for the football field do not have grass, but the soil just play big one that you can feed right here. we've been talking to some of the children that live in this place. and they said that they would love to follow the steps of your tell missy, be mighty. yeah. and other members of the national team, the pursuit of endless economic growth has caused the planet. there's a number of things that threaten our civilization as we know it as an existential threat. otherwise asked if overhauling entrenched economic systems can help reverse the damage. we must go from degenerative systems to regenerating the living world and meet the businesses balancing the books by making the planet as important as profit that is that traumatic change for society. are we going to collapse, or are we gonna write business critical on al jazeera? ah,

this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm sam is a dan. this is the news out live from dell ha! coming up in the next 60 minutes. china reopens off to nearly 3 years lifting quarantined requirements for all travelers. despite the coven 19 outright. russia ends. it's unilateral, cease fire, and shells, east in ukraine, overnights killing at least one person thousands of israelis protests against the new government and its plans to curb the power of the judiciary. but means test of democracy, opposition parties back on the ballot in the parliamentary elections. and californians, whether a wave of devin eating storms battering the coastline and his phone number chuck of

it, she is owing his 1st title of the year. but he is a set down against sebastian quarter and the final of the adelaide international ah. after nearly 3 years of part, families in china can finally reunite with their loved ones, living abroad or bay ging as reopened as borders and lifted cove at 19 restrictions for all travelers. people and hong kong of started arriving by air, land, and sea. but hospitals are struggling with an increase in infections, moroccan cern's, the outbreak could worse and during the lunar new year from bay jane. katrina, you begins on coverage for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic punk, they is getting ready for a trip to thailand. he says he's overjoyed,

china has ended it strict 0 corporate border controls. absolutely. and throw passion about it. and because i've been stuck here for like the years, the urge is so strong. a real on travel abroad, like i lived to thailand, summer izzy. from sunday, those returning to china no longer have to undergo quantity. the change has sparked a surgeon, traveled, pertains japan, south korea, and the united states are among popular destinations. thailand has tops the list staff in this bangkok hotel and looking forward to welcoming back chinese tourists . $5000000.00 are expected this year. hello. hello. hello d and d home, allah, hark, all chinese visitors a vital for the tourism industry throughout the country. they not only spend money in bangkok, but they usually travel nationwide. china's borders with hong kong have also been reopened. these passages are among the 1st to cross without needing to isolate at

a government facility. this weekend also must the beginning of tune, the travel period leading up to noon and new year. chinese railway department expect 2000000000 trips to be made over the next few weeks, many by migrant workers who are unable to travel, harming previous years to strict 0 curve and policy. but widespread corporate 19 infections have prompted the government to issue guidelines cautioning against spreading the virus and rural areas. governance abroad have also raised concerns with more than a dozen countries, including the united kingdom, france and australia, imposing restrictions on passages from china. punk, they says he'll steer clear of those countries for now and is just relieved that china's days of global isolation seem to be ending on katrina. you joins us now live from beijing. so katrina, 1st of all, how much concern is there about the impacts of travel to rural areas?

well, the government is enormously concerned in major cities. we're already seeing a surge of infections we visited recently in beijing, one of the main hospitals here as well as a local crematorium. and both were really overflowing with crowds of hospital. it was clearly under strain rooms and beds were under a great. we're in great shortage and the crematorium said they were busier than they've ever be. now we do not know exactly the scale of the outbreak here in china . we're seeing rather small numbers officially being announced by the government daily. but the will health organization says the scale of the outbreak is being enormously under represented. and when you think about aging, these major cities that are supposed to be the best equipped to handle the 1900 infections in bel ready under strain. well, the government is looking at these rules and remote areas that in comparison, a very far less developed and also in these rural areas. many people how i

either are not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. so definitely the vaccination rates are not where the government needs them to be. so they're worried that if these infections do spread to the rural areas, it could have devastating consequences not received the release of the travel guidelines, encouraging people not to hold public gatherings. thing that they should really monitor their symptoms report the symptoms local authorities are considering consider cancelling the travel altogether if they do have sentence themselves and katrina, just to explain to us how vital is the domestic tourism industry. how much of a recovery is hope for this year? well, there are high hopes trying to civil aviation authority recently gave a press conference. and they were saying that they're expecting ad travel to return to 75 percent of pre pandemic level, which is quite ambitious. but they said that they've been encouraging airlines,

