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china reopens is bored as after 3 years lifting quarantine requirements for travelers. despite a surge in cove infections. ah, hello i, mariam de massey and london. you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program this out beneath votes for its next parliament with opposition parties back on the ballot felt to be far from last elections. ukraine dismisses russia's crimes it. it killed $600.00 ukrainian soldiers in an attack on climate tours. pictures from the scene show no signs of casualties. joe biden heads to the us mexico border for the 1st time since becoming president. after announcing new plans to block migrants and australia's military rescues, hundreds of people from communities caught off by once in century floods in the

north west. ah, hello and welcome to the program by jane as reopened aids borders dismantling the final pilla of a 0 cove. it policy that shielded its people, but also cut them off from the rest of the world. with travelers no longer required to quarantine. long queues formed as people streamed back into the country by at land and sea. many of them heading for reunions with loved ones, they hadn't seen for 3 years. many chinese are also expected to start traveling abroad. the government has started issuing passports and visas for mainland residence and foreigners. but with china's abrupt lifting of covered restrictions, triggering a huge wave of infections, several governments are imposing cubs on chinese travelers entering that countries . are there is katrina, you now reports from beijing. for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic,

ponce is getting ready for a trip to thailand. he says his overjoyed china has ended its strict 0 curve at border controls. absolutely, i'm so passionate about it. and because i've been stuck here for a for years, the urge is so strong. a real world travel abroad. i lived with high, low summer, easy. from sunday, those returning to china no longer have to undergo quarantine. the change has parked a surge and travel begins. japan, south korea and the united states are among popular destinations. thailand has tops the list staff in this bangkok hotel, a looking forward to welcoming back chinese tourists. 5000000 are expected this year and i hung her cindy home on a hack. are chinese visitors are 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 to noon. 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 in policy. but widespread corbett 19 infections have prompted the government to issue guidelines cautioning against spreading the virus in rural areas. governments 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, steam to be ending, katrina, you al, serra, beijing. so he heard that thailand is one of the most popular destinations for

chinese terrorists, but the government has now introduced new rules for monday. international travelers will have to show proof of vaccination. tony chang has more in this now from bangkok, aaron, bank of chains, how the hanging land since 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 tourist industry which makes up 25 percent of the time 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 and 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. or in the chinese city of chung chain work, is there a factory that made clear 19 antigen kits have been asked in protest? they accused the pharmaceutical company video of not paying salaries and a firing several and police violence. iraq did. when the police intervene to disperse the demonstrators, ah, now gunman in nigeria, the doctor, $32.00 people from a train station in the south of the country,

one of whom is managed to escape. this happened an ada state. police say that armed herdsman attacked passengers waiting for a train to worry. this is an oil hub in the nearby delta state. several people were reportedly hurt when the kidnappers fight shot into the air. and it comes almost a year after gunman attacked a moving trailing cartoon as they in north west. nigeria is popular train service from the capital, a booge or any resumed last month after the last of the kidney passengers was released. now east 40 people have died in a bus crash in central senegal. this has been described as one of the deadliest the country is seen for years. 2 buses collided in m. b village in the covering region . and the early hours of sunday, dozens more were injured in the crash. santa goals present, mikey sol as the quad 3 days of morning starting monday, will convene a government council to discuss road safety measures. on our vote, counting is underway. benita parliamentary election, where opposition parties were on the ballot after being banned from the last

elections. their exclusion in 2019 lead to violent protests against the president for trio, talent, and damage the country's images, a bastion of democracy in the region till honors denied, targeting political opponents or violating human rights. 7 parties were allowed to participate in sundays vote. where i am an address sent us this report from katana . that was just after the polls closed. the opposition is back on the balance, which is significant. the government need said the opposite should meet that the country needs that for peaceful conduct of this election. and of course, the aftermath of the counting process for the selection. secondly, women have been located nearly a quarter of the seats in the 109 parliament. and then the 3rd and most important for the opposition, especially. they need representation in parliament in order for the candidate to qualify for the presidential elections. the electro know states that candidate

running for president must be endorsed by a member of parliament and may as unless they have a presentation in parliament that will be very, very difficult for them to sort of get their into the race for president. now basically what's happened in the last few minutes and lecturing hosp formerly and that, as you can see here, this lady who came with our sons been directed to another pulling station because for them officially pulling has close. in this particular pulling station, i seen many others of the more than a dozen pony boots that are in this particular polling centers. what is going to happen now? the electron officials will empty the ballard walks and then thought the counting process when they start counting almost here, members or representatives of political parties who will be watching closely, to see how the counting process will be done. and as soon as they finish the counting process, as soon as they finish the counting process,

