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exhausted and fed up medical workers in india, protests against lack of training and support at government. one hospitals and china has filed a complaint with the un space agency again, still on mosque will tell you why a as we count down to the new year 2021 is ending exactly the way it began. corona virus cases are on the rise. again, all over the world, driven by the army kron variant in the u. s. president biden says the health system is prepared to handle the rise in infections and 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 it's reporting, record infections in the past few days. but conversely, france is tightening meshes, is implementing a work from home policy and placing more restrictions on vaccine the people. but

it's now holding off on a curfew for new year's eve life to join a hole in london. our journalists not with a situation in the u. k. first, no new restrictions in england despite the cases being on, on the rise. yes, bar shelves in the prime minister taking the decision after consulting his chief medical and scientific offices not to go further than the fairly light touch restrictions introduced before christmas despite as you say. so pretty. i watering numbers 113000 new infections on christmas day alone. but i think taking that decision based on the fact that whilst hospitalizations are taking up, which they're not going up with anything like the same. so the trajectory depths, maintaining a fairly plateaued level and looking also i suspect at data coming out of south africa, corroborated here. suggesting that if you get the on the chrome variant, you're less likely to be hospitalized than if you had got the previous delta vary.

if you are hospitalized, you tend to spend less time in hospital and i see you wards in south africa and in the u. k. reporting the vast prevalence of vaccinated patients rather than vaccinated patients. so the advice remains to get vaccinated to get boosted and to maintain sort of personal responsibility for your health and the health of others. the problem is the scientists, uniformly agree with this approach. a lot of them, including some advising the government, say more restrictions on needed a war and this is being done on the basis of incomplete data. we still don't know enough for everything that there is to be known about the severity of alma cronum. we don't know what the effect of the christmas gatherings will have had thus far, and they will that if suddenly, debts and hospitalisation is due, shoot up by that stage once it's happened, it's too late to effectively rein them in. with the quick introduction of new

public health measures and what's the situation elsewhere in europe, jenna much, much as we've seen in previous sort of various phases of the pandemic, europe is able to look back at the u. k. they, they lag 2 to 3 weeks behind what happens here. so they have done this time when the u. k introduced travel restrictions a week or so later. europe did the same thing with predictably limited results. the u. k. introduced light touch measures and now we see france and germany. others have gone further, of course, but france and germany also introducing light touch measures, looking at the same data coming perhaps to similar conclusions and deciding that the really important thing here is the booster campaign. so german is you outline that introducing some new restrictions and measures over the new year period. but putting the focus on getting people to try to buy time for that to happen. france reducing the delay off to the 2nd dose of the vaccine before you can get a booster from 4 months to 3 months. and, you know, everybody essentially in the same boat in this part of the world. looking at what

happens here looking at the data, and i'm hoping that it turns out to be less severe. that it was that the vaccine that it than delta was that the vaccine program continues to be an effective way of controlling it. so that in time, the hope of course is that we will learn to live with this iteration of the virus, rather than having to go down the route of more lockdown. jonah, thank you very much for that. john hall live in london. in australia, a mandatory p. c. r test needed for interstate travel, putting further pressure on health systems, fire clock reports from the countries. sunshine coast calls backed up 4 kilometers at testing centers across sydney. some people are waiting up for 6 hours for tests with results taking days to be returned. some states require mandatory cover tests before the allow people to travel from other parts of australia that includes queens 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 the hospital. but of course at choose for p c r testing. and now i'm believably long and the delays in getting test results are getting to point where they're unworkable. so if you've got people who are showing up who are unwell and people who are at high risk of serious illness, they're the ones you have to find early hospital pathology. you this in sydney sent out a premature text, advising nearly 500 people. what they were negative for cove at 19 when they were positive it blaine, the incident on a clinical era. 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 dos. people who were given that incorrect information have now been informed. and i know that you, southwell self have been in contact and made it very clear that error is like that

are unacceptable. then he says, wells government has put in place more restrictions, including mantra masks, to be worn indoors due to the surgeon cases, but is ruled out returning to a state wide lockdown. we would expect that pretty well. everybody in use of wiles, at some point will get on the chrome. we're all 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. that's like queens and have ignored requests from other premieres to drop the mandatory p. c. r test for those wanting to travel into site or the last week around 400000 people have cross the border and on tuesday, queens and recorded the highest number of dully infections. and that number is expected to rise over new year break. 0 clock. queensland, australia, hundreds of health care workers in india have joined an ongoing protest by resident doctors of government run hospitals. this comes as many would drive din beaten by police on monday night avenue me town has more from you daily. oh,

