jack parrot, thank you so much. thank you. and we continue our special coverage show off this event to bringing you a live pictures here from a st. peter's square in the vatican in rome, where a spokesman has announced the death of benedict the 16th. the former pope benedict resigned as head of the catholic church in 2013, citing his declining health and asked was just mentioned to this is a unique situation as benedict as the former pope. and so it is unclear exactly what protocols will now follow his death. ah, we will take our we will look back and to keep an eye on or will, i should take a moment and look back at the former popes life and teachers square in rome, april 2005. got the name that's in, get it. joseph rat. singer is elected pope benedict. the 16th is in yodi, cardinelli, unavailable and cardinals have chosen me a simple and humble worker in the vineyard of the lord. senor. the new polk from germany will make history. but leave a troublesome legacy. joseph rat, singer was born in bavaria in 1927. he was the youn

thank you so much for that update that is at jack parrot for us in rome. really appreciate at well 2022 is slowly drawing to a close and a new year lies a had a good time to reflect on the good and the bad of the year. gone by. and for some that means turning the page on unpleasant memories. that is exactly what people have been doing at the annual good riddance. event in new york time square here with dance union to 20. 23. after shredding trashing and bashing 2022. for the people here this year has been one to for guess. they lined up to write down all the bad things they wanted to say. good riddance to in 2022. they range from poverty to single use plastics. a moment of catharsis, and an opportunity to look forward. so in 2023, i'm trying to get rid of a lot of doubt that i had in 2022. i just enjoy life more. you know, it's been very, it's been a very negative couple years. i hope that 2023 boards in scope have gone down, though it will be better and so woman, it was an opportunity to celebrate simply being alive. but this was my hand. her mask that i

presidents of the european parliament while the less cars over to brussels and speak to dolly as jack parrot said, jack, what do we know about this investigation? will it will started with a couple of raids across the city about 16 locations across brussels. and indeed them, we started to understand that it was happening in the european $600000.00 euros in cash. and other gifts as part of these raids and the belgium by prosecutors is saying simply that this money must be explained. bolger media is widely reporting and the, the greek press is widely reporting that the gulf states that everybody's, that is that the authorities we're talking about is qatar. and that clearly has strong implications around the world cup, being held there at the moment. and what more do we know about eva kylie in particular, and her dealings with that with gulf states? yeah, i mean the, the problem for her is just about a month ago, she was stood in the european parliament plenary and the sort of main high since tries bag singing the praises of the controller estate saying that their human rights record was much b

however, he w jack parrot has been visiting a company in paris that says it has a solution, tons heights, it's also what's on the wheel that kind. if we want to reduce air pollution, breaking releases tiny particles which get into our lungs at a hugely detrimental to health. it's why this french company based here in paris delano technologies, has developed a way of cutting grooves into the brake pads through which they can suck particle matter and store it in filters. it was find it in 2012 after christoph rocca, sarah saw heavy residue on his car, rims the employee, 17 people. the product isn't on the road just yet, but it's expected to bring in major licensing revenues as it can be adapted to all cause that welcoming the fact that the new you proposals, the car emissions finally includes a demand for the reduction in what comes off the brakes and tires, but they say it should go further. the regulation mentioned one figure which is the maximum which could be released by brakes of a vehicle, which is 7 be ram packet of mentors. anyway, today with the technology, with all technology and

w correspondent jack parrot in brussels. well, we know that the content from the guitar reside that they are investigating on their side. i have source is close to that. who have told me that actually that meeting that we heard about with the labor minister, that the labor minister himself is being looked into and also the, the, the category ambassadors, the european union as one might expect. i've also been doing some digging through some european parliament vote some find that a vote in the leib leiber committee is called, which is like the legal affairs committee that ava kylie on the 1st of december turned up to a vote that was related to e. d. u visa liberalization for qatar and voted in favor of allowing that liberalization processed to move forward. she's not a member of that committee. so on top of that speech that she made in the parliament that appeared there appears to be a growing weight of sort of public evidence coming out against her. it is important to say that the belgian authorities are investigating this h

