he doesn't bring any lawson in simple. let us practice this. ah . the u. s. census for disease control hobbs, the recommended isolation period for any one infected by cobit 19. as casey's continue to climb across the country. ah, hello and welcome. i'm peter toby. you're watching al jazeera alive from though are also coming up. a surgeon fighting sees ethnic groups, battling a tires against me, and mars military, forcing refugees to flee. i'm tony chang on the time. yeah. mar border where the

piece is holding at the main border crossings. that fighting is broken out by the downstream. in vienna, negotiators try to rescue the iran nuclear deal with discussions focused on lifting us sanctions. also had to dams have collapsed in brazil, leaving dozens of cities and towns flooded to begin in the u. s. where public health officials have shortened isolation for positive asymptomatic people from 10 to 5 days. the cdc also is recommending no quarantine after exposure for those who have receipt that booster shots. the u. s. is reporting an average of $100000.00 cases per day, but the president joe biden says the health system is prepared from the white house is kimberly hawk it in the u. s. cases of cove it caused by the arm across very, and our soaring had expected to get worse in the coming weeks.

the stream is being felton hospitals. new records are being fat with daily infections rising past last winter's pandemic peak. in ne states like delaware new jersey, new york, and massachusetts, but also hawaii and puerto rico. there is no federal solution, ask is solved, state level on speaking to the nation's governors. in a virtual meeting on monday, us president joe biden admitted white house efforts to combat the highly contagious . i'm a crime very. it have been insufficient, but it's not enough. it's clearly not enough provide. we'd known we would have gone harder quicker if we could have. but new reporting indicates the biden administration was pushed to ramp up, testing as far back as october in anticipation of a holiday covered search, but declined. bided denies the report we did reject it. still

biden announced a half 1000000000 at home. rapid tests would be distributed to americans free of charge. the tests won't be available until january, too late for those wanting to test before holiday gatherings. but we have to do more. we have to do better, and we will. local mares and governors are waiting. in some states, the national guard has been called in to support hospitals in washington dc. the mayor called for volunteers to assemble rapid test kits. hundreds lined up for hours at libraries to receive one lines that airports are even worse. hundreds of flights have been canceled. airlines are struggling to maintain staff, as workers are getting sick or having to quarantine. kimberly hell can al jazeera, the white house, australia is reporting more than 10000 cubic 19 infections. that is

a new record. the number of people seeking tests is put a strain on hospitals in the state of new south wales. the authorities are urging people who are asymptomatic, to quote rethink before they're calling the emergency services live. now to sarah clark, how correspondent on the sunshine coast, north of brisbin high this era, so unpack the numbers for us. how do we think they're going to stack up? well, he said, well, between other 2 states that are recording the highest number of, of infections. the last couple of days. i mentioned the biggest daily account with 10000 record across the nation this week. now on tuesday, identity stockpiles and had numbers above 6000 had tree did. and it's also an increase in hospitalization. and i should just assign the driving the growth driver to the delta barrier as opposed to on the com. but it's, we both had the desk relation to the on the comm variance,

the man and his id had underlined health conditions. but he was the residents of an aged kids fucking more concerns that the kids might have. like some sites including wells, had reinstated some of the restrictions including medicaid wearing my, my state from territory in australia. but you thought, well, since we call to go back into lockdown, i should not that where i am claims that we've had the highest dining rate of infection numbers up 1158. we've had a long 0 if not can suddenly with the christmas holiday break and the trouble restrictions partially been lifted and people be out there in queens. and again, those numbers have gone on the rise. but the, the huge pressure on the health system, as you mentioned, got massive cheese where people are getting tested in the thing that we're both taking days to be returned. because there's requirement now for metro pc artist be

taken by anyone wanting to travel state like clean band has money and south australia. so the result, clipping delight, trouble is causing some of the whole days have been cancelled, and compounding this problem. we have lots of, i consulting at nissan, while the incorrect diagnostic to around $400.00 people saying now a negative when in fact so. so this is a spot further concerns. it is a lot of cases hidden in the community, sir, of many thanks sir, o'clock there. john is leih from just near brisbin. the u. k. self minister says there will be no new restrictions for england before the new year. such a javert said 90 percent of cases across england are of the army kron variance. the u. k reported 90000 cases on monday. but the figures don't include northern ireland, scotland, or much of wales because of the christmas holiday. france has imposed new restrictions starting next week under the new rules working from home will be mandatory for at

