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the new central, china was plugged in recent years to provide anger and scrutiny about the government's failure to prepare such a disaster. and it runs president calls for an end to protest against water shortages as experts want of an impending environmental catastrophe. and similar to the sports, the maidens football competition kicks off the tokyo lympics plus an historic moment for great britain. was mohammed fee becoming the 1st muslim, chosen to carry the british flag at an opening ceremony? ah, we are starting with the current of ours pandemic, and the increase in cases around the world blamed on that highly contagious deal to variance. in the united states, the average number of new infections has nearly tripled in the space of 2 weeks at 41000. now, up from about 15002 weeks ago, increased nearly everyone who's been admitted to the hospital with corona virus has

been on vaccination. then dr. the warning misinformation is making matters worse, and parts of africa. vaccine supply shortages are holding back rollouts and african union envoys calling on pharmaceutical phones to license local production so that supply can be increased and the delta barrier continues to fuel current of ours cases. across asia as well. indonesia is the epi center of things in asia right now . but south korea and thailand have reported records setting numbers in the past 24 hours as well. ok, let's start with the us now. kimberly how can live at the white house for us. so she is, i, kimberly anything coming out of that white house press briefing today, any guidance a lot of questions from the press about whether or not the white house is changing its mask recommendations urging even vaccinated americans to where a math is something that the white house confirms it is talking about considering

reviewing the data, but no change in math policy so far. but certainly that data that they're watching very carefully has to do with the delta vary the fact that the number of cases up 53 percent of the 7 day average compared to last month. and what we know is that 83 percent of the cases in the united states of cobit 19, now linked to that highly transmissible delta. very good, 40 percent of the cases we also know are coming, are concentrated in 3 states, texas, florida, and missouri. and so the white house is once again urging all americans to get vaccinated and renewing its push to try and get people the information that they need in order to make the choice about getting back to native, particularly in rural areas where they continue to combat vaccine. hesitancy, it's so important, isn't it? kimberly, obviously not just for people's health, but for the health of the country. they help with the economy. if the country wants to open up again and start growing again,

it's got to get as many people vaccinated as possible it's, it's quite simple. a lot of people are really worried come out, given the fact that over seen, not just me, united states, but around the world is that when cases rise, business is close. and so that is what people are worried about. the fragile recovery that's occurring in the us economy. they want to see that trajectory continue. and the problem is, if there continues to be an increase in cases, the fear is the business is, will have to shut down. people will not be able to return to work, laurie seen some indications of that. in fact, the number of american filing jobless claims that number has picked up from last week. now at 4 119000. that is up about $50000.00 more than the expert had estimate . and so this is a worrying sign. as the white house continues with this one singular message, get back sedated if not already done. okay, kimberly, how could is the white house correspondent on the north loan or the white house there? thank you. kimberly, we look at se asia now where the highly contagious charities, again,

delta variant is feeling infections across the region. indonesia really now the api center, it's reported more than 1400 deaths the highest since the pandemic began. and $35000.00 new infections were detected, but testing writes a low, so the true figures could be much higher in the world health organization has urged the government to introduce a stricter lockdown. he's jessica washington. in jakarta, indonesia has now passed more than $3000000.00 cases in total. what we have seen on the positive side is that the government has been able to ramp up testing, and they were able to test 200000 individuals in one day, which is a market improvement. however, it's still way of the target of trying to test 400000 people each day. and you can imagine that in a country like, and these are, there are people who would struggle when there is a strict lockdown and many all doing it tough, particularly across your college or a java and many parts of the country. but epidemiologist say that the government

must strongly because the situation is continuing to worsen. intensive care unit in hospitals, but only in chicago, not only in java, but across the country are stretched. and we're seeing concerning signs of health care system across the country and more regional provinces, including a west hub for with the, with the health care resources are certainly not what we have here in jakarta. and the numbers that you mentioned earlier is concerning, as they found in the fact that indonesia now is asia covert at the center. they don't represent the reality on the ground because of low testing rates. some local data agencies using data from cities from provincial governments, say that the actual just told the likely mean range of that one. the government's numbers suggests in thailand has been another record day of new infections. more than 13600 people testing positive in the past day, and there aren't enough vaccines. the nation's vaccine institute is apologize for

