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no. you watching al jazeera alive from doha with me fully bad. people also a heads, hundreds of killed in thousands displays. so storms and floods devastate large parts of southeast asia and a lifeline for millions of afghans. the un vote, so exempt humanitarian aid from sanctions imposed on the taliban government. ah, thank you for joining us. more than 13000000 people have been ordered to stay home in the chinese city of shan. around 240 cove at 19 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. china is on high alert for outbreaks as it gears up to host the winter olympics in february. katrina, you has more from beijing, the latest count we have now over 200 cases reported and she and this outbreak has

spread to at least 5 other cities. and there have been at least one infection noted in beijing. so from thursday midnight authorities have said that the city of $30000000.00 people will be under strict lockdown. only one member of the household is allowed to leave the her every 2 days to collect groceries. only certified, essential workers will be allowed to go to work. school has been closed for some days now. entertainment, then you have been closed, long distance transport that buses, trains flights, have all been cancelled. the city is currently conducting mass testing. authorities say the already up to the 3rd round of mass testing. now it is unusual nowadays in china to see such a wide spread general lockdown of an entire so you haven't seen this kind of locked on really much this year. so this is really quite different. we have had sporadic outbreaks in china in the lead up to this point. but up until then authorities have

handled it with really targeted, targeted locked downs affecting just certain communities. what is more significant about she and, and why we're saying this lockdown is geographically, it's not too far away from the venue of the winter olympics, and it's in the north of the country and which is weeks away from the opening of the paging 2022 games, the government is really keen to have what they say will be a very safe olympics. they've said that spectators will be able to attend a lot, is at stake for china's international image when it comes to this event. for the 1st time since the founding began, the u. k. has reported more than a 100000 new infections in just one day. while scotland and wales have both tightened restrictions to. so the spread of army kron, british prime minister boys, johnson has chosen not to impose similar measures in england. where he challenge has more from london. it's one of london's best known restaurant chains, but you'll have no problem getting a table at the also lanky and spittle fields right now. it's normally the busiest

time of the year, but like hospitality businesses, up and down the country, auto lanky is desperate. the customers in the last week we had like, over a 1000 cancellations for lunch and dinner days. we do $100.00 for lunch, roughly a 100 for lunch. i mean 120 for dinner. we're doing about 40 for both or micron has made is 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 heeding advice to limit social contact. and responding to alarm calls from hospitality, $1300000000.00 has been pledged to help the industry. he doesn't see nearly enough of his mer to be con, says that while any government support is welcome, what's on offer really does not cost. he says that a with them show closed for

a week and cost $330000.00. an average nightclub say, is expecting to lose 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, i also need more guidance. tell us what to do. what is actually happening. you know, 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 of all microns clutches, changes are being made twice, elation, rules, the ease. crippling star shortage is 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 through lateral flow tests on day 6 and they 7

take 24 hours apart, they can leave isolation. if you are someone that works in a care home or the at a chest, even, you can return to work. but of course, those people will also be following the rules that affect by the workplace is where they test regulate. meanwhile, the u. k. is infection rate push 3100000 a day? for the 1st time on wednesday, the country isn't tacit microns clutches yet. by any means which helen's out there at london. meanwhile, the head of the world health organization has head out at wealthy countries rushing role. october 19 booster shots, dr. terrell says they're only deepening vaccine inequality and would prolong 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. health regulated in the us have given the green lives for the 1st bill to treat covered 19 studies showed that reduce the risk of hospitalization and death among patients with the most severe symptoms by nearly 90 percent. let's take a closer look at this new drug packs. lavette has been approved for treating high risk adult patient and children above 12 years old at home is proven to be effective if given within 5 days of symptoms of piri is price at $530.00 per course . patients are required to take 3 pills twice a day for 5 days. julie fisher is an associate professor of micro biology and immunology at the georgetown university medical center. she says 5 spill production may face 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, it's a complex drug manufacturer. it's actually 2 different treatments combined. and while in 2020 to 5 risk is committing to providing about a 120000000 courses of, of this treatment in the short term. what's comments in the next few weeks is about 65000 doses and put that into perspective crit covered 19 infection rates in the us with a number of new infections the day. if half the patients who are 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 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 in the world news, the death tell from major flooding in malaysia has res into at least 33. the floods triggered by days of heavy rain have also displaced nearly 70000 people.

overflowing rivers have swarmed cities and cut off major roads. malaysia, the most densely populated states fell on gore, is the worst effected rescuers continuing to search for those still, mis. in the philippines, food, water and medical supplies are being delivered to survivors on typhoon ravaged, islands at least 375 people died when super typhoon rye, head, southern and central regions present. drink that a tear to has declared a state of calamity, and the military's been deploy to get a true survivors. a more than a 1000000 coven. 19 vaccines have been destroyed in nigeria. health officials say the doses had a short shelf life and have expired, and were donated to the international kovacs program and delivered within weeks of expiring. fidelis, barry force my butcher, douglas, mother, health officials and journalists watched as more than

