since for the present, a future that heads filled with ideas. so get ready for the brain update. 40 to the answer to almost everything starts january 15th on d w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah . this is deed of new news live from berlin. countries around the world ring in the new year from the beaches of rio de janeiro and brazil to sydney's harbor bridge in australia. thousands gather to usher in 2023. after 2 years of restricted events.

also on the show at a new year's day mass pope france is praise for his predecessors safe passage to heaven. as the world says farewell to benedict to 16. and as the year draws to a close, ukraine gets no respite from brushing the tax. as more missiles rained down on the capital ah, i'll make spicer happy new year, and welcome to the program. a wave of new year's celebrations has swept across the globe as the count down to 2023 moves west. the party was in full swing across europe and africa. on saturday night, cities returned to full scale celebrations following 2 years of restricted events. from sydney's iconic harbor bridge to times square in new york to rio de janeiro, copa cabana beach,

the world's 8000000000 inhabit welcome to 2023. with a bank. with while there was no official fireworks display in the german capital berlin, it didn't stop the city's residence from turning the night sky into a festive spectacle. mindy egyptian capital cairo people were treated to a fireworks display on the nile revelers and paris gathered on the shells. alizae many had hopes for a better 12 months ahead. ed domains on 2023. i hope it will be a year full of surprises. full of happiness, full of success, and lots of good things. happy new year, i'd be one bed box piece everywhere. people must help fighting lights

and music, fill the streets of karachi and pakistan. people there wishing for a brighter future after a year of widespread hardship. love what i said i don't we don't we must kill the seeds of hatred. montague and so the seeds of love on him all as the new year began operating off what we should renew our pledge to be to love each other. mamma job, i got about mommy. britain's capital london lit up in the colors of ukraine. and paid tribute to the late queen elizabeth the 2nd was greater understand as the world said good bye to another memorable year. amazing pictures. hope francis has held the vatican's traditional new year's day mass a day after the death of his predecessor. francis took a break from his repaired address to honor former pope benedict as tributes come in

from around the world. benedict died saturday at the age of $95.00. his health had been in decline for several years and he had been largely absent from public view. our special correspond. abraham is at the vatican. i asked her what things are like there now. so on monday, in st. peter's basilica right behind me o, former pope benedict spotty will be lying and state for mourners to come and pay their last respect. and as you can see around me in the past, and just in the past couple of hours, we've seen security preparations for that event. these railings, i have been put up just in the past half hour, hour or so. and the idea is to accommodate the masses, we're gonna go to be lining up here to go through security towards the end, a couple of meters in that direction to go pay their respect and then exit on the other direction. these are also there in case emergency services me to reach

a saint. peter's square a fast. it is expected that starting tomorrow at these, these streets will be lined and crowded with people. and it has the fact that benedict 16th removed himself from the limelight in the years after his papacy affected his perception amongst catholics will certainly frankly, catholics, the job of the pope is a job for life. and so when it po benedict, former po benedict stepped down almost a decade ago. it did cause a lot of shock within the community and it has now opened up the possibility for future pokes to resign. it's not completely unprecedented. but the last time that a pope stepped on out of his own volition was around 600 years ago. and in a completely different context, he had that pope had step down to, to bring it into a civil war,

essentially within the church. and so now that possibility is out there at the same time, you know that the, the kind of more conservative values that po benedick stood for continued to be popular among some believers, even after he stepped down, while it did cause shock. and created a very interesting precedent. i would, i think the popularity for some of his ideas within the church, whether that, you know, anti abortion, whether it's a conservative view on same sex marriage. there's still a lot of catholics that subscribe to to that set of values. ok, did abuse special correspond abraham in rome before us? thank you. here's a look now at some more stories making headlines around the world. at least 9 people have been killed in a stampede during new year celebrations in uganda as capital kampala. authority say the crush happened in a shopping mall corridor as people rushed outside to see

a fireworks display from 10 year old boys among the dead. so let, let them down, kim jung, who has ordered north korea's military to drastically increase its nuclear arsenal . comments came just hours after north korea marked the new year with another ballistic missile launch following a record number of tests. last year. south korea's president called the launch of provocation and said his country should retaliate. croatia is now officially part of the use open border shank and agreement and had, has also adopted the euro currency. people have been able to withdraw euro's from local cash machines since midnight to join the blocks monetary system, croatia had to fulfill a set of strict economic conditions. in separate new year speeches, the leaders of both russia and ukraine have vowed to push for victory over each other. fresh bloss have been heard and ukraine's capital keith and around the

