live or the ruling one which could will raise the temperature again. harry force it al jazeera, occupied east jerusalem. just one more story briefly, jury england maxwell sex trafficking trial has signaled it is not close to reaching a verdict. deliberations have been extended down to a 2nd week. the british socialite pleaded not guilty to grooming teenagers for underage sex with the late financier jeffrey epstein. if found guilty, she faces up to 70 years in prison. ah. they are, these are your headlines. the u. s. has cut the isolation time for asymptomatic patients with coven 19 from 10 to 5 days. president joe biden says the health system is prepared for the soaring number of cases, but he admitted the response hasn't been sufficient. francis further tightened cove 19 measures after reporting more than 800000 cases. a government's asked people to work from home for at least 3 days

a week. but there will be no curfew for new years eve. and in australia, the number of people who were told they didn't have corona virus when they were in fact positive, has now double to almost 900. a libertarian sidney has apologized for what it calls a data processing error. australia has reported more than 10000 new covey cases for the 1st time. more on this with sarah clark, she's on strategy, sunshine coast. we certainly are seeing an ongoing rise in the number of cases across australia. so it's all states and territories or victoria. idols, are they the states with the highest numbers? some states are reinforcing or reinstating some tough restrictions masks are pretty much mandatory across the country, indoors at the moment. but you said well, since resisted any bushel or return to lockdown, i would as christmas period. and in queensland where i am on tuesday, we've recorded the highest number of jolly cases. 1158 village is in may

and may have been fleeing over the borders. neighboring thailand, as fighting between government and ethnic karen forces intensifies abundance, was triggered by a military raid. last week, indians governments frozen the bank accounts of one of the world's best known catholic charities. it says the organization, which was founded by mother teresa did not at here to local law. the 8th round of talks to revive. iran's 2015 nuclear deals resumed and vienna terran wants guarantees that us sanctions will be lifted on its oil sales. and the space ex founder, ellen musk is facing a backlash in china rafter bay. jing said 2 of his so or his satellites had to close encounters with it space stationary this year. the claims had not been verified, but begging has made a complaint to the u. n z space agency, right. as your headlines on out 0 next, the street in 2002 coins and bank notes mark the launch of the euro today

is the official currency of 19 of the 27 members states of the european union. on the 20th anniversary of the euro entering circulation, al jazeera investigates how the eurozone benefited from having an official currency . ah, hi, anthony. okay, and your in the stream, it is the one show on this network that is played to bring you the same number of female guests as male guests. over the course of the year, our aim is $5050.00 gender parity. so how we doing here is where we started in 2016. the 1st couple of years were a little bit rough. i must've met 20182019 regarding to astride 20. 19. not doing too badly at all for the full fee in a row. we are proud to announce that we delivered on our promise. we have had more than 500 guests in the stream. in 2021. 55.17 percent were women and

44.8 percent were man. i do not know how you get percentages of men or women, but there you go. i'm not a statistician. here's the streams executive producer that emily, i am delighted not for the 4th year when the stream has achieved it's gender balance goal. it's important that we did this on any year, but as you're about find out on the show, it was perhaps particularly important this year a year in which almost every major story that we covered disproportionately impacted women. the crown of ours pandemic climate change, the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan. so i'm really pleased to renew our pledge to achieve gender balance again. next year. i want to do something a little bit different. this year, the stream would love to help other me, your possessions. other news shows other journalists to also achieve gender balance

if we can do it. so can you. so you'd like to reach out to find out our techniques, our tips, our strategies, our methodology. please find us on twitter or email us at stream at al jazeera dot net. thank you are, we are absolutely serious. consider the steam as your open source. his had to find us again. i. d. m. 's are open on twitter. the stream by re malone's, the m's are open, malone barry, and might the ems always open to you at family? ok, you want to find out how to make your media platform gender balanced. we're here for you. in another year of bad news, the perseverance of women across the world has stood out earlier this year. the un secretary general antonio good terrorist said, covered 19, is a crises with a woman's face. the fact is, there are few stories that we cover on the stream that don't disproportionately empower women. we start with one of them the pandemic. it has taken

a massive toll and the female workforce in the united states. as a small business owner during the pandemic, especially when with monster small children, it's been incredibly challenging to figure out how to support and cater to a community that was really stripped of all of its services and all of the infrastructure that had had to support it. including school and child care and figuring out how to navigate that on behalf of a community and serve it while pivoting and trying to keep our business alive and being asked to take on the ideas of health and safety for them. we are joined by martha ross, she's a senior fellow at brookins metro in washington dc. martha, good to have you. this trend of women coming out of the world place in the united states. when did you start seeing it? well, it was a paris from the very beginning. i mean, looking back to march 2020 when we started to lose 20000000 jobs

