top and of africa, we got some showers trying to sneak into northern parts of libya here. same goes for egypt. but you know, cairo, you're going to stay dry with a high of 18 degrees. now come saturday, you'll see full on sunshine. so those conditions are improving. okay, that's a look at your world's weather. we'll see you soon. ah, it's one year until the 1st feasible world killed in the middle east. talk to al jazeera meets, must cembura 1st ever female secretary general, the 1st to share her journey and discuss the route to cut her 2022. 0 now jesse ron, what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through here. it al jazeera, we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. ah, co cater culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, world wide,

and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shape, tomato, ward for translation and international understanding was found to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bones of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. lou lou ah, welcome back and look at the made stories this out. now. france is bonding most non essential travel from the u. k, which is reported a record number of infections for a 2nd day. south career is also reinstating strict to social distancing rules.

after a surge in cases of the omi called very to the crime virus rescue operations are underway in parts the philippines that have been hit by one of the most powerful storms in the world. this year. officials say about $10000.00 villages or in the path of typhoon bry, 12 american and canadian missionaries, kidnapped in october by a criminal gang in haiti, have been released, began $400.00 missouri deduct, demanded a $1000000.00 in person, a person in ransom money, but it's not clear if that was ever paid. now report is without orders. the saying the number of journalists detained worldwide to search to record 488. this include 60 women, 46 journalists, have been killed this year. among them is a photographer, believe to have died in custody and me and mark just this week. after being detained for reporting on an antique who protest. 3 others have recently been held in ethiopia, accused of promoting terrorism during the government's campaign against rebel

fighters, tory gate, and b has more in this. a mere monkey, yarrow was arrested in the ethiopian capital, addis ababa accused of promoting terrorism. he was working as a freelance journalist for the associated press. the u. s. base news agency is called the allegations baseless to other journalists will also arrested. they face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of violating the emergency lose brought in last month. the annual global round up our report is without buddha's paints, a bleak picture of media safety and freedom, particularly in ethiopia, the correspondent of the new york times as been kicked out of the country, which was unprecedented since abbey took office in 2018. there is this communication lot out. i am the northern part of the country and now you're just not able to do independent journalism anymore because only the official narrative about the war is a look. ready for in journals, it's been

a tough year for journalists around the world report is without buddhist says at least $46.00 journalists have been killed this year because of the stories they were reporting. and nearly 500 are being detained. 65 are being held hostage. the most dangerous countries for media workers or mexico and afghanistan, followed by yemen and india. one of the reasons why there are so many journalists detaining these you're up to 20 person is mainly because of the deterioration of the situation in 3 countries, including jamar, a china and a glovers report is without buddhist says, it's findings are alarming bought. remarkably, the number of journalists kill this year is the lowest since it began counting 25 years ago. bought the number of journalists being detained is the highest. and in their absence, it says vital voices remain silent. victoria gate and be al jazeera goal. snow has fallen in the afghan capital for the 1st time. this winter made increasing concerns

over shelter and hunger. in the country residence in kabul, which was city blanketed in snow with many forced use made shift stoves to stay warm. the price of food and fuel has skyrocketed since the taliban takeover in august with basic goods now out of reach from many silk, the snow proved welcome rest by for some or was a lot or is a movie or this is the 1st snowfall and we're very happy because he will eliminate diseases caused by his daughter. that's everywhere in afghanistan through the snowfall put an end to sees nor illnesses, but often cause tuberculosis among overshadow. so we are very happy about snowfall because the cro, whether it was at my peak, you will just come towards mercy upon us. you know he's untrained no little glove price would not risen. another price of daily food on to hire people. the job lives in the military, or now we go to the latest developments in turkey, where the central bank has car interest rates for the 4th month in a row,

in line with president, reggie of type o to ones. unorthodox policy, which has been criticized by most economists, a bank whose leadership i'd want to replace with like minded officials this year as slashed interest from 19 percent in september to 14 percent now. but official se they'll stop the carts in order to monitor the effects. inflation is sky is rocketed to more than 21 percent with experts predicting the rise to 30 percent next year and say the bank's credibility with the markets is now in tatters. the turkish lira dropped as much as 5.6 percent to another record low of $15.00 to the dollar. after the latest car was announced, it's more than half in value against that dollar this year. with household battling soaring prices are due on is announced a rise in the minimum wage by 50 percent next year to $280.00 a month. but i corresponds to them because your glue is in a sample and says that it's not likely to help people in turkey who are struggling to buy food and pay their bills. turkish government decided for sending quiz on the

