now the river is polluted and smells bad. fisheries officials have they should notice this banning people from selling or eating malice found along the cutting river. the area affected by the red tide is small, but news of the algae bloom has affected seafood traders in the area. ah. covered 19 records on shot at again in the united states and parts of europe and china, people are publicly shane, violating corona virus restrictions. ah, on camels, santa maria here in doug. this is the world news from al jazeera, british socialite get maxwell's been convicted for luring teenage girls who with an abused by american financier, jeffrey epstein. 10 years of isolation,

confrontation, and missile tests. we're looking back at kim john urns decade long rule as the leader of north korea. and the body of archbishop desmond tutu arrives at cape town cathedral for people to pay their respects well, well, continues to battle. the covered 19 pandemic with both delta ann arbor con variance fueling what the w at j coles astronomy of cases. the u. s. has broken another record for infections, an average of 267000 new cases every day. this past week. infections there have increased 60 percent, although deaths and hospital admissions remain low. we'll start with this mileage a castro in washington dc. as the highest daily new cases ever in the u. s. were now at 267000 new coven cases. that's the daily average, 60 percent of which is now tribute to the omicron variant and the nation's for most

infectious disease expert. doctor anthony thought she is predicting that it will only get worse before it gets better. he says the peak of this current surge will likely come in late january. we're seeing much of this happening now in the north eastern part of the u. s. with places like new york city here in washington, d. c. and surrounding states. people queuing for hours in search of coven tests, and then one in for, in many communities coming back positive. now if there is some silver lining, it's the evidence that here to the omicron variant is resulting in milder infections. because while those cases of jump to some 70 percent since a week ago and number, the hospitalization has not kept pace, that's gone up by just 15 percent. but when you just look into each individual case, those are still each person occupying hospital beds and hospitals are swamped with

many counties declaring local states of emergency and warning that soon these hospital beds will all be used up properly since of in china have been captured on camera parading for men through the streets in a public shaming exercise than it used of transporting undocumented migrants. while the country's borders remained largely closed due to covered 19 more in this with katrina you and by jane a. it's a, it's, it's quite peculiar to, to, to watch um, katrina but i guess speak sto how seriously and in some ways draconian of ways that the, the chinese deal with coventry. that's right. so these videos were circulating on way bore chinese version of twitter, but they have since been taken down for the most part after spiking quite a lot of backlash. them. mix comments think a lot of people were shopped because the public shaming exercise is the very

unusual to see today. but they were very common during china's cultural revolution . the period of the $96970.00 is a very chaotic time and for those alive who can remember it, it's a period that they would rather forget. and since then, public shaving has actually been outlawed here in china and i was just going back to those videos what we can see, a police parading for people around before a crowd. these people are in the hazmat or protection gear. they are wearing plaque cards around the next that seem to have their photographs. now these men have been reportedly sentence for trafficking people across the vietnamese border. and just for a little bit of context, this is taking place in the city of ging, she, china's province of guam, she, this is relative to china. it's a very poor area. it's quite a small city on the border. and in recent months, ging, she is actually arrested in sentence dozens of people for similar crimes of trafficking

. now in china we have this 0 tolerance approach to covered 19, but the border areas in particular are very vulnerable to outbreaks because of the poor smith. there have been a lot of outbreaks around different borders in china. and so the authorities in these areas are under extreme pressure to keep covered 19 cases down. and we see obviously these authorities here in gene she problems wanted to make an example of these people wanted to deter people from committing future crimes. and that has spark this online backlash not only online from medicine, but we've also seen a state media to the beijing news prints and editorial saying that these authorities went too far. this is beyond the scope of disc. when in, according to the law cannot be allowed to happen again. and another editorial article in the global time saying that related officials should be punished for these actions. can i also ask you katrina about the city of c, m,

or she and maybe you can correct me, which one of those is the correct pronunciation? went into locked down last week. city of 13000000 people, but case is still on the rise. that's right. so china is currently baffling, one of its worst outbreaks that the country has seen in months. she and it's a city in the north west, not too far from beijing, is about 2 hours flight. it's a huge historical city, very popular with domestic tourists. this city has been under very strict locked down for few days. now. people cannot even leave their homes because they're worried about the spread of carbon 19. it seems to be an outbreak of the delta strain, the and actually in recent days we've had some residents complaining that they're not able to access fresh food because they have not been able to leave the household to go shopping or to collect groceries. now the government says that there are tending to that they're starting some free deliveries in effected areas, but every time one of these huge cities goes into locked out because there's no

