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prisoners released after completing his 40 years centers in sports will be building up to the big man city chelsea game which takes off in a couple of hours and can use government touches to spend $5000000.00 a year for the next 5 years in an effort to combat de thing in athletics. ah, welcome to the news and thousands of migrants escaping poverty, violence and political repression and central america. and now being given new legal pathway to united states president joe biden as unveiled a new plan to allow people from haiti, cuba, nicaragua, and venezuela to work in the us. but he warned those trying to enter illegally will be turned away. thousands of people hope to join the program, queued a board, or authority offices in mexico. today, i'd like to boist rosemary like to talk to you about how that my administration is

dealing with our situation in the southwest border. now are these actions alone now? so they aren't gonna fix our entire immigration system, but they can help us a good deal in better management. what is a difficult challenge my 1st day in offers somebody recall cover this area you covered? well, i said congress, a comprehensive piece of legislation that would completely overhaul what has been a broken immigration system for a long time or so they will get more from fill of out. he's down in florida, a place where mostly cuban migrants have arrived over the weekend. but 1st, let's go there can be how could, who's at the white house in washington, dc. and kimberly, please explain. the rationale behind this move announced by the president the president believes that this is going to stem the flow, or serge of migrants that have been coming over the southern board of the united states, from mexico since he took office said has been a record number of crossings and what the white house believes is this builds on

a program that was put in place in the fall that allowed mostly migrants from venezuela, some 24000 a month to enter the united states. now this will be expanded to include the nations, you outlined cuba, haiti, nicaragua, and venezuela. to come at the tune of about $30000.00 a month to enter the united states. they must have ties to people already present in the united states. and, and what this means is that this, the white house believes, will contain by about 90 percent, the illegal crossings into the u. s. now there is a catch to all of this because, well, this is going to allow a narrow legal pathway into the us. what the white house is also doing under this new program is expanding the number of expulsions under title 42. in other words, those trump era expulsions that were put in place during the pandemic. that would

mean that people can come and claim asylum. well, that program is being expanded, so the by the white house is likely to receive a lot of criticism for this, particularly because it was the by the white house criticizing this program initially when it was put in place under the former president, donald trump. now itself expanding this program, but indeed that is exactly what it's doing. it is now forcing people to apply for asylum in their home countries offering just a narrow pathway for coming into the united states. okay, for now can be how could in washington dc? thank you. over to lavelle now, who's in miami, florida, fill a miami oversee a city that already has a sizable cuban community, a population. how have people been responding to the news there?

well, there's a lot of awareness here. me about the fact that we are not talking about the landlord, which of course gets all that attention. we're talking about the maritime board, which is the main focus here. that's how people access the u. s. in this part of the world on that coming in many places from cuba, for example, where the fling economic issues they're coming from haiti where they're playing gang violence all the aftermath of natural disasters. and those numbers have been going up and up and up. there were some 6000 cubans, some 7000. hey, she haitians who were repatriated, i'd say in the last fiscal year, just to give you some real breakdown. 14000 and counties in october and november of 2020 to compare that 235004 the entire 12 months leading up to that point a point. so lots of people aware that there is a big issue. there is a particular issue right now at a place called rights at lucas national park. now that is an uninhabited island. it's a national park. it is west of key west, which is of the southern point of florida. it's fairly close to cuba,

a fairly short journey, many people making that journey by rickety boats that we know that since the start of this week or since the weekend, some 500 people mostly thought to be cubans have arrived on this island, laure enforcement, as our that medical personnel and down there is no other way of getting that other by played or by boat. they have now transported some people, but the, the park remains close to the public and there are still people there. and we go through this whole issue of being processed. that is a big issue there. and as kimberly was saying, you know, that this new announcement by joe biden is saying that from today, if you do this, you're on your own, you're not going to get an extra help to come to the united states. and they're hoping that this announcement will say to those people in places like cuba, in places like haiti, you called get on these boats and you can't just come to places like try to go national park. one other issue to mention of course, is that we are in florida. the governor here rob de santis has allied himself very much with the immigration issues. we've seen various points at which he has health

at transport, migrants from places like texas to martha's vineyard. for my republican states to more liberal states, more pro immigration places in the united states. and of course, as he gets off for a potential 2020 for presidential bed. all of this place into his issue where he says, look, we really need to get a cap and immigration, and florida. he needs to point out. florida is doing its better for when it comes to immigration policy, the united states. obviously, people arriving there, hoping to start a new life coming from challenging situations in latin america, in places like cuba have faced a tremendous amounts of stigma when they do arrived. you think these legal changes are likely to alter the way in which american society perceive people arriving there in the states in the hope of starting something new was interesting. i was speaking to a lawyer this morning. he was say, you know, this is a country that is founded on immigration that yes, we look at these numbers and to some in the right wing media,

