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protested that back on the street. because to don't demonstrating against military state of emergency protest bonds by massive high can fuel prices threaten to spiral out of control and conflict and the new year. but old challenges remain. we look at the raft of issues facing diplomats of the un, me nations across the world as struggling to contain the outbreak of the on the con variance, the u. s. has become the 1st country to report a 1000000 cases in its daily italy. now those infections haven't translated into a large number of deaths bought, it is causing major disruption. thousands of schools are pushing back plans to reopen us. president joe biden says the key to basing the outbreak for the unvaccinated to get the jobs. it's also similar story in europe, whether

u. k is reported a record 218000 new cases and says more than a 1000000 people on self isolation, france to has reported record number of cases. government officials have vowed to enact a law to block on the vaccinated people from hospitality. benny's in coming weeks. john 100 begins, are coverage from washington, dc, with the latest coven variance soaring to record highs. president joe biden began with a warning, and i'll give it to you straight as i promised you, i always would were going to say, as you all meant hearing continued rise in cases. then in his address to the nation, he offered reassurance. if you're vaccinated and boosted, you are highly protected. you know, be concerned about, i'm a crime, but don't be alarmed. the alma crohn variant is surging, setting a single day record with more than

a 1000000 new infections over running test centers. leaving many more wondering if they too were contagious. the less lethal than previous variance, and the crown is more infectious, threatening to overrun hospitals and threatening even children who are largely unvaccinated cove. it in a very short period of time has become one of the leading medical causes of death for children in this country. so i think it's about time that we stopped downplaying the significance of coven for children. the explosive contagion hit hardest in the us. his families gathered for the christmas holiday season, cancelling understaffed flights in setting off a wave of vaccine and re masking mandates across the us where positive coven tests have surged from 5 percent to 20 percent since november. many schools returned from the winter break online only, but here in washington and in new york were positive tests have grown from 3 percent to 33 percent. schools are open for business. new york mayor insists that

school is the safest place for children. if you look last year 2020, you witness that the transmission rate was less than one percent inside of school. and how so it was over 15 percent back in washington, president biden ended with a plea for the 35000000 eligible americans who remain unvaccinated. please take advantage of what's available please. in a nation where one's view of vaccination can depend on one's political affiliation, it seems certain that that's a plea, that at least for some will fall on deaf ears. john henderson al jazeera washington . of course, there's a lot more data to consider than just the record number of new cases in the us. he's criminal offense, mary with a look at some of the numbers behind the headline. a 1000000 coven tases,

in one days of the a huge issue for the united states. but there is a little more nuance and even some slightly good news when you go behind the numbers. so let's start with this. the 1st chart we've got from our world and data . this is looking at cumulative cases of covered 90, not daily tases. this is, everything has been over the pandemic up the top. there we are now looking at $55000000.00 plus cases of covert throughout the pandemic. so if you're getting 1000000 of those cases in one day, in a pandemic, that's the last 2 years. that is clearly a huge issue. the good news, though, if i can use that phrase, is the death, right? it's not going up. certainly not the highs that we saw there. this was a year ago when there were around 3 and a half 1000 deaths a day. at this point, we're now down to about 1200 a day, which is still a lot. but as you can see from the trend, there it is quite erratic to was the end, but it's not going up at any great rate. the big concern is probably when we're talking about infection numbers is the positivity right. them explain it this way.

this graph shows covered tests per $1000.00 people. that's the metric we're using. now this shows that there are 4 out of every $1000.00 people being test at a rate of 4 tests per $1000.00 people. now again, look at the end of the graph. it's not going up, there is no massive increase in testing numbers. and we know there is a problem with testing kit availability in the united states at the testing, staying at the same sort of level 4 out of a 1000. but look at the positivity, right? this is the number of cases or the percentage of cases that are positive out of each test. now, down here it was at around 5 percent. this is only be a couple of months ago. it is now at 22 percent. 22 percent positivity rate amongst tests in america. that is all micron at work that more transmissible contagious variant dr. david friedman as president elect of the american society of

tropical medicine and hygiene. he says a balance needs to be struck between public health and keeping the economy. getting cases are very hard to track now of many people. busy are doing self tests at home . there are no good mechanisms to report them quickly to public health authorities . so the, the 1000000 we, we heard about is actually maybe more than one day's worth, because a lot of reports weren't submitted over over the weekend. so hospitalizations really speak to the impact on the health care system and the, the, the impact on the population people and was sick in the hospital is another important thing to know because the, the, the i c use are not full. the hospitals are getting to be full again. but for example, our hospital only has about 10 people in the i see you right now. one ventilators,