transport in out of the city will always have these domestic logistical problems. getting enough food to, to all these households that are forced to stay indoors. now, she has recorded more than 1500 cases since the beginning of december daily. this week we've been seeing about 150 new cases, which compared to other countries in the west does not sound like very much at all . but in china, this for the past 2 years, we've only had about single digit transmission. so this is a very big deal. nationally, an authority is a very anxious to get this infection rate these cases under control because we have a few weeks the opening of the beijing winter olympics and they do not want to be having to deal with this outbreak. at the same time is hosting that event course. ok. katrina, you with those updates from across china. thank you. onto the news. the hong kong chief executive kerry lambs defended the raid on a pro democracy media outlets saying that police did act within the law. 7 current and former journalists from strand news were arrested on wednesday to have not been

charged with sedition. gamlee tight, i am with hydrogen mer hung donna. it's not like what you said that we're targeting particular media organizations or media organizational certain stands. what we target is activities that contravene the law and the action is taken based on investigation. the decision is made by the department of justice, and then the case will be given to call to make a ruling and impartial ruling. and to that stories all the us secretary of state antony blink and has called on china and hong kong to release the staff, members of that pro democracy media. now jury in new york is on british socialite, gilly maxwell guilty on 5 counts and sex trafficking trial charges against a former associative american finance. yeah, and convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein includes sex trafficking of under age girls support us in gabriel, alexander. it took the jury. 5 full days more than 40 hours of

deliberations. elaine maxwell guilty on 5 of the 6 charges she faced convicted of grooming young girls for sexual abuse by her former boyfriend, jeffrey epstein, and even sometimes joining in the british social. i remained calm and whispered to her lawyer and drink a sip of water. as the verdicts were read out. outside court maxwell's friend, lee sat in a regular throughout the trial, and he left with our comment, your chance to give a reaction to the verdict. for the prosecution, the verdict was a welcome relief. the road to justice had been far too long. but today justice has been done. i want to commend the bravery of the girls now grown women who stepped out of the shadows into the courtroom. their courage and willingness to face their abuser made today's result. and this case possible. the trial attracted enormous

global attention, wealthy an influential, epstein in maxwell, moved in elite circles, counting the rich and famous even former presidents and britons, prince andrew, among their friends and associates. next was lawyers argue that she'd become a scapegoat for epstein crimes. he committed suicide while awaiting trial. in august 2019, the defense lawyers attempted to poke holes and the testimony of the 4 made witnesses and even brought in memory experts to undermine their accounts. but to no avail, we firmly believe and go less innocent. obviously, we are very disappointed with averted. we have already started working on the appeal and we are confident that she will be vindicated. delaine maxwell turned 60 years old during these jury deliberations. the sentencing will be at a later date, but she's now facing up to 65 years in prison. gabriel's hondo al jazeera new

york. the damaged boat carrying rank of migrants stranded at senior indonesia was now being towed to shore. boat mostly with women and children on board was left to drift off the coast. devonshire province, while attempting to reach militia, denisia government decided to give them shelter on wednesday, saying they were facing emergency conditions. hundreds of them as the minority who fled me in my have reached indonesia over the years after a perilous journey, often lasting months. a human rights group is accusing government forces in the northwest of me and more of massacring people in destroying their homes. join video, which matches satellite images, shows smoke billowing from complying in chin state activists. i churches, schools, and hundreds of homes were bombarded. the military hasn't commented on the allegations and i mean, most kind of state, the un security council demanding accountability for the killing of 35 civilians, including children,

