lost and thousands of cruise jobs, the threatened, the stakes then for the cruise line industry couldn't be higher. these initial cruises need to operate without a hitch, potentially problematic, given that most passengers are older. nevertheless, tourists are keen to get back to see safely and cruise line giants khan, survive without them. the galaxy, al jazeera miami, florida. ah, it's help us the hour and these other headlines, indonesia has recorded its highest daily increasing cove in 1900 cases with 21000 new infections registered on saturday, as well as 358 bits of the night. indonesia has the highest number of infections and fatalities in se, asia, over 2000000 people have contract to the virus. and millions of people in and around australia, the largest city, sidney, have been ordered into a 2 week lockdown the area seeing a fast growing cluster of the,

the infectious delta variance, which was 1st identified in india. you zealand has suspended its travel bubble with australia. the several days, and rushes reported to the highest daily dest whole of the year. a spike in infections has led to new restrictions in some regions, or than 21000 new cases registered in the last 24 hours. which is more than double what was reported at the beginning of the month. and other headlines, 3 aid workers from doctors without borders have been killed in ethiopia, tig, i region. their bodies were found near their vehicle on friday. the group included a spanish national along with 2 of very few of your colleagues. at these 128 workers have been killed in today since the fighting broke out in november rescue cruise said the prospect of finding survivors from a partially collapsed apartment. building near miami are diminishing by the hour. for people are known to have died when the collapse happened on thursday, but a 159 still and accounted for. from us police officer derek servants been sentenced

to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of george floyd. the judge said shogun abused his power while in a position of trust on forissi. here he was president joe biden and get promised afghanistan's leader sustain support as he accelerates the withdrawal of american troops fight and hosted a shotgun at the white house. he insists the u. s is committed to assisting afghanistan, which is facing increased violence from the taliban. a members of iraq's popular mobilization forces have held rally in deanna province. berella organization of sheer power military groups had been blocked from earlier or from holding early a protests. in may, the government arrested a leader of a p. m. f group in amber province before releasing him shortly afterwards without charge that in my lot for today, thanks for company kim will take you through the next few hours of news on al jazeera. that will begin after the st. china will mark the 100 anniversary of the

founding of the communist party with president segan king leading celebration. but it comes at a time when relations with the west on the increasing strain and the g 7 countries looking for counter china is growing engine around the world. follow all the detailed analysis on. i'll just use the i am from the okay. bringing you the bonus edition of the stream. i like to think of it as the directors caught of never before seen conversations and must see again, tv coming up on take you behind the scenes of a recent stream episode about israel and palestine done by system. i'm filter commentary and what does american power look like? in his book, sorry for the war journalist and photographer peter van mill. she has 2 decades of photograph documenting the impact of the u. s. military at home. and board. be sure to stay until the very end of the show pieces pictures, a striking net start,

and an update on the delta variance of covey. 19 it has been detected in more than 80 countries, and it continues to mutate as it spreads his world health organizations. dr. maria van code has, with more, this delta variant is a dangerous variance. this far as covey to virus and it's natural form. it's in its ancestral form. it's dangerous to begin with. and any variant that has mutations or a constellation of mutation that has increased christmas ability that has the possibility of causing increased rates of hospitalization. we don't yet have any indication of increased severity, but increased transmission means that more people can be infected quicker. and if you have systems that are overwhelmed to begin with and you have more cases that are coming, that are needing a hospital bed, your health care system which is already overburdened, is going to be even further overburden. and that can lead to more death that can lead to many more problems that society are facing. so this is

a dangerous virus to begin with and i'm more transmissible. one makes our control measures that much more challenging. and that's what we're worried about. we're worried about 18 months into a pandemic. the world is exhausted. i'm exhausted, you're exhausting what it's like. we're running a marathon and a full sprint on uneven terrain, through a very dark tunnel. and now we have these twists and turns, and it's something that we expect, because the more the virus circulates, the more has a chance to mutate. so this is convergent evolution. this is what is expected. but this makes our job all of us because every single one of us around the world has a role to play that much harder. but we can still do this. we can still in this if it's a delta vary, that means that way for variance that we know of all the others out there, dot maria that we should be concerned about. you said that if it's a natural part of a, of a virus, it's going to be more we might even run out to greek out was that who knows?

