laura 24 hour period, the center of saigon was a war zone. the press retreated in effect to the caravel hotel. and many of the stories mention what we received was from the caravel. ah. ready never before have we seen the world collectively come to its ease, right? americans voice, their frustration and is a 1000000 covey cases are recorded in one day. the highest for any countries since the pandemic began. ah, i'm come out santa maria here and don't. how this is the world news from al jazeera

protest as a back on the streets of sedan. after new turmoil triggered by the prime ministers resignation, voices grow louder for the release of a palestinian activists on hunger strike in jail for nearly a 150 days. and sexual assault allegations against prince andrew. his lawyers say a civil lawsuit lawsuit should be dismissed. ah, what we nodded state to set a new global record of more than a 1000000 coven cases in a single day. a number that has nearly doubled in just 4 days as elsewhere. it hasn't translated into lodge death rights testing and the services are becoming overwhelmed. as doctor john henderson about this in our washington news send to president biden, i believe, meeting with his covey response team. later on today, i had to respond to a 1000000 cases in a day. well, the fact that he is getting a briefing from his coven 19 team and is addressing the american public is probably

a sign that things have gone seriously. south that 1000000 cases you mentioned, that's a new record come on. and as you say, double what it was less than a week ago, the national testing rate, his sword from 5 percent in november, 1019.5 percent on monday in new york city, it's even worse there. 33 percent of the people who go in and take a coven test, come out with a positive result. if you live in new york city and you know, 2 people, one of you on average, has coven. nevertheless, that is not affecting new york city schools. we can talk more about that later, but this variant has the president on the defensive. this country also has a testing problem because so many people are getting sick. they're over running testing centers, and it's taking people who used to be able to walk in and get an instant test, days or even weeks in order to get those tests present environment has given out

500000000 tests. that's one and a half for every american. still, it's not enough to the president will be getting a briefing and will be addressing the american public. within a matter of hours, you take up the education side of things, tell us about the school situation. well across the us, many schools are starting virtually. i've got 2 kids in university. both of them are starting online, some of those universities and some of the public and private schools for younger children, many of whom aren't vaccinated are just going online for the 1st couple of weeks to try it out. and the reason behind that is that we just come out of the christmas holiday. and they're trying to give people a chance to get over the virus if they've caught it during those family gatherings . but in new york city, where one in 3 people have coven one and 3 people who are tested, come back with cove it. the schools are going to be open. eric adams, the governor or the mayor there says schools are really the safest place for kids

to be that there's a one percent chance of them contracting the virus in school more than like a 15 percent chance at home. so he says he's going to keep them open. john henry and washington, thank you for that. by contrast in the u. k children are going back to school for the 1st time this year in person, but with a number of positive cases of covered 900 rising exponentially. last week had the schools, a fearing staff shortages, there are more than a 1000000 people now. in phil, find elation often very challenge at london bridge train station. this is the big factor, work event rush hour in london's main train stations again, then, well, i must have missed it and i've been standing it since about 730 this morning. well, in time for russia, there are many reasons why people haven't come rushing back to the office plates. again, one is that i've been told not too far as johnson, as the prime minister said, that anyone who can work at home should work at that practice over the last 7 days

. more than a 1000000 bricks tested negative. so he says positive because 19 a huge, huge number and the government has asked ministers to put in plan a worst case scenario of one in 4 brits being off work sometime soon. now, if that actually happens, then the prospect keeping vital services like the transport network and health service running properly is going to be a real uphill struggle. in recovery cases in india have been searching and it's brought to many states to impose new restrictions, delhi and posed a weekend curfew on its chief minister as tested. positive for the virus partner towel report to media, capital housing, the people at the mass gathering, violating cold in 1900 total point inspection values and political events are in full swing. as corona virus cases surge across india,

fueled by the only con variant on the stage is new daddy's chief minister who has now tested positive and has been criticized as his government imposes new restrictions the limit saturday or sunday. or there will be a curfew on weekends, which means saturdays and sundays and doll he, i appeal to people not to step out during curfew. up only step out if extremely necessary and follow the curfew, and stay in your home or work from home for home. good. the new rules come a week after the city imposed in night curfew and also closed on schools, jims and cinemas. now it's asking its employees to work from home, telling people to only step out when absolutely necessary. in guest financial capital, it is the hardest hit schools like this one have now reverted to online teaching for most students. despite restrictions on gatherings,

