young palestinian israeli designers and entrepreneurs have been moving in, inspired by earlier to let them once they were 450 business is operating in the old city. now they're just 50, the altered, he's always been the heart of nazareth. now a growing group of residence wants to get it beating again. when they come back, because the city still have very much i me. but uneven counsel is better than a life cancelled. a firm warning from the world health organization advising countries to step up efforts to catch the spread of the oma. com buried. ah, hello, i'm so rahman watching all their life. my headquarters here in also coming up. a

desperate plea for aid. tens of thousands still without food and water. following the typhoon that struck the philippine also turkey's troubled lira rebound slightly after the latest government moves to try to strengthen the currency. i'm in basra and eastern curtis on were earlier this year. the government sees control of one of the biggest and highest gold mining operations in the world. welcome to the program council now and celebrate late at all risk more deaths. that's the stock message from the head of the world health organization. as cases of the coal corona, virus variant rise rapidly across the world. all funds are seek of this bundle. all of us 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 to now and grieve later through. it's confirmed for new cases of amok on since 1st detecting the new variant on sunday. like many countries around the world, it's typing restrictions ahead of the holiday season. officials want more people to get booster shots, whomever chandry has more. another patient in another stretcher, and another make shift tents. as the number of those infected with coven 19 continue to rise, health officials are taking drastic steps to prevent a new outbreak. zebra ah, alan dad, the application of the 3rd booster, those will be advanced, no longer be necessary to wait 5 months,

but only 3 is done for 2 reasons. firstly, because it's already been demonstrated. there are several countries such as england and other countries that are already applying this $30.00 after 3 months. it's absolutely safe. there's no problem. 74 percent of its population has been vaccinated. but officials want to increase that figure to 80 percent by the end of the year, remind everybody of them. yes, it bothers me because i had a meeting with my family and now they say, i will no longer be able to drink my beer or dancer anything like that. more than 200000 people have died from corona virus, one of the highest mortality rates in the world. the government is desperate to prevent more death, but not every one is convinced and new measures will work and so on. and it depends on the people how responsible they are with their health and the environments with other people. actually. because the laurie's made people do not listen to the law. and even if they say there is a curfew before 11 at night,

many people may make the peruvian government is reducing public capacity and shopping centers from 80 to 60 percent. and extending cofi by 2, i was during christmas and new year's eve. another holiday ruined by a pandemic that many hoped would be over by now. her marriage or 30. but his prime minister boys, johnson has said he's looking at all kinds of measures to stop the rapid spread. although micron. at least 12 people have now died with the variant in the united kingdom and hospitalizations in london are rising steeply elsewhere in europe. germany is set to limit private gatherings to 10 vaccinated or recovered people from 20 of december. while in france, approval has been given for the use of the science vaccine in children, aged 5 and above. the zealand has postponed its plans to reopen until the end of february in response to the rapid spread of the alma called variance. it had

previously announced that non quarantine travel would reopen for citizens from january and for foreign taurus by april. lockdown, restrictions have been ruled out in australia, even though covered 19 infections, all hitting daily record highs. prime minister scott morrison says the country needs to move past what he describes as the heavy hand of government. and instead, take a common sense approach to living with the virus. a look on cases now account for nearly 3 quarters of all us cove infections. new york state has reported a record number of cases 3 days in a row, and a state of emergency has not been declared in washington d. c. allen fisher has the latest 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 covert test plan if they've got to be careful. you know, given the mask on indoors, even though it's not mandated, it's trying to be safe as possible. i've got to little one,

so my concern is mostly with them ones vaccinated and one is not because too little to get back to name and so we feel very secure and in our workplace we just make sure that we're safe, $50000.00 people each week, airport so getting busy or 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 us. many states already seeing double digit jumps in hospital admissions, those most at risk, people who refuse 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 are more vaccinations

and denounced and expanded test program. but he won't be talking about looking the country to be clear. 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 country, reduced hospitalizations and deaths across the country, and do that through making a vaccines testing and a range of uh, utilities available. but the appraiser i got 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 way. 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 either washington. now the governor of

a central philippine province is warning of looting. if a doesn't reach affected areas, tens of thousands of people all without food. i'm to typhoon roy made lungful on saturday. at least 375 people have died and about 56 is still missing. as mill allan doug and reports now from the dinner got islands. this is central saying denied that i live at town, which bore the brunt of super typhoon rice piri, on thursday. what was once a thriving coastal community, now desolate my marathon and iraq to your to ring. 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 live on the new law for to like i own when, when you know that they phone was very strong and we went downstairs to right. but our walls gallon. 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 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. jean 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.

