listed to possess more than $1500.00 of them, i found them the law mon, to regional and they are from, from safe cause a vision is under pressure to save them after the resumption of looking on the return of ah. ready ready the world records the highest weekly number of new current of ours cases as the bombing cron very continues to spread. ah, hello den on come all santa maria here in doug ha, with the world news from al jazeera, a pro democracy hong kong news website has shut down after its editor and other journalists are arrested in limbo, rank of migrants stranded in indonesia and still waiting for a decision on their future. and experts in the philippines i climate change is to

blame for the devastation caused by super typhoon, right? so we are going to start this our with curve at 19 use on a global level because as the new micron varying spreads and the delta strain persists, the world has hit a new record number of covey cases in a single wake. his the snapshot of global cases from our world and data looking at the whole pandemic, the point the world has reached right there in the past week is 6510000 cases in a week. the united states and france reaching their own individual records. the u. k. a record number of children being hospitalized. that means when you look at the you, johns hopkins tracker, there have been a total, the big red number of 292000000 cases throughout this whole pandemic. but here, just in the last month, almost 20000000 of those cases have happened in the last month and almost 200000

debts and the last month as well. so we'll look at this from 2 different perspectives. jonah holes in london, and jonah, i come to you shortly to talk about the u. k and the rest of europe. but i do want to start with katherine sawyers over in nairobi. kevin, i feel we haven't heard that much about army kron in africa. it's been more of a u. s. and europe issue, i've actually got another map here. i'm just going to quickly show the view is showing the whole global situation. and when we look at africa, you tend to see the case numbers actually in africa, maybe bar south africa are down there, not as bad as the rest of the world. what is the news? and the big picture coming out of africa for the cases are down in the last, throughout the year. but we have seen an increase of infection grades in dozens of african countries like here in kenya. for example, we have seen of positivity rate of 34 percent, which is a huge us is

a steep leap from the beginning of the year. we've seen that in other countries as well. now, you know, in the results that are coming out of different governments, they're not differentiating between, you know, or, or more on the chrome very and, or are the variance generally? so they're just generalizing so it's a difficult to know exactly how many are on the chron variance. a people have been affected by the, on the con baron. but just to go to the good news in south africa, which is the epicenter of army chrome. we have seen a reduction in the last 9 or in the last 9 days of 40 percent. now this has been anti attributed to the direct start of the africa, c, d c, a john ken cousin, who says that this could be because south africa has suffered greatly. it has been devastated by the last 2 variance. so this could have increased their immunity. that's why i, this saw infection rate has gone down quite dramatically in the last few days. but

like i said, in other countries, seeing or the positivity rate going up in kenya, particularly there is a huge concern about vaccinations. people are not getting vaccinated as much as they could. only 14 percent of the population is vaccinated by the government now has put in some rules, including telling our business owners not to allow people who are not vaccinated into their premises. and has also said that people have been vaccinated now for 6 months to need to go for booster shots across lou in the neighboring country. uganda, we're also seeing an increase in our positivity rates to 18 percent. so the government there has started again, mandatory testing of people who are getting into the country. guessing a lot of people who are getting infected are travelers. people were coming into gander from other countries. but what we are seeing is that the people who are getting infected are, is displaying minor symptoms, miles, symptoms,

and many of them are being told a to surf isolate at home. okay, thank you for that. a picture catherine sawyer reporting from nairobi today. now, as promised, jonah hall in london for a look at the u. k. in europe, where there are record can record numbers of cases everywhere. but as ever it's about the context, the bigger picture, which has to include vaccinations and importantly, hospitalizations, hospitalisation of taking up. but not with anything like the trajectory of the infection numbers is on. the con, continues, it's sort of relentless search here and across europe as well. records tumbling everywhere, frankly. record infections reported here in the u. k. on tuesday, 129000 infections reported in just one day. and similarly, france, italy, portugal greece, cypress, all breaking records. you've got the netherlands in switzerland reporting on the convent. it is now the dominant variant in that countries. germany says it will be

