reported a safety failure was fired, his union is protesting, the decision he moved to the safety situation is pitfall in the planned. the irony is when work has come forward to point dangerous conditions. they pin the blame on us and tried to silence us. those who clock in and out of here every day know the dangers, but it's steady work in a poor part of the country. jobs they hope will one day soon become safer. adarine al jazeera tad unto italy still head on al jazeera. we'll look back at how the ballot box shaped events around the world during 2021. and it's more of these jockeys and argentina with horsing around will explain later in the news out. ah,

hello there. we've got rain slaten, snow in the forecast for the middle east, and for some quite a bit of it. it will cause some disruption. you can see this line of cloud now making its way across the u. e. around the straits of who moves that brought a few spots of re to casa, as we went through the last 24 hours or so heavy. if mindful, eye seems around 4 millimeters, we could see significantly more as we go on through the we can touch of storms here, they will sink their way further south was says that rain, therefore, carter of the brain proceeds from heavy rain particular making its way into a western parts of the iran in that rank could cause flash flooding here as we go through sunday. it should dry up for kata. she had the showers run the way back up towards key weight, pushing all the way back up into iraq. we want to showers over to wolves to live, and some of those showers also affect in the northeast of africa. we have seen some way whether recently across the northern half of egypt, around the sinai peninsula turning dry and now for turkey, one or 2 showers to just around the guinea coast. we must see some showers

a bit of wet weather. early on sass day into cape town for the archbishop desmond tutu funeral. early in the day it could be wet, it will brighten up as you go one, there will be some sunshine come the off, new temperatures at around 19 degrees and rising quite a few showers to for eastern part south africa. ah, with the african stories by african filmmakers. turbo le, let's go to join over with all the loading out the song models, really short documentary from for keener fossil and synagogue to do with my he fia. exactly, and give to them. but of course, the man who plants vow bombs and a rest history africa direct on al jazeera americans are increasingly saying authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way where

the chain of command, it seemed like tried to cover what's your take on why they've gotten this so wrong . that to me is political malpractice, the bottom line on us politics and policies and the impact on the world on al jazeera, we understand the differences and similarities of culture across the world. so no matter where you call home will, but you can use in current affairs that matter to years. ah ah ah, welcome back. you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. this home. the world has dawson bidding farewell to 2021. in the shadow of the pandemic and a surgeon on the con variant, sidney was one of the to read the new year. the spectacle included

a thank you to fun line workers, health officials in britain, a warning people about traveling to england from scotland and wales due to the high number of cases you gave her i minister bras johnson has called mo, celebrating to get tested more than $100.00 working to refugees who spent almost a month drift at sea in a damaged boat. and now in quarantine in indonesia, the country initially planned to turn the boat away that held it to land after international pressure as get more now on the ground of iris pandemic in time square. and new york is one of the most famous places in the world to bring in the new year. but once again, the pandemic has curtailed plans. this gabriel alexander reports, it's hurting local businesses, trying to bounce back on a recent de jasmine's caribbean restaurant the staff were busy getting ready for what they hoped would be a bustling dinner crowd. the restaurant which opened a year ago is in the heart of times square and christmas and new years are usually

one of the busiest times of the year. but with new york, now the us epicenter of the coven outbreak owner jasmine gerard says there is a problem for all business. i mean, we are suffering at this time right now. i mean, for me, thank the lord. i was able to open up in the band i make and i had an opportunity to do so. but everyone is really struggling and we definitely need people to come back to new york city. last month, the by did ministration reopened us borders to vaccinated tours for non essential travel. visitors have trickled back in to new york city, particularly times square, but not nearly to the pre pandemic levels. according to local officials, about $270000.00 people walk through times square each day during the month of december. that's about $100000.00 less than before the pandemic. and about 25 percent of all the businesses in times square remain closed. many our

restaurants look closely on the side streets and it's noticeably quieter. just on wednesday, more than 43000 people in new york city, tested positive for over 19. the numbers are rising so high, so fast that officials decided to scale back the famous new years. the ball drops. celebration here in time square from 70000 spectators to just 15000 and everyone will have to show proof of explanation. and we're a mass. i think more cautious. i think that at this point, you know, we're keeping an eye on the positivity rate, but it's not worrying us to a point where we're back at jasmine's. they've seen this movie before having struggled through last winter's covered wave. we were able to survive at that time and then you know, what amount spread? broadway open,

