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at least 2 people are dead and dozens are injured. we'll have the latest. ah. while you're watching al jazeera alive from doha with me fully back to ball, also ahead is really forces kill 2 palestinians during a rating the occupied west bank. 17 palestinians have been killed so far this year . china's leader is concerned about coven 19 in rural areas as billions travel for the new know new year. and so today i'm in not seeing that i will not be seeking really cheap. and adjusting to our journey, drove the current on her political career. you zealand prime minister says she no longer has the energy to li ah, thank you very much for joining as we begin with breaking news out of iraq where

there's been a stampede in the southern city of basra, we understand it took place at the palm trunk stadium ahead of the final of the arabian gulf cab fare. they are reports of dozens of people injured lead spring in mahmoud abdel, while hart who's on the line from basra mahmoud. what's happened wilfully . we have been getting the reports from the ministry, confirming to dad, and about 80 others injured in his 10 p that stop this morning around the palm. the trunk stadium here in buffalo, one of the stadiums located for the matches of the ruby and go up 25th edition. as you know that according to the iraqi football federation, about 90 percent of the tickets were already sold on a line ahead of the head of kick. as may many,

many football mat fan speaking. iraqis, as you know, that those who have come from civil provinces across iraq, we have been traveling for long hours to reach, was for, to attend, to say, to see the matches in the studio and the stadium. to see the heroes in action in the stadium. that has made many of them try to reach to the stadiums as much as they can. as you know, that tens of thousands of fans from other countries, especially from a go for states have been coming to bus. and that has already put more pressure on the ally district should infrastructure in the city. as you know, this is the fittest time in the city close at such a tournament. and that, that's also more than the case of isolation and sanctions on iraq

that has prevented the country from hosting any supportive activities. so i'm pretty happy to be mama, i'm sorry, i just have to apologize for viewers who may be sensitive to some of the pictures we're seeing right now. they are very graphic. these are the latest pictures we're getting out of basra. where again, if you just joining us, there's been a stampede, the stadium that international stadium, which is about to host the final or the radian goals comp. at least 2 people are reported, killed doesn't have been a good mood after we had is on the phone with us. my mood, as you said, this is gold. coffee was a 1st major tournament to be held in iraq in 40 years, and there was a lot of concerns about challenges for the rock. you authorities. you know, now that we see such an event happening, they are going to be questions raised about the organization and the authorities ability to host such a big tournament. what exactly it is hiding. i

mean, they say they say we, we are lucky that we're hosting this special event, but the city is not as fully prepared as it should be. they think they admit that the city there is a lot of work needs to be done for the city to be fully prepared for such an event . you know, that has been suffering from civil odds over the past dictates including lack of services, security vacuum and it is missed a local conflict even recently at the fact that it is also away from the central government in by the dad probably has made it far from any improvement, the development plans, you know that despite the fact that bus for is the rich city, it has about 70 percent of a iraq's oil,

but yet it is still suffering. it is still partly marginalized and did this if then, despite the fact that it, in to some extent, the isolation, the city and the country has been suffering from, from, for years. but also it is an opening with the gulf countries as the bus people say. and hope the hopeful that this tournament is the and i think bus for any luck with the other go for states. but again, you know that only to stadiums have been cook bed for the tournament. the stadium that can accommodate about 65000 fence. the other is the port olympic stadium and with capacity of about 30000 pounds, you know that it is only the capacity of only what the city can offer for this tragedy. very in southern iraq in basrah moved up to 100. thank you very much for

the latest. they will of course be checking in with you throughout the day for the latest on this story. at least 2 people dead in a stampede in 70 iraq in the city of basra, outside the international stadium there. which was about to host the final of the 2023 gold cup, which was the 1st major football tournament to be held in the market for 2 years. will have the latest for you on august era slot. the dates as move on to other world news in the meantime, and is ready forces of kill 2 palestinians during a rating the occupied west bank. they were shot in a refugee camp in the northern city of jeanine, one of the victims has been identified. so watch for read bark ne, a teacher at a local school. the other was at jabari, a fighter would be janine brigades, resistance school. there is a vine and take the number of palestinians killed by israeli forces this month to 17. him on con, has moved from ramado. will this rate suit place around 2? $33.00

a. m. in the morning is really forces went in to the campus since when they say to arrest of people accused of what they calling terrorist activity. they would then fight upon as they went into the camp. they were heavily armed and then a fire fight broke out and that's where one palestinian gunman was killed. another 57 year old man. now this brings the death hole so far this year, and it's only january 19th, 2, no $217.00 people, 9 of those have been killed in that jeanine refugee camp. now these rates are taking place on almost a nightly basis. a lot of the people, the in jenny refugee camp are actually from places like hyphen, which is only a few hours drive away. and they are getting very, incredibly frustrated at the pipe. these rates are taking place and that's leading to a hardening of attitudes and those. that's why we're seeing a lot more of these 5 fights break out. there are a number of things that have been going on over the years. the failure of the palestinian israeli peace process will one the fight lose though. real channels of

