leon, as president of the united states, against the backdrop of rioting on capitol hill from navigating the pandemic to the withdrawal from afghanistan. we'll look back at his policy wins and losses, and examined the challenges that remain special coverage on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah, can 1300 hours g m t here on al jazeera, come out santa maria, welcome to the news out. a courts in australia has ordered tennyson of a joke if it should be detained once again, as he fights his deportation. also in the news, british prime minister's office apologizes to queen elizabeth for parties held in dawning street on the eve of her husband's funeral and rushes. foreign minister warns moscow run out of patience and is prepared to act if security guarantees on

ukraine are not addressed. and in sport and easiest process, i guess a referee at the africa cup of nations have been rejected, organizes have dismissed the complaint about their game with molly and being before 90 minutes had been played. ah, well, australia has once again canceled tennis down of jokers, which is visa just 3 days out from the start of the strain open championship. immigration minister alex hawk made that decision on health grounds or government is ordered. he returned to pre deportation detention. that will happen at 2100 hours gmc friday. he is allowed though, to me, his lawyers and his team that says that is confident they have firm grounds to appeal the decision. again, remember last week when joke ventures, visa was cancelled shortly after he arrived in australia. there were questions

about his vaccine exemption. a court later overturned that ruling. trying to keep up with all of this, we'll do that with sarah clark. she's following developments from brisbin. this is yet another twist in his ongoing visa stash between no joke of ich and yesterday in government on friday at about 6 p. m. local time was certainly in melbourne. the federal government was certainly the immigration minister announced that he was going to revoke this visa jackowitz visa for a 2nd time. now should not the timing of this? we had the court ruling on monday that noted the court really on monday that overturned, 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 other minister alex hooked uses ministerial discretionary powers to intervene and he said he made this decision on the grounds of public health. they said that job coach oppose a risk to the australian community the government last week. and certainly the

strength border forces noticed that he didn't meet the criteria for entry. and of course he'd been given the exemption to travel and plainly astray. and i've been by tennis australia in the victorian government and not long before. so it's another turn we do expect. another job which is 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 begins. this decision, as you might expect, has provoked a strong reaction in joker, which is native serbia crowds of been rallying to support them in the capital belgrade accusingly. australian government of unfairly targeting the tennis star of all, did i know some with us on which i am angry because i didn't i expect that they would treat the best tennis player like i think he did not deserve this, especially since his were present in our country and his, the number 110 player and the whole world knows him such, he's also does not talk to posters. this doesn't happen anywhere else. i don't know

what else to say. it's an embarrassment and shame for the entire world. that boy is the only proper athlete. cooper shirt. honestly, he's not even a nationalist. he won't. everything should be more proud of him than us does. an embarrassment. i want to talk more about this with duncan 3 phone of a to is a, an associate professor in research at the university of belgrade joining us now. look, thank you for your time. give me your take. first of all, i can clearly see that another joke of which is an absolute superstar in serbia. what's your take on the way he's been treated but also his own actions? love death, no doubt. that the joke which is a superstar novel need serbia. but he is a now let's for the month or so we're going to play and then is play and he's the best and he's played in the world. every nation should be browser rouzan him it. i may be not even competent, a person to common because there is

a 2 sides in need. one and serbian site which supporting entirely and his big harper and another side. i'm cheap time boxy me. a, in the why i took seen issue, it's because i think about myself, but mostly i think it hard people around. so it's not the case about in all of jokers. and it was, it was not clearly whether he got horribly, it's, and he's also not clear. basically he's q r codes on his or there's, he's documentation. so he knows perfectly that he's coming close valia, the enormous is strictly regulation. so, been fun of not of jocko it's been, serves, it's one side, but been academicians in science status. i asked and typical research us, and someone who is very low will be the in person. it's opposite side. and so i think that normal joke, which is in great threes and did this morning because if he, if his visa is canceled in australia is a county of commonwealth,

