english of man made threats beneath the surface of this magnificent desolation is just tv with live releases. so the remote is water and salt, tick sanctuary on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm adrian. and again, this is that is our live from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes, the alma crohn surge 12 people in britain of di it with the corona bar as varied as the government refuses to rule, are more social restrictions. the u. s. top infectious diseases expert warns that holiday travel will only make the various spread worse. chiles new lead up left us gabriel porridge promises to be

a president for all people. after beating his fall right rival in a runoff election at a billionaire space tourist returns from the international space station. now he's got a site set on the moon. and in sport chinese tennis player, peng choi, has denied making an accusation of sexual assault and her 1st on camera innovations posting the climb. ang said there have been many misunderstandings about the store . with 12 people have died with the on the chron variance of corona virus in the u. k. that's according to the countries deputy prime minister dominick rob is refusing to rule out new restrictions ahead of the winter. holidays britons reported record levels of cove at 19 cases with officials warning that the full effects of the latest wave ought yet to be seen. that's called life, not a london out as the rest. jonah hall is that for us. so we've got this huge spread of coven 19 across the country, particularly they're in london, the government refusing to say whether it's going to bring in new restrictions

ahead of the holidays. what are it's scientific advisors telling it? well they're telling it in know, in no uncertain terms that they've got to move and they've got to do something and i've got to do something very quickly. the scientists to advise the government say that the new year could come with thousands of hospitalizations and deaths every day. the government doesn't move very quickly now to try and limit all of that. and you've only got to look at the soaring infection numbers. well, over a double the number of new infections on sunday, compared to a week before 88000. the realistic figure is probably far higher than that to realize the urgency of the situation. the problem far is johnson. the prime minister is he is not caught squarely between what the scientists are telling him and what his own party is telling him and pays on the rights of his party and the cabinet ministers on the right. and he's meeting with cabinets in about an hour's time. to talk about all this, a saying, you know, they revolted in large numbers

a week ago against restrictions, and they're saying they will do so without any doubt again, unless more time is given for more data to be accumulated, to understand the effects of me calling and decide more sensibly what to do next, and there are, you know, louder and louder whispers within those circles of the conservative party that far as johnson's time and office may now be numbered. if he doesn't start doing things the way they want things done, and the cobra terms, that means no more lockdown, no more damage to the economy. the prime minister is thought to be considering options that range all the way from what would please them on one on one end. so the guidance only to limit gatherings of christmas time, all the way to measures that look very much like full lockdown, no indoor mixing, no hospitality, effectively. christmas canceled and ruined. and remember, this is exactly where we were a year ago. and while china, the british press, having a field day, they showing a picture that appears to show the prime minister,

his wife, some of his staff having what looks like a garden party in the behind number, 10, downing street the premises official residence house that muddying the waters well, that'll go down as another blow to bar, as johnson's already diminished or authority. it's the latest chapter if you like in this party gate scandal. now about 3 weeks old, that seems to suggest that large quarters of government were busy partying it up last summer. or when the rest of the country was in full locked down. now this photograph appears. it shows, as you said, maurice johnson, his wife carry a whole bunch of aides and officials drinking wine and eating tea in the downing street garden. well downing street says that on that particular day, may the 15th, there was no social gathering. they now say these were work colleagues getting together after a day of work in the work environment, and therefore no rules were broken. there is an investigation pending

a down the street appointed investigation, but of the say, a blow to forest. johnson's authority already diminished with m. p. 's. now as a result of this scandal diminished with the public as well. now, deserves turn a whole reporting live there from london, jonah many thanks. indeed. madonna says that a booster dose of its covert 19 vaccine appears to protect against the on a cron variant. it state her hasn't been reviewed by independent experts. so the company is also developing an icon specific vaccine, which could advanced clinical trials in early 20 to earlier this month, pfizer said that a 3rd dose of its vaccine proved from provides significantly better protection against the variant than just to. let's bring an elephant on who is sir of action ologist. he joins us now. live from high for good to have you with us sir. again, ali. many watching will have had at least 2 jobs. possibly 3 in it. we keep hearing of breakthrough infections, even in those who received a booster dose, our current vaccines affective enough to keep us safe from this virus.