thousands forced from their homes by the violence sheltering and neighboring thailand. that's where tony chang is. the tie bought a town of my salt trade resumes across the time in my border of the weeks of bitter plaiting in the area, long boats laden with goods bearing their loads to and fro the molly river that divides the 2 countries has been quiet for several days, but further inside men mer biting has been fierce. the battle rages inside the grounds of this temple in the town of may totally fighters from the korean national liberation army against forces from amazon be in border defense force. it's an uneven fight. the fighters for independence spacing, a fully equipped modern army with heavy artillery and support. most weapons, they have a rocket propelled grenades. this man crossed the border with a group of rebels overnight. he wants his identity hidden, but he says it's the attacks from above that most people there you know now when i

don't know exactly what they are. but the throwing large bombs out of the helicopters and soldiers sitting in the shop is firing machine guns at the people below murder. despite being at guns, the corin fight is moreover, appears to be high. even though nothing compared with the side, the major like that. but we don't care. well we do believe it at the end of the day we, when it's clear, the cease fire that has held for a decade is now shattered. so we know we clearly know that they make a very big golf is into our you to take over our land, our territory like that on the tiny side of the border, the state of high alert has been load the time military are now considerably more relaxed after the fighting appears to have moved away, but they're still monitoring very closely watching any one who's going up to the board. but inside myanmar,

an estimated 20000 people have been displaced by the fighting. they remain and make shift shelters with limited food and water. and despite the law in the fighting, many don't feel it's safe enough to go home. tony chang al jazeera on the time. yeah, ma border. there's a check on the wall where the next and then from the api center to world's best selling you, which continent is leading in the global vaccination rates? pakistan struggles to preserve rural areas at risk of being swallowed up by rapidly growing cities. ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle airways. hello there we have more ridiculously mild weather, pushing in too much of europe or this time of year course the sun is very weak. sweaty warmth will come in from the atlantic,

from the tropics of the sub tropics. that's exactly what's happening at the moment . the winds coming in from the atlantic fair amounts of cloud and some ray, as we are with the winds, pick up as well. but those winters are said coming in from a warm direction. so we into the meetings there for london and paris over the next couple double figures there for glasgow. well above the seasonal average, even moscow's in the process of warming up. and by the time we come to the new yearbook temperatures getting up to was freezing by that stage, it's around 5 or 6 degrees above the seasonal average. so not too bad. there's that warmth is coming across a good part of the continent. if anything you might even call it hot across parts of spain and portugal on the other side of the med is looking decidedly unsettled. we have got a fair amount of cloud and rain for the eastern side of the med greece, parts of turkey, some heavy downpours into turkey. southern areas could see some flooding over the next couple of days and very wet weather to continuing in across the north, west into central parts of europe. more of the same as we go one through the next couple of days. could see a little bit of wet weather breezy weather,

too into the funnel. east of africa was shower, spreading in across more than egypt. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always in libby the country with an abundance of results. trade, foreign wat indonesia, whose ferns forming we moved full to growth and frock. 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 invest . let's be part when denise is growth and progress in indonesia now. ah, ah.

view of al jazeera, these are the top stories. the u. s. has broken another record for code at 19 infections and average of 267000 new cases reported every day. this past week. infections have increased 60 percent in the u. s. flood deaths and hospital admissions from i load. the chinese city of jan is battling the largest community outright. the country is cynthia reported another $155.00 domestically transmitted cases. 13000000 people under locked down for 8 days. so fall and hong kong chief executive carry lambs defended the raid on a pro democracy media outlet saying the police did act within the law. 7 current and former journalists from strand news were arrested on wednesday. the u. s. as cold for their release. now, latin american and caribbean countries are also sing horizon covey cases, but health officials say there could be a silver lining figures suggest south america has now become the most vaccinated continent in the world. my marolla reports from mexico city a vaccination

site in mexico city. in increase in cobit 19 cases, linked to the holiday season has also led to a rise in the number of people seeking the jap. unless it would, i feel safe about everything because of the support that the government is giving us what we believe that everything is going to be all right, because of the vaccine. but mexico isn't the only country in the regions. stepping up vaccination efforts with the army kron corona virus. very it identified in almost a dozen latin american countries. a new push for contagion prevention is underway in brazil, which just a year ago, was considered the epicenter of the pandemic in south america. vaccine drives had become among the most successful in the world. i wish people to president by who, despite the fact that the president of the republic is one of the most vocal leaders against vaccine in brazil, the brazilian population is already used to many vaccination campaigns. and is

