an ideal but not a reality from the farmer. craven before me before where you were buried. beer bound for debit, table of brotherhood. i have a dream. my dream is that people may my daughter, the young people just have a full voice and don't feel targeted because of their race or ethnicity. ah, this is al jazeera ah oliver, i'm halima. he had seen that says the news or fly from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes, a historic vertex in a landmark trial, a german court convicts it former high ranking syrian security officer of crimes

against humanity for overseeing murder and torture. on an industrial scale brush and lead troops began their withdrawal from cast storm after helping government contain last week's violence, anti government, protests, lebanon, stay of rage. festus, shocked. i'm major highways to show their anger against one of the world's worst economic crises. and we were taking you to france where teachers walk out of the classrooms and frustration of the government's handling of colona virus restrictions and in sport. now about dark of age has been included in the draw for the 1st round of the australian o ben sterilized government to instill, deciding whether to revoke his bees up for a 2nd time and throw him out of the country.

oh, we begin this and user with the 1st conviction from the war in syria. oh, of a former high ranking intelligence officer for crimes against humanity, german court sentences, anwar ross land to life in prison. he was head of a security office in a damascus detention center were detainees were tortured and killed victims and relatives of some of those murdered happen, giving their reaction. and i say in la la, la, la, hey, in maxima, i think that this trial is the smallest step. we could walk towards justice and justice for us as family members of those forcibly disappeared the detainees, the missing our loved ones who were killed by the regime. justice will 1st be complete when we know their fate, when the dream for which they went to demonstrate in the 1st place is achieved,

that syria becomes a democracy or a state of justice, a state of equality in it as our hester shirts. exultant does, and as i know, as it matters a lot to me because i have a feeling that justice is starting to open its doors. it's a small step towards justice that we hope will be really holding on those who committed violations. those criminals who killed my son, who killed a syrian youth accountable, daddy and our rosalyn was found guilty of murder, torture, rape, and other charges. prosecutors say he personally oversaw the murders of 58 people and the torture of more than 4000 others and 20112012. the brutal acts were carried out, sits thee out her t prison and damascus, also known as hell on earth. the conviction in this landmark case was made possible thanks to germany's universal jurisdiction loss. when the syrian war, which began almost 11, you is ago,

president bashar allah said 3. she must be the keys of torture on an industrial scale. but until now, no one has been held to account. mohammed's olive delay is executive director of the soviet justice and accountability center, which documents and collect evidence. he joins us by skype from washington, d. c. and it's good to have you, withers. this must be a significant verdict. is it not? how much does this mean to you? it's very important indeed. as i started characterize what syria, it is very important. the whole iran experience. we built oil and senior being a former prisoner, my so i said quite ox torture myself, that the security agencies and see the operated above the law. beyond the law, the author did, you know, got shut off and unity and best started to see some and on the hands. of course, in germany it's unfortunate that happening others 0. it's only for one embarrass on it from the whole systematic machine off as being beating,

torturing and killing. but this is a good 1st step toward just what does that achieve for the families of those who being tortured or disappeared? what does this achieve for them to be, to be honest about the skill, this is this, this is what the. ringback rest lots of victims and provide very little of the rights of some of the because the magnitude of this atrocity is unfortunately massive. but it's very important because the trailer provide a great platform for stealing, precise from the family witnesses, survivors from our big families. the court, listen to what's been said, they're flat himself, was forced to respond to the allegations and comment on them, which is the history and city, and we know, but the question both officers do the view of you on the left or they would walk away just just fine without and think it will be in question, but also i don't mind them. so the way he responded under the acted to people and

how to give them the tribes. one of the common, the prosecutor asked him some of the witness to say, and then 5 are saying you, hank them from handcuffs from the ceiling of the, of the, of the building. and he said, or the feeling was too high. we couldn't even hang anybody there because i guess he did not regret what he did to those people. and i'm very glad to see him being on trial and see the sort of funding. are you expecting to see more trials like this in the days and weeks ahead? do you think this is the starts of a measure of accountability? to start as a mechanism out of the process. those cases are like one by one case case is basically one of the prosecute to find somebody physically present in germany or of any other countries that are less rand sweet, than having such a diction as well. then within the publish and untreated 11 and a week from now in the 19th, another trial. another court in germany, frank 4th, will start to try to follow with

