ah, ah hi, this is al jazeera ah 10100 miles gmc here on al jazeera 1 pm, and uh huh. hello on, come out santa maria, welcome to the new south. australia has revoked, novick joke of it should be there for a 2nd time. it means the tennis star now faces deportation. also in the news about the rise in new cova cases in india or as concerns grow about a religious gathering, involving hundreds of thousands of people. more parties, more problems for the british prime minister with reports of several illegal

gatherings held in his offices during lockdown. and in sports, in a guest protest against the referee at the africa cup of nations has been rejected . organizes have dismissed the complaint about their game with molly ending before the 90 minutes were up. ah. so an emergency court session will be held after australia cancelled tennis donovan joke of is visa again. just 3 days out from the start of the study and i've been championship, this is the latest development in a dispute between the well number one tennis player and these trillion government about his vaccine exemption to enter the country. australia is immigration minister revoked his visa on health grounds. the prime minister scott morrison released a statement he has said, i understand that following will consideration action has been taken by the

minister to cancel mister joke of riches visa on health and good order grounds on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so he added australians have made many sacrifices during this pandemic, and i rightly expect the result of those sacrifices to be protected. starting with sarah clark, who has been following the story from brisbin. sarah, tell us more about the grounds full this revoking of the visa. well, yet this is yet another twist in his ongoing visa stars between no joke of ich and the estrella in government on friday at about 6 p. m. local time was certainly in melbourne. the federal government will certainly the immigration minister announced that he was going to revoke this visa, a joke of his visa for a 2nd time. now, should not the timing of this. we had the court ruling on monday. that noted, had the court ruling on monday that i returned, i should say, the federal government's initial cancellation of the visa and on fraud i 4 days

later we have the federal government intervening again. and now the minister alex hooked uses ministerial discretionary powers to intervene and he said he made this decision on the grounds of public health. he said that jock of ich, oppose a risk to the australian community the government last week. and certainly the strengthen border forces, noted that he didn't meet the criteria for entry. and of course he'd been given the exemption to travel and playing the astray. and i've been by tennis estrella and the victorian government and not long before. so it's another turn we do expect. another jock vicious team is legal team to appeal this decision yet again. and it's yet another twist. it's ongoing saga just days before the australian open begin. any other reaction tool of the serv, including from team joke, which well, the quest, a big question is whether or not jack of it will play in the australian open on monday, he was call the number one seed or his 1st round a's on monday. so we get to see whether or not he will be able to participate and defend his title. i. he is here

to, to defend the title against are the likes of federal who holds the same number of a strain happens in grand slams, but this decision that it's been made by the federal government government in the fact that the, the ministerial discretion powers have been used by the immigration minister could be that he could be deported or before the australian open begins. i should also note that he also could face a band for re entering australia for another 3 years. so again, our were yet to see what's novick, jock ventures table, do we do expect him to take it back to the federal court over the weekend? i had of monday's tournament, which has went a went set to start. thank you, sir clark with the latest fare from brisbin. ah, now david rowe joining us who is he emeritus professor with the institute for culture and research at weston sydney university to talk a little more about this. so primary, scott marson saying this is in the public interest attorney interest of good health . it's gone past that hasn't, isn't it just isn't it was totally political now. is is

a deeply blessed co question or is it the ho i'm i feel i re me it all. the morrison government has been a bad border control. and this is been this great tension around celebrities. not only in sport, no film stars and t. v. stars, mothers, i'm coming usual straight here as a time when people were forbidden from a from australian citizen, some permanent residents are allowed to visit. so they could their home country and they weren't allowed to go overseas and they weren't even allowed to move around the country. so it's a very sensitive issue here. and so not terribly surprising that so the political play has been on the side of standing away as celebrity can much made of novick joke of it himself. his vaccination status,

his social media posts his travel, etc, etc. but i'm still trying to understand on the other side of the ledger where you've got the straining government, you've got the victorian state government and you've got tennis, australia, there was some massive communication breakdown between all 3 of them wasn't there because this was all okayed by tennis australia in the 1st place who presumably got the right or thought they were getting the right advice is being complete confusion here as to who actually has jurisdiction. so scott morrison, the prime minister said, i'm only a few days ago that the decision was essentially in the hands of the victorian state government. now the last i heard, state governments don't control national borders, but it seems to be that was the arrangement at the time. i'm within a day or so that has changed and a so the federal government is from

