were calling me and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively insuring the policy reform to create quality jobs invest . let me pause when denise is growth and progress in indonesia. now, with this is al jazeera, ah hi there. i'm kim vanelle. this is the news online from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes, karone of ours cases are inching to to 1000000 globally. the us alone accounting for nearly half a 1000000 infections. a protest is returned to the streets in saddam's capital,

prompting police to fire tear gas to contain them. we report on the flight of thousands and northwest me and mom fling unrelenting attacks by the military. a total leader of the soil and south africans paid tribute to archbishop desmond tutu as his body lies in state at a cathedral in cape town. and his fort basketball store carry irving is set to play again despite his refusal to get a curve at 19 vaccination after weeks on the sidelines. irving is back on the practice calls with the brokenness, ah, the number of daily calls 19 cases globally is approaching 2000000. that's nearly double the number seen in the last peak. the u. s. is the worst effected nation accounting for nearly $1.00 and $3.00 cases across the world. it's debbie total has reached $488000.00. and although dal santo,

the con variants are surging hospitalizations and deaths are relatively low. the u . k. meanwhile, is setting up 10 pre field hospitals, the so called nightingale hobbs will be overflow facilities for people who are too ill to be discharged. but in need of lower levels of support. and in mexico, officials are warning of a new wave of infections. more than 4000 new cases have been reported there. okay, we have 3 correspondence covering the surge, this arm and your a palo will bring us more on the situation in south america in just a moment. we have re challenge standing by for us and the u. k. capital. but 1st, let's go to mike hannah in washington, dc for more on those unprecedented case numbers. mike yes, indeed, the cdc says some massive rising case numbers is being driven by both the variance of the virus, both the delta and the army kron. it has released some statistics that indicated

over estimated how many people were being affected by the ami kron virus. dropping the estimates by a, by 20 percent. however, experts pointing out that the data is still insufficient to draw this type of conclusion, particularly with the lack of testing that is happening throughout the country. but the one figure released by the cdc as well, is that the death rates from both are variance are done by some 11 percent. if there's one thing that has been learned in this current surgeon infection rates, it is that a fully vaccinated person plas, booster shark will receive a far less severe side effects contracting either of the variance. and this is something that the c, d, c and d, the bite and administration is attempting to emphasize that there are some sad, 35 percent of americans who are still not vaccinated. and they are the ones who are getting severely affected by both variance of the virus. okay,

you mentioned that there are tough staying, but i'm wondering what the situation is with testing. i mean, are there enough tests, given the sheer number of people who are being found to be positive and obviously contact tracing happens people they need to go and test themselves. so are there enough tests? well, the short answer to that is no. and just to emphasize here, testing is absolutely critical in terms of defining how the variance of the virus or moving throughout the population or the bite and administration had insisted that was great to provide tests to every american household. this has not yet happened. it has admitted that there are supply chain issues. it says within a matter of weeks, the tests will be supplied to households throughout the country. however, for many americans, it's a question of wait and see with the supply chain issues, there are simply not enough tests available, which is a major issue. as i said, in terms of tracing the development of both variance of the virus. indeed. all right, thank that. my candidate for us in washington

d. c. o has got more now on the u. k. 's preparations and 8 chess england. that's national health service is opening temporary field hospitals. at the moment, the number of people admitted to hospital is significantly lower than earlier in the year. $1200.00 are being admitted each day compared to $4500.00 last january. but the number is rising. the latest figure shows that hospital admissions are at the highest level since march. however, despite arise and hospital admissions, the number of people in intensive care is dropping or a challenge. so it's now up from london, rory, so the numbers there, it's sort of a mixed picture, right? tell us more about how the in a chess is preparing for these record infection. numbers are the only just supposed to be given a ball park figure of about 10000 hospitalizations or the one point to when things start to get ready tricky. and they are just creeping over that benchmark for

england lee. so the plan is to set up for that calling face surge hobbs, various hospitals around the country, they'll be temporary structures put up in car parks, et cetera. and each one will have about a 100 beds capacity doesn't sound much, but the hope is that that will be enough to deal with any are over spill from the main hospitals. if it's not, they are looking at other sites or to set up or around for thousands more beds to deal with a super serge events. they're hoping that none of this is needed, like the nightingale hospitals weren't really needed earlier in the pandemic. but they want to have the safeguards in place just in case okay, surveys, nightingale hobbs as they're being called, are honestly for people who just need lower levels of support, right? because even with increasing infections,

the number of people actually requiring intensive care seems to be not so high. comparatively. i mean is that some good news in the midst of all of this? well it's what the government is looking at when it has made its decisions over the last few days, not to put further restrictions in place in england. it's a matter of interpretation though, because that same data is being looked at by the administration's looking after the health of other parts of the u. k. scotland, wales, northern islands. and they are coming to different conclusions. those nations have all put in place restrictions that england at the moment is choosing to avoid. so your having limitations on how many families can gather together. at the same time, you're having kind of curfews on a public spaces like restaurants, etc, having to close early or don't serve alco, that kind of thing. so it's, it's,