least 3 days per week if possible gatherings will be limited to 2000 people indoors and 5000 outdoors to me and man out where a military offensive against ethnic qur'an arm groups is intensifying. the military which sees power in a coup in february, has been accused of committing atrocities against villagers. thousands of leading the violence across the border into thailand. out as he was tony chain joyce's life now from the ty border turn of my sot, tony. good talk to you again. just walk us through what's been going on there in the past 24 hours or so. well it's a day air where we are at the moment just across the the murray river from the tent, bought a town a me a wadi things, a very much returned to normal. we saw the town waking up. there's board of trade going across. you can hear the hum of the boats to the faring vegetables, fresh fish, and other things across from the tie side over to me and more. but yesterday, when we arrived a little further down the river,

about 10 kilometers in the village of van ride, there was a full battle raging on the other side. almost madman side, we could hear automatic gunfire. artillery mortars, and we saw an attack helicopter roaming down the border area. and villages he had fled across to the sat, ty side told us that air strikes it had hit their villages, which is why they'd come across. they didn't want to go too far into town and i think they wanted to keep as close and i as they could on, on their homes, back across the river. but it was really very close. we have also seen thousands more refugees play. some of them have been concentrated in camps by the tie authorities. others have literally stopped on the other side of the river, i think hoping to go back as quickly as possible. but at this stage, many feeling the situation is still too insecure. we've heard there have been some small outbreaks of fighting and again,

little further down the river. but they haven't been to sustain one would imagine the title toward his have probably used the back channels. they have to the burma military for the me at my military, or to try and get things moved back away from the border because at the level of the balance over the past couple of days has been much greater than i think anyone expected to get the sense where you are tony, that in the military can sustain this. i mean, can they keep this going? i well, the mere, my military is very well equipped and it has shown, i think, since the military coups that it has going to make as sustain pushed into these areas. this all started a couple of weeks ago when they pushed into a village called lake, a call, which was known to be a base of operations, both foot karen, ethnic dom groups, which have held the area for decades. but also for more recent groups, we've come down from the cities, groups of young people. we spoke to someone with a political arm with one of the qur'an organizations. earlier,

we said that the karen had allowed them to come in to these areas. hadn't off of the many, military or financial aid, but had let them settle in these areas. clearly the mere mom military wants to push them out. but i think it also sees an opportunity here to move against the qur'an. there have been cease fires in operation in this area since 2012, which for the most part have held for now those c spars had been shouted. i think that the to the conditions under which the qu happened, and the actions of mia mars military since have meant that the, the sci fi groups don't trust them anymore. and, and this is why they are now pushing very hard. and i think there's the possibility of they won't stop until they feel like push them cross the border and back into china. tony, thanks very much, tony ching, that talking to was life from that border tone area around my assault. tom andrews is the un special rapids her on human rights in me in law. he says the international community must do more to hold the military to account over this violence. it's very, very dangerous that we know that the fighting is,

is increasing when the tensions have increased. and we know that attacks against entire villages have also increased. so the number of innocent men, women, and children that are facing a catastrophe, of course, increases almost exponentially. which of course is, is exactly what we're, what we're fearing. it's, it's there on the tie border, but it's also in other areas of the, of the country as the military tries to seek out villages where that they believe are harboring opponents armed opponents. and they're punishing all these villages because they believe they are the enemy. so it's a very, very warrior worrying a development, and it's only intensifying with time, frankly, that the international community just has to do more. i think the kind of atrocities that we're seeing in me and more are only going to intensify an in in time. and i think what's important is that me in allowing the leader of the hunter

