ready to host the middle east's biggest, ever exposing event next year and to the castle national teams, they get used to playing in fronts of expected home crowds. but we hoping to convince both the fans and themselves that they really are ready to take on the world. ah, australia revokes novak doc, which is visa for a 2nd time. the tennis channel faces deportation. ah, color given out this is al jazeera launch from dover, also coming up. another rise in new coven. 19 cases in india has concerns grow about a religious gathering, involving hundreds of thousands of people. persons prince andrew is stripped of his royal and military title, a spot. his mother, queen elizabeth as he faces

a civil trial in the u. s. for sex abuse, the man who assassinated us presidential candidate robert kennedy, 54 years ago, is denied parole by california. governor, ah, australia is immigration minister has canceled tennis, don novak jock of which is these are just days ahead of the australian open championship on health grounds. shock of it, who is unvaccinated 1st handed it his visa revoke last week, after landing in australia. but a judge overturned that ruling and allowed the world number one tennis player to state because he'd been given a vaccine exemption. sarah clark joins us now live from brisbin. sarah, so tell us more about these grounds that the immigration minister has made this decision on will the immigration minister alex hall, thom has always held these discretionary powers which can overrule and cancel

evasive for a 2nd time. and he notified the court or certainly his, these giant governments representative in the federal court on monday said he would pursue this. and today friday, and just the last hour of announce that they will cancel that visa for 2nd time. and the grounds that they've stated that it's in the public interest to do so. alex hawk has said that jock of it may pose a health risks out to the australian community. so this is yet another twist in the it is ongoing. these established between the australian government and the world's number one men's tennis plan. you mentioned last week, this is all when it began, when he arrived at estrada, he was pulled aside in question for a number of hours. but his training board of forces, who decided that they would cancel his visa saying he did not meet the criteria to enter a strategy. and then of course, a joke of inches at team of lawyers hit back and had ended up in the federal court . in mon, in melbourne, on monday, and the federal court then reinstated that visa so overturned the government's decision. the federal court stated that the visa cancellation was unreasonable and

the australia border forces didn't follow procedural fairness. so i'm gonna put a bit of background here that australia has some of the toughest restrictions on boards in place, globally judah cove and the prime minister noted at last week and again throughout the week, he stated that rules are rules and he would not make any special exemptions for the likes of novak joke of it should. of course, on friday, late in the afternoon here, it's early evening. the federal government has followed through and announced the cancellation of know that job, which is these up for a 2nd time. and this effectively means re deportation. so now the ball is back and jog ervic his court to excuse the pun. ah, do we know if he plans to appeal? i mean, will he end up playing what his legal team has long said since this saga began that they will consent, continue to pursue legal action. which means that this case, the appeal could go go back into the, the court over the weekend. and this is a head of the astray and i've been taking off on monday and of course, another joke of which has been called

a name. the number one said he plays on monday. so it certainly does put his face. and his participation in the us try and open embalming in limbo. i should also note that this particular decision from the federal government could also stop him from re entering australia for 3 years. we're seeking clarity on that. whether or not this inclusion under these discretionary powers will also be put in place. so novick joker, which cannot get back into australia for a number of years. so we're looking at waiting response from certainly joker, which is a legal, tame, but it does certainly put his face implying on monday, on the opening day of the strike, an open at risk and certainly hangs in the balance on your account there for awesome brisbin. thank you. the number of new cove at 19 infections in india has risen to more than 260000 in the past 24 hours driven by the army con variant. as, as hundreds of thousands of hindu co grims gathered for a religious festival in the state of west van golf, their affairs,

the gathering could be a so called super spreader event. happening, battelle has moved from new delhi. 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 off for some time now. now, as we speak, uh there are various festivals being celebrated across the country. some states have banned these large gatherings, but many just have some coven, 19 protocols like vaccines and tests. and they are continuing, for example, in the northern state of utter foundation. now, despite all the cubs 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 there for sometime have tested positive. the city itself has seen cases right? 10 times in just one week,

the largest gathering is in the state of west been gone. now that state has become a go but hotspot of sorts. where new coven 19 cases have surge 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, the fear this time china is facing a taste of its so called 0 covered policy ahead of the paging winter olympics in february. and a varsity of towns in is under restrict locked on with 41 locally transmitted on the 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 for it can it is monitoring developments from hong kong. the focus of china's cove efforts is intention. 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 jing where the winter games will be held. so that's why there's a lot around this cluster in change in they are 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 too 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. and 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 there. what are you logged on to moscow, where roches foreign minister? so the level of is giving his annual new year press conference, obviously, particular pertinent following recent security talks with groups including nato of the troop build up on ukraine's border. let's listen it respond to in writing after the press conference and now over to set up for a dear colleague. good afternoon. well, happy new year and help the old new year new year is here for almost everyone apart from our eastern college, some of them. so we will celebrate for one more month, i mean the chinese new year, their easton calendar new year celebrations. so we got back to

