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attack that killed 2 syrian soldiers. israeli forces kill 2 palestinians during home demolitions in the occupied west bank. in the coffin of football, legend pele arrives at the stadium where his career began. ah, restart this news out in china where reports suggest that could be arise in coven 19 cases. and that's causing concern around the world and increasing number of countries and now imposing new restrictions on travelers from there. the chinese government relaxed its tough restrictions last month after rare protests, katrina, you reports from bay ging, before the pandemic, australia was a popular destination for chinese travelers. and they are expected to return soon as trying to prepares to open its borders for the 1st time in almost 3 years. but

on thursday, they'll face new restriction. the government has decided out of an abundance of caution, to require travelers from china to submit evidence before boarding their flock of a negative kind of test canada, the united states, united kingdom, japan, india, and south korea will also screen passengers from china. in europe, france, italy and spain will do the same and are encouraging other you nations to follow suit. morocco has taken the hardest line banning all chinese travelers from tuesday . many fear the outbreak here could lead to a new corona, virus straight, and spark. new waves of infections globally aging has hit back at the restrictions calling the unscientific standard. i know your many leading medical experts from multiple countries have said that there is no need to impose restrictions on boulder entry of travelers from china. the world health organization says it's

understandable. governments want to protect their populations. it is asked for more real time data on deaths, hospitalization, and streams. they think it is holding any information from the w headstart with only a dozen corporate 19 gets reported in recent weeks. scientists just like a drastic underwood floating infections. some estimates suggest that they could be as many as $9000.00 deaths occurring every day. katrina hughes, alta 0 dating dr. dale fisher is a senior consultant infectious diseases at the national university hospital. he says what's happening in china was to be expected. what's going on in china is, has been seen in every other country already, that as soon as you have the restrictions, then you're going to get massive spread. and that sort of lodge over crowded cities in china it's, it's really what, what is happening is not surprising. of course,

the world like like more accurate numbers it's, it's quite incompatible to, to hear that morgan and crematorium are overwhelmed, but there's only been one extra desk obviously that mike makes no sense. but actually, i think the issue should be more about what other countries should be doing in response. it's not so much what, what china can do because that, that is going through what everyone else went through. and really all i'm hearing about is testing and other countries, which is really a very narrow approach. we, we know that you can't just rely on tests. the international monetary fund says, a 3rd of the global economy will slide into recession this year. it's warning 2023 will be much tougher for hundreds of millions of people. the math blaine's a civil tammy, a slow down of economic activity in the united states, europe and china. it's caused by the war in ukraine inflation high energy costs and

rising interest rates has enough. and holly is an economist and financial market expert. he says, forecast suggest the situation will be, was in the global financial crisis in 2008 financial misbehavior. financial aid will always come back into the picture. the word now is back suffering from excessive leverage, excessive leverage from the level of the individual citizen in every country to the corporate, to the sovereign. look at how many countries now are defaulting. we have quite a few that we have seen in africa. we have history lanka. we have seen deterioration of the egyptian, and that is under spain with the fault of lebanon. and you can carry on and carry on. but you add to ukraine, russia war, which put a lot of strain on commodity prices, mainly about you can't make catch up today,

you know, core know wheat. so all of these are adding created inflation. what do government do when there is a time of inflation? there is interest rates, but what we have seen that interests have come up. and it trends that also was not presented before. we see the interest rate go from 0 and dollar all the way to 4 and a half percent of the year. we've seen the euro come up from subs 0 interest rates to 2 and a half percent. it could reach 3 percent very soon. i mean, yesterday i did the pro friend a very interesting analysis, a combination or a summary of all 2023 forecast from goldman sachs, morgan stanley, jeff morgan, and the light and the old show indications worse than 2008 crisis. we've seen trends, we haven't seen number of stock market decline percentages of stock market because

