ah oh, play an important role protecting you and i. ringback touch your face, m u. s. health officials have the recommended isolation period for many infected recovered 19. as an increase in on the current cases worsens labor shortages. ah, like about santa maria here in dough with the world news from al jazeera eye surgeon fighting between ethnic groups and me, and mazda military is full. sing thousands to flee across the tie border. i'm tony chang on the time. yeah. my boy to where the piece is holding at the main border crossings. the fighting is broken out for the downstream. also in the news,

the indian government cuts foreign funding to a charity founded by mother teresa and close encounters in space. china says it's space station almost collided with ellen mosques, styling satellites. ah, so the only convent as we know, is spreading rapidly around the world with some countries seeing record levels of infection. however, the u. s. has decided to have the isolation time for patients without symptoms knocking it down from 10 to 5 days. president biden says the health system is prepared for the rising case numbers, but admits the response hasn't been sufficient more from our white house correspond . kimberly hockey, in the us cases of coven cause by the arm across the very end, are soaring and expected to get worse in the coming weeks.

the stream is being felton 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, 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 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. but new reporting indicates the biden administration was pushed to ramp up, testing as far back as october in anticipation of a holiday coded 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 around the world's now the u. k, which won't add any new corona virus restrictions before the new year, even as it records more than $90000.00 new tases for health secretary such it javin

says restrictions will be imposed if required in january. there were a 143 debts reported on monday and 90 percent of people infected in england have the alma chron. variance. frances further tightened its measures. it's reported more than a 100000 cases and governments austin, people to work from home. at least 3 days a week, but they'll be no curfew for new years. eve, people who are unvaccinated, will be bought from public places from january and thousands of people in germany, of matched against the fir, the tightening of covert measures. their gatherings are being limited. public places gym cinemas, night clubs, for example of val been ordered to close. and then the situation in australia where the number of people who were told they didn't have coven 19, but they were actually positive, has now doubled to almost 900 lab and sidney apologized for what it's calling a data processing error. mandatory pcr tests needed for insight travelers,

further putting pressure on health systems. sir clock has report now from the sunshine coast in queens and calls the bechtel for kilometer testing centers across sydney. some people are waiting for 6 hours for tess with results taking days to be returned. i know they are a long queues rod across south sky. so if we can help with that, if you do not feel like well, if you are not advised by new south wiles health, there is no need to receive a pcr test. you are taking the spot in the queue from somebody who need to test. some states require mandatory cover tests before they allow people to travel from other parts of a structure that includes claims and south australia and tasmania. but that's putting pressure on a health system already inundated with rising number of infections. they're asking people to test before they come to hospital. but of course that to so the testing and now i'm believably long and the delays and getting test results went with

unworkable. so if you've got people who are chewing up on well and people who are at high risk a serious, they're the ones you have to find early. hospital pathology unit in sydney sent out a premature text, advising nearly 500 people that were negative for clover 19 when they were positive . it blame the incident on a critic clara, and he said, well, the government has put in place more fictions, including men, 3 mosque to be worn in doors, due to the surgeon cases. but as ruled out returning to a statewide lockdown, we would expect that pretty well. everybody in new south wales at some point will get on the crone. we're going to get on the chrome. and if we're all going to get on the chrome, the best way to face it is when we have full vaccination, including a booster, like queens that have ignored requests from other premieres to drop the medical p. c. r. test for those wanting to travel a disguise. i the last week around 400000 people have crossed the border and on

tuesday, queens and recorded the highest number of daily infections. that number is expected to rise of the new year break. sarah clark, queensland, australia. on to other news, and syrian state meteors reporting is very forces of carried out an air strike on a major port in the city of la takia missiles of reported damaged containers at the port and several residential buildings, shops and hospital. not you're clear if anyone's been injured and the reports haven't been independently confront. at least 23 people were killed in sudan when a gold mine collapsed on sunday. 7 people were left injured after that accident of the mine in west quarter, fun province to similar incidents there early in the year, kill 10 people. small scale miners returned to the mine after it was abandoned by state. security forces had shouted dumb to me and not were a military offensive against ethnic korean armed groups is intensifying. the military, which these power nicu back in february has been accused of committing atrocities