there are some other countries can pull a glacial hosanna. in the, if you understand in europe in some european country, which is part of shrinking yes of your visa and the etc, the few like what to use her in other countries has to call it in his own and that carrier and jeopardize. well 1st, so let me say i appreciate your honesty saying, but yes, you are a fan and will always be a phantom. it's absolutely fair enough. we focus so much on not that joke of it's as vaccination status. what can you tell me about vaccination? take up in serbia, have there been any problems with vaccine hesitancy there at all? more widely a, the government did all possible things to supply either one of the 1st country route to have all kinds of rough seeds on chinese, a single hand to pfizer. you can choose you and you can even today the walk through a selected the places instead of yeah, there is many selected places for mission and that they're almost empty. people

doesn't understand tedious. the how important is the vaccination because that is turned on few bucks at the lobby. there is a hearing conspiracy and said threads in each rear fairly. i don't understand. and uh right now we have as we are small 90, we have like 660 ones. but you have 13000, in fact, the effect of them. and this is mostly because of those that the out a check the vaccination because how do you get out of this? i think, science thieves and sci fi good researches. i am for vaccines make, well the people who are about to reach all around me, but of course they're easier social groups networks. they're either even hybrid more. there's a theory people or he says, i'm kind of the vest conspiracy deputy vandiver i believed in the other is can you tell me a doctor briefly about political reaction to this? and i am not talking so much about the vaccination side about the treatment. if i can use that word of no joke of it. obviously there's a lot of passion from people about the way he's been treated in the detention hotel

he's been kept. and what about political reaction mother, if we could understand the government of serbia, did they ever ti, possible to health joke of each other? also not late this statement of our prime minister, and he's been up each doctor also. it documentation that jackowitz presented in fact, of his interview before the australian authority sir. but the to be to view in serbia and on, based on that stuff, to position of the government to be taken about joker ridge because there is something that also geographies tried to explain. that 16 of december, he declared that he was infected. and the 17 he up is a with younger young danny's play at us and others. he tried to explain what to what he's kept in, but also getting some kind of the let's see him, he snatching denise information or in his door papers. we depue our quotes or differently government books, livia has to that if you the documents and we are looking for. so salient

authorities to submit said we in authorities forties. exactly, because you cannot give faith the document. you cannot give a false statement before the federal authorities. it can be punished by law enough on the ost now sally, about so many twists and turns on finding that he needed. i didn't say i have to say the very best. i don't see that he's the he did. no, definitely. we need more clarification. you need more explanation. that ether, if he's the fact that he knows that he was the infected in the air anyway, he's got something to, i mean, are canada. i list that he was dr. gotcha. and then i'm gonna have to interrupt you because i have got some other news to get her, but thank you so much for your time. i really appreciate it. thank you so much. yes . on to that other news in the office of the u. k. prime minister bars johnson has apologized to the queen after it emerged that a party was held on the eve of her husband's funeral to gatherings were reported to have taken place in dawning street during

a karone of iris lockdown on april 16. the next day. remember this, the queen attending the socially distance funeral of prince philip sitting by herself there as the service happened on wednesday bars, johnson had a de paula johnson for attending a separate drinks, events, knave barca, following all of these developments for us when you have to apologize to the queen nave, something has gone very, very wrong that that's right. literally an understatement. i mean the government's boist on some already very much in crisis mode of now this which isn't going to do the prime minister any favors. i mean, picture the scene. it's april. the 16th 2020 talk 2021. it was a warm evening. i know where i was that evening. and inside the doors of number 10 downing street in the basement. we believe a come to report the telegraph newspaper around 30 people had gathered for a double good by bash. there was drinking,

there was dancing. and according to that telegraph report and these one official was sent off to local supermarket on a booze run. to keep the party going on, of course, only the day after the country in national mourning flags across the land flying at half mast was the funeral of the duke of edinburgh, prince philip, and that iconic picture that you mention. door of queen elizabeth, cutting a lonely figure. the pews of saint george's chapel is remembered by everybody in this country. i remind a symbol of perhaps the sacrifice that lots of people made during the pandemic. while there has been 2 apologies, the 1st of form, one of the officials whose leaving do it was he said it was bad timing. he is now a deputy editor in chief. the sun newspaper. james slack is his name on the 2nd coming from a number 10 spokes person. this apology aimed at the palace to say,

