ah, be the hero, the world needs right now. i must, ah ah. ready ready with the iranian backed opposition in iraq takes to the streets and protons as the supreme court ratifies october's election results. ah, results for my headquarters in delphi, daddy and obligate, also ahead somalia as prime minister child security forces. he's in charge and, and escalating disputes with the president. another winter of discontent is current of ours cases, hit record highs, disrupting flights on straightening medical systems around the world. and as part

of our look ahead to 2022, we see what's in store for europe's power houses. germany and france. ah, hello, iraq supreme court has ratified october. the parliamentary election results after rejecting an appeal by the opposition quarters of irradiance by fruit say they were there were widespread irregularities and had been protesting in bagdad she r sowards most. so the southern who opposes all for an interference in iraq is the election biggest winner. my head has more from baghdad about why protest or is, are obsess about the results. following the endorsement of iraq's parliamentary elections results. these protesters, supporters of the political parties that last many seats in the election, se they will continue protesting here, occupying areas, need about

a dozen heavily fortified green's own until their demands are met. they say that the supreme court has admitted that there have been mistakes that have been irregularities in the electoral process that could have led to vote rigging. and they say that they belong to an umbrella of our political blocks and political parties. and then they go by their decisions. on the other hand, there have been talks between rival political parties other than the legal path that have been negotiations to reach a consensus in regard to forming the, the upcoming parliament and the upcoming government. according to iraq's constitution, the 1st parliamentary session should be convened, or within 15 days, from the day the supreme court induces the parliamentary elections. results

that have been talks between the rival factions that have been of negotiations to reach a consensus on are the prime minister, the new prime minister on naming the new speaker of the parliament. if they reach a consensus on that. then these protested as may leave this area. if not, then escalation might happen. some lawyers, prime minister mohammed hussein rebel has ordered military forces to take orders directly from him. that after president abdullah for module, suspended him on allegations of corruption and abuse of power. both have traded accusations about delaying the elections. bernard smith has more. smalley, as president says, the prime minister is suspected of corruption and is now suspended earlier. mohammed abdulla him a hammered accuses mohammed robel of stealing land owned by the army. the prime

minister says the move is an indirect qu, shaka, so mighty, yet i would like to clarify to the somali people that the government in the transition of faith is responsible for leading the country and wanting to various state institutions. the armed forces should take orders from the government and the prime minister's office to anyone who disagree the 20th. we have to present it to did you discovery that going to do? and it's the latest round in a long running dispute between the 2 leaders. the 1st class in april, when the president, unilaterally extended his boy by 2 years that prompted army factions loyal to each man to seize. rival positions in margaret issued the president's constitutional mandate expired in february and he stayed on and tried a very similar power grabbed in april this year, which led to fighting in the streets of mogadishu and,

and would have it probably concluded in his overthrow. if a deal hadn't been negotiated to produce elections for parliament and president, by the end of this year, the u. s. embassy in somalia has urged de escalation from both sides. bernard smith al jazeera, had the wealthy garad is an expert on sir molly politics on the university of birmingham. he explains how this escalating dispute could come to an end. the president hast no unconstitutional powers to sack. the only person who can cite the prime minister is the poem parliament and, and on a majority votes. however, and the president is the court custodian of the constitution. i'm the god of the fundamental principles of the country. and the prime minister has been accused of

stealing a land from him and some other naval novel false on what ali and obstruction of law. and on top of that, he has been accused dollars. the mandate of implementing that and the election has lapsed, which was and 20202021. and the president and the prime minister. both of them are calling for national and conciliation. the ball is in the hands of and federal been been states. i'm and villas, o'malley and to sit down again and, and, and, and, and map out the way out and, and plan to, to, to, to implemented the election. the upcoming election, which has elapsed which was and $22021.00, but lapsed now and, and to make the country wait for

us. president joe biden is expected to meet state governors to discuss the rapid increase in hospitalizations across the country because of coven 19 on for a 3rd day in a row this holiday season, u. s. airlines were forced to counsel more than $700.00 flights, leaving hundreds of thousands of passenger stranded babies in the army crone variant for the staff shortages. there is no clear indication when normal schedules will resume our white house correspondent kimberly hawkins is joining us from washington. d. c, so what is the state of play when it comes to the on the cross variance across the us can really well, it's contributing to record high number of infections, of cases, really numbers we've not seen since the early days of the pandemic. in fact, we're seeing records being broken for 7 day highs in new york, delaware, hawaii, massachusetts, puerto rico, new jersey and other states as well. and this is of great concern to public health officials, because what this means is there's