where as it was 70, or $75.00 at the pico last winter, we have to run our economy. and most of the people that are out there, especially the ones that are vaccinated, are only mildly ill. and you know, theoretically, could work. but we're not going to break the chain of transmission. and it is a trade off between keeping the economy going and decreasing out the number of infections. where as for many people it's, it's just a bad cold for a few days. and we do have this whole tension. a new guidelines came out. you know that how many days you need to isolate at home before you go back to work. and it's been set at 5. and that means that a lot of people going, who feel well at 5 days are going to go back to work infectious and keep up the cycle of transmission. but at the same time, keep the economy running. well,

as we mentioned, the u. k has recorded more than 200000 daily korean of ours cases for the fast time . prime in the bars, johnson says this is a moment of caution and they will be challenging weeks ahead. but he insists the restrictions in place on enough at the moment. re challenge reports from london for high school students in england. this is their welcome back to school in 2020, to go raise your coffee. not here for waiting for. okay, for, for your eyes water. yeah. a swab up the nose for every people to check their cobit free and ready for class and in the classrooms. mosque the back end. recommended for the 1st time since may rules in england. now aligned with scotland, wales, and northern ireland, that pupils of mosques for months. the u. k. is main teaching unions of culture more from the government. resources for testing, staff absences and costs are held 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, i'm the last flight test, vaccinations that are happening all seem to us to be measures to kind of keep schools 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 was 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 for coven 19, the government has task ministers with planning for worst case scenario, one in for people being off work. if anything close to that figure is reached.

thank keeping vital services going is going to be an uphill struggle. several hospital trust, civil ready declared critical incidence. it's what health buses do when they're worried, they can't provide priority services. on tuesday evening, forest johnson said the country could ride out the omicron wave without shutting down the economy, i think. but the weeks ahead are going 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 absences. and if we all play our paulton 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 for the storm certainly isn't over yet. we're italians now to 0 london. a 2nd chinese says he has been put into

a total lockdown off to report some new crown of iris cases. you joe, is a city of more than a 1000000 in central hannon province. the restrictions are similar to those imposed for the past 2 weeks in the industrial hub of she. anne for days residence bab, and complaining about food shortages. facials are rushing to contain even small outbreaks of the winter olympics and beijing, less than a month away shopping and cindy, unload social manager, whole 0 cases, and communities means a future situation where all new infections are found among close contacts, who are already in quarantine to achieve 0 cases in communities as to create good conditions for an next step to gradually downgrading virus curbs. and so hope argentine as all, say, experiencing a surge and new crown of virus infections. more than 44000 cases were reported on tuesday. so he's a bo has more from the capitol when a series long lines of people waiting for a covey test him when a site is. they have been waiting for hours as authority struggle to cope with

a rise in covey. 19 infections for and fridell sat at the said he had a moral obligation to get tested after coming in close contact with a relative infected with go with 19 being over here, i went to a party and i've heard 3 vaccine shots. my niece told me last night she has quoted, so here i am, i am working in an office and i have to be responsible. the government has confirmed the army kron variant is responsible for the rice infections etiquette. amanda says. the positivity is alarmingly. hi, amanda. but i am in total, we are testing around $300.00 people of every $150.00 tests. we do 50 a positive. it's a rapid test, but we are seeing the increase. the city's government started setting up these testing sites in many parts of winners. aries last week because of the increase and cases president elevator buffer man, this has this hard and re imposing restrictions. i believe. for now,

the number of people in the hospitals you to call with 19 remains low and the death rate has not varied in the past month. and that's why the government is focusing on the progress of the vaccination campaigns that began one year ago. many south american countries, i winning the vaccination, race, 63 percent of the regions population is vaccinated and that figure continues to increase. but only say, ami kron still poses a serious threat to the health system. these american b. e. magazines, every country like argentina where the health system is fragile and you see problems even in the united states. you see hospitalizations are increasing. doctors and nurses are getting sick. the problem is double. i'm looking at the charts from brazil, from peru, even from sheila. they are a peak 3 weeks ago, and then it went down. all i can say is that every one is vulnerable to this. and that's why leaders in the region are pushing for more booster shots. and preparing for some difficult days ahead. as the army kron variant continues to spread. but he