a certain said, no, we control the board. and so there's been what i real confusion, tennis australia and is a sports organization. it doesn't control borders, but obviously it has considerable power because there are very many grand signs in 10 years. and australia is very keen to keep hold of the one on that. it has oh, the 4 grand slams. so it's been an extraordinary and a sensitive issue as to essentially a political issue because the whole question of the position of sport in australian culture that's obviously very powerful on but also you've got the questions. read croce in terms of the treatment that says where i'm starting to wonder and i, i don't know if this is a sports or a political question. may be a little bit of both, but it is a joke of it's his presence. let's say he does actually manage to play in the tournament. it is going to detract from the whole thing. isn't it

a strategy in tennis fans? australian sports fans a pretty unforgiving if they're not a fan of someone. what yes indeed. and i mean this issue has completely, ah, or im one might say obliterated. ah, the lead up to the australian tennis open. i mean, it's been pretty much the only subject. it's been really hard to actually talk about attorneys. man, i'm a curious issue also is that sir, a junkie which is not a despite is extraordinary success. ah, deal strange and it's open. he is not particularly popular and he's actually made that clear himself. so wearing this kind of really strange situation where i either that, that if he turns up on court, i'm on, on, within a few days of them are of the a good, the, a murder, crash, the news,

the news corp press doing a here a i cannot i'm cheap and dirty survey of is readers and viewers and saw where over 80 percent of people said sandy mon, near. so you've got a situation in melba, which trains to be, they are a sporting capital in the world, bought a in the case of young jacob, it is by no means the most popular tennis players that has ever entered yeah. premises we watch a phaedra ah, an a doll for example, much more refuse the damage, more popular. so you got this very strange situation where it could be that the best male tennis player in the world is being massively booed by an angry cry center corps. yeah, like i say in london, unforgiving fans they aren't, they thank you so much david. i good to talk to you about this. thank you. thank

you. we're moving to india now with a number of new cov, it infections has risen to more than 260000 in the past 24 hours driven by on the crown. of course, also you got hundreds of thousands of into pilgrims gathering for a religious festival in the state of westbank old, there are fears the gathering could be a so called super spread events, poverty metal in new delhi, keeping an eye on things. how worried are the authorities past me about this gathering very well, especially because the restrictions now are pretty uneven. and frankly, from a public health perspective don't make much sense because at this point, most of the country has been under some form of restriction in restrictions like clothes in schools, businesses suffering because they have been shadowed. people have been asked to work from home, and on the other hand, you have thousands of people are flocking to the various sites across the country for a, for their pilgrimage. now, at this point,

many festivals are being celebrated across india. some states have banned large gatherings, but others are counting on quote, corbett, 19 protocol to make sure the situation doesn't go out of hand. but yet the thing, you know, even before to day the impact of these has been felt. for example, in one of the cities in northern india, which is hosting one of the large gatherings, many policemen who have been deployed at the side half tested positive over the last couple of days. in fact, the city itself has seen covered 19 cases surge 10 times over the last week. now west bingo, which is hosting the largest gathering, has now become one of the leading hot spots. you know, it has broken all previous records. so public health experts are very worried and frankly asking, have we learned anything because we have been here before, you know, just last year the desert, very in to and that was surging when it just gatherings cause supers credit events

at the time still continued. and now we're dealing with the army con variance part of me, which is, i think, widely regarded as being less severe. i'm wondering in amongst all those record numbers, what the level of hospitalizations are like in india. so relatively speaking, yes, hospitalizations are pretty low, but there has been a gradual uptake. now we spoke to the head of indiana's largest covered 19 facility, who said that there are beds and not many patients have been on ventilators, but there are some serious concerns. number one is that a number of health care workers have been falling sick, so there are concerns over staff shortages. now all of this has put a lot of pressure on non coverage related medical treatment. so a lot of those surgeries have had to take a back seat. the other place where resources are being strained is in testing capacities. not as you know, or micron is highly,