a former doctor who is accused of torturing needs and the military hospital and health. and that's another important title, of course, there's a lot happening around. i feel like there's some extreme, as you who made it to admit if you just euro. but this site is not actually launching a process or a systematic process or program form title. it's separated. but yet it's very important, give given seniority over the years officer, and they can background. could you tell us about your personal experience at the hands of the syrian regime? i got, i mean, that was before the uprising, 5 in 20062006 potential that i sent by the agency based again, we're not worked with insecurity intelligence. although different catch was really terrible experience. i spent a very short time and then i know of my name as the military detention center. it's

a hell where you will be torture on that. right? well, you will be charged against domestic men and continuous and like practice. after a couple of months, you were transferred to other prison. i spent a lot of pressure from understanding human rights. well, those where the good days, where abuse and torture were not actually leading to death necessarily, and security. which is what we've all learned. we'll see that came out for financial award. what's been happening and find the detention facilities in 2011 uprising. this is don't all killing machines and the door turning kills people as a good aquatic practice of day to day businesses on those rashes. and, and so would you say this brings you some measure of relief it get, given your experience to see this man being sentenced to life in prison. but if i don't tell honestly, because i believe and holding the most responsible officials accountable, not only somebody who wasn't lamenting an order salon was implementing this policy

of use them to ensure understand, beating and killing what he did not actually design that policy. and if you want to target the practice of torture on the institution of torture, we want to brag we want to target those will design that policy on what it is less, and they're still in damascus of the day. okay, at mohammed's, i'll abdullah, thank you so much for sharing your experiences and your perspective with us here on al jazeera, we do appreciate it. sit on police say a senior military official has been killed, showing protests and cartoon security forces far tear gas t disperse, protested in the capitol, those and 60 the streets against a cool that a sponge the country into political deadlock. i've been reports of multiple injuries. demonstrators of pressure and military leaders for a return to civilian governments. muhammad fall joins his life from her to him. at mohammed just stop by telling us he was this official who was killed

just the circumstances of the killing are not clear to the statement that was issued by, by the police department, was only like, you know, an announcement of his death and condolences to his family the only detail they mentioned was that he was who was doing his duties in, in protecting the the protesters. so that's the only amount of detail, but we have received from the police so far and also the reactions. i'm not just clear on the part of the test as themselves will be trying to reach the the committees, but they're not picking up the phones. so as i said, it's very unclear so far, some of his colleagues, some of the police officers themselves, they said that the brigadier who was killed, his name was bremer. mad and that she was killed near the presidential police in confrontations with protest as while the police and security forces were trying to

push them back as they tried to march the was the presidential balis, and that he was stumped twice by a knife or stop by tonight, 2 different lives. this is an interesting development. dangerous development. indeed. yes, you are going to ask about that. so i was just going to see what it is an interesting development when it comes at a course in the course of ongoing tension in see done. just give us a sense of what the situation is like there and, and how you anticipate this might impact things going forward. well the, so far the demonstrations not been peaceful, incidents of what the police call aggression against the elements. it happened earlier this month in on demand and that through good from violent reactions, from the security forces. and we have seen the number of people killed so far since october 25th. more than 60 professors having killed us to have 330 to

but they are peaceful, but they never cut it. and what is any type of weapons? that's what they say. the incident to they is dangerous because the government might half of the military might have now to try to accuse the protest as a being violent of the people who are responsible or might say that there are elements within the protesters or some of their elements who would like to turn this into a, a blood confrontation and that of course, if it happens we'll derailed the, the, the, the, the approach itself, at the words something very dangerous. nobody had, once stopped in sudan. nobody wants a serious scenario or libya scenario or anything of that sort. and the, the system committees have, have always been saying this is going to remain peaceful forever. no matter how many people have be killed from among the protesters. but this is dangerous.

everyone now is asking questions, what happened? everyone needs clarity and so that for this everyone is afraid of this might lead to dangerous consequences in the country. okay, ma'am, it's all there. bring us up. so it's a, it's from the sydney capsule cartoon mohammed. thank you very much indeed. russian, that forces sauntered, withdrawing from catholics on falling the worst unrest and decades. the provides is set to be complete within 10 days because at presidents customs, so much a kayak has asked for the us for their help to quell days of anti government protest was $160.00 people were killed. nearly $10000.00 attains during the demonstrations. look at the premier build up in a short period of time. we're able to provide security for the citizen with provide help in still lives. in this situation, the peacekeeping mission of assisting the brother people of kazakhstan, has been successfully completed from robin foresee walker is monitoring those

developments from simply c in georgia. robin such as this meeting this overnight, mr. as far as president kind of is concerned. well he, he'd already said that they would be leaving within 10 days. the announcement that the today this process is beginning, it will probably take a few days. one of the reasons why it happens so quickly is because he, he always wanted to know for them to not stick around for too long. i think that would cause problems for him with the quite a large part of the population. understand to be worried about that issue. sovereignty, this is an unprecedented thing that's happened with foreign troops coming in because it's down. so it really looks like in the end, it was perhaps more of a symbolic show, the president. so kind to show that he was really in charge. okay, robin forest walker facing us from to please see robin. thank you very much. indeed

