unprompted, uninterrupted, we need to do away with the what evil, because it stops conversation. where should we get our land to boats on meets i asia, i can be. this is the beginning of friendship, beginning of love getting somewhere and can really break through the barriers studio be unscripted on al jazeera. ah hello lauren taylor under the top stories on al jazeera, new year celebrations around the world, a hardly being scaled back for the 2nd year running as code 19 infection, sol global cases had a record high over the past 7 days. we almost a 1000000 detected on average each day. 1.7000000 infections were registered on wednesday alone. during part 2, a lag in reporting of a christmas. the u. s. makes up nearly one 3rd of those cases. with almost 490000

confirmed. europe is also seeing a massive rise in cases of italy, france, spain, and the u. k. o reporting record data infections over the past week. health systems on depression and u. k is drawing out plans for temporary field hospitals where we challenge reports from london cases, a skyrocketing home with a sions in england, or at that point during alarm bells ringing. there's an ami kron serge is about to crash over the already struggling national health service. so if we keep them increasing, especially it, of course the pressures are, again, my thing week on week when you've got workforce, as i've said, that's already up to 550 for nurses on many more. and so 5 saying then of course, the pressures are building and building and building. so what will it be like in january, contingency plans are being put in place to cope with existing hospital capacity

becomes overwhelmed with new temporary boards built the house patients. 8 temporary hub, being built at hospitals around the country, each one with a capacity of $100.00 beds more sites being planned for an extra $4000.00 bed if needed, its hope that none of this will ever be used. but if there just in case london is preparing for new year's eve, but with the big fireworks display cancel for a 2nd year and on, the kron keeping people in doors celebrations will be much produced on the continent. new infection records, a beaten almost daily italy logged a 126000 on thursday up from wednesdays, 98000 testing center. is it becoming overwhelmed and temp as a frame? i've been doing since 9 30 am and it was madness in it till 2 days we'll

be able to look at the only available spot. we're outside of the central room. so that's why i came here and i spent 5 hours in line 5 hours grease has brought forward new restrictions which have been planned for early january, new year's eve aside bars, night clubs and restaurants will be forced to close at midnight with no standing customers and no music as dismay in the hospitality sector. you will have the blood must certainly to us in the restaurant sector. it is a disaster. that's the key word here. but on the other hand, you can't go against the health situation. i can't say i want to stay then and work while people are dying, grief, italy and the u. k. have all seen record numbers of cases in recent days, and it's likely there are more records to come. re challenge. how does era london south africa has announced at midnight to 4? and if you will now be lifted and government believes the country has passed the

peak of its 4th coded wave. the spike was driven by the electron variant, which was 1st identified by scientists in south africa, sparking global concern. sudanese security forces have killed at least 4 protested during the latest demonstrations against october's military take over. a doctor's committee and lined with the protest movement says the 4 were shot dead in under. among dozens more were injured. tens of thousands of people have been rallying across the country, demanding the military remove itself from government. phone and internet services were shut down to try to disrupt the demonstrations. video has emerged of the destruction of a town in min, more northwest believe to be caused by fives. and artillery. launched by the military rights group said further evidence of the armies brittle suppression of its opponents since the february qu without sorry to stay with us out, they were correspond, the cut is coming out next morning after that. ah

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the commentary fall to 0. about female genital mutilation. that i realize how deep little to the teeth in many cultures, including my own, ah, family and friends who have been through it. but it's not something you talk about . as a child, i attended a close relative gathering after she was a. it was then that i wondered, have i been cut ah, to my relief, my mother told me that she chose not to. ah, when i think about the severe health risks involved in f t m. i can't help but wonder, ah, why does this practice continue in so many countries? ah, and what would it take her to stop them by lemme double vanilla to wonder, and how to some managed change own help attitude towards cutting. it was still preserving their own culture. oh,

you know then that i'm passing questions like whether my mother has been cut. i've never asked tell hardy a month. oh, i'm determined to find out more about the different reasons why f g m continues and to understand better what's needed to ended. ah, i've come to somali lan, because together with the rest of somalia, it has the highest trait to female genital mutilation in the world. f t m is bound in most countries, but here it's still legal and somali land children are mostly caught between the ages of 6 and 8. 0, i've come to the outskirts of agatha,

