and it's impossible to have good relations with the current ukrainian government. he is urging nato to guarantee you will deny membership to ukraine, as well as to other former soviet countries. the u. k. government's health security agency says people with on the crown are 50 to 70 percent. less likely to be admitted the hospital than with delta. the u. k. had reported nearly 820000 cove in 1000 cases on thursday. just the day after recording more than a 100000 infections for the 1st time. and more than 13000000 people have been ordered to stay home in the eastern chinese city of shyanne. 200 cove at 19 infections have been recorded since the beginning of the staying with the pandemic . zimbabwe and living and working in south africa have been forced to cancel plans to head home for christmas. many just can't afford to pay for man. the tree hotel quarantines and as a result, south african bus companies are struggling for business. gillian wolf reports from

cape town. usually at the sun of year. these bussey's will be packed with them. barbarians heading home to spend christmas with their families. but not this year, after new quarantine restrictions were introduced in zimbabwe to curb the spread of the omicron variant of coping 19. it's also bad news for bus companies. augustine's business would normally send for buses a day each carrying around 60 passengers. now it's just one. sometimes with us he was 5 on board, a covered study under this will give you see where to carry on the book. i'm not sure you saw on the date this is coded, giving all those kenwood is remote, a good report under so on his law is upon the mother of him. this year it was hoped the festive season would help businesses recover financially

after the pandemic shuts south africa. borders from much of last year. micro me said is affected business a lot because quite a, quite, quite the number of people on it able to travel. and i also am outside we could not be able to make our plans for the holiday on the day that we have to, especially the issues of clinton. if you get into current in mouse, you're gonna take about 14 days and then the whole it is all already over. the recent ruling requires incoming travelers to quarantine and government approved facilities at their own expense. it's cost many zimbabwe and migrant workers in south africa cannot afford. here in south africa, the minimum waves around $21.00 random our us dollars, the currency uses and pathway. that's a $1.46. imagine just how much people would have to say in order to both travel and quarantine. if the exchange rate that makes it impossible for most workers to go home. it also means and bob way struggling economy will not get it's desperately

needed annual influx of foreign currency. those them bob wins who do make the 24 hour long trip home or using up their savings and borrowing from others. some say they really have no choice. you can liver, or you can stay married 3 years, 4 years, 5 years without senior clayton's yours to be gorgeous. and will also what children were the. you see now we see must see them and baby must see us. you see, so that's why we decided to unplug them. now, for those fortunate to be going home tomsman with family despite having to quarantine 1st far outweighs the financial burdens when for them, when they return. gillian wolf, al jazeera cape town, cuba has vaccinated more of its people against coven 19 than most of the worlds a wealthiest nations. it's

a milestone that will make the poor communist strong country a test case as the on the kron varian continues. it spread at august thin has more now from the capital havana. cuba says, as now vaccinated over 90 percent of its population with at least one dose of the co faxing not not true. it means that of all countries in the world with a population of over 1000000, only the united arab emirates now has about the records. now there's no way of independently verifying the state spigots. however, they do have a true back in august and the peak of the demick, the states that about 910000 people a day were coming down. right now the infection rates according to the site, is less than $100.00 a day. so that's, that's the one percent of this summer's peak. and living in reporting here in cuba over the summer and plenty of people that came down to type it on people that died from david. right now, reality has been transformed. i don't know anyone with kind of it, and when i asked friends neighbors, i didn't know anyone else to the almost been that invariably comes back is no human

spring became the smallest country in the world to develop its own code. vaccines and distribution for them has been relatively easy. it's a lot, but i think sometime and also the other important medicine is free at the points of use. and the country has the highest doctor to patient ratio of any country in the world. the roll out happened to the very, very quick clip with international tourist finally returning the communist party. and i hope that internationalism on the revenue associated with it, will be able to drag to cuba drug this country out of what is a very, very deep economic crisis. hundreds of doctors in india have been protesting against a delay in newly qualified physicians being allocated hospital placements. they feel they are now being utilized that a time when the crone of iris pandemic continues to stretch health services. bethany metal has worn out from india's capital, new deli, a defense ministry, and new daily where hundreds of doctors have been protesting for several weeks.