and, and his, his colleagues understand that the international community is simply not going to allow this a to continue with impunity. i think it's because of the, the lack of holding him accountable. that's led to all of this. so for example, i think he needs money to continue these assaults. he needs weapons to continuously these a soft and he needs legitimacy. he's looking for international legitimacy. i think it's really important that we increase the ability of the international community to cut off revenue streams, going to the hunter that we cut off weapons, and that we make sure that we do not in any way legitimize this illegal regime. syrian st media is reporting israeli forces of carried out an air strike on a major port in the city of latasha. it says multiple fires have erupted in containers at the port falling. what's been described as is really aggression. it wasn't immediately clear if any one had been injured and the syrian reports cannot be independently confirmed. still to come here on this program are dogs as

a coping in democratic republic of congo, a country with the lowest vaccination wrench in the world. and tensions run high in somalia after the president removes the prime minister for office. ah hello there. let's start in the middle east and there's some wet weather on the way for the gulf states. thanks to a weather front that's moving across the red sea and saudi arabia working its way towards katara, bringing the wet weather with it. you can see it moving in. by the time we get into wednesday, we're expecting showers could turn into a funder downpours by the time we get into thursday and that front is going to shift further south and east taking the wet weather to the u. a. and oman, by the weekend. now we follow that rain back towards north africa was seen some

heavy showers across much of sudan. it's looking rather wet and windy as well for the north east for egypt and libya. but it dries up for the north west. we've got high pressure back in charge. for morocco, so lots of sunshine and warmth to be found here. and is this in the story across central parts of africa? we've seen some exceptional heats in nigeria. that's set to continue. what we do see those storms and showers intensify across western areas in particular. for the d r c. by the time we get into wednesday, the wet weather however, has been plaguing south africa. we've had a deepening area of low pressure that swirling off. sure, it's going to leave behind some unseasonal warm. with sunshine in johannesburg at $26.00 degrees celsius, so rather pleasant ah, on counting the cost beyond the tourism, the world's richest men making a drab to control access to the trillion dollars space industry. all cows than you

call. why rich nations of emitted agriculture from climate change and how flaring cost lives in iraq? counting the cost on al jazeera. oh, you want to help save the world oh, sneeze into your elbow. oh, wow. ah, exactly a quarter past the hour you're watching al jazeera live from doha. let's just recap your top stories, villages and me, and mom had been fleeing to neighboring thailand was fighting between government and ethnic karin forces intensifies. the violence was triggered by

a military raid last week. us health officials of shortened isolation for people who have cubic 19, but show no symptoms from 10 to 5 days. cdc also recommends no quarantine after exposure for those who received the booster shots and the u. k. health minister says no near restrictions will be announced before the new year, but france will answer 2022 with a series of new rules that includes mandatory working from home for at least 3 days per week. if possible, will case is a curb at 19 rising as well in democratic republic of congo. the country has the lowest vaccination rates in the world. and health experts are worried that could lead to more variance. is catchy lopez or the yard with more? this coven 19 clinic is at full capacity. patients are coming in faster than they can be treated as an infection surge in democratic republic of congo. both supplies and staff are running low, the who,

the hopefully we've asked our partners to our tense behind the center to take in the overflow of sick people. we can't let them die. we have 2 types of patients. those who accept treatment and then we have those who don't believe in that disease . we've had people who refused to stay in hospital, but eventually they are brought back to us as corpses. the country has the lowest vaccination rate in the world with a population of 90000000 fewer than 300000 people have received one dose, mistrust of inoculations as widespread awe before we were in the dark about the consequences of this 4th wife. but it's coming strong, toby 19 is real, and we need to protect ourselves. the increased reflects the surgeon cases across africa. the d r. c recorded nearly 6 and a half 1000 infections in mid december. more than double is previous record 6 months before. with about a 1000 registered cove at 19 death, the d r. c has

a low death toll, but health officials fear a low vaccination rate could lead to new variance. regular got them. in the 4th co, 19 wave. we have had more cases. some are starting to understand that the vaccine is the best way they can protect themselves. as the 4th wave spreads, health officials are also concerned that more infections could further the stabilize the countries fragile health system. katya little missile, the young al jazeera, they're in protests in iraq after the supreme court there rejected an appeal to overturn october's parliamentary election results. supporters of iran back sheer groups clashed with the security forces near the court. the faction suffered heavy losses in the votes, and alleged irregularities. the 8th round of talks to revive aaron's 2015 nuclear deal with the will. power has resumed in vienna. aaron's foreign minister, hussein a mirror. de leon once guarantees that us sanctions will be lifted on iranian oil.

