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a covert test planet saved on to be careful. you know, given the last 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 vaccinate. so we feel very secure and in our workforce we just make sure that we're safe to receive your 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 vaccinated 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 some one 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 denounce an expanded test program, but he won't be talking about looking the country don't to be clear, coven 19 is not the same threat to fully vaccinate individuals that it was in march 2020. his objective is to senior, 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 to present. 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, marie. 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, when fisher, i'll just eat of washington. meanwhile, the head of the world health organizations calling for limits to gatherings during the holiday period. he said, there is evidence the on the cross strain is more transmissible and can evade vaccines. but it's still too early to say if it's milder than the delta variant. all forms are seek off this bond. am you all off, 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 concealed is better than a life cancelled. it's better to conceal now and celebrate later than to celebrate to now and grieve later. the turkish lira has made

a sharp recovery of the back of measures by the government to ease the currency crisis. president, russia typo to one, announced a series of steps, including a promise to compensate savers for losses incurred a former. yes, miss. now he's been sentenced to 12 years in prison for section abusing young girls in east timor, 84 year old richard dust bah, abused them, but his shelter for orphans and impoverished children. the jury is concluded that 1st day of deliberations in the trial of a former u. s. police officer involved in the shooting of a black motorist. kimberly porters pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. the death of dante wright, she says she meant to use her taser. but you had gun instead. and open fire. those were the headlines. the news continues here now to 0 world simon. shaheen. 8 musical journey state. you. thanks for watching bye for now. ah

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performa visionary from his base on the east coast of the united states. shaheen shares traditional arabic music with performers seeking to create a difference out. it's a style that has attracted followers across the world. cody, it does, she ha, she's giving you the shabby, the ability, an older through connie, more hot battery in it for many in a voice machine where the can hardly float. moreover, b, we're more la him, whole is thought that they couldn't. and marcia colorado, b. u because they are at monte, i'm, mattie, can call them. and then we'll see if he montez a swallow jim nearly be hello, joe lesher it or cannot that have you been pellets and o'connell's o boss?

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a lot with i believe that the arts, especially music and poetry and song, are the heart beat of the arab world of arab culture. and if you don't understand that, i mean you're, you're not getting the whole picture. and the world needs to hear that. as far as the mon goes, he is the consummate teacher and performer and compose her to be able to share those skills. you need the right setting. oh,

no to boston. i'm feelin bob's in the muscle cookie, min mother. this was my berkeley college of music. i couldn't get them sophie, florida to boston. fair dowdy dies tomorrow. all catalogs besieged than walter in nor eulley dawn and no alden, mossy hubert, i happened to go to a concert where simone shaheen was performing. he was playing violin mostly a little bit ood, but mostly violin, and i heard him play and i knew what i wanted to do with the strength department at berkeley. i wanted string playing as it exists around the world, which is mostly improvisational, sharon's not all but mostly, ah, even classical music has improvisation in its roots, not so much now, but used to. so when i heard them on play, and i understood that this was the vision i wanted for the strange apartment,

i started to pursue him to see if i could get him to come to a

i have to confess, when i took this job 14 years ago, i didn't know what a canoe was, and i met this young man who played canoe and he told me all about it. and i was fascinated, but he was a student. and then started noticing more people playing mood more people playing various percussion instruments from the arab world. and i realized something was happening and independently i had known about simone, shaheen and in fact, had helped encourage him to come teach here. but i didn't really know about. so marcia, he, i just knew he was a really good musician and a really good person. and, but i didn't realize that, that the 2 were connected is when simone came here, that all these amazing musicians started coming to us from all over all over the,

the middle east. and he's been an enormous magnet for talented students. and he's strong enough and capable enough that he can teach. he can help a commune player. he can help renewed player, he can help a violinist. so he's a, he's like a swiss army knife of talent and magnetism. ah ah, part of what i try to focus on in my play is bringing traditional music to a wider global audience. hygiene music is very deep in esoteric and has all these layers, but it's pretty much reserved to the, to the hoodies. so i come to brooklyn college of music and i start spending a lot of time with simone and seeing how he's kind of created a community in

a world outside of the region that he's from in the style that place specifically very inspiring ah, usual, if you've got to listen to what the secret in no ma'am, is that the whole and some yellow additions? la shabamo, in recent years, simona, he has looked to palestine, the land of his birth to seek out a new generation of young musical italian. ah. with how long have you studied by about 9 years,

8 years a go or her? yeah. mostly classical about some oriented messic with zillow. who did it? i instructor. no, i mean something in the it was i eat with mock moons. hello. okay. yeah. i yeah. now this branch, about 4 or 5 years ago, we started to open up opportunities for students to audition with us online because we know, you know, the world's a big place and we can't be everywhere all the time. and it gives us the opportunity to reach that young musician see what they were doing, come from ah, instrumental and performance perspective. and give them an opportunity for a consideration um through the process. and we found tremendous musicians through

the online audition process that have come to berkeley and have successfully graduated. i'm at berkeley at this point. you know, that otherwise we would not have found. so i think it's a very valuable process if you want to play for us about. busy another piece or something that you worked. ready on i'm getting it. 6 me ah ah ah ah ah

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students in their own culture and seeing how musicians in there are most natural state if you will, come in under most comfortable, straight. doing what they do best with . it's really beautiful to find musicians. all musicians, no matter where you go. oh, [000:00:00;00]

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i thought of other another man. the man knows it's not a b, i the college, the tradition of arabic music. we had some here but not much. and certainly not at the depth. and the high level that, that simone brings to his music making and berkeley students are very focused on the proposition, but they knew nothing about the proposition in arabic. music. funny, what do you want to play the upper or lower anything. okay. how about if you do the lower one and you do both. ready

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