so get ready for the brain a 40 to the answer to almost everything starts january 15th on d, w. ah ah, this is d w. sly from berlin. po, benedict, the 16th is laid to rest at the vatican. thousands the faithful gather for a funeral ceremony presided over by the pope francis. it's the 1st time in 2 centuries that a certain pope has conducted such rights for his predecessor also on the program.

mounting fears over a new fast spreading cove at 19 various. it's been detected and nearly 30 countries so far, and scientists say it's the most contagious version of coven 19 yet. and germany is interior minister blames young male immigrant for violence with fireworks on new year's eve. are the members of the government say it's too soon to jump to conclusions. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. but francis has presided over the funeral of his predecessor bow benedict tens of thousands gathered in saint peter's square in vatican city. for the service pope benedict died last week. at the age of 95, in 2013, he stunned the world by voluntarily stepping down due to ill health becoming the

1st pope and centuries to do so, the funeral concludes a unique arrangement in which 2 popes co existed in the vatican. ah, i historic moment at the end of the funeral mass. as pope frances blast the coffin of his predecessor, it was a ceremonial gesture filled with respect. pope frances has struggled to walk in recent months. but she took grace at 1st to stand in tribute to benedict from the early hours, the faithful lined up to pay their finer respects to the former pontiff or finter to any good. and he was a man of great fate and, and i want to follow his example in his kindness reserve and great faith with this . and i took an undefeated fellow. the 16th means um yeah,

solid rock for the church. was he through inspiration for the seminaries? my generation and we all read his works in seminary, the mourners. hell's from all over the world, including benedict nace of bavaria and southern germany. i think the benedict, the 50, i think benedict, the 16th was the most significant bavaria and german. probably the last 500 years from one of your auto renew at leona benedict was the 1st german in almost 500 years to leave the catholic church on the foreign dignitaries in the crowd included germany's president. despite the grandiose sessing, it was a simple ceremony benedict choosing an un unadorned wooden coffin, in which to be laid to rest that could miss the 2 out of the service. pope francis alluded to the former pon tips, religious work, and the sacrifices he made for his catholic faith. and as the ceremony g to

a close, close round to saint peter's square, a celebration of pancakes life and an anticipation of the eternal life. catholics believe he will now enjoy with god in heaven. did i because when a jack parrot was at the funeral mass and i asked him to give us his impressions of that service. the funeral of pope ameritas vanity, the 16th appears to be very much as the vatican had suggested, that it would be it with scaled back. still somber and very respectful to the former cove. there have been many people that have arrived from all over the world . i've spoken to nuns from tanza near from burgundy, from many people from all over the world. want one of those nuns that was tons from tons near said that she find it very sad, the funeral, but profoundly beautiful. a lot of the people that have turned up to this funeral

really have done so in a private capacity. we know that the german chancellor and allow shouts on the president frank vault of sy my were here, but also the belgian king felipe turned in attend up in a private capacity as did the former queen of spain, sophia, lots of people that we've been listening to and hearing today is speaking to on the streets, have a personal story to tell about. pope benedict. he was, it appears quite a hands on pope and previous in his, in his job as a cardinal and was very personally supportive to people. i think a lot of people felt a personal connection and decided to attend the funeral. here in rome to day, the coffin that was on display. the wooden coffin is being sealed with zinc and then put into another wooden coffin and will be moved then into the cross grotesque under the basilica of saint peter. here at the vatican city for the foreseeable future. to hurricane reporting there from rome and i am now and in the studio by

john barrick, who was covered the form of a benedict election back in 2540 w jon at bennett. it has requested a simple funeral. what was your impression of the ceremony today? there were, it was simple in, in comparison with kind of a sitting pope would experience. it was based on the same ceremony, but there were fewer of the trappings. ultimately it was a decision of po frances, what form it would take. he obviously went along with the wishes of benedict. it was basically the kind of recreate mass that a bishop would have been in any country. now for the past 10 years, there were 2 living popes in the vatican. how do you think better the death will change things? now for francis, i don't need to change very much actually because per benedict despite what people feared with a pope ameritas in the, in the vatican that there would be,

he would be a focus for opposition to the, to the new pope. in fact, benedict was very tactful and he remained very much in the background. but francis has been quietly introducing his own reform program making quite significant changes to the church. and i think he will to simply continue doing that. you will have to cover benedict election. i reported from the papal trips that he, that he made. would you have any personal memories? gosh, yes, many. i think when it comes to mind is in 2006. when he went to the united kingdom, the 1st state visit by united kingdom. i remember he's going to scotland. i was on that occasion travelling in the papal plane at the the privilege of seeing him really close up. and so, and the and, but when he got out of the car, very compact little car, hollywood palace was created by queen elizabeth. and it was he had some difficulty