. what's another flashpoints involving russia and poland says talk see to fuse the crisis in history. ukraine, you get to reach any breakthroughs. washing troops having gathering on the ukrainian border racism fears of an invasion. v o. c talks in vienna, the latest friends of the go see ations this week to try and deescalate tensions between moscow and kiss. the polish foreign minister is currently chairing the grant. he says, the stakes the highest, they've been in decades. it seems very, very skillful war. and they're always c area is now greater than ever before. in the last 30, yes, meter is pointed to a major military build up in the region. we have recently heard the amount of security guarantees related to an important part of

a always the area. as the renewal discuss about spheres of influence. all of his aspects require a serious international assessment and the proper reaction. well, those jabari is loafers and moscow garcia. what is this group that's meeting in vienna all abates? why is the, oh, i see me thing about russia. well, this is a scheduled meeting in vienna. the 1st in 2022, for the 57 member state. their main job is to ensure security and to look at escalations of violence in europe. so try to prevent it from taking place. and as we just heard from the polish foreign minister, there's grave concern about what is taking place between russia and ukraine in the past few months. and it's very,

very serious for them. the u. s. and baset are to this organisation said that he didn't expect there to be a breakthrough today, but it's important to have these discussions. the russian ambassador to the organisation also came out and said that they were not in a position to give in to any demands at what they are doing as well within their sovereign right in terms of moving their troops anywhere within their own country. it is not up to any organization to dictate what russia can and cannot do with their defensive capabilities. now this is of course, the 3rd meeting this week that's been held to discuss the ongoing crisis between russia and the european countries about what is taking place between them and ukraine. all this started because ukraine wants to join nato, and the russians are saying that that is not something that will be acceptable to them. they don't want nature to expand a sports. the russian spokesperson for president vladimir putin said that earlier today that the talks this week has been unsuccessful. and they only highlighted the

divisions between russia and the west and european countries. and that's really, this is not going to go on forever. there has to be something that comes out of this. there has to be guarantees that ukraine will not join nato and that russia will continue to do what is in its best interest as it sees fit. we're also expecting the russian foremost are sort of a lot of to hold a press conference on friday. we'll get more details about where the russians see things moving forward. there has been an escalation of rhetoric in terms of what has taken place this week. all the dialogue and the meetings, they haven't had the assignment desired effect of calming the situation down. they've only highlighted the differences that continue to exist between russia and the west. dasa jabari there lie for us in moscow dancer. thank you. plenty more still ahead on the news are including the pandemic sees a worrying increase in child sexual abuse online and sports this reference watch

place a starring role, the africa cup of nations. teachers in france of walked out in a nation wide strokes a protest, government hand the government's handling of covered 19 outbreaks and schools. thousands had been marching through the streets of paris. the country is recorded more than 300000 daily cases in the last week. teachers are demanding more protective measures schools to combat the hon. the contagious omicron variance france reversed an earlier policy of quickly shutting down classes with infections . i speak to natasha butler. she's at that rally in paris. natasha. what are they saying at that? riley will teaches that be now walking across parts. we're now actually very close to the education

ministry, which is at the end of this demonstration protesters. i've been telling us that they are very upsetting. v to wait the french government covey rules in schools. now they're not against restrictions in schools, but what they say is that the rules that have been put in place, or too complicated or unmanageable, and what small they all, they say putting them at risk in the classroom even more of the virus than in previous months they say it, especially that's difficult at a time when the virus is circulating, so widely in france, we're having nearly record a daily new kind of infection rates here in france. now they want simpler roles, clear rules. they want more time to be able to put any new measures in place. they say at the moment that's just not what not happening. they also want things like move mosques more protective measures. when a tasha you mentioned that the case numbers are going through the roof and there is

a lot of confusion about your in paris. just give our view as a sense of what it's like, right. know what daily life is like there. well, daily life is well like daily life, really. i mean people are still going about their business. people are still going to work. some people have to a word from home. ah, but schools are still open and that is, well, that's one of the main reasons. the government says that it is necessary to put these rules in place because what the government are saying is that from the beginning of this pandemic, they've made it a priority to keep schools open the wide by education. they're worried about young people and their futures. they said the sent to the schools remain open and in fact, the prime ministers on kat said, has actually just announced just a few moments ago that he will meet or trade unions leaders. he'll meet teachers to