these doctors, a residents belonging to several government on hospitals in india, every year, more than $40000.00 residents appear for an entrance exam piece of these results. there are a lot of changing supports in hospitals, but this batch of residence that process has been delayed by several months. you thought it was supposed boned on diploma 19 cases started rising in a death and then it was told of several petitions, verified in the supreme court, challenging the government's decision to resolve some of these training spots was still hanging to know us go through an arm exemption manpower to sharpen. hosp producer on the stove, because more than 45000 doctors who have cleared the exam are sitting at home despite expectations of occurred, covered v. 2 doctors are forced to sit at home during the peak of secondary, many medical students were asked to work in hospitals, so qualified doctors are sitting at home, while unqualified ones are working in the hospital. why residency,

they have continued to show up for work for emergencies. i'm covered 19 related duties. 7 hospitals, which are already understaffed, have been overwhelmed with patients waiting several hours for treatment. doctors here see they will continue to protest till their demands are met, goofy, genetic material, known as the dark genome or junk. dna could provide information allowing better treatments for people with skits of friends and bipolar disorder. scientists at cambridge university made the discovery which was published on thursday. now bipolar disorder affects about 45000000 people around the world's gets a friendly affects. 20000000 people. their symptoms can often be confused as gets a frontier can result in delusions and disordered thinking, where people with bipolar disorder often experienced extreme mood swings from mania to depression. they're often misdiagnosed and can take a long time to identify. now the researchers found that several genetic hotspots

containing the code that produces proteins linked to both disorders. and this could provide new targets for future treatments. or m join now by pseudo karen at provocation, who is in boston. he is a senior all sir of this report by cambridge university and has established a company called non exotics to diagnose and cure complex diseases emanating from the dark genome. so sir, thank you so much for joining us here on our jazeera. so i guess, clarified for us and put it in in simple terms if you can. what is it that we know now about the treatment of this diseases after this survey study by cambridge university. thank you for having me here. so at the moment, only when he 10 percent of the drugs that passes pretty clinical validation studies actually go through face one face to face 3 trials. and i, because primarily we'd been concentrating on small fraction of the genome that

because genes that make all the puddings. and this small fraction is just 1.5 percent of the genome and things that are outside of this region. the know next to nothing about, and that's what we call this a dark chino and what our group and few other groups pound is that the entire human genome is actually capable of making proteins whenever they need. and it's just that we have missed seeing them or missed investigating them. so in this work we have looked at that and we noticed that these new proteins have being made in, in context of skits, brilliant bipolar. and these new proteins, exclusively present in the recently evolved regions assume geno, meaning they're present only the humans not christian or crime. it's rich also means that they can target them and they proceeded with cognitive abilities and can

target them for purposes. so that is what the d, such as about, you mean it's interesting, you mentioned that you found this justin humans and not in another sort of similar animal. so when it comes to the potential treatments, i mean, i realize we could be jumping ahead here, but, but how significant would you say that this discovery is so think about the scenario of a person looking for a last key under a streetlight. and he decides to do that only because it's late there. but now we know that you know the air, it's easier to move, to change the direction of the light to the regions. and you start seeing all these other proteins that we have never seen before. hence, we have missed a substantial number of potential curious, just because we haven't looked at it. that's where we are right now. we have the ability to look at outside of this 2 percent of the human genome to look for curious. this opens up pursuit, you know, potential and what was it it specifically that made you focus on,

on looking at this dark geno or junk d n a as, as it's called many, many reasons because technology is improved essentially of technology improve. we can now 2 things cheaply sequence, whole genomes for proteins cheaply. and the only way other people haven't identified or way way. we are able to do it at this point of time in scientific development is because nobody brought all these different technologies together. and when we, when we do that, we are seeing what the human genome is actually capable of doing so. so far we've been taught only, you know, proteins. the fundamental building blocks of our biological system is made only by one percent of the genome. but now, because of the capability to the technology and gardens and computational powers, we can see what the human genome is capable of doing in its entirety. and we can

take that knowledge, understand that knowledge, knowledge, and that is where we are. and that is where we are able to discover these new things that we missed before. so the carol karen, one of the senior authors of this report by cambridge university. so thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. thank you for having us. thank the best toll from the major flooding in malaysia has risen to at least 37. the floods triggered by days of heavy rain have also displaced nearly 70000 people. as far as floor reports now from carrack, which is a small town and bang state. many towns remain cut off the water levels in this river in pa, hung state malaysia may have gone down, but the destruction caused by the floods is evident. water overflowed onto highways, making some roads impossible for days per hung is the worst hit state. with around

