but does it apply it? well, what about the variance? i mean, oh, does it promptly write to people who have the only con variant, which as we've heard is highly transmissible. what about those were the delta variant? i think what we know is that this likely this period of intense risk of transmission is likely to happen around the time of diagnosis. we don't have enough data on, on the chrome as of yet, but there's no reason to think that it might be, it would be much longer than it was with delta. but i think again, the 5 days offer some buffer in terms of making sure that people's risk of transmitting to others has decreased substantially. again, they must be a symptomatic without any symptoms of bay 5 to rig isolation and also people even if they leave isolation on day 5, they should and wear a mask. the following 5 days. let's talk by the army con variant, which has been behind this steep rise in cases in not just a u. s. body

a number of countries. a south africa which detected or micron firs. high fitted, seen a decline in cases. it says it's pass it's outbreak peak, which suggests i guess that that there, the other countries perhaps could see a similar scenario or other factors that play into that. i think there are several factors that tell us how the trajectory of the kind of go. one of them is of course, availability of testing. so the more if you don't do enough thing, then you're not able to detect cases to me. and one of the things that you've already peak. so availability of testing is very important in determining what's happening with i'm across. i think of course, the other is that the population in south africa maybe are different from other parts of the world. it's a younger population which means people are more likely to have a symptomatic with and therefore less likely to get that for example. and also it's a country where a substantial proportion of the population has already had the prior episode of

cobra, which does offer some protection. although of course, not as good protection as vaccination and boosting. and now we're seeing an increase in the u. s. especially in pediatric admissions. g, a coded 19 children under the age of 5. how concerning is that if it's a great concern and that's particularly because that's the age group for which vaccination is not yet recommended. we don't have the data as of yet to data. and what those are, the vaccines will work for the last 5 years of age. and that makes it imperative that so for all the, those around the child that's been 5 years of age that they must be vaccinated. that means that parents, the friends family members and school teachers and school workers, we have to surround these young children with as much as possible is vaccinated and

boosted population, so they are themselves protected. thank you so much for talking to us wafa. our sandra from columbia university joining us there from new york. thank you for your time. thank you my trash. the rescue workers in brazil trying to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by flash flooding to dams have collapsed in the state of by at least 20 people have been killed. alexander, i'm pity reports. rescuers continues to work around o'clock monday, trying to reach resident, 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, went to dance, collapsed in the city of ether, buena, some residents returned to their homes to pick up their belongings to a 2nd floor window. emergency workers rescued, hundreds in nearby towns that heavy currents on the swollen rivers continue to complicate the operations wheel casual acquaintance of a lord yaki his

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. lot of the governor of the state of viet cleared it the worst disaster in the states history. half a 1000000 have been affected at least 16 thousands are homeless, 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 blood and does this 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. tory tis 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 or this is really. ready the kind of thing we unfortunately expect to happen more and more frequently. according to the less i business report, the, the sy proceeds and it's already 30 percent more frequent. then in pre industrial times. so that's pretty much once ebony the forecast calls for more rain, but even when that stops, it will take many weeks. if not month to recover from the devastation, allison ramp yeti al jazeera indian government has frozen the bank accounts of one

of the world's best known catholic charities. it says the organisation that was founded by mother teresa did not meet conditions under local law. the missionaries of charity van community schools, kitchens rather schools in hospice, is across the country. but he has long been accused of using his program to convert people to christianity. the charity denies his allegations. it comes after a recent string of attacks on the countries christian minority in the run up to christmas bargaining. the town has more from new delhi. the indian government has deemed that missionaries of charity, which is a charitable organization, started 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 or 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 india, 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. not 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 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 of charities. in fact, of the last 6 years, more than 6000 organizations have seen therefore, and funding being restricted. now tesla founder, ellen musk is facing

a backlash in china after bay. jean said his son lives had to close encounters with it space station earlier this year. the claims have not been verified by china has complained to the un space agency uses of the we bill messaging platform have labeled space exxon lives as space junk. and they're threatening to boycott tesla that speak to stephen freeland, about this, his professor emeritus of international law at western sidney university. and he's also the director of the international institute of space law and is joining us from sydney. thank you so much for being with us. steven beijing says they were to close encounters between satellites launched by in on mosque and it's international space station. it space station matter. but there's been no confirmation of this anywhere else. what's the likelihood, 1st of this actually happening and how common are these near misses? well, beijing did lodge a document with more details with united nation since her. there's no reason to

