ah, ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from the e u countries debate kobe restrictions on travelers from china. it's lee and others say the testing requirements they've already put in place will only be effective if adopted e white airlines are criticizing what they call

a knee jerk reactions saying this won't stop the spread of cope. it also on the show political chaos in washington as republicans failed to unite behind a choice. the leader in the house of representatives. kevin mccarthy is blocked by his parties. hard right in 3 rounds of voting and europe. experience is record high when to temperatures of to last summer's heat waves parts of the continent including alpine ski resorts and now smashing winter recalls. class brazil beds a final farewell to pele corners. line the streets as his coffin passes through the city of santos. by the foot legend spent most of his life and where he has now been late to rest. ah, my mind, you can make it and thanks so much for us. european union officials are meeting to

day to coordinate a response to china's surge and covet 19 cases. and travelers arriving from china coming under scrutiny after the recent relaxation of the country's 0 coven policy. this has led to an explosive growth in cases a few you countries have already instituted testing requirements for new chinese arrivals at the move, which beijing is cooling, discriminatory? ah, shanghai hospital pushed to the brink. doctors working around the clock to save patients after the relaxation of the so called 0 corporate policy, led to a spike in corona, virus infections. yet even as hospitals strain, many chinese are heading abroad after years of not being allowed to travel stoking fears, that if a new variant were to emerge, there would be no containing it. in december half the passengers on 2 flights to

italy, we're later found to have covered italy started testing all arrivals from china. as more countries joined in china's foreign ministry pushed back both and what the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting china lack scientific basis . and some of these excessive practices are unacceptable. we are firmly opposed to attempt to manipulate the cova 19 measures for political purposes and will take counter measures. it's unclear just what counter measures are on the table. but the patchwork of requirements has led to confusion as well. he the thickest thank you though i'm waiting for my brother who has not been allowed to travel for 3 years when he is coming from china and didn't know anything about the testing. we had to tell him before he boarded to be careful because they were going to do a pin c i on arrival. i yes, that was how much i will act as long as he does that. i think it's been 3 years

since the corona virus started. it's trip around the world, and the end of the journey is still not in sight. it's more we can speak to dr. deep t good assoni, an expert on epidemiology and global health quinn, marion verse t in london. welcome to the w. many countries have now introduced, or i'll considering our restrictions on travelers from china. can you tell us, does it make sense to impose mandatory testing for people who are arriving from china? i think it's really important to surveilled of aliens that might be emerging on growing within china. this sort of ashy pre departure testing is unlikely to make a difference in terms of slowing the board of any new variant, unless there are also domestic measures in place. and essentially, it seems that there is we're targeting of lead about testing for china or for the country is where we know there are pretty concerning variance growing, for example, in the u. s. and in many parts of europe. and also there are very few domestic

measures, so we know that the departure jesse's don't wanna keep all variance in all cases out. so when they do enter domestically, what happens then there are no measures to prevent spread. so anything that comes and will spread rapidly within the community and the threat isn't just from china. i mean there are variants growing and becoming dominant and part of the world like the u. s. at a highly immune, evasive, and higher transmissible. so it makes no sense to have very patchy policies targeting some areas and not others. and when there are no domestic measures in place in many countries, if talks about variance about the the, the explosion in cases with 2 and a half weeks away from china's luna. new year's celebrations, which is peak travel season in the country. is that likely to see infection rates skyrocket? father? absolutely. i mean, anything that involves people socializing, coming into contact, give for a virus that you know, transmits to the air, pause as

a huge risk and with the level of contact and socializing scene in festivities around the lunar year. i mean, it's very important that people take precautions given where china is already. i mean, we don't have the full data that's coming out of china. but one would assume that you're seeing huge surgeon cases. and the risk of transmission with high levels of contacts would potentially make this even worse and increase the burden on, on health care services. yeah, i want to talk about these concerns that china is under reporting. it's covered death. how worried should we be about this? i mean, to me, that's potentially the most worrying part of this. the fact that we can rely on d to that's coming out of china at the moment and we don't know the level of pressure there is on health care. the level of spread that's happening. i mean, was, were there more transparency around this and more sort of information being shared by the government? i think it is a global crisis. and in a global crisis,