in the coming days, finland, and even sweden, adding to the list of countries imposing new restrictions, travel restrictions in their cases. of course, vaccinations continue. booster programs being emphasized by most government, all governments doing different ranges of restrictions to try and combat these soaring infection. right? but you do detect a sort of shift of thinking here, given the evidence that is coming out of places like south africa here in britain and in denmark, even the w h o pointing to that evidence, suggesting that on the cross may produce a less severe form of disease and everybody grasping that idea and wondering when the time may come, when we will learn to live with this varied w h o urging caution warning against countries becoming complacent. why? well, because even if it is less severe, it is definitively more transmissible, more people are getting it, as we see. and as any health administrator will tell you, even

a small percentage of a very large number of infected people going to hospital is still a large number of people going into hospital. and that puts huge pressure on health systems. the risk is very real that they may yet still fail to cope if not just with koby and also potentially with a whole range of other urgent, everyday essential care needs that people have the european picture and the context with john holland london. thank you, jonah. right, we're on to other news in the hong kong. independent media outlets stands news as announced. it's shutting down after being rated by police. 7 current and former staff members have been arrested accused of publishing articles, inciting, hatred against authorities. their homes are rated to the latest example of cubs on press. freedom in hong kong. ever since china repose the national security law. in june of 2020 brick lennon. with more now from uncle by the afternoon stand, news had announced that it was disbanding. that it would no longer engage. i with

media any more. the place held a press conference this afternoon saying that it had frozen $7800000.00 worth of assets. it said that it also sees subversive articles. it's not clear exactly what those articles are, but the place said that some of them had intended to split the country. we also heard from hong kong chief secretary, a john lee who back to the place actions entirely. thank journalism cannot be used as a tool against a national security uncle journalism association. on the other end of the spectrum as well as the foreign correspondents probably enabled come out to criticize the actions today. bank of journalism association. urge the hong kong government to respect the press freedoms that are meant to be guaranteed under hong kong. many constitution, the basic law, the closure of stan, use come 6 months after apple daily closed. that was the last pro democracy paper in hong kong. it also closed because of

a police raid after its assets were frozen, and after the arrest of it's found a jimmy lie. so the question now becomes are smaller, online outlets are going to be next. certainly that's the big question hanging over the media environment here. whether independent outlets are also going to be subject to this intensified criticism that we're seeing intensified cracked down. that was saying in hong kong, since the national security low came into effects it last year, more than a 100 for anger refugees, most of them women and children are stranded in indonesian waters. they both ran into trouble off the coast of indonesia is actually proven softer, attempting to reach militia, a government's helping them with food, water, and fuel. but the u. n. is calling about unstable and is called on the indonesian government to allow the refugees to disembark. hundreds of pre hang have reached indonesia in the past 3 years off to months at sea. jessica washington,

following this one from jakarta. at this stage there has been no decision reached yet. we are still waiting to hear from the ministry of foreign affairs as to what will happen to the individuals on board this vessel. but so far, what we have heard is that discussions are still in place and that no plan has yet been reached. we recently heard from a director general at the ministry of foreign affairs who said, trying to 0 that the ministry in the government in general is trying to do whatever it can to help. these were hanger refugees on board. at this stage, it is unclear what the scope of that help is in some of the uncertainty relates to conflicting messages from local authorities. yesterday on tuesday in indonesia, we heard from some local navient, police officials in archie that their intention was to assist the ringo. refugees with food supplies, gasoline, and also repairs of their vessel and then allow them to continue on their way. but

what we're hearing from the central government, the government really is the authority when it comes to situations like this is that no decision has been reached as yet. and it is unclear as to whether or not these were anger. refugees will be allowed to disembark in indonesia. we'll have more on that story after the break. plus these stories fought to shine a light on the former soviet union's crowns. with our human rights group is a victim of modern rushes, crackdowns, and intake down south africa, attributes being paid to the light, anti opposite hero doesn't ah, ah, look forward to burritos. gomez. who with sponsored boy cutoff at ways? hello there. let's start in east asia and there's more heavy snow on the way for japan. we've already seen disruption in western and northern areas,

