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thousands in northwest me and mar, fleeing, unrelenting attacks by the military class. a popular congolese dance music. it's special recognition by the united nations. i'm in school, the head of european football is hits out of the plans to host the world cup every 2 years. we look happen because it's a bad idea, not because we are forcing alexander scheffer and insist the vast majority of fans are also against the idea. ah. the number of daily cove at 19 cases globally, is approaching 2000000. that's nearly double the number seen in the last week. the u. s. is the worst factors for counting for nearly $1.00 and $3.00 cases in the world. but even though data and on the con, variance are surging,

hospitalizations and deaths are relatively low. it's got to mike hannah now who is i for us in washington dc. mike to talk us through the situation there in the u. s . well, you say the praise that deaths are relatively low, this is correct. according to the cdc, that the death rate, the fatality rate has dropped by some 7 percent over the past week, but still some $1100.00 americans are dying each day in the latest wave of the sweeping united states. now the cdc also makes very clear that those who are vaccinated and those have a booster shot so far less ill effects than those who are not. in fact, the vast majority. in fact, the close to a 100 percent of those who be hospitalized recently are those who are not vaccinated. once again, the cdc reiterating, it's cool for the 35 percent of americans who are still not back sedated to go and do so as an effective way of combating the various strains of virus that are now

throughout the united states. and certainly the infection rates continue to rise dramatically and all new you a festival. the festival tease that being curtailed. busy new york, for example, is restricting numbers to some 15000 miami and atlanta have canceled their celebrations, though they will have firewood displays. but this is a pattern throughout the united states as the country comes to grips with yet a nother surge in infection rates, a surge that is far higher than has been seen before. driven the cdc by those 2 very in delta and ami kron in particular. army kron is something that the cdc is continuing to investigate. it's basically looking at what is happening in real time . but it's key issue, it's testing to be able to get the data to ascertain exactly how the variance are moving through the united states. now i'm interested on the testing from mike, i mean, i'm just coming from the u. k. in there, there's a real move, i guess,

where people will do their own test at home. you might do a lateral flow test. and before you go out and see you relatives, you know, if you take me around this time of year, i'm wondering in the us what the situation is with testing. i mean, are there enough tests? well, the answer is no. people do one to as they've done another part of the world, able to test before attending family celebrations. but this simply not enough test to go round at present. and certainly there are no free tests available, which is prevalent in much of the western world. the situation within the u. s. is that the bite and administration should american set, it would be providing tests in home in the very near future. now that was a couple of weeks ago. the tests are still not forthcoming because of supply chain issues. the bite and administration has admitted that they are delays that fits

that will move these tests out within the next couple of weeks. but it's an absolutely critical factor. and in a way, for those who want to celebrate the holidays, it's far too late. if they want to get tested, they going to have to try and hunt down the tests, which they will pay for themselves. and that is very difficult to do, given the supply chain issues. so large amounts of americans are going and tested despite the fact that they would want to be tested if possible. so this is a major issue that as i said, is hampering attempts to come to terms with understanding the nature of the various strains of the virus. all right, thank you for that. mike. hannah, they're in washington, d. c. and go south now to mexico. officials there have warned about a new wave of infections. more than 4000 new cases have been reported mexico to take its 1st case of the on the con variance. earlier this month. my manual. apollo jones now live from mexico city manuel. so just august 3rd through the

situation across that in america, mexico is pairing for another wave. is that the case across latin america? the warnings from health authorities here in mexico as well as health authorities across latin american region are clear, more has to be done to prevent contagion of this new wave of the pandemic. that's beginning here and in, across the continent. just in the last few days, we've seen how the lines outside of vaccine centers, those cues are starting to grow once again, given the spike in cases here in mexico. but if you look across the board in latin america, the same is true in several countries. argentina, just this week has posted the largest number of new cases since the very start of the pandemic, again, the dominant strain, the dominant barrier is the delta vary, but of course there is much concern over the army con very is given what health authorities are observing taking place in europe and in the united states right now,

