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uninterrupted, we need to do away with the what? evil, because it stops conversation. where should we get? i land, deborah, its own meats i asia. i can be. this is the beginning of friendship, beginning of law. we're getting somewhere. we can really break through the barriers studio, be unscripted on al jazeera blue cove, 19 cases continue to serge world wide as the young and targeted vaccination. while experts warn cloth masks may not provide enough protection against all micron. ah, hello, i'm emily anglin. this is al jazeera live from dough house, so coming up, south africa's parliament catches fire for a 2nd consecutive day. we'll have a live update. 55 who sees a united arab emirates,
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cargo ship all pm in the satellite coalition denies carrying weapons lower and claims medical supplies where on boards and sedans. prime minister quits just wakes after a power sharing deal with the military, which has been met by widespread protest. the world health organization says corona virus infections globally have again surged this time to more than a 1000000 cases in a single day. many countries scrambling to contain the only con variant u. k prime minister barak johnson has worn the pressure on hospitals will be considerable in the next couple of weeks in england, secondary school children are being advised to wear masks when they returned to class. india has begun a vaccination drive for teenagers and inoculated nearly 4000000 age between 15 and
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18 years old. on monday alone in the us, some experts recommending people with double double masks or surgical ones to stop the spread of the only con variant. but 1st to london, worry challenge reports and how the british prime minister is taking a gamble with a more relaxed approach to code restrictions being told by the government that this is a situation that the government hopes is not going to last longer than is absolutely necessary. but what secondary school pupils are going to have to do when they enter schools again tomorrow for the 1st time since the, the christmas holidays is 1st of all, take a covert test, a lateral flow test. every secondary school in the u. k is going to be having to do that, but also they are going to have to wear mosques for an undisclosed period of time while they're at school. it's basically the one change that the government
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has made to the rules and regulations in england over the holiday period. burress johnson has just come out and said that the mixture of meshes that the, that england has in place, ah, the right ones. and the government is going to be sticking with him. essentially, he took a gamble just before christmas and then again, just before new year, not to heights in the restriction is not to make the more and more severe england is in a kind of system of measures called plan b, which doesn't really amount to much more than wearing mosque on public transport and in shops and also working from home when you can. other parts of the u. k. have gone much further than that, but england. busy with pers, johnson in charge chose a different path and it's a gamble that you have to say was risky. one the u. s. is expanding its brewster program as it faces the omicron search,
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including extra 5 shots for children as young as 12. a 3rd vaccination had already been recommended for everyone aged 16 and on monday federal regulators design a boost is and now warranted for 12 to 15 year olds. the food and drug administration also said everyone eligible for a pfizer booster can get one as early as 5 months after the last dose. rather than 6. india has launched a campaign to vaccinate 15 to 18 year olds. the expanded drive comes as only crone infections arising, several regions have introduced restrictions and not time code has been imposed in the capital new jailing schools and public places there. and you know, the states have also closed, have me middle, has more from a vaccination center in the capital. and with that, another teenager has gotten their job where the vaccination center in new delhi, which is dedicated to inoculating teenagers between 315 to 18 year old. that is
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true that started getting that today. it's a huge population of about 70000000, a big expansion for in just vaccination drive, and a big relief for parents and students who had a particularly tough fun damage. schools in india have been the 1st shot and last to open. in fact, as we speak, many schools were closed again. over $900.00 cases started searching. as of now, this population is only getting cool vaccine, which is it to job engine made vaccine given 28 days a box. i have a lot of restrictions on my family members to me to follow the goal with the goals properly. so i didn't go with my friends and get to watch movies in the hall. so yeah, i'm excited to go to my goal is to i. ringback didn't think there was any point waiting. we discussed it with a couple of doctors as well. and they would have been, you know, we could get it done as soon as possible. and it's not just children starting next week. health day walkers and many people about 60 who have underlying health