not buying enough and is now promising to join the global kofax vaccine sharing program. an intern izzy of the president is older than me, that treatment intervene in the nation's corona virus crisis. the health ministers, in fact, vaccines are in short supply and stampedes of even been reported at 9 health centers across the country. more details and this report from a 100 valve the can you succeed at the vaccination center in the technician capital in patient clouds. i've tried to force the way to get coated 19 vaccine sale. be good for me. it's mandatory. it's a vaccine covered. it's a serious disease, and personally, it scares me, though, of the offense manjeet. i've come here for 3rd time. you wait a long time and then you go without getting a vaccine. it's not normal that there is only one vaccination center in a state because the people why all of this. what if we don't go look at your

stories? if you cannot find solutions for us, let us search for solutions for ourselves. this followed highly controversial decision by the ministry of health to provide vaccines for everyone above the age of 18. at the same time, it has led to stampedes of 9 vaccination centers across the country, raising fears of a sharper ice in inflectional prime minister his machine. he fired his health minister for what he described as a clear case of mismanagement policy. not quite the least that can be said is that the decision is wrong and you have noticed it's repercussions on society. tunisia continues to face some of the highest good 19 infection rates in the world. it's rocking 3rd off to quote on the media with about 200 deaths a day, according to official medical sources. nearly 18000 people have died in a country of 12000000. many hospitals have run out of beds and oxygen. medical

stuff out overwhelmed. there are reports of patients dying in the absence of proper care and body staying unburied for joe. and i did the peak. we had daily surgery. we even have 50 patients at the same time in our covert unit for hot how shed emergency room and suits well, maximum capacity varies between 18 to 20 patients. yeah, yeah. you know, doctors are losing hope in the whole median health system. everyone is losing hope room in the way here for our patients. we tried to do our best for them. of cases continue to saw. everyone seems to want to be the 1st to get the vaccine, but with limited stocks, fewer than a 1000000 have received the 2 jobs so far. that's about 8 percent of the technician population of the situation. he has 3 good solidarity and fears across north africa with neighboring libya, losing its border and other countries sending medical supplies to help prevent

a humanitarian disaster hammered by a digital. and now south africa, which is struggling with a search in infections. though the vaccination campaign there is making progress that had a record quarter of a 1000000 people getting their jobs in a single day. but so far, only 7 percent of the population has has received at least one dose. south africa, the worst hit country in africa, and health experts are warning of a potential rise in cases after the protests that we saw last week. more now from finally to mila india hattiesburg. all the south african government had to hope to vaccinate about 300000. and they almost reached the target by almost 250000 in the last 24 hours. and that is a record for south africa, especially given they've been concerning the last week. and so, given the disruptions here around some of the riots that we experienced in the provinces, of course we're going to tell and helping in that vaccination centers were the work

they were suspended at least for a few days. and all the government says everything is back to normal. also, what seems to be driving this particular record is that vaccinations have now opened up to people the to 5 years and older. and it seems based on the trends we're seeing that the younger the individual is the keynote they are to get vaccinated. we did see some reluctance from people over 60 years old. so the government is really pushing for the registration of people over the age of 35. and while it did have a process in place that people would have to make appointments, they receive a text message to confirm that appointment. now accepting walking and ultimately the ministry of health saying it's all about getting peoplefacts rated as quickly as possible. the numbers continue to be of concern. it has though, dropped, of the 27, sorry. of the people who are testing 27 percent of them seem to be infected by coven 19. but there seems to be some relief in terms of the 3rd wave that's being

