street now is not a lot can get is, is completely cannot lose hope. we know what to do and we have the tools to do to get the last bill was pay for this to you on out there. ah, china locks down of city of 13000000 after arise in corona, virus cases, nor country can boost its way out of the pond on the global health chief warned rich nations against sweeping booster program saying, bel deepened the vaccine inequity ah gloves. the whole rahman you watching out there alive, my headquarters here in dough are also coming up a timely boost for millions of afghans. the u. n. votes to exempt humanitarian aid from sanctions imposed on the taliban government. plus these olives are changing

lives. i am with some of the job in northern by hassan, and i'll tell you about the efforts to cultivate more of them. welcome to the burger, we begin in china. we're more than 13000000 people have been ordered to stay home in the eastern city of shan, around 200 cove at 19 infections have been recorded since the beginning of the month. only one person per household is allowed to leave home every 2 days to buy essential goods. now 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, and this outbreak has failed 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 $13000000.00 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. schools has been closed for some days now. entertain. 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 assist. 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. those trailers recorded its biggest, ever daily jumping cases a day off to prime and it's got lois about not to return to lock downs. now testing sides across the country have been swamped. more than 8000 cases have been confirmed. most of them in the country. the most popular states from south wales that's where mosque mandates are being reintroduced. well, for the 1st time since the panoramic began, the u. k has reported more than 100000 new infections in just one day. while scotland and wales of both tightened restrictions to flow, the spread of all mcclellan british prime minister boys, johnson has chosen not to impose similar measures in england. quite yet. roy 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 special 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. and then $120.00 for dinner. we're doing about 40 for both. 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 heating 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 cut it. 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 they 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 to ease crippling star shortages across many businesses and services. most vaccinated and vaccinated people can now ends their 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 at 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 $3100000.00 a day? for the 1st time on wednesday. the country isn't tacit. microns clutches yet. by any means. reach helen's out there at london. the head of the world health organization has hit out at wealthy countries rushing to roll out cove in 1900 booster shots. but the tedra says that only deepening vaccine inequality and would prolong the pandemic by giving the virus more opportunities to spread. and me take 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 panoramic and boosters cannot be seen as a ticket to go ahead with the planned celebrations without the need for other precautions. more than a 1000000 covert. 19 vaccines have been destroyed in nigeria. health officials say the doses had a short shelf life and had expired, and they were donated through the international kofax program and delivered within weeks of expiring. fidelis amber reports now from the capital a future. that by monday, health officials and journalists watched as more than a 1000000 doses of expired astrazeneca vaccine were crushed. he destroyed vaccines, were part of a massive shipment of more than 2000000 doses received in october. it domission 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 know expired vaccines would be given out in a bead to post confidence in the vaccine program, the head of niger as primary health care agency says they procure the vaccines on the very difficult circumstances. adding that the step was taking to protect the public. we accepted in vaccine in an environment where despite the interest, despite consorted effort 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 covey. 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. were less than 5 percent of the country's population of about $200000000.00 have been fully vaccinated, according to health officials. authorities have leading to the law to an out of illegible citizens. to take the shock for the spread of the coroner virus. at this vaccination center in the nation's capitol, some residents are trying to encourage orders to get their shots. i think the best i can do also as a parent, it's not the only 2. 0, baby could be my thing. basic rules. what else is coming out to sing my sin? because our missions are trying the best that i can to combat to be copied 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 that was taken place. so this deborah, do i employ people to come and take? this ticket is spread less the country has witnessed a spike in cove inmate in cases in recent weeks. and health officials say they are prepared to handle the fort, waive, and we have the 3 products available. now. we have the pfizer. we have them or dana, and we have astrazeneca. on the back 5th. i suppose. we don't have any shock. each on nigeria has recorded more than 200000 cases of coven 19. and nearly $3000.00 debts says the outbreak of the pandemic. last year. fidelis member al jazeera, a bow, jeff health regulators in the u. answer. given the green light to the 1st pill to

tree cove at 19 study show that visors packs love it, pack peck's love, it reduced the risk of hospitalization and death amongst patients with the most severe symptoms. finance. 90 percent of these, the hong kong university has remarried to stature commemorating the victims of the 1989 tenements where massacre which is highly centered in china. the so called pillar of shame was made by a danish sculptor to symbolize the lives lost during the military crack down. the university says the decision was based on legal advice after the implementation of beijing national security law in hong cold. to me has rolled criticism from activists and rights groups. i do think people would expect this thing we have in the universities of court with the most freedom of expression or freedom of speech . and they tried to become the 1st one to remove every history or parts of history

