a lot of the stories that we cover highly complex, so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can as ologist correspondence. that's what we strive to do me the . ready resurgence in infections in the us, the anger of the handling of the covenant in crisis into new via vaccine shortages in africa, new growth of ours wave grips the world. and then it also raises questions of the tokyo olympics. japan registers is sick from high infections. the day before the opening ceremony, ah

5, aram kimbell, this is al, they're alive from doha, also coming up, 1000 struggle in central china to cope with the worst flooding in decades. they'll have an on the ground report, the land of capital and beef a small object, time farmers pennington vegetables will tell you why. in a new grown of ours wave has gripped the world with many regions reporting a rise and infections. this is mostly being attribute to the highly contagious delta variant, which was 1st identified in india. on the us, the average number of daily new infections has nearly tripled in the span of just 2 weeks. crucially, nearly all karone of ours patients in hospital or on vaccination. japan's capital poker reported a 6 month high in cases on the eve of the limpid gains. opening ceremony was 2000 and positive tests were recorded as the highest figure since mid january and to new

jersey, as military is now over seeing the pandemic response. and what's one of africa's worst outbreaks? it's after the health minister with facts, but ordering vaccination centers to open for all adults during the eat holidays that lead to stampedes. i'll have more on the outbreak into news yet just a moment. but 1st, here's our white house correspondent, kimberly. how could of the situation in the u. s. renewed warnings from the white house urging all americans to get vaccinated. as cases of coven continue to spike up 35 percent from last week, and death up 26 percent. the delta barrier is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strain. it is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses mellow. and i have seen in my 20 year career, the us centers for disease control says 83 percent of all new u. s. cobit cases are linked to the highly transmissible delta variant. for now,

the white house mass policy has not changed. currently only unvaccinated people need to wear a mask, but officials are discussing whether to change that. so if you're an area that has a high rate and low rate, the vaccination where delta cases are rising, you should certainly be wearing a mask if you are on vaccinated. the white house is also continuing to work with social media companies to tamp down. and what it calls, vaccine misinformation there remains skepticism in the us, particularly among conservatives, about mask effectiveness, and whether coven vaccines or even safe. if people have questions about it. let's answer the questions. let's not say, oh, you can't put any information out. i think what would really have people have greater trust, provide all the science provide all the information with 97 percent of all covered

deaths in the u. s. among the unvaccinated. the biden administration is boosting investments in coven testing. in areas where vaccination rates remain low, 1600000000 has been allocated for testing in high risk settings like prisons and homeless shelters. 398000000 has also been added to help small rural hospitals reduce infection. but already the spike in covered cases is being felt economically. the number of americans following jobless claim hit a 2 month high last week. 419000 americans filing for benefits as the delta various threatens president biden's promise of a swift economic recovery. kimberly health hit al jazeera, the white house in germany, towns. lar, uncle merkle says, infections there, arising at a worrying speed, she's calling on people to get back to native. the victim saw that the number of

infections has been rising again for a few days. now, with a clear and in my opinion worrying momentum, the whole thing is driven by the delta very into the corona virus on the off site or is consistently above one. so that means we have exponential grace. when i look under the normal hits look, we all want no mileage back, but we don't get that. no malady alone. we only get it back as a community. and for this we need significantly more vaccine protection. and about 12 hours, all eyes will be on the tokyo lympics when the opening ceremony gets underway. the questions being raised, if the games can carry on smoothly, tokyo hit has 6 month high and new cases on thursday. almost 2000 positive tests were recorded as the highest figures since mid debt, mid january. this is despite tokyo being under a states emergency for the past 11 days. or 2 boy cough is a former us a limb pick athlete and the researcher on the politics of the olympic games. he

joined us on scott from portland to oregon. thank you so much for your time. was going through your mind when you hear these reports of positive cases going off in tokyo and also of the dozens of cases among those actually accredited for the games themselves. that's right, this is an unprecedented situation. we're looking at here with proven raves, rising both inside the so called olympic bubble and outside it to where we have very little support for these fix from the general public. typically, at this stage, people are out on the street celebrating that obviously cannot happen right now. and so from an athlete perspective, this must feel very strange, especially when the president of the international olympic committee, tomas bach, had said previously that there was quote unquote 0 risk for these athletes to transmit corona virus to each other or anybody else. they must be feeling a little bit uneasy about the situation with the number of cases rising inside of

