it should be facilitated, not show it to gray. it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a chop swans the inside story on al jazeera. ah, he was health officials of the recommended isolation period for many infected by coven 19. but a spike in all my current cases, these worsening labor shortages. ah, good morning, john harvey, one, i'm kim all santa maria. this is the world news from al, just here, a surgeon fighting between ethnic groups and me and miles of military forces thousands to flee across the tie border. i'm tony chang on the time. yeah, ma border where the piece is holding at the main border crossings. the fighting is

broken out for the downstream. also in the news talks resume in vienna to revive the iran nuclear dealtech rom says it wants guarantees that us sanctions will be lifted. and the indian government blocks foreign funding to a charity founded by mother teresa. ah, starting with cobra news and the amazon variant is continuing its rapid spread around the world with a number of countries seeing reco levels of infection. however, the u. s. has decided to have the isolation time for a symptomatic patients, at least giving from 10 to 5 days. president joe biden says the health system is prepared for the rise in case numbers, but admits the response hasn't been sufficient, or for my waters corresponded kimberly hallett. in the us cases of coven, caused by the arm across the very end, are soaring, and expected to get worse. in the coming weeks. the stream

is being felt in hospitals, new records are being set 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. this gets solved, state level harm leaking to the nation's governors in a virtual meeting on monday. us president joe biden admitted whitehouse efforts to combat the highly contagious army kron variate have been insufficient number, but it's not enough. clearly not enough provide, we'd known we would have gone harder quicker if we could have put new reporting indicates the biden administration was pushed to ramp up. testing far back is october. it tis the patient of a holiday coven 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 american 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 mayors 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 fear the countries to tell you about the u. k, which won't add any new corona virus restrictions before the new year,

even as it records more than 98000 cases in a day. health secretary such it javin says restrictions will be imposed if required in january. there were a 143 debts reported on monday as well. 90 percent of cases across england on the on the con, variance at frances further tightened bits measures. though, after reporting more than a 100000 cases, the government's asked people to work from home at least 3 days a week. no curfew. the for new years eve unvaccinated residence will be restricted from public places from the middle of january. and then a straight, even number of people there who were told they didn't have coven 19 when they were actually positive, has now double to almost 900, a lab and sidney as apologize for what it calls a days of processing error and numbers of people seeking the p. c. artists in new south wales falling the mistake is putting extra pressure on hospitals, health officials, or urging asymptomatic people to rethink before calling emergency services.

australia reported more than 10000 new cases for the 1st time or from sarah clock. she is on the sunshine coast near brisbin. we certainly are saying an ongoing rise in the number of cases across the street. that's all states and territories victories up while the states with the highest number this week we had the highest daily count of being 10000 across the nation. now on tuesday. well, it's recorded 6062 cases and 3 did. and we don't thing a rise in hospitalization numbers, but i should say it's the delta barrier that pushing these numbers. driving these numbers on monday we recorded this day regarding the on the kron very some state, the reinforcing or reinstating some health restrictions math. the pretty much mandatory across the country indoors at the moment, but you thought well resisted a pushover overturned to look at over the christmas period and in queens and where

i am on tuesday, we recorded the highest number of dolly cases. 1150. this is because we got people traveling over the christmas break and we've got huge pression on the health system, particularly news as well because the restrictions to cross borders had been lifted . and of course, people coming from yourself or any other state into queens and now must get a mantra pcr test with thing cues that can last for up to 6 hours. and of course the test results are also taking days to be returned. so that's particularly quaint that has been called upon to to drop some of those tougher climates, but they get to do so so far. but certainly the result, the thing the big choose and a lot of holidays have had to be kept as it comes on to other news and in me and my military offensive against ethnic karen armed groups is intensifying the military, which of course sees power and cool back in february, been accused of committing atrocities against villages and thousands enough thing.