particularly they look at this and they are horrified. they say there is an explosion of people coming to this country, but when you look at it in the context, this is not an explosion. this is just what is happening at the moment. but of course, there are lots of magazines, but we me, this is a country that was founded on migration, as i say. so from many people here, this is just another process in this country's history. of course, this part of the world rich with it, with heritage from migration, particularly from cuban. a lot of people have family in those countries who will now at least be able to be they'll have some kind of pathway to helping their relatives come across under these new proposals. but of course, i say the political side of this is, of course the governor who makes it nice to make sure that he is be seats, have a real hold on the migration issue here. or i sell lavelle many thanks a lot. now it appears that u. s. republican kevin mccarthy has lost his beard to become a speaker of the house of representatives for 7th time. voting is still under way,

but mccarthy has already fail to get enough support as a group of conservative republicans continue to block him from becoming speaker. the voting is now into it's 3rd day was the 1st time in a century that the speaker hasn't been elected in the 1st ballot. while the role of the u. s. house speaker is one of the most powerful political positions in washington d. c. the speaker is 2nd in line to the presidency and will take over the leadership if something happened to both the president and vice president with the jobs most important role is political as head of the majority party, the speaker has near total control over what gets debated and voted on by the full house when they come from the same party. the speaker can be one of the president's most important allies, but when they're rivals, the speaker becomes one of the president's most difficult opponents or john henderson is live for us, a car on capitol hill and a john. what does this of course been for mr. mccarthy going forward now?

well, mccarthy and his allies had hope to gain perhaps as many as 10 votes on this 7 round after 6 humiliating rounds of boats over 2 days. and he was hoping to show some kind of progress so that there would be momentum in his direction. well, so far he hasn't shown any 18 people have voted against him on the republican side yesterday that total number was 21. we may still reach that number, so if he's made any progress, it hasn't been much and that's a bad time for his candidacy. i just talked to a congressman from utah, who said he was a mccarthy supporter and was prepared to stick it out through the weekend. but not everyone feels that way. there are other members of congress who suggested that if by the end of the day, mccarthy doesn't reach some kind of improvement in those numbers, they are going to consider putting out the names of real contenders. people who are

already in the leadership who might garner enough support to gain a consensus vote of the majority of republicans right now with just short of that level. it was 21 yesterday last i look at 18 at the moment and there are more boats to be counted. so on vote 7 mccarthy does not appear to be close to when until a lack of momentum there. the house obviously has real world implications as well. as the committees can be formed, laws can be made that's right, effectively there is no functioning house of representatives. in fact, different no representatives. they are elected every 2 years, and they haven't been sworn in yet because it can't be sworn in until there is a speaker. so people refer to them as members elect. you've got members who have not been part of congress before, who've never been sworn in. and eventually,

they won't be able to pay their own staff if this continues. so there is some urgency to getting this done. the winner in the vote so far has been hakim jeffries, the democratic leader, but he to is not reaching the majority necessary for this to happen. ultimately, what needs to happen for mccarthy is he needs to break into that, that 21 members or so. and try to get, try to persuade them. he's offered every possible inducement overnight he offered to allow just one member of congress to be necessary to call a vote to remove the speaker. that's one of the thing that these members of the freedom caucus had been asking for. there's nothing really left for him to give up . the problem is that there are some people who are members of the never kevin caucus, it's just not clear whether that's over the 4 threshold which he can afford to lose . and if it is over that for well, he may never be able to be elected speaker, not have to move on to someone else. right. the saga continues john henry live on

capitol hill. many thanks. but you more handle the news asked including ah, people who are told not to leave the homes after a night, violence in the mexican drug cartel stronghold of sing along another hit for the tech sector. as an online giant analysis is largest layoffs in history. and in sport, iran gets ready to host footballs. arabian gulf come for the 1st time in 44 years. mm. russian president, vladimir putin has ordered a 36 hour cease fire when you crying for orthodox christmas is set to come into effect at noon on friday. the kremlin is calling on kids to do the same. turkish president, 3rd one, held a phone call with putin early on thursday and sent the peace efforts in the russia ukraine. war should be supported by unilateral cease fire and a vision for