but now it's the sequel. and another covert surge taking it's toll on times square and on it's biggest night of the year. oh, gabriel's hondo al jazeera new york. ok, let's bring in william schaffner. he is a professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university medical center to join the style line from national. thank you very much of joining us. how news our i will start with a news from south africa. seems really encouraging that they passed the latest omicron, waive, and hospitalization rates have actually dropped. does that bone well been for the rest of the world? well, came 1st happy new year. and yes, this looks like a nice new year's present for the rest of us. because in south africa, oma crunch started, caused a huge wave of infection. numbers skyrocketing, and then rapidly began to decline. could that happen over the rest of the world?

we certainly hope so. this highly contagious virus running through the population, hitting all the susceptible, and then receiving very profoundly we would all hope that something similar would happen around the world. we can't count on it, but we can hope for the best. yeah, would land as that wavelength over the past for you as of this, of iris is not a lot that you can count on would says and tape it. why do you think there has been this quick peak? i mean, it seems like not that long ago, south africa was 1st announcing the discovery of on the concepts a. why is it been so quick t? thank yeah, that's the, that's been the subject of much discussion among epidemiologists. the 1st thing is that this is such a contagious virus, that it spreads through the population very, very quickly. number 2, there were a lot of young adults in south africa. it's a young population,

and so there were few were hospitalizations and 3 there that population probably had previous experience with coded. and so there was partial immunity in that population already. but those things together, and that's at least a reasonable explanation why it came down so quickly. okay. we're hearing often are around the well the of changing isolation rules for those who are coded positive in the u. s. i believe it has changed. now if you're asymptomatic, you just have to isolate for 5 days. england is, is 7 days the rest of the u. k. 10 days. usina, we're on from the still 14 days. why is there? is there such a difference? do you think as does everyone not agree on the science? i think everyone does agree on the science. the trick is changing the science into public policy, which there is no good for which there is no single answer. we could strive for the best public health policy that would be 14 days that would reduce

transmission the most. but we have to see what's practical public policy has to be accepted by the culture, by the nations, by the population in which it's introduced. and here in the united states, people have wanted to take off their masks, go out and about travel. and so people have said ok, maybe we can do this for 5 days. that will reduce most of the transmission. not perfect, but it will be acceptable by the population and let the economic, cultural, social, and religious life of the country get back into some sort of action. okay, what should we expect? the 2022. i know it's a big question. we're all looking for some hub right now, but to sell it and tell us, tell it to australia, what should we expect for 2020 to? well, i think here in the united states, for sure,

we're going to have some rough times for the next 4 to 6 weeks. all that travel over our holidays and people spreading over chron around. so that will be difficult . in addition, in the united states, at the moment, influenza that other respite oratory virus is waking up all over the country. so we could have a double epidemic, or twin demick flu plus coded at the same time. but what i hope is the good news is that after we get through this next search, you might call it. then i think with continuing vaccination, we can begin finally to control this virus. if there's no new variance that shows up or that the big f i hey, thank you very much for your time, really appreciate it. well, william, chef my pleasure. israel has started administering a 4th vaccination to people with weak immune systems becoming one of the 1st

countries to do so. it's also approved the roll out to elderly people in care homes . i. mr. natalie bennett says israel will be a trail blazer for the 4th job. it was one of the fastest to roll out their vaccines a year ago. at least 4 people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a roadside bomb in quits at pakistan. they say the bomb was placed by the gate of a college attended by students from and is the missed political party. no group has admitted responsibility. the area has experienced attacks by the pakistan taliban and a local i, sal, affiliate, and target rival religious groups. south africans paying their respects to archbishop desmond tutu as his body lies in state for a 2nd day. in cape town, people have been passing through saint george's cathedral with who's who preached and served as archbishop for a decade. south africans lined the streets to say their final goodbyes to the anti apartheid beater,

who railed against what rule. the country 2 died on sunday aged 90. his funeral will be held on saturday. now as another year draws to an end. we take a look back at some of the most important elections in 2021 and how those plans for the new year. it will shape the news agenda and latin america edits at the scene. human reports in the world's most powerful country, a sharp turn away from right wing populism, you know, duration of democrat joe biden. donald trump became the 1st outgoing president in modern who was history not to attend. but 2 weeks before the inauguration, many of trumps loyal supporters attacked the united states capital building in washington, following an unsuccessful bid by trump to overturn his defeat. to day, we celebrate the triumph mother of kennedy. what of a cause? the cause of democracy, the people, the world,

