in water shortages are driving some residence to desperate measures. one 0, one east, meet the water of corruption. oh no to 0. ah . the u. k. prime minister, warren's the health system, will be under strain due to surgeon co cases of ami kron but resist calls for a new code with 19 measures. ah, who watching out 0 life or my headquarters. and so i'm getting obligated also coming up. humans filthy rebel say they've seized the u. e flagship, filled with weapons. but the saudi le coalition insist that was carrying medical supplies. a guilty verdict for the founder of

a u. s. blood testing start up. elizabeth holmes is convicted of conspiracy and defrauding investors. a fire at south africa parliament building reignite, who was under control on sunday, but strong winds are being blamed for restarting it. hello, the u. k. prime minister says it's health service will be under considerable pressure and coming weeks is a grapples with a rise and cope with 19 cases. but boris johnson has ruled out new restrictions or other european countries consider tougher measures for re challenge reports from london. pupils return to english schools on tuesday after the christmas break. and the head teacher at richard challenge school in southwest london is worrying about stuff. absences of her for stuffing the me saying they'll be an ice lation of beginning a turn. now we can manage that, but if that becomes 10 staff or 12 staff, we got huge problems and not for the 1st time in the pandemic. 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 masking 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 you for england, who, sticking with his decision, the wasteful 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 madness, will prevent the health service from being overwhelmed, but even forest johnson recognizes its not looking good. the pressure on our in h. s on our hospital is going to be considerable in the course the next couple of weeks and a 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, who's going ahead with measures announce last week a 3 day work from home rule for those who can big public gatherings limited for 3 weeks. and parliament is debasing a change to frances help us. only the vaccinated would be allowed in restaurant cafes and more. the health minister condemned alleged death threats from anti vaccination activists. nathan, 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. object of this law is to save lives. what is it is to protect our hospital and relieve the workload of our health work? then, despite opposition from some politicians, the backing of several parties means the lower house will likely pass to build rory, challenge out era. the us is expanding its booster program as it faces the microns

surge, including extra pfizer shots for children as youngest 12. a 3rd vaccination had already been recommended for everyone age 16 and over on monday federal regulators decided boosters are now warranted for 12 to 15 year olds. the food and drug administration also says everyone eligible for pfizer booster can get one as early as 5 months after their last dose rather than 6. doctor christian dia kumar is the director at the duke global health and innovation center. he says on the crown is likely to cause a rise in hospital admissions and could overwhelm many health centers. oh mac has probably been around since mid october or so, and is now likely the dominant strain in almost every country around the world. we now have pretty good data from not just south africa, but also parts of europe and in the u. s. and what we are seeing pretty consistently is that it has a much higher rate of trends. miss ability. there does seem to be

a trend that it causes less severe disease, but that's not born out fully yet. but we do know that with a level of rises that we're seeing in cases, it's much more likely that even with a small percent of people becoming ill, we're going to overwhelm many health systems around the world. if we don't take more aggressive measures, my own to kids went back to school today. and i think it is important to make sure that we can safely keep learning in person in school, if at all possible in terms of making sure that everybody tests, if they have access to task before going back to school is very important. making sure that everybody in that school masks as much as possible and to increase the rates of vaccinations to make sure all of the adults in those school settings are vaccinated. and as many children that are now eligible in their local setting, also get vaccinated as soon as possible. humans hold the rebel, say they seize the ship, belonging to the united arab emirates because it was carrying military supplies.

the cargo vessel was taken near the any port, city of data. the saudi led coalition says the vessel was carrying medical supplies, footage released by the hose. these shows military trucks on boats on that ship. saudi arabia, leading and military coalition. that's been at war with the hose ease for almost 7 years. mohammed laptop has more from santa m. e. m. and we couldn't tell. oh, exactly. he's telling the truth. we're 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 high quality and is saying

that it was cutting medicines or other civilian stuff. the situation is really developing rapidly. the whole these, during his, the press during the process explained about the operation. how is how they have conducted this operation of the, the cost of data where the have monitor kept to this ship according to the statements of the how these are the 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, the red sea and a fire at south africa, the parliament building in cape town has flared up again. it 1st broke out on sunday at the back of the building complex that houses the oldest somebody chamber . it's been badly damaged and parts of the roof have caved in. the cause of the blaze isn't known, but a suspect has been arrested and is expected in court. on tuesday. julian wolf has

