now more than ever, the world needs w h l, making a healthy a world for you that everyone ah 2. ready this is al jazeera ah hello, lauren taylor. this is the out there and use our live from london coming up. be concerned about rama cramp, but don't be alarmed. president biden urges americans to wear masks and get vaccinated after the u. s. reports more than a 1000000 new cove cases in a day. new delhi is chief minister, tested positive for cove it a day off to you addressed an election rally. a few people will masks, plus a state of emergency is declared in kazakhstan after

protests, over fuel prices. and despite out of control, a palestinian prisoner ends his month, long hunger strike off to israel. agrees not to extend his detention in sworn of a joke of which will be allowed to defend his australian open cycle. after all, the world number one has been given a medical exemption, which means he can compete without having had a coven 19 vaccination. ah! large numbers of infections have been a sombre feature of the current of ours pandemic and tuesday brought another new record. the u. s. has become the 1st country to report a 1000000 daily cases. that's thought to be inflated by delays and reporting over the new year weekend. a number hasn't translated into large numbers of deaths,

but it's causing major disruption with thousands of schools struggling to reopen. and it's a similar story in europe. the u. k is reported to record 218000 new cases and says more than a 1000000 people are in self isolation. france too is reported reco numbers of cases, 271000. on tuesday. those figures also inflated by infections from over the weekend . and in india, a weekend curfew has been imposed in delhi. the 37000 cases reported on tuesday was the highest number of infections since early september. good morning, situation in the us from, i kind of georgia live from washington d. c. so my course, the reaction been to the large numbers in cases well, certainly there's been a massive upsurge in terms of infections over the past week. can this is something that president biden says he's being consulted about all the time. even while he was on vacation. he was getting regular briefings from his coven task force,

and certainly it's very grim reading in terms of those particular statistics. but president biden continues to insist that this upsurge is being driven by the non vaccinated. he's pointed once again to the fact that some 35 percent of americans are still non vaccinated despite the fact that the vaccine is widely available. should people want it, including the booster vaccine, which some half of the 65 percent who have received up to 2 doses has, can still receive that boost shot. but this is what president biden had to say. still 35000000 people not vaccinated. and let me be absolutely clear, we have in hand all the vaccines we need to get every american fully vaccinated, including the booster shot. so there's no excuse,

no excuse for anyone been on vaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. so we gotta make more progress. and mike, what's the impact on schools? well, it's been a major issue and a major discussion point for a period of time. now, particularly through the holidays. schools in most parts were due to begin at the beginning of this week. but here in d. c, for example, a massive snow storm pushed that opening back. the administration has been ups with the insistent that at once children to go back to school. it's an absolutely critical function, not only of the kids development, but also of course of the economy with parents being able to go to work while their children are at school. but there's been great discomfort, not least among teachers about the fact that school is resuming in person at the virtual school of previous years and no longer permanent. although there will be times it's classes test positive, somebody within

a class test positive that the virtual sessions will resume for a while. but it's a major issue and it's very much await and see what happens. parents understand to be deeply concerned about their children. going to school in person, particularly in the light of this wave coming from the ami con virus. but as i said, it's a question of wait and see. the anxiety is no less my can i thank you very much indeed . was we mentioned the u. k. is recorded more than 200000 dainey court of ours cases for the 1st time from mr. burse. johnson says this is a moment for caution, and there will be challenging weeks ahead. but he says, the current guidance is enough. where we challenge reports from london for high school students in england. this is their welcome back to school in 2020 to go or a coffee. not here for waiting for. ok for a garage where your eyes will. yeah. a small about the nose for every pupils to

check that cobit free and ready for class. and in the classrooms, mosques are back and recommended for the 1st time since may rules in england. now aligned with scotland, wales and northern ireland, that pupils of war masks for months. the u. k. is main teaching unions of culture more from the government, resources for testing, staff absences, and foster parent ventilators. but winston community academies principal is making the best of it. the additional guidance that we had around math coming in was supportive of that because we really want the children to be here. nothing replaces being in the classroom with other children. and so having that on the actual flight test, vaccinations that happening all seem to us to be measures to kind of keep school open and that's what we really won't say be happening. work as it back off to the holidays to the london bridge. stations rush hour was noticeably quiet. many people either following advice to work from home, or isolating with cove it. there were only 6 or 7 people on the floor were

