life i actually know enough about what living under fascism was light on equal to broadcasting. thumbnails have been august night, very happy al jazeera english proud recipient of the new york festivals broadcaster of the year reward for the 5th year running. ah, if you are not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. president biden tells americans it's i patriotic charity to get vaccinated as he announces free home covered tests to slow the spiders, the only cron barian car risk. ah, no, i'm sorry. i'm ozzy in london, you watching al jazeera also coming up on the program reports that sedans prime minister intends to resign a month offering was reinstated under

a deal with the military talk. he's never recovered from reco. lowe's, after president ado on moved to protect people savings while an argentine or a disco dancehall is transformed into a crypto currency mining venture look at the countries trying to survive its economic crisis. ah, i'll come to program our top story, u. s. president joe biden has told millions of the of unvaccinated americans, that it's their patriotic duty to get in not collated against cove at 19. the army kron varian is sweeping across the united states, and already accounts for almost 3 quarters of all new cases. biden announced a raft of measures to try and limit it spread, including 500000000 free home rapid tests and medical military personnel also being deployed to help spittles that are overwhelmed by den, says,

his government is prepared for the coming months, was stopped piles of vaccines and personal protective equipment, or p, p e, but he's wound the unvaccinated, that a face a winter of severe illness and possibly death, and urge them to get their 1st shot. all these people who have not been vaccinated, you have an obligation to yourself, to your family, and quite frankly, i know you criticize this to your country, get faxes it now it's free. it's convenient. i promise you would save lives. an aster god, leave it you patriot duty article. he was following all this and joins us now from washington. president biden walking, not tight rope between trying to reassure the american public while also issuing that start warning to people have not been vaccinated. who really, as they're going back to the theme from a few months ago, where they said this is going to become

a pandemic of the vaccinated. the problem for him is it's not just the pan demik of the vaccine. they're much more likely to get sick and end up in the hospital and possibly die. but we're seeing a lot of break during infections and we're seen. and he said it's not like the beginning of the pandemic look how far we've come. but look where we are right now . mask mandates back in place in washington dc. if you're indoors, you have to wear a mask. we see university is going on line. broadway shows closing down professional sports have been canceled. the bigger question is, the, what the administration had to know, the people were planning to get together for the holidays. they told people, if you're going to do that safely, if you're vaccinated, unvaccinated, get one of those rapid tests test. everyone who's going to come into the house 15 minutes before they come in, that's the best way to have a safe holiday. so what we've seen is people are trying to get those tests. and now the micron, which is literally cases in places like here in washington dc in new york, they're not doing this anymore. they're literally the lines look like this. it

seems everybody is coming down with covered vaccinated or unvaccinated. you can't find those test this at home, test, literally nowhere to be found. and if you try to go to a site for a test, people are waiting in line for up to 10 hours just to get a pcr test. you can imagine the next concern is of the labs are going to become overwhelmed. so he's telling people, look, if you're vaccinated, if you're boosted, you could still have a holiday together. but people are frustrated. they do feel like this is 2 steps backwards. and especially if you look at how much the administration line has changed about those at home test, just to give you a sense. i know in europe i've, i've read that you can pick up a pack for, for $7.07 euros here. if you, if you can find them, which you cannot, but if you do one test 2 tests cover to pack it. it's about $25.00. so a lot of people simply can't afford to test. and if you asked the white house a few weeks ago, they were a little bit flippant of the idea that they should be sending those tests out. why

not just make them free and given loudest and have them available? every person should we just send once every american maybe than, than what had then what happens if you, if every american has one test, how much does that cost? and then what happens after that only knows 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. what is the main concern now in the last patty? the main concern is the hospital system. so we're going into a 3rd year of this. a lot of health care professionals as simply quit. they're burned out and they're treated in many cases, people who refused to get vaccinated. you can imagine the range of emotions you're dealing with this and you're working long hours and you're understaffed. so the big concern is the hospitals, because some of the computer models say, even if they're vaccinated, about

