worth hearing, the listening post cuts through the noise was so key about competing that they seeing more than they caused me to perpetuate those competing. asked the listening post your guide to the media honors j 0. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, it's just gone 1500 hours, gmc hello, i'm come all santa maria, welcome to the news. our on al jazeera, united states has set a world record of more than a 1000000 karone of ours cases in a single day, while other parts of the world c spiraling infection rates. to coming up updates from the u. s. europe, latin america, and asia. also in the news police fights, he aghast at protest, is in sudan back out on the streets, demonstrating against the military rights groups,

raise the alarm over the deteriorating health of a palestinian hunger strike it detained in his already prison without charge or trials since 2020 if they are fearful for not being able to comply with the north end, they have to make up their mind and a warning for the media from hong kong leda as yet another news outlet shuts down. on his phone of a joke, which will be allowed to defend his australian open title after all the well, number one has been given a medical exemption, which means you can compete that having had a covey 19 vaccination. ah ha! ruined with 4 days now in to 2022 and quite frankly, looking a lot like this time last year. cove at 19 infections surging all over the world. this time, as the all micron buried spreads at a blistering pace, we'll start the united states, which set a new global record over

a 1000000 coven 19 cases in a single day. though, as elsewhere, we should point out. it hasn't translated into lodge death rights testing though, and other services are becoming overwhelmed in india or a weekend curfew has been imposed in delhi after the highest infection numbers there in months will have an update on it is shortly now the u. k. also resisting and further lockdown measures for now, children are back at school. people are back at work despite an exponential rise in cases. and there are more than a 1000000 people. now. in self isolation and argentina reported its highest daily tally. since the pandemic began the south american nation recorded more than 44000 infections, we've got all of this covered with our team of correspondence, this out to raise the bow is and when osiris roy challenge is in london, starting with john hendern in washington, dc. the headline number, john, it is hard to ignore. tell us the story behind the number. well, a 1000000 people is a huge number,

but according to columbia university researchers, it's going to get worse. they predict, according to their model, that 2.5 to 5000000 people will have contracting the virus within the 7 day period some time this month. but that is when they expect it to peak. so this from a kron variant might be less deadly, but it's more contagious. and what that means is it's still ends up overwhelming hospitals, one in 4 hospitals with an intensive care unit now says they are 95 percent or more full. that jet a 1000000 cases, can you imagine what that is going to be like with millions more, and that's only if that particular model is right. so joe biden, the president of the united states, is going to get a briefing this afternoon from his cove in 1900 team and then he'll address the american public. he might find out some things that we don't know, but what we know is pretty bad. the testing rate in the united states right now, is it 18 percent in new york?

it's it's 33 percent one in 3 people testing positive. now, new york schools are going to continue opening many schools around the country will not, they'll start out virtually one of the tactics there seems to be to start out for a couple of weeks virtually so that all the children who contracting the virus over the christmas holiday when they've been gathering with large groups and family can get over it. but new york city mayor eric adam says that is the safest place for them to be. and he's going to go ahead and open the schools there. wow. okay, thank you john hendrick but the situation from the us and i'll be diving into the u . s. numbers a little bit later and then use our as well right now. really challenge in london on the 1st day of school and the 1st day of work for this year. it looks quiet. what time is it about 3 in the afternoon there. yeah, kids say kids back in the classroom. adults back in the office. both doing so under the shadow on the grown and i have to say being here under bridge station this

morning, all the way through russia. it was very, very quiet. now, that's probably for any number about 3 main reasons. the 1st of which is that people are being told to stay home and work from home and they can. then there is also the fact that there is a large number of people, a 1000000 over the previous 7 days. so you have court kind of 19 and a currently self isolating at home also because of those large numbers of people at home, star absences, services like that, the network, the train train network running in a scan, it all way big disruption across large parts of the network all over the country where people find it very difficult to get to work school kids going back in england that doing so with 2 main changes. one is that being tested 2 or 3 times a week now, and they were tested before, they were let back in the classroom when they are in the costs and they're having to wear masks again for the 1st time since back in may that bring thing,

but schools in line with other parts of the u. k. scotland, wales, northern ireland, where high school kids have been very mosques that for months now. but of course, a big question, as john was saying that from, from the united states, the number of infections, the number of soft absences, what kind of toll is that going to have on the vital services. the government has a task it's, it's administered with coming up with a plan to prepare for perhaps wanting for people being off from work. if anything like that number is reach and that will of course, hit things like the national health service very, very heavily and already various trucks around the country and a chest across the sags that called critical incidents going on. because i don't have enough work is to provide an adequate level of care or challenge in london for us. thank you for that. updates rory fun. theresa boats in buenos aires and i feel we actually haven't heard a lot, certainly out about tina and why to latin america recently. why don't you give us an update on both?