the critical sources, mostly 95 percent, the people i work from home or how they work. i mean, they may be less than half of the office. so over the last 7 days, more than a 1000000 britons have tested positive coven. 19 the government has tasked ministers with planning for worst case scenario. one in for people being off work. if anything close to that figure is reached and keeping vital services going is going to be an uphill struggle. several hospital trusts civil already declared critical incidence. it's what health buses do when they're worried, they can't provide priority services. we will, on tuesday evening, forest johnson said the country could ride out the micron wave without shutting down the economy. but the weeks ahead, again to be challenging both here in the u. k. and across the world, there is no escaping the fact that some services will be disrupted based off the

absences. and if we all play our part in containing the spread of this virus, the disruptions we face can be far less severe than the national lockdown. reasons to be careful, reasons to be optimistic perhaps, but the storm certainly isn't over yet. will reach helen's out. his era. london, french health authorities are reported more than 270000 daily cove infections. the record tally confirms frances position as europe's worst effected country infections of hers and sharply since mid december. government officials about to enact a law to block on vaccinated people from hospitality venues. incoming weeks. $100.00 passengers on board, a cruise ship in the mediterranean of tested positive current of ours. the m. s. c grand user arrived at the italian voter genoa on monday. it is now docked near rome . most of the passengers are italian, and those who live in the area have been allowed to disembark. others are being accommodations in local medical facilities. the king and queen of sweden have

tested positive for coven 19 at the royal house, also can go go stuff. and queen sylvia a self i said with mild symptoms, they've both been triple vaccinated. sweden has set a new record for infections with delayed data confirming. just over an hour and a half 1000 cases on december, the 30th rapid spread of the only crone variance is renewed pressure on the countries health care system. india has imposed a weekend curfew in the capital. new delhi of the city reported its highest code 19 infection numbers in monks, the capital regions chief minister as among almost 5 and a half 1000 people who tested positive on tuesday. experts suspect the rise is due to the on the con variant is poverty which i'll report housings of people at a mass gathering, violating coded, 19 total point inspection values and political events are in full swing. as corona virus case is serge across india, fueled by the

o. mccullen variant on the stage is new daddy's chief minister who has now tested positive and has been criticized as his government imposes. you restrictions the limit saturday or sunday, or there will be a curfew on weekends, which means saturdays and sundays in dull. 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 problems. getting the new rules come a week after the city imposed in night gulf view and also closed on schools, gems and cinemas. now it's asking its employees to work from home, telling people to only step out when absolutely necessary in your 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 grandma, who died laces, the get crowded like bars, restaurants and cinemas, but 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 patients. pardon him at the al jazeera you, denny. a 2nd chinese city has been put into a total lockdown or to reports of new current of ours cases. the curves in huge out the city of more than a 1000000 in central had on province a similar to those in post when any 2 weeks in industrial have a she n for days residents, they have been complaining about food shortages. officials are rushing to contain even small outbreaks just for weeks before the winter and, and picks begin. show her minutes in the georgia. so my whole 0 cases in communities means the future situation where all new infections of found among close contacts who are already in quarantine, to achieve 0 cases and communities to create good conditions for next step to gradually downgrading virus curves. so as infection numbers continue to saw around

the world, causing major disruption at what point to the world stop living with the virus. dr . barton county is an expert infectious disease control at the university of extra medical school. he joins his live in the city of bath by skype. thanks very much for being with us. so in, in the us, for instance, the, the isolation period, people who been in contact with someone who has co, it, has gone from, has been reduced down to 2 to 5 days in the u. k. one from 10 to 7, with testing, with these large numbers of, of cases. now, do you think that in the end people will get rid of that kind of and you need for installation, for the contact for people who have could good. well, that is one thought in that once you have got sufficient immunity, either from immunization or having had the natural infection, you could surmise that further exposures is not going to make you seriously ill. and if that is the case, you could then say, well, the control measures of down. now be careful off the extra honorable and people who

