is across the world, or frances reported nearly 10900000 new current virus cases. the highest figures since the pandemic began. it comes a day off the restrictions with tightened. the u. k is also seeing a rec hold search. the government is resisting another lockdown. john hall explains the christmas and new year holiday period was always likely to speed the advance of the micron variant. and so it is proving in the u. k. record 129000 new infections were reported on tuesday, but the government's decision not to disrupt new year's celebrations. and instead to emphasize vaccine booster shots reflects positive signs that hospital admissions and death numbers aren't rising with the same intensity. we're looking at the data, we wouldn't hesitate to act if we saw that the data told us that we needed to introduce further measures. but so far that's not what the data is telling us. the cautious optimism that on the chrome may be less of a threat than the previous delta variant isn't being embraced everywhere. countries

like the netherlands, austria and denmark are under varying degrees of lockdown and in spain. a wave of new infections has provoked such a public concern that free coven 19 tests are running out. prompts, though, is holding its nerve also promoting vaccine boost shots as the 1st line of defense . it's reduce the required delay before getting a boost up from 4 months to 3. on the morphic, i think the government is doing what they can with what they know about the virus that is spreading throughout the world. it's not only here, so we just hope that they won't be at $56.00, 7th or 8 days, but they're doing what they must. germany is taking a hybrid approach. buying time, the government says for boosters to work with a range of restrictions including restaurant curfews night club closures, and limits on sports and other public gatherings. it's expected that all micro will become the dominant karone of or a strain in germany within days. just last,

almost or something has to be done to bring the infection, think it down. but i also understand that we have to look ahead to the next few weeks. looking ahead is made easier by watching what's happening in the u. k. currently, the, on the chrome epicenter, the u. k. governments like touch booster driven gamble based on data that still evolving will either be proven right to everyone's relief or wrong, perhaps giving other countries just enough time to change course. jonah, how al jazeera, one of russia's most prominent human rights groups, is in order to shut down by the supreme court. memorial international has been documenting abuses committed by the former soviet union for more than 30 years. prosecutors say is distorting history. a chance the group denies bernard smith, now over the past 12 months, this has become a familiar scene for human rights groups and activists in russia. this

time, the axis colon on an organisation made famous for identifying the millions of victims of starlings purchase. as the judge finished reading the order to liquidate memorial shouts of shane came from a public gallery ah. * that is telling to ours, russia is moving from the, or the re, variance in system for some kind of cost more than totally theory system in russia. which would be kind over linkage with the soldiers or you don't even partly do the stolen. so it's very dangerous. more recently, memorial has spoken out against the discretion of critics under president vladimir putin o. outside court as elsewhere, there's little room for that. in today's russian,

prosecutors accused memorial of organizing large scale media campaigns aimed at discrediting the russian authorities. china. what happened today was very sad, although it would be untrue to say we weren't ready for it. it was one of the unfortunately predictable outcomes of the present judicial system. of course, nothing is over with us. we will appeal and the maria will live on with the people because it's the people behind it serving this great cause. first and foremost, their work will continue the move against memorial perhaps a year that is seen or thought in jail or outlaw individuals or groups. the criticise of vladimir putin but the ban against memorial international stands out even in the current climate and would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. bernard smith, al jazeera, of joining a fly from moscow is tatiana scovella, a lawyer of international memorial. good to have you with us. so does this ruling mean memorial is over?