well, the government has confirmed about the amount of cases, excuse me, of corona, virus of dealt have areas but also on the ground. spreading faster, the government confirmed that around 44000 people tested positive on monday. but experts are saying that that figure could be much higher around a $100000.00 people, mostly because people are not going to text inside that also because this time of the year it's summer time in argentina, many are going to the beaches are traveling across the country and that's why the many of them are not coming to places like this one were right in front of a hospital where hundreds of people are showing up to get a text. many say that they have mild symptoms and others are saying that they want to get out of the city to escape or the heat here in the city of when a site is a since november, the government has seized some of the restrictions as post in the past,

do they have allowed foreign tourists back in the country? what are the health military saying is that they're not overly concerned for now about the amount of cases, mostly because the data rate is low hospitalizations are very, very low. and the amount of people that have been vaccinated in the country, argentina is close to 80 percent of the population that have been vaccinated. and that's why the government is insisting on people to get to avoid jobs. they're having po since january 1st at vaccination path in order to be able to go into a bank of america, among other things on the increase of a corona virus infection. it's not only happening in argentina, it's also happening in brazil, or cruise lines have suspended their summer vessels. there's been 2 cases of our breaks and at least 2 vans in brazil in mexico. there's all will be done and please press enter and we will reopen over that order has says that they're focusing on people receiving their 3rd a job. so what we're seeing in the region, a latin american general and south america,

has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. around 63 percent of the population has been vaccinated. they have led to successful campaigns, not totally against corona virus, but also against polio. against me, cells, and that's why there's lots of experience on the ground. and this vaccines are crucial to fight the army from variant to race about isn't buenos aires running out our live coverage. october 19th at this out. thank you. teresa india, we want to look at his welder, which is reporting the highest number of cove 19 fictions in months. new restrictions are coming into force in deli parking baton. has more on that. this is lisa coffee, by the way, is an expansion of already existing restrictions in new jersey. the national stopper, i've seen a surge info and a virus cases a week ago there's been a nice coffee that was imposed. schools were shocked. so a, jim's and cinema halls and they're also restrictions on restaurants. now the government says that it will also talk or non essential activities and or non

essential movement over saturday and sunday. so unless you're welcome or john lewis or delivering food, you will have to stay at school. in addition to this or government employees will be working from all of the employees who work in private companies are also encouraged to work from home. the government has been more people if you stay at home, whenever you can also control to call the 1900 protocols because there have been photos of people with crowding markets. at the same time, it was mentioning that one of the thousands of people who tested positive for cobra 19 in new delhi over the last 24 hours. is the city chief minister. now he's getting absolutely no sympathy for contracting the virus because he's been hosting, like many of the political leaders, election rallies in boy downstairs in northern india. in fact, the prime minister himself has been hosting values. this is

a reminder of what happened this past summer. when the dash of that into rick through the country, infected millions of people, an election on election rallies, continued foreign covered later in this new south. but we tend to sit down for now with a political crisis, appears to be deepening, following the resignation of the prime minister security forces, the fire t, a gas that demonstrate is rallying against the military. thousands of gathered in cartoon undermine and port sedan. hi, minister of dell hancock. he resigned on sunday saying the political deadlock is threatening sedans, survival mohammed vow for us, sir. now another been outside the courtroom. i wasn't even sure we were going to get to speak to you at this hour, muhammad, because of the deterioration in the security situation. tell us what it's been like . yeah, it's been a hot afternoon in terms of the confrontations between apple testers and the security forces right now it is, is still going on a little bit in some parts of on demand where i'm, when i speak,

but the main street, the main street, la by in the street where the march took place is now partly open, but this is the time of day when the counter attack by security forces. it gets worse and worse, they go after the protest as in the houses in their little streets. and that's what's going on, not right now, in some areas of the, of the city opened or man in other parts of courtroom in southern cartoon, cartoon and in body or so, demonstrations like this took place, but the heaviest, the biggest one was here in om gorman. this is a pat on now. the demonstration today was not a part of the official schedule of the committees of resistance, as they call themselves or is this is committees. so now with a began to, to organize these sudden protests slightly announced them only a day before because this is a, this is a part of a war of attrition against an against the security forces. and they have been able,