the violence into thailand. let's check in with tony chang. he's in the tie. border town of may thought, can i check 1st of all tony that you are all right there because you was saying off camera earlier that there was some gunfire. a yes, a shot rang out just about 2 minutes ago. the tie army who had dug in at the end of this track who led us about stay here, or is she asking us to move on because they're concerned none the less, i think we're probably okay for the moment. yesterday when we arrived in this village barn rye, there was an awful lot of gun fire. there was more to fire her artillery strike, some of which hit the tie side that they're not seeing at all to day. they have heard fighting further down the river. deeper inside myanmar, at the occasional rumblings that we've heard, but nothing like the ferocity of the fights that we saw yesterday and that the refugees who were pouring across the border over the last few days have said

they've seen including air strikes, trim, attack helicopters, and planes none the less, i think it's a sign of how tense everybody is in this area that the time military want to keep people well back there. the tie authorities are trying to assemble the refugees who have come into town and into much larger camps. they say at the moment there are more than 5000 people here. but from what we've seen all along this border area, people have just come across. many of them are just waiting on the tie side of the border because they don't want to go too far away from their homes. they're very worried about losing contact with, with what's going on back inside myanmar. but at the moment they don't feel it's safe enough. yesterday evening we saw a group of refugees who were on the, on the men mar side. they were not being allowed to come across by the ties. but clearly they were waiting on the very edge of the border. and if the situation got more insecure, i think they would have come straight across. that said,

for the moment things to be seemed to be a little more stable and they have been in the last couple of days. tony, what can you just look, give a little context if possible, about the offensive against the ethnic current groups? because this is an, obviously, when we talk about me, and now most recently we've been talking about the military coup at why what, why are these classes happening in the 1st place? will impart it is because of the queue that we've seen so much instability since february, many young people were protesting in the cities immediately that the crackdown was ferocious against them. a lot of protested was shot and killed a lot of those people who wanted to continue their activism. her she come out to these border areas which had not controlled by miramar, security services, but a controlled by armed ethnic groups in this area is the korean further operates the currently are all sorts of different ethnic tom groups control. many of these border areas, and they have found a certain amount of shelter and protection it

a couple of weeks ago, the myanmar army moved into a town was known to have a dissidence who were hiding. they moved against them, but i think they also see this is an opportunity to push the korean out to. there was a ceasefire in place since 2012, which for the most part had held. although it was very fragile and i think the crew has fractured that, here and in other areas all across myanmar. and i think the real concern was that that qu shattered what was a very fragile piece. and i think now what we're seeing is the unraveling great. reporting tony chang there and my thought on the type me in my border. thank you. the 8 round of talks to revive. iran's 2015 nuclear deal has resumed in vienna. iran's foreign minister, though once guarantees that us sanctions will be lifted on its oil. sails, fears are growing, that time is running out to salvage. the agreements is dr. jabari with more from 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 discussed. 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 a deal in 2018 and impose a series of crippling sanctions on iraq or the banking sector. the radian foreign minister and tear on monday said that that is the 1st thing they really want to see remedy. they want to see those sanction lifted,

so they can sell their oil on the international market yet again and be paid for the process of the needs 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 mr. 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 iranians and the deputy for mr. also said that the res 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 ratings 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 this 8th round of talks, which could hopefully be the final round in the news ahead, unable to pay rent, and with no, we're left to go, we make the displace libyans forced out on the streets to dance collapse in brazil, dozens of cities and towns. ah hello, there is a divided picture weatherwise across europe. we've got cold air cleaning on to the north pretty for that north eastern corner. we've seen some extreme cold here,

but down in the south it's more settled with lots of warm pushing in from the west and we are going to see the temperatures in london and paris climb by the time we get to wednesday. so lots of unseasonal warms on the way, but ahead of that, we've got more wet, windy and wintery weather, with weather systems pulling into france from heavy rain expected here. heavy snow on the outs and those wintery conditions pulling across to more central areas. down in the south, however, it dries up my c for italy, but we've got some blustery winds blowing in its grief. that's going to see the wet or weather. by the time we get to wednesday, that'll push on to turkey some heavy rain expected death. but it's going to start to warm up for the balkans as it is for some of the northern areas are, remains bitterly cold in that northeast corner smudges of no pushing through scandinavia. the temperature, very cold in places like reagan and minsk for bella roost. now from the northwest corner, we got rounds of rain moving across britain, an island, but we still are going to see some com patches coming through that. the temperature