very learned. and so authorities have calculated that the surge could probably break previous records. and so now they're asking isn't to magic contacts, of course, 19 patients to not test. and instead just quarantine at home policy me tell updating us with the kind of situation in india right now. thank you, pardon me. and by doing their ramping up checks for all inbound travelers ahead of the winter olympic games which begin in 3 weeks. officials are concerned about an outbreak of coven in the port city of change, in which could spread to the capital brit clinic as our report from hong kong. rigorous checks underway in bay, jing officials taking no chances with just 3 weeks to go before china hosts the winter olympics locally transmitted cases of the army cron very into coded 19 have been detected in several oven says, but the focus of containment is the northern port city of t and gin, just 30 minutes by train from beijing. hm. oppose you know what, we have to fight that discrete into the individual areas for management and control

and set up 66 sites selling time for rods yourself, stating necessities like fighter turbos empty pamphlets. the rest of the ham place order as they need. earlier this week games organizes said there were no plans to lockdown beijing, but they've now announced more rigorous measures will be in place to contain the spread in hong kong. more mandate free testing has been introduced after nurses tested positive in the district of chin. men and new measures include a ban on international transit flights and a return to home learning for primary and kindergarten. kids. hong kong already has a complete flight bad from 8 countries dining restrictions and limits on numbers for gatherings. and these may be extended to take in the upcoming luna new year holiday. there are a worry is they'll be restrictions here on dining and gathering during the chinese day a holiday, which will put a damper on traditional celebration, said to ring in the year of the tiger bread clad as al jazeera hong kong, one other not uncovered. the philippines, extending measures to combat

a surge until the end of january, the countries experiencing its highest infection rate. since the pandemic began restrictions now include a ban on unvaccinated people using public transport. in manila, new cases had a record of 134001 thursday, almost 15 minutes past this news hour. here's what's coming up. the u. s. supreme court blocks a rule that requires workers at large companies to be fully vaccinated or to test regularly for cove at 19. also, the man who assassinated us presidential candidate robert kennedy, 54 years ago, is denied parole by california governor and installed the house. cameron, looking at the teams, debated the after pickup of nations action from the tournament lighter with sun. ah, the european union has condemned a cyber attack on ukraine's government and has called an emergency meeting to

respond hackers, targeted websites for the ministry of foreign affairs. another agency, not clear yet, who's behind it, but the foreign ministry says there's been a long record of russian cyber attacks in the past. of course, there was recent tension after moscow sent troops close to the border with ukraine . also russia's foreign minister surg, elaborate says his country is prepared to respond. if western nations reject moscow's security proposals, he wants a detailed answer in writing to demands including limits to nato expansion. several rounds of talks to the crisis in a new crane have been taking place this week. but the most latisha is, i've spoken to. we have talked about the fact that such an approach is acceptable and we cannot approve of such were union electoral 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 will continue working to be prepared for any

kind of developments. you're convinced that if there's google and if there is will compromise. one can always find mutual acceptable solutions. what with el center valerie? now in moscow, i'd also survey lab needs conference today, which i know was scheduled and an annual one. but it really is the confirmation that all these talks that we've talked about this week, did absolutely nothing, definitely come all i think that is an excellent way of putting it. that is also something the foreign minister highlighted. he said that russia's patience with the actions of the west is done. basically, it's run out, it's come to an end. he said, that's all communications channel with the you are now closed, very strong words from the foreign minister. he also said that russia believes that nato and the u. s. will use,

will build up troops alongside its borders in the coming months and use the tensions with ukraine as an excuse to do so. the foreign minister said, that's really, they're just waiting for a response from nato about their proposal, and that they will not wait forever. the russians have made it very clear that they will decide when the time is right for them to take action, and that they will not indefinitely wait for a response. in the meantime, we've also heard from the spokesperson of president vladimir putin on thursday, who also highlighted the fact that this week has really not been as successful one in terms of coming to any kind of a resolution about where to go forward. from this point, of course, the russian position is that the troops, they have alongside the border with ukraine carrying out to exercise as is well within their rights. and that they have reasons to believe that they need to be very much on top of their own security,

