because that's the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together. that's why they are so important. we make those connections ah. ready inflation in the u. s. is it a 40 year high as pandemic disruptions forced households and businesses to pay more for everything? ah, although i made room for again, this is al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up. mr. speaker, i want to apologize. a see now going to do the decent thing and resign pressure amounts on british prime minister boris johnson to resign after he admits

attending a party, while millions were locked down. no break through may. so russia say the differences remain after a high stakes meeting over ukraine. and britons, prince andrew, fails in his bid to dismiss a sexual abuse case against him in the united states. ah, inflation in the united states is increased to levels not seen in 40 years, with the price surge affecting almost everything purchased by consumers and businesses. housing, petrol, food and clothing of all become more expensive. the white house is blaming disruptions to the global supply chain, but inflation is a growing political risk for the democrats, as republicans continue to blame stimulus measures for overheating the economy. let's go live down to washington dc al jazeera mike. hannah can tell us more, so inflation in the us running at

a 40 year. hi mike. what is the white house saying about it? well indeed, yes, the chairman of the federal reserve is insisting that this is a temporary problem. he acknowledges that there are massive supply chain issues, which the white house says it will eradicate at some stage. it's been saying that for a period of time, however, from the white house, as well as from the federal reserve, the, the position will the attitude that this is a temporary situation that the download in an unemployment figures that was released last month indicate that the economy is well on its way to recovery and this is what a white house spokesman will demand from the national kind of economic council has to say. we never index too heavily on, in the individual one month of data in any direction. but it would note that we saw in prices from november to december, a decline in the rate of growth of the prices for food at home,

which the technical st. food that people buy in the grocery store. and we saw a drop in the price of energy both of the gas pump, but also natural gas and winter heating costs. most independent forecasters continue to project that we will see moderation in price increases over the course of 2022. that republicans continued to insert, set a reason for this massive surge and inflation is the stimulus checks that the democratic administration ah, it is insisting on continuing to pass. so from the republicans that they blaming the administration directly at the bite and administration though, is absolutely adamant that these supply chain issues are the motive force behind it . but beyond all of this, adrian is a very key issue, and that is what cannot be predicted. is what impact the ami kron variant will have

on the economy. and one thing that's become clear in these figures is that it's not only people who get sick during a pandemic. it's the economy as well as 0. my can reporting live there from washington were rising, inflation is a worry right across the world. not just the u. s. prices in the world's richest economies are at a 25 year high. that's fueling concerns about the cost of living crisis and increasing pressure on central banks to raise interest rates. the situation is exceptionally bad in turkey, inflation their climb to a near to decade high in december, on the back of a weakening lira. but china is fucking the trend, inflation. there is slowing. some economists predict that an interest rate cut could come soon. let's bring in claudia sam, who joins us live from washington. she's a senior fellow at the jane family institute at a former former economist for the council of economic advisers at the white house. good to have you with us. so the white house says that it's the pandemic disruptions to the global supply chain. republicans,

those say that are continuing stimulus measures of over heated the economy. why is inflation wanting so high of the moment? but any time that we have such a complex situation as we do right now, there are going to be many causes. yes, there is more demand in united states and in a lot of countries, as we've reopen, people have gotten back outside in the us. there was a big relief package that was passed early in 2021. the got a lot of money in people's pockets. frankly, i think that was good policy. it was a lifeline because prices were going to rise. the coven pandemic has wrought dis, just massive amounts, human tragedy and disruptions to our global economy. in the united states, people have a bit of a cushion to get, you know, to be able to still buy consumer spending. even if you take prices into account is

rising at a very rapid pace in united states. but we need inflation to get under control. it is too high right now, and the thing that has to be done is not at the federal reserve, the white house congress, all governments around the world have got to get this pandemic under control. j pounds said yesterday, you want inflation down. we got to get out of this pandemic. the fed and no central bank can do that. okay, so do you think we're going to see interest rate rises in the near future? or we are just going to wait until the pandemic blows itself out. no, i think we will see interest rate increases this year, and i think it will be appropriate. but we are going to continue to have this wild ride both in our lives and in the economy. as long as the pandemic continues, we continue have these waves. keep in mind in the united states. this 2021 was a really good year in terms of recovery. inflation is the dark spot. but we have

