a lot of fact, you know, as we heard in the previous discussion, this has been dismissed by politicians and scientists. so long periods of time. just think that young people don't get ill and many have dismissive, that makes fatigue or some sort of biological. and that's when actually it is a real biological n, as what we see in many people is anti bodies against multiple tissues in their body . that's perfect, potentially for longer periods of time. and there is more and more detail on suggesting that there's some sort of an intimate auto immune disease and also that newer degenerate is component. so we know that even in people with my symptoms, we can experience that again. last cognitive ability impacts that visible on the rain and the include the even younger people. so this is a disease we need to really take cdc, understand that it's a complex biological disease. and unless we understand, we are delaying mechanism not going to be able to treat something that affect millions of people. strong re situation. isn't it? talk to people. thank you so much for your time. we do appreciate it. thanks for

having me. moving onto a live news conference out of kuwait city where the u. s. secretary said anthony blake and is there with his that correct he counterpart, the foreign minister. oh and appreciation for that and we will remain appreciative for the usb. busy and the administration administration it's designed as the president of usa and society. and we remember also on this occasion, many nations between our country in failing. we talked about of strategic discussions and they can piece and give you extra push to relation. we look forward to

dialogue session between within us and we believe both countries and don't worry. so the current append demik maybe wouldn't exchange expertise with aspect to fighting this on all the other issues. and should the conditions actually countries believe that we are not, i mean, unless we are all the action needed and we off there's another side or that comes out which is the message which is with respect to the security and there's an abrasion and with us we thank you for this

part of the food security in the region. and we also have a love ration in education between us and several of our students who are studying in the menu the dickey decades of the unique indications enjoyed by the panoramic aware watch some aspects that we had to we should learn from it. and should i tease, i also depend operation on in this field. the depend demik. also those are those to the knowledge, right? for security and none of which are really legally

analysts. we joined join efforts together and we offer a efforts they, me to a law to assure high bus now this is, these are the actually that's not continue at the end of this industry. the question, because this issue regional and international law. and i think there are so many so many similarity and viewpoints regarding the on the regional initial level off because we believe countries elements to national a charter over servicing the united nation itself. what come you, my friend,

secretary lincoln to wish for you. nice visit and success. thank you. and everyone. on the stroke on. there we go. thank you. good afternoon. again. it's a real pleasure to be back in kuwait to be able to spend time in person with my friend, the foreign minister. we've had the opportunity to, to talk and work on issues, but nothing substitutes for being able to be in the same room the same place and have very good and detailed conversations so on it. i really want to thank you for your hospitality today. and of course the near the crown france,

the prime minister, the speaker of the parliament for their very, very warm reception and the very good conversations that we've had. i'm here because of the strong ties of friendship and partnership between the united states and enjoy. and as the foreign minister is already noted, 60 years ago when quite became an independent nation. our 2 nations quickly established diplomatic relations. and 30 years ago, the united states was proud to lead a coalition of nations to help liberate kuwait from the occupation of saddam hussein. we were at the parliament and saw a video of president george w bush when he was here after the liberation being received at the parliament. it was quite, i must say, moving to see those images again of our president secretary baker, our committee colleagues in that remarkable moment. and as president bush put it by

standing with a peaceful kuwait against an invasion by violent dictator. we were standing up for our principles, including the principle that america stands by her friends in the years since the partnership between the white and the united states has grown even stronger. and today is foreign minister alluded to. we're working together on a wide variety of issues, working together to end the call, the 1900 pandemic, to advance regional security to bridge divides, to address the needs of people across the middle east and beyond. and i really want to thank away for stepping up to provide very generous support to kovak, the facility that helps provide vaccines around the world. it's leading the global effort to procure and actually distribute safe and effective vaccines with strong support from both of our countries. for weight as demo demonstrated and an average

you've demonstrated personally remarkable statesmanship and healing the gulf rift. earlier this year, bringing a close to a political crisis that's divided golf nations. since 2017 was a critical partner in the effort to and the warm human. and to advance the cause of a 2 state solution between israelis and palestinians as iraq works to strengthen its relations with its, our neighbors quite in the united states are working together to increase its stability, its security, its integration with the region, including threw away its efforts to connect a rack to the gcc electricity grid and working together to help the african people and support regional stability as coalition forces withdraw from from afghanistan. this partnership is made possible by our deepening ties. kuwait is a major non new, non nato ally of ours is a gracious host to american troops based here. and that allows us to continue our

mission of helping to defend our partners in the region. the bilateral trade relationship continues to grow in 2019 accounted for about $4500000000.00. we're determined to raise that number of substantially by putting forward a positive vision for how to get business done. we know that allies and partners in the region have their own complex relationships around the world, including with china. and the question for us is not an either or choice. but we believe that by promoting a level business playing field and relying on innovation and openness, the united states will remain a strong partner choice throughout the region. earlier today's i mentioned i had a chance to, to tour whites, national assembly and institution vital to democratic governance. i appreciate the work that our countries do together both bilaterally and, and international institutions to advance respect for freedom of religion and

