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ah, china reopens off to nearly 3 years lifting quarantine requirements for all travelers despite a covered 19 outbreak. ah, hello until mccrae. this is al jazeera alive from doha, also coming up iran trolls. international condemnation for executing 2 anti government protesters for killed a member of the paramilitary force. russia ins it's unilateral, cease fire, and bombs, parts of easton ukraine killing at least one person in voting begins and bindings. parliamentary elections with some opposition parties, a back on the balance. after

nearly 3 years of self imposed isolation, china has reopened its borders and lifted cove at 19 restrictions on international travelers. these are some of the 1st passengers who were not required to quarantine upon arrival. however, since the government rolled back at so called 0 coven policy, the virus has been spreading across the country. authorities have urged people to limit travel and gatherings ahead of luna, new year's celebrations. rail services between mainland china and hong kong have also resumed. the passengers are still required to show a negative curve at 19 test. awesome, or is, are they all get along? i'm sorry, happy so excited. i haven't seen my parents for many years, then not in good health. so i'm really happy to go back and see them now. boys on tina, i can't wait to go back to the mil lamp. it's been 3 years. we have no time to delay now that the board is open. oh katrina, you as lie for us in beijing and katrina borders. a finally opened it's been years

since people have been able to travel freely. can you give us a sense of just how big a deal this is? how excited are people barren china? well, just like you heard from those people interviewed their people. here are elated people i've spoken to are overjoyed for them this month. the real end of the strict 0 curve policy that china has been under for almost 3 years. that policy involved lengthy quarantine flows coming from abroad as well as just general restrictions on movement for those who didn't even leave the country. now, according to a travel agency, one of the biggest here in china interest in overseas travel has jumped by about 80 percent of people searching various destinations. the top favorite so far is thailand, but also a lot of interest in japan. south korea, the u. s. and australia and hong kong, also very popular destination had many people here on mainland china having strong

close family ties and business highs with those on the islands. that you have to say that it's not going to be completely obstacle free for chinese travelers. depending on where they choose to go, there are about 20 countries around the world who have put up some restrictions on chinese travelers. some screening restrictions replied them to take proven tests. most recently, the portugal and netherlands have joined this list of people watching lists of countries involves the u. k, canada and australia. among this now it's not just going to be a boom for international tourism rural. so spect expecting a big boost for the domestic industry here this, we can also marks the beginning of to noon, which is the 40 day travel period leading up to lunar new year at the end of january. and china's railway department expect 2000000000 trips to be made during the next few weeks. and many of these people who will be returning home from the cities to rural areas are migrant workers. here for the last 3 years have not been able to return home because of

a movement restrictions. and this is all happening at the same time as case numbers are searching. is there any plan, especially when it comes to rural areas and in dealing with to rise and coast numbers and, and potentially putting those areas at risk? that's right. so since lifting virus restrictions in december, the country has the surge in proven 19 cases across the country. cities as well as the countryside. we know in the major cities at least aging shanghai gong, jo. the hospitals here are packed with people that are shortages of rooms as well as beds. so the government is aware that in the rural remote areas where many people will be traveling to the medical system, there is even less developed. and there were few people in those areas as well that are fully vaccinated against coven 19. so they're major concerns about people coming from the cities to those areas, bringing the virus there. so the government has announced some guidelines saying

that they discourage people from holding large public gatherings. they're saying that if you have symptoms to report these to the local authorities or even think twice about travel all together. but these are just guidelines that just suggestions they will not be enforced. so we have to see whether people are likely to change their plans and if any, but certainly there won't be any bands or restrictions on travel in the lead up to that period. okay, thank you so much. that is katrina you for us. in beijing. the thailand is one of the most popular destinations for chinese tourists and this hope that the return will help revive the travel industry from bangkok, his tony chin. aaron, bank of china, how the hanging land since to celebrate the lunar new year and 2 weeks time. if the truth be tell they're a bit more concerned about a date, a little closer. monday, the 9th of january and chinese terrace, able to return to thailand after restrictions were lifted when they arrived. they'll only have to show a vaccine certificate with fear of the restrictions that have been placed on them

going to other places. as all tourists will now have to do, the thai government knows they are vitally important for the revival of that terrace industry which makes up 25 percent of the tie economy. they're hoping that their goal of 20000000 arrivals this year will impart be boosted by these new arrivals from china. that there is some trepidation those who aren't directly involved in the tourist industry. concerns with the spread of coven infections within china. a new barian could emerge. and remember the coven 19 was birth seen outside china? here in thailand that said their importance to the economy and to the post coven. 19 revival is vital. and many people will be hoping that brings a prosperous and happy new year. or 2 other news, and iran is facing international condemnation. after hanging 2 men convicted of

