when the wells are empty, people fight foreign programs that open your eyes to an alternative view. i then have kalashnikov, i having my voice on now to sierra ah, it's better to cancel now and celebrate later than to celebrate to now and grieve later. the global health chief warns against increased socializing over the holidays of the world, grapples with a rapid surge of the army convert. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera, alive from dell are also coming up. the white house welcomed the retreat by to brian rebels saying it could open doors for talks to end. the year long conflict with ethiopian forces took his lira rebound sharply from

a record low against the dollar. falling measures by the government to ease the currency crisis. call law. so screw up a blunder of epic proportions and jury proceedings. begin in the u. s. in the case of a minneapolis police officer who shopped at a black motorists last year ah, cancel now and celebrate later or risk more deaths. that's the blunt advice from the head of the world health organization. as cobra 19 cases rise markedly across the world. all foreigners are seek off this bond, m u all. if i want to spend time with friends and family, all are funds 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 counsel is better than a life cancelled. it's better to conceal now and celebrate later than to celebrate to now and grieve later when all the u. s. a seen a 50 percent surgeon corona virus cases this month on the on the chron variant. now accounts for nearly 3 quarters of all infections. new york state has reported 3 straight days of record cases, and a state of emergency has been declared in washington d. c. allen fisher sent this report on the capital going 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 to say economy, careful, you know, given and asked on indoors, even though it's not mandated, it's trying to be safe as possible. got 2 little ones. so my concern is mostly with

them. once vaccinated in one is not too little to get vaccinated. so we feel very secure in our workforce. we just make sure that we're safe with your port. so 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 declare coven 19 is not the same threat to fully vaccinate individuals, that it was in march 2020. his active is to continue, continue to make vaccines available, reduce cases around the country, reduced hospitalizations and deaths across the country and do that through making a vaccines testing and a range of uh, utilities available. both 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 a washington mino, a british prime minister boris johnson, says he's looking at all kinds of measures to stop the rapid spread of on the chron

. at least 12 people have died from the variant in the u. k and hospitalizations in london, a rising steeply journal reports in the capital so far in england government guidance against the omicron variant as focused on the boost vaccination campaign and the pace of the road up as shut up in recent days. the rate of only grown infection has sought to 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 boys johnson was found himself caught between the scientists and rebellious ministers and m p's, who say not enough is yet known about omicron. there's been, and i got the data in front of me, 104 hospitalizations from omicron. 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, in a 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 omicron 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 are 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 new zealand has phoned its phase border reopening plans until the end of february, due to the rapid spread of the on the chrome variant. it had previously announced that non quarantine travel would reopen for new zealand citizens from january and

to foreign tourists by april. countries recorded several cases of variance in international travel rebels from ethiopia to region say there withdrawing from several northern territories, the dr. people's liberation front has been losing its foothold and the regions of horror and define recent weeks. it says it's not pulling out of those areas entirely and wants to open the door to humanitarian aid. around 400000 people in the drive are at risk of starvation, rebel and tv station as release, new pictures of the aftermath of government dan strikes into dr. drones, but the region for 3 days last week, killing at least 28 people. picture show residents carrying dead bodies. my market and doesn't is being treated the injuries for tech la gerber. michael is an online writer. he's been documenting the fighting. he says any government conditions for the separatist to disarm one the next? well, i think the courses have been stuck between hard 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 a on these to grapples is withdrawing. that we can all go, they have to go that to the, to the enemy that would otherwise innovate to. right. so they have that in the other 100 bucks. in the other hand, they know that this would mean that the government would base to drive the next day, visit the kind of devastation that they have when they return from courses where integrated not yet. so i don't think this is within the cost in this example, because if they do that, that would be a better look, you know, duty to protect mr. grant against poses that made it clear that they would innovate

if there was an opportunity to, to do that. took his lira has made a sharp recovery of the back of measures by the government to ease the currency crisis. president, russia, type her due on announced a series of steps, including a promise to compensate. savers for losses incurred exporters will also be protected. is unload amazon by cut like you took did as well learnin if the deposit earnings of the turkish lira assets in 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 use tools that will ensure that turkish lira assets are used in a way that does not create a new foreign exchange. demand 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 authority. we're radi scott is from the economic policy institute. he says,

president oder one's plan will lead to greater debt for the country. i think it's going to be very difficult given the economic fundamentals that the, the president is facing. he's got very high levels of government debt and these promise that he's made will require him to, to issue even more debt. that's going to add to the level of money in circulation and increase the rate of inflation. so that's going to make it very difficult to make good on his economic commitments. it's going to mean exports will become less competitive, imports will become much cheaper for turkish buyers. and so it's going to lead to growing trade problems. and ultimately, i think it's is unlikely to be an unstable, sustainable economic situation. the big problem, the big risky face faces is that foreign exchange traders are going to recognize that the layer is unsustainable at these levels. and ultimately, i think that will take it down. what will take it down in the long run?