40000 people displaced, some towns are still cut off, accessible only by boat. but in some areas, flood waters have begun to receive, and people are starting to return to their homes to count the cost of the damage to rebuild their lives. the element, if you will, of course i am disappointed with the government hasn't heard this. i'm relying on friends. what else can i do? water rose quickly and unexpectedly, leaving many with barely enough time to save themselves, much less salvage their belongings. the damage is extensive. vehicles have to be written off. furniture appliances thrown away. people here estimate ill take 2 weeks to clean their homes. and that task has been made more difficult because water and electricity supply haven't been restored. non governmental organizations, charities, and volunteers, have been turning up to distribute aid

a plantation near by has sent its workers and tractors to help with the cleanup. you know what are celebrating because in for, from this yourself, we know the people here. they're like our brothers and sisters. that's why we had to help out. if we don't who will? the relief centers are full. some say they're worried about the risk of contracting coven 19. but there's nowhere else to go. i not till jana 4 months pregnant with her 2nd child, says she's grateful they got out alive for the aid night and provide if they do what rose to chest level. i was really scared because that's never happened before . i messaged my family to ask them to get help to me, but they said emergency rescue as had been deployed to places, there were even more badly affected officials of want that could be more flooding. the coming weeks with the monsoon season set to run through to february florence li al jazeera car up for hon state malaysia. the belgian government has agreed to

close its nuclear power plants by 2025. the issue has been intensely debated by the 7 party coalition. the decommissioning process is set to be completed by 2045. the country will now invest just over a $100000000.00 in nuclear power technology. focusing on smaller, modular react. an olive tree planting project is helping to provide much needed jobs in one of the poorest areas of northern pakistan. the government hopes it will pull people away from armed groups and also bring down the cost of food. or some binge of i'd reports now from the district of bridge. our high in the hindu kush mountains near the afghan border. these trees are slowly changing lives in by your district alone. there are millions of wild olive trees and with some old science and new interests there been grafted or joined with morton varieties. these mostly

european type of volumes produce more quantity and better quality olive oil. in 3 to 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 it's right has been able to successfully draft 10000 while trees in just over 10 years. he has written books to educate farmers and also established a small nursery to help others around him improve their livelihoods logo. hey mob. now many of the people who went towards militancy did so because we are no jobs, no patucci here. nobody knew we a blizzard cut, given resources, and if the government takes 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 in 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 errors. a jo are 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 re base some of the $100000000.00 debt between pocket son and italy. in recent years,

9000000 fees have been planted. buckets 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 can potentially be produced at home. some of which are without their badge or northwest, like a sun still ahead indices our, as coven 19th continues to affect the brooklyn meds will get an update from their coach on whether their next game will go ahead with

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ah jim that nash is in dough. hm. now with all the days of sports. thank you barbara. k v 19. it continues to disrupt the english premier league with tim will match his code off the congested schedule has led to worries over players welfare and manchester cities boss suggested football as it should threaten to go on strike if they want their concerns taken seriously. although he doesn't think it will actually come to that, you know, the players or the manager altogether and make a strike or maybe something because if you just for the worse is not going to be solved. because the way for the fee for the premier league, the broadcasters, the business is more important than the welfare we want to play, wanna continue, you know, may happy the people that we love to do that, you know, i'm not agree complete. there's no reason to make it absolutely, unless right, but,

you know, when the people say not well, gods in europe and gods and, and got about captioning. financial ag, norfolk out in premier league more teams and more teams or more games or more games, has now 12 at premier league assignments in the past 2 weeks. positive cases in the lead. scott means they won't play liverpool on sunday. and also on boxing day wolves that won't be an action either because of rising cases in the what for team player burn out is a real possibility. liverpool boss thinks it would be better if the upcoming and the cup semi finals are played over one leg rather than t. i don't speak about player well for well, for since this year, as we were, that was in 6 years maybe longer. so. yeah, it's like it is. so if, if the things i would say would help more, i would say much more often, but it would just great. now another headline, i said i would prefer only one semi final. so b, b i draw is i think we played asthma,