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conditions will be eligible for booster shots. now as we speak, india is seen a massive surge in covey. 900 cases, largely fueled by the army con variant. the heart of hits cities are mom by in the financial capital, which saw restrictions being tightened this weekend. new delhi has also seen cases such positivity rate is close to 5 percent. and as of now, all the jims and movies, he does a shot and restrictions have been placed on restaurant and public transport. the government says that hospitalized zation zone remain low, and that cases have so far been myers and them to magic. they say they will look at these metrics, hospitalization, and death to decide if new restrictions ought to be placed near restrictions have started in the philippine capital is deli cases. they continue to rise in person classes, contact sports in live performances, a band get back to the limits have been lowered for restaurants and businesses is
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found to be low reports from manila, philippines, capital region metro. manila, it's back to strict quarantine level after cases of corporate in 1900 bike over the holidays. so from alerts level 2, it's been raised to alert level 3. what this primarily means is that those age 17 and under. and those who are 50 years old and older are not allowed to leave their homes except for outdoor exercise or to go out and buy essential goods and access essential services. now, there are discussions among local authorities about also restricting the movement of unvaccinated individuals. what was here right now is that businesses are allowed to operate, bought at the limited capacity. so for example, restaurants are only allowed to accept customers at 30 percent, they're indoors capacity, and at 50 percent, their outdoor capacity. businesses have only started to recover after the
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government's east restrictions back in november. it is of course, a huge blow to, to the business, because for a monday, it is usually a full house at lunch. and this is only the 1st day of alerts level 3, and we already have empty tables for lunch. now, over the weekend health department officials also announced the detection of more on record cases, a number of which were local cases. which means that these patients had no prior travel history. and they said that this means that there is high probability of local transmission that felt secretary francisco. lucas said that it is safe to assume that this new virus barrier is already circulating in local communities. encourage people to stay at home as much as possible and get back to needed. the philippines,
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the vaccination rate remains below 50 percent. people in the russian city of saint petersburg have begun and their wake under new restrictions, restaurants and most shops will only be open to those who are vaccinated have recovered from the virus or tested negative and the half the population has received a job. there will then 800000 new cases of being reported in russia every day. about 1500 of those are in st. petersburg to other world news. now a fire at south africa, parliament building in cape town has flared up again. these live pictures of firefighters tackling the flame on sunday at blaze guarded the national assembly where parliamentarian sate extensive damage was caused to the building and parts of the roof caved in. a man has been arrested, but the cause of this new fire is not yet known. covering this story is julian wolf, who joins us on the phone now from cape town. hello there, joe. what modem we know about the 2nd blaze. hi emily. so i've just arrived on the
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scene and i can see that smoke is still away from the building. it's not as strong as yesterday. there isn't. d much of the fire, please present. i as there was yesterday, but i did speak to the chief of the fire by the service just a moment ago and said more than 55 fighters on the scene. now you have to remember this is the 2nd fire in less than 24 hours of the night and here in the parliamentary building. 9 is a significant support of importance to south africans. i hear that the temperatures were around a 100 degrees. 2 this morning inside the building when they were trying to contain that fire. 9 they only managed to contain it this morning and thats offer 25 hours of fighting that fire overnight. we don't know what the main cause of the fire is at this moment. as you said, there is a person in custody, but there's also been a history of electrical failures within the building. and of course,
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there is an investigation under way to find out what the cause of that is in the coming days. now, as you can imagine, there's going to be significant costs associated with a furnishing the building. you know, the interior of the national assembly is completely unrecognizable. everything that was could have been destroyed, is destroyed. and it has of particular significance historically. you know, this is the department, this is the parliamentary building where parliament parliamentary and gather to debate. they hold legislation and policy. it's where the president delivers is addressing the nation and also where nelson mandela was elected as the 1st black president of south africa. so there's a lot of history within the. 1 military roles and it's burning essentially to the ground as we speak. so there will be a lot to be answered for in the coming days. emily, very much for that update. gillian wolf live for us in cape town. thank you yet, man's who? the rebels say they've seized