consumer spending and investment and the decline and the unemployment rate was 2 and a half percentage points. and you got to go back 40 years to find that to trade and unemployment under 4 percent. so it's time for central bank or it's time for the fed. probably just they don't need to push as hard because the recovery is going. but really it's going to be tough to get an inflation under control. get it back down to 2 percent like they want to see if the pandemic keeps coming out us like it has been. but if prices continue to rise and interest rates also rise, life is going to get even more expensive for us in the near future. isn't it? well, the prices are always rising. what matters at the end of the days? do you have the money you need to buy what you need? and up to this point, that has been the case in the united states both because of the extraordinary relief that when all the way up to middle class families. and we have seen in recent months for the, you know, the same time the inflation has been taking off wage gains among low wage workers

in the united states. that frankly, we haven't seen in decades. so there are, there is a, there's a lot going right for people in the economy right now, but inflation is a huge specter in it, and rightly so, i mean, it can cause problems. if it continues, i see a re sign of it moderating. but again, they're, the fed cannot solve this problem. i mean, they could, but it would be very disastrous in terms of really having to impoverish people. so they just can't go out by as much. and that brings prices down. that's not what we want to do. it, we don't have to. there are measures to work on the pandemic. good 20, claudia. many thanks to me for being with us, claudia, from them in washington dc. the world health organization says that over 15000000 people confronted covered by team

during the past week, which is higher than at any time during the entire pandemic. it's more than 50 percent higher than the previous 7 days. and the world health organizers, organizations says the number of deaths is rising. let's be clear. why loamy chrome cose less severe disease? done? delta? it's remains a dangerous virus, particularly for those who are unbox united. almost 50000 business a week is 50000 does too many in the u. s. the number of people in the hospital has gone up by as much as 33 percent and deaths by about 40 percent in the past week. health officials expect the cases driven by the omicron variant to peek in coming weeks will the i'm a chrome very, it is feeling a surge of new cases while across europe, austria, france, germany, italy and norway are among the countries which opposed to their highest, ever daily numbers of infections in the past 24 hours. britain's prime minister was

facing growing coals for his resignation. after apologizing to the nation for attending a party at his official london residence during the height of the corona virus lockdown in 2020. at the time the government was enforcing strict measures confining millions of people to their homes. and to see was andrew simmons report. ah, horace johnson has never been under such pressure from his own party, the opposition of the people who elected him. he set out to try to defend himself. the key question, did he attend a party for around 40 guess in his back garden, that appears to have breached cove? it restrictions. first, he tried to address the british people. i want to apologize. i know the rage. they feel with me i with the government i lead when they think that in done street itself,

the rules are not being properly followed by the people who make the rules. and when i went into that garden, just after 6 on the 28th of may, 2020, to thank groups of stock who going back into my office 25 minutes later to continue working. i believed implicitly that this was a work event. with hindsight, i should have sent everyone back inside after months of deceit and deception. the pathetic spectacle of a man whose run out of road his defense, his defense, that he didn't realize he was at a party ha, it is so ridiculous that is actually offensive to the pretty ha with the whole country was locked down. he was posting boozy party in downing street, is he now going to take a decent thing and reside johnson didn't say yes or no,

i want her. i want to repeat that. i thought it was a, a work event and apologizing again and telling opposition leader care stammer. he should wait for the results of an inquiry into revelations of several parties in downing street and whitehall. i regret very much that we did not do things differently or that evening. stammer repeatedly rounded on johnson, the party's over prime minister. the only question is, when the british public kick him out, will is party kick him out, or will he did the decent thing and resign yet in johnson's constituency, in north west london, many who watched wouldn't accept his apology. i'm angry and i just think he's a man that doesn't take me sponsibility for what he's done. typical porous laughing it for it's to be expect. vega me, is fans to come back with, with, with something what, whether or not it's true or noise,