may become seriously ill. but on the other hand, relax with the other measures that we currently have in place. and in terms of the count and we talk about enormous numbers, are they now becoming more so less relevant and should the metric b, how many people are ending up in hospital or dying? i think so, because army cronies, so infectious that it is going through as a pulse through the global population. and what will happen is it will go through and then it will plato and come down again. and what we really need to now focus on is, does only chronic result in deaths hospitalizations, serious illness. and if that is not the case, we feel that when it's time to relax at the moment in the next 3 to 4 weeks out, we will know better. but at the moment, we don't know whether only cronies causing serious illness in the older age group or not. that time is coming soon. and much of the focus from the u. s. new came,

europe has been on on vaccinations without higher vaccination rates around the world. how much protection will there be from, from future new variance unfortunately very little. and where, where use can arise in any place at any time. however, on a bigger scale, what are the probabilities and the probabilities are where ever you have a population where you haven't run away uncontrolled infection, especially in immune suppressed people than a variant of concern can arise. and therefore, i say, and i've been saying this for over a year, it's no good european nations, israel immunizing, and then immunizing and then immunizing again, what we need to do is immunize similar tenuously. the key word is simultaneously all across the world. that way we suppress infections everywhere and doubt why hopefully we reduce the chances of a variant of concern arising and explain to us how it differs. it does it. i mean,

if someone has had on micro micron or not a variant of, of coded. and they're not vaccinated, and then you compare them with someone who's vaccinating hasn't assoni had coded. what, what, what is the kind of immune response and does it, is it different? no, the immune response is the same. are the trouble is that when you, how wild infection you may not make consist consistent or persistent good immunity for protection against future infections. so what, what a vaccine does is it's immunizing you and preventing you from getting serious illness in a comp muted. in other words, it's not giving you the disease itself, but the immune response in both the populations immunized or not immunized is the same. it's just briefly it. does that mean that if on the con continues to spread around the world, you could end up can reaching the pete the population who either on vaccinated because they choose not to be all because they, their fax is, aren't available to them. and that, and that actually, that this,

this kind of has an effect on the way the virus spreads around the world, or the weights kind of perhaps evolves to being something less, less serious. indeed. so what will happen as has happened in south africa, they've had repeated exposures to the south, could be 2 bars. and therefore you could say a biologically, they're essentially a immunized population via the infection route. and that's fine. that will inevitably happen. but what we want to do is save lives and immunize as many as possible before they get caught by the wild buyers. talked about county a. thank you very much indeed for doing dissertation your time. thank you. coming off on the news from london up to 2 years. beaches in gonna finally reopen, but only for the vaccinated spot to gas, to disperse thousands, riley, and gets you down as military. 2 days after the civilian prime minister resigned

and bought a decor rally, veteran break you round in saudi arabia and is here with our story. ah, police in kazakhstan abuse, tear gas, and stun grenades. after rep, protest of the price of fuel turn violent demonstrations has spread to the largest city of nazi the 1st or up to 2 days ago in the town of the nose. and when the price of fuel, 1st, spite crowds and mighty, were pushed back by police as agent to storm the man's office. according to local media, several protest as have been detained. and mobile internet has been jammed in the video message rate on tuesday because the president said his government would not fall 2 weeks of emergency in and in the western language province, bruce and he is a correspondent for radio free europe covering central asia. he joins us by skype from prague and the check for public thanks very much for being with us. so the

expenses, what the, the state of emergency will mean in practice? well, they're going to try to shut down. obviously, all these protests, i mean, clearly surprised. i think everybody but what started out as the, you know, kind of a small protest in one town and western father son ended up spreading all around the country and you know, the images that are coming out of that he's in the almighty nurses on the capital other place to show that it's gotten out of control and the authorities are having a hard time getting a handle on this. even though, as you mentioned, they've shut down internet and you know, messaging services and still they're having a problem getting control. so, you know, this was, this is what they resorted to the current state of emergency and in the commercial capital and in the western part of the country and initially surveyed the price of fuel, explain to him why that was such an issue with it. it's interesting, on the 1st of january, they decided they were going to raise the price for liquefied petroleum gas. and it

