american troops can only afford within the taliban, leave it. there will be a house for you to tell about the inside story pack. i frank assessment the div headline subscribe now. however you listen to podcast. ah, it's better to cancel now and celebrate later than to celebrate to now and grieve later. the w h i chief warns against increased social interaction during the holiday season. as the world grapples with a rapid surge of the army kron variant. ah, hello, i'm come all santa maria here and darville. this is the world news from al jazeera . the white house is welcomed a retreat by to grind rebels, saying it could open doors for talks to end. the year long conflict with ethiopian

forces promise of support for workers and the elderly is chill. his youngest president gets ready to take charge of his country called la salt, screw up blunder ethnic proportions and jewelry proceedings begin in the united states. in the case of a minneapolis police officer charged. shooting a black man dead last you ah! cancel now and celebrate later, all risk more debts. that is the blunt advice from the head of the world health organization. as coven 19 cases rise markedly across the world. all foreigners are . seek off this pandemic all if i want to spend time with friends and family, all of us want to get back to normal. the fastest way to do this is for all of us

leaders and individuals to make the difficult decisions that must be made to protect ourselves and others, but uneven cancelled is better than a life cancelled. it's better to cancel now and celebrate later than to celebrate. now and grieve letter now the night had states the same as 50 percent surgeon karone of ours infections just this months. the only convent now accounts for nearly 3 quarters of all us infections. a new york state has reported 3 consecutive days of record cases. there is a state of emergency that's been declared in washington dc as well from there. alan fisher reports growing lines for testing, growing numbers of those infected growing concern where this is all heading in america, across the country. people are spending hours in line to get a covered test plan, a se, economy, careful, you know, given the mask on indoors,

even though it's not mandated, it's john to be safe as possible. got 2 little ones. so my concern is mostly with them. ones vaccinated and one is not too little to get vaccinated. so we feel very secure. and in walworth was we just made sure that we're safe with it ports or getting busier to is people head off for the christmas and new year holidays. there's a worry that that could lead to another search in a few weeks and it could put further strain on hospital systems across the u. s. many states already seeing double digit jumps in hospital admissions. those most at risk, people who have refused to get back sedated or boosted. if you get infected, you could transmit that to someone else who might be vulnerable. who might be an elderly person, might be someone with an underlying condition. that actually you're playing a role in transmitting that infection to them, even though you yourself are not particularly bothered by that infection. joe biden

plans to address the nation on tuesday. the president will arch more vaccinations and denounced and expanded test program, but he won't be talking about locking the country down to the clare coven. 19 is not the same threat to fully vaccinate individuals that it was in march 2020. his objective is to continue, continue to make vaccines available, reduce cases around the kind of reduced hospitals, ations and data across the country, and do that through making a vaccines testing and a range of uh, utilities available. but the president and i are vax at the weekend, former president donald trump told an audience in texas. he'd received his booster short. he was booed by people. repeat to see him. that's always a very tiny group, lee. so one happy new year in new york, one of the symbols of the new year celebrations arrived in the city. officials have still to make a decision on whether it's safe for the event to go ahead. i'll and fisher,

i'll just eat of washington. the british prime minister bars johnston says he is looking at all kinds of measures to stop the rapid spread of the on the constrain at these 12 people have died from the variant in the u. k and hospitalizations in london are rising steeply from their journal reports so far in england. government guidance against the omicron variant has focused on the boost of vaccination campaign and the pace of the road out as shut up in recent days. the rate of only grown infections. his sword, too, with scientists warning the new year, could bring thousands of hospital admissions and deaths each day if strict measures are brought in soon. at a cabinet meeting on monday, the prime minister boris johnson was found himself caught between the scientists and rebellious ministers and m p. 's, who say not enough is yet known about omicron. you know that there's been and i got the data in front of me. $104.00 hospitalizations from only crohn,

the question really is, does that and there's a lag time of days if not weeks to finding out whether that leads to more fatalities as a result of this, not if you like the missing piece of the data puzzle but we constantly keep it under review in a pre recorded statement, johnson erred on the side of caution, political caution. that is less so perhaps in the interests of public health. we, we will have to reserve the, the possibility of taking further action to, to protect the public and to protect public health, to protect our chess. and we weren't hesitate to, to take that action. but in the meantime, what i would say to everybody is please exercise caution. the wave of on the crone concern, meanwhile, is spreading fast across europe. germany becomes the latest country to confirm plans for new restrictions with social gatherings limited to a maximum of 10 vaccinated or recently recovered people from december. the 28th.