sails fears a growing but time is running out to salvage. the deal. dosage body has been at those talks in vienna. they one of the 8th rounds of the nuclear negotiations between iran and the p 4 plus one that's friends, u. k, germany, russia, and china and indirectly, the united states have wrapped up here in vienna. all parties are optimistic on this 1st day that this rounds will move forward much quicker than the previous ones, because there seems to be a general consensus about what needs to be discuss moving forward. these talks will go on until friday, where there will be a 3 day break for the new year, and they will resume next monday and they will keep going until there is some kind of a resolution. the russians ambassador has said that he's hopeful this could be possibly the final round of the negotiations. and of course, we are here because the united states left the deal in 2018 and impose

a series of crippling sanctions on iraq and or the banking sector. the rain in foreign minister and tear on monday said that that is the 1st thing they really want to see remedy. they want to see those sanctions lifted so they can sell their oil on the international market yet again and the paid fort the process of the way these are looking for to is very specific. and i asked that question to the lead the chief negotiator here in vienna, from the iranians, the deputy for mister alibaba, connie, and this was his response. very much in my opinion, it's been a good beginning all sides emphasize the importance of lifting sanctions and the issue of verification and guarantees should be on the agenda. so based on this, it was a great the 1st issue this going to be on the agenda in this round is the issue of guarantees and verification. and then the working groups will continue their work in the area of lifting sanctions in the banking and financial sexes. so that is the

position by the iranian send, the deputy for mr. also said that the raise wouldn't be in vienna if they weren't optimistic that these talks will get somewhere and that they, j. c, p. o, it could be salvage, that this point the americans are much more pessimistic at this stage because they say that what the rainy's are asking for is very difficult to guarantee on their parts. but for now, all parties are optimistic moving forward and into a new year that there could be some kind of resolution in the 8th round of the talks, which could hopefully be the final round. now somali as prime minister mohammed hussein ruble has ordered military forces to take orders directly from him. after the president mohammed from jo suspended him on allegations of corruption and an abuse of power. both men have traded accusations about delaying the elections ill, han, homa, the 1st american somali congresswoman has called for, for my job to step aside. so the elections can proceed. is bennet smith.

smalley as president says, the prime minister is suspected of corruption and is now suspend mohammed of the law. mohammed accuses mohammed robel of stealing land owned by the army. the prime minister says the move in direct queue shaka, so mighty yet i would like to clarify to the somali people that the government in transition or faith is responsible for leading the country and running the affairs of various state institution. the armed forces should take orders from the government and the prime minister's office to anyone who disagrees with this. we have to present it to, to your delivery 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 issue. the president's

constitutional mandate expired in february, and he stayed on and tried a very similar power grab 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 out is in now in the last week of 2021. we are looking back at the biggest stories and stories left to make the headlines in 2020 to $1.00 neighbourhood in occupied east. jerusalem has become a major issue in the israeli palestinian conflict. the threats of force displacements of palestinian families and shake draw spot protests and set the scene for war on garza is hurry force. it deepened to december and the

temperature inside shakes. gerard was going up yet again. jewish nationalists marching in after jewish woman was stabbed and injured earlier in the day, police rated a school to arrest a suspect. the woman's neighbor, a 14 year old palestinian girl from one of the families threatened with forcible displacement. the latest incident in a tumultuous year when this tiny neighbourhood became an international focal point at the footer is coffee, has been one of those thrust into the glare after years fighting to keep his home dental. however, photos of the, the last few months have been very difficult. we walked on our case and our case reached the international level. but we suffered a lot because there has been violence against us by the settlers and the police. and the, the pressing issue here is the fate of for extended families awaiting a supreme court verdict in their long running battle against israeli settler corporation. the claims ownership over their homes, where this is one of many cases across occupied east jerusalem over many years. so