during the last couple of weeks to force the government to close the bridges to close the roads to cut off the internet. but that did not happen. at least he did not happen completely to day at the speculation was that the government is heating . now this say this tactic by their protest as protest as forcing the government to create its own or set up its own civil disobedience by its own decision. so they left the intimate open, they left a pot, part of the bridge is open or some of the beaches open. and that's, that's what's going on right now. however, the put us are saying they will not stop. they will continue like this. some of the protests will be well organized, more people on the 6th of this month, for instance, after to morrow they will me a huge one. today is just like an unannounced or unscheduled one, but it keeps the security forces busy. it keeps them or, you know, i unable to know what's going on, and that's what they want to continue until they force the military to withdraw

from power that sell me demand. i'm involved with that update on the situation in sudan. thank you. 30 minutes past the season. here's what's coming up. lawyers for the u. k. is prince andrew, are urging a judge to dismiss the civil law suit, accusing him of sexual assault, flooding in more than half of malaysia states after a week of heavy rain. the sport manchester united loose for the 1st time on the video manager. and you will have that story little late. ah now the palestinian authority is under pressure to try to intervene to save the life of a prisoner on hunger strike in his ready jail protest as a calling for the release of his shall marble harsh and his as his condition deteriorates. he has been refusing food for more than a 140 days, protesting his detention without trial. he was arrested under stringent is ready

laws that allow authorities to detain anyone for months or years without charge. protests fargo, his release sour, also taking place in lebanon, were demonstrated, gathered in front of the international committee, of the red crosses headquarters in beirut to show solidarity and avo. hm. if we tell him we are proud of you, palestine will be free, as long as there are people like up her wash and all the palestinian prisoners in martinez afternoon. she'll hide that lemon law in law. we tell him how as to be patient and to trust god's will, a day will come when we get rid of the zionist entity. we are all with you. that the letter on sorry with us now from ramallah, the international advocacy officer at the, at the mirror prison at support and human rights association at melana. thank you for your time. the lady we just heard they're saying urging abolished to be to be patient. i mean, he's been in jail for a long time. he's been on hunger strike for a long time. he's not to wonder how much longer he's got. e,

thank you for having me. and 1st to begin with m. before talking about t shah mobile hawash as a palestinian prisoner, we do need to bear in mind and keep in mind that he showed up with her watches of 41 now and 41 palestinian and the father of fine. and so he has been on hunger strike as of today for 141 days. his health conditions, according to many medical reports indicate that sudden death is at the eminent am, is, is, is, is an option that might happen at any moment. now, however, what we are seeing with the international community, with the palestinian authority and the israeli occupation that continued stalling and inability to take an immediate action to save his life and palestinian prisoners have taking on hunger strikes. and for a long time in history since said 19,

since the 19 seventy's and sixty's against administrative detention and the israeli occupation has escalated the numbers off administered of detention orders against the palestinians in 2021, 1000 and 5 am 100 than $95.00 orders were issued, this includes the renewal of some orders and the issuance of new orders, the israeli military courts in accordance and in their role as part of the apartheid system that's and enforced on the palestinians. they enforce it and mockery judicial review of the administrative detention in which they always take into consideration the secret committee and that is neither disclosed to the prisoner himself them sons or their lawyers, maloney your middle will assist them. sorry to interrupt you. i do wanna ask a few more questions that you mentioned, the palestinian authority when you talked about various groups. they're a palestinian authority prisoner. my heard of us. he was meeting with israeli

leadership. what was it last week? both with been against the defense minister did the to these things don't get raised. do you think it must be quite golding, for palestinians to know that their leadership is meeting with israel whilst their people are in jail as well? unfortunately, and sadly, the 1st thing to answer your question, we do need to bear in mind that palestinians live under an ongoing occupation. this occupation does exercise legislative, executive and judicial powers. so and no way the palestinian authority's ability to take action might be restricted by this vital and ongoing occupation. however, as you clearly mentioned that there has been constant meetings with the israeli occupation authorities. the cases of palestinian prisoners should be a top priority there. there has been like before, hisham abolished. there were also 7 palestinians on hunger strike. this is not a case of one individual, but the case of all of the palestinian people. and this is why we see prisoners

should be a priority. the israeli occupation has initiated $700.00 bruten violent prison paintings and during the visit the bottom would abbas am and i highly doubt this was mentioned during the meetings. and this is where we, we hold the palestinian authority accountable for the likes of the palestinian prisoners because there has been relations with the israeli occupation. and the palestinian authority gamed am membership in the united states in the united nations. and has been part of several international conventions. there is ways to take on the prisoners issue on an international level than and with, with the israeli occupation. however, we haven't seen the palestinian authority take on its powers as a state to haunt the occupation responsible. only recently when he sham has entered 140 days that we're seeing slight action by the p a. just quickly,