erosion of the new ations, the pricing of all asset classes. if you look at the private equity space, you see that the repricing of assets and the private equity is worse than 08 now. but how do we curve this? is it by raising interest? ok, you raise to say, and you curb demand, that's correct. but what you do to do the inflation would just cause by shortage of the supply chain crisis. this does not, it's not so bad to get to see what we need more than raising until we have responsible governors. damascus international airport has reopened afternoon, is ready tank on the southern parts of the syrian capital. it was out of service for several hours of the miss hall strikes that killed to military personnel. this come 6 months after syria briefly halted flight following israeli strikes from the apple that damaged the runway and a terminal. israel has conducted numerous attacks on targets in syria and recent

years. but few of those strikes are officially acknowledged. like the latest attacks, many target airports and other critical facilities, damascus international was heavily damaged in june. and july pose main airport was taken out of action in september israeli strikes of also hit military target, a weapons demco near the western town of marcia, was targeted in august. miss all sites, and anthea across factories along the border are also frequently attacked. israel says many of it strikes the aim that stopping on groups in syria that are linked to iran. these include groups like has for law join me now from the matawan kabbalah and he's the director of political studies at the arab center. good to have you with us. so 1st of all, sending missiles into civilian infrastructure, attacking an ad port for the civilians and civilian flights. how does that sit with

international law? i think it is like it has never actually respected international law when it comes to the security of what it is. it's national security. they have been doing this for many years. right now. this started as you know, in 2013 by a conducting hundreds of, of strikes. they say against the iranian manipulators as insignia and against iranian arms shipment to his will, law passing through celia, either city anyhow. warsaw syrian at earth or is at the last episode is just sonata and of the loss of incident. just one last episode and this and the strategy of those id governments. do we know what exactly was hit in this instance? they've already, they said that the unions are, he was in civilian airlines like mahogany, of the iranian man here in order to ship arms and weapons door to his va,

loan through damascus. albert, because his life has, as it said, as it says, also enter, as it says, it has disrupted iranian shipments, said to and the borders with their, with the iraq. until we, we all know there's right is the, and the actually admitted that the, the have had a convoy any onions on them last month trying to cross iraq and to syria and in its way and to lebanon. so they believed that they are onion. sometimes they withdraw that he was civilian analyzed in order to push at arms to his will. he caused up the roads on the grounds, are becoming like more risky and more of not more dangerous for, for them because of the israelis dead villas and is likely attacks on these convoys a wrong got involved with the, the war inside syria to bolster the asset. regime now that most of the

opposition forces are contained mainly in a leper in the north. what all the iranian goals and interests in syria, they're not in the have them. this is an interest in syria. they have being actually working for the past 1012 years since the beginning of this crisis to establish their horn independent military process as syria even had you been and funded from the other key of our shuttle. i said this is what there is like nice t mos because these are it is it that they really believe that they are? you might be frank. i still stablish another has been lava despite this city. i seen it has been like that with boys are significant place thought or to his i hear from diana, from the north in front. and as i, he is, they have been actually over the past, over the past 10 years, doing better best in order to, to can gain, reduce and even am, if they can, and more to get out of your, on your process and, and celia, militarily,

they might not be interested in other activities of your i'm because we know that you're on has other activities, cecilia. and then for example, the are, are, they are trying to on maybe wouldn't believe that they are going to add to compare this some serious, some nice into she, us and trying actually to have their own community, their own independent community that is directly linked to thought on rather than being part of syria society, of course, i mean, they have other, other activities, cultural or financial and all sorts of things that actually keep syria very much fight to iran, just like iraq very much like like what they are doing in iraq right now. and to what extent has that been success? i mean, who is now the ultimate decision maker in syria. would you say, given that a lot of countries got involved depends on the one the area of control. because if you are talking about the north dummy in turkey is controlling guardian

is to having his having the upper hand in dark and along with you are talking about a, about the regime controlled area is the oceans. and the iranians. of course, i'm nothing and michelle, as it has absolutely no no authority in december. and these are, these are areas, but them are the russians, and the iranians in terms of security. they are having huge influence in the sam. in these areas, ada americans are controlling the south or north east and incorporation with their allies on the ground. i am meaning here the city of democratic forces. so it depends on the area of montoya, which to which one who are referring to and that, that, that, that, that will, that will actually determine who's in control in that area. or i thanks so much, much one, couple on thank you for having as ready, forces have arrested 15 palestinians in different areas of the occupied west bank.