being massively vaccinated despite a long struggle to launch national vaccine programs, recent data suggests that south american countries now have the world's highest vaccination rates. world health experts have also applauded the efforts by argentina and mexico to jointly produce more doses of the astrazeneca jab seen as a milestone for vaccine accessibility. while these recent developments are hopeful, health authorities in the region warned the dangers of contagion are still high, especially as the army cron variant reaches new corners of the globe. later let be the medical river is houston's, and the coping they've been epidemic is substantially the same. if a ford wave will happen, because a for me grew what we might see a high number of cases bought a significantly low rate. the 1st of the leases years compared to what we have in the previous waves because of the effects of the vaccine. previous experts from the pan american health organization warned that vaccine inequality continues to be

a major challenge in the region. adding that several latin american countries are still far from the 50 percent vaccination threshold necessary to reach full cobit 19 immunity. manuel right below al jazeera mexico city. the us and russian president swell spake on the phone on thursday as tension surrounding ukraine continues to escalate. the white house national security council says vladimir putin requested the cool with jogan, comes ahead of us. russian talks a schedule next month in geneva, washington, a nicer countries of expressed concern about russia's military build up along the border with ukraine. and the russian us envoys to the around new clear talks i met on the sidelines of negotiations in vienna, moscow's representative said coordination between them with key to restoring the deal. iran and russia say a deal is within sides, but washington is still expressing caution. turnarounds looking for guarantees that sanctions on its oil sales will be lifted. well,

it is 10 years now since kim jong and became the leader of north korea, taking control in 2011 after the death of his father, kim jong il. awhile as leadership style is why be criticized few would dare to question his grip on power. as cathy, a lopez of a young reports, he became north korea's leader before turning 30. at the time, many hope king jam own would lead the country into a new era. one though it opened the reclusive nation and its economy to the world, the sun. okay, and i'm wondering if 100 got instead. kim's decade empower, has been defined by brutal violence nuclear weapons. and meetings with donald trump is my honor. we will have to work with them. it wasn't easy to get here. and oh, prejudices and practices worked as obstacles in a way forward. but we are became all of them, and we're here today. i'm president of meetings to gradually the nuclear rise, the north in exchange for sanctions relief, ultimately failed,

and threats against regional neighbors and their allies continued. you will want to join, he will, the entire united states is within range of all nuclear weapons. and the nuclear pasa is always on my desk. but kim's fixation on nuclear weapons has come at a heavy price. the united nations and others have kept tough economic sanctions to ga, ga, could young, but put north korea has been working towards to huge goals, strengthening, national defense, and improving living standards. living situation got worse because of sanctions at the pandemic. it will huddle money. kim's appetite for international respect has led him to the global stage, but his leadership has been described as ruthless with reports of executions, including against his own brother, rivals and dissidence, say, poverty, and starvation are rampant ah, to mark 10 years since death of his father, king john ill,

north koreans were reportedly band from laughing, drinking or shopping for 11 days. him now leads a political dynasty spending 3 generations. that few dare question to me on this. one is what i'm kim is emulating his grandfather because many people missed the past. so he tried to look at similar to his grandfather and shed tears while giving speeches. that's cost them. you don't get much of still unknown about the young leader, including his long term plans for north korea. katya lopez, so the young al jazeera, a helicopter being used to fight a forest fire in southern argentina, has crushed into a lake, killing 2 crew members, 3 weeks of fives and party, and you have burned more than 4000 hector's, that governments declared a national emergency for 12 months, due to the fire risk and protest of the set fire to australia as old parliament house damaging the entrance to the historic building and cambra,

a group of protest is going from prove to treatment of indigenous people had been rallying outside the building. now popular tourist attraction and houses, the museum of strategy and democracy pakistan wants to protect farm land and slow the rapid growth of its cities. it has the highest rate of urban is asian and south asia, the housing shortage and a growing population. and striving thousands of farmers away from their ancestral lands a summer. bon jovi has our port ah, these decades old mangled trees will soon become fuel for fire. cutting down tens of thousands of fruit trees has made room for more housing, society, and focus on southern milton city. but from of here who were already struggling, they pandemic related locked downs and high diesel costs have made their lives more difficult. nicely good bottles out of the me data. i'm chopping them down because we don't get enough from these trees. we don't have enough to feed our families. we