while in france, approval has been given for the use of the pfizer biotech vaccine in children, aged 5 and above. both countries joined by austria in limiting travel from britain, the current omicron capital of europe. but all will know there's no preventing its arrival eventually. back in the u. k. cove at 9 teens returned to the headlines, has been nothing but bad news for the prime minister. the next installment in the so called party gates, scandal, features a photo of johnson and his wife joining staff and officials with cheese and wine in the downing street garden last summer. the government insists these were work colleagues joining an after work gathering and that no rules were broken. the public who were under locked down at the time and now facing another difficult christmas will likely see it differently. jonah whole al jazeera london throughout the news and rebels from ethiopia ticker i region say they are withdrawing from

several northern territories to grab people's liberation front has been losing its foothold and the regions of power and are far in recent weeks and says it's now pulling out of those areas entirely and wants to open the door to humanitarian aid . around 400000 people integrate are at risk of starvation. a rebel own tv station has released new pictures of the aftermath of government strikes into gray drones bombs, the region for 3 days last week, killing at least 28 people pictures to residents carrying dead bodies from the markets. and dozens of people being treated for injury. well, a t p of spokesman is get you right there. he says the rebels on interested in taking the rest of the country just wanted grown to be free from federal control. we thought it was to the center of the job and broke into capital was taking so far. we're not interested in this, but we're not interested in squeezing out about again,

we interested in securing the interest of interest in ensuring that the seeds that was being pulled out is broken. well. tech ly gathering. michelle is a writer for pick up dot com, which has been documenting all this fighting. he says, any government conditions for the separatist to disarm weren't met? well, i think the courses have been stuck between hot place and iraq because on the one hand the, the international community has been making enormous pressure on them to withdrawal . so that the government could be conveyed into a because they depend government conditions. the delivery of aid on these examples is withdrawing that we get on the they have to go that to the, to the enemy that would otherwise innovate to. right. so they hung up on the other

hand, the pressure in. ready the other hand, they know that this would mean that the government will base to drive the next day, visit the kind of devastation that they have when they return from hoses where integrated not yet. so i don't think this is within the cod in this example, because if they do that, that would be a better look, you know, duty to protect. mr. grant again poses that made it clear that they would innovate if there was an opportunity to, to do that. authority that coalition fighting in yemen as bond the international airport in the hootie controlled capital. santa, excuse me, saudi media says the coalition off civilians to evacuate before the strike. coalition of the operation was in response to threats and the use of the port facilities to launch cross border attacks. a prominent activist in egypt been

sentenced to 5 years in prison. i love the fact that i was detained in 2019 and charged with spreading fake news. blogger lawyer tried on the same charges were sentenced to 4 years. to father was a leading activist in the revolution that toppled president housing vardek. i took his era, has made a sharp recovery of the back of measures by the government to ease the currency crisis. president jeff typo on announced a series of steps, including a promise to compensate savers for losses. as the labor declines, exporters will also be protected. is another amazon bank, other kid took, did as well learned if the deposit earnings of the turkish, leora assets and our people's bank are higher than the exchange rate increase. they will get this return. however, if the exchange rate return exceeds the deposit earnings, the difference will be paid directly to our citizens. moreover, this income will be exempted from tax. in addition, we will put into used tools that will ensure that turkish li are assets are used in

a way that does not create a new foreign exchange demand. there from now on, our citizens won't need to switch their deposits from turkish lira to foreign currency. feeling that the exchange rate will be higher thought issue to water and chill is pay, so has bounced back after the election of a leftist student leader sparked a steep fall. 35 year old gabriel burridge defeated his conservative rival and sundays runoff election. in his 1st day's president's leg barge tried to ease fear that his leadership would cause economic instability. a latin america edison, a senior man reports from santiago o. before going in to meet president of stm pineda president electric mcneil. but each made a small detour away of cindy, the message that no one is more important than the ordinary people who voted for him. oh then he went in to the presidential palace where the 35 year old former student leader will be the boss starting march 9th,