approved with the national. not every year, with that, no 1st laid bunch of money to say that on one hand with both of them have north south on the new, the good yard in their education process. and on the other hand, over burden the many doctors who have been showing up to work in the middle of the pandemic. now, several other medical organizations have extended their support to the doctors will be here on monday night when they were marching with their demands to the health minister, home, persons of them were detained. some of them even beaten by the police and charged

with writing. doctor said they were protesting peacefully. what this means is that in hospitals like this one, medical facilities and services are down to a bare minimum as capable and continue to rise all busy. just good morning journeys, chief minister of fresh restriction, including slowing down. jim, a restaurant weaving capacity with meaning. yeah. he now the news officials in indonesia say they will not offer refuge to a group of ro hang out on a stranded boat. they say the vessel will be turned away, but they'll help repair it froze. scent are providing food. ra, a $120.00 people, including children on board. bring a mostly refugees from young marcell to countries such as felicia thailand and indonesia, to seek refuge from prosecution. brideau who made progressing. i got unload, remove his job is to secure the country's border. the raw hinder,

are not indonesian citizen with can't just bring them in as a refugee is. this is in line with government policy. hello. i spoke to this man, i me to see indonesia, director for amnesty international. he says indonesia is violating its international obligations towards refugees is not legal. and i think in the name of the session to send 2nd bow to malaysian water is on considerable the post. the bowed back is, is a violation of international obligations of indonesia. i think international law clearly imposes obligations on states including indonesia, to protect human rights of refugees arriving on their shores. and their health condition is, is worrying. i think, 51 children and 60 women is really in a distress situation. so i think we are very worry about the conditions of their life threat life and that threatening situation. and i think the government of

indonesia should do, you know, the thing that they have done last year when they allow almost 400 refugees from myanmar to come into the country and to treat them properly as rude, local facilities of refugee and for the, for the new case in beer in, in the ocean water, i think we, we, we think indonesia is taking the wrong decision by sending them on the high seas. it will. busy put them at risk and dangers at sea. in myanmar i military offensive against ethnic korean armed, co says, intensifying the military that the power in february as in a case of committing atrocities against villages. thousands are fleeing into thailand. tony chang has more from the ty bought a ton of may sot it's a lot quanch's day. we have had a few little clashes. we heard a,

some bangs inside ma'am about 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 village is 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 or 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 and i was bought

a trade going across so some semblance of normality. returning cilla, head on al jazeera, synagogues, you commuter train, makes its 1st journey as a country moves to east traffic jams and reducing plastic waste and the need to cut down more trees. all tell you about today's innovative recycling methods. ah hello there. let's start in south asia and from the satellite image, you can see it remains very settled in the south, but up in the north, we are seeing those clouds bring rain to central areas. we've got some warnings out for funder storms, possible hail across places like medea pradesh. by the time we get later in the week, it's going to push across to north eastern areas of india such as b ha and a sun. but up in the north west remains cold as well as what

a dry we've got some fog and smog issues remaining for new delhi. and we're going to have some cold air blowing down from afghanistan across northern areas of pakistan and india in the days to come. now it's dry a down in the south. got a few showers coming in for sure lanka, but it's not as wet as we expected to be. for this time of year. we are going to see the sleet and snow pick up from a pole in the days to come, and it will be wessa in bangladesh towards the weekend. now was we move across to east asia. we've got more cold air blowing down northern areas of china, knocking temperatures down in beijing, but also for the korean peninsula. and that's going to bring more wintery weather to northern and western areas of japan with heavy snow. but there is a low on wednesday. it does pick up on thursday and if we look at the temperature in so what we're going to be right down to minus 4 on friday, but they will be sunshine. ah

ah, mother nature's gift of cold full landscapes. but strong infrastructure governance arising were investments are waiting to flourish, were greeted even supplied by tradition, and were beautiful possibly with are offered ah ah, welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera has 2021 come so close going of eyes cases are on the rise again, driven by the army con,