a strain on hospitals and what we're seeing in some states is a record number of hospitalizations for children, particularly in the age group of under 5 who are not eligible for vaccinations. in the united states, and so the concern is where this is headed because we're in the midst of a holiday period. many people gathering to celebrate just celebrated christmas looking forward to the new year. and we're already seeing the spikes as a result of the american thanksgiving holiday in late november. so the fear is that this will get worse before it gets better. we've already seen how this is wreaking havoc on the travel industry, particularly the airlines. they are so short of staff that travel groups are now asking the public health officials to change the recommended quarantine period for coven 19. if you're exposed to a positive case, reducing it from 10 days to 5 days. so you can show a negative test and come back to work. so we know that the president is expected to

meet with state governors later. what do we expect to come out of those meetings? well, there may be some criticism of the president as he meets with these governors and a virtual meeting number one, because it's the 1st meeting and a number of days with the top cover officials. and the other thing is, is that there's a real frustration about governors that the white house may have turned down the opportunity do do more than it's doing right now at what i mean by that is that there's a lot of criticism of the present plan to make available in january, half a 1000000 coven tests, to every american who's looking for one. it's a rapid task. this would allow for people to check if they were positive and control the spread, if you, well, especially when people are congregating in these holidays. problem is there is reporting that the white house knew about this opportunity to get 750000000 tests

or more back in october and turned that plan down. so some of the governors not too happy about that is likely to hear some criticism, especially as they're seeing the spikes in cases. for example, here in washington d. c. the availability of testing is so scarce. what we've got is the national guard assembling tasks and also volunteers, the mayor, employing ordinary residents to try and help out. and the lines to get them are in some cases, can be hours long. so a lot of frustration that this is something that could have been anticipated and wasn't. thank you so much. kimberly, how's that reporting from the white house over the u. k. the prime minister board johnson is facing pressure to impose stricter restrictions, and more than one to 8000 cases have just been reported a few moments ago. or a challenge has more from london. i words, has it a gas that the likelihood of the restrictions in england is receding? i'm not because i think i, his cabinets and his back bench m. p 's

a very reluctant, they're very empty. extra lockdown measures. they don't want them at all. they would much rather people make their own decisions and hated their behavior accordingly. rather than have the government imposed decisions on them and his back benches and his cabinet. i think probably fitting vindicated at the moment by the new data that's coming out of various studies around the world, which suggests that all micron is a variance is less severe. it's of obviously much more infectious and delta, but it seems to be less severe and that means that they are saying, okay, well, we told you, so those scientific advisors have been all gloomy. they say about on the kron about a potential habit that it could be read reaping across the that the health sector, the back benches and the cabinet members are going to say to restaurants. and we told you that this was an over gloomy and pessimistic outlook. and we were right to

hold back or to recommend that you hold back for risk for further restrictions. that is most likely what for us, johnson is going to be doing the democratic republic of congo is facing a 4th wave of corona virus infections. it's pushing the health system to the brink of collapse. country has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the world. health experts fear this could lead to more variance. still ahead on al jazeera o, south africans pay tribute to anti apartheid hero. archbishop desmond tutu plus. i'm fill lavelle in rural texas, which suddenly finds itself as one of the top big coin destinations in the world. but why all the mine is heading hey, find out more later. ah

look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored boy cutaways. hello. thank you for joining in. here's your weather report for asia. we're going to begin in india. we've had some rain dance in from pakistan. this is impacting northern sections of the country. the very real risk if seen thunderstorms here, or even some hail, but toward the south of all of that, things are calm plenty of sunshine coach. he has a high of 31 degrees after se, asia right now we will get some sunny spells for a quote, the poor, 33 degrees, some showers in singapore at 33 and jakarta showers for you to be expected. the ne monsoon just throwing a lot of rain into central vietnam, so denying over the next 24 hours. i think you'll pick up to about $5050.00 plus millimeters of rain through central parts of china. temperatures are low here or below average in shanghai at 8 and hong kong. just a high of 17 for you. then we got to talk about the snow here,

