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governments are responding by balancing restrictions with the need to protect the economies. well here the latest from china and the united states and the moment 1st 1st stop is europe. my canada is standing by for us in washington dc, but as i said 1st over the re challenge outside the hospital in london, rory reco numbers again today in the u. k. kind of a strain. is that putting on health services? yeah, the most recent figure is the wednesday for the new cases of corona virus in the u . k. 183008 huge number. the biggest of the panoramic sofa by quite a long way. there is context for that that $183000.00 number does include several days of backlog of data carried over from the holiday period, particularly 5 days worth of figures coming out of northern audit. but still,

it is frightening amounts of people, affronting number of people currently tested positive for right of ours. and yes, the big question is, what impact is this having on the national health serve as well? and it just england says that there are now more than 10000 people in their hospitals suffering from corona virus at the moment. and that is beyond the kind of 10000 ballpark figure that you have given as being when things start to get worrying. when the system starts to creek, when dr. stock being overburdened, etc. so they are planning on building temporary structures in a hospitals around the country. they're going to call them search hub search centers, $100.00 beds each and each of those to cope with any over burdening of the system in other parts. and if things get worse still, i think there are about 4000 more beds that they can make available at the same

time, rory elsewhere in europe. they now turning to more restrictions and regulations. right? yeah. what a 100 make 3000 in the u. k. 208000, just across the channel in france, that is a european records for the most number of cases in a day. and france along with say, greece tackling this by bringing in new restrictions in away the england. isn't there other parts of the u. k which have gotten northern ireland and scotland, who have their own administrations and do their own things. they brought in tough restrictions and in england, in france we are seeing the proposals which are going to be going through parliament to make the health path. so you have to show you to get into restaurants and things like that. specifically about vaccinations previously you could show a negative test or test results and that can get you into to a restaurant soon. it will be most likely that you will have to have your full

vaccination to be able to use those sorts of businesses. but they are also tightening up working from home at 3 that mandatory working from home for anyone who can restrict in the number of the attendance. number of indo venues to $25000.00 for out of and he has greece is tightening up kate's mosque wearing. it's working from home measures and also bringing forward restrictions on attendance at outdoor events and things like that. and saying that on new year's eve, that's tomorrow, that would be any like music of any kind at any of the facilities around the country. thanks so much for the challenge from london. so even with infections reaching these new record highs, do we need to be looking at the pandemic? more through different variance rather than the overall infections come out? santa maria takes a look at that. you may have heard dr. andros, the head of the world health organization, talking about the twin threats of delta and omicron, but whether it's

a twin threat to you and your particular part of the world. well, that depends. going to show you some maps festival from now world and day to the red map is showing army kron infections or at least well, micron is more prevalent, pretty easy to see. and no surprise that down in south africa. that's where we 1st saw our micron. also, australia, india, and russia. but i would draw your attention to europe, have a look the u. k. yes, we know there is a prevalence of alma tron in the u. k, but the rest of europe is not as badly affected. it is dealing with delta change to the blue map and actually i'll change back and forth. have a look at the change across europe between the omicron and the delta maps. you can say there is a lot more delta to deal with in europe as there is a in south america and pots of southeast asia. now, just to give us a slightly different take of chosen 9 different countries here, and we're looking at their share of different infections. the red is all micron,

the blue a delta infection. so starting at the top, south africa has got a rate of 96 percent on the cross. now maybe that's a good thing. having more cases of the milder variance further down the list. let's look at the united states, for example here, which is sort of got a $6040.00 splits between the 2. but i think what's interesting and i'm gonna try to draw a box around all of them. here are these european countries, italy, france, and germany with rights of 80 to 90 percent of delta. the more concerning variance, if i can put it that way, of co financing, and maybe that's why their restrictions are a little bit taiser in those sorts of countries. the question now is, is ami kron perhaps a lesser of 2 evils? i, let's bring in now my halla from washington d. c. to got a serge going on there to what her official saying about the rising numbers.

