also on the more at liberty and inspiring stories, people trust algebra to tell them what's happening in their community in a clear and unbiased way. and as an african, i couldn't be more proud to be automobile. ah, new measure is across europe is army kong cases continue to serge, but the u. k. prime minister rules out further code restrictions for now. oh, you're watching all 0 life from a headquarters in cell time daddy navigator also a heads a guilty verdict. 4th, iran has founder, elizabeth phones is charged with fraud and conspiracy. at her silicon valley started a new spade of flooding and large parts of malaysia forces thousands of people to

flee their homes and hoping for as soon the run we just one month to go. we'll look at how china is preparing for the winter olympics during a pandemic. ah, hello, the u. k. prime minister says the country's health service will be under considerable pressure in the coming weeks as a grapples with surging case numbers. but boars johnson says there won't be new restrictions while other european nations consider making their response a stronger. where we challenge reports from london. pupils return to english schools on tuesday after the christmas break. and the head teacher at richard challenge school in south west london is worrying about staff absences. that had 4 stuff emailed me saying they'll be in isolation of beginning a turn. now we can manage that, but if that becomes 10 stuff or 12 stuff, we've got huge problems and not for the 1st time in the panoramic english schools

are implementing last minute policy directors from the government all high school students with now wear masks and classrooms. i like all the other teachers around the country found out about when mastering classrooms for lessons. when we read the national newspapers on sunday morning, which is appalling in my view, how is it that the press know what is going to go on in the classroom for her? teachers have even been briefed on that. but this is the only real tweak to paris johnson's omicron campbell, while scotland, wales, and northern ireland all brought in restrictions before christmas. the prime minister chose not to for england. he sticking with his decision, the way for the country as a whole is to continue with the path that where all the gamble is that vaccine coverage and on the crowns, relative mountainous will prevent the health service from being overwhelmed. but even forest johnson recognizes its not looking good. the pressure on our, in a chest on our hospital is going to be considerable in the course the next couple of weeks and may be more because as there's no question on the car, continues to,

to search through the country elsewhere in europe with a new here come new set france, he's going ahead with measures announce last week a 3 day work from home rule. for those you can big public gatherings limited for 3 weeks. and parliament is debasing change to frances health policy. only the vaccinated would be allowed in restaurant cafes and more. the health minister condemned alleged death threats from anti vaccination activists. by the view, let us not lose sight of the fact that the objective of this law is not to restrict individual and collective liberties of french people. the objective of this law is to save lives. it is to protect our hospital and relieve the workload of our health work and then it, despite opposition from some politicians, the backing of several parties means the lower house will likely pass the bill rory, challenge out there for us, is expanding its booster program is facing the concern including extra pfizer shots

for children as young as 12. a 3rd vaccination had already been recommended for everyone age 16 and over. on monday the federal regulators decided boosters are now warranted for 12 to 15 year olds. the food and drug administration also says everyone eligible for a pfizer booster can get one as early as 5 months after their last dose rather than 6 or india vaccinated. more than 4000000 teens on the 1st day of its campaign to vaccinate. 15 to 18 year olds. the expanded vaccination dr. me get on monday. with the on the kron infections on the rise. several regions have introduced restrictions. a nighttime curfew has been imposed in a capital, new deli schools and public places there and in other states are closed problem at all. has more from a vaccination center in new delhi. and with that, another teenager has gotten their job where the vaccination center in new jersey, which is dedicated to inoculating teenagers between 315 to 18 year old. that is due

the started getting that today. it's a huge bracket of population of about 70000000, a big expansion for in just vaccination drive, and a big relief of 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 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, a lot of restrictions on my phone, remember, so i read a for the goal with the goal 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 didn't think there was any point waiting. we discussed it with a couple of doctors as well. and they would have been in that 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 conditions will be eligible for booster shots. now as we speak, india is seen a massive surge in over 900 cases, largely fueled by the army on various the hardest hit 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 schools gym and movie theaters are shot and restrictions have been placed on restaurants and public transport. the government says a hospitalized zation. those 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. the founder of collapse, blood testing start up, the runners has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy. 37 year old elizabeth holmes was hailed as a young tact visionary. she claimed her company's machines contest for dozens of