a fast solution. however, a senior ukrainian official dismissed it as hypocrisy, saying a truce would only happen when russia left its territory. earlier u. s. president joe biden reacted to moscow's proposed cease fire in ukraine. are founded interested. he was ready to bomb hospitals and nurseries and churches with, with the on the 21st new years. and i mean, i think he's trying to find some oxygen shall stratford following developments in kia. this initially comes from a suggestion made by the the moscow patriarch, carol, russia, patriarch. carol, they're looking for they study success these 5 from about, well, from mid day, which effectively would be all, all that was christmas christmas eve, right. the way through the next day, christmas day until 12 midnight, and it was

a response to the patriarch carol's suggestion that we heard from an adviser in the president's office. mchale police and he just call this a cynical trap. so we haven't had any official statement yet by president zalinski, but one can only assume that it's going to be consistent with what mr. pulled iliac said. let me just give you a little bit of background here. there's a very create a very interesting sort of change of atmosphere in ukraine that is gathering place in as far as a move away from fundamentally unorthodox christmas here because many ukrainians associate orthodoxy with russia and by default russian aggression. so for example, christmas that is just gone by the office for the, for the julian calendar that now is being gradually pushed for by many people and

you're going to be celebrated on the 24th and the 25th. there's also the issue that in 2019 the ukranian church basically was set up a stablish that has no affiliation whatsoever with the moscow patriarch. israel is released in the longest held palestinian prisoner israeli authorities freed, carry me eunice, who is also in australia citizen in detention for 40 years. he was convicted in 1983 of killing and it's ready soldier and the girl and the palestinian israeli was initially condemned to life imprisonment. but his sentence displayed commuted in wrong. com is in our village where many people have gathered to well community bank to his community. and emotional reunion for carry minez, who spent 40 years inside and his railey jail. he was jailed on the 6th of january, 1983, released just a few hours ago of $530.00

a. m a from a prison in central israel. he was taken to a nearby town. he was given a card that he didn't know what it was. he wasn't sure it was actually a bus pass. he then pulled his brother's brother picked him up and brought him here . it's very difficult to underestimate how, how important agreement is, was within the front of political louvin. he was a member of the central committee advising stone, if you will, when he was jailed in 1983 for the killing of an israeli soldier in the occupied golden heights. now, this was not part of a political exchange. this was not part of benevolence on the part of the israelis . this was simply the fact the man i served all 40 years of his sentence and therefore was released. we're saying now this is actually happening in defiance of the israeli authorities. these radio authorities said that they should not

walk this occasion, that no one they shouldn't set up, hence the family have ignored that. ok. and they've managed to mark this reunion. now we have been speaking to the man himself, the said to listen to what he had to say about freedom, the light and the heck it yes or no, no bumps. i have a lot of feelings in my wars. don't know how to express. it is the 1st time in 40 years to see the trees in the grass, and i used to see on the walls and cement. but to day i saw a lot of different things. i entered so many houses and i sat down on a sofa for the 1st time in 40 years. i got a very strange feeling when i 1st entered my brother's car, to the extent that i didn't know how to sit properly. it is a mix of feelings and emotions to see the sky without bars for the 1st time of 40 years. now, wilma, now, even when he was inside, presently still remain politically active. he was teaching other prisoners about

the palestinian struggle. like i say he is actually in his written citizens of israel always said that his imprisonment was internal is ready, a matter. but now he's free. he's 66 years old and there's an awful lot for him to catch up or i will. let's take you back to washington dc capitol hill in the house of representatives. let's just finish this 7th round of voting and kevin mccarthy. the republican candidate for speaker, a lost a 7th round. it will now go to an 8th round of voting or all of this, of course, meaning that sir, the chamber doesn't function as it should do. and the ability to legislate has not been established. has yet a little factoid for you. the longest number of votes that ever took to elect a speaker back in 1856. it took a $133.00 ballots and 2 months of voting to choose to speak. clearly, we're away off that nevertheless, big concerns about how long this will indeed take house of representatives. there

are gun fire from armed gangs has rocks the northwestern part of mexico. the violence is taking place in the capital could come in this in a lower area. cars are being burned and roads blocked around the city. police have been sent in to quell the violence. they have told residents to stay in their homes . the region is known as a center for operations, for powerful drug lords and drug trafficking, and were apollo joins us now from mexico city. and the have been some of course, chaotic scenes in the region. the overnight reports also the, perhaps a high profile individual may have been arrested by mexican police. this is one of the most significant confrontations between mexican security forces and the elements of the sinaloa cartel in recent years. all of this, of course, began in the early morning hours of thursday, january 5th in the city of kodak, on capital of the mexican state of siena, loa. since then,

we have been hearing reports of ongoing gun fire of cars and buses being used as road blocks and then set on fire. most recently we began to see a video circulating on social media of passengers aboard an air mexico. that's the largest airline here, mexico that was now confirmed by the, by the airlines that a bullet had actually struck that aircraft before. it was able to take off the video shows passengers sort of ducking for cover all of this, of course, taking place as an operation by mexican security forces has been underway since the early morning hours to capture oh video whose mind he is the son of the notorious former leader of the sinaloa cartel, why came to mind better known as chapel? now we're paying particularly close attention to what's going on right now because precisely this scenario happened already in 2019, even though local media outlets are reporting that over there was mine was captured