president of skimpy near the, showed him around then they met for 2 hours to discuss chiles future. as is traditional, the president elect is expected to appoint a shadow cabinet to work alongside the current government to smooth the transition and to ease market differs so far relations between both sides had been extremely civilized, which is rather ironic considering the congressman deputy and bought each just 2 months ago was voting in favor of the impeachment of president pineda. but what a difference in electro victory makes body says he will work to maintain macro economic stability as he embarks on overhauling the pension education and health systems. got to put him on in the think a sickening of herman and expenditure requires durable finance. and so we're going to advance in our structural reforms bus one step at a time so that we don't feel you know, a little by little with care or not body. what it is election and sundays run off by a historic number of votes. defied predictions he is leading

a new left movement. a key question is, who he'll choose as his ministers of economy and the interior, and how many if any key positions will go to his allies from the communist party, even bodied his opponents concede, that change is inevitable, but middle siegel mayfield. this is the end of one cycle in the beginning of another. and what awaits us requires dialogue and bridge building. oh, you're guilty. gets to the constitutional convention. who are we writing chiles? magna carta are overjoyed since bought each is a staunch supporter of the process. it says to him, different heal, this process was born out of a profound political and social crisis that persists. so the new constitution is crucial to re direct the country and start to resolve that crisis a min one enormous changes await the country that was considered the standard bearer of social and political stability in latin america actually would soon embark on a new road with a new generation with new ways of seeing politics,

a transition that already seemed to have begun. to see a newman al jazeera santiago. in the news ahead, a call from leaders in india's netherland states to repeal a law that allows the army to shoot to kill the aftermath of the philippines of super typhon rye. and the scrambled to help those devastates ah, ah, i look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle airways. hello, we got our a wintry blast making its way into our central and northern parts of japan over the next couple days. not too much showing up on the satellite picture here at present, but we are going to see the winds gathering, pushing into a on shewn autumn pass. we'll see some wet weather and some winter weather for time . kind of seeing a fair bit of snow and temperatures. do plunge as we go one into wednesday

temperature since a borrow will struggle to get anywhere near freezing, brighter skies to come back it be high. meanwhile, we seen tropical air making his way across the far southeast of china or in the form of tropical storm. arise now the system has weakened, it's making its way over towards taiwan weakening further. but we are still going to see some heavy spells of ray as we go on through the next couple of days, of course is the legacy of those showers to continue to filter in sunshine and showers across a good part of fer southeast asia. still some very wet weather where we saw the flooding just around the malay peninsula, still some lively showers here, but not quite as wet as it has been recently by still see one or 2 showers feed again to west rank raver the next hour. so from much south every asia, it does stay fine and dry, although the showers are gathering once again. i will also northeast of india. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always ah,

in hebron boys breathe and fly pigeons. but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also closely watched. vice really forces at times shut up and often arrested. a delicately told tale filmed over 5 years of a coming of age and a place where even a child's imagination is heavily restricted, for the skies above had brought a witness documentary on jessie yo ah ah it without 0. these are the top stories, the head of the world health organization is calling for limits to gatherings

during the holiday period. he said his evidence, the only constraint is more transmissible and can evade vaccines. but still too early to save his milder than the tilted bearings on a crankcase is now account for nearly 3 quarters of o u. s. current of ours infections state of new york's reported 3 consecutive days, reco cases and a state of emergency has been declared in washington, d. c. on rebels from ethiopia, tiger i region say they withdrawing from northern territories of and losing ground and i'm horror, and are far in recent weeks. fight a say they pulling out of those areas entirely to open the door to humanitarian night. now, jerry's deliberating in the trial of a for us police officer involved in the shooting of a black motorist. kimberly potter broke down in court last week while testifying about the death of dante wright, she is pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, saying she meant to use her taser, but drew her gun instead and opened fire. john hendrick, his bowl from minneapolis. tragic accident or manslaughter. those are the choices