more from the scene. well, this is an incident that has attracted a lot of attention to the past day. crowds from all over cape town have gathered to take a look at what is happening here, including danny, tell me how you feel, seeing the wall and the national assembly bar rules. many like these very said to me, every day with every day i went to the most with the balls, are worth a lot of people here, a loss for words, including the firefighters who have been here, fly thing tirelessly. they were fighting for 24 hours. the day before and the temperature for as high as a 100 degrees celsius. and now they're back out of the gander. and they're fighting this, which has just been flared up again. now this building is very important to south

africa, a place that is the heartbeat of democracy is where the parliamentarians gather to debate. policy and legislation is also where the president delivers the state of the nation address. and it's where nelson mandela was elected. the 1st black privilege of south africa. now there will be some significant cost involved in refurbishing this building. and there's obviously a lot of history behind these buildings walls. and at the moment those walls are burning down and down. there will also be a lot to be answered to in the coming days. the founder of collapse, blood testing sort of the runners has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy. 37 year old elizabeth holmes, who was once hailed as a young type, visionary. she claimed her companies, machines could test for dozens of diseases by using just a drop of blood. the technology never worked, and jurors found the homes deliberately misled investors while raising almost

a $1000000000.00 and funds. john hendrick has more on the case from washington dc. this was a dramatic case of a high flying female executive in silicon valley, making big promises that a jury ultimately decided were fraud. she was convicted of 3 counts of fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit fraud. 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 a 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 pandemic, postpone that travel when she came to the stand for like 7 days, she blamed her ex boyfriend ramesh ball wanting 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. now it's rare for 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 sentenced 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. fella had on al jazeera, under water flooding in person malaysia, forces thousands of people to abandon their homes. lawyers for britain, prince andrew say a documents made public by new york court released him from a sexual abuse. ah

ah, hello there, let's look to north america and it's all about the severe winter, whether that's been gripping the us and canada. in particular, the west and east coast of the us. but look at that on tuesday. it clears up nicely along that east coast is once again the west that sees the winter weather pulling in. so we're seeing more heavy snow for washington and oregon heavy rain as well, which could cause some flash flooding in coastal areas. and we've got some watches out for strong winds. now, by the time we get to wednesday, a lot of that snow is going to shimmy off towards the east, across the rockies. we are seen temperatures still come down though across the western coast and there will be more wind to weather on the way. and it's more winter weather on the way for the mid west and the great lakes. we're going to see snow fall into rancho, and that's going to cause quite a dramatic drop in temperature will be minus 6 by the time we get into thursday.

but there is going to be some warmth around on the east coast and down in the south, the change in the wind is going to warm things up. we're going to see the temperature in places like houston pickup once again to the early twenties. and as we move to central america, it's looking very warm, unsettled for much of mexico. the wet weather can be found in the south in particular for the yucatan peninsula, but it looks largely fine and dry for havana. ah . from the al jazeera london rural car center to special guests in conversation, this is the chance to start the revolution on prompted uninterrupted. we need to do away with the work because it stops conversation. where should we get a land to boats on meets asia. i can be, this is the beginning of french, she wasn't feeling of love getting somewhere and can really break through the studio. be unscripted on al jazeera

lou. oh, the me. hello again. you're watching all 0. here's a reminder of the top stories. the u. k. prime minister has warned the country's health service will be under considerable pressure in the coming weeks on the con, case of search. elsewhere in europe, new restrictions are coming into effect in an effort to slow the spread of code. 1911 who the rebels say they've seen the ship belonging to the united arab emirates . they say it was carrying weapons that the saudi coalition denies that seeing the vessel, the transporting medical supplies, the founder, blood testing, startup the run us has been trans guilty of fraud and gym seriously in the us.