. we have not yet heard official confirmation from the government that that is in fact the case. there is a press conference that is expected to take place here within this hour. so we will have more information coming hours. but what we can report is that it is just an absolute nightmare seen on the streets of coolio. and again, this is something that took place in 2019 with the same target, even with a video whose mind when security forces captured the response from the cartel was essentially to terrorize the city to set many, many fires. the confrontations with security forces were intense. we are paying very close attention to what happens next at this point. because the concern is that this violence may not today that we could continue to see violence on the streets of call. you can even into the coming days. one last thing that we should mentioned here is that this is taking place, coincidentally, or perhaps not. coincidentally with the visit of us presidential biden, to mexico city, along with the visit from canadian prime minister justin trudeau for

a north american leader summit. where these leaders, among other things, are expected to be discussing a multilateral security strategy for the region. manuel, can you give us a sense of how embedded the cost in, in a low, how did they establish themselves and continue to make them money? me, you mentioned it in your introduction. you touched on the fact that the low and cool you can specifically as a sort of center of operations for some of the top cartel leaders of the city, low cartel, or video guzman. and his brothers are considered very, very high ranking leaders within this cartel. so the lower cartel is infamous for being one of the principal distributors of drugs like sentinel and methamphetamines to the united states. these men that we just mentioned, a video was mine, and his brothers, there are they are wanted by the united states. there are rewards for their captured, amounting to $5000000.00 a piece. this is a major,

a major and influential cartel for mexico and internationally. and this is, while this is a very high profile capture and it does represent, at the very least in the short term, a major disruption to the operations of the cartel in the long run it when, when we're looking at the bigger picture for a criminal organization of this scale of this influence, you could compare it to the hydra of greek mythology, got cutting off, one of its heads would only see 2 more heads pop in its place. so again, the concern now is that while that we cannot confirm, officially that of either was man has been captured. there is concern that because of everything that's going on, everything that happened over the course of the morning that this is violence that could potentially escalade throughout the rest of the day and even into the coming days like stream lea, 10 situation them and we're apollo, log in mexico city, thank you. well, california's governor has declared a state of emergency after

a powerful storm cut electricity, the thousands of homes and the north roads have been flooded and trees up rooted in sacramento authorities of told people to evacuate, evacuate coastal areas, a vulnerable to month. slides is the 2nd storm to hit the west coast in the past week, which on them puerto is chief meteorologists with a q, whether he joins us live from state college, pennsylvania, welcome to the news hour. so 1st the can i start by asking you what's behind this wild weather? well, it's good to be with you today. this is a major storm system that actually weather meteorologist had been talking about for more than a week in advance. what's behind it is a big dip in the jet stream that sam been able to support a series of storage systems, making their way right into the california coastline and tapping into with what we call an atmospheric murderer. that's up to move us heavy amount of atmospheric moisture that can unload lots of rain. that's what we've seen in the last couple of

events where we've had very serious flash flooding occurring across many parts of california. and also, as you mentioned, the wind, that was such a big story with this story, with wind gusts, 60 to 80 miles per hour. in the mountains, the winds were gusting over 100 miles per hour. that is lead you over a $150000.00 customers at this hour out of power in california, and more rain on the way in the coming days. so heavy, right? heavy rain wind flooding all of this, of course, posing a huge risk to human life. there that's right, it is a posing a very serious issue on the one hand, this rain and mountain snow, which has been plenty of that too in the sierra is bringing helpful precipitation because we've been dealing with a very serious, long term drought, many, many years across california, so this is helping the long term drought, but it's creating a very serious life threatening situation in the short term in terms of the flooding rainfall that's happened. and also obviously all the risks from those

gusty winds that we were talking about. and it looks like that as we headed to next week, there's going to be another storm system on saturday and sunday heavy rain and wind once again, and then more storms in the next week. and as we go further along in time, it will take less rainfall to create even more problems. i'm particularly concerned about northern california, where some places may see 15 and 20 more inches of rain in the coming weeks. and i'm afraid that may result in catastrophic flooding in some areas, a great time to download the acu other free app. we've been updating all of our users with that information, keeping the head of the stores. now of course we've seen the long term impacts of climate change multiple countries around the world. are we seeing the same thing there in california? is this now likely to be a long term trend that we just have to get used to? well, i think there's a couple of factors. first of all, the long term drugs that we're talking about that's created so many hardships and issues across the southwestern part of the united states. that is

