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Images of nature and climate change are projected onto St. Peter's Basilica to mark the opening of the Holy Year and the COP21 meetings. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Shanghai, Dec 31 (EFE/EPA).- Shanghai bade farewell to 2020 and welcomed the New Year with light show as people gathered at The Bund waterfront area to celebrate New Year's eve. (Camera: ALEX PLAVEVSKI).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE CELEBRATE NEW YEAR'S EVE AT THE BUND WATERFRONT AREA IN SHANGHAI, CHINA.
According to CNN, Pope Francis will not lead the Vatican's New Year's Eve and New Year's Day celebrations, because of sciatic pain. This is the first time the Pope has missed a New Year's Eve celebration, but it is not the first event he skipped. On February 27, 84 year-old Pope Francis, canceled a scheduled mass, due to what The Vatican press office called a "slight imposition," denying rumors that he had Covid. Pope Francis first shared that he had sciatica (herniation of spinal disk) during an inflight press conference during a 2013 trip to Brazil. He said, "Sciatica is very painful, very painful! I don't wish it on anyone!" The Pontiff has received treatments like massages and injections to help reduce his pain. The Pope will be replaced by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the College of Cardinals, for Thursday's New Year's Eve service. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin will host Mass on Friday. Pope Francis will still lead the Angelus prayer on New Year's Day.
A light show is held at the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the 130th anniversary of its construction. Built for the 1889 World's Fair, towering at 324 meters and weighing 7300 tons, the Eiffel Tower attracts nearly seven million visitors every year. IMAGES
With recent attacks in Paris and San Bernadino as a backdrop and amid tight security, Pope Francis was joined by his predecessor, the former Pope Benedict on Tuesday, in opening Roman Catholicism's Holy Year, with a call to set aside the "fear and dread" of the world. Mana Rabiee reports.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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