so commercialized letter size owns yoga on al jazeera, all the the hero world news washer. a dire cove, it forecast for europe, the w h. o warns more than half the population will contract the omicron variant in the next 2 months. ah, hello and barbara sarah, this is al jazeera life london, also coming up with u. s. hospital wards and capacity and not enough tests to go around. the biden administration is accused of failing in its corona virus response . an unprecedented appeal. the un says $5000000000.00 is needed to escape by

humanitarian catastrophe. in afghanistan and growing criticism of ethiopia government, as more civilians are killed in military airstrikes. ah, more than half the population of europe will of called the on the con, variant of coverage within the next 6 to 8 weeks. that's according to the world health organization. it's urging governments to prioritize vaccinations, including booster shots, $7000000.00 new european cases of on the conway detected in the 1st week of january, a low. it is quickly becoming the dominant virus invested europe. at this no spreading into the balkans. at this rate, the institute for health metrics and evaluation forecasts that more than 50 percent

of the population in the region will be infected with mcclung. in the next 6 to 8 weeks of a nicole has worn out from berlin on the face of us, a very bleak assessment. indeed, that's 50 percent of the population. depending on which numbers you go buy in the year. more than 400000000 people live here in the u, around 700000000 around the you, it's periphery countries and that sort of thing. so we're talking potentially hundreds of millions of people that this individual from the world health organization is saying might well find themselves falling fall of the only current variant of the corona virus in the course of the next couple of months. remember, it's deep winter here, right? now, and so all those conditions which militates in favor of further transmission are in place, it's cold outside people tend to congregate together inside if they're not wearing appropriate masks as we were hearing from the w h o. in another part of

a statement made by the individual concerned that it's masking vaccination and that sort of thing. in the absence of those that it's very clear that the world hope health organization is making pretty difficult and dangerous suggestions here. hundreds of millions of people might find themselves as a se falling fall of on the chrome in this deep winter phase. all 2022. that's the really fundamental question here right now has on the chrome managed to dislodge the delta, very of the proceeding, particularly dangerous variance of covey that had been running right. what like wildfire across the continent, here in germany, the latest estimate suggests somewhere around 50 percent of all cases of ami chrome . but in other parts of the continent then on the corners really taken hold. and it's starting to really push delta to one side. and us senate committee is mortal to hear the federal government take on how it's handling the pandemic. this comes

as hospital admissions for coven. 19 in the u. s. are at an all time high representatives from the centers for disease control, the food and drug administration, and the top us infectious disease expert anthony found change are among those appearing. the u. s. is experiencing a massive surgeon cove in 1000 cases with more than 1300000 new infections have reported on monday. well, during the hearing, that was another heating exchange between foul tea and the republican senator ran pool. while she accused paul of launching repeated personal attacks and said he's using the pandemic for his own political game. as some of you may know, just about 3 or 4 weeks ago when december 21st, a person was arrested who was on their way from sacramento to washington dc at a speed stop in iowa. and they asked the police asked him where he was going. and he was going to washington dc to kill dr. found she and they found in his car in

a r 15 and multiple magazines, amunition, because he thinks that maybe aren't killing people. so i ask myself, what, why would sen want to do this? so go to ran poll website, and you see fire doc the found she was a little box that says contribute here. you can do 5 dollars, 10 dollars, 20 dollars a $100.00. so you are making a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain. so the only have the political attack on your colleagues and in a politically represents america ready, dave ok, won't defend it. well, let's think the political hand was outside the adventist hospital in calverton in maryland are pretty heated exchange. there policy between ran pool and the doctor and found she, but in general it's a warning situation in the u. s. right now,

hospitals and the pressure and the president and the pressure as well. exactly. or just that exchange i think goes to show just how political this had demick has become in washington and across the country. we see 30 percent of the country refusing to get back to native even though they know i'm a crowd is literally marching across the country. filling up hospitals, doctor anthony valgy has been given death threats. he's has the security detail now . when in reality this hearing was supposed to be looking at what the government is doing about the current situation we have find ourselves and now and what is that situation? hospitals are filling up, you've seen those record case numbers. we'll keep this in mind. hospitalizations, usually leg behind those cases by about 3 weeks. hospitals like the one behind me have already several times had to say to ambulances, don't come here. we are simply out of beds, there's a testing shortage in this country. and the,

