stores moving towards the philippines and received some very heavy rain recently into indonesia to carter 134 millimeters right in 24. as it is, the rainy season, they will be further happy down pause as we go through the next few days. these son

of course, now about as far south as it does get just around the topic of capricorn. lots of showers, there was, i said there is 3, malaysia and on into the philippines. this little area of storms to gather as we go through the next couple days. and it will gradually push some really heavy rain to southern parts of vietnam. she make away until the latter part of the week. much of indo china will be dry, but across the rest of the region or those heavy downpours, those heavy showers, they join up with a mont. saint trough. now bringing some more big downpours across northern parts of australia. here's our old tropical cyclone alley that still swirling away. unusually, wet weather, still persisting across the north west of australia. it's fading into the trough that brings some very heavy writing. and it may even develop into a true such i'm once again as we go through the next few days, it stays very wet there in broom, and there will be further flooding for the widespread flooding over the next few days. showers continuing cos much of northern australia by the south, somewhat dry and cooler for melton.

ah. across the world, young activists and organizers are on the move. no o generation change meets the new yorkers using alternative approaches to flight institutional racism and police brutality. this is indeed a nation wide problem. network wires, a systemic solution generation change on al jazeera. ah ah,

this is al jazeera armando, my main stories. now, the recent surgeon code 19 infections in china has prompted a growing global response around a dozen countries, including france or imposing restrictions on travelers from the country. international monetary fund says a 3rd of the global economy will go into a session this year has been caused by the war and ukraine inflation high fuel costs and rising interest rates, damascus international airport husband reopened. after an israeli attack on the southern parts of the syrian capital, whose after service for several hours off the south strikes up, chilled to military personnel. there was an australian that the silver was sworn in as brazil's new president, on sunday, thousands witness. the integration of the veteran that left when politician widely known as luther is the 3rd time he's held the nation's highest office of post one after closely fort election or latin america, added to lucy anymore. reports from priscilla. ah,

the sworn in president leasing as her lula desilva walked up the ramp of the presidential palace, flanked by members of brazil's diverse society, including an indigenous leader, a black woman, a disabled man, a child, and a rubbish collector. it was a symbolic gesture. they shared the task of bestowing lula, the presidential sash, in lieu of outgoing presidential bulls. fernando who refused to recognize his successor well that it was, i vow, above 2, we will use the weapons that our adversaries fear, the most. the truth that prevails are the lies. hope that conquers fair and loved defeats hatred. thousands of supporters from all over brazil had come to witness the return of the man they call the people's president. firemen doubts them with water to help overcome heat and exhaustion. many like that piano and ivy anna had arrived before dawn. hello, hello. we've been waiting for for years for democracy,

for the brazilian people to eat and have jobs. lose political come back is nothing short of extraordinary. in 2018, he was sentenced to a nearly 13 year prison term for corruption. although he was later released after his sentence was overturned. 08 kilometers from the palace. fiercer ponies camped near a military barracks, refusing to recognize their left wing president. they've out a continue resisting lula, one by a very small margin in a bitterly fought election. oh, but his supporters are overjoyed. julie himself was overcome with emotion. you spoke of ending hunger among the poor nap portables, or hook people's lines of people at the doors, a butcher shops looking for bones to alleviate hunger, while at the same time, others white to buy imported cars and private jets. such a social chasm is an obstacle to the building of

a truly just democratic society. blueness, promising to reinstate most of the social programs had made him so popular during his 1st 2 terms. he has a woman tremendously high expectations amongst brazilians, and not always dangerous because their expectations that he may not be able to meet rulers, powerful opponents, led by former president bull seattle, are determined to thwart his government at every turn, leaving the new president. little time to celebrate the sea and human al jazeera brazilian. the coffin are present in football. legend pele has arrived at villa bell mirror stadium in the city of santos, for his wake, escorted by motorcade. it travelled from south palo, where he died on thursday. the wake will take place in the center of the field where the man known as a king of football made his name on his hearers. john homan is in santos, and spoke to brazilians. morning football is that we all know pallet's as the