the capital to me to traditional cutter pi. oh oh no one has been cutting girls for over 40 years. took it out on $25.00 a day at have peak. so how many girls have you got? oh cool, look a lot and what type of cuts have you performed on the delta care i'm calling in father. uh huh. why it tie lake? yeah. let's leah horse hill. good or saw? i'll caught ye. how car and this is julia. good neal chorus. those show dumbbell aconia said that i was so low. good live for only right? yeah. that can only now can so low. why entire this week? senator was ha ha, i've a little will some tact i noodle shows me the most common cotton, somali land, the chorus, the most severe fellow nick,

one. what is this for whole harris at my walk? i shall and will gladly. yeah, sir, but in the clutter it ha casara was or tell you don't you the knife? my m. okay. no acid shalaya tannel talia. mm hm. how key, how it on the walk and he said, oh, what uncle tell us? thought i yes. okay. oh, to thread florida can saw her, they can. so had they can you show me how do you determine how big the whole should be that you live? this is our big, the opening of. ah, only the. well, good luck was and you supposed to urinate from this and when you're a teenager, mr. asian,

go through this whole now about over 90 percent of girls and smiley land, a cut by traditional cotton. unlike nora most have no medical training. more skill than women here have had the for wanted cut and i want to know the consequences alike. alabama, salam, i'm a bit of senior midwife at the local hospital for good unless you have a really beautiful out. not a lot. thank you very much. that she was born in somalia with moved to freedom are the result of the civil war. that late in later 9, i decided to come back to move something for most people because i am more needed here. how have you been involved in the fight against her there? if jam cases, which will help is those will have 5 broad fire brody said tumor,

which is which for mr. collected blood the blood cannot. if the space is very small, the administration cannot go out of every month when the girl gets the ministration that it will be something left in the uterus. so this will form torment. this becomes bigger february to see this girl. she has illegal way, baby, and had a stomach. so the doctor takes out this and the girl on the okay. and her helps from the mega maternity hospital in ocoee sharma in mental help. hi sand thunderbolt. my son liberty was based on what garcia. who said that it was over 2 days a week and of counselors carry out educational outreach, work in the community, salary labeled parcel. hello. hello. i had another another little boy about color had a fall is so law in danny or from day and had asked him ards cut,

viewable on account. aha, michael salinas with you, there's a demo, a good interval on i shot the lady handling that. there was a lot of my life, like i had, i had you, hadn't there? how had i knew i met should have died in which i got a van line. what that? so is the way now, cindy. no. so viola was the soto is a, they shut to wants to discuss her house worries, with the counselors to the 18th. i'm pregnant with her 1st chart. she's had to for only cut one ali calling. i know to me today and i turned into her doing to to run a ha, wiley tullet had then american grew sony palsky. i hadn't had them while

a tough time left them. okay. a little came on i saw for him also the arrow shanahan over there. deeper than the commissar the higher balloon media mulatto calling caution. bradley was so busy my hand on both humming had come on and what he good corklin awhile, hamilton, but they're either local color canada or burn up at all. skinny, sit there and we'll get that up on mitchell and kate mckayla. google saw monahan, we got that on bubble cuz i didn't have li are all have been. and we're, we're had our laney a little bit in the local office where they had that in. but on our marquee, carla talked to long over have her come to the civil and i will her new to me and also whenever i had done it, they go to. hello hegan go it had been a tall name mercado my god will mallet. ah, what i mean, sir. though fiano. hey gallagher young boy anyone? ha, ha, ha, ha. home in a big mike killian anyway, why you know why talent on medicaid grew to south on i talked to lake in similar