we will, we will probably run out of the greek alphabet so we will have more letters that will be there. but keep in mind, these are there are for variance of concern the alpha beta gamma delta delta varied in the one that's most concerning right now because it has even more, it's more transmissible than the alpha variant. that be 117, we have 6 or 7 variance for the interest that we are tracking at the global level. some of these variance of interest may become variance of concern, which means they have demonstrated increase the verity or trans miss ability. but some of them may fall off of our lift. we may follow them for some time and they may turn out to be not as i hate to use the word concerning because they're also turning. but we have a global system in place. this is what we want people to know about out there is that as the virus changes, we're working with scientists all over the world. all. and i mean all over the world, not just in high income countries, but high and low income countries to track the variance, to improve genetic sequencing. so that we have better eyes and ears about which

mutations are out there. what is out there. and we have a system in place to assess these mutations. not all of them are important. some of them do not, you know, can for any next to the virus. so that it, it transmits more easily and some are quite detrimental to the virus itself. and they die out. we have a global system in place to track them, and then to inform our public health and social measures, our vaccines, our diagnostics, and the good news is our public health and social measures work at individual level measures. our i p. c. measures our diagnostics, work, our vaccines, work against even the delta variance, but we do need few people to get the full dose. and if your vaccine that you are offer gives you 2 doses get that 2nd dose. but we vac, and around the world, we do not have vaccines reaching those who are most in need. less than one percent of low income countries have had people vaccinated and that is just appalling. and

so we're working on that through our kovacs partners to be able to increase that, but we need to vaccinate those who are most at risk people of older age, people with underlying condition. and most importantly, our frontline workers, people who are out there that are carrying for sick individuals, putting themselves on the line. so there's a lot to do. there's an enormous amount today, dr. maria and cut has from the w h. i the same housing checking in regularly. all news from israel palestine gets further up the cream angel bora and had so much to say that i conversation continue to joan after the lie show had ended. i want you to know what fuels their passion to keep covering a story that's long, complicated, i'm paying 40, how? i think everybody has a natural instinct to reject unfairness and inequality and injustice. and this is a blatant case that not a lot of people know about and i feel like the more you get the word out, the more you're going to get solid already building with an oppressed people. and i

feel a personal responsibility to do this work, given the fact that i know so much about it to make sure that people understand what's actually unfolding. and honestly, there are many promising signs right now in terms of shifting discourse, the number of celebrities who are speaking out and support a palestinian things are clearly changing. and i think that's an incredibly inspiring moment for us to keep the pressure on to hopefully eventually get to a point where palestinians can enjoy human rights until for you. what keeps you on the story. you've been doing this for years? well, i sort of feel it's such an important human story. i see that there are these 2 people. one has been pushed out by another who was pushed up by somebody else. and why? why should they be fighting each other? and why should they be sort of more understanding? and that to me i'm not, is really, i'm not palestinian. i'm not an hour up to me sort of been like in an important subject to talk about in the region. because there's also a very divisive issue in the region. and just i think one of the most human stories to be told fatima follow it fields me as the

question my keep asking myself, how is what anybody is doing, making things any better. i keep asking myself, how is what i'm doing, making things any better. and i keep telling stories that i observe on daily basis . so this is a natural instinct like how much that. but it's also it's also a game changer when it comes to stories of people who are being locked out of their homes, locked out of their lambs and not being able to, to live where they want to live on this. if i can add something to that real quick, just i think there is also for the united people living in the united states that i think there is the added moral responsibility to object, to the fact that our government makes is really apartheid possible. israel would not be able to carry on with this occupation without the massive american funding that it receives. and that's our tax dollars for people who are living in the