yeah, thank you for the invite. i think that the existing vaccines are showing a very good protection even against omicron. the only problem that we have is that the few that we are losing some efficacy, but not the whole thing. there are still some specific, specific immunity that's covered on the crohn. and therefore, i think that while you raise the new response, you are going to get coverage for me. crohn. so there is no issue with the with having this panic. i think that the vaccines are still work. there are some indication that from the in vitro work and some work that's been done, that some populations of the antibodies are still recognizing and preventing infection with all my grand add to that, that the microphone is bliss, or appears to be less than the delta bed for the whole combined together,

i don't think there is a need for a panic. we need to make sure that we are protecting against our bread. and that can be with taking some measures that we use to us. so i think that mcdonough is developing on, on a kron specific bank, said, is it possible to tweak the current vaccines that we have to make them more effective against alma crohn? are we going to need another booster after the 3rd one, annual cova jobs? what about higher doses of current vaccines? yeah, the beauty of the technology that we have, the messenger on 8th acknowledges that yoga and other technologies is of course, that you can adjust the, the, the, the make up of the gene that produce the, the vaccines. so that that will cover the new changes that if needed. i think that are we need to do boosters. ah, there is noah. do we cannot just keep boosting? i think there is a, a,

a need to give the immune response to mature in one hand and also to build memory that can be triggered by boosting. boosting by itself with short period of time between injections is not going to give them the same effect oddity ah, that needed effect. and i think that we have to give on the immune response to build and memory. and when we boost, we boost a whole spit, a spectrum of antibodies and specificities which include the specificities that can i take care of the o micron? i think that that's the are they know the way that we should do it? i think that just keep injecting people with vaccine is not gonna be the answer. so is there a danger in boosting? too many people too soon as vaccine protection, wayne's over time? could we see further waves of on a cron infections and at it, vaccines are tweak to fight this variant? could it mutate again? it to something even more dangerous the i'm and do i have an opinion on

this that basically they do, which is a receptor of viruses fix will not cheney. and therefore, the effect of the virus and the spike protein to the, to the, to the sceptre is really fixed. therefore, it many changes in the fight will actually bring that in mind. that the, bring that the mind of the, of the virus. so the virus come up, just keeping your teeth thing and we are running after i think that at some point of time, all these mutations want to take care of the virus by themselves. so therefore, i think that they can get vaccine for all maker on we don't know by the time that we have that correct seen if there is any more mutation that will happen, or maybe the omega on would be over or will be just like any other cool are in detection, are called disease and symptoms, and therefore i think that there is

a lot to be to be know to be learned about the saw mic, ron, about the severity of the disease and also about the spread. and whether or not it will replace delta and the relationship between army grown and delta. so there are many things that we need to learn about. and we are waiting for a lot of nice studies that are running these days in the ology and ology and vaccine related studies. all these will come together to give us a clearer picture about how we go forward with us. always going to talk to you any thanks need to for being with us again on the thoughts on that and hyphen thank you . the german government medical advisers are calling for tighter corona virus restrictions. the health care system. there's under pressure from a surge of on a cron infections. cases are already doubling every $2.00 to $4.00 days. and hospital admissions are also on the rise. germany's health ministers ruled out a christmas lockdown,

but tougher travel restrictions for travelers from the u. k. are already in place. israel is burning its citizens from travelling to the united states, canada, and 8 other countries because of concerns about the on the tron barrett of the current of ours. the measures will take effect on tuesday. israel's largely closed its international borders of the new variance emergence last month. the country is experiencing a 5th wave of infections when many americans are reconsidering their holiday plans . as corona virus cases, serge, new york reported its highest number of cases for a 2nd straight day. but officials are resisting another lockdown artist here as christine salumi reports now from new york. a week before christmas and break through coven cases are forcing the cancellation of several performances from the rockettes annual holiday show at radio city music hall to harry potter on broadway with the alma chron. variance spreading rapidly, worried new yorkers lined up to get tested among them. the vaccinated and boosted

