austin, at the women in terra that ultimately comes down to prejudice. studio b unscripted on al jazeera, our coverage of africa is what i'm most proud of. every time i travel bay, whether it's east or west africa, people stop me and tell me how much they appreciate our coverage. and our focus is not just on their suffering, but also on the more uplifted and inspiring stories. people trust andrea to tell them what's happening in their communities in a clear and unbiased way. and as an african, i couldn't be more proud to be part of it all. ah ah, china rings in its 1st lunar new years since lifting cove 19 restrictions, but

a rising death toll threatens to dampen festivities. ah, this is al jazeera live from doha. i'm fully back table also coming up a new low in relations between burkina, faso and france. military leaders have reported they demanded french troops withdraw within a month. who's popular much o p to tourists. i disclose as protests against the president spread. ah. and our citizens choir in today's healthy return, classical music to its boots. ah, ah. after 3 years of tough corona virus restrictions,

china is celebrating the lunar new year with tens of millions of people traveling to the ever rural home. towns by the festivities are mixed with concerns about the pandemic. katrina, you reports from b j all across china. people are celebrating the lunar new year and beginning of the year with a rabbit, with dragon dancing, temple fairs and red lanterns. it's the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic, people are allowed to gather and enjoy these chinese traditions. in beijing, many chewed for hours to pray at lama temple. the most important buddhist site in the capital city. it's re opened up to strict corona virus controls kept it shut the 3 years. i worked with her co soon. i am really very happy on. yeah, i haven't seen such a busy scene with so many people for a long time. this is the real atmosphere of the new new. yeah, it's really from gardner horner. after all the restrictions were lifted, people became more relaxed. we went through a lot of difficult times during the pandemic. many are relieved the days of corona

virus locked downs or behind them. last year was the year of the tiger and according to chinese zodiac, it tied with it qualities of disruption and restlessness. and that certainly rang true for many here whose lives were negatively impact by time 0 corvette policy. and now it's the new year, year of the rabbit and thousands of come from this temple to pray for a more prosperous and positive year going forward. last year festival banquets were forbidden. now hotels and restaurants are booked out. others feast at home, enjoying handmade dumplings and noodles families kept apart by years of travel bands have finally been reunited in annual gala ed by china's state broadcaster included much singing and dancing, but masks were nowhere to be seen. corona virus infections searched after the sudden lifting of restrictions in december. at least 70000 people have died. but

while some are mourning, others believe the most difficult time has passed the days with many wishing for good fortune and good health. over the coming 12 months. katrina, you al jazeera aging. people in hong kong are also making their way to mainland china to celebrate the new year with their families. jessica washington reports the . i'm here at west calhoun station in hong kong part of the high speed rail network . connecting hong kong with mainland china. here you can see people from hong kong making the journey to cities like sions in one, joe, and also travelers from mainland china, arriving in hong kong. now, just a few weeks ago seems like this. all these passengers behind me wouldn't have been possible because the rail network was closed and only recently resumed operations once code 19 protocols were reduced in mainland china. now there's some optimism from tourism operated here at hong kong will be one of the preferred destination

for travelers from mainland china as they prepared to celebrate the saloon and go from la. it's very convenient. now. the interaction between hong kong and the mainland has been paused for 3 years since the pandemic, which cause a lot of nuisance to business travelers like me, can see that many of the tickets for johnny's from hong kong to mainland china has already been sold out. but it's still not entirely businesses nor more. here they are all still requirements for travelers. who do need to complete p. c. r. test before making their journey either to hong kong or to the mainland. old travelers will need to fulfill that requirement. there are still quotas as well of around 60000 people. either way. so around a $120000.00 people can make the journey between hong kong and mainland china each day in terms of the lunar new year as the traditional parade and fireworks for once

again. be cancelled, but despite the differences, there's still some optimism from trade group here in hong kong. the federation of restaurant here in hong kong, so that they anticipate a 60 percent boost to business compared to the same period last year. as many people will be celebrating here in hong kong with their friends and family. in other world news, borkin of fossils military rulers have given french troops a month to leave for country. according to sate media, demonstrations against france as military presses have been held in the capital wagon double. then he accused the former colonial power of failing to improve security. while over the past decade armed groups linked to al qaeda and i saw have expanded across the sale region from miley since 2015. thousands of people have been killed in 2000000 displaced in book, in a fossil that's 10 percent of its population. the government's failure to end the violins led to a military coup in january last year. within months as 2nd one took place. frances,

