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i get on my right the we just b g 0 had teams on the ground to when you award winning documentaries and lives on air and online. ah. ready the u. k. prime minister. warren's the health system, will be under strain due to surgeon cases of ami kron, but resists calls for a noun covered 19 measures. ah, you're wanting out. is there a life in my headquarters in ohio dairy navigator also coming up? humans hoti rebel, say they've sees the united arab emirates flagship filled with weapons. but the saudi led coalition insists it was carrying medical supplies. a guilty verdict for the founder of us blood testing start up. elizabeth holmes is convicted of
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conspiracy and defrauding investors. boss hoping for a smooth run with just one month to the winter olympics. we take a look at how china is preparing for the games during a pandemic. hello, the u. k. prime minister says the health service will be under considerable pressure and coming weeks is a grapples or the rising cobra. 19 cases by boris johnson has ruled out new restrictions while other european countries consider tougher measures. or a 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
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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 you for england, who, sticking with his decision, 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 a chest 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,
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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 of you 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. then despite opposition from some politicians, the backing of several parties means the lower house will likely pass the bill. rory, challenge out there. yemen, throw the rebels, say they seize the ship,
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belonging to the united arab emirates because it was carrying military supplies. the cargo vessel was taken near the port city of data. the saudi led coalition says the vessel was carrying medical supplies, footage, released by the who. these shows military trucks on boats, on the ship, saudi arabia, as leading and military coalition. that's been at war with the host these for almost 7 years. my laptop has more from santa m. e. m. and we couldn't tell. oh 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, 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 the spokesperson also the, the, the other side of the quality is saying that it was creating medicines or other
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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 data where the have monitor kept to this ship according to the statements 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, the red sea and the founder of collapse, blood testing start up the ronald has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy. 37 year old elizabeth holmes is once hailed as a young tech visionary. she claims her company's machines contest for a dozens of the visas by using just a drop of blood. the technology never worked,
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and jurors found at homes deliberately misled investors while raising almost a $1000000000.00 and funds. john henry has more on the case from washington d. c. 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
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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. fire a south africa, the parliament building and cape town has flared up again at 1st broke out on sunday the back of the building complex that housing the old assembly chamber. it's been badly damaged and part of the roof caved in. because of the fire isn't known, but a suspect has been arrested and is expected in court. on tuesday. julian wolf has
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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, mainly like it is very said to me a long time ago with every day i went to the local was receive, these calls are worth a lot of people here. a loss for words including the firefighters who have been here fighting 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
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africa is 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. another independent news outlets in hong kong has shut down. citizen news is the 3rd. i would love to close in recent weeks just last week. police rated the offices offer a separate pro democracy online publication. several people were arrested and charged with sedition. free clinic house, more from hong kong. citizen uses winding up its operations in the building behind
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me and will now stop updating its web site after it said it could no longer continue sizing the safety of its staff. it's the 3rd media outlet a to close off to stand use. last week. the arrests and raid of its new for and the 4th closure of apple daily and june, last year, citizen years described itself as a small boat in tremendously rough seas. it's found a chris young said that he hoped it would not deterred young journalists from taking part in the industry and that there's still a role for media here in hong kong. however, it's still unclear whether the remaining outlets, like hong kong free press can survive in this environment. chief executive carry lamb said that it's not about press freedom that it's about upholding the national security law. while hong kong authorities deny there's a crack down here and say they are not targeting the media. the hong kong journalist association says that attacks on the press threatened the status of hong kong as ages world city. hong kong was once known as the thriving hub for media
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outlets. but since the national security law was introduced in 2020, that changed. and now there are big fears over where the independent journalism here is being crushed. still ahead on al jazeera, under water flooding, and parts of melisha forces thousands of people to abandoned their homes. just days out from africa's biggest sporting events. authorities and comma room reassured teams on fans about security. ah ah, look forward to pearly to scores with a spoon suit by cutting it weighs hello there. we've seen unsettled, stormy weather, play the middle east over the past few days. but that didn't stop celebrations in saudi arabia to mock the arrival of snow fall in the north west. now on tuesday