then they will try to tabulate the results of the election on a board that erected. it's a temporary board by the way, if the camera ponds, that way you see a list of 75 or 6 political parties listed there. so that is where the number of votes for each of the political parties would be populated for this particular center. want to bring you some breaking news. the sour now hundreds of supporters of the former brazilian president chapel sanara of stormed congress and at the presidential palace in priscilla. now, security forces of use tear gas to try to repel ball scenario supporters. they tried to gain access to congress grounds also in our left to office just one week ago after losing the presidential election to present eula and marcia. who is an ass hewlett da silva, who is currently in sao paolo buys. he and his supporters, ab refused to accept the election defeats, will continue to say across cert,

developments there in brazil to silver is now in sao paolo, supporters of terrible snar have for, essentially invaded at ministries there. ah, how ukraine's military is dismissed claims by russia that it's kill more than $600.00 ukrainian soldiers and a rocket strike in the eastern city of cram at hoist, cranes out of school was damaged. but to that, no one died in the attack. russia said the strike was in retaliation for ukraine's new year. strike, which killed dozens of russian soldiers, but provided no evidence to back up its claim. journalist at the scene said there was no sign of any casualties while local said windows blown out buildings, but there was nothing notable about the attack gluten ruble. the raw as an explosion embed another, a series of explosion, and one made the windows shake. really there's nothing else to tell you just

a normal day near it. i just went back to sleep. i thought about what to do next, but i just went back to bed. ah. meanwhile, 50 ukrainian service men freed on sundays part of a prisoner swap with russia. video on social dea shows a man whose heads had been shaved, singing the ukrainian national anthem soon after that release. they reportedly include soldiers captured, merrier pole, and at each a noble nuclear power station. moscow says 50 russian soldiers also released part of the same deal and present joe biden is on his way to the us mexico border for the 1st time since been elected. going to visit the town of el paso in the state of texas days after announcing plans to curb illegal migration from 4 central and south american nations. the new rules will bob people from cuba, nicaragua, haiti, and venezuela, from applying for asylum. if they have entered the us illegally by the visit has

not been welcome by everyone. now, hundreds of protest as much to el paso on saturday. some saying that the new rules are unfair to mike once again or not, all of us have bad people and most of us came here to find a future for our children. not all of us came had to do bad things. i'm a family man and i came here to work and provide a better future for my daughter. which on hendern is life rests in el paso, texas joins us now and john, this is so this really goes beyond a question of immigration. there is very much a humanitarian crisis now playing out on the south and us border us more about the reaction present biden is likely to get when he does it arrive. that's right. barrier. the president is going to be talking to federal, state, and local officials. he'll be talking to community leaders who might even visit migrants when he, when he goes to view the bridge, the bridge of the americans,

the busiest crossing here, if the border with war as. but this is probably a site, he's not gonna see. and we know that because there hasn't been a security suite here. this is in front of sacred heart church. and as you can see, there are hundreds of immigrants, mostly venezuelans, and they're living out here. oh, out i fail. raphael, they're in the box tells us that he sleeps in the box because it gets to near freezing temperatures overnight. and that keeps him warm from the wind. and you can see he's got a red cross blanket in there. a lot of people have given donations, but all across downtown el paso, there are hundreds of migrants and most of them are from venezuela because they are fleeing poverty and they're flying persecution and the extreme inflation in that countries the president can see everything while he is here, let me just show you a little more of what we got there, a 150 people who get to be the lucky ones. you stay inside sacred heart church.

these are the rest of that. and if you look back there that read 10th, that's where they can get food every day about this time and day. this is how they live out here on the street. the president probably won't be able to see a whole lot of that, but this is where the humanitarian crisis occurs. that bus that we had behind us here, that's a warming station inside there, electronics. and there are places for people to get warm overnight. of course, only so many of them will be there at any one time. and the president is going to be here for about 3 hours. he rides about half an hour from now a he'll be here for 3 hours and then he's going to go on to mexico city. and that's where he has a at some, it would be 3 amigos. him the prime minister of canada, the president of mexico on monday and tuesday for 2 days of meetings that is going to be a very short stop for the people we've talked to here. it's very important to them the he see this crisis and that he lead some kind of national solution. he's been

heavily criticized by republicans for not coming to the border for the 1st 2 years of his administration. well, now that he's here, people are hoping that there's will be some kind of solution, but with congress split, slim chance for that any time soon. count. thank you very much. john henderson and paso, texas. it algae, they are alive from land and there is morsel to bring on the program. will protest is a right to occupy a german village that said to be demolished for the expansion of a nearby coal mine and get them down on the newest high tech gadgets on despite the consumer electronics that in last name. ah, hello, the weather's looking pretty mobile across europe over the next couple days. a, something of a change, just setting up and temperatures will be returning somewhere near where they should