belief. perhaps most significantly are people to people, ties are enduring. nearly 10000 quailey's study. did you say, could you say antony, blinking alongside the kuwaiti farm? anastasia kaufman? not sort of mohammed l news conference part event in lincoln's tour in the region. it was in india yesterday. of course kuwait today, regional stability, i think is the order of the day talking about issues to do with iraq, israel palestine as well afghan, it's done quite obviously a very important ally of the united states as secretary blinking the saying stretching right back to the go for of 990 bars are founded on let's move on. hundreds of thousands of children are going to bed hungry in lebanon report from said the children found more and more parents are unable to pay for food and medicine. and of course, it's even worth for syrian refugees in lebanon. 9 out of 10 families are living in

extreme poverty. the report says the gap and finances needed to buy basic goods has grown. 550 percent in just the past year. the value of lebanon's currencies collapsed if the country remains in the grip of a political end and economic crisis, and by dom with us now who is regional media manager for save the children on skype from beirut, thank you for your time. i know the situation is bad in lebanon, but these numbers coming out of your report show it is possibly even worse, certainly than i thought. and as always, affecting the most vulnerable people, it is good afternoon, come out. they says it is a tragic situation for thousands, hundreds of thousands of children and by the way, from all backgrounds, we're not talking about just one with group or one nationality. one background we are talking about geographically, demographically, an overall dark and very, very tough situation. just to give you an idea of how these children are living

take today, and just to give you a breakdown of meals, for example, for any ordinary child. now in, in babylon for breakfast, the children do not have the basics. they cannot afford to think by cheese, for example. now i hear from parents that they children now mixing water and time. so have breakfast for food for lunch. for example, the children are relying on a bowl of boiled potatoes and a small dish of solid even grains, lentils rise out of reach for these families. they're not simply doesn't exist for many families. baby milk doesn't exist for many. for many babies. now i hear people are mixing water and a little sugar because sugar is also on affordable. these pieces, i mean, you would be forgiven to think that i'm reading your passage for much of because it's story and 19th century. this is 21st century lebanon, a country that has been, you know, used to be a middle income country. now, particularly these families that have been,

and middle income category are falling down and done. and now we are talking about people who need 550 percent more money just to survive. so it strikes me that we've moved. well, we haven't moved beyond an economic crisis for these people, but in the sense that it actually needs to be an appeal and an urgent appeal for aid and for money and for help. because lebanon's economic problems are going to take a long time to turn around and in the inter, and you're going to have people going hungry, getting sick and done. absolutely, absolutely. and we cannot wait. i mean, the simple message that i'm here to put out is that we kind of way we can be talking about government as being falls or how to hasn't been formed a full year. and now and the waiting list should cannot wait on. we have an opportunity on the phone. if this conference is being said by from dogs ahead, there is a genuine, genuine opportunity have international community to say you've logged in and from,

from the bring trailer, take the children back from the bring the children are going to bed. education is not, is not even up there with priorities anymore. you know what the children pilots is all now? come on is to go out in the morning, collect whatever scrap metal they can, they can collect, go and market to get the price of it as a one single bag of bread and feed their family to these children as young as 569 or 10 these children are now worried about how their families are going to survive . there is a general and charles now for, for the international community to come together on some level. and just a quick wait a minute on. and i mentioned this in the introduction, the syrian refugees in lebanon, who already had it so tough. and there are plenty of other refugees in living in his all palestinians as well, particularly. i mean, how bad is it, get for them? it is, unfortunately, it's only getting worse. i mean, we took about 9 out of 10 families now under the poverty line among soon refugees

for example. and we know that, for example, now that the pay to harvest season is, is now on probably every time we have spoken to has a child who is now bending down on a farm, collecting potatoes, just for probably $0.50 a day. these, these, the i hear from families that now the solution is even to, to, to go back to syria because they have no little left here and left, and i go back to unsafe areas and syria. we also can unfortunately come out about families who now face tough choices on a daily and hourly basis. and i'm going back to syria. my goodness that says so much doesn't it? right, but i'm from said the children. thank you so much. really good to talk about this. thank you. heavy fighting continues across parts of southern afghanistan the 3rd day. it's been taking place all around kandahar city where 20 people have been injured in the past few hours. while the strikes have been reported in neighboring helmand province as well across,