and that they don't want nato to expand. and also artificially expand was the word that the foreign minister used in reference to not only ukraine joining the 30 member alliance, but also he said that the united states is enticing scandinavian countries to join nato. and that is something that russia will not tolerate. there is a sense here that all these talks in this week of really let to know where they haven't managed to achieve their goal, which was to escalate tensions between the ukraine and russia and nato. but that only they've only highlighted the differences and the polish foreign minister during the o. s. c, meeting in vienna on thursday, also found that the alarm saying that the tensions and the risk of war in their region is the highest in it since the past 30 years. so there is a sense that the coming weeks are going to be very critical. and the russians for their part and are waiting to see how natal will respond dosage a bar with that update from moscow. thank you. queen elizabeth has stripped us on

prince andrew of all military and royal titles. a day after a judge in the us ruled a civil law suit, accusing of of sexual abuse, can continue virginia defray, pictured here with the princess, she was forced to have sex with him and other men. when she was any 17 years old. buckingham palace has prince. andrew will defend the case. as a private citizen. respect to jennie bond you, kate, royal commentator, said prince andrew reputation will not recover, no matter 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 last few weeks if 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 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 now there is no coming back to the duke. he's going to continue to defend himself as a private citizen. that isn'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. but i'm afraid his reputation is shredded. sit on the u. k. prime minister bar johnson, governments accused of holding more room breaking parties during current hours locked downs. the telegraph newspapers reported about 30 staff attend to 2 separate events inside downing street. was the prime minister's office and it's private garden. it reportedly featured alcohol and law music until the early hours and they

were held on the eve of queen elizabeth's husband's or the funeral of queen elizabeth. queen elizabeth husband, prince philip, i'm sorry. well the u. k. was observing a ban on indoor activities. number of conservative employees are now openly calling for bars johnson's resignation. police are saying they won't be an investigation unless a government inquiry suggests there was criminal behavior. if baka, with his report from london. the rhythms of normal life are returning to the british capital. few em asks for tourists. not so it may 2020. when the country was under restrict locked down the city, silent. yet behind the doors of 10 downing street around 50 staff were enjoying drinks in a sunny garden. mister speaker, i want to apologize. an hour of judgment. boys thompson told parliament on wednesday. he thought the gathering was a work of ent. he said, falling within government guidelines this after initially denying anything,

had taken place. complete her explanation, however, has enraged and peas and irked the british public and resign. you can't leave and not lead by example. and if you do your fraud, i don't think very as a confidence of the bulk of the british paper animal. and therefore, i would say istation um, but it probably did break the rules about who has and i suppose, you know, i don't, i don't know. it's time for him to go. we would do a better job. who would do a better job, but it could be his own party that does johnson the most damage. several conservative em piece of broken ranks and urged him to resign with one m p calling him a dead man. walking members of his cabinet, meanwhile, have rallied around him. had feel, i think his, his frustration and his air is a very heartfelt apologies to those in a so many, all of us you live through the very challenging looked animals that we have to

bring in. the majority of conservative m. p. 's though, are quiet, waiting for the results of the inquiry, waiting to to hear what their constituents have to say. if public anger continues to grow, those m p 's may have little choice but to table letters of no confidence in bars. johnson, $54.00 letters would trigger a leadership challenge. meanwhile, boys johnson's reportedly doing everything he can behind the scenes to convince m. p. 's. he's done nothing wrong in parliament on thursday. the focus was back on the government's achievement in handling the pandemic with an announcement that the covert isolation period can now be cut races. after reviewing all of the evidence, we've made the decision to reduce the minimum self isolation period to 5 full days in england. this country is leading the world in learning to live with code. but with opinion polls putting the opposition labor party 10 points ahead of the conservatives. for the 1st time in a decade, there were fee,

as johnson's now more of a liability than a leader. nick back with that report. he's live in london, none. ne, just when you think nothing more can come out, it does. and he does feel at this crisis is deepening of maloney cape, deepening for, for the prime minister. doesn't look good, does it? and the last few days we've seen operations save bars. johnson in overdrive launched by largely members of his cabinet, but at the same time tempers and frustrations within his own conservative party. afraid they are growing as well. and now this latest revelation that they were to leaving do's, only eve of the funeral of the duke of edinburgh picture the scene of course, remember that iconic picture that was taken of queen elizabeth, cutting a lonely figure in the pews of saint george's chapel. she had to sit away from the rest of the royal family because of strict covered restrictions. at the time the