now 1st of all, this ruling has not entered into force yet, and we have one month, month t is filed in the field and after the appeal hearing his elbow. and we understand that highly likely that the bill hearing will not be in favor of the memorial ban on the organization will have to be soaped. so does that mean you do plan to appeal it, but you're not keeping your hopes up for a positive result? yes, that's true. why do you think authorities are targeting you? when most of what memorial does is documenting soviet era abuses. according to the administers faction filed by the general public. it is office,

the supreme court, the former region of all him being falling in national memorial is the failure to comply, to comply with. this is called for nature law, according to which any of them they shall lay balden before an agent should. among all of things, olibo always publication with the farm agent label their requirements, t. u late been a not ah, ah, on law. but nevertheless, it does not prevent the prosecutor's office from stating that the labeling is does not comply with the requirement. the real reason, however, was decrypt by the prosecutor's office in a closing argument, they said that the real reason is watch international, moral does the general process. it is often does not like that

international memorial. ah, reveal the repressions of the solid union and promotes the legal and moral rehabilitation of persons subject to political oppressions during the socket erupt. because according to the persecution, bish bring shadow to the reputation of the soviet faith and somehow the minds its reputation as the state which fought against naziism. alright, thank you for your thoughts on that. tatiana, a group of afghan women has been protesting and cobbled to demand equal rights from the taliban. they march through the streets. days after the government introduced new rules for long distance travel. women must be accompanied by close male relatives if traveling for more than 72 kilometers. 5 over serology is

a full member of the afghan women's network. she says the taliban continues to deprive women of their freedoms. people could not move around in afghanistan, women late without having a mad. i'm especially, you know, outside of the cover city or outside of their cities, whatever. there were we had to get my handling. but you know, but towards the end of the like, what's the or in just before the tone of on arrived in and it's done. all of this was, was really a lot more relaxed. and the real reason mainly was because these, most of these women don't have anybody to take as a matter, not a lot of ease, women don't have them. and their mom has, has actually, maybe some of them have died or therapy all the bread winner of their families. so you know, they have to travel a bit far to go and visit some family members and they were doing it alone. so now this thing starting all over again is just that is just another way of,

of putting restriction on women and, and for no, for no apparent reason. because you know, the, this is it, it's almost like, you know, when there is nothing else for the 21 to do then. oh, they don't want to do then because after 2 cases, i don't understand which to tell me the truth. i really don't know what is going on and why is it that half of the, in or the correlation of interest on all of the women or, or thieves and the tone about, or the teacher catchers and or the police or whatever. and here we are. so why everything falls on behalf of the women? it's absolutely beyond me. i don't, i don't get and these women, they're absolutely right. this is, this is courtney to, to, to curb our, our, our freedom. the judge in the thanks trafficking trial of delay. maxwell says she's concerned cove with 19 could stall proceedings. she's urging jurors to speed up

deliberations to avoid getting the virus which could delay a verdict. maxwell, he's accused of grooming teenagers for under age. thanks with the late find. nancy . jeffrey epstein speak together on his, on those following the trial in new york. so what kind of changes as the judge made while the judge wants to extend the jury deliberations longer than normal in order to give this jury more time to try to more quickly reach some sort of verdict there . and the 5th day of jury deliberations, the 4th full day, and as of this hour they've been deliberating in total for about 29 to 30 hours. they are not sequestered, meaning that the jury goes home every night and then comes back to the court. the next morning, and the judge is worried about in her words, the astronomical increase in covert 19 cases here in new york. there's about 50000

a day in new york state. well, more than half of those coming from right here in new york city, new york city has become the epicenter of the new coverage search here in the united states. so the judge is saying to the jury and told the lawyers on both sides, that she might extend the jury deliberations today through the evening, perhaps. if necessary. she's just worried that the longer this goes on, the bigger chance that one of the jurors could come down with the virus and that would completely hold the deliberations. so that is why she is making these changes and really raising the red flag if you will, of warning and sort of hinting to the jury directly. let's get, let's get a decision. let's get a verdict as soon as you can, because it's for everybody safety, according to the judge. all right,

thanks so much gabriel. i was on the now tesla found that ellen mosque is facing a backlash in china after beijing said his satellites had to close encounters with it's space station. earlier this year, the claims have not been verified. got beijing has complained to the u. n. space agency joining us live from dublin is leo and right, he's a space commentator. good. have you with us. so is space privatization leading to space tension? is that what's happening here? yes, quite certainly. what's happening is that the commercial exploitation of space is now starting to spill over into international diplomacy. d, u. n. space committee is a good works agency of one of these agencies, but sets up a schools programs. it organizers for big countries to help the developing world to