a 3rd of health care care workers could get sick from this new variant. and then they can't work. so what we've heard from hospital officials was look, even if i had the beds, i don't have anyone to staff them. so you saw the president say, we're going to serge about a 1000 members of the military were search ambulances, empties, who can move people into different hospitals. and that has been helpful in some of the hospitals. some of the officials that i've talked to, for example, in minnesota, they had 24 air national airman show up doctors. and they said that was the shot, the arm that they needed to keep going because they're not enough nurses. there's not enough doctors and there's not in the hospital space. so in some places already and again, this is just the beginning of this wave, this arm across wave, the, there it, they expect that it's just going to continue to spike like this before. they hope it comes down rapidly. so the big question is that the collapse of the hospital systems do they have to start rushing care? some places are already putting those places, putting those positions in line,

in case they have to. so even though the president says, look at this isn't like it was before, for a lot of americans, it feels just as dire because even if you've done the things that they told you to do, you're going to get sick of covert. it seems so you might not be real sick, you might not die, but you're probably going to cancel your your, your plans for the holidays. and if you do get sick and you get real sick, you might not have a hospital bed. so it's a really bad situation for the president. his poll numbers are plummeting. his excuse today said, look, nobody knew that i'm a crown, was going to replicate as quickly as it has. and dr said that in the history of viruses, they've never gone this fast. i mean, they're doubling their numbers in 2 to 3 days as opposed to the last very, which is 2 to 3 weeks. so we're going to see cases climb exponentially. the president says, help is on the way more tests are on the way, but there's a big question about whether it's going to be too late. thank you very much, patrick. i am the latest from washington, and in the past hour, israel announced to offer

a 4th dose of the closet vaccine to people over the age of 60 to stop the spread of on the crown that meanwhile, scotland is cancel. public news east operations, part of his post christmas measures. u. k reported more than 90000 new cove in 19 cases on tuesday. but prime minister boris johnson is confirmed. he won't be bringing in any restrictions before christmas. what i could say to night is it naturally we caught like any further measures after christmas and when to keep a constant eye on the data will do ever it takes to protect public health. but in view of the continuing uncertainty about several things, severity of on the chrome uncertainty about the hospitalization rate or the impact of the vaccine roller the boosters. we don't think today that there is enough evidence to justify any tougher measures before christmas worn out from norah challenge. his in central london rejoice says the daily mail on tuesday morning.

christmas is looking safe. ministers defy gloomy scientists, but effects the question safe from what all the con is ripping through the u. k. at the 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 are being prioritized for a strong and said on monday nights, we won't hesitates 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 there are still big questions be answered about the severity of omicron, it's too soon to be shutting people up in doors. the cancer position, when those questions are answered and if the answers are bad, it will be too late to do in a think about it and hell service will be swamped. the opposition leader kissed

armor whose labor party would have supported new restrictions. if the prime minister had gone for them, says that boris johnson is putting his fractious party before the public. of course, the spectre of new business and social curbs hasn't gone away, has just been deferred for another day. christmas may be safe, but new year and beyond certainly isn't. ah or getting reports that sedans prime minister, abdullah ham dock is planning to stand down in the coming hours. exactly among since he made a deal with the military. this been described as a betrayal of sedans. civilian revolutionaries. honda was kept under house arrest for a month following the military co in october. since that pow grab, there have been mass protests including over the weekend which month the 3rd anniversary of the start of the revolution. as eric osborne ham. but val is live in

the sydney's capital hart him and joins us now. why does he intend to resign? what am i am according to with what we got from his entourage? the duke. he's feeling very frustrated with the people to whom he said have pushed him to this agreement with the military a month ago. she says they let him do the fighting on his own. they're not giving him enough support. he's talking about components of the political class who were supporting. i'm a duke staying in the government and they're being in the coalition with the military regardless of the opposition of too many. so these many people who are going out in the streets. so posing this sir, the government of 2 sides, military and civilian fights, the same with the military, have not kept her promise,

and that they are planning to stay in power. so handbook is finding him something a very difficult situation. he's finding himself unable to play the throne, which she hoped and many so then he hoped to be the catalyst. the man in the middle between 2 post fides, who are now really at loggerheads, and he's finding his position on tenable how would handouts resignation wouldn't have any effect on that the balance of power in the country. well we have to wait and see, because until now, i mean we are getting some reports. unconfirmed reports are too much pressure being put on him again to you know, not to a resign a but he's still insisting that his go to resign. and the expectation is that there will be some reaction by the military. we know that he was put under house arrest for a month. and there was what some people describe as a tacit or, you know, an,

