s huge amounts to rain, still falling in south america, particularly brazil from rio inland towards the capital. it is very wet. ah ah, the alma cron variance spreads through europe. the w h o warns that more than half the population will be infected within the next 2 months. and the u. s. hits a new record for covered maintain hospitalizations. as top health officials faced tough questions of the senate. ah, hello, i'm adrian said again. this is al 0 alive from doha. also coming up, the u. s. president urges the senate to pass voting rights reforms. speaking in the

battle ground state of georgia and catholic starns, president says the russian lead troops deployed to restore order will begin leaving in 2 days with the world health organization. as warning that hall of europe is likely to be infected by the other cron variant by march, europe is currently reporting the largest number of corona virus deaths and cases worldwide. the w h chose regional director says a new west to east tidal wave is sweeping across the region. but hans clued stress that approved vaccines continue to provide good protection. meanwhile, in china and yang has become the 3rd city to go into lockdown as part of the government's 0 tolerance approach. about 20000000 people in our confined to their homes and health facilities in the u. s. a. feeling the strain with nearly 146000

people in hospital, but for highest since the pandemic began out there was dominic came, begins our coverage in berlin with more on the situation across europe on the face of us, a very bleak assessment. indeed, that's 50 percent of the population, depending on which numbers you go by in the you more than 400000000 people live here in the you 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 fowl of the immigrant 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. and it's very clear that the world health 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 cron in this deep winter phase of 2022. that's the really fundamental question here right now, has on me crohn managed to dislodge the delta, very the preceding, 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 are of ami chrome. but in other parts of the continent then ami crohn has really taken hold and is starting to really push delta to one side. let's get the latest on the situation on the u. s. l. zero's patty co. haine reports. another

new coded record in the us. more than 145000 people hospitalized with a virus on still you as president joe biden is sounding after me. stick on top of your on the right side, back. yeah. hold show much of the country, disagreed one problem. casting this is boston and here in missouri long lines to get a test and results are taking longer to come back. everywhere we've been, it's been a lot like this is we're testing looks like in most of the country, the other option at home tests. but they are expensive and really hard to find. same with masks, the government says i'm a crohn means everyone needs better masks. if you can find and afford them, so some local government, you have begun giving en route. i'm just going to get the mask. i can't find anyone and was like a 95. just sold spencer. oh, take 2 or 3 weeks they did on at this senate hearing the focus was supposed to be

and how to make it all better. but it often got contentious with republicans launching personal attacks on the nation's chief covet adviser, who says he is receiving death threats because of it. so i asked myself, what, why would sen want to do this? so go to that ran poll website and you see fire doc, the voucher with 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 gang. so here's the problem, case numbers are extremely high, but hospitalizations usually follow those by about 3 weeks. and hospitals are already stretched this one several times as i did simply tell ambulance drivers don't come here, we're just quite out of beds. the bind administration says they're ramping up the production of medicines, math test, but those are weeks, maybe months away. and the situation is getting worse by the day. and after saying

it wouldn't be needed. authorities admit they are working on a vaccine for the i'm a crohn very and working on others that could work. and the next variant that comes after that i'm a crown isn't likely not to be the last curve ball. this virus throws in us nearly 2 years on and once again, hospitals are stretched, lives are being lost, and every day new signs that life is far from returning to normal. petty clean al jazeera maryland. he was president joe biden is called for voting rights reforms to expand access to poles. speaking in the battleground state of georgia, he is urged the senate to abandon its super majority rules to pass legislation. alan fisher reports from atlanta, georgia, before this important speech to bite and took time to pay tribute to civil rights. i caught he stopped at martin luther king's grave site, a man who fought for rights. the president no believes out at risk since the

election that carried him to the white house. 19 states have changed the rules of voting. an attack on the people says deal by an attack on democracy for the right to vote. and that that vote count. it is democracy's threshold liberty. without it, nothing is possible, but with it. anything is possible. while the denial of fair and fair elections is on democratic, it is not unprecedented. he made the speech in georgia, one of the places where the laws have changed. a cut, the number of drop boxes made it harder to ask for a meal and vote even made it illegal to hand water to people waiting in line to vote. joe biden wants to change the rules in the senate to push legislation through against republican opposition. but he knows 2 senators from his own party are dead set against that idea. he threw down this challenge. well you stand against rotor