getting out of the car. he was already quite old and frail, but daughter and the queen also going to smith was not the youngest woman any more . and she took him by the arm and helped him and the 2 of them. so dawdled a bit over the over the over the grass and she said to him more, it's very difficult with the small cars getting, getting out of the car. microphones were open and we generous heard it and it suddenly struck me. so thought i'd not had before that there was a strange similarity between the 2 of them. both people who were immensely loyal, immensely dedicated and disciplined, and we're prepared to sacrifice their lives and their person lives, relates to an ideal, into an institution. whatever you think of the monetary, or, or papacy and what strange constant coincidence is that they both died the same year. it is indeed now many will remember benedict as the pope who step down, but about his papacy, what stands out for you when i think one of the things,

it's not often recognizes that he was the 1st hope to really embrace the problem of the child abuse scandal, he introduced reforms in the church to try and prevent any future abuse of children . and he met with the victims of child abuse them in a very private way, not in a public way. and but we know from those victims that he listened with great compassion. he was, they said on occasion afterwards that he worked as a dozen to their stories. now, frances has praised benedict as a great communicator of faith. what did he mean by that? what he was, he was a fine theologian, it's extraordinary his career. he was, he was the child of a policeman from a small village in bavaria, and his mother was a cook. and at $31.00, he was a full professor. as a german university, he introduced

a theological magazine community which became one of the most important theological magazines in the world translation. in many languages, he wrote 25 scholarly works. even the archbishop of canterbury, who is of course not catholic but the head of the anglican communion set in his tribute to him. benedict was one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century. a religious affairs expert john barry math. thank you. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines, aid agencies say hospitals in the afghan capital kabul are overwhelmed by cases of respiratory illness. among children. cases of pneumonia have spiked in the winter months and doctors are having trouble treating patients. you to a lack of drugs and health workers. the deadlock in the us house of representatives of electing a speaker is entering its 3rd day with the house due to convene again soon. republican kevin mccarthy. last 6 consecutive vote on wednesday is offered key

concessions in an effort to win over a group of republican hardliners. germany has joined a growing list of countries to impose mandatory covered tests on travelers from china, which is facing the surgeon infections. the european union has recommended all its members states follow that policies starting monday. china has said the travel restrictions are discriminatory. outside china health experts are concerned about how quickly a new cobit variant is spreading. the micron sub variant x b b point $1.00 is currently spreading rapidly in the united states. official day to last week showed it to accounting for over 40 percent of cases that i scientists say it is the most contagious version of cove. 19, yet the world health organization says it has been detected in 28 other countries, mainly in europe. sub variant was 1st discovered in october

and earlier i spoke to dr. deep to go to sunny an expert on epidemiology and global health at queen mary university in london. and asked if we should be worried about this new parent. yes, we should be worried that he's live or today just suggest that this is a baby and that doesn't just escape immunity really well, perhaps the most in a basic very teen so far. but he's also able to infect cells better. so it binds more closely to the part of the cell, allowing the vice to and more, which means that it's also likely to be more transmissible. we're already seen back in the places when spreading. so for example, in new york, where this branch is already dominant, we have seen associated with a higher rate of hospitalizations. and what's really concerning is that this is now spreading and many other parts of the u. s. in parts of europe in the u. k. in canada, and it's by and i think going to be the vein that becomes dominant across europe in

a few weeks time to touch upon this, but how effective all the vaccines against it. so i'm going to say we only have the board tradition looking at the board. it looks like it needs vaccines and naturally unity. but even the bible didn't vaccine better than previous variance. what that means in the real world, of course, we don't know, you know, it's possible for example, the protection against infection is low, that protection against severe these is maintained. but of course, we want to know that until it spread to the extent that you know we have data. but in the meantime, we need to adopt the policy principle and use a vaccine approach vaccines and other measures to controls trends. now the on the conversion was very, very infectious about the illnesses were less serious. so can we expect to build a system become more serious now?

