taking the plunge into rooms tiber river for decades italians have dived 15 meters down as the year kicks off this time around coronavirus restrictions kept the crowd small but one diver said their tradition sent a message people needed this year. got out you'll go to her it was courage because we are doing this as a message of recovery hope to get everything back to normality. in portugal it's a diff into the cold planting. some swear by the health benefits of cold water swimming with or without protective gear. family it's a good way to start the new year by keeping all the viruses away. it's a bonus this way we don't get sick of the. kind of. i i that may or may not be even further north this dutch beach saw more health obsessed people come out to take the waters the coronavirus kept many away but those who did keep their tradition were confident they were doing the right thing it's proven scientifically proven to improve your communities so it's good for a grown up time. besides the a legit health benefits what a way to beat those summer beach crowds. this is good news live from berli

for the faint of heart on new year's day italians dive off a bridge into the icy waters of the tiber river in the capital rome. the practice was started by an unemployed lifeguard who want to show off his diving skill in the hopes of getting work done. type of a check of the headlines here on al-jazeera more than $20000000.00 people in the u.s. have now tested positive for corona virus that's almost a quarter of the world's cases it comes in the government struggles to distribute vaccines fewer than 3000000 have been given the job has more from los angeles. here in southern california where hospitals or virtually overwhelmed with patients emergency rooms are crammed people are being treated in conference rooms and gift shops in the hospitals and one a prominent public health epidemiologist said we are in the midst of a viral tsunami the number of covert cases as reported by johns hopkins university passed 20000000 today in the united states since the beginning of the pandemic the u.k.'s reactivating emergency hospitals built early last year as the more infectious covert 900 variant drives

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taking the plunge into rooms tiber river for decades italians have dived 15 meters down as the year kicks off this time around coronavirus restrictions kept the crowd small but one diver said their tradition sent a message people needed this year. got out you'll go to your courage courage because we're doing this time as a message of recovery hope to get everything back to normality. in portugal it's a diff into the cold planting. some swear by the health benefits of cold water swimming with or without protective gear. family it's a good way to start the new year by keeping all the viruses away. it's a bonus this way we don't get sick. enough to come upon us but. that may or may not be even further north this dutch beach saw more health obsessed people come out to take the waters the coronavirus kept many away but those who did keep their tradition were confident they were doing the right thing it's proven scientifically proven to improve your community so it's good for a grown up dog. besides the alleged health benefits what a way to beat those summer beach crowds. and a reminder of the

souls, underdressed for winter temperatures, but perfectly suited for the yearly plunge into the tiber river in rome. in germany, shops and restaurants may be closed. but the thrill of sledding, that's something that can't be regulated. there is a saying that time heals all wounds. here's to a collective wish from the world, that 2021 is that remedy. zain asher, cnn, new york. >> okay. now, if the world can get past covid-19 in 2021, there could be renewed attention on some of the other big problems, like plastic pollution. some are working on it, now. lynda kinkade has more. >> reporter: plastic pollution, washing up on shores, around the world, no doncontinent left untouched. despite efforts to reduce plastic waste, the united nations predicts there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans, by 2050. one startup in budapest, hungary, is trying to change that. >> we saw plastic waste pollution as a very pertinent issue. so, we decided to try to combine biotechnology, and chemical engineering, to create a medium which can actually bring plastics back into the natural lifecycle, to which t

taking the plunge into rooms chilly tiber river for decades italians have dived 15 metres down as the year kicks off this time around coronavirus restrictions kept the crowd small but one diver said their tradition sent a message people needed this year. got out you'll go to your her courage because we are doing this dive as a message of recovery as i hope to get everything back to normality. in portugal it's a damn into the cold planting. some swear by the health benefits of cold water swimming with or without protective gear. cameras it's a good way to start the new year by keeping all the viruses away. it's a bonus this way we don't get sick. i that may or may not be even further north this speech some more health obsessed people come out to take the waters the coronavirus kept many away but those who did keep their tradition were confident they were doing the right thing it's proven scientifically proven to improve your communities are good for. besides the alleged health benefits what a way to beat those summer beach crowds. this is news live from berlin up next part 2 of our doc

for the faint of heart on new year's day italians dive off a bridge into the icy waters of the tiber river it was started by an unemployed lifeguard who was showing off his diving skills in the hopes of getting work as a stunt man since then italians have been braving the freezing temperatures to keep the tradition going all right it's time for us to keep the sports tradition going to here's for our thanks so much sammy liverpool manager you're in hog believes the english premier league shouldn't be suspended klopp wants games to continue despite a rising number of coronavirus cases a record number of 18 positives were recorded in the last round of league testing 3 matches have been called off this season due to coronavirus and sheffield united game at crystal palace on saturday is also in doubt. i think the competition go on but i'm not. because i have to get important as well because people want to watch it and we are in this case not our offices right if you want to usually lift isolated go to training ground and stuff like this so i think really we can carry on but i'm a specialist and

that's the traditional leap into the river tiber.y, but that was more of a jump. i think some of them do actually dive. anyway, you can see there is a rescue boat to pull them out, so this is obviously well organised. please don't dash out to your local river to try this! hello. the year may have changed, but the weather, not so much. it is still cold out there and will remain cold for the next few days. some showers and a mixture of sleet and snow and also some sunshine. in the satellite picture, you can see a lot of cloud that has been pushing its way southwards, which has been producing some rain with sleet and snow over high ground and that has been pushing across england and wales and will continue to do so through the rest of the day. some showers across eastern coasts of england into parts of northern and north—east scotland. some of these wintry on high ground, but even to quite low levels later in the day. not a bad end to the day in northern ireland, but it will turn chilly into the first part of the evening and then throug

that's the traditional leap into the river tiber. of them do actually dive. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @lvaughanjones. hello there. this cold weather isn't giving up anytime soon. it will stay for the weekend and most of next week. at least for the weekend there'll be quite a lot of sunshine around. mainly across western areas. it'll be cold and some further wintry showers, most of them across the eastern side of the country. the blue air mass indicates that cold air very much with us saturday. northerly winds pushing these showers into scotland, northern ireland and wales. plenty of them starting to go to the east coast of england. a few of them also pushing into the midlands. and there will be a covering of snow in places. but many places staying dry with the sunshine, though it will be cold. those showers start to spread a little bit further inland as we move through saturday night. further sleet and snow in places. probably the clearest of the skies in western scotland and northern ireland, so here the coldest to start sund