try and talk about how perhaps the situation in court schools can be improved. so it is easier for teachers and say that they feel more protected. i had such a difficult and valuable time natasha about their reporting live from paris. natasha. thank you. england's is cutting its minimum, coven 19 isolation period from seventy's to 5. when someone tests negative twice the policy shift comes as new corona virus case is search to record levels in britain. the spake in numbers is causing major disruptions to hospitals, schools, and transports. because of self installation policies, the new rules mean that staff will be able to return to work faster. india has reported its highest number of cool with 19 cases since may last year, almost 250 thousands in the last 24 hours. it's whole of the global trend of a sharp increase in omicron infections. but hospital admissions and debts are lower than previous waves. 380 people died in the past day, compared to

a peak of one than 4000 last year. more than 100000000 coven 19 vaccines were rejected by poorer nations in december, united nations agency. unicef says the jobs form the global program kovacs were turned away, mainly because of their rapid expiry dates per nations. have also been forced to delay supplies because they have insufficient storage facilities. 2021 was the worst you on record for online child sexual abuse. the internet watch foundation a u. k based charity says the wise and cases could be linked to the pandemic. that says locked owns lead to younger children, spending more time online, leaving them more vulnerable to predators. over the year, the foundation received a record $361000.00 reports of possible online abuse and took action against more than $250000.00 websites, which it confirms contained images or of or videos of child sexual abuse. it

also found a sharp increase in images showing 7 to 10 year olds. now being targeted and groomed by online predators is prompted the u. k. government to launch a new campaign to help adults recognize the warning signs of abuse and grooming. we'll see hargreaves as the ceo of the internet watch foundation, and she joins us now from cambridge in the u. k. how do you explain the rise in online sexual abuse of children? well, it's a mixture of factors really. so obviously during the pandemic by when people were online 247, we had perpetrators on mine and children online, so they were much easier to target. and, and so the that, that created a perfect storm whereby people were able to groom and coerce children into sharon sexualized, images, videos of themselves. we also have more people online throughout the world and more

platforms and more ways to access this material. and then, but on a positive note, we also have better technology in terms of going out, finding it and getting that content moved. and that's how he used to tackle a problem like this. because it is, is difficult, asked to get parents and kids just to switch off the world so connected. no, it will only become more connected is so would you do in order to protect children from this risk? when so many of us need to be on line to undergo our daily business? well, you know, the internet is a really good thing with don't deem nice and snapped, and particularly during covert where provided people with that connectivity in their education and their entertainment. but there is a very dark side to the internet. so what we need to do is raise parents wellness of the dark aside, and one of the issues that we see is that the 2 thirds of what we removed last year and bear in mind of almost 252000 web pages. we can see one or even thousands of

images so much about millions of images. but what parents don't realize is that these children are often in their bedrooms, mastic settings, they're actually in the family home, and yet being manipulated tricks and coerced into the sexual act. so what we need to say to parents is look, you have to have her take this responsibly, you have to ensure that we have age, appropriate supervision for all. so don't be scared of knowing how to do that. so we've got a 4 point or guide in place to help parents, which we call talk are, where they can talk to their children to understand what they're doing on the internet. some what sir apps and what platforms they're going on to agree. boundaries which the whole family needs to stick to, to learn how to show what the safety mechanisms are and then k to actually know how to set them safety mechanisms. they're all quite easy,

but we just need to ensure that parents not scared and terrified and think. i don't know how to deal with this technology, but actually realised that they do have responsibility to do that. and when we see 7 to 10 year olds, clearly a 7 year old is not emotionally or physically mature enough to know what's happening and that they're being manipulated. so we need to ensure that they have age appropriate seed, which is a bit at the said to come to parents to friends here. i mean, it is very hard working from home. it's very hard trying to take on the role of an educator as well. parents can't have eyes on their kids at all times. is there a rule for ferg, for governments to, to step in here and do more because it feels like the burden is on the parents so heavily and they are already stretched as it is? well yeah, obviously we have the online safety bill coming and the code is huge opportunity where there will be much more pressure on the internet companies to ensure the safety mechanisms that are in place. we fully support that. there is definitely