73 centimeters on the ground in he co, ne, japan. this is a new record for the month of december, but here's the thing that snow now is starting to wind down as we head toward to stay, still low temperatures, cargo shima for degrees. but where those temperatures have picked up is across the korean peninsula and northeastern china, beijing at 5 degrees. that's above average for the sum of the year. that's it, sir. ah, the weather sponsored by katara ways. on counting the cost, the all new tourism, the world's richest man, making a grab to control access to the trillion dollars space industry. taos than you call why rich nations of emitted, i recall of the climate change and how flowering call life in iraq. counting the cost and i'll just be informed opinions, there was a need for the federal government action to really facilitate a big right in depth analysis of the dates,

global headlines inside story on al jazeera. oh, the me on the top, sorry. on al jazeera, iraq supreme court has ratified the results from october's election. after rejecting an appeal by opposition party supporters of iranian backed protested against the decision. somalia prime minister mohammed fan robles says his order troops to take orders from him directly. president of the la for module has suspended him on allegations of corruption and use of power. airlines in the u. s. have cancelled more than 700 flights for a 3rd day in a row. president joe biden is expected to meet state governors to discuss the rise at hospitalizations in the country. the 8th round of talks to revive iran 2015

nuclear deal with world powers are due to commence and vienna. ron for minister, one guarantees that us sanctions will be lifted on arabian oil cells. it says it's the most important issue. fears are growing that time is running out to salvage deal. former president donald trump pulled out of it in 2018, has going to move it as best suited. one of the topics on the agenda for the ongoing nuclear talks is a guarantee and verification of sanctions remove. the most important thing for us is that words and issues should take us to a point where iran oil is being sold without any barriers. and it's money arise in our bank account and the form of foreign currency that we should be able to enjoy the full economic concessions that have been defined under the nuclear deal. the map, carthage of ours is in vietnam outside the hotel where the talks will be taking place . the comments we heard from the radio for minister back into her on really

highlights why the ratings are here. and that is because the united states left the deal in 2018 and impose a series of crippling sanctions on our, on mainly that of the oil sales as well as they were on banking sectors. have been under us sanctions since november of 2018. of course we have to remember that iran was before that point. opec's 4th largest producer of oil, selling nearly $3000000.00 barrels of oil per day. and then since the sanctions have been put in place, they're now selling roughly under 1000000. so of course we had a tremendous impact on the country's economy. inflation is over 40 percent in the country that has lost over 50 percent up with the value since those us sanctions came in place. so for the reading team here, it's very clear that sanctions will have to be listed 1st before they can move on to talking about airlines, nuclear program and coming into for compliance under the 2015 nuclear deal. and that is one of the main points here. the europeans have said that they are not happy with what iran has proposed so far about coming into compliance under the j.

c. p. as it's known, they really need some said the americans have to show the 1st step. they have to take the 1st step because they were the ones that left the deal. course. this was a nuclear deal that was 10 years in the making. it was endorsed by the united nations security council, but the europeans triggered the district mechanism in january of this year, which resulted in these talk starting in vienna. and now we're on the 8th round. many here are hoping this will be the final round. we expect short break at the end of the week for the new year, and then the talks to resume. but all parties are hoping that can come to some kind of a conclusion in the coming weeks. so they can wrap this up and this could be called what many hope will be the final round. well here's, you know, the sticking points between iran in the u. s. that are stalling the negotiations and to ron wants to be financially compensated for the loss of its experience because of us sanctions which once lifted immediately that includes sanctions on its oil ex or it's that our, it's economic lifeline and main source of revenue. but washington has demands to

including guarantees that iran will not enrich uranium beyond 20 percent. the us us allies also want iran to provide more access to its nuclear site and for security cameras to be reinstate, reinstalled. fighting between me and mars military and ethnic career, arm groups continued on monday close to the tie border. thousands of refugees have already fled into thailand and more are expected after air strikes, hit the villages in the area. tony chang reports the small arms and automatic gunfire. echo across the banks of the more river concise me, in a plume of dark smoke rising after not tillery strike, a few 100 meters away on the tie side, and make sure the shelter for refugees who fled across the river. for the moment, they don't want to move too far away so they can monitor what's happening in their homes. they can also hear the ferocity of the fighting. so it's obviously,

the more the situation is very bad. they're using helicopters to drop bombs and all had to run to survive the children and adults to get to the site. maybe it's not safe to go home because they are playing or hate to team and we don't feel it's safe to go back to the board of police and tyna and say the fighting, broke out at dawn as it has done to the last 2 days. now the time military have returned fire on a number of occasions. just warning shots, they say, some munitions have fallen on the tie side. this farmer pointing out damage from shrapnel of the several motors fell in his fields. those wounded in the crossfire have come across to thailand for treatment as have thousands of refugees, a number that's growing every day. main common in the last 2 or 3 days there have been serious clashes with plains attacking villages. and there been several wounded people crossing over the border to get treatment. but thailand is not keen to