diseases by using just a drop of blood. the technology never worked, but jurors found at home deliberately misled investors while raising almost a $1000000000.00 in funds. come on this from john henry, he's joining us in washington, dc. so john, this was a complicated case for the jury to understand, but they now seem to have made some headway on some of the charges as right. this was a dramatic case of a high flying female executive and silicon valley making big promises that a jury ultimately decided were fraud. she was convicted of 3 cancer fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit fraud. and it could have gone harder on or the jury acquitted on for fraud counseling with deadlocked on 3 more. it was a dramatic trial with 50 hours of jury deliberation, with people waiting hours to get inside that court room to watch 1st hand. and it highlighted a kind of fake it to you make it id in silicon valley where executives made big

promises in pursuit of billions of dollars from investors. and for a while it worked. this company was valued at over $9000000000.00 at one point, and then was essentially dismantled in 2018 it through high profile investors, such as rupert murdoch and the family that owns wal mart. ultimately, the company had promised this little pin prick that would draw a few drops of blood could diagnose such diseases as cancer in diabetes. but a wall street journal expose a found that actually out of the hundreds of tests it was doing only about it doesn't use that proprietary technology. so they were promising things that they weren't actually executing. holmes was indicted 3 years ago, but she had a baby in the meantime. in the panoramic postpone that travel when she came to the stand for like 7 days. she blamed her ex boyfriend ramesh ball was the chief operating officer of the company. she said he was abusive,

controlled every aspect of her life, and she said it was he who ultimately should be held responsible for defrauding investors. but whatever the jury thought about his actions, they thought she should be held responsible. so john, whatever guilty verdict mean in terms of the actual amount of time that she could spend in jail. each of those 4 counts comes with potentially 20 year prison sentence. but really, it's likely to be much less than that because those sentences would be served concurrently. and she's likely to get a lesser sense because she hasn't been convicted of major crimes before. there's also $250000.00 fine and restitution for the victims in each of those 4 cases. now it's rare for a silicon valley executive to end up going to prison. so if the judge sentences her, she will be the most high profile female executive to be sent to prison since lifestyle guru martha stewart in 2004, she was convicted for lying to investors about a stock sale. it also sends

a message across silicon valley that if you make big promises and you don't deliver, you might face big consequences. thank you so much. john hendrick reporting from washington, d. c. now legal agreement between the late sex offender jeffrey epstein and prince andrew's accuser, virginia jeffrey has made public documents were released after an order by judges in the us. they reveal jeffrey was paid $500000.00 as part of the deal. she launched a civil case against prince andrew choosing him a sexual assault when she was 17. but prince andrew's lawyers had argued the 2009 settlement could release him from liability in the case, he's consistently denied the claims. michel samson chico is a woman's rights lawyer and founding partner at the simpson teagle law firm. she says victims should not be afraid to seek justice. what really dropped and i think change sort of the base of this type of litigation is the me to movement. and that

we started seeing people come forward and saying it does not matter if you are a prince, or if you are the president of the united states, you should not be above the law. and you should face justice for the wrong that you have done to people that really can just be the word of a driver. is that survivor, that victims word is believed by the burden of proof that's required by law. whether it's proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, in a criminal case, or the preponderance of the evidence in a civil case, one witness, and most american jurisdictions can be enough if a jury believes them. and i certainly have cases where that has been true. but that being said, we want to build and have other pieces and corroborating evidence. and i think the settlement agreement that we're seeing in the abs seen case, it is really to me a distraction. i think her attorneys likely knew about it. and it doesn't mean that

prince, andrew should not still base justice because he was not jeffrey at steen. he has his own person. so heads on al jazeera, another news outlet, and hong kong is shutting down, raising questions about the future of independence, media. why fighting against a landfill site like to the death of an activist? we examine how waste management in mexico is often in the hands of criminal gangs. ah, ah, look forward to burritos. going through with sponsored counsel at ways. hello. there will start in east asia, and japan seems some really wintery weather over the past few weeks. and there's more of that to come. we're also going to see some wet and when she where the creep across central parts of china knocking down temperatures. that rain is likely to

