to of human rights activists. q mean i do, and environmental is when own entity, the systems are not working, but the longer that you fight them, the more that things changed studio be unscripted on out his era. you want to help save the world, sneeze into your elbow, who, oh, no country can boost its way out of the pandemic. the w h o warns wealthy countries could be prolonging the pandemic, as israel says it will offer a force cobit shot. and the armor con variant pushes new u. k. infections past the 100000. but new studies show it's less likely than delta to put people in hospital.

ah, laura barbara, sarah, you're watching al 0 life from that also coming out. the un security council approved was approved as sanctions exemption for afghanistan, allowing vital aid to float back there. and the world food program cuts rations for millions of yemenis because of a funding shortfall. ah . the head of the world health organization has hit out at wealthy countries. rushing to roll out cobit 19 booster shots, while large portions of the globe remained unvaccinated tedra sat down and gabrielle, who says their only deepening vaccine inequality and prolonging the pandemic by giving the virus more opportunities to spread and mutate. the global priority

might be to support all countries to reach the 40 percent target as quickly as possible and the 70 percent target by the middle of this year. no country can boost its way out of the pandemic and boosters cannot be seen as a ticket to go ahead with the plan celebrations without the need for other precautions. and israeli government panel has recommended that a 4th dose of the coven. 19 vaccine is needed for people over the age of 60. if this happens, israel could become the 1st country to roll at a force job. how are we force that reports from west jerusalem? israel was an early leader in mass, vaccinations against covey. 19 the 1st country to go for the booster shot. now it's looking to break new ground again. an expert panel is advised the government to offer a 4th shot to everyone over 60 to those who are especially vulnerable and to frontline

medical stuff. i don't know. i think that there's a lot of a lot of confusion and i feel at that point what i do for myself and my children is part of the advice about personal dr. israel's prime minister has called the recommendation. wonderful news and says he's impatient for final health ministry approval. his campaign to increase the vaccination rate among younger children though, and for the double jabs to get the 1st booster. the sofa full and short of its targets, combined with a hundreds of thousands who refused a vaccine altogether. it means about 40 percent of the population is estimated to be under or unprotected against ami chrome. we are made a lot of fe, interview interviews with the doctors, with the nurses, a we are going to the schools to convince them to come to have a vaccine. yet not all of them are conference like much in the world's response to the sudden breakthrough of i'm calling. this is a decision that's being made without the full information. one small is really study into the effect of a full vaccination,

has yet to report its results. nonetheless, it's been decided that this is an opportunity, the greater protection that's worth going for. one public health experts says with the efficacy, untested promoting a 4th injection could add to the mistrust of those hesitant to be vaccinated. so we are doing something that is unusual. reverse epidemiology, we 1st does intervention, then we studied it. it's not done in preventive medicine. you may do it in severely sick patients that you have nothing as to offer and you say ok, we need to try something. it's make sense, but you don't do it with preventive medicines within the government panel though, the counter arguments when the day 86 percent of its members voted in favor of the additional booster, not for the 1st time the world will be watching israel's results. hurry full, sit out 0, west jerusalem, or the on the con outbreak in south africa squatting province appears to have

passed its peak about a month after it was 1st discovered there. the number of new daily cases is now falling. although scientists say that that could be down to lower levels of testing . i had of the holiday period. but data collected by the south african institute for communicable diseases shows only one continues to appear at less severe than previous variance. it found patients were 80 percent less likely to be hospitalized than those diagnosed with another variable. and now we're you. case study has found, omicron is 40 to 45 percent less likely to cause hospitalization than the del per variant. on the con, though, is driving a surgeon cases across the u. k, with daily infections exceeding 100000 for the 1st time on wednesday. over the past 8 days, the u. k. has seen its highest numbers of new cases since the pandemic began, but only 8000 people are in hospital with the virus that's far lower than during

