ah, look about your watch out. there was news with me, the whole rom reminder of all stories polls and opened. and again, b as touchy contested presidential election. record 6 candidates are running for top posts in a vote seen as crucial. so the countries future us president joe biden says he's going to have talks about the russia ukraine crisis with president vladimir putin. washington warn dates prepared to take action against moscow. in baynes ukraine, australia was planning to go ahead with raping its economy despite the new variance spreading in the country's estimate relations in health and not underway against vaccine mandates. well, health organization says alma crohn has been detected in 38 countries, so they sit in the hub as an epidemiologist and assistant professor of the infectious disease epidemiology, london, school of hygiene and tropical medicine. and join me from the british capital.

kentucky with us on al jazeera dr. i mean the issue of what this variant is and how quickly it's transmitting is really in the hands of the scientists. according to friday's w h i briefing, they insisted time was needed for the scientists to come up with the answers by suppose the public wants to know how much time is needed. i think the 3rd, the time needed is probably depending on the the answers that we need depend on not only what's happening with the disease that we're so we need time to understand how it plays out in other countries. and, but also there is obviously lab work to figure out how the virus will, will behave. but aside from finding out about the new variant itself, there are some answers that we already know about what we need to do and how this might play out. so we already know that oma ron is probably much more transmissible

. we know that it has the risk of re infecting those who have had co it before, probably on the order of twice as much if not more and these data are coming out of south africa. how that will change for other settings is, is uncertain. but really the, the story here is an oma crime. it's not the new variant is very much, is an old story of, of gross inequity, and colbert. it remains and has been and remains a tale of 2 worlds. and unfortunately told in multiple chapters of new variance that show the story remains very much the same. so let's just talk about that. let's talk on just a very so let's, let's, let's talk about the variant itself and the delta variant being the predominant variance. and in northern europe as winter set saying all the rule, yes, you might say in the protocols that people need to observe about protecting themselves, still the same, should they be social distancing, wearing mask,

be weary of their environment in terms of the, the way we understand all mccomb being transmitted. are there any new rules, any new awarenesses that we should be aware of? i think you just said it. the game plan remains the same. what we have in our hands to address this is very much what we have already, which is you want to reduce your risk of being infected, and that you're reducing your exposure as much as you can. you also want to increase your immunity, and that's fortunately through the advent of vaccines and booster shots. and those, those 2 things are very critical. of course, if you do get ill, there's also the anti viral treatments which have changed again in terms of treating severe illness from from cove it. so the arsenal are in our house is very much the same. the problem is, is how differently it can be implemented in different places. in places that are

resource limited. we're still trying to implement the lessons we've learned in the 1st wave. and so our chances in those places of being to being able to address on a crime and the potential severity of it is very much limited, been where you live, unfortunately as a. so for the moment it's being said by scientists that we've been hearing from the last 2 days of the symptoms of infection, a mild, but if it's not stopped in its tracks, could this mutate into something more serious, theoretically. therefore, what could happen if you can't stop this in its tracks? so the question on severity is, is still unknown because the initial date has come out of south africa. and there's 2 things with the south african data in that the population is, is very young. and so you would expect in a population like that to have to have, you know, sort of a less severe reaction to the disease when what happens when it comes in an older population is, is yes, i know that,

but also is also we do need to figure out how, how serious this is and how, how much it causes severe disease. but again, with the advent of treatment that has changed again because if you do unfortunately developed call that your reaction to treatment shouldn't change very much depending on which variance you have. but again, that means that you have to have treatment and that treatment is not widely available in most of the world. and especially in those that are extremely resource limited. where much of course it has hit and it continues among says obviously for the moment my soon the from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. thank you for your time. you think that greece has fallen behind and k vaccinations . and as using some creative methods to catch up in a european 1st, the government will start finding those over the age of 60, he refused to get vaccinated. jobs are all closer bolts now from northern greece on the other initiatives and country. the country is taking in the fight against

coven 19. this is the government's expeditionary force. bobo vaccination squads of founding out to villages across northern greece, where infections and misinformation run high. at the village of man, the las maria cook t though is getting her 1st shot. she works at a local fruit canning factory with $250.00 people, some of whom refused to be vaccinated with another. i guess they didn't want to do it because of what they heard about a micro chip been put inside you that controls you. that was the mean reason. others think the vaccine is a financial hoax or that of yeah, yeah, and i value when a new vaccine comes out, they experiments for 10 years and then put it into production. that's how it usually happens. as soon as this pandemic happened, they produced a vaccine. he said the multi nationals could sell it. am i lying most? don't believe such theories. in fact, it motherless. there aren't enough jobs to go round. they brought you for