suppression? yes or no, that's the question. oh answer. what do you stand, ally against? elections aversion. yes or no. we stand for democracy. yes or no. there is one thing, every senator, every american should remember. history has never been kind to those of siding with voters oppression over voters rights. joe biden route to election victory with the overwhelming support of black voters in many experts believe that's who would be most disadvantaged by the change in the legislation. advocates who support a national law didn't attend. they believed your biden should be in washington getting things done. not here, talking about getting things done. this is york hardy, mister president. these are your soldiers. you need to find a way to get them in line because we deliver or you to lee is party and now you need to leave this party. oh, my gosh, congratulations. mr ha,

to biden. like every president had an ambitious agenda when he took office. he hasn't spent a lot of time on voting rights. this speech signals, it's no a priority. supporters of had the words? no, they want results. alan fischer al jazeera, atlanta, georgia. karen walker is republican strategist and founder of black conservatives for truth. she joins us now live from atlanta. georgia could tell you the sir car, what did you make of what the president had to say earlier? i think be the need for the voting rights bill. whereas i do agree with voting rights, obviously, i think it's been highly politicized. i think it's largely done to get rid of the filibuster beneath the voting rights. still, i really think should be left up to the state as a republican, when we do not support the voting rights go, if not, because we don't support voting rights,

we absolutely support it. we believe that it is best for the state decide what is best for our individual stage. what happens is if the filibuster is eliminated, which they don't have the vote to do so right now, then any party there in power can change the bills for the entire country were just a simple with just a simple majority. but i don't think that's right for you say that it should be decided by the states. but here we have the republican run states currently redrawing voting boundaries in their favor. republicans are suppressing minority voting right now that doesn't suppress the boat that is not pressing. so why, why are they resorting boundaries? well, you, you are to do that every 3 years. we have, we have reapportionment,

where do you do with, with redraw the boundaries based upon the population. so as the population shift, as it eliminates ever, it increases, you have to redraw the boundary. no matter who is that party they're going to do it to favor is, is evenly as possible, but no one is ever going to be satisfied the party that is not in power, no matter what happens, they will never be satisfied. they will always state is unfair. and it is not to with, if not, it doesn't suppress our rights to vote it and everything that be bad, the voting rights bill that i didn't want to have passed. for example, i live in the state of georgia. we just passed the voting law sb to low to it addresses many of the items that they speak. it is best for this to be done on a state level instead of a federal level. all right, so what happens if the president tries to eliminate the filibuster? well, i think if he tries to eliminate the fella buster and he can't right now he doesn't

have the vote. but let's just say hypothetically, if he could, that would have long term ramifications even beyond voting rights. as i said, do we want the federal government to decide are voting laws by simple majority them as well, or is in power, can change it by simple majority for the entire united states, it will become very solidifies and not only with the voting rights bill. you have other issues, other bills. i do believe that the filibuster does have allow for checks and balances and allow forces republicans and democrats to work together. but if, if we need and discussions, if each state is allowed to, to draw up its own election laws, which as you say, is that constitutional right? right now you have each state having slightly different election laws. i mean, how could that lead to a fair national poll because different states have different me.

maybe some states don't need to have, for example, their voting hours to be open from 7 am to 7 pm. maybe they are more popular states like, or less popular states. why? why? oh me, you have different needs for each day. there is not one size fits all. the important thing is that we all have the right to both, and that is the important thing. now how that is shape and what that looks like, the hours the ballot boxes the days of voting, you know, early voting days, that should be left up to the state in georgia, we've had a lot of complaint about our voting f, b 2 o 2. but in fact, if you compare it to many of the democrats lead state, we are less restrict that we're less restrictive then then new york, the liberal state of new york. so why would we want to have a bill similar, a lot similar to new york when we are actually less restrictive?

these voting right, the voting rights bill, we're actually restrict our laws and our ability more so than to, to ease them really gets total current. many thanks for being with us. curren walker there in atlanta, georgia. thank you. still to come here on our 0, britton's private as far as johnston under fire. his government is accused of holding war parties during the height of the current of ours lockdown. the humble noodle becomes the latest korean trend to spread globally. joining the popular k drama k pop and k movies. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with sponsored by capital airways, that either this time of the seats, the east, the korean peninsula is quite warm. so was his cold in sol because that back wash

when these really cold is enough moisture to pick up and produce low showers in hon . shoot hawk either. it's going to be very snowy in this part of japan, which eventually will be loved by the scares. but of course, if you're not scare you probably won't like it very much. but beyond that, there was very quiet little bit of those still possible because for the same reason cody has come across the yellow sea on the whole dry looking picture. the some rain leaking across the tibetan platter into the far west of char, such one for example, and the snow. if anything pushes further south during thursday in that continued cold wind, south of all is so and it's much quieter. yes, it's the wet season for and these are malaysia, but was particularly friendly with java, southern c monitor and this part of borneo involved in what's like to be the wet is potentially flooding rain and unusually for india, the rain and the snow. that was, as you well know, up in the northern part of pakistan has influenced india to the east. this is