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a ship of belonging to the united arab emirates because it was carrying military supplies. the congo vessel was saved near the port city of her data. but the saturday coalition says it wasn't actually carrying weapons and that medical supplies were on board. instead. saudi arabia is leading a military coalition that's been at war with the who sees for almost 7 years. mohammed al laptop has moved from santa we couldn't tell exactly is telling the truth of the how these military spokesperson during his pressure has revealed some pictures that he says, show the, the, the you a flag, car, cargo ship carrying weaponry, arm of vehicles, and also marian boats, but we couldn't confirm such pictures that had been revealed by the spokesperson also the visa, the other side of the high quality and saying that it was carrying medicines or
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other civilian stuff. the situation is really developing rapidly the whole during his, the pressure during the process explained about the operation, how, how they conducted this operation of the, the cost of data, where the have monitor kept to this ship according to the statement of the how these spokesperson, he says that the have kept monitoring this ship for 4 weeks according to her due to him, and also the, the, the, the, the, a kick used it all for carrying alto style activities. and the long, the, the red sea and a top kashmiri rebel fighter has been killed in a gun fight with security forces in indian administered cash. me please say sell him a was the commander of the pakistani based lash k e toy group. catch me is claimed by both india and pakistan. still head on al jazeera,
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a deadly strain of dead flute hills and thousands of cranes and northern israel. we look at why it's causing concern among health expense and how an eagle eyed fan saved the life of an ice hockey manager. all those details and more coming up. ah, it's nice to talk about some weather isn't just hot sunshine, even in winter in the middle east. and this was the very actor where the flooding weather recently the active system now is this thing thing here. you call it a winter front. they are coming behind is effectively colder that in, in front of it. but really the actions all along that line if you see orange, think heavy rain and that's affecting the far south of iran and southern pakistan
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during tuesday. west of all that. it's a quieter looking picture, but what's being brought down behind it after living a bit more flooding enough, the emirates or man is this strong wind. it's the shambles normally. and it blows quite often for days on end in the winter. if you get it the wrong time, the it can be very sandy because it's been raining in iraq. the origin of this wind probably going to be a clear one, but you fill it in the cold that a high temperature of 17 in q 8 and 60 in demand. be lucky to see 23 though harder to get a feel that way. it's all that laugh sent to wednesday, a more realistic 17 absolute best in doha capital cutter. the picture in turkey is required one considering what we've had recently in the north, just a few showers around the south, around syria and lebanon. egypt looks fine. and in iran, just a few showers. it could to that be a snow though. not actually inter up. ah
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frank, assess this crisis, please continue to recon luca shank even though perhaps he believes in the beginning that it was informed opinions like think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from the young people. that is one of the most types of things come out of this critical debate. do you think a should be facilitated? not sure. okay, i think, right? it's a really simple question. let's give me a child. once. inside story on al jazeera, the ah. hello, you're watching al jazeera. i'm emily angling reminder about top stories on starting a campaign to vaccinate teenagers against coven 19 the drive comes as only current
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infections arriving. several raisins have introduced restrictions including a nighttime curfew in the capitol, new jelly. the fire at south africa parliament in cape town has flared up again. the live pictures of the blame which 55 is trying to get under control. on sunday fi got to the national assembly where parliamentarian, a man has been arrested in connection with that 1st flight and him and through the rebels. i did seized a ship belonging to the united arab emirates because it was carrying military supplies. the cargo vessel was saved near the port city of ho for democracy groups and sudan have called for more protests on tuesday following the resignation of prime minister della hum dog. he was arrested back in october after a military takeover, but been reinstated when he signed an agreement with general abdel fatter albert hum. but hum drugs been unable to form
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a government since and says political deadlock, tritton, sudan, survival, ever morgan report. 2 weeks after the news of his intention to resign a married and amidst a dead log between 2 dance political parties, prime minister of the lamb dog announced he was stepping down from his position. what, despite my efforts to achieve the necessary consensus to be able to deliver to our people, wasn't the promise of peace justice and no bloodshed that did not happen. during the past few days. i met with all the civilians and military officials of the transitional council to explain and put the picture to and his total responsibility in front of them. and following what i stated, i have decided to return to you. what you entrusted me was and they are not matters ignition from the post of prime minister of the lamb dog emerged as leader in 2019 after the overthrow of dance authoritarian president of the countries main civil in