said, well, i'll just see that when a site is south, korea's military says the north has fired an unidentified project. all the launch happened off north griz, east coast. last week, north korean leader kim johnson vowed to continue building up his country's ministry capabilities. sell ahead on out his era. the 1st criminal charges for the assassination of haiti's president juvenile, noisy, a former military officer, columbia he is ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies. with sponsored play cut, headways. hello away we go with your weather update for asia, we did see some record rainfall in the southwest pakistan. the threat for that the southeast on wednesday as it leaks into the northwest of india. there are weather

alerts in play for the indian states a punjab and new delhi thunderstorms. hail just really soaking range that we can find here. so i'm sorry, 13 degrees and new delhi a high 70. but south of that we do have plenty of sun. we have seen flooding across the top and of sumatra. it's really been days of rain here. so thousands of people have been displaced from their homes. that those flood waters in some cases waste even chest deep. but i think the flood threat on wednesday will be southern sumatra, west java, and right across bornea, the ne bonds who not as intense as it has been over the last few days. and we do see evidence of that across coastal vietnam. just a few showers for denying 24 degrees in which men city at 32 fog of rain moving across the yangtze river valley. this is impacting shanghai. we've got rain both for the west and the east coast of taiwan. but a beauty of a day in hong kong at $22.00 degrees, snow still falling across western areas of japan, specifically the southwest of hope, cato heavy snowfall advisory in play. but as we get through wednesday,

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me you're watching out 0. mind the story. this our us a new global ruffled with more than a 1000000 new cave, 900 cases registered in one day. he jump is due in part to delays and reporting avenue weekends. but the u. s. has seen an average of 480000 daily infections over the past week. the u. k. has recorded more than 200000 and sailing right of our cases. the 1st time. prime minister boris johnson says there'll be no new restrictions for now. the warned, challenging, weeks ahead. you, jo, it's become the 2nd chinese city to be put into total lockdown off the report of new current of ours cases. restrictions a similar to those imposed for the past 2 weeks in the industrial hump of a court in canada has ordered iran to pay $84000000.00 to the families of those

killed in the downing of the plane in 2020, around the ministry shot down a ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board. many of those on board were canadian citizens, or had presidency in canada. rome's and defenses have been on high alert. days off to the u. s. assassinated aroma top general. busy cut some sort of money. mark arnold is a lawyer representing 6 families whose relatives were killed. he says the ruling evoked mixed emotions. iraq is under canadian law, designated as a state sponsor of terrorism. the evidence we gathered proved that this was an intentional terrorist. and we carry a superior court of justice accepted and made a ruling confirming that it was intentional to terrorism. yesterday's ruling provided us the families for $65.00 families asking for represented 6. this is

provided them with a compensation decision and the amount of $107000000.00 canadian dollars that included a $100000000.00, punitive or punishment award, significant and unprecedented canadian jurisprudence. our reaction was mess. i was certainly quite sad. my clients were sad, nothing can bring back their families, and this is no money case, per se, but they were also delighted that for the 1st time in this case, justice has been done. busy in this private law claim by a judge or b, ontario, superior court of justice. so mixed emotions are substantial rainy and assets in canada and worldwide. and we have embark upon a process collection. otherwise, no one has execution. we're going after all the radiant assets worldwide,

including in canada that we can get our hands on. canada will pay just over $30000000000.00 in compensation to members of the indigenous community who had taken from their families when they were children and put into stink half the money will go to the families affected in the last 3 decades. the couch will also help reform the child welfare system and the poor quality of care given to indigenous children. main suspects in the killing of the haitian president, juvenile, noisy, has appeared in u. s. federal court for the 1st time. 43 old former columbia ministry officer, mario palostio was expedited from panama defense to face criminal charges in the july murder which triggered a political crisis in the caribbean. nation. authorities have arrested dozens of others, but none happen formally charged. mike, hannah has moved from washington dc on the case against murray blasio well,

he has now been formally charged in a miami federal court having been brought in by f. b. i. agents from panama, which is where he was arrested while boarding a flight. it is reported to jamaica now he is a sum of one of some, 2 dozen former colombian commandoes who were employed by a miami security firm earlier last year. c t u security. they would then deployed to haiti initially it is said as a personal protection group, there to protect political figures within haiti. however, it does appear according to prosecutors that this then moved into basically what became an assassination squad and palacio is set to be one of the 5 members who actually entered the compound of that. then haitian president opened on boise and assassinated him on july. the 7th, 3 of the others were with him,