the people has been heard and the world the people has been here. for the 1st time, a bi racial woman camel harris was elected as the u. s. vice president are showing in what many c as a milestone across the atlantic, the end of in europe. after 16 years of leading her country and europe, german chancellor angle america decide that it was time to step down after general elections. she was replaced earlier this month by allah schultz, a social democrat. this coming year could see more changes in europe, incumbent french president in manuel. my conch is expected to face strong competition. in april, the leader of the right wing national rally party marine lipper has launched her 3rd bid for the presidency. she 2 faces stiff competition from afar. right? candidate air exam her who has been compared to donald trump in hungry rattling nationalist. victor orvin has held officers prime minister for the last 11 years

and in april he to face a strong electoral challenge. 2021 was marked by an alarming number of kuda tours and growing authoritarianism. there were cruising molly and guinea a military takeover in sudan, an unsuccessful co attempt to niger and an arbitrary transfer of power in chad. in the new year, kenya and angola will hold general elections and marley will see if the transitional authorities do in fact hold elections as promised. in the middle east, serious president bashar al assad obtain 95 percent of the vote in the reelection that was widely described as fraudulent. while in iran ultra hard liner, abraham racy was declared the winner in an election that saw the lowest turn out in iranian history. in latin america, 2021 was a turbulent year with nicaragua leader daniel ortega assuring his reelection last

month after disqualifying and arresting the vast majority of his would be competitors ah, but a neighboring laundress, seo, mad. castro, the wife of a former president who was ousted in 2009, was elected as the country's 1st woman president. a year ended with a 35 year old former left wing student leader, gabrielle borage, elected in chile with the largest number of votes in history. there's no indication that the regions more authoritarian governments will be less so in the new year. but after a decade long swing to the right, the election of gabriel burridge in chile could signal the beginning of the new shift back to the left in the continent, starting with latin, america's largest country, brazil. the new year was it populous, conservative president, jade bull sonata, against his arch political foe. we see now, sir, lula da silva, brazil's left wing,

former president, whose prison conviction for corruption was overturned in april and was now leading in the polls. but they were also compete against the man who sent lula to prison. former anti corruptions are, says, joe, mortal, columbia could also shift from the right to the left. in may. polls put former bulletin mer, gustavo petro in the lead. south korea will hold presidential elections in the new year, but perhaps the most attention will be on the philippines, where current press didn't ros. legal to death day could be replaced by ferdinand marcus junior, the son of the country's former dictator. and that this daughter sada, who's running as his vice president, there's concerned that the ticket aims to perpetuate their respective political dynasties. to see a newman al jazeera santiago, still ahead on al jazeera stick around for this one. jimmy will tell you why this coach was showered with mayonnaise. that's coming up in school.

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portugal team made christiana went out. i was on target for manchester, united as a b burnley in the premier league. but these last 3 games have been sustained jacoby 19 outbreak. i'm 7 of the 1st team players. wow. for this match off supposed to test ad injuries. and they went behind 8 minutes in culminate making it one mill, united jayden sanchez when changing to, to the united line up off of that role with new fossil, his short deflecting of funny defendant, been me, as united went to up. he went out and got his 8 in the league this season to make it to renew the food one back before the break. and there were no more goals in the 2nd half as it finished $31.00 united end, the 6 and the still on beaten. and ralph ran off to the post, go with gold, we had control on the game in the 1st off, but then we gave away one goal. so whenever the ball was in our half, there is still some space for improvement, but offensively, i agree that was so far the best performance for me and i strike romilly khaki

might have a bit of explaining to do it in current club chelsea about international who disappointed his boss thomas to school by expressing his frustrations in public, in an interview with a terry, a media earlier this month, which was ad on thursday because he says he's not happy with his role in the same. i'm not, haven't gone down to, well, you know, we don't like it of course because it brings, it brings noise that we don't need and just not helpful. but on the other side, you don't make you want to make more out of it than it's actually is, you know, you know very well how it is. it's very easy to take lines out of context. it's very easy to, to shorten lions make headlines and then later realize that it's not so bad and maybe not what he meant. and we need to come environment and focus and does not help the head of european football is concerned about the damage to the women's