i think he answered that, as we don't know, it does seem to bind more to sales, which could be a marker for effective. it is a, potentially, it has a potential to be more serious, but again, it was on so that we're not going to have until we study, you know, hospitalizations and people are being infected now. but regardless of adrian, that's more transmissible and growing as rapidly as this is growing, can cause quite a bit of severe disease, even, you know, if per infection it doesn't increase the risk of severity. now what countermeasures can governments and health officials take to the curb, the spread of this period? so as i said, vaccine only approach is not sufficient. this is a variant that spreading very rapidly against the background of high vaccination, high immunity in the population. so that means measures like ventilation, air cleaning, wearing well fitting high quality mouse. that's a, b, 2 or, and 95 mass as well as reducing social contact indoors and, you know, testing before meeting people in isolating. if you test positive or not feeling

well, what we need is a multi layered approach because we cannot rely on a vaccine only approach, but also getting boosted if you are eligible, as many countries are offering right now. so can we expect more look down, span as well? i don't that. i don't, i doubt that they will be a need for downs, but we certainly need measures. as i said, this is, this is of a different day. and it's actually different to the early radiance of all my crime as on the card was to the 1st original rate. and so there is going to be a level of escape from vaccines. and new york, as i said, is a huge surgeon hospitalizations. so we can't expect that to happen. now the countries i'm, we need to prevented bi monthly. it measures by which i mean this vices a nation vaccination. all of these together will make a big difference of that. if you go to sunny,

expert on epidemiology and global house, thank you for sharing your expertise with us. new year's eve has become a pretty rowdy night here in berlin over the last years. but of the dozens of police and fire fighters were injured in deliberate and planned attacks involving fireworks. that's now increasing debate about who is to blame. the city's mayor is calling for a summit on how to deal with the youth violence, but the german interior minister suggested that failures and integration of migrants could be responsible. right. like see, in the heart of really the ushering in the new year escalated into st. violence in many cities across germany. as usual, berlin was one of the main hotspots, but the intensity of this years violence was described by police as far worse than in previous years. police officers were among those attack during the night, along with fire fighters, another members of the emergency services. one fire fire had to be hospitalized.

many others were injured. in berlin, 145 were rested in connection with the rights of those attained 45 german citizenship. and that turned the debate from the potential banum pyrotechnics into one about migration and integration. in a sweet germany's interior minister, nancy phaser said, we have a problem in major german cities with some young men with an immigrant background who despise our state. commit acts of violence, and it's very difficult to reach them with education and integration programs. the statement is said otts would then otherwise cautious approached by the german government village for victo, a north and course the debate about what happened on years eve. but it's not about the so called m aggression background on demand for ban on firecrackers in doug window when it's about as much more fundamental. this is about an attack on the

rule of law that it's thought other members of the governing coalition have warned, against jumping to conclusions. it's blowing mindful. we've never seen a phenomenon like this before. men's got at least not to this extent. i'm at home. and so of course i have a problem with response like this in the mean, it's hardly a just description. totally discussed. people of an immigrant background, attacking emergency workers and stuff in entities. i log i shot that english that the scobee finished understand. precedence of brilliance. no can district are not surprised that the violence flared up in their neighbourhood. he is this absalom. this part of berlin is the worst in these high rise buildings. i'm speechless. it's the same every year as well. they burn trash cans, set cars on fire or smash bus stops. to stella get cut, put up bunch of mussel will some do it because the heed the police some because i think it's fun most or angry because of cove. it's more for some people. it's in

a nature much i'm into it because it's waste of money for those who want to use fireworks, let them handle all my friends are into it like tomato might find his. it's also like and it's nice to lead the fan down again. it's kind of normal for berlin, bumping to loss is august muzzle. and this is gone to the mile and been berlin's mayor francisco, if i has called the summit against youth violence, it's a 1st attempt to find a solution to recurring problem. in other news, the british national weather service has confirmed that 2022 was the hottest here on record. in the u. k. they reported that the average temperature for the year was 10 degrees celsius. adding that human induce climate change was e commerce giant. amazon says it's cutting more than $18000.00 jobs. citing current economic uncertainty, and rapid hiring for the pandemic. some of the terminations will take place in

europe, according to amazon, which announced 10000 job cuts back in november. we're looking at the world of cinema now and 2023 looks set to be a boom year for hollywood sequels. keanu reeves reprising, his role as john wick, tom cruz back for another mission impossible, and a digitally bo talks. harrison ford started as young and old indiana jones. anyone looking for more fact and less fiction, less this? ah, one of the most hotly anticipated films of 2023 is oppenheimer, a world war to set drama about the us scientist whose team developed the 1st atomic bomb. we knew the world would not be to say in the wake of moscow's recent nuclear attack threats the topic could hardly be more timely. alongside keeley and murphy,