a 1000000 doses of expired astrazeneca vaccine were crossed. he destroyed vaccines, were part of a massive shipment, of more than 2000000 doses received in october, if to mission from developed nations. by november, many of them had expired before been put into people's homes. the government was came to show people that no expired vaccines would be given out in the beat to post confidence in the vaccine program. the head of major is primary health care agency says they procure the vaccines on the very difficult circumstances. adding the district was taking to protect the public. we accepted vaccine in an environment where, despite the interest, despite consorted air force by the federal government to procure these vaccines. this vaccines were not available in the open market a few months ago because they had largely be mobbed by the wealthier nations. and

we had no choice, huh. to accept this vaccines with short staffed life because we are interested in protecting our citizens from could with my team 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 law to an out of illegible citizens, to take the shocks for the spread of the coroner 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. 0, baby could be my thing, basic rules, but also coming out to take my sin because our missions are trying the best that i can to compact to be could be 19 despite of will be 19 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 doctrines taken place. so this summer i employed people to come and take a district is spread less. the country has witnessed a spike in cove inmate in kisses in recent weeks. and health officials say the a puppet to handle the 4th wave. we have the 3 products available now. we have the pfizer, we have them or dana, and we have astra. then we can all get back with her is so we don't have any shock

each on fatty gee. nigeria has recorded more than 2 100000 cases of covey maintain, and nearly 3000 debts says the outbreak of the pandemic last year. fidelis number, i'll just 0 a ball. jeff said i had on al jazeera, growing signs that may be his presidential election isn't going to take place as bonds ah, getting going for thursday, december, the 23rd. here's what you need to know for the americas hello. everyone was started in california. more rain coming at you. it was just about a week ago, san francisco scooped up 75 millimeters in los angeles, about 35 and more to cup. now for the u. s. gall states that se things are settled here are plenty of sunshine. tallahassee,

17 degrees and that vigorous system that was impacting so many his shoved out toward the atlantic, but still getting blast. it was some wind and snow for newfoundland wind mornings in play here. could see those winds were up to a 130 kilometers per hour. west found we go a big drop in temperatures coming for british columbia, 3 degrees, and vancouver on thursday wouldn't really know it. right, but pay. let's look at the 3 day forecast. just minus 2 on sunday. by the way, you could see your 1st white christmas here in more than a decade. central america frontal system is given us disturbed weather, eastern bahamas at cuba, jamaica right into his van yolanda place. we have seen flooding north west of bolivia now central and eastern portions, flash flooding, a destroying roads here, cut people off, waiting and wondering what happens next. a lot of that act of whether pushing into western brazil. we've got some storms in the forecast for rio de janeiro on thursday with a hive. 26. that's it, sir. ah,

the african narrative from african perspectives now, but now we're about as big daily. why she flew short documentary by african filmmakers from democratic republic of congo. and wanda, there was never going to be letting an obstacle just stand in front of you. you please what made the intimate connection between myself and rhonda dick is and meg, and secondly, africa direct on al jazeera. ah, ah morgan, back you watching al jazeera live from doha, a reminder on top stories. more than 13000000 people have been ordered to stay home

in the chinese city of shan, around 200 covered 19 infections have been recorded there over the past 2 weeks. china's on high alert for outbreaks as it goes up to holds to winter olympics. in february. you or south regulators have approved prizes failed to treat, covered 19 studies show. it reduces severe symptoms by nearly 90 percent. it follows the approval of the merc, peel in the u. k. and the death toll from major flooding in malaysia has risen to at least 33 days after it began almost 70000 people, remaining shelters. on asia's most densely populated, se salon gore is the worst effect avenues in the un security council has unanimously adopted a resolution allowing humanitarian aid into afghanistan. the council voted to apprise sanctions exemption. meeting governments and agencies can now send money and goods to the country. for the 1st time since the taliban to power. millions of afghans desperately need food and medicines. kristen salumi reports from the united

nations is will look as by the un security council, paved the way for more aid to afghanistan unanimously. passing a us 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. thank you for the current situation in afghanistan is, are the critical stage facing multiple articles on complex challenges. the most important task is to help africa understand, mitigate the human utopian crisis, the soonest on to stabilize unrestored, the economy will hold 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, welcome 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 us that in the sands batts, b sanctions. i had an impact on, on the capacity to,

to bringing assistance to bringing i none shall as to port than the present cheese to our people in the services that we need to, to support right now. at this moment, the ones humanitarian shave. martin griffith's called the resolution a milestone, the rare agreement among council members, evidence of the shocking level of need and suffering and afghanistan. christian salumi al jazeera, the united nations, libya's elections commission is proposing the country's presidential poll take place on january 24th. the vote had been scheduled for this friday, but it's been march by disputes over 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 high national elections commission released a statement suggesting polling people's pond 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 marked 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, harden co morse, as the delay was expected. that of on how that unborn. busy we were expecting that the elections went 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 no matter 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, but not 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 develop a debate. 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 yet, and the powers of president has, how can we fight for a president on that? 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 lou sides have hit the north west and syrian province of ed lived. the area controlled by rebels is home to thousands of internally displaced syrian so fled the civil war. many of those are still stuck in cam said agencies say people burning plastic. the keep warm through the winter is putting them at risk of respiratory diseases. at a fast and big re for syrians have very little choice. their homes bombed, displaced in their own countries, and now these syrians must endure floods, yada yada, at about a year, we've been caught for 4 days now. the heat is long working and the tensor leaking water in our situation is miserable. we've been displaced for 3 years and have no idea whether we will return or not. people have lost hope to return home or not. it's not just the water they have to contend with. temperatures in winter can drop