thanks to that snowfall some areas received twice the average that they receive at this time of year. and there's more of that to come thanks to a cold air mass blowing down from northern parts of china, across the korean peninsula and taking a lot of that snow, not just to western areas of han shoe, but further down in south. it remains clear in tokyo, but we are going to see the temperature come down as we will for the korean peninsula, it's can get very cold in. so minus 4 degrees by friday. and it's a similar story across mainland china was the temperature come down in beijing. and shanghai though it is expected to remain rather clear. but if it a cloud moving into shanghai, by friday it was a move across to south asia. it's largely cold up in the north, cold wave. moving down from afghanistan, pakistan and into the north western corner of india. it's wet in the north east, but where the skirts away by the time we get into friday, it'll be wet down in the south. some of those showers pulling in from the bay of

bengal into those se, eastern coastal areas. and for sure, lanka, it'll be thunderstorms through to the weekend. that sure weather. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always in the country with an abundance of results . rate foreign watt indonesia, his friends for me, we moved full to grow and frank, we balance for green economy, blue economy, and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs investment. let's be part linda. this is growth and progress. invent indonesia now . ah ah,

you with algebra and these are the top stories, the waters had a new record number of covey cases in a single week, and 11 percent surge worldwide with the w h. i warning the on the con, very poses a very high risk still in france, that was a record to high of nearly 190000 cases alone. that was just 24 hours, which is europe's highest number. since this done the pandemic with the u. k. grease in portugal, seeing spikes in there now. and another news. the united nations is urging the indonesian government to accept more than a 100 range of refugees stranded at sea in an unstable boat. mostly women and children on board who became stranded in intonation walters won attempting to reach militia. we will talk to lillian found about us who is the chair of the rank, a working group at the asia pacific refugee writes network on scott from kuala lumpur. ah, lydia, we started talking about this particular story or case i should say a day ago,

and there's still no clarity for the indonesian government. why do you think it is that they seem to be unable to? well, just do the humane thing. so it's quite complex in the region when it comes to finding humane response to rank refugees because of the lack of legal framework. number one. and number 2, the concern that actually taking in a rank about could just produce basic a way that could create a pull factor for other refugees to come. and one of the good things about indonesia, though, is it's actually one of the only countries in the region that does have a domestic legal framework to at least allow for disembarkation. which is the presidential regulation one to 5 of 2016. and that actually does have provisions for disembarkation of refugees who are particularly those who are in distress at c, as well as coordination of government agencies and,

and cios and you and agencies of course to respond in an emergency response to support refugees. the problem though, is that there are lots of different ways of interpreting this regulation end. this usually happens whenever there's a rang about the comes to indonesia, into indonesia waters and is in distress. there's a debate that takes place about what the best response is. and though it's not really that surprising, sorry, turned her, sorry to interrupt you. when you say, you said there, whenever a range of art comes into indignation, what is, how often does this happen? and what's in the precedent? it happens actually very often. so a lot of these ranga refugees are in fact trying to get to malaysia, the trying to come here a mainly for family reunification and, and most of them are finding it difficult to come into malaysia. in fact, with the malaysian government has taken a much stricter policy that have been,

you know, this determines policies with may countries in the region in thailand and malaysia, included, and boats haven't pushed back to see. we saw this also in 2015. we've seen at numerous times over the last couple of years. and what happens then is, of course, the boat has no way to go. and, and people have been on this boat for very long time. this boat in particular. we can see that the, the people who are on it, it's actually mainly women and children are about 51 children boats and around 60 women. that's what the estimates have said, and they're not in good condition. they've been on the boat for more than a month. so then that was doing that thing. lillian, sorry, because it, there was an acute situation and say right now i take the point and you know, the way the indonesians talk about it about, obviously not wanting to open the floodgates. but when you have an acute situation, particularly of women and children on a boat, which is unstable, you got to do something about it. someone's got to do something about it.