inside. candice will still had here on out there. we followed the client and started families and it led hit by severe flooding. life is about to get tougher stale for palestinian refugees. in lab on the even wall of funding come play story after the break. ah getting going for thursday, december the 23rd. here's what you need to know for europe and africa. hello everyone. that cold arctic air sling and further toward the south. so put the colors on here, the dark or the purple, the lower the temperature moscow minus 12, kiev minus 8 degrees. now in terms of that active weather, we've got some rain being thrown into northern ireland, western and northern portions of scotland, swath of snow. and speaking of snow, we're also going to get a light dusting through denmark. so copenhagen,

couple centimeters. same goes for the northeast of germany. drenching rain, cutting across iberia temperatures have fallen in seville, 16 degrees. and i think the worst of this will be for that western portion of spain on thursday, and for italy and the balkan, and nothing really here to speak of just some cloud cover temperatures pretty well where they should be. you know it's danville, low temperature is a gloomy pattern here, but give it time. saints are about to change years or 3 day forecast. you shoot up to 14 degrees by sunday, syria temperatures both by day and night, above average. now for the top end of africa, both for the west and east, we've got some showers working across a boat for northern sections of egypt, at least cairo. it's going to be cloudy and cool on thursday with a high 17 degrees that throughout the season. ah, the frank assessments this gracious is continued to weaken a look a shanker,

even though perhaps he believed in the beginning that it looks thankful informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people. that is one of the most hopeful things to come out of this critical debate. do you think it should be facilitated? not sure. okay, it's a great. it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a chop swans that inside story on al jazeera. ah ah o'clock you're watching al jazeera with me, so he'll robin a reminder of all the top stories. more than 13000000 people have been ordered to stay home in the east and chinese city of sh,

young 200 covered. 19 infections have been recorded since the beginning of the month. january is on high low as it gives up to host the winter olympics in february. the u. k is reported more than a 100000 daily crow virus infections for the 1st time. scotland and wales of tightened restrictions, but u. k. prime minister boris johnson has chosen not to impose similar measures in england. and hong kong university has removed a statue commemorating the victims of the 1989 chairman square massacre. which is jaime censored in china. the university says the decision was based on legal advice . the move has strong criticism from activists and rights groups. the un security council has unanimously adopted a resolution allowing humanitarian aid into afghanistan. the council voted to apply a sanctions exemption, meaning that governments date agencies can now send money and goods to the country for the 1st time since the telephone took power. millions of afghans desperately

need food and medicines. kristin, slim reports not from the un 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'll hunt you through the current situation in afghanistan is out a critical stage facing monte pom, arduous and complex challenges. the most important task is to help africa understand, mitigate the humanitarian crisis, the soonest, and to stabilize and restore the 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 u. s. has warned that half the population doesn't have enough to eat. cash flow has been an issue since italy and took control of the government, leading the world bank to freeze nearly $10000000000.00 and assets. civil servants haven't been paid in months. age groups. welcome the resolution. it is a very important that i understand, but b sanctions, i've had an impact on, on the capacity to,

to bringing assistance to ringing. i mention as to poor debbie, pretty cheese to our people in the services that we need to add 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 rescue teams, and mamma recovered 3 bodies after a landslide, at a jade mine authority say at least 70 people are missing. they were swept into a lake and northern catch and state. the area is the center of me a mile secret of jade industry, where mine is off to work and dangerous conditions. the landslides have caused hundreds of deaths in recent years. the death toll from major flooding and malaysia has now risen to 33. a huge cleanup operation is now underway,

flood waters of swamps, cities, and cut off major roads. the floods triggered by days of heavy rain have also to space nearly 70000 people. rescue is of continued to search with over the still missing florence. louis has more from flood hit area of kara in the east of to the east of the column pal 1st, which is in this residential area in hot town in central asia. hawkins state only going to receive today's, and that's when clean up. you can see this to so much, much, every check doesn't have to be brought in. and he'll say that nothing on the ground floor of the ones can be salvage. that had to throw everything up, furniture, electrical appliances. the water levels will so quickly so unexpectedly. bad yet come to escape. one man said he swam to safety and had to cling on to his name is spelled a few doors away. people here haven't able to return home because it also there's no electricity or water supply. taking shelton,