a larger airlines to build more hubs to connect more routes and encouraging the smaller chinese airlines to focus more on the south east asia and the east asian regions really boost the number the numbers of flights. well, now we're hearing anecdotally that in major tourist areas around china, for example, in united way for months they have been very few visitors. they're already starting to see a surge in booking. some hotels have been full and deciding to re hire those staff . so that is very, very good expectations and positive expectations here in china that the easing of these travel restriction, both international and domestic, will have a positive effect on trying to slowing economy. all right, we'll leave that thanks so much. katrina, you tongue giant is an associate professor of political science at the national university of singapore and the non resident fellow at carnegie china joins us now live from singapore good to have you with us. so 1st of all,

how much of a gamble are authorities taking by eating travel restrictions at a time? when least many countries seem to be why the cobra is spreading in china? right, so i think one of the considerations for the p r c is that the economy has been struggling in the cobra restrictions as been maturing. so a big consideration for them as a really jumpstart the economy by opening up to have people travel again to have business travel, go on. and so i suppose there the fiction rates and hospitalization. so seem to be a cost of acceptable cost of that effort to jumpstart the economy. would it work? so what happens is cope with spreads, it could impact the labor work force. right. you're absolutely right. 1 i mean, when i tried to territory right now, i don't think we've seen as large country

a country with as larger population work for that as important to go. but call me open up so quickly without the sort of adequate hospital facilities, medical facilities, and others in place. we've seen australia, new zealand, think we'll open up an after a period of closure. but they were, they took the time to really prepare. and the chinese case that doesn't seem to be quite where they are at. so it's a major social experiment to put it that way. is there an assumption or a hope that from the on the part of the forest is covered, maybe spreading now, but it might not be so lethal, so dangerous as early as strains and that, you know, we'll just treat this as a cold and life will go on for work as an employees, right, the official line that's been put out by by the p. c. but why is that? the current strains are more infectious, but they're less severe. they lead to less hospitalizations and stuff. so it is

more, it's easier to sort of accountant manage a couple of manage, but whether that is actually the case, i mean, we've heard all these report, an official course coming up from beijing and other cities that hospitals are struggling more full crematory awful. so that might suggest that the issues are far more serious than the authorities are letting on. but given how take the p r c is to get a accurate picture today is actually really difficult. what the stake here for the world economy, how much of the world economic recovery growth this year depends precisely what happens with china's economy versus cove it well, you're right. it's a big bet that the chinese authorities take, not just the owner called me, but with the world economy. there's a child, as you had brightly pointed out, that if the chinese workforce gets really sick and it slows down, there could be growth. it could potentially lead to supply chain problems that

we've seen before. it could potentially lead to slow down in the world just as we're trying to get over the hump, with inflation and so on and so forth. so certainly this opening up and the strategy creates a lot of uncertainty for the world economy. even if things go, hopefully according to plan for the chinese economy. this, this wouldn't deal with many of the structural issues such as the debt issue in china and so on. right, yeah, it wouldn't deal with that issue. the local that issue wouldn't do deal with the develop the property market bubble bursting. it wouldn't deal, of course, with the demographic decline and the majority caught me. but i suppose what the chinese authorities are betting on is that they are getting as much of a they're trying to get as much of a boost as they can. and light of the structural issues, perhaps the by time to, to do structural adjustments. but it's unclear how much time they would actually buy. it's also unclear whether this bet would actually pay or not. thanks so much

good to get your thoughts and analysis. so let me thailand is one of the most popular destinations for chinese tourist. the government has introduced new rules. all international travelers don't have to show proof of vaccination tele cheng, he's in bangkok, aaron, bank hops chinatown, the hanging lance to celebrate the lunar new year in 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 tourists 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 time economy. they're hoping that their goal of $20000000.00 arrivals this year will impart be boosted by these new arrivals from

