local, now we're about his big daily, my shift, blue, short documentaries, by african filmmakers from democratic republic of congo. and one that there was never going to be letting an obstacle just stand in front of you. that is what made the intimate connection between myself. it's drawn that dick is and matching and fetch me africa direct on al jazeera. ah. a cheaper, faster way to treat cove at 19. you. a struggle for his green lies an anti viral drug to treat early infections. no country come boost its way out of the pond to me for the global health spots has worn rich notions against sweeping booster program, saying they will only deepen vaccine inequity. ah,

i'm come all santa maria here and, oh, how this is the world news from al jazeera, a lifeline for millions of afghans is the you and votes to exempt humanitarian aid from sanctions imposed on the taliban governments and iraq e street artists, strong on history and tradition to transform one of baghdad, oldest neighborhoods with well, it's been seen as a leap in the fight against covert 19 as nations a crown around the world try to outpace the surge of infections driven by army cron . u. s. health regulators have approved the country's 1st anti virus hill to treat coven 90. studies have shown that phases of packs of a tablet does reduce severe symptoms by nearly 90 percent. meanwhile, wealthier nations are accelerating their vaccine. rollouts israel, for example, is going to offer a 4th dose to over sixty's,

germany's considering something similar. but the head of the world health organization has criticized that approach. the global brand, it 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. nor can 3 come 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 we've got a continuing debate about locked downs as well, belgium and some states in india, just among the light, is to tighten their restrictions. well, many having the anti viral drugs, they could have pressure on hospitals as cases rise. the u. k. actually approved a pill by the drug company merc last month, but his journal reports some still questioning its efficacy. they've been many proclaimed game changes in the medical fight back against corona virus. this is the

latest. the u. s. made drug mole new peter via was initially intended to treat the flu. it works by inserting errors into the genetic code of the virus, limiting its ability to multiply in the body. in practical terms, it's the 1st cobit medicine that can be taken in pill form at home to help the most vulnerable avoid severe disease. and last month, the u. k. became the 1st country to approve its use. i'm the, we're working on a new national. have it non pain study coding you'd be interested in taking current researches at the university of oxford, a testing it in more than $10000.00 volunteers who recently contracted covered 19 like 51 year old lin telling i had to take i think 4 in one go twice a day, so with a 12 hour gap over period of 5 days, and nothing special about medication, literally just normal casuals, you take with water. so very straightforward. i had no side effects. there are

already questions over the effectiveness of manipulative ear after clinical trial results led the manufacturers to reduce the overall efficacy of the drug from 50 percent to 30 percent. if you look at the study, generally 30 percent is actually a very, very high level in terms of the, the benefits that we see on the large scale study. and that we want to replicate here as well. well, new period is one of several new home treatments for cobra to be tested in what's being called the panoramic study. they're likely to include the pfizer produced packs loaded. it's a combination therapy based on old h i. v. treatments that pfizer claims is up to 90 percent effective in preventing hospitalizations in high risk patients with half a 1000000 courses already on order here in the u. k. the focus for now is firmly own molnar peter via a few categories 19 early on a new treated early on. you might then not be able to develop any severe symptoms.

and this means reduction in the hospital admissions, and possibly taking off some of the pressure on the chair. so quite an important study, i think mo, new period via and drugs like it could prove valuable additions to a fast growing medical arsenal. jona whole al jazeera london, a little more information now on this new drug packs of it is it's called, which has been approved for treating high risk adult patients and children about 12 years. this is the home treatment. it's proven to be effective. if given within 5 days of symptoms appearing, but it's priced at $530.00 per course. patients are required to take 3 pills twice a day for 5 days spokes. julie fisher about this and associate professor of micro biology and immunology at the georgetown university medical center. she says 5 pill production may face and challenges in the short term. it's going to take

a while for pfizer to wrap up the production of this therapy. it's not easy to scale up quickly. it's a complex drug manufacturer. it's actually 2 different treatments combined. and while it 2022 pfizer risk is committing to providing about a 120000000 courses of, of this treatment in the short term. what comments in the next few weeks is about 65000 doses and put that into perspective crit cobra 19 infection rates in the us with a number of new infections the day. if half the patients who were eligible because they are at risk of progressing to severe disease and being hospitalized would cover 19 disease. we would burn through that entire stock in one day if even half the people were treated. so it's, it's not a lot and the 2nd thing is it's not a cheap treatment. so we're still looking to the vaccines to prevent severe disease as the most effective way to keep people out of hospitals and to perfect them for

to, to protect it from severe disease and death. but it's good to have another tool in the tool kit, giving a booster doses to people who are fully vaccinated does give those individual some a, some incremental protection. and it potentially does protect them against severe disease and death, which is again incredibly important to protect those vulnerable populations like people who are older, who have underlying chronic diseases. but boosting people who are already vaccinated in particularly high income countries and high middle income countries is reducing the vulnerable population slightly. while we have enormous populations worldwide that haven't even had the opportunity to have a 1st dose of faxing and to have that protection. and israeli government panel has recommended a 4th dose. meanwhile, of the coven vaccine, and saying is needed for people older than the age of 60. if ministers give to go ahead, the country would become the 1st nation to roll out a 4th job hard,