a very strong tied in climate change on the one hand. and then now we see these episodes of heavy rainfall when you do get rainfall, also tied to climate change in the sense that it's more, it's easier for you to get heavy rainfall episodes when it does rain. so this type of situation where we're dealing with the risk for flash flooding and the heavy rainfall events becoming more calm. and we're seeing that on not only in california but across other parts of the world. so there's a lot of links to climate change in, in terms of what we're seeing. all right, jonathan porter chief meteorologist with acu. other thanks for joining us. going to be with you. still had he on al jazeera ah well versus benedict. the sixty's thousands of paid tribute to the former leader of the roman catholic church. news sports luck of snow and co sure doesn't stop the

usb store, closing it. ah hello there. we seen some very unsettled weather effect parts of the middle east with flooding in places like western saudi arabia. and the rain is set to continue . you can see those showers stretching a band across saudi arabia into those gulf states. we're also seeing some where to where the plague, northern areas of iraq that set to intensify and form into snow as it moves into western areas of iran. but for the gulf states it is looking like a bit of a wet. we can't, if we have a look at the 3 day in particular for doha in cutter, heavy showers on friday, but by sunday we will have that sunshine coming back in. now was a move across to north africa. it's improving picture for some coastal areas like

libya as well as egypt. but the wet weather isn't very far away. touching into tunisia by the time we get to saturday. now, temperatures are sitting below the average for places like mauretania for nigeria. lots of heat to come here. it is relatively dry though, much of that wet weather, shifting further south stretching from angola through to northern areas of mozambique. it's rather soggy in the south east of south africa. and we will see that rush of intense storms, sweet. their way across s, we're teeny, into more eastern areas of botswana and southern mozambique. certainly by saturday . ah, the activist radical and the founder of african cinema, out just in the world, tells the story of the more a making style. he made a breakthrough into

a fighter that his weapons were his mind and his intelligence made him rebel african. tell me about the latest news as it breaks. this particular sub station has been here in 3 separate effects. quite russians we saw with detailed coverage they had helped us would relax water pandemic restrictions this week, which will likely have better there are of getting in from around the world over 3000000 people to talk to the 3 m a n f. know the ah

ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories this our russian president vladimir putin has ordered a 36 hour cease fire in ukraine for orthodox christmas. that we come into effect at mid day. on friday, the senior ukrainian official dismissed it as hypocrisy, saying a truce would only happen when russia left its territory. republican kevin mccarthy has lost his bid to become speaker of the house of representatives for 7th time. the group of conservative republicans are blocking him from getting the job with one even voting for former president. donald trump. he was present, joe biden has announced a new migration program which is set to allow people from haiti cuban nicaragua, and venezuela to work in the u. s. he's calling the plans safe and humane and says it's replacing a broken system. well, let's get more of that story. whitley,

on fresco. he's a former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration at the u. s. department of justice during the bomber administration. he joins us now live from washington, d. c. welcome to the news our. can you explain wards joe by to meant when he said that the, the outgoing system at least is broken? well, the problem is too many people are encouraged to apply for asylum at the southern border in a disorderly process. and what president environment is trying to do is to finally in some sort of orderly system so that people access the system in one or 2 ways. either they apply electronically to be or rolled into the united states legally or they apply for an appointment for a silent ad. busy of injury, rather than sneaking across the border unannounced and presenting an operational challenge on the border control, where they don't know how many people are coming each day and in one locations. and

so that's what he's trying to solve in this announcement. so a way of keeping tabs on people who might want to start alive for themselves the united states. but, but is it fair or do you think? well, it's the, the issue is if you're approaching this from the perspective of someone seeking asylum, you always want to have your body inside of the united states as opposed to outside of the united states. because you always have more rights both within the courts. and within the asylum system, if your body is inside the united states, but in terms of the need to have a more orderly process to seek a file of in the united states. it certainly is something that's needed and they are, will be determined. i think over the course of what's going to happen with the roles and what these appointments in order. and if people are being permitted to enter all be it in a more orderly fashion then it. busy will be fine, but if this ends up excluding