china that are there is some trepidation. those who aren't directly involved in the tourist industry are concerned with the spread of coven infections within china. a new barian could emerge. and remember, the coven 19 was 1st seen outside china. here in thailand that says 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. workers of a coven 19 antigen kit factory have been protesting in the chinese city of chung. ching. they accused the pharmaceutical company, g, vio, of not paying salaries, and abruptly firing several workers. violence erupted when the police intervene to disperse protesters. plenty more. still ahead on the news out, including iran draws international condemnation for executing to anti government

protest is who killed a member of the power military force. a new generation of zimbabwe, educated use of working the land and make a living. and in schools, another high profile player pulls out of this strategy an open and he's here with that story. russian shelling as killed at least one person in easton, ukraine as moscow's unilateral cease fire ends. the hurricane governor says the victim was a 50 year old man. fighting was reported in the dumbass region as ukrainians and russians marked orthodox christmas. cave had rejected the 36 hours cease fire. it reaches each a 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 they were saying something about the supposed cease fire. the reality however, was that russian shells once again hit back moot and other ukrainian positions or bulk of this here orthodox christmas in cave was different with the war sewing divisions within the community. charles travelers reports from keith ah, churches of stood here for almost a 1000 years. cubes. elaborate 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 recently formed ukrainian orthodox church. for centuries, the ukrainian church is conducted the christmas service in ancient slavic, and russia. the times have changed. she has only saw it. 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 it oh, was here before i'd ever supports in like her russia energy input is regime. oh so no. oh, and we can have you bring in church. oh, i'm really glad to say, 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 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 korean accuses it of supporting and even

helping russia in the wool. 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 orthodox 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. so does not, she thought, simply let us have tom was sure. 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, and course europe 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, the condo suitor. there are a few of worshippers at this church on christmas morning,

but it isn't malicious. get some later. sure. of course, we are a little sad that to day when not in a cathedral, but if god's will, the main thing is to pray humbly and then go to decide as needed. rushes invasion hasn't only pushed ukraine into the arms of the west. it's further dividing, it's all said ox christian communities to chance travel al jazeera q, how thousands of israelis have protested in tel aviv against the new right when government and his plans to over hold the judicial system. they say the changes threatened democracy and freedoms left wing organizations and palestinian israeli members of parliament lead the demonstrations. the protests are the 1st against prime minister benjamin netanyahu. new coalition government, the most right wing in israel's history. we came here to progress the guest at that location of the israel democracy. we see a process where the rights of the people will be over time consumed by the eoc

rodney government that we want to avoid that we're exempt fully. the elections that took place a few weeks ago, but then what happens with a new government is that, that they really create a major and significant danger. do israel's existence of democracy? the proposals to change israel's judicial system have angered protests as the plan will allow politicians to pass laws. the high court has struck down because she also wants to empower the 120 seat connected to override supreme court decisions with a simple majority of 61 votes. they also propose is politicians playing a greater role than the appointment of supreme court judges and ministers being able to appoint their own legal advises. instead of going through independent professionals, the weakening of the supreme court will have consequences for palestinians in the

occupied west bank. the only institution they can go to to defend their rights kiva . dar is a political analyst and contribute to hard rights newspaper joins us now from television. good to have you with us. so this is the line you taken by supporters of the current government and the justice minister's proposed reforms. they say, hey, this is simply designed to introduce more of what they call a balance between an over empower in their opinion supreme court and the elected parliament. what's your take on that argument? julie, this is a typical american republican for the tea party interpretation of democracy, which means the people spoke up in the last elections. we've got the majority even if we got $61.00 out of one on $1.20. this is what democracy is about.