in london and paris touching up into the mid teens. by the time we get into wedding, stay ah, the end of the country with an abundance of results for the road and walk indonesia whose terms for me, we moved pool to grow and fraud. we balance for green economy, blue economy, and the digital economy. with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs investment. let's be part when the lease is broke and progress. invest in indonesia now. ah, ah

ah, on al jazeera, these are the top stories, the u. s. having the isolation time for patients with coven 19 symptoms from 10 to 5 days, president joe biden says the health system is prepared for the soaring number of cases, but admitted the response hasn't been sufficient. number people in australia though, who were told they didn't have coverage while they were actually positive, as now doubled to almost 900 a lab. and sidney is apologized for what he calls a data processing era. and villages and mean mob been saying to neighboring thailand is fighting between government and ethnic current forces intensifies for bonnets was triggered by a military break last week syrian state media, his reporting is rainy forces have carried out an air strike on a major port in the city of la takia missiles have reported the damaged containers at the port and several residential buildings shops and a hospital. not clear if anyone's been injured. at the reports have been

independently confirmed either of somalis prime minister mohammed who said robert has ordered military forces to take orders directly from him after the president mohammed for module suspended him on allegations of corruption and abuse of power. both have been trading accusations about a delay and some all these elections, more from bernard smith, somali as president says, the prime minister is suspected of corruption and is now suspend my how much 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 transitional faith is responsible for leading the country and running the affairs 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 through 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 al jazeera,

now protests had been held in iraq after the supreme court rejected an appeal to overturn october's parliamentary election results. security forces confronted supporters of iran back she or groups had a court on monday. these factions, which suffered heavy losses in the vote, and alleged irregularities. thousands of people been killed and wounded in 10 years of war in conflict in libya, fighting that is despised hundreds of thousands as well in some families and are homeless. and trina, as they stories from tripoli, it's winter and it's cold here in the small parked in the heart of tripoli. but it's where a number of displaced families are forced to live. they say increase in rent prices, and the government's lack of action means they are now homeless and unable to afford a roof over their heads and dance as her home and donna was destroyed. during the fighting years ago, she was renting an apartment in tripoli, but her landlord increased the rent and she ended up on the street. ha!

she's been living in this park. and for the last 2 weeks, i have 2 young children in our money goes to diapers and milk. we can no longer afford rents, we have nowhere else to go when we need the government to provide housing for us, or give us a housing stipend until then. we will stay here with our children. in 2018, dove, now witness months of fighting. when warlord holly for after launched a military campaign to capture the city, it was part of his moved to cement his power base and eastern libya found after it was widely accused of war. crimes is also put in a bid to run and presidential elections. after months of international pressure, a humanitarian corridor opened to allow people trapped in the city to leave. they fled to western libya. according to the united nations, there are almost 200000 internally displaced people in libya. more than 500 families from the eastern city of delena are scattered across western libya. 13 of

them are living in this park in the capital abs. hamid at has saudi runs, the association of internally displaced families from donna. he says previously, the families were receiving help from domestic and international aid organizations . for about 5 months ago, they stopped receiving stipends, and that has made things very difficult for them. am can alert resort a global i let as it is not possible for most of these families to return home to the seat of delena after they were forced to leave. the authorities of control east in libya, look at in one opposite the opinion or policies is a criminal mohammed, a de la says his ill and can't find a job. you're a rent prices, and triply a to high where now homeless i am sick. my youngest son, a 2nd, my oldest is handicapped. how can i feed my family with no salary? it's winter, it's cold, and i am only god knows our struggle. when the government should help though his

wazoo were displaced by force or in dire need of help. it's feared many other families will soon become homeless, and those living in this park will struggle even more. my latrina, l 0, tripoli. now it is. government is frozen the bank accounts of one of the world's best known catholic charities, and says the organization that was founded by mother teresa did not meet conditions under local law. the missionaries of charity, it's run community kitchens and schools and hospitals hospices across india. but it has long been accused of using its programs to convert people to christianity though the charity denies those allegations comes after a recent string of attacks on the countries christian minority in the run up to christmas albany mitar following the story freshman at elling high for me why the fries on foreign funding? it seems a i think when we 1st heard the story, i mean spirited at the very least. yeah. you know,

