a inside story parker, a frank assessment of the div headlines. subscribe now. however you listen to podcasts. ah, this is al jazeera ah hello, this is a news hour on al jazeera and fully betty ball live from our headquarters in doke, coming up in the next 60 minutes with coffee, 19 cases rising around the world to record levels some government. so choosing lighter restrictions compared to last year as surgeon fighting between ethnic groups. and yan mars military forces thousands to flee to thailand on tony chang,

on the time near my border where the piece is holding of the main border crossings . but fighting is broken up for the downstream. also this our talks resume in vienna to revive the ron nuclear deal. t. ron says it wants guarantees that us sanctions will be lifted. and the chinese government has filed the complaint with a u. n. space agency against the law mosque will tell you why. and i'm german ashwin sport. australia cricketers have retained the ashes, the home side crushed england in melbourne to take an unassailable reno series lead . ah thank you for joining us. as we count down to the new year 2021 is ending exactly the way it began with a rise in global covered 19 infections. the army corn variant is driving up cases to alarming levels in many parts of the world. in australia,

testing centers are under enormous pressure with more than 10000 cases reported. for the 1st time in sidney, the number of people told they did not have corona virus while they were positive, has double to almost 900. in the u. s. president biden says the health system is prepared to handle the rise in cubic 19 infections. isolation, time for patients without symptoms, has been cut in half to 5 days. the u. k for now is not adding new restrictions even as this been reporting record infections in the past few days. and france is further tightening measures where the work from home policy and war restrictions for unvaccinated people. but it's holding off on a curse you for new years eve, welcome. our santa maria is here to tell us about the numbers in france, records being broken. there's wrinkles bring broken. the french are probably right to be concerned at this point. but what we'll try to do here is provider a little more context as to how the numbers off. let's start with the summaries and johns hopkins university of france,

which quite simply shows here 9200000 confirmed cases cumulatively, over the course of this pandemic in a population of about 6768000000. the number of deaths is upwards of a 123000 deaths. now let's go to our world data for the chance here. first of all, daily confirmed cases and this is what folly was referring to earlier. the uptake in cases it has been very, very quick excuse my drawing there, but it has got up to a point of being above 70000 cases a day, which is above as you see, the previous spike, which we had about 13 months ago of 60000 a day, the good news, if i can put it that way is the number of deaths. now you go back to the sound of the pandemic. we were talking about a 1000 deaths every day in france. it was a bad bad situation. now this level here is more in the realms of about $200.00. in fact fewer than 200 a j. but look at the increase of i just mock a little arrow there. you will see the uptake, which can correlates with the uptick in cases that we have seen as well. so vaccinations,

obviously become very important to what you're looking at here is the number of jobs administered every day. not the number of people who get vaccinated, but the number of actual syringes which go into arms every day. now it's good here . it's good. this is 650000 jobs a day at this point. and as you see, there's been a big increase in just the last month, again as cases of increased and what it relates to in the end is that 73 percent of the french pipe population is fully papa fully vaccinated or should say, but fully as we know countries are really looking for 80, probably even 90 percent, if they want to be truly getting on top of this. i do. thank you very much for that . come our, let's look at the situation in france. a bit more close to now with peter homey, who is a freelance journalist based in paris, and he's joining us live on the use our i thank you very much better for being with us on al jazeera. so over a 100000 cases a day in france, but the restrictions announced by the government not as tough as many had expected them to be. there's no new year's eve curfew, for example. why is this,

what's behind this government decision? radically giving everybody the, the final break over the holiday and the some of the restrictions that have been announced us certainly not as, as dire as might have been for by generate members of the public records are the ones that have to implement the various new restrictions there are some, for example, there's no, no more eating or drinking on public transport. there's no more eating or drinking in concerts, animals, gems, or all those sort of places that attract obviously the, the general public numbers are being limited in such events as concerts are those types of restrictions for indoor. ready activities in concerts, so on and so forth, slightly less restricted but restricted. nonetheless, the numbers to outdoor activities, sports events, soccer matches, of course, which have already been hit by the increase in college. 19 those numbers are now

limited to right. $5000.00 outdoor major sporting events that the parent a vaccine pass, which is due to be debated in parliament in january on january the 15th. is it likely to be approved because i know there's been a lot of opposition to yes or has it says or become a bit of a political football between the various parties say, i think it's likely to pass that there is to like a majority. that means guarantee, but as i at this point i think it's more likely to pass what it does is just change the green past as it were into one, but to approve your to vaccinations or well at least one to 2. and certainly the boosters being encouraged all the population mountains like the the time between or the period between the 2nd vaccination and the boosters drop gradually over the past 5 or 6 weeks. it needs to be 6 months now it's down to just