but it's probably not true. this crisis is being called part again by the media. johnson is trying to write it out much rest though with the outcome of the inquiry into downing street and whitehall parties, and what the police do about the latest revelation. for which more rest, though, on whether the conservative party decides johnson is now a liability and has to go. and through simmons al jazeera, we'll get a weather update thanks to you on al jazeera than the world's forgotten war. as fighting continues in yemen, the un warms that most of the population urgently needs humanitarian assistance. and yet another twist on the direct joke of acreage saga as the tennis world number one hopes to stay on to defend his australian open title. ah

the hello. thank you for joining in. here's our headlines for the americas, another atmospheric river for western canada, the pacific northwest. it's a narrow band of rain and its just ringing out its moisture over this area. lights i'm, it's all said and done. vancouver could pick up to a 100 millimeters of brain to these we go. temperatures are coming up after that bitter cold. so new york at 6 degrees. but don't get too used to it. we'll put this a few days out on saturday. paint the colors on the dark of the purple to lower the temperature or back into the freezer here, new york minus 6, but it will feel about minus 14 for the u. s. gulf coast, the se stud settled, i nashville, may be picking up a few showers really across tennessee. now to the west. it's really after washington and oregon. more for california. we've got settled conditions, los angeles, 23 degrees. the trade winds are scooping up moisture off the caribbean sea that's running into the caribbean coast of central america. and we've had training storms in brazil, so this is the thunderstorms that park themselves over an area and just run back

and forth. and of course, we've seen the flooding towards the north east of brazil, and also the se, but south of that we've got extreme heat by jablonka. you could set a new record temperature by the end of the week. that's it. we'll see again soon. take care. ah, with some people, mary, for love of is it can be a commercial transaction. yasemin were 3700 euro payment just for the march condron. alger 0 well meets men and women using marriage as an illegal passport to europe, not a 4 attempts to get to organize a sham marriage at a financial and emotional cost. but then he left me for a woman 33 years older than him. marriage for sale on al jazeera lou.

ah, ah, hello again. this is al jazeera. let's remind you of my news. the saw inflation in the united states has increased the levels not seen in 40 years, but the price surge affecting almost everything crunch of by consumers and businesses. the white house is blaming disruptions to the global supply chain. the world health organization says that over 15000000 people contracted coven 19 in the past week. the highest ever figure. during the pandemic, w. h o says the number of deaths is also rising. of britain's prime minister is facing growing pressure to resign, offered missing that he attended a garden party in downing street during the lockdown of 2024. his johnston says he thought it was a work related event, apologized to m p's. on wednesday,

a high stakes meeting between washer and nato over ukraine ended without breakthrough. both sides say that significant differences remain during what they described as frank and open discussions. al jazeera store sobari reports for moscow . a meeting nearly 3 years in the making. as high ranking members of the russian foreign and defense ministry join me to officials and brussels, the meeting lasted longer than expected. but nato secretary general remain steadfast, that he would not accept russia's demand that ukraine will never become a member of the alliance. this crosses is a, it's, it's a making of russia. and therefore, this important dave, deescalate ukraine has the right to self defense. o godson showing an u. m. o, a family talker angle for so many dollars when they, than they dollars,

and they to help them to uphold of dr. right to, to self defense despite the united states assurances that it wouldn't talk about ukraine security without ukraine being present. it says this meeting was a chance for the 2 sides to begin repairing their relationship. a relationship that's been going backwards since russia annex crimea in 2014 and nato's expulsion of 8 russians after accusing them of spying. nobody to presume. bush book of wooded, nate to opt for the policy of the term russia. we will respond with measures of counter the turns, or if it uses the policy of intimidation, we will respond with counter intimidation. if it looks for vulnerabilities in the russian defense system, we will look for nato's vulnerabilities. it's not our choice, but we don't have other options. if we don't overturn this current very dangerous course of events and you will despite the lack of an official agreement, the talks are being seen as a success,