the village. and also the fact that many medical officials have said that the standards are not best scientific practices. so it's already hard enough to be empty and but add the stress and strain of corona virus and this is a really tough one for them. yeah, i mean you are an advocate of this not going ahead at all or not now anyway, i want to pick up on what you said about thomas bock who said there would be 0 risk of athletes. and all this from within the games bubble infecting japan residents do you by that? absolutely not. i think that was actually an indispensable thing to say. you're right. i have been saying that we should cancel the lympics for quite a while now, because i listened to the medical professionals who for a long time have been jumping up and down saying, we absolutely need to cancel the optional sporting spectacle for the sake of global public health also i listen to the population in japan where 80 percent plus do not want the one picks this summer. so i think we do ourselves well to have a little bit of healthy skepticism when the president of a self interested body,

like the international committee says everything is going to be just fine. the mantra from the international olympic committee has been safe and secure games. but we're seeing the olympic bubble has already punctured, you know, the app, the ios see often likes to say that one of their slogans is athletes 1st. but if i'm an athlete right now, sitting in the olympic village with a people living in my room for to a bathroom, it sure wouldn't feel like athletes or 1st it would feel like you're among the last big. i want to dig down into that a little bit. the athlete perspective, i mean, yeah, it could be isolating, obviously, quite worrying being in that environment, but that these actually are still going. they're still choosing to compete. yes. and, and because for a number of reasons, 1st we should say the athletes from lesser known sports who are not yet household names. this is their one chance to make a break in the world by being successful at the olympic games. this is their one chance to perhaps clawback some of the money they spent to realize their olympic

dream. you know, 2nd, a lot of athletes feel. busy invincible, i can tell you when i was a 19 year old running up and down the field for the us olympic soccer team. i felt that invincibility myself so i can definitely understand it. but let me tell you something one athlete whose tokyo bound shared document with me that really chilled me and i've done my fair share waivers. but this one that all athletes go to tokyo are being asked to sign, says that they cannot hold the limbic organizers liable, should they contract or even die from corona virus or extreme heat. and so as that on top of the stress and strain that is already there for an athlete, and you're cooking up a real pressure cooker situation. why then in tokyo or, or rather the i o c, who has the final say going ahead with this? why both? well, i think there's 2 main reasons. it's money and money. and i'm only being slightly suspicious in the sense that japan wants to fall through with

a difficult events under complex conditions, no doubt about it. and after all, the next one picks, which start in about 6 months are in beijing. so a long time, geo political adversary of japan, it would be especially painful to hand the olympic torch to them. but at the end of the day, it's really money that's driving this process and in particular, international olympic committee. money, after all, the international olympic committee is the only group that has the power to cancel the game, and they get 73 percent of their money from broadcast fees, another 18 percent from corporate sponsors. so when 9 out of every $10.00 rolling into your bank accounts come from those 2 sources, you can see why they might be inclined to have a made for tv event with no spectators because that money will continue to flow. so it sounds kinda crass but it's just true money. unfortunately, it's really a driver in this process. all right, thank you very much for your time. the job boy offer a former us and then pick athletes and research on the politics of the and then again thank you to new jersey as president has ordered the army to

manage the nations. corona virus. response from now on military medics have already been vaccinating people in remote areas. the health minister with facts after he ordered vaccination centers to open during the eat holiday that they had to stampedes mama, the valve has the story. the chaos succeed at the vaccination center in the twenties and capital in patient clouds. i've tried to force the way through to get coated 900 bucks in 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 model. and i've come here for the 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 wild 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 about 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 cookie, 19 infection rates in the world. it's rocking fed after called 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 are 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 red emergency room and suits. well, our 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 . it was here for our patients. we tried to do our best for them. cases continue to so 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 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 the humanitarian disaster. hum, advice, or just you're still ahead on al jazeera,