a lot of people that previously might have gotten them under the previous system, then it will be the last fair. of course, the experience of the trump administration continues to cost a long shadow over how my grants are perceived in the united states. you think this new system will help or hinder the stigmatization of migrant? well, i think that for the group of people that are, sees migrants in a negative way, nothing is going to get those people to change their mind. but i do think a orderly lower people is established that you don't have videos every day on the southern border. then writ large, the group of people that are coming to america to make a better life for themselves, always are perceived positively on an individual level. when they have individual interactions with people on a daily basis, it's just what that people see groups coming. then they take any one of the say, you're from this group that's coming across the border. that's what always creates the issue. should you think this move is likely to forestall criticism coming from

the political right? the united states is biden doing the right thing to satisfy all spectrum, this of the, of us politics. you think? well, i think there's always going to be people wanting to criticize the divide administration on immigration from the right. and i think the criticism they're going to say is we should just have a great wall eventually and should be processing any final seekers in any manner on our border. we should just be pushing people out and not letting them have any opportunity to come in. now that's not the united states are made by about thing directv convention and do our own congressional statute. so they actually have to change the law to actually make all do what they want. but that's what they want. so because that's not what's happening here. what's happening is a more orderly system for accepting essentially the same amount of people that's going to make them very upset because they don't want that same amount of people

coming across the united states. but it can be done in a more orderly basis. one would hope that, you know, that's way 10 or 15 percent of what they, you know, what, this is the best of all of the bad options. that's a significant win for the administration layer, fresco, really great to talk to you. thanks for joining us on the news. and you, kosovo says it's still planning to get members of his ethnic sir minority to surrender their serbian issued number planes. tensions fled up between pristina and belgrade over the plan last year. prime minister albin cortina told al jazeera, he's making no promises to serbia on the recent crisis. we have given a bit of time regarding implementation until spring this year of because we want to give time for our agreement between crossover and sonya, which is very much needed for normalization of relations. so as

a goods gesture from our side, we have said we are not going to impose fines on those who have these car plates until spring and i will never compromise with the constitution and law. therefore, until spring we have given this time. and hopefully we can have an agreement beforehand. i believe it's fully doable. if there is a willingness from belgrave, and especially intensified engagement by you and us. and she you can watch wrestle 3rd us full interview with the prime minister of crossover. albin katie, on saturday. the o 430 g m t, that's on talk to al jazeera. marco durit is the serbian ambassador to the united states. he says the international community hasn't placed enough pressure on kosovo . caught fishes thrive, taught by exerting heavy handedness,

and by abolishing what has been achieved through the brussels dialogue, processed to undermine the collective political rights of the serbs in causal through arrests, through various forms of harassment through intimidation. and unfortunately, he has also publicly renounced the brothels and the washington agreement. i believe that actually the absence of firmness on the part of international community. when it comes to pressuring him to implement the brothels agreement with its key element or formation of the community of serving dorothy municipalities, she is in a way in bolden him to act you responsibly. so we believe the quality should be held accountable for failing to implement the agreements and the government, of course, civil should be sanctioned for a year if possible,

and our sinister behavior, which almost play to conflict on a number of occasions in recent months. tens of thousands of people have attended a special funeral mass of the vatican for po benedict. the 16th is the 1st time in modern history that a serving head of the roman catholic church has presided over the funeral of a predecessor that he barb reports ah applause from some of the 50000 boners. as pope benedict's coffin is carried into saint peter's square ah and the cry from the crowd santos so bitterly st. now calling for the beatification, the former head of a catholic church who died at the age of 90. 5 benedict stepped down in 2013 citing poor health. the 1st pope in more than 600 years to resign. his successor poke francis, he came to know him well, prayed for him on thursday. you see called italy, but simply gracious father,

we commend to your mercy. pope ameritas benedict, whom you made, successor of peter, and shepherd of the church. a fearless preacher of your word and a faithful minister of the divine mysteries, said andy spencer thought, clearly this wasn't on the same scale as the last people funeral in 2005 when john paul, the 2nd died still 200000 people came to view benedict's body lying in state at saint peter's basilica before this public ceremony. and many here appreciated being able to say farewell, think it's represents a lot about his life and our what we're here expected a simple celebration, but very fearful. he often did the for there despite having other things to do today. i felt that i had to come here. i told myself i had to come and attend holly mass to accompany him in prayer for the current pope is now $86.00. he said he'll step down if his health stops him performing the role. and the vatican's foreign secretary recently hinted that pope benedict's death could make that path easier.