absolutely, absolutely, and many intonations. do you feel that i think we have to, you know, recognize the fact that the strongest cold actually is coming from indonesia. it's coming from the fishermen of ha, who have regularly done rescue. but they of course, have to coordinate with the local authorities. it's coming from the local residence of j, the civil society groups in you know, most of indonesia, there's a lot of cult for just vacation and for a humanitarian response. i'm. we do remain hopeful that the solution will be found because it usually is i have to say, but it's always, you know, usually we see a stand out for a few days. and unfortunately, that results in you know, more in increase of samantha needs. you have people on the boat here who actually haven't inadequate food, who are obviously in need of medical attention and they're not able to access that at the moment. so we really do hope that this is going to be resolved soon. and as a lot of effort is taking place at the moment to, to try to convince the intonation government to facilitate the vocation,

according to the president regulation one to 5. good to hear it, lilian found is from the asia pacific refugee rights network and quality. thank you . thank you rud skirts are condemning a decision by russia's supreme court to close down one of the country's most prominent human rights organizations. memorial international, been documenting abuses committed, say during the era of the soviet union for more than 30 years. prosecutors say it's distorting history, which the group denies stapleton bernard smith over the past 12 months. this is become a familiar scene for human rights groups and activists in russia. this time the axes calling 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. * it is billing to worse than russia is

moving from lee or to re variance in system for some kind of cost more than totalitarian system in russia. which would be kind over linkage with the soldiers or you don't even partly do the story. so it's a 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's having this great cause. first and foremost, the work will continue the move against memorial caps a year that has seen authorities jail or outlaw individuals or groups. the criticize 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, the united states has promised its european allies transparency and solidarity. when it holds talks with russia. your state department spokesman ned price said bell, discuss mutual goal his words on january 10 earlier russians, deputy ambassador to the you and again demanded serious guarantees that nature warned to expand further into eastern europe, the us and russia faith ongoing tension over a military build up on the border with ukraine, the party to the wrong nuclear talk. so putting out conflicting messages,

the $83.00 of negotiations began again on monday, but the statements made a de laser agreed, actually on the on one thing. that movement is needed soon. also jabari reports from those talk in vienna. oh, this is the revolutionary guards message to israel wargames in iran, including firing ballistics and cruise missiles. one of the targets resembles israel's demona nuclear reactor. the head of iran's armed forces staff major general mohammed bovary says 16 ballistic missiles of varying classes were fired simultaneously to iran has one of the biggest missile programs in the middle east regarding such weapons as an important deterrent and retaliatory force against the united states. and other adversaries in the event of war. just days after those drills,

world powers are back in vienna trying to salvage what is left of the 2015 nuclear deal. the joint comprehensive plan of action has been unraveling since the u. s. withdrew from it in 2018 and impose the series of new sanctions on her on her. and that prompted a raining officials to reduce their compliance with the deal, which means their nuclear program has progressed. robert kelly is a former director of the international atomic energy agency and a nuclear engineer. he says aaron's been backed into a corner. so there's a sabotage event that was of similar facilities for the u. s. as more sanctions, they've turned to pushback and do something provocative. and i think they've gone past the point of reasonable provocations there now, um they've gone to for world powers have been insisting veterans, ballistic missile program needs to be part of that deal. a notion that's

continuously dismiss byron as the 8th round of talks continue here in the austrian capital. israel opposes these efforts and has long threatened military action if diplomacy fails. and that is just one of the many reasons. time is of the essence. there is a sense of urgency in old litigations that this negotiation has to be her finish in the relative return label period of time. again, i would boot limits, but we're talking about which not about the head of a rounds, atomic energy organisation mohammed a slummy recently told a russian media outlet that iran does not intend to go beyond its current enrichment levels of 60 percent. a move all western powers have warned wood cross and red line. iran says this nuclear program has always been for civilian use, a statement some don't believe. while it continues to stop by a highly enriched uranium. officials your safe retentions to ease and for iran to