an announced agreements between him and the military that, you know, his release was the condition for his release was that you sign that agreement with the military now that he is pulling out, if he does it, we don't know what's gonna happen. we don't know the reaction of the military. there's a possibility that he will be back in the house arrest. there is a possibility that or that he, i mean, he will be seen as a, you know, a person was a, taken it hostile, a position to was a military. and he's now not able or so that you know, the dialogue between him and our approach ma, between him and the leaders, the real leaders of the, of the uprising that is taking place. now right now with a protest taking place like i was very difficult, the dialogue between him and some of the leaders of the air, friedman and, and, and change is also very difficult. so his,

whether he designs or whether he stays in power, it's going to be very difficult for ham duke to continue in that role. and it's a swish, he's only expected to get to us. thank you very much. mohammed val reporting cation sydney's capital. hi kim. though to ethiopia, now the government is saying it's military is in the process of clearing to brian rebel forces from the northern amara and a far regions which the tpr life invaded in june. the now saying that they want to withdraw in order to create an opening for peace and to enable a flow of humanitarian aid into tag ry, where around 400000 people are facing famine. the government and out his elbows rejected this tpl f statement saying the national on the one a series of victories. you're watching alger, is there a lie from london still ahead on the program will tell you about a blank canvas. drawing a crowd in a danish museum mould not affect ah

hello. we still have plenty of showers across northern parts of australia are rolling out the northern territory to queensland and still extending their way down into eastern parts of new south wales where we have of course, seen some disrupting flooding. we have got more thundershowers just coming in here as we go on through wednesday, easing up into the southeast corner of queens. that is still quite a crop of showers across northern parson. that's gonna continue to be the case as we go one into thursday by thursday. let's look a little further west. it's warming up getting up to around 35 celsius in perth. could get up to around 38 by friday ricci sir. 42 on christmas day. that will be the hottest christmas perth on record. we asked looking at sir, one or 2 showers longest bells of rain making the wire, crusty zealot. but it's in the process of drawing up and brightening up here as we

head towards the christmas. we can. meanwhile, we're looking at some dry weather, grassy, making its way toward southern parts of china, or old tropical storm or typhoon array. that's now making its way further into the open waters. brightest guys coming back in behind for a time cause a good part of china. and the korean peninsula for now, still some when she shower for northern parts of japan, feeding all the way up into her cotton. ah, african narrative from african perspective now, but it will now we're about is big data. i have put it short documentary by african filmmakers from democratic republic of congo. and one day there was never going to be letting an obstacle just stand in front of you. that is what made the intimate connection between myself and join that dick is,

and let em settling africa direct on al jazeera lou. ah, ah, back main stories now was president joe biden has told millions of unvaccinated americans. is that patriotic duties? he get innoculated against corbett 19. he's announced a raft of measures to try and limit the rapid spread of the army buried, including 500000000 free at home. rapid tests were getting reports that saddam's prime minister, abdulla ham doc intends to resign it some month after making a deal with the military that was described as a betrayal of sudan. civilian revolutionaries. i'm dog was kept under house arrest for a month after the military coup in october. and the ethiopian government says its

military is in the process of clearing to grime. rubble forces from the northern m horen to far provinces, separatist tpl. i've groups that on monday, but it was with drawing to create an opening piece and allow for the flow of humanitarian aiden to take. why. now, libyans is scheduled to vote in a presidential election on friday, but the head of the high national elections commission is dissolved, the electoral committees ending now work adding to the tension. rival arm groups have been mobilizing in the capitol. malik train has more now from tripoli, were just 3 days away from the scheduled 1st round of presidential elections. and there hasn't been an official announcement by the high national elections committee that the vote has been delayed. or what we saw today was the elect elections commission decision to dissolve. the electoral committees are basically what that means is that it has stopped the work of the, of the workers,