elizabeth holmes claims her accompanies machines could test for diseases by using just a drop of blood, raising almost a $1000000000.00 and the princess lawrence partner, malaysia, have again been inundated with heavy rain, forcing thousands more people to flee their flooded homes. the rainfall started on sunday, causing rivers in 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 her staying in temporary shelters. florence louis has more from calling them for his quite severe flooding. we're talking about 7 out of 13 states that have been affected now according to figures from 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 meteorological agency had issued whether warnings there 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 the volunteer groups or individuals that has 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 forecast. 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. so don's military leader is calling for an urgent caretaker government and new measures to deal with demonstrations. it follows the resignation of prime minister de la handoff who has worn that political deadlock threatens. so don survival pro democracy group, say they're planning further protests on tuesday. hey, but morgan reports in the capital hearts room. these people have recently heard prime minister out the lamb duke the 1st to hold the position following sedans. 2018 revolution has resigned and many in the country are divided on his departure is developmental because a lot of good hum ducks departures a big loss to the nation. he had made a lot of achievements and brought progress to saddam. but the military with the

reason he was unable to move forward on so many issues, the military is the reason we're in this cross of godaddy, ah, and it doesn't make a difference just like he doesn't make a difference if he stays no hom doke no longer serves the demands of the people on the street. he legitimized a takeover and blessed what they have done. and this was much less than what the people of sued on have been calling for. ham doth was torn in 2019 after the overthrow of long time president obama del basheba. he was picked by the coalition known as the forces of freedom and change to lead to dance transition to democracy . the coalition represented the protest movement that lead anti government demonstrations against bashir is government, but impost month the coalition has been divided. that became the basis for the military to state at takeover in october. placing him, duke, under house arrest, and putting members of his cabinets in prison, a month later he was released and then find a deal to form a government of technocrats side lining political groups. when he 1st took office ham dogs, popularity was high among the protest. this and when he was placed under house

arrest during the military take over, many regarded him as a symbol of civilian rule, but the deal he signed with the military in november made him lose support of not just the protest movement, but also of the political parties that brought him to power. some activists say jokes resignation could be in the interest of the process movement. now the hum dock has stepped down. they realize that they need to get their houses into, or do they need to get their, you know, they need to get everything organized and need to start from scratch. and i think also the military side needs to understand that the people will not the top dog has cited lack of consensus among political parties as his reason for stepping down. and as the political parties remain at odds, there's little hope of both coming together to name someone to replace him. he but morgan august 0. doctors in brazil are considering whether to operate on the president to treat an intestinal obstruction. jericho center rose hospitalized in sao paulo on monday morning with abdominal pain. the hospital says his condition is

improving. both scenario says he's using a special feeding tube. he's been admitted to hospice or several times since being stab during his presidential campaign in 2018. a legal agreement between the late sex offender jeffrey epstein, prince andrew's accuser, virginia jeffrey has been made public. the 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 accusing him of sexual assault when she was 17. but prince andrew's lawyers had argued the 2009 settlements could release him from liability. in the case, he's consistently denied the claims. michelle simpson, teagle is a women's rights lawyer and founding partner at the simpson siegel law firm. she says the victims should not be afraid to seek justice. what really dropped and i think change sort of the face 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 base justice for the wrongs that you have done to people that really can just be the word of a survivor. if 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 that 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 face justice because he was not jeffrey at stain. he has his own person, a series of multi $1000000.00 infrastructure projects in bosnia herzegovina are being single handedly blocked by one of 3 members of the countries presidency. 3 leaders from 3 different ethnic groups run the nation. the serve member who wants independence for his region is voting down every major project. on this one year, a reports, it's having serious consequences for ordinary citizens. for years, the village of church, of are near the town of desolate, has been waiting to be connected to the city water supply system. seville says a few months ago they thought their dreams would become a reality. and the war to wells in front of their houses would be a thing of the past. the expansion of the water supply network had included that village. however, the ongoing political crisis in the country has blocked the continuation of the

project financed by the european investment bank. produced a nobody drinks or cooks with this water. we only use it for showers and toilets. we have to go to the springs uphill. i go every day to get 102050 liters. when we drink it, we don't get it again. the municipal government had planned to connect 2 thirds of the population to the city water supply by building a new filter station. the largest post will project in test, which was supposed to be completed in march 2023, but it was blocked because the presidency of bosnia herzegovina did not sign the agreement with the european investment bank. that finance is it, or your court record? this is a direct example of impact of the blockade of the institutions of bosnia and herzegovina which directly affects the quality of life for all 3 people. and allies of our people should be everybody's priority. emma. he adds that the blockade of this project will affect almost 26000 people. and it's not the only project that has