killing a member of a paramilitary force during anti government protests. in november, mohammed's midi kurama was a national karate champion. and so he is mohammed or seni was a volunteer coach for children. amnesty international says the convictions relied on forced confessions. the you says it's a paul's and the us is demanding an end to what it calls sham trials. negan mortars, avi is a journalist, and host of the iran podcast. she says these executions only fueling more the sent everything to government by rushing through these cases. and while human rights organizations, amnesty international specific say, without any resemblance of justice or due process, is essentially trying to instill fear and send the message to the rest of the protesters and the sensors that this is what's going to happen to you and that they're using any need to try to crash the protests to essentially send the protesters back home. the previous 2 execution follow the same pattern, young man,

failure, known, executed through rush courts and also abruptly in the early hours of the day. and this time also, it seems to be the same to men, $20.21. and both hang especially. then the goal of this is to still see above what is actually doing is generating more anger, generating even more protests with the funeral testers, turning into new quotes has themselves actually the 2 men that were hands were arrested around the protests that were for the funeral. of one of the other killed protesters, so it just seems to be generating more and more intro balls of protest and essentially energizing more people to join this body of movement. and this manage mirandi is a political analyst than professor at the university of to ron. he says,

writes organizations, critical of iran has an old terrier motive. we have to be careful about these human rights organizations, which are funded by western governments or funded by institutions, both the affiliated with western governments, amnesty international. we now have supporting nato and honest. and it is closely affiliated with the political establishment in the united states. we have to remember that over 60 police officers were murdered during this period. if you compare this to that state, the united states now be roughly comparing it. we're taking into account that the population in the united states is 4 times greater than iran. that would mean like $225060.00 police officers and the united states being killed by riots. so i think if we take it look at things in, in, in this sort of context, then it would be far more complicated than what these western and human rights

organizations were. st. thousands of israelis have protested and telephone against the new right when government and its plans to over hold a judicial system. they say the reforms threatened democracy and freedoms left wing organizations and palestinian israeli members of the parliament were leading the demonstrations. these are 1st such protests against prime minister benjamin netanyahu, new coalition governments, the most right wing in israel's history. we are really, again, is going to leave the democracy with one person which ones who get breathed over his law for while and with all of us out of angela, various communities. it's wonderful. yeah,

with ah, russian shelling has killed at least one person in east and ukraine as moscow's unilateral cease fire ins. the ha keith governor says the victim was a 50 year old man. there were reports of fighting in the danverse region as ukrainians and russians marked orthodox christmas. keith had rejected the 36 hour cease fire. he donasia suites. you wouldn't have gotten his meal. by the way, once again the world has seen how deceptive any statement at any level coming from moscow is that was saying something about the supposed cease fire. the reality however, was that russian shells once again hit back moot and other ukrainian positions, or millions of orthodox christian, celebrated their christmas under the shadow of russia. war shall strafford reports

. churches have stood here for almost a 1000 years cubes. oliver cathedral is one of the most important orthodox christian institutions in the world. but this year's christmas service is different if you're a barrier love for the 1st time the liturgy is being delivered in ukrainian by a recently formed ukranian orthodox church. the century's ukrainian church is conducted the christmas service in ancient slavic, and russian times have changed. oh, certainly, i assure you, i think people have changed the stays, it's changing. we see historical justice and the nation is being formed. it's very important to eradicate everything russian from ireland, i guess, or russian church. as i said, oh, was here before i ever supports in like her rush centers in put in. so he was so

know when we can have you bring in church. oh, i'm really glad so, oh, sentiments like these have been growing since roches illegal annexation of crimea and areas of the dumbass in 2014. they have now been institutionalized in the country that suffering a full scale invasion and more than 10 months of war as the newly formed orthodox church of your crying holes. christmas pres. here for the 1st time, the ukrainian church affiliated with moscow has no choice but to hold a service at another site close by you crean accuses it of supporting and even helping russia in the wall. something the church vehemently denies the priest. he is one of a number on a ukrainian sanctions list. the police and army have rated numerous russian orthodox churches across ukraine since the war started, little priest,

metropolitan clement says his church has no affiliation with moscow. other than a spiritual one and accuses ukraine of flouting its own constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion worship, look mighty called severe loss of thomas shaw. this is shown by the fact that the contract for the use of the cathedral by our church was terminated without appropriate procedures. another denomination was allowed to conduct the christmas service in the church inquiries tube, as it is aggressive and discriminatory towards the worshippers of our church. it reminds us of the situation that existed in the totalitarian days of the soviet union condo city. there are a few of worshippers at this church on christmas morning, but it isn't alicia to get some later. sure. of course, we're a little sad that to day we're not in a cathedral, but if god's well, the main thing is to pray humbly and then go to decide as needed. roches invasion

