In a statement released on Tuesday, the minister for emergency management, Kieran McAnulty, said that this cyclone had caused a lot of damage and that a National declaration was needed to help those who were hurt.

“This is a weather event that has never happened before, and it is having big effects on a lot of the North Island,” McAnulty said.

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Only twice before has a National State of Emergency been declared: after the 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch in 2011 and at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Gabrielle was sitting over some small islands 100 km northeast of Auckland, but she was now moving southwest. MetService, a weather service, said that Auckland had seen the worst of the rain, but that it would start to get worse further south.

The cyclone brought heavy rain, flooding, and strong winds to the North Island. Many beach settlements had to be evacuated because of this. All over the North Island, places for people to go have been set up. Many people don’t have power, roads are shut down, and some towns are completely cut off.

Local news outlets have pictures of people sitting on top of buildings in floodwaters, houses at the bottom of hills after landslides, and roads that are underwater.

New Zealand fire and emergency services have confirmed that a volunteer firefighter is still inside a house that slid down a hill in a beach town near Auckland. A second firefighter was found and taken to the hospital, where he is in critical condition.

A New Zealand navy ship is on its way to a yacht off the east coast of the country that turned on its emergency beacon this morning.

Rachel Kelleher, Deputy Controller of Auckland Emergency Management, said on Tuesday that this has been and will continue to be a serious and important event for our area. “Stay informed and look out for each other,” she said.

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After these countries, the second number is New Zealand, where the New Year is welcomed about an hour later. On Saturday, the people here welcomed the New Year with great enthusiasm. It was celebrated by bursting crackers.

Celebration starts here from 31 December
New Year celebrations begin in Samoa, Tonga and Kiribati on December 31 at 3.30 pm Indian time. After this New Zealand New Year is celebrated at 3:45 minutes.

As the first city in the world to welcome the new year, Auckland New Zealand will again lead the world's celebrations.
Happy new year 2023 🇳🇿🎊🎇🎆🎉 pic.twitter.com/VZvr939lHJ

— Abdur Rahman (@Abdur_RahmanAb) December 31, 2022

Celebration takes place in some other parts of New Zealand at 4.30 pm. After this, at 5:30 pm, apart from a small area of Russia, the New Year is welcomed at seven other locations.

Celebration here from 7:30
Celebrations start at 7.30 pm on January 31 in Australia, 8.30 pm in Japan, South Korea, 9.30 pm in China, Philippines and 12 pm in Indonesia, Thailand.

New year celebration in other countries including India
New Year is celebrated in Myanmar from 11 pm, Bangladesh at 11:30 am, Nepal at 11:45 am and India and Sri Lanka at exactly 12 pm. The new year is welcomed in Pakistan at one o’clock in the night. Apart from this, on January 1, New Year is celebrated in America from 11:30 am.

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Looking back on her last five years as New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern said that during this period China’s attitude in the region has undoubtedly become more aggressive than before. He also cautioned that building relationships with smaller Pacific countries should not become a game of trying to dominate the other. Ardern said in a joint interview with The Associated Press and the Australian Associated Press that China has changed in recent years under the leadership of President Xi Jinping.

He said, I think if I look at the region from a little distance, one of the changes that we have seen in our region is that we see a more aggressive China. Ardern said, there would be many reasons for this. Its integration into the regional economy, the development of China, the development of its middle class. There is a whole series of such reasons. He said, you have seen a more assertive approach on many different issues and relations. So this change has undoubtedly happened during my tenure.

China’s actions in the Pacific Ocean
China made some bold geopolitical moves in the Pacific this year. It signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands and then tried unsuccessfully to get 10 Pacific countries to sign a comprehensive agreement covering everything from security to fisheries. The moves have alarmed some Pacific countries and Western democracies, including the US, but Ardern dismissed criticism that New Zealand had not made a substantial presence this year.

We are like a family – Ardern
Ardern said, our relationship in the Pacific region is family because we are like a family, we are part of the Pacific. He said that these relationships have been built at the community level. Ardern said that we have to be really careful about our relations that building relations with other Pacific countries should not become an attempt to dominate the other.

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