game. the faces proposal to host the wildcat. every 2 years is approved. alexander saffron is told, with the man in charge of wild football, a fee for president johnny and fantine, who strongly in favor of the idea the european and south american confederations have formerly opposed the plan. but torment is currently held every 4 years in separate says. for research shows, the majority of fans want to keep it that way. the n b a has now postponed 11 games of covert related reasons. denver's home game against golden state was cooled off just hours before take off on thursday nights as the nuggets didn't have the required 8 players available due to current of virus and injuries. while in new york, kevin around percent for brooklyn, off the missing 2 weeks under the league's house and safety protocols, he showed no signs of rough flooring, $33.00 again philadelphia. so that wasn't enough to help them avoid defeat. the 76 is one by 8, with joe l. m b rubbing 34 point washington top score. bradley bail also return

from covey. 900 protocols, and he took the gold with 29 points against the cleveland cavaliers. washington one by 17 and the gable marks of columbia and in the m. b a. c k entering in the final minute and 7 in the an h l. a surprising having last for the team with the best record this season. tampa bay lightning. the tucson defending champions were hammered. 93 by the florida panthers, tampa. they ending there for game winning streak walls, florida. they scored more goals than any other team this season. 117. from 31 game . i, rick college football. the university of south carolina, when the chiefs may ovo and the competition is formed, said by you get that man a man, a company i should say is fitting head coach shane beam had a big tub of the stuff dumped over his head. and we didn't often have horse racing on our era. and while this next story does indeed come from a race track in argentina, you don't see any horses. that's because these jockeys gave the thoroughbreds the

day off on the final day of the season and the entertain the crowd with a sprint race of their own over a 100 meters. like any good holes, race comment tree is a must be even if you don't speak spanish when are you better than the crowd of stormed the track off of the race to congratulate the fall? this jokey on foot. that was jose alfredo. this kara, i wanted to see them jumping fences next time. can hope thanks for the agenda. and north korea has held a concert and fireworks display to celebrate the beginning of 2022. thousands attended the event in the capital of covenants. restrictions were extended in neighboring south korea. north korea claims to be one of the world's only countries to have not reported even a single case of cove with 19 or is of enclosed and other measures imposed to prevent an outbreak. 30, i'll tell you dealing with one of the 1st places in the world to see in the new

year old and traditional midnight. fireworks were replaced with a light show due to the pandemic. how is the world prepared for the new year? ahead? let's take a look now, and some of the biggest stories covered by al jazeera in the year 2021. take a look at this. let's walk down pennsylvania avenue ah, the u. s. capital building under su. cannot, however, tara, from our responsibility to validate with joseph robin bye. your new songs were notions of what is known to go to is cherry always just ma, mazda and aquatic re elected leadership retained as the military stage, to the general thought of

a bit bloodless qu, they couldn't be more wrong. taliban has taken the final departure of the u. s. military officer. 20 years. i believe this is the right to switch a violent day over dangerous days still ahead. nowhere in gaza feel safe flight. i'll just be right will not be silenced. about him is ripping around the world. you see that right? and that by the present, via the lack of political will selfishness and music about the new all mccomb very

and to spread it 2022 must be the year we end the funding code. read at a much pro. there is no planet b. there is no sign of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, i'm deeply sorry. ah, mm hm. they threw up in government, us call the fight against that security levels and like the social to them generally have faith a say they don't want it. there

was always like only we're brave enough to see it only we're brave enough with a to draw attention to the critical and controversial issues facing chinese guy 118 mates. china is active with one out to 0. ah, many aspects of afghan culture had been systematically destroyed or forgotten.

the afghan films archive has been largely preserved through all of these years. when so much else was burned, looted, or blown up, a small group of people risk their lives to save the national archive. they managed to preserve the films and these records of all of the other afghanistan's that existed saving decades of history. they believe these films had something to give to the present moment. in the 19 sixty's african cinema was born filmmakers went on a way of the dangers to come on counting the costs of the climate emergency, the price of going green and why it doesn't need to cost the earth, do ceilings and unlikely mute or an economics becomes the test bed for controlling

our crisis was no goal deposit wise at one of your walks biggest exports counting the cost on al jazeera. ah no. hi, that is live pictures you looking at new year's celebrations in the shadow of covet 19. isn't hong kong ringing in 2022. ah . walk around of ours cases. surge globe in the south africa sees a full an hour restrictions to be east. ah.