be. no one there was mild, if a warm, as it has been recently. big swirl of cloud, rolling and across northwest once again driving some very heavy rain em very windy weather, tightly packed ice, boston very wet and windy weather. it's chemical, some north west of view of these lines of front they will make good progress as we go through the next couple of days. at the moment they are being held off by these areas of high pressure. but these were weaken. we'll see that rank sleet and snow. yeah, they'll be some snow. welcome snow coming back into the alps. the swiss alps, german alps into the french outs as well. seeing significant snowfall over the next couple of days and wet and windy weather to into italy. and the balkans turn to snow over the generic house as we go on into or choose die that way. whether that windy weather will grassy fade across, grease and on into to clear up towards the north west. yes, another band, a wet and windy weather rolling in here could see some localized flooding as a result of that. most good progress across the low countries. much of jeremy seeing more wet weather, more snow there across the alps. let's get years. we'll see some wet weather down

towards the southeast, at cloud, and return it to snow as it moves across the mountains of the care. ah. after a lifetime in finland, an emigrant returns to somali land upon discovering his ancestral home could be a gold mine. but to benefit his community from the minerals beneath the land, he must navigate the age old, tribal disputes above it, or witness. golden light on al jazeera waterloo.

oh, welcome back. watching out as they are live from london, the main stories. now, hundreds of supporters of the former preceding procedure boston are of, stormed congress and the presidential palace and the capital brazilian security forces of use tag asked to try and repel ball, sorry, supporters. course he left office just a week ago, after losing losing the presidential election to president luis and asio let da silva. she has refused to recognize by jane as reopened. it's board is dismantling the final pair of 0 covet policy. what she'll do is people are also cut them off from the rest of the world. huge cues formed as people stream back into the country by air, land, and sea, with incoming travellers no longer required to quarantine and vote, county has started in pennines parliamentary election. well, position parties were on the ballots after being banned from the last elections. so i want to bring you more now,

breaking news story out of brazil and past few minutes. where course was vicki about both scenarios. support says, breaking into buildings and the presidential palace and priscilla mona kiana key have joined us on the phone from rio de janeiro. what information a you guessing about the what is happening in presidio right now? well, what's happening is like something that was expected, but not now. everybody said that in brazil would be one step behind what happened in the united states when they took over the capitol hill because both so now the supporters are very similar to trump supporters and that's exactly what happened. there was the camp both. so now the supporters, which was in front of the army headquarters, we were with them when president was enough to let us to what took office on the january. the 1st this cap had stayed there. people from this camp and from other

parts march towards the square in brazil, the capital called the 3 power square because it's, it's same square. you have congress, the presidential palace and the supreme court. and they've entered the 3 buildings, have the very peculiar architecture. all the buildings are glass buildings. so they shattered the glass. they went inside the supreme court, which they considered to be their main enemy because they say that the supreme court is biased and recognized an election that they, they stolen. they went inside congress as well. they're taking delsey and videos with their cell. so they're all dressed in yellow and green, which are the national colors, but also the colors of also not fall worse. and they had told us also on january, the 1st one we ask them if you government wants to negotiate with,

with you, are you willing to and they said, no, we're not, we're going to resist until the end. so apparently that's what they're doing. if this was something that was expected to happen, monica, although perhaps that happened a bit, a bit sooner. why with a security forces, not better pad, why i want extras, what was it more security deployed around these very important sites? well, that is the question. everybody is asking right now, but when we're using was they, they thought this might happen before the duration the elections were an october 30th. the duration was on january the 1st and they thought that maybe that something would happen between those 2 days. not a couple of days after the inauguration. so today's sunday, so the total area is empty. in the powers that there was nobody,

there were no congressmen, no supreme court justices, no president, nobody was around the building. it's work pretty much empty. so they broke in their sliding down ah, parts of congress, they're in there everywhere. and right now it's when they're starting to be some reaction to this. mr. called club. you know that this is done, sir. it turns it to, to po, to impose themselves by force and it will not prevail. they said that they are asking for the government of the capital of brazilian to take action. the security forces have used pepper spray, but still the protesters have managed to get into the 3 buildings as i say, their last building. so they're pretty easy to, to break into. all right,