i believe centers now already over crowded many a questioning way. government to help slow those who questions about why the government wasn't better is had a disaster. life hung is the worst affected states in the peninsula, malaysia, and are still many areas that are still floods of the northwest syrian province video as well. the area controlled by rebels is home to thousands of internally displaced people who fled the civil war. but many of those are still stuck in camps as a sub berg reports. their homes bombed, displaced in their own countries, and now these syrians must endure floods, yada yada, at about a year, we've been called for 4 days now. the heat is not working and the tensor leaking water in a 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 about 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, not 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 soles, whatever they can find to feed the furnace hero overrides, which we can use to keep warm and cook her meals, i lay, but what the children collect to burn is bad for their lungs. unlike 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, windy she early. 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. lori has the, 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. i laugh as the adults tried to repair the damage done by floods. the children who have no nothing else except this camp. try to make the most of what they have a sad big al jazeera. the heard of the you and relief and works agency for palestinian refugees, has told us his organizations on the verge of financial collapse, for leap lazar any is warning that annoy is no longer able to meet the growing needs of migrants in lebanon. st hota has more from beirut in exile for decades. these palestinian refugees have long lived on the margins of society. they are among the most vulnerable and poorest communities. 11 on the situation has been made worse because the economy is close to collapse. and now they're lifeline faces a shortage of funds. the financial crisis of on one us being of an existential

nature. and it's often existence in nature because we cannot properly deliver our services anymore at the time to needs into come have significantly increase. always providing access to education to all the policy and reproduce, girls and boys in the camp and in the country. we are providing assistance to more than 200000 people. we are providing primary health care. lebanon's. currency crash has hurt the palestinians as well. inflation lead to food prices increasing by 10 fold. well, when people are just buying the basic that they no longer buying kilos, but in grounds for many help from the u. n. is vital, especially since the lebanese state denies palestinians basic services only provided occasion and medicine. but it should give us more help because many people can afford to buy bread. a recent decision by the lebanese authorities to expand

palestinian right in the labor market is welcomed here as a way to deal with writing unemployment. but many tell us it's limited. and what is needed is to grant them basic rights. i country just in my truck, under my name. i can't even get a license to drive it. there are minimum rice, which palestinians don't have. we think the minister for the new decree, but i doubt it will resolve an incoming civil palestinians have faced what rights groups call discriminatory policies since they 1st arrived in lebanon in 1948 successive governments, believe easing restrictions and providing them citizenship will encourage them to settle here permanently. that's why the majority rely on the informal labor market, but opportunities are drying up the most. if we don't work, we can. there is much work nowadays because of their kind of crisis. even before

the economic collapse, loving or the palestinians were struggling, it had since pushed more into poverty. the united nation says it now has to find money so that the crisis would have what it close. a devastating humanitarian impact. so there should be to be root. soon as the former president says, more suki has been sentenced to 4 years in prison. the court charged more suki who lives in france for assaulting the security of the state because of recent comments he made as in france and support for him. if you government current president, i said suspended parliament in july, which was oki has called qu, not a flourishing wild olive industry in northern focused on is providing much needed jobs. the government hopes it'll shift people away from joining on groups. and it could also see families pay less of food a some of in java reports not from budge or 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 being grafted or joined with more than the varieties. these mostly european type of olives produce more quantity and better quality olive oil. on monday, in 3 to 5 years, the new variant of wild trees becomes a source of revenue for local tribesman 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 it's right 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 milton school did so because they had no jobs, no patucci here. nobody knew we a blizzard cut, 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. spike assignees can zoom 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 wide olive tree project offers more live with over pos on i'm a do. our main focus for the all of plantations is the marginalized lands, especially the tribal areas, but shower north and south was here stand. 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 homegrown olive cultivation and

production will save $3000000000.00 a year on imports. it could also have pre pay some of the $100000000.00 debt between pocket son and italy. in recent years, 9000000 fees have been planted, focused on his 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, some of a job with their badge or northwest like a son. now one of the earliest known depictions of jesus christ as the good shepherd has been found on a ring, it was retrieved from shallow waters off the coast of israel. the piece was amongst the whole of hundreds of artifacts discovered over recent months in an area rich and archaeological treasures. smith reports these mediterranean offers rich fishing

grounds for roman and mum will come ticket is if something glints in the water. it's often gold. the commission in this find by israeli, archaeologists of coins gems and other artifacts was 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. yearly 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 caesar. maria, 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. ah, i want you all to do with me. so he'll run the reminder of all top stories, old and 13000000 people have been ordered to stay at home in eastern chinese city of shand. 200 cove at 19 infections have been recorded in the beginning of the month. china is on highlands as it goes 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, and this outbreak has spread to at least 5 other cities. and there have been at least.