once upon a time, sorry, a l g. me play an important role protecting human life. i don't i i me this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm sorry, i'm noisy in london. welcome to the news hour coming up in the next 60 minutes. if you're not fully, actually, you have good reason to be concerned. president leyden tells americans, it's that patriotic duty to get vaccinated. as he announces free home cova test to

stop the rapid spread of the only crone variance, their reports to dance prime minister intends to resign in the coming hours a month after he was reinstated, on the deal with the military. and turkey's lira recovers back from record lows of the president ado on moves to protect people savings and support the president of african football and says the combinations will go ahead as plans. comments. com after doubts have been brewing the tournament to be held in. cameroon will be postponed, or even counseling. ah, welcome to the news out. are you as president joe biden is told, millions of on vaccinated americans, that it's that patriotic duty to get a not collated against cove at 19. the army kron variant is car

a sweeping across the united states, and already accounts for almost 3 quarters of all new cases. iden, announced a raft of measures to try and limit it spread, including 500000000 free home rapid tests. medical military personnel also being activated to help overwhelmed hospitals. biden's as his government is prepared for the coming months with stock piles of vaccines and personal protective equipment or p p. but he's warned the unvaccinated face a winter of severe illness, possibly death, and urge them to get their 1st shot. all these people who have not been back, so you have an obligation to yourself to your family and quite frankly, now we criticize this to your country. jeff faction is it now it's free. it's convenient. i promise you, which saves the lives. i asked the god, leave it your patriotic duty about it. i'll have a falling historian joined his life. washington patty biden's. message to to

people that are a has since get vaccine or people who might be 15 with the pan down. it was pretty clear that if you hadn't been vaccinated or had your booster shot now is the time to do it. here he's walking this line. he knows that people are tired. we're growing into our 3rd year of this. so he's trying to draw the distinction. if you're vaccinate, if you're fully boosted, you should be fine. you can have your holiday plans. the pretty strong message to the back today is look, if you don't get those shots, it's going to be a season of sickness and death. so fairly strong language coming from the president and he keeps reply. he keeps saying, look, i know you're tired of this. this isn't march of 2020. but it does feel a little bit reminiscent of that. for example, some people are having a hard time finding those vaccine shots. if you look at some statistics, only about 20 to 30 percent of the country has those additional booster shots in

them. a full, almost 30 percent of the country has no vaccination. so what we're seeing now is mask mandates are going back into effect because in cities like washington and new york, the case numbers are simply literally just climbing like that. so here in d. c, now have to wear a mask back inside. and we're seeing very similar things to march of 2020. we've seen broadway shows, are shutting down. professional sports are being canceled. universities are going back online. so it's very reminiscent of that. and also, one thing that's really been missing is tests you can not find at home tests anywhere if you do, they're about $25.00 for 2 tests and places to do the longer p c artist. their lines are going on for hours and i talked to one person who waited 10 hours in new york city to get their child a cove test because they had a close contact in their school. and the, the white house is really sort of change their attitude on this, her whole home test. there was a very candid back and forth with press secretary jo saki just

a few weeks ago where she sort of just dismissed the idea that americans should be able to test at home. let's listen. why not just make them free and give them out and have them available? everybody? should we just send one to every american maybe than, than what? then what happens if you, if every american has one test, how much does that cost? and then what happens after that, all i know is that other countries seem to be making them available in greater quantities for less money. well, i think we share the same objective, which is to make them less expensive and more accessible, right? every country is going to do that differently. i mean, such a shift in tone and position. there isn't patty, but i guess they've completed that by not taking these measures and not doing more tasks that the cost of the economy could be even worse. if thera more locked downs and this is something i think joe biden is going to criticize for. he said look, no one could have seen the crown very coming. what he meant by that is just how fast it is infecting people. it seems everyone, you know,