if only because they didn't ends in acrimony, despite rushes continued to insist that he has no intention of in vain crane there seems little sign of an immediate end to the crisis door. such a worry al jazeera moscow. a more suit against britons. prince andrew is moving forward in the us after a judge rejected efforts to dismiss the sex abuse claim. virginia jeffrey says that she was 17 years old when she was traffic to have sex with the u. k. royal and other men. prince andrew's lawyers tried to have the case thrown out sizing a 2009 deal. she signed with the convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, the pride the prince has consistently denied the claims out. as here as gabriella lozano is in new york, where that civil lawsuit against present prince andrew, is on the way. what appears that this is going to a trial, and the trial will be towards the end of this year, assuming, and this is a big assumption here that prince andrew and his lawyers decide not to settle out

of court. that could very be a very real possibility at this point, but assuming that does not happen, it's very much now going down a legal process to a trial at the end of this year here in federal court in new york. so a couple of questions you ask yourself, does prince andrew have diplomatic immunity? the answer to that by most legal analysts is no, only the queen, queen and her immediate household have diplomatic immunity. he does not fall under that category, but will he be present at the trial in new york? the answer to that is also know that highly unlikely. and that's because this is a civil case right now and not a criminal case. and in civil cases the, the courts can not ask for the u. k to extradite someone to the us for a civil case such as this, if it was criminal, that's different,

but this is civil. so it's highly unlikely, almost unfathomable, that he will actually be there at the court, assuming his trial goes forward. so then you ask yourself, what are his big risk? well, does he have to give testimony under oath for this trial? the answer to that is yes. he most likely will the world health organization chief is accused ethiopia as government of creating hell with its blockade, a little integrated region. ted ross on a gallery as us who's from to grey, says that a blockade on food and medicine is an insult to humanity. he stress that he's speaking without bias. if he open forces have been battling to brian rebels since november 2020. the situation is serious. nowhere in the world you would find a crisis like what you see in the northern part of your, especially into gray. none. no, no, where in the world are we witnessing hell like integrity?

the commission says that it means nearly 4000000000 dollars this year to help victims of the civil war in yemen. the un estimates 13000000 people are at risk of starvation. it's calling on the iranian backed who fee and the saudi backed government to negotiate an end to 7 years of contrast to restarting on a challenging the military escalation i described in this counter last month has accelerated, as the part is dropping down on military options. 7 years down the road of war, the prevailing belief of old war insides seems to be that a thing sufficient harm on the other will force them into submission. however, there is no sustainable long term solution to be found on the death and feed. therefore, i will continue to stress that warring parties can should,

and indeed must talk even if they are not ready to put down their arms more now from our diplomatic, it's a james pays that the un in new york. well, it's very grim picture from yemen. remember, the country has been in turmoil for more than a decade, and war has been raging in the country for almost 8 years. well, with that backdrop, what has happened in the last month? things have got much worse. they say there's been a deterioration of the humanitarian situation, an escalation by all sides of that military action. and we also heard from a senior humanitarian official from the united nations. again, briefing the security council saying that over 15000 people have been deployed, displaced in the last month, and the number of civilians that have been reported killed is 358 that's tied for the highest figure. at any point in the last 3 years, very grim news from yemen often described by people as the forgotten war. but it's

a war that continues to rage. at least 30 people have been killed since the start of this year and fighting on the border between columbia and venezuela. the columbia government says the rebel e l n fighters battling a dissident group of former fall rebels. i'll 0 allison run peers, he reports from boggart off where he met a farmer, has been displaced by the violence for the 2nd time in less than a year. colombian store owner height organ missed and his family had to flee, escalating violence between norm groups. last march, they left venezuela for columbia alco region. they're now here in the capitol of water searching for help and shelter minutes. we've got a small sewing venezuela and at times we sold things to dissident that was enough to be targeted supported. when the killing started last week, the brother of a commander arrived and told us you have 2 options. you can come with us, meaning become part of the guerrilla forces,