are selling because labor is expensive and profit is very low. now it will be up to the buyer to plant new trees or build the house. all farmers who are giving up the trade believe they're cutting old trees, which are difficult to harvest, and they will have no impact on mango crops. but marcusson's rapid urbanized ation is becoming a threat to its sources of food. predict fear the government doesn't have a line use policy or an urban development strategy that could improve its long term planning. focus fun for that matter is, has the highest rate of openings ation. in south asia, it is being as accelerated because of the lack of development as well because you're just populated or people are moving towards cities from really as in the need of economic opportunities. whereas the cities are not providing those kind of economic opportunities. what you'd really need to do is provide people with opportunities at the place where they live, to provide people with skills so that they can actually, you know,

give benefits to their own local community. we say that our policies, but i think the policies are not holistic and not not comprehensive. it's a story repeated all over the country. it's not just the cities people are also moving towards doris hotspots in the north, and that's rapid. uncheck growth is endangering pockets on water supply as well as agriculture, with less fresh produce being grown locally. more foreign reserve is being spent on importing fruits and vegetables. and that's led to a price increase. columns, famous potatoes are becoming an exotic commodity. for small scale farmers who see no profit and farming, there is no real incentive, not to cash and on their land. pushy, not this leg. can we do? the people are moving to punjabi and other parts of the country after selling the agricultural land. a good price is offline. here. i know very expensive and people from urban areas of buying and paying them good money out. people are migrating

from here and buying lands in other areas at cheaper rates. this scenic valley is now being overtaken by new hotels. there's no real planning for sustainability. the government says it recognizes the dangers of unchecked loss of agricultural land, industries and housing societies. we have banned the expansion of how things are hated into farmland, are farmland, which is our big basket. it's a new law and we have boston, this is partially, but it did go down to the provinces for the provinces. now i have to put it into legislation and then i'd like to take it down to the local government level. a bit gets implemented, that process takes some time and until new laws are implemented, marcusson's trees will continue to be hacked away, and farmland will keep losing 2 concrete jungles with some of in job of the or column northern bike stun. funny the body of the south african anti apartheid icon . archbishop desmond tutu is now lying in states like pictures here from saint

george's cathedral in cape town, south africa observing a week of national mourning for 22 who died 1890 on sunday. his funeral will be held on new year's day and form a political photographer rescued long by documented much about bishop to do his life and his fight against the apostles in south africa. he has shed some of his experiences with a correspondent family. as a photographer, you know, one quickly relies that images can tell a story without doing so it was important to give those images on. just look at the late eighty's 18. 89. there was a big piece. march. richie lived in the city of cape, done over 50000 people, people from all walks of life. it was an activist. and it was so big that the system couldn't stop at one of my eye clinic images, which is preaching. and it is almost like a cross and, and i've, i've always tricia that image, which also went all over the world. does also end off for about august the end of

1989. when he heard that a group of, of students were held up in a church and methodist church in google here too. and you decide that they were having a 2nd. then they came out and as they came here, i guess just flew all over and it was at such a distance at all i could do is to use it 200 millions and i got it. and we, we got out. but you can imagine getting the pretty show on us, you know, having not to move home to move your naked does not to be seen. most important image was waiting for montela and the person to hold everyone together was to to and he was standing and keeping the crowd thousands and thousands of people. and that is the moment when mandela walked in. it was ok, mandela. but it was the archbishop view, the main unit was something like that. what's important it's, it's, it's, it's,

she's left behind. i think that is critical. is lawson are we coming go by the legacy left behind. and this is going out of the church is just in ordering people into young people. what do we do with our to arch? who is going to be the next voice of the people? so we'll see, you know, who comes up next. and i think they were going to morning for a long time. this should be one i was on long mornings and, and vigils and yeah, i'm but gosh, arch ah, and help us down. these are the top stories, the us breaking another record for covert infections with an average of 267000 new cases reported every day. this past week infections of increased 60 percent, all the depth and hospital admissions do.