being blamed for failing to bring security last year is troops pulled out of neighboring molly, which has hired mercenaries from russia's wagner group. let's bringing our correspondent in west africa. nicholas hackles recorded extensively form book in a far so n, he's joining us from senegal. nick, this announcement that the military leaders in brook in if i so want to suspend the accord with france, doesn't really come as a surprise as it it doesn't really, you know, there was signs from president my own that there was going to be a redeployment or reorganization of troops of the french troops that are in france with the amount of the end of the barcode operation. and in fact, this, the 400 french troops that are currently station and down. and we're going to go on the outskirts of could do in a brocade. i thought, so camp were expected to leave the country it during the course of this year. so

the announcements now made by the government or the leadership of burkina faso. it feels like they're saving faith in the face of such a high amount of attacks and losses made by the new military agenda and its leadership in the past, the army and really throwing the french under the bus there. blaming the french for all the losses made. so this and that was, it was made through a statement to a local, the picking up a news agency and that's they've been, we've been read out on national television late last night. what's interesting is we haven't heard from captain bryan chart, the military leader. glory, have we heard from the french about this announcement? and let's remember that this partnership between french and the french military and bertina dates back from 967. and it would require quite a high level of announcement made by the leadership for this to fall into place.

withdraw with to go ahead make what impact to what i have on the fight against groups. well, there has been no hiding from the fact that the captain tore, has been flirting with the russian, has been wanting the presence of an alternative force. russia more specifically the come into breaking up. i said to help them fight arm groups were the following. the model of my authority, molly, another country, this house where the wagner group, the, the, the russian mercenaries are fighters, are present there. and there again, we've seen a step back from the french. so when you brain, charlie came to power. in october, we saw people waving not french flags, but russian flags. and, and this step, this announcement really helps the leadership of picking up as it to come closer to russia to, to really pave the way for that partnership. but you have to understand the context

in which this is happening locally in brooklyn. so there's been mounting protest against the french president saying, many people think that they've been, they haven't helped the efforts of the army to try to stem out attacks. the comments made by the french ambassadors, anyone who has really hurt the feelings of breaking up. so there's been calls for him to be kicked out of the country to be removed. there was a civil society meeting yesterday where people there denounced both the lack of speed and trying to regain the control of the country from brocade process forces, but also very critical of france, a former colonial power doing at as seen by the civil id. not enough to try to bring back peace to this country. falling nicholas hawkins. a car. thank you. nicholas brazil's frozen lucy. nasty little silver has fired the chief of the army . he says security forces were involved in stormy congress earlier this month.

thousands of support is a former president jaytal scenario attacked government buildings on january 8th. they demanded the result of the presidential election in october, be overturned. general julius is the arrow that has commanded the army had commanded the missions december fe. cutty piney is a professor of public safety at the should tell you. vargas foundation he believes any danger of a military coup has passed. if they want to do something against lula, they need to have proper support and they don't have it. and they don't have also international support towards this. i think the situation was unbearable. personally, i believe that lula who had fired him last week when the, when the few things were invaded. and i think he was also responsible because they're, i mean, didn't dr. us and i think he's a good strategy to replace comment and also the prison, an army. despite that, we had to ship some like more than 10 years ago. they tend to be very disciplined.

wilson, i was meaning to make a military coup and resiliency invoke support from the army, from the navy and from there force. so i think there are quite a bit of question just of just suggesting though the starting of the government and then pretty sure the army is going to remain under control of the president. and i don't see been doing anything dusty against the, the president population trying to tell who brazil despite all the problems and all the difficulties we had have kind of assaulted democracy in the army, things to be disciplined. of course, they are supported from presidential radio. so that'll be good to sounds like army, they're complex institutions. but again, of the day, i think the law is trying to rule the roost here. and i think he's asking, well, the european union has condemned the widespread violence in peru during protests, against the government police in the capital lea, my victor demonstrators on saturday from a university where they set up camp. they want president denied baldwin to resign,

and her predecessor federal castillo to be freed from prison. marianna sanchez reports from lima. ah, hundreds of police force their way into peters, oldest university to the neck, to this had allowed protesters to stay there for peruvians who traveled to lima to protest against precedent. deena one what he knew for a city acoustic protesters of stealing security gear and cold in the police to evict them as to your gas was fired. terrified students tried to hide more than 200 people were arrested. but when they were taken to the counter terrorism police headquarters, the anger only deepened april and i thought of i know we're asking for the freedom of our brothers who have been detained from different regions. i feel impotent, angry in pain. the police are killing her brothers and police blocked the station

entrance, keeping out lawyers and families with the students without going good. again, it's unfair what they've done with the students in a democracy, the or free to participate, but via an appeal. clint dictatorship, no more rights. there are lots. i only pushing everyone back. apparently, the order is not to allow anyone to protest the government since the police are protecting citizens. and the rule of law, former congress will money. nita weak us is the government has turned into a dictatorship wearing a dictatorship in the making. unfortunately, president blue artes being part of a civilian military regime. it has already implemented addict atoria model because of what we're seeing now with the detainees. on saturday, the european union condemned the violins and what is called the disproportionate use of force by the police. more than 50 peruvians have died since protests began 6