turns out that it does happen in the western part because it's not about 90 percent of the vehicles out there are running on this. so the price more than doubled in some cases. and like i said at 1st of the 1st test only involved, you know, dozens of people, but it quickly spread, i guess you know, and bark because so many people were using exactly kind of fuel of what we're talking about a raise and price. you know, that went from, you know, 14 or $0.15 per liter to $0.27, but it was enough to spark unrest. so clearly there's other issues at work here besides just the raise in the price of l. d, g. an anti government went full hostage, a fortune saying that kind of thing. but what's your expectations about how the progression of these purchase? well, they certainly have a huge problem on their hands. like i said, i think this one thought everyone was surprised that it's spread. so it, did, you know, these protests tend to do. they started over for economic reasons,

as we mentioned, a doubling in the price of liquified petroleum gas. but it quickly took a political angle where people started calling for free elections, of local officials, started calling for the altar of the top officials in the government. so the, you know, they're, they're working to get this kind of under control as much as they can with going to hurt the reputation because the government, but clearly reached a point very quickly where they had to do something or they could have faced, you know, potential overthrow, i suppose there are certainly some, some severe and long lasting problems with protest across the country and regionally asked discontinue, well, it's going to, you know, cause expand, has always been fairly stable. they've had moments in the last, you know, 10 years where there was some problems with the order was fairly quickly restored to the fact that it is a stable country in central asia, which has had some problems. some of the countries in the past, you know, there's going to be ripple effects that are going to come from this. and i imagine

all the governments in central asia, of course, their cars are kind of the 7000 kilometer border with russia. so all the governments in those countries are going to be watching real closely. what happens if for no other reason than to make sure they don't make the kind of mistakes that the cause of authority to did by allowing the situation to get us out of and as it did today. prescott. thank you very much. indeed. her talk to thank you. the sudanese security forces of again fod tear gas at demonstrators running as the military. as the country's political process deepens, thousands of people gathered in khartoum under man and puts you down to denounce the armies power grabbing october, demanding the military play, no part in any future government. protest comes 2 days after abdullah hum doc resigned as a country civilian prime minister saying the political deadlock was threatening, she don't survival moment valid more from countries. i was in on the manner during the day and i witnessed her the march that took place there on the the biggest

highway in the largest highway under man. it's called the albino, thousands moss throughout the highway and did the other streets or so. and they were net, as usual with tear gas a by the security forces at the security forces tried to block their passage and they succeeded actually in blocking their passage as they tried to cross the bridge, the worse captain, you know, the destination of all the protesters every time they take to the streets is the presidential palace. they want to deliver latter, that message would say half which is calling on the military to withdraw from power . the good news to day is that not all the bridges were close and also the internet was not cut off. the local network was not cut off. so the government has changed its sir policies to words these protest, particularly if they are not as if they are not very big. this could be area of hope for the, for the country, if the 2 sides and, you know,

decrease the level of tension and violence as they go about this confrontation between those who want the military to seat power or to leave power. and those who want to, you know, maintain the status quo as well. so, i mean, the, the situation is, as i described very tense, but today is not the worst, is not the worst, because nobody has been killed so far. we don't have the news of anybody killed and not or so at no use of a large numbers of people injured, a palestinian prisoners ending more than a $140.00 days on hunger strike after a deal to release him from his ready detention. hisham, however, was protesting against being held without trial, is being detained on the stringent laws that allow the authorities to hold any one for months or years without charge. you will be released next month. you neighbor him as more from ramallah and the occupied west bank. the husband already falls

behind the scenes between the palestinian and the radio official summer saying that that husband, even an egyptian mediation, related to the end of the strike of sham wash. he's not new to being in prison and he's been in the past. been in and out of jail for a total of 8 years, but 5552 months of those where under the pretext of administrative detention. so this is something that he wanted to put an end to according to reports. he's in the hospital with his wife and the lawyer now was reading to him the details of the agreement that would ultimately hopefully lead to him ending his home. the hunger strike. many palestinians will tell you that israel has been using this policy arbitrarily and detaining palestinians for months and months in a row without giving them even charges. melana ansari is an international advocacy