united states. we are paying for this. and i think that there is a moral responsibility to demand that our money is not spent in that way. and i think that that's a huge motivating factor for people who understand the situation on the ground. and who are living in this unfortunate reality, where our government makes israel crimes against palestinians possible and denies palestinians their basic freedom. i'm going to be honest here as we cover the israel palestine on the stream, often regularly. and i was surprised by the video that i paid you earlier, the settlement because i've never seen anything quite so blatant before. i want to play a little clip. and without the filter, i would love to all to respond to the little clip. i'm going to play, so let's go back to this promotional video for a settlement that is even illegal in israel for it to be here. have a lot of us and he's not just building a community. he's still just a stablish in an answer to the text

from garza, from from the north objection to the very fact of the jews establish such a beautiful state. not only do we stand strong, we are building here, and we will build many more communities all over the area of you, then some area in all of them to happen. ok, it's, it just shows that history is different depending on who's telling the story. phantom of what do you see when you see that i see is rarely politics playing into how how mainstream fessler approaches inside israel. this is the result of a toothless international community israeli cutler violence and shuffler supplement expansion. colonialism basically going on and on on punished for years. but now

even in an illegal outpost, that is not even set up for you back before eviction is going to be a story about dismantling human lives. is similar to what is happening and check out or in one. but if you, if i may, this is a relative short history compared to the history of people who have been living in, in their homes for, for years and for, for decades. this is a situation where the israeli government will have to, to answer to the question of how important it is for bennett netanyahu. lockheed or anybody else who comes in office to answer to the effect statler at institutions that has become part of the state before i let you go,

there's one thing i would really love you to tell me and this is from your individual perspective. what should we be looking out for in the news? as far as israel and palestine are concerned, what are you seeing that maybe you are not saying in the news? but it's a story that you feel is going to be very important. at some point this year, oh my, you go 1st. it's hard to pick just one thing i think, you know, just honestly, i mean watching the video that you just played. all i can think of is george orwell . and i listen to it and i almost hear wars, peace, freedom of slavery, and ignorance of strength. it's really remarkable that land theft can be portrayed or something to really celebrate as an achievement. and that's only possible when palestinians are dehumanized to this extent. and really we're stuck with the situation in which until israel views palestinians as equal human beings. we're not going to see this issue from the mentally change. and we're only set to a new cycle in which we're going to see more violence, more death, more oppression. and this is just perpetual until something really fundamentally

changes. so i imagine that the explosions and shifts that are likely going to make the new sometime later the summer. i think the is really just the system is simply waiting for the right opportunity to push forward for it. because ultimately, the so called justice system in israel is ultimately a legal system for an apartheid state in which the law says that the right to self determination is unique to the jewish people. and in which is really, jews are privileged over palestinian and that's effectively the system that we're looking at. and i think it's, you know, it's really an ugly reality until what headlines you really should be looking out for. well, universe, a quick response to the clip. you played because i mean that is so it's hard breaking because there is really state is brainwashing its own people and not telling them that this is actually somebody else's land. somebody else lives here. this is someone else's home. so you know, it's a double tragedy in my view. i think the headlines we go to look out for the 1st is reconstruction. how is that going to be rebuild? if you remember off to the devastation caused during the 2014 gotten caught clashes,

many homes have not been revolted right now. i think israel is sort of holding gaza reconstruction as a cod in its pocket and saying, and demanding many things off of palestinians before they can lead to reconstruction happen. so that's the 1st thing. second, i would agree with omar is going to be shake, java. i think a bennett government would eventually go through, shake the evictions in general and they're going to sort of justified on the is really low when in many ways is a discriminatory or reflective offer systematic discrimination against palestinians . it is not every day that we cover a story that could have come straight out of a james bond film. when form a c. i. a officer mart poll neuron phyllis appeared on the stream. we talked about how adversary's, as he called them, were trying to home him, mot retired 2 years ago after you came down with a mysterious illness during