nation was in morning only. yeah, the day before though at least 30 people had gathered behind the doors of number 10, downing street to drink and dance to a wave off. i key members of. busy the number 10 staff there and there are at least reports in the telegraph newspaper that one of those officials might have done a booze run with a suitcase down to a nearby supermarket. so the party taking place in the basement of number 10, we gather of that has not been any denial from number 10. the has been an apology on behalf of the official who's leaving do it, was that person is now it's empty editor in chief of the of the sun newspaper. and this most certainly doesn't look good for boys. johnson race is big questions about the kind of control over he had that he had over his staff. no suggestion, though. the boisterous was not himself neither in your report. i think you said it

was 54 letters that when needed to trigger a leadership challenge. that's presumably 54 letters from members of the, the conservative party it. what's the feeling about that actually being a, a real possibility. yes. $54.00 letters out of $300.00 and something m. p. 's conservative am piece or 15 percent of conservative m p. 's need to come to the conclusion that i want bars. johnson leading the policy leading the government any more. but the majority of conservative m. p. 's, as i mentioned in that reports are largely for the time being quiet that by doing that time they waiting to see well their constituents, the people that essentially put them in an office. think about all of this and overarching this entire process. of course, is this inquiry into the party at number 10 down the street, not just the one the boys johnson attended but also others across y tool as well.

su gray is the senior civil servants who's leading that investigation. it is ironic . whoever their predecessor, whose job it was to do that initially, had to resign when it turned out that the a party had taken place in his office. so it gives you a sense of how much all of this permeates every to palm. and every corner of white hole erase is questions as to whether boys jones really needs to be held account personally for all of this. but then again, you know, you've got the deputy lead of the opposition angela raina this morning saying that she stunned into silence about the culture that existed in number 10. and the lack of regard for the ordinary people in the country who are following restrictions to the letter the next few days are going to be crucial. the results of this inquiry are going to be very, very important. and d, the met police though, saying that they could hold off looking into this themselves until the results of that inquiry, a clear ne vodka with a live update from london. thank in 8th. still

a few on this news are running out of time. argentina tries to strike a deal with international lenders ahead of a much deadline. we'll hear from the economy minister and in sport, despite having a place and all boston will keep their hopes of reaching the english leave final alliance. ah hallo, we've got some quiet weather now across western parts of your big area of high pressure recharged largely clear sky just not all good news that we have got fog and frost problems, particularly where we have these are this big area of high pressure. see how loosely packed the ice abbas are here. this is where we are seeing that cold rest sitting in place of the folk. we slow to lift in one or 2 spot particular southern parts of england down towards the low countries pushing across into germany tightly

packed, i suppose, her east, that means some very strong winds, cold air piling its way across the baltic, states that pushing into that western side of russia with a 3rd of the snow and that will gradually sink its way down towards the black sea. elsewhere. as you can see, it is generally dry temperatures about where they should be not too bad over the next couple days where the sun does come for. it will feel quite pleasant with those light winds we go wanting to wear saturday more the same really winter weather just sliding its way down was northern parts of turkey. at that stage, a few showers also affecting our northern areas of libya as we go through friday. which was a sign i potentially we could see a few showers here as well for time just thinking a little further south was we've also got some showers around the gulf of guinea all the way to liberia. ah, with

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ah, this is the news our from al jazeera and these are the top stories. australia's immigration minister is cancelled. tennis don novick, jock of it's visa, just days ahead of the australian open. an emergency court session is due to hear the case. andy, as daily corona, virus infections have risen to more than 264000 in the last 24 hours driven by all micron. it comes as hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims gather for a religious festival in the north of india. and russia's foreign minister. so gayla rob says his country is prepared to respond. if western nations reject moscow's security proposals, he wants a detailed answer in writing to demands which include limits on the expansion of nato. we're going to look at soon as you now were anti government protests are

expected. later on friday, president chi site has been under pressure since july. after he sacked, the prime minister suspended parliament and seized far reaching powers. he says he did it to save his country and to fight corruption. just a little more background for you. if you go back to july, president side sac to the prime minister as we say, for the parliament and assumed executive powers. the opposition party basically said that was a coo and demonstrate as protested in front of parliament. there were mostly peaceful protests between september and november, but some people were arrested during outbreaks of violence. a movement called citizens against the crew made up of political and civilian groups, led hunger strikes and protests from december. but there have also been rallies in support of the president. we must say most of them held in tunis, one in october, 2 large crowds across the country. right ellis evoke went to tag a stay the details now from janice. well, what was the reason for this particular protest today in the 1st place?