i think the frustration for many of the american people is this administration knew the holidays were coming, their own guidance was get tested before you meet extended family inside. so when people, when to get tested, they couldn't find tests the lines stretched for hours and hours block after block . the results are taking $45.00 days to come back. they said, well, use rapid tests. well, you can find rapid tests literally anywhere. and if you do find them, they're incredibly expensive. so the administration says that they are working out a plan by the end of this month to be a website where families can say, here, send me mail me some tests that's going to be in weeks. and the numbers are just climbing day after day. it seems they're breaking new records. and again, the issue is the hospital. if the numbers are this bad now and if they're that overwhelm now there's real concern about what's going to happen in 3 weeks. and the other problem is they said, well with this very you have to get better math talk, math aren't really going to protect you. you can't find any math. 3rd,

those k and 95 or 95. now, the administration says they released some from the stockpile and we started to see is handed out mass schools here in this county. public schools have sent the appropriate math with every single student along with home tests. but again, this is a virus that it's gotten away from the health workers and there's still 2 years into it. prop problems with getting enough personal protective gear problems, getting tests, problems, getting treatment, finding the hospital the bed. so we saw president joe biden come out today and he said the things were on the right track when it comes to coven. if you look at the poll numbers and just talk to average americans, they couldn't disagree more worrying. situation practical have with the latest i from calverton, maryland in the us. thank you. wow, let's go to the u. k. now, where the prime minister boris johnson is facing renewed course, the step down after yet more revelations about a party held at his official london residence during lockdown. johnson has

repeatedly denied breaking locked down walls, but a leak email about a gathering at 10 downing street. appears to suggest otherwise, and barbara has more how many garden parties is a garden party too far? this image shows bars. johnson at a gathering behind 10 downing street during the 1st lock down in may 2020. his office is always claimed. this was a work meeting. now he's under intense pressure. after press reports, he attended another gathering here 5 days later, along with dozens of colleagues, an email from one of his advisors to a 100 members of staff said hi all after what has been an incredibly busy period, we thought it would be nice to make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially distance drinks and the number 10 garden this evening. please join us from 6 p. m and bring your own booze. and i know that people are also eager for news of the same day. the culture secretary was on television, telling the public they shouldn't meet more than one person from another household . in parliament on tuesday, the opposition was granted an urgent question because

a prime minister to make a statement on the party event held in the county street garden on the 20th of may, 2020 maurice johnson didn't turn up leaving it to a cabinet collie to fend off repeated calls for him to resign crime. i apologize again, unreservedly for the upset that these allegations have caused the problems to has asked for an investigation to take place and the terms of reference, the investigations that are underway have already been published in recent months, the press has been full of reports of social gatherings in downing street where coffee 19 regulations were broken, but this time it feels different. johnson has refused to deny anything saying only that they'll be an investigation by su gray, a senior civil servant or the reaction of the former head of the scottish conservatives was particularly a survey on tuesday. she said,

nobody needs an official to tell them whether they were utter boozy shindig in their own garden. well apart from su grey's investigation, the police here now say they're in touch with the cabinet office. is of those reports of a garden party. the government official number of people who died from covey 19 has just passed 850000. no surprise than that. the air waves have been full of people who lost loved ones in 2020, and weren't allowed to attend the funerals condemning the prime minister for his johnson's popularity ratings of already slumped in recent months. whether this latest scandal translates into any real attempts by his party to replace him is less clear. the dean barber al jazeera london ah, the united nations as launched its largest ever humanitarian appeal for a single country. it says it needs about $5000000000.00 in aid for afghanistan this

