a lot can get is this completed. we cannot lose hope. we know what to do, and we have the tools to do to get all this to you are now to sierra, ah, south square in places near restrictions to try to stop the spread of the over called berry. and after a rise in new corona, virus infections, ah, hello, hello robin, you're watching out. is there a lot of my headquarters here in there also coming up? but an event cancelled is better than a life. canceled a firm warning from the world health organization advising countries to step up efforts to curve the spread of the armor con variant. the desperate plea for 8,

tens of thousands of still without food and water. following the typhoon that hit the philippines and how much would you pay for an empty canvas will tell you why it cost a danish museum more than $84000.00. welcome to the program. south korea has imposed new restrictions on gatherings and businesses after a rising covey 19 infections. health workers have been warning of an impending crisis. the new measures came into force on monday night, as of back as the latest. oh, 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 susan them to 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 that 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 coven 19 policy. a hide more people have prepared a lot of ingredients, with the hope of doing good business during the year end time. now, with a sudden change or the ingredient to left unattended, and i have too many workers. my business is going very badly. the government doesn't really think through it. or 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 a 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 boosted jobs. but despite that, to many businesses,

a feeling the strength i said big i 0 thailand is really imposed as mandatory quarantine for incoming travelers due to the spread of the on the con variance visitors will have to undergo hotel quarantine, which ranges between $7.00 to $10.00 days last month, the country reopened to taurus ending almost 18 months of strict entry policies, the title and hand so far recorded. bolden, 60 cases of the article invariant one was a local transmission. the new measures in south korea came as the world health was ation. shoot a stop you message council low and celebrate later 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 council is better than a life cancelled. it's better to cancel now and celebrate later designed to celebrate the now and grieve letter, british prime minister by his johnson and said that he's looking at all kinds of measures to stop the rapid spread of alma kron. at least 12 people have now died with the variance in the u. k and hospitalizations in london, stay the rising. also in europe, germany is set to limit private gatherings to tenant back, so they said all recovered people from the 28th of december in france. approval has been given to or for the use of the pfizer vaccine in children, aged 5 and above. new zealanders postponed his plans to re open until the end of february in response to the rapid spread of the 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 coven 19 infections are hitting record daily highs. prime minister scott morrison says the country needs to move past what he describes as the heavy hand of government. and it said, take a common sense approach to living with the virus. peru has confirmed for new cases of armor constance 1st detecting the new variant on sunday. like many countries around the world, it's tightly restrictions ahead of the holiday season. officials want more people to get the booster. omero chandry reports. another patient in another stretcher, in another makeshift tent. as the number of those infected with coven 19 continue to rise, health officials are taking drastic steps to prevent a new outbreak. deborah allan dodd, the application of the 3rd booster dose will be advanced, will no longer be necessary to wait 5 months, but only 3 is dumb for 2 reasons. first, because it's already been demonstrated,

there are several countries such as england and other countries that are already applying this 3rd does 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 where my little people view 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. well quite is not requiring a vaccine base to shop for all incoming travelers. it'll apply to anyone who's gone more than 9 months since the last job. now, travelers will also have to call renting at home for 10 days unless they have a negative p. c. r test within 72 hours of arrival. honeycomb cases now account for nettie 3 quarters of all us cove infections. new york state times reported the record number of cases 3 days in a row, and a state of emergency has 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 covered test plan to say economy, careful, you know, given and asked on indoors, even though it's not mandated. genovese save is fossil got to little one. so my concern is mostly with them ones vaccinated and one is not too little to vaccinate . so we feel very secure in our workforce. we just make sure that we're safe to receive your ports or getting busier to as 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 announce an expanded test program. but he won't be talking about locking the country down to the 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 vaccines testing and a range of a utilities of album. but the present i are vax at the we can, 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 grade. 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. and fisher al jazeera washington, the national hockey league in the us and canada has phone 5 more games schedule this week due to arise in k with 19 cases amongst the players that brings the total number of games pushed back to 49. even if teams return next week, procedures will change. no staff will be allowed to entertain facilities except to get a coven 19 test. now the governor have a central philippine province's warning that people may resort to looting. if a doesn't reach affected areas, tens of thousands of people are without food after typhoon rye maitland fall on saturday, at least $375.00 people have died and $56.00 is still missing. as will and dog reports now from the delegate islands. this is sandra st. innagot. i live at town which bore the brunt of super typhoon rice fury on thursday. what was once