limit its nuclear program. the talks fear must succeed, and failure will have far reaching consequences. doors such a very al jazeera vienna. the memorial services are being held across south africa for the anti apartheid icon, and nobel peace prize laureate doesn't to, to south africa observing at full week of national morning 4 to 2 who died at the age of 90. the 1st black archbishop of kate, dumb, who rose to prominence in the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid, his funeral will be held on news day fami to mila is in cape town, where a memorial service has already been taken place. oh, we're at the saint george's cathedral where we continue to see hundreds of warners file passed through the day. paying tribute to the late archbishop. there are a number of events plants about the day johannesburg pretoria, as well as jane caped on the main event. later in the day, in cape town where the city will be paying tribute to the late archbishop in

entering an into faith service. and that really speaks to how the archbishop transcended race and religion and what an icon he was to people across south africa . not only south africans, but also globally. i want to bring in to people who have come through to pay tribute to the late archbishop rebrand errol. what it'll under us as well as reverend robin wright. as a reverend and working within the church. you've also spoken to us telling us about just the role that the archbishop played in terms of his, the direction he gave in terms of faith and, and, and the work that you do. what did he mean to you? yes, a thank you very much for the opportunity. it is indeed a sad day for us in the city of cape town, but also as a nation. but also i want to extend that to, to everybody around the world. it is a sad day for us where we come this morning to, to celebrate the life of archbishop desmond tutu in terms of the legacy that he has

left behind for us. it is, it is, it is a and an example for us and especially for clergy to take up the, the light that he has. so and, and, and the fleet that he, as in his youth and in these time, while he was still alive with us, that he spoke out against corruption and oppression. and, and he was basically the voice for the voiceless and, and, and the, and entities were that in mind. and that we come and we were. and we want to give honor to him and thank him for, for what he has done for our country. but what is also important is that when ever bishop desmond, archbishop desmond tutu spoke on a platform. and it doesn't matter where every was in the world, or whether it's in the states all in europe is, was, was always transferred all over the globe, over oceans. and mountains and deserts. and he just had that, that compassion and passion for people that was a press and, and,

and the people that was left out in the dark. so, so this morning we want to come and we just want to and then his legacy and, and want to thank him for what he have done, especially for the people in south africa, stats, cape town, this is so wet oh, just outside of the largest city johannesburg as a memorial services on going there, and i see that picture tells a lot, isn't it someone with a mass wiping down microphones and electrons before the next person speaks a memorial for desmond to, to in the times of cove at 19 live pictures from the wetter hundreds of people were killed when super typhoon rise slammed into the philippines of the this month and dozens more still missing. the devastation is wide spread and whether expert sight, its intensity was unexpected. roll highlights the impact of climate change on extreme weather. events spotted below reports for manila, typhoon ry packed winds of more than 200 kilometers in our mead landfall. 9 times

last week. from the east to the far west of the philippines, central and southern islands. millions of people are having to picked up whatever slept up their lives. the devastation is unprecedented. state weather forecasters had predicted a powerful typhoon. but when it hit the country, it exceeded their expectations. it actually entered the period so sorry, the arrested development where there's really much, much, not much going on in the storm based on the satellite observations. and then it is after that. wish this is the interesting part. after the arrested development period, it's sudden be ramped up, it's development. and then that's the time that where it reach its intensity typhoon roy also hit about a 3rd of the country that has historically been spared the fiercest storms. it also sustained its strength threw up. the pattern that has emerged from this particular

typhoon is that the damage can be relatively far from the eye or the center of the storm. usually when a storm barrels through our country, we know which provinces and which city are going to get hit ry is not the 1st supersonic loan to devastate the philippines. in 2013 super typhoon high and left a trail of destruction and killed at least 6000 people. it was one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded. many scientists and environmentalists say such extreme weather in the philippines is the consequence of climate change. and they're afraid it's only going to get worse. barnaby low al jazeera manila ah, up off the our these on the top store.