what i mentioned in the intro, the, the stringent israeli laws which basically allow them to detain, heard, i want how they want when they want in the album, how much is kaiser? what is he actually accused of doing? he's under administer to detention. there is absolutely no clear charges to why he is still in detention. he was 1st arrested in october 2020 and his administrative detention was renewed twice to reach till now under detention. and we say at our mid to late because there's literally no charges or to try and happening. so he's not aware of the charges. and this is why we also say so administrative detention does a me amount to tortured and in treatment because it imposes psychological torture. not only physical torture on the palestinians where they are the pain for an indefinite and period of time. not knowing when exactly, then be released,

and most importantly, not knowing why they are there. they're shamela west, spent 8 years in prison. he is a former prisoner 52 months of them, which is almost half the years spent in prison, went under administrative detention or meaning without any charges. so the arbitrary nature of the israeli occupation policy of administer the detention is illegal and it is just the myth based on international laws or any laws in the world. basically, glenn, i'm sorry to hear from ramallah, and i thank you so much for your time. glad we could talk about this. so this case . thank you. hong kong leda, kerry lamb has rejected to claims that the territories press freedom faces. extinction follows the closure of a 3rd independent news outlets. on monday. editorial latest from the citizen, you'd say they're worried about the safety of their journalists in october. the on that was accused of misleading people about the national security law imposed by

beijing. i read news about because of the kotia off um, online medium press reed, i'm in hong kong facing extinction. all hong kong, free, free press faces collapse. i just cannot accept that sort of allegations, but nothing is more important than the rule of law in hong kong. and journalists and media organizations like or of us, half soule, respect and comply with the law if they are fearful, often not being able to comply with a lot. and they have to make up their mind and take the necessary decisions. more on this story with brit clinic in hong kong citizen uses, winding up its operations in the building behind me, and will now stop updating its web site after it said, it could no longer continue sizing the safety of its stuff. it's the 3rd media outlet a to close off to a stand use last week. the arrests and raid of its new through and the 4th closure

. 1 of apple, daily and june, last year, citizen news described itself as a small boat and 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 at siena from long you a global justice campaigner,

author of hong kong revolt who rejects kennedy lands, claims that freedom of the press is alive and well. if you look back, cho yes, and it is very clear that yes, aging and carry land is finishing all the freedom of press the home home. the government created the lives the 80 this last june. and then in november, actually one very ami news as well that the government denies research of the british journal economists the nice one of these journalist, a visa. so this is already on top of the fact that the government has refused that we search the financial times journalist as well. so if you look at the vitamins in the past 2 years been,

well i fully understand. busy the news closing down on his own because actually phase one consideration, i think the sad faith closing on itself. so that web site to be hanging out there for a while. you said all hosting done by the government and then everything disappear or the archives disappear. that is the most dangerous and most tragic things happening in hong kong and what a one other note from hong kong where a court has sentence loya child hung tongue to 15 months in prison. she was convicted of inciting, an unauthorized gathering to commemorate the channels and square massacre. child was arrested last year a day before the june anniversary of that 989 prank down in beijing. she was convicted on the similar charges in december. the sentencing on tuesday, that means she'll spend 22 months in jail. police have banned the annual chinaman

video for the past 2 years sizing. corona virus restrictions. plenty more had the you on this, you saw the 20 lane in indonesia, which is more than 20000 people to leave. their homes are gone as beaches reopen for the 1st time was 2 years. but everyone's welcome back in sport, miami or soccer pretends to action for months after taking an indefinite break from top level tennis. ah, re recently in the middle east has been pretty nasty stuff producing widespread flooding. it's now just crossing through pakistan into was india. and the following weather is fairly windy, particularly in the gulf. its a seasonal wind called the shamal normally, and it's quite cold. it's often full of dust, but not at this time the, because it's been raining in iraq as well. it's a fairly clear wind,

but look at the high temperatures. remember where you are? this is arabia high temperature of 18 in doha, about 20 in upper darby. the few showers, i think, still in the amorous but nothing like what was seen recently in the main rates in iraq, reproaches focus on that cause whilst to win. keats blowing till the end of thursday, that cold wind phase one of the rain on its way into india. but phase 2 is coming down through the radio, matches bit further east a bit for the north and the last lot which proved fatal for at least 3 people. so this is not going be welcome, but it's rain and snow rain for afghan as well. and then beyond that, the sun is shining for the most part. there are a few showers still around in the land. and in southern turkey's fat, this southerly breeze, the change in wind direction, and the contrast is quite warm throughout turkey. and it's fairly dry. you'll notice in egypt where recent they're equally heavy showers. so this is the nice part of winter, i think ah,