well the us health officials are saying are basically what come out with saying the is that they over estimated the degree to which on the crime was responsible for the surgeon infections? that being said, the, the figures are very doubtful. according to several observers, basically, the cdc is rushing to catch up with testing in the wake up the holiday period in the wake of the massive rise of the on the contrary. and so, although the cdc now downloading its estimate, saying that on con accounts with some 58 percent of cases in the u. s, there's still doubts about those figures given all the factors around, but the increase is absolutely huge. let's just take, for example, the district of columbia where i'm standing now the day the infection rate is now over 2 and a half 1000 people. so that doesn't sound like a huge amount, but that is a 900 percent increase over the number of cases being recorded. 2 weeks ago you, it's pretty rapidly those kind of figures across the nation,

and you'll see that the rates absolutely spiraling out of control in many parts of the united states. unlike testing is becoming a good challenge to tell us why. well, testing is a major issue, not the bite and administration. when i took over said that there would always be testing available. they pointed to the previous administrations, failure in terms of testing at the beginning of the pandemic. however, there is an issue with testing the supply chains are not coming through president biden, and his administration had promised we testing kids to all household throughout the united states. no sign of that yet. so it's very difficult as well to keep up with the spread of the various strains of the virus without having a proper testing regime, testing still way behind the kind of figure that would need to be able to create the data in which experts can better understand how the various variance of the

virus are going, and this is something lacking very highly in the united states. at the moment. it's a bite administration at mitzy. there's a problem with the testing protocols. however, it insists that it is getting that fixed and within the next few weeks, testing kids will be flying out to all americans. well, most people are adopting. let's wait and see. and that was mike hannah from washington d. c. how they, since southern china have been captured on camera parading for men through the streets in a public shaming exercise. they've been accused of transporting undocumented migrants while the countries borders remain largely closed due to coven 19. we spoke 12 pages correspondent, katrina, you. and she says these recent public shaming exercises sparks a lot of backlash videos were circulating on way ball chinese version of twitter, but they have since been taken down and for the most part after sparking quite a lot of backlash. them mixed comments. think

a lot of people were shopped because these public shaming exercises very unusual to see today, but they were very common during china's cultural revolution. the period of the 96970 is a very chaotic time. and for those alive who can remember 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 black cards around the next that seem to have their photographs. now these men have been reportedly sentenced to the trafficking people across the vietnamese border. and just for a little bit of context. and this is taking place in the city of ging, she, china's province of wong. 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 incentives. dozens of people for similar crimes of

trafficking. now in china we have this 0 tolerance approach to covet 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 coven 19 cases down. slightly more still ahead on the news hour, including south africa, remembers the legacy of anti apartheid hero debt him to, to 10 years on from his rise to power. we looked back at the rule of north korea's leader and it's for a rough night for premier league title chases. chelsea football actually coming up later in the show. ah, security forces incident of fire tear gas at protesters in the capital cartoon.

thousands of people have been rallying across the country. they want to transition to civilian rule and for the army to give up power, phone and internet services have been shut down. there have been mass process since the military threw in october or human rights group is accusing. government forces are northwest men, mar, of killing civilians and destroying their homes. the military hasn't commented on the allegations. drone video, which matches satellite images, shows smoke billowing from the town of front line in chin state. tony chang reports on the miramar border fires. burn in the hill, top town of tent along and chin state northwest and mamma. the destruction caused by artillery shells and fires set by mamma's military, appear part of a concerted policy of scorched earth. most of the towns, 10000 residents,

have fled across the nearby border into india. powerless to do anything to save their homes. others fled chin state for the simple reason. they couldn't find anything to eat in the creek about what i mean. but especially in my 2 p, there was a huge food shortage. the people couldn't access to farms also, as the military had placed my zondaway, no transportation was available and people couldn't go from one be led to another. internet access and phone lies were shot. satellite photos show how starting in september, systematic and coordinated attacks, destroyed 580 buildings in the town. these attack takes often associated with me and mars military. and all, because the residents had shown resistance to february's military coups, even in the berman heartland, home of mere mas majority, ethnic group opposition has been greatly put down in sagamore. this woman shrieks

with grief after finding the body of her grandfather, one of 12 villages reportedly murdered by the military. mia mars government and politicians in exile condemned the alleged war crimes that military every day committee crimes, terrorist act against the people, the better to die. and is, is compromise comprised that international crimes against humanity, sil, thank you for making stay meant. thank you for your grandson, but the current situation remind you, aren't you in no more actions of concrete actions to start that kind of military actions to, to stop their illegal military daria's. and as recently as christmas eve, 38 civilians killed and burned to work. as for the charity, save the children now confirmed to be amongst the charred remains. in the past, month alone, there have been credible stories of mia mars military perpetrating massacres in

saga district and kaya state. in the past week, thousands of civilians have poured into thailand, telling stories of air strikes that have targeted civilians nearly a year after the military coup. it appears all the fears about none checked military rule in so myanmar are coming to fruition. tony chang al jazeera on the me on my border patrol. when is the executive director of the burma human rights network, joins us by skype from london. good. have you with us? so does it look like the military are using massacres now as a kind of weapon of war? this is not the new thing that if you following up the all the situation in burma scott's policy, the strategy, the military has been using to eliminate the population that if opposing them, this has been consist with so many crime against humanity and walk around as you look at the 2 only in december this month. therefore,