sorry for these parties happening at a time of national morning. no apology. personally though from boyce johnson anger, from opposition, m. p. 's who say that the bach essentially stops or bars johnson, and he should be the one bearing the brunt of or all of this name. i think almost anyone watching this around the world will be wondering how can bars johnson and his government survive this take us through the numbers and the, and the, the way which he, i the can o'con survivors. well, i think especially for the time being for boys, johnson is the hunker down and hope that this old blows over. but we've seen in the last couple of days growing anger from within conservative party ranks of the have to be roughly around 15 percent of conservative m p 's. that right, let's is of no confidence in the prime minister to trigger a leadership a contest when nowhere near that of the moment we've seen, for instance,

prominent cabinet ministers come out to try to remind the population to remind the public of for some successes over the past couple of years in handling the pandemic and the majority of conservative m. p. 's are largely silent. waiting for the conclusion of an investigation by a senior civil servant su gray, inter variety, a range of different parties across a white hole. we know the last, cather around 12 different events at number 10, at different government departments that dom weiss all across westminster. and if it appears that the boys johnson has a role to play and all of that that he should have known better than his role may well become untenable, going forward. and we are seeing more more local councils. local conservative council. slowly turn that back on boris. sean said many seeing now him as being less of a leader or more of a liability. that's nice. barker reporting from london. thank you for all that nice

. we want to look at germany now, which is reported another record number of new code 19 cases in a 24 hour period. it's rich more than 92000 up from 81000 a day. which in itself had been a wrinkled figure. the search has been fueled by a rise in the army kron variance, which is now the more dominant strain across the continent. right, sat, sorry, after bill and we got to talk to dominant cane about this. i want to look at your more widely in a moment. the 1st to tell us about what you've been seeing and experiencing there in germany with the search. well, the 1st thing to say is there's no question that the medics and ministers who have been talking to the major today about the situation painting a pretty bleak picture. and those figures themselves are pretty bleak as you were saying, 92000 up on 81000 or more than 10 percent. rise in the number of near infections in

the course of one day. remembering that several days this week we've had record breaking figures and each day goes worse. and now we know that more than 70 percent of all the cases are only crohn cases. so it is definitely dominant in this country . some of the interesting things also was the ancillary things. the things you could attach to this particular pandemic right now is that testing is a bit of a problem. the authorities say there are plenty of p c, r tests that gold standard of testing. and yet, if you go around berlin and other cities, you'll see people queuing, round the corner of big city blocks, try to get themselves tested. as i say, the officials say there are plenty of tests, and yet these very large cues, just one, just round the corner from the office in which i'm speaking to you now come out. so no question of our set serious problems in germany right now. it has to be said, the death rate at the moment is not particularly high compared to how it was

a few months ago. but the number of new infections is skyrocketing upwards. and that has got people here very concerned. i don't think i was going to show our view in maps of europe just now, but i'm having a few problems with my i pads. we'll leave that. but the point i wanted to make is that you've talked about on the kron in germany. the fact is, wasn't there a claim that actually half of europe could be infected with the, on the con variant at some point. yes, you, as might recall that earlier this week, an official by the name of hands. clue from the world health organization who has specific responsibility for europe and central asia, where he was saying that in his opinion, a projection which he didn't want to make but had to make. he felt was that in the course of the next $6.00 to $8.00 weeks, so taking his up to somewhere around mid march, 50 percent, half of the population of the area he was talking about as europe and central asia

might find themselves having become infected with the ami kron varian. so that's a very clear warning coming there. and then when you actually look into the figures specifically, look around the continent, you see the countries where on the cronies spiking we know here in germany, they've said it's dominant. we know also that in italy they are saying it is dominant. now here the mantra is very clear, mosque ventilation. and booster problem of course, is that they're still a large minority of people who haven't even had one vaccination. those of the people predominantly who are ending up an intensive care with the worst manifestation of coded, and that is not the case. this is not just here. that's the case. in many countries, particularly it must be said in eastern europe, where the uptake of the vaccine is not as high as it is in western europe. okay, thank you for all those updates germany in europe there with dominic cain in berlin . okay, we are 17 minutes past this news. i was coming up hundreds of thousands of people