work from the very outset at the start of this new year. we have even sacrificed some of the holidays, but the situation in the world is such that we can allow not time for rest. i will not provide you with a detailed description. i'm sure that you are aware of the very detailed statements by president putin, at to the extended college meeting of the ministry of foreign affairs in the ministry of defense. and to just recently his statement at the press conference on the 23rd of december. well, a couple of words, sir, on the current situation, we see that the situation is not getting any better. and our western con colleagues are serving to exacerbate the current situation. they want to undermine

the international relations architecture that is based on the un charter. and they are also following the course to replace their international order with the rules based international order. and they want to thus create a new world. they are creating various formats in those areas of international relations that have long been on their gender of that universal organizations such as the united nations who they are trying to present themselves as those major workers that are doing their utmost to create their agenda for others. and those who do not join them are declared to be obsolete and they name them revisionist, trying to review the situation and to change

a situation. but actually, this is the blast that is revisionist in their attempts to amend the un charter. and we together with the countries that allister, that are our strategic partners and friends, we are defending the un charter, it's principles, it's structure, it's goals and we are trying to protected from any revisionism activities. the most audius' project took place at the side of december, the so called summit for democracy. the preparation for this meeting and the event itself. and the results of this event announced by washington prove that our colleagues in washington a want to re ideologies our life something that we got rid of just recently. but now they are trying to create new lines of division the united states policies

and nato's policies. that were declared as containment and deterrence of the russian federation and china. we see continuous attempts to artificially expand nato to drag such countries as the a crane into it. we've recently heard very interesting statements coming from the nato leaders from their united states. that to the scandinavian countries that are not part of nato will be welcome to join. so now they are trying to artificially tempt to those countries to artificially expand nato. and to this, sir alliance after the cold war after the treaty of war, so has no purpose,

but to the attempts to artificially expanded are continuing in december, as you are well aware, we have provided the nato members and the u. s. with draft documents, the draft treaty on security guarantees between russia and the u. s. and the draft agreement on ensuring security between the russian federation and nato countries. as we have highlighted several times, these documents a common package and seek to exclude any further eastward expansion of nato and the deployment of a threatening weapon systems close to our borders. on the 10th of january in geneva, we had to talks with our american counterparts and on the 12th of january there was a meeting with the participation ortho nato countries and russian delegation in

brussels. we have talked about the need to focus on the need to stop the expansion of want military block to the detriment of the interest of other countries in europe. i guess that you have been following the very detailed coverage of these events and the interviews given by the representatives of the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of defense. i would like to reiterate that we need legally binding guarantees as political commitments that were in trying to back in the 90 s and any kind of oral promises have never been fulfilled to by our western partners. and they are not going to do that. now this is a topic where of discussion on its own. we have talked about the fact that

such an approach is unacceptable and we cannot approve of such very uni latrell interpretation of security guarantees. so we expect a response from our colleagues in writing just like we did because we have submitted our proposals in writing. and we will continue. why king? to be prepared for any kind of developments. we are convinced that the if there is good will and if there is a well to compromise, one can always find 2 mutually acceptable solutions. i can remind you that at the start of last year, we've managed to extend the new start treaty for 5 years, with no preconditions, just like the russian federation proposed. we have commended this step by the,

by den administration, as it was one of the 1st steps undertaken by the administration. once this administration took power, the need for dialogue on all issues related to strategic stability on all kinds of weapons affecting strategic stability. this is something that was discussed by president put in president biden during the meeting and geneva, on the 16th of june 2021. they have also adopted a joint statement that tree affirms the principle that the nuclear war can never be one. so it can never be waged and as part of the p 5 at the security council, on the 3rd day of january at the high level,

the statement on the next up to be lety of nuclear war and the obligations of nuclear powers to prevent nuclear war was adopted, and this step undertaking by the p 5 on the highest level will help to prepare the p 5 summit. this summit was initiated by president puddin and now we are trying to come up with specific arrangements as to that timeline and the agenda of this event . we hope that this event will take place in person once they're epidemiological situation would allow. we are definitely working on the western front, but also in other areas so fresh and foreign policy. last year we have been developing integration or cooperation as part of the

e. u. we have strengthened the integration as part of the union state of russia and belarus and all of that help to promote present putin's initiative on the formation of the greater eurasian partnership. we've been developing relations in this context with our partners in asia. first and foremost, we marked 20 years of the agreement on good neighbor las a friendship with china. we've also been promoting the especially privilege strategic partnership with india and with the majority of our partners in the asia pacific region with the african countries, we are fledge in american countries. as for the asia pacific region, we have been focusing on their ties with assay and in countries in the context of