we need rapid sharing of information. and without that is very hard for us to sort of respond globally in a coordinated manner. and we don't know where the nest next risk is going to be. if we can't depend on countries to share data freely. so not enough information. we have a country of nearly one and a half 1000000 people living with covert. we know many people are refusing to be vaccinated and those who. ringback are vaccinations of the chinese vaccines that a lesson effective than the m r. n. a vaccines available in the west? what scenario all we heading towards here? or as you suggest? do we just have no idea what's what we're heading for? it's really concerning the state of affairs, so as you say, sign hvac is less effective than the ammonia vaccines and also update, particularly in the elderly population, the population that is most at risk. so for example, the above eighty's is very low, which is quite opposite to, you know, what you see in other countries. which means that the people who are most likely to

die from infection are least likely to be vaccinated. and that too, with a more inferior vaccine. so i think we are where we're heading to words, given that the government doesn't seem to have planned for this by putting in things like better air quality, high grade, massive population level, you know, mass testing, isolation. i think we're heading towards huge pressure on health care services and mass death, but not just that even the long term effects of colbert, in terms of post call read complications and heart disease, stroke, clotting, et cetera, will be found for a very, very long period in time and yet to me there's a huge criticism of the chinese government in terms of the m. r new vaccines. but i also want to point out that the west did not support waivers of licensing up or of patents on em. are new vaccines, which has limited the access to the one middle income countries. so that's something that needs to be revisited. and the entire blame cannot be laid at the hands of the chinese government. but also,

the hoarding of vaccines are an opposition to beat and rebus by the west. dr. zip to go to sony expert on epidemiology and global health. we'll have to leave it there, but thank you so much. really interesting. and the us house of representatives is in historic gridlock after its 1st day under republic rule. todd, right lawmakers have blocked the election of the majority leader by refusing to vote for the front runner. this is usually a formality senior republican, kevin mccarthy had been tipped for the post at disagreements with members of his party's far right. pushed them to back of the candidates. now it's the 1st time in a 100 years that the leadership vote has failed. in the 1st round, it was a night of pandemonium. on the floor of the us house of representatives, after republican kevin mccarthy failed to win the $218.00 votes needed to be

elected speaker of the house. there was shock in the chamber after the nominee failed to win for the 1st time in a century that annabel kevin mccarthy, of the state of california has received 203 o. b republican front runner is seeking to take over from democrat nancy pelosi after his party when a majority in the november mid term elections look at today is the day i wanted to have, you know, i think there was a lot of things we want to do we want to repeal 87000 iris just want to set up a number investigation. going to want to notice the different committee here. we have actually on the board, linda transfer. but if we're able to work out our differences and take this time to

only be strongly leucon push to think what ms. for without a speaker at the house, new members are unable to be sworn in on business isn't able to proceed sad day for the house of representatives as an institution. sad day. for the moxy, it's a sad day for the american people. house democrats are unified, ready, willing, and able to get to work on behalf of everyday americans . voting has been postponed until wednesday, but neither mccarthy, all the voting against him. the p. ready to back down. lucas is a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in the u. k. and i asked him earlier if this is in fact a sad day for democracy or simply a legal and democratic process that's playing out here in the house. now it's

a sign that american democracy is under strain, but it's been unrestrained for years, not just because of the hard, right, republicans in the house. but of course, because of the trump, this continue to back donald trump. denial of the 2020 election, who continued to try to bury any accountability over the capital attack, which occurred almost exactly 2 years ago. 18 of the 20 republicans who objected to killing mccarthy as how speaker last night also happened to be election deniers. so this is assigned, there is a faction within the united states, which has, is committed not just to stop the democrats were stopping aloft, is almost committed to stopping the system from working. and that will be a challenge, of course, for the, by the administration to continue to govern, which it will do. but i think more importantly, and immediately it's a challenge for the republican party. we does the republican party really want to

hold it so hostage to the hard white wing when they appear not to be willing to compromise for the greater good of the american people, economically or socially, as well as political. what does this mean to the republicans party parties ability to, to run the house and, and carry out it's, it's, it's cool functions. well, the republican party house can't run. i mean, let's just be very honest here that what you have because of this division between a majority of republicans who, you know, maybe conservative actually want to, you know, government to function and this minority that are trying to tear it all down. nothing gets done as your correspondent noted. you can't even swear if 135 representatives until speaker his name. what does it mean for the republican party beyond that? well, that's a big question. it's a big question. for example, for the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell, who will appear today alongside the democratic president joe biden,