4th reports and wester, islam. 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 doctor. 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 jabbed 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 into few 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 worlds response to the sudden breakthrough of on the chrome. this is a decision that's being made without the full information. one small is there any 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 duty 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 $86.00 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, set out, his ear was seriously onto the new tenant, his former president msf magazine. he's been sentenced to 4 years in prison. the court charged not as again confronted with court assaulting the security of the state because of recent comment he made urging france to end the support attorney's government. the current president side suspended parliament in july, which might suki is called you and security council unanimously adopted a resolution allowing humanitarian aid into afghanistan. the council voted to apply a sanctioned exemption. many governments and agencies can now send money and goods to the country for the 1st time since the taliban to power. and millions of afghans desperately need food and medicines. christensen amy has this report now from the not adoptions is will not cook as by the un security council paved the way for more

aid to afghanistan unanimously. passing a u. s. sponsored resolution, explicitly stating humanitarian assistance and other activities that support basic human needs and afghanistan are not a violation of international sanctions. china supported the resolution after pushing back against an initial draft, requiring case by case aid exemptions. thank you. i want you to the current situation in afghanistan is out a critical stage facing multiple, arduous and complex challenges. the most important task is to help africa understand, mitigate the humanitarian crisis, the soonest, and to stabilize unrestored economy. your hobby in the u. s. insisted the un emergency relief coordinator report back to the counsel every 6 months to ensure the aid does not benefit those on the sanctions list. it is essential for the security council to receive regular updates on the implementation of this

resolution. such information is critical to enabling sufficient oversight to ensure that assistance is reaching the intended beneficiaries. by mitigating diversion, after the resolution passed, a spokesman for the taliban welcomed the measure, saying, we appreciate it. it can help afghanistan's economic situation. he also called on the international community to speed up the removal of crippling economic sanctions . the un has warned that half the population doesn't have enough to eat. cash flow has been an issue since the taliban took control of the government, leading the world bank to freeze nearly $10000000000.00 and assets. civil servants haven't been paid and months aid groups. welcome the resolution. it is a very important as that in the sands batts, b. i. since i've had an impact on, on the capacity to add to bringing assistance to bringing. i man shall alice to

port any pretty cheese to our people in the service that we need to support right now. at this moment. the ones humanitarian chief martin griffith's called the resolution on milestone the rare agreement among council members. evidence of the shocking level of need and suffering and afghanistan. kristen salumi al jazeera, the united nations, checked the world where the next and then libby as presidential election postponed . just 2 days before it was due to go ahead, look at what it means to the piece process. and scientists create a model dinosaur embryo after finding it perfectly preserved also. ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies with sponsored boy cutaways. hello there,

a way we go with your weather report for asia night cecile we've got some more clouds drifting into the north west of india. so what that's going to do by night to act as a bit of a blanket trap in the daytime. warmth that we see so your temperatures will not be as low. we still do have a cold snap, watch him play for the indian state of edition, but otherwise you're gonna be hard pressed to find any brain across the country somewhere. we are seen a lot of rain and it's piling up is for southern sections of sumatra. also some thunderstorms in the forecast touch him in city, call them poor singapore and jakarta, with the high of 30 degrees. after indo china, southern sections just getting scraped with some range here. so vietnam, cambodia, just spilling into thailand. bit of a drizzly dave for hong kong to be expected. same goes for taipei with the hiv $21.00 degrees. nothing major. but what is major is that cold air in northern china as starting to sun further toward the south impact the northeast is wall. that's on thursday. let me show you saturday. we'll put the colors on the dark of the purple,

the lower the temperature sol, just high of minus 60 degrees, so well below average. but look at in the north harbor minus 20 beijing minus 4 degrees with wall to wall sunshine. that's the plus on saturday. that sure weather update, we'll see again soon. bye for now. oh, the weather sponsored by katara always al jazeera world takes a road trip across space. spanish, people love to tell you the arm and way they come from. and i am no exception. one woman's journey seeking her heritage, covering new insights into christian spans listen them origin. it's a story that seems to have been her brush from history. in search of my groups on al jazeera oh