weeks ago. international human rights groups are calling for independent investigations. for now, the government says the police is doing its job. the lesson to sell to cedar lima are those protests are forced parole to close its famous tourist sites might have pitched you indefinitely. rescue teams of evacuated hundreds of taurus stranded at the base of the inca ruins in august, cali enters trained services into the town had already been suspended because of damage to rail trucks. a new search of u. s. president jo biden's residence has uncovered 6 more classified documents. biden's lawyers agree to the operation and said they're helping investigators. about 30 documents have been discovered since the 1st batch was found in november. ross fine is a former us associate deputy attorney general. he says many documents considered classified by the government shouldn't be categorize as such. well,

i think it shows a kind of, a negligence if you will. part of the reason i believe is if you know, classification systems here in washington, they're vast. the abuse, i mean probably my view is 90 percent or more of documents classified or not and should not be classified. and so the users of the documents and i had access to them when i was in the justice department because i'm kind of negligent. there's really very little or anything there that the density and so they don't really pay much attention to being careful about. my suspicion is that if you look at all the costs by documents taken from our lago and taken from byte, there's nothing that would cause an ordinary person. they, oh my gosh, this is dangerous to the national security. so this is why even though many, many years afterwards, where you'd figure that mr. buying would have protocols to go through good at a slow basis to see whether he actually took anything. it was never done because no

one really thing classified information really means anything. and leaks every day out to the washington post new york times wall street journal. whenever you want to make a point. and that's why i think the you find this kind of situation occurring still ahead on al jazeera, unanimous support from new zealand. may the party for the next prime minister. thousands have demonstrated gathering television with rice. ah, it looks like we'll see significant rain once again falling in the southern philippines. that class may not look much, but in the forecast it develops into something, as you can see at the same time on the west coast to sumatra, it looks particularly wet and i think lucy's big shout and singapore,

k l is found also so far south of thailand, this is seasonally more or less correct as you expect to see that as frustrated here, where you may not think the season is quite right if you're in sydney for example, because this coast of new south wales has got longshore breeze, cloud and rain, it's much cool, that should be it out about 242526 degrees. that sort of order doesn't sound cold, but this is mid summer. it should be rather bad that perth history rather better than that person. about such $233.00 next couple of days. as for rain, seasonal right in the north is just backed off for a while. it may be heavy in the finals around darwin. jerry speaking, it's good stuff scottish as far west and in land in trough. cool. queensland. how about new zealand? well, it could be warmer in that the average for christ church is bit warmer this. but the breeze up from the south, which is not the best direction that generates daytime shares in he's the day next day or so as things become settled and quiet, temperatures will slowly rise ah,

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they're watching al jazeera live from bill. how with me fully by to bill our reminder of our top stories. china is celebrating the lunar new year without coverage 19 restrictions for the 1st time in more than 3 years. tens of millions of people have traveled to their rural home town. spot health workers say infections, good spreads were keener fossils. military rulers have reportedly given french truths one month to leave the country that according to saint media, it comes 2 days after hundreds of people demonstrated in the capital one ducal against the french military present. they see the former colonial power has failed to improve security. and perused famous tories site might be true, has been closed as voted against the government spread hundreds of tories so stranded the demonstrators are connie for the resignation of president dina, but what he some breaking news to tell you about now, and there are reports of shooting at monterey park in the us state of california,

the los angeles times is reporting that multiple casualties have occurred this saturday night in los angeles. the shooting reportedly took place after 10 p. m. local time, around the location of a chinese lunar new year celebration. thousands of people we understand were at the event, is a live pictures from the scene, no word yet on the number of casualties. but we will, of course, bring you all the latest information as in when we get it. in new zealand zoning party members in new zealand have chosen cris hipkins to be the next prime minister . hipkins seat received unanimous support from the labor party here be officially sworn in on wednesday. adrian brown has more from wellington. sundays of it is here at wellington had a very sort of pre ordained feel to them. that's because chris hipkins nomination was of course, uncontested. so it all happened very quickly. senior labor party officials wanted

consensus and a smooth transition. they got it with a party now running around and it's new leader. we are now in the sort of post just under our durn era. and it's been another important moment in new zealand politics on sunday because the deputy prime minister is going to be obs, samoan, and tongue and descend carmel supper loney is the 1st pacific islander to hold this post. she was previously the minister. i went to the social development so many ways. this is a, a natural progression in a country which has always been very proud of its gender equality. this, after all, is the 1st country in the world where women got the vote a 130 years ago. and where today, more than half of new zealand parliamentarians are female. the media here in new zealand has been focusing, of course on the reasons why just inter are done,