a mission in moscow. you can watch the full interview online at stream the out 0 dot com. now, what i'm going to share with you here is privileged information never before seen on tv. after the bull cough smart told me a few stories from 2016 korea in the ca. he has a new book out called clarity in places. leadership lessons from a cia bought. how do you get to tell the secrets without landing in trouble? there is a very kind of, you know, formal process. so, so what i did, you know, i wrote my book and then i put it for the cia, for a clearance process through what they call their publication review board. so you know, what is what is really impressive is how much they actually allowed. and i'm grateful for that because, you know, the book is certainly talks about leadership, but it also gives a window into all the leadership lessons like talk about, you know, always have the operational story that i think a lot of people are going to find super interesting and compelling was not

a lot of officers to come out and tell stories like this. so, you know, totally, totally endorse. not endorse, totally cleared by the da. so they're not going to come after me and, and ultimately look, the book is a love affair for the agency. it's really interesting because while they didn't treat me very well in terms of the medical needs, i had it stolen institution and i feel is absolutely. ready critical for us national security and was part of my identity for 26 years. and so, you know, i think that i think people will really find it interesting. i'm really excited about the book. tell us one story advert as well. i have so many so many amazing stories, but one of the, one of the principles i talk about is something called family values. and that the principle in which, you know, in order to leave, you know, teams, especially small teams, you have to get everyone to buy into each other to believe in each other. so i tell a story, you know, i, you know, i come back from award zone, actually with an iraq. and i was, i was receiving a very prominent intelligence metal and award for some of the things i had done

there. and, and my father was invited to the ceremony and you know, obviously my last name polly me up with my father creek to born in greece and didn't have the greatest feelings about about that because of what the role of the c i in support and agree content, and then i think a long time ago, but nonetheless, this is, this was a feeling that the director of the time was george kennedy who spoke fluent greek. and so i ask that you're kind of to take my dad aside and he did so before the ceremony and i just spoke together, you know, in greek and, and i came back and i asked my father, i said, what are the director said, you know, and he just said he was in his eyes and he said nothing. and then i went and i saw the director kind of later on. i said, what did you tell my dad? he said, i told him you are a hero. and so, you know, it was an extraordinary moment for me, you know, in my family. and so, you know, it's just, again, a reflection of kind of close knit group that we had to see a really doing some unusual things,

but ultimately helping protect the united states and our allies in a, in a very complex world. my tell me a story that you have to take out the book. i tried. i tried really hard in there about about someone that i would handle and you know, this is, you know, we recruit an agent. and agent is someone that we get providing information. but the story that i have in the book is about the personal relationship between the operations officer, case officer and the agent. and ultimately it was an, in an area in which, you know, if i make a mistake, you know, the agent is going to is going to die. and so i tell the story, and i tell kind of this personal interaction that we have because the stakes are so high and what we do. and as a young operations officer particular you have to be almost perfect and keeping the individuals alive. and so i was talking about the light will tell us it's off so it's not taking college you one on one class. it's like ology by the one class because you have people who really depend on, you know, and so it was an extraordinary job. and i love telling that story,

it really is an extraordinary moment, and i think people will find it very, very interesting. finally, the mesmerizing work of award winning documentary photographer and offer peter of an atmosphere. when i look at his pictures from the conflicts in afghanistan and iraq, what i see intimate images of people impacted by u. s. foreign policy. he describes his style as being respectful photography. i asked peter what point when he's covering a war that he's stopped taking pictures? the. i mean the line, the line is it is the trick, but everyone has different mind to different moment when you photograph and when you intervene. i've been there in moments where stuff photographing to help it. you know, usually when i'm the only person that can help if there's other people that help and they know what they're doing, then i'll do my job. there's the 1st job is always to be made as much as possible. and i think partly it's in the editing to, i mean when things are moving very back in a word zone,