officer for at amir ramallah based prisoners rights group. she says the group was not expecting this outcome. it was a surprise. we were really planning on pushing more towards the safety and the dignity for life for he shut her west. but this is absolutely excellent news. we are thankful and great to hear that he shall wash, is ending his hunger strike after the military prosecutor, let's say, promised to not to renew the administrative detention or the and that he will be released on the 26th of february. of course this is excellent. you news that hey shawn life will some i am improved at this time, but he has been on hunger strike for 141 days. so his time will, it will so his body will take time to re adapt and hopefully all goes well with the

wash is what's more still to come this hour, including flooding forces, tens of thousands of people from their homes in indonesia, malaysia, and sandra lewis, 10 a new york court, why the queen's on shouldn't be sued for sexual assault. and in court, naomi, a suck i was returning to action for 4 months after taking an indefinite break and their level tenant ah hello. good to see you 1st, we're going to begin with a tepid her story across europe. paint on the colors, the dark of the orange, the higher the temperature, but changes are now here. a fresh feel for many across europe. that's because we've got this north. when dragon down temperatures glasgow 3 london, 6 and paris a hive 7 degrees on wednesday. ok, let's talk about the precipitation started right now. a slug of rain for the

northwest of spain. that's going to drift down portugal from porto to lisbon and sherry day for madrid. 8 degrees or temperatures both by day and night, a below average. and we will get some sub 0 temperatures in there as well. we do have rain coming down through through the belly, eric says sardine corsica, the northern portion of italy. and along the eastern shore of the atria, see we'll see those winds wind up to about 70 kilometers per hour. but look at the warmth, your belgrade 18 degrees. your record for january is 21, so you're getting pretty close to record territory. southerly flow is also popping up. the temperature is in turkey, 16 for its stan bowls while for on cra, but a few showers toward the south that includes on talia with a high of 8 degrees top end of africa. those showers will peter out across that morocco, but still some showers for alger is with the high of 16 degrees on wednesday. ok. i'm out of time. see you soon. ah.

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a the amount of top stories in the us to set a new global record with more than a 1000000 new 900 cases registered in one day. the huge jump is due in part to delays and reporting over the new year weekend. the u. s. a seen an average of 490000 daily infections cost week india is imposed. we can catch you in the capital also reporting its highest infection numbers in month that he's chief ministers among almost $5000.00 people who tested positive and police and goes down to gas and some grenades to red protest. so the price of fuel turned violent crowds mattie

were pushed back by police as they tried to storm them as office argentina is also experiencing a surge in you create a virus infections with more than 44000 cases reported on tuesday to the boys following developments from a capital one is aries. corona, virus infections have increased alarmingly in the past days, the government has confirmed that the delta varied, but also the army, kron veritas. for adding up fast were here at this testing site in the city of when a site is where people are coming to. to get a tester, we've been in several hospitals across the city and there's long lines of people trying to get a cove. it test on monday, the government reported 44000 positives, but to some experts we have spoken to say that the figure could be closer to 100000, mostly because of the amount of people that do not want to go to hospitals or many others are in vacations and beach resort among other things,

so they're not being tested. president america fernandez, however, has said that he is not going to re impose restrictions in the country, at least for now. and the government is focusing on increasing vaccinations. booster shots, among other things, that the vaccination campaign that began a year ago. but it's not only happening here. it's also happening in brazil, where the army kron is also spreading fast beaches and gonna a reopening out to being close to the public for 2 years. but only those who have fully vaccinated will be allowed on to the sand and police officers and monitoring entry door getting be as well. ah, the pleasure beach resulting gone is capital i cry is once again welcoming visitors . beaches across the country were close to the public in march 2020 because of cape 19. people here were thankful to be back and eager to make up for lost time. don't go out much, but today being there, thursday at lol. i think that very day in that new year we decided to come in have