ahead spinning number a lot of the job to help by women a disproportionately. and it has to do with the nature of the recession. we were in the nature of the jobs that women have because of social distance thing. suddenly going to the store, traveling, staying in hotels, all that were shut down. and those are jobs that disproportionately employ women, so they were her pretty hard. and thankfully we have been gaining jobs back. but we are still 4000000 jobs short of where we were in february 2020. and women are still hit pretty hard. there's 2300000 fewer women in the us working now. then in february 2020, before the pandemic. and the, the number for men is 1600000. right. so it's obviously huge for everyone,

but it's hitting women harder if we can watch how and pinpoint why that is that why it's probably the solution for fixing it and getting women back to work. why? oh my goodness. well, it partly has to do with the nature of the job and social distancing. it also has to do with child care and family responsibilities. and with daycare shut down, and schools shut down or in remote learning. it was either impossible to supervise and keep your kids safe at home with the job or really difficult to do that. if you were teleworking. i mean, if you had a job where you had to work in person, you simply could not be at home with your kid while they were at home. so you had a really tough, tough situation. so i'm, what are you seeing where you are seeing employers, organizations saying ok,

how do we fix this? is there any fixing going on? because, well, almost 2 years into our pandemic right now. what's been fixed? not enough right now. yeah. we, we had a massive public education campaign about the lack of paid leave in this country. how many people do not have paid leave. and so when they were faced with the choice of watching their kid or going to work or facing risk factors, when they went to work that they didn't want to come bring home with them. they didn't have paid leave and they stayed home. they were out of a job. so this is a huge policy issue, and president biden did address it in his build back better agenda. but as of now, paid leave has been stripped out of the build back. better legislation.

ok, we're not where we need to be. so i am thinking how to those jobs come back for women who want to be in the workforce for 2022. and at the moment we're saying some schools is getting into the school holidays anyway. but schools may be not going back to school because of a new variant. and this still at an economic issue with not everybody getting their jobs back. what do you predict for 2022? it is, it, it is hard to predict. ah, we, you know, there were 2 points where i think we felt a sense of impending normalcy and each time a variant has come along and derailed that land, bring after vaccinations, there was more talk about going to work in person. i'm doing more thing

resuming life normally. den delta came my are you trying to say, i don't know in a very elegant i let me out. you're out here who, who knows? but thank you so much for bringing this stat. and the challenge to us is, as we look at gender gaps in some of the most important areas of our lives around the world right now. mouth that thank you so much take care. i. so another major story of 2021 in which women that were front and center afghanistan, the taliban has been under pressure to uphold women's rights. since they took power in august. and the con, come to us, go to phone b, implement the policy that woman cannot group outside of my home, and causes the warmer in afghanistan, all inclusive on my so they did no escal and mercy, daughter of kudos. a student especially girls cannot go to

a school. the woman employ austin. oh, because they lost their jobs. i had a good on countries, especially on canada. please help to woman enough. pressure on a dirani is director of learn afghanistan. get to have you back here on the stream . i love the way that you approach women's rights in afghanistan, particularly when and joe's the international community talk about women's rights. and i've got to say this is how important, of course it is important, but you just look at it in a very different way. said that perspective, cuz i think it's an employee one for audience to hear that 1st of all, thank you for having me. the 2nd thing is that when international community to critic i should feed again, could justify a war bombing houses,

people 20 years ago by saying that we are helping the women and children in conflict. how come 20 years later, that has changed to the we have the same conflicts. people are more tiring, their mothers were having that's why the babies are having their mothers who can be there, women who can access hospitals. right now there's those who cannot access schools, right? now, so i think right now it's more complex than it was in 2001 because in 2001 they came in and read it on the found in the conflict started right? because they now, nobody has read it anything, just the gene cheese and right now people are going back. but women at the forefront. we have to understand that international community, special international organizations and people who went there to make the cut years used. women, i will always use feminism and women that just to make sure that be get frenzied and everything that they do,