a young lady the 1st time they brought 40 shots. this time they brought 37, but we expect more dilemma since early october. daily infections have tripled to about $6000.00 and daily deaths to about 90 government statistics show that 90 percent of these deaths are among the unvaccinated. to reduce deaths, authorities are trying to increase vaccinations. the meat that is telecom cuz the regional health director is pairing up with mayor's priests and even football teams to ensure a good turn out for his vaccination vans and dispel myths surrounding the vaccine. pollyanna become lafayette, isn't a lot of people came to the village square just to see what other people's vaccination would be like, because they had heard that you might get dizzy or fall over. but the government is using the stick as well as the carrot, starting in january unvaccinated people over 60 will pay a monthly fine of a $120.00. the 1st such penalty in europe. the governor is concerned for older

coven sufferers stems from the fact that they are the most vulnerable to the disease. people, $65.00 and over, make up just 12 percent of coven cases and grease, but also half of all hospitalizations and 83 percent of deaths. the unvaccinated are being punished in other ways to their band, from indoor restaurants, bars, theaters, and jims, and have to present a 48 hour rapid test to enter banks, government buildings, and non essential shops. the idea is to preserve an open economy for the 62 percent of the population that is fully vaccinated. there's been a fourfold surgeon vaccination bookings. the hope is that greece will quickly close the vaccination gap with the rest of europe. jobs are opal us alger 0 felony, g took his president as outline government plans to salvage the economy after the value of the turkish lira sang to

a historic low. but high inflation is pushing up the cost of goods and making manufacturing more expensive. send him, consider reports are from it stumble. this is a new routine for ali who owns this gorman market in a stumble. he has to frequent the update the prices on many goods as the turkish lira continues, it's free for. it's not said these 40 percent of its value against the dollar since september on it says as suppliers increase the prices he has to do the same according to the chamber of agriculture. the difference between producer selling prices and what people pay for goods in supermarkets, rose line fault in november. the government accuses supermarket chains are stuck piling and manipulating prices. shamae this takes us juice, for example, it was 29 years before the latest price increase. now i have to sell for 41.5. our customers are reacting, even some of them get that. it's not us,

but the economy in the country present, or just very far, john argues high interest rates are behind all the countries economic problems. he says he asks the central bank to curb interest rates so that companies can borrow for less and buy boosting growth and exports. turkey can become europe's new china . the government says at assessing a new model for turkey is economy, but the experts warn it's may fail as the country is suffering chronicler. high inflation and relies on foreign funding and energy resources. it can almost like professor rash can say the policy is highly unusual and it's not working. how compute kiss me that is it? the children's future, most citizens, a wage workers creating jobs by production is good by any means, but it needs a plan and priorities. inflation is pressure is rising, so turkey should switch to a conventional economic policy. the law says add on has re shuffled 3 treasury and

finance ministers and fire to central bank governors in a year. and that on earth investors took it to do full to us a good despite the phone investors fund managers see a great tension here. the uncertain seasons, other risk factors, stop them from coming. we need to bring down both economic and geopolitical risk premiums by proving it's under control. presenters on voc party has govern turkey for 2 decades and ahead of an election scheduled for 2023. he has promised all economic problems who will be sold in the next 6 months. but right now, many people say they are biggest challenge is the rising price of food, fuel medicine and other essential goods. and they're waiting to see whether the government can en turkeys, currency crisis. because all the al, just re stumble is governance, as troops falls to grow, invited to retreats from that positions in the fall region. the rebels aren't commenting but fighting is reported to be limited to an area between the towns of

buddy. i'm to see video obtained by on to there appears to show to go in full, says retreating north government leaders need capital recently lost a counter offensive to, to crime fighters, advance towards a sub of thousands of been killed in northern ethiopia during a year. fighting between the rebels and federal forces. $50000.00 university staff in the united kingdom have gone on strike a pe, pensions, and precarious employment contracts. they're in a bitter dispute with some of the countries oldest educational institutions. they've parker as more from london solidarity. some of the best brains in britain, an angry and on the street, paralyzing classes for more than a 1000000 students across the country. but many of those same students are on the picket line in solidarity with their lecturers, staff and $58.00 universities are involved, furious shop, pension cut, pay freezes,