previous waves. or scotland and wales are both tightened restrictions. the slow, the spread of all been cron, british prime minister boris johnson, has chosen not to impose similar measures in england at least until after christmas . but parts of the economy are suffering anyway because of a fearful public and staff shortages or reach helen's reports from london. it's one of london's best known restaurant chains, but you'll have no problem getting a table at the office in special fields right now. it's normally the busiest time of the year, but like hospitality businesses, off and down the country, also in desperate customers. in the last week we had like over a 1000 cancellations for lunch and dinner days. we do 100 for lines, roughly 100 for lunch, and then 120 for dinner. we're doing about $44.00 boys or micron has made a brutal time for restaurants, cafes, hotels, clubs,

and theaters. the government ended speculation on tuesday promising no new restrictions in england decide of christmas at least. but people have been heating advice to limit social contact, and responding to alarm calls from hospitality. $1300000000.00 has been pledged to help the industry. it doesn't seem nearly enough from his math to be con, says that while any government support is welcome, what's on offer really does not cut it. he says that a wet m show closed for a week and cost $330000.00. an average night club. se is expecting to leave, perhaps $34000.00 over the christmas period. so the government's offer of just a $1010.00 per business. he says, is just a drop in the ocean layer agrees and says they also do guidance. tell us what to do, what is actually happening if we're going to close. and if restaurants are going to

close, they need to let us know or so that we can plan as well rather than just saying, okay, we're going to make an announcement on the 27th because it's, it's been a lot of rumors. while england tries to boost its way out on the crohn's clutches, changes are being made to weiss elation rules to ease crippling staff shortages across many businesses and services. most vaccinated and vaccinated people can now enter the 10 day isolation, 3 days early. if they test negative, today's running, as long as they test the negative or lateral flow test on day 6 and they 7 take 24 hours apart, they can leave isolation. if you are someone that works at a care home or the any chess or even you can return to work at. but of course, those people will also be following the rules that are set by their work places where they test regularly. meanwhile, the u. k. infection rate pushed through $100000.00 a day for the 1st time on wednesday. the country isn't out of warmer crohn's clutches yet. what by any means,

raj allen's al jazeera london ah desperately needed aid will soon be sent to afghanistan after the united nations security council voted to allow a sanctions exemption. it means that governments and agencies can send money in goods to the country for the 1st time since the taliban took power. international aid made up about 75 percent of the previous government's budget, but that was suspended in august, leaving the economy on the brink of collapse. the central banks overseas assets of nearly $10000000000.00 were also frozen. meaning state employees haven't been paid in months and cash has been hard to come by. according to the world food program, more than half of the countries 38000000 people are now facing. acute hunger was $3200000.00 children under 5 on malnourished 7 out of 10 families have resorted to

borrowing money for food, which of course is pushing them deeper into poverty. chris or salumi is at the united nations. she says many donors had been reluctant to send aid to afghanistan because of sanctions against the taliban. the situation was getting extremely dire in afghanistan with us so many people in need of help due to a lack of cash flow in the country at china. has said that the in this meeting, leading up to the vote on this resolution, which kind of clears the way for, for the money to get in that, that, you know, those, the sanctions are against individuals or against entities. humanitarian aid should automatically be exempt from that. this is for the people, not for those who are on the sanctions list with the united states said that it agencies had a right to be concerned and that by passing this resolution, it would clarify that there are in fact exemptions for humanitarian aid. through

this resolution, we have proposed to day the security council can decide to exempt humanitarian assistance to enable more life saving, aid and other activities to meet basic human needs of the people of afghanistan. the resolution was welcomed by the humanitarian chief here at the united nations. martin griffith. he said he's been calling for the council to do something to help the situation there. he said this will allow the un to bring in much needed aid according to plans that they've been developing a just when they most crucially need it. the un says it's been forced to reduce food rate rations for millions of people in yemen due to a lack of funding. it's world food program agency says that there will be serious consequences. hunger rises, the cutbacks will start in january. yemen has been on the brink of famine since 2016 because of the war. 5000000 people are close to starvation and millions more