as they announce a spending package for mcdonalds, home state of kentucky. it is a challenge for republicans outside of washington. how long do you want to listen to attack media, to listen to attack social media, to carry out fake investigations with our supposed deep state plaudits? donald trump, how long do you want to act like children who are squabbling? when we need adults in the room to try to repair america again after the pandemic, and after the capital attorney, can i ask you is kevin mccarthy likely to eventually yet the support he needs? not at this point. i mean, the question is how much, how long does eventually take we're going to go through a whole series today, which will repeat what we saw yesterday. there will be more votes for right now. we are in a stalemate either. mccarthy gives way, for example, for his deputy steve gall lease. or are those 20 hard right,

republicans give way and right now neither side is showing any signs of dr. scott lucas from the university of birmingham in the u. k. thank you so much for your time. thank you. ok, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. hope francis has used his weekly audience to protect praise his predecessor benedict as a great communicator of the roman catholic faith. frances is due to preside over the form up hope vented its funeral mass at the vatican on thursday. thousands of mourners continued to pay their final respects ahead of the service men, maurice marking 75 years of independence from britain with the military parade and mass pardons. of more than $7000.00 prisoners, it's not clear whether this will include people jailed as part of a crackdown on descent. the country's military leader also outlined clowns for elections this year. ex crypto boss, sand bank, and fried, has pleaded not guilty to u. s. criminal fraud charges. the 3rd year old former digital currency billionaire

is accused of choosing investors and looting customer deposits on his crypto currency trading platform. f t x. the kremlin has revised upwards the death toll from a ukrainian asked right on a russian military barracks from 63 up to 89. he says, the real figure is, in fact, in the hundreds is thought to be the deadliest single attack by ukraine against to russian target. and it has fueled domestic criticism against russia's army commanders. moscow says the unauthorized use of mobile phones by its soldiers allowed ukraine to pinpoint their like location. ah, russian crowns gather in somber ceremony in the city of samara to mourn soldiers killed and ukraine. people who lived here or among those who died in a new year's eve forming in the cave cur. so that is we get to honor the memory of

all dead soldiers of the special military operation. we get there because it's hard for everyone with when it's hard, we should be together, which mr. huge piles of rubble are all that remains from the bombing. now, russian nationalists and some lawmakers, a demanding punishment for commanders, they say ignored dangers. some reports, claim soldiers were located next to a munitions depot which exploded in the strike. others say people had been able to use the russian mobile phones, giving away their location to ukrainian forces. the strike has not flowed russia's own shelling of ukraine. it's defense ministry, claiming responsibility for fresh attacks and the de nits region. one of them destroyed this ice rank, which local se was operating as

a humanitarian warehouse. as a result of 3 hits an ice rink and the center of town was damaged, as well as parts of the residential and industrial sector. reserve ukrainian authorities report that one person was killed and another was injured in the strikes. our number of european countries are recording record, high january temperatures, as unseasonably, warm weather sweeps across the continent. poland was one of 9 countries to set new national records. seeing temperatures reached 19 degrees celsius on new year's day . the romanian capital, bucharest, felt like spring with the moments as hissing 20 degrees. but the balmy conditions have caused havoc in the winter tourism industry with ski resorts struggling with a lack of snow. now scientists are warning that this extreme weather will continue

if drastic measures on introduced to stop global warming the w's climate report. a tim schoenberg has this outlook at the climate in the year ahead. devastating floods, droughts, apocalyptic storms, and rising sea levels. the past year in the u. s. pakistan, italy, and the horn of africa was just the beginning. the scientists are able to give an attribution very quickly. back to sun flood. they gave an attribution 50 percent more, a flood because of human induced limits, change the hurricane. ian that had florida, they said 30 percent more flooding rainfall because of climate change. okay, so we don't have the climate change element to all of these disasters is law 0, climate change disaster left any more the energy crisis fueled by the russian

invasion of ukraine will continue to play a major role in terms of how quickly countries reduce their emissions in the long run, there are 2 main developments, the fastest, the exploration of new gas and oil fields. new pipelines, refineries and l. n. g terminals are being built. so nations no longer have to depend on russian fossil fuels. the 2nd and even bigger trend, major investments in solar and wind power and hydrogen capacities, particularly in the u. s. e. u, china, and india. everybody always understood that banking on cheese gas is not a good idea when needs to have a different plan. and the plan is to save energy and to install more renewable energy. so when you have 2 competing trends, and the main question for me is which one wins? one important step forward that we may see in 2023 is a deal between the g 7 countries and india along the lines of an agreement made with south africa last year. under the just transition partnership. the us,