broadway. actor katy roper, it's been really scary with the new very, very, very scary and i definitely wanna get it more. i've had a couple of friends as positive as not good. new york city has a 90 percent vaccination rate. and some of the strictest vaccination requirements in the country. so despite a new record number of daily infections, new york mayor says more lot downs won't be necessary. we have better treatment than we've ever had. we have won the highest levels of vaccination anywhere in the country and we have the ability to get a lot more people vaccinated or to get them boosted very, very quickly. still, many americans are reconsidering their holiday travel plans. nationwide. hospitalization, rates are also on the rise, though still well below. last year's peak. clearly when you travel, there is always a risk of increase infection. but if people need to travel and want to travel for the obvious family reasons, during this holiday season, if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go in to

congregate settings, like air ports, to make sure you continually where you mask. you should be okay. health experts say even though all micron appears to be less deadly than the delta variant, it spreads more quickly and that could spell trouble for the nation's health care system with hospitalizations, also rising, particularly in areas with lower vaccination rates. kristin salumi al jazeera new york, south africa's president, so rama poses recovered from cove at 19 at his back at work. he's been in south isolation in cape town since testing positive aid phase ago from a poser as expected chair, candidate meeting on wednesday. it was a nissan from al serra still come on the program, a democrat senator brakes ranks pudding president biden's infrastructure plans in jeopardy of death toll in the hundreds of likely to rise. the philippines mobilizes to help victims of super textual ryan at in sport,

primarily teams. are set to decide if football can continue as much a record number of coven 19 cases among players. ah leftist politician, gabrielle burridge has one chillies, presidential one off election. he secured 56 percent of the vote against his far right rival was antonio cast. when sees porridge become the youngest president in chiles history, our latin america editor lucy newman reports from santiago. oh, the sound of euphoria overwhelmed the streets of central santiago barbara laguna, tens of thousands of jubilant supporters of gabrielle. but each welcomed the impressive in hard, fought between the left wing can did. it will become chillies, youngest, ever president. i have the hope of patina with social justice, attila,

that's better for my daughter. the president elect a 35 year old congressman in former student leader, literally had to jump over the crowds in time of a barriers to make it on to the stage. and where he delivered a conciliatory message to the country in little, you know, our government has the conviction to look forward to the challenges that we have before us. it cannot be just changed by talking to the mirror. i'm not yours to only speak to people who think like me to change the way people who think differently. we are here to ensure that once and for all the our courses sufficient for all chileans and we can achieve a wonderful life new earlier but it received a visit from his rival conservative cassandra on your cast. little gasp had conceded defeat just a little over an hour after the post closed. you look in a folder full, i will as much as we can get our legitimate differences him said we want to continue contributing to our homeland. he must all once again unite all chileans.

gabby in conservative president, sebastian pineda, who also opposed, bought each rush to make the traditional conciliatory phone call. for the 1st time in 40 years, there will be a president who will attempt to change chiles free market economic model, which millions of chileans believe is responsible for extreme social inequality in this country. i think you see on everyone rafer reflect earlier vacations with their new president, been a leg that voted spaces of congress, which is split between his supporters and his opponents. with me that he's going to have to include consensus. and that begs the question, how long will this enthusiasm last? what each acknowledged that he faces, serious economic and political challenges, but for at least a short while. it was time to celebrate a victory that symbolizes

a huge leap of faith by the people of chilly. to see a newman, al jazeera santiago, escrow live that a santiago alger harris. alice on the ram pierce. he is with us from there are center. what's the significance of this wind for bridge? was it a vote of confidence in him in his policies or a rejection of the right wing cast? well, i think it was a little bit of both to. there's no doubt that this was a new story. victory for the country's last and in particular for a new generation of julia and under 40 years old that having lived through the worst of the horrors, the cher dictatorship of that and is now 31 years ago. and that, unlike previous generations, want to see that quicker pace of change in this country, since the end of that dictatorship lands, both it either center left there or center, right?