a job for using technical solutions using legislation using law enforcement. but at the same time, i appreciate the parents find it very, very difficult. it's a very stressful time, particularly during the pandemic. but you know, you have a responsibility if a child has a webcam and an internet connection, then if they are 71013, you do need to know what they're doing online. so i don't think you can just sort of step back and say it's too stressful is too busy. you just need to ensure you do know what they're doing online, but there are lots of resources there to help you. so you know, and this is that the same ways you wouldn't let a child walk out on the road. you would, you would teach that has cross road and i think the same applies. so there are resources to help parents and you kick government. certainly been very proactive in terms of this. do you think there's a rule for governments world wide to tackle this problem? because the internet isn't restricted to the u. k. and children worldwide are likely to be at risk as well. yes, absolutely. i mean all work,

we are moving images and videos that hosted all over the world and they featured children all over the world. and you know, it's not that, you know, it's child sexual abuse is a u. k. issue alone. it's, it's a global problem requiring a global solution, which is why the internet companies need to work collectively, law enforcement governments around the world. we cannot do this alone. so it's kind of 3 pung to pose, she know, the sort of awareness, raising education technology and then the legislative side. and we all need to work together because it has no reason to epidemic proportions. we need to ensure that children are protected indeed, and other harmful epidemic that you and your organization are raising. susie har, greeves, they're from the internet watch foundation. thank you very much for joining us on al jazeera. thank you. thank you. still ahead here on al jazeera supply chain disruption is caused by the pandemic push up prices for high schools, businesses and sports and bad news for player. he's hoping to have

a big impact next week's australian. ah hello, great to see you. thank you for joining in your world. whether report begins in the middle east and energy has moved from the eastern met right in said the la van. so we're seen some soaking rains for our bill. it was just last month. we were dealing with deadly flash flooding. now that's also moving into western you drawn on friday, but here's something else i wanted to show you. a band of rain stretching from the red sea right through to the gall for also getting a southerly push here. so we're going to does that the temperature and ria, $27.00 degrees. now by saturday. i do think some of these showers will be in doha, and that's going to cool the atmosphere. so we've got just a high $22.00 on sunday, which is where he should be for this and the year off the pakistan. plenty of sun 9

here in scenes pretty well where they should be is wall islam of bought a high of 19 degrees. next stop turkey, we're looking at this so low temperature is for is stan ball for degrees. there is some of that activity popping up around the levant. so ramallah some showers for you with a high 9 degrees. temperatures have lowered across heart tomb to just 34 degrees on friday and we've got our season all summer storms widespread falling in this area. so from her, ari right into the eastern side of south africa durbin scott high, twenty's, have degrees on friday, and now you're up to date. susan. ah frank assessments. this gracious is continued to weaken luca shenker, even though perhaps he believed in the beginning that it would strength informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people. that is one of the most hopeless things to come out of this critical debate. do you think a should be facilitated?

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this is al jazeera, quick remind to all the top stories. this are a former syrian intelligence officer has been sentenced to life in prison in germany. the courts convicted, unwell ruslan for crimes against humanity for abuses at a detention center in damascus between 20112012. russian light forces have started withdrawing from catholic storm following the worst unrest in decades. provides a set to be complete within 10 days, more than a $160.00 people were killed. new 10000 people detained during those protests and teachers in france of walked off the job and a nationwide strike to protest against the government's handling of the grown of iris pandemic. they say the policies in place don't go far enough to protect them in lebanon, public transport workers on strike. as the country struggles with an economic

crisis, they're angry over increase in fuel prices and a sharp to evaluation of the currency. the crisis has been caused by growing national debt and political deadlock, st coder, reports. they try to paralyze the country, public transport workers blocked roads across lebanon. in the hope the authorities will improve their living conditions and international increase in fuel costs as adding pressure to their financial challenges. but at the rapid depreciation of the local currency that made petrol unaffordable for many is the phone a lot going on as we demand, they fix the dollar rates, so we can live, we can survive with the fuel prices. we can't feed our children, we are in pain, lebanon inflation has reached triple digits, and is among the highest in the world that lead to fuel consumption, falling by nearly half as many people are no longer able to afford using their cars, filling them with fuel costs more than their monthly minimum wage that's now worth

$20.00 us dollars. he kinda went to work is cheaper than using my car, but i still have to pay one ford of my salary for transportation. a few months ago that nearly bankrupt, the government lifted subsidies on fuel because of a lack of foreign reserves and public transport costs increased by 400 percent. le mom. i know people who walk in for kilometers because they can't afford to pay for the ride. everything is too expensive. the economic crisis is likely to worse than as politicians blame for years of corruption. they'll have a recovery plan needed to unlock international financial aid. last year, i'm going to talk, we have to beg for money to survive. we are dying slowly. the situation is drastic . many people are also struggling with power outages, lasting 22 hours a day because the state can't afford to buy enough fuel. on this phone i pay 1000000 600000 mirrors for private electricity. that is more than an average salary