well today's traditionally the festival, the revolution, but kai side had changed the national holiday to december 17th. and since then i hear that the country has become more unstable. and we've seen that, are you rising inflation and, and more in rest citizens against the coo and did their hunger strike yesterday and political parties, the labor union. and yet, citizens against the crew have been calling on people to protested i, i am, which is a statement against ty sides that they don't recognize his authority, a don't recognize is dupree's and powers. and also a lot of politicians have been saying that the, the decreed that he sued about on the grounds of private that, that should be ne, price i. so public events is, is purely a political move. so the young people all pushing hard and demanding gay tie,

cited to step down and step aside and return to the democratic path. what are the polls say? a leisure abouts, chi sides popularity they've, they've been going down steadily. i mean, he was at an all time high on july 25th, but before that he's only racing about 45 percent and it's, it's now coming right down. i people are being less less convinced if he's so political reform program. in fact, these sort of grand plan to have a purely digital consultancy on line. the unit is not gathering a lot of public support to tool the i do the reality for most people is that they are seeing less. ringback power in their wallets. i cite say one shopkeeper yesterday, and he said in the past 2 weeks they've been to price hikes earns the young inflation is over 7 percent more. i think also you people are seeing the, the house arrests is being at. she more so punitive or not,

she very cruel. i the the case of the former employee and former justice minister nording. but heidi is he's raising a lot of alarm. he was disappeared and n g i reminded to you a number of different locations that were never disclosed. and he saw an elderly gentleman and he and his health is in a very fond, shall situation. and as a genuine fear that she or he, he's at risk of dying. so these kinds of things all year old, losing the popular support because people see him as a more sort of academic leader with a sort of abstract program rather than the somebody who is out to find practical economic solutions for the very real problems that people are facing and there is young economics experts and saying that there's a real risk all sort of economic collapse and st. he was seeing the dean all falling. so those genuine fear and worry and concern amongst the populace leads it

opens reporting from tunis for us. thank you. on the right hand side of your screen full screen. now, in fact, the 1st law pictures were saying of some of those gatherings in june is to died, plenty of meteor out there as well. we'll keep an eye on those pictures and see what does develop or the afternoon in the tendency capital. the supreme court has blocked the by the ministrations vaccine or test mandate for large companies. this was a plan that would afford nearly 80000000 americans to either get cobra jabs or take regular tests if they were working for a company with more than 100 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 effected but it's rolled health care workers can be mandated to get the job, makes it a legal requirement for more than 10000000 people in the sector well, the rulings came as president by the announced more military medical personnel would be sent to help staff hospitals. i was corresponding, kimberly, hock,

it has more. i know we're all frustrated as we enter this new year. overwhelmed by a record number of i'm a chronic infections, us president joe biden, and now 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 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, 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 to me, absolutely, so 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 disturbing, dead 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 healthcare al jazeera washington. as you will, no doubt, no, we are continuing to see record cove cases encounters all over the world. fueled by the on the convent. you know this the johns hopkins at karen of ours track, which always gives us an idea abouts, the current snapshot. but we want to look at this wave of the pandemic and how it's different. so just focus on that top right hand graph. it will expand it out. the red line is showing you weakly cases and you can see just in the last few weeks how much it is trend it upwards with compared with their deaths. the white ones which are sort of staying level in effect coming down a little bit. now this sort of thing is what is leading a lot of people to wonder whether it is no longer case of a fell get the virus,

but when some even going as far as saying, well, maybe we'll just get it anyway because it's quote unquote mild. we're going to talk to life about that about this is a professor of infectious disease epidemiology it, while cornell medicine here in kata. nice to have you with us. i think 1st time we've had you on out a 0. so this idea and i here is a lot of people saying are we're going to get it and it's mild so it's so it will be ok. that's risky, isn't it? it is definitely very risky. because even though it's some mind that are very n, if there is a risk for hospitalized vision, there is risk or death. death. and also there is risk for corporate, which we still don't know really well, but we know it's there. so it is very risky, a way of thinking it's like, really thinking, let me back my back to make it stronger. that actually really does not work. because if i break my back, it may never actually come back again. i could be living with deadman and damage