know somebody who has cove and even if they're fully vaccinated and boosted and it comes with a horrible time when people were really hoping to actually have a holiday after so many years of not having a holiday. and the big concern here is the hospitals in those 2 years that these have frontline workers have been inundated with coven patients. and i talked to one hospital administrator and he described it as constantly seeing death with no end in sight. so there a lot of people in the health care community have simply quit said i can't do this anymore. there are some estimates that the way i'm a crowd is going about a 3rd of the nation's health care workers could get sick. so what they're going to, what you're going to see them do is send about a 1000 medical professionals from the us military into these communities, the manage, the administrator spoke with minnesota last week. he said he got 24 air force doctors. and that has been a lifesaver, they've been able to actually see the number of patients they need to be able to see. the other thing is they're going around the space. again, it does the very reminiscent of the beginning of this pandemic. so the presidents

directed fema to go and set up hospital beds in parking garages or in adjacent lots to hospitals. so the big concern and the president keep saying and governors keep saying, we're not going to shut down. were the economy because they open kids are gonna stay in school. they're not really in charge of that. the virus is in charge of that. if it gets to the point, the hospital simply can't treat any people. and they're starting to rush in care which they are doing in some hospitals already in the country. and this is the beginning of the search. remember they expect the cases of crime are going to basically double in $2.00 to $3.00 days dr. folk was interviewed. he said he has never seen a virus that spreads like this in the history of viruses. so we're at the very beginning of this, the president saying by january we'll have at home testing. a lot of people can get sec between now and then a lot of people are going to go to holiday gatherings. the president said, we haven't failed. but if you look this poll numbers

a lot of americans think. yeah. you have. thank you very much to go in and washington will tend to russia now because the country's recorded over a 1000 das from covered 19 and the latest 24 hour reporting period. more than 25000 . you infections walls i can find, including, at least for one of the army, chrome variant booster shots from the russia may spawning v vaccine have been rolled out on almost 10000000 people have received the dose, but less than half the population is fully vaccinated. well now scotland is cancelled public new jersey celebrations as part of post christmas measures to slow the spreading on the kron but also the new limits on the number of people allowed to mix indoors and outdoors. 5 minutes to nicholas sturgeon said, she's concerned about increasing pressure on hospitals. we need to get cases coming down again to relieve that pressure. pressure, health pressure, but also the pressure that come from staff absences in the week at quoted. there was an exemption from isolation for any no use,

so that will help to some extent to alleviate that patient. but the only way of properly alleviating the patient. i'll just nail service, but in the economy more generally is to get the numbers of cases, which is comes back to the reason for the difficult decisions. i'm sticking to the, the central you take elements and out. so $1300000000.00 support package for business is affected by the on the con outbreak, hospitality and leisure industries have been left empty. and what's normally the busiest time of year businesses will be able to find nearly $8000.00 each with the chancellor of the exchequer indicating more support would be offered if the restrictions were imposed. taken together, i'm confident that these measures will help hundreds of thousands of businesses and the millions of people that they employ, of course will. i will always respond proportionately and appropriately to the situation that we face. people can have confidence in that, but where we are now, we've responded, i think, generously. today the grants that we've outlined up to 6000 pounds are comparable

to the grants that we provided for hospitality businesses when they were completely closed earlier this year we'll u. k. reported more than 90000 new cases on tuesday. government is believed to be considering a 2 week circuit breaker lockdown of the new year period. but the prime minister boy johnson is confirmed. he won't bring in any new restrictions before christmas. where we challenge has more from central london rejoice, says the daily mail on tuesday morning. christmas is looking safe ministers defy gloomy scientists. that affects the question safe from watch on the con is ripping through the u. k. in a moment. and london is the epicenter. so much so that the mayor has declared an emergency situation, but the daily mail is a leading voice on the u. k rights and it shows the relief, particularly amongst the rebellious libertarian wing of the conservative party. that it's freedoms that have been prioritized or johnson said on monday nights we