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lou. ah louisa here at al jazeera, these are our top stories. the united states has set a new global record more than a 1000000 cove at 19 cases in a single day. a huge number, though it hasn't translated into large depth rights testing and other services. there are still overwhelmed. india has imposed a weekend curfew in delhi, after seeing the highest coven, 19 infection numbers and mumps, experts suspect more transmissible on the cranberry, and has begun to overtake delta. and another news security forces in sudan if i t, a gas at crowds demonstrating against the military and up to sedans. army chief is calling for an urgent care tech

a government. days after abdullah humbug. resigned as prime minister. so difficult to cove it a 1000000 cases in the us in a day. it is in some way, scarcely believable, given how far we are into this pandemic. that as always, i think context is helpful. so i've got a few charts from our world and data to tell you a story in a little more detail as start with. if the i pad wants to play ball this one, 1st of all, so cumulative cases of coven 19. we're not talking about daily numbers here. we're talking about all cases throughout this entire pandemic right up there. at the top, we're looking at $55000000.00 plus cases. now, if you have had 1000000 case cases in one day, in a pandemic that lasted nearly 2 years, then clearly you've got some serious serious problems. and that is only going to increase a lot more. the good news, if i can put it that way, is that the death rates are not going up. so this was the peak, about what it was this time last year, actually, 3 and a half 1000 cases a day. back then at this point here, we now down to about 1200,

which is still obviously a lot of people dying every day from coven 19. but as you can see from that graph, it's not going up. and that is the important bit, the worrying part. i think is this when we look at testing. so here shows a graph of tests per day, per 1000 people, right? that's the metric we're using tests per 1000 people. this is approximately 4 tests per $1000.00 people. but look, those numbers aren't going up, the rate of testing is not going out. and we know there is stress on the testing system there. but what is going up is the positivity rate that there, this is a few months ago. 5 percent was the positivity, right? of people who were actually testing positive from the tests, it is now 22 percent positivity. right. and as testing that is massively concerning, we're going to talk to ali thought him about it was an a job professor at the university of michigan of acts. and i'll just joining us high for and, and,

and thank you so much for your time. as always, i do always enjoy talking to you. i hope i explain things correctly there. as far as the case of the us goes, if it's a 1000000 today and it was actually that was doubled a rate of maybe 3 or 4 days ago. i mean, gosh, how far is this peek got to go? yes, thank you for the invite. i think, i think yes, we have a and a great spread off this ah, a new or varian which really taking a very speedy us printer, which is ah, faster than we are used with regards to other uh, voting and stuff like the delta, which takes to $3.00 to $4.00 days to maximize in the nose while in this. so in the case of the only karen who are getting high titers are off to virus within 2 days. and that's and so really focus of concentrated in the nose. so the spread ah, is really much higher and much faster than what we are we used to and therefore,

that can explain this to really fast spread. our unprecedented spread that we are seeing today. so a fast spread of a mile to variance. is that a quote unquote good thing. this could actually help with more people. i hate saying it this way, but if more people are infected with a mild, a strain which hopefully doesn't bring about major symptoms. so death can that get us closer to this home as mythical? i dear heard immunity yet a spread. i'm not good with the probably the, the good thing of the good news is that this virus is almost restricted to the operator. are part of the respiratory system and therefore a not is not clear cause damage to the lungs and ah, a strong disease. and therefore, ah, that's a good news because if you are really getting, ah, and the virus in europe are, are disparity and you're not getting sick or very sick. ah, because of that. and this virus kidney and use immune response not only though

itself, but also 2 other variants. then this is a natural immunization with a list 0 not staying again. this is i given that the indications that we have from south africa and other places will be consistent and will be, it will be ah, going forward. that would be the case. and so far this would be a helpful for us to get to replace the delta, to get our boosting the immune response and getting immunity in our ah, respiratory system. local immunity. all these are the good news. the question is really, if this very at, for the continued to behave as it's the, ah, is defined by our, our data from south africa. so i think that on the major, the mean thing shouldn't be always, you can be protected to the vaccines will protect against this variant. and this is

what in main use are immunity altogether that could be our way out of this abroad that we are finding them ourselves in the last few months, just quickly speaking of vaccines which and i was one of your air is specialist areas, you know, israel moved on to the 4th one. ah, the countries will on shore consider that i have heard some of the vaccine manufacturers saying, look, we can't just, you know, keep doing that kate boosting keep boosting. what's your take on that? yeah, my, my personal point, and i think the really is that is some beta, the synthetic basis for that we couldn't do it. we cannot continue to immunize every 3 months. we have to allow the vaccines to work. the vaccine need to build memory. that memory takes saw a more than 3 months to bill, and therefore each and every time that we have a little men bit memory and we are boosting get. we're not establishing memory that can be triggered up on exposure. and also we are in a race with the, with the,