communication opening between but much more important than that is this new fall, right government and at the far right in israel becoming a lot more vocal than they have been for a very long time and left the far right in israel. of always use homes like um, the occupation is now permanent. this is something that we don't want to negotiate with the policies. boy, but we want them out of the i was like one of the longest house policy in is there any prisoners is back home after being in jail for 40 years. they were celebrations in the village of iraq, welcoming my hair, eunice, him and his cousin, corinthian his were convicted of kidnapping and killing, and he's really soldier in the 1980s carry. muniz was really said an earlier this month. rice groups estimates more than 4000 palestinian prisoners are in his ready jail. let's go live to our correspondence now. who is joining us from that village?

i am at my head. i may die. you're joining us from the home at the village of the palestinian prisoners. yes. release. tell us about what's been happening there. oh mer eunice was released earlier this day and hayes in the background here. dressed in white r bayer. but a thing in our bay or gown, which is a sign of dignity and honor for a many palestinians and his family, relatives, and neighbors. he is a sign of palestinian resistance to the israeli occupation. 40 years he stayed in prison after being arrested in 1983 and later convicted by an israeli court of murdering and israeli army soldiers. and he was dropped off in a beer as saba and the desert of i'll knock up early of the state. many people

waited here for many, many hours in an, in eager anticipation for his release. they knew that he would be released today, but the, you didn't know where he would be released because there is really government. and especially the national security minister at might have been vis, decided not to allow his family relatives or neighbors or palestinians in the palestinian village of or otta to celebrate his release at the israeli prison. also, there is a quiet celebration here because these are really, authorities have prevented or bent the palestinians here in hara from celebrating the release of may her eunice, as he said mad eunice and his brother and his cousin, a carry munious,

wares among the long silver long serving but a senior and prisoners met her and carried him and his cousin cut him a service for 2 years in prison and after being convicted of murdering and his really a soldier. he was born here in this village, the village of odda, in 1958, just 10 years after hundreds of thousands of palestinians were either or forced to flee or escape from palestine. and to make way for jewish immigrants before the creation of israel. okay, thank you so much for that update. i'm admire. joining us live from ira in israel. germany's new defense minister is due to meet with his us counterpart to discuss the war effort in ukraine. voice is toys who is now in charge of overhauling

security policy. is expected to discuss with lloyd austin, the transfer of german made tags to the ukrainian government. the story is takes over from christine lambert who resigned on monday. meanwhile, the ukrainian president voted me as a lens. he says there are several theories for wednesdays. debbie helicopter crash, 14 people, including the interior minister, died when the aircraft came down next to a kindergarten in the town of bro, very on the outskirts of keith natasha butler has more from the ukrainian capital. when you cranes, a president vladimir lensky has ordered the secret service to carry out the investigation or into this crash. it is still unclear though, as to why the helicopter actually went down on wednesday, killing 14 people, including all the leadership, all of the ukraine's interior ministry. at what prism zalinski has said, is that look, whatever happens in a time of war is not

a mishap. every single thing that happens in the time of war he says, is connected to the war in some way. we do know that the helicopter was flying a 2 ca, he's in the northeast of ukraine. that's very near the front lines. but in terms of the investigation, we do understand that it could take a several days to have a bit more clarification about what happened now for the government here in ukraine . the loss of course, of the leadership of ukraine's interior ministry is an enormous, particularly at a time of conflict when rush ukrainian, a forces are fighting. a russian force is a huge loss for the government and a huge personal loss for the president of the lensky. because ah, dennis mon astir ski, the interior minister who was killed in that crush was not only his interior minister, but also a close personal friend on the front lines of eastern ukraine of his battle for control is raging in the city of blackmore, danish surrounding areas most of its residents have fled,

but some have fade behind with little food, no water, and no electricity. for months, al jazeera is charged stratford met some of them inside blackmore, with these people endure a level of suffering. that is difficult to imagine that most of the old, many have emotional psychological problems with families live far away with flip the fighting months ago. what holy braved a shilling to come here. for soup on to char their funds, ah roches bombardment of boss moot is getting heavier by the day. the silk of the roister, only that there was my neighbor was killed in her cellar. she burned alive. i fled my home 4 days ago during the fighting. i had to crawl along the street to escape. there was an explosion. 2 meters away from me with us you were destroyed. central town is almost completely deserted. russian forces are only around a kilometer away. the artillery explosions are relentless. some people wait

