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In our news on Tuesday, FTX crypto exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded guilty to misleading investors and looting deposits, the political fallout in Russia continued after a Ukrainian missile attack on Saturday that killed dozens of Russian foot soldiers and Beijing warns it will retaliate against countries that require negative COVID testing effects for travelers from China.
Amna Nawaz:
In the other headlines of the day: The founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, pleaded guilty to deceiving investors and looting deposits.
Bankman-Fried arrived in New York federal court for his indictment after being extradited from the Bahamas. He remains on bail pending trial in October.
The political fallout extended following a Ukrainian missile strike on Saturday that killed dozens of Russian foot soldiers. In Scow, Russian nationalists blamed commanders for housing the infantrymen next to an ammunition depot.
Meanwhile, teams searched rubble from the attack in Makiivka, a town in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainians who lost strength in Russian attacks are relieved of bloodlessness as the New Year’s heatwave engulfs Europe. But winter warming is also fueling climate change considerations, with temperatures topping 65 degrees from Switzerland to Poland.
Sejal Karia of Independent Television News has our report.
Séjal Karia:
Winter turns out to disappear on the lower slopes of the Swiss Alps, slopes covered with the green of grass rather than the white of snow.
And when the white no longer falls, it’s time to do yours, those skiers who persist in the snow of the machines that recharge all the slopes and advance the season. But, in some parts of France, with snow absent, some effects were forced to close, as January’s extraordinary warm weather broke records across Europe, from Berlin to here in Bucharest, where other people were diving into outdoor pools, rather than the same old man trampling feet of snow.
One of January’s surprising maximum temperatures here in Warsaw, five degrees above the previous record.
Chris Brierley, scientist:
The record goes up degrees. That’s a lot. And it’s climate change that makes those events more frequent.
Séjal Karia:
For France, a year marked by heat waves ended with spring temperatures in the middle of winter. And scientists warn that this warming is probably more common.
Amna Nawaz:
At the Vatican today, another 70,000 mourners paid their respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a member of that steady stream of others marching through St. Peter’s Basilica. It was the moment of 3 days at the inauguration of Benedict XVI. He died Saturday at the age of 95.
Brazilian soccer legend Pele was buried in his hometown of Santos. A funeral mass was celebrated today at the stadium where he played most of his career. A procession then carried his coffin through the streets of the city to a cemetery for his personal burial. I was 82 when he died of colon cancer last week.
China warns that it will retaliate against countries that require negative COVID-19 verification effects for travelers from China. The United States, India and several European governments are among those enforcing verification requirements. But today in Beijing, the Foreign Ministry rejected the new restrictions.
Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry (through a translator):
The access restrictions followed by some countries targeting China have no clinical basis, and some exaggerated practices are even more unacceptable. We strongly oppose attempts to manipulate COVID-19 measures for political purposes and will take countermeasures based on the precept of reciprocity.
Amna Nawaz:
COVID infections in China have spread rapidly, with a new video showing Shanghai hospitals battered with patients needing care.
The country’s strict anti-COVID measures ended abruptly in December.
In this country, the number of young people eating marijuana-based treats has increased sharply as marijuana becomes legal in more and more places. On a basis, cases have more than 200 to more than 3,000 per year. These are children who have dinner: children under 6 eat sweets, cookies and chocolates containing marijuana.
And, on Wall Street, the new year started as it had ended last year, with stocks losing more ground. The Dow Jones trade average fell 11 numbers to close at 33136. The Nasdaq fell 79 números. la s
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