people have been flocking to beaches and to this hot spot across one by a ford. it's a good decision to impose restrictions in the state. but the crowd here to day will only lead to more cases of omicron. it would have been better if this decision was taken a bit earlier and we would have been able to control the spread elsewhere. crowds are staying away from popular sites. this theme as museum in the eastern city of cold cut that was almost deserted schools and many businesses were closed. but some business owners facing financial losses are questioning some of the restrictions. gaga growled gamma, who died laces. the get crowded like bars, restaurants, and cinemas. all of those are open, but only jims exparza and beauty salons have been closed. jim's are for people's health, and they can help people during the pandemic. despite the rapid spread, of course, 19 hospital admissions remain low,

but hundreds of health care workers have tested positive, sparking staffing concerns. one of india stop hospitals has ordered doctors to return from vacation and prepare for an influx of patience. pardon him at the al jazeera you, denny sedans. political crisis appears to be deepening following the resignation of the prime minister. security forces of 5 tear gas at demonstrators rallying against the military. thousands gathered in khartoum on dorman and port sedan. adela hancock resigned his prime minister on sunday saying the political deadlock as threatening sedans, survival, his mo, from muhammad, valid approaches in abdomen, outside or to. this is where a huge crowd of a protest is, sir, marched a few minutes ago. they passed here by we'll have that we have the remnants of them behind me. and until now it's calm. they are marching calmly and chatting against the military rule or of sudan. we also understand that in other parts of costume,

in southern khartoum, and also in body or crowds of protest has gotten it than they tried to march towards the presidential police. they were met with tear gas. a little bit of tear gas has been used also here in the street. well, we start, we have also seen a 2 or, or 3 signs of ease at used by the government. the bridges are not all closed. not all the bitches are closed today and it's annette was not to cut off out in the middle of this post procession to date. and we don't know what's gonna happen because the bottom is not doing the last hours of the afternoon. that's when they fired bullets. that's when they killed people. that's when the crowds get bigger and bigger and more ah, more excited. so it's, it's another day it was not shuttled by the way, but the assistant cavities, as they call themselves, they have decided to increase the that the number of days when they say div protests are they, they want to use it as

a kind of war of war of attrition against the government at trying to densities all of the military and force them to respond to the demands of the street as they say, which is the complete withdrawal of the military from rural and sidney to the civilians. lawyer for the u. k. is prince andrew, have argued that a civil, those food accusing him of sexual assault should be dismissed. but you need your fray accused as the prince of forcing her to have sex when he was, when she was 17 years old. he strongly denies the claims a hearing has taken place in new york. christian salumi has more about the document recently made public, which prince andrew lawyer say, can add to the case. 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 you 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, oh, 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. the weather is next and then we'll look at the terrain in indonesia,

which is for more than 20000 people to leave their home and gone. us beaches reopened for the 1st time in almost 2 years. thing is not everyone's welcome. ah, raid 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, cold, the shamal normally and is quite cold. it's often full of dust, but not is timely 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. hi tim. trev! 18 in there. how 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. we pushes focus on that because whilst the wind keeps blowing till the end of

thursday, that cold wind phase one of the reins on its way into india. but phase 2 is coming down through the rainy and 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 to 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 event. and in southern turkey's fat, this southerly breeze is a 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, the frank assessments this crisis is continued to weaken luca shenker, even though perhaps he believed in the beginning that it looks thankful for informed opinions. lighting politicians will now be under incredible pressure from

the young people. that is one of the most hopeful things to come out of these critical debate. do you think it should be facilitated? not sure. okay, it's a great, it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a chop swans inside story. on al jazeera, blue ah, born al jazeera, these are the top stories, the united states, to set a new global record of more than a 1000000 coded cases in a single day. at huge number hasn't translated into lodge death rights, but testing and the services are becoming overwhelmed. indies imposed to weaken curfew in delhi, off to seeing the highest coven, 19 infection numbers in months. experts suspect the more transmissible on the con