with the that, with the virus. i think that's the up my, my personal opinion and spin. ah, i've been believing in this for a long a few months. is that the best way for using the vaccine is, are getting those vaccines the, the geographies and the countries that did not have high level of vaccination they are, are, the vaccines can be of use, can be of a better use and therefore can help the world getting out of this, our situation. ah, otherwise, if you keep giving immunization 4th and 5th, and 6th, who knows, you know, we're not gonna get our better by having a saw, a force even is ation. we don't have enough data even for the 3rd of immunization, that the 3rd immunization had the reduced d r, the mortality and dean for and, and the, the disease. so therefore, i think we still have to learn more. and we still have to think about the others when we decide about these multiple are boosting i in this frequent i,

i frequent the figures, the up to alley that them always a pleasure talking to you. thank you and stay work. thank you. thanks. now, opec plus has agreed to boost oil output by $400000.00 barrels a day. the oil producing group and allies, led by russia took that decision after meeting in vienna, just to put it into context before the pandemic. the world was consuming 99700000 barrels of oil a day slumped to 90000000 in 2020. i was believed to have reached around 96500000 last year. opec is predicting that demand will exceed pre pandemic rebels and actually correct the $100000000.00 a $100000000.00 barrel mock up per day in 2022 more on this. so with those of jabbar who's outside opec headquarters in vienna, what's will take us through more of what's come out of this made and also well, this was a virtual meeting held by the 13 opec members plus 10 other countries,

including russia. and they've taken this decision to continue to increase opec's output as they did last july, following the huge slash that they took in at 2020. as a result of the pandemic, opec decided in 2020, that to add they will cuts output by 10000000 barrels of oil for day. now as of july, they've decided that they're going to slowly start to bring that number back up to make up for that deficits. they're hoping by september of this year, they will be going back to free pandemic levels of production. this is important because of course, opec provides 40 just over 40 percent of the world's oil supply. and this meeting today was just another reiteration of their position that they will continue to increase production of 4 of $400000.00 barrels of oil per day. for the month of february, and that will continue monthly until they meet again at their next meeting will be

next month again though. so you've been in vienna reporting on the iran nuclear negotiations. i wonder how that sort of folds into the wider oil story and the outlook for the oil markets. well, it certainly has a impact. i think a lot of people from opec will be looking at how these negotiations will unfold in the coming weeks. iran, of course, was once opec's, 4th largest producer of oil at the height of their production in 2017 to renew. so we're producing $3000000.00 barrels of oil per day. as a result of the u. s. leaving the nuclear deal and imposing sanctions on ron's oil and backing sectors. the reigning output is now at $1.00, merely $8000000.00 barrels of oil per day. so there is a sense that of course, the deficit that opec will try to make up in the coming weeks and months. it could be filled by iran. and one of the main issues now is although the opec countries have decided to increase production,

there are certain countries that fall short as a result of various issues. nigeria being one of them. so there is a lot of eyes on the negotiations going on on the other side of the city, from these offices behind me, even if there is some kind of a dis, a agreement reached with iran and the rural powers. of course, iran could return to the old markets very quickly, and that would really change things here as well for the opec countries. they will reach that quarter that they want to possibly earlier than september to make up for that loss that they have suffered during the pandemic. thank q. dosage of our reporting from vienna. they were lawyers for the you guys, prince andrew, are arguing that a civil lawsuit accusing her of sexual assault should be dismissed. virginia jeffrey accuses the prince of forcing her to have sex when she was 17 year old. he strongly denies the claims. there is a hearing taking place in new york, which is where we find kristen salumi who's following them. trysten spine,

that sort of order things here because there was a, a settlement agreement that was released yesterday. how does that, how significant is that? and in this whole process, while the argues the attorneys for prince, andrew, are arguing that that agreement is grounds to have the case dismissed. it comes this document from a settlement that was reached between virginia to fray, who is now doing the prince and jeffrey epstein. in 2009, she sued him for sexual abuse. he agreed to pay her $500000.00 a half $1000000.00. in exchange, she agreed to not take any further legal action against any other person or entity who could be a potential defendant in the case, that's the language. in the agreement, her lawyer say it is irrelevant. experts have described the language is unusual and overly broad, but this is what is being argued right now in court. as i speak with you,

the judge will have to make a decision on that. and if he allows the case to go forward, and by the way, not just on that, but other procedural issues, jurisdictional issues are also being discussed. the lawyers again hoping to have this case thrown out. but if the judge does allow it to go forward, it will enter the discovery phase where evidence will begin to come out with a trial possibly in september. kristin, the conviction of killing maxwell last week. i think it was trying to remember when it was, but what sort of baring can that have on this case? well, it certainly doesn't look good for prince andrew as he and delay maxwell were close friends, but defray did not testify. in that case, prince andrew name only came up in passing in that case as one of a number of high profile friends of maxwell and jeffrey epstein. there was some speculation that maxwell might be tempted now that she has been convicted of sex