in india gathering for a religious festival that someone could become a super spreader event for, you guessed it, all micro freezing temperatures and frozen assets and urgent appeal to help struggling afghans and sport of on her on the duck, our rally as it reached its conclusion in saudi arabia santa will have that story a little later. ah, what will the a you has condemned a cyber attack on ukraine's government. and it's called an emergency meeting to respond hackers, targeted websites for the ministry of foreign affairs and other agencies. and while it's not yet clear exactly who was behind it, the foreign ministry says there has been a long record of russian cyber attacks in the past. of course, there has been all this recent tension essence. moscow sent troops to wards the border with ukraine. for the occurs federal merely that predicted, oh,

it's worthy of the strongest condemnation called this morning for an emergency meeting of them. bachelors of the political committee to see, but how we can react and provide technical assistance to green. but in order to increase its resistance capacity for pace with this kind of attacks or you loss mobilized, member stage of the rapid response cyber unit, which has the capacity that to act quickly in response to this kind of attacks. rushes foreign minister mean also get love. rob says his country is prepared to respond. if western nations reject moscow secure, he proposals. he wants a detailed answer in writing, in writings ari to demands, including limits to nato expansion, several rounds of talks to ease the crisis in east and ukraine. have been taking place this week already about almost 2 lateesha good reserves fuko to lou. we have talked about defect that such an approach is an acceptable and we cannot approve of such were union lateral interpreter 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, dosa jabari in moscow. so collaborative talking about compromise and there's always a way forward. but the fact is there were 3 lots of talks this week with 3 different groups. and it brought about nothing that is the general consensus come all the russian foreign minister also had some very strong words for the americans. he said that the western general, he said rushes patients with the actions of the west have come to an end. and that also all communications with the you have come to an end. he's very stern, in his words saying that russia believes that they have reasons to believe that

nato and the us will be building up their troop presence along the border of russia . using the pretext of the tensions with ukraine as an excuse to do that. and that is something that the russians will not allow. the point was made by the foreign minister. that's the answer. the written answer that the russians are waiting for will have to come soon, that there is not an indefinite period of time for them to wait around that have also, we heard very similar sentiments from the spokesperson of the president latter mere putting on thursday. who said that the talks this week have been unsuccessful, and that the united states, if they choose to follow through with our threats of sanctioning president putin, the russians will see that as similar to the act of severing ties comparable to the act of severing ties with russia, so things have really gone from bad to worse all the rounds of negotiations and talks that were held this week and various european cities seem to have gone

nowhere very quickly and have only highlighted how tense the situation is and moving forward. we also have the german foreign minister who will be arriving in russia early next week. and they're going to be talking about the situation with ukraine. but in terms of how russia sees the situation, they say that there are well within their right to move their troops anywhere along their land. and they're not in a position to have to answer to anyone for doing so. in terms of nato and the possibility of ukraine joining the alliance. that is something that is very much red line for this country. dosa jabari reporting from oscar. thank you. north korea has testified another missile to 1000, to the u. s. called to new sanctions. this is the 3rd launch this month, and the 6th since september, the government defended the test, says they court legitimate, right to self defense. and in fact, want of a stronger reaction. if more sanctions are imposed. the united nations,

as at least a 108 people, been killed and as strikes and ethiopians northern ticket regions. since the start of this month alone for the strikes are reportedly carried out by ethiopians. air force, federal troops have been fighting to ground rebels for more than a year. work as if it civilians continue to be killed by strikes intake re despite prime minister abbey med school for national reconciliation to end the conflicts. right, tennessee and now we are anti government protests have been happening on friday. president chi said a man under pressure since july. in fact, if we look at the situation, just a bit of background for you before we get the latest it was in july, the president side sat, the prime minister rose parliament and assumed executive powers. the opposition party accused him of staging, a qu demonstrate as protested in front of parliament. there were mostly peaceful protest between september and november. that some people were arrested during outbreaks of violence as