i've got us on violence and the territorial advances made by the ton of ban on forcing people to leave their homes. a senior us official is told al jazeera, if there is no fire. the situation could become the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. diplomatic editor james bass. travel to balmy on with 47000. people have been displaced in just the past few weeks. traveling with the un took by me. it should take just over 4 hours to drive to this mountainous province, but the route is far too dangerous. now. once seen as the safest place in afghanistan, recent violence has seen the un recording over 47000 internally displaced people in recent weeks. dameion without doubt, has one of the best hospitals in the country, funded by the aga khan. but the hospital has been overwhelmed by people suffering. after walking for days through the mountains. wonder i left because the

taliban had captured more districts. when we came here, all the people were on the run. they were fleeing. my husband works for the police and wasn't able to come with us. i took all 3 of my children to get some help, but i received no help. these are among 300000 people displaced across. i've got to stand since may. the un humanitarian coordinator is if there's no c spar, things could get much, was my fear. unfortunately, something which gives me trouble to sleep. i think we will be looking at some of the war stretching this, which we have seen in the recent history. we traveled in the u. n. convoy out of town towards the mountain to school built by the u. n. refugee agency, you and hcr. it was constructed to educate children returning from outside africa. stone. instead, these kids all recently fled their homes inside the country. music opposite,

quickly spread out that the government coming here, these women desperate for help. after abandoning their villages, one of the fear that more than they told us that the taliban are coming. so we fled from our homes. what could we do? we were in the barbara mountains and walked all the way. it was freezing there. there was no food. so we were obliged to come here. there's a reason people here are so fearful. there's a long history of persecution, of the hazard, of the larger the sheer ethnic group that make up most of by me and population. they remember the taliban harsh rules in 1900 ninety's. when they blew up the giant buddhist statues that stood for centuries in the sandstone cliffs. the united nations can only provide food and shelter when people 1st flee. we met this group of families who left their homes 3 months ago and then now struggling all living into small rooms. one of the problems is un,

humanitarian appeal is desperately undefended. they've received just 37 percent of the $1100000000.00 they need this year. what we've seen here, and by me, and it's just a snapshot of what's going on in many places in afghanistan, people on the moon fleeing conflict, human misery, that the un is warning, could soon turn into humanitarian catastrophe. james bass. ouch is era, bobby, and province. i've got another note from afghanistan, the killing of a popular comedian by the taliban has drawn international condemnation. nazare mohammad akasha, who was also a police officer, was abducted from his home in canada. how problems a video showing his meant at the hands of fighters. the thought outrage on spokesmen reports like that they will investigate the killing almost a week now since the i think 70000000000 began as far as got an update on what's

happening. thank you so much for all. as you heard earlier that farrah, there's been a major who run a virus scare ahead of the start of the track and field events in tokyo, double world champion american pool volter, sam kendrick presented out of the games after testing positive for co. good. 19 argentinian her man and she out of the leo also has the positive and is out of the event above. now i was delighting in a hotel world record holder arm on the plants is says the whole field is food. it's hard to, to react to because it's still doesn't really feel real right now. because i mean, as far as an hour ago, i was still preparing myself for, you know, a, a big battle with sam. because, you know, i feel like come in here that he's of course, one of my, one of my main rivals and somebody that's definitely going to was gonna push me an entire file. all of the posters are pretty, pretty spooked out. right now. i was, i mean i was going to possibly meet up with sam yesterday, but i got a phone call from the history my girlfriend, and then i ended up coming up with them. so that was a i think that was a,

that was a pretty lucky, lucky dodge. right there. and yes, so right now i've been good and so we're all pretty spooked out right now. let's go back to andy richardson, who joins us once again from tokyo. and andy, what does this all mean for saturdays, pole vault competition? can it really go ahead now? i mean, it will go ahead because that's the way sport is organized. now, in this world of carpet 19, unfortunately, cases like some kendricks are somewhat inevitable, but it shows that the high y rocks that everybody is walking, hey, let's drilling the data a little bit as to what happened. he was training in the last day or 2 effects, not just him when he test positive, recovered 19 the fact that of the athletes from other countries when they met the entire australian track and field teen at one point today was in isolation. 3 of their athletes identified themselves as close contacts, kendricks,

they've had subsequent. pcl says now even though that negative, because they were close contacts, that means a lot to be allowed to train. now in subsequent days, they will be isolating in between time, the rest of australia's track and field seen on are allowed to move out round the athletes village as per normal, as normal as it can be. i mean, the fleets village this all happening at a time when japan and tokyo is recording record numbers of code. 19 cases. the country's chief medical advisors saying that needs to be a clear, stronger message from the governments about the dangers of covered 19 about the infectiousness if that helps a variance. but this is the other factor at play here and how long this can be pursued will be interesting. the government's maintaining the line that there was no link between the olympics on this spike in cases. and that is also, obviously a line that the olympic organizes a very came to push every day there's. there's an international olympic committee,