minimum wage levels and boarded up to $4250.00 turkish, the rest, which was quite a ball what was expected in the market. however, experts are warning that the inflation is going to sort more and more in the coming months because of the week turkish iraq. and because ever a many of the things are imported in turkey, now they're questioning whether this increases will be able to meet the gap in their incom caused by the inflation. and just a quick description will bid this at the beginning of this year, the minimum wage level before the increase was around $380.00. but now despite this 50 percent increase, it is down to $280.00, which we is at least $100.00 less. and this means this 5, this increase the minimum income people can buy less every month and the

food prices are soaring. gas prices are soaring, there is an increase even ended water prices. just even after the announcement of the minimum wage increase, there was an increase on the gas prices. so many are suspicious. allowed, given that there's an expectation of high inflation in the coming months. how will the low income people will be able to sustain their lives and turkey point sex. your flower is synonymous with christmas and mexico, where it's known as the not cheap. why not millions of grown every year. and this holiday season produces a hoping for bumper sales. as the economy recovers from the pandemic, john holland reports from mexico city ah christmas is approaching in mckuddle. there micah, one of latin america's biggest flower markets. and one plants in particular is the star of the show. the no chip winner. it takes its name from the spanish for christmas eve. it's endemic to mexico,

and it's color means it's become synonymous with the festive season. the government estimates that about $20000000.00 plants growing a year for a deep christmas isn't the same without it. we met her, she snapped up more than 10 bouquets. when appleautomotive her a pot from the fact that it's pretty and joyous, it helps the people that grow it. to me it's a really important falla, that means a lot at this time of year. the us takes, could it quit, le thought you to and used it to control fevers and heart conditions. but it was when the u. s. ambassador jo point set fell in love with it and took several plants back to the u. s. that it really became popular now in english. the flowers cool poinsettia off the him, and it's all over mexico city as the cap to comes back to life off to the worst of the pandemic. this is the city's main artery paseo de la reformer. and this is, it's hall, this is the most iconic monument, a mexico, the angel of independence. and it's

a mock of how important the nazi where the flour is. it is a blanket of them all around the foot of the statue. and this is where they produced in the green houses of the so chimerical district on the outskirts of the city. perhaps it was inevitable. the egg flores that sega flowers in english, has dedicated his life to them from may when they 1st planted his livelihood rests on these plants, doing well. economic eslinger. practically, it's a year's income. a lot of families depend on this. more than one half 1000 families just in such a mil coker from work. and they're hoping for big bounce in sales as mets could continues to open up. and christmas comes. john holman out is eda mexico city. now bruce springsteen has reportedly $500000000.00 rich after selling his entire back catalogue of songs to sony. music legend u. s. singer songwriter joined the lights of bob dylan and paul simon caching in on

compositions. from his glory days. dale includes 15 times platinum albums, born in the usa, as well as 19 more studio albums containing of a $300.00, which is springsteen songs. so now joining via skype from york. my brian hyatt, a senior writer for rolling stone magazine and author of bruce springsteen. stories behind the songs of course is not just springsteen as it we also mentioned bob dylan there and others like paul simon, i think also she care a why are we seeing an increasing number of artists selling off the rights there? what particularly in the past couple of years? well, i think there's 2 main factors. one is that there's a burgeoning market for the valuations are to all time high. there's companies convinced that these assets are incredibly viable. that's a and b. we have a lot of artists that this may not apply to secure, but most of them were hitting their seventy's hitting their eighty's. these are legendary artists from the 19 sixty's who are looking towards their golden years

and looking towards estate planning and all that sort of thing. so it's just a perfect confluence of events. there still, how do they balance that against being able to make more money if they were to hold on to their rights in the long time? i mean, well, i think they're calculating a couple of things. i think they're calculating that the value is at an all time high right now. so it's just a good time to sell their. they're also, it's just, it's just like when they thing else, almost a lump sum is just more viable to then the possible promise of more money in the future of sony has it, as it done this, dale, but to him who else is interested in doing a deals like this, there are companies that are set up just for this purpose in some cases to exploit . and it sounds like a negative word, but just in the capitalistic sense, to exploit the intellectual property of these artists. and so it's in some ways

it's a bidding war between companies that are set up just for this purposes and existing companies like sony in, in the case of sony, obviously, they have a, a long relationship with bruce springsteen already. does it have any impact on that the ability to continue with life performances, or might that also be a factor in that decision making, given developments with kobe then crowd restrictions? well, i think in some cases, neil young, for instance, is very reluctant to perform live. so it, that may have factored into his decision and, and the, the loss of revenue from a couple years of not touring, is factored into some artist decisions. for sure. with bruce, i know that the moment that he feels it's safe, they're going to tour and i'm, i'm, i'm sure you will see briskly seeing these 2 been on the road again. have you spoken to him since he made the stale? i have not. but he'll be very happy. i mean, he was already a rich man, but you're not gonna at no, not going to sniff at 500000000. yeah,

i don't think he's going to be asking god, i think he can cover lunch for any of his friends in the, in the near future. thank you very much. fine. i of shedding that of light on that for us. thank you. thank you. still had this news our oh sport use with gemma. yes, we've got plenty on the way in the latest. on the kaiser dramas, taking hold of the english premier league on sports around the world. we live from our studio in time. ah.