won't hesitate to take action. the problem for some is that it looks very much like the prime minister has hesitated from taking action. his position is that while they're still big questions, be honest about the severity of alma crohn. it's too soon to be shutting people up in doors, the cancer position, when those questions are answered. and if the answer is a bad, it will be too late to do anything about it and the house service will be swamped. the opposition leader kissed alma whose labor party would have supported new restrictions. if the prime minister had gone for them, says the boris johnson is putting his fractious party before the public. of course, the spectre of new business and social cubs hasn't gone away. it's just been deferred for another day. christmas may be safe. but new year and beyond certainly isn't your spinner announcement from israel little offer a 4th dose of the vaccine to people over the age of 60 to stop the spread of on the

chrome that l. sweat peruse, government is reducing the timeframe required for proven 1900 booster shots and assets out pace. the spread of on the kron, those who's been fully vaccinated now only need to wait 3 months. instead of 5 new coffee restrictions are also been brought in for the christmas and new year periods, amera child re reports, another patient in stretcher, and another make shift. as the number of those infected with cobra 19 continue to rise. health officials are taking drastic steps to prevent a new outbreak. id, then cation of the 3rd boosted. those will be advanced. it will no longer be necessary to wait 5 months, but only 3 months. this is already been demonstrated. there are several countries such as england and others, the already applying this, the dose of the 3 months. so it is absolutely safe. there is no problem. 74

percent of its population has been vaccinated, but officials want to increase up figured to 80 percent by the end of the year where most people view, 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 dance or 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 you measures will work. so 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 not 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

and other developments thailand, as are impose mandatory quarantine rules for incoming travelers. all visitors will have to isolate in a hotel between 7 and 10 days. on the last month, the country reopened to vaccinated tourists ending almost 18 months of strict entry requirements. new measures are blow to its battered tourism industry. before the peak holiday season thailand is so far recorded more than 60 cases of the army cron variant fill out for you on this news hour from london. ethiopia says its army is clearing to grime, forces from the em, horror and afar regions dismissing claims their leaving voluntarily picking up pieces of their homes. days after a powerful typhoon hit philippines, survivors are desperate for shelter and aid. uninstalled steph curry leads the short handed warriors to victory will have m reaction coming out later and support

ah, getting reports that sedans prime minister de la ham dog is planning to stand down in the coming hours. it's exactly a month since he made a deal with the military that's been described as a betrayal of sudan civilian revolutionaries. hum, dock was kept under house arrest for a month following the military coup in october. since that power grab has been mass protests including over the past we can, which march the 3rd anniversary of the start of the revolution are just as mohammed vow joins us live now from the sudanese capital cartoon. what's behind his or what was like a rather sudden resignation? muhammad, apparently, hum duke has realized that he is in a very difficult position. he already knows not, but it is getting more and more untenable of his being trying to satisfy 2 sides

that are loggerheads. i mean he's, he is put himself in the middle ground and he, he thought you could be a united figure and that's, that's what or so many. so then he's, well, we're hoping he thought he could speak to the military and at the same time, to the resolution or ease and unites that all sites around a political project that gets suzanne out of the crisis. but he's, he's now acknowledging that, that he's failing in this project because he said the people who pushed him to do that to find that agreement with the military a month ago are letting him alone to fight to his own fight without giving him much support. so right now he's, he's very frustrated with his colleagues, i pushed him to assign that agreement. he saw the evolution of his gaining momentum . week after week we have seen that her, the weekends protest, which, you know,

ended up at the gates of the presidential police. many people here talking about more momentum for the revolutionaries during the next few days and weeks. so he's realizing that probably he took the wrong decision because he came here when he came to power. he was very popular among the revolutionaries. and he probably now his reviewing his, his recent position that shift towards the military, which he doesn't recognize to be a shift. but he thinks that it is. he thought that it is the right decision. now his, he's his view and his decision. does it make any difference to the situation that because a lot of sued knees, particularly those that were opposed to the could say that actually this is just made to look like some sort of tactical concession. actually the balance of power is always have the military yeah. we have been out in the streets, are they talking to people?

