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oppose the delivering the eulogy at the funeral of archbishop desmond to intake town to to was awarded the nobel peace prize for combating white minority rule. he was called the moral conscience of his country. also coming up around the world, concerts, light shows and fire works, kick off the new year. new york welcome is 2022 with its annual boulder up on time square. and unlike the previous year, thousands of people join in the fun. many saying that hoping for a better year, ahead and remembering one of hollywood best loved actresses. tb legend bessy white die is just days before 100th birthday. ah

time manuscript us mckennon a very warm welcome to the show and happy new year. you will, south africa has said goodbye to the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid. the funeral of archbishop desmond tutu was held in the same place. he used the pulpit, the decades to rail against a brutal white minority regime. at a moderate ceremony, family, friends, clergy, politicians gathered cape town, saint george's cathedral president. several rum opposed delivered the main unit of the official state funeral describing to 2 as a crusader in the struggle for freedom and justice around the world. and from all we can bring in and lisa fontaine, a south african journalist and filmmaker. emily, thanks so much for joining us now. you met archbishop to sue when you were a young journalist and you made a documentary about him. how will you remember him now? thank you for having me. i think you know, i'm not alone today that i would certainly mess in miss. he's so chuckling loft her

because he had this ability to, to, in any, in a difficult situation in a diffused, difficult situations. by just using use in humor. and i will remember him as someone who was really small in stature. and beth has a huge presence and to the archbishop of canterbury said, today that's investment to, to lit up the world. and i think that is the best way to do to describe him. and he knew that dislike his fearlessness, that he wasn't scared to, to speak out about the injustices, no matter where it was in the world where they was in palestine at the palestinian cause, shit, he had that touch where they towards like m l g b, t q i writes towards the end of his life, which i don't think many men of his generation, you know, would take up those types of courses and veterans, obviously

a huge influence and a very warm person, very human, a term that comes up time. and again, in connection with desmond to his legacy is his invention and practice of restorative justice. could you remind us what that is exactly? well, you know, that was off to democracy, came in 1990 4 am and both it actually came from a the, it from nelson mandela that they decided to have the, the truth and reconciliation committee, which was a 1st and a world way bitter enemy use. and came to get there and put everything on the table, told shay killings and own of that. but it was also a cleansing process, and it was created and to sort of in the, in the, in the hope that both to press and the children of the perpetrators could find

a way for would to bo this new nation. am it has been criticized in recent years by younger generations and, but i personally still think i haven't seen anything like that anywhere else in the world. and it certainly helped and to, to sort of bring people together in bolding the nation. you mentioned a little yamaha. rosa mentioned that the day to, you know, like it was an important legacy of to, to, sorry he is, you mentioned the younger generation that will desmond, to tis what continue to have an impact on the younger generation. i think that this week they, it's been agree discovery by young people here now who was see and what did he stand for? and that day as many of the memorials they were young people laid, which was quite sort of the hardening. but he also certainly has

a huge influence on many of the younger clergy that in neighboring countries like and symbolically. and it's a thing in the churches they follow that sort of like trying to be a mean mediator between the political parties, but staying out of politics. so in some ways is nature, nature see also being followed em and other parts of africa because i mean africa and like europe, many people, all religious and listen to their religious leaders, journalist and filmmaker and lisa on time. thanks so much for speaking with us. thank you very much for having me. in other news countries around the world have been ringing in the new year with fireworks gatherings and celebrations. new york held its annual ball drop and this time times square square was full of confetti in good chair. even though the pandemic has forced many places to scale back the

parties, people are greeting 2022 in the hope that it might be the year when life returns somewhat back to normal. ah, pandemic on milton demick. the world welcome the new year in style. in new york city, the crowds were back at times square, though they were much smaller than before. the corona virus. good fran. time no more. no more. pope. if you just see people taking a more tough approach to it, like yeah, i'm going to get vaccinated, but i'm not going to show everything else out. i've got to keep moving forward. i got to make this work. brazil's world famous called cabana beach. once again, did not disappoint. ah,

in sci fi works, weaved through the air and revelers flocked to massive beach parties in india's coastal region of go on. moscow's red square got a little redder, as fireworks exploded overhead. ah, london's traditional celebrations were cancelled. people did not want to go without a party. ah, in the lynn that one book. gates and other landmarks were luminated. despite restrictions and fireworks and gatherings, thousands came to celebrate my plans. it has been unavailing. i'm