touch shanghai by the time we get into when say, bringing the temperature down with it. but up north in beijing, we're going to see temperatures pick up here as well as the korean peninsula with some sunshine breaking through the cloud. now we take a closer look at japan. we got north, west city winds, blowing down cold air, bringing more heavy snow to the likes of chicago and horseshoe. it's looking slightly more settled down in the south. it's likely to get colder in tokyo that the sky will remain settled with sunshine. now it is going to get cold and wetter across north western areas of india. thanks to the weather that sweeping across. i've got to start into pakistan brings really heavy falls. we are likely to see more flooding here by the time we get into when state will creep into places like raj, a sun, where we have a lot south force on the storms as it works its way more centrally. but down in the south, it's much dry, a picture with a few showers creeping into the southern coast and thunderstorms ensure lanka.

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hello again. the top stories announced the salad. the u. k. prime minister has warned the countries health service will be under considerable pressure and coming weeks is on the crime cases, surge elsewhere in europe. new restrictions are coming into effect that in efforts to slow the spread of elizabeth home, the founder of blood testing start up to run us has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy. in the u. s. she claimed her companies machines could test for diseases by using just a drop of blood draping almost a $1000000000.00. when the proton a legal agreement between the late sex offender jeffrey, obscene and prince andrew's accuser, virginia jeffrey has been made public. prince andrew lawyer say the 2009 settlement could release him from liability in the case. he's consistently denied the claim. humans rebel, say they seize the ship, belonging to the united arab emirates because i was carrying military supplies. the cargo vessel was taken near the port city of de though the saudi led coalition says

it was carrying medical supplies, footage released by the who. these appears to show military trucks on boats on the ship. saudi arabia is leading a military coalition that's been at war with the hosting for almost 7 years. mohammed la thom has more from santa m. e. m. and we couldn't tell exactly. he's telling the truth of the how these military spokesperson during his presser, has revealed some pictures that he says, show the, the, the, you a flag cargo, cargo ship, a carrying weaponry, armored vehicles, and also marian boats. but, but we couldn't confirm such pictures that had been revealed by the how these spokesperson also the these are the other side of the quality and is saying that it was creating medicines or other civilians. stuff. the situation is really

developing rapidly. the whole during the press during the process explained about the operation. how is how they have conducted this operation of the, the cost of who 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 to, to him, and also the, the, via the accused it of carrying out to style activities in the long, the with c and a fire at south africa, the parliament building and cape town has flared up again. it 1st broke out on sunday at the back of the building complex housing, the old assembly chamber. it's been badly damage and parts of the roof have caved in because isn't known, however, a man is due to appear in court on charges related to that plays large parts of malaysia have again been inundated with heavy rain,

forcing thousands more people to flee their flooded homes, the rainfall started on sunday, causing rivers and several states to rise to dangerously high levels. at least 50 people have died in the flooding since mid december. more than 125000 have been displaced, many are staying in temporary shelters. let's get an update from qual, i'm for with florence louis. so malaysia, as we're saying, hit very hard by rain and floods these past few weeks. how bad is the impact of all of this florence? while it is quite, it is quite severe flooding. we're talking about 7 out of 13 states that have been effected now according to figure when the national disaster management agency and the moment around 15000 people at flood relief centers. but that doesn't reflect the total number of people affected by the floods at its peak, around 125000 people were affected. and for some states, this is not the 1st way for floating. it's the 2nd, even 3rd wave of flooding. during this monsoon season,

which typically last between the months of october and march and this season has been unusually heavy rain around mid december rain that lasted for several days and the government was caught unprepared. it didn't do enough in terms of flood preparedness, even though the major article agency had issued whether warnings wasn't flood warnings issued to people. and in many places, aid didn't reach people in time. in fact, the 1st people there, what volunteer groups or individuals that has been a lot of anger directed at the government because of this. now, in terms of damage, you've seen pictures of buildings, vehicles submerge that has been tremendous impact in terms of damage caused by these floods. and this is coming on the back of 2 years of pandemic, prolonged periods of locked down. so it is having severe financial strain on many families and it's not even over yet. the department of irrigation has full cost. there will be high tides in several parts of malaysia to run through till wednesday

