when there are do worse to look at the bigger picture, india, a country that faces many challenges and whose people are striving to create a sustainable future clever projects from europe and india eco india. by d w with this is a d, w. news live from berlin, south africa bids farewell to an anti apartheid hero. you're looking at live pictures from cape town, or the funeral of archbishop desmond tutu was under way through to was awarded the

nobel peace prize for combating white minority rule. it was called moral conscience of his country. also coming up around the world concerts, light shows, and fireworks kick off the new year. new york welcomes 2022 with its annual ball drop on time square. and unlike the previous year, thousands of people joined in the fun. many say they're hoping for a better state of affairs in the year ahead. ah, annexed by sir. welcome to the program. south africa is saying good bye to the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid as the funeral for archbishop desmond tutu gets under way. over the past week, south africa has seen an outpouring of grief and recognition of the man regarded as the countries moral compass. people have flocked to cape town to pay their last

respects as his body lay in state at the cities cathedral. the nobel peace prize laurie it was a passionate advocate of equality and an international icon and help bring down south africa system of racial segregation. he died last sunday at the age of 19 and joining us now is journalist to so comalla to so i'm sure tens of thousands of people would have liked to be there, but this is a funeral in a pandemic. so tell us, how is it unfolding? this is a man who has been on dick across the country and does your ride a lot of people wanting to come and pay a their last aspect and see his warranty for the last time. but this did not happen because of corporate, named and regulations. we've got only a 100 people allowed in the top building law. do, declared you men and the bishops of the reverent and did the presidency. our

process there from our president. i am, becky, is there, and if you government officials the public has not been allowed to come in fact they can't access the place around this church because of security reasons. they've been given a place to view at a public place, a few meters from here. and there, lot of people are viewing from the ass grins at television, screens at home. but if you know that has been appointed for south africa, that was this is a men with gain to respect from or of course in fact after the proceedings i dont inside preston center. my for site is going to hand over the national flake today. and we do offer off to talk with leah and just to show how the contest on adding this manual note to police to gen ed bus there, evident. but that when to do this or not remember his from that i was given a contact number one, a funeral state funeral, meaning that she was supposed to pick or not to buy at the military here. but to, to said, he doesn't want it to be this big. you wanted to be kept

a loft in it out because he identified himself with the poor window as alive. and you wanted to go into subway. a modest man and, and we can even see that in the so help humbleness of, of the coffin itself, of it in simple would just coming back to the legacy of desmond to, to he's remembered of course as being a champion in the fight against apartheid. but also for his idea of restorative justice after the apartheid regime came to an end and which spread around the world, can you help us remember what that legacy is? that lucas came through when nasa monday love the late nasa monday love the fis. our presence of africa appointed to do to head to the tooth and dead consolation commission. this commission, the main task of this commission, was to make sure these justice up after potted those that way. a perpetrating, appetite were asked to come to the commission to account for everything that they did, the oppression that they did, the killings that they did, and anything else,

the injustices that they did, and at the same time, and he managed to porn on the, the community members, the victims, the relatives of the comment that the victims to also come in say they're part of the story. some of the people that appeared before the commission are still in prison. now some of them were given sentence functions and dim and the main em off, desmond to, to wants to try and make sure these healing between those that were wronged and did those that wrong to them. so that the africans or the south african, the flex of africans, and the weiss of africans can live in peace again. he's the one who called to be named rainbow nation, meaning people living in that diversity, but also in unit 2. okay, thank you so much. journalists to so qu, mallow, at the funeral of desmond to, to countries around the world have been bringing in the new year with fireworks gatherings and celebration. new york hell, his annual ball drop. and this time time square was full of confetti and good cheer

. even though the pandemic has forced many places to scale back to parties, people are greeting 2022 in the hope that it might be the year when life returns somewhat back to normal. ah, pandemic are nope endemic the world is welcome. the new year in, in style. new zealand was one of the 1st it's traditional firework extravaganza was cancelled due to the pandemic. instead of illuminated auckland's landmarks with thousands of life in australia, sydney didn't hold back fireworks, weaved in the air to create wales and wool winds. some of the fireworks were let off early so that children could enjoy them too. then it was over to india, where massive beach bodies dick place and go potty go. i said they wish core would would go away from the 1st of january. and in moscow,

red square got a little dreadful. as fireworks exploded overhead. in germany alight show illuminated bolan's famous brandenburg gate the eiffel tower in paris will adorned and colors of the european union to symbolize france taking over the use presidency. ah, london's traditional celebrations were cancelled as well. but there's no holding back baked bens, the box. and along with the famous chimes of big ben 2021 was no more

and d w's correspondence around the world are looking ahead to the issues in this new year. des, brussels correspond christie moon, to assure some insight into where the european union will be placing is focus as 2022 gets under way. 20. $22.00 is shaping up to be a nother year fraught with challenges for the european union with geopolitical tensions rising. so a phrase you will be hearing frequently is strategic autonomy. what is that you ask? well, here in brussels, that term in bodies, europe's desire to stand on its own, 2 feet to produce more here, instead of having to buy everything from china, and to defend itself without having to rely on the united states and nato, that could include an e, u army as well as efforts to ramp up production for products like semiconductors, here in europe. now, this push for autonomy is really the branch out of the french president, emanuel con, he went to europe to dream bigger and assert itself globally. but not everybody is