the overnight raids were concentrated mainly in nablus. hebron and janine palestinian media say the detainees were taken to his right. the jails on charges of resisting the occupation. while in janine 2 palestinians have been killed in another area of the occupied westbank by ready forces. israeli police entered the town of comfort, have done to demolish the homes of 2 palestinians accused of killing an israeli officer. last september. thought a hydra joins us now. live men again, are we seeing a step up in these israeli incursions invasions of occupied palestinian town? yeah, absolutely. now these demolitions don't call me as a surprise. the demolition started on sunday nights and as a result of fighting before the tween, the israeli forces on the palestinians living in the area. 2 people have been killed to palestinians and 3 ended. one of them is in critical condition now. the

demolitions well 2 homes that belong to young palestinians in september last year, they tried to carry out the packets and is ready checkpoint. and in the process of firing, they got killed and also an israeli soldier was killed as well. now this is one of the things that the israeli forces do. it's a punitive kind of them. the militia also say to when people are involved in it talks or they seem, anyone is working against the state of israel, the type of demolitions we see that tends to be 2 types of demolition. you have the ones that are usually carried out by the military and the other ones tend to be. 1 where they've accused the palestinian family of not having the right israeli permit . full thought it could be a home. it could be a shop, it could be a business. and in those instances, it's very hard palestinians say, because often it's very difficult to get hold of those permit. so to get the rights

accreditations, if you like. now you, when released the reports at the end of last year and in that report they said that since 2009 in the occupied west, frank, we've seen 9 more than 9000 demolitions take place. i'm not how's up basically, last, palestinians this face, we're talking about more than 13000 palestinians, some of those phones. in fact, all homes have actually been donated if you like, come on the and joe's as part of the humanitarian, international, humanitarian aid for the palestinians. and of course, speaking about international visa, militias, or against international law, leave it there. thanks so much. not a well how freaking all those home demolitions biased by the forces which thought i was talking about. according to the un, during the 1st 11 months of 2022, a total of $850.00 palestinian own structures were demolished in the occupied west

bank. as a result around a 1000 people were forced from their homes and the signs israel is intensifying. the campaign in november, a $123.00 buildings were destroyed, far more than the monthly average for the rest of the year. palestinian activists say the demolitions are illegal and constitutes a form of collective punishment. israel's government and courts dispute this. shatka daughter is a senior legal research for an organization joined us now from ramallah. good to have you with us. so there are you an official, several international human rights organizations that have said how demolitions are illegal, the collective punishment for what recourse, practically speaking, do, dispossessed families have yeah, thank you very much for having me. so i think going back and explain what is

collective punishment is the punishment off and individual for and often that he or she committed by him. it is under international law but divinity under international, missouri and specifically for geneva convention and safety regulations for heaven punishment. but they said the delay in the range of holding these unhappy, connected with the cases that happened today with the demolishing of 2 houses and a dad and the attorney. but also we have the holding of a panic sitting in the closure. and these are examples of collective punishment that the easiest thing to carry out, you know, widespread and magic way against really could be punishment and

have been a state of israel to change and continue off colonial tactics. the british mandate. so they do addition depending on how the mutations are carried out when the wheeling her mission provider for the regulation, 119 of the british emergency regulations and the, and emergency regulation inherited by from the british mandate. and so under the regulation, the so called, the military commander has the authority to see the or demolish kind of property, individuals who have committed an attack against the state of israel. so so they want to keep trying power

as made rules for itself that they've now passed or has been taken over by another occupying power. the question of recourse, what palestinians can do, not only when the house is demolished, but another practice which these ready military sometimes does, which is taking over a house will taking over a floor or part of the house which they common day and uses some kind of military post, this is also being condemned by international human rights groups like amnesty international describe the as pillage which is outlawed, they say under the 4th geneva convention. again, what can palestinians do that stuff, whatever the occupying forces have given themselves in terms of regulations, the rights to do. if it's wrong under international law, on the international humanitarian law. what recourse to palestinians have so be diminishing of your power, or any properties, not for military necessity,

may cause we're going to manage. so we want to get the paper for looking into cases of forcible chancellor or the destruction of properties. and as we're trying to coordinate with a culture and you know, with jail and this is changed, failure of the internet has been told israel then account how to continue with these crimes against by a nation. so i think one of the most important things focus on not only got to deal financially but also but if you can, when they when will continue. and i'm glad you mentioned that. do you see any change in that political will that political appetite for accountability?