trafficking, that she might be tempted to take a plea, deal turning over names of other high profile people and giving information to authorities. but her family has been quoted in new york media is saying that she has not been offered any plea, deal to turn over information and that they don't expect her to have that. so it should not impact on this case, which is in civil court. that was a criminal case prince. andrew does not face any criminal charges, and of course we should point out that he has denied the accusations against him. in that case, kristen, so let me with that update from new york. thank advanced. the man accused of setting fire to south africa, the parliament building as appeared in court. that case was adjourned until next week. the fire started on sunday at the bank of a complex of houses, the old assembly chamber and flayed off again. on monday,

tens of thousands of people have left their homes of heavy rain causes flooding right across malaysia. the rain 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, florence louis as more now from the 7 out of 13 states have been affected by floods. according to the national disaster management agency, more than 17000 people are flood relief centers as of tuesday afternoon. but the total number of people affected by floods is much higher. at its peak, a 125000 people were displaced. now in some states, this is the 2nd even 3rd wave of floods this monsoon season, which typically runs between the months of october and march malaysia, saw unusually heavy rain mid december. and again in early january, the government was caught unprepared. it didn't respond fast enough to floods in

some places it was volunteers who actually reach those areas. lesson who help move people to safety, who are bringing food and water to people. and the husband, a lot of anger directed at the government. now the damage to property has been huge . you've seen pictures of homes that vehicles have been submerged plantation, land roads. i've also remains that much for days that have been land slides. and this coming on the back of 2 years, nearly 2 years of pandemic, of prolonged periods of locked down. this is putting a severe financial strain on many families. and it isn't even over yet. the department of irrigation has forecast, have high tides in some parts of malaysia. and particularly in places where the water levels at rivers is still dangerous the high, this could potentially worse than flooding. and the torrential rain in indonesia has forced more than 20000 people to leave their homes. several districts in north

ha have been inundated by water and although his eye one child has died, jessica washington reports from jakarta. he fell in indonesia ha, province days of unrelenting rain has forced thousands of people from their homes. at least 15 sub districts are affected. many parts of indonesia experienced flooding during the monsoon season from november to march. but some people here told al jazeera they have never seen floods like this. about our landline. this time it's really bad. we are taking refuge. some of us are going to our relatives houses because the war is up to 2 meters high in our homes. are local authorities are providing food and other essentials to only legal fees. i believe we have resources in our warehouses and so far it's still enough. we distributing it to the people today and tomorrow. he says it is difficult to know how many people are

impacted by the floods due to communications being affected, logan will see the number of people taking refuge is in the thousands. we do have some issues because many areas are currently experiencing blackouts. thousands of homes have been damaged in north r j, as well as a school. many have been evacuated to a nearby prayer space, anxiously waiting for waters to receive the head of north arches. disaster mitigation agency told al jazeera the region has flooded several times in recent months, and that deforestation has made the area more vulnerable to severe flooding. as people struggle to cope more rain is being forecast for later this week. jessica washington al jazeera jakarta. a court in canada has ordered iran to pay around $84000000.00 to the victims, families killed and the downing of

a plane in 2020 damages were awarded to 6 families with canadian citizenship or residency. may remember re run the military shot down, a ukrainian passenger plane mistaking it for an american cruise missile. killed all a 176 people on board. this is 2 years ago. at the time of high intentions between tax on and washington over the killing of a top iranian general in the us drone strike. now, beaches in gonna have reopened 2 years after being close to the public because of the pandemic. but only people hvac cited will be allowed to go. he tore cation be as well. oh, the pleasure beach resulting, gone is capital i cry is once again welcoming visitors. beaches across the country will place to the public in march 2020. because a play 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 year. yeah, by we al devin, every protocol, the strict rules are in place only vaccinated people 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 jap, they're allowed on to the beach. organizers say, the initiative has been a big success or people don't have to fix the way it gets here, the diarrhea to us. they don't take they, they just agree. and, and we just though you to boston dot one, then the, just to gashodi gwinnett enjoyed himself despite the optimism his id numbers and not back to pre pandemic levels. and the extra government restrictions all frustrating for those working in the tourism industry. this long time that these wall schools today because it out. yeah, i can hear about not gonna mess with it but we will. but echoes are,

they will come about this and nobody is annoying. so does that sounded wonderful. got cancelled out to go back and forth with you. i've been thinking this also 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 before. they, for a gay to be al jazeera in the news, a heads sport. in fact, as england's cricket is without a win, without a head coach still heading into the latest match against australia, and he will have that in the money. ah.

