al jazeera talked to al jazeera while the warranty, as we listen, design is, are making serious effort in order to distract the trend. not because we need to make stormy. i me the u. k. is prime minister, worn to tell system will be under strain due to surgeon cases of ami kron but resist calls for new over 1900 measured. ah, you're watching. i was. is there a life for my headquarters in del times? any number gays are also coming up yemen for the rebels. say they fees the united

arab emirates flagship filled with weapons. but the saudi le coalition insist that was carrying medical supplies, part of malaysia underwater, at least 7 states are battling floods off their heavy rain over the past 2 weeks. a guilty verdict for the founder of us, but testing start off. elizabeth phones is convicted of conspiracy, defrauding investors. hello, the u. k. prime minister says it's health service will be under considerable pressure and coming weeks as a grapples with the rise and cobra, 1900 cases. but doors johnson has ruled out new restrictions while other european countries consider a tougher measures 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 southwest london is worrying about staff 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 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. he sticking with his decision. the wasteful for the country as a whole is to continue with the path that where all the gamble is, the 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, 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 you can big public gatherings limited for 3 weeks. and parliament is debating a change to frances help us. only the vaccinated would be allowed in restaurant cafe 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. the objective of this law is to save lives, what 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. re

challenge out 0. talk to chris the dial kumar is the director of the duke global health innovation center. he says on the kron is likely to cause a rise in hospital admissions and could overwhelm many health centers. homework on 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. but we do know that with the 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 kids 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 rate the vaccination 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. yemen who the rebel say they seize the ship, belonging to the united arab emirates that was carrying military supplies. the cargo vessel was taken near the any port city of jose done. the saudi led coalition says the vessel was carrying medical supplies footed, released by the jose shows military trucks on boats on that ship. saudi arabia is leading and military coalition that's been at war with a who sees for almost 7 years. how many laptop has more from santa and yemen.

we couldn't tell. oh, exactly. is telling the truth, we're 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 civilians, stuff. the situation is really developing rapidly. the whole during the pressure during the process explained about the operation. how is how they have conducted this operation of the, the costs of her data, where the have money to come 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 a kick used it all for carrying out of style activities in the long the, the red sea and large part malaysia have again been inundated by heavy rain on floods, forcing 1000 more people to abandoned their homes, the rainfall has caused rivers in several states to rise to dangerously high levels . at least 50 people have died in the flooding since mid december. more than 125 thousands have been displace. many are staying in tempering shelters. florence louis has more from calling them. it is 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 lost 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, issue 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 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 the suspects in a fire in south africa parliament buildings expected in court. later on tuesday, the fire broke out on sunday the back of the building complex that houses the old assembly chamber firefighters had declared to blaze under control, but it re ignited on monday. parts of the roof caved in. the cause of the fire isn't yet known. another independent news ellis at hong kong has shut down. citizen news is the 3rd outlets of clothes and recent weeks. it's journalist said they were worried about their safety. police rated the offices of a separate pro democracy online publication. last week. several people were

arrested and charged with sedition. brick climate has more from hong kong. citizen uses winding up its operations in the building behind me and will now stop updating its website after it said it could no. 1 longer continue sizing the safety of that stuff. it's the 3rd media outlet a to close off to a stand use last week. the arrests and raid of it's new through and the 4th closure . 1 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 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 a thriving hub for media 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. the founder of collapsed blood testing start up, the runners has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy. 37 year old elizabeth holmes was once hailed as a young tract, visionary. she claimed her company's machines for test, for dozens of diseases by using just a drop of blood. but the technology never worked. and jurors found that homes deliberately misled investors of raising almost a $1000000000.00 and funds on 100 has more on the case from washington dc. your story was, 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 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 trap, but when she came to the stand for like 7 days, she blamed her ex boyfriend rummaged by 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 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. still ahead on algae, sarah ganawe, beaches reopened for the 1st time in almost 2 years. but not everyone is welcome will tell you why. a centuries old technique is still being used in the mountains in iraq to make a staple face. ah hello, there. we've seen unsettled, stormy weather, played the middle east over the past few days. but that didn't stop celebrations in

saudi arabia to mark the arrival of snow fall in the north west. now on tuesday it's going to be the gulf states. 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 heavier falls. so it dries up for 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 won't be as much dust in the air. now as we had further south was seen showers pick up across western areas of yemen. those join up with showers across the ethiopian rift valley. it dries up, however, for northern air is particular that northeastern area of africa, but temperatures here remain below the average for the wet weather we have to head to southern air is missing. some thunderstorms roll across the likes zambia into them. bob way, for south africa, it's much dryer in the west. wetter in the east,

with thunderstorms in johannesburg through to the weekend. ah. on counting the costs of the climate and words, you see the price of going green and why it doesn't lead to cost the earth do ceilings and unlikely mute or an economics becomes the testbed for controlling our prices was no gold deposit to wise at one of your walks biggest exports counting the cost on algae 0. we know what's happening in our region. we know how to get to plate that others and not as far as i said on going are the way that you would tell . the story is what can make a difference? lou ah,

ah no more gun. the headlines on all 0. and you case, prime minister has warned its hell service will be under considerable pressure in the coming weeks. his army con cases, surge new coven 19 restrictions are coming into effect and other parts of europe. boars, johnson has rejected calls for additional measures. yeoman's healthy rebels say they've seized the united arab emirates ship that was carrying weapons. but the saudi coalition says the vessel was transporting medical supplies, the founder of blood testing start up, the ronald has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy. in the u. s. elizabeth homes raised nearly a $1000000000.00 by falsely claiming her companies machines protests for diseases by using one drop of blood. hey, teens. prime minister says he survived an assassination attempt or yell on re says it happened during national day celebrations over the weekend. his office as