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coalition before his freedom and change saw him dog as the man to help with that transition from dictatorship to democracy. he had previously worked in the ministry of finance before taking up top jobs in the african development fund. and serving as the deputy commissioner of the us economy commission for africa. as prime minister him took over saw a severe financial crisis during which inflation stored beyond 400 percent. but he still managed to end the civil conflict in various parts of the country with the you look the agreement of october 2020. he also successfully lobbied the u. s. and the world bank to remove saddam from the list of sponsors of terrorism and convince global national institutions to provide debt relief and economic aid. but in october, this year, the military led by abilene hon. these take over placing prime minister under house arrest and putting members of his cabinet in prison. a month later i'm doc was
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released and reinstated, after international condemnation of the coo, he then find the deal to form a government of technocrats sidelining political groups. but many foot denise felt he had betrayed the revolution. his removal as far as they're concerned, the last fig leaf that was covering this regime and what remains is a full fledged military military dictatorship. so i think the international community will now will likely increase as pressure on the military regime with the hope of heating the demands of the city streets and, and installing a pool civilian rule demonstrations against the military and the deal have signed with them. have led to the killings of dozens of protesters by police insecurity. forces. ham duke has been unable to stop the violence or install a government that would remove military interference. and now it seems he is left with no choice but to concede defeat and resign. he but morgan,
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august era potter and dahlia abdel money m is a pro democracy activist. she says it isn't clear who will replace, hummed up my initial reaction when i was a bit upset because i, i always thought that even though he committed a lot of mistakes, dog, he was still the political buffer the week that the civilian side needed. he would like the figure head of the people could to speak to the line to but nobody's gone . i can't see a replacement or i can see an option, you know, who else is going to step up. the political party burned their bridges and they had their political bickering gotten nowhere, definitely not to military entity. so for me, for question of what now, what's next? what's going to happen when we will show up at the head or as the leader side, the, the, to put a priority,
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the welfare of the country. and the people partisan politics need to be put to the side and the need to realize the need for them to move forward for us to move forward. they need to understand the need to, you know, put in the work required to help and help us. so that work was put in back in 20192018 when the revolutions 1st started. but it basically fell apart during the transitional period of the government. but now they have to go back to, you know, have to go back to square one and start fresh. and because under the day, no one has come out a winner. i don't know whether it's the military or whether civilian political side . no one has emerged as a when a at least 6 people have been killed in a suspected al. she bab attack in kenya. it happened in the coastal move region, the board of somalia, the county commission that says security forces are pursuing the attackers who have also torched houses. the popular tourist destination has suffered frequent attacks by the al qaeda linked group. the new york stock exchange has opened for trading
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for the 1st time. this year. all of america's main stock index is finished 2021 with waco games despite uncertainty caused by voice rising corona virus cases, the s and p 500 grew by 27 percent. it recorded its biggest a 3 year advance in more than 20 years. along with the nasdaq and doubt, jones turkeys annual inflation. right surge to 36 percent last month. that's the highest has been since 2002. the rise in prices and dropping the turkish mira has heat household budgets last year. the currency last 44 percent of its value after the central bank slashed to interest rates checking now has the 8 the highest inflation in the world. the economic turmoil has also impacted early ones, whole ratings. a deadly strain of bird flew has killed up to
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6000 cranes in northern israel. it comes as the country sees a surge and the only con variant in people. and that makes but sites unlikely that the bird flew can cross over to humans. it's causing concern. stephanie deca reports from jerusalem, but it's been described as the worst blue to wildlife in israel's history. this nature reserve in the north was once a bird watches, dream, migratory cranes gather here from culture, climates before moving south to africa. but avian flu has turned it into a graveyard. the scope of the co and i would like in is when is massive. and we see that it is not stopping in the wild animals. so it is why som and i must say that was the attention of the easily government and other countries to quote with 19 we should not neglect either public health hazards and we ma, stuck in ebay on influence as would the clean up is taking time. the area now off
