all hey, of the locked down. expose it. privilege and poverty during a crisis on a jesse at r o b, the hero world news, right? ah washer. for another rise in new coven, 19 cases. in india. as concerns grow about a religious gathering, involving hundreds of thousands of people. ah, other can vanelle, this is al jazeera life from dover. also coming up the u. s. supreme court blocks a rule that requires workers at large companies to be fully vaccinated or tested regulate for cove at 19 britons. prince andrew is stripped of his royal and military titles by his mother, queen elizabeth as he faces

a civil trial in the u. s. for sex abuse and running out of time argentina tries to strike a deal with international lender is ahead of a march deadline. we speak to the economy minister ah. the number of new covered 19 infections in india has risen to more than 260000 in the past 24 hours, driven by the army con variant. that's as hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims gather for a religious festival in the state of westbank. all their affairs, the gathering could be a so called super spreader event. have natal drugs now live from new delhi? have the, how worried our authorities about these religious gatherings mean, given the case numbers right now? quite worried actually because at this point most of the country has been under

some form of restriction for a couple of weeks. and so the fear is that these gatherings could undo all the precautionary measures. the country has been taking for some time. now as we speak, there are various festivals being celebrated across the country. some states has band these large gatherings, but many just have some core with 19 protocols like vaccines and tests. and they are continuing, for example, in the northern state of other foundation. now, despite all the carbs there, and all these measures, cases had been rising at the side even before to day's mega event. for example, dozens of police officers who have been deployed therefore, sometime have tested positive. the city itself has seen cases rice, 10 times in just one week. the largest gathering is in the state of west been gone . now that state has become a coven hotspot of sorts. where new corbet 19 cases have surged to all time high.

now public health experts are reminding the government that just last year we had a situation during the delta surge when millions of people across india continue to get infected as the so called super spread of religious gatherings continue. and that is again, that fear this time. how near micron is milder than dealt her? so what are the numbers like in terms of people ending up in hospital? so hospitalizations have remained relatively low. it's not as surge as we're seeing in cases, but there has been a gradual optic now prime minister movie has really to waited in our states once again to make sure hospitals have enough beds. there are enough facilities like oxygen supply and hospital se the all well equip because most beds are empty. but there are some concerns. for example, hundreds of healthcare workers have fallen sick so that has led to concerns over

staff shortages. now this has all to impacted other medical treatment that's not covered. 19 related, several surgeries have had to be post on. the other concern is this trained this good take on other resources like testing? now, authorities have calculated that, given how virulent the your micron variant is, cases could break previous records. and so the testing could become a bit of a problem. and so and now the advisory is that younger people who are, you know, a symptomatic should quarantine when they come in contact with the colon 19 patient and avoid testing. i thank you very much for that happening. tell oh, okay, to some breaking news now. and the australian government has canceled tennis. donovan chocolate, his visa for a 2nd time. he now faces deportation. the 1st time, of course, he was sir, detained, an immigration detention hotel. and then

a court ruled that his vaccine exemption should stand because he had previously had coven 19. now are the swelling government has cancelled his visa, as we said, for a 2nd time saying that his unvaccinated status may, in fact, pose a risk to the community. now this has been a decision, essentially discretionary powers from the immigration minister alex hawk to again cancel jock of which is these are, this has been a hugely controversial case in australia around the world. in fact, for the australia, for novick brockovich to participate in the australian open, there are we will bring you more on this breaking story. as it comes to hand, china is facing a test of its so called 0 covered policy ahead of the beijing winter olympics. in february, the nearby city of the engine is under strict law done with $41.00 locally transmitted

ami con cases reported on thursday. travel in and out of the area has been severely restricted. their affairs at the outbreak could disrupt the winter games and also the lunar new year celebrations next month, replenished his monitoring developments from hong kong. the focus of china's covet efforts is in 10 chin. now they're not exactly sure what the source is and change in, but they do know that the chain of transmission looks to have gone through primary school kids. now change in to give you an idea is just about a 30 minute train ride to bay ging where the wind games will be held. so that's why this alarm around this cluster in change in they taking no chance with the olympics . there's a closed loop system, so that athletes and a travelers will be separated from residence there. and authorities of also now announced that they will be ramping up more rigorous checks for inbound travelers into bay ging. there is also a suspected case of coven,