event where monica has heaven and nearly 60, more than 60 people has been killed in very brutal way. so this is only the situation in december. there has been have these kind of similar to kind of atrocities and killing happening in burma. it's long time. it is several decades. i mentioned ball, the big one is the military now and broadening the strategy before for example, it was targeting the wrangell muslims. there were a lot of allegations, at least from human rights group saying they were using specifically civilian massacres, burning villages, burning people alive to target rank of muslims. and now they, they using against the buddhist majority populations which are perceived to be against the military. if i may say the correct you, all this kind of atrocities are long being the military using but the wall only here and see saw only during the, during the private. but this has been happening like during people,

do you have the people who suffered most in all the ethnic minorities in burma because they had been against that military, brutal regime since day one. so they have several get some experience that i was kind of atrocities in, in the, in the land. so this is the repeating again. and this me, the military, which committed julia general site. again, the people, you know, they don't have any consequence for committing crimes. as you see right now, they respond from international community. if and up at the, you know, still issuing the statement and putting the some in building some symbolic sanctions. i think the military, that's all that's really interesting or does it say about the popularity of the military that they are now having to target, even the mainstream for this community is not just minorities like the current other, a hanger that you were mentioning. absolutely. if you look at the, from several years the case, as i said earlier,

the military is using the brutal or the cruel kind of crimes they have committed against the population. it without any discrimination. they do a lot of them. but this time, if the whole nation is uprising against them and they're using the same tactic with every one, anyone who is opposing them, for example, they are so many cases we have recorded. and since the uprising happened, we be children as be documenting so many human violation. they are such a crime which shocked you even the every time the arrest some activity in the evening time or nighttime all day time. next morning their family received a funeral for the body for the funeral. so they don't, they don't even survive that torture. 24 hours. so they are killing a diesel killings and disappear into very common the crime them in the trees. committing is a very systematic and widespread, and this is clearly saying that these military committing crime against humanity. but unfortunately, the international community is doing not enough to stop and visit the people the

civil to visit williams on the ground. only in december. they are 40000 ideas, the people playing for the strikes and bombardment from the military, 40000 only into them. but you can imagine they are hundreds of thousands of id be, you know, they've been targeted by the military. redeem. there is no protection for the civilians and we don't see any un mechanisms or any un entities. they are not helpful for us. the are really the they don't what we people are feeling please feeling on the ground. if they say that the international community is totally neglected, that they have no, they don't receive any protection. so this is important time for not to become if they say which is really happening. all right, good to get your thoughts. thanks so much. you're most the damage stones carrying ro hanger, migrants near indonesia, is being towed to shore. the boat of mostly women and children was left to drift

off the coast of archery province for days while attempting to reach malaysia. denise, his government decided to give them shelter on wednesday saying they were facing emergency conditions. hundreds of the muslim minority who flood near live region denisia over years after a perilous journey, often lasting months. jessica washington has more from jakarta, said certainly not a straightforward process as you would remember overnight. we had the decision from the government to allow this boat to come to shore and to allow these refugees to disembark in ant jay. but there was still some deliberation, and it wasn't as though that towing process started right away. we understand from speaking with local government officials in archie that there was still some discussion as to where these refugees should be taken. now the decision has been made that they will be taken to northern r j 2 loc samoan area which has previously hosted

a ring of refugees who have arrived in indonesian waters by boat. ultimately, indonesian authorities did decide that they had an obligation to assist these refugees on board. but what happens next is still a question. so they will be taken to a government facility where they will be given food water and the process of checking their identity. documents will begin. we understand that officials from the you and hcr are also on their way to northern archie. but they, there is still a period of uncertainty that awaits these were hanger refugees, because the process of resettlement, it could take years. indonesia doesn't allow the permanent re settlement of refugees. and so these, this group of refugees will join the thousands of others who have a long way to head, to be re settled to a 3rd country. well, back to one of our top stories. now the ongoing protest in sudan against the

military hum at val joins us now from khartoum. mohamed, how the process looking at this point? yes, sammy, it's very different scenario from what happened last saturday. and the, the protest that happened or so week before that to day we're seeing less and less sir protests as being able to break through the lines of defense that have been created or erected by security forces. the bridges are still protected, and they could not cross any of the bridges leading to the central eurey of cartoon in southern cartoon, which is an area that has no bridges, are separating it from the presidential palace. there have been a few attempts to cross the railway that leads them closer to the presidential palace that makes them or, or gets them about one and a half kilometers away from presidential polish. but they are not able to get any