and casual short term contracts. there left some academics on the brink of poverty in their paypal, as you say, doing ph d's that's, you know, doing their doctorates doing their original research. i'm thinking, wow, i'm just getting to the pinnacle of my academic work. i've taken me 1520 years, whatever to get there and suddenly smack in your face. this idea that you're going to be like an uber driver. you're landing up in his casual eyes sector with potentially being sacked at any point campaign or say, universities are hiding the full truth from fee paying students. actually, this is the dirty thinker that keep you k higher education, a flight. people from all around the world come to study in the u. k and pay i watering amounts of money to do it. but the people who lead you pay higher education institutions would rather see math, disruptive, industrial action every year and fix the basic problems. this is the voice of amy and english lecturer in these universities are making

a lot of money off of students. but they are not at compensating their staff and staff are having to live and really severely an insecure conditions. she doesn't want to appear on camera because she doesn't want what happened to her to undermine her future career balls, doing her postgraduate degree and teaching at the london university. she made $15000.00 a year and able to pay rent cost. she chose to live in a tent for 2 years and carry on teaching. the students never knew there been stories about cache i staff who've been facing homelessness. and definitely a lot of cash i staff have had experienced that not being able to afford awe rent and have had a couch server or do those kinds of things. or they're stretched between and multiple different short. and we're hourly paid contracts. the average salary of a university vice chancellor is $330000.00 a year. excluding bonuses,

an average electric salary, 50000, but universities u. k. the represents the employees of the pensions dispute denies this problem. we not corporate a big business with charities, almost all u. k universities and charities. and we will try to reduce capitalization wherever we can. but of course, some of the people that we enjoy actually walked casual jobs because they have careers out way. if a panoramic has told us anything as though people on the short term contracts with unpredictable hours, with few employment rights can quickly run into trouble if their employer suddenly, for instance, decided that jobs are expendable many of these lectures believe that they're being forced to make a difficult choice between living precariously who giving up the career. they love me, boca al jazeera london, now the entire coaching staff has left the troubled english county cricket club, yorkshire, 16 staff members, including the director of cricket and head coach of departed. it's the latest

development in a racist in scotland. golfing. the club yorkshire was heavily criticized for the handling of a report that found that former player as emer feet was a victim of racial harassment and bullying. now modern day nazareth is one of israel's most significant palestinian israeli towns, but a growing number of residents there. it's historical legacy is under threat or force. it has more nazareth, the home of jesus christ, his long drawn pilgrims and visitors from around the world. the hundreds of years, its old city rang to the sounds of shopkeepers and crops. people. this century though, though sounds of dwindled. a handful of businesses struggling on. but here and there, splashes of color show signs of a fight back. resent zombies at, annie decided to renovate an old warehouse with traditional nazareth colors and materials and to work and live in the old city with a mission. i'm telling it's not easy, but if me and another person and another one opens their,

their work there cuz he was taught here and they also find a house and live here. so they will need service. it's. it's like organically, it will open by itself. but it will take time. there are signs it is beginning, young palestinian israeli designers and entrepreneurs have been moving in, inspired by earlier artists to left their mark. a bedroom ceiling bears the work of one of many lebanese painters brought in to decorate fine homes in the 19th century . a few streets away, an 18th century treasure that long been in decay, the sariah or palace built by local rule or die. her alma is now under the stewardship of the municipal government, but as being used informally, by local activists. just enough we saw there was the building leg, the sir. i are closed and neglected a new one, was doing anything with it. we had the chance to open it with the goal of turning

it into a cultural center with a little money that we have something that will serve the community here. many here point to a restoration program 20 years ago is one of the reasons for the old cities emptying nazareth. 2000 with funding from the israeli tourism ministry was intended to prepare this biblical city for people visit. they say the project ripped up ancient cobblestones. remove the shops, wooden doors, replacing them with steel and more than stone. they say the disruption of all this removed trade from the old city from which it's never recovered. its appointed nazareth municipality now accepts where once there were 450 business is operating in the old city. now there are just 50 this beautiful architecture. one of them, this painstakingly restored restaurant. it seemed by many as a 1st step in the revival movement. it's owned by raisins, husband, who pines for the nazareth of his childhood, and intellectual and cultural center. i am sure it will come back because the city

still have very much power and much very good. the positive energies people like present. how many coming back to the, to the origin and to the, to the identity? actually the old cities always been the heart of nazareth. now a growing group of residence wants to get it beating again. hurry for said al jazeera nazareth. well, still head on out there will have all the sports round up coming from santa lucius for a live from our i have cup studio here and bill, how will have the latest form determined as some of the competitions biggest sides are in action? ah, the master pro democracy movement, violent crackdowns assassinations, and you imposed sanctions?