19 in the southern district of fung tie. that believed to be linked to the change in cluster as well. as we know, one case in china is one to many. there are around 140 cases every day in china at the moment, and that is causing some concern in the country. now chasing cobra 0 is something that we know a lot about here in hong kong to there are currently are under around 10 local cases. every day, but there are some districts that are more alarming than others. the western district of chin moon that is under mandatory testing right now because 2 nurses have tested positive their the philippines as extended measures to combat covered 19 search until the end of january. the country is experiencing its highest infection rights since the pandemic began. restrictions now include a been on vaccination people using public transport in the capitol. manila new cases had a record of more than 34000 on thursday. the u. s. supreme court has

blocks the biden administration's vaccine or test mandate for large companies. the plan would have forced nearly $80000000.00 americans to get covered 19 jabs or take regular tests. if they worked for company with more than 100 employees, the court voted 6 to 3 against the mandate saying that it's an improper imposition on the lives and help of those affect it. but it's ruled health care workers can be mandated to get the job that makes it a legal requirement for more than 10000000 people in that sector. and the rollings came as president biden announced, more military medical personnel will be sent to help self hospitals and white house correspondent, kimberly halgert reports. i know we're all frustrated as we enter this new year. overwhelmed by a record number of i'm a crime infections us president joe biden announced he was deploying more military medical team to at least 6 states. it's a surge bite in blames on the millions in the u. s. still and vaccinated right now,

both vaccinated, unvaccinated people are testing positive. but what happens after that could not be more different. public health officials report the majority of us hospitalizations and death were made among the on vaccinated to help control the i'm a kron very spread bite in has announced a new plan to distribute mass nationwide. next week will announce, well, last how, where i'm making high quality mask available to american people. the american people for free last month, the white house also announced it was ordering 500000000 co with 900 test on thursday by didn't announce his administration was doubling that number. but as for when americans could receive those tests, his vice president commer harris, couldn't say shortly though they're going to go out really mean been order. they've been ordered. we have to look at the current information, i think is going to be by next week. but soon, absolutely,

the lack of availability has led to widespread frustration with the biden. harris administration's response, especially when last month, the president ward, he expected a high number of cobra infections. we're looking at a wizard of severe illness and americans were asking why more wasn't done sooner. one analyst points out america, that unique system hampers the response. so much of the us health care system is outside of the federal government. it is privatized. it is for profit, so having the government coordinate everything is, is quite difficult. the 1st batch of ad home covered tests are expected to be distributed by the end of the month on friday, details of how americans can access those tests through a new government website. are expected to be made public. kimberly help get al jazeera washington

u. k prime minister bars. johnson's government is accused of holding more room breaking parties during corona virus locked on. the telegraph newspaper reported to about 30 staff attended 2 separate events inside downing street. that's the prime minister's office and its private garden. it reportedly featured alcohol and loud music until the early hours. events were held on the eve of queen elizabeth's husband, prince phillips funeral, while the u. k was observing a ban on indoor activities in queen elizabeth has stripped her son, prince andrew, of all minute tree and royal titles. it comes a day after a judge and the u. s. rule, the civil law suit accusing him of sexual abuse. can continue virginia as your fray picture hair with the prince says she was forced to have sex with him and other men when she was 17 years old. buckingham palace says prince andrew will defend the case as a private citizen. jenny bond is a u. k. royal commentator,

she says prince andrew's reputation will not recover whatever the outcome of the trial what we're seeing here is the institution of monarchy acting quite quickly, quite ruthlessly. one might say, certainly, brutally to protect itself. the queen decided that enough was enough for the last few weeks it months of been dominated by lyric headlines about the duke of york. all the other work. the members of the royal family doing seems not to get a noticed ab and it could not go on any longer. so she moved to protect the monarchy by doing something which they have journey mother to do, which is permanently sac and publicly humiliate her son. this is going to rumble on and on, and the duke may have to give quite embarrassing evidence, maybe submit himself to what probably now submit himself to 7 hours of a detail legal cross examination. and i just think that the queen felt that and,