i'm fine with that to play there and see who is better and, and go for it. but i, i can't, i can see any kind of changes actually as you had from clot, their levels opponents in that lea cup semi final will be off know, but before that came off know must visit norris on sunday that followed by a how much against wolves just 2 days later, mccalla petted says the players concerns shouldn't be ignored. without the believe we can do nothing. so we have to really listen to the players because they're the ones that have to be that easy for us to be there on demand and, and they're there one have to perform and they have to do it on the same with, with the funds. because this industry, when we're without any of those 2. so i think we have to listen much more to our place in the m. b a. the brooklyn that's been hit badly by cove at 19. but that coach says they do have enough players to face the lakers on sunday,

but that's have been forced to the spine. the last 3 games, including a thursday's encounter with portland, as they didn't have the minimum 8 players available games hot and has now cleared the league's house and safety protocols, the head of the lakers game, that the m b a leading score. kevin durant is expected to miss out the plan is to find a los angeles to morrow and play christmas. you know what we've been able to do as there was a couple of days where we had to show that i can't remember how many days number were it's shut everything down as a precaution. but then, you know, once we got back to a kaden's healthy guys could, you know, do one of the workouts, but no group workouts in, we're in space. he just started on yesterday today the guys are back on the course . so it's not a nice relation. so it's, you know, it's tricky. we haven't been able to do a lot, but we do what we can with rising over 19 cases in melbourne. the australia and

england cricket teams are following strict guidelines ahead of the boxing day ashes test. coach justin lana expects all his players to behave over christmas and says there's too much of the line for them to take risks. is only 11 spots. no, the boys want to be a power. those 11 spots. so and a boxing dye test at, again seeing when it actually series. i think i'll be using the comments as shy and because, but hopefully one day we'll get back to what we call inverted calm as normal living . but at the moment we're doing our best buys. i said i can enjoy the experiences they've got and live within the current climate, australia. why without that captain pack come in for the 2nd test? early this week he had to isolate off the coming in contact with a positive covey 19 case that they coped just fine without him going to no last against england or the ashes. longer though, isn't i think it's players get carried away by thought of a 5 mill series. why was this tell you sort of missions

if you liked the will cause we didn't one guy minute on there or i really get accomplish that result. and we're doing the same here and i have strictly this things can change and everyone in the squad knows data respects that we respect. test crew gets tough respecting when they've got a number of very, very good players in their time. and it changes quickly. so take an extraordinary outbreak of kind of 19 to false at this payment of the beijing winter olympics in february, that's according to organizers in the chinese capital. all athletes and related personnel will be kept inside the bubble to contain the spread of the virus. no overseas fans will be allowed to travel to china for the game and see what 24 hour clinics are being built, especially to treat anyone who does full ill with cave and 19 nearly crowned for one while champion max to stop and hope to remain at red bull for at least the next 10 years. speaking on austria and tv the staff and said the victory won't change his approach to driving, which was often criticized throughout the championship,

baffled with hamilton. dutchman believe if he has the fastest car, he will win more title and he wouldn't ordinarily associate the united states with crickets for the usa shocks. allen's in its he 20 international in florida, is, was the 1st time of full international cricket council member played against the united states on us soil. and the home side certainly made the most of the opportunity after a garden, unseeing, hit 65 out the states post a 188 will. 6. the home bonus restricted the irish to $160.00 physics a $26.00 run. when the americans will co host at the 20201420 will cover with the west indies locally through bowl and that is always bought from me for now as back to barbara in london. jemma. thank you. now before we go, nothing on t v to your taste while then you clearly have the wrong peavey around her and her room. yes, so

a japanese professor has created a likable t. v. monitor that can imitate food flavors. a person tells the machine what they feel like eating in a transparent film with liquid droplets, a slides out on top of the screeners and some very appetizing does it. the machine is programmed with recipes that allows it to create the taste of 20 food samples. well, go to look at it that the uni that the can eat when we stay home because of kind of 19 we can watch videos taken from places far away and talk to people who are far away with your voice and devices such as telephone and television is from however, we couldn't taste the food in restaurants far away. i wanted to somehow make tasting through the reality so that people can experience various toys, other small staying at home as you. that was my motivation to develop this. i'm not sure about that. anyway, that's a for the news. our stay with us,

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private ownership in the state of profit. so the world in a ton of capitalism is the pandemic. that gives me cause so much of the suffering exploited protect the people all the profit episode. one of all hail the look down on out is there ah, further evidence that the all micron very into is less severe but is infecting more people than ever. and booster protection could wayne quickly, and 13000000 people ordered in to lockdown a chinese city told to stay at home just weeks before the winter olympics. ah.