that him, kathy mccoy, her mom said you had a little bit of time at all. chava. hello hannah, have la, but honestly their little group had done a day. lily kitty? well couldn't talk on it. and on tarka, mega holiday, i been an annual not lily kitty. well, they couldn't talk a little, hasn't got of sony. allah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, dig for how curly be so long treated him, i'd be by hey, sam. charlotte overhauled with um no, so born though, gotten from with so i do things from ali land have the percentage when it comes to f g m globally. it takes time to leave because her grandmother and mother is these still all on with the switch her in. and if jim especially the grandmother sat very,

very close that they are there will they will not leave it. there was a lady who had 3 girls, she came to me at the hospital. i told her, go back to the horn and see i did over ation. she is very killer for this grandmother. when the guests had gone to the thought tarlton, she goes after them, she listen is the most of that and your in. oh because when the girl is circumcised it yeah, there's no nice with that with her urine because it is like a drug addict or she cried. she said or my daughter against adult again, you'll nathan like a voice. what you did you did nothing. do you think that eventually people will abandon the sir eventually, but it will take time. ah

ah, as i watched his young people at a wedding reception, i wonder how many of the men would be willing to marry him uncut woman in the future. oh, foreseen, lucre journalist posted an empty of jim message of social media. i was curious to know why added the facebook status, where you said some men believe if jam deduces a woman's sexual desire. they say this increases her appeal. what made you rides us? i wanted to talk because his problem thought of our callous and dishonesty. dow yeoman plate of the goddess. are you my 9 at night when you will get my? do you want to marry someone who has cut the wrong cut and cut?

okay. are you married? no, you want to be married. someone was cut on cup on huddle, who yearly, mca mitchell with an old target. somehow did duck monkey and his brother, kennesaw, juliessa would erica high level lima dunn, my car. my hot in la david will you or later other one actually gonna buy them but nothing comic. i saw that i in total over time, which i am a woman and i come from a culture that also practices if i'm not cut and i know i the woman based on what other woman have told me, that if there is no, there is no good in it, if they tell you this is hurting us, this is literally killing us and we need to stop. would you then listen hard to local zoom? callisom ill, her mccarthy did, doesn't camilla would been much lucille her to his own intel or sagacity. and me for the michael hallelujah, boucher,

the delicate machine i'm surprised that a young man should feel so strongly about holding on to this tradition. when so harmful, if effigy mister end, changing men's attitudes will be central. con thing we did and they had not done invested to hospital collect detailed information on trends in female cutting a mckinley. now since 2002, all antenatal patients are off what kind of cuts of hog, and if they intend to cut their daughters in, i did wish i had, they were kind of in a tongue of little listening. this is rare and to see a woman who is a i will lead due to my daughter in 2002, i think 97 percent of fema patient had undergone the fair when he cut and most

intended the same for their daughters. with a part, but that has changed. there is a he is in girlfriend into todd and richard t ad having now in tad one touch to which they called sooner. but it is getting cut sim time one is the one that there's a little bit of tip. yeah. but have to declutter half of cametrius. we know all cuts doesn't have any benefit from a girl with her father, mom and cabin. doctor shapiro introduces me to a friend who's at the hospital on a postnatal live. she gave birth quarter days ago. oh, so a interesting business with our program. so she cadon is a midwife, a know the harmful effects of for only cutting from pass and experience. i was,

several was all one, but i say at that time if he had pain when he wanted to can you relate? i can, i'm coming, you can cut on in my for that if there can, you can like why i, you can talk claim the festival, the lady i feeling that when i am 16 years, the ministration 2nd loom i feed in pay load of them have been pet fee tank as a courtesy for june. second communication i feel if and i feeling that tuck on vacation when america, i think they all come from katie and never forget that to me for say, create a fit of pity. did you feel any resentment towards your mother and her grandmother? yeah, but my mother, she hadn't location lou

as i am leaving somali land, i feel privileged to have met a woman who shared the stories with me. but i'm overcome with emotion. as i relies, virtually every woman here have been coughing and was it actually means i've always known about the numbers and the facts and figures. but when you come face to face to woman who gone through it, it seems like the woman who after indoors this and the children who after indoors, if you go through cycles of pain and for what for what has happened to so many women and girls like my mom i'm so happy that she i don't know why she didn't cut off,

