oh i oh, what people have to say matters to us. but me, that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is debbie news live from berlin and hello 2022. a light show and concert

kicked off the new years here at the famous random birth date, the site of official new years eve celebrations. it's a scaled out event due to the pandemic, but the city is alive with fireworks and hope for a little more normality in the year to come. and germany's new chancellor gives his 1st news. your new year's address, olaf sholtes urges the public to stand together and to get vaccinated. ah, i'm william, go kraft, welcome to the program. berlin has welcome 2022 with scaled back celebrations at the brandenburg gate. the impact the years there are no proud to be official celebrations due to the head demick, but throughout the city. small groups are celebrating and fireworks can be heard

every which way. there are private gatherings, but they are limited to a maximum. the maximum of 10 vaccinated people throughout jeremy and our correspondent manual shows was at the brand or gate for those celebrations. and she sent us this outlook for 2022 with fire back time. you think this is how germany said good bye to 2021. and what's an eventful year it has been for the country you had had to face many chances, not least, the summer, not least, of pandemic. we have a way of 19, in fact, any so, so experienced a huge political turnover with becoming chancello after 16 years of mandate by and go out marco, now germany and to 2022. it's off talent. jesus was germany. we had d g 7. we hold the g 7 presidency for year and the new government we love to have

to talk to you because we 900 infection. we have to tackle the panoramic and you can see here tonight that there is nobody here to celebrate upon the book i gave people have been asked to be careful to celebrate in small circles. so there are many and as a new yeah. with a still depend inside to the panoramic to try and tackle in the new year. london of course also said so long to 2021 along with other cities along greenwich meantime. ah, the famous chinese big ben rang in the new year in the birch cath long after the pyrotechnics were cancelled last year because of the pandemic. a firewall did strap again the lit up the night sky this time around. but londoners were advised to stay home and enjoy the show from the safety of their living. and how about

a quick tour of some other places around the world that have been marking the new year zealand was of course, one of the 1st it's traditional firework show was cancelled also because of the panoramic. but it illuminated auckland landmarks with thousands of light fireworks to be seen elsewhere, such as in thailand. capital bangkok lit up the skies with those fireworks. and they were made from traditional ty sticky, but also in hong kong fireworks display in victoria harbor, accompanied by music from the city philharmonic orchestra. and in moscow, red square got a little bit redder as fireworks exploded. overhead. dw correspondence around the world are also marking the new year by looking ahead to issues that we can expect to w africa correspondent, fred mooney, share some insight into where african countries will be placing their focus as 2020

to get underway. they night. the nation is predicting that nearly 300000000 people in the world will need your money in 2020, to more than half of that number, africans in your area. so. so don, nigeria, on this i have countries phase a raft of challenges including wall terrorism. honda climate change on the corner of us fund they make them workers. he's also eroding human rights abuses are projected to increase leaders in men. african countries try to hold tight on power . i guess the choices of the cities in military is in west africa and they won't think i have shown a desire for paula, my child. disney, and this is done. i counted towards come 2022. all of them have seen me tell you, taking up political it was in their hands, leaving the,

and instead of despair. the panoramic is also expected to threaten the economy, catch up, initiated in the 8th, and the kids by african countries. big economic countries like south africa and niger area will be affected, but stronger. rebound is effected for countries like ivory cost, morocco, wanda, and kenya. on a positive note chinese expected to deliver at least 1000000 by the senate. go and run the plan to start producing their own vaccines in 2022. now let's get you up to speed on some other stories making news around the world. baffling wildfires have torn through mainly rural areas near denver, colorado destroying at least 500 homes. tend to 1000 and people have been forced to flee and authority say, these are the worst fires, the state has ever seen. there have been no known deaths, one person is confirmed dad and 3 others are missing after

a powerful gas explosion happened in northern belgium. the blast and the town of turn out destroyed part of a residential building. one person is recovering from their injuries in an american cow comedy legend, betty white as died at the age of 99 or television career spans 60 years. she was best known for her any award winning role in the t. v. sitcoms. the golden girls and the mary tyler moore show. white passed away less than 3 weeks before her hundreds birth thing. france has recorded over 230000 new current virus cases on new years eve. it's the 4th consecutive day. the country has broken the european record for infection the 2nd, but in his new years address friends? president manuel, mom on warn that difficult weeks lie ahead who said? and he urged people to comply with the government's measures. it is, curb the spread of coven 19 liquid employers have in order to allow their staff to work from home and wearing a mask outdoors in paris is again,