were killed during that operation. there are another 18 it is believed, fill in detention within a teeth. they have not faced any form of charges. so obviously a lot of questions for mario palostio in terms of exactly what happened, who was responsible for the actual killing of the haitian president. and very importantly, who was the brains behind this whole operation? now, many had insisted that the u. s. was in some way involved, but the fact that the u. s. is now brought its 1st prosecution in connection with the case a very important detail indeed f b i. agents have been assisting the haitian police for a large period of time. now, in the inquiry into the assassination, but this particular arrest, the particular case may cost more light on all the events that happened back in july. last year. you unsecure as a council, as calling on sir don's generals and protests lead us to sit down and talk as demonstrations. continue against military rule. the 2 sides may not be speaking to

each other, but at peers the army is sending messages of a different sort. under chappelle reports thousands ignore a ban on protests and choose to hit the streets anyway. it's been 2 days since the prime minister stepped down from the resignation of humboldt not affect opposition. what is built on falsehoods will remain wrong, and the case from the very beginning was wrong. the demands of the protest movement is still united and we are holding the flag of the resistance committee in different locations, sects, and cultures. there's been protest like this since october's military takeover when prime minister of dela hm doc was sacked, then reinstated a few weeks later i got a long hook. cinnamon. leukemia was his one episode of many previous proteus that all condemned the military code. we're trying to continue the course of evolution

and achieve complete civilian rule. those of the people's demands whenever fewer bridges were closed ahead of tuesdays, protests and protesters weren't cut off from the internet. a slight de escalation and a cycle of violence that's claimed around 60 lives in the past 3 months. the un security council has told out 0, it may soon take up the issue a we are very concerned about her about dead, the violence used against peaceful demonstrators. we have taken out this over a $100.00 a resignation and but we still would and continued to encourage the military and civilian leaders of saddam to, to, to get together and to find a way for what the civilian prime minister step down. because he said he was unable to bring people together to agree a path forward,

and it still remains unclear. who will and are chappelle al jazeera police and catholic stone have used here. gauss and stung grenades against protest is angry at a rise in the price of fuel. posting a note on twitter, president cassim germano. okay. yes. has accepted the resignation of the government, declared estates majesty into regions and imposed an overnight curfew. demonstrations have spread to the largest city of almighty office in 2 days ago in the town as jonathan, when few calls such fight, bruce tanya is a correspondent for radio free europe. he says the purchase could have wider regional implications. 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, you know, they're, they're working to get this kind of under control as much as they can. it's gonna hurt the reputation because the government, but you know, because exxon is 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. so 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, there are 607000 kilometers 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 like authority to did by allowing the situation to get out of and as it did today, how the united nations in new york diplomats are facing what could be a challenging year from somalia to me on mar,

2022 legs. nike to present many challenges to peace and security out. there is diplomatic editor james base, looks at what lies ahead on the 1st official day of business at the united nations this year. the new members of the security council present their flags, albania, brazil, bon gonna, and the united arab emirates will be part of the 15 member body for the next 2 years. but they join us international peace and security, which the counsel is supposed to maintain is under great threat in almost all the countries, the counsel focuses on from afghanistan to saddam, from libya, to molly, from somalia to be on my things going backwards. veteran diplomat, mona jewel, the investor of norway is president of the security council this month. i certainly think that that it is quite bleak, but as i said, we have to be optimistic. it is possible to ford

dialogue and to bring people to the table. but we know it costs a lot, it requires a lot of resources and it requires not lease a unity in the security council. but the problem is that the security council is increasing the divided, and those divisions center on the most powerful members those that can veto any action. the permanent 5 tension persists between the u. s. it's allies and china, particularly over taiwan. and despite a recent telephone conversation between president putin and president biden mistrust is growing between the us and russia. with some in the us intelligence community predicting and invasion of ukraine could be imminent. the un secretary general antonio terrace is starting his 2nd 5 year term and the job this week. the world welcomes 2022 with our hopes for the future being tested by deepening poverty

and worsening inequality. by an, an equal distribution of coughing vaccines by climate commitments that fall short and but ongoing conflict division and museum formation. the secretary general has been criticized by some for being too cautious, reluctant to speak out, particularly on human rights issues. but his supporters say a secretary gentle kearney, achieve things if he has the full backing of the permanent members of the security council and their division right now, it leaves him walking at tight road. james space out his era at the united nations aah! and money inside with the headlines on al jazeera, the u. s. s. that's a new global reco with more than a 1000000 new cove in 1900 cases registered in one day. he jump is due in part to delays and reporting.