why did this case take hold in such a way this year? i have one fact, it was a hugely effective social media campaign, challenging israel's argument that this was a private property dispute. then in april came weeks of protest and confrontation, starting at damascus gate, encroaching into the courtyards of the alex and mos compound or temple mount and flaring repeatedly in shakes, euro. you're engaged in the lack of nuclear fusion. so it's not an accident that when you had a confluence of events surrounding the temple marked and shaped europe in may, the tremors were felt in gotta. hm, us explicitly cited the events in shakira and alexa as justification for its launch of rockets toward jerusalem in may. the 1st act of an 11 day war which, according to a new report by the air, was monitoring group killed more than

a 150 civilians and gaza, as well as 12 in israel. one leading garza analyst says hamas was motivated by events in jerusalem, but also by the palestinian authorities, cancelling of planned elections to go or into a new round of escalation with israel to basically a claim that that hamas is a major palestinian faction and a major determinant in palestinian internal elections and also to undermine the palestinian authority and the leadership of the palestinian reform in november shakes euros, palestinian families and the settler cooperation rejected a compromise deal from the supreme court. it is now down to the judges to deliver their ruling one which could well raise the temperature again. harry faucet al jazeera, occupied east, jerusalem. the north korean leader kim jong owns willing party is holding a key meeting. there are expectations. kim will outline major policies for 2022 during this week's meeting. it comes as north korea grapples with an economic

crisis and international sanctions over its nuclear weapons program. to brazil, where rescue workers are trying to help. hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by flash flooding to dams have collapsed in the state of by here, and at least 20 people have been killed. he is alessandra romp. yeti. rescuers continues to work around the clock monday trying to reach residents still trapped across the north eastern state of by year. 72, towns in cities have been flooded by torrential rain stead. intensified over the christmas holiday. when to dance collapsed in the city of ether, buena, some residents returned to their homes to pick up their belongings to a 2nd floor window. emergency workers rescued, hundreds in nearby towns. but heavy currents on the swollen rivers continue to complicate the operations. real casual aquarius of all geography. his bill with this volume of water, it's difficult to maneuver,

even with jet skis. it has been difficult to reduce the risk for the teams, and the victims rescue teams had to retreat and certain moments stopped. lot of the governor of the state of viet cleared it the worst disaster in the states history. half a 1000000 have been affected at least 16 thousands are homeless. us thumbs up. wellness mom with right now, we are focused on rescuing people and sheltering them. but we are also carrying out technical visits with mayors to identify if it will be necessary to build new houses or repair them, as well as public infrastructure. authorities are also monitoring an additional 10 dams for any danger signs and say they will regulate the release of water to avoid flash blood. and thus our, we are looking at the forecast for the next few days and the impact it can have and decide which floodgates to open and what volume of water we can release without causing further problems. we need to alleviate areas already flooded without

harming others. it's a complex technical decision. a wireless many have been surprised by the severity of the rain outer it is blame an increase in the temperature of the atlantic ocean mixed with the nino weather phenomenon for pushing rain patterns north. some experts say it's a sign of climate change as you it kind of thing. we want to lease that to happen more and more frequently. according to the last piece is we bought the the style proceeds and it's already stored per cent. more freelance. then pre industrial plants, so that's pretty much once ebony the forecast calls for more rain. but even when that stops, it will take many weeks. if not, month to recover from the devastation. allison m p a t t al jazeera. the tesla found a ellen mosque is facing

a backlash in china after complaints there that his satellites had to close encounters with it's space station earlier this year. those claims have not been verified, but china has complained to the u. n. space agency uses of the we bow messaging platform have labeled the mosque satellites as space junk with nearly 30000 objects . believe to be orbiting planet earth scientists, to vote governments to share data, to reduce the risk of conditions. ah, let's recap all the top stories for you with the time at exactly 530 g m t us health officials have shortened isolation for people who have covered 19 but you know, symptoms from 10 to 5 days. the cdc also is recommending no quarantine period after exposure for those who receive their booster shots. australia has reported more than 10000 cubic 19 cases on monday and you read.