fun year. yeah, by we all devin, every protocol li, 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 organizes safety initiative has been a big success, or people going to fix your wife gets here the darby of to us. they don't take the, the just agree, and then we just though you, the boston dog one, they'll be just the gashodi. gwinnett enjoyed himself, despite the optimism visit to numbers and not back to pre pandemic levels. and the extra government restrictions all frustrating for those working in the tourism industry is long time the heat loss grows saw today because it out. yeah. the icon here, but not unless we are record. ah,

we will buy deckles are they will come about this and nobody lives here normally. so does that program sounded wonderful? got the archives. so you have to go back one sample to the other and figure this out. or is greatly a problem. businesses didn't say they're still waiting to receive financial help. that was promised by the government bought. they're taking comfort from the fact this year has got off to a much better start than the one before. victoria gayton. b al jazeera, china's capital is just one month away from hosting the winter. olympics. aging will be the 1st city to host both a summer and winter games. for the upcoming event has been played by challenges, including diplomatic boycott and the pandemic. katrina, you reports from the outskirts of the city, weeks away from the opening of the beating winter olympics. the slopes are full of avid scares and snow borders. many are looking forward to the games and go home for hi of course i am very excited and proud because the winter olympics will be held

in my motherland law. it makes me very happy. this board have become very popular in china in recent years. the chinese government has poured billions of dollars into preparing to host the games in february, including investing in italian snow making equipment to help build up its fledgling winter sports industry bids will create a whole culture around the winter sports and we create a whole new mindset off in the, in the attorneys head as low now that time has those aspiration of re entry 100000000 people. and so in eyes $30000.00 international athletes and support staff will be among the 1st to stay in a new olympic village and trial. a chinese digital currency. these resorts have had their busier season this winter because of the olympic games, but they will be forced to close the week, leading up to the opening of the event. his entire area was sealed off to control the spread of the corona. virus. doors taking part will be restricted to

a tightly controlled, then you bubble china is battling the delta variant in it's more severe, flare up of curve at 19 for months. with 13000000 people in the western city of she, an under lockdown, authorities are anxious to contain that and prevent any outbreak of the on the cross strain from spreading across the country. the pandemic isn't the only challenge organizes face. some western governments, including the u. s. the u. k at canada have announced diplomatic boycotts in protest against the treatment of wiggers and she's young. they jing accuses them of politicizing the games and as worn. they will pay the price over hasn't made clear how analysts say additional boycotts by you or asian countries. would be very embarrassing for china. no teams are going to boycott games themself. but if the english speaking democracies are being followed by other major countries,

then if that will be much bigger. but those here say they won't be counting the number of foreign officials who attend the games. instead, they'll be keeping an eye on the number of metals, one by china's team, especially the golds katrina you al, jazeera john jocko, beijing, electrical company, tesla has been accused of supporting genocide, altered, announced it has opened show room in china's jang region. the council on american islamic relations is edge the firm to close its store immediately in the regional capital room. cri, changing has become a significant point of contract between chinese and western government. was a 1000000, was the minority weakness, i believe, to been detained in labor camps. china has denied allegations of abuse. so in the camps provide vocational training on goals, lead a carry lamb as rejected claims the territories press freedom, faces extinction. this after a 3rd independent news outlet closed on monday,

and tauriel leaders from sisters and news. so they were worried about the safety of their journalists, of to police rated the offices of a pro democracy online publication last week. in october, the outlet was accused of misleading people about the national security law and posed by beijing. i read news about because of the closure of online medium press freedom in hong kong faces extinction or hong kong, freep free press faces collapse. i just cannot us up that sort of allegations, but nothing is more important than the rule of law in hong kong and journalist and media. when i say sions like or of us, have to respect and comply with the law if they are fearful of not being able to comply with the law, then they have to make up their mind and take the necessary decisions. but clement has more from hong kong citizen, yours is winding up. the top ration and the building behind me will now stop