. what about the other bills? food inflation in lebanon is among the highest in the world. most people in lebanon are paid in the local currency at the official exchange rate of $1500.00 to the u. s. dollar, but the prices of goods and commodities are based on a parallel market rate. that's now more than $30000.00 lurise. there doesn't seem to be a clear way out of the crisis. the government hasn't convened in 3 months because of political infighting. all the while. desperation among many is increasing in what was once a middle class country. santa hunter, elder, cedar b route last year was one of the most costly for whether dishonest is in the u. s. a string of unseasonable tornadoes across the midwest last month, cost $145000000000.00 worth of damage. i'll just here is kristin salumi reports from mayfield, kentucky. one of the hardest hit locations. the destruction stretches for

miles house after house, business after business. even the county court house in mayfield, kentucky is damaged, seemingly beyond repair. the tornadoes that rip through the state and december, killing 77 people destroyed more than a 1000 structures. now the biggest challenge for us was trying to find a new place to live, you know, finding some place to rent, not possible. now if we want to stay in mayfield and everything has gone clean up cruise however are everywhere. with so much distraction, cleanup is not going to be quicker easy. they estimate that it will take another 160000 truckloads to carry away all the debris throughout the state. local volunteers have sprung into action. helping provide everything from clothing to toiletries while fema, the federal emergency management agency,

doors out cash to those who qualify for emergency housing assistance of the $9500000.00 of removed disburse so far to family u. 6.8000000 of that is for housing assistance that for that is the 1st option for families to find a place to live in the interim while they're rebuilding and fun finding that, that permanent solution, the mayfield grain company is among the many businesses that were destroyed, taking jobs with them. but duncan's pharmacy was able to reopen quickly and a new location. we're getting phone calls the day after the tornado. people calling, i apologize. not trying to be insensitive. i'm not a medicine. why do i do? the store has been part of may field for over 100 years and its current owner has no intention of leaving, or things used to be a certain way. they're not like that right now. just have patience and love for each other and with time i think we'll be able to grow back. maybe not who were before, hopefully stronger, but what least be able to to rebuild, rebuild. they must,

but it won't be easy. and the spring tornado season is just months away. kristen salumi al jazeera mayfield, kentucky. one of the problems you as president job whiteness struggling with his inflation is had levels not seen in 40 years. whitehouse flames global supply chain disruptions as a result of the pandemic. but other se, stimulus programs. so the main reason for the vice and prices. my can report some washington d. c. prices for groceries rent another needed items continue to saw. the onus or floor shops are particularly hard hit as they see their customers beginning to treat what every day purchases as luxuries. you can see have the money flows you can seeing when people are not getting the extras when they're getting copy trip coffee instead of capital. you can see it. you can see how they pay. if they're paying in coins,

be increased in prices is now being felt at every gas station and in every grocery store. i just think for a little more careful, i notice it in almost every product. fruits vegetables, which we buy, a lot of jelly products. i can't really see anywhere that the prices have gone down, but they've gone up bottlenecks in the supply chains of distributors all the primary reason. and these, and turn the direct result of stopping shortages as a pandemic continues to rage worldwide. at the states, though, the head of the federal reserve insists there's no need for panic. that this is a temporary situation. we will use our tools to support the economy and a strong labor market and to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched. it's a similar message coming from the white house, which points to a dropping unemployment rate as evidence that economic recovery is underway and is

adamant that the supply chain issue will be resolved. we are well positioned to attack the challenges of prices and costs head on. and that's exactly what the president and this administration are doing. we're putting that report sure to take you straight to the white house with you as president is giving an update on the cove its situation earlier. not really joking when you need something done calling the military live fema, we'll make sure it gets done. look um, we're about to get a coven 19 briefing from military medical teams on the ground on arizona, michigan in new york. they're part of a major deployment ordinations armed forces to help hospitals across the country. man exists surge and there are more crime virus 0 search and have an impact on hospitals. like all health care workers. they are heroes. and i'm grateful for what they do. but before we began,

i want to provide an update on our fight against coven 19. and announced new steps . first, the update. i know we're all frustrated as we enter this new year, alma crohn varian is causing millions of cases and record hospitalizations. i've been saying that as we remain in this pandemic, append making the on vaccinate. and i mean by this right now, both vaccinate unvaccinated people are testing positive. but what happens after that could not be more different. if vaccinated people test positive, they're overwhelmingly have either no symptoms at all, or they have miles symptoms. and if they're, if you're unvaccinated, if they test positive, there are so you are 17 times more likely to get hospitalized. as a result, they're crowding a hospitals, maybe little room for anyone else who might have a heart attack or an injury and an automobile accident, or any injury at all. and yes,