are the government says that the church, our charity is no longer eligible to receive foreign funds? india has always had strict rules when it comes to foreign funding. but last year these rules were tightened because the government says it needs to increase transparency and monitor for and funding. because a claim that many of these charities, or actually using the money to print rebels and destabilize our index, or internal security. now the charity was started by mother theresa nobel peace prize winner. back in 1950 a water, thousands of poor and destitute people across india. in fact, according to its latest tax filing that received donations of about 10000000 dollars last year. now the government says it did not renew its license to receive foreign funding to receive and use it for funding because of adverse inputs . it hasn't specified what these adverse inputs are. so we really don't know what

has happened on the charity though, says that it has asked it sent us to not use any of those bank accounts in which you have all this money line. and oh, we can expect them to probably appeal this decision. there is a process to do that, but this is not the 1st time that charities in india have had to face stringent rules and a restriction in funding. and i guess plenty of other charities must be quite concerned now watching this and thinking well, what does it mean for them? yes, and this is in line with what we've seen over the last few years. in fact, over the last 5 or 6 years, more than 6000 charities and philanthropic organizations have seen their history of their funding been restricted. one of the most prominent ones is greenpeace. this year, a lot more than a dozen organizations have had their foreign funding restricted. most of these are international organizations and walk in areas of climate change and child labor.

these are 2 areas in which the more the government prime listener ins are more these government has received a lot of international criticism and has, in fact had to head back. and i refuse to many of the reports issued by organizations on, in just track record in labor and in climate change. in fact, last year, amnesty international had to, for, let's operation. amnesty says that the government was bullying and harassing its employees. the governments of the government and authorities had rated it's offices . it's donors, while harassed, amnesty at the time had been speaking out against human rights violations. and also the crackdown by the mo, the government in indian administered kashmir. that is natal with that update from the deli, thank you. pardon me. japan's defense minister has agreed to establish a military hotline with china. this is an effort to address mounting tension of the

waters around taiwan tokyo says it is focused on bringing peace and stability to the taiwan strait to protect its national security. she boiled, urging kara think during the video, cold with the chinese counterpart japan's defense minister key. she expressed our concerns about the situation in the east trying to see including the waters around the same cock who ireland is on and problems involving the south china sea. and chinese coast guard law. sure. he also stressed the importance of peace and stability and in the taiwan straits and called for increased transparency of chinese defense policies and military power or more futile hood, north korean leader kim jong ones holding a key ruling party meeting. he is expected to outline major strategic and tactical policies for 2022 during this week's meeting. that comes as north korea grapples with an economic crisis and international sanctions over its nuclear weapons program to brazil now, where rescue workers are trying to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced

by flash flooding. 2 dams have collapsed in the state of bahia, and at least 20 people of in killed the support from alessandro rump yeti. rescuers continues to work around o'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 etha buena, some residents returned to their homes to pick up their belongings through a 2nd floor window. emergency workers rescued. hundreds in nearby towns, a heavy currents on the swollen rivers continue to complicate the operations. we'll cash, we'll aquarius of all joke. he has a 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 stop blocked. a 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 or storms 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, while many have been surprised by the severity of the rain, outdoor heat 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. this is really the kind of thing we, unfortunately expect to happen more and more frequently. according to the less emphasis report, the, the cycle see dance is already stored per cent, more frequent, then pre industrial times. so that's really my trans 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 pity al jazeera the jury in killing mac called sex trafficking trial has signal it is not near a verdict. deliberations of extended into a 2nd week. now, the british socialite pleaded not guilty to grooming teenagers for underage sex. she faces up to 70 years in prison if found guilty. tesla founder,

ilan mosque is facing a backlash in china after beijing said his satellites had to close encounters with its space station only this year. claims that have not been verified, but beijing as complained to the united nations space agency users of the web, your messaging platform of labels, space x satellites, a space junk, and a threat into boycott on tesla ah, with al jazeera and the top stories, this are the u. s. s half to the isolation time for a symptomatic patients with cove 19 from 10 to 5 days. president joe biden says the health system is prepared for the soaring number of cases, but admitted the response hasn't been sufficient front. so for the tightening it's measures after reporting more than a $100000.00 cases. french government is asked people to work from home at least 3 days a week, but there will be no curfew for new year's eve.