. and in some places where the river, water levels in rivers are already high, this could potentially worse and flooding. ok. thank you florence louis for that update from qual, i'm poor or floods elsewhere. and more than 20000 people in denisia have been forced to flee their homes after days of torrential rain. several districts in north archie have been inundated by water authorities say one child has died. residents waded through a st. salvaging what they could from their homes. evacuation shelter and 7 set up by the regional government, but many say they haven't received any aid. a 3rd independent news outlets at hong kong has closed. editorial leaders from citizen news said they were worried about the safety of their journalists after police rated the offices of a pro democracy online publication. last week. citizen news was accused by the hong

kong security bureau in october of misleading readers about a lack of press freedom under the new national security law. let's get an update with rick clinic. she's joining us from hong kong. she's outside that citizen news office in brit. it seems that the closure of one vocal outlet after another is having a huge impact on the media community. as a whole in hong kong. it absolutely appears that way citizen news is windy operations in the building behind me after announcing that it could no longer continue citing the safety all that stuff. now it is the 3rd media outlet to close off to the raid and arrests of stan news last week. and the 4th closure of apple daily in june. now, citizen news described itself as a little boat in the middle of tremendously rough seas. the citizen news found a chris young said that he hoped it wouldn't deter all the journalists from taking part in the industry. and that there is still

a role for media to play here in hong kong. however, it's, it's hard to see it any other way a chill has taken hold of the media industry here, and it's unclear where the other remaining outlets like hong kong free press can continue to survive here in hong kong. hong kong authorities have repeatedly denied any crack down and say that there is no attack or target of the major. in particular. however, the hong kong journalist association says that attacks on the press threatened hong kong status as ages world city. hong kong was once a thriving, very vibrant place for media outlets in the region. and that will change off to the national security low was entry in 2020. there are now serious fears over where the independent journalism in hong kong is being crushed. yeah, i wanted to ask you, brett, i mean, what is the, the sort of overall reaction in hong kong to all of this?

well, to be frank with you, it has been quite muted and it's hard, very different from, from now compared to say, 5 years ago or even 2 years ago. of course, during the 2019 on rest, the atmosphere has changed and it's hard to get people to talk about it. it's hard to get people to interview. it's hard to get academics to be interviewed. so certainly that speaks volumes and does speak for itself, but the reaction from rights groves from the foreign correspondents club and from the hong kong journalist association has been very condemning. and they are repeatedly calling for the hong kong government to respect the press freedoms and the freedom of speech that is meant to be guaranteed under the basic law, hong kong, many constitution that was, that was agreed when hong kong was handed back to china from british rule thank you so much. rick clinic for that reporting from hong kong. now they sang is just one month away from hosting the winter olympics. the city is the 1st to host both for

summer and winter games, but the upcoming events is and playing by challenges including diplomatic boycotts and a corona virus o break. katrina, you reports from the outskirts of beijing weeks away from the opening of the beating winter olympics. the slopes are full of avid scares and snow borders. many are looking forward to the games. and oh, hang for hi. of course i am very excited and proud because the winter olympics will be held in my motherland very long. it makes me very happy. this balls have become very popular in china. in recent years. the chinese government has poured billions of dollars into preparing to host the games in february, including investing in italian snow making equipment to help build up its fledgling winter sports industry bids will create a whole culture around the winter sport. we create a home mindset also in the, in the chinese head as the now the time has this aspiration of re entry 100000000