germany, france, the e u and the u. ki agreed to provide south africa with their engine financing to speed up its cold face. our plans a deal of this kind with the world's 5th largest economy. india would accelerate its switch to renewables and potentially represent a big move towards climate justice and the curbing of global warming. and if a data entry which has 5 times bigger economy, what a much it sort of i serve in a new padded aim of claim discussions which can actually keep up with a b as needed. the next united nations climate conference call 20 it is due to take place in the united arab emirates at the end of the year, scientists agree that we cannot afford to miss any more opportunities when it comes to stopping climate change every year counts. and the w environment reports lewis osborne joins me now to tell us more about all of this. there is, tell us what can we expect in 2023. and is it really all doom and gloom?

well, as we've already seen it, the temperatures are written record highs already this year. but that is really a foreshadowing of what's coming. you know, we're looking at more floods again, potentially more intense stores with everything related to this climate change. but it's not all doom and gloom. ah, luckily, we have some hope in the form of the president of brazil. we've got a new president there now. who will be looking to protect the amazon in a way that wasn't of before. and he's talking about dear 0 deforestation by 2030. and also, you know, with the war in ukraine that the energy crisis will continue. and as bad as that is, it's pushing us further towards renewable energy, which is a positive. so there's, there's bad and good news, but in a given, if all of this does happen, if we do move more towards renewables, will it be enough to, to reduce our emissions and, and really pull us back from,

from the bring and not yet definitely, i mean, emissions reached record levels in 2022 and that is likely to continue this year. and even if we could cut the emissions as much as they need to be cut, there is still the issue that the carbon has already in the atmosphere and it's causing that warning warming regardless. so we really need to, or humanity needs to stop pumping covenant to the atmosphere, to, to stop the accumulation, continuing and, and on that note, i mean with it, we've seen climate activism. and in the past few months, it's really been a step up from what we've seen before. i mean, are we likely to see more people staging more radical demonstrations just to have their voices heard? well, interestingly, extinction. rebellion has said that it's pulling back from that kind of radical demonstration. they want to get more people involved and to stop people pulling away because of this radicalism. but other groups of that that they still want the

attention to be felt and they're willing to take higher fines, detention to make sure that that message gets out there. i'm so i think that we will still see a combination those protests, normal, traditional demonstrations and then maybe the kind of actions we saw with the bangle paintings for example, last year. which was yeah, which, i mean some people were really against that one. they but it certainly does attract attention. i guess that's the point. all right, and are it reported to his osborne? thank you so much as to prevail now, which has been an emotional farewell to football legend, pele. the star striker was laid to rest in his home city santos, and cued for hours to pay their respects. ah, emotions were running high as hundreds of thousands of people gathered to see the procession of police coughing through the city. oh, the 3 time world cup winner died on thursday. at the age of 82

the world owes a lot to pillay, especially the dignity of a man that was born poor black love in a country where he prejudiced a still high and played it. not that this affect him. he knew how to be politely shaped the best and the most humble midmoor, i'm sorry, said. after a few people packed the streets, standing on rooftops and leaning from balconies to get a glimpse of the brazilian icon. the procession came to a halt when it passed the house where his 100 year old mother still lives. it was a day of mourning for the men brazilians called our king, but for many, it was a moment to celebrate him to you. polite mckinney represents a lot because since i was a kid, i saw him and i was very moved. it's pure emotion to day. my son and we are here at his funeral and you can see that the whole city has stopped to use it. the whole

world has startled the puerto because the pet accidental mark that he, that is so pele, arguably, the world's greatest ever football player was laid to rest in a private ceremony at this most, a liam in his hometown. he has a quick reminder for you of the top stories we are following you nations are discussing calls to coordinate coven testing rules. travelers from china, amid the surge of infections in the world's most populous nation making says the entry cubs being imposed by some countries against that citizens are unreasonable. the china itself remains closed to foreign tourists and us republicans have failed to unite behind the leader in the house of representatives paralyzing the chamber. at the start of the new session, moderate republican kevin mccarthy was blocks in 3 rounds of voting by hard right. members of his own policy is the 1st time in

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