it was already very complicated, having to man wearing white in the that again. or if full, francis had res, and while benedict was still alive would have had to former popes and one reigning pope. put benedict was revered as a theologian by many catholics, but by his own admission, he was a leader who failed to act decisively enough on cases of sexual abuse by clerics. his legacy is long and complex. dba al jazeera m $23.00 rebels are announced there withdrawing from another town and east democratic republic of congo. they say they're pulling out from roman gobble. i also announced last month that they would leave nearby cuba. t congo accuses orlando backing m 23. something to gully denies the conflict of force thousands of people from their homes since 2021. india supreme court has delayed the eviction of thousands of squashes from the north of the country. the group have been living on

a section of land and or 2nd, that's owned by the indian railways. last month, the high court that ordered the houses adjacent to the railway line to be demolished by january the 9th. the majority of the people living in the area of muslim poverty metal has more from new delhi, the supreme court order has come as a huge relief to nearly 50000 people. families had come here off the authorities, austin, to vacate the homes in the northern town. off hold why they say these homes are legally built and i caught you on land belonging to the engine railways. the eviction order is based on a high court order that also allowed officials to use force due to evict people. now this disputed land is also home to schools, temples and most residents have questioned the order. they say their families have been living here for decades. they have water and electricity connection given to

them by the government. some family say they have legal proof that shows the land belongs to them and not the government, homo murphy, we believed we would get justice and the courts will be fair. the railways will be given whatever land belongs to them, so they can build railroad tracks or whatever they want to do with it. but what is not there will not be given opposition. party say these families were targeted by the governing b g p because most of them belong to muslim communities. the b j b has denied this and says it's just following the high court orders to day. the supreme court said that the government cannot evict people overnight and need to consider rehabilitating them. first, the court will hear the case again next month. take joint amazon is laying off an additional $8000.00 people, as after the company announced in november would cut $10000.00 employees. the reduction in staff is the largest in its history. the company is citing what it calls the uncertain economy. soaring, inflation is forced consumers to come back on spending. amazon share prices also

last up to half its value. the lay offs will impact it's e commerce and human resources departments. but as prince harry claims, his brother william physically attacked him, the duke of sussex made the serious allegation, which is one of many in his memoir that's to be published next week. john hall reports the latest sensational revelation by prince harry goes to the heart of a troubled relationship with his brother william to the throne. the pair seen here after the death of the queen in a copy of harry's upcoming autobiography, spare obtained by britain's guardian newspaper. the 2nd line describes a 2019 meeting with his brother on the kensington palace, his state. it descended, he says into acrimony, and then physical violence. the brothers had met to discuss their failing relationship after harry's 2018 marriage to us actor megan michael and the

intrusive, often insulting media coverage that followed harry rights. that william cold megan difficult, rude and abrasive after which things got heated. harry writes that william grabbed me by the collar, ripped my necklace and knocked me to the floor. it is the latest allegation to cast a pole over the house of windsor, headquartered here at buckingham palace. there's been no response. royal, inside his say the palace has adopted a no comment policy in the media build up to the publication of harry's book next week. not so members of the public brothers has scuffles all the time. so, you know, i think there's probably some truth in it, but i think it was back in may though, surely you, you do sorted out within the family, but what the whole world to know your dirty laundry, really? for millions of millions, family tensions where most recently add in a netflix documentary that amplified previous claims of races of made against the

royal household, which the palace at the time denied. it went further planing megan suffered a miscarriage because of stress caused by negative media coverage and considered taking her life. and they'll be more in length the us and u. k. interviews to be broadcast on something can be here, are you in? i don't know how staying silent is ever going to make things better when your brother, you how, how could you do this to me off that everything off the, everything we went to would not be what you would say. you probably say all sorts of different things, what the public makes of it all is the real test of whether these new stains on royal family relations or shrugged off or cause further damage to the royal bran. jonah, how al jazeera in london still had allowed jazeera and as a case of double delight for this guitar, he driver the duck, our rally. gemma will be here with the details. ah

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ups were organized at state authority level. there is no suggestion that is the case in kenya. in fact quite the reverse. the fact that all these agencies are in alignment. i'm prepared to work alongside world athletics and the athletic integrity unit is a very, very important statement. the journey will be a long journey. we should not kid ourselves. this is going to be achieved overnight . but the goal is worth it. talked her tracing and of how player them are. hamlin say he showed remarkable improvement in the last 24 hours. the remains critically ill after suffering a cardiac arrest is an update relayed by his team. at the buffalo bills, medics added that hum in appears to be neurologically intact, and his lungs continue to heal. hamlin been in a critical condition since monday, when he collapsed during the 1st quarter of the bills game,