and you know, there is a, there is a huge chunk of the population who, who oppose the cool. but those are so equally another big chunk of the population who support the core. and this is a big summarizes saddam right now. and this summarizes the crisis in which handbook finds it's of prime minister of the land to find himself. he can satisfy the 2 sides because the polarization is, has reached an extreme level. but it can't be reconciled anytime soon. it thinks will be difficult, according to many expectations if his lives, because he will be once again facing the military. nobody can expect the reaction of the, of the ruling military commanders after he declares his as a condition. i will thank you very much for joining us from cartoon home and val now to if yo, pierre, the government is saying it's military's in the process of carrying to grind, rebel forces from the northern m hara and default provinces t p. ls invaded those territories in june and now says that it's

a drawing to create an opening for peace and to enable the flow of humanitarian aid to take wry, where 400000 people are currently facing famine. but the, if you have been government has rejected this t p l statement. they say the national army won a series of victories. the current, the, you know, noise with regards to whether it's a strategic retreat or not will inevitably reveal itself. we're still in the final stages of the slightest operation. if you recall the operation for national unity in diversity, the aimless to infer that t p l, the forces were cleared out of her and for regions. this is something that the still being undertaken because there's still some elements within certain pop pockets that need to be followed fully. cleared out the same news from yemen now un 8 flights into the capital of been halted after the cities airport was targeted by air strikes. the saudi u. e. e. led coalition bombed the facility in santa,

on monday, describing it as a military target. said the airports have been used by who's the rebels for cross border attacks? officials say now the airport is so damaged that it can't receive flights operated by the u. n. or any other humanitarian organizations. now turkeys, currency has made a historic swing to regain much the value. it's lost in recent weeks after president ado on and outs measures to safeguard people, savings against currency fluctuations. but critics, a, it's essentially an interest rate hike without benefits. lira fell to a rock or low of $18.00 against the us dollar on monday. now trading at about 13 against the dollar. that's still much less than at the start of the year when it was averaging around 7 lira to the dollar. central bank started lowering interest rates in september and that triggered the recent volatility. president ado on believes high interest rates cause inflation, which goes against establish economic principles. invasion is past 21 percent this

year causing a steep rise and the cost of basic goods like natural gas, which is up a 102 percent or wheat, which is up by a 109 percent. on top of that, a lack of international confidence is driven and exodus in foreign investment. in the past 2 and a half years, have been for central bank chiefs and the finance minister, lofty elven, quit his job. at the beginning of december. we can now speak to cerner chap time is director of the turkish research program at the washington institute is also the author of a sultan in autumn at one faces or turkeys, uncontainable forces as the type of the book, he joins us by skype from washington. these interest rate cuts have been pretty devastating for the turkish, leora will urge ones new measures do anything to, to stabilize the currency. well, thank you for home me. i think her probably not because they're the one that we

know who deliver strong growth and who was known for predictability of decision making is not there heard on that we are witnessing in recent years. and i think what the weights turkey, unfortunately seems to be more volatility, currency of fluctuating up and down. and i think that's really spokes investors because right now talking needs investment for growth, the return. so it is really in fact, i would say very, that is a difficult turning point in the career of turkish president nerd on why is present or to one defying economic precedent? i think our present heard on is an unusual leader. you know, he has embraced free market economy after coming to power in 2003 deliver strong growth for 15 years, which is why he has a base that loves him. and now the base is peeling away. there are many explanations of our president on defying a policies that that should embrace higher interest rates and turkey because

turkeys suffering from high inflation. and anybody took the, took a course on economics in college or university knows that if inflation goes up, then in for in interest rates, follow that, or do i want to have the reverse see once he thinks that high interest rates cause inflation. again that anyone who took a economics and call you would fail if you wrote this in paper, but he's going on this unconventional route. so number one, explanation, he comes from a movement of political islam and i think as many other political thomas would say or to on things as a usury. and it says, sending islam he wants to fight it. there also has more secular explanation that i'd like to explain it on maybe has realized that took his economy is damaged beyond repair. it's imploding. so he said a fighting economic collapse. perhaps he's trying to get expansion out of contraction. make deliver a very cheap, very affordable and that would make turkeys exports, affordable turkey would become a destination for global tories. and if it already was not entered on his thinking