there's another alarming trend that we've been paying close attention to today, which is what's happening in puerto rico, which just yesterday there were 307 hospitalizations, 84 of those hospitalizations were children. there's also concern over an alarming number of medical professionals who have been hospitalized in the u. s. territory of puerto rico. there is also an interesting aspect here to know which is the different policies in different attitudes that are being taken by countries across the region. because if there is a silver lining here, if there is a bit of positive news that we can report, it's the fact that recent data shows that south america, countries in south america are now considered to be the most vaccinated in the world. but the attitudes are still varying from country to country mexico, where we are right now, for example, has a very relaxed public policy toward contagion prevention. very little mandatory sort of policy when it comes to core and teens are locked down. conversely, you could talk, or we could look at that she live, for example,

which has very strict policies for foreign travelers entering the country. they need to present a negative coping, $900.00 test, if less than 72 hours before they board their flight. there are my mandatory quarantine and isolation periods, but where the continent is right now compared to just a year ago, where we could look at countries like brazil that was considered the at the center of the pandemic. not only for latin america, but for the entire world, the president of brazil, j. your bull scenario was one of the most vocal advocates against vaccination in today. you look at major cities in brazil like so. paulo or rio, and there's upwards of 99 percent vaccination rates, but again, the same isn't true for all of the countries of latin america. this is a major warning from international health officials, vaccine access vaccine inequality. there are countries like guatemala that haven't even reached 40 percent vaccination, not to say 50 percent necessary threshold to really curb contagion when you're up

all over in mexico city. thank you. k is setting up temp refilled hospitals to deal with the surgeon cases. the so called nightingale homes will be overflow sufficient for people to be discharged. but in need of lower levels of horse. at the moment, the number of people admitted to hospital is significantly lower than earlier in the year. around $900.00 were admitted on thursday compared to 4 and a half 1000 per day last january. but the number is rising, the nation figure shows at hospital admissions aren't the highest level since march . however, despite rise in hospital admissions, a number of people in intensive care is dropping. where we challenge is falling developments in london. in the face be given a ball park figure of about 10000 hospitalizations at one point when things start to get really tricky. and they are just creeping over that benchmark for england at least. so the plan is to set up for their calling

a hub. the various hospitals around the country, they'll be temporary structures put off in, you know, car parts, et cetera. and each one will have about a 100 beds capacity. it doesn't sound much, but the hope is that that will be enough to deal with any over spill from the main hospitals. if it's not, they all looking at other sites to set up around $4000.00 more beds to deal with a super search 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 police and southern china have been captured on camera parading for men through the streets in a public shaming exercise of an accused of transporting undocumented migrants. while the country's borders remain long to be closed to to coven, 1900. 30. we spoke to a begging correspondent,

katrina you. she says these recent public shaming exercises have spent a lot of backlash. videos were circulating on white board chinese version of twitter, but they have since been taken down for the most part after sparking quite a lot of backlash. them mix 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 $96970.00 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 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 20 my head on these are including talks to revive iran's nuclear deal. reach a critical moment, we'll have the latest from vienna and approaches camps and iraq are being removed, but to political turmoil continues. will have the latest from baghdad. then enforce

manchester city tightened their grip on the english premier league title race. and he will be here with that story. ah, security forces ensued on have killed at least 4 protest is they were shot dead in under mom. as thousands rallied against the recent military takeover protests had been taking place across the country. demonstrate his in cartoon approached the presidential palace i'm at, val has more from cotton. it's very different to a scenario from what happened last saturday. and the, the protest that happened or so week before that to they were seeing less and less sir protests as being able to break through the lines of defense that have been created or erected by a security forces. the bridges are still protected. they could not cross any of the bridges leading to the central eurey of cartoon, or 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 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. they, they always bet on their capacity to be next to the processor polish so that they can deliver their messages or protest her in the other parts of come to them and undermine and battery. they gather the bigger 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 to date. we're joining us now from nairobi is hollow, clear, managing director of in science strategy partners. that's the policy. think tank,