i think the thing that they're going to have to do unfortunately is, is tighten monetary policy, raise interest rates, and that will have a depressing effect on the economy. cost of living is going to go up. that's why the inflation meets. and of course, unemployment rates are very high now at 13 percent. and my concern is if a government has to cut spending and raise interest rates, it's going to get worse before it gets better slots. also to come here now does air, including the aftermath of the philippines super typhoon roy in a scramble to help those devastated. and we report on the flight of thousands of remainder in thailand, flynn villages after clashes with the military more in that state. ah. hello, we've got a little bit of everything going on across the middle east at the merriment or hot sunshine across southern parts of the arabian peninsula. miss bad or cloud that does not the boundary between that warm weather. 30 celsius here in doha,

on tuesday afternoon. and noticeably cooler air further, north 18, the high end queue weight were struggling to get into double figures for damascus is some wet and windy weather just piles its way him once again into the love. and so we're coastal parts of syria pushing across the lebanon, seeing some live the showers longest, both the frame, right, the white down into israel, when she makes still in place there, you notice just around turkey, add the corks is that'll sink a little further southwards, pushing the cooler air further south, doha, struggling to get to $24.00 celsius that on wednesday, are they still not too bad? it has to be said at troy by the stretches its way down across the whole of africa . premier showers just around the tropical belt by showers. extending further south now course. so where does they marks the winter solstice? so the, the sun getting as far south as it's going to get, we are seeing some live the showers. right the way down across the botswana pushing

into south africa and went to weather coming through it with some showers to madagascar. ah. on counting the cost m r n a. all that is changing the well, the vaccine, not just the coven, 9 thing big business, like that's plus thousands of pixels, millions of dollars. a non refundable token, we'd be mystify the world of crypto on helping to call on al jazeera. oh, you want to help save the world. sneeze into your elbow, in the ah,

welcome back. a quick reminder about top stories here at this hour. the head of the world health organization was calling for limits to gather his during the holiday period. he said, there is evidence the micron strain is more transmissible and can evade vaccines. but it's still too early to say, if it's miles in the delta barrier rebels from ethiopia to go, i regions say there withdrawing from northern territories. they've been losing ground and i'm hora. and the fall in recent weights. fighters say that pulling out of those areas and tarley to open the door to humanitarian aid. until his lawyer has made a sharp recovery of the back of measures by the government to ease the consequences . president rush up typo tuan, announced a series of steps including a promise to compensate sabres for losses incurred chillies pe, so has bounced back after the election of a left, a student leader sparked a steep fall 35 year old gabrielle burridge defeated, his conservative rival and sundays runoff election and his 1st day as president

elect or try to ease fears his leadership will cause economic instability or latin america editor lucille newman reports from santiago o. before going in to meet president, if i stamp denita, president elected abdel, but each made a small detour a way of sending 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 will be the boss starting march 9th, president of us camping there, showed him around then they met for 2 hours to discuss chiles future. as is traditional, the president intellect 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 and entering the congressman gabrielle bondage. just 2

months ago was voting in favor of the impeachment of president pineda. but what a difference in electro victory makes bridge 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 that when you get a permanent expenditure requires durable finance. and so we're going to advance in our structural reforms by 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 bodies, 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 at bridge building. oh,

you can do the delegates to the constitutional convention who are rewriting chillies. magna carta are overjoyed since bought each is a staunch supporter of the process. it says home to begin this with you. this process was born out of a profound political and social crisis that persists secret. so the new constitution is crucial to re direct the country and start to resolve that crisis min, one enormous changes await the country that was considered the standard bearer of social and political stability in latin america, chile would soon embark on a new road with a new generation with new ways of seeing politics, a transition that already seems to have begun. to see a newman al jazeera santiago. the jury has concluded its 1st day of deliberations and the trial of our former u. s. police officer involved in the shooting of a black motorist. kimberly potter broke down in court last week while testifying of the death of dante wright. she's pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, saying she meant to use her taser,

but drew her gun instead and opened fire. john henry has more now 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. serious. and therefore, to serve sher careful consideration. we will await your predict. 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. a general not give you an instruction that says

a person is not guilty if they commit a mistake. she pulled her hand gun instead 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 miss 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 one ought to write? took it upon himself to flee even left after he was shot purposely. ah, 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 protestors 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. i for my u. s. missionary's, been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing young girls in east timor . h a 4 year old rich had thus, bah, use them that is shelter for orphans and young people. he was defrost by the catholic church in 2018 after confessing to sexually abusing the children. a u. s.