the unvaccinated or dying from coven 19. but here's the deal because we fully vaccinated nearly 210000000 americans. a majority of the country is safe from severe cove at $900.00 consequences. that's why, even as the number of cases among the vaccinated americans go up, dis, are down dramatically from last winter. for example, before the inspection asian requirements, the united states, i should be united airlines. i was, i was averaging one employee dying a week from co. 19 after implementing this requirement, a sled, the 99 percent of its employees being vaccinated. united had 3600 employees test positive, but 0 hospitalizations, 0 deaths and over 8 weeks. but as long as we have tons of millions of people who will not get vaccinate, we're going to have full hospitals and needless deaths. so the single most

important thing to determine your outcome in this pandemic is getting vaccinated. if you're not vaccinated, joined nearly 210000000 american people who are vaccinated. if you are vaccinated, joined the nearly 80000000 americans, we've got the booster shot with the strongest protection possible. vaccines are safe, they're free and they're widely available. so do it today, please for your sake, the sake your kids, the sake of the country. now i don't like, ah, ah, you know, outlined the next steps were taken against it. i like to out why the next steps are taken against over on the i'm a crown variant, vaccinations are obviously the most important thing we're doing. but they're, but they're not the only important thing. first masking, maskeen masking is an important tool to control the spread of coven 19. and when you're indoors and public places,

you should wear the mask. and you're out there. there are a lot, you know, lots of different kinds of mask out there. in the center for in the center for disease control prevention, the cdc says that we're in a well fitting mask, or of any of them is certainly better. they're not wearing a mask as well fitting well for over your nose. and but it's about one 3rd about one 3rd of americans report. they don't wear a mask law. as i've said in the last 2 years, please wear a mask. if you're in a, you know, i think his party of patriotic duty is not that comfortable. so pain a neck, but i've taken every act night janice president to require people to wear mask in federal buildings and airplanes and trains because they're internet and across state lines. i made sure that our doctors and nurses and 1st responders have the mask, they need never again, we're going to have our nurses using

a homemade mask and garbage bags over their clothing for hospital because they don't have the gowns where we more than tripled our stockpile on most protective, specialize and 95 mask since coming in office. this is going to make sure that there will be an ample supply of health care workers and 1st responders. well, so help make sure that high quality mask are widely available in ample supply at affordable prices. sold online stores. but i know that for some america mask is not always affordable or convenient to get. so next week will announce, announce how we are making high quality mask available to american people in america for free. i, you know, i, i know we all wish that we could finally be done with wearing mask. i get it. but there is a really important tool to stop the spread, especially of a highly transmissible. i'm a crown variant,

so please please where the mask. second testing, we're seeing real improvement and testing. when i got here, we were doing sure than 2000000 tests a day. now, and it's changed, none of these tests were at home or rapid test. this month, it's estimated that we will hit approximately $15000000.00 test a day. and we'll have over 375000000 at home, rapid test in january alone. and so huge leap. we've taken a number of steps including invoking the defense production act as early as last february to ramp up production. you know, and we're on track run track to roll out a website next week where you can order free test shipped to your home. and in addition to the 500000000 half a 1000000000 tests that are in the process of being acquired to ship to you host

for free to day, i'm directly my team to procure an additional half of the additional $500000000.00 more tests to distribute for free, i made a 1000000000 test in total to meet future demand and will continue to work with the retailers an online route and on an online retailers to increase availability. and for those who want an immediate test, we continue to add fema testing sites so that there are more than more free in person testing sites. for those you with insurance, you can get reimbursed for a tests a month. for those without insurance, we have over $20000.00 free testing sites all around the country. you can find the nearest testing sites for you by googling cove id test near me, google coded test near me,

and the help of lead our federal testing program. i've talked, i've taught, i mean i've kept dr. tom, i hope i pronounced ingle ingles me, correct? that right. ah and i, he's one of the world's leading infectious disease experts and i'm grateful for is willing to help tackle this challenge. 3rd thing today will discuss our hospital response efforts. just saying say this x can't just since thanksgiving. over 800 military and other federal emergency personnel had been deployed to 2004 states tribes and territories. including over 350 military doctors, nurses and medics helping staff, the hospitals are in short supply. this is on top of more than 14000 national guard members that are active activated in 49 states. these appointments my direction and thanks to the american rescue plan,