below 0. their struggle is to stay warm as well as dry o leather, so rapidly on the little common known. every morning i wake up and find that my children aren't near me, shall they go out early to collect scraps of plastic from the streets, such as bags and shoe saws, whatever they can find to feed the furnace here, our own riots which we can use to keep warm and cook her meals highly, but what the children collect to burn is bad for their lungs. elma, any mother i can't afford a boiler and fuel is expensive. we need fire to do everything. i can't feed them because i don't have an oven. the winter is very hard welcomed home. at least there's something to keep them warm. why and dish yearly, we don't get any aid or anything. and that's our situation. it gets crowded with around 15 people crammed in one tent where they eat and drink and set them. but some are beginning to feel the effects on their health. lordy, hackney. the smell is strong and there is a lot of smoke. yesterday. my chest started hurting and i wanted to go to see

a doctor, but i couldn't afford it unless, as the adults tried to repair the damage done by floods, the children who had no nothing else except this camp. try to make the most of what they have. i said, baked al jazeera rescue teams in denmark, searching for at least 70 people missing after a landslide. at a j mine, there were swept into a lake in northern could change stage. the area is the center of me and my secretary of jade industries, where mine is often work in dangerous condition. landslides have called hundreds of death in recent years. now one of the earliest known depictions of jesus christ says the good shepherd has been found on a reign, it was retrieved from shallow waters off the coast of israel. the piece was amongst the whole of hundreds of artifacts is covered over recent months in an area of reaching archaeological trashes. bennie smith has a story. these mediterranean offers rich fishing grounds for roman and mum look on ticket is if something glens in the water,

it's often gold. the commission in this find by israeli, archaeologists of coins gems and other artifacts were 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 believed 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 at iron work. at the time the ships went down,

the area was known as seas urrea. it's here. the acts of the apostles describes pizza baptizing the romans, ensuring cornelius in an area that was one of the earliest centers of christianity . bernard smith al jazeera. now london big band is all set the chime once again, the iconic bell will mark the start of 2022 by bringing 12 times. it went fine and in 2017 for renovation. the call now has our hands made of gun metal weighing all of 300 kilos. now, flourishing wind, all of industry in northern pakistan is pulling much needed jobs. the government hope said shift people away from joining article or some been jared reports from shall. high in the hindu kush mountains near the gone border. these trees a slowly changing lives in budge or district alone. there are millions of wild olive trees and with some old science and new interests had been grafted or joined

with more than the varieties. these mostly european type of olives produce more quantity and better quality olive oil. in feature 5 years. the new variant of wild trees becomes a source of revenue for local tribesmen who had very few prospects in these remote areas of pakistan. by jord is one of the poorest districts and many people migrate to largest cities to look for jobs. the rugged terrain is unforgiving for most crops, but estrada has been able to successfully draft 10000 while trees in just over 10 years. and he's written books to educate farmers and also established a small nursery to help others around him improve their livelihoods. logo. hey mom, now many of the people who went towards militants, so did so because they had no jobs. no, but you metes him. nobody knew we a blizzard, god, given resources. and if the government take serious steps, we can have enough work here that people from other countries would come to us.

economists believe locally produced oil can bring financial relief to the country. a spike, assignees consume in estimated 24 kilograms of oil every year. olives are not just providing opportunities, but are also meant to bring down the import bill of a cash strapped economy and enable plantation in areas where there's very little water. government, this res, give out saplings and seeds to promote polio farming. but critics say these initiatives, lack awareness, have insufficient facilities, and mostly rely on imported seeds. the wind olive tree project offers more about those pos on i'm a, do our main focus for the olive plantations. is the marginalized lands, especially the tribal areas, but jour, north and south was interesting. these were militancy hit areas where people were jobless and faced extreme poverty. but now this all of initiative will bring prosperity to their lives. the minister says home rule olive, cultivation and production, we'll see if $3000000000.00 a year on imports. ah, it could also help prepare some of the $100000000.00 debt between pakistan in italy

. in recent years, 9000000 trees have been planted. pakistan has 8000000 acres available for olive trees that's larger than spain, the largest producer of olive oil, government officials, environmentalists and farmers agree, and the positive impact growing olives can have on the economy, deforestation, and jobs. yet pakistan still spends billions of dollars a year to import commodities, which can potentially be produced at home from a job without a 0 badge or northwest like a stun. ah, no, again, i'm fully back table. with the headlines on al jazeera, more than 30000000 people have been ordered to stay home in the chinese city of shan. around 200 covered 19 infections have been recorded there over the past 2 weeks. china is on high alert for outbreak, says it gears up to host to winter olympics in february,

katrina you has moved from beijing. the latest count we had now over 200 cases reported and she and this outbreak has.