the temporary workers that are working in the polling stations across the country. the administrators of these points stations are as clear signs, a clear indicator that this election isn't happening. now we've spoken to various political leaders and political analysts, and here's what one of them had to say. or la helene, for the oil had the leader, the elections commission had no choice, but to start the procedure dissolving these committees because it is clear that election scheduled for december 24. this is not happening. therefore the committee cannot have these committees continued their work for an unknown period of time. so this administrative procedure is normal, but it's an indication that libby will not see presidential or parliamentary elections in the near future hadn't yet. so i think the fear now for many libyans as that libya will now go back to square one. it took months and years for the un support mission to bring about this government of unity over at negotiations over break, trying to bring lawyers rival sized together. and,

and the elections were supposed to bring, bring forth a government that, that has the legitimacy of the living people are so that the fear is now, or that the situation in libya will worsen. or that the, that libyans will not be able to vote for, for those they want to lead them in, at least in the near future. or the, the fear is that it may take a year or 2 and get back to the negotiating table. ah, which may takes a really long time or for an election to possible. aah. but libyans want to be able to vote for the leadership. they also want a constitution or that identifies the rule, the governing system in libya. and what kinds of powers of president has are. so we'll go have to wait and see how the political situation devolved in the coming weeks or months. we want to turn to turkey now, because the current cars, he's been making,

historic swings. it has it regained much of the valley that it's lost in recent weeks after president russia type add on and outs measures to safeguard people, savings against currency fluctuations. but critics aids essentially and interest rate hike without benefits. now the lira fell to a reco love $18.00 against the dollar on monday. it's now trading at about 13 against the dollar. that's still much less than at the start of the year when it was averaging about 7 leora to the dollar. a central bank started lowering interest rates in september triggering the recent volatility president ado amberly's high interest rates cause inflation, which goes against established economic principles. inflation passed 21 percent this year causing a steep rise in the cost of basic goods like natural gas, which is up a 102 percent and wheat, which is up by a 109 percent. on top of this, a lack of international conference has driven an exodus in foreign investment in the past 2 and a half years that been for different central bank chiefs. and the finance minister

loveday l van quit at the start of december of people in turkey and tourists have been waiting in long lines outside exchange officers after the turkish era recovered from some of its losses in volatile trading with them. if you think about it, the turkish lyric came back from 20, against the $1.00 to $15.00. suddenly it was even up to 12 lira this morning. this is really good. we've been talking to people here with taxi drivers and other locals and everybody was struggling. i think it turned out really well was some people are encouraged by the low to stop somebody exchange the dollars to turkish lira. we don't know how long this will last. everything remains on certain. the u. s. decision was to long know, the interest rates are increasing everywhere in the world. the steps of some kind of veiled, wrote heights on out of the large protests that are expected actually in argentina's capital one as iris of a present. alberto fernandez as late as proposals to resolve the country's debt to the international monetary fund. argentina officials have been trying to reach a deal with the i m f for more than

a year to push back more than $40000000000.00 an outstanding repayment. at the same time, the government is trying to tackle skyrocketing prices, inflation there now stands at more than 50 percent of the country stuck in a recession since 2018 economy buckle further during the pandemic. pushing poverty levels above 40 percent, to raise a bow has our port now from when his iris. oh, this building housed a disco prior to the cove. it been there make. but the loved down and argentina's already shaky economy, forced owner. so i can new to adapt from it, but it's like if i look at what he has now, feel the room with machines used to mind group to currencies. he's not only doing it for himself, but also for those who want to invest obviously. but i don't, we are good at elac and there what i, when you, in the beginning it was very complicated and hidden. they sent us an email address and we checked with roswell, its oh, no phone ups. no, everyone wants to do it yet. um we rent space and the handling of them she's and we

have to separate the funds because of heat and energy required to operate and it's proven a success. neil has expanded establishing mining farms all around what a site is. they're located in restaurants and on rooftops with a growing list of clients. crypto currencies have become a way for people in argentina to protect themselves from endless economic crisis that include inflation evaluation and now capital control. this crypto currency farms use enormous amount of electricity and they're profitable here in argentina because energy is relatively cheap if compared to other countries in the region. argentine is trying to recover from the economic effects of different demik. it's also about to close a 40000000000 debt agreement with the international monetary fund to establish the economy. but many fear the medicine could be worse than the disease. oh yeah. come