year to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. the un humanitarian agency says that $4400000000.00 was needed within afghanistan. it would be used to boost the delivery of food and agricultural support. health services, water and sanitation and emergency education. the aid would help the 22000000 people. that's more than half the population facing acute hunger. a for a further $623000000.00 was needed to support afghans seeking safety and 5 neighboring countries, including iran and pakistan. it would help fund 40 organizations providing relief to the 5700000 displaced afghans as well as the local communities hosting them some more into is with units of in afghanistan. she says, freezing winter temperatures have added to the crisis. as guns then is descending into the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world,

the scale of suffering is quite unprecedented. and as you see, its children and women, those who are least responsible for the crisis who are facing the brunt of these challenges. around half the population of have gone to found 23000000 people are food insecure, which means that they cannot find or afford you tricia's food. and as you see over 1000000 of that number, our children and what use f is predicting that without urgent action, those children will suffer from severe acute malnutrition, which puts them at risk of dying in 2022. we think that without action one into children will be acutely malnourished. so the problems are huge. on top of that, i've got this done is facing the difficulties of climate change. we are experiencing the worst drought that the country has had for 27 years. we've got rising food

prices, we've got tripling poverty. we've got rising unemployment. and all this against the backdrop of winter, you know, last night was minus 6 degrees centigrade. and i keep hearing from, from mothers, from villagers that they don't have money for rudy for coal to keep their homes warm. and it is children who are suffering the most. a group of african women have marched through the capital, cobbled, demanding equal rights. women in afghanistan have been waiting for months to attend school and work that talent and lead government pledge to provide them with access after its takeover in august. but most female government employees have been told to stay at home, while girls were banned from going to school after the 6th grade. tyler beneficial? that said they need time to create gender segregated facilities.

and they're a striking ethiopia. t grad region has killed at least 17 people had happened in the southern town of light sabri and as often left dozens wounded. this follows and a pack on a camp for displace people in dead, a beat where at least 56 people were killed on friday. the violins halted aid work in the area. the government previously denied that targeting civilians in the 14 months conflict for more here is malcolm web. the pin federal government air power is widely seen as something that turn the tables in this conflict in recent month, the conflict began just over a year ago. now just a few months ago, the t p l f and allies were advancing towards the capital, addis ababa than last month. the government successfully fought them back and a lot of observe as a tribute to drones that the open government has recently bought combat drones, which certainly proved effective militarily. but these,

the deaths of civilians in the asteroid is at the same time attracting, growing criticism from the international community. us president joe biden spoke yesterday with e. c, a. p. and prime minister abbey, i made the statement from the state department said at a biden, was critical about the strikes. also expressed concerns about the human rights situation in ethiopia, including the very many people have been detained under the state of emergency. people have been detained for a long period without trial in large numbers that bite and did say that he was pleased with the recent release of political prisoners, but certainly with the release of political prisoners on one hand, but then continuing conflict through even escalating conflict in the case of the civilians being caught up and strike on the other hand, that's gonna certainly leave a lot of people thinking that these extensive mediation efforts maybe aren't necessarily bringing this conflict any close to a close. so the come here and al jazeera, a new prime minister,

is appointed and rushing back to troops are central to leave. is this the end of the crisis and conflict and history making surgery in the u. s. a. patient has is failing harpoon placed with one from a genetically or current, the pink. ah ah, now winter in most of europe is turned no watch the quite quiet from any temperature bit below the average of the european plain most declared north and south and some of it wrapping rather storm system this one in particular. so there's the big picture that we still got with the atlantic is not as cold as it could be in the british isles, or indeed scandinavia. that's where the rain or snow were fall. mainly it's got to be in norway. so this suffering sometimes from morning fog temperature bit below

the average, but sunshine is predominant for the most part. now there is an area, particularly cold air in ukraine, just gone through into western russia. that's heading slowly. sas to the black seal effect, the higher ground in turkey, which isn't helpful because it's this area which is going to be the most stormy. by wednesday, the central stormy, the suddenly cheered more or less, which when you go normally, breeze increasingly cold is, you know, being sto to the mountains of this pop turkey and particularly in the east. and the whole system is going to carry on on thursday. then spread south into syria and lebanon, for example, was buried. being particularly sherry. bigger picture though, into north africa. apart from the wind, in this part is quiet and quite hot for some, especially nigeria. ah,