hasn't only pushed ukraine into the arms of the west. it's further dividing its orthodox christian communities to shall strive for al jazeera give will still hit on al jazeera ah, how impersonate his of the king of rock'n'roll providing much needed boost to australia's economy. plus californians of withering a wave of devastating storms which are better in the coastline. ah hello. we got more very mild weather, pushing it across so much of year. no great changes there, but i think it will become less mile for some as we go through the next couple days, big hook of cloud as rolling in from the atlantic. and that's another intense area of low pressure amount of this time of year caused. does me wet and windy we are

seeing that? so where somebody where the streaming in from the atlantic bringing cloud and rain then in that wet weather will setting across western parts of central and eastern areas. still a good deal of dry weather around in terms of the temperature cities, sir, still the cool cyber he's very cold. there for moscow should be about minus 6 celsius might have 15. not as cold as it has been though. still plenty of mild weather across central parts and it stays that way as we go on through the next couple of days. you can see how mosque i will see those tab, which is just flicking in flying a little bit as we go on through the next couple of days, we'll say 12 celsius there in london. so i still plenty of mild weather around here . that will be a tad coolness to go on through s sunday. wet and windy weather coming in across much of france. southern france, seeing some heavy rain, some snow over the parent, a dusting of snow to at last, coming back into the alps as we go through the next couple of days. little more widespread as we go on into monday. we'll see when windy weather developing around italy and the balkans as we go through the next few days.

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you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the salad. after nearly 3 years, china has reopened. it's boulders lifting clover 19 restrictions on all travelers. rail services between hong kong and the mainland have resumed. the passengers are required to show a negative taste. iran is facing international condemnation. after hanging, 2 men convicted of killing a member of a paramilitary force during antique government protests in november, amnesty international says the convictions relied on false confessions. russian shelling has killed at least one person in easton ukraine as moscow's unilateral cease fire ins. the ha keith governor says the victim was a 50 year old man. there are also reports of fighting in the don't boss. region voting is under way in benito power para, a parliamentary elections, which the opposition parties on the bell as for the 1st time since 2015,

they were banned from the previous boat and 2019, which lead to violent protests against president patrice. tell on an interest joined us from caetano and benito, and i'm a what's the importance of these particular elections? well, tom least election is significant in many respect. like i said, in the introduction, it marks the return of the opposition on the ballot. they are running for parliament, they say they want to win a majority in parliament to change laws that they consider repressive to the opposition. and of course a threat to democracy. secondly, women participation and this election is crucial and so on. the constitution or the electoral law has set aside at nearly a quarter of the seats in parliament, $109.00 seats in parliament for women exclusively for women. and now the most important thing, of course,

is the membership or the conduct and the outcome of this election itself. 109 members, and the presence of the opposition in parliament is crucial simply because the members of parliament, according to the electra law, along with may as in the cities across, been in the public, will determine or have a crucial role to play in determining who runs for precedence in the next general election or in the next presidential election, simply because the law stated that members of parliament a candidate must obtain the endorsement of members of parliament in order to qualify to ton for election for the presidential election in 22 in 2003, it's time from now. now what is happening right now is people are flocking to the pulling stations across. been republic to choose those $109.00 members. we've got to some pulling station earlier today. the present, the, the, the china was

a little bit lower than expected. and here, in this particular pointing center, we have more than 15, at least 16 pulling boots, while voters expected to cast their ballots to those 109 legislatures. so far what we see is a tree called of the number of voters who are coming here to cast that bullet in order to like those are prevented. ok, thank you so much so much. that's on the interest for us and been a 46 soldiers from ivory coast accused by molly. of being missionaries have returned home. the head of molly's military government pardoned the group on friday . they arrived in operation after spending 6 months behind bars, ivory coast has always maintained the soldiers with deployed as part of a security for the un peacekeeping mission in molly, the risk cause the diplomatic fallout between the neighbors or the us government has deported thousands of venezuelan migrants to mexico,

mexican authorities say the group of 100 was sent back to power. it is on friday. it's part of new us border control mission aimed at discouraging asylum seekers. for colombian, prison and gustavo petro has made a surprise visit to caracas to meet his venezuelan counterparts and nicholas maturer. it's the latest sign of warning relations between the 2 countries and comes just days after an important border crossing reopened. ties were caught 4 years ago when columbia, the previous government refused to acknowledgement jurors disputed election when it's been a month since teresa left as president was removed from office. after trying to dissolve congress, pedro costeo's arrest prompted a wave of violent protests in which 22 people were killed. as prosecutors build a case against the former leader, many of the supporters say that been betrayed by the government. marianna sanchez