experienced in south africa currently. ok, just before we leave out around of ours coverage for this news, alex, take the big picture with the johns hopkins coven. 19. franco, haven't shown you this in a while, but is the best overview. we have of everything. if you needed reminding this with a local pandemic, all the red spots over that map show you the big numbers are the ones to note for it's 192000000 cases. so nearly 200000000 people now have been diagnosed with coven, 1900. since the start of the pandemic, 4100000 of them have died, the number in white. but don't forget that green number. when we talk about the number of vaccines and vaccine hesitancy in there, not being enough of them to go around. let's not forget that 3700000000 doses have been administered. now obviously you need 2 of them per person in most cases, but still $3700000000.00 is a lot of shots in. okay, it is 12 minutes past the hour. here's what is coming up for you. french

presidential manual macros calls and urgent national security meeting to discuss investigations into israel, pegasus spyware. a few days ago we were thrilled at 1000000000 as making quick trips to space. but today the u. s. congress is taking up a less fun maybe, but more pressing issues, based on the talk to you guys and athletes who disappeared finally, get much more details. peter a little later. ah, going to other news, china deploying its military to hand on province. the central region struggling with the worst flooding it's seen in recent memory. at least 33 people have now been killed, an 800000 displaced. katrina you isn't sure young and hand on province with a look at the situation there. the rain has used, but millions of people are still going to deal with the devastating flooding, which is what many cities and towns than i'm students. youngest city on the

northern hot, non proven and 2 rental rain hits this region on wednesday, just off the passing the provincial capital of young joe, in the face of just 2 hours. 26 centimeters of rain was dumped in this area. now, many houses in the area, the northern outskirts of this region collapsed as a result of the torrential rains and half a 1000000 people will live, relocated to the areas. now we're just standing the beginning of a highway, which leads to the main area of downtown john. this area has been unable to rescue workers and teams have been moving to try to clear the area. and they're also getting food and people who've been stuck in the cause our authorities say $3000000.00 people have been affected by the severe and it's close to $100000000.00 worth of economic losses. now as the clean up continues, questions are being raised as to why people living in home. and we're not

adequately warned about the severity of the storm before that the government is choosing instead to focus on rescue. and it's sensory, any criticism of the timing of the disaster online and on social media. and it's been more severe weather in other parts of china. tornado read through a village near bonding city and northern, have a province killing. at least 2 people. rip through houses and scattering scattered debris across nearby roads, relief workers, and are trying to restore power to the area. a number of protesters and one police officer been killed in demonstrations against water shortages in iran. it's happened in the oil rich province of clothes is done on the waters of the gulf and also bordering iraq. crowd vented their anger for the 7th day in a row. there's been violence reported at several rallies, according to local media. solidarity purchase were held in other cities as well as iran, soft as it's was dropped in 50 years, runs president huff and ronnie responded to the unrest with

a warning. madame dorman school system rule, of course we must distinguish between the people of who is a stan and a group that sometimes chance incorrect slogans. a few 100 protesters are not. the people have crew to stop. it's their natural right to talk is protest and even take to the streets within the framework of the law. meanwhile, some people might use this opportunity and an evil person might join the protesters and use guns and shoot and kill one of our dear countrymen. let's say from ali fatalities shop now, an affiliated scholar with the free university of berlin and the author of the iran, 1400 brief weekly newsletter. he told us this unrest is actually part of a wider crisis in iraq. it's also not only water, it's an ecological crisis that is existing in iran for a few years now. and i've been trying to conceptualize the key challenges of the song republic as a triple crisis, one of them being illogical and the other to be so sick and all back and political . and indeed, we cannot separate the crisis from the socio economic or political vices and

some problem where i happen to grow up as a little kid is a perfect example, because you will see the combination of all those prices are there that are actually political protests. those challenges, fundamentals for iraq, regardless if he hasn't face and we've seen the same spots and with this done also being besides the process again or the regime or the last few years during the day process in december 2017 and january 2018. but also more recently and november 2019 and the states response is one of brutality. so there is a slogan quite wide spreading that we want to water no bullet. but what we unfortunately see is that the authorities are merely relying. ready on the violence accounts of those demonstrations that are legitimate and they try to deliver to my