patiently in the cold, risking their lives desperate for food and humanitarian aid. others are so hungry, they seem oblivious to the danger of simply standing outside. yeah, yes, that i cannot get all the 8 i need without documents and they all burned when my house was hit on the other side of the river. where the people here on the western side of town, a gun to food distribution centers in these make shift shops, we understand that the majority of the heaviest fighting is the know the east and increasingly the southeast of the city. but of course, there is no way safe and bought most of the people who lived in these plants of fled, retired engineer, victor kasey, ankle leads us upstairs. he and his wife,

galena and mother in law are the only people left in their apartment block. but 93 year old maria, lise, wrapped under blankets in the dark young lady, frail and afraid, she wants to see her son, but he lives across the front line in russian occupied territory. that is where we're we're roughly i for sale, i'm not my life was good before the war. she says, we built a nice house. we had everything. but then the fighting started. one picture shows us where they stole rainwater. the drinking has been no water, electricity, and back mort. for months he worked in the oil industry for 25 years before the breakup of the soviet union. and so is entitled to a russian pension. is mit here. i know if there was a corridor to where my brother in law lives that we would try to leave,

or if we could get to moscow or st. petersburg, we're a sons live more, but we don't have any money because we can't get our russian pensions anymore. we're what not. most people stop living above ground months ago. flute miller and 5 other people, a sheltering in this basement. jose portrait, stubborn. that's made me. i didn't know what the shelling us got much worse in the last couple of days until afraid to leave the seller. i pressed and promised that he would liberate don boss by new year. but it never happened. life before the war is nothing but a memory for these people. surviving the nightmare inflicted on them is all they can hopeful. now. charl stratford, al jazeera beaumont still head on al jazeera, perused capitol, on edge thousands of anti gambling protest is converged on me. mad to call for the president's resignation. ah

and off we go with your weather report beginning in australia, nice to see you. here's what's going on hall of this, what, whether that was over that east coast of queensland. now out in the coral sea, it could cook up into a tropical storm. it would be named freddy, but it's very no impact on the mainland of australia. elsewhere, those temperatures have gone up in perth all the way up to $35.00 in some fresh air for the southeast of australia, including sydney, after hitting 30 degrees for the 1st time in 11 months. speaking of 30 degrees, i think you know, christ church in may just do it on friday. we got you in for 29, but certainly the possibility is there for your 1st 30 degree day of the season. what weather back into the southwest. pouring into the southern lp's as well. so whether that's been wobbling around that south china sea,

i think it's going to strike hutchins city with a few showers friday over the course of the weekend and extreme flight advisories back into play. just a bit south of manila, as those monsoon rains, pick up once again, huge swath of china, your temperatures have come up, but i'll tell you what north of the yellow river valley they're dropping. and you're certainly going to feel it because that cool air is back into play with the winds at the right direction. that means more c and do snow for western and northern japan. that's it soon. ah. hey,

[000:00:00;00] ah . ah, plato, watching al jazeera, alive from doha reminder of our top stories breaking news out of iraq where at least 2 people have been killed in 80 injured in a sam pete at a football stadium in the southern city of basra. it happened at the palm trunk stadium ahead of the final of the arabian gulf cops between iraq and omar. he's ready forces of kill 2 palestinians, steering arrayed in the occupied west bank. they were shot in the jeanine refugee camp in the north. this takes

a number of palestinians killed by his reading forces this month to 17. and israel has wren. he's one of his longest held, palestinian israeli prisoners fire eunice was in jail for about 40 years. his back home in our israel, where there was scenes of celebration was convicted of kidnapping and kidding, and he's ready. soldier in the 19 i, china's president changing thing says he's concerned about co 19 spreading to the countryside as millions head home for the upcoming learning new year celebrations. concerns a going for the elderly who might be exposed to the virus as katrina. you reports many chinese are still mourning, the deaths of loved ones looted year is traditionally a festive time in china. but this year john is spending the holiday morning. 3 of his close relatives recently passed away after testing positive the curve at 19 peripheral holiday. more the people are suffering. people are so anxious

and people going to the drug store or a medical, facilitate a hospital, the kleenex, and 5 as far as they can figure out what they need. a yes is that the sudden lifting of covet 19 restrictions in december triggered away visit since in china. hospitals are struggling to treat patients in crematorium are overflowing with people complaining of unusual delays. the government says about 60000 people have died in hospital from the virus in recent weeks. but analysts say the easing of china's dear carved policy could result in more than 2000000 deaths. the w h o has accused paging of under representing the scale of the outbreak. something it denies drago you would 0. we continue to sheer cove 19 information with the international community, including the w h o,