variant has now begun to either take delta and security forces in sudan to 5 t gas at crowds demonstrating against the military and club to sedans, army cheapest, calling for an urgent care ticket government days. after of dela humboldt resigned as prime minister well more on the current of our situation and the world health organization has said there is more evidence emerging that the omicron variant is milder. we are seeing more and more studies pointy now, the only economists in fact, in the upper part of the body, like other ones, the lung will be course in severe pneumonia. it can be a good news, but we really require more service to prove that. we had a good number of studies coming up. again what we had on the fall off because the book seem still got the new agonies, hospitalisation, and severe d. c. that's what look into the side. the challenge has not been of a v by the initial impression was one of population. we got some analysis switched

off the alley, fucked. him as an adjunct professor at the university of michigan backs and all the just as well. he says the, on the ground very spreads quicker, but it works differently. we have a great spread of this new varian, which really taking a very speedy spread, which is faster than we use with regards to other voting. and that like the delta, which takes a $3.00 to $4.00 days to maximizing the nose while in this case of the only go on getting high type of virus within 2 days. and that's really focused on concentrated in the nose. so the spread is really much higher and much faster than what we are we used to, and therefore that can explain this really fast read our unprecedented spread that

we are seeing today. the good news is that this virus is almost restricted to the upper part of the respiratory system, and therefore it's not, not cause damage to the lungs and a strong disease. and therefore, if that's a good news, because if you are really getting the virus in your respiratory and you're not getting sick or very sick because of that. and this virus scanning and use immune response not only to itself but also to other very. and then this is a natural immunization wave, a list there on the screen. and of course, in canada has ordered iran to pay about $84000000.00 at the families of victims killed in downing of a plane and 2020 damages were water to 6 families. with canadian citizenship residency runs military, you may remember shut down a ukrainian passenger plane,

mistaking it for an american cruise missile. killed all 176 people on board. this was 2 years ago at a time of heisen tensions between 2 on in washington over the killing of a top iranian general in the us drone strike o pe classes agreed to boost oil out, put by 400000 barrels a day. the oil producing group on its allies, led by russia, took that decision after meeting in vienna to put it in context before the pandemic . the world was consuming 99700000 barrels of oil her day, and some to 90000000 a day in 2020. it's believed to have gone back to 96500000 last year. opec's now, predicting demand will exceed pre pandemic rebels and reach a 108000000 barrels a day in 2022 more. that would also jibari in vienna. 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 said they will cut output by $10000000.00 barrels per 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. the man accused of setting fire to south africa parliament building as appeared in court. the case was adjourned until next week.

the fire started on sunday at the back of a complex that houses the old assembly chamber. and it flared up again on monday, often gillian, both and kept tom well, the man charged in connection with the parliament fire here in cape town, has now made his 1st appearance in court. mister zondaway mafia is charged with 5 counts including arson, housebreaking and theft. well, now that case has been postponed for a week, and mister murphy will be held in custody until then. now this is allow, this is to allow investigators to conduct a proper investigation because up until now they haven't really been able to access the scene. that's because it was burning until late monday evening as a flare up following the original fire that ignited early on sunday morning. now to provide a bit of context as to why this is so significant to south africans. this is the building where parliamentarians gather to debate, policy and legislature, and also serves as a historical key point as it is where nelson mandela was elected as the 1st black

president of south africa. it's also where our presence, rural ram, opposed that every year delivers his state of the nation address, and he's expected to conduct that speech next month. well, many might expect that this will no longer be the scene for that speech. now, this is also understandably raised a lot of concerns around safety across all political parties and the general public about how easily accessible it is for people to access monuments like this. and of course, there are also a lot of questions still surrounding this case. those questions expect to be answered right here at the magistrates court in cape town, hong kong leader, kerry lamb has rejected claims the territories pursed freedom, faces extinction for the closure of a 3rd independent news outlet on monday. editorial leaders from citizen, you say they're worried about the safety of journalists in october. the outlet was accused of misleading people about the national security board imposed by by jing i read news about because of the kosher off. um, online medium. uh,