you're not even always entirely sure what it is you're photographing in a sense, especially because it's every moment it's meaningful is one to the 2nd 15 and just a 2nd while you're trying to stay alive and no one can process information quickly . so in terms of being, in many ways, the respectful aspect than that made disagree with that is in the process. that's where the editing process. so you mentioned pictures of blood in it, you know, there's a picture with a lot of blood in it for example. but the face of the person isn't visible in it. you know, that person was dying on a, on this journey in a hospital and, and there was no way certainly give consent, but i could still give a very powerful image without revealing their identity. and so that's what i did. so i think that's, you know, that's balancing as a journalist, as you must with showing the reality of things in a deep and impactful way. while still trying to be thoughtful about the fact that,

you know, you're, you're dealing with real people here. and you know, they want to treat them and the way you want to be to do so i'm wondering you pictures from afghanistan and your pictures from iraq, other document of failure of a conflict that america felt that it could win and yet did not. yeah. well, i think there's think they're documents of all sorts of failures. i mean, most specifically this last book is documented almost a failure of imagination, or at any point in the last 20 years for the american people to relate to the people in these conflicts. you know, if i think about our relationship with these war, it's really bad. our relationship with our own soldiers. you know, not about, we don't know, single face or a name of the millions of people caught in between these words, the thousands have been killed. certainly many millions have been displaced. you

know, of course it's more literal failure. yes, of the fact that 20 years in we're abandoning ap can stand into what and, you know, that's a complicated decision. of course not the straightforward one, but you have to look at the results after 20 years of conflict and where the results are going to go in the coming years. not into a good place. one would imagine, you know, rac destabilize, deeply stabilized. very limited democratic principles there. so you have to look at what were the intended effects of going in and how to things, you know, what expense in most, in blood and money and, and in the soul of the nation, i think as well, the thing that struck me the most in a way was how little connection with everyday soldier really had to the politics of what was happening. and the grand scale of that, you know, in the, in the, you are out with individuals who may have been perfectly decent people that were kind of just doing their job as they thought they had no idea what the impact of

the job was. you know, and this is something that i often find trouble, some with observing americans kind of, especially in foreign countries that they there, you know, these guys sincerely thought, probably they were doing something good because they were told they were doing something good. and because they thought the legacy of american power wasn't doing something good. but if they use their imagination a little bit and what was actually happening outside their home, the windows, they could see a nation class saying that the people that deeply hated them, you know, and so i'm being very purposely reductive here. a lot of people, a lot obviously about soldiers understood what was going on was very bad. they just didn't care. but, but, but they would say it struck me the most and those early embeds, and i kind of get it because i'm a byproduct of the same society, the great name to tell you about the nature of american power. and that's why my work, i'm trying to push back against the propaganda, the chief,

my own identity until i had worked out a push back. he's, you know, what? let me leave your pedagogy. you don't photograph like an american. you photograph. understand the perspective of the people that you see, and that's a very hard thing to do. i'm an immigrant, so i see that there's always a full time, which is what i see from having lived in america for a long time. so i understand how a lot of my american colleagues and community i live it, they think what they think these things, but i don't see the well the same way somehow you've managed not to see the world in the same way. how do you do that? is that just more empathy, right. i wish i could say it was, but i think it's a bad product of always having a kind of multicultural, both multi nationality might be a new group of friends that check my own ignorance. and i think,

i think one becomes more empathetic and more understanding by being open their perspectives and the strength of the thoughtfulness and the passion of those perspectives. and then folding the lessons learned into one's work so. so it's been a work in progress that i mean, it's part of the reason why early on i was, i was more connected to the american perspective. and now i'm, i'm trying to show things as complexly as possible because i've made so many friends also in the middle east to, to expose my own day to me. and then i try to channel those lesson in my work. that interview with peter was part of the age a stream instagram live series. follow us at a stream on instagram, to get alerts for future gas and that so show for today. i'll leave you with photos and be the latest book, sorry for the war. thanks for watching cnx ah,

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