against villages thousands now fleeing violence. and heading over into thailand, that is where tony cheng reports from the ty bought a ton of my thought the we're now in a small forest area, we're, some of the m refugees have come across the border a staying. they come from just across the river here. they've been filtering over in the last week or 2. some have only come in the last couple of days. they don't want to join the, the mass of refugees that the tie authorities are trying to assemble in one place because they say they want to go home. they just don't feel it's safe yet. even though there's been very little gunfire to day. that said, i think the tie authorities are facing this problem now they are trying to get the situation under control in some areas yesterday we saw them putting up the razor was trying not to encourage people to come across. and in some places, they were very happy to stay put, just as long as they had an easy access. if the fighting got any closer,

we have heard some bangs and pops in the distance. it appears that fighting is still going on, but it also appears to have moved in land and further away from the board. and i think for the moment that made the tie authorities feel a little more satisfied that the mere mom military have a couple of goals here. initially they came in to this area a couple of weeks ago to try and track down members of the n u g, the national unity government, a government formed in exile essentially to oppose the government put in place by the military q. they also wanted to shut down a pdf training camps. there's a peoples defense force training camp, lot of urban youths who've been very dissatisfied with the q who tried protesting peacefully on the streets and found that their protest met with violence have come out into camps in the border areas which are controlled by a lot of the ethnic armed groups. now indian government is frozen the bank accounts

of one of the world's best known catholic charities. since the organization which was founded by mother teresa did not meet conditions on the local law. the missionaries of charity, which runs community schools, god media kitchens as well offices around india, but has long been accused of using its programs to convert people to christianity. although the charity denies those allegations. this is after a recent string of attacks on the countries of christian minority in the run up to christmas. mo, from having to tell you, telling the indian government has deemed that missionaries of charity, which is a charitable organizations taught by mother theresa nobel peace prize winner. back in 1950, is no longer eligible to receive and u. s. foreign funds for its activities, the charity uh works. 1 with housings of poor and destitute people across indiana, according to its recent tax filing, receive donations of about 10000000 dollars last year. now in, in job the law requires organizations to report. it's

a foreign funding and also apply for a license to be able to use money coming from abroad. now the charity had a license, it had applied to renew it, but the government deemed it ineligible. seeing that there were adverse inputs, we don't know what these adverse inputs are, because the government has and specified it. the charity has in a statement said that it has asked it's sent to us to not use any of the bank accounts. there is a process to appeal a rejection, but we don't know where this is going to go. not. this is not the 1st time that the government has restricted for funding for philanthropic organizations and charities . in fact, of the last 6 years, more than 6000 organizations have seen therefore, funding being restricted. one of the most prominent ones is greenpeace. this year, a lot more than a dozen organizations at large walk in climate change and child labor areas have

had their funding restricted. interestingly, these are 2 areas where the indian government has received a lot of international criticism. last year i'm nesting to national, had to for its operation. it said that the indian government had been harassing and bullying its employees. it's offices were rated by authorities and the police several times. at the time, amnesty says it had been up at the receiving end of the harassment because of its reports on human rights violations by prime minister in the reins or more. these government, specifically in indian administered kashmir in the news, the head on able to pay rent, and with nowhere left to go, we made the displace people forced on to the streets of libya and talked to revive the wrong euclid dealer resumed in vienna. tech rom says it once guarantees that us sanctions will be lifted. ah

hello. they will have a look at estrella in a moment, but 1st to south east asia and to renshaw dropped down, paused across indonesia have caused flooding and landslides in sumatran other rain eases. here, but it is going to pick up across the monet peninsula. we are expecting some drenching downpours. we could see some flooding from that with thunderstorms expected to last through to the weekend in koala lumper. the rains also going to get heavy across the north east of borneo in places like brunei, we are expecting heavy rain over the next few days. that was we moved down to australia. we've had a tropical disturbance bring some really wet and windy weather to the top end that has eased it, swirled across towards the east. so northern areas of queensland, i think damaging winds and heavy rains that we could see some flood issues with that. now across the east coast, we've got a few showers, but it winds up for sydney and remains very dry across western and central parts of

