is castle prepares for the regions biggest ever sourcing events that the for our come on al jazeera ah hello, i'm down jordan dough. the quick reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, the world health organization says the cobit 19 amok run. an errand is spreading faster than any strain before it. the agencies criticising wealthier nations for offering vaccine boosters on millions around the world are yet to get their 1st dose. it says there'll be no end to the pandemic if this continues. meanwhile, in the u. k. infections a doubling every 2 days out as he was pulled been and reports from london. in europe, the jobs are going into people's arms as fast as they can be unpacked. more than

half a 1000000 booster shots were administered in the u. k. in just one day, fall short of the 1000000 a day, the government's aiming for. but the race to reinforce immunity is gathering pace. it's the extraordinary infectiousness of the oma con variant, though, which is really worrying global scientists and health experts. we have learned by now that we underestimate this by it or set out period, even if or me cron does cause less cbs, this is the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared. health systems in the u. k. m. a kron cases are now doubling every 2 days, and with more than 200000 possibly infected every day, the number could pass a 1000000 within a week, long queues again at vaccinations, centers up and down the u. k. as the government's booster jap program continues apace with the dilemma facing the politicians on that side of the river is whether the jobs alone will be enough to slow the progress of the on

a cron variance. scientists have never seen. never seen a coven 19 very capable of spreading so rapidly. so we have to look at what we can do to slow only cons. advance down. that level of alarm was reinforced in testimony to a u. k. parliamentary committee. we are concerned with the large volume of individuals who are being infected every day in the population. that we're going to have a very difficult for weeks ahead with castes in the community, which will, of course, cause individuals to need to still work in school. and then for those cases to transfer into admissions tonsils, the world health organization has, again raised the issue of vaccine hoarding and warned the world's wealthy nations that giving boosters to low risk groups while others are yet to have even one dose of vaccine is dangerous. w joe is not against boosters. we are against inequity. if we end in equity,

we end the pandemic when it comes to deciding which options to reduce the infection rate. the advice from the w h o. do it all, pull? brennan, al jazeera london british impedes of approved new restrictions in england to curved the spread of cobra. 19 but 98 m. p. 's from prime minister barak johnston's on party voted against it. face coverings will be compulsory most indoor settings, and there'll be changes to so fascination rules. cobra passes were also required for large venues. the un security council of math to discuss the progress on salvaging the 2015 iran nuclear deal. western ambassadors say the situation is great in iran's nuclear program is more advanced than ever. tara wants assurances that sanction lifted foul material. the u. s. is condemning the conviction of the husband of bella. luce is opposition leaders, politically motivated. se sick. a new ski has been sentenced to 18 years in prison . organizing mass, i'm resident citing social hatred launches campaign to unseat president lucas

shanker. head of elections last year, but was arrested. his wife spent lana, ran in his place, but lost many observer say the boat was raked. allegations of surface that bosses, that a candle factory in the us state of kentucky threatened to fire staff. they left the building of the tornado approached. management denies the claims, at least 8 people were killed and the building was flattened on friday. workplace say to review, will not be conducted. the us house of representatives is debating contempt of congress charges against former white house chief of staff, mot. meadows. on monday, a congressional committee investigating the january 6th capital riot unanimously voted in favor of the measure. meadows refused to attend the hearing last week, despite being subpoenaed. so those were the headlines. the news continues to al jazeera after our 0 correspondence statement that's watching bye for now. ah.

ready ah ours is up and a number of people living sounds now exceed those living outside. when this milestone was reached in 2009, few people notice across the globe, cities are growing upwards and outwards at unprecedented speed. fundamentally changing the way we live and why this could be a golden age of architecture, or time of unrestrained commercial speculation. how our

well will look for generations to come is being decided daily. and te, few of us are engaging with the debate in this supercharged world of instant communication, instant message, and instagram. we're too busy looking down. it's time for us to look up. ah, i spent over 12 years living in hotel rooms and is quite literally a suitcase you and your tooth brush lots of time for reflection. all of the jobs. i've done a pretty huge mega cities. ah, when you're in a city like that,

you're surrounded by architecture in the minute you open your hotel window. check out the view. when you come into the room to the moment you wake up in the morning and walk out on the street, see the customer my day job involved working with journalists who have had to come to grips with lots of new technology. so i kind of act as a human interface between this highly technical equipment and walk somebody's trying to achieve creatively. i kind of come to the phase where i said to myself, you know what russia is time that you re invested some of your own creativity. and got something out of being in all these amazing places. i was always interested in composition and perspective. as far as i came out of studying on to

college. and then came across some time. that's what i don't know what they are like to try doing time lapse is a beautiful combination. still, photography and filmmaking. time left shows the world in a state of alter reality, blue with it, and see how the world around you behaves. and the way you cannot see the naked eye time lapse is like magic. i i oh,