a thriving coastal community now desolate, my monitor and your on to your to ring. and i have been living here for more than 50 years, a home they built to raise a family. this is all what's left of it live on very long for to like i own. when, when you know that they phone was very strong running downstairs to hide, 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. i. well 88 year old anesthesia tells us she wants to be reunited with their daughter, who lives from another town. anesthesia was rescued after home collapsed beneath her. there are many others in san jose to shocked to share their ordeal. while others see the ply dawn 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 prov in southern philippines. still had here all our desert concerns over chinese investment, sets thailand's plans for high speed railway of trying and turkeys troubled lira cecil's in volatile trading. re initial gay stories after break. ah, ah, look forward to brutus sky's the weather. sponsored my cattle airways. hello their typhoon, ry. we can dramatically, as it skirted south across the south coast of china, taking a lot of the wet and windy weather to hong kong and onwards to tie one. but we can dramatically, we're still seeing the heavy downpours affecting taipei and it is gonna remain

rather wet here for the rest of the week. but further north is lots of fine and dry weather to be found across mainland china. we've got a cold wind blowing down that's going to knock the temperature down dramatically in patient places like beijing and in the north east. if we have a look at the 3 day, the temperature is going to be touching minus 4. by the time we get into friday and it will be rather cloudy and cold, but we're still seeing a lot of sunshine and warmth in places like shanghai. and so, what's the sunshine across the korean peninsula is looking rather wintry and wet across northern areas of japan. however, with heavy snow in kato now to south asia, and we're also seeing a cold spell sweep across the north that when to wave is going to stretch further south and to the east in the days to come all the way down to o. deja. we will see some fog, however, remain in the northwest, but the further south we go, the dryer it is with a few showers, sprinkling into sher lanka and the south that she weather update. oh,

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welcome back, your watch realtors there with me. so robbed a reminder of all top stories. the restrictions on gatherings and businesses in south korea follow a rise in cave in 19 infections. health lucas, a warning of major crisis, is hospitals of strained with new daily infections. and serious cases. the head of the world health organization is calling for limits to gatherings during the holiday period of central, since those evident sealed loopholes strain. it's more transmissible and can evade vaccines. but he insisted it's still too early to say if it's milder than the dell to variance. and there are warnings of looting if aid does not reach storm affected regions of the philippines. tons of thousands of without food, water and electricity, since typhoon rise land full on saturday. 375 people have died and 56. a still missing rebels from here is to go, i region say that they've completely pulled back from harder and far regents in the north. the to guy people's liberation front says the withdrawal could be

a decisive opening piece, and they want the international community to put pressure on the government to hold its military operation in to guy. priyanka got to 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 capital, addis ababa interested? not interested in getting out about getting interested in security, just interested in ensuring that the seat 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 and the battle field has been swift and

a real offensive with chinese drones and emerald. he 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 defend governments could be conveyed into a because they've been government conditions. the delivery of a on the grapples is withdrawing that we get on the they have to go back to the, to the enemy that would otherwise innovate to gripe for us has 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 abuse 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 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 starve. ation. a diplomatic end to the concept couldn't come soon enough. priyanka hooked up all to 0. bringing some breaking news, coming out of libya, the head of the high national elections commission says that he's dissolving the electoral committees and ending their work. presidential elections were scheduled for december the 24 that spring in the magic tray now produces lives for us. in tripoli, malik, obviously the elections were always going to go ahead in some shape or for both big question mark as to how they proceed forward. this is a real blow to everybody in libya. well, it is the 1st round of presidential lunch, or presidential elections. we're scheduled on this friday, but for the last couple of weeks we've been seeing

a lot of tension on the ground political tension. also tension within the security apparatus is within the country. there was a definite sign that these elections were going to be for spawn. but yet the national electoral commission, or the parliament, or really any senior government official, wanted to come out and say that these elections weren't going to happen. i mean, you know, we still have, we have, we have yet to see a list of the final list of presidential candidates. but so today really, this is the 1st official sign that the elections aren't going to be happening on december 24th v. a mother's say at the head of the electoral commission as ordered for the electoral committees and the administrative offices to go back to their positions before the elections as if the elections aren't going to happen. so this is really a huge sign. and the 1st sign that the elections aren't going to be going through. basically what it means is that he's told the temporary workers in the polling