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it's going to be the gulf states that once again sees the majority of the wet and windy weather. if we take a closer look, we want more heavy rain on the way for the likes of oman. that'll scoot across into southern parts of iran as it makes its way towards pakistan where we are expecting the heavy falls. so it winds up from the likes of guitar and the u. a, but we've got a cold wind blowing down is shamal. when that's going to drop temperatures down. it is going to feel rather chilly, but they weren't b as much dust in the air. that was we had further south was seen showers pick up across weston areas of yemen. those join up with showers across the open rift valley. it rise up however for northern air is particular north eastern area of africa, but temperatures here remain below the average for the wet weather we have to head to southern air is a thing. so thunderstorms roll across the likes of zambia into them. bob way for south africa, it's much dryer in the west, wetter in the east,
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with thunderstorms in johanna, but through to the weekend. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always killing the debates. 90 percent of the world's refugees have come from of common impacted country. the climate emergency is putting more pressure on cities across the world and amplify your voice. it's not really the future rates now. this is not our responsibility. please give a lot candidate to responsibly get back. we cannot lose hope. we know what to do, and we have the tools to do to get back to the last page. this screen on al jazeera. oh, the me.
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hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, the u. k. prime minister has war in the countries health service will be under considerable pressure and coming weeks is army kron cases surge. elsewhere in europe. new restrictions are coming into effect in an effort to slow the spread of covers. 19 yemen. 40 rebels say they've seized the ship belonging to the united arab emirates. they said with hearing bluff and saudi coalitions, and i stopped saying the vessel was transporting medical supplies. the founder and black testing sort of toronto, susan found guilty of fraud. and conspiracy in the us. elizabeth holmes claimed for companies, machines could test for diseases by using just a drop of blood, racing almost a $1000000000.00 in the process. so sounds a military leader is calling for an urgent care, take her government on new measures to deal with demonstrations. it follows the resignation of prime minister de la hun dog whose worn that political deadlock threatens to don survival pro democracy group,
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say they're planning further. protests on tuesday. hey, bill morgan reports from the capital hard to me. the these people have recently heard prime minister out the lamb dog, the 1st of all the position following to them 2018 revolution has resigned, and many in the country are divided on his departure. if the political humbugs departure is a big loss to the nation, he had made a lot of achievements and brought progress to sudan. but the military, but the reason he was unable to move forward on so many issues. the military is the reason we're in this cross. if it doesn't make a difference just like he doesn't make a difference if he stays no, got hum dog no longer serves the demand 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 sudan had been calling for. himself was torn in in 2019 after the overthrow of long time. didn't all martin bashir. he was picked by the coalition known as the forces of freedom and change to lead to dance transition to democracy
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. the coalition represented the protest movement that lead anti government demonstrations against bush years government, but impost month the coalition has been divided. that became the basis for the military to stage a 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 of office ham dogs, popularity was high among the protest this and when he was closed 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, c. m duke's resignation could be in the interest of the protest movement. now that ham dock has stepped down, they realize that they need to get their houses into order. they need to get their, you know, they need to get everything organized and need to start from scratch. and i think
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also the military side needs to understand that the people will not set up. ham duke has cited lack of consensus among political parties as his reason for stepping down. and as the political parties remain at odds, this little hope of both coming together to name some one to replace him. he but morgan al jazeera haiti's prime minister says he survived an assassination attempt to ariel. henry says it happened during national day celebrations over the weekend, his office as bound the town terrace tried to shoot at him at a church in the city of gone f on he took office last july after president giovanna marquise was assassinated. large part 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 are staying in temporary shelters. lawrence louis has more from
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kuala lumpur. it is quite severe flooding. we 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, but 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 the volunteer groups or individuals that has
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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 cause. 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. more than 20000 people in indonesia had been forced to flee their homes after days of torrential rain. several districts in north have been inundated by water authorities say one child has died, residence waded through st, salvaging what they could from their home evacuation shelters haven't set up by the