for the rest of my life. we have a much better option, which is vaccination. it provides us the in unity without having to go to go through that. but i want to discuss something else if we've actually just got some information on the screen now about long coded symptoms. things. shortness of breath, brain, frog breath, pain, fog. i'm sorry, severe fatigue. this is something else you have to consider, isn't it? that yes, you might get tired of it and it may not be bad, but there is always the chance of this long covert which can hit pretty much any one. and that is an incredibly serious thing to worry about. indeed it is very serious, not less than 10 percent of people do feel some kind of without a mind or more serious corbett symptoms. we still don't know this very well because we are just learning about following patients as we speak. it will take years for us to see the 1st floor of it, but we do have lessons from history. during the spanish floor, for as an example,

the civil diseases appeared for the in the in that became for after the spanish low . and after a few the caves or all of them disappeared, it's widely believed that these diseases what actually caused by fluid spanish nor it's more along the flu. so, so anyway, so really definite, do we have to be very cautious. we really don't know the non damn conflict consequences, but we know for sure that there are long term consequences in the proportion of persons who gets called the children are a big factor this time out by forgive me if you did address this before, but i wanted to go into it more of the fact that it seems anecdotally, alma crohn forgive my phrasing. l. mccray likes children more or maybe that since more the fact that children younger children haven't been vaccinated. yes, vaccinations are starting in some countries for young children and they can

transmitted so much more. yes, i think it's more really the lesson. and now there are, some hype was received, which may be true that it would be more affected by on a chrome. because if it affects more of the names issue, which is having children, maybe this would need to some complications, but this really does not seen it. i would say likely. right now we've been working all, i think that more logically explanation is that others out of vaccinate their children are and vaccinated, so they are still at higher risk relative to 2 other. that's really good to talk to you like sob from wait while cornell here in cutter. thank you so much. thank you. my pleasure to june, tina. now we're just trying to work out a deal with the international monetary fund trying to avoid economic collapse. the government has until march to restrict, to restructure billions of dollars in debt loan to it by the i'm if back in 2018.

theresa bo spoke to the arlington economy minister martin goodman. about the progress made in the negotiations. the i didn't, tina 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 family history, $57000000000.00 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, american men who explained the current situation. he's a historic negotiation and the will to, to a large extent determine the face that the 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 multilateralism needs to evolve. and m. f also needs to revolve why the negotiation found difficult. i mean, i didn't have to pay this year 19000000000 dollars. i mean, what are that discrepancy was versus difficult because of the size of a loan? because of what happens before, you know, in 2018, there was a loan that many, many so as a political loan, as the support defense could actually solution to a government. so that the government could when the elections and that created a lot of anti a t. it created many problems on the economic problem there was implemented in not work. there's big differences between members of the i m f of those will support what origin tina is proposing and, and those who don't. what is origin tina proposing. what we're proposing is, if you scope past that in our view, we'll have bargain, 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 a 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 will bring travels. there are differences de m f once a faster boss of fisco. it faster fiscal conciliation than what argentina's proposing. and we think that will affect the, the recovering the short term, but also the capacity of the economy to grow in the medium, a long term. i think if you are for an investor and you are 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 had 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 outside, the economy is growing. there are investment opportunities, investment as they said, we have grown by 35 percent this year. and actually there is for the investment today in important sectors of our economy, especially in sectors associated with, with natural resources and then get industrialize our in denise. now on the right 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. argentina will have to pay around $2900000000.00. that's why an agreement is crucial to prevent that country default once again. several undefeatable site if sports is coming up on this news,

our more reaction from australia where no joke of it is again facing the prospect of being to port it ah with with

mm pool. ah oh, we talked to politics and immigration earlier, son has got more on the tennis side of things with another joke which are that so he's not going to go away any time soon. is it on our dock of it is still hoping to play at next week's australian open. his legal team have already started an appeal against the decision to cancel his visa for 2nd time. early on friday, immigration and minister alex hall can use the his personal power to evoke joke of