thanks for your time. what do you think is going to happen here? how is this all going to play out? men protest as have been killed, but the people on the street seem defiant and, and, and very much resolute. absolutely, and i think would be, are becoming increasingly more resolute to the more resistance that they're facing . i mean, the resistance begets resistance, and i think this is a miscalculation that the generals keep making. and that seems to be an inevitability to this, that you know, because we're seeing such result oven determination from the streets that we will continue to, to be seeing. and that the sort of increased protests, even if they were the high social cost and high economic cost of joining these protests continues to increase. and the generals need to really stop listening to other voices now that make them understand that they need to figure out a way to conceive some of the processes demands. but if what has been happening so far has not made any difference. i mean, dozens of people have been killed and you know, what is it that would, i guess,

spark their generals into a change of heart into changing tac? well, what, what we've seen is quite a weak international community response throughout all this, you know, domestically pro democracy groups have been very vocal. and barry, i'm clear about what their demands are. but international, seamless of pre verification from different a different international partners, including ones where you would expect to see more sort of resolute support to lynch for, for pro democracy groups. and i think that's where the generals are getting a lot of their sense of support from and it's very clear that they are hitting out against those international supporters that they see that are potentially changing their to tune or becoming a bit more stringent on them for example, we saw the security forces raid the officers on that had us. and that ought to be a both sadie owned because the saudis have recently been involved in some of the mediation talks between the prime minister and the generals. and so i think the args are coming out for,

for those international community members that they see also of turning against them potentially. but that doesn't mean that the national to me should not be pressuring the generals to respecting human rights and meeting some of these demands of the protesters and actually committing to a democratic process. so hm. so it's so it's sort of like acting with impunity for as long as they're able to act with impunity. what's your take then on the actions taken by the military dontez since taking power. i'm thinking about the people that have reinstated to certain roles that their attitude toward the international community. what does all of that say to you? it says to me that we're heading back towards a bashir era to style sir security socratic states incident. certainly a lot of b is limits that have been appointed to key our roles within the security apparatus, but also within the legal structures of sedan. but also the, i'm sort of bringing back that the unfettered powers of the national intelligence security services which was, is able to meet out punishments at will. and that's partly because the state of

emergency that was enacted with the crew is still ongoing. and that's why people feel that the crew is still very much ongoing, despite the agreement between the prime minister and general hon. oh, what impact? i think that the cutting of phone lines and internet lines has had and, and will continue to have on the protest movement. it certainly affects mobilization, but the protesters have become very sort of add, you know, aid. they've been able to figure out ways to mobilize without them these internet outages because they've had to sort of learn how to do that over the past 2 or 3 years. and so it's not stoping mobilization at what is becoming sort of more of a hindrance of these blocks to the bridges, which won't allow people to reach the republican palace. but even that is a temporary measure, because of course you can't keep the bridges close forever. and people, as they have done with the telecommunications blockages, will find ways around that. and again, this is what,

where the generals have to recognize the inevitability of some of the changes there will be forced to make. i really got to talk to you. thank you so much for breaking it down for us. are from nairobi. kernels high at algebra has been told that an agreement to revive iran's nuclear deal with world powers is still far off the 8th round of talks between 5th and commenced and vienna on monday. so. so as close to the negotiation say there is a deep disagreement surrounding wrongs 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 reasonable timeframe. as those talks take place around launched a satellite kerio locket into space. the u. s. has complained about previous launches because of fears that the technology could advance around for this missile program. jabari has moved 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, 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, teheran ad 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 put it 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. are 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 cent. satellites into orbit on a number of occasions is over 10 years since iran sent its 1st 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 the 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 them before. thank you very much for your time. mama, randy,