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where like from our, our cup studio in diet. ha ha. on gemini. sure. plenty of sports coming up, including the latest on the emerging curve at crisis in the english premier league with half of this weekend's matches cooled off. australia is cricket team also affected by private. they take the upper hand of england off the day. one of the 2nd, his task and the sadie's withdrawal, their appeal in the race result from the championship poseida in abu dhabi. k 19 is foster sweeping 3. the english premier league with half of this weekend's matches now postponed to to outbreaks at clubs. manchester united game with brighten one of those cooled off united would have had to 7 plays available, had it gone ahead. a title of 9 matches have been cancelled in a week as the omicron variance spreads across the u. k. breakfast fixture, south hampton also isn't going ahead. and that coach at thomas frank is urging the league to pause the season and prevent a full shot down. we think that we ship his bowl,

the full round of premier league games this weekend, coming up. the, the code cases going through the roof in all the primary clubs, every one of dealing with it. every one have a have a problem this moment time to postpone this round and also the cow co round will give everyone a week at least to all these i don't know exact and before 5 days to, to clean and do everything in the training ground. so everything is fine. so you break the chain in every plot. i thanks rob harris from the associated press. he says, says uncertainty as a how the premier is reaching these decisions to postpone matches. we discovered a bit more detail from the premier league, what they take into consideration when assessing if the game should go ahead and it's not only the outbreaks within clubs, but also the risk of wider infection. 2 of these people coming into contact with

others said the grounds they're playing or oppositions. and there are new stricter corona virus regulations in place. from this week daily test players, they have to take the lateral flows in their cars before even getting into the access to the training grounds, and they're twice weekly pcr test as well. so the most ever seen during the pandemic testing it primarily clubs. and of course, as it stands now, the 5 games that will be played this weekend will have full stadiums because there are currently no restrictions on the capacities unlike say, we've seen in germany despite the fact the government is advising people generally to avoid contact. that isn't deemed essential. social contacts the president view players across europe to get vaccinated as quickly as they can. european football, governing body is set to launch a video player, which features doctors explaining the benefits of 19 jobs. i think that they should

get vaccinated as soon as possible, but i still believe for now it's a personal choice. and we have to be smart. we have to explain things. people are not stupid people in the staff. when you explain in a nice way, not a judging them a but to explain the why vaccination is good. organizes of the africa cup of nations and says the tournament in cameron will go ahead next month. despite resistance from european clubs about releasing players. because of rise in cases, if the only con variance the event was postponed last year because of the pandemic and in the past few days has been speculation. the competition could face a further delay. 2014 are expected to take part in the month long tournament, which stops on january 9th yoshi so she would go to dylan. there is an association that says european clubs. i'm not going to release players. as far as i know, they are not the employers of these players because players have individual

contracts. and the release of plays is dictated by fee for regulations, but you'll beings moving forward. and there is no reason at the moment to suggest we are postponing the competition at good on any fantasy been fully vaccinated against private 19 am. have proof of a negative test can attend matches us for what is also being hit hard by kind of iris. the nfl commissioner roderick adela says he's confident they can work their way through the leagues west outbreak since the pandemic began. could alice by his nfl ernest meeting in dallas with several items on the agenda, but none more pressing than current of iris with about a 100 players testing positive since monday. it's a challenge and you know, i think the things that have made us successful is keeping safety 1st, 2nd, being willing to adapt at all times. and you know, we adapted several times last year. we've had to do that coming into the season. we

work closely with the players association on those changes and it's clear even in the last couple of weeks, that the changes are pretty significant and different and they were before it. i think it caused for modifications to our protocols in general. and we're working with the players association on that. we have some obviously steps that we feel are necessary to take, but we're confident we can work our way through kind of 19 has also affected the australian cricket team with captain pop. come in, rolled out with the 2nd national test to get england because he was deemed a close contact to a positive case. the setback of losing the skipper did nothing to shake off straight on day one. by using one of the opening box early to this for didn't catch joe butler, the old easy school, 221 runs for the last just to wickets. david warner continued his recent good form, but once again, he was just short century monosyllabic. st. finish today,

i'm beaten on 95. that he should've been out late in the day if not finish dropped, catch from butler, australia, lisa series one now mercedes, both post a will says lose hamilton will never get phase of the controversial end to the average of the pre am can't guarantee if the british driver will race in formula one again, despite feeling that hamilton was robbed as a title, the team aren't going to see their appeal against the results. because the governing body has agreed to receive the rule. neither he must want to win. why championship? in the quality on the other side we would be wrong on sunday. and it wasn't just the wasn't just the case. it's a book bad core. it was free style. reading of the rooster less and less lose. legacy thing that i found out had fun so strong and open with low expectations following his recent injury lay off the 20 top grandson champion, haven't played competitive tennis since early august,