rely on age. the organization needs almost $2000000000.00 to continue to deliver vital food assistance. half the population of young men is facing food insecurity for short. that just they are unable to put food on the table for their families. 5000000 of these are in, in a very precarious situation. that's what we call the emergency food level of emergency level. the food insecurity, so meaning that if you know, if the situation gets worse, they'll be the 1st ones to be in a famine like condition. the very serious situation, the causes of this hunger crisis are complex, but the impact on the people of yemen is very clear. the inner, they quit for the consumption as rising food prices are increasing, access to food is becoming a major challenge and we still have acting active fighting in many parts of the

country. if you appease military says it's recaptured the town of sick quarter in southern figure i. it would be a significant loss for to grow and rebels who announced that they will, withdrawing from the neighboring regions of afar and tomorrow. on monday, the government says rebels were forcibly cleared and did not retreat. voluntarily thousands of civilians have been killed as a result of the year long conflict and millions are facing famine. still to come in this half hour will tell you why nigeria hopes this going more than a 1000000 excited that will encourage more people to get the job. and the matter, gaskin government minister says 112 hours after his helicopter crashed was mission. ah

hello. welcome to your world's weather update will begin in australia and we've got the risk of seen some storms flare up toward color brisbin, right for coastal sections of new south wales. but i'm gonna take you a few days out now. so here we are on saturday. we have some concern over this developing tropical cyclone looking to affect the northern territory. darwin in the line of fire there, but at the same time the heat. so put the colors on the darker the red, the hard, the temperature was perth, 42 degrees, while above average, the record for december 44. point 2, i don't think you'll get there, but you may break a daily temperature record off to new zealand. heavy falls for the escape, but it's going to be a cloudy day. it gets been with the height of 25 degrees looking good in wellington for long sunshine and 22 for you. off to southeast asia, southern portions of march for that rains going to pile up in the days to come. we've got some thunderstorm such him in city called him for singapore and jakarta with a high 30 degrees. cold air really digging in across the northern parts of china.

it's going to start to sun further south into korea. also the northeast of china, beijing at one. but let's focus on korea. so the next few days, look at your temperatures here. we're really going to struggle minus 6 on sunday in the sunshine that is well below average for this some beer. that sure whether updates you, sir. ah. the coveted beyond well taken without hesitation. fulton died for the power defines al wild logs loop babies were doyle. i did not think it's neglected babies to deck people empower, investigates, exposes, and question. so the use and abuse of power around the globe on al jazeera. ah

ah, reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, the un security council is applying a sanctions exemption to afghanistan to get vital humanitarian aid in government and agencies can now send money goods to the country for the 1st time since the taliban won the world health organization, as warned wealthy countries rushing to administer booster vaccines, it could be prolonging the coven 19 pandemic because large portions of the globe remain and vaccinated. this is israel became the 1st country to announce it will give a 4th vaccine. and new infections in the u. k of past a 100000 for the 1st time since the pandemic began driven by the only con variant.

but a new study by imperial college in london has found the risk of all the conte closing a hospital stay is 40 to 45 percent lower than with the delta vary. nigeria has destroyed more than a 1000000 coven. 19 vaccines health officials say the doses had a short shelf life and had expired. they were donated through the international kovacs program and delivered within weeks of expiring. but as fidelis, and by reports that from a boucher, the authorities hope that publicly destroying them or boost confidence in vaccines are modified. health officials and journalists watched as more than a 1000000 doses of expired extras. rubica vaccine were crushed. it destroyed vaccines, were part of a massive shipment of more than $2000000.00 doses received in october. it do mission from developed missions by november. many of them had expired before been

put into people's homes. the government was came to show people that know expired vaccines would be given out in a bead to post confidence. in the vaccine program, the head of niger is primary health care agency says they procure the vaccines on the very difficult circumstances. adding that the step was taken to protect the public. we accepted in vaccine in an environment where despite the interest despite consorted, enforced by the federal government to procure these vaccines. this vaccines were not available in the open market. if you want to go because they had largely be mobbed by the wealthier nations and we had no choice to accept this vaccine, which short staffed life because we are interested in protecting our citizens from calvin. 19 the government has made repeated efforts to get more people