on board some think it's a useless pipe dream, but france holds the 1st rotating presidency for the european union in 2022. so emanuel con, will be forging ahead health experts in the united states or warning of they call an armor crohn blizzard. they told americans to prepare for severe disruptions in the coming weeks. the rising wave of covered 19 lead by armor kron is threatening to overwhelm hospitals, schools and other key infrastructure. record numbers of children have been hospitalized in authorities or preparing to authorize booster shots for 12 to 15 year olds. next week, one of germany's leading virology has said his cautiously optimistic about the pandemic for the coming year. christian dalston says that the data indicates the alma chron variant is less dangerous than initially fear. and could actually help corona virus become more common like coal viruses. but he warned that the high

number of unvaccinated people in germany could still pose a challenge of indians. because if we look at the major industrialized countries of europe, germany has the highest percentage of people who haven't been exposed to the virus and who haven't been vaccinated by stuff. and we don't know what that means for us . and even if the disease severity is bearable for the vaccinate, which seems to be the case, we still have to worry about a large section of the population. and that will certainly have a political influence on most on d, l, e. o, and begin this political 100 on mitt bush to move it as take a quick glance. at some other developments in the pandemic, french president imagined mac cole has worn, that his country face is a difficult few weeks. again, ahead as confirmed daily cases have sort to record levels fueled by the on the convent. italy has also recorded a record number of new infections as it begins 2022 new restrictions for people who are unvaccinated or june to go on to force on january. the 10th and novak's has

again delayed its request for authorization for its vaccine in the united states. the company now says it will submit its application later this month. 2022 is said to be a bumper year for sports, but with corona virus curve ball throat and i'm joined by mark meadows from d. w. sports. thanks for being here. happy new year month. thank you. ok. i'm just going to get this out of the way cove. it we can escape from it. is it going to shape the urine sports again? yes, i'm afraid. so. i mean, we have the african nations cope coming up in early january and that he's going head despite cove. there was lots of speculation that wouldn't, but it's happening in cameroon. but it's a big problem, especially for english clubs, because we know there's huge amounts of corona virus amongst the premier league at the moment, and lots of games have had to be postponed. let's look at liverpool, for example. their best player mohammed, seller of egypt, is going to leave and go to the african nations cup. can club also go outside your money there? senegal star,

he'll be leaving. so he's losing his best players and then also half of his team got corona virus. oliver go go to be able to field things the matches. i mean this is really going to impact liver pulls title ambitions in the premier league for example. and then if we turn to tennis, we've got the australian open starting on january the 17th. we still don't know if will number one and defending champion, no joke, which will be there. organizes have said you have to be vaccinated to play. he said, my vaccination status is my business. no one needs to know. we honestly don't know what we do know though, is that ref an tao was in melbourne today he has trained, he has recovered from coven, so he will be there. and we've not even got on to the very, very hard corona virus restrictions at the winter olympics in beijing. ok winter olympics there. let's move on to the big global sporting events. and the united states is leading a diplomatic boycott. an indication that beijing is bothered not at all. i mean, they really don't care as long as the athletes come,

which is going to happen. they don't care channels also made the point. how do you know you're going to be invited? and the one person who is invited is vladimir putin, which is a bit interesting because russia aren't actually allowed to compete at the winter in picks because of an ongoing doping. then russian athletes have to compete as neutrals. so yeah, but china ok, beijing wants to show that it's going to be the 1st city to host a summer and winter olympic games. the skiing is happening quite a way away from beijing, but they haven't actually got enough snow. so the, using fake snow machines to create the piece, it's china basically showing off it's technological prowess. obviously the i o c as in a bit of a bind because you've had this peng sri situation, this chinese tennis play who alleged sexual assault. the iris has been heavily criticized for not coming down hard on china, but they couldn't really ahead of the beijing games. and to be slightly fair to the i would say that very few options when it came to choosing a house for the games. i mean very few countries can afford ok, did abuse mark meadows on the year and sports 2022 things look forward to political

and sporting and otherwise thanks for that. american comedy legend, betty white has died at the age of 99. her television career spend more than 70 years. she was best known for her emmy award winning rules in the t. v sitcom the golden girls where she played the loopy but lovable rose, and the man crazy t. v. hostess on the mary tyler moore show. she was a beloved public figure and remained in the spotlight until her death white would have been 100 in less than 3 weeks. your, of course watching deed of your news live from berlin. he is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. the funeral of south african archbishop desmond tutu is underway in cape town to, to was awarded the nobel peace prize for his rule in the struggle against apartheid . he died last sunday at the age of 19 new york is welcome. 2022 with its

annual ball drop on times square. and unlike last year, thousands of people joined in the celebrations despite scale back activities, many taking part said they hope the new year will see life return to normal. and that's your news for now. coming up though, a german musher takes on the world's northern most sled dog race in our shows, sports life, take tune with us for that. and you can say up to date on our website at any time of day at d. w dot com. i'm nick spicer, thanks for watch. ah welcome to the dark side.