media briefing, mcadams houses as a manager, that he is well worn now, whereby he says, the athletes here are the most tested community in the world, the covey 19. and as far as he's aware, not a single case has been passed from within the athletes village to the wide can see . and as long as that is the line that taking and it's a line that's agreed upon by the government, these games will carry on. and now he said, track and field events get under way on friday. why has there been so much talk about the so called super shoes? destroys the 1st lympics. why will have be so called soup issues? critics say that the equivalent of mechanical doping, i will, i think, insist no one is doing anything wrong, no rules being broken out with the old and in, with the new i haven't just bought

a fresh pair of running trainers. these are so called super shoes, using technology that can make even a middle aged man run with a renewed sprint get a step. it's not running with a pair of mini trampling strap see fi. normally when you're running, you lose a lot of energy. when your foot hit the ground, and obviously the longer your foot on the ground, the slower you go with the shoes, return that energy to you very quickly. and spring you forward into next dried timothy. she will be by the my legacy. when kenya's elliot kit shogi became the 1st man to break the to our barrier in the marathon or be it's in an unofficial race, he did it in super shoes. since the arrival in 2016 times run by top male, marathon runners have improved by 2 percent. it's slightly more for women. what we're going to see in the sport is going to be a race between the manufacturers. vol. are all in the race between the athletes. and analogy could be formula one, racing. if you're comparing to teens

a $1000000000.00 teen versus a $100000.00 teen, if such a thing, you know the, the drive is no longer important. what's more important is the call athletics, world governing body reject stuff, argument saying what's inside the shoes is strictly regulated. so after all highly scientific shoe destruction experiments here in the main press center. this is what we're left with. full t millimeters of phone is allowed in a road running shoes and then there's the carbon fiber plate here. and it's the scoop design of the carbon fiber plate. that's the key that directs the energy back to the runner. the scoop ship of the place essentially gives you a propulsive false in the right direction. every time needed to when you go into effect strength and the way the shoes with lighter than rival shoes around about underneath 7 grams. all of these factors combine 2 around both focus and improvement on economy all reduced cost of running and speed. the head off will

doubtless, ex vashti and co has a vested interest in making sure the rules are followed early this year. coast, british indoor $800.00 me to record was broken by run wearing a truck version of the super issue. every few that's going to be utilized by the athletes has been checked and evaluated. we have a working group, but it's down that the broader discussion is always about the balance between innovation and mechanical advantage. but for the very 1st time, we do now have a system to be able to evaluate that. what c no doubt is that this technology is changing top level athletics and the speed of my early morning joke, and richardson al jazeera, tokyo, john is dan, both australia and the united states and the limpid pool on thursday. they won the women's 4 by 200 meter freestyle relays, setting a new world record. the united states finished. and 2nd, while the favorites, australia had settled for brand new zealand and ireland both won their 1st gold

medals of the games in rowing to new zealand. women's pear who set a world's best time, the semi final finishing ahead of the rational limpid committee in canada, the irish winning their 1st ever growing gold medal with the men lightweight double scott. let's take a look at the middle table now and those metals in the pool of new china up into 1st place with 14 golds host. japan are 2nd with fewer overall metals. the u. s. are in 3rd and have one. the most metals overall australian substract is the shock leader. after the 1st round of the men's golf tournaments, he is rank 101 in the world and is never want to pro tournament 60 players from 35 countries are taking part home favorite. hi jackie met cmas amy to add a gold medal to his master's championship. he is 6 shots behind struck the okay. and that is all useful for now. ok. see you in the next news i'll far

that's a 1300 hours g m t. 2 hours from now i'll be back for that one as well. stick around after the break, sammy get on with all your latest headline. ah . news. news. news. news in 2001 around the world, the arab australians accused of being enemies with them and attacking the way of life. treated like we were all suspects. we were all under suspicion struggling to adapt to the new found home. out there explored the history of the lebanese

community and australia. once upon a time and punch on our era were told technology can help tackle the spread of coven 19. but our tech solutions, the best solutions we're starting, something that seems like it's in public health, very quickly becomes about measuring people what day they're being collected. whereas it being forward holly re, looks at the limits of time and the potential of other creative ways to deal with the issues we face, track it when tech to go viral, episode 3 of all hail the locked down. and i was just 0 me the conflict between the if you can government and the regional take, great people with the racial fund has skills thousands and internally displaced more than 2000000 over the past 7 month. 350000 people in the region are facing famine according to the united nation, which says that our vision is being used as a weapon for those who managed to cross the border,

say it's not because conditions have improved back home. they say to continue to be targeted because of their lives and many of properties are being reported and all becomes taken refuge conditions here. last time on the news is president says billions of dollars have been stolen from the country and the sacks, the president of the national television station, ah, san jose dan. this is al jazeera alive from doug, also coming up a battle getting more intense by the de rebel district of 40000 people.