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span of 2 weeks. the average is 37000, from less than 14000, for the motto, merely full grown of our patients and hospital. our on vaccinated. folk here is recorded a 6 month high of new cars and 19 cases just a day before the house. the opening ceremony of the limpid game spans capital has been under a state of emergency. for the past 11 days, news use military has been ordered to oversee the countries pandemic response. that's after the health minister with facts ordering vaccination centers to open for all adults during the holiday to stampede south africa is also struggling with the surgeon infections. the vaccination dr. there is making progress. a record 250000 people caught the job and just one day, earlier in the week. but only around 7 percent of the population has received at least one. those south africa is the worst country on the african continent and

help expose a warning of a potential rise in cases of protests last week. for me to mit has more from johannesburg. 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 or so, given the disruptions around some of the riots that we experienced in the provinces of christ, you're going to tell. and how, paying in that vaccination centers were 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. so 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 there. now accepting walking and ultimately the ministry of health saying it's all about getting people vaccinated 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 covert 19. but there seems to be some relief in terms of the 3rd way that's being experienced in south africa. currently, china has deployed its military to her non province. the central region is struggling with the worst flooding and recent history. at least 33 people have been killed and 800000 displaced. katrina you isn't she young and shannon with a look at the situation there. the rain has ease, but millions of people are still struggling to deal with the devastating flooding, which is what many cities and towns,

dancing. i'm students young as city on the north and hot on poland and to venture rain hits this region on wednesday, just off the passing the provincial capital of young joe, in the space of just 2 hours. 26 centimeters of rain was dumped in this area. now many houses in the rural areas, the northern outskirts of just didn't collapse. as a result of the torrential rain 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 is unable to get rescue workers and teams have been moving talk to try to clear the area. they're also giving food and wanted to be stuck in the cause. ours authority say $3000000.00 people have been effective by the severe stones and it's close to $100000000.00 worth of economic losses. now as the clean up continues, questions are being raised. that's why people living in home, and we're not adequately warned about the severity of the storm before. but 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. thousands of people have rallied in ethiopia as capital to show their support for federal troops fighting of the northern region of to grow speakers called on the view of parents to be unified against to ground forces and accused them of using child soldiers. the conflict there is why didn't include fighters from the neighboring m hara. and to the far reaches katherine sawyer reports from the sub a ball i. this was very much a government royal and organized by the man in id saba. but thousands of people to hand up a mass called square carrying placards that expressed their anger, a t guys, t p. i left leadership. and it's 40 that many here referred to as june 10 and support of prime minister abbey government and its federal army has often anymore

on that for a long time. t p l. s. has brought division on the people to we have to begin to forget about them. forget about the past and be united behind a defense force. among us in the out is more on this government has a lot of moral support. they need to take strong action against the june to that steals those who address the crowd hadn't this to say. and that dad about. 6 to be down of healing to national media, witness the june to using kill them for war. they witnessed this but you know, reported and that shows their interest shows who they are. above all, the intent is to support the june t as as a c p. 6 federal troops have withdrawn from t guy, but the soldiers, retrans troops and special forces from neighboring o'hara region, have been accused by rights, groups of committing crimes against civilians, including killings and rape. those who came to this rally said the boys support the government in the ongoing conflict. but the situation that is dia fighting is still going on in some parts,

drawing in security forces from other reasons that we're not previously involved in the fighting. and the un and other agency thing that they're struggling to get to the most vulnerable people in that region. there has been resent fighting between federal troops and regional forces from our amir, against the grand fight, as in areas bordering t gray and a far region, a world food program, a convoy was attacked on sunday, on the only remaining ground humanitarian corridor into the guy. this is devastating to millions of people who desperately need help, shortages of fuel and cash as well as communications blackouts are significantly hindering the resumption of the humanitarian response and preventing scale up. and jose and un agencies are running out of cash in or unable to pay staff or suppliers unless fuel cash supplies and aid workers are able to enter t gray. in the coming days. some humanitarian programs will not be able to function on these are dangerous times in the field. and all fighting sites are trying to

