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you covey case. his world wide surpass $1000000.00 a day for the 1st time would be on the chrome varian causing havoc. we report on the plight of thousands in northwest me and mart fleeing, unrelenting attacks by the military and traditional bath houses, making a comeback in war torn syria will tell you why we begin in sudan, where security forces at fire tear gas that protest is in the capital cartoon, ah, thousands of people have been rally across the country. they want to transition to civilian rule for the army to give up power. phone and internet services have been shut down. there's been mass protest since the military coup in october. i'm a val,

it's more from car to it's very different scenario from what happened last saturday . and the, the protest that happened also week before that. today we're seeing less and less protest as being able to break through the lines of defense that have been created or erected by security forces. the bridges are still protected. they could not cause any of the bridges leading to the central area of cartoon in father cartoon, which is an area that has no bridges separating it from the presidential pollies. they'll have been a few attempts to cross that a way that leads them closer to the presidential poly. that makes them or gets them about one and a half kilometers away from presidential polish. but they are not able to get any closer ad for the protesters that they always bet on the capacity to be next to the for this,

for probably so that they can deliver their messages or protests in the other parts of come to them and undermine. and battery, they got the bigger numbers, but also they could not cross the bridges in the, in the port in the port sedan city of the red sea region. there have been also a considerable number of protest us today. let's bring in cameron hudson, he's a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council joins us by skype from miami. good to have you with us. so 1st of all, looking at the fact that these demonstrations have continued for the 11th day. now that say that the authorities well miscalculated on the 25th of october. absolutely, i think that we've seen repeated miscalculations by the military, both in terms of their underestimating the power and the perseverance of the protest movement in cartoon and across the country. ah,

but also i think the resilience of this, of this group and the international community to, to stand up to the military. and this qu, so we've not really seen any kind of movement on the side of the protest movement in terms of giving in. and if anything their resolve has been ah fortified and what we've seen from the military um is more and more, i think draconian measures more effort to seize an increasing amount of power within the country. essentially, undermining the what is left of the transition at, at every stage. how much of a threat to the army, all the protest becoming well, i think that the threat is really in the potential for miscalculation. and so if you see the protesters again get too close to the presidential palace to the army headquarters. this could turn violent very quickly, both on the side of the protesters or on the side of the military. again,

this entire protest and response of the protest has been marked by miscalculations up to this point. and so i think when you see as many people in the street as angry as they are, and when you see them basing off with the military time and time again, clearly the military is nervous. they're taking extra efforts at every stage of these protests to try to undermine and limit the protest. so you talked about earlier, the containers that were blocking bridges, the cutting of telecommunications. you know, these sorts of measures to try to limit the physical protest movement. i think is just a further demonstration of how fearful the military is that you could see another kind of sit in where the protesters arrive at the presidential palace and then decide not to leave. and you have a more permanent stand off where i think, you know, there could be real potential for violence and any progress taking place

in talks which were happening at least at one point. well, i think one of the challenges here is that there is no international mediation effort, neither the un, the african union, or any other, you know, powerful outside actor, whether it be saudi arabia or the united states. no one has stepped forward to try to help build bridges between not only the military and the civilians, but the civilians and the political parties and the, and the pro democracy protesters. so you have a very cohesive unit on one side in the military. and i think you have a very diffuse and bifurcated protest movement on the other side among no st. protestors and political parties. and they really haven't coalesced into a, a strong movement that as a unified group can really stand up to the power of the military. so it's going to take, i think, international mediation that is respected and a credible by both sides to,

to come in and to try to forge some political pathways forward. right now, everything we understand has been very kind of ad hoc behind the scenes. but, but, but also because it has been domestically led, i think the people who have volunteered to be mediators domestically also have their own agendas in trying to move forward a political solution. and so i think what we need is some outside intervention, some outside mediation that doesn't have a stake, only a stake in protecting people and finding a stable path ahead proceed. and that has not yet emerged. all right, thanks so much. cameron hudson with $1000000.00 current virus cases in a single day, more reco breaking infections, another year ending with countries struggling to cope for the biggest health crisis of our times. and sir, head over to the united states. mike hannon joins us now from washington. d. c. so

what are officials saying there about this surge? well, it's a massive surge. indeed. sammy or infection rates are rising sharply throughout the entire united states in the district of columbia, where i am, for example, there are 2 and a half 1000 infections were recorded in the past 24 hours. now that doesn't seem like a high figure, but this represents an increase of some 900 percent since the same rate of infection 2 weeks ago. so this is a massive search and a few extrapolate that across the country. you can see exactly how massive the search is. also a big point of concern as well, is the rising infection rates among children, particularly those add to the age of 5 who cannot be inoculated or cannot receive the vaccine. those figures are showing an increase of some 58 percent in terms of