are fully paid for by the federal government. we've shipped over 5500000 pieces of protected personal protective equipment gloves. gowns mass to protect front line health care workers for shipping more treatments of coven 19, which includes antiviral pills than any point during this pandemic. and addition, i've directed freeman to work with every state territory. the district called me to make sure they have enough hospital bed capacity. today, i'm announcing our next deployment of 6 additional federal medical teams, a total of more than $120.00 military medical personnel to 6 hearted states, michigan, new york, new jersey. oh, hi o. rhode island, let me close this. it's been a long road. but what's clear as we get through this, when everybody does their par, no matter where you live, no matter your political party is kind of fight this together. unfortunately,

our military stepping up as they always do, they're either sitting on the sidelines and we're standing in the way you haven't gotten vaccinated. do it? personal choice impacts us all our hospitals are countries. i make a special appeal, the social media companies and media outlets. please deal with the misinformation and disinformation sanders shows as the fab, colbert ninety's, one of the most formative, when ms. america's ever faced. we've got to work together not against each other. we're america. we can do this to the military, medical teams in the ground. thank you. for all and everything you're doing and i'll stop here so we can get to that briefing started. thank you for taking the time. this is or

that american were wondering why did you direct your help? okay, we've been listening there to the u. s. president joe biden, who has been outlining the next steps that he's planning at to take to combat the surge in a crone of virus cases across the us. and he touched on free masks. he touched on the military. let's say listen back in that to that briefing with a realtor right, we'll start in one minute. all right, mr. president. we'll start with administrator criswell whose team had thema as you

know, has been on the front lines of the coven response over to you, administrator, and every real lot on, on the patients to president. thank you, jeff. i have mr. president, as you know, he may have been working in the cove admissions since day one. i'm our objective has always remain the same to protect and save as many lives as possible. i had during every disaster, famous strength is our ability to coordinate with other stakeholders with our federal partners with our state partners with private non profit part. busy okay, well that feed has just been cut, but just to remind you, we were listening there to you as president joe biden. he was outlining the measures that's a they are planning to rural low to north cope with the surgeon corona virus cases where he was atlantis, frustration, the millions of americans who remain unvaccinated, seeing that vaccination,

or it helps, or he was all su outlining the fact that masks are going to be really important part in their way to manage the pandemic going forwards and said that they will be ruling out high quality masks and making them available for free at 2 americans. but also we are waiting to hear more details about that announcement. that the military is now being called in to help hospitals in the us, which are overwhelmed, let's say across live to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. she chose is no life on washington d. c. kimberly, we're, we're getting a sense there from joe, by the measures that he is taking. just give us a sense of what more can he do because masks and vaccines. they have been available in the us for quite, quite

a while. now it does seem that the u. s. is still in this crunch point as cases keep rising. right, and there's a lot of frustration you heard the president saying off the top that he's frustrated. he knows americans are frustrated, but there wasn't a lot that was new in what the president had to say just now. and that is certainly going to be frustrating for americans who are looking for answers. they were told that they, if they were vaccinated, they would be safe. but now the con variant has proven otherwise that many people are vaccinated are getting breakthrough infections. in fact, we know from public health officials now, but given the fact that this is so very different in terms of its contagious ability, that it's likely that all americans will contract our crime at some point. and there's also frustration with some of the guidance coming out. you heard the president, they're talking about masks that they will ultimately even be made available for

free for americans. but many are going. why wasn't this done already? before the surgeon cases, you have to listen to to the president's. he talked about the acquiring of new testing that is going to be made available soon. again, we should point out that the vice president come, harris has been speaking here in the united states. i'm one of the local networks and was asked and pressed about that timeline and said that it would be happening shortly. in other words, there is still no clarity for americans in the midst of these record, high infections, record, high hospitalizations that are once again in part to be a crime. very good about when they will get not only these math for free, something that's never been available in the united states on a wide scale, but also the testing. now the president, we should point out, did miss speak there he, he, when he was announcing about the test that will eventually be made available to

americans. this is also not a new announcement. he did say last month that there would be $500000000000.00 and then he said, just now an additional $500000000.00. he meant to say, or rather that's correct, $500000000.00 in total, it will be $1000000000.00, and this is significant. but again, the numbers are a result of the ramping up of the defense production act. but again, they're not in the hands of americans just yet, and the surge is happening now. and so little ongoing criticism of this white house and it's handling of the cobit $900.00 pandemic, is that the president knew this was going to be a difficult winter. in fact, he said as much in mid december warning that due to the unvaccinated americans and pressing americans to get vaccinated, this was likely to be a winter of death and severe illness. so given the fact that the president knew that many are questioning why these tests and math weren't available sooner. ok, kimberly how can i bring it up to date for the us will be

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