australia. the temperature in perth however, we'll get down to the early thirty's. it's going to pick up. however, across that southeast corner, thanks to high pressure in places like adelaide and melbourne, if we have a look at the 3 day, we're going to be well above the average. by the time we get to saturday, with plenty of sunshine, the temperature at 37 degrees celsius, ah. step beyond the comfort zone. where assumptions are children travel to the ends of the earth and further experience the unimaginable of the people who live it is the probably the most extreme situation i've been involved in . how quickly things can try and award winning documentary is that also a perception witness. on a,

just the euro. lou the me on i'll just, they were these at the top stories. this all of us decided to have the isolation time for a symptomatic patients with coven 19 people without symptoms. it'll go down from 10 to 5 days. present bible says the health system is prepared for the store number of cases, but admitted the response hasn't been sufficient. the number of people in the strategy who would tell they didn't have corona virus when they in fact did, has now double to almost 900 on the arch in sydney as apologize for what it is holding a data processing villages. and me and mom have been playing tonight, bring thailand is fighting between government and ethnic current full of

intensified respondents triggered by a military raid, phosphates talks to revive iran. 2050 nuclear deal have resumed in vienna, dosage of areas there for us reporting. she spoke to iran, lead negotiator, got his reaction to the proceedings so far. 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, please talk 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 reigning foreign minister entire on monday said that that is the 1st thing they really want to see. remedy want to see those sanctions lifted so they can sell their oil on the international market yet again and be paid for it. 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 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 iranian send, 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, a could be salvaged at this point. the americans are much more pessimistic at this stage because they say that would be arranged or 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. have been protests in iraq after the supreme court rejected an appeal to overturn october's parliamentary election results. security forces confronted supporters of iran that she had groups in the court. on monday, the faction suffered heavy losses in the vote, and alleged irregularities in libya. thousands of people have been killed and

wounded in 10 years of war in conflict. fighting, which is also displaced. hundreds of thousands and some families are now homeless. malik china has their stories from tripoli. it's winter and it's cold here in the small port in the heart of tripoli. but it's where a number of displaced families are forced to live. they say increasing rent prices and the government's lack of action means they are now homeless and unable to afford a roof. over their heads had nance 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. there's

no witness. months of fighting when warlord holly for after launched a military campaign to capture the city, it was part of his move to cement his power base and eastern libya found after it was widely accused of war. crimes is also putting 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 and the capital. hampton, hamid at has saudi runs, the association of internally displaced families from doug. now he says previously the families were receiving help from domestic and international aid organizations

. what about 5 months ago they stopped receiving stipends, and that has made things very difficult for them. am can allowed resort a global i like that 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. lucas in one opposite the opinion or policies is a criminal mohammed, as de la says, he's ill and can't find the job. you truck rent prices and tripoli a to hi, we're 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'm only god knows our struggle. the government should help though his vassar 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. g 0, tripoli. in brazil, rescue workers are trying to help. hundreds of thousands of people have been

displaced by flash flooding to dance, have collapsed in the state of by year, and at least 20 people have been killed lesandra ramp yet his report. rescuers continues to work around o'clock monday, trying to reach residents still trapped across the northeastern state of by year. 72, towns in cities have been flooded by terrain shall reign stead intensified over the christmas holiday. when 2 dance collapsed in the city of ether, buena, some residents returned to their homes to pick up their belongings through a 2nd floor window. emergency workers rescued, hundreds in nearby towns. but heavy currents on the swollen rivers continue to complicate the operations we. oh gosh, we had a question. civil load yaki 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 stopped. a lot of the governor of the state of viet cleared at

the worst disaster in the states history. half a 1000000 have been affected. at least 16 thousands are homeless, us thumbs up once more 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 dance for any danger signs and say they will regulate the release of water to avoid flash floods in both us. all right, 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, outdoor. 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. this is really the kind of thing we unfortunately expect to happen more and more frequently. according to the less i basically point the miss ty postage and it's already a story percent more frequent than. busy in previous times, so that's really my trans happening. the forecasts calls for more rain, but even when that stops, it will take many weeks. if not, month to recover from the devastation, allison ramp yeti al jazeera, the founder of tesla ilan muskets. i think backlash in china after beijing said his satellite had to close encounters with its space station or leave. the claims haven't been verified, but paging has complained to the united nations space agency about this katrina you