suggest that they're making their sol ah, there have been other ne misses with styling satellites, but with lots of other set lights in the past 2 years ago, or a large or folks of a shoot set light operated by the european space agency. itself had to take a collision avoidance maneuver to avoid the possibility of a collision with another styling satellite. so we are finding more and more that we're having nieces. her space is now a place that is very crowded. it's crowded with many millions of pieces of debris, but also of course, as more and more satellites are sent up particularly to relatively low, if orbits, then it becomes even more crowded in the chances of near misses become higher and higher. so what's being done then to reduces these risks of collisions? well, we have a legal framework and

a treaty framework which works very well in terms of damage where the reason collision, of course, we don't want the collisions to take place. but if this damage caused by collision is full, raging. but what we really need to do is have very interesting and difficult discussions about how we are regulating the numbers of satellites that we ascending the space. and also how we are conducting our activities in space, in terms of mitigating the possibilities of debris. they are 2 separate conversation, but they both relate to the same dangers of collision and they satellites, even if they're small, they're moving in such extraordinary states. that collision between 2 satellites would almost certainly cause destruction of both, right? but who should be responsible, save and for the actions of private companies like in on mosques, company that operate in space?

well, the treaty regime that i mentioned makes it very clear. so that every country and who that is a party to the main treaty, the aerospace treaty and in fact, virtually every space for in countries has a responsibility. they are responsible for what are called national activities in space. and that includes activities by their private company. okay, so if a, if an australian company goes into space and it does something wrong, then potentially the country, australia, itself, is responsible. so in this case, as i say, had there been a collision, then we would look at faults and responsibility and liability may lie with particular countries. but as i said, the problem is, is much greater than this name is. the problem is we really need to be careful because we are going to see more collision in space if we not cave right. in this particular case, a hasn't been a collision, as you said, but china has complained to the u. n. space agency. how do you see this and playing

out on from a legal point of view? well, i think it's fair, quite unusual. the way they've done this, but they have every right on the out of space treaty to talk about what they say, phenomena that risk human life and their claims are that they to type north. so we're, we're at risk speak with the satellite. so from a legal perspective, they're perfectly within their rights to make this complain. but as i say, what it does is it highlights that every body, all the major space faring countries have to take this seriously. i mean, china or itself has said that he wants to send up large constellations of small satellites, many thousands. and if you think about the numbers of satellites that are being projected to be sent up in the next 5 to 10 years, it was the number that we've been up in the past 60 years. so you can see the problem only escalate and it really requires all of the space very nations to sit

down and talk about. how are we going to manage the situation rather than allowing each country to go and regulate their own companies and allow them to send out the satellites or be it that it's their responsibility if something goes wrong. thank you very much for talking to us about this. very interesting to hear from stephen freeland, professor of international law at western city university. think of it. thank you. find the last week of 2021. we're looking back at the years, bigger stories, and those likely to make headlines in 2020 to one neighborhood in occupied is, jewel slim, has become a major flash point in the israel palestinian conflict. the thread of forces basement of policy and families in shakira sparked protests and set the scene for the war on gaza. harry fawcett reports deep into december and the temperature inside shakes euro was going up yet again. jewish nationalists,

marching in after jewish woman was starved and injured. earlier in the day, police raided a school to arrest a suspect. the woman's neighbor, a 14 year old palestinian girl from one of the families threatened with forcible displacement. the latest incident in a tumultuous year when this tiny neighbourhood became an international focal point at those fatter is coffee, has been one of those thrust into the glare after years fighting to keep his home dental. however, photos of the last few months has been very difficult. we walked on our case and our case reached the international level. but we suffered a lot because there had been violence against us by the settlers and the police, the police 1000000. the pressing issue here is the fate of for extended families awaiting a supreme court verdicts in their long running battle against israeli settler corporation, but claims ownership over their homes. but this is one of many cases across occupied east jerusalem over many years. so why did this case take hold in such