encourage people to cross. this is one of the places where people have been coming across, but the tie army had put res was all across the top of the bank of the river for the moment that pretty happy to stay over there. ready to come across the border. the fighting gets any closer. children play on the river bank as the evening sets in. but the battle is that a raging along the river between yemen military and armed qur'an groups, shows no sign of letting up or letting them return home. tony chang al jazeera on the time, me on my border. hollins president has vetoed a controversial media ownership bill seen as a threat to freedom of speech. it had recently passed in parliament. government has been accused trying to use the media last a silence or us. oh, news channel, critical of its policies, the legislation would have prevented any non european entity from owning a stake in a broadcaster of more than 40 percent. well,

germany marked the end of an era this year with anglo merkel stepping down as chancellor, after 16 years. her successor, sholtes, and his party have signaled the return of more or less leading politics across europe. but the regions other power center france is hoping to keep the balance as it is. john hel, reports from berlin and paris. ah, it was the end of an era in germany. and gala merkel 16 years is conservative champs. the defined by economic strength, stability, and european leadership. in her place came a shift in tone and direction. if not pace, a quiet man from the center left in the cottage should see the tape guns from the ola sholtes and promises more merkel style stability. but with an accent on social justice, his offer of respect for the working class, one vote is back from the populist extremes. his vision to turn germany into

a manufacturing power for the carbon neutral age. there is not just a change in style and communication, but this is going to be a domestic transformation. monumental task that they have set out for themselves. but in terms of foreign policy, it's not going to be simply an inward looking government. because the world situation doesn't allow for that for a country in the middle of europe with no country has more neighbors as in this. and so there's going to be a global agenda and there is more of a human rights based approach to foreign policy. so 2021 ends with change here in germany, the ascent of the social democrats signaling the possible revival of the left across europe. while in france 2022 brings in election in which president emanuel mack cronies, hoping things stay more or less the same for him at least

a few months ago. the deal seem to be done. michael was going to face my live in the far right candidate in the 2nd round, and he was going to be the winner. as in 2017. now it's far more complicated because the far right is split between 2 candidates. and the 3rd candidate has emerged. the right wing, traditional right wing validity because, and so the game is far more open that it's a seen. the axis of french politics has moved to the right, dominated by issues like immigration and to succeed. micron will have to move with it. but like previous power, couples with political differences. think coal meter, all she rec, schroeder, that's no reason to think sholtes and macaroni can't see eye to eye on europe and the world. joe, the whole al jazeera paris cova growing in india for the government and courts to take urgent action on a speech against minorities. several hindu leaders openly called for

a genocide against muslims just over a week ago. no one has been arrested. have the michelle has more from new delhi here than usually with several people has gathered to feel just rising beach in india 10 days ago as a separate event. people cause a mass genocide, a muslim tenzing, similar to that of my on my now many of the cars, all repeat offenders and their speech is bench viral on social media talking massive outreach. but despite all of the, please has only registered cases against 3 people and no arrests have been made so far. this past weekend. several lawyers appealed to the supreme court to step in and take action against what b as an attack on india, as unity and the lives of millions of fellow muslim citizen. and it's not just muslims. churches are also reporting a right on track. this past christmas

a statue of jesus christ, vandalized in northern india and other parts of the country, 2 churches reported in the mob entering and disrupting french sub and burning effigy of santa claus is not in that does have several laws against his speech. recently these were involved again, comedians and students who are protesting 7 policy by the government. bitcoin is giving a former ela, many implants in texas and new industry. crypto miners are pouring in from all over the world at offering millions for a spot there full of al reports from rockdale, rockdale, texas, is coining it in bit coining it in. just listen to this. it is the sound of making money, the us now the destination for bitcoin miners and rural texas, reaping it here. we're hiring 400 more people like a fat. we can hire mind springing up everywhere. solving complex algorithms 247 to

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town. this is a sad moment, but it is also a moment of celebration, celebrating life well lead a life that is so gigantic witches struggles. many evokes in the life of our country were archbishop led, many of our people, millions of our people in the struggle against the pottage. and when our party was defeated, also led the process of reconciliation. ah, hello again. the headlines when al jazeera iraq supreme court has ratified the results from october's election. after rejecting an appeal by opposition parties. supporters of iranian back groups protested against the.