for the jury, now weighing the fate of former police officer kimberly potter. i answer you realize this case is important, and serious, and therefore, to serve sher careful consideration. we will await your verdict. potter says she mistook her gun for her taser when she fatally and accidentally shot dante wright, prosecutors say she knew wrong from right and should have known left from right when she pulled the firearm on her right side and not as she says, she thought she was doing the taser on her left thigh and there's no mistake the fence you will not see an instruction on the defense of mistake. the general not give you an instruction that says a person is not guilty if they commit a mistake. she pulled her hand gun sort of a taser. that's recklessly handling a fire. in the trials most dramatic moment,

the former police officer took the stand herself breaking down as she relived the shooting. i remember yelling taser taser taser and nothing happens. potters defense lawyer argue she can't be convicted of mit handling a gun in the april traffic stop because she didn't know she was using it. and that in any case she was authorized in using the deadly force because dante wright was resisting arrest. she didn't know she had a gun. so how could she consciously, recklessly handle dr. right? took it upon himself to flee even left after he was shot purposely. oh, the racially charged shooting of a black man by a white police officer came as attention on the black lives matter movement was at its peak. it happened during the trial of derek shaven,

the white police officer ultimately convicted of murdering another black man named george floyd, drawing protesters from minneapolis to the nearby suburb of brooklyn center, where potter killed. right. both sides agree that kimberly potter made a mistake when she shot donte right afterwards, she fell to the ground and cried out. i'm going to prison. the question the jury has to decide now is should she ponders lawyers asked for a mis trial over the length and style of the prosecutions closing arguments? perhaps a sign of concern about the outcome a request. the judge denied john henderson al jazeera minneapolis a u. s. christian group whose missionaries were kidnapped and haiti says the group escaped captivity, says 12 people travel through forests walking for 16 kilometers. the ohio based organization confirmed it was raising funds for ransom payments. but it's not clear if they were paid again, kidnapped the group in mid october and would demanding a $1000000.00 for each person. when they sent the timing was right, they found

a way to open the door that was closed and blocked, filed silently to the path that they have chosen to follow and quickly left. the place that they were hel, despite the fact that numerous guards were close by the former ukrainian president pet report a shanker, is being investigated over his suspected support of russian back rebels in east and done. thus. offices from the state bureau of investigations tried to subpoena polish and go on thursday. they accuse him of buying $7000000.00 with coley through state on companies, from areas controlled by the separatists when he was an office. but a shank. those lawyers describe the cases unique nonsense the state of novel and in india is northeastern demanding the government in new delhi. repeal a law that gives soldiers the right to shoot to kill. the state legislature passed the resolution after 14 civilians were mistakenly shocked by the army early this month. of numa tell us more than the capital new delhi

non something then is still being treated in hospital for gunshot wounds. it's been 2 weeks since a soldier shot the coal miner and several others. during confrontations with villages. tinkin saw his friend die in front of him and feel lucky to have survived what's wanted as soon as a child, i was told that the army is there to protect the nation. i never thought they would fight it, fellow citizens. what do i see after the incident? i have lost faith in the indian army for decades, arm rebel groups. in ne, india had been fighting for secession most and now engaged in peace talks with the government. soldiers shot and killed 6 coal miners travelling in this pickup truck earlier this month, the government set soldiers mistook them for rebel fighters. later that evening, soldiers again opened fire during violent protests in mon towns auditing village close to where the ambush happened. at least 8 civilians and a soldier died in protest, shootings didn't, and was among several injured after wiper protests across the region. the state

legislature in the capital city of gordon, mar, foster resolution calling for government leaders in new delhi to roll back the law allowing security forces to search arrest and kill with impunity. the armed forces, special powers act, rough spot was past 63 years ago to combat on rebellion in regions including indian, administered, cush, mute, and the ne, in a given situation. it might have been better, best serve the security perspective of new government. but traveling down the line timeline, now we are in the new faith in a new solution in new area. so i am seeing that this has become completely irrelevant and obsolete. some political analysts say the status quo was told the piece process in the region where rebel attacks have eased over the last few years . you don't need the distributor is act, you don't need the officer. but if the government believes that it is necessary to have it for whatever situation it sees existing now and have it in buckets,