now that there is a, a strong western stance against russian occupation in ukraine as that impacted that perspective. the appetite for accountability when it comes to the occupation of the palestinians. and i think what does your friends to asian have made clear the other had the standards that will tell when it comes to western countries. and so i think for now at least there is no political when after the russia any situation. but we've noticed how the standards and how kind of bring or time to go to. she didn't have an exception to the law and other areas and she she's willing to do something about it.

all right, thank you so much for that. thank you for having plenty more said i had on the news hour including we'll hear from the survivors of last year's devastating floods across parts of nigeria and croatia has gone fully. euro hits the 1st official working day since the changes of come into effect. ah, now the wake for football legend palais is underway at villa bel miro stadium in the brazilian city of santos. john holman, is live for us from there's what kind of a gathering is the wake saying, john you probably say quite civilized. a here within the actual santo stadium, the president, a fee for giovanni implant, the no, it's just gone path. he can see, oh,

so behind us that the coffin itself is in the center under the that that sort of 10 . and it's being guarded by members of what are essentially the presidential brazilian god. so i suppose that's a mark of how highly pelias ports of within his own country, outside of the stadium. we've been chatting to people. some of them have been here since the some went down last night just to get a glimpse of someone who's a hero for many the stadium that we're in samples right now. this is where it will start to popella. he came here is a 16 year old. he won his 1st cap here and his per season. and the team became so successful with him as part of it that they were known as the sun passed because like from past decodes during the 60s when he was an essential part of this team. so for people here and we've been chatting over the last couple days with people outside the stadium in the bar opposite, where the owner has a tattoo of the central theme cartoon on his forehead. they just said that they remember him, were a lot of him at the met him at some point or another as

a humble man, a man that was very kind a man that had a sort of wide electric smell of i think most people around the world will remember that i've seen an image of him, and they remember him, i suppose, in a more intimate way than the wider world that saw him. especially after that 970 woke up in mexico in technicolor. everyone remembers that that final. so this is a moment for people around the world. there's media here from europe, there's media here from asia. basically, every country seems to have an interest in this man, but also a moment that's intimate for the people here for the people that have gathered and who over the next 24, i was going to be walking around that 10 just for a final glimpse since a chance to say good bye to pele. i it take us through this is coming on a very important day in brazil. take house through the, the procedures, the process of what's gonna happen.

so after this is going to be 24 hours a coolant velario. he and i've been looking, there's not really a translation for that in english, but it basically means an extended wait a period when apparently the coffin is actually open. so be able to look at pallet's face one last time after that the, the body's going to be taken on a saw of root around town. pallet's mom is still actually alive. he, she is a 100 years old now. and the processions going to go past her house to morrow morning, and then it's going to go to its final resting place, which is a cemetery here. actually it's interesting in the news we've been reading the pallet actually picked out a sort of bolt for himself that was on the 9th level of the votes in the cemetery at which is the number that his dad, who is also a football. they used to use, but they had the family decided that instead of that he's going to go on the bottom floor so that people can come in the future and pay his respects to him. it's not going to be his final resting place to say something interesting about the stadium in the dressing room here. there's a locker, which is pallet's locker. and since he left the club in the 1970s,

it's never been opened. they said that he said that it could be opened once he's gone to still waiting for that locker to be opened in to find out what he, what's, what's inside of it, what he left the as a memory to himself. john home, when they're talking us through these live pictures coming into us from brazil, where we're witnessing the wake of football legend pele. all right, let's continue this now with an the richardson joins me here in the studio with more than pennies legacy in the world to football. and the one made pele special. i'm not just talking about on the football pitch, but off the field as well. the hard one, i guess the summer. yeah, i mean he made the sports global at a time when it wasn't a global sport necessarily. i mean we look at these pictures now. he's lying in state, this is normally something that's reserved for kings, queen,