and as the former president of the supreme court on our own barrack said yesterday, in a very rare interview, this is a very shallow formal democracy if, if you want, this is a kind of hungarian or polish democracy that is just now challenged in d o. p. and caught in the, in the e u. and this is something that never happened in israel, that the government has been actually hijacked by the government, the kinessa. and now what they're looking after is the judicial system by actually one person. because now is the one who finds administer, and he has the full authority to remove them if they

will vote against any kind of revolution that he wants to pursue. he has got an automatic majority in the canister, so whatever he wants, the government will approve. and then the gatekeepers, who are now appointed by the government to minister. they want also to change the system of selecting supreme court judges. the chief of staff is now under the supervision of the most racist israeli settler, or mr. battalion is not rich and eat them a bank of it. so it's not just a combination of a radical right, an anti democratic. it's clerical, racist. and if this is not enough, they are just ignoring the international community and what's happening around us

in the world. and the international community, well, let me jump in here because i'm glad you mentioned the interview by the former chief justice of the very high call. the hold on back on that same interview, he talks about how his understanding was. the current prime minister was at one point ready to admit to criminal charges. is the perception, i mean with statements like that. it's only going to strengthen one wonders this perception that all of this is to get nathan yahoo! out of that criminal charges process. where i think that it's really hard to believe that it's just a coincidence that is all of this revolution that started when it was empower. actually i have to say this is not completely new, this kind of reform, those ideas, or even levine admitted that he has been working on it for the last 20 years. this

is actually his ultimate to dream. he has the various statements that you can find attacking the supreme court, calling them and disaster undermining the israeli future. but you see this happened the state. when is the press conference that the hell when he has presented the reform a day before? 11 judges of the supreme court had to rule. dig your rolling about, are you jerry, that danielle spot know that little, you know, and dary has something in common because both of them are facing trouble in by the judicial system. they are facing charges and it seems that the government and the coalition has been,

as i said before, hijacked by one person who wants to find a way out. and let me jump in with a counter narrative from the right when they say that this is just grumblings of the left wing who lost the vote and lost the confidence of these ready. people had to respond to that. ah, well he, you know, this is the co, he's your firm wants democracy is about, you know, he's one, was bragging and still bragging that it is the exclusive, the only democracy in the middle east. but if democracy means that the government can ignore it, do you minority station ignore basic human rights and says, israel doesn't have a constitution, they can change the law. and as you mentioned before, what they want is to have the full power to over, right. the rulings of the supreme court. so what's left off of democracy,

or i don't know what they're going to send. we've seen now large protest, thousands of people were also hearing about the launch for saturday night. now this taught by a black flag movement in israel, vowing counter measures. are we likely to see this escalate into some kind of civil disobedience campaign? oh yes, actually i know as several reserves soldiers that refused to serve in the territories under bank via and then smooth bridge. and this is a snowball, it just started. now i know that teachers and professors considering the full strike and i feel, i think the, the good news about it is that, you know, it's like we say they took the communist,

but i was not the communist, so i don't my, they took the capital is but i'm not a capitalist now. people feel they are going to take my family. and this is something that you night, the $48.00 for the unions and israeli jobs that we have something in common now. and you could see that yesterday in the demonstration. so i think that the government went a little bit too far and we will probably hear from the international community after what they did friday, punishing the palestinians by collective punishment, economic sanctions against it. but the thing is because they used what this government is calling this sounds ridiculous, they call it diplomatic terror. taking israel to the un to the security council is considered something that requires collective punishment. so i think that they

are looking to devote a little too much and when you look from outside and i look good from inside, it seems that a bunch of wild cats are now in a position to look after the israeli mirror or what the inside and outside and it's now i think for the american people for da, i right, i room, record numbers to the side. and the feeling is that, you know, the salary was coff has not ended yet. and the government is trying to score as many goals to these really democracy or height or i, thanks so much for leave it there. keep all that. thank you. or still had an al jazeera ah joy as soldiers arrive home in ivory

coast will tell you how they avoided serving long jo term. and molly in sport that i just action from the nfl was file pictures to come in clearer. ah hello. their temperatures are still sitting well above the average across much of europe, and that's not the case for the northeast. we've had bitterly cold air flood in to places like western russia. and while it may be frigidly cold in moscow, while the skies are still clear, at least for now, if you look at the temperature chart, you can see a lot of ones coming in, especially from the west. but there's that cold air. it is going to want slightly, as we go in some monday, but if we look at the 3 day for moscow, those clear skies will disappear by the mid week. now though it may be warmer in