based on the principles of lawfulness, timeliness, openness, and transparency. result, or as you say, they are working to strengthen health facilities ahead of the holiday period. some fear the travel rush will lead to a new search of infections in rural areas, especially among the elderly. the government has issued guidelines, discouraging large gatherings and any trips that expose all the people and pregnant women to the virus. but they've stopped short of enforcing any bands for junk. the warnings are too little, too late. adding to his frustration, the knowledge, his loved ones were probably not added to the official virus death toll on his aunt's destitute ticket. the cause of death is described as heart failure. katrina you out 0 painting. meanwhile, hong kong has announced before infected with coven 19 will no longer be required to quarantine. the business happ has been scrapping the loss of his restrictions and

opening back up to the world last week. high speed trains between hong kong and mainland china resume service. it follows beijing's decision to and is controversial, 0 holy policy. despite a massive wave of infections across the country. new zealand prime minister, adjusting to our dern, has announced she is stepping down next month after 5 and a half years in office. she says she doesn't have the energy or inspiration to seek re election in october. roger and one global a claim for a response to the christ church mosque tarsem 2019, and her tough restrictions at the start of the cone of iris. i'm demick, have been credited for keeping death rates low, but a popularity in new zealand has been declining when he has moved from orphans. the announcement from justin to raw durn that she would be resigning, came as a complete surprise to everyone in new zealand. it wasn't that long ago after all that, she said she would definitely be seeking a 3rd term in office when the election is held this year. and that was the other

big announcement from her that the election date has been set for the 14th of october. this year she of course will not be contesting that election and she says she will be in office no longer then february the 7th. so the labor party caucus will now meet this coming sunday to vote in a new party leader and prime minister. and that person will go on to contest that election. the timing of this announcement is interesting, and the main reason that she's given full resigning is that it's simply time that she feels she doesn't have what it takes anymore at to leave the country to go for a 3rd term and office. but her popularity, according to opinion polls had been declining, and there was a growing sense that it would become increasingly difficult for her at to win that election, the closer we got to it. so how will she be remembered despite those declining numbers in the opinion polls, she'll go down in history, i think out fairly well in terms of her memory. she'll be remembered as

a crisis. prime minister, one who was able to communicate very well, particularly in some of new zealand. darkest times, had she led ye zealand through of course, the mosque shootings and christ church and 2019 the for cardi white island. volcanic eruption later. that same year that claimed the lives of $22.00 people. and of course, the coven 19 pandemic when she led out what was regarded as a world leading response to that crisis. but increasingly, new zealand is felt that the government began to overreach. the longer the pandemic went on and affect the since was rightly or wrongly are that while the rest of the world was reopening ye zealand was taking too long to do so. that history will judge her again as a leader who was able to handle some of these villains darkest moments, perhaps better than anyone else could have. in france nationwide strikes against president emmanuel mac voss proposed pension reforms are underway. the government

announced planned to raise the retirement age by 2 years to 64. unions have joined protesters saying the move is an assault on the welfare system. railways, cold and refineries will be affected by workers walking off the job to peru now, where anti government protesters from across the country have converged on the capital for 2 days of mass demonstrations. they want president enough or the water to resign, and her predecessor pencil castillo to be released from jail. many a coming from southern regions where at least one 1st and died in protests on wednesday. more than 40 people have been killed in the unrest that began after hydro castillo, as i said in december, marianna sanchez is hauling developments from lima. we are in the center of the capital enough, plus i called plus a son, martine, which is the place we're usually all protesters meet and we've been seen for the last few hours. groups of different people coming. 2 from not only from the highlands,

people who have been arriving in lena in cars and trucks and vans have been arriving in the last 2 hours. and we are seeing people marching here in the capitol . now you can see that people here are packed, are they are some of them with large. some of them with a flight of the are does industrialized station. they are not being allowed to pass on the other side. but if you can see on this side, we have up, we can show you, there's the police, they are already with the riot deer. they have put it on in the last half hour at the other side of the plaza, on the way to congress. it has been blocked by the police and we've seen a few police marching with wire gear. on the other side of the plus side. the situation is 10. protesters here are very peaceful. they help in saying that they

want the resignation of the know what they're in the past. they have been saying that they want it to be released from jail that they want the congress to be shut down. but more than anything people here want at the resignation of vienna, boy, out of the, a saw he's in afghanistan, say low temperatures have killed at least 70 people in tens of thousands of cattle across the country. they've been long queues to buy cole in the capital cobble where the mercury has dropped as low as minus 33 degrees celsius. in the last 2 weeks, poverty and unemployment are increasing the risk of casualties and avalanches in golf vehicles outside of tunnel ilia autonomy region of tibet killing. at least 8 people. the snow and ice collapse at the exit of the tunnel, connecting the southwestern city of ming cheer with meadows. county emergency calls are looking for survivors. it's unclear how many people are missing.