it's really boils down to the politics of each of t administrations looking off to reach that particular parts of the u. k. and england, which looked after by the governments in westminster and forest johnson is over libertarian. more right when slump and the other government senate is chosen to hold off the restrictions for at least until after new year's eve, the for hospital rates. keep on going up though it may have to act. of course, we're not going to see the result of all of this until the new year, all these christmas new year gatherings. now think of that really challenging for us in london. all right, let's go now to manual palo who joins us live from mexico city. i know so, so mexico is now preparing also for another wave. that's right. the warnings here in mexico are clear across america, really of a 4th wave kind of being made worse by the holiday,

the holiday season. here the end of december in mexico, in the northern hemisphere. but it's not only over this 4th wave of, of the pandemic itself, where the delta variant continues to be the dominant, very it here in the region. but the warnings are very clear over all micron, which has already been spotted in at least 10 countries in the region. if there is a silver lining, if there is any sort of good news when it comes to where we are in the pandemic in latin america, it's simply the level of vaccinations of south america specifically now leave the world in the number of vaccinated. 63.3 percent of the population of south american countries have, have been vaccinated. what's interesting to note right now at this stage is how the attitudes are very greatly across the latin america region. attitudes being reflected in policy, mexico, you could argue, is one of the more extreme cases of relaxed policies where the government really isn't enforcing anything that's mandatory. there is no requirement for foreign

travelers traveling to mexico to present a negative cobit test or a p c. r. test compared to extreme examples on the other side. countries like sheila which do require a p, c, r test a negative. cobit test, less than 72 hours before travellers arrived. there's mandatory quarantine periods . so there, there are examples like these across the region, but the biggest challenge right now is the vaccine inequality, despite the fact that we are seeing very successful vaccination campaigns in countries like brazil, for example, with just a year ago. would it be considered the epicenter of the pandemic for latin america, if not the world now major cities like so, paulo or rio, or have some of the most successful vaccination campaigns on the planet? conversely, you have countries like guatemala and several other underdeveloped nations which have yet to even reach 40 percent vaccination, guatemala believe is currently at 25 percent vaccination. not even the 50 percent

threshold that's been identified by international health experts as being what needed, what's needed to truly curb contagion and to reach cope in 1900 immunity manual. thank you for that. up there from mexico city. so even with infections reaching these new record high is, do we need to looking at the pandemic, more through the lenses that her variance rather than the overall infections, has qual, santa maria, with the case of on the convers delta. you may have heard dr. ted ross, 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 data. the red map is showing army kron infections, or at least way on the crone is more prevalent, pretty easy to see. and no surprise that down in south africa, that's where we 1st saw amico, 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 crohn in the u. k, but the rest of europe is not as badly affected. it is dealing with delta change to the blue map, actually i'll change back and forth. have a look at the change across europe between the army kron and the delta maps. you can see there is a lot more delta to deal with in europe as there is a in south america and parts of south east asia. now just to give this a slightly different take of chosen 9 different countries here. and we're looking at their share of different infections. the red is omicron, the blue a delta infection. so starting at the top, south africa has got a rate of 96 percent ami crowd. 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 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 coping 19, and maybe that's why they are restrictions, are a little bit tighter in those sorts of countries. the question now is, is all micron, perhaps the lesser of 2 evils? when doing as now from new york is bruce lee, professor of health policy and management at city university of new york. we, dec mile santa maria, talking about all questioning is on the cross, maybe the lesser of 2 evils. i want to get your take infection numbers, obviously globally rising. but right now, it seems like hospitalizations in death are relatively low compared to the infection numbers when it, when it stay that way. i mean, how concerned should we be right now? well, it's difficult to tell right now because you have many factors that are, are crossing so certainly there's

a fair number of people who are vaccinated i fully vaccinated and puts in addition that you have people who are boosted. so the question is, are those the ones who are getting infected with our crime? ok? so there are suggestions that it may be milder. um, but right now we really need more time to look at studies to determine whether it's indeed causes milder illness. in general, around the world we see sort of policy changing, advice, changing being updated as the science changes. i mean is all of this is part of sort of living with the virus as we knew we would have to at some point trying out different isolation guidelines, changing the mitigation efforts to sort of be appropriate to the level of risk is this just us for the future from here on out. well, i think one of the things that that's most likely gonna happen is at some point the virus is going to shift from being a pandemic situation to more