3 months. peter, at the government of prison, michael has been under quite a lot of pressure. i wonder how all of this, you know, and the pandemic is playing into the politics and the upcoming presidential election in april. yes, that's right. or spring is just around the corner. even though it just begun the winter, i guess, but 3 or 4 months away, i oversee the political campaign is picking up speed. all the various candidates are beginning to wave their flags and announce their platforms. and of course, i think there is 71. i from the i use a palace on the call with 19 situation on how the government could potentially be its last 4 months in the office is handling this latest increase the slightest spike in the, in the coverage 19th. i think of politics obviously playing

a substantial part, and i think that the government does now between the next 3 or 4 months. thank you very much for talking to us peter homey joining us there live from paris. while i find out about the situation in the u. k. now with jonah, how in london join i know for the covered restrictions will be implemented in england before the new year despite the rising number of cases that yep, good news for english people who are outliers. now in the u. k. the other states of the u. k. have implemented precautions ahead of the new year, holiday businesses and hospitality. it will be delighted of course, big gatherings can go ahead. bars and restaurants can remain open as normal. people can celebrate the new year, and this is a decision taken by the prime minister after a meeting, a crunch, meeting as it was described in the press with his chief medical and scientific offices to go over the latest date. and of course, that i did, data looks pretty, i watering very high infection numbers. 113000 new infections on christmas day

alone. but i think they will feel vindicated or the prime minister anyway. and he's cabinet vindicated in it's sort of cautious approached by the fact that hospitalization and death don't seem to be rising with the same sort of trajectory . and they'll be looking at data that suggests that if you've got micron, you're less likely to be hospitalized if you're hospitalized. you stay in hospital for a lesser duration than if you'd had delta or previous iterations of the virus and these sorts of things looking as well that i see your numbers, doctors saying data suggesting that people in i see you tend to be on vaccinated and looking at these sorts of things and issuing new guidance, well, it is hardly new. it's continued guidance, urging people to get boosted, urging people to get vaccinated, urging people to look after their own health. take their own responsibility for their own health and saying, we'll keep looking at the data as they said before. and if the need arises,

we will implement further restrictions all very well. of course, the scientists take all the different view. there is a pretty cohesive view amongst the scientists to advise the government that more restrictions are needed. and indeed it's described. the current situation is the greatest divergence between scientific advice and legislation since the start of the pandemic. why? well, because they say is, you look that you're, you're making these judgments based on an incomplete set of data. we still don't know everything that we need to know about or micron. and if it turns out in the next week or 2, that deaths and hospitalizations do scale up suddenly. well, by that stage, it will be too late to rein it all in. jonah, thank you for that. john hall live there in london to the us now. and as i mentioned earlier, the government has cut the isolation time for asymptomatic patients from 10 to 5 days present. joe biden says the health system is prepared for the rising case numbers, but admits the response hasn't been sufficient. our white house correspondent

kimberly harker reports in the u. s. cases of coven caused by the on the crime very, and are soaring, had expected to get worse in the coming weeks. the strain is being felton hospitals. new records are being fed 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 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 know 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 test 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 mayers 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 in australia, a mandatory p c. r. test needed for interstate travel are putting more pressure on health systems. our conte begins our coverage from the country, sunshine coast called the backup for kilometer. the testing center is across sydney. some people are waiting for 6 hours for tess with results taking days to be returned. some states require mandatory cover tests before the allow people to travel from other parts of astrology 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 cues that they see are testing. and now i'm believably long and the delays in getting test results. disappoint with unworkable. so if you've got people who are chewing up or unwell

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 covert 19 when they were positive. it blame the incident on a clinic clara. what's important is mistakes like that from the pathologist don't care again. what's the good news is it was picked up and, and those people who were given that incorrect information have now been informed. and i know that you south, while health had been in contact and made it very clear, that error is like that around acceptable. and he said, well, the government has put in place more fictions, including men, 3 masks 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 all going to get on the chrome. and if we're all going to get on the chrome, this, why decisive is when we have full vaccination, including a booster. sites like queens and have ignored requests from other premieres to drop the mandatory piece. ya test for those wanting to travel into site or the last week around 400000 people have crossed the border and on tuesday, queens and recorded the highest number of duddy infections. that number's expected to rise of the new year, break sarah clock, queensland, australia to india. now a 100 small health care workers have joined an ongoing protest by resident doctors of guffman drawn hospitals. this comes as many were dragged and beaten by police on monday night slash talked to poverty in the town about this, she is outside of hospital in new delhi. tell us about what this is about and what doctors are demanding and the impact is having on the health care system. especially right now with covet it's