the west, it's certainly not dryer. we've got an area of low pressure bringing blustery showers to the north west. britain and island have got some warnings out in the very north. we would also see some flooding in france, spain and portugal from the very heavy rain. and that starts to shift its way further east for the start of the new week when it is very heavy, rain across more sensual areas, particularly for italy, the adriatic sea, seen some of those really heavy rains on strong storms. but the good news is we will see some snow on the alps, amphlett southeast corner, in particular for turkey, yet lots of sunshine and warmer weather to be enjoyed. it's the same story for much of spain and portugal once again from monday, but it will get slightly cooler in madrid and it is looking rather cloudy. ah, there was a to be direct there basically on the verge of legalizing racial jerry battery to cut through the rhetoric. this isn't a universal death already crisis the seems to be one of particular populations to

dismantle the sound bites. there are lots and lots of women who are likely agenda a kind of anti feminist agenda and demand the truth. those are signs of fascism. we have to really recognize what we're offering here. we are determining what is the future of democracy in this country. join me markham, on hill, for up for what al jazeera, the latest news as it breaks this particular sub. so should, let's bring in 3 separate attacks. for 6, russian, we saw with detailed cooperate, they had hope that the u. s. would relax water. a panoramic restrictions this week, which was likely had shattered their odds of getting in from around the world over 3000000 people to talk to the 3 in point of sighted. please feel free to work for you. and then next week, i'm the national team lou

ah, when you're watching al jazeera time to recap on headlines now. after nearly 3 years, china has reopened its borders, lifting covey 19 restrictions on old travelers, rail services between hong kong and the mainland of return resumed. go, passengers are required to show a negative test. russian shouting is killed, at least one person in east and ukraine is moscow's unilateral sees far ends the heart, cuz governor says the victim was a 5th year old man. there are also reports of fighting in that on bus region. iran is facing international condemnation. off the hanging 2 men convicted of killing a member of a paramilitary full stirring anti government protests in november. mohammed mandy academy was a national karate champion and said, how much jose was

a volunteer coach for children. i'm the scene to national says the convictions rely on forced confessions. the you says it's uphold the u. s. is demanding an end to off. it calls sham trial. negarra monitor. the v is a journalist and host of the iran podcast. she says the executions are only fueling more descends the government by rushing through these cases and wild humor. right? organizations international specific the say, without any resemblance of justice or due process is essentially trying to instill sierra and send a 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 co tested back home. the previous to execution follow the same pattern, young man, failure on 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 protest. 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 defense. mama mandy is a political analyst time professor at the university of hong he says, rights organizations, critical of iran, have an ulterior motive. we have to be careful about the human rights organizations,

which are funded by western governments are funded by institutions closely related with western governments. amnesty international, we know, has a history of supporting nato and honest on and it is close to it later 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 the united states down to roughly comparing it with taking into account that the population of the united states is 4 times greater than iran. that would mean like 226060 police officers in the united states being killed by riots. so i think if we take a look at things in, in this sort of context, then it would be far more complicated than what these western human rights organizations are saying. fighting is on the way in benita parliamentary elections,

which c opposition parties on the ballot for the 1st time since 2015. there were banned from the previous 1st in 2019, which led to violent protests against president patrice talon. adriece joins us now from call to new in been in. so 1st of all, i mean, what does turn out look like? we know that there was a problem with people abstaining from voting in 2019 different picture. now disappointingly funny, the boat to turn out here is no defied the return on the balance of the opposition, especially the main opposition party in been republic by a step out of the frame. now, that is one of the ballot boxes in this pulling station. as you can see, it's not even half full, and that's the story. and the pulling boots in this particular center that has more than a dozen pulling stations is the same story. we continue to hear in other places here

in continental and surrounding areas. so basically we're not seeing the numbers, not even close to half of what we've saw, what we saw during the presidential elections the last time it was conducted here. so basically we can say the vote to turn out at this stage of voting halfway through voting day is slow, very, very, very low across much of control and much of benita public itself. all right, thanks so much. hi, this ruth. 46 soldiers from ivory coast accused by molly of being mercenaries returned home the head of molly's military government . pardon the group. on friday they arrived and not be john. after spending 6 months behind bar ivory coast is always maintained. the soldiers were deployed as part of security of the un. she's casey mission and modeling arrest calls to diplomatic fall out with 3 the neighbors with