improve their space return. so it's unprecedented for somebody to use those little agency as a means of making a formal protest. quite exceptional, but it's also interesting. but the chinese have done this very politely. and there is nothing belligerent about the note, and most importantly, they've laid out precisely the, the incident. so they're concerned about. and just within the last several hours, both incidents have been confirmed independently by international observers. all right, so you've just mentioned that the incidents have been confirmed. what can the un space agency do? what kind of power does it have? well that, that is the problem sunny. that is the wild west. the air in space right now, because nobody anticipated that somebody like along most would launch 2000

tiny little satellite quarterly around the quantity all directions. and he's not the only one. the british government is backing a project which, which launched 3 dozen of these things just yesterday, the chinese themselves, the plans for these things. so i think this chinese, you know, we'll get everybody thinking, i'm really, it is undoubtedly time looking at this objectively. it is on definitely time for the international community to start doing some regulated in by wild wilderness out there. could this lead to space conflict between nations can drag nation states into well, there are definitely problems here. this is different from the issue. for instance, the chinese are the russians or the americans testing, or indeed even the indians testing anti satellite systems. and these are

caused enormous amounts of danbury swirling around and faced the most recent by russia earlier this year. so that's a different problem. the issue here is that these people are and regulation with the long mosque, no courteously dislikes government regulation. he would be resistant to any new rules, but he has a problem. he long mosque has just opened an enormous car manufacturing facility in shanghai, china. he's producing $40000.00 cars a month for the european markets in china, so he does not want to make the chinese government angry. all right, thanks so much for your analysis of that male and right. south africans have been protesting plans for a launch oil exploration saying it'll threaten marine life for me. the miller has

more from the western cape communities and environmental groups have for weeks been protesting against the planned size make testing by shell. now the company had wanted to start off shore exploration for oil and gas just of south africa's east coast. but those opposed to it say the oil company doesn't have the environmental approval and has not complied with environmental regulations. fishing communities living on the wild coast, say the environmental damage will negatively impact their lives. activists are concerned the seismic testing which would include ongoing loss of noise would devastate marine life now. well, you know, this month a different course gave show. going to conduct the seismic survey while shall say that respects the latest court ruling which has stopped its plans. it's also warned

that halting the survey may force to abandon the project entirely. it's also said it's reviewing the judgement, but for now, this is a victory for conservationists, as well as people living in the area. but south africa was energy minister, quit a montage here. he said, and his defend the shelves plans saying critics want to deprive africa of energy resources. this is despite global efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and pressure from many governments around the world. and investors to limit the carbon emissions responsible for global warming from rita mina al jazeera south africa companies until they are turning plastic into products that have the same look and qualities as would the recycling method is so advanced that even uses types of plastic that they usually get reused. our latin america to lucy newman reports from 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. but 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 contaminated and it won't swell because this waterproof has better? yes 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 my new particles and then melting before to turn it into these would like slabs every used by

n g o z for rollover 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, the sort of things people use every single day. but the problem is, there's no way to make it disappear. i want to put in for him, for what plastic doesn't disintegrate, not even in hundreds of years. i've been looking at my, the elephant hemp with whom it is plastic number 7, because it has polyethylene and aluminum. nobody research because does it go straight to the rubbish dumps or doesher in the river? north foundation produces echo wood out of waste. no one wants making picnic tables, desks, flour, porch while teaching children, it's schools all over chile, the value of recycling. and thought, if motor muscle men of bruce,

this is more or less what a single person chose out a week and soviet by children to put it in these bottles of precedent and will be caught up at their schools. and we transform it into this, which recall ecoboost gabriella. collection centers are being set up everywhere. but critics say this type of circular economy has a fundamental flaw, noble and beer commodity. 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 in human al jazeera santiago. well, stella had an al jazeera in soul tide humiliating day for english cricket or full

