ah, al jazeera where ever you way? oh, this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm adrian for again. this is louise. i'll lie from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. south korea imposes new restrictions to try to stop the spread of the oma chrome variance after a rise in new corona, virus infections. but an event consider is better than a life gun suit of foam warning from the world health organization advising countries to step up efforts to cut the spread of the only con variance the

desperate plea for aid. tens of thousands still without food and water. following the typhoon that hit the philippines took his troubled lira c, source and volatile trading. after a brief initial gains for the government moves to strengthen the currency and its full, the faith of president makes his case. need to bring those well up as well. and the proposals that i've known, the day that i think are going into the direction johnny and francine are tells aldi's air that holding a world come every 2 years will benefit. all countries with south korea has imposed new restrictions on gatherings and businesses after a rise in covey. 19 infections that health work has been warning of an impending crisis. the new measures came into force on monday night out as heroes acid bag reports. oh. 6 final drinks and a meal before the new restrictions take effect,

restaurants, cafes and bars must now close by 9 pm gatherings, unlimited to 4 people. as long as they are vaccinated, those who are unvaccinated must dine out long or order. a takeaway i seen them sema her, that she will work. so it's a little disappointing. but if we don't follow the government's policy, when coven 19 is spreading widely, there'll be more damage. so we can help it. follow the policy with the new measures . come just weeks after the government east restrictions in a policy called living with cove. it, it's left businesses worried about their future. you took her there to give her these restrictions that came with the living with cove in 19 policy. a hide more people have prepared a lot of ingredients with the hope of doing good business during the year and time now with a sudden change or the ingredients left unattended. nativity workers, my business is going very badly. the government doesn't really think through. i personally think those small business owners, like myself,

should gather and protest in front of the presidential office. i hope there will be a big protest so our voices can be delivered directly. but the country is seen as the success case of spotting the warning signs early and controlling the spread of the virus. 80 percent of the population of vaccinated. and the government is encouraging people to get close to jobs. but despite that many businesses a feeling the strain aside, vague idea or south korea's near restrictions came as the world health organization issued a stark message council now and celebrate later on offers r c gulf. this bond m u, 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 conceal now and celebrate later than to celebrate to now and grieve later. brooklyn's prime minister morris johnston has said that he's looking at all kinds of measures to stop the rapid spread of all micron. at least 12 people have now died with the variant in the u. k. and admissions. the hospital in london, arising steeply elsewhere in europe, germany has said to limit private gatherings to 10 vaccinated or recovered people from the 28th of december. in france. approval has been given for the use of the fires of vaccine in children, aged 5 and above new zealand. as postponed its plans to reopen until the end of february. in response to the rapid spread of the alma kron variant, it had previously announced that non quarantine travel would reopen the citizens from january and foreign tourists by april. lockdown,

restrictions have been ruled out in australia. even though coven 19 infections are hitting record daily highs. prime minister scott morrison says that 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. larue has confirmed for new cases of on a cron since 1st detecting the very end on sunday. like many countries around the world, it's trifling restrictions ahead of the holiday season. officials want to get more people to get booster shots. amarrow, child re reports. another patient in another stretcher, in another makeshift tents, each. as the number of those infected with coven 19 continue to rise, health officials are taking drastic steps to prevent a new outbreak. ah, alady learned dar, the application of the 3rd booster dose 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 off to 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. ramona and her people really? 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 deaths, but not every one is convinced than you. meshes will work in that a lot, but all i love, it depends on the people how responsible they are with their health and the environment with other people actually because the law is made, people do not listen to the law. and even if they say there is a curfew before 11 at night, many people my mate number. so now the peruvian government is reducing public

capacity and shopping centers from 80 to 60 percent, and extending curfew by 2 hours during christmas and new year's eve. another holiday ruined by a pandemic that many hoped would be over by now. a marriage or 3, aren't you, sarah? if you want to travel to queue weights, you'll have to have a booster vaccine shot. travelers will also have to quarantine at home for 10 days . unless they have a negative p c r test within 72 hours of the arrival, little apply to any one who's gone more than 9 months since their last job. on the con cases now council, nearly 3 quarters of all us coven infections, new york state, as reported a record number of cases 3 days in a row, at a state of emergency has been declared in washington dc. al jazeera, alan fisher reports growing lines were 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 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 to receive healthy way from here ports or getting busier to its 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 looking the country don't to be clear. cove in 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 hospitalizations and data across the country and do that through making a vaccines test and arrange as a utilities available. but the prior vaccine, 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 huh. oh, 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 do seattle, washington. the governor of a central philippine province's warning that people may resort to looting if age doesn't reach affected areas. tens of thousands of people without food of the typhoon. roy made land full on saturday, at least 375. people have died around $56.00 on missing was general. alan dorgan reports now from the dinner, got islands. this is central st. negate 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, i have been living here for more than 50 years. a home the built to raise a family. this is all what's left to the libertarian law official like i own, when, when you know that they phone was very strong and we went downstairs to hate,