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 in her get province southern philippines. rescue workers and malaysian are evacuating people from the worst flood had region there that 14 people have died for them were found in selling all the countries wealthiest or most populous region. the government has been criticized over the slow rescue efforts due to a lack of boats and matter. the army has been mobilized across 7 states after

months worth of seasonal rainfall fell on friday. rebels from ethiopia to gray regions say they've completely pulled back from her and afar regions in the north. the to gray people's liberation front says the withdrawal could be a decisive opening for peace. and they want the international community to put pressure on the government to hold its military operation, integrate the government as yet to respond. brianca got to has the story after weeks of making advances, a significant setback. one that could alter the course of a few years war. tiguan rebels say the retreating from harrow and far regions in the north area said they had captured just months ago. which once put them within striking distance from the capitol, addis ababa interested. this thought? not interested in scooting about again interested in

security in just interested in ensuring that the seed was being pulled out is broken. ever since prime minister abi amory march to the front line to rally his troops against the rebels. the shift in the battlefield has been swift and a real offensive with chinese drones and morality weapons have destroyed to grind supply lines. the causes have been stuck between hot plates and iraq because on the one hand the, the international community has been making enormous pressure on them to withdrawal . so that the different governments could be conveyed into a because they've been government conditions. the delivery of a on the to grapples is withdrawing. that we don't, they have to go that to the, to the enemy that would otherwise innovate to write the u. s. won't been pushing for the fire and as imposed sanctions in response to human rights abuses during the

conflicts we've long urged in human rights abuses and violations and for negotiated resolution to the conflict. so in fact, if we do see a movement to grand forces back into to t, great, that is something we would welcome at something we've called for. and we hope it opens the door to to broader diplomacy for millions of a few pins facing hunger unstyled ation a diplomatic end to the conflict couldn't come soon enough. priyanka gupta, alt 0. phil had hill and al jazeera, a promise of support. a work is done, the elderly and chillies, youngest president gets ready to take charge of his country. ah, ah, i look forward to brutus guys with sponsored my cattle airways.

hello, there. the weather's turning more mild in the days to come across parts of europe. but we still have cold air dominating the picture, blowing down from the north, across the east. and we're going to see temperatures knocked down dramatically in the day to come particular for that north eastern corner with a lot of wintery weather around. but further south is looking more mild within some heavy rain affect the southwest weather systems pulling into the iberian peninsula . the more rounds of rain for portugal is going to get wetter. the southern areas of spain, by the time we get to wednesday. and there are a lot of that warmth will be knocked out of cities like seville. now the further east we move, it is looking dryer and quieter, but we've seen some nasty winter weather effect. turkey with heavy snow falling in the east, there's going to be more of that to come as those waves of winter weather blow down into across into the north, our crossing central areas of europe. this'll of gloomy and gray, whether to be found in places like germany and poland. a lot of chilion, i see conditions for north west. it's looking more unsettled for britain,

an island. as we move through the week, we're going to see temperatures drop in places like london in paris. by the time we get into wednesday, but not as dramatically as the north east. it's going to remain bitterly cold in moscow. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always killing the debate. 90 percent of the world's refugees have come from a common impacted country. as a climate emergency is putting more pressure on services across the world and amplify your voice. it's not really the future. 8, now it's not our completely peace given locked, can't get into this completely back. we cannot lose hope. we know what to do and we have the tools to do to get the last bill was paid. reach this to you are now to sierra. wow,

i woke about you're watching all to 0 with me as a whole robin, a reminder of all top stories. the head of the world health organization is calling for limits to gatherings during the holiday period. dr. ted rall said, the best evidence the all mc on strain is more transmissible and can evade vaccines buddies, insisted it's still too early to say if it's milder than the dell to variance. that all warnings of looting. if aid does not reach storm affected regions of the philippines, tens of thousands of without food, water, and electricity, since typhoon rise land full on saturday, 375 people have died at 56. a still missing rebels from ethiopia to go. i region say that it withdrawing from several northern territories, lead to great people's liberation front has been losing its foothold and the