been blocked. a $1000000.00 fun to help acclimate development in areas along the border between bosnia herzegovina and serbia is on hold. as is an agreement with no way on financing projects, in bosnia justice system and approvals from the japanese government to appoint an agent to procure equipment for the border. police and hospitals. at the center of the crisis is mineral da dick, the leader of the bosnian serb enclave republic, a sort of sca and member of bosnia herzegovina. as tripartite presidency, da dick has refused to participate in any decision making process worth more than 50000000. your as yours because he says it goes against the ruling of the entities national assembly who hm. go to your tom. oh martin. i think all i'm doing is strengthening the role of the national assembly here. which should be the final place of decision making or not the presidency. it has created

a crisis which some belief will enable dodie to stay in power to any further facility on the luxury of lava. the fact is, it's easier to rule over poor people, and it's also affect the municipalities where the projects are being blocked. are the ones run by leaders and mays from opposition parties. simila doric is trying to suppress the opposition of yellow in their sledge. another consequence of the blockade is all too evident. the planned construction of a waste water management plant will allow treated water from the sewage to fly directly into the solder river as early as next year. but that won't be possible without the decision of the presidency. sony, i go out, his era beach isn't gonna have reopen 2 years after they were close to the public because of the corona virus pandemic. but only people who are vaccinated will be allowed in victoria gate and be reports the pleasure beach resulting

gone is capital i cry is once again welcoming visitors. beaches across the country were placed to the public in march 2020 because a pay the 19 people here were thankful to be back and eager to make up for lost time. don't go out much. could they be there thursday at lol. i think that very day in that new year we decided to come in how fun. yeah, yeah, by we all 7, every protocol, the strict rules are in place only vaccinated people who are allowed on to the beach in there were plenty of police officers around to ensure compliance. but for those not yet vaccinated all is not lost. a temporary vaccination center is operating just outside the resort. once people have had that job, they're allowed on to the beach organizers. safety initiative has been a big success or people don't have to fix the way it gets here. the died there to us. they don't take the, the just agree, and we just though you the boston dog one, then the just to gashodi gwinnett enjoyed himself despite the optimism. his id

number is not back to pre pandemic levels. and the extra government restrictions are frustrating for those working in the tourism industry. this long time that need was school today because it out. yeah, i can hear but not the last we had spoken. but we will buy deckles our day will come about. is that no, but there's no answer. so does that sound affordable got cancelled out to go back home, uncle, do the other thing that's all or is great the appropriate this me so didn't say they're still waiting to receive financial help that was promised by the government, but they're taking comfort from the fact that she has got off to a much better start. one before victoria g a to be al jazeera beijing is just one month away from hosting the winter olympics. the city is the 1st to host both the summer and winter games, but the upcoming events has been playing by challenges including diplomatic

boycotts and a corona virus outbreak. katrina, you reports from the outskirts of beijing weeks away from the opening of the beijing winter olympics. the slopes are full of avid skiers and snow borders. many are looking forward to the games and go home for hi of course i am very excited and proud because the winter olympics will be held in my motherland law berkeley very hotly. this board 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 width will create a whole culture around the winter sports. we create a hole in the 9th and also in the, in the twenty's head as the now that time has that aspiration of re entry 100000000 people on snow and eyes. $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 weekly up to the opening of the event. his 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 variant in its more 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 u. k. at canada, had announced diplomatic boycott in protest against the treatment of wiggers and she's young. they ging accuses them of politicizing the games and as worn. they

will pay the price over hasn't made clear how analysts say additional boycotts by ear or asian countries. would be very embarrassing for china. low teams are going to boycott games themselves. but if de english speaking democracies are being followed by other major countries, then effect will be much bigger. but those here say they won't 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 goal. it's katrina, you al jazeera junk, jocko, beijing. ah feller again, the headlines on al jazeera, the u. k. prime minister has war in the countries hell service will be under considerable pressure and coming races. army kron cases sir.