a cheerful person. that's why i want my life back. i believe you still have a right to live on hyacinth. despite everything that's happened, it's wonderful to be here today and be able to participate. i shouldn't even put them on the rest of libby or in the united arab emirates. hundreds of multi colored light, drones and thousands of fireworks sit to guineas, world records, creating stunning images, and celebrating the end of what for most of the world was another difficult year. as 2 years to the day since the world health organization set up an emergency crisis team in response to an outbreak of unusual pneumonia cases in the city of wu and china, and that was one day off to chinese authorities alerted the w h o to a cluster of cases in the city bathing says the novel corona virus can be traced

back to this live food market. and whoo, han subsequent outbreak turned the world upside down. going on to infect, at least 280000000 people killing more than 5000000 and disrupting every day life across the planet. and when will at all and joining me now to break that down is d w reporter. ask you more. thanks for joining us. do we know when this pandemic is going to be over? yeah, that's the, the $1000000.00 question isn't, and that's the question at this that that's at the heart of a really heated debate in science circles at the moment. on the one side of this, you have scientists like those at the university college london who say we need to prepare to move from a endemic, sees to an endemic phase, and what emitters that we should be thinking about dropping restrictions and accepting that people will get infected and you cannot avoid it, but you will and you can avoid serious sickness by getting vaccinated. no, that also means that the virus is in circulation and that you accept

a constant level of death to put it carelessly. but you accept that and the government can manage that because they know what they will get with it. and they can avoid excess of sickness at work and hospital becoming strained. and the reason they're optimistic about that is it is high level of natural immunity in the u. k. at the moment because of the so many people have been infected and they also have a high vaccinated rate. but what this endemic phase means is that you have 2 countries has to decide how much, how many casualties and how much death they're willing to accept. and obviously that will differ from country to country. so that's what british experts the saying, what's the situation here in germany, for example? yeah, well germany, germany is a different situation because one of jeremy's leading viral adjusts is, is or optimistic, although cautiously has to be said about where germany will find itself in 2022 christian dalston christian dross to the should say, says data from all micron shows that it is less dangerous than 1st theater he's,

he's happy about that. and that gives him cause for optimism. but germany says will face a ross thought because germany on my, the u. k. hasn't had, has many infections. so has the lower natural immunity and has a law of actually to do it less lesson to what he had to say and go and he goes and, and 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 of these issues on bison, this political 100 on mid bush to move it. all right, well, we will see what happens. hopefully the new year will be a better one the last year. matthew moore, thanks so much. now tennis star rough and dull, has given

a boost to the australian open simply by turning up the practice that comes less than 2 weeks after he confirmed he had tested positive for coven. 19 the spaniard looked fully recovered. as he trained in melbourne, the tournament starts on january 17, but the tournament organizes still don't know of needles. great rival, know that joke of it will defend his title given that he has to be vaccinated to play in the tournament. the entertainment world is mourning the passing of american comedy actress betty white, who died on years eve. she made her television debut in 1939 white, remained in the public eye until her death and had been planning to celebrate. a 100th birthday this month. the grand dame of american television had the longest career of any woman in the entertainment industry spanning more than 6 decades. betty white saucy charm gave life to numerous memorable and quirky characters that

she earned to emmy awards for her role on the mary tyler moore. show in the 1970s. as the snide lusty sue ann evans, i'm sorry, this is a very critical time. i'm sorry, this is a very critical time please. ah. 6 ah but she was best known for playing the dim witted rose nyland in the golden girls a 19 eighties sit. com, that broke boundaries by featuring for senior women living together in miami. you haven't even touched you mister ha dog. when asked about her decades of success, white chalked up her long career to good health, good fortune and loving her work. i've been working in this wonderful business for 63 years now, and i'm so lucky to be as busy as i am. oh,

i'll say no when they stop asking me so if you want me to retire or stop asking. the news of betty white's death sparked an outpouring of tributes with fans, gathering it a makeshift memorial over her star on the hollywood walk of fame. us president joe biden tweeted his own tribute, saying betty wind brought a smile to the lips of generations of americans. she the cultural icon who will be sorely missed. the beloved and groundbreaking actress died just 18 days short of her 100th birthday. your watching dw news life from berlin, thanks so much for joining us with people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center.