moderate candidates. so that shared a pretty much the same view where the country was headed and the truth is that she has been and has been seen as a beacon of stability and economic success in another wise, very volatile region. latin america or other countries have in have the sort of continues economic progress that this country as seeing the problem is that economic progress has not been shared by the majority of the people in this new generation. want to see that's changed the so there's no doubt that the, the 11 points advantage that you have in the end shows that a lot of people in particular young people. and also people in rural parts of the country have come out in force, both to support for each and on the other hand, to reject the return to an ideology that the country can see there. that now for

3 decades. all right, so what's been the special reaction and more importantly, perhaps, what's been the market reaction that ensure they yes, le, international leverage has received a messages of congratulations, especially on twitter, across the region from boat left wing government, them right government, a neighboring country. jim dean as president was the 1st one to congratulate boy jimmy invited him to go to argentina and they're saying that he hopes that will be for each is 1st international trip. but also he received the congratulatory messages from the president of the columbia even do k, who is a right link, frankly, dantes bay close to the current, the conservative residents year in chile sebastian opinion. and i think that

overall there is expectation to see what will happen when we look at the market. still they just opened here and she'd have, they fall in by more than 6 percent. also, there that she land paces at last 30 paces have, for the 1st time passing the sort of a symbolic and level with the dollar of $900.00 pesos for the dollar. this was expected because according to proposing a number of profound changes due then the liberal economic model here in the discount you were gonna ask to see if that's temporary and the way he will try to push forward those reforms don't zeros of a sovereign p at he reporting live from santiago, but effects due to alessandra. also in santiago is valentina ross, us, who's a political science professor at the university of chile. she's with a style. what live could chevy with us, sir? valentina? so we go so pocket down by 6 percent. it really trade the trillion pay,

so in pre trading down by $3.00, the half percent is chili's position of slash america's economic powerhouse on the threat from bonuses, policies and markets rights rights to be rattled. oh, he's right, a really unconventional. gandhi dave, he's young. he's been, is he's all a day so he will probably become a really important name for the left in the country and the latin american region by the we have a really diverse congress and that was elected just a month ago. so we can notice thing a big turn in to the left in every single policy in every single policy. i think the general and context of this government is going to be really difficult because we have that and then make an economic crisis. but the turn to the left is going to be and not as much as we expected just a few months ago. ok, his relative experience was highlighted by his rivals throughout the campaign. what

is a bowditch presidency going to look like? is the country set for massive social change? yeah, and that's what many people is as 13 on us. it's also social change. and this is going to be i, i think of garmen with newton suffix to these guys for many people. this is the end of that transitional versus the peer that we help coal. and between the end of the the victor sheet and these non full democracy of the we finally have different topics to discuss other than being or, and against victor and legacy. so, and now we have more feminist topics and environmental things are going to be more prison. and also this is going to burly, have a big impact on the constitutional versus gas. the other candidate was created against emberts has been keyed in supporter of the constitutional process. so for many people this was also kind of 2nd referendum on having are not

a new position any outcome. i said the people subordinate was edition the spread around for does he does and, and we, and we want anyone situation, how long will his honeymoon honeymoon period last for him? how long will a public give him to bring about the change that they expect to see having voted for and what, what are some of the potential pitfalls that lie ahead for him? i see he has a less than any other candidate because he is very aware that they're uncertain that's cheaper both. he's really young. he said unexpectedly, only he's the speak, just don't be afraid of youth because he knows that many people is afraid of he and his age, but also he's political and bossy john, so he's very aware. does he have said that, for example, he's going to don't man uh decide who is going to be on their ministers as soon as possible, just because he's aware that people need some certain times and markets also need

something done so that then the honeymoon is going to be shorter than many other president, probably good still to profess somebody. thanks today for being with us. valentino vasa and santiago. the u. s. president's hopes of passing a major piece of legislation hangs in the balance. because a senator from his own party won't support it, show by needs. every democrats in the senate to support the near to trillion dollar build back better bill. it's aimed at improving education, cutting health care costs and tackling climate change. jo manchin says that increasing public debt will hinder the u. s. fight against the pandemic, and geo political threats. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation . i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. you're done. this is, is, is a no, this is a no. on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do by now to