that driven by strong exports and strong tourism sector and helped by a depreciated lira. turkey would make a phenomenal come back economically. right, so that's his plan. cars he has lost over its value against antola this year. now how a people inside the country clipping with this huge drop in the value of that money doesn't look very good for him. i think that out on has one until recently over it doesn't nationwide elections on a platform of strong economic growth. he has a base that loves him, that includes many people. he has lifted out of poverty. these people have seen that their savings disappear as, as well as inflation. a go higher than it has been in recent memory in over 2 decades. so i think unless he restored phenomenal economic growth, a prisoner dawn is not winning the next election. luckily for him. elections in turkey are not scheduled until june 2023,

so he has about 18 months to restore growth, but not with these unconventional an unorthodox policies. turkeys are resource poor country. it needs financial inflows to grow and it needs markets to have faith that turkey sound, economic policies. when you had the president who's fighting inflation raise as he puts it, an interest that doesn't look very convincing a to the market. so i think it will be a challenge for turkey to become attractive against for investors. that is the only way economic growth will return. and that is the only way president hurdle on will restore his base to win elections. thank of m r santa chapter for journeys who wash like leisure chant. when we go now to the philippines troops, her racing to deliver food and water to ravaged islands after typhon ripe pommel these southern and central regions of the country. so i was of the deadly storm was slowly returning to their destroyed homes. at least 375 people were killed. and there are fears that these figures could rise. one of the hardest hit islands was,

bah, hall, or it's believed at least $96.00 people died. charities are appealing for a to help hundreds of thousands who've been left homeless. and man for him in the i can't express my feelings, i feel empty. it's painful. it's painful to see our house destroyed. what will happen to us now? we don't have a house any more. you'll know you own a may there or is it because you're there were people left behind even though there was a forced evacuation. because for have livestock to take care of, they called me up telling me they're hungry. it's been 3 days since have had food. so i had to find a way to reach them or borrowed a puddle boats, or could reach them. or people in the regions of malaysia hit hardest by recent flooding or being moved to safety. 17 people have died for them where in so language, this is the country's wealthiest and most populous region. government has been

criticized for its slow response, which it's blaming on a lack of boats and manpower floor. it's lea reports from color lampa is everything below. yeah, yeah. i asked her more than a day trapped in her home by flood waters. this woman is finally being 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. 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. i think i did, but i yeah, i mean we are left with only our clothes and important documents like our children's birth certificates. 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 about 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 your work and all the mom was coming down everything but is bit slow. so and all this because of the politics softener, and the government has deployed tens of thousands of emergency service and military personnel to help tens of thousands are taking shelter in relief centers. some say they are worried about their future, give her baby will be that if you go in, if 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 call with 19 pandemic. we are living in the shelter week on working. those who are 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. watching when is our life and on the nash wants to lateral programs on groups. a mobilizing in libya's capital is 5 days. presidential election looks increasingly unlikely. concerns are the chinese investments slow down high speed rail hands for thailand will. here they are likely to go up completely sport more tennis place has positive the crown of ice after completing abu dhabi. ah hello. the weather remains scolding quite across much of europe. at the moment, sir, blocking area of high pressure, we had just around the airport to shells as now,

sinking its way further southwards into continental europe. to the east of that, this is where we got some bitterly cold weather coming in temperatures running around 4015 degrees below average there for moscow over the next couple of days minus 19 celsius in the heat of the day or wednesday it will gradually warm up after that, we're already start to see things warming up cross western parts though, as i hi, just noticed a little further east was so we could get up into double figures in london and paris as we go on into thursday nights because about cloud and rain spilling in from the atlantic as the other way it does warm up at this time of the year. the son of course still very weak and he just reaching the a wind to so. so now we are saying that where to whether making its way into ireland, pushing across into a northern ireland, scotland, nor the parts of england and wales as we go on 3 way to stay in pushing through as we go into thursday some way. whether to just around the western parts of spain, southern areas of space into we're a good part of portugal. some of that rain will also affects parts of morocco over

the next couple of days. and still looking very unsettled from ne, in egypt.