prime ministers and presidents. and he was known as the king of football. if you think to when he emerged as a, as a teenager at the 1958. well, we can look back on that now was being an important moment in history of football. but at the time, the 1958 will cut was not viewed by the global audiences that the wilco just hadn't as but subsequent to that. it was his face and his team and his country, the became synonymous with the world cup and with football. was part of it as well where the world was politically sort of the, the end, the decline of colonialism. the rise of people who are less empowered in the world and him coming from a, you know, an under privileged background, did that resonate and make him the king to so many people people could relate to him. he came from a very humble background. i was lucky enough to meet him here in counselor on a couple of occasions when he came over to the, the national football academy here in indo harney. he said at all times at no point

during his life to be think that he was better than anyone else. and that was his philosophy from what he was a teenager when i met him in his, in his sixties. and he was somebody that people could relate to if he is pele, could do it, anybody could do it. the game is incredibly democratic. as a sports, if you look at some not lear massey, today, he's got very tall. he's physically when you meet someone lately, unless you think how on earth is he, one of the world's great athletes. one of the world, sports and football, allows any one with talents, passion, desire to reach the very top of it, if they, if they. so if they can do, and pele was, became the face of football, the commercial face of football in a way that hadn't happened before, but also tries cree. he cannot see. if he confronted a lot of adversity, you're talking about the political situation in the world and his own country was

all sorts of people during the 1961, there was a military coup, sort of in the mid sixty's. he's face a lot of criticism for not speaking out against the leadership of his country that time, but very easy to say and very difficult to do when you have a family and a living in that country. and his approach was the best thing i can do for the people of brazil is ensure that their, their football team is the best in the world. and i think he mostly would agree, did not a bad job of that, didn't the just reminder of us were looking at life pictures coming in from brazil at the wake of football legend, palo there people coming out of cost to greet the person that they saw as they're king king of football, and the i'm wondering as well, we spoke about what he means off the pitch on the pitch. when you watch some of the, the highlights of the greatest palo moments. he was such a master of the ball,

is that what makes him specials? not just that he could shoot the ball into a goal. it was how he could dance with the boy how he could do what seemed to be almost magical, impossible maneuvers with the ball. that's right. and he was doing things on a football pitch that subsequently people of credited certain moves with other football is. but when you look back, probably was thing 1st quite right and and it was at a time when players like polite forwards were not protected in the way they are now by referees they were, they were fouled, and they had to deal with it to the extent wilson forget diversity face during his career in 1958. it was an unknown 17 year old, relatively speaking, and emotional to that world cup. by the time we got to the 962 world cup, he was already confronting the realities of life as a professional football. he was, he was injured in the 2nd game that will come play very little role in the winning

that solomon, but still got the when his metal in 966 when the welcome was held in england, brazil, the favorites pele was, was the main man he was targeted like no other player in the world and such to the extent where he said after that will cause he had no desire to play international football again because he was as he describes it kicked out of that tournament by, by the teams couldn't and brazil, what happened from today? right? actually they, he would be the whole point of football now to a great extent is to protect players like polite to allow people to be entertained in 1966. he said that say i've had enough of vince national football and subsequently he was put under lots of pressure by that by the government at the time to return to football for 1970 there's all sorts of complications going stuff for him. and it was a coach saldana who's in charge of the team. then he said, i don't even want pele in the team for 970. can you imagine the greatest obviously?

yeah, exactly, that i'm not so now to be the greatest well cut foot for brazil, and it also is the one that really cemented the world cup into the sort of toner we have. now. it's sort of ensure that we have this global passion for the world cup and john infancy. now you can see there is one of the beneficiaries thought this is the thing to be said for what he contributed or what he brought toward cops in terms of style of football. that his style of playing very different from some of the dominant teams at that time, who played in a different more i don't know european manner something to be said for that. yeah, there is, i mean, one of the things i found interesting sort of, the more you sort of against that seem the 60, the 970 team is that you have this idea that the, just the brazil just seem just turned up and kind of stand by the way, through the torments and enjoyed themselves. the reality was, the coach that was, was like all i, when they got to the tournaments he was