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ah, welcome to all. is there a special cover to all the fab cup of the tournament, doubling up a as a major warm up event for the casa woke up next year, had on sana how most? plenty of school is news for you and putting a super saturday of football at the fee for our cup mol, her current. the inaction was 3 more of the competition. biggest sized playing later spotted, one of the world's most recognizable saws gets in on the ab come action. and we have a serious contender for knockouts all the year. ah, why there's really a super saturday of football hearing cuts,

all 4 of the biggest sides at the fee for our cup are in action. the 1st of those being morocco, this retail up against jordan at half time, in other games. saudi arabia take on palestine later. i'll jerry and egypt also play on saturday. well, let's go live to andy, which is in, who is at the mad, the banality, stadium a for the game. andy, it looks like it will be 2 winds from 2 for morocco. yeah, they look on co star replace in the quarter finals. jordan, of course, coming into this game of the back of that surprise when against saudi arabian, those sorts of results. we can expect those in this are of because 3 fourths of circumstance, a lot of the big nations having to come here without some of the leading players, although this is a fee for events, european patient sampler and the notification to release that players for this tool and so for example, morocco missing some of that big players from the premier league and from the french lead, doesn't seem to be effective and see much they want the right thing guy. i guess

palestine for now as well. so that cruising into into the not cat rounds here, but they will have that, that big squad available, that main players available. so the biggest challenge is really that lie ahead in 2022. this form is very useful for those french players looking to make an impression, but they have the africa cup of nations coming up in cameron. this thought is the start of the year. that's a title if not once, who's back in 1976. and with this generation of place to be hoping they can improve on but they did qualify for the last world cup. you remember in 2018 and then ended up in a really tough group alongside iran, portugal in spain. a couple of narrative feats got to draw against spain in that final great game, but nothing desperate to get back to cats are in 2022. but to do that, they have to come through that much feed african wilka play off. that's coming up in march. very busy saturday and what can we expect from the other

action later in the day? yes, who is 2 of the big things in africa taking. 3 second said, lights are on this stuff that we've 11 in versus algeria and sudan versus he gets old. seems looking hopefully to come back to the world cup in castle the end of next year. they really raises the question of just how difficult it is for a leading african country to qualify for the world cup. they only have 5 spots available. and i have a slide is constantly trying to get into my mouth of the mind, but i'll try, i'll try to consume it. log on to that is one of the big issues, the african football have they look at, for example, european confederation which has 13 spots available. i think they are being discriminated against. no team in africa comes through just from winning that qualifying group. they all have to go into this horrible, to like, play off in march to get to get a spot in capsule. so when this talk about

a bi annual world cup, or when there was talk about the work of being expanded in 2026 as it as it is being now up to 48 teams. africa for a number of reasons is always behind night. the by any well kept gives more of can shut, seems a chance to more opportunities to qualify and obviously in 2026 that will be more spots available for the confederation of african football. and hopefully none of these players just get a spot of the finals and there were some thank you very much for that. good luck with a fly. we have one here in the studio actually. so i have booked their spot in the quarter finals. the host that beat on mine and dramatic fashion as education city stadium on friday. while they were the lucky recipients of an old goal deep into selfish time, there were doubt whether the bull across the line, but it was awarded after being attacked. cut out, winning to on to advance from group a well cut as much attracted one of the world's biggest stars,

multi time grammy winner justin bieber. the singer who says he loves sport, might have good reason to return for cassette 2022 with his country canada. in a strong position to qualify tennis. now, novak joke of it is still keeping quiet on weather hill. defend his title at next month's australian. open. his participation is in doubt because all players have to be vaccinated against coven 19 to compete. the world number one has so far refused to say if he had the jap, you will be informed. i know you what you want. i'm not, i'm not going to give you an answer tonight. i know what you want to ask me that, but you will be informed that said, when it's all i can tell you, i don't, i can't give you any date, but obviously australia is around the corner. so you will know very soon i understand you want, you want some answers on how i swear. i started the season always started, but i really retired from you know,

the season and this whole year. so i just prefer sticking to the family quality, time rehab mold, and then then let's see. and we've got a serious contender for knock out of the gear and may have fans in connecticut. witness belatoya vent away to champion sir. joke. pitts is aneesha. devastating. a blow to finish off kyo, j o. a gucci. it is had been losing the fight up until the cale. and so that's all and then the for now a reminder of our top sports toy. laurel corn action on a super saturday. i the are up there. we are now up against jordan at half time. and later on we'll see egypt, algeria and saudi arabia take the field for the 2nd group games will be back in a few hours time for another sports update. at $1345.00 at gmc, but stay with us here at al does there after the break? we've got another news update.

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