all the places i've worked in recent years, nowhere has changed more rapidly than catan capital. a century ago, 12000 people. this population is now over a 1000000 fueled by the oil and gas reserves. ah, if you look carefully, these buildings, you will see the few occupied. ah, despite the armies of farm workers, labor, day and night to build more, critics dismissed these newly minted gulf capital. as instance cities. ah, the inference being that they are mere facades for reflection of national wealth and pride in portrait on the west vanity projects for wealthy patrons and the overpaid foreign architect

in a country where nationals make up just 15 percent of the population. these prejudices often reinforce for expense like me, by the fact that you seldom if ever meet to locals. ah, it took a friend of mine from london to introduce me to fatima a young battery architect who offered to show me the less visible side of tow. how's current development boom wanting? i've noticed harris versus building so what's the purpose of building all these buildings? you know, without anybody to move into that immediately different vision. building a brand image for the city, but it's also another patient for this population growth that we already see taking place. do you think people misunderstand what's going on in the gulf right now? definitely, it's very apparent that all they see is the sort of, i just sort of the crust of, of the city,

the cross of the society. the business understanding is not entirely surprising. when i look at the cities, i find the hall to see beyond the tower. oh, things might not compete to do by mega structures. they do truly, i. nevertheless, i think i meant to, ah, it to me skyscrapers made little sense in the gulf. that economic justification is based solely on the price of land and there is no shortage of that here. amazing. i think maybe we'll historically, people have lived in one or 2 story houses. and judging by how m to the towers are showing, little inclination to change is like your hosting, and i got them as mac in the heart of the old

town gives a sense of how look like before the discovery of oil and gas. ah, now it too is marked for redevelopment. we select somebody to georgia tech who then worked with selected architect. they came up to basically come up with proposal for the area for all these neighborhoods have long since been abandoned by the original owners in favor of the less congested suburbs becoming home today. how's migrant workers? how many years? yeah, yeah, i saw them in up for 2 years. i know 4040 years past, it's part of a group trying to document the past before there's none of it left in a city less than a 100 years old. is it always obvious what should be preserved? oh my goodness, wow. why is this in for me? this is one of the houses that i like to refer to as an endangered house.

i think we're starting to lose big portions of the older parts of the city because of the plan development because of the fund urban regeneration project. and this is an example of a chance to rescue some of these building. do you remember this kind of architecture in these buildings as a small child wants to hear? my great grandmother's house was very similar to this one. it was a courtyard house with rooms around the courtyards, the phones, the way that you design now architect here and conspire tend to be very nice in this tells you about these different architectural elements that you find more about. the ornamentation, but i think there's much more to learn from a house, for example, the proportions of the one or the sort of colonies around the courtyard in order to get enough shape. things like that that we should extract lessons that we can use.

despite the improvement in doha circumstances, since the discovery of oil and gas, some things remain unchanged. the hot weather can make this an inhospitable environment. in climate change is only lucky to make it more so. the house and buildings cannot afford to ignore this project life. michelle, this upcoming right now does so many architectural lessons that we can learn here, which we can call contemporary which are not really the traditional however they do respond to the context very, very well. i really respect. besides that, it did not find the need to have another fully glazed elevation. therefore, the building requires energy and at the same time, the elevation together with the poetry that is engraved on it gives the character

to the area. to do you think is a common story that the region is trying to tell to the rest of the world with the resources that it got it hands on right now they're trying to develop a solid basis with being built today's not just for me or for my younger brothers and sisters, but it's for future generations to come. ah, the sheriff's, $900.00 homes offices and shops aim to recreate the closeness communities of the 1930 s at a cost of $5.00 and a half $1000000000.00. it's a substantial gamble on lowering people back from the suburbs or something the towers have failed to do a the popularity of doe has recently rebuilt. soup shows that there is

a strong sense of nostalgia for the old town. i spend so much time here looking through my lens of buildings that it's easy to forget that this is all about people. a town perhaps because it's a nation built on immigration, understands clearly the competition for human resources. a competition, not only with its fellow wealthy gulf states or the wider world. ah, that all precedents with to attract people. the competing city states, aubrey masons, italy use their wealth to glorify their cities with painting and sculpture to be successful, we sometimes have to 1st appear to be sent out

by depicts the human form remains controversial in this part of the world. the beautiful buildings suffer. no such drawback. i guess seen from this perspective katara ambition is not to create an instance city, but an eternal warmer moon . london is on the face of it just such a metropolis. it became the 1st truly international city of the modern age. more than 2 centuries ago. oh, but today it too is being radically redrawn by the global economy. neighborhoods that were once the home of the british elite are today 2nd homes for

the international super rich. creating a central call, which increasingly feels to me like a ghost town. at the same time, london is seeing record growth. it's population jumping more than 800000. in 2013 the highest increase since world war 2. the residential property market also rose 20 percent in the 1st 6 months of 20. 14, driven to a large degree by foreign money across the city. new buildings are rising fundamentally re shaping the skyline. these changes have not been without controversy, but from a time lapse photographers perspective, it is exhilarating.