but our walls collect gallon. so we went to the ne, were you are very scared to that and i'm right everywhere you look there is this struction, it's been days since they foreign 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 it's 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 their family and one month old baby. now hunger has become pervasive here. there is nothing left to

harvest. they have no money to swim a leave of wilma, where 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 with that oh, 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 done, simply because they have no choice. everything was wiped out in an instant. they say. now, there is only suffering jamal allen dog and al jazeera in haggard province. southern philippines. people in the worst flood had regions of valencia being moved to safety. 17 have died. 4 of them were found in song,

all the countries wealthiest and most populous region. the governments being criticized over of slow response, which it's blaming our lack of boats and manpower on the zeros florence. louis reports from columbus servicing the la la la, asked him more than a day, tramped in her home by flood waters. this woman is finally been rescued. 2 days of torrential rain last week had caused waters to rise swiftly, inundating homes and damaging property. many couldn't leave their houses in time and ended up sheltering on the upper floor or roofs desperate for help. and the roads had become impossible, and the only way out was in boats. those who managed to escape barely had time to grab their belongings up with her. but i, yeah, i mean we are left with only our clothes and important documents like our children's birth certificate. so that's all we brought with us. we can't bring

a lot of things. so we just saved what we could carry with us. i know the bank on some of the 1st on the scene were volunteers who drove to flooded areas and used their own equipment to transport people to safety. i was actually disappointed on the government to provide it for the long term. when i know that a lot of people doing yeah, worked on it all, the mom was coming down everything but is bit slow, slow. and all this recalls on the policy softener. and the government has deployed tens of thousands of emergency service and military personnel to help malaysia's wealthiest and most popular states. the language is badly affected, which is unusual because the monster in floods typically affect state on the east coast peninsula, malaysia. tens of thousands are taking shelter in relief centers. some say they are worried about their future. give her a view of you that if you go in and you could say, be a starting from 0,

nothing else could be saved if possible. please help us right now. people are suffering due to the cold with 19 pandemic. we are living in the shelter week on working. those were self employed, cannot run their businesses, like my husband who works on his own. he has an automated workshop, the because of the flood, it's a total loss. the government says it will provide more than $20000000.00 for the repair of homes and infrastructure damaged by floods. florence louis al jazeera kuala lumpur. it with a nissan from out to sierra still to come on the program concerns of a chinese investment such thailand's plans for a high speed railway off track promise of support for workers and the elderly chiles. youngest president gets ready to take charge of his country and in sport coded 19 is forced to pause and play in the national hockey league. andy here with that and the rest of the days actually with the laser. ah

turkeys trouble. lira has made some gains in volatile trading on the back of measures by the government to ease the currency crisis. president rich of tarboro to one announced a series of steps including a promise to compensate savers for losses incurred. he said that exporters will also be protected, is another mazin biker they did. took, did as the well learnin is the deposit earnings of the turkish lira 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. so but after the precedence announcement, the lira staged its biggest ever daily rally against the dollar rising 25 percent. but it's fluctuated in volatile trading since the currency is still well below its value. a year ago, turkish banks association said that around $1000000000.00 in savings were converted

to lira after the new measures were announced earlier on tuesday, the lira traded at $11.00 per dollar following the government's new financial initiative. leer has been the worst affected currency this year, having lost some 55 percent of its value against the u. s. dollar that we've been out a 0 cert resort solder, who's covered turkey extensively for us is with me or in the studio resort. it seems that the president and a business leaders in turkey are somewhat at odds over his moves to rescue the lira that resists it's a radical move. and so the desperate times cause for the desperate measures. and this is definitely one of them. shortish lira over the past couple of months has lost a value dramatically. i mean, sometimes within their 25 percent loss of the weather and so on. and people are starting to feel anxious about they are the savings in turkish lira. so they converted turkish li are more and more into the u. s. d. and that has been simply

the savings way and in wesson's way for the people. so ah, now the government is coming up with a new system and guaranteeing the deposit of people saying they're simply if you have 100 after actually right in your bank account. and at the end of the month, if death, $100.00 lira is losing 15 percent, then government is going to pay $15.00, the rum more in their sas em to, to, to make the investment or saving in dollars meaningless. however, the economists or warning that this could further weaken the turkish euro, because in this, as the banks are going to require more than more turkish lira, and the central bank needs to provide more and more the, the did the national currency as well. eventually, when there is we're to live in the market, it is going to lead the cause of loss of the weather. or what does this mean for the public? anyone who's got savings in turkish, the, or as you were saying, the government is issued them with these guarantees that does that mean that people