press read. i'm in hong kong facing extinction or 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, have to respect and comply with the law if they are fearful for not being able to comply with a lot. and they have to make up their mind and take the necessary positions. more on this story with brit quinet in hong kong. fitness in years is winding up its operations in the building behind me and will now stop updating its web site after it said it could no. 1 longer continue sizing the safety of its staff. it's the 3rd media outlet to close off the stand use last week. the arrests and raid over new for and the 4th closure. 1 of apple, daily and june, last year, citizen years described itself as

a small boat and from men to sleep 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 a thriving hub for media outlets. but since the national security law was introduced in 2020, that change. and now there are big fears over where the independent journalism here is being crushed, developing story out of palestine, we hearing that the palestinian prison hisham abu however,

has ended his hunger strike. we were talking about this on the news. i've been under administrative detention in israeli jail. his health has been deteriorating after those months of hunger strike nearly abraham on the line from ramallah. what more do you know, nita? we know that there has been an agreement that has been made regarding ending the administrative detention of his wife that should and by the end of february, according to the palestinian prisoners club, the lawyer is heading to the hospital to tell you of the details of disagreement it's expected that he would and his hunger strike upon hearing the news he's help has been we deteriorating in many palestinians. i've been saying that he was going to be freezing death any minute because he started his drug in august and he's not new to administrative detention. he can't 80 years in total on

an often israeli jail. 50 to one of those where under administrative detention. so we've seen an increase in is really use of this policy of arresting palestinians without charges. and we're also seeing an increase in resistance by many palestinians prisoners who are saying that they want to refuse eating food. and they want to either be free or die demanding that freedom needed just use the term administrative detention a few times. it might be just worth explaining what that means for our, for our audience. this is a policy that is really has been using for decades, which is arresting palestinians, but not giving them any charges. and this is a policy that allows the israeli military to keep renewing these administrative detention or at rest without charges. so for example, the prisoners would be

a prisoner would go in under like 6 months admin to administer a detention. but then those 6 months might be extended indefinitely. this is why many palestinian prisoners have decided since the beginning of this year that they're going to be boy cutting these really military courts because palestinians are tried in military records because they live under and israeli military occupation. so it's a policy that palestinian prisoners club has been saying that has been in we thing that is really using it to detain. as many pasting is as possible. of course, sometimes we would use the excuse of secret files not to be able to or to, to kind of cover for the not giving the real charges. but for many palestinians, i would tell you this is kind of being used arbitrary and just policy or of this policy. this is why we're seeing an increase in individual hunger strikes. thanks for that update needed abraham on the line from ramallah to run to rain is forced

more than 20000 people to leave their homes in indonesia, several districts and north arch open, inundated by water authorities. i one child has died the support from jessica washington. i keep her 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 experience 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. now beaches in gonna have reopened 2 years after

being closed off to the public because if the pandemic, but now only people who vaccinated are allowed to go back there for tory gate and be reports. ah, the pleasure. beach resulting, gone is capital i cry is once again welcoming visitors. beaches across the country were placed to the public in march 2020 because of clothing. 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 and have fun year by we all devin. every protocol li, strict rules are in place only vaccinated people who are allowed on to the beach in there were plenty of police officers around to ensure compliance. but for those not yet vaccinated all is not lost. a temporary vaccination center is operating just outside the resort. once people have had that job,

they're allowed on to the beach organizes safety initiative has been a big success or people don't have to fix the way it gets here. the died there to us. they don't take the, the just agree, and we just though you, the boston dog one, then the just to gashodi gwinnett enjoyed himself despite the optimism. his id number is not back to pre pandemic levels. and the extra government restrictions all frustrating for those working in the tourism industry. this long time that it was school today because it out. yeah, i can hear but not unless we have record but we will buy deckles are they will come about this and nobody. there's no answer. so does that sound affordable? got the archives. so do i have to go back home, uncle, do the, i've been thinking this whole or is greatly a problem this me so you say they're still waiting to receive financial help. that was promised by the government bought, they're taking comfort from the fact that she has got off to a much better start than the one before victoria gay to be al jazeera.

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