childhood admission to hospitals. so all of these factors combining together to create an extremely grim picture in terms of the situation throughout the united states. and mike testing is becoming a challenge. talk about that squall. testing is a major challenge health experts point out that in order to track the variance, the delta and the army kron variance, it is essential to get a coherent testing protocol in place while the bite and administration had promised . since it came to paula how that testing was not going to be a problem? well, that has not been the case is been a supply chain issue in terms of at home test kits. the biden administration had promised that all american households would have testing kits to use at home that has not yet transpired. they are now saying that that may happened within the next few weeks. but the point about the testing is very important. obviously in terms of

you can find out whether or not you are infected. there is another issue here as well though, is that many of the at home a tests the anti gen tests are do not pick up the on the chrome variance or they will test at negative as should you have on the chrome. so this, all these kind of issues being involved and basically health experts are struggling to keep up with understanding how the various work. understanding how ami kron is different from delta understanding where the different testing protocols have got to be applied. all of these issues coming together to at the stage create a rather obscured vision of how the her had demick is tracking within the united states. and it's something that health experts are struggling to keep up with because they need to clear the data in terms of being able to track how the various variants are moving through the country. all right, mike, hanover, thanks so much. escape not they. now, on the situation in the u. k,

with rory challenz. yeah, the most recent figure is wednesday for the new cases of current of virus in the u . k. 183008 huge number. the biggest of the pandemic so far 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. basically, 5 days worth of ticket is 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 the only the kind

of 10000 full part figure that they have given as being when things start to get worried. and 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 be calling them search hob search centers, $100.00 beds each, and each of those to cope with any over overburdening 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. but damage bo, carrying ra hanger, refugees near indonesia as being towed to shore. the boat of mostly women and children was left to drift off the coast of our province for days while attempting to reach malaysia. indonesia, as government decided to give them shells from whence they saying they were facing emergency conditions. hundreds of the muslim minority who fled me in mall. i've reached in denisia over the years after

a perilous journey. awesome. last month. a human rights group is accusing government forces in northwest men, mar, of killing civilians and destroying their homes. the military hasn't commented on the allegations. drone video matches satellite images and shows smoke billowing from the town of ton flying inch in state. tony chang reports the me and ma 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, $10000.00 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 here 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 shut. 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 coup. even in the berman heartland, home of mia mars majority, ethnic group opposition has been brutally put down in sagen, this woman shrieks with grief. after finding the body of her grandfather, one of 12 villages reportedly murdered by the military. mia mars government. politicians in exile condemned the alleged war crimes that military every day

committee crimes, terrorist act against the people, the better die and is, is comparable on price that international crimes against humanity. sil, thank you for making stay meant. thank you for your concern. but the current situation, remind you archie, in know more actions of concrete actions to start that kind of military actions and 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 inside myanmar are coming to fruition. tony chang al jazeera on the me on my board or still i had on al jazeera in china, people publicly shane for violating corona virus restrictions and british. so shall i get a maxwell is found guilty in her high profile sex trafficking trial. we'll have the details. ah hello certainly no let up in the winter weather for japan at the moment. lots of cloud just rolling through here, winds coming in from a cold, nor the direction tucked in behind this cold front. there will be further spells of extensive and disruptive snow, maybe 50 or 60 millimeters, so centimeters of snow coming down for some as we go on through the next couple of days more widespread as we go through friday and on into sad stay. so we end the

old year moving to the new year with more of the same, we have got to some slightly dry weather there across the crib peninsula. less cold temperatures is solar around 2 degrees celsius issues. they largely dry across a good part of china. meanwhile, we got that dry weather coming down across much of indo china or heavy showers coming in across sir. the philippines on chain of cloud here that is the the ne monsoon driving further showers, members seem flooding recently into the malay peninsula. rephrase. that wet weather will continue as we go on through the next few days, you can follow that same line of cloud and rain into southern parts of the bay have been goal. well, again, the ne monsoon just popping up once again as we go on through the next couple days, further heavy showers coming back into under the dash, pushing down into html nato. and we'll see some heavy samples also returning to sri lanka, ah, with well in to