they're from the university of to hon. the point he's 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 in the european, the european union who's hosting these talks of also said that there is a lot of hard decisions that are going to be have to made in teheran and washington . but there is hope that they will be able to reach some kind of an agreement in the coming weeks. i had a 2 month fit in this coming to an end near baghdad. green zone rainy and back. she political parties have been protesting against the results of october as legislative elections. they say the vote was riggs and now dismantling their hands with all areas said to be cared by saturday. the supreme court ratified the election results. after 6 weeks of legal challenges, i moved the way it has moved from bank. does that have been talks over the past 2 months since the political upheaval that resulted from the election results that

have been talks have been negotiations between the rival political parties in order to reach a consensus on forming the government. and also at choosing high profile posts, including the prime minister and the upcoming speaker of the parliament and to the p t s. now remember these protests that they were the coupon areas near about the green zone for 2 months. is this the supporters of the pro hearing and she political part is the last many seats in the elections. and recently, these political leaders have been meeting with shia cleric and the political the, the most, the southern who was block one, the majority of seats in the election. he 1st looked at the beginning. it did not want to take part in a government that includes the losing political part of those political parties was

affiliated with iran that last many seats in the election. but eventually, after talks of the negotiations, upper mediations between the rival political parties, they are now approaching a stage where a consensus government is going to be their choice in order to appease the protest on the ground. and also appease the prearranged and protest dot took to the streets and co pied areas near by a green zone and human rights group as accusing government forces in northwest me and more of killing civilians and destroying their homes. the military hasn't commented on the allegations. drone video, which matches satellite images show smoke billowing from the town of tonnes long and chin state. tony came reports from the me and my border fires burn in the hill, top town of tent, along and chin state northwestern. man ma 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 in the creek about for, i mean, but especially in my to p. there was a here food shortage. the people couldn't access to farms also, as the military had placed miles on the away, no transportation was available and people couldn't go from one village to another . internet access and phone lies were shut. satellite photos show how starting in september systematic uncoordinated attacks, destroyed 580 buildings in the town. these tactics 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 mere mas majority, ethnic group opposition has been greatly put down in saigon, this woman shrieks with grief after finding the body of her grandfather, one of 12 villages reportedly murdered by the military. mammoth government, politicians in exile, condemned the alleged war crimes, the military, everyday committee crimes terrorist act against the people be by the die and it is compromise comprised the international crimes against the remedy. so thank you for making statement. thank you for your concern, but the current situation remind you ought, you know, more actions of concrete actions to stop that kind of military actions and to stop the illegal military terrorist. 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 ma ma border. still ahead on al jazeera israel scrambles to contain its worst outbreak of birds. scientists warn it could spread to people soon. at to the death of the soil and south africans paid tribute to archbishop desmond to him as his body lies and stays. dick central in cape town then in towards one another. jacklewitz's rivals has his se about, well,

no one's prospects of hearing of the strain of ah hallo, vast looking like a west end to the year forget 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 apache rain over the past 24 hours that rain if anything were to stir proper touches. 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 a round. the you are you seeing some showers longest bells of bright along with eastern areas of a man, and then we move on into sad state and see have a lot of rain. it's still very much in evidence. i think that will be the site the wet stay here in carter we are going to see some heavier burst of rain for time. the 1st proper ramen. really for around 8 months i was seen some larvae showers,

longest bells of rain into the eastern side of the mediterranean. there be some more. well, it's just coming down into northern parts of egypt. the northeast of libya swell. much of north africa will be dry. we'll see some showers there just along the guinea coast, a shower extending into the tropics, of course, and no showers. they run out of the democratic republic of congo through zombie as in barbie sinks in heavy south eastern parts. so 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. awe dreams dawns and entertainment a way for people to rise above the violence around them. so it's my role to give these girls a different idea that they can leave the wars of this community. 3 short films show how performance creates a home and family,

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