that faction on friday as an exhibition event. and abby, i'm doing all the things that i am doing to the right to be back in the class because i, i do fascinated on the computer and if i am able to, to play with no limitations again. busy i want to find the game for everything so that the goal, i know we're going to happen that the only thing case. sure, i'm trying my best. i'm going to do all all what they can do to do tonight to give myself more chances on how we watch football games that could be about to change forever out there is leading the way in developing new technology here at the outcomes to enhance the viewing experience the fans at home and in stadiums and the richardson have more

this is a trial match with the difference. technology is being judged rather than play is al jazeera is one of the broadcasters leading a project aimed at pushing the limits of the viewing experience. where at the dawn of a whole new, the global rollout, 5 g broadband networks is one of the key to making this all work. what is the possibility of 5 g to revolutionize how remote production, how broadcast production from events like this are being done? can we be more you can see someone running with their camera along the field that's getting content over 5 g and being live streams to our applications, to our tv. for one night's only parents watching that children at this game in doha can also follow the action from multiple angles on the phone. to stay today with this project is to give everyone the best seat in the house,

regardless of whether or not they're actually the match. so clauses will be able to access and share footage in real time, bringing those at home close to the action. a new viewing options to everyone in the stadium. it's a different engagement and different view for the people to see as well. because all we see now is the 6 cameras round and you see what's happening the much but the camera, but the individuals being able to put their feet in because of the 5 g network and the bandwidth choosing it is different. this really creates a sort of fun journalism if you'd like to see. we can see benefit from that in the sports as well as the news. the players involved in this game working on the idea of having more than just the eyes to rely on. while it's a live match, i think having something on the phone with odd to chance, it's helpful. yeah. like let's see. you want to see how individual players doing. you can track them throughout the much. it's really smart. how like, you can like watch one game and then like the power of the internet can like make

you like help you to watch another game. like if you like a fall, like a penalty less than a penalty. and you, mr. you can watch your phone and see if it's actual penalty. the options that could soon be an offer for fans or seemingly endless media revolution. the scholars limit, if you see there are some white papers that suggest that you can have a hologram of the match itself. or minimize version of that at home. or you may have some different kind of aspects empowered by virtual reality and a little everything would be possible. you may watch the game as if you were in the stadium without going no longer will support have to live in the moment. instead, they'll be choosing the moment. they vary and be richardson, l g here. say that for your support for now, but a recap of all story with crisis unfolding in the primarily is gathering momentum with half as this weekend matches out of our cases and the bible

while out as of thursday nights, primarily games, we did go ahead and pull the new castle, free ones and chelsea through one with edison outfit from us in go hi, back to mariam in london. all right, thank you very much, gentle and much warner website al jazeera dot com waiting or you news and your sports as well. i'll be back in a couple of minutes with much more on cove at 19 that we're seeing a steep rise infections actually all around the world. here in europe, france has banned non essential travel from the u. k, which reported a number a record number of infections for the 2nd day in a row. now at $88000.00 france itself is also reported over $60000.00 cases of the virus. and just in the past couple of minutes us president joe biden has been speaking and he says that ami cron is here and is going to start spreading more rapidly. he's at it,

it's the time for people to get that booster shots. you mentioned that to also looking at a winter of severe illness in the us. more on that in a couple of minutes. bye for now. and and if america held up a mirror to itself, what would it see in a sense, race is the story of america. what's working and what's not. a lot of people were only talking about that. it wasn't at the top of the agenda if america can't handle multiple challenges on multiple fronts. we need to go back to school. the bottom line on al jazeera polio, cuz she to says he will bring a new form of capitalism. what does this mean?

we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in. less than one percent of for vaccines have gone to poor countries. why is that? counting the cost on al jazeera, i will totally sell the result of this great and historic presidential election. if i win, a lot of people world was being turned upside down on the way. dad has been manipulated by populace like donald trump playing on racial anxieties. one person, one that citizens have political equality and of course in the united states, as in many other parts of the world that remains an ideal, but not a reality runs with me before before you were brave. for the people of brotherhood, i have

a dream. my dream is that people may my daughter, the young people just have a full voice and don't feel targeted because of their race or ethnicity ah fronts to band most travel from the u. k, which is reported a record number of infections for the 2nd day in a row. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm the mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. thousands flea that homes is super typhoon rice slams into the philippines. the strongest storm to hit it this year. police in haiti say all the american and canadian missionaries kidnapped in october of now been released.