and the duke of cambridge and the, and prince charles, all of the key members of the monarchy, felt that they had to protect the institution and cut andrew loose. his patronage is and his military titles all being handed out at mediately to other members of the family. it couldn't go on because the military themselves were making very loud noises about how they didn't want this, this toxic person to be their honory, colonel in chief, a 150 veterans military veterans wrote to the queen herself and said, we don't want him anymore. you must strip him and i think that forced the queen's hand and now there is no coming back for the duke is going to continue to defend himself as a private citizen. that doesn't really wash with me. i don't think it'll wash with the public either. he remains a member of the earth and he remains the queen's son. and i think they're hoping that the institution won't be tainted by his toxicity. but nevertheless, the,

the case is going to get enormous publicity. he protests his innocent, he may well be in it. but i'm afraid his reputation is shredded still. head on al jazeera, a german court sentence is a former syrian intelligence officer to life in prison. in the 1st such conviction for torture and mass murder and series, and the man who assassinated us presidential candidate, robert kennedy, more than 50 years ago, is denied for all my counsel has gotten them. ah hello, we've got high pressure dominating the weather across europe at the moment, so that means quiet weather thing, settling down quite nicely. the highest is a little the atmosphere keeps it settled and fine with our promise. with mr. fog

just around the low countries and on into jeremy, around the high though. that's where the air is unsettled. it's rising. we have got some stormy weather across at east side of the mediterranean central areas. follow your way around, the high keen wesley wind bring some rain and some more snow there into norway and matter until weather makes his way across scandinavia through the baltic states a fair bit of snow. they're pushing into that western side of a russia may well right sleet and snow slipping down across poland, pushing into ukraine, continued to do so. as we go through saturday. by saturday we will see significant snow for coming to northern parts of turkey. still a few shares and the eastern side of the medice ready, but not as widespread as they have been recently. largely quiet for central parts if here some wet weather and some windy weather coming into ireland and into the u . k. as we go on into the latter part of the, we can still a few showers there where we have those storms in central areas of the mediterranean, northern parts of libya,

northern areas of egypt to still seeing some showers and a chance of some showers there around west africa. ah frank as estimates this crisis please continue to recon location. even though perhaps he believes in the beginning that it was better informed opinions like the whole edition will now be under incredible pressure from the young people. that is one of the most types of things can come out of this critical debate. do you think a should be facilitated? not sure. okay, i think, right. it's a really simple question. let's give a child once. inside story on our jazeera. oh, the ah.

here watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the south australia is immigration minister has revoked. tennis, don novak jock of its visa days ahead of the australian open tournament. brokovich, who is on vaccinated at his visa cancelled last week, shortly after arrival. but a judge had overturned the ruling and allowed him to stay in the country. india's day b corona virus infections have risen to more than 264000. and the last 24 hours, driven by the only con variant, comes as hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims gather for a religious festival in westbank, all china is facing a test of it. 0 comma closet policy ahead of the beijing winter and a fix in february, 201 cases have been confirmed self from 190 a day earlier. the city of tangent is under strict locked up. right for more

all know that john rich his visa cancellation as go live now to sarah clark, who is in brisbin. sarah, so tell us why the immigration minister cancelled his visa after the court had said he could stay with the government had always been looking at our pushing the line that he would uphold its very tough restrictions on australia's borders. those restrictions have been in place for last 2 years, and alex hope the immigration, mr. and the last 20 or so minutes has released his statement. now the court, i returned the government's decision to initially cancel, obeys up on monday, last week i should say. and on monday, at the court, i returned that it's taken 4 days now of alex hall, who holds the discretionary powers that the immigration minister to revoke that visa a 2nd time. now i should state that these discretionary powers means he's quite a lot of power. when it comes to he can it cats, you'll be on the grounds, he considers you a public wrist. oh, i'm a health risk. i even on a, on a small scenario of a mikey false claim on an immigration statement. and in