but i'm so grateful. because my life would have been so much different because it feels like oh would have gone through the pay to go through without. and then not to be able to do something that just the god given thing to peak, you can't p and then you commence duration. and then when you have to have sex, you don't enjoy it and it's like painful. and then you have to give birth and then it just continue. i'm so grateful that i didn't go through that. and when i met this woman who have to go through it to ah,

i've come to kenya to find out more about a totally different culture. or over 40 tribes here with diverse cultures and traditions, the majority don't practice or cuts at all but to several including the most i cutting have been a centuries old tradition until recently. today i'm meeting 28 year old nicely getty nice of managed to totally eradicate f t m. in her village of no, my younger oh, hold on. good. traditionally for them aside, cutting to the right of passage, marking the transition from girlhood to womanhood. usually between the ages of mine

and 14, the ritual in balsam was severe type of cutting. i lost a few guns in his release because of circumcision. i used to see gas even if they're trying to be strong. but you can see that they're feeling a lot of b as a bleeding. who saw that in this community? nice with the only gun have village who refused to be cut. all of my classmates were from this community, all of them of and i got a conversation and they didn't, they were not able to coordinate education. they have to find a husband for you after the conversation. so right now, almost all of them have 345 children and above i stumbled. what's your name? my name is flooded. oh, what a beautiful name. have they been the 2nd 5?

no, they haven't been fact i'm faced. how do you feel about not being caught me like when you're dealing with things. so what would you like to do when you grow up? it will be done. okay, thank you. lauren. as a result of nice, his determination to end, if she am no young girl had been katya since 2012 and i and a patriarchal society. and i 1st had to persuade the young warriors called me around to help and the practice. recruiting douglas, the leader of them runs, what was the beginning you were? what did you do nice to make them change of in, in about the jim douglas was the 1st person to accept my, well, the resistance will stay from all over. but then again, i had another trick because when i go to them, i'll go with someone like that, bless me to that, he talks before talk. so what did you do to restore them runs in the community. it

was very hard for us to continue the boys because they say that they cannot marry jobs because even job is not to come. said she's not a woman. then if we give an example of some of the that we have seen in the community, they said it's true and they forget it. they think it took more than 5 years for them just to accept. and now we decided to come up with a candidate. we came up with some of the photo stuff, it is the 10 galsen this community and we want them to upgrade to become a woman. we bless them. then we looked at the same cows we celebrated together, but we didn't cut. so that's what we've come up with. douglas, bring some of his hello, miranda tim, letting me. yeah. we are

a mix of moderate moran. okay. and, and what is moran? do you know what actually happens when a girl is cut? you yoga. alamos, cable guy, you, hamlin b, now will not have it, and i read a little more of it. now, when de la, you live in any one of them. when i had a delay, i'm getting a more and all of share your to william would love that i hadn't done done by lad. i, we, you know, when you, when you know the no one to go to the only one with nicer with some rounds or graphic video of a 2 year old girl being cut with a knife long. oh. live ludhiana a he a a where did you think that i'm all done on the land of when they're doing in the

do you have a daughter a how would you feel if someone said she needed to be cut and we are going to i think it to as one of their possible toys who've been using when we addressing them on the issues of in your genital mutilation. and there was another very persuasive incentive for the young lawyers that will you when we see it as a moron. as we talk when talk about sex, you see most of their morons are most of the men, they see. if they slip with our country, god. she is very sweet and said, no, that's what also contains most of them. what i need to say, we don't need the 2nd. okay. yeah. for a meeting . the messiah in pneumonia gives me hope. if one woman can change attitudes in one village,

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it's the political debris show that's challenging the way you think is a military advancement. going to stop the family to get i is under a company. right now. people are very children are day apart with me. welcome on hill. on out 0, lou. hello lauren taylor and under top stories era, you celebrations around the world are hardly being scaled back for the 2nd year running as co non teen infection, sol. global cases hit a record high over the past 7 days. well must 1000000 detected on average each day . 1.7000000 infections were registered on wednesday alone. the u. s. makes up nearly one 3rd of these cases with almost 490000 confirmed.