unusually wet weather for northeast in india, even bangladesh, rather more noble in sri lanka. oh, the weather sponsored by cats. all right, ways. the listening post cuts through the noise let's, we'll pick it up competing. now they see monday tools being used to perpetuate those competing narrative separating spin from fuck all 3 versions of the story and some elements of the truth. but the full story remains and coaching. unpacking the stories you're being told, it's not a science story at all. it's a story about politics, the list. think boseman your guide to the media on a just 0. ah

ah, hello again. this is al jazeera. let's remind you of the main news. the saw, the world health organization is warning of an approaching tidal wave of corona, virus infections in europe. it says the pool that half of people they're likely to be infected by the alma chrome variant in the next 2 months. or people are in the hospital with cove at 19 of the u. s. than ever before. nearly 146000. the strain of the health care system has been compounded by staff shortages was hospital workers become infected. and he was president, jo, bypass cool for voting rights reforms. speaking of about a bronze state of georgia, democrats alleged republicans, states are trying to suppress black conduct democratic leading votes. his wife wants to see the wants, the set it to a band that it's super majority rule to possibly cassock stands, president has announced the withdraw within 10 days of moscow,

led military block which had intervened following the country's west unrest. him 30 years of independence. cassim drama took i have in a speech to parliament also took aim at wealthy oligarchs links to former president a long time leader. awful tongue not by f. robin ferocity a walker report. the people who looted this al marty shopping mall knew no one was coming to stop them. not only did they steal new shoes, they had time to leave their old ones behind. oh, so that will the store owner estimates damage. is it over a $100000.00 more school? hm. moscow chased it. our program. it. the guys who did the looting. mostly men. right. but they still took all the launch. right. everything's gone. oh so. so rather than grabbing la sir sir, as given on tuesday, president archive did not say how he would help business recover from an estimated $57000000.00 in losses. but he did promise social, economic and political reforms,

and strikingly a crack down on the countries. oligarchs who must pay into a new national fund wherever they appear. presently, uncle, yes, sir, thanks to the 1st president el paso, a group of very profitable companies and ally of people rich, even by international standards have appeared in the country. i believe that it's time to pay tribute to the people of catholics dawn and help them systematically and regularly as low relatives of former president nozzle turn as a by of have amassed fabulous wealth in taking it a broad. it's estimated that his daughter and son in law own properties in london alone worth over $350000000.00, slightly more than half as much for wealth is held off. sure. it is probably a reasonable estimate. so you're talking about more than half of all the well from the country is outside the scrutiny of the government. and therefore, if the owners of that wealth decide not to participate in the new national firm, then that wealth will not participate in the national front. there's nothing the

government can do about that. took, i have says foreign troops will leave within 10 days. he seems confident he no longer needs the moscow backed military force to hold on to power from the prime minister down that loyal deputies of being appointed, vicky issued to what extent you will be able to repair the columbia to pick it out of this corrupted her creamy no, all you gotta keep typo full full fooling. and 2nd, me how he will be able to do the re distribute to wealth or make to narrow this social gaps and socially what it is soviet injustice if you will be able to the so this is the best way of healing. there's much healing to do widespread damage to both the private and public sectors. more than a 160 people have died, thousands injured. this is a traumatized nation, hoping the nasa by the era is drawing to a close. but wary of what comes next. robin 1st year walker al jazeera

senators in france have been debating whether to approve a coven vaccine pass. the proposed legislation is controversial because it bars any one who doesn't have a job from public places. thousands have been taking to the streets for weeks will pose the measure out as here as natasha butler reports. the southern port of mac say 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 cove it vaccine because he worried about possible side effects. but he has since changed his mind and just had his 2nd job. i would prefer, if i had many questions about the vaccines effectiveness of what's in it, it was a personal decision and i decided to say no to be vaccinated, but the situation has since evolved as a 5th wave. their own convent, renown, or children are a major source of transmission and my wife. as a teacher,