country. russia bombed cities across you. kane, on ukraine, on saturday, sending a barrage of over 20 cruise missiles. keith mayor vitale, cliff go said at least one person was killed and at japanese journalists is among those injured russian missiles over ukraine. on the last day of the year, several waves of attacks hit key infrastructure with debris also falling on a residential area. will not the shock from the blast through me and my husband against the wall? we fell on the floor in the corridor. then we heard the glass in the window shatter, and then there was explosion after explosion. the attack on the ukrainian capital lasted almost 3 hours. in the center of cave, a russian missile hit in front of a hotel. what particularly shocked people here was the timing of the attack dog which up or they leased on this holiday. the day the whole world celebrates,

we were hoping for a miracle. instead, you're sitting in the corridor and you don't know at all if you'll be alive to morrow. he and his name, his everly. this after the for that when i'm a hired as a 6 the drying with all the might do spa, new years for us. but the conduit thing, we will prevail and when was the death and destruction it is a bitter end of the year for the people of keith. so 2023. a new crane was clearly off to a rough start. i asked our correspondent, they're emmanuel shows for more on these latest attacks. honey, can a happy new year for us? yes sir. very hard time here and keith, we've just been 2 or 3 days off a constant or asked track thread and air strikes. we had 3 nights with me saw the tax just last night. there was a very, very long thread which lasted for hours during which $32.00 shahid iranian drones

were shut down over key. if yesterday me size a truck or their capital, the ukrainian capital as a hotel which had been heat and you mentioned it earlier, 20 o 2 people were injured. some on died. so a very rare, very a rough times to a b 2 and a 2022 for ukrainians. and to begin this new year 2023. and you spent, as did many residents of the capital, a good part of the night in a bomb shelter was key residents who knew of course, the rest of the world was ringing in the new year with joy. what's the morale among people there? well, it was pretty strange, especially those past 3 days, as i mentioned because we spent, we bill here leaving and key of we spent so much time under ground just, you know, hearing explosions outside. sometimes here in the city center we thought it was chattering. was a windows or

a shattering as well. so it's very scary and we've had in the report this woman saying she was hoping for a miracle. you know, yesterday people in the morning it was a beautiful morning, sunny morning, the last day of, of a very hard year. people were looking forward to celebrate. instead they were stuck on the ground. they were hearing explosions above, above, above them. they leave in fear, of course, their resilience, but this fear there as well, and as a sense of dread, because they don't know when this all will end. and if the president president vote, and there's a lensky made as president, do a new year's address, tell us more about that and how it was received, if you don't mind well at this address was very particular was talking about is earlier with a ukrainian friend. so told me all the people that i know he watched this address, there wouldn't necessarily do that every year, but these series, so particular in this year we the also so val odaimi zalinski gaining, you know,

at the trusts of every ukrainian. many people here didn't vote for him as a president, but then he really revealed himself as the countries leader on february 24th then ukrainians at the moment really rally around her him and he speech was very much centered on ukrainians themselves on, on a dare you know they're solidarity on the fact that they have to stem together to face the terrible are these terrible war duddies unfolded unfolding against them. so at this address was very much followed, very much appreciated as well. and very emotional. ok as well. one can well imagine d, w is a manual chas reporting force from the ukrainian capital. thanks so much in sports, portuguese superstar christiano, rinaldo has found a new footballing home. it reared with saudi arabians side al nasser. rinaldo has penned a 2 year deal with the club. 37 year old had been free agents is leaving manchester

united on the eve of the cutter world cup horse off the press. this is the shirts they all now want. i'll massa, rinaldo new club hale. his signing as quote history in the, making it a significant boost for football in saudi arabia and the middle east. woodland with another, a hit that he was having rinaldo. we'll boost the value of the saudi league. if you look at the tweets in the views they're getting lots of people abroad talking about this deal. it's a deal that will never happen again into the catalog. rinaldo will reportedly i'm around $200000000.00 a year from the dale making him the highest paid footballer in history. he previously rejected a move to the country, but was seemingly left with few options after his acrimonious departure from manchester united that had followed scathing comments in a television interview. people should listen to true. yes,

i feel betrayed than i felt that some people didn't want me here not only this year, but last year to rinaldo also endured a disappointing recent world cup with portugal benched in the knockout rounds. he left the field in tears after portugal caught a final exit to morocco. but there is no doubting the player star quality. he's won the pal on to 5 times for the world's best footballer. and in a club career spanning 2 decades with fourteen's, he's made 951 appearances, scoring an incredible 701 goals. he's racked up 7 leak titles in england, spain and italy. and when the champions league 5 times. as for saudi arabia, it will again face accusations of sports, washing using sport to distract from human rights abuses and boost the countries image. a shock world cup victory of argentina brought

a wave of football fever to saudi arabia, the country, and the play. rinaldo, a boast now entering new territory. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. countries around the world are welcoming in 2023 with celebrations and fireworks displays. crowds gathered in new york city for a massive party and in egypt, the river denial lit up for revelers in the capitol chiral. and that's all from me for now. coming up next as a documentary, looking at the life of britons, king charles visor. thanks for watching. i