a struggling economy and high on employment. most people in zimbabwe i believe, to be working in formerly. now some young graduates who can find jobs turning to farming. how does to us a report from go to monsey district, unicorn colmer has a masters degree and international trade law. but finding a job in zimbabwe is difficult. so in 2018, he became a farmer. and now employes several people. the 30 year old is one part of a new generation of educated youths who worked the land to create livelihoods. but navigating the country's farming industry isn't easy. the biggest challenge we've got is an issue for financial capital and for even young people to be able to walk into a bank, you've got no collateral. you've got probably no history or you've got no studied

line to tell how valuable your business or your idea is. and also even the access to, to lent the state some banks and the private sector help finance farmers. but many say they can't get the help they need to get started. this country has a lot of fertile land, but since landra fallen when commercial farms were seized from white and given to blacks and barbarians, some of that land is not being fully utilized. more young people here say they can help increase productivity in another part of the country, valerie mozilla and her husband are preparing to export watermelons to the middle east, zimbabwe. strategically located because most of this product grad getting it from australia and brazil. zimbabwe is just $21.00 to $28.00 days to dubai. whereas when you look at brazil, they're looking at over 35 days on water. old infrastructure, electricity shortages and,

and inflation rate of more than 200 percent. are some of the factors holding back the borrowers? farmers, it really depends on the performance of the economy, whether you are going to be successful. it really depends on the performance of economist import. it economy improves. so the profit prospects of from us valerie believes farming could be one solution to the country's unemployment problem. but young people say for that to work, they must have access to the resources they need to thrive. had a macarthur al jazeera gary monty district zimbabwe. humanitarian group say thousands of displaced people living in camps in northwest and syria are in need of assistance. the cold weather, poor infrastructure and lack of basic facilities making the risk of disease are increasing rather the risk of disease. ahamed abdul 0 is f as they to in camp in it live with this report. luckily armed at the gum line at and as he can clam at

winters prolonging the suffering of syrians living in camps for displaced people overnight. rain caused damage here, as you can see, the tensor in poor shape. the wet weather is also made it difficult for people to move around easily. with me now is one of the cam resonance to explain the situation. la, lower ledger toya who have been suffering since the beginning of winter. i'll 10th is flooded. alan took a long time to get rid of the water and clear the space for the children to sleep. while we spent the entire met in this miserable condition, slowly, every time it rains or tenses flooded for one of no energy lift, only god can help us now. oh my god, what did i give on which i had laid on who now there are more than 1600 camps like this in northern syria. they're located outside the cities of rural areas and they're not equipped for these conditions. there's no drainage system drinking water or electricity more than 2000000 displays. people live like this suffering year after year can if he was the slave people in the u. s. 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 meyers reports dominic kings restaurant would normally be full of dinars, enjoying food and ocean view. 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 it kind of in the state that it's in 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 there reasonably feeling just traumatized. i mean it's, it's, it's emotional as 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 force 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 pi launched, rapping against each other. and the destructive force of the water was just incredible. and now become the day after and to see it works like old 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 weather 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 or barreling in from the pacific. and more than 15000000 californians remain under flood watch. alexandra buyers al jazeera now record breaking rainfall in western australia has flooded towns and cuts off communities. hundreds of people from those communities have been rescued. an extreme weather system brought heavy rain to kimberly, that's a region more than twice the size of the united kingdom. recovery operations are expected to take months more than a 1000 activists have gathered to demonstrate against the expansion of

a coal mine in western germany, the village of new, et cetera, is said to be demolished. so coal can be dug up. confrontations turn violent law, squeak is police cold and did off germany had planned to stop using coal by 2030, but it's reconsidering its energy policy also the war and ukraine. disruptive energy supplies, step voss and join us now from the town. so 1st of all, that how much of a challenge of these protests and the squadrons to the government plans to try and dig up coal there? well, it's gonna be quite a stand off looking at the numbers here in lips are out and it's right is a very small village. one of the last remaining villages here at the edge of this huge lick night mine, it's brown coal. it sat to be one of the most polluting forms of coal, and indeed germany was planning to scale down to shut down these mines by 2030. but