a team. i have pallet's 95862, a very scientific approach to football way ahead of way ahead of a lot of the other teams that were they were consulting the same doctors that the yesterday at nasa were consulting with, make sure they were absolute pig physical fitness for, for them was played larger altitude. so it wasn't just the case of them having supreme talents. they also have that level of dedication and expertise around them was well way ahead of what a lot of other countries did it. that's fascinating. all right. thanks so much. and the richardson talking us through the, the live pictures of the wake of pele in brazil. now the doors of saint peter's, the silica of open for the public viewing of pope benedict, the 16th body which is lying in state. these alive pictures from the vatican. actually, early pictures from the vatican, people had been lining up since early morning to pay their respects. the pontiff died on saturday at the age of 95 get some whether

his everson now. hello. we have rain in the forecast for the middle east and the some, plenty of it. we've got a large band, a cloud to straggling saudi arabia. we have seen some flooding here recently, but this becomes a little more extensive as you go through the next couple of days. sinking further south was even here and carter, we may, we'll see some, some rain just through the early hours of tuesday, going on into wednesday next, the area of cloud bills and burst as we go on through were tuesday said western parts of saudi arabia seeing more the way of wet weather look at that just curls its way back towards the levant, syria, lebanon, jordan, seen some cloud and rain, iraq looking pretty disturbing snow. they're just around as i cross mountains, pushing into iran, sen, wet weather there to into we're q. wait. this will gradually make its way through us here as well. so even as we go to the latter part of the week, expect some rating cutter pushing down across to you, a little bit of rain to just around the far northeast of africa. all the areas of egypt seeing a shower or tube for much of north africa, english. dr. hamilton,

when continuing to blow here plenty of showers. meanwhile, across the tropics, as they should be in those showers, affecting all countries. here really we are looking at some where to where the right the way across into mozambique into madagascar some wet weather. therefore, angola sinking further south and west of course, for good part of south africa. gracious prime minister as hailed the country's adoption of the euro as a historic moment. on sunday, the balkan nation also entered the world's biggest passport, free travel zone. the full integration with the european union comes nearly 10 years after it joined the block. stephanie decker reports from zigler, a symbolic moment in the capitol. gracious prime minister and the european commission president, paying for their coffee in euro's the 1st day of the new year, has come with 2 more 1st adopting bureau and joining the board of re shank and zone . earlier at the board was trevino. the 2 leaders had this to say, i proposed work in order to go if they are historical moments,

special moments which should provide us with great honor. and when we witness the achievement of strategic goals of a state. this is such a dicey liver rather being able to cross internal borders without controls is one important achievement. being able to pay cross borders using the same yield. currency is another one. and i know by my own personal experience, that creations will always remember the 1st time they paid with europe the 1st time they held the euro coin, min, it with your national, all blame the kona. but it's not that simple for many people. for the next few weeks, you could still pay in the old currency the kuna, but the change must now be given in euro's, and that's causing confusion going on. so this buyer tells us she has to wallets. now. i mean, she will convert the chain. she laughs,

i still don't know. we are shown the up. they used to calculate the change. how hard am on we have this app now? so convert thing is more or less simple creations are still paying in corners and foreigners helping in euro's we love the kona more, of course, because it's our currency a problem. but as to now, i'm not happy about the euro, but it's not a problem for me to convert. i have some kernel and small euro's and the rest i will take from the cash machine, if it will work, it's total chaos with the ac ems. so it will be an adjustment for everyone and it will take time i, let's speak with stephanie deca in zagreb. so another day, how's it going that people go their heads round, the europe this point i think is gonna take some time. as you heard, there are some people are adhering to what is technically the law now they have to

give change in euros. people can still use the qu, not current currency for a couple of weeks at the market this morning. and also talking to a waitress in a cafe and they are still the still simply giving the kuna in exchange, the waitress that does, i just can't get my head round it and she's too complicated. they should have just and still the euro immediately, it's going to be a gradual process in the sense also some h e m. 's are not working. people are complaining. but in general, you know, it's pretty much business as usual. it's an unprecedented warm day here in january to the 1st official working day. a lot of people's is saying that they are just simply now using the atm to take out yours and making this gradual change. it's it's, it's a massive achievement being loaded here, politically. economically, we mentioned the shank and zone as well. there. you heard people who actually even just across the border to italy for example, to work on a daily basis. that's going to be easier. so certainly there are a lot of benefits to life fair. 5 a lot of people will say,