decided to step down. and most of them agree. it was partially the result of this online campaign of hate. that is, she has been subjected tooth and every one of course hopes that her success across hipkins will not be subjected to the same sort of vitriol protests has been held against israel's new right wing coalition government in its plans to reform the judicial system. demonstrators rallied in tel aviv and west jerusalem for a 1st rate weekend. they say the reforms will weaken the power of the supreme court undermined re freedoms and give the government absolute power in mankind was at a protests in west jerusalem. we have a just a quick look around, you'll see this inflatable red line that actually represent the red line for democracy. the protesters say the benjamin netanyahu cannot cross that line all throughout. hey, you see all of the slogans that we've been seeing in these protests. and this

protest including benjamin netanyahu is a criminal that the democracy must be defended as real concerns her over civil rights. for example. now, 3 weeks ago, this protest was sparked by proposed changes by the justice minister to the supreme court. they were effectively going to strip the supreme court of any house it had to overturn parliament decisions. it's got bigger than that. this is much school about people wondering, worrying about a threat to democracy and you have to say in jerusalem, there aren't really protests of this. so there were some in 2020 large in number, once again against the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. government, but they're getting bigger and that's because jerusalem is where religious pity to very conservative city. so a lot that values a lot of people's values, they align with the governments. but because of this, the right approach has to say to democracy,

they are incredibly concerned. but it isn't gonna change anything. well that's the question i put to the purchase as well. you see here, people from all, from all kinds, all kinds of various policies is this thing, those change which with which would we feel that with radical change really expecting would be the same one? 0, already experience in hungary and the likes. and this is something that would very much like prevent i think douglas. busy more people that go out, it will give more pressure to the government to stop this law like laws against a demo democracy. now it's not just here across israel, in high for, for example. and in televi that have been mass protest. tel aviv is by far the largest, although there is a lot of people here in the 1st week, you saw 50000 people,

80000 people in the 2nd week in the process. the organizes are suggesting memory be anywhere up to $120000.00 people out on the streets in television, that's a significant number. now the idea for to protest organizes is to get as many people out on the streets as possible so that the politicians have to pay attention . they get worried about some of their support, leaving them that they may will be able to have a vote of no confidence in the government and try and force trigger new elections. protestors were back on the street, so francis capital on saturday, angry at a plan to raised every time in age from 60 to 64. the government says the change is vital to safeguard the state pension system. saturdays. ronnie follows a nationwide strike on thursday. more protests of planned for later this weekend. another mass strike has been called for january 30. first. we don't need you to, we don't use it as long as i'm still standing and breathing i will fight so that

people won't spend their lives at work. so we can enjoy our families, children, hobbies, and friends. if not, it's not a life where not only hit to work jails, but if we don't fight, we don't scare him. mcroy went back down. they must show him that way. here and angry greece has begun the 1st phase of extending the fence on his border with turkey in a bit to stop illegal migration. 35 kilometers will be added to the 5 meter high steel fence, almost doubling its current length. the greek citizens protection minister says that around 400 people cross illegally from turkey. every day anchor accuses athens of endangering the lives of my prince by violently forcing been back. now it's not every day that an image acquire gets the chance to perform in front of a crowd of thousands. but after months of rehearsals, that's what one group in chile did as i latin america added to lucy newman reports the show is a chance to make classical music more accessible to everyone. chiles, former central railroad station, influenced by french architect who stopped

a fell of i for tower fame is not the usual then you for a classical musical concert. it's the dress rehearsal and every one is nervous. especially members of the choir who like ignacio to pull that i have been practicing for 6 months. you would have a friend told me that non professional singers were being auditioned for choir at 1st. i was terrified, but the choir director trains you and gives you confidence to sing even difficult pieces. oh, he's part of a citizens choir, who long with professional musicians and students are donating their time and talent for what will be a massive free concert before more than 5000 people. oh, it's the brain child of orchestra director alejandro ruth dea,

who wants to bring classical music close to all people? not just an elite we want to bring to their to their world's their community to, to our country. this message of brotherhood. ah, this message that we can all do wonderful things together in spite of our differences. ringback you are hearing the gun minute hold on and, and that, that mike carl morse, it's about life as a wheel of fortune one that goes up or down without any warning. and that's a concept that's very opportune, particularly over the last 3 years. the next day, the cultural center is still to the brim and downtown santiago, as the concert begins. ah, this is the 3rd grand concert from brotherhood held in chile. ah,

meant as a symbol of unity in times of civil strife. war and pandemic, st. it's being broadcast around the world, free of charge. still, it's not the same as experiencing this lives. everyone who plays their feelings of about what they're playing, and when your life in life concert, you can fuel these emotions. and you can also feel the emotions of the people sitting next to you when the concert ins lydia invites the public to sing the 1st movement. classical music experience that the organizers hope to spread well beyond chili's borders. to see in human al jazeera santiago, ah.