all right, thank you very much. i will, katie, say, cross the story and bring you more details as it emerges. thank you much. i can now moving on and 46 soldiers from the ivory coast, the back home after molly accused him of working as mercenaries. molly's government, pardon the men? friday, 6 months after they were detained and accused of being lazarus, soldiers. ras aren't a diplomatic speeches, and monahan explains ha celebrations in alba, john after months of uncertainty, these ivory co soldiers were facing decades in a prison. and molly, but a pardon from the country's military government allowed them to return home to parliament massaging i worry coast, molly, it's not the same thing. was very hard. i'm home now and i'm very happy. oh no. he was arrested only 30, but to day were relieved. we cried. we fostered, we prayed, and finally, god has answered us. i'm enjoy voicemail me. our net present,

allison water was there to greet them. the faded the soldiers was at the center of months of diplomatic wrangling. the instant crated a rift between the 2 countries. but water may clear, he wants to put it behind them, show their girl. i would like you to know that ivory coast will continue to offer support to all brother countries, african and others who need to evolve towards peace. as a boston said, without peace, there is nothing important for a nation. peace is essential and you went to bring peace to molly, and i strongly hope that this brother country will find peace. once more. the troops were arrested in july. they were accused of being mercenaries and put on trial ivory. co says they were part of the united nations peacekeeping mission. but the un says they were for a company contracted by the peacekeepers, rather than directly as part of the mission. un forces have been deployed the region for years as armed groups, thrones, debility,

but molly has been increasingly isolated since colonel as see me going to seize power in military coup 2 years ago. the military government of miss deadlines for organizing elections and block you enforces for investigating lead violations of human rights. but the return of the soldiers was framed as a gesture of goodwill to the region. a possible find that molly may be ready to re engage with the international community. benton monahan, al jazeera, environmental activists have descended on a village and west in germany to demonstrate against the expansion of a coal mine. let's or off is you to be demolished, so cold below it can be dug up. confrontations turn violent last week, as police coordinator off germany had planned to stop using coal by 2030. it's now rethinking its energy policy out of worn ukraine. disrupted supplies that boston, isn't it? louis ross. the mine is about to be expanded because the government says they need this call. this is lick night,

round call. it's the most polluting coal that exist. and they promise to face out is called by 2030, but they say because of the war and ukraine and the energy crisis and the dependency on russian energy sources. the government says we need this goal. well, activists are against this. they have been barricading themselves and this is the last remaining village luther right. it's a small village. the villages themselves have left, but the activists have build a village themselves. they have been living there for nearly 2 years and they're not willing to go. so they're defending themselves to digging themselves in. they have not much time left still preparing themselves for confrontation with the police. and they say, we are not going anywhere in western australia, hundreds of people have been rescued from flooded towns and communities cut off by record breaking rainfall. an extreme weather system brought heavy rain to kimberly region in the far north of the state causing emergency services. a cooling once in

a century, floods recovery and rebuilding operations are expected to take months. people in the kimberly are experiencing a one in 100 year flood event. the worst flooding western australia has had in its history. the situation continues to change and is proving to be extremely challenging for residents in the region. again, we are asking people to postpone any non essential travel to the kimberly region. one of the was not just technology events, wraps up on sunday las vegas. it's the consumer electronics shut off as a fast slack at the next generation of technology. reynolds has been checking out watts on alpha ah, the roller coaster of new consumer technology has come to los vegas with thousands of companies showing off the new the cool and the kind of weird. some will hit the market with a bay, others will be duds. i could run down for you over the years, all the different trendy things that have been the next big thing. ah,

and then the next year we come back and it's completely forgotten about among this years highlights l. g as a new wireless tv screen. no more messy cables. the content is streamed from a box that can be situated several meters away. the integration of tech into the automotive world continues. honda and sony have joined together to create a new company called a feeler, and which they're gonna make a brand new electric vehicle that's going to have the latest technology from sony in into team it in sound quality in cameras to make a really smart electric vehicle. b, m w, as in a i equipped model that can talk to drivers and learn their preferences and it changes colors to suit your mood. they could have checkerboard patterns, it can have stripes. i if you want to have it blue one day and read another, you could do that, you could do whatever you like with it. augmented reality products are represented at sea. yes. including these cool head sets from us company, magic leap,

the met averse is gradually taking shape. although no one really knows what that shape will be. and by the way, where am i? sustainability is a theme at the show, john deer as a hybrid electric farm tractor. there are electric motorcycles, bikes, and scooters and even boats. developers hope to disrupt the maritime industry. bodies here is the, the 30 ah, or in 30, as we call it, isn't, were as long as range elected. hydrophobic, any americans price electric article or vote. and they're key part of this is that it is 10 x more efficient and traditional gas bad. and there are plenty of off the door just plain cookie products on display. this gizmo can scan your food and tell you how many calories you're going to eat. this one can sanitize your hands before dinner, and this thing can supposedly, zap your brain am really.