very into the you. k is holding off on any restrictions. the west is reducing quarantined for people with an intense and franchise, introduced new measures, but not for the new year. holiday. indonesian officials say they will not offer refuge, show a group of ro hang of refugees on a stranded boat. they say the vessel will be turned to weight that will help repair it firsthand are providing, shoot. this 1st part by fishermen on sunday. and villages in myanmar have been saying to me, bring thailand as fighting between government and ethnic correct forces intensifies . the violence was triggered by a military wait last week. assyrian state media is reporting is ready, forces have carried out an air strike on a major port in the city of la cock. yeah. it's not clear if anyone has been injured the reports and been independently consent. it's the 2nd reported israel. yes, tracking sir. yet this month, mama jam june has a details in serious major port,

city of latasha, the sound of air strikes thunder in the distance as fireballs light up the night sky. this is the result of israeli missiles, according to syrian state media. the syrian government also reports that residential buildings, a hospital shops and containers were all damaged in the attack. details that could not be independently verified. the port of the talk here is in the west of the country and handles most of serious imports. this is the 2nd report, it is really airstrike there this month. the earlier attack happened on december 7th and also targeted the container facility. it was reported to be the 1st on the facility since the start of the war in syria in 2011. is missile strikes on the

talk yet were larger than the previous ones. israel's military has not commented on either of the airstrikes but it has previously confirmed conducting raids against iranian targets inside syria. mamma, jim dropped a visitor. russia's supreme cortez role that one of the country's most prominent human rights organisations should to be close. memorial international documents, abuses committed by the former soviet union. prosecutors accused a group of distorting history. it also faced charges under the criminal laws on angels and loyal international says the accusations are politically motivated and as i said, it will continue its work. now, recent violence committed by far rights groups in italy have ignited a national debate on fascists monuments across the country. x ray, i'd say a few people are questioning whether the statues of those of pushed for races causes in the path should be demolished. atom rainy reports from roll

nearly 80 years after his fall, benito mussolini obelisk still towers into the roman sky. it stands outside the photo italy co, formerly known as the ford, mussolini. it's here the dictator built a sports complex to cultivate the new man and his fascist regime. people have mixed feelings about these monuments is sanders with that everything that's your and seeing all the stadiums in these monuments forces us to face the past every day. by not forgetting the past it, make sure that we won't repeat it installed yes or toward i, or this is italian history, an architecture, and it needs to stay as it is. this stadium bill under mussolini direction is a reminder of the importance of sport for him. he saw it as a way to build a national identity. fascist also saw sport as a way to prepare the population for war and inside the complex of fresco of mussolini still graces the walls. prime ministers have given speeches here in

recent years under the gaze of the former dictator who collaborated with hitler and the holocaust. across the country monument to fascism are everywhere. some pay homage to saline for public works. others glorify the regime for creating an italian empire. experts say that unlike germany, italy never had a reckoning with its fascist past. decades later, italy also stands apart from a global movement, pushing to tear down statues and flavors and those who fought for racist causes. even one of italy's oldest anti fascist organizations is against demolishing fascist monuments and mortals in case she see go air for it wouldn't be too simplistic to do that in a distraction from the real work we haven't raised any of our history. even bed parts from ancient rome, we have made

a point of explaining it. and that's what we should do with fascism historian andrei. ammonia says there seems to be an acceptance of these monuments. there is a sort of normalization or legitimate zation of fascism will. should explain to people that that, that was a brutal or a gene that was the tucker ship. and even if we leave monuments, we should the knowledge that that is not democracy is something else a common reframe in italy, is that fascists were brutal but they did good things too. with that idea in mind, it's likely there monuments will stand for years to come. adam rainy al jazeera road. india's 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. it's been accused of trying to force people to convert to christianity. charity denies the allegations,

the move comes after a recent series of attacks on the christian minority in the run up to christmas to senegal. now when you come eat, avail service has began operating officials say it will help reduce pollution that many people say it is too expensive for them. tiers as a bank bayport's at a cost of $1300000000.00. this new rel project is aimed at modernizing center goals, transport system, and east traffic and pollution does a good. it's a train that may to park once con, enter, as is done in old big countries. and i making a commitment to myself to take the t e r for the next visit to the pickin and the chimney algio to show that it's a modern tool at the disposal of all senegalese, whatever their status for now, it connects docker and gemini, our job, 40 kilometers away with a journey time of 45 minutes. and the plans are for it to be extended to other