compulsory health officials in the u. s. or warning of what they're calling in alma crohn blizzard. they've told americans to prepare for severe disruptions in the coming weeks. the rising wave of coven 19 led by the transmissible omicron varying, is threatening to overwhelm hospitals, schools and other key infrastructure. record numbers of children have been hospitalized and authorities are preparing to go ahead with booster shots for 12 or 15 year olds. next week. early we talk to sod omar, the director of the yale institute for global health, and asked him about possible solutions to stop coven 19 from ruining yet another year. we have tools at our disposal around the world. we have highly effective vaccines, especially against severe disease. we have a pretty substantial supply of high quality mass. we have understood more about the modes of transmission of the buyers, and we know that good ventilation and good filtration house. so it is the

deployment of those tools that will ensure a sustainable control of this virus in the coming months and years. and that was on omar, director of the gail institute for global health. now as we had into the new year, we looked back at one of our more notable reports from 2021 to london where air pollution levels exceed world health organization limits to w's. bergen mos met a woman whose daughter died of a massive asthma attack. she fought through the courts to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on the death certificate. now she campaigns for cleaner air if only the air where better in london, her daughter might still be alive. rosamond casey, deborah's daughter, ella was just 7 when she suddenly developed acute asked mom my late daughter is ela roberta, a. she had one of the worst cases old asthma ever recorded in this country. a was

linked to air pollution. and through my research, i found out the air pollution as much as i might feel. it's affected. my daughter, it affects medians. well, it wides. ella suffered for 2 years before she died from an asthma attack. through her daughter's death, rosamond cassie deborah, became an activist. she was able to prove in court that ella's asked, mom was much worse on days with a levels of pollution in the area. we're extremely high. 28 months of her suffocating in high mucus. basically. she deserve to have that moment. i don't want our children in this country to go through or what my late daughter went through in london, maximum pollution lever set by the world health organization are exceeded almost everywhere. st. mary's school is located in south west london, on one of the cities, dirtiest streets,

parents of school children there have now taken the meta into their own hands. remember taking my son to school one day and got into the playground. the noise windows from the street was just deafening in a re scars going by a $100000.00 cars every day we came across a story earlier is just horrendous and but each sort of confirmed our fears ab purifiers are now being installed in the classrooms. thanks to the parents who managed to raise almost 100000 pounds and a green space has been created. children now play outside for longer. previously they were only allowed 15 minutes due to bad air. i think he's a good thing because it might actually stop the air pollution coming into this school. they smell nice. i know that they give us. oh because our school is right now. so really busy road. so the helps us

a lot. at st. mary's school. the parents are hoping these measures will save their children from the worst. but endless mother says something has to fundamentally change. laws are what really matter. and children's rights definitely might matter . and it is the air rights to breathe cree there at. all goth may should make that, but i don't care how hard it is by the way. i really don't care how hard it is. they can achieve that. as long as there are children who are in danger from pollution. rosamond casey deborah will be keeping up the fight for the right to breathe clean air. germany's new chancellor is given his 1st new year's address to the nation. olaf schultz urged all germans to stand together in the fight against coban, 1900 and get vaccinated. in addition to the pandemic, the german leader said the biggest challenge for the upcoming year was to lay the groundwork for germany's future development. and it was no changes today. i am the

one speaking to you on you guys eve. as your federal chancellor. things are different this year. after 16 years of new year's addresses by angle america, germany's new head of government rose to the task for the 1st time. chancellor shall send out the challenges faced by the country in 2021. acknowledging the hardships that having endured such as the summer slots in west and germany and praising the resilience, people have shown, especially during the pandemic. when to the day, some people complain that our society is divided. i'd like to take this opportunity to make it very clear that in fact the opposite is true. our country is standing together. what i see everywhere is tremendous solidarity and incredible spurts of helping others, and people coming together and mutual support. in order to cub coby 19 infections, or shots appeared once again to people to get vaccinated. there isn't the theory.

we know that those who are not yet vaccinated are at particular risk of becoming infected, suffering from long and severe illness. for this reason, i would like to urge you once more to get vaccinated to new government's vaccination efforts have already hit their 1st. my stone with 30000000 vaccines administered since the end of november and further 30000000 doses planned by the end of january alisha. so, so to oppertunity, to emphasize, to coalitions goes on climates and meet them within 25 years. we want germany to become climate neutral into achieve this, we will move forward with the greatest transformation our economy is seen in more than a century in this period. we will achieve independence from coal, oil and gas. and he reminded listeners of one of his social democratic party's key election promises. an decent pay is also a matter of respect. that's why in 2022 will be taking

a major step and increasing the legal minimum wage to 12 years per hour celsius. first new year's address soon with optimism. it was a declaration of good faith, but he also called on people to played a part in forming the future. lifting them, they were at the beginning of a new decade, a new era as dawning, an error that will be successful if we actively shape it because we can make a difference if we remain determined and take out, fight into our own hands. and zip, cynthia name, and the chancellor's full address. you can catch on our youtube channel and our website, d, w dot com. but that is going to be all for it. now stay with us. we have a lot more news coming up and until then, happy new year to everyone. we hope it is a good one and a better one up ahead stated