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regional government, but many say they haven't received any aid. the flood waters have kept rising. i live at my house. it's up to my chest that most of the houses in my area inundated for the moment. we are taking shelter in a construction site, but we haven't received any help yet. please 23 people have been killed and funding between arm groups on columbia border with venezuela. most of the fighting is taking place in a row cut province, which is home to some of the country's largest oil wells. the army says the violence is linked to the drug trade with rebels. fighting for control around a dozen families have been displaced. the columbia presidents, ivan, to k, blames his vent as well. a counterpart for harboring the group on the other side of the border activists in the central mexican state of morello, sir, demanding accountability for the death of an environmentalist who spoke out against the reopening of a landfill sites. supporters of rodrigo vasquez morales say he was killed by
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organized crime gangs which are involved in the waste management industry. as many well, reco explains. he was just one of dozens of activists killed in 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 believed that he goes death was a direct result of his activism, north banking, unless it goes dance, he has 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 expressed 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
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contaminated a local aqua. when the landfill reopened, in april of 2021 activist and local residents took to the streets and protest, jackie said the own elk that at the last altercation here was very violent. residents say that i was even gone the fight. oh, local. say each time there were protests, there was violence. human rights observers safe 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 arrive here and they 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 legal?
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the company that operates the law mother, me, he a landfill, did not respond to al jazeera is request for a comic. oh, but an investigation into the road that he goes, debt is underway by state authorities. little that he, it was one of 25 human rights and environmental activists who were killed in mexico in 2021. the united nations human rights office 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 loma, they may hear 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,
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have not resumed manuel, up a little al jazeera mexico city. apple has made wall street history after its market value, briefly hit the 3 trillion dollar mark. it's the 1st public company to reach that milestone. it happened after apple share price rose to nearly a $183.00 to companies like apple. google on amazon have reported a record profits during the pandemic. apple value has tripled in less than 4 years turkey's annual inflation rate, sir, and to 36 percent last month. that's the highest. it's been since 2002. the rise in prices on drop in the turkish, the euro has hit household budgets last year. the currency lost 44 percent, if its value against the us dollar. the economic terminal has also impacted president, are the ones pull ratings and election scheduled for no later than the middle of
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next year. ms. jenkins, just one month away from hosting the winter olympics. the city is the 1st to host both for summer and winter games. a be upcoming event has him play by challenges including diplomatic boycott, sound they 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. it makes me very happy. this board 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 width will create a whole culture around the winter sports and we create
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a hole in the 9th and also in the, in the attorneys head as the now that time has those 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. 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 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,
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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 jing accuses them of politicizing the games and as warn they will pay the price over hasn't made clear how analysts say additional boycotts by you or asian countries. would be very embarrassing for china. no dreams are going to boycott games themself. 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. the account on to the african combinations as on kickoff for the football championship will take place in cameroon. in less than a week,
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it was supposed to be held in 2021, but then was pushed back because of the pandemic. questions do remain about whether it should still go ahead and not just because of corona virus. alexey o'brien explains on the streets of limb bay 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 is tight. 6 cities, a hosting f con, matches but lim, bay, and nearby wire are in the spotlight because separatist fighters 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 on a puzzle faculty vision like in moya, can be the common phenomenon. but during the sir of con, or
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a period conflict broke out in cameroon, in 2016, 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 amazonia. 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. i can't reveal the measures that are being put in place, but you should know. but just as the african nations championship took place and a very good conditions, african will also take place under very good conditions. there's nothing to worry about. cameron won the right to host the finals when it's teen beat egypt in
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2017 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 in a woman deserves, because so many calls them overwhelm the room around different hours. different countries will mid so many all are be well known, new new friends maneuver and others though say they won't be able to focus on the games while some and cameroon, live in fear for their lives. alex o'brien al jazeera ah color again the headlines on al jazeera, the your case, prime minister has warned its health service will be under considerable pressure in the coming weeks is army kron cases. sir.

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