a statement released by alex woke, he said he made the decision on the ground, so it's in the public interest to do so. i. so this is yet another twist in the saga. the visa saga that involves novick jock of ich, yesterday on thursday we had the strain open release there, drool, he's been named the number one seed. we've got this strategy, an opening open, i should say starting in a couple of days. so certainly this is yet another twist, but we do know the joke of hitches louis. they will fight this fight back on this one. they've already said that they planned to appeal yet again on the government decision. so you might recall last week the have we had the prime minister in australia prime minister scott morrison saying rules rules. he mentioned this in a tweet. and he also mentioned this in his press conference. he's being very tough saying we help make special exemptions for the likes of us tennis stars. referring to novick joked rich, and the government has followed through on that stance. and today, once again on friday afternoon, it's about to 5 pm here in queensland and 6 pm in the southern states and they've

been out so they've cancel that visa yet again. sarah, to remind us why this case is being so controversial. i mean, on the surface of it, this is just one man, a tennis play. yes. that just one man. and then the case of his visas is a why is all of this, you know, cause so much controversy or basically i, it's well known that another joint venture is anti vaccine and anti vector as you'd call him. and in the last few days, he's released various evidence which shows that he number one a he did provide, i false statement on his australian travel declaration on arrival. that was last week on january 5th. and of course, you might recall, he was kept and questioned at the tele marine airport for a number of hours before the strike board of forces cancel his visa. he then went into hotel detention for a number of days with both sides are putting together cases to try and get him to stay in yesterday and opened and he wants to win the 21st grand slam. he is the

number one at world men, a men's tennis player and he wants a tilt or a shot at his title. and it's obviously highly controversial estrella because the strains have been forced to back that moment. we're almost, i think 90 percent of vaccinated and we've had very tough border restrictions in place. and the government made it clear the prime minister that non citizens were not double vaccinated must seek an exemption on various grounds. and what the government is saying is that no back job which did not meet the criteria to enter estrada. and if the government had not followed through on these very tough board restrictions on all as tough took on a vaccinating people and keeping the board as close that it would have set a very dangerous precedent. if that made an exemption for the likes of other worlds, number one, men's test plan being novak jokers which all right, thank you for that. sarah clark, their line for us and brisbin a large cyber attack and ukraine has taken down several government websites. include sites for the ministry of foreign

affairs and other agencies. it's not yet clear who's behind a spark. foreign ministry says there's been a long record of russian cyber attacks in the past. has been recent tension after moscow sent troops to its border with ukraine. argentina is trying to work out a deal with the international monetary fund and a bit to avoid economic collapse. the government has until march to restructure billions of dollars and death loan to it by the i m. f in 2018. theresa both spoke to its economy minister, modern goodman, about progress made in the negotiations. the identities struggling to stabilize the economy after years, the financial instability, poverty rates are over 40 percent and inflation close to 15. in 2018, the m f granted argentina and economic bailout to form a precedent feel motley. it was the largest known in the funds history, $57000000.00 for more than

a year. the government and the i m f. have been in tough talks, hoping to avoid a potential default of the loan algebra met with economy minister mapping of men who explained the current situation. it is a historic negotiation and the will to, to a large extent determine the face that the i m f will have in the next few years in a war that is full of problems in a word that is evolving and in which more collateral listening needs to evolve, and they may also need to revolve why the negotiation so difficult. i mean, i didn't have to pay this year. $19000000000.00. i mean, what are the discrepancies was versus difficult because of the size of the loan? because of what happens before, you know, in 2018, there was alone that many, many so as a political long as the support defense move credentialing institution to a government so that the government could win the elections. and that created

a lot of fun, sy, ity, it created many problems on the economic problem that was implemented in not work. there's big differences between members of the i m f of those will support what are your teenage proposing and those who don't. what is origin tina proposing. what we are proposing is if we scope past that in our view, we'll have barzon tina not only to give continuity to the met, recovering the short term. but it will also help us to have a more dynamic market economy and economy that bills comp, dynamic competitive advantage is it has more a creation of value that has more public infrastructure and has better capacity to invest in science. in technological developments, our view is that the kind of fiscal path that the i m f is proposing would