regions of a potter and a fall. now turkey's lira has made a sharp recovery off the back of measures by the government to ease the currency crisis present. reza, type one announced a series of steps including a promise to compensate save and some losses incurred. he says, exporters will also be protected, isn't that amazon one? can i get to that as well? and then if the deposit earnings of the turkish layer assets and our people's bank are higher than the exchange rate increase, they will get this return. however, the exchange rate return exceeds the deposit earnings, the difference will be paid directly to our citizens. moreover, this income will be exempt from tax. in addition, we will put into use tools that will assure the turkish layer assets are used in a way that does not create a new foreign exchange demand from now on our citizens, we need to switch the deposits from turkish lira to foreign currency feelings that

the exchange rate will be higher, valera has gained about 30 percent against the us dollar following against it one's announcement to bolster the currency. now the turkish banks associations at around $1000000000.00 in savings were converted to the lira after those new measures went in to reduced earlier on tuesday, the labor traded at $11.00, following the governance, the financial initiative. there has been the worst effect currency this year having of 55 percent of its value while results. others telling the story for miss sanders covered this extensively from tech joseph, now on site must have you here again, the president seems to be offering a lot in what is uncertain financial times when the economists here, they're criticizing the government's decision. i believe this isn't that of not been sustainable because they believe many of them believe that this kind of system a will eventually requires more and more turkish leverage in the market. and when there is over to the market that eventually going to lead the loss of the ready was

or increase the inflation. however, the government said this is a temporary so that the difficult times, the desperate times required desperate a solution. so ordered the measures and that this is one of the part of that. and the government is hor, pin to keep this system monitor system, particularly during the course period or when the coin units in a little bit is. so the new formula that everyone is introduced and simply saying that at it's going to be impossible the target for the, the turkish lira to lose dwellers. particularly when you have savings in your bank account. less you have $100.00 liver and at the end of the month the turkish lira loses 15 percent of the weather. so the banking system, the government is going to compensate that 15 losses. and then your account is going to be directly increased to 115 lira. so it's making impossible that the for you, if you're saving in lira to, to lose the money. because so far

a people in turkey got used to the, at the did it did added to, to save, making savings, ingested. yes. the was a great deal of the investment for many entrepreneurs as well. and people were making money simply investing in dollars because you know that for sure, the dollar is going to increase by 10 percent 20 percent each month. so by this isn't this, actually it's averting that or, or, or reverse in these kind of the investments and encouraging people to more and more making their savings in turkish lira. and that's why, since yesterday, when we have seen the turkish lira gained roughly around 25 to 40 person value, a guest usd, which is something very much real. and it's most probably the highest gaining value since eighty's. so that the question here swayed is whether this decision is going to reflect on the goose in the market or not, we shall see what happens. zeniah. keep quickly silent. russel's other thank you to chile, where the peso has stabilized. after

a steep fall following sunday's presidential election results, but left ring president elect to gabriel, burridge, still faces challenges ahead. i lacked some majority in congress and must now bring the country together. after a very polarizing campaign or latin america to lucy newman reports on from santiago o. before going in to meet president of a stamp, denita, president elect a cabinet. but each made a small detour a way of sending a 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 us camping it 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 givers. so far,

relations between both sides had been extremely civilized, which is rather ironic considering the congressman gravity and bondage just 2 months ago was voting in favor of the impeachment of president pineda. but what a difference in electro victory makes, but he 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 2nd. get herman 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 bought it is a po, it's concede that change is inevitable amino siegel. miss old. this is the end of

one cycle in the beginning of another. and what awaits us requires dialogue at bridge building. oh, you can, you do delegates to the constitutional convention? who are we writing chiles? magna carta are overjoyed since bought each is a staunch supporter of the process. it did assist him this one here. this process was born out of profound political and social crises that persists. so the new constitution is crucial to re direct the country and start to resolve that crisis. one enormous changes await the country that was considered the standard bearer of social and political stability in latin america. chilly 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. a for me, as missionary, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing young girls and east he mall. 84 year old richard dash bar abused them at

a shelter for orphans and impoverished children. he was defraud. why? the catholic church in 2018 are you as christian group whose missionaries were held hostage for months in haiti say they were not released. they escaped. the group says the 12 hostages travel through the forest. after slipping past guns on december, the 15th began kidnapped the group mid october and were demanding a $1000000.00 for each person. tylen state railway has announced its delay, the closure of bangkok, central station for a month. the station was due to shout on the 23rd of december to make way for a new hub for a high speed railway network funded in part by chinese loans. but the modernization of thailand's rail infrastructure has been beset with delays. tony chang has more from bangkok the more than a century fallen pon station in bangkok has stood as a testament to tie independence in the face of colonial dominance. opened in 1916

