the old with i do? yes. so get ready for the brain. i 42. the ncp most everything starts january 5040 w ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. brazil says good bye to football legend, pele. the striker's body is lying in his hometown stadium. thousands of fans are paying their respect before his funeral. also in the program. the faithful bid farewell to the former po, benedict mourners at vatican. pray for the 1st pontiff in centuries to step down as

a spiritual leader to millions worldwide. ah, a mariner evans dean, it's good to have you with us. brazil is bidding farewell to one of its most famous sons. football legend pele died, aged 82 of cancer fans have been filing into the state even his hometown of santos, a public, have a day to pay their respects before a private burial. brazil observed 3 days of national morning following pell is death. last week. earlier i as journalist, tim vickery to help set the scene of the 24 hour wake his coffin came down the hill from san palo overnights to the coastal city of san sauce. it arrived around 4 o'clock in the morning, and even then there were crowds of people there to welcome him. back to santos. the

coffin opened coffin now is in the center circle of the field at st. jo's. the door's been open for some 2 hours. now people can file past pay their respects full of all sorts. he's political authority, sporting authorities there as well in the stands. many bouquets of flowers sent vile o thorough season and celebrities. it will lie for 24 hours. and then to morrow there'll be a funeral procession through the streets of santos. it will pass the house of his mother who still alive at the age of $100.00. before moving on to his final resting place, a cemetery will. there'll be a private funeral for the family and it's a vertical cemetery is up on the 9th floor, handpicked by pal i with a view of this stadium that he graced for so many years. serrato's rancho as well, or total close at the front has football club stadium. it was a special place for pele. tell us about his time there. well,

this story has a global dimension, a national dimension, and also a local dimension that might be easy for the will to overlook. sense us by the standards of brazilian cities is small. it's less than half a 1000000 people pal. i wasn't born there, but he came there at the age of 15 and he played all of his career in brazil. incense was 18 years for the club during which time they were probably the best club side in the world. now for a city that small, that's an extraordinary achievement, and it's one that they're very, very proud of. so there's a huge local pride here. it's a local moment, as well as well as one celebrated by the world and the country are we know, of course, and pele was a hero in brazil, but she was also admired around the world. but his impact and did go even beyond football, didn't it? well, i think it does because we're talking about someone here born just 52 years after priscilla boy, she slavery a poor black kid,

a one time shoe shine boy who ends up through his own talents and determination. and through the democratic nature, football itself is form a shoe show and boy ends up shining more brightly than anyone else in the history of the global gain. his legacy globally is, i think, more than anything else to welcome the house that he built. he did more than anyone else to make the world cup this gripping event that makes us all once a down tools for, for years, every month for a month, every 4 years. his legacy in brazil is making them the country associated with winning. the woke up with winning it in style and with winning it in style with a smile on their face for a month every 4 years, with pele brazil, with a country that everyone wanted to be. there was journalist at 10 degree reporting from rio. tim, thank you so much. the former po, been and act as lying in state at the vatican. tens of thousands of warriors are expected to pay their final respects before benedict burial. later in the week,

it will be the 1st people funeral in nearly 2 decades. for 3 days, mourners will have the chance to say good bye to port benedict, italian prime minister, georgia maloney among the 1st to do so. the somber mood inside saint peters basilica disrupted only by the need to document as quote, sneaked around the vatican, waiting to enter the faithful. coming out. try to sum up the experience there. number lame would soon it's a beautiful emotion to see the body on even a little transformed by suffering. but even in this, the pope gave us an example of fish. when i'm returning this, it's an indescribable emotion. i was in front of the pope's body. i didn't realize that he was right there care that it was really him. but he came in there. on

sunday, pope francis praised benedict during his new year's day prayer. junior mountaintop sir, me going let us all joined together with one heart and one soul in thanking god for the gift of this faithful servant of the gospel and of the church. and he is then addict, made history in 2013, when he resigned. siting ill health, the 1st point of to do so since the middle ages. he led the church at the height of the clerical child abuse scandal, offering an apology to victims during a visit to australia in 2008. indeed, i am deeply sorry. was it pain and suffering, so victims, hyphened jude in his bavarian birthplace, a message to from beyond the grave. a local priest read from benedict spiritual

testimony, released posthumously with this unwavering message. state 5th, him, stand, firm in your faith lot do not be confused. hope benedict will be lead to rest on thursday in a funeral. savish that's expected to draw thousands on historic occasion. that will mark the end of an extraordinary iraq which sought to pope's living in the vatican . kitley a correspondent banter eager to is at the vatican. and i asked him earlier to describe the scene at saint peter's square. and in st. peter's basilica. the doors to the basilica open, the since the early morning. and thousands and thousands of people are lining up on the sand, beat the square to get into this enormous huge church,