the formation of the greater your asian partnership. we've been fully tapping the potential for constructive dialogue that is provided by such integration organizations as june 20 bricks and shanghai corporation organization. we've been engaged in resolving various conflicts such as their conflict and my gardening car about syria of gayness, turn libya, the iran nuclear dio, palestine and israel relations there north korea issue and in our hot spots around the world. in this context, i would like to highlight the mission that has been accomplished and carried out by their c as t o peacekeeping forces. as per the request of the president of caston,

those forces help to tackle the terrorist threat in kaz exton. and to this fret came from beyond the countries borders. we've been providing diplomatic support to the fight against the crone of i respond demick as you're well aware. sputnik the has been authorized for use in 71 countries and we continue in our contacts with our international partners to explain that practical significance of president put into initiative that he presented at the g 20 summit and october on mutual recognition of national back. since certificates we okay, that is of course rushes foreign minister saga labor of their giving his annual new year press conference on russia's foreign policy. he started by talking about,

basically, russia's concerns that nato wants to expand our to the east and bring in ukraine. are talking about discussions that have been had with various western nations in recent times. most recently in vienna, he said that situation is not getting any better that western colleagues are exacerbating the situation undermining the international architecture wanting to create a new world order. and that they are, they're attending to, to artificially expand nato and drag ukraine into it. ah, continued all ned de saying that they wanted to be prepared for any kind of developments mentioning there are nuclear agreements that no nuclear war can be one . so none can be waged. ah, and there, at the end, talking about the request from kazakhstan for help to quell unrest there, there have been violent protests. and then the c. s. d o sent in some, mostly russian troops. interestingly, repeating that term that came from russia,

that this threat in kazakhstan came from beyond the countries borders. okay, let's bring in dos, jabari who was standing by for us in moscow. ah, dasa what stood out for you there from what the foreign minister had say. well, he highlighted the point of view that we've been hearing from moscow over the past week from the various meetings that have taken place around europe. he mentioned the meeting they had with the americans in geneva, monday. and then the natal meeting that took place in brussels on wednesday. that was very significant because it's the 1st time the nato, russia council is met since 2019. but what is clear is that the divisions between russia and the rest of europe and the americans continue to be very, very wide, and that they haven't been able to bridge any of the gaps. through these talks,

the foreign minister reiterated that his country wants legally binding guarantees from nato, that they will not allow new members to join you specifically ukraine. and he also pointed out that is nato's being and the americans are being very aggressive, trying to expand and trying to entice other scandinavian countries to join nato by saying that their open door policy extends. and that this is something that they would be open to. and the foreign minister said that this is really not something the russians can accept. he also said that they will continue dialogue and that they will look at how to move forward. and he's now speaking about the events that are coming up later this year, various summits, but the general sense is that things are really at all time. worst situation, you can say, between russia and the us. we heard from the president spokesperson on thursday,

who said that to talk to sweet dicks week this week has been unsuccessful. the crumbling said that the united states was not trying to be act in good faith. and that they were not responding to russia's demands. of course, nato and the united states have said that what russia is asking for is certainly not going to happen. it's a nonstarter for them. the american deputy foreign secretary had said that there is no way the americans can give any kind of a written guarantee that nato will not accept new members. that an open door policy will continue in. russia cannot dictate to nato who can and cannot join us for ukraine and the build up along its border. the foreign minister is going to address it shortly. we believe, but there has been nearly a 100000 russian troops near the border with ukraine since early late last year. and we saw the footage of them doing practice drills with the tanks on wednesday.

and this continues in there is a sense that this is going to escalate, but certainly all sides are trying to find a way forward to trying to avoid ad that scenario or a dose jabbar there for us in moscow. thank you. 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 coven 19 jobs, or take regular tests. if they worked for a company with more than $100.00 employees, the court voted $6.00 to $3.00 against the mandate saying it's an improper imposition on the lives and health 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 the sector. the rulings came as president biden announced, more military medical personnel will be sent to help staff hospitals and white house correspondent, kimberly health 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 deaths were made among the on vaccinated to help control the i'm a crohn very spread by then has announced a new plan to distribute mass nationwide. next week will announce, well now 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, common harris, couldn't say shortly though they're going to go out really. we've been ordered, 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 are looking at a winter 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. queen elizabeth has tripped her son, prince andrew, of all military and of royal titles. it comes a day after a judge in the u. s. rules of civil war, sir, accusing him of sexual abuse, can continue virginia as your fray, pictured here with the prince, says she was forced to have sex with him and other men when she was just 17 years old. buckingham palace is 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 her noticed am and it could not go on any longer. so she moved to protect the monarchy by doing something which is a hard 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 no, there is no coming back to the duke. he's 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 ah.