parts of the country. our plan, we legally do you for your understanding. a ticket costs travelers $3.00 with half of the population living below the poverty line that's expensive for many. and given the average monthly wage in senegal is $160.00, a daily return journey would cost many people most of their pay. but supporters say there will be solid economic benefits. mom as you buy louisiana, as an industrialist. i'm not going to use it because i'm a businessman isn't. but maybe my employees, though to work for me live in the suburbs, will be able to use it and will allow us to have our employees at a fixed time and to boost production rama i will fix. it's estimated that more than 100000 passenger the day will use the trains. and officials say they are designed to protect the environment of the roads in the capital, a gridlocked with polluting old cars and buses. senegal has one of the fastest growing economies in africa, and president mackie sell says,

this is only the start of his plan to strengthen that. with more railways, roads and sports stadiums to come. a said big, i'll just do. japan's defense minister has agreed to establish a military hotline with china is in an effort to address mounting tension in the water is around taiwan. tokyo says it is focused on bringing peace and stability to the taiwan strait to protect national unity security. sorry. she boiled, urging good i think during the video called with the chinese counterpart, japan's defense minister key. she expressed our concerns about the situation in the east trying to see including the waters around the sand cock who islands and problems involving the south china sea and chinese coast guard law. he also stressed the importance of peace and stability and in the taiwan straits, and called for increased transparency of china's defense policies and military power for more killed olivia. north korean leader kim jong own is holding a major meeting of the ruling party. he is expected to outline strategic and

tactical policies for 2022. north korea is grappling with an economic crisis and international sanctions because because of its nuclear weapons program, that s live founder in on mosque is facing a backlash in china after beijing said his satellite said to close encounters with it's space station earlier this year. the claims have not been verified by china has complained to the u. n. space agency uses of the we bill messaging platform have labeled space x our lives as space junk and they're threatening to boycott tesla. katrina, you has more from battery. china's foreign ministry has lashed out at the united states saying that countries should be responsible for the actions of their private companies. aging, also accused washington of having double stand and saying that it often calls for safety in space. but the same time does not abide by international space treaties. us endangering other crews there. now bating has confirmed that there were 2 close

encounters between elan musk starling satellites. and the chinese 1st permanent space station, the tin gold one in july. and the 2nd occasion happened in october. now china space station itself is quite new. it's cool module 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 at all, and there quite a huge name here in china, very popular electric brand called they had the factory in shanghai. and elan muscle cells, about a 4th of all his cars to chinese consumers here just over night, more than 19000000 comments about this. and although beijing itself was very hesitant to mention a long moscow test by name these chinese internet uses were not. they had

a lot of critical comments. they accused even laska, being shameless and reckless and of his company is causing trouble in space. the jury in glean maxwell fix trafficking trial is resuming deliberations. on tuesday, the british socialite pleaded not guilty to gloomy teenagers for under age sex with the late founding fear, jeffrey epstein, the jury has signal it is not close to reaching a verdict. maxwell face up to 70 years in prison if found guilty. not to chilly, where companies are turning plastic into products that have the same look and qualities as would the recycling method is so advanced that he even use aside so fast that don't usually get reused? a lot america elissia newman report, some santiago and he defied fun, 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 had fun 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 it's properties even better than those of food. for example, can you believe that this plastic wood is more resistant? it doesn't triple bend or allow micro organisms to contamination, and it won't swell because this waterproof beth appears on. no one. i believe it out. we tested for shells. we're gonna see how strong this stuff is. not a scratch, no marks. the plastic waste is minced into minute particles and then melted before to turn 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 a disappear. i want to put in for him, for what plastic are doesn't disintegrate. not even in hundreds of years. i've been looking at multiple hemp with whom it did his plastic number 7, because it has polyethylene and aluminum. nobody recycles, does it go straight to the stumps or the ocean? the river laura foundation produces echo wood out of waste. no one once. making picnic tables, desks, flower pots, while teaching children at schools all over chile, the value of recycling. a thought, if margaret must oh man ruth, this is more or less what a single person chose out a week. and so be in by children to put it in these bottles of precedent, and we pick it up at their schools, and we transform it into this,

which recall decode gabriella collection centers are being set up everywhere. but critics say this type of circular economy has a fundamental flaw, noble and dea, come on. it doesn't promote a fundamental change in our consumption habits. 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 distill fledgling industry made from waste. it should help reduce the need to cut down more trees. yet another environmental casualty of our times to see a newman al jazeera santiago ah, login. i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera as 2021 comes to close. current of iris cases are.