updating its website after it said it could no longer continue. citing the safety of its stuff. it's the 3rd media outlet to close office san use last week. the arrests and raid over the news room and the foreclosure of apple daily and june, last year, citizen news described itself as. a a small boat and tremendously rough save it 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 terry lab 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 janice association says that attacks on the press threatened the status of hong kong as age as well as 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 whether independent journalism here is being crushed. hong kong court has sent his lawyer, child hand to him to 15 months in prison. she was convicted of inciting, an unauthorized gathering. to commemorate the chinaman square massacre, ciao is already serving another 12 month sentence for her row in a 2020 vigil. elise band, the annual training gentlemen vigil for the past 2 years. citing current of ours restrictions. thousands still lit candles across the city. torrential rain and indonesia has forced more than 20000 people to leave their homes. several districts in north are tray had been inundated and your forties say one child has died. jessica washington reports from jakarta. he fell in indonesia is utter a 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 is about our landlord. 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 is 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. ok, i 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 near by 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 out a 0 to carter flooding has also force tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in malaysia. the rain started on sunday, causing rivers in several states to rise to dangerously high levels. and he's 50 people have died in floods that began in mid december, florence louis as more from quite a little 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 off 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, thought 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 helped 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 that 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 lockdown. 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 are still dangerous the high, this could potentially worse than flooding. heavy snowfall is making life even more difficult for hundreds of internally displaced. people in afghanistan, 1360 families are living in freezing conditions of the wild camp on the outskirts of capital must have been at the temporary shelter for several years or to feed war, drought, or poverty. but international aid was halted when the taliban took power and august last year. situation is becoming increasingly dia, over half of the nation is facing acute hunger. and now many

a struggling to stay warm it share with me so that why would i, what is it that we have nothing in the snow is falling my children with that to click some plastic which we burnt. the heating doesn't even have bread to eat. much color must be fall out and we have a lot of problems in our lives. we don't have a heater, we don't have dr. firewood. the children brought some wind wood for heating, but we never get warm. thousands of drivers in the us state of virginia spent a night trapped in their cars after snowstorm closed a busy highway. an icy stretch of the 95 came to a standstill on monday when it was blanketed by snow. almost 90 kilometers the major north south route were closed, closed in both directions and leaving some trapped for more than 20 hours with no food or water. on days, fast moving storm brought almost 30 centimeters of snow to parts of the southeast and mid atlantic us closing schools, grounding flights and knocking out power to thousands of homes. a colombian

national is due to face caught in the united states charged in connection with the assassination of haitian president, driven in marie's 43 year old former ministry officer. mario palostio was extradited from panama after he was arrested there. on monday, his arrest paved the way for the 1st criminal charges over the murder, which triggered a political crisis in the caribbean nation haitian authorities of arrested 45 people in connection to the crime. none have been formerly charged. lawyers for britain is prince andrew told him new york court as a woman who accuses him of sexual abuse, waived her right to sue him. a junior phrase, as she was forced to have sex with andrew age 17 ought to be trafficked by the disgraced financier jeffrey. very much. the prince's lewis say a deal she signed more than a decade ago. released any other potential defendant from being sued. at the time she received $500000.00, the judge said he'll decide on the case soon. kristen salumi has more from new york

lawyers for prince. andrew attempted to get the lawsuit against him, thrown out based on document in a civil suit between job free and jeffrey upstate that was come to back in 2009. in that agreement, he epstein agreed to pay to fray a half $1000000.00. and in exchange, she agreed not to pursue charges against any other quote potential defendants in the case. so lawyers for the prince has argued that that means she can't sue him, but her lawyers pushed back against that, saying that the agreement does not apply. in this case, because that was in a different court jurisdiction in florida in a state course. the judge, hearing the arguments, actually pushed back very strongly against the defense prince andrew,

the attorneys, and offered another argument, pointing to another clause in the agreement which said that any other person was barred from using that agreement in another court case. and see if this suggests that he thought prince andrew perhaps could not use this agreement to get the case thrown out. so it's all very technical legal, procedural arguments. at the end of the day, the judge said he would make his decision very soon. and this decision will determine whether or not the case proceeds to an actual trial. a man accused of setting fire to cape towns, parliament complexes appeared in court to face 5 charges, including austin and possessing an explosive device. sundays christmas murphy denied delegation, and will be held in custody until the bail hearing on january, the 11th $55.00 to say they have finally contained the blaze which started on sunday,