vaccinated, including restricting access for the on vaccinated to some public buildings and events. but so far that made limited progress, the government has set a target to vaccinate more than half the population by next year. was less than 5 percent of the country's population of about $200000000.00 have been fully vaccinated according to health officials. authorities have blamed the low turnout of eligible citizens to take the shock for the spread optical in a virus. at this vaccination center in the missions capital, some residents, i tried to encourage orders to get their shots. i think the best i can do it also as a parent, it's not the only 2. i will baby coffee, my thing, basic rules, but also coming out to take the my sin because admissions are trying the best i can to compact to be could be 19 despite of 90. and i've seen

a lot of people lost their loved ones. so the best i can do is come out, take the lesson, we just got got out of the full year if you did it because of the vaccination that was taken place. so this deborah with i and i employed people to come and take this ticket. is this fair less the country has witnessed a spike in cove inmate in kisses in recent weeks. and health officials say the prepared to handle the foot wave. and we have the 3 products available. now. we have the pfizer. we have them, we're dana, and we have us right? then you can all give access. i is. so we don't have any shock each other. nigeria has recorded more than 200000 cases of coven 19, and nearly 3000 debts says the outbreak of the pandemic. last year. fidelis member al jazeera,

a butcher. more than 13000000 people have been ordered to stay home in the chinese city of the 140 cove. in 1900 infections have been recorded there over the past 2 weeks. only one person per household is allowed to leave home every 2 days to buy essential goods. it's not yet known how long the last last china is on high alert for outbreaks as it gears up to host the winter olympics. in february, a new measures of being posed across india, amid concerns over the, on the con, very, and it's a blow for the countries tories in sector, which had been cautiously hoping for a recovery after the government reopened borders last week. but restrictions have once again been imposed on all inbound travelers have ne mattel's reports now from new delhi. the famous hub on the head was all set for a busy season, is a favorite among foreign tourists who are expected to throng the storied monuments

of largest ton in western india. but now these rooms and hotel lobbies are empty during peak season. plunging the struggling industry into for certainty and heavy losses for interest them and the business of dependent on it will not pick up until for them to come in and start properly. even today, the situation is such that the rush is only felt on weekends and the hotels live we can on india reopen this board is last week for the 1st time since the panoramic began in march 2020. but new restrictions and testing requirements for inbound travelers. fuel by c, as over the armstrong variance means many have feet away. in 21900 tourism accounted for almost 7 percent of india, g d, p, and 14000000 jobs. much of this income was generated before and visit us. but last year as borders remain close to most travelers, the industry lost nearly 75 percent of its annual revenue. we no food store in the

heart of new delhi was one buckling good international customers. today, small businesses like his are struggling to survive what a shiny, leading business has been done. but i had who was saying that international, slight resuming woman, we thought people to start frequenting markets and business would pick up. but omi grown, i don't know how long will have to be before situation improves many states, including your cache, one of the high numbers on the con, cases limited gathering. so the end of the some states haven't been as nice as shit testing requirements for travelers. the prospect i jojo leave the long awaited recovery for the slab with the industry has been put on hold. travelling with an alta 0 new delhi u. s. health regulate who's have given the green light to the 1st antiviral pill to treat coven 19 americans age to 12 and older will be able to take. pfizer is pax,

livid tablet. to fend off the worst effects of the virus studies. it showed that it reduces the risk of hospitalization and death by nearly 90 percent or previously authorized drugs against the disease require an i. v or an injection rescue. teams have been searching for at least the 17 missing people in me and mar after a landslide. at a mine the land, slight hit while workers were digging for jade in northern catching state when they were swept into a lake. so far, one person has been confirmed that the area is the center of me and mars at secret if jade industries were minor is often work in dangerous conditions. in malaysia, the clean up operation is underway after one of the country's worst floods of recent times. the number of dead has no reason to 27 and more than 60000 people were forced from their homes. florence louis reports from cologne, poor,