you can do that. and that's possible. then people who are under, who will accept it. citizen groups in the region say they won't cooperate but troops until the law is repealed, tinged and hope to recover soon and reunite with his family. he says the emotional scars from the shootings will take longer to heal. pardon him at the al jazeera, new delhi. malaysia government is facing criticism over its efforts to rescue people in flight affected areas. 8 people have died and thousands of flat band since flooding started on friday. prime minister smell somebody yacht club says, months with a seasonal monsoon, rain fell in a single day rescue efforts have been hampered in some places by a lack of boats. and man, number of people killed in the strongest talking to the philippines is now surged to 375. another $500.00 injured and at least $56.00. i'm missing. they didn't got islands, but there be center of it all is jamilla islander going report survive as

a desperate for drinking water and food. this is central say do not good island, a town which bore the brunt of super typhoon rice piri, on thursday. what was once a thriving coastal community, now desolate, my monitor and your on to your to ring. and i have been living here for more than 50 years. a home they built to raise a family. this is all what's left of it. they put very law up for to like i own when, when you know that they phone was very strong and we went downstairs to haine. but our walls and so we went to the ne, we're a, we're very scared of an animal right everywhere you look, there is destruction. it's been days since typhoon ry devastated the southern philippines. but this community remains cut off from the rest of the world, though. so survived here, tell us. life will never be the same again for them. men here feel

frustrated and abandoned. hardly anything is spared here in the market. not even its provincial capital, like a landscape scraped by a steel brush or the immediate aftermath of a bomb explosion. this is how this devastation looks like. up close. mary. jane basil you says she's grateful. she survived the typhoon with her family and one month old baby. now hunger has become pervasive here. there is nothing left to harvest. they have no money to money. for wilma, the kids are so small. i still need to be with my baby. i prayed to the lord to please make the typhoon stop. the wind was already so strong and it started at 12 noon. i. well 88 year old anesthesia tells us she wants to be reunited with their daughter, who lives from another town. anesthesia was rescued after home collapsed beneath

her. there are many others in san jose to shocked to share their ordeal. while others see they play dine simply because they have no choice. everything was wiped out in an instant. they say. now, there is only suffering jamal allan doug and al jazeera, the leg province southern philippines, the president of well football, governing body. johnny of montana, has held a virtual summit with member associations and tried to sell him his proposal for more frequent world cups. he told us what scars won an anti richardson, it will lead to a fair distribution of football wealth. there is a gap which is which is getting bigger and bigger. not only of club level what it is really huge show, but also national team levels between some continents and, and so response really to work and to make room. so how we can not close his god by

bringing those were wow, in the country. those were up, we need to make them grew even more likely to bring those up as well. the proposals to the mount table to think are going to the direction we have to discuss them. we have to debate them to one child and we'll see where we end. indigenous women in panama of turned out in force in the countries ancestral games. they competed in competitions to talk, war log, racing, and archery. 7 recognized tribes take part in panama, indigenous ancestral games, which seeks to preserve and promote cultural traditions. the world indigenous games will be held in brazil next year. funny brazilian aquarium has been spreading some christmas chair. chit cheer, not chair cheer. with some bite. a diver at the rio de janeiro aquarium has been well popped on a santa claus costume, while feeding the facilities shocks and sting race. he's been joined by mrs. claus and other his characters for the festive feeding. sorry, i hate sing,

right. so i don't want to watch this at korea, visits can watch the dive every day until december 25th. ah, how posse are these are the top stories the head of the world health organization is calling for limits to gatherings during the holiday period. he said there's evidence the only constraint is more transmissible and can evade vaccines, though it's only too early to say if it is a mild, a variance, all of us are seek off this bond on me all off. i want to spend time with friends and family, all of us, one to get back to normal. the fastest way to do this is for all of us leaders and individuals to make the difficult decisions that must be made to protect ourselves and others, but uneven can.