the more they get more funding and use of women. our pictures, our readings are having children for their own purposes. all right, so as somebody who stayed in afghanistan beyond august were many people were leaving. what is the situation right now in afghanistan? what do women need and wants? so the 2 minutes that i have skied enough on a sound, the one thing i have learned is the fact that economic collapse is hurting up on the sun. now more than anything, but at the same time, one thing we have to look at is the fact that women rights are being used to actually tired of the country out. there are many solutions in place that could have been used by the international community. actually tab with the humidity and eat personally hope this starving kids and starving mothers to actually address the digital literacy issues. now they have given all their power to the polar bonds. we

could have gone in with the internet. we could have gone in with them. can you hear me? yeah, we're have please continue. yeah, we can run and we can could have gone and cleaned and i don't p d the issues for the digital literacy programs. we have given this power to the taliban right now that okay, if you don't let it go, go to school, they won't get an education. well then find solutions and there are solutions. i'm presenting them from the past the month and nobody even listening the thing good for the economy collapse. right. ok. the taliban are the ones who are not inclusive and they are and what have i, the last government also had war like and it doesn't justify the fact that the should be the leaders. they shouldn't be the leaders. that's the 1st thing they shouldn't have been in this place, but then they have been legitimized for the international community to be back least that's the 2nd thing, right. and the abroad, big by the international community in it. so make a political process make it includes if all minorities including women, the 50 percent of the country should be there on

a level. let me ask you something because of course you're stating something that's very obvious, but it seems quite difficult to do. has a bar is human rights watch? she put together on twitter, just a thread, a thread of all the meetings that have been done from outside organizations, human rights organizations of n g o. these are meetings meetings to tell about and met. all right, different countries and have a break to me cause the more now is another meeting with man. it's another meeting with when they are not bringing women to the table. how do you do that? see, that's the whole point. it's men and men meeting each other and they don't have any solutions. let me put it clear for you that men who are coming from that occasion for the meeting. the fallible didn't have any education on up on that. if be that up on us, i won't be in this crisis right now that it is. and the power button tell me,

and the graduates that we have into, from the past 20 years, telling me a single school batch of goods graduate from their school. tell me a single economic model that they have presented in the past 20 years, apart from opium, that has worked upon this time or the economy. so it's just as you keep the men both face, one can pull one of no solutions. so you should these men with no solutions be bringing women with them. how. what do they need to do? because so far, not women at the table. can i be honest. yeah. yeah, most of the people are not looking for solutions. if you're looking for solutions, people who people like f would be doing the talking were digital solutions. people what actual answers to the problem, to the financial collapse and everything right now they are just making it very political and very figuring. all right, let's not seen some of them are watching the stream or some of their colleagues are watching the stream. and you said you have ideas, share one of them,

that's very powerful, that you feel could make a difference today. first of all, 1st and foremost, the most simply, when the political chaos can go on it, it need resettlement, and i'm not an expert on it, but a yes when it comes to humanity and eat a we can work it out. make a 3040 women group a task force that brings in women from all parts of the society beach. but when women what educated, who do understand how the it works, that you shouldn't be taking part of my eat, it should be going directly to the people on this. but we should be given the protection by the international community to live enough on the sun. and we could be working on every once level and district level on education. humanity didn't 8 and at the same time on health care, the 3 things that important and needed right now, but women do need protection to go back and says in that capacity, the money should be accessible by a private bank and should be accessible to the people about why they should be

audited, they should be proper properly audited and should be seen by the international community, how it's used. that's how you find solution. that's how you, then a country, not just by going there and taking pictures with my astonish. thank you so much for bringing your perspective to the stream. hopefully some of the decision makers, i listening to you and taking your advice. i appreciate you on the street take care . thank you. and now to perhaps one of the biggest stories of our time, in fact, it is the biggest story about time. and that is climate change. another crisis with a women's face. one of our biggest accomplishments, while working at the intersection of climate change and gender impact and ensuring that we listen to the voices of women and girls on the ground, especially because they are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. and this has actually helped us develop more effective strategies for climate preparedness or that mitigation, as well as inability in the community. one of the biggest challenges that we see in climate change and gender impact is the recognition of women and girls as key

stakeholders. in clementine decision making processes often over girls on the front lines, but their voices are not included enough. and you think that it's going to be a critical issue. moving forward to ensure that the solutions that we find to climate change are effective at long lasting, especially for those that are most impacted by israel. l sign is the chair of the un secretary general's youth advisory group on climate change and chair of the sudan youth organization on climate change. always good to have you on the stream. now we are talking about the gender gap and the gender gap. when we come to climate change climate activism, climate policy, misery, if we look back at this past year, where have we desperately missed women in climate policy? you can point to incite yes. say that all women there, we would have had a different outcome. yeah, unfortunately, everywhere i was just listening to the previous speaker from afghanistan and i saw