a seasonal virus situation where more like the flu. so again, this is not the same thing as the flu. we really want to shift a situation where everyone's immune systems is used to deal or used to dealing with this virus. you know, the big problem early on during the pandemic is no one's immune system had seen this virus. so therefore the, the reactions and the, the outcomes to the virus are more severe. but as more and more people get vaccinated and more important people are used to be virus, then we most likely will start seeing outcomes become less severe when i mean how, how will that happen though? i know, you know, maybe it's a morvin epidemiology question, but if we're waiting for everyone to sort of get the right amount of media immunity, even in countries where you have very high vaccination rates, people getting boosted. we're still seeing the variant, the number is skyrocket. so how will it transfer from being, you know,

all action stations to something that we just deal with, as you say, like the seasonal flu? well, out of the predictions back in 2020, many of us in the panoramic preparedness community, we're saying we're warning that this is going to be more most likely a 2020 to at least 2022 situation. because if you look at the 1918 flu pandemic that really went from the spring of 1918 and then to winter searches to about the spring of of 1929. i'm not saying it's going to have the exact same timeframe, but it does take that long, at least for people to either get a combination of getting exposed to the virus or get get vaccinated. and of course fax needs to can shorten that timeline. but what, what essentially want to do is reach her to the thresholds where people, enough people have been exposed and are now a little more used to the virus. so it could be that 2022. we're going to start

seeing some shifts and some changes. but we'll have to say, show, i'm, it's good for us all have a global, the sort of global, realistic expectations. i guess. the us now account for almost one in 3 cases around the world. the cdc is issued you guidance, saying people who are positive only need to isolate for 5 days if they have no symptoms, once you'll take on that how, how is that going to play out? do you think ever concern? is that sure you might have a situation where we're a significant percentage of people may no longer be infectious after that length of time. but you know, studies have shown that people can remain infectious up to 10 days or even potentially beyond. some concern is shortening, that you might have some cases that escape isolation where people continue to be infectious. so that's race concerned that this might not be the time to really shorten. those are isolation and quarantine guidelines because we're in the middle

of a winter search right now. and one of the goals right now is to be a little more conservative and try to prevent the spread as much as possible. i would really appreciate your time. thank you for that professor bruce lee. all right, thanks for having me. plan to moorehead on the news, all including shamed and public people are paraded on the streets in china for violating coven 19 rules. the protest camps and iraq going fonts, political turmoil continues. we live in baghdad and enforce chelsea lose ground in the england english premier league race. ty, so formal actions coming up later in the program. ah, security forces have frontier gas that protest is in the capital cartoon. ah,

thousands of others have rallied nationwide demanding the end of military rule and to return to civilian government, phone and internet services. it will shut down a bit disrupting, to make his protest since the nicu in october or less, get more now from val who's in court to mohammed, what's happening right now in the streets. so we have a situation there in the central larry of cotton where you see crowds trying to approach the presidential police, but they, they, they are never able to really stay there all to be united in one in one contiguous group. so skirmishes, air, a security forces in huge numbers, unprecedented at numbers, are in every street in every corner. and they are attacking the protesters, dispersing them every time we try to, to approach you know, that the protest as have always been trying to get it to gather in front of the presidential palace. the, those who try to cross into central cartoon coming from the other

a sides of the city of the capital, which is made up of 3 different cities, have been unable to do that because the bridges have been closed since yesterday night or more success on the on the side of the security forces his time around for probably because of the big numbers that they are using a on every new occasion. also partly because of the. 6 the internet and the phone lines that have been interrupted completely completely more complete lee than in the past. so these factors add together, make it difficult for her to protest as to coordinator, efforts to know what they do, what they should do next to the, to know how much successful one of the groups ease when it is separated from the other. we know that a what as also it took to the streets in other cities, particularly in ports with an in that had c area. but overall they are a performance to day is much, much, sir, at weaker than on the previous occasions. right. thank you for that update, ma'am,

and i'll fly for us in cartoon. let's bring in while leads mud the ball. he is founder and president of the sudan policy for him. he joins us now from dough. how, thanks for your time. how do you foresee these protest playing out going on into their 11th day? now, despite the immense risk for protest is going on to the streets, they really seem quite defiant. i see that there is a determination acting on park no mercy videos on the for chris to, to try to call his attendance with the military john to make a change. but the problem is both groups. i mean, the use on that military don't do they have to reach a point of intransigence that day? it's more clear as to what mechanism, what methodology can be adopted to choose the,

the new system or the new president for the coming period. so this is, this is, i think one or 2 lines. politics is yes, there is a need to make a change, but it's a, since these young i use, i are refusing to deal with political parties. they feel betrayed by the force of freedom and change. they feel betrayed by political parties, then it won't clear us to who are they going to eat grass with negotiating this change is deleted. go. yeah, i guess it's sort of how to translate that anger into something that's acceptable to, to, to the protest is i want to ask if there was any announcement of the deal. i guess you could say bringing back about a 100 prime minister last month. why it was it that critics rejected that rejected