one of the fastest growing nations in the money needed to open and developing international shipping company to become a key, middle east and trade money. 3 key areas of development, filling up from connecting the connecting future juanita cutter gateway to world trade. lou ah, reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, the world health organization says more than half of all europeans are likely to be infected with the army con variant of coven 19. within the next 2 months,

7000000 new cases were detect that on the continent in the 1st week of january. more americans are in hospital with crone of iris now than any other time during the pandemic underneath 32000 were in the wards on monday. that's higher than the previous peak last january. and the united nations has launched its largest ever humanitarian appeal for a single country. it says it needs about $5000000000.00 in aid for afghanistan this year in order to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. senator is in france, have begun debating a controversial proposed cobit 19 vaccine pass. the legislation would bar anyone who hasn't received the vaccination from public places, including bars, theaters, and restaurants. thousands of people have been protesting against the measures for several weeks, but the government hopes to have passed that into law by mid january. here's the fashionable with more. the southern port mcveigh is in

a region with one of the highest unvaccinated populations in france until recently . nico call was among them when we 1st met him a year ago. he didn't want to call it vaccine because he worried about possible side effects. but he has since changed his mind and just had his 2nd job. i had many questions about the vaccines effectiveness, what's in it? it was a personal decision and i decided to say, you know, being vaccinated with the situation has since evolved as a 5th wave. the conversion, we now know children are a major source of transmission, and my wife is a teacher. general environment has changed. and on balance, i decided it was better to get vaccinated. frances registered record numbers, if you cove it infections, doctors say most people in hospital with the virus unvaccinated, so the government wants to pressure those who are not immunized to get a job by introducing a faxing pulse for most social activities. last week,

friendship, he's approved the post office days of face debate. people in the past, the have a coup. it's help pause if they want to catch a train, go to the movies or even be in a restaurant like this. it is a queue. all code the most people have telephone that effectively shows whether you've been fully vaccinated or have a recent negative test for the government wants to change. the rules are the only people who vaccinated will be able to access the policy. which means people like native when the longer be able to do things like this to measure his infuriated people who are against the coven vaccine. on saturday, thousands protested empowers against the past and against the french president who recently made controversial comment about on facts, native people. that's how it is an attack on our freedom. i am not vaccinate emma crone does not respect the constitution. he has insulted me as a citizen. this opposition m p says the past is an erosion of rights and the

approach. well, much of it is all that those should be put to get vaccinated. you have to respect dampness. we have a, i have a clinician rates, nearly 90 percent, but we need to convince people who are unvaccinated and some are not necessarily because they are against it. but because they don't have enough information. so well, some say the vaccine pulse is divisive emmanuel, macro battle. most people in france supporting it because the majority are immunized opinion. polls suggest he was right. 3 months before the presidential election mccoy's hoping that his risky political calculation will pay off. natasha butler, i'll just sarah ma say in the past hour you as president joe biden and vice president camel harris arrived in georgia to galvanize support for new legislation on voting rights. biden and harris are in atlanta, the center of the civil rights movement to give a speech on vote for protection, which forms several you estates of pass laws, which critics say make it more difficult for black and latino communities to vote.