closer. and for the protesters they, they always bet on their capacity to be next to the position police so that they can deliver their messages of protest her in the other parts of captain and under man. and by hurry, they gathered in big numbers. but also they could not cross the bridges in this, in the port, in the port sedan city of the red sea region. ah, there had been also considerable numbers of protest as today and hammered the reports about internet and phone services being cut. how is that impacting people and impacting the activists? apparently, it's having a big impact on what's happening. the possibility of coordination has been considerably reduced or protested in the various parts of the country, and particularly in the different parts of the city of cartoon, the capital are unable to her coordinator movements. they all know that the

destination of that is the presidential palace, but a from there, the, the, the, i was of the more the early hours of the morning. they certainly haven't been able to communicate. and it's, it's a, it's a much more, a fundamental cut off this time around all the domestic lines, phone lines have been cut and that, that certainly reduces their, their abilities and they have issued a statement, the freedoms, the forces of freedom, a change have issued a statement demanding the international community to focus on what's happening on sedan. and particularly this cutting of the phone lines and of the internet are taken away from the protestors and the people in so that the possibility to express themselves and to tempt the world about the atrocities of what they called atrocities and violations being ah, perpetrated by the security forces against the protesters. bells mohammed val from khartoum. mourners on queuing in cape town to pay the final

respects to south africa. nancy apartheid icon. archbishop desmond tutu. he's now lying in states at saint george's cathedral before his funeral on new year's day. south africa is observing a week of national mourning for 22 who died 1890 on sunday. he was the 1st black archbishop of cape town. he rose to prominence in the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. for me, the miller joins us now from cape town, so must be a very emotional moment when people are hang, they find respects to desmond tutu. oh, it certainly is for many of the people that you might see lines up behind us trying to head into the cathedral to see the archbishop's party. and as you say, a final farewell. we've not seen numbers like this since the death of the former

president, nelson mandela. that's just how revere the archbishop is considering his history in south africa, the role he played in terms of fighting a part paid to the challenges that he's face. not only in a political environment, but also as a very prominent church leader. earlier we spoke to month monday, the grandson of nelson mandela who, who dealt with. and this is of significant to tell the africans really the role that archbishop desmond to, to played in terms of keeping the fires alive while people like nelson mandela, remained imprisoned for losses. the family to come and celebrate the life well lived there. now we share many memories with the arts, in particular to, to family. first and foremost, i think my grandfather is always talked about how it's and the likes of allan

cossack will always had an installation to them. as political prisoners on coven, i live who are able to instill hope in them that they will one day be able to achieve freedom in their lifetime. the archbishop remains a symbol of hope for millions of south africans in terms of the challenges the country continues to face and it's future. and this is why they're paying tribute. there are a couple of hours left her to day for people to come to the saint george's cathedral . we expect a 2nd a day our of our the, the former, the archbishop, lying in state that on friday i hate of his funeral on saturday. and we do know numbers at the funeral may be limited because of coven 19 restrictions. but we do expect to continue seeing the sort of outpouring of tributes for the archbishop. thanks so much for me. the mill. all right, let's get some why that out with evanson hello, there's looking like

a west end to the year for good part of the middle east, and that includes us here in casa, you can see this area cloud has already brought some bits and pieces apache rate over the past 24 hours. that right, if anything will just a proper touch as we go on through the next 24 to 48 hours. that line of cloud there stretches across the gulf, some heavy downpours into a good part of around the you. are you seeing some showers longest bells of break along with eastern areas of a man and then we move on into sat date and see how that lot of rain. it's still very much in evidence. i think that will be the site where to stay here. in cat are we are going to see some heavy burst of rain for time the 1st proper ramen. really for around 8 months i was seen some lively showers, longest bells of rain into the eastern side of the mediterranean. they'll be some more. well, it's just coming down into northern parts of egypt. the northeast of libya as well . much of north africa will be try, we'll see some showers there just along the guinea coast, a shout, a standing into the tropics, of course, no showers. they run out of the democratic republic of congo through zambia. as in

bob, we sinks in heavy south eastern parts of south africa, also seeing some heavy showers try and find for the most part in cape town. by the time we come to saturday, they're the funeral. of course, the big funeral. we could see some wet weather just weeping out of the clouds and still had an al jazeera will tell you why traditional bath houses are making a comeback in one, syria inverting animal waste into fuel. how a british do is leading the way in creating renewable energy and a new statue of portuguese football stall christiana. now those sparking controversy in the indian state of goer, details, nature and sport ah, in the country with an abundance of results rate are in one easier for me, we move to grow and fry, we balance for real economy blue economy and.