hen and i'm wanting to think might be acceptable protested at this point. i think at this moment, handle has become really been to the governance equation in so it's only the regional and the national parties that are either mentally i mean trying to bring him back into the equation and the government. but how can we negotiate that lead here? they've been very much on the forces on the ground that you know you to a, to be able to accept some sort of over a relationship with the forces of freedom. writing

a i think is more important here to the, to the whole situation is being able to be this little dog has some sort of beauty. it must be, must be made very clear to the many, many joint that they won't be held accountable for any crime scene. they might have a committee. otherwise they are not going to be willing to discuss some sort of a transition that when the end of the meeting and then we bring some sort of media show, which i guess would be hard to swallow, to protest and for their lives on the line. getting out in the streets. hey, we have to leave it at a time. thank you so much for analysis there. while it might be both founder and president of the sit on the policy form at least 4 soldiers had been killed in molly. and while the army describes as a targeted attack about

a dozen more were injured on tuesday in the western region, molly's armed forces, se gunman had attacked its troops in that area. in the past, a summit is on the way in mali to address national challenges including future elections and the ongoing fighting out there has been told that an agreement to revive around nuclear deal with wild powers is still far off the ground as hawks between diplomats commenced in vienna, on monday, forces close to the negotiations say there is a deep disagreement surrounding a wrong demand for us sanctions to be lifted immediately. they say the talks are going in a good direction, but that they lack the momentum to achieve results within a reasonable timeframe. and as those talks take place around launched a satellite carrier rocket interest. thanks us as complained about previous launches, because affairs that the technology could advance arounds, ballistic missile program dosage. valerie has more now from vienna. there is

definitely a sense of urgency. there is a sense that these rounds, at this age round could possibly be the final round, but there is an a feeling that all sides are now very serious about reaching some kind of an agreement or altogether is coming to terms of the fact that this nuclear deal can no longer be revived. of course, there were events that took place on wednesday morning in the reigning capital to her on an in iran space program. the defense ministry officials announced on wednesday morning that the iranians launched another satellite into space. this is a 1st time since april of 2020 the radians have done this and to talk more about what this means and putting into context of the talks here in vienna. i'm joined now by mohammed mirandi and mr. mandy, can you tell us 1st, this, specifically, this launch into space? was it part of the rods? ballistic missile program were, is a part of the space program, or they very much to separate or intertwined. and also can you tell us why with the iranians decide to do this at this juncture?

it's a part of iran space program, and iran had a space program for quite a long time. it's sent satellites into orbit on a number of occasions. it's over 10 years since iraq incentives for a satellite into space. i think it's pretty clear that the iranians are going to continue with business as usual, whether it's regards to its space program or even it's missile. ballistic missile technology. we saw iran's military maneuvers just carried out a few days ago. that was obviously a message the united states into this railways that any military conflict would lead to devastating consequences. in other words, those maneuvers were carried out to prevent war. but to win the run is believed that when the united states is trying to prevent iran from importing even medicine and when the europeans assist the united states in banning such import, then iran has to become self sufficient. both sides have to together and they can't

have anything extra then before. thank you very much for your time. mama, randy, they're from the university of to ron. and the point is making is that there is a lot of work ahead and that is the general consensus by all parties involved moving forward into the new year. they're going to have a lot of things to hammer out, and the europeans and the european union has hosting these talks have also said that there is a lot of hard decisions that are going to be have to made in toronto, washington, but there is hope that they will be able to reach some kind of an agreement in the coming weeks ahead. so head on al jazeera, focused on struggles to preserve rural areas that are at risk of being swallowed 5, rapidly growing cities. and in sports, one of know that talk of it is rivals has to say about the world number one's prospects, the repairing of this straight in open ah

hello, best looking like a west end to the year for a good part of the middle east and that includes us here in cross or you can see this area cloud is already brought some bits and pieces of patchy right over the past 24 hours, right? if anything will just the 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. aubrey round the you are ye sang some showers longest bells of bright along with eastern areas all vermont. and then as we move on into satch date and see her lot of rain is still very much in evidence. i think that will be the site, the where to stay here. in katara we are going to see some heavier bursts of frame for time. the 1st proper raymond, really for around 8 months i was seen some lobby showers, longest spells of right into the eastern side of the mediterranean. they'll be some more while it's just coming down into northern parts of egypt, the northeast of libya, roswell, much of north africa will be try,

we'll see some showers, say i just along the guinea coast, the shouts extending into the topics of course. and i shall, as i run out of the democratic republic of congo through sam b, as in bob, we sang some heavy shot 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 such day, there the funeral, of course, the big funeral. we could see some wet weather, just weeping out of the clouds. ah, ah, mother nature's gift of cultural landscapes. a strong infrastructure governance arising where investments are waiting to flourish. with tv even supplied by tradition with beautiful possibly with or offered.