bandits and terrorist tried to shoot at a church in the city of gone f unread, took office last july after president of anomalies was assassinated. so don's military ruler, really, leader rather is calling for an urgent caretaker government and new measures to deal with demonstrations. it follows the resignation of prime minister abdulla hum . dr. warren's political dialogue threatens the country survival pro democracy group. say they're planning more protests on tuesday. hey, bill, morgan reports in the capitol, harder to him. these people have recently heard prime minister out the lamb duke, the 1st to hold a position following to dance. 2018 revolution has resigned and many in the country are divided on his departure. is the right of how little because not a good hum ducks departure is 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 crisis without it. and it doesn't make a difference just like he doesn't make a difference if he stays no hom dock 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 in 2019 after the overthrow of long time president amaral bashir. 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 months 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 took office, hm. dog's 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 supports of not just the protest movement, but also the political parties that brought him to power. some activists say how dogs resignation could be in the interest of the process movement. now the handle can step down, they realize that they need to get their houses into order, they need to get there, 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 let up have 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. general center was admitted to hospice on south palo on monday morning with a domino pain staff say his condition is improving. well scenario says he's using

a special feeding tube. he's been admitted to hospital several times and being stab during his presidential campaign in 2018. a series of 1000000 multi $1000000.00 infrastructure projects in bosnia herzegovina are being blocked by one of the 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 has voted down all major projects. and the sonya ego reports it's having serious consequences for people. 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. several 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. water producer. 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 an impact of the blockade of the institutions of pulsing hertz covina, which directly affects the quality of life rural re people and the lives 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. i subscribe. a member of bosnia herzegovina as tripartite presidency. dante has refused to participate in any decision making process worth more than 50000000. your as because he says it goes against the ruling of the entities national assembly. hm. though the autumn o 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 duddy to stay in power to get excited as 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 anya 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 sonic. i eh, go out his era, a legal agreement between the late sex offender, jeffrey epstein and prince andrew's accuser. virginia jeffrey has been 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 accusing him of sexual assault when she was 17. but prince andrew's lawyers argued the 2009 settlement could release him from liability. is denied the claims. michelle simpson tiggle is a women's rights lawyer and founding partner at the some, some take a law firm. she says 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, if 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 in 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 in 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 steen. he has his own person beaches in gonna have reopened 2 years after they were close to the public. because of the pandemic, only people who are vaccinated will be allowed in extra gate and be reports. the pleasure beach resulting gone is capital i cry is once again welcoming visitors, beaches across the country were place to the public in march 2020 because of played

with 19 people here were thankful to be back and eager to make up for lost time. don't go out lodge, could they be there thursday at lol. i think that very day in that new year we decided to come in ha fun. yeah. yeah. by we al devin, every protocol need strict rules are in place only vaccinated people who are allowed on to the beach and 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 your wife gets the diarrhea to us the it on tuesday, the just agree. and then we just though you the boston dog one, then just to gashodi, gwinnett enjoyed himself despite the optimism. his id number is not back to pre

pandemic levels in the extra government restrictions. all frustrating for those working in the tourism industry is long time that it was good because it out. yeah, yeah, i can hear about not unless we are specter ah, we will buy deckles our day will come about is that nobody is there? no empty soul does that sounded wonderful. god, god, philadelphia, go back home. sancho judy, i've been thinking this all or is greatly a problem this me so you 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 than the one missile victoria gay to be al jazeera. factories in northern iraq have been using the same traditional methods to make to haney for hundreds of years. the dense paste is made from cross sesame see, is grown by local farmers. factory worker say the labor intensive process creates a better quality product because it isn't made where preservatives might want out

there were had, has more from northern iraq in the far north of iraq should hook province and ancient to support amy and town now called on medea lies 1400 meters above sea level. the climate and soil conditions in the area are good for growing crops, especially sesame and my dear has been famous for its da haney for centuries. with the staple food piece produced by traditional methods sulaiman, her scenes factory has been in the family for generations. he says it operates 7 months a year between october and june. that's the rainy season, when there is enough water and the currents are strong enough to turn the water milled, belly of a shuttled r for or shade her dinner. the factory was mill was constructed 350 years ago,

and it still produce in the same tasty to hemi because we use locally grown sesame soaked and well water, and roasted by fi. what made it after the dried, the seeds are put in a stone oven, heated by firewood, then follows a labor intensive, is stirring process for a couple of hours to ensure that completely roasted a water. mill driven grinder, then turns them into a smooth paste. add the thicker when john i am. okay, i off marya. the grinders millstone is turned by hydro power. from underneath, the water cools off the millstone temperature, so that any seeds won't be burned. workers in this factory say they produce between $70.80 tons of to haney a year, the highly favor food throughout the era region. but for all, maria families, traditional to haney, is not only product of their diet,

to faith that hold the widow in the mountains. little for become part of their heritage. 80 year old has an almighty says they've always depended on what they can grow and the area for their nutritional leads. as for security is a daily struggle rally vargas. i'm hopeful our founding fathers created this does to help them move round heights and valleys to work in farms as a child. i remember we used the as a dietary supplement. the people of, oh my dear, say proudly that customers from across iraq visit the town just to why it's a to haney. it's believe the 1st, the haney water mill was built by kurdish rulers in the 16th century. what's not known is how long traditional mills will keep running without the introduction of some modern technology. would abdougla had al jazeera in almighty a town in northern iraq.

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