global super stuff for brazil. the one in the yellow shirt who won 3 wo cups. but we here in santa hills where it really all started for him. when he joined this team in the stadium behind me as a 16 year old, you can see him that he's on the mural there on the corner and pele once he joined this team, helped to make them into something in the sixty's referred to as the fantastic holes, a fantastic team that started to sweep all before them nationally. roy in front of the central stadium. i'm looking at it now is a very particular type of brazilian bach with a luncheon, etc. i'm this one belongs to alamo, and he's such a fan of sent those that he's got 14 tattoos of the club. one stunt got to be on his forehead. and i asked him what pele meant to him? you'd better on monday, i saw paley playing once, and then i never left here. he was a monster in the football field. he came many times to the bar and we'll talk to everyone. he was the most humble guy in the world. we spoke to antonio, the past,

who we saw because he was interestingly dressed about what pele meant on a global stage and to him. so for the philip cure said you meet our daughter, bailey ok there. i am a fan because i admire him in adam paley's the king of brazilian football. and he created the brazilian football and took it outside brazil. vicki new pump. okay. it's a real mark of police legacy that even though he retired for the last time 45 years ago, he so well remembered. he still full turf as the king. that's his nickname. here in brazil, but i think he's also for that wait for a lot of people outside of the country. people too young to ever see him play live . so many of his games, not even on video because they were played so long ago. but still, he's seen as a very particular unique kind of genius. now the doors off at st. peter's, the silica have opened for the public viewing of pope benedict. the 16th body,

9 in state. and these are live pictures inside there, form at vatican city. people have been lining up since early morning to pay their respects. the pontiff died on saturday at the age of 95 no key bridge connecting columbia and venezuela has fully reopened for the 1st time in nearly a decade. allowing people and cargo to move across, improve relations between the 2 south american nations made it possible as our son to rob yeti reports. now, it is a seeing that people living along this border of waited for 4 years. a line of passenger cars cross from columbia into venezuelan sunday, symbolically, and practically ending years of tense relations between the 2 countries. although now my grand about it is really a great joy for all colombians to be able to move between the 2 countries. again, many of us were used to moving freely and it made us very sad that for many years

these 2 countries were separated. so we are very happy how to rate is reopened. it can be as bridge and january 1st with a festive buy national ceremony. balloons flew in the air while government delegations met at the center of the bridge that until recently had been blocked by containers placed there by the venezuelan army. oh, rama. to day, with this formal opening, we fulfilled a political will of president nicholas maduro and gustavo petro, of total and transparent openness of the border with columbia. left his gloomy and president gustavo pedro hernandez and normalization of diplomatic relations with many swell after winning elections in august. the 2 countries have gradually restored border crossings and commerce since then. the shared 2200 kilometers border had been partially closed 7 years ago and completely blocked in 2019 after the columbian president of an decay. questioned venezuelan president nicholas my

daughters reelection. since then, security along the border has deteriorated with the on groups controlling the legal transports of goods and the exodus of venezuelan migrants. now people on both sides, many by national, are hoping they will benefit socially and economically well, best at a glen mendez if the former brotherhood is back and this is what the venezuelan people want, that we build brotherhood again that our van, it's allan brothers come through with vehicles the day end to columbia because many people have their relatives on the other side of the border. wait, but i mean if he's trade between the 2 countries, was worth over $7000000000.00 us dollars back in 2008, but has collapsed to less than $300000000.00. since while returning to those levels will be difficult. the reopening as brought relief and hopes for better times ahead . alexander and be at the al jazeera well with that it was another year of high profile mass shootings, the united states, according to the gun violence archive. 2022 was one of the worst on record. was 648,