as oppenheimer director christopher nolan has assembled an all star cast, including matt damon, robert downey, junior, and emily blunt. but again, 2023 will be a year of hollywood sequels. none bigger than the 5th entry in the indiana jones franchise. harrison ford is back as the adventure prone archaeologist. those days in common got abs, abs mountain. the opto genario actor was digitally d age to appear as a younger with cracking in the, in several of the film percent new digital, botox was needed for keanu reeves in his 4th turn as the assassin john wiki, the movie i billed as the last chapter in the actual franchise, though reeves has signed on for

a cameo in the spin off ballerina and tom cruise is back, mission, impossible movie with the 60 year old start doing all his own stunts. with much of hollywood output will be sequels alongside mission impossible. we have new transformers, star wars, and endless marvel retread, coming a movie with a much lower budget than all those films, but much greater ambition is women talking trade. the latest from canadian writer director sarah polly was a hit with festival goers in toronto and rolls out on movie screens in january. it follows a group of women in a tight knit religious community grappling with his sexual abuse scandal. women talking is the latest post me to film, to show women taking back control of their bodies and destinies we liberated

ourselves. we will have to ask ourselves who we are. the film is 24 hours in the life of these women and the debate that they have. we will be forced to leave the colonies. if we do not forget these men, we cannot endure any more. and some, all of the biggest movies to watch out for a 2023 odd joint, but they let it's a culture department, david, just use every year. they're more sequels more franchise wise. so many sequel so many franchises. this is the trend that we've been observing now for. it feels like a decade. you're right. i think it comes down to a combination of good business and cowardice on the part of the studios. they really don't want to put a lot of money into things that they're not sure or a safe bet. and with these big franchises, you know, there's a captive audience. there's a very clear fan based. they know that it's going to get money. they're going to

get their money back. so i think that's basically it. this is the year that you're going to be able to see, scream 6 if you want to. so many sequels, but there is, there is one, the quote that i think is really worth taking a look at that we didn't have in that report and that's due in part 2. that's going to be coming out in november. we're going to have more timmy charlemagne, moore's and dia, more sans more spice is the drug in the movies called in this time we're going to see what really matters to him. is it the love of his life, or is it the fate of the universe? pretty tough decision to make. i think it's going to be even bigger than the 1st film by the way, just in terms of the scope of the story. but also at the box office. the 1st one made about $400000000.00, and that was during the pandemic. i think this one's going to be even bigger. so what films are you looking for that are not sequels. so there's, there's one film actually that came out last year officially, but it's coming to a theater near you as they say next month. it's called tar at starz, the wonderful cate blanchett. and it takes place here in bro, when she plays a,

an orchestra conductor, actually at the berlin philharmonic, one of the best symphony orchestras in the world. it's not that simple though. it's kind of a psycho drama. looks like everything in her world is turning upside down, co starring by the way, the wonderful nina hoss great german actress. and i think this is going to be a movie. we're going to be talking about a lot early next week at the golden globes. it's nominated for a whole slew of awards and i think as pretty good chance is another movie that sort of unlikely actually is barbie. i never thought i would say this, but i'm really looking forward to seeing the barbie movie. and the reason for that is the people who are behind it, a team of really in the movie darling's the directors credit girl wig, she covered it with her husband know a bound box. they do some really quirky movies that are weird stuff. this looks totally weird and i'm really here for it. i can't wait to see this and i never thought i would say that any last whole movie tips will this year. i think one of

the big things we're going to be talking about is francis ford coppola. the godfather director, he's 83 now and there's a project he's been wanting to make for 40 some years. he's finally doing it. it's called megalopolis. and the story behind that is new york city has been totally destroyed by disaster. and there's an obsessive architect played by adam driver was working to rebuild the city. this is a movie that he wanted to make so badly that he's putting a $120000000.00 of his own money into it. he wants, he wants us to be another epic movie that we're going to be talking about and watching for decades to come and going by him and his reputation. i think there's a good chance that that may happen already. very curious about that. one is david let is that. thank you david. and he watching t w. a news is a reminder of all the top stories. so francis has presided over a funeral,

miles for his predecessor benedict, the 16th at the vatican and rome, thousands of the faithful attended the historic re quit. rick van benedict has been entered in a simple wooden coffin in the crypt beneath, sent peaches. and that's it. from me and the news seem from our focus on europe is up next with a look at the top. refugees are being given help as they arrive at the italian city of tree gabelle for in berlin. for me of the team to work with

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