a way this year? i have one fact, it was a hugely effective social media campaign, challenging israel's argument that this was a private property dispute. then in april came weeks of protest and confrontation, starting at damascus gate, encroaching into the courtyards of the alex, a mosque compound or temple mount, and flaring repeatedly in shape shirad. you're engaged to the left of nuclear fusion. so it's not an accident that when you had a confluence of events surrounding the temple marked and shaped europe in may, the tremors were felt in in garza. hamas explicitly cited the events in shakira and alexa as justification for its launch of rockets toward jerusalem in may. the 1st act of an 11 day war which, according to a new report by the air, was monitoring group killed more than a 150 civilians and garza, as well as 12 in israel. one leading garza analysts says hamas was motivated by

events in jerusalem. but also by the palestinian authorities, canceling of planned elections to go or into a new round of escalation with israel to basically a claim that hum as is a major palestinian faction and a major determinant in palestinian and helen elections. and also to undermine the palestinian authority and the leadership of the fellows, an elephant in november shakes euros, palestinian families, and the settler corp rejected a compromise deal from the supreme court. it's now down to the judges to deliver their ruling one which could well raise the temperature again, harry force it al jazeera, occupied east, jerusalem. i still, i had on the news are reducing plastic waste and the need to cut down more trees. will tell you about chinese innovative recycling methods and it's a dog day for english cricket the fall out from the melbourne test coming up in

just a few minutes. ah with with

a whole ah ah, i'm not the source his gemma. thank you fully. australia is crickets as a celebrating and fasick ashes series victory over england. they wraps up the melbourne test match inside a 3 days to take an unassailable 3. you know, late as a test. davis on scott bite installed in the 2nd innings. he took 6 wickets for just 7 runs, his english batting line up crumbled. they were dismissed if the 68 to lose by an innings and 14 runs,

australia continue that dominance at home over england having not dropped to much in the previous to ashes series. they've hosted everything on the plan, fills out the ball, was being fantastic in that you're having him fill out his bay one session where it's really go to wide from this. yeah, it's just, it's really, you know, drains a night of everyone. i'm not dresser him is good, you know, that's not good enough performance. we all know that we need to put some pride breakage the badge and i, and make sure we come away from this talk with, with something. you know, this is as simple as her come really out any more. the stats vague grim reading for j rate side england is $68.00 all out. is that? no, it's totally in australia for a 117 years. it's been a decade since they lost want to test over there that was in sydney on the way to punch in the 201011 ashes series and england have lost 9 at test matches in 2021.

the highest number of defeats in a calendar year while australia wrapped up the series and just 12 days of cricket, england actually spent longer in quarantine on arrival in the country, from england bowl at monte panacea explained to us what went wrong for the tourists . well, i think england have made some selection errors and also decisions. you know, on the feel, your new brisbin, they should have both 1st sure brought you to played in the 1st test, much in a wristband and you know, i think you know, e c p, her prioritized, why will cricket a red bull? and they're in danger. you know, killing the goose, you know, that laid english in english crickets, golden egg, which is test cricket is the bread and butter it brings in the big box. and they need to kind of, you know, reset the box and like they did with what will cricket, 2015. and now they have to do that with vegetable cricket. joe, it's been in tremendous want to see his average. and 61 i think he's only the 3rd batsman in the history of test cricket in at the school. 1700, you know, runs in

a calendar year and then the rest of the top 7, i think the average in like 22. so it's a huge reliance for the whole year. you know, on jo reed scoring the runs and that's something that they need to address. we see a lot of young domestic pass when want to play t 20 cricket, you know, and, and, and the living there, which is, you know, both a living and they were on the do that. then actually i'm gonna play or test cricket . and that's one area they were to look into possibly, you know, produce flat to pictures, to encourage you know, some of the young about some to think, right? you know, you can by law on learn how to about long and then they can take that full into test cricket. and that's something that needs to be addressed. because at the moment this was a typical so county performance at test level. and we just see too many games, you know, in a domestic level definition, 2 and a half days. and it's just not good enough at the moment. if we wanna prioritize test cricket, which is you know, which, which is, you know,