ah, without 0 and these are the top stories, u. s. health regulators of approved phases pill to trade cove at 19 studies show it produces severe symptoms by nearly 90 percent. this is following on the approval of a mac pill in the u. k. is there as prime minister? meanwhile, there was welcoming a plan for a full vaccine dose to be offered to people all to the 60, the world health organizations. warning vaccine inequalities will any prolong the pandemic. and even security councils agreed on a resolution to allow aid into afghanistan. humanitarian support will be exempt from sanctions aimed at the taliban. more than half the population are basically extreme levels of libya. elections, commissions, proposing the countries presidential paul take place on january 24th. was supposed

to be this friday, but the balance been made by the spirits ever rules and regulations. malik, trainer reports from tripoli, just 2 days ahead of what had been scheduled as the 1st round of a presidential election. he hi, national elections commission released a statement suggesting polling people spoke for a month to january 24th. more than 2 and a half 1000000 people had already picked up the records for the december 24th vote . but the whole process has been more by controversy about rules and regulations. many say without a constitution, a presidential election will only lead to more division and conflict. it's now clear, it won't go ahead as scheduled. i did call moore's does. the delay was expected. that of on her, that unborn we were expecting that the elections one's going to happen on december 24th. but now setting a new date will also be a contentious issue. from a legal standpoint, the parliament must agree with the high council of state on

a new date. the question now is damaged. how long will the postponement be far? and will they come to an agreement on a constitutional framework anyway? according to a previous political agreement, the parliament basin eastern libya and the high council of state in the west must agree on a constitutional framework to hold the elections that never happened. here in this coffee shop in tripoli, some people tell us they don't think a presidential election is the way forward. and as far as elections are concerned, i think we need to have parliamentary elections 1st and then a presidential one. the parliament has been in power for several years and they haven't done anything for them and development to it. i'm happy the presidential elections are happening to hold elections, you have to have a foundation. now, foundation is a constitutionally, if we don't have a constitution that identifies what kind of governing system we have, and the powers of president has we have, how can we vote for president on met?

libya has seen 10 years of political divisions and conflict since the revolution that toppled, war more get duffy in 2011. the international community has painted presidential and parliamentary elections as the only way to unite the country, or without a constitution or legal framework. many here believe a presidential election will only further. the conflict mal trina al jazeera trib leave the u. n. z. while food programs announced it will have to reduce rations for 8000000 people in yemen because of a lack of funding. the cutbacks will starts from january, the you and agencies warning a serious consequences. as hunger rises, the countries been on the brink of famine since 2016 because of civil war. from the w pieces and 5000000 people are close to starvation. he's a b or a t f i senior spokeswoman with the world food program. this is the aide budget set aside for yemen has shrunk due to multiple global crises. these cuts are coming at

the worst possible time for the 13000000 people who are dependent on the wealth for programs, assistance to survive. 5000000 people are on the brink of a fan of famine. and these are the ones that were going to keep their food rations in facts, but that is a huge risk to more millions, more who are basically surviving every day on very meager resources, the wolf would put the need $800000000.00 to maintain the current level of food assistance for the next 6 month. at this in 2022, w a f b needs at $2000000000.00. that's huge amount of money because we're assisting over 13000000 people and that's just with, with the badly enough food basket to keep people alive. now, donors have given and provide the funding in, in this year,

around with fundraising, 1400000000, but the nice growing piece that's, you know, that's higher than our ability to continue to generate resources. also, there are a lot of humanitarian crises that on the world, you know, type food. hurricane food crisis from south to then of gun is which is making gets extremely difficult for, you know, situations and emergencies like yemen to stay on the funding. you know, on the, to get the generate funding at this very level of competition for sure. it small resource, the european union's taking legal action against poland over a court decision that violated one of the blocks key principles. only this year, poland constitutional court ruled polish all tax presidents. over e, you law, the court has dominated by judges loyal to the ruling, euro skeptic party,

the lawn, justice party. warsaw has called the e u action and attack on its sovereignty. we also considered that the constitutional tribunal no longer meets the requirements of an independent and impartial deborah established by law as required by the treaty. the european union is a community of values and of low. and the rights of europeans under the treaties must be protected. no matter where they live in the union. several people are missing after torrential rain lead to major flooding in east and central bolivia. benny and santa cruz and coach bumper among the worst place. our worst hit places. rescue teams are searching flooded areas for survivors. as priyanka up to now reports in bolivia, work, listen, a raft. with a heavy machine caught in a swirling sea of mud and flood water. the sheer force of the part of our river was