the thread, they bought a put in twitter, and fortunately the same situation everywhere. unfortunately, i'm so sad am i that we are in the almost 2022 and we are still talking about how important it is to include young women or even women in the indifferent processes. or even in the political evidence who they're not on the climate change, we have a very much similar situation. although women are the ones who day the streets normally and marsh again is the previous regime. again, the dictator himself begins the coo and the military government. we find. 8 women are almost neglected everywhere. and recently on the 19th or her of the of december, we had a big demonstration to the presidential rebels. unfortunately, now on the forces are back to use rape as a weapon. we confirmed to severe

a rape cases after the did the demonstration finished and a lot of reports are talking about $13.00 to $15.00 cases actually on hundreds of harassment, of course. and this is something very bad because i see that we are actually going backward in the movement of human rights to dignity or humanity, not as males or females, but as a human being that we deserve to be treated equally. and i also share oh with the previous speaker that unfortunately normally men who speaks to men doesn't have some solutions for the problems that we are have. otherwise our countries would not be suffering from every every sector of climate change, energy, education, health, everything, everywhere. we are suffering, and the simple answer is there is a huge important compose into the community, which is the females to women, the mother's daughter, the daughters,

the wives of the partners are not even there anywhere. and when anything happened, when a christ heat, we get it back to the most and eat all of the burdens of the household of the family. all the kids are, everything falls in our shoulder is in. we notice this as a program who cares about equity around the world. we care about giving people a platform to voice if they don't have a platform. and we realized that we were falling behind in terms of elevating the voices of women, making sure that we had as money ban and women coming to our table coming to our studio. so we just said, this is what we gotta do. this is our construct. and we are going to count and monita and check every single year. it's something that the united nations framework convention also said we want to do. we know that there are not enough women in climate policy. i would go to make an effort. how's that effort going?

well, unfortunately, of travel, see, is the members state oriented and the process of negotiation and every other process is members state driven. and if we can not be represented in our own countries and with our own governments, then they will afterwards. he cannot force governments to bring females. yes, there is a lot of programs to support young negotiators and young females also to come to the negotiation. there is one. when we do that, there is one, i think this is, i mean, this picture. oh wow. you know, everywhere when you recognize your own head, in a, in a random pigeon is re, you know, there were not enough women in climates. ok. all right. so that, that was a list of, of the efforts. huh. which i've, i've, you know, what i realize is that you just say we're doing it and you do it, you know, next year away trying a way, getting a,

you just say we're doing it. i am really curious about what the fix is. because every single case we've had on today shall knew what the fix would be. so in climates what's the fix? unfortunately, it's not just rated. i cannot say that the fixed in climate is x. because climate is a system based also problem. if we not change the whole system, if we did not fix the whole system, then the workers climate change would never be fixed. for example, the different countries delegation you can find barely one or 2 females with 100 male, for example. and this delegations are not, not break brought by you see the geisha i abroad by the government of this complete . so it's deeply rooted problem and it leads to the inequality that our community

lives in. and how that there's been 3 are 2 communities, also ruling everything. unfortunately, i can ask you a very, very, very simple question. no, we have more than $200.00 almost country around the world. how many countries have prime ministers or presidents as females, we can count them in one hand and even to have, we never count the number of men in different positions. how much problems that actually these men could actually sold. and, and how much the problems that the most could. so i'm a huge fan of the finland prime minister of newsletter prime minister of different prime ministers who are actually pushing to have females good image. because unfortunately, we get chris criticized 100 times more than normal male getting for the size. mystery mean they're not doing. the one is asking them misery. and i'm just

wondering if there's, if you're coming out campaign space for running for office, for hire office, be our prime minister is expected to resign and we don't have a government right now is down. so i don't think we get to choose my country in time. soon and i will not carry any kind of other nationalities because i think i have a country in this country deserve to 5 for miss rena. it's always good to have you here on the stream you. you're always very direct. thank you very much for speaking to us about the the lack of women in climate policy in the climate crises and climate change who can actually make a difference. thank you so much, miss reading. thank you patch donna. thank you martha as well. and that's our show for today. let me show you something you can get in touch with us if you'd like to try out. gender parity at your me to organization the stream. barry malone. danielle called at the answer opened thanks for watching

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