has more from reaper one of castillo strongholds o from the mountain homes to the streets of the small town of lipa higher, began to, oh, hundreds of farmers joined in the moment demanding the rights to promises. former president bill castillo made during his campaign, yet. lydia bianca says she will not give up from the expectations she had when she voted for him 18 months ago. let the laws are made to favor the rich. we don't have a voice or a vote. we want a constituent assembly to close congress and we want president dina bullard to, to resign. she does not represent us. well, many protesters here see kathy's removal from office and arrest making a political prisoner disorder. kathy, you ordered the dissolution of congress and the rest of the prosecutor

investigating him on corruption allegations. now he faces charges of rebellion and up to 20 years in prison. oh basil one with more than 80 percent of the vote. although people here say he didn't pull any of the promises he made the lawmakers responsible. yeah. because not allow me to worry without dusty you. these farmers see their expectations for better living conditions. slipping away. they blame the new precedent, dean of unworthy. i have an idea, i am a salad castillo promised agrarian reformed, and we voted for him. but noble artie has betrayed us. she was our sister, but now we want her out. for a month, it who has witnessed, protest, death, and destruction. the country is in a state of emergency. farmers here are continuously on strike, taking turns to block the mean highway esquire stomach consoles, the dumping. we are so tired all of us lloyd, the elderly children, young,

but we don't taking part in. and that's the only way lonely come. if they don't listen to us, we will continue with our fight. you welcome to night. one month on bill castillo is a symbol fading away. but the people of what he passe, his promises are now a force for renewed hope. and the only way for change they say is to continue fighting. medina, santas, i just see that would be a bully, mac, or people in the us state of california trying to clean up after days of devastating storms. many a bracing for more severe weather expected to sweep northern regions in the coming days. alexandra buyers, reports dominic king's restaurant would normally be full of dinars, enjoying food and ocean views. but not any more. the village of capital, it was among the worst to be hit by last week's storm. it stirred up some of the

biggest swells in years waves as high as 7 meters tore up historic piers and damaged homes and businesses. it's our family restaurant, you know, we've had it for like a decade it's. it's definitely places where we've had a lot of good memories. it's more than just a business. so it's, it's really hard to see kind of in the state that it is utility companies are working to restore power to tens of thousands of people. california's governor declared a state of emergency to help with the clean up, but the damage bill is in the millions for the reasonably feeling just traumatized . i mean it's, it's a, it's emotional, does our community. we know that, that when you look around at the wreckage, there with the rebuilding looks like in an arduous process. the storm was powered by 2 phenomena. a large airborne stream of moisture called an

atmospheric river and a hurricane for system known as a bomb cyclone. for 2 days it battered the region with fierce winds and torrential rains. we actually witness the appear go down, and it was not all your sight to see, but to hear it to hear the high launched rapping against each other. and the destructive force of the water was just incredible. and now to come the day after and to see it works like a war zone here. it's the 3rd storm like this to hit california in a week. researchers say climate change is making them worse and more frequent. the severe mother has killed several people since new years and as communities try to pick up the pieces, there's no reprieve just yet to back to back storms are barreling in from the pacific, and more than 15000000 californians remain under flood watch. alexander buyers,

al jazeera estrella is pricing for a potential increase in unemployment and economic slowdown as interest rights continue to rise. yet tourism is staging. a revival and one festival near sidney is drawing crowds and much needed revenue. wind high reports, you've got to follow that dream wherever that dream may lead. elvis presley, once crude for many impersonate is of the king of rock and roll. that dream leads to the small australian town of pox. a for a few days every year. people of all ages from all around the world come here. we're slow for them. the annual parks elvis festival is australia's grace lands. after 2 years of doing nothing and you know, us entertain as being in home. it's great to be back out again in the parks is buzzing. it's great for the economy for parks, and it's just great to see everything back up and running again.

this is the 30th edition of the event which is returned after 2 years of pandemic disruptions. $25000.00 visitors are in town, providing the local economy with the boost of around $15000000.00. the heavy everything back in full swing after 3 years address 2 years of covered and to have it back in full swing is so important for the emotional benefits to the community. not only to help it recover from a difficult few years, but also to prepare for what lies ahead. consumer confidence is falling in australia as interest rates rise. so 2023 is expected to be tough. it's been a challenge for a lot of that small communities and our businesses. i was saying funny businesses closed out and i fall by the way. so i, you know, during those join times i.