against the cincinnati bengals. a big game in the primarily kicking off in just over an hour with manchester said he looking to close the gap on lead us austell. they're playing away at chelsea and the victory would put them within 5 points of the top. the city manager, pet quality, says they won't be able to catch also, if they keep playing as well as they have the they went to the 100. 0 and the more though and the boys are snell in the way he has on so far a dig into in that way will not guides him. so you have to be almost perfect. i would hate to hear from, from, from the, from this is in the spec that the dropping will be to his performance. be that yes, there was extra has newcastle again, so it was you up. a city have a not so secret weapon in darling island. he's already scored 21 a premier li goals. in fact, he's only not scored in 3 of the 15 lee games he's played in. so chelsea here if anyone, one of the last 7 in the league know they have their work cut outs. hon. he's,

he's, he's had a fantastic season. the goals, they're amazing. so top team. so, but we have to, like i said, think about ourselves. think about how we can do better. think about how we can take steps forward in terms of our game and, and that's the approach we'll have. let's switch it up to international football now in iraq is hasting the arabian gulf comp for the 1st time in 44 years. the tournament starts on friday with 8 countries taking part, including the asian champions, cattle, saudi arabia and kuwait, mahmud to why he has more from barbara alone waited football championship gets underway in iraq. the 25th, the addition of the golf club is being held in the southern city of basra. the opening matcher will see the host nation who head to head with the man. the truck to football fans from across 3 june authorities here have waived the visa fees for

fans. with all of you, it's been a challenge for us because we've been waiting for this championship to be held in our country for so long. they've been a lot of logistics and technical obstacles, but we finally overcome them. iraq focused hosted the iranian gulf, coppin, 1979 which it won. but its invasion of kuwait in 1990 under the leaders had them foreseen. so it being banned from taking part in international competitions. how they, when i said this championship a significant for both iraq and the gulf countries to government calls on all iraqi offense to show the best of their ethics and generosity in our guest. as this event is very symbolic, for all of us to stadiums have been chosen for the matches, the city's main stadium can accommodate 65000 spectators. while the port olympic stadium has a capacity of 30000, the tournament is expected to have a big impact on the city. besides revenue from live broadcasting of the matches

advertising and ticket sales, many of bus ross, roads and facilities have been upgraded ahead of the event, which will also highlight the city's tourist attractions. fans from gulf countries or he is to take part in the festivities level. i did him another mom again about them with come by car all the way from or mom to basra, to support our team. the tournament is we're uniting all goes countries. iraq is take pride in their ability to host loves tournament like this. they said can prove crucial for their suffering economy and renew ties with the gulf countries and the wider arab world. on the think he did then helene we buster residents are so proud of this event is the 1st in iraq in my generation. we've been preparing the most to make it comfortable for our guest key for her. birth for a has been affected by years of unrest and conflict. but if this tournament is

a success, it can be a destination once again for war championships and gulf investments. mahmoud abdougla had algebra in basra city, southern iraq. us keith are mckayla's shift for it is now just one wild cup, went away from lindsey vaughan's all time and women's records. the american one, a slalom night trice in zagreb probation to claim b, a. t for fick tree of korea, swedish male race in moscow, called the all time record with 86 when different in the 3 somnolent medalists. but she'll have to wait for the chance to equal one. as they saw them, race have been cancelled due to a lack of snack. well, we just found out the reason to cancel today, which is not the greatest surprise in the world considering how little snow there was. but the fact that they pulled it off yesterday made me feel like it was definitely going to be pulled off today. so i was, i'm like,

i'm shocked. but i don't know why. i'm shocked because it doesn't. it's not the frightening but anyway. so there is just cancel, so now we're going to ship on our grub and head towards tomorrow because we're racing again the day after tomorrow. so the train don't stop to the m b a, where the detroit pistons put off a buzzer beating when over the golden state warriors, the warriors went into this one looking for a sick, straight time wind. but it was an easy clay thompson school to $3.00 to a level and with one second left, it looks like the game with go in over time. but the pistons, i think they found the ball in his hands and let it fly, beating the buzzer. done the warriors 122 to 119. they've got junk. rich has kept his incredible winning streak on australian soil alive despite a scam. the blade international joke which battle back from 5 to down in the 1st set to beat one number 64 quinton alice in straight set to reach the quarter finals

. he's not 131 consecutive singles matches in australia and is requiring folio strain opened in 2 weeks ways looking for a record extending tense title in melbourne. for time doc already champion at nasa. ality has tightened his grip on the lead of this. she has events that the, sorry, one 1st a's 5th stage in the saudi arabian deserts as a result. so alex here has he increased his overall advantage to 22 minutes frenchman and stuff and that, that's a handful of finished and the top 3 to keep himself in 2nd place overrule. that is all your sport for now. i'll have more later. thanks. lot jim. well that's it for me in the fog of this news now it's over to lauren taylor london. now with more of the day's news you'll with al jazeera ah ah,

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