control the narrative. media access into t guy is limited because of multiple national government and regional special forces checkpoints along the road and near space on the open for humanitarian flight. catching. odyssey, or at least fighting among rival gangs inside 2 separate prisons and ecuador has left at least 22 people dead and a few others injured violence broke out. on wednesday, the police have regained control with apprehended 65 prisoners who tried to escape . there have been 2 other deadly rides in ecuador is over crowded. prisons of the past 6 months. origin. tina is one of the top food produces in the world known for its grains and beef. but a movement is trying to change how the country produces food and its moral is becoming more popular everyday to reasonable visits. more fathers, outside of when a thought of 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 in what situs that's now grown across the country. it has more than 16000 members working the land and producing aggregate logical vegetables. and also not only, you know, the last year we used to rent land to work. we had a book. then the idea was to get abandoned land held by the state get credits. so we're going to 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 for 3 years. she now owns one hector of land where she works and lives but we make enough to eat and grow vegetables once again. so we can reinvest this piece of land has changed the lives of many of them more than 50 families that have made their life here. the union of land workers negotiate with local

authorities to get access to abandon farm land. then they give the land to unemployed workers and train them in the food production. families were given this piece of land to produce vegetables, but now they're also trying to create in this place what they call a bio factory, to create natural fertilizers and with parents to drive insects the way here. for example, they tell us they created a natural fertilizer using bay, so that was grown here. france on being says they have skilled technicians that are helping them in production. not good emily, me not a lot, black i, florida. we don't want to eliminate the plans diseases, we want to drive them away, pesticides kill everything. and that's what we don't want those. and that idea spreading. now more than 7 agriculture colonies and the number continues to grow. again, tina is known for its vast agricultural production, but it's

a model that excludes the countries for his families. and that's why projects like this one are valuable. because access to a small piece of land helps provide work and the comfort satisfaction and security of owning your own home. theater will defeat when a fight. in the u. s. a congressional committee convene to discuss the dangerous space debris and an unregulated galaxy. as private industry launches satellites into low earth orbit, it's estimated that there are a well over 100000000 pieces of orbital space to free shepherd. tansy reports expect a object to be moving from or to starboard in front of the vehicle. a tense moment on the international space station in 2012. with the crew, sheltering and spacecraft in case of evacuation mission control tract and approaching piece of space debris sanity vicious,

a good use in the event passed safely by cover the i assess what to use at the thrust is at least 26 times since 1999 to avoid space debris, not that the space station is escaped collision is, this is the welds left at a window by a piece of debris, a few thousands of a millimeter across in 2016. and each collision creates yet more de brief. it's estimated that there are well over 100000000 pieces of orbital space debris, the remnants of past missions and the funk satellites, and the technology to remove all the space junk is still an early stage, not to mention a regulatory framework that all space faring countries feel that they can trust. how do you get an old satellite out of orbit? do you use a magnet clamp use printing it with a harpoon, you get it in a net. ok. and it's into this already crowded, unregulated orbit. and some 46000 new satellites. are expected to be launched in the next few years to the $4000.00 already in space. yet there's no single

independent entity governing or regulating all the space traffic. i'm to say that's one of the reasons why the rest of the article and in case regulations are eventually imposed. and already there are warnings, for example, the brightness of mosques, space, x, or satellites. seen here several hours after launch may mean the end of astronomy. such is the light pollution. but other congressional hearing in washington, d. c. there was another bleak warning. right now we're on track to have a major collision in lower orbit roughly every 10 years. and that's, that's problems only getting worse and worse. currently, there's no way to make a private operate a shift. the trajectory of south life is collision seems imminent. in fact, we don't even have to be transparent about where the satellites are any given time, where this is the hearing, agree that something needs to be done. if catastrophe is to be avoided and speak or to speak, it was that the us capitalized on its position. if we don't have united states lead this, never, then other individuals or entities will. but it was clear that even as participants

spoke with us as potential benign leadership in space. so that is also so americans, technological dominance, as a key instrument of us power, rejection against other sovereign states. what can satellite industry do to help make sure that companies trying to not continue to do what they're doing to try to stop communication and as soon as you go, we are in charge where, where the, the lead country in space, you switch everyone else off and you fail to get an agreement on with no geopolitical trust for now it's market forces that govern space. she ebert, mc al jazeera washington. ah, i'm capital. and with the headline on al jazeera, the average number of daily new infections in the us has nearly to.