its visa world number one could also be given a 3 year ban from entering the country on thursday. the serve was included in the draw for the 1st round of the year's opening grand slam with the torment set to start on monday. if you are not an australian citizen, then there is an expectation that you will be double dose vaccinated to enter the country. in this you have a clear and acceptable acceptable medical exemption that policy hasn't changed. and we will continue to apply that policy rigorously. wherever we can at the borders, to ensure that those who are not vaccinated and we don't have an acceptable medical exemption, i understand that they are not eligible to injure astrology. on talk of it isn't vaccinated against that coven? 19 but time and organizes that had agreed that he could play due to a medical exemption while he claims he tested positive for coven 19 on december, the 16th. that recent infection, that was the grounds for his exemption. on january the 6,

the australian board of force rejected the exemption and canceled his visa on his arrival in melbourne. that decision was overturned by a dud, leaving jock of it's free to prepare for the event. talk of its lawyers have and now launched a 2nd appeal and want a new hearing to take place on sunday. while we've been talking to a 7 and new sports reporter andrew mccormick about his latest this latest twist and the saga. well, i think while the majority of people are great, we know that job phase is being canceled. it's certainly an element that this whole mess could have been avoided on all fronts. and it's not just know that the 2 types i'm part of the blinding, fascinating 1st by spot. he was told and given information which is turned out to be false. in terms of tennis, astrology, or, and other officials that have the astronomy and i've been telling him that you know,

dc a y that he could get an exemption from vaccination and to enter the country and play or. ready for i record breaking 21st grand slam final history here in melbourne, that wasn't the case and i gave you guys assurances that weren't the case. you know, that job reach point of view. i mean. ringback type of why what you're personally about. so that's nice. nice. you have to personally bet. and i think the, the why that is been handled by all parties involved including just showing government and kind of strata has been quite shambolic to be honest. and the fact that it has time until 148 hours after the tone and to get a decision on the beta. when he won his court in the middle of the way, about 5 days, we had to drag through this whole waste weapon use on every single not around all services throughout the wait, what any one will talk about. and quite frankly,

now people. ready are my stick it, i want decision one while the other is know that flying or not to needs? yes, protests against a referee at the africa couple of nations has been rejected. configuration of africans football dismissed the complaint about their game of molly and being before 90 minutes was up. can also confirm the result of wednesday's game as a one nail. when for molly, it's been reported that the referee had been suffering from heat stroke. host nation cameron have booked their spot in the knockout rounds. they came from behind it to secure a big win against it appear in group a vincent butter was the star of the show, the former portal strike us going twice in the game. come on going on to seal it for one. they're looking to win the torment for 6th time of booking, if i so also picked up a when they beat cape very the one nail the result means both teams have 3 points after 2 games angle pe, african football writer. my header is that he is in,

cameroon, for the torment that he says, the host nation are strong contenders to win the title. one of the things you can always feel is the, you know, the spirit, the foods he has them. and although it may not have shown on television last night here in camera, and i could shield the excitement for the match. you know, cobra protocols. i made it difficult for supporters to get into the stadium, but i can tell you here, every single 50 meters, 100 meters, there's, you know, a chassis or a bar set up huge screens. everybody yesterday had on their camera and there has taxis, cigarette kiosks, everywhere. there was a kimberly and like, i think that kind of momentum, that kind of enthusiasm are really boy a national team. and we saw that, i think, you know, cameron, especially i want to say quick ford above and several books are who had 2 goals. and he's not for boys and some petition and only 2 matches. cameroon, are sort of spoiled for to it's kind of when it comes to records, i had, you know,

samuel, esl, rosie miller, patrick can boma. but this has scored an african winning goal, is because it says to me, and these are a great start at the ask them at their hosting. so i think he's slowly trying to transform the legacy if he continues this. and if cameron can go far, could be one of those legends that you can add to the camera in the pantheon of african strikers. can also hold off liverpool for the goal is to draw in the 1st leg of their english li cup semi final granny chuck was dismissed for me. set aside in the 1st half. it was a swift, international 5th ascending also for the gunners joining in 2016. but the one man advantage never to struggle to break arsenal. johnson the 2nd leg is coming up next week. and that's a spot for me. we'll have more for you later on, including the joke of it. ta golf course, come out because there's always more. thank you center yet. next. sports updated 1300 hours at the i'll try again. news our 1300. you can see i'll be there for

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