on already said no, no. there is no agreement with the i m f without adjustments. so this protest is the beginning of a series of moments. we will do to reject which ever agreement our country and our preston signs for the i. m. f. as in zebra, n, delaware at the for amanda says they're trying to close a deal that won't affect argentina's most vulnerable citizens. he also says an agreement is essential to get the economy out of the read economy. see a deal is necessary to give argentina credibility in international markets in got so got to rinse apple, ethan. i think the political survival instinct, i believe, will make the government close a deal at gina macroeconomy and all the problems to face cannot resist and other crises. the agreement with the i m. f is the only tool the government has to stabilize the economy and generate expectations, which is what the country needs. argentina has had over 20 agreements with the i m

f. and people here have gotten used to living in crisis. and that's why they have started to find out turn. it is like crypto currency mining that they hope will protect them from the fluctuations and instability of the economy at home. that he said, well, i'll just see that when a site is in the philippines, troops are racing to deliver food and water islas, that have been ravaged by typhoon rye after it, sir. pummeled the southern and central regions of the country. survivors of the deadly storm as soni, returning to their destroyed homes. at least 375 people were killed. but their fears these figures could rise on the hardest hit islands was. bah, hall, or is believed at least $96.00 people died. charities are appealing for a to help. hundreds of thousands is now been left homeless. now modern art often divides people and writing more so than at this museum in denmark,

an artist who has given tens of thousands dollars to produce a work featuring the cash as kept the money instead and produced a blank canvas, a control as he has drawn people to the exhibition and 3 months on the artist is still refusing to hand back money despite legal threats as mama jam june reports from i'll book. the debate now is whether the empty frame is modern art or just theft. just these before new covered 19 restrictions forced the closure of museums across denmark, art enthusiasts, in the city of arbel, take a peek at pieces, questioning how happy we are with our jobs and why there never seem to be enough hours in the day. the exhibit is called work it out and museum director lassie anderson tells us one particular piece has created quite a stir. when you work with artists, you tho channels the way we perceive the world and you come,

you can never know what you good. the clinton museum of modern art certainly had no idea what they be in for when they loaned danish artists. yes, honey, more than half a 1000000 kroner approximately $84000.00. the cache was supposed to be placed inside these frames. an attempt to recreate an earlier work by hunting and to illustrate income gaps affecting danes. but when the canvases were delivered, they were blank. hunting had decided on his own to create a new work. when he called, take the money and run. my staff was really worried saying, oh my god, we don't have the options. we wandered and wells, all the money the museum is displaying the piece, but they're also threatening legal action if the money isn't eventually returned. the controversy has both driven off attendance an spark the debate in denmark about

the true value of an artist's work, which means the constant museum now finds itself in a unique position, exhibiting a piece that some have called art, and others have labeled theft. when we meet haunting in his studio in another town, he explains how inspiration struck. do something about the an average stains in commer. why don't you do something about your situation izzo sos than i saw? no, no, i'm gone to a fantastic piece for the show. harming says, creating what the museum requested would have cost too much out of his own pocket. he considers the new piece a commentary on low wages and believes that makes it even more appropriate for the art show. oh, i asked if he plans to return the money. no, no, no, no, no, no. the no strictly. that's not gonna happen. back at the museum, we heard what visitors think. brilliant. if someone gave you a lot of money and i ask you to put the money painting,

wouldn't your bid some to it doesn't seem like an art to me. ever thought breck blank, an argument that won't be settled any time soon. as viewers continue to ponder, how one piece can seemingly be as conceptual as it is literal. mamma, jim drama does either, albert denmark, ah, a quick look at the main stories this our now you as president joe biden has told millions of unvaccinated americans, and it's their patriotic duty to get inoculated against colon 19. the only con variant is sweeping across the u. s, and already accounts for almost 3 quarters of all new cases. biden announced a raft of measures to try and limit it spread, including 500000000 free at home.