her environment has changed, and on balance, i decided it was better to get vaccinated. very quickly. frances registered record numbers of new cove. it infections docked to say most people in hospital with the virus are unvaccinated, so the government wants to pressure those who are not immunized to get a job by introducing a vaccine pass for most social activities. last week, french m. p. 's approved the pass after days of face debate. people in france have to have a cove, it's hell pause if they want to catch a train, go to the movies or even be in a restaurant like this. it is a q r code that most people have on their telephone, but effectively shows whether you've been fully vaccinated or have a recent negative test. or the government wants to change the rules of it. only people who are vaccinated will be able to access the path, which means people on fax later will no longer be able to do things like this. to measure his infuriated people who are against the cove at vaccine. on saturday,

thousands protested in paris against the pass and against the french president who recently made controversial comments about on vaccinated people. fella tanker, and it is an attack on our freedom. i am not vaccinated. emma crohn does not respect the constitution. he has insulted me as a citizen, this opposition and peace as the pastor is an erosion of it's and the wrong approach, or mitsubishi is on that list. you had people to get vaccinated, you have to respect them. this we have a, i have a clinician wait nearly 90 percent like between to convince people who are and vaccinated to some, 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, i coined hoping that he is risky. political calculation will pay off. natasha butler. i'll jazeera na say, will several nations have gone

a step further and made vaccinations mandatory. they include austria, where people face fines if they're not fully vaccinated by the 1st of february. italy made vaccination mandatory for the over 50 as last week in greece. it's compulsory for over sixty's. germany's new chancellor of schultz is planning a vote on the policy next month. meanwhile, q beck could be the 1st canadian province to tax on vaccinated adults. premier francois lego says that they're placing a financial burden on the health care system. on tuesday, he announced plans for those without a medical exemption to pay a health care contribution. cove at 19 hospitalizations in canada have searched with the spread of the oma. kron variant. britton's prime minister is facing renewed calls to step down after new revelations about a garden party held during lockdown. or us. johnson has repeatedly denied breaking the rules, but a leaked email reportedly shows his private secretary invited around 100 government

staff to the gathering in 2020 on to 0. that in bother reports. how many garden parties is a garden party too far? this image shows boris johnson at a gathering behind 10 downing street during the 1st lock down in may. 2020. his office is always kind. 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 the statement on the positive event held in the county street garden on the 20th of may, 2020 boris johnson didn't turn up, leaving it to a cabinet colleague to fend off repeated calls for him to resign private. i apologize again, unreservedly. fully upset that these allegations have caused the prime minister has asked for 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 copied 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. with those reports of a garden party, the government official number of people who died from covered 19 has just passed 850000. no surprise then, 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 have already slumped in recent months. whether this latest scandal translates into any real attempts by his party to replace him is less clear. nadine barber al jazeera london, south korean food has become the latest export from the country to see a rise in popularity. it's cinema and music industries of already swept the globe. and now the pandemic is pushing sales of korean instant noodles, especially in the west. lauren, but mainly reports in the street market. and

so 5th, my c ramayo noodles pack a punch, a staple, the south koreans, they're now winning the pallets around the world. since the pandemic demand oodles the spicy noodles have food leading south korean manufacturer. and non shim says the pandemic helped us be a, had a k food wave in america, canada, and europe. and that expanded noodle cells by 24 percent last year over 2019 the news has become an latest trend in a growing western appetite for all things south korean. that's including cape hot, k drama, and k movies. known him sales went up on to the oscar winning film. parasite presented a made up dish could jap gorey using its product. green ran some young roman fulfills reached new heights after it was used in the popular netflix show with

game and caper band bts pushed international sales of monday or dumplings by 90 percent of the 2 members got into a fight. so good food, a korean wave. how you play a huge role in the popularity of korea noodles and things like b t. s like the world light sensation b t s. and just seeing rahman and korean drama has played a huge role. people see it and they see that it's not just something that we eat out of convenience or something that broke college students. it. they see that it's something that people really enjoy. the humble in the new door isn't new to american society. if the main say in prisons as much as it is on the students plate . but south korean foodies claim their brands taste better and say there's only one

way to eat it the brings out that spicy flavor. i think it goes to the satisfaction of eating the noodles when you hear it. good slurp or who's western has gone on korean, food and culture. will they also take up this experience? why be shed on social media? who are about money out there? a, a hair, a rat trying to sniff out the land mines in cambodia has died. magowan, a giant african pouch right detected more than a 100 land mines during his career. he was light enough not to trip the explosives, and was able to cover and minute scenario that will take humans days longer while was awarded a metal for heroism. before retiring last year, he died peacefully of the ground, old age of 8. ah, it's good to have you with us. hello adrian for the going to hear.