one of the biggest churches in the world. and if you enter, you see this, this whole, this remains architecture marble. gold. and under the copper law, there's the, the body of pope benedict lying. not in the coffin, but are on a little pedestrian. and you can, you can see, and actually from all sides, people can stop, say, a little prayer and say their own personal good bye to look benedict. and many did so, and many more expected 40 to 50000 people a day. and amongst the 1st visitors or the president of the italian state child, sergio, martha rella and also your kens why and the private secretary of the pope and his long time lifelong confidence. one was of course, a rather unusual situation to have 2 parks living at nevada can at the same time. but now that the former pope has died. what exactly is the procedure for the

catholic church? yeah, it's, it's nuances of the catholic church, how to proceed with this because the 4800 years, not as the pope has not buried a pope and that will happen on thursday. pope francis will oversee that. the proceedings and the service for the late pope and after that, francis will be the only po bergen in the situation, goes back to normal a. but the vatican is used to these kind of big events and an assembly. so everybody thinks here that it will both be read very smoothly and accordingly to a dignified term procedure or pub francis himself has his share of health problems. would stepping down, be an option for him like it was from her benedicts. yeah, that's a very interesting her christian devotee canister of a talking about this here because hope friends actually hinted at the possibility

that your to mad to step down because of his age and deserve failing her health's. it's not very likely, but it's not excluded. and then you would have to have the same situation. a pope frances, 86 years old and the user forgot singer was only 85 when he resigned to w, bantering, great reporting for us from the vatican band. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. thousands gathered in the west bank town of janine for the funerals of 2 palestinians killed in a gun battle with israeli security forces. the fire fighter routed when israeli forces arrived to demolish the homes of 2 other palestinian gunmen behind the killing him in his early army commander. last september. 2 helicopters have collided mid air in australia's gold coast region. at least 4 people were killed and several others are in critical condition. authorities are investigating

russia defense ministry has confirmed as 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year's eve attack in ukraine that happens in the russian occupied the next region. footage shows the aftermath of the strike with a large building reduced to rubble, ukraine's defense ministry earlier said as many as 400 russians were killed by the showing. d. w. rowman gunter ranko has more about the ukrainian attack that killed and dozens of russian soldiers. well, we still don't have much details and, but there are a few important things that i would like to mention. first, it looks like it could be one of the biggest successes of the ukranian army in this kind of operation with ukrainian army using the in the high mars systems, those high mobility rocket launchers that the united states provided are in summer 2122. and to, to strike the russian forces

a $2.00 to $2.00 mo, do us kind of a pin point strikes. ah, we are, they know, and we're, we're either of the flat russian soldiers and it was exactly vague like this. we've seen some, a kind of similar attacks before and, but the numbers are much higher this time or could be much higher this time, the russian saying they are there are 663 casualties, the ukraine and sent about 400. there are, there is at least one indicator, speaking that the number of casualties is, is higher than the russian army admits. and this is the very harsh and critical reaction by some of russian bloggers in social media are. they reacted and criticized the russian army for not for, for very bad organization. and they were risking a punishment for that because it is prohibited in russia to criticize the army. and for me it is clear sign that something very big has happened. and we've seen just

a few days ago, a similar attack in the city of an ask aware m a former russian government official admitted goes and was wondered as he was celebrating. so ukraine uses the time when the russian soldiers are celebrating or russian, the phil shells are celebrating, they feel kind of safe. and then ukraine conduct a such a very pinpointed strike. and this could be, in my opinion, one of the biggest successes as i've just said, for the ukranian army. well, there are also numerous strikes. i'm here by the russian military. there is a strikes that cause power and heating outages, roman can you give an update on the situation and the cranium capital after another night of these attacks? i am yes, earn some here and key of say that russia may be using some kind of a new tactics with i am drawn strikes nearly every day or every night i would say, because mostly their techs are come at night and earn some expect that may be the

russian army is trying to test the ukraine, an air defense which is or rather good or has become rather goods or since the west has supplied a modern am on modern systems including german iris t. so ukrainians managed to shut down some 2 thirds, or in some cases, 3 fourths of the russian drones. and some observers, he and he of believe may be russians will use more missiles in the coming days when maybe they expect that ukrainian grenze will have a less rockets or should them down at the situation with energy is relatively stable their, their work. cuz some of power shortage is hearing key of but in general, people are remain very resilient. they say they, they seem to take things as they come or they are preparing for the an orthodox christmas in the coming days. are you still here? he is. is he here music and, and people are in a jolly mood. it was

a sunny day here. and the winter is, has been rather warm. we have temperatures in ukraine, above 10 degrees celsius. so it's, it's not such a huge problem, or at least in, in these days, or during the, her now the, the 1st days of this year and going to rank of reporting from here, from, and thank you so much. you're up to date on dw news up next, close up joins a specialist avalanche teams in the austrian alps. i'm mary evans team from me and the entire news team. thanks for watching a.