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a with your foot things? no, the joke of inches. got a note which goes over a lot of the play small, the mused bother. the alarm supplies been given a medical exemption to take part out the australian open. it means to be allowed to defend his title, despite not being vaccinated against carving 19 the world. number $1.20 time grand slam champion proves he said he was unsure if he'd been out can pay to the events. a vaccine mandate is in place at australian tournaments, which says all participants must be fully vaccinated or have this medical exemption or joke of it choose. never publicly revealed. his vaccination status has posted this message on social media happy new year wishing he will help love enjoying every moment and may you feel love and respect was all beings on this wonderful planets. i've spent fantastic quality time with loved ones over the break, and today i'm heading down under with an exemption permission. australia,

open organize a crate tale has said that some of the unvaccinated plays have been granted. exemptions to play requests, requests even for medical exemptions are assessed by 2 separate independent panels . only acute conditions including inflammatory cardiac illness are deemed as valid reasons. it's possible joke of it has recently tested positive for carving, $19000.00, have allowed him to delay taking the vaccine tennis australia in this joke of it was only given an exemption after a rigorous review process, which followed fair and independent protocols. when he chose to miss out on the ongoing atp cup, which is taking place in sydney someplace taking part in that event of expressed surprise. should we say the decisions will our joke rich to compete? the is opening grand slam. i don't know. what does that really? i mean, i think if it was me that wasn't vaccinated, i wouldn't be getting an exemption. it sounds like i think it's very well,

it's whatever you want to. that's the situation. yeah, i mean, at the end of the day, you kind of to trust that he does have a valid reason for the medical exemption. that's all you can say about it really isn't it? look, i just think it's just very interesting. that's, that's all i'm going to say. but hey, it is what it is. just hope that the other place that i heard there were other cases is all they got exemptions. i hope they're all well fit the criteria now defending women's champion. now me, i saw the housemaid, a winning return to competitive tennis after taking an indefinite break from the sport 4 months ago, the japanese thought is through to the 2nd round of a warm, of event taking place in melbourne. i saw on the opening set against elise corn. i have friends, she dropped the 2nd before securing a 3 set victory. it was i soc,

is 1st competitive matches losing. and the 3rd round of the us open back in september of last year. the 24 year old ben into her season early sites in mental health issues. i don't know, of course i took time off, but they told me to let them know and i was ready. and i guess when i got bored enough at home because i was just sitting at home and doing nothing, i texted him and i was like, i would love to play again if you guys don't dislike me too much. so they came over and that's kind of how it went. now england, cricket coach, grey and phillips hes covered 19 has taken its toll on the place during that sort of australia. thorpe is taking charge of the chain for the full pest in sydney. after head coach, chris silver would tested positive for the virus on the pitch. england have been completely out played losing the 1st 3 matches of the series. and are there, well, you have matches coming into play some state games coming into it. be

a good look at your own came as well coming into this area. that's happened. obviously, we've had the distractions of tobin off the field as well, which have been challenging to say the least. i think sacrifice quite a lot to come over here. a couple of weeks quarantine tom away from families. you know, some restrictions on what i can do as opposed to pre pandemic. and i think they're having some positive cases. the coach i was the bang away from this guy. i think it's been really tough for them. well, the task is getting manchester united bank playing top level football, seemingly getting hot of inter manager at ralph rudnick. the germans and beaten runs since taken charge ended by walls that united i'm stadium chairman, senior school. the only go to the game that and the 82nd minutes. and again, it's money are struggling to find a balance under his management. 710 table, 22 points behind league leaders. manchester city was all trust in the m. b a. the memphis grizzlies. joe marines. has become the 1st player

in franchise history to school 30 points in 4 straight games the grizzlies were playing. the pur connects morales had been named player of the week's good. $36.00 points in memphis, survived a shaky 1st period to be brooklyn, $118.00 to $1.00. i'm full. it's the grizzlies, 5th consecutive when and a season high bird straight last before the pain gets a 3 pointer and we can panic. you know, it's been a crazy period where largely had, you know, 89 percent of our team get comment transition 3 that were coming out of that and it was just a big stop to the momentum of the season. so was not overreact. but you know, that was embarrassing and i got a bus kits and we gotta do a lot better to get back to the standard that we played out before the interruption . okay, more from me in a couple of hours time, but i saw were looking for now co co. thanks, andy. yeah, next news are coming at 1800 hours gmc, which is 2 hours from now. i'll be back for that, andy,

be back that i'll be back in 2 minutes time as well with another full bulletin in your office. ah ah. and with ah,

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