i spent 6 long weeks in this hotel in 2012 for the summer olympics. and i say long weeks because to wake up every morning to a bowling. i been aching to photograph as for all that time, but knowing that working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, i simply wouldn't have the energy or the inclination to can she after work. and i made a mission in the back of my mind that one day i'd be back from him as told to that as being this huge, huge building for me actually fits and couldn't quite meet

the shod, became europe's tallest building as a photographer to capture something new something that the wells biggest to wells, tallest loved best is always part of the story as well. the category own skyscraper has drawn a mixed reaction from the press. one commentator described it in graphic terms as having slashed the face of london forever. not because it defends pressure sensibilities to have a foreign own building dominating the skyline. but because of a perception that it changes the character of london a straw poll of commute is down on london bridge suggests a sharp division in people's attitudes. what do you think about the shawn chart?

i don't know is a bit bit of an eyesore, to be honest with you. only one of the best when you know how to play with according to the local council. only 11 residents, rotan 2 objects to the sean ah, look now over london from the 72nd floor viewing platform. it's hard to believe it was so few. the only meaningful intervention was by english heritage, the body tasks with preserving the country's historic science. ah it objected to the effect this new landmark would have an old one. ah,

saint paul's cathedral a $16000000.00 inquiry decided in the shots favor and it went ahead. infuse yesterday, supported by london's man. for me, what makes this all the more significant is that it sits on the vanguard of 236 tall buildings, said to transform london over the next decade. and there has been almost no public debate about this radical re shaping of the city new london architecture, an organization whose sponsors read like a who's, who of the building industry has put together an exhibition, detailing exactly how london will love, if all the proposed buildings go ahead, what opposition has been to these types of buildings will have been comments,

for instance, from some people that we don't want something night do by, on the 10th thunder cause a very different we have a lot of historic buildings and we need to insert new tall buildings into that historic environment shifts and polls dictate london's planning in the future. i think using some polls as guideline is a pretty good way of stopping buildings in particular historic areas. but i think we've also got to look at places where not just where we can't build tall buildings, that play is where we can because london is growing huge the at the moment with 8300000 people in by 2050. we're going to be more like $13000000.00. so we've got a lot more housing, a lot more places to work more retail also things like that we need to do to meet that grave. and part of that is to build total abilities, great dead ovens and ah. ready

last time, london skyline was vis radically redrawn was during the cities bombing invalid ball to saint paul's famously survived as a symbol of national resistance or. ready its icon twice, either belt on the ashes of the great fi of $1666.00, which bound to fed of a city to the ground. its architect, sir christopher ran, who knew a thing or 2 about building and longevity. right. architecture has its political establish of the nation, joyce, people and commerce and makes the people the native country architecture aims at eternity. ah . ready great cities need great buildings like to define themselves, i suppose was the project

skyscraper, old, but name a table 100 meters and perched on top of that k tell it was the tallest building in the capital until 1962 before the sixty's london was essentially a low rise city, 6 stories was in practice, the limits for both victorian plumbing and the amount of tenants decline before the invention of the elevator. so london spread out. i tell you the $1000.00 square foot plummeted. urban sprawl is no longer according to the developers. the only way i so piano the shot architect has described his building as a vertical city,

with ken apartments costing up to $80000000.00 each. it's on like you to solve london's housing shortly. this is m. i c, which you know from movies to referral is part of a golden generation of british architecture. we've had a profound impact on the cities of the modern world. the will population is rising and rising into phenomena rate and most those will be overnights. so place making through cities, i'm being proud of your city and making recognizable architecture. i think it's happening all over the world and i lost that does lead to mistakes and, and to inappropriate tall buildings. there's a lot to be said for the toll building. the tall buildings of new york creates the busy pavement, the busy sidewalks. it's not just tall buildings, so it's density. and that's why you get such great shops, great sidewalks,

great restaurants. do you believe the scientists are defined by the buildings around us? well, it's churchill is great curve told me that we build our buildings. now we make our building than our buildings make. house. cities can be organic by nature, should they be organic? i believe inevitably change in ha, in city form and in architectural direction is essentially organic of off the sab city is all the greatest work of art and their anonymous in a way that i am made collectively, which is extraordinarily, i can see the argument for saying are building shapers, but i am unsure that we shape our buildings. it seems to me that money is now doing that. london needs to expand, but skyscrapers are not the only alternative. they raise issues like no other

buildings. they shape our cities both visibly. and structurally, i think londoners have little idea of how much these buildings will affect them. less perhaps the reason i'm finding more questions than answers ah, if you want to know about skyscrapers, there's one obvious destination by happy coincidence, a time lapse, paradise. ready m, her stories of determination, enjoying i will not hunt him. d luck though. indeed, quito gina duke. i remained missing v. i don't get a cup. short documentary by african filmmakers from miley wanda, and cameron desert libraries. the young cyclist and happy africa

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