washington, our white house correspondent, kimberly helped us with us. kimberly, why won't mention support this bill? well, the biggest concern, the joe mansion, the u. s. senator from west virginia has is the price tag of this bill is $1.00 trillion dollars and it would be the largest re shaping of the social safety net in generation at least. and so this is something that has been negotiated for months, even a sort of back and forth between the white house and capitol hill, private meetings between the president and the senator, and even various phone calls between the staff. in other words, senator joe mansion has been at the center of these negotiations for a very long time. and the reason that this has been so pivotal for the white house is that this piece of legislation is really the cornerstone or the center piece of jo biden's legislative agenda. and so it's critical for him that he pass it,

given the fact that this is a promise he made on the campaign trail. but the specifics for the senator from west virginia is that he feels this is just too expensive. in other words, this isn't the right time. keep in mind that even as the white house says, you know, the sort of downturn in the economy is turning around. the reality is, is that there is a very, very high price tag on a number of key consumer goods. in other words, inflation is not under control in the united states. and so his argument is look at, i've gone through all these meetings, but i just can't do it because of a system of representative government. he's really holding true to the people he represents in the state. he represents. in other words, putting those people ahead of party, if you will, something we don't see in washington very often. and that's why another reason why so many people are upset about his decision. ok, so if now isn't the right time when is the right time with the clock ticking

towards the midterms? what does this mean for the president? yeah, well you know, there was a lot put on the deadline of the end of the year and to be truthful. that's kind of an arbitrary deadline. the reason that so many democrats on the white house, one of this is they don't want people sitting around their tables over the holiday season, being angry that this promise hasn't been kept by the white house. and why haven't we had more relief? that's really what this is about. that's what that deadline laws. but the truth is, is that this can be worked out in the new year. and that kind of the argument that joe mentioned is making. i don't feel comfortable with this, but maybe we can get it to a place where i can vote for this. and so as a result, the white house is saying, we're going to continue working on this. they issued a scathing statement following his decision, saying that he's really gone back on his promises to the white house. but the fact of the matter is, is that the white house doesn't control legislation. capitol hill does and the top

democrats and both the house of representatives, nancy pelosi and the top democrat, the senate chuck schumer say we're doing this and we're going to figure out a way on the new year. our white house correspondent, kimberly healthcare reporting live from washington. kimberly money, frank centered police and the philippines so that at least $375.00 people are now confirmed dead. in the aftermath of the super time through right, thousands of soldiers joined rescue workers in search of survivors in more remote areas now to serious trouble and organ travel to suit ago our city on soon ago island, where the typhoon 1st made landfill. the philippine millet, she invited a steward recognizance flight over the eastern part of the mindanao region to see for ourselves the damage caused by super typhoon. right. sure. go island is where super typhoon ry 1st made landfall in the philippines. what was once a popular tourist destination reduced to this,

the pilot then turned towards the nugget island even from afar. the damage was distressing to see. it didn't matter whether their house was big or small. after landing in sooty goes city, general emeralds order is clear. aid must reach those devastated areas as soon as possible. the magnitude of the damage is really big. it is because the one that was a vector and our island robbins is if you will address those problem. first and foremost, your problem released logistics light bill. we drove around the mean town of city gal, storm damage like this is a familiar scene here. now. at the port area, we found more than a 100 families forced from their homes. they are from the joust fishing community once lived on houses on stilts by the sea. now this is all they have left gone

though. what resident here are telling us is that it's 6 pm. now this is going to be their 1st meal for the day. something that they just picked up from the garbage mostly and this as quickly at least 5 families to night miss meta blue at sun is desperate to well, we don't even have rice, there's nothing. my children are crying. we look for a left over us, but there was nothing. we went to bed with an empty stomach. this is the human cost of super typhoon rise, destruction. it's estimated that thousands of families are displeased here. now, jim eileen dog and al jazeera said he go province southern philippines. the storm is now moving towards vietnam. heavy rain and strong winds have already forced thousands of people on the.