people on snow and ice. $30000.00 international athletes and support staff will be among the 1st to stay in a new olympic village and trial. a chinese digital currency. these resorts have had their busier season this winter because of the olympic games, but they will be forced to close the week, leading up to the opening of the event. this entire area will be sealed off to control the spread of the corona virus. doors taking part will be restricted to a tightly controlled venue bubble. china is battling, the delta vary it in its most severe flare up of curve. at 19 for months. with 13000000 people in the western city of she and under lockdown. authorities are anxious to contain that and prevent any outbreak of the on the cross strain from spreading across the country. the pandemic isn't the only challenge organizes face . some western governments, including the u. s. the k at canada has announced diplomatic boycott in protest

against the treatment of weakness. interested, young aging accuses them of politicizing, the games and as war they will pay the price over hasn't made clear how analysts say additional fully caught by you or asian countries. would be very embarrassing for china. no teams are going to court against themselves. but if the english speaking democracies are being followed by other major countries, then you will be much bigger. but the doors here say they want to be counting the number of foreign officials who attend the games. instead, they'll be keeping an eye on the number of metals, one by china's team, especially the goals, katrina, you al, jazeera junk, jocko paging. at least 23 people had been killed in fighting between armed rebels on columbia border with venezuela. the clash is an arrow cup problems are said, bytes army to be mainly down to drugs, trafficking around

a dozen. families have been displaced, columbia, as president nicholas by durham, blamed his van as well, a counterpart for harboring the groups just over the border activists and the central mexican state. morello, sorry, demanding accountability for the death of an environmentalist who had spoken out against the reopening of a landfill sites. supporters of rodrigo vasquez morales say he was killed by organized crime gangs, which are involved in the waste management industry. as many well rep hello explains. he was just one of dozens of activists killed and recent months. trash can be a dirty business anywhere, but in mexico, it can also be deadly. last year that he got morales in environmental activist who often criticized the reopening of this landfill. and the city of gwyn lavaca, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman. many people here believe that he goes death was a direct result of his activism nor thinking unless it goes fancy of the circumstances

in the connection, not clear. but it is evident that this occurs in the context of the reopening of this landfill. of the fact that he has express things on social media and made comments, making it clear that rodrigo intended to continue the fight against the landfill. the low mother may he, a landfill, had been shut down for almost 10 years after studies found the site had contaminated a local aqua. when the landfill reopened, in april of 2021 activist and local residents took to the streets and protest jackie's at the own out that at the last altercation here was very violent. residents say that i was even gonna ha local say each time there were protests, there was violence. human rights observers saves rule that he goes, case is not uncommon in mexico, adding that a dangerous intersection exists between waste management and criminal enterprise. billing wizard setup is organized crime because it implies this collision of interests. corruption of officially with those companies that are sometimes front

organization. one is because they arrived here and have an experiential preventing a service at a recycling center in cuernavaca, friends of rodrigo morales say he was a recycling advocate and an active proponent of sustainability from apple. yahoo! he supported me and my mother more than anyone. i was always calling out what a legal, legal, but now with like, who has gone now, what do we do without with legal? the company that operates the law mother me, he a landfill, did not respond to al jazeera is request for a comic but an investigation into the road that he goes. debt is underway by state authorities. little that he, alice was one of 25 human rights and environmental activists who were killed in mexico in 2021. the united nations human rights off is here in mexico city, has condemned the violence and has called on the mexican government to do more to guarantee the rights of activists. the mexican government has struggled with waste management policies for years,

a growing population and increased garbage imports from the united states almost guarantees. the problem is only becoming more complex. in the case of the low, my, they, me, he, a landfill questions over ties to organized crime, remain unanswered and justice, and the death of one activist remains elusive. but one thing is, for certain protests and demonstrations against the landfill itself, have not resumed. manuel it up a low al jazeera mexico city. ah no. again, the headlines and al jazeera, the u. k. prime minister has warned the countries health service will be under considerable pressure and coming weeks is on the crown case. a surge elsewhere in europe. no restrictions are coming into effect in an effort to slow the spread or challenge has more from london on board. johnson's decision to take a more relaxed approach to restrictions. ingler.