but which has fled again several times since. it caused extensive damage to several buildings in the complex, including some that are more than 100 years old. jenny wolf has moved from cape town. well, the man charged in connection with the parliament fire here in cape town has now made his 1st appearance in court. mr. of zondaway moffitt is charged with 5 counts, including arson, house breaking and theft will. now that case has been postponed for a week, and mr. mafia will be held in custody until then. now this is allowed, 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 it 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 rum 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. still had this news, as england's cricketers without a win or a head coach heading into their latest match against australia. and he's here without stories. ah.

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ah, what know his andy thank you so much. loan will love a joke of which house been given a medical exemptions of play at the australian open. it means he'll be able to defend his title despite not being vaccinated against cove at 19 the well number one and 20 time at grand slam champion previously said he was unsure if he'd compete at the event. a vaccine mandate is in place at australian ornaments, which says all participants must be fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption joke of which has never publicly revealed his vaccination status. will the grounds for joke of it? she is exemption remain unclear. requests for medical exemptions are assessed by 2

separate independent panels. only acute conditions including inflammatory cardiac illness are deemed to be valid reasons. it's possible jock of it's recently tested positive for covet 19 that would have allowed him to delay taking the vaccine tennis australia and says there was a vigorous review process which followed fair and independent protocols or someplace taking part in the ongoing atp cup in sydney have expressed their surprise at the decision. 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 you've got to 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 us to trust that it 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. so i hope they're all the fit the criteria while defending women's champion soccer has made a winning re send to competitive tennis, taking an indefinite bright from the sport. 4 months ago, the japanese store is through the 2nd round of a wal mart event in melbourne. i saw on the opening set here against elise kind of friends, but did go and dropped the 2nd before securing a 3 set victory. this was, i saw because 1st competitive match is losing. in the 3rd round of the us open in september, the 24 year old ended her season early. then in order to focus on her mental health, i feel like for me it was just like

a extreme build up. and you just happen to see it all release last year. so i don't really feel the same way like i feel like everyone has their moments, of course. and that's what makes you human. but i'm going into this year a bit more optimistic. chelsea strong romanella kalki has issued a public apology to the team's fans. it follows a recent interview and the belgian class said he wanted to leave the london club. the call because any sign from in san milan for a record $130000000.00 last august, he was dropped for sundays, primarily game against liverpool. but he's now back in the squad for the upcoming leak up sunny funnel with tottenham. for the fence, i'm sorry for the upset. the cause you guys know, the connection that i have with this clubs is my teenage years. so, you know, i totally understand your you guys being upset, obviously he's up to me now to restore your trust and i'll do my best show

commitment every day on the been and the training ground in the games. trying to make sure that we've been games will live a full last semi against asked to face postpone due to an increase in cove at 19 cases to them. in a statement, liverpool said with no prospects of the current situation improving ahead of 1st a fixture. the club considers it reasonable to ask for the game to be rescheduled. now england, cricket coach graham philips has carved 19 has taken its toll on the place during that sort of australia. thorpe is taking charge of the team for the upcoming full test in sydney base after head coach. chris silva tested positive for the virus on the page. so far, england have been completely out played losing. the 1st 3 matches of the series in audio. 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 the series that happened. obviously, we've had the distractions of covert off the field as well,

which had been challenging to say the least. i think sacrifice quite a lot to come over here. a couple of weeks quarantine, thomas from families some restrictions on what i can do as opposed to pre pandemic. and i think them having some positive cases. the coach i was the bang away from this guy. i think it's been really tough for them. and french prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation into an explosion that went off under a french vehicle involved in the duck o'reilly, which is currently taking place in saudi arabia. the blast occurred last week in jetta on tuesday, spain, color science, one stage 3. the events with his audi team celebrating a 1st ever when with an electric hybrid call, this was a full chief career stage victory for the 3 time duck or champion capital here has the overall lead still. ok, that is facebook is looking for. now. let's get back to lauren in london. and thank you much, that's it from the news out. more news in

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