too strong. the 2 was swept away, leaving the bunk of metal tossed around like a paper boat until it disappeared. helen element of after trying to save the heavy machinery, they got trapped by flood waters and were swept away like bolivia is in the middle of its rainy season plants and not uncommon. and so many is the misery that am i. we have been stuck here since early morning because of rising river water as rivers rise homes, roads, and farm land are destroyed and several people are missing. rescue workers are trying to reach them. but maureen is expected in the coming days with warnings that water levels may arise even further. prank octo alta 0 rescue teams in me and my are searching for at least 70 people missing after a landslide. at a jade mine, there was swept into a lake in northern kitchen state,

or for his at least one person has died. this area of the center of me in mars. jade industry, where mine is often work and dangerous conditions, landslides, of course, hundreds of deaths in recent years. and malaysians are living through one of the worst floods stay country is seen in recent times. the death tolls not 27, but tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes or in st. louis reports from qualon, po, still under water after 4 days, pa, 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 you know, you are, we will not being warned by the government that the of the weather will be that serious and, and of what we will that theory as well. and then we have, we also felt that you probably in the bathroom because this of your control by doesn't vision is learned. 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. we're a member of parliament members. always go sit, go one, they don't come during the time of disaster. they're down the gun, the dish, all these up good disasters about the 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 quality important branches and mcdonalds in japan. so they're being forced to ration french fries the phosphorus jane says it will only sell small size orders for a week starting friday. small fry, you might say it is due to a shortage caused by floods in canada that of disrupted potato exports. i'm sorry,

i iraqi artists have transformed one of baghdad, oldest neighborhoods into an open air art gallery. it's been popular with locals and the district is drawing a lot of curious tourists around con. as this report from banker they call themselves the butterfly effect, a collective of street artists with one golden mind to beautify the neighborhood, wherein the l unburied area of call me up is one of the oldest parts of baghdad. it's also home to the mom called the mosque, which dates back to the beginning of the 16th century. ali khalifa is the leader of the collected. he wanted to bring joy during the corona virus pandemic when people can leave the neighborhood. dinner coming out of us and we started by drawing on to school was but after the outbreak and the co few people were imprisoned to these narrow lanes, we decided to shift our drawings to these parts of the city and waited for the reaction of people. it was a complete surprise and it brought joy to people very quickly,

more people asked the collected to pay their houses. tom, upon with an wireless, natalie, one of the area was called neglected. but with the help of the gullies in the creativity which they do for free is come alive again. alan bahrain is one of the oldest places in cut me a city. the walls were cracked and there was no life in them, but the guise of revived these walls with colorful pictures. i was very pleased with their ideas. i loved the fact that these are history on the was or, and i, you know, the idea behind a lot of the murals here is to reflect the local community, the residents that live here, the characteristics of the community. for example, this house belongs to a very famous local butcher. so what the collective have done is paint a street scene with a butcher in it. the way may have looked centuries ago. the collective does all of this voluntarily, but they did run into trouble with the architect association, which said that they were destroying the character of the neighborhood, but support from the residence quickly dismissed the accusation. the painting

continues both with new work and maintaining the old. now that the crone of irish restrictions had been lifted, the artisan residents hope the more people visit, and it will become a defining motif of the neighbourhood, the years to come. among con, our desert cardona baghdad. finally, scientists and southern china have discovered a perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo, fossil to vic. creepy, isn't it? even though it's never hatched? behind me, it's providing more insight into the evolution of birds. sla harding now explains, brought to life after 66000000 years. scientists have recreated this toothless thereupon embryo after finding its fossil perfectly preserved to your house. any apartment of it's the father was well kept up. we can see it's posture rather clearly. its head lay on the belly with feet on either side, forming quite a special, curling posture. yes,

scientists say this is one of the best dinosaur embryo remains ever recovered and reveals a clear link between dinosaurs and modern day birds. douglas attendant. go see that such a posture is similar to that of modern bird embryos before hatching. for ourselves . we believe the talking postures that one burges to help them with successful hatching has actually evolved from donald from millions of years ago on this little life was named baby young name and is believed to have been buried after a mudslide, which prevented it from being disturbed by scavengers, the specimen was one of several egg fossils that were found in china, but forgotten in storage for decades. until now, did you now baby to pay her? she's not sure the embryo fossil baby young, the young was discovered in the southern part of aisd, china's jung see province. you. the embryo we previously found was not very complete. was the embryo we found this tom is the best preserved donna so embryo, fossil so far.