bring travels. there are differences them f once a faster boss of fisco, calling it faster fiscal conciliation than what ours diaz proposing. and we think that will affect the, the recovery in the short term, but also the capacity of the economy to grow in the medium long term. i can, if you are for an investor and you're outside of argentina, and you look at the economy here and you say, it's a country that has had over 20 programs with the many of which have failed a country with capital controls with inflation. what would you say to them to say that this time is going to be different? so there is on the upside, the economy is growing. there are investment opportunities, investment, as i said, we have grown by 35 percent this year. and actually there is 4 in the investment today in important sectors of our economy, especially in sector associated with, with natural resources that then get industrialized or in denise. now on the right

path no. 6 i didn't, tina has a history of endless economic troubles that have often ended with payment crisis to the i m f in march. argentine now we'll have to pay around $2900000000.00. that's why an agreement is crucial to prevent that country default once again, that will defeat the site. if north korea has testified another missile out of the us called the new sanctions. the 3rd on this month and the 6 since september, the government defended the test, says a legitimate right to self defense and warned of a stronger reaction of more sanctions are imposed. at least 9 people have been killed and several others injured and eastern india after 12 coaches of a train derailed. the train crashed and west bank. all thousands of people are being treated in hospital. the railway minister has spoken to local leaders and promised an urgent investigation into the cause of the accident.

a former syrian colonel has been jailed to life in germany, the crimes against humanity during serious civil war. and while our son is the 1st syrian official to be convicted for such crimes, before he thought asylum and germany, ruslan held a top position in a prison where detainees were tortured and killed. dominic came reports from berlin . 10 years ago unwashed slain was a senior officer and the syrian government forces. now the former colonel is starting a life sentence for crimes against humanity convicted by a german court of multiple counts of murder, torture and sexual violence. all carried out during his time in charge of the al hattie prison, near damascus. dang collector. lion titus is the defendant was a part of a cisco. at his instigation, thousands of civilians were brutally tortured. he is also responsible for murder of at least $27.00 people. the evidence we put forward proved that unambiguously person ruslan defected to the syrian opposition in 2012 before eventually coming to

germany. 2 years later where he was granted asylum, it was only in 2018 that police began checking out his story. when they realized the extent of his crimes, they decided to prosecute. in bringing this case, the germinal forties have invoked the principle of universal jurisdiction. effectively saying that some crimes are so serious that it doesn't matter where they take place, nor does it matter that the victims and perpetrators on not german. what matters is that justice be done. outside the court on thursday, relatives of those killed in syria gave their reaction to the verdict. yeah. they haven't shown that ever that. yeah, we were actually expecting this verdict and were of course, hoping that this would be the verdette. of course, this doesn't bring back our loved ones and doesn't get our loved ones out of prison . we have to keep talking about it and keep reminding the world that there are still a lot of people in syrian prisons. emma, as in on the human rights campaign,

is welcomed the sentence. i think it's quite okay for, for their survivor. their syrian who are, are affected with these crime. so i hope that is sir the sentence and is there little b as strong base for her future war and water osland was not the 1st former member of the syrian government forces to be jailed in germany. and if the government here continues its prosecuting drive against those suspects of war crimes, there, he seems. unlikely to be the last dominant cane al jazeera berlin, he found her all the u. s. foreign militia group has been charged with seditious conspiracy. for the storming of the capital i donald trump's waters, naughtier prosecutor say 56 year old stuart roads, lead the oath keepers group to washington d. c. last year. to stop the certification of jo biden's election victory, 10 others have also been charged. california governor gavin newsome has denied

parole for the man who was convicted of the assassination of u. s. presidential candidate robert kennedy. sir hanser hon. a palestinian refugee has been serving a life sentence for the 1968, killing robert kennedy's murder came just 5 years after his brother, president john f kennedy was shot dead in texas. ah, this is al jazeera, these other top stories, australia, immigration minister has revoked, tennis, dont know that job, which is these are for 2nd time. it was canceled days ahead of the australia open tournament. jock of issue is on vaccinated had his visa revoke last week, but a judge of a turned that ruling. sarah cock has moved from prison. it's taken 4 days now of alex hall, who holds the discretionary powers as the immigration minister to revoke that visa . a 2nd time now.