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whole lou ah, all right, it's time to catch up with all the sports news. his and thank you so much, sammy, well, australia crickets is all celebrating and in fact, sick ashes series, victory over england, they wraps up the melbourne test inside 3 days to taken on assignable 30 late australia's a salient scott bowen that storing in the 2nd innings he took 6 wickets for just 7

runs. as england's batting lineup crumbled dismissed the 68 to loose findings and 14 runs, australia continued their dominance at home of england having not lost the match. and the previous to us, she series that they've host the areas on the plan fills, you know, i think a ball is be fantastic in that they are having a fellow being one session where it's really going away from us. yeah. it's just, it's all you know, james, might of everyone in that dresser room is good. you know, that's not good enough performance. we all know that we need to put some pride package, the badge and, and, and make sure we come away from this talk with, with something. now this is as simple as i can really add any more. while england's 68 all out to the lowest title in australia for a 117 years, it's been a decade now. since the last one, a test over there that was in sydney in 2011. and england of last 9 test matches in

2021. their highest number of defeats in a calendar year. well, we've been talking to former england ball monte panel, so about what went wrong for the tourists? well, i think england have made some selection errors and also decisions. you know, on the few of your new brisbin they should have both for us sure. brought you to play in the 1st test, much in a wristband and you know, i think, you know, e, c, b, for bravo ties, white will cricket a red bull. and they're in danger. you know, killing the goose 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 cricket jr. it's been in tremendous. won't. it's yeah, he's already 61. i think he's already the 3rd batsman in the history 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 batsman want to play t 20 cricket, you know and earn a living there which is you know, a bow a living and they're on the do that then actually going to play or test cricket and that's one area they're going to look into possibly, you know, produced flat to pictures, to encourage you know, some of the young about some to think, right? you know, you can by law and learn how to buy 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 our domestic level definition, 2 and a half day, then 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,

well some of the world's top tennis players, including nightmare soccer, arrived the head of the australian open. i saw chris the defending champion, but hasn't played since september after taking a break to focus on her mental health. no sonia's of last year's mens. when another joke which he still to confirm if he's vaccinated against covet 19 west ham, hit 4 goals and moved up to 5th in the english, primarily west time had come back from a goal down against what foot. and they did just that algiers sideband rama. there putting them to one up, they went on to secure a for one victory. having gone into the match was just one when in 7 games, samson holding taut onto a 11, draw james or crowds with the games. opening goal. hurricane he cries from the spot, the spurs sam to a down to 10 men by this point of just about how long for a draw tottenham had 2 goals, disallowed a separate, rolled out for foul on the goalkeeper spurs are 6 in the table,

but do have games in hand on the teams above. manchester, united managed round fragment, criticize his own famous a $11.00, joseph capital, on monday, and as think of only school be equalized. the 3rd side was the 1st game in more than 2 weeks. following a covert out like this, we didn't play, we didn't play good today. so the 1st half was after having been down one love to 7 minutes. we just had too many unforced hours too many people ways when we were in possession of the ball conference, harris has joined boss alona from manchester city in a $60000000.00 bill boss to say the 21 year old ford. that's on a contract until june 2027. any team hoping to buy the spanish international during that firm will have to pay a release close in excess of $1000000000.00. ok. facebook looking for now signing. thank someone chan be back from me. so this new teams in london are back in the

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certain crimes, everybody will be safe. nobody's kid will be kidnapped again from ransom. now together, they're feeling thy way forward into their new reality. ah, corona virus cases, serge globally, but governments are divided on how to combat that renewed wave. ah. hello barbara sarah, this is al jazeera, alive from london, also coming up a surgeon fighting between ethnic groups and me and mars military forces spirals and stiffly across the tide. border i'm tony chang on the time me on my border where the piece is holding at the main border crossings. the fighting is broken out for the.