still under water after 4 days per hung state in central peninsula. malaysia is the worst affected buildings and vehicles submerged. the 2 main highways still not accessible in some parts. officials have warned that water levels in several major rivers remain dangerously high. across the country, search and rescue efforts continue. the military emergency personnel and volunteers pitch in to distribute aid and carry people to safety. some had been trapped for days. we have to kind of feeling one another we have we definitely will have anger because a lot, you know, you asked me if you are not being warned by the government. that the, the where though with that serious and, and of what we're going that series as well. and then you have, we also felt that handling development as well. because this of your control by doesn't violate major disaster. many say these are the worst floods they've

experienced, a local aid organization estimates. families may need up to $2500.00 each for home repairs, and to replace furniture and appliances. business owners to are suffering unsure of when they'll be able to reopen. i'm disappointed with a politician with a member of parliament members always hosted go one. they don't come during the time of disaster. they're the only gun. the dish on board is up glad the disasters about that. the prime minister has acknowledged weaknesses in the government's response. but said, the responsibility should be shouldered by the state governments as well. that's unlikely to a late public anger. questions are now being asked about the government's lack of flood preparedness, especially during the monsoon season. opposition politicians say that needs to be an inquiry to examine what went wrong and to improve the country's readiness to

face future disasters. the monsoon season is expected to last through to february with the potential for yet more rain and floods. florence louis al jazeera kuala lumpur. a government minister in madagascar says he swam for more than 12 hours to reach land. after the helicopter that he was in crashed, said ga ga. lay was traveling to inspect the shipwrecked when at least 83 people died. the helicopter crashed into the sea of the north eastern coast shape. it had been political block of the life, john highland and the mechanic did. i took the pilot's chair as a life belt and that's how i was saved. i swam from 730 that evening until 7 30 in the morning. i thank the lord that prosecutors are demanding life sentences for 3 russians and one ukrainian charged with murder over the shooting down of

malaysian airlines flight m h 17. which killed all 298 people on board. during the 2nd day of closing arguments of the hague, prosecutors accused the 4 men of helping to supply a miss south system that russian back separatists used in 2014. the aircraft was shut down over eastern ukraine. equal in name is name is that they have actively continued to conceal the facts of the downing of m. 817. they said incorrect information on the subject and they discredited the investigations into the facts. in doing so, they maintained the uncertainty for the relatives and inflicted further suffering on them. one of the earliest known depictions of jesus christ as the good shepherd has been found. it was a ring retrieved from shallow waters off the coast of israel. bernard smith report . these mediterranean off as rich fishing grounds for roman and mum will come

ticket is if something glints in the water, it's often gold commissioning this find by israeli, archaeologists of coins gems and other artifacts with scattered along the sea, but just 4 meters on the water. one piece stood out a ring showing jesus christ as the good shepherd. the good shepherd was one of the earliest christian symbols and used by the christian community in the east. the image sort of tells that jesus is the shepherd who protects the christians. nearly christians, it for the ring would have been made around the mid 3rd century, evidence of a christian community in the region. the archaeologists believe the whole is from 2 ships wrecked by a storm of the coast of the holy land. they found hundreds of silver and bronze roman coins as well as figurines,

pottery vessels and iron work. at the time the ships went down, the area was known as caesar ear. it's here that the acts of the apostles describes peter baptizing the roman centurion, cornelius in an area that was one of the earlier centers of christianity. bernard smith, al jazeera 1st who 10 mcdonalds will be rationing the fries itself in japan because of a potato shortage from friday will only be selling small sized portions for week. mcdonalds is blaming floods in canada and that destruction to the supply chain caused by the kobe pandemic. ah, a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, the world health organization has warned, wealthy countries rushing the hand that booster vaccines risk prolonging the coven pandemic. while large portions of the globe remain on vaccinated,

israel has become the 1st country to announce it will give a 4th faxing dose. the global prairie to must be to support all can.