mass shootings or state and local authorities have been passing laws trying to limit the supply and use of firearms for those efforts are facing new obstacles as she habitants. he reports from washington dc. it's been 10 years since the sandy hook, elementary school shootings, 26 people were shot dead, including 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7. at the time gun control advocates hoped it would be a turning point. surely this would catalyze federal action to limit the sale of assault weapons and high capacity magazines. but the annual national vigil for victims of gun violence in washington dc. a tradition began after sandy hook, joe biden, who was the 1st president to attend, made it clear he wasn't satisfied with what has been achieved, such as the gun control legislation passed last summer. together, we made some important progress. most significant gun law passed in 30 years was

still not enough. even the most often supporters of that law describe it as modest . the key provision was expanding background checks for 18 to 21 year olds before they buy gun. and the absence of the bipartisan congressional action needed for meaningful gun control legislation. state legislatures have been acting, responding to public outrage following mass shootings against using strict regulations. for example, following a high profile mass shooting democrats in virginia passed a raft of gun control legislation. but those efforts have been put into jeopardy following a supreme court ruling last year. the court decreed the only firearm regulations that were part of the historical tradition of the u. s. gun laws were constitutional. for those fighting gun control, the courts have now become the main weapon to row back. whatever efforts have been passed legislatively, they say the ruling means if a gun law wasn't on the books on the 18th or 19th century,

it isn't constitutional. there were very, very few restrictions, extremely hard to find any kind of restriction back them. and that's what the founding fathers wanted to keep. the lawyers fighting for gun control say, this is a misreading of both the ruling and of history. first, they argue that country to popular perceptions, restrictive gum permit laws were in place by the late 1900 century, around the country. and they feel an assault weapons ban is consistent with the supreme court judgement. weapons are not for self defense. they're not suited to self defense. they're not used for self defense is about an individual right to self defense outside of the home. it doesn't say that it's about a right to take it on and walk into a school and gone down a bunch of kindergarteners. so the expectation is that mass shootings will continue in 2023 hours will bursts of outrage and calls for something to be done. but for now, meaningful gun control remain some way off she ever time. see al jazeera washington, the german government has presented a new scheme to make it easier. the skill the migrates to get jobs. there are

several other e u countries want to limit immigration. thomas cane has more coding is a big part of ha shuttling gms job as a software engineer in brother. and he works for several major firms. he's been in germany for several years and is hoping to get permanent residency. but as an indian citizen, he says there are difficulties, they would ask for one additional document and then they come back and then it gets delayed for 2 once or one and a half and one more. now. so one of those about from that and i didn't like personally, even face language issues and the officers, but in terms of employment. yes. and that is something the current german government wants to eliminate. they say that country needs 400000 new skills migrant every year to make up for its aging population bundle in the future. we will focus more on the qualifications and professional experience of immigrants and left formalities. we will make it easier for immigrants to take cation of training

or study in germany, and immigration has divided governments across europe for decades. and this new move in berlin has not gone unnoticed. elsewhere, of course we have governments very conservative governments like in poland who still use migration ass. the very combat like expression of yeah, well, more in interior policy issue. way more than looking for the needs of the labor market. such thoughts are not how just in also the austrian government recently voted down a plan to allow bulk area and romania into the e use borderless shang, and so it's chancellor believes some european frontiers need physical barriers. austria is more than part and we have over 100000 asylum application or the 75000 across the external border cross member states, and we're only then apprehended in austria. we need stronger external border

protection. we must finally break the tablet of fences are already up between hungry, which is inside the shannon zone. and serbia, which is not this was a recent photo called arranged between leaders of both countries at their border. the issue of migration will be disgusted, especially you summit in february, but the political phone lines are clear. so as the new year dawns, the e u finds itself with the same old problems. part of the solution can be found here and can apply across the board. but other parts really can't dominate, came ounces era, brussels. ah, this is out there, and these are the top stories. the recent surgeon cobra 19 infections in china has prompted a growing global response around a dozen countries are impose.