and a devilish correspondent jack parrot has been following this incredible story for his hijack and corruption charges against members of the you parliament. with a day now to reflect on these words that this situation has any, the shock worn off, not at all. i think it's giving ever deeper to be honest with you. we've heard from the belgian prosecutor the authority saying that for people of the 6 that they've arrested hadn't i been charged one of them. boucher media reporting is eva kylie, another. her former partner, also another her current partner. sorry. another is a former italian m e p. who's now the head of a human rights. oh and geo here in the city and another head of an and geo as well . the, the sort of web of this corruption scandal is actually growing of larger. and we also know that police rated another house of another m e p, which boucher media is bought. reporting to be mark caribella, who is also a socialist within the socialist and democrats group within the european parliament . now we've been doing a bit of digging at the d. w over the last couple of days. and

our corresponded jack parrot in brussels, told me why we understand that eva kylie. actually didn't turn up at the court today. that's been officially confirmed by the belgium prosecutors. the understanding is that she requested a delay to her pre trial hearing and the instead it will happen on the 22nd of december. her lawyer, however, said that it was because there was a strike in the prison and a miscommunication between the prison and the prosecutor's office. and then she couldn't get taken to the court today. what we've heard, we've had to confirm the antonia pan, very the former italian ne p, who's involved in the scandal, the, who's the head of a, an geo who fight impunity, which is sort of the central n j that's involved in this case that he's remaining in detention as is eva, kylie's boyfriend, her partner with him. she has a child, francesco georgie, another man who is linked in the case that shows an office. he's the boss of another n g a that shows an office with fight in impunity. he's been released on the tag, so he's got an electric tag on his, on his

correspondent jack parrot told me what ah, will the hearing for eva, kylie has been postponed. the understanding is from her lawyer that there was a problem with strikes of prison staff in the prison on the outskirts of belgium, and then a misunderstanding between the prison and prosecutors, which meant that she wasn't transferred here to the court in order to join this hearing as was planned, the other 3 men in this case did attend the hearing. that's antonia perry, a former italian, emmy, p, francesco georgie, who is the partner of eva, kylie, and nichol. if he gets hello monica, who is the head of an end geo, that shes an office, with the angio at the center of this scandal, which is crew fight. impunity was the other 2 men. i worked for an antonio pont panzarella leads. they were here in the court. we do not know exactly what happened in the 2 in our half hour pre trial hearing today. the understanding beforehand was that they would be read the charges that the defense and prosecution lawyers would exchange that, that, that all 4 of them, although we know wouldn't intend to

as you think that you really couldn't make it up, could you as the dummy is jack parrot reporting from brussels? ok, let's take a look now at some of the other stories that making headlines around the world today. british authorities say 4 people have died after a small migrant boat ran into difficulties in freezing temperatures. off the south east coast of england, dozens more have been rescued with a search operation. ongoing migrants frequently try to cross from france by boat in order to claim asylum in britain. in fiji votes be encountered after a general election, prime minister frank by name mariama is seeking a further term in office. he came to power in a coup in 2006, and has since been re elected twice. fiji is strategically situated in the pacific with both china and the united states, competing for influence. and you, as president joe biden has signed into law, a bill, granting federal protection for same sex marriages, same sex unions have been legal nationwide in the us since the supreme court decision in 2015. this new bill cements the protection of these rights on the

and we're going to bring you now straight to rome to our correspondent jack parrot was standing by jack, what is the situation there at the vatican? what we're seeing now, just in the last half an hour or so, a few more people starting to arrive, dinah st. peter's square, probably a few more than that has been over the last few days. but this has been a couple of days now where the vatican and indeed roman catholic, faithful, happy braced for the news that we got this morning from the holy c press office that told us that with sorrow they said hope ameritas benedict had died at 934 this morning in the matter ecclesial monastery within the vatican where he's been living ever since. he resigned his position that this was relatively expected in the sense that po frances on wednesday during a generally general general audience. i asked the people that to pray for the former pope who he said was very sick. in the following days, we've had a note side of african saying that his condition had stabilized that he was awake and lucy's. but as i say, it appears that the form of hope died this morn