but yes is also sentimental value when it comes to the current. and that's something that a lot of people have been telling us is harder to like go up. all right, thanks so much. stephanie becker, the german government has presented a new scheme to make it easier for skilled migrants to get jobs there, while several other countries want to limit immigration. so many kane has more coating is a big part of how shuttling gums job as a software engineer in berlin. he works with several major firms. he's been in germany for several years, and he's 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 months, one and a half month more now. so one of those about from that and i didn't like personally in face language issues at the offices, but in terms of employment. yes. and that is something the current german

government wants to eliminate. they say that country needs 400000 new skilled migrants 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 will make it easier for immigrants to take cation and training of 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 held 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 burdened. we have over 100000 asylum applications within 75000 across the external border cross member states and were only then apprehended and austria, we need stronger external border protection. we must finally break the capital offenders. 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 a 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 al, jazeera, brussels evacuation warnings are in place for parts of northern california where of

flood waters of, inundated homes and buildings. more than 12 sent to me because of rain fell in san francisco on saturday, making it the 2nd went to stay there in a 172 years. in the east bay area, people had to be rescued by boat from their flooded homes. many roads. the mudge and the flood warning is in place. at least 4 people have been killed when 2 helicopters collided, mid air in the australian state of queensland. it happened south port on the gold coast, a tourist destination south of brisbin. at least 13 people, including 3 passengers, were injured transport safety authorities are investigating thousands of people have been stranded in the philippine capital, maine and pulled after a major power outage brought travel to a halt. around $300.00 flights grounded in minerva, after the failure of both the primary and secondary power supplies uphold official

say, it will take up to 72 hours to restore power. a drop in water levels at a lake that supplies most of zambia and zimbabwe. hydro electric power answers forced both countries to begin rationing electricity and bob weigh shares late. caribou with zambia can sometimes be without power for up to 18 hours a day had i'm a tasa has more from hot ari traffic jams like this. and now normal intern bobby's capital had added motorists expect to get stuck for several reasons. among been traffic lights, not working. that because of electricity cuts that can last for hours, not far from the congestion. these people are making items back tombstones and picking tops from granite, tired of the constant power. they've invested in generators and other alternative sources of energy. if they didn't,

they go out of business in it's actually is for $100.00 or so for us to cut in, we have to use in the community from ryan alisha and everything. so to us electricity. luckily, the 1st thing that we are no business. the barbie's park a blamed on mismanagement corruption, aging coal plants and more recently, low water levels, africa riva, south power station. the my way as i used to power outages with some areas having no electricity for most of the day, the government has an import electricity for mozambique and zambia, and other countries in southern africa. taking similar action. lake ariba is the biggest source of power for both zimbabwe and neighboring zambia. but water labels have dropped significantly because of recurring droughts, low rainfall, and an increased use of water to generate power. zambia has also started rationing power and it's affecting businesses here in the capitol. the 2nd i was the very

disappointed because many of the products that we saw here about 80 percent fresh products. and when they get by a small scale our, our business is not here to short, so serious, get affected. zombie as government says, the pol cuts will continue until water levels rise in lake ariba. in zimbabwe, leaders have told they people, electricity services will get better. all those he can do is wait and hope the right had a matessa out there had had now people in nigeria are struggling to find shelter and food weeks after devastating floods. thousands of homes have been destroyed along river banks. more than 6000 people were killed, amended race reports from arbor goro, in southern nigeria. pamela joseph returned to salvage what she can after flood waters. rectangle. a single room is all that's left of her 6

bedroom bundle, and it's close to a 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 government. cecilia, this used to be someone's bedroom before the flight. the deborah here is what's left of it and of 38 of the houses that was swept away the foundations of some of the buildings. i in the middle of this river the floods between june and november,