them as president, ronnie in by a, by stating by claiming that those are anti revolution forces. whereas that, those are populations that have been living was a stand for, for many years, for decades. if not centuries, to care the host city and elliptic games like no other thing, its highest number of covert infections in 6 months to more athletes that the limbic village have tested positive. they are among 12 cases linked to the games and on thursday, bringing the total weight. he's 7 and the thread of infections is not the only problem crowding the games as 24 hours before the opening ceremony in the director of the whole thing. by fact, after organizes were made aware of a holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. a composer resigned earlier in the week because of historic bullying. can you guys, you know, can power korea? she was a member of the opening ceremony production team had in the past,

due in his own performance said, lines said, walked a painful historic that as such, the talk, your 2020 organizing committee today has dismissed him. kurkoski guy. we just a day before the opening ceremony, i apologize deeply to all the people involved in this event and also japanese people. i would like to extend my sincere apology with all the problems surrounding the tokyo games. the obvious question to ask is, why are they happening already delayed by here? the simple simple answer is money. tokyo is the host city already stands to lose plenty from having to refund tickets. but it's the international olympic committee which really needs the games to happen. this is from the i see on marketing file. it says, broadcast partnerships have provided the olympic movement with a secure financial base and have been the single greatest source of revenue for more than 3 decades. how much revenue have a look at this? i've got some more details on the i pad here from that international olympic committee file. the big number down, the boston. they're in fact, i'll write it

a different way. i'll do it this way to point 87000000000. that is how much money was made in broadcasting revenues from the rio olympic games. and if i zoom in just a little bit here, hopefully we get an idea here. if we look from, let's say, here, below sidney, 2000, where into the 1000000000, they're 1300000000, but look at how much it keeps increasing and increasing through athens, beijing, london. andrea, this money is just so important. and we got more on this with andrew symbol as to his neck nomics professor at smith college explaining how important the games are for the international olympic committee to actually remain viable the aisle. she needs this money, then they need the money from television. primarily. they also get corporate sponsorship money in their top sponsorship program, and they take that money, some of that is yours for their own operating expenses, which are, are high and luxurious, but they need that money to,

to help finance the international sport. federations were called i s, and also the national lympics committees around the world. those, those committees are the guts of the international olympic movement. and then enable the ios see, to maintain its legitimacy. and its position at the top of that movement. are blinded by, by the money issue that blinded by the the prestige and the public relations that they usually get positive or negative. but yet when, when the house the, the games. but when you think about what's, what's on either side of the ledger here on one side of the ledger is disappointing 11000 message if you cancel the games on the other side of the ledger is the public health of 7000000000 people in the world. how, how can you look at, how can you look at that calculus and not say that, that this is a very problematic venture, that they're going forward with starting tomorrow. france, as president,

has called an urgent national security meeting to discuss the pegasus spyware scandal. it follows reports that m, i knew micron and several government ministers were targeted for phone hacking by an, an identified moroccans security service. the morocco denies those reports more for natasha butler reporting from parents. while french president in my micro, held quite a lengthy cabinet meeting with his ministers to discuss these allegations that had merged earlier in the week. that moroccan intelligence services may have tried to target one of the french presidents mobile phones and not only his mobile phone, but bath of his former prime minister at wal felipe, and also more than a dozen ministers and dozens of journalists in france. now the least they put out a statement after this capital meeting, they say that of course, the least say in the presence of taking these allegations very seriously indeed. but they are urging caution because they've launched the full investigation to try

and see and verify exactly what the situation is. the present we are told is following this investigation very closely. indeed, the lease. i also think that the president has exchanged and changed his mobile phone numbers and the security has been stepped up. india has denied it is among the governments clients of an s. so the company behind the program. but at least database of $50000.00 numbers included hundreds belonging to its citizens. the most prominent opposition, politician rahul gandhi, his mobile number was targeted during parliamentary elections in 2018 and 19 others include dozens of journalists, an election commission, official business men, diplomats even to minister in the modi government. a form, a supreme court staff who accused the former chief justice of india of abuse was also targeted. the justice is now a member of parliament with the governing party is elizabeth per on him following this story in new delhi. where the press club of india were journalists holding

