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adrien brown, al jazeera, beijing. >> rescuers have dug out the first body from the massive landslideare searching for survivors in a race against time. eighty people are still missing after a giant mudslide smashed into buildings, burying them. rob mcbride reports. >> the rescue teams say it is a race against time, as the hours tick by, hopes fade for those missing. some eyewitnesses say the number of victims could be much higher than the official estimate, with reports of whole families swept away, leaving no one to report them lost. >> after verification on december 22, 76 people in total are still missing, of whom 51 are male and 25 female, 73 people's identities have been verified among the 76. >> as the scale of this tragedy becomes clear, so, too, does the apparent eagerness to limit reporting. it hasn't stopped media in mainland china asking tough questions, like why this site was still operating months after told to close down. >> this tragedy raised wider concerns about safety standards as other sites around the country which have sprung up to contain the massive soil waste

adrien brown, al jazeera, beijing. >> south africa has a new finance minister. the third one in less than a week. on wednesday, president jacob zoom in a sacked nene and sent stocks tumbling. he replaced him with a relative unknown. due to public pressure, zuma has been forced to replace him with another who held a position before. we have more from johannesburg. >> we've seen a steady recovery in the last 24 hours. that's immediately after the announcement was made that there would be a new finance minister who served in that position from 2009 to 2014. they say capable hands, he has the history, he has the political standing, and the experience to at least chart a way forward to see increasing more gains as well as stabilizing the economy and also reassuring investors that a saw the africa will be ok. this is of course just shortly after south africa narrowly missed the downgrading to junk status. economists are worried, saying they will wait to see what happens in the new year. president zuma has seen a significant amount of criticism in his presidency and th

adrien brown has the story. >> flying into a city that feels under siege, and where the enemy is everywheres particles in the air have reached dangerous levels. such pollution is not rare, but the government's response was, although it didn't go far enough for some. >> to wear a mask or not in a personal choice, but i think the government should have more control on the pollution instead of making us take the responsibility. >> i had to can sell my football class because of the smog. >> the m are unprecedented, schools advised to close, work halted at thousands of construction sites, cars are now restricted from roads on alternate days depending on their odd or even license plate numbers. >> the pollution is serious, but not nearly as bad as this time last week when the government issued an orange alert, the second highest of its four tier warning system leading some to wonder why a red alert's been issued now. >> but those often critical of the government are now applauding. >> this is the first time we saw a red alert and it's a sign of a different attitude that they really want to solve