i think england strength not too far away from the cricket ground. some of the wilds talk tennis players including me, a soccer touch down at melbourne, airport. head of the australian open the saw cuz the defending champion and haven't played since september after taking a break from the sport to focus on her mental health. no sign yet though of last is men's, when at no joke of it, she still hasn't confirmed if he's been vaccinated at any. those who have had 19 jobs are allowed to compete the grand slam tournament 2020 or us open champion. dominic team definitely won't be planning. he's pulled out with a long standing wrist. injury in the premier league, manchester united into re boss says he didn't like his sides performance at all as they were how to draw by new castle. it was united 1st game and more than 2 weeks, softer covey. 19 outbreaks within the sport, and they went behind them and it's been found maxima with a brilliant go to give me leave. you know,

i think got that really cool either with 20 minutes left adamson kalani coming off the bench to make it one you can so same place the winning at least on jacob murphy. sure. hit the post and then down to have a great say to keep out on the go elmer on united 7 points off the top full with games and hand over some of that rival through french wildcat when a killing him back pay says he's against staging the tournament every 2 years. the parents on my strike, i was speaking at the globe, a soccer balls and do by where he was named men's a player of the year. the world cup is currently held every 4 years that fee for president johnny and fantine was aiming to shake up the global football calendar. and i'm back isn't the only one who has doubts. my opinion is the work up is the walk up. it's a spatial thing because is, it's something every 4 years, you know, if you want to keep that spatial and you saw like, like our talk body,

the people talk about 8 about the best thing, the best competition in the world. if you are it every 2 years, it can be thought to be normal to play, walk up. and i want to say it doesn't know much. that's something amazing, something maybe you play one time in your life impossible for the body for the mental this low. and if you want to play for the longest on years, also we need to break. it's impossible to play every 2 years. work up for sure. maybe if possible, but to get high performance, that would be very difficult. i latoya sport for now. andy will have more toilets, hopefully. gemma, thank you very much for that. now the chile where companies are turning plastic into products that have the same look and qualities as would the recycling method is so advanced that or even uses types of plastic that don't usually get reused. a latin america to lucio newman, re for some santiago and he to fight finally gave up her job as an executive

secretary to become what she calls a transformer. making these mountains of plastic waste disappear is impossible. what at this small factory on the outskirts of santiago, but fan and her partners transform it into wood, except that it only looks like it or the are. but i've also miter recyclable plastic is everywhere and his properties are even better than those of food. for example, can you believe that this plastic wood is more resistant? it doesn't chip or bend or allow micro organisms to contamination and it won't swell because this waterproof aspect appears or no one i believe it out. we tested for shells. we're going to see how strong this stuff is. not a scratch, no marks. the plastic waste is minced into minute particles and then melting rewards turned it into these would like slabs. they're being used by

n g o z for rollerball, boardwalks, or furniture. let's see what we've got here. this is a motor oil container, fabric softener chlorine, there's lots of that more and lots of little yogurt, liquid yogurt jars, tons of detergent, shampoo, hair conditioner, of the sort of things people use every single day. but the problem is there's no way to make it disappear, or the problem was looking for him for what plastic or doesn't disintegrate, not even in hundreds of years. i keep looking at my, the only put him put the little did his plastic number 7 because it has police celine and ella, minium, nobody recycling, does it go straight to the rubbish dumps or the ocean the river. laura foundation produces echo wood out of waste. no one wants, they can picnic tables, desks, flowerpots, while teaching children at schools all over chile, the value of recycling thought is muscle, mental provost. this is more or less what a single person chose out

a week and soviet by children, to put it in the bottles, what the press it in, and we pick it up at their schools. and we transform it into this, which recall eco vote. collection centers are being set up everywhere. but critic said this type of circular economy has a fundamental flaw novel and it doesn't have a fundamental change in our consumption happens if we continue generating the same amount of waste without changing the productive model that generates it. we're just kicking the ball forward perhaps, but there's one important advantage to this still fledgling industry made from waste. it should help reduce the need to cut down more trees. yes, another environmental casualty of our times. you see in human al jazeera santiago. last for this news are on al jazeera but do stay with us sandy, back in just a few minutes with more of the days news on al jazeera. and as always,

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