a protest following report to the funds of more than 300 indians, including journalists, what hacked using the israeli made pegasus by where now the project, the director of the government's book of pegasus, is classified as a military grade cyber weapon and it's found to say they only sell the technology to better government for the sole purpose of saving lives and preventing criminals and terror acts. but the list of people in india who follows allegedly hack include not just journalists, but major opposition figures a former election commissioner, a top political strategists, business people include ministers and the current governments, including the information minister. now the founders of the, in the news website wire, are among the more than 40 indian journalists whose fund allegedly hacked was also one of the 17 media organizations around the world which conducted the investigation and to help pegasus by way was being used in various countries. this

is much one of the founders had to say either we do the privacy issue and the number not already already did that. that didn't come in on the board problem that i suspected they want to get to the bottom of it. now the government and that there was no evidence not support us, nothing allegations and that the reports are an attempt to undermine the monsoon session of indian parliament, which began on monday. but the country main opposition political policy of the congress and many others. calling for an independent investigation into the report, given just how serious these allegations are. we'll take a break on this news when we come back the land of castle and thief. why it's all farmers and turning to vegetables in green agriculture. i'm ready for it livable where plans to build a gleaming, 60000 feet or football stadium,

or among several reasons why the city has now lost its covers. if you nefco well, heritage status and depleted us men's basketball team get the much needed boost. they had to be linked to games. peter got your sport a little light. ah, ah. hello there, let's look to the middle east and levant, and up in the north. things are looking a lot settled. it's down in the south was seen that cloud bringing rain particularly heavy it to weston areas of yemen. we could see more flooding here where that rain does fall, particularly heavily. and it's also affecting areas of amman, muska likely to do some showers and storms as we go towards the end of the week and the weekend. but up north it is looking a lot finer and dryer. we've got

a sion now wind blowing in here, and that's kicking up a lot of dust creating hazy sunshine for q 8 and for katara. now those range, you can see them getting a little bit stronger on saturday, across western areas of yemen, and they do roll across into the horn of africa. the open rift valley, seeing some of the showers and storms be going to saturday. it's nigeria that seen some of the really heavy rain. we could see flooding in the north west. we have seen flooding in the northeast, so we'll keep an eye as those rains are expected to fall rather heavily. and as we move down to southern africa has been rather cold chilion wet across cape town. but that cold front is now pushing off to the east. it can be lots of sunshine coming through. and we are going to see the temperatures pick up over the weekend. the after a one year delay, the tokyo when picks up buying the like growing opposition by running cost into

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ah, this is the news from al jazeera and these are the top stories. corona virus case numbers are searching in the united states. the 7 day average rise more than 50 percent in just the past week. nearly all patients being admitted to hospital for the buyers still haven't received that jack. indonesia is now the epi center of the latest wave, in se, asia, it's reported more than $1400.00 deaths and $35000.00 cases in 24 hours. and tokyo as well. thing is surgeon cases less than 24 hours out from the opening ceremony field. and pick games. the city is recorded, highest number of infections in 6 months to and tina now which is one of the top food producers in the world known,

particularly for grains and for beef. but there is a movement trying to change how the country produces food and its model seems to be becoming more popular. every day. theresa bo visited some farms outside of winter. cyrus access to land is a step towards dignity for many people as his friends will be that he's a member of the union of land workers in origin. tina and organization created in 2010 and what situs, that's now grown across the country. it has more than 16000 members working the land and producing at logical vegetables and also not only know that we used to rent land to work. we had a book then the idea was to get abandoned land held by the state get credit. so we can have a better and dignified life, produce healthier food without toxic chemicals. the organization is giving farmer families the confidence and power to control their own lives. and donya sanchez has been living here.