the government has said, due to the war and the energy crisis dependency on russian gas and an oil, they have now decided to keep these coal fired plan. so you can see one of them, they are in the distance open longer than plant. and this is also one of the reasons that all these activists are now gathering here at this site. so the villagers have left alerts or ads because this been years of negotiations, years of legal process. but instead, the activists who have arrived here from all over europe, from several countries, an expectation of more than a 1000 people are here. now. they have gathered here and they are not planning to go away. they have sat, the police can evict the village and demolish it in 2 days from now. so they are calling on all the climate activist from around europe to come here and defense, this village. and they build their own village here as well. and i'm going to show

you how that looks like. they built village. they built houses in the trees. oh, wooden houses everywhere. so people have been living here for more than 2 years. you can see they live up high in the trees. they have build an entire village here, and this is about to be demolished in 2 days from now. and one of the activists who has slipped here and are active. i've been an activist here for mod until years is sir and stuff allow months he is so spokesman of allah door for blythe. and so the government says, we need to this call because of the war. what do you say? that is the lie? actually because the coal underneath alerts that can't be accessed for another 3 to 4 years. and they have you, huge coal or reserves are already open to the surface. and to the south of here,

there's also areas where you wouldn't have to take out the village to access the coal. but the main thing actually is that we're not allowed to dig up this code because then the government wants to take out 280000000 tons of coal from here that is late. that's about 5 times as much as greece emits in a whole year. and a, it's about 10 times as much as we're allowed to admit if we want to stay within 1.5 degrees and have a chance of living on this planet. this has got become an international climate rallying point for the paras agreement, right? because if this call would be excavated, the $1.00, temperature rise could not be, be achieved exactly, at least the german contribution to that the limit canvie achieved. and i mean that contribution is already not fair, because historically germany has emitted so much more c o 2 than other countries. and one of the rallying points is also the green party, the green party,

who was been active active on your site until last year. then was elected into the government and now decided to actually support the eviction demolish men of this village. so what do you think of the green party position right now? i think the green part is divided on this issue. there's people from the green party here, protesting right now. and but the elite, the ministers of the party, the ones who are running the governments, they are in favor of demolishing the village. and also they're ignoring the $1.00 degree limit. no, sir, i'm really disappointed than them and they really have to feel the pressure of this protest so that they change their policies and never do anything like that. again, police is already here right surrounding the village. you have only like 48 hours left. i think to have this protest side, what are you expecting is going to happen? well, right now,

it's really great mood because so many people are pouring into the village and i think a lot of those are going to stay and resist the eviction. and we're going to see a long x in the police themselves talking about one month. we'll see how long it really takes. i hope the police won't be too violent. i mean, they have to use violence to get the facts of the here because we're not going to go for integrity. how far you prepare to go. i think there's going to be a lots of people who will be sitting blockades that people will. so lock themselves on, they will glue themselves on, there will be a lot of creative resistance. i mean, you've seen the tree houses. so we've got, we've got like these chords strung up so people will be hanging onto those these mono pods. these really high tree chunks that people can climb on. if it's going to be very creative and very interesting the next week and violent. i think that's done to the police and best people who will defend themselves if the police attack

them, i think, is actually going to be very impressively peaceful protest in the face of police violence. so now around a 1000 people are set to be here. how many more do you think are on their way? so we were a 1000 yesterday already, and now i think a couple more 1000 already come into the village today. and then there's a big demonstration on the 14th together with green peas and friends of the brightest future. so there will be even more. yeah, many 1000. thank you so much. sorry for joining us. so yes, we are looking at a peaceful protest so far inside this village near the mine as well, please is there, but so far we haven't seen any action from the side, so we'll see how it's going to happen and what's going to happen in the next few days, all right, stand off. that's keep our eyes on. thanks so much stuff. boston. now still ahead on al jazeera in sport amount of controversy in the final minutes of this english f

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