christian group was missionaries were kidnapped in haiti, says the group escaped captivity and 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 a gang kidnapped the group in mid october and were demanding a $1000000.00 for each 1st. now the number of people killed in the strongest typhoon to the philippines. this year surged to $375.00. another 500 have been injured and at least 56. i'm missing the dinner. got islands were at the epicenter and of jamila. allan doug reports survivors a desperate for drinking water and food? this is central st. dinner, good island, a town which bore the brunt of super typhoon rice fury on thursday. what was once

a thriving coastal community? now desolate? ma maritza and you're on the, you're to ring and have been living here for more than 50 years. a home the built to raise a family. this is all what's left of it live on very long 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 rather than a, were a, were very scared of an animal right everywhere you look, there is destruction. it's been days since typhoon right. 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 dependent. 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 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. this woman, if of 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 for that. oh, well 88 year old anesthesia tells us she wants to be reunited with their daughter who lives from another town. anastasia was rescued after home collapsed beneath her . there are many others in san jose to shocked to share their ordeal. while others see the play dawn simply because they have no choice. everything was wiped out in

an instant. they say. now there is only suffering jemila dog and al jazeera in her good province southern philippines, humanitarian groups and men, marceau, civilians are being targeted in fighting between the army and ethnic rebel groups. more than 3000 people have escaped the violence by crossing the border into thailand. but hundreds have already been forced back. catalogue has had a young report. these type of attacks are forcing thousands of people to escape me on more fighting between the military and rebels is intensifying and current state in the southeast. civilians are fleeing across the border into neighboring thailand, hoping to find refuge when the army bombed half of my house. my baby was very sick, but i managed to run out while my daughter was passed out. we were in the jungle

for 2 days and more heavy explosions were launched. nearby. laura, hundreds of children are among the many forced to move this family managed to escape, but only temporarily. ty, security forces have allowed some villagers to cross the river to receive food and water. but afterwards they're being sent back to me on more many r returning voluntarily, fearing they'll lose what's left of their belongings. are clear to you all that i go, i picked up my child and ran immediately across the river to thailand. i heard about 50 artillery rounds at our village in just one day, i guess nearby in the sugar cane field, myanmar villager thay, the attacks are getting dangerously close, but for many escaping isn't an option. while grandma live in the way of it, it's scary, but i don't know where i can run to with my 5 children. i'm not authorized to

travel freely, so i can't go anywhere. i want to go back to my village, but there is no work there. army commanders deny targeting civilians but humanitarian group say the military is cracking down on protesters and rubble groups such as the korean national union, particularly since the military to else did democratically elected leader on songs, which she and february come nightfall. some families that manage to stay in thailand will sleep in this outdoor area meant for livestock. it's a break from the fighting nearby, but who knows for how long? katya little missile the young al jazeera. now the middle of winter in denmark doesn't sound like the best time to go for a swim. but taking a dip in copenhagen harbor is a perfect tonic for some people. what used to be a major industrial port and a capital has now been transformed into one of the cleanest waterways in europe. as mama jam june reports on

a danish morning. this cold and grey as anxiety deepens over the surgeon cove. at 19 cases, you might expect to encounter a somewhat darker mood, but for power volk, who started swimming in copenhagen's harbor during the pandemic. this is the one place where his worries get washed away. is that like dancing. like when you go and dance, your shoe, you'll dip heavy, and it's the same when you go into the water just for 30 seconds, you could up and you just get an injection of pure happiness. a few hours later in another part of denmark's capital, it's not much warmer, but that doesn't stop josephine nord gren, who's from finland on mara? one mara. it's one of the reasons i really love living here that we have the opportunity like you don't have to go far away to be able to swim. copenhagen is one of the rare european cities with harbor water clean enough to jump into. but this wasn't always possible. pair shoes works on new developments for the harbor.

he says for many years the water was too polluted to swim in. but all the efforts that went into transforming the harbor from an industrial area into a recreational one have paid off. we actually called it the, the blue park. we have a lot of green parkson in copenhagen lot of green areas. but we also have this blue park where people can enjoy themselves. no big polluting ships here. even the transport options are more eco friendly, like this electric powered ferry. having a clean harbor is a real point of pride for copenhagen, but the work is far from over. these days the aim isn't just to make the area safer for humans, but also to protect the ecosystem that exists beneath the water. these are bio huts also known as fish hotels, dozens of steel cages that contain boxes filled with empty oyster shells, where algae and small organisms grow. the initiative is

a partnership between the world wildlife fund and the city of copenhagen, vertical walls of peers as don't show a lot of complexity. and this is a bio hats can help in these bio had had stay in. they give space for kind of an niches where small fish can lift that a good chance and etiquette. food like the other harbor projects, an attempt to ensure locations that will comfort and in aquatic environment that can flourish. i'm a jim jim a 0 copenhagen and a brazilian aquarium has been spreading some christmas chair. but with some bite, a diver, the rio de janeiro aquarium has been dawning a santa claus costume while feeding the sharks and sting rays. he's been joined by mrs. claus and other christmas characters for the festive fetus. ah.