at a time when thailand was threatened by british regional control. it sat at the center of southeast asia, 1st railway network, but while m pong is due to close, to make way for new grand central station, at the heart of a high speed rail network. that's caused considerable concern for many, particularly as china is the main investor overload and why it's important to make sure that when china makes investment, how are we going to make people of this country or this region can benefit from an investment? china has long held ambitions for a high speed rail network in to southeast asia. as part of the belt and road initiative designed to bring chinese investment to neighboring countries. laos opened at high speed rail line in december. but the huge cost of the project laying, lying through difficult terrain, has left allow government with a debt to china. the critics say will be crippling. after the military coup in 2014,

thailand's ruling generals quickly signed up to a chinese high speed rail project. but ty, negotiators bulked at the high interest rates and plans to construct a network that ran the length of the country were curtailed. but when you go into the details, i would say that that i, bureaucrats are very good at tardy lane projects. when, as a turns and not favourable cause, civil servant government officer, i'm a government officer. we are, we have been taught from the beginning that we have to do everything to protect the interests of our country. those delays a clear to see while the project well underway, work has been slow, and thailand remains reliant on its old rolling stock. the elevated shack has been raised, but there is still more than 200 kilometers to go before the final destination on the gulf of thailand. and those delays go all the way down the line. and this is bank of brand new grand central station below high speed trains arriving today.

because the time government hasn't yet decided whether it's going to use china's high speed track. and the crowds arriving at the new station on coming to catch a train. this is now the ty, capital central cove, at 19 vaccination center, with delays and the vaccine roll out this year. that's a process. the government's far more interested in keeping on track. tony chang l to 0 banker. though the government occur, gets done as to control of a private gold mine saying it had concerns about the safety and environment of it. the canadian owners say the environmental concerns are a pretext for nationalization out. 0 has been given unprecedented access to the mine. same bas ravi has more from cargo stands is a crew region. the foothills of the te and shown mountain range, dramatic terrain that stretches across 5 countries. its highest. pete is the central asian nation of kurdistan, where i do look landscape,

hide the secret what the country's precedent described as an environmental disaster . for 30 years, a major industrial operation has scarred the land and been at the center of serious industrial accidents. earlier this year, following decades of public protest, the new government seized operational control of the contour goldmine from its canadian partners, centera gold standard, beautiful not compatible. interesting though, this was done only with cool totem because they damaged our varmint. they violated our laws, worked outside the law, or this was proven after we initiated a criminal. as for the come to mind, it is a very big organization. it's the organization that could decide kyrgyzstan is destiny hung on for the past 2530 is. they worked only with corrupt practices that bob barrack lee of destroyed our environment. make a mega mama like a t n john. while negotiations are under way about the future of mining operations at the site,

new management is trying to lessen environmental impact and improve safety conditions, especially the monitoring of seismic activities. at bunker as soon as temporary, external management was introduced, they brought attention to improving the safety of mountain mining operations. we bought new radar systems install this a white stumps and earlier we didn't have them on dollars. we also bought turn you right as which now in australia and under going tasting and calibration come to where is the biggest industrial operation in the country. the single biggest generator of revenue and the biggest private sector employer. everything here is just bigger since taking over operation that the comb for gold, my new management has added a fleet of these giant dumb fronts. having more moving power means being able to extract more goal more quickly. crudest arms economy depends on this gold mine. but pulling or from the ground and gold from the or is dirty work with

great economic benefit comes inevitable ecological harm. at one of the communities closest to the mind, there is open support for nationalization. but worry for the mountains with flemish though, the thing i think come towards been good for our economy. but the same time there are some damage to the environment. we are concerned about receiving glaciers. there's also talk of billions of tons of waste. we have some concerns. dig for gold and grow the economy, or preserve the natural environment, a question that is likely to keep coming up as long as there is gold in these hills . zane bas ravi al jazeera at the come to our gold mine in eastern kurdistan. ah, your child is there with me. sill rovner, reminder of our top stories, the head of the world health organization is calling for limits to gatherings

during the holiday period. thought it hadron said that there's evidence the armor constrain is more transmissible and can evade vaccines. but he.