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limits to the public for fear of contagion launch. if you loses early lose at 1st, about 2 weeks ago when they discovered the disease about 5200 dead cranes were identified to you. within a few days, the numbers reached thousands and to day there, about 50026000. israel is taking preemptive measures and is called hundreds of thousands of chickens. the virus hasn't yet been contained. and even though we're told the threat of spreading to humans is low, it remains the possibility that needs to be taken seriously. we free of the possibility that the same person would get infected from human influenza and form evian influenza. and there will be genetically assortment and will be live in yo virus. that is both bible genic and easily spread the monuments. that's it though, i think of possibility, but we must be very alert in order to prevent it. at
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a time when the world is already struggling to contain mutations of coven, 19 with alma khan infections here expected to double and triple over the next few weeks. images like this, only making people more nervous. stephanie decker al jazeera jerusalem. chinese property giant ever grand has suspended trading on hong kong stock market. its value plunged by more than 9 percent after it failed to pay invest is on thursday. it's missed several payments in the past month. every grant i was more than $300000000000.00. that's more than any other property developer in the world. a powerful earthquake has struck taiwan and the at the center of that magnitude is $6.00, quake was off the east coast of the island. the trim is short buildings in the capital tie pay, but there are no immediate reports of serious damage. the african cap of nations gets underway in cameroon. in less than a week, the football championship was supposed to be held back in 2020, but was,
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but was pushed, pushed back by the pandemic. and questions remain now about whether it should go ahead and not just because of the corona virus, alexia bryan explains on the streets of limb bay as city in cameroon, southwest province. it's not just fans who are taking pictures. it's a matter of days until africa's most prominent soccer championship, the africa cup of nations and security as tight successes, a hosting f con matches but lim, bay, and nearby wire are in the spotlight like a separatist fight. it's have warned, the games should not be played there. my fear and the fear of many limbered denizens is dot. the recent phenomenon of ah bomb blasts, ah, which is has been happening in other parts of awkward edition, like a warrior can be a common phenomenon. but during the sir of con, or a period conflict broke out in cameroon, in 2016,
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between english speaking separatists and the french speaking government. the armed groups accused the government of discriminating against them and want to form a breakaway state, called amber sonia the fighting's, killed at least 3000 people and forced about a 1000000 from their homes. some rights group say any violence could threaten teams and spectators and the competition should be called off. cameroon, hosted the african nations championships in january and february 2021. the governing body of african football and cameron's government, a promising a safe tournament. hello sir, my count real the measures that are being put in place. but you should know that just as the african nations championship took place and a very good conditions, african will also take place under very conditions. does nothing to worry about. ha cameroon, won the right to host the finals when it's teen beat egypt in 2017,
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ending a 15 year drought. it's already been pushed back twice once, because of concerns about cameron's preparations, and then by the pandemic. some hope it will provide a much needed financial boost resume to live. it will go my business because so many calls, some of them different areas, different towns, different countries, mid so many or be well known, new, new friends, new friends. others though, say they won't be able to focus on the games, balsamic cameroon, live in fear for their lives. alex o'brien al jazeera, an ice hockey fan has saved the life of the tains manager nadia popovich. she was watching her tame seattle crack in play vancouver canucks. when she noticed a suspicious looking mol on the neck of the vancouver man, and decided just doing him walk by the plexiglass multiple times. my eyes were immediately drawn to the back of his neck. she put her phone up to the glass and on
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the phone it said the mol, on the back, your neck is cancer. it had a regular borders. different, you know, discolorations, it was pretty large in diameter. she extended my life than words other doctors miles were. i ignored that for 4 to 5 years. i wouldn't be here. clearly her volunteer work in hospitals paid off. this all happened back in october and on saturday, the to got the chance to meet when the science played again and as a thank you. the franchise is a giving the 22 year old, a joint gift of $10000.00 to help her with her medical school expenses. ah, hello, you're watching. i just 0. these are the stories we're following. this. our india is starting a campaign to vaccinate teenagers against coven 19 the drive comes as omicron infections arising. several regions have introduced restrictions including a nighttime curfew in the caps.

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