stations and administrators in the pool stations across the country to stop their work, to, to put away all via all the election, come an election equipment and assigned that. okay. it's not happening. the elections aren't going on for december 24th, or what's gonna happen after this. we're gonna have to wait and see if it'll keep an eye on that one through the day monitoring or corresponding their force in tripoli. thank you. the people in the worst flood had regions of malaysia are being moved to safety. 17 have died so far for them were found in slang, or the countries wealthiest and most populous region. the government has been criticized over it. slow response, which is blame, or which it's blaming on the lack of boats and manpower flawlessly, he has more from column pool rep phillip. yeah, yeah. yeah. i 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. abilene, i, but they yank, 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 arizona, the bank. and 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 a thought lawyer when i know that a lot of people doing yeah, worked on it all. the mom was coming down everything. but is that slow, slow,

and all this because of the politic 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 monsoon floods typically affect state on the east coast or peninsula malaysia. tens of thousands are taking shelter in relief centers . some say they are worried about their future. give her a really very little and you know, you could save your 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 hills. we're 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 cologne poor thailand has announced her delaying the closure of bangkok central station for a month. now the station was due to shut on thursday to make way for a new high speed rail away funded in part by chinese loans till chang has more from bank hawk. the more than a century, while m 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 says at the center of se, asia's 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 level over ha, i'm, it's important to make sure that when china makes investment,

how are we going to make people of this country or of this region get 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 huge cost of the project laying line through difficult to rein 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 bulk to 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 favorable 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 stone. 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 got brand new grand central station below high speed trains arriving today. because the tele government hasn't yet decided whether it's going to use china's high speed tray. 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 tourney chang l to 0 banker. let's take

a closer look at the proposed high speed railway network collecting china to southeast asia. the line linking, coming to louse capital of in 10 has been completed at a cost of $6000000000.00. the segment to bangkok, which is it to be built has been costed a top point $5000000000.00 giving this portion of the project a total cost of $18500000000.00 under collier is the managing director of orient capital research. he says, trying to loan repayment too high for countries to benefit from the balance and road initiative. basically, the chinese, for the most part, are lending the money to all these countries are not investing. they're not putting their money in to buy an asset. they're saying we'll give you some subsidized loans, and we'll provide our technology in the case of some countries like laos that are desperate for a some sort of involvement and to improve their economies. they've kind of gotten in over their head. their debt is way too high to the chinese banks. they're paying

pretty decent, decently high interest rates. and they're probably, it's questionable whether they really needed the railway in the 1st place thailand, a little different because their negotiating position has always been stronger. partly because of their geographical location, and also because the country is diplomatically stronger. so thailand is balked at the 2 and a half percent that the chinese wanted. they were asking for 2 percent of the chinese also wanted to manage the land adjacent to the railway, which can be quite profitable for real estate projects. and they're trying to push their own equipment because they're desperate to keep the western westerners and the japanese out of the region. so it's an interesting little dance. and thailand has been pretty good about keeping. it's the chinese at arm's length. there's been some advantages because one of them is that if you get the, the rail passengers trains through quickly, you can move more freight because the tracks are empty or you can also do business

at one part of the country to the other fairly easily in china but at what cost, i mean that money is coming from other places like education that is not and is being spent instead on the train business took. he's lira has shown some recovery off the back of measures by the government to ease the currency crisis. but the opposition says it's not enough and calling that immediate collections for a string of recent economic problems, present rich appetite o 2 on announced a series of steps including a promise to compensate, save as for losses incurred, he says, exporters will also be that it is and that amazon why they did took, did as well learn and if the deposit earnings of the turkish lira assets and our people's back 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. now, a former

u. s. missionary has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing young girls in east timor 84 year old richard dashboard, abused them at his shelter for orphans and impoverished children. he was defraud by the catholic church in 2018 a u. s. christian group whose missionaries were held hostage for months in haiti, says that they were not released. they escaped the rope, says the 12 hostages traveled through forest after living pass guards on december, the 15th again kidnapped the group mid october and were demanding a $1000000.00 for each person. ah, your charges there with me. so hell, rommel, a reminder of our top stories, the restrictions on gatherings and businesses in south korea following a rise in covey. 19 infections, health workers, a warning of a major crisis as hospitals are stretched with new records.