a cold and rainy day, new daily, but that hasn't deterred the doctors who bid on strike behind me. and you can maybe see them up. yeah, them off more than $500.00 resident dog does. who've been on strike. and around us of the hickory of the police and personnel, several of them in ride, get up to go back down. this protest had been going on for several weeks. every jo housings of doctors up we are a resident doctor appeal for a national exam based off this. there's a lot of training sports and several hospitals and seats and colleges, but they can continue their education. and also walk in hospitals alongside, but this batch of residence that process has been delayed by sadly much thought because of rise in covered 90 cases earlier this year. and then because of ongoing cases in the supreme court, but several people have challenged the government's decision to resolve se spots to students belonging to backward communities. now these doctor se based went on

strike off to the government, did not pay heed to many the request to start this process. they say that on one hand, this means that several doctors, thousands of them, have lost a cru shelia in the education process. on the other hand, the doctors who have been showing up to work had been open body and working. no, i was in the middle of the pandemic because of missing stuff. not many organizations have joined this protest. just yesterday, paulson's of them were detained by the marching to the half minutes shuttle. some of them will even charge with writing. what this means is that a government off but is like this one. health care services are down to bare minimum as hundreds of them sit out even emergency services. the health care system in india is already on. i saw it's already under funded and just to day, the chief minister of jelly announced new restrictions as all mc on kisses.

continue to rise in india and new delhi. thank you for that avenue mitar live for a say in new delhi. and there's plenty more head on his seas, our including holding on to controversial past will tell you why some italians are reluctant to demolish fascist monuments. unable to pay rent and with no way left to go, we meet the displaced people force on to libya's streets in sport. a close shave for manchester, united industry league action coming up later. with jim ah, are 2 of the world news in, in myanmar, a military offensive against ethnic karen armed groups is intensifying. the military that sees power in a co, in february, has been accused of committing atrocities against villages. thousands of fleeing into thailand as bringing tony chang who's alive from the time myanmar border in

the town of may sot tony. this been intense fighting over the last few days at that border. tell us about the situation right now. well, it's a lot quanch's day. we have had a few little clashes. we heard her some bangs inside murmur, but the fighting seems to have moved in from the immediate border area. that's what the time military were telling us. they seemed a lot more relaxed, very different from yesterday when we saw fighting really right up to the river. my that's the, the border itself and villages pouring across. we even saw an attack helicopter operating along the border. a lot of villages said that that was the thing. they were really most scared about. the air strikes that had been coming in to the places they lived there. still on the tie side, there are more than 5000 people who came across in the last couple of weeks that we

spoke to a couple of them who said they still don't want to go home. they're still concerned, but they want to monitor what's going on. across the board, so they want to make sure that everything is secure. nonetheless, it does seem to be a little bit quieter today. so i think everything in the border area seemed a little more settled in the town of me, a wadi there was border trade going across so some semblance of normality. returning reminders, tony why myanmar is military is targeting this particular area along the time me on my board. there is of course, a long running conflict between the army and rebels on the occur in ethnic groups which have operated in this region. but there's been a significant escalation recently. there has been a couple of weeks ago. mamma's army moved in to the town of lake her jaw to try and a push out a group of the distance. i guess you'd call him who come down from the cities. we've seen this more and more since the military coup in february, young people who took to the streets to protest against the military takeover

peacefully found those protest put down with bloody oppression by, by the military. they, many of them had now come out to these border areas where ethnic dom groups have been in control in this area, the carini to try and organize themselves as armed groups themselves. we spoke to a member of the k, a new one of the current put current, political organizations who operate across the border. he said that the, the current had allowed them to come. they didn't want to encourage them, but they felt they deserve the right to to co exist in these areas. and that is clearly a view not shared by the mere my military they pushed in, but i think they're also seeing an opportunity to push the qur'an out of these areas. areas that they've operated in for decades. there was a ceasefire in place since 2012. but since the coo in february, that that processor has almost completely broken down. and i think what little

chest there was between the military and the ethnic tongue groups is now all but disappeared. 20. thank you for that day tony chang life, or is that the thailand myanmar border syrian st media is reporting israeli forces of carried out an air strike on a major port in the city of la takia. missiles have reportedly damaged containers at the port and several residential buildings. shops and a hospital is not very if anyone has been injured. the reports hadn't been independently confirms in sudan at least 23 people have been killed after a gold mine collapsed. 7 people were left injured after the accident of the mine in west calderon, to similar incident fair earlier this year killed 10 people. small scale miners returned to the mine after it was abandoned by state security forces would shut it down. the a fond of talked to revive. iran's 2015 nuclear deal has resumed in vienna. yvonne's foreign minister won't guarantee that us sanctions will be lifted on even