there are 2 bills under consideration in the senate while for more on this let's cross the alan fisher who is live in atlanta, georgia for a sal and good to see you. so how important is this speech for joe biden? hugely important, very significant. indeed. remember, joe biden was propelled to the presidency, essentially with the support of black voters across america many occasions. he said, you've got my back, i've got years the believe that so many of the changes to voting that have been imposed across the country in states. disadvantage cut voters of color and so they want to see the senate do something to make sure that these voting rights are protected. and one of the, one of the ways is to introduce new legislation and both the house and the senate. joe biden thinks is important. he's going to come here and say, look, it's perhaps time to get rid of the filibuster in the senate to make sure we can

get this legislation passed that he is not going to back down. he will reiterate a line that he used last week and that significant as well seeing that america needs to operate in the light. you'll remember that when he criticized donald trump, exactly one week ago, he was complaining the but the fact that the former president said that the election was stolen on the back of that many states decided to introduce new voting legislation. well, joe biden says he wants to see voting rights protected, and he was to see it happen on a federal level. republicans, though, aren't keenly see this. is the government getting involved a federally taking over elections across the united states and an allen in you mentioned the democrats control, the house, the senate, the white house, and just explain to us the difficulties of them actually being able to get this done. why can't they a voting bill

has passed the house that named after john lewis, who was the icon of the civil rights movement, also a congressman and actually his congressional district were standing. and now, and that's gone through the house. will it go through the senate, or there's a problem there in the every single republican wants to vote against that and said they will vote against that. so you think, hold on a 2nd as that, or democrats have got 50 votes plus camaros as the vice president. that means 51. they should be able to push this through. but they can't, because normally that can be filibuster, which means that they need 60 votes to make sure that can get it through the senate, or they simply don't have those votes. so there's talk about changing the rules. and a couple of democratic senators are saying, we don't want to see that we do a thing that's a good idea. so the message that joe biden will bring here is that we need these changes. they're important changes, particularly with the election coming up the midterms coming up at the end of 2022, but also the presidential election 2024 and everyone needs to get on board. but

there's a message to for joe biden, from some of the groups that are boycotting. what's happening here? one, you should be in washington walking this and to mr. president, you'd a democrat get your party in line and get this done. difficult times for joe biden . allen fisher with the latest from atlanta in georgia. allen, thank you. now kazakstan president has appeared to criticize his predecessor, for the 1st time cason german took, i ever said public discontent over inequality was justified. and that he wants the former presidents associates to share their wealth, peaceful demonstrations of we're soaring, fuel prices escalated into days of violent anti government protests. a russian lead military force was deployed and took i have says it will start pulling out within 48 hours. with the cave is also announced a new government line out. ali can smile has been nominated, his prime minister. he served as the 1st deputy prime minister in the previous

candidate cabinet which took i have this missed last week. robin forest here, walker is falling developments from kimberly c in georgia. it's created, this is mission accomplished for president or chi of the c. a c o came in. it was clear that he had vladimir putin backing behind him. they did that job, which appears to have been largely symbolic, finding out across the country, being present at strategic locations like military bases and so forth. now they're on their way out. took, i have clearly is in a position to do the job by himself. 10000 people detained a today, his speech was also about restructuring the security services, the police, the military and the national state. national security of putting himself very much in charge of those important instruments of power in the country. so kind as

actually for the 1st time went off in directly president the previous president. no, so that's it by didn't mentioned by name directly, a criticism directly. but what he said was that people, the lead on the nasa by had made themselves very rich, very wealthy. they spent money abroad, and now it was time to bring that money home and to give it back to the people. so the president car has established or will establish a new fund that some of that money presumably will go into and this is the deal he's cutting with his predecessors, diagnostic legacy, the people who are his family members and, and as a buyer who has taken money out of the country and now must bring it back. surgeons in the united states have made the medical history by transplanting a pigs heart into a human. for the 1st time, the 8 hour operation was performed on

a 57 year old man with terminal heart failure at the university of maryland medical school. the pig had been genetically altered, so the heart would not be rejected. it. so the procedure will help terminal patients who are to will to qualify for the limited number of human heart transplants. although animal rights activists have raised concerns, ah, in our reminder of the top stories allowed to 0, the world health organization says more than half of all europeans are likely to be infected with the omicron variant of coven 19 within the next 6 to 8 weeks. it's urging governments to prioritize vaccinations, including booster shots. 7000000 new cases of omicron were detected on the continent in the 1st week of january alone. it is greatly.