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forces of 510 gas at protest is in the capital call to thousands of people have been rallying across the country. they want to transition to civilian route in savannah to the army to give up power. a human rights group is accusing government forces in northwest mia mar of killing civilians and destroying the homes. drone video, which matches satellite images, shows smoke billowing from the town of pan flying good chin state. military hasn't commented on the allegations for another day in a row. countries around the world are reporting breck hold numbers of covey. 19 infections, governments are again trying to balance health measures with concerns about their economies. police in southern china have been captured on camera parading form and through the streets in a public shaming exercise. they've been accused of transporting undocumented. my rooms while the country's boarders remain largely closed due to coven 19. earlier we spoke tom bay, jim correspondent,

katrina you. she says these recent public shaming exercises of sponsor a lot of backlash. videos were circulating on way ball chinese version of twitter, but they have since been taken down 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 196970 is a very chaotic time. and for those alive who can remember it's, it's a period that they would rather forget. and since then, public shaving has actually been outlawed here in china. now 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 for 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. the us and russian president said you to have a phone call later on thursday. are expected to discuss ukraine. the white house says vladimir putin requested the call with joe biden. the full talks in geneva next month. the kremlin denies wargames near ukraine's border. are

a prelude to invasion. hong kong chief executive kerry lamb is defended. the rate on a pro democracy media out that saying the police acted within the law. 7 current and former journalist from strand news were arrested on wednesday to have been charged with sedition. a jury in new york has found british social galle maxwell guilty on 5 counts in a thanks, trafficking trial charges against the former associates of american financier and convicted. the default jeffrey epstein include thanks trafficking of under age girls. gabriel. as on the reports, 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 without 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 and influential. epstein and 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 defense lawyers attempted to poke holes in the testimony of the 4 main witnesses and even brought in memory experts to undermine their accounts. but to no avail, we firmly believe in glens, 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 algae is either new york. the risk of food shortages is increasing in pakistan as a growing number of farmers fell off their ancestral land property developers. housing is in short supply as pakistan population heads for 240000000. as more

homes are built, calls are growing to slow. the highest rate of urban is ation in south asia sound ban. giovanni, now as 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 in focus on southern milton city. but farmers here who are already struggling pandemic related locked downs and high diesel costs have made their lives more difficult, less liquid vitals 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 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 pakistan's rapid urban position 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. buck is 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 just populated 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 there are policies that i think policies are not just taking, not a 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 the water supply as well as agriculture, with less fresh produce being grown locally. more foreign reserve is being spent on important fruits and vegetables. and that's led to a price increase. columns, famous potatoes are becoming an exotic commodity, or small scale farmers who see no profits in farming. there's no real incentive not to cash in on their land. pushy november. this leg can do, the people are moving to pen job 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. our 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 at the expansion of how things is

hated into farmland, are farmland, which is our big basket. it's a new law and we have boston, it started, but it grew go down to the provinces. so the problem, it says now i have to put it into legislation and then i'd like to take it down to the local government level of it. it gets implemented that process takes some time and, and to new laws are implemented focused on st. we'll continue to be hacked away and found that we'll keep losing 2 concrete jungles with some of in java out of their column. northern bikes done. let's go back to our top story, those protest and saddam hammered vall joins us now live from khartoum. so the last time we talked to protest is being hit by tear gas was the situation now is continuous. sammy and the processes have been very clue, have become very close to the position of polish, but not in any significant numbers. what we see is dispersed, the attempt to approach the president of police in the vicinity of it. there are

clashes between them and the security forces t, golf being used in a heavy manner. we know also that in the other parts of cartoon called godhood very early today, and they will try to cross the bridges, but they could not until now they've been unsuccessful in crossing the bridges. and that was always the objective of the protests as they want to gather in big numbers in front of the president should probably so that they can deliver letter the message they have is for the military to feed paula completely and return it to civilians. this is the 11th day, all the protest picking up the remark today is that it's the opposite. the numbers are smaller today and that's because of the heavy security arrangements that are being taken place, particularly during the night. they closed all the bridges, they doubled or tripled. the number of security forces, the military are in the streets,

are not using violence. they're not participating in the cock dawn, but they are visible, the police, instead, the police are using what the amount of gas they have against a protest as we know or so that in that area, particularly port. so that port us to talk to the 3 in big on both. but as i said, it's not as big as last thought today or even the week before that. and that's probably because of the cutting off of the phone lines and internet network. the phone lines and internet to networks are very useful for protesters to coordinate efforts, and that's something that has been taken away from them this time around hummer valve, i, thanks so much. ah, let's take you through some of those headlines now. security forces at 5 tear gas