oil sales. those are jabari is covering this for us. he, she is not joining us live from vienna. so the 8th rounds of negotiations in vienna, daughter, how much hope is that significant progress will be made this summer and well fully. there's certainly a sense that to this could be the most critical round. yet, as since the european signatories to the nuclear deal are triggered the dispute mechanism in january of this year, because the u. s. loved the deal, and iran with reduced his commitment to the nuclear agreements at the russian ambassador to the talk says that this could possibly be the final round, the e u coordinator, who's hosting the talk said that time is of the essence. and of course, they're going to have to be difficult decisions, maiden at toronto and washington for there to be a conclusion to these talks. and of course, the rating delegation. who arrived in vienna on monday morning. and they are saying that they're here because they know that their talks are leading summer,

otherwise they wouldn't be here to begin with. i spoke to the deputy foreign minister from iran who was the head of the negotiating team from the iranian side and. and he had the following to say about where things stand after the 1st they concluded that i'm at home, or in my opinion, it's been a good beginning. all sides emphasized the importance of lifting sanctions of the issue of verification, of guarantee 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. one of the main issues iran has now, and they're hoping that that will be one of the main things addressed this week in the 1st few days. of each round is this selling of iranian oil on the international market. since the u. s. imposed sanctions on iran,

i in november of 2018. the radians have only been able to sell their oil to 6 countries, which guy got special waivers from the americans ever. they haven't been able to be paid for that because their banking sector is under also strict sanctions. and that is one of the main issues, right. now before that, the iranians were selling nearly $3000000.00 barrels of oil per day. they were opec's, 4th largest producer. but since the sanctions came into place, according to officials statement from the government said they are now selling just over 1000000 barrels of oil. and that is something that has crippled the country's economy. so the idea of lifting the sanctions is one of the main issues. and that is the 1st step for the iranians. and then iran will discuss the technical stops they will take in their nuclear program to go back to full compliance, which will see the country's nuclear program come under strict monitoring from the international atomic energy agency. that is the nuclear watchdog of the united nation. so there is a sense that this round is very critical and all sides are adamant that there needs

to be some kind of a conclusion in the weeks ahead before this 8th round wraps up and they're hoping that it will become the final round door. so thank you very much for that. dorsey jabari live there from vienna with the latest on the iran nuclear talks. and still ahead on the news ira we revisit our neighborhood in occupied east jerusalem. that has become a major flash point in these really palestinian conflict to dams collapse in brazil, leaving dozens of cities and towns flooded and in sport. one o football's biggest stars gives his thoughts on fever's proposal to stage a world cup every 2 years. stay with us, we're back out to me. ah, hello there, there's some exceptionally mild weather on the way for western areas of europe in

the days to come thanks to warm air that's working its way towards the north east. now that's in contrast to what's been going on in the north west. we've got cold air clinging on here, bringing some bitterly cold conditions. but we are going to see those temperatures pick up tick in places like london and paris with some unseasonal warmth to come. now we still got wet and windy weather, however, pulling in from the west. that thanks to weather systems, bringing some heavy rain across france, fleet and snow on the outs. and we have got warnings out for heavy snow across southern areas of germany. now that winter mix is going to push across to the east, but further south of if it's looking a lot dryer, that we are seeing some blustery winds blowing across areas of italy. it's west of greece on wednesday, though it is going to move on to turkey. by the time we get to the weekend is going to be unsettled there. but we are going to the temperature pick up. for example, places like hamburg, what a wintry mixed plaguing parts of scandinavia, smudges of snow, working their way across the baltic states. for britain,

an island was seen spells of wet and windy weather. we are going to see some warmth come in with 15 degrees in london by wednesday. ah, with it 19 is a public health crisis that has been compounded by capitalism. alley re navigates the big questions raised by the global pandemic power. this has been based on

private ownership in the pursuit of profit. 3rd, the world in a ton of capitalism is the pandemic back is the cause of so much of the suffering exploited protect the people or the prophet episode. one of all hail the look down on al jazeera lou. ah la again, you're watching the news hour on al jazeera with me fully battle. a reminder of our top stories. the u. s. has have the isolation time for crone of iris patients without symptoms from 10 to 5 days present. joe biden says the health system is prepared for the soaring number of case number of people in australia who were told

they didn't have grown a virus while they were in france. positive has now double to almost 900. a lab in sidney has apologized for what it calls a data processing era. and villages in myanmar have been fleeing to neighboring thailand as fighting between government and ethnic terrain forces intensifies violence was triggered by a military raid last week. while for more on what's happening at the thailand, myanmar border, let now speak to sally thompson, who's executive director of the border consortium, which is an angel working to provide humanitarian aid to the space people from jamar. sally's joining us from bangkok, thank you very much for your time. just give us a sense for you. so of the numbers number of people with cross recently the bordering to thailand, are they be being easily allowed to come in to tie that? oh, so she learned a lot of sweet because of the fighting in the airing se in myanmar it says place well over 10000 people from.