are now thinking over what we have a little more confidence or currency we'll, we'll just last night. 1000000000 usd had been just exchanged with turkish lira. definitely, there is an optimism among the public. however, the key issue is that there is a high inflation in the country and it is hurting particularly the middle classes across the cross turkey. so now whether this did that, the gain of the value in turkish lira is going to reflect on their goods in the market like water sector, liked the food industry, is that the textiles are so one. so that is going to be determinative whether the public is going to receive the warrant this warmly or not. but as of now steel, this decision is not reflected on, did they did that. they did the, the goods in the market. however, the target for on foreign minister says that in the coming hours, he's going to come up with the details of these new economy measures. and based on that, i think the market and the public is going to take in what sort of state is the turkish economy right now? well, it's definitely suffering, and there is in the did the issue,

i think mostly is elizabeth psychology class was like a self fulfilling prophecy that's happening in the country because there's always a constant expectation of the high inflation even went into prag, the practicality in reality. there's not inflation, but still you will see that the shop owners that the business has ended in the, in west as would increase. the eyes is off the goose and cut and it is becoming a kind of never ending circle. the goal meant attempt at many times to reverse this process. however, it could not achieve or cannot succeed. so this why they took such a bold decision to reward this, this did this process out zeroes, resort solder reporting a life for us was a manufactured chili's currency. the pesos stabilized after a steep fall following sunday is one off presidential election. but left wing president elect gabrielle borage, still faces challenges. he lacks a majority in congress, must now bring the country together. after

a polarizing campaign, a latin america editor lucio newman reports from santiago o. before going in to meet president of a stamp denita president elect, gabrielle, 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 will be the boss starting march 9th, president of us campaign. yet i showed him around then they met for 2 hours to discuss chiles future. as is traditional, the present 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 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 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 a sickening of herman, an 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 seek legal 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 do the 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 with this home with him. this one here. 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. chilly 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 rebels from ethiopians to gray regions say that they've completely pulled back from amada and far regions in the north of the country. the to gripe people's liberation front, says that 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 in to grime. al jazeera priyanka,

gupta reports 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 stuff? not interested in scooting about again interested in security in just interested in ensuring that you see that was being pulled out is broken ever since prime minister abi amen 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 cigarette causes 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 different governments could be conveyed into a because they can government conditions. the delivery of 8 on the grapples is withdrawing on though they have to go back to the, to the enemy that would otherwise invade to gripe the us and pushing for the fire and as imposed sanctions in response to human rights abuses. during the conflicts, we've long urged in the human rights abuse and violations and for negotiated resolution to the conflict. so in fact, if we use the movement of to grand forces back into to t great, that is something we would welcome it's something we've called for. and we hope it opens the door to to broader diplomacy for millions of a few pins facing hunger and south ation. a diplomatic end to the complex couldn't

come soon enough. priyanka gupta, al jazeera, a weather update. next, here on the usa, then a former american priest found guilty of sexually abusing often girls who are in his care in east timor. how much would you pay for an empty canvas? will tell you why it's cost a danish museum, full of $84000.00. out in school, the action will continue in english. premier league despite a record number of coven 19 infections. ah! 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, it's 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 in 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 is going to be more of that to come as, as waves of winter weather blow down into across into the north. and we're 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 and 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. ah, i've come back to sarajevo to revisit the fascinating part of calcium history. they were crazy, creative, even visionary. they were top lesta naturalists. i go to them as a child during and just pops in. people still love them. it was basically too bad to be true, what they were predicting can comedy he'll ethnic divisions and national tensions exist in both year to day. once upon a time in sarajevo on al jazeera coded 19 is a public health crisis that has been compounded by capitalism. ali raid navigates the big questions raised by the global pandemic power system based on private ownership in the pursuit of profit. so the world in a ton of capitalism is the pandemic back cause of so much of the suffering

exploited protect the people all the profit episode. one of all hail the look down on al jazeera lou. ah, hello again. this is al jazeera, adrian finnegan, here with you saw the headlines warnings that people may resort to looting if a dozen bridgestone effect regions of the philippines. tens of thousands of without food, water and electricity. since typhoon roy made land for on saturday, 375 people have died 56 on missing rebels for a few appears to grind,

reach and say that withdrawing from several golden territories. if the gray people's liberation front has been losing its foothold in the regions of, uh huh. and a fall of near restrictions on gatherings and businesses in south korea following a rise in covey. 19 infections, health workers, warning of a major crisis. as hospitals, a strained with new daily infections and serious cases. more on that with dr. honest turn, has an internist at ms medi women's hospital and a former associate professor at samsung medical center. she joins us now live up from. so could have you with us, dr. just how bad is the situation there in south korea right now? well, thank you again for having me. and i am actually pleased to say that since we started our search, our eastern campaign in october 13th, i think we may finally be seeing the effects to positive effects. a 3rd chart teachers in our elderly population. of course.