or you're going to have to leave because the e l n, u. d lane is columbia, the largest remaining rebel group, after the fight made peace with the government in 2016. but this is factions of the far could since appeared, and in recent weeks violence in the lawless region along the border with venezuela has been growing. some 30 people have been killed since the beginning of the year, while others have been kidnapped or forcibly recruited or displaced the fighting that create the knots of beer in the population. many people fear that the region is going back to the the call that they live the big and then between the land and the far back then i'm the human impact has been really, really severe. the violence has reached a new level since a long standing truth between the arm groups broke down. the last word between the

den 5 rebels and the lamb, les a 1000 people that and displaced almost 60000. the colombian government now blames have been a swell for the current violence, accusing the venezuelan government of sheltering the on groups in their territory. something the government in kodak has denied people from towns along the border, a peek into the streets, demanding peace. colombian president, divan. duke is deploying 2 battalions to regain control of the region, but some experts believe more troops won't solve the problem. and then i'll get you an order make awfully, a rica still has a huge unresolved conflict, and people have no confidence in the states. it already has the highest amount of soldiers per square meter in columbia. sending $600.00 more trips will not make a difference. what's needed is to restart patient negotiations with the l in that ok. and until the troubling that alca can be contained, the humanitarian crisis will only continue to grow spreading here to the capital

and beyond. allison and purity as jesse will gotta, my jerry a has listed. it's been on twitter, the government suspended the social media platform 7 months ago. after it removed a post from president mohammed bahati, the threatened regional separatists. the u. s. tech company has agreed to open a local office in nigeria to engage with the government and comply with local laws and tax obligations. australia's immigration minister has yet to decide on where the tennis world number one novak joke of it can stay. with the australian open drawer to be announced in the coming hours earlier on wednesday joker, which admitted to breaking corona, virus isolation rules in serbia. last month he says that he attended an interview after a positive curve at 19 test, describing it as an error of judgement. he had his australia visa revoked after arriving last week. though that was overturned by

a court. the government could still overrule the court and sent him home. sarah clark reports the story is far from over. no joke of its release. the stipend in a bid to explain a timeline of covered 19 tests in december and put to rest what he describes as misinformation. on his instagram account, he said he did attend a children's awards event in serbia on december 17th after testing positive. but he says he only received the p. c. r. test results out to the event at the time job which says he was asymptomatic and felt good. but he did acknowledge an error of judgement when he did a face to face interview the following day when he knew he was positive on reflection, he says this should have been rescheduled. junk of its also admitted that a member of his team took the wrong box on his astride and travelled declaration document. when he arrived in australia last week, the declaration stated he had not traveled 14 days prior to his arrival when he had in fact flown from serbia despite the world's number one tennis plaque and see that

this was a human error and not deliberate joke of it. could still be deported from australia and have a 2nd visa cancelled. that decision lies in the hands of the immigration minister alex hook. he says he still considering the australian government's position. they started open gets underway on monday in melbourne with the drawer set to take place later on thursday. all ticket holders, age 12 and over must be fully vaccinated against curve at 19, or have a valid medical exemption, as is apparently the case for joker, which city has gone through 6 locked downs during the pandemic. many locals are frustrated on ciocca ventures, behavior i saw because we trying to do the talking because i'm concerned manipulated with these saying that he's feel that the full wrong on can be one rule for one. and one of the other, when we've all been my tablet vaccination to keep that jobs,

he shouldn't have been given a visa. so we knew exactly what his status was and what he's been doing. but equally, you know, once he's, he wasn't really very polite to just walk him up. i don't like his arrogance. i don't fear i feel he's come across as an he's above it all. but it does feel like we have um, stuffed up on our side. and i say it's a, it's a bit of a mess. ah, it is good to have you with us. hello adrian for the get me here and know how the headlines and al jazeera inflation in the united states has increased to levels not seen in 40 years. with the price surge affecting almost everything purchased by consumers and businesses. the white house is blaming disruptions to the global supply chain, but inflation is a growing political risk for the democrats as republic.