is in beijing with more. i believe even the foreign ministry is gotten involved here. that's right. so china, foreign ministry has lashed out at the united states, saying that countries should be responsible for the actions of their private companies. they didn't also accused washington of having double stand and saying that it often calls for safety and space. but the same time does not abide by international space tree to is us endangering all the cruise that now being has confirmed that there were 2 close encounters between either musk stalling, sas lights and the chinese 1st permanent space station, the chin goal one in july and the 2nd occasion happened in october. now china space station itself is quite new. it's called modul was only sent into space in april. it's not yet completed. it's due to be completed next year, which probably explains well so the crew,

they're all fairly nervous. interestingly, the beijing didn't have any specific reference to either mosque or his company tesla whole and they're quite a huge name here in china, very popular electric brand call. they have the factory in shanghai and elan must fills about a 4th of all his cars to chinese consumers. here. katrina was going to ask you about social media reaction. and usually i'd be referring to the like the twitter and facebook. of course in china it's a, it's a different story. what are people saying on waco? that's right, it's a wave was china's version of twitter we've seen so far, just orvin night, more than 19000000 comments about this. and although beijing itself was very hesitant to mentioned elan, moscow test by name these chinese internet uses were not. they had a lot of critical comments. they accused laska, being shameless and reckless and of his company is causing trouble in space. now

this is not the 1st time that you learn must because being and hot water here in china earlier this year. there were a lot of complaints that tesla was offering very poor customer service to its chinese customers here. now they doing has not said that it will make any other action against the law. moscow has companies, apart from this complaint that it's made to the u. n. space agency, but we'll have to wait and see as to whether this these complaints will have an effect on either must bottom line with his customers here in china. really interesting stuff. thank you. katrina, you know, reporting from beijing, japan's defense minister has agreed to establish a military hotline with china. an effort to address mounting tension in the waters or on taiwan tokyo says it is focused on bringing peace and stability to the taiwan strait to protect national security. and north korea later came on and holding a major meeting of the ruling party, the kins,

expected to outline strategic and tactical policies for 2022 during the conference at a time when north korea continues to grapple with an economic crisis and international sanctions imposed because of its nuclear program, the jury and get a maxwell as a sex trafficking child has signaled it is not close to reaching a verdict. deliberations have been extended into a 2nd week. the british socialite pleaded not guilty to grooming teenagers for under age sex if found guilty. she faces up to 70 years in prison. gabriel alexander, following the straw for us in new york. well, it appears that the jury is taking this case very seriously and also taking the defense argument seriously as well. most legal analysts will tell you the longer a jury deliberates, the better it is for the defense. that's a general consensus. the bottom line is though, that nobody knows what is happening inside that jury deliberation room in this federal court house behind me in lower manhattan. only the jurors that are in that

room. this is the 3rd full day of deliberations. the jury deliberated in total about 21 hours. now it's a very long time. and on monday, they signal to the judge that they do need more time. they asked for transcripts of a couple of different people that testified. they also asked the judge to further define what enticement means in a legal term. several of the charges against us, maxwell referred to enticement. and they also asked for some sticky notes of different colors, insinuating that they're really going through these charges and trying to hammer out some sort of conclusion here. the bottom line is, this is a difficult case, difficult charges as well. 6 different charges that the jury has to come to some consensus on, but the big one is the 6th one. that is sex trafficking of minors

which carries up to 40 years in prison, add it all up, and all 6 charges are up to 70 years in prison. bottom line though is dealing maxwell is in a holding cell in this court house behind me. and she is waiting just like everyone else for the jury to reach some sort of verdict ah, half past the hour and these are the top stories. the u. s. is half the isolation time full current of ours patients without symptoms from 10 down to 5 days. president biden says the health system is prepared for the soaring number of cases, but admitted the response hasn't been sufficient.