who are among the worst st. 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 all 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 is no proper procurement for those funds. a lot of people benefit from this as a whole, police get clue me around is floods. i worry that we may not be able to recover our quick enough before the next one. with politicians focused on the general elections in torment. some flood victim say they are worried. their troubles are only just beginning. how many degrees al jazeera a bow girl. stella had an al jazeera after years of tents relations between

columbia and venezuela. the bridge linking the 2 nations reopened. we assessed the economic benefits ah ah

ah ah ah ah, outdoors he's in ukraine, say russian dry and strikes on energy facilities in the capsule. key of caused heating and power outages. earlier russia and ukraine accused each other of bombing civilian areas on new year's eve, russian strikes it, homes at

a hotel and keep kidding. at least one person. osco says it was targeting drone factories. him a new year's address to the nation president below them is that it's key. thank the ukrainian people for staying united. the legal within it is okay. i wish you health dear ukrainians. new year, new day, $45.00 shy heads were shut down on the 1st night of the year. i thank our air forces, pilots, antea 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 contrasts 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 on russia says

all strikes are targeted at military infrastructure. there is a girl with the company, with this yellow throat on december 31st. the armed forces of the russian federation carried on strike with high precision long range air launched weapons at the facilities. the military industrial complex of ukraine evolved in the manufacture of combat. drones used to carry up terrorist attacks against the russian federation of storage areas and attack u. v launch sites were also hit plans by the key regime to carry out those attacks in the near future. have been thwarted then now lewis and i saluted the silver was sworn in as brazil's new president on sunday. thousands witnessed integration of the veteran left wing politician, widely known as lula. it's the 3rd time he's held the nation's highest office, a post one after a closely fort election. our latin america is elissia, new and reports from brasilia. ah, rudy sworn in president lucy,

nancy lula desilva. warped 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 lulu 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 avid yenna 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 things out of continue resisting lula, one by a very small margin in a bitterly fort election. oh, but the supporters are overjoyed. julie himself was overcome with emotion. you spoke of ending hunger among the poor nap portables. a whole lines of people at the doors of 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. luna is 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 presidential seattle, are determined to thwart his government at every turn, leaving the new president. little time to celebrate the sea in human al jazeera brazilian, how a bridge connecting columbia and venezuela has fully reopened for the 1st time in nearly a decade, allowing people and cargo to move across, improved relations between the 2. latin american nations made it possible zealous under i'm petty reports. 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 to rate is we opened the t v as bridge on january 1st with the festive by national ceremony. balloons flew in the air while government delegations met that 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, he ran duke, 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, mister glen mondanca, 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 to day end to columbia because many people have their relatives on the other side of the border where no, but i mean if he's straight between the 2 countries was worth over $7000000000.00 us dollars back in 2008, but has collapsed to less than 300000000. 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 water. oh, that's it for this news, albert, i'll be back in a couple of minutes with another full show. so stay with us. ah, it's one of the most spectacular mass migrations in the animal kingdom. monarch butterflies. millions of arriving at the winter habitat in central mexico. this year, the international union for the conservation of nature officially designated the migrating monarch butterfly as endangered experts say the use of pesticides along with the loss of habitat are the biggest threats to the species. they may be difficult to see from a distance, but these trees behind us are absolutely covered in monarch butterflies. now tourists are welcome at this protected butterfly sanctuary here in central mexico.

but visitors are asked to keep their voices down so as to not disturb the butterflies. for many the up close encounter with millions of these vibrant butterflies is a once in a lifetime experience. experts in mexico see that despite the monarch being designated as endangered, there's evidence that conservation efforts are working. but ultimately, the future of this iconic insect depends on the continued protection of their natural habitat. the pursuit of endless economic growth has caused the planet. there's a number of things that threaten of civilization as we know, and that's an existential threat. otherwise, uh, if overhauling entrenched economic systems can help reverse the damage, they must go from degenerative systems to regenerating the living well and meet the businesses balancing the books by making the planet as important as profit. bab, he's had traumatic change for society. are we going to collapse, or are we gonna write business critical on algebra? with

school? ah, brazil bids good bye to the king. public wake for football legend pele underway. the stadium where is korea began. rely from santos. ah, time sam is a dan. this is al jazeera.