a movement called citizens against the curious made up of political and civilian groups. and hunger strikes and protests from december. but they have also been rallies in support of the president we should say, most held in june as one of them in october actually drew large crowds across the country. let's get an update from the ground shortly. but 1st on a talk to ta ta holloway, who is a political analyst. joining us from tunis, there's a political significance for today, isn't there for these projects to, to be happening historically speaking when the political significance is that today is the diversity of the case of tunisia have been the leaving. you can do a clean, the chemistry in january 14th, 2011, and the base i in change and the most of the units ignite is of course it is a promotion. but he says available. lucian started december 17th july 14. there was

a qu, so he changed the official diversity of that. and this became one of contention points between the position of position of different of the sections of the one that you mentioned, citizens guess the could just one of them close to another. but there are others and all of them basically as a side change of the how would you describe the levels of anti presidential feeling now we're in the middle of january, this goes back to, as i said, july, and then they were a lot of peaceful protests in september and november, how does it compare now? when frankly, usually in the last 10 years, we would have usually social come to stations in popular neighborhoods in neighborhoods and december and january. this is not happening this year. so that's something to be taken into account. on the other hand,

we have almost all the political except for 2 of the parties which are basically taking positions to get the i cited. are they able, are they going to be able to galvanize people on the streets? it seems it seems that the 3 setting up the yet they are not able to. so many people to go to the streets, as we can see from the there's the does all of this, do you think threaten tune is he is, i'll say tune is his position. remember how it was always seen as the, the big success story of the arab spring. one of the earliest countries to go to a revolution and one which managed to get through electoral processes. is all of that under threat from this, or is this actually just democracy in action in tennessee? yeah. well i think it's another pause in the democratic process and it's maybe a conflict about what the mobility should look like between

a side and the different opponents of k 5. they think it's about what the book should look like in the future. he has a road map to go back to the elections. international partners of tenicia are showing him to actually stick to his own road map. we're going to see the position he's not here yet. they've got the park in the front of the land in july and the elections that are going to be planted december in 2022. so this is in the making. we're going to see if the, with map to get back to the vs. going to happen or not, but they're writing voice is that there is a rising set to democratic the look at the guarantees, especially to make that roadmap, actually have to kind of be great to get your thoughts on this. i thank you for your time. so grabbing a break in a moment on the news, our 1st the weather would everton, hello there. we got

a real wintry mix in the weather, across the middle east, over the next couple of days. rain, sleet, and snow. for many of us, we got lots of clouds showing up on the satellite pitcher spilling out a turkey rolling across the levant, and easing towards s, syria and iraq. so significant snowfall coming in here i was the higher ground was that you see some heavy rain to, to western parts of iran. follow that line of rain across us here in carter. we will see some rainfall as we go through saturday and on into sunday. so that's something to market car at where to weather, just straddling a saudi arabia, running all the way across into the red sea is still there as we go on through sunday. some heavy rain also pushing into the you a could cause some localized flooding cause and that system makes its way all the way up to was afghanistan still cold enough further north, across iran, iraq pushing up towards turkey. the levant seems an 8th there for damascus. and for jerusalem to certainly feeling a bit like winter cold enough to across northern parts of africa. we one or 2

showers in play here, showers to just around the gulf of guinea, southern part of the guinea coast. some that wet weather may will even affect the football. in cameroon, we will see some heavy rain coming through here. march of southern africa, seeing some lively showers over the next couple of days. everson, thank you for that. still ahead. see you. china's 0 coven policy. it's under strain with beijing's winter olympic games coming up next month. running out of ty, imagine tina tries to strike a deal with international lenders ahead of march deadline. we're going to hit directly from the economy minister and sport hosts. cameroon, looking like the team to beat this as the africa cup of nations action from the tournament coming up a little later. ah, if you have to choose between your site and feeding your family, what do you do? i mean that happens because we don't keep ourselves healthy. when your son could face death from a dog bio. what do you do?

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ah ah, you with the news all from al jazeera, these are the top stories, australia is immigration, min is cancelled tennis done of a job, which is visa, just days ahead of the australian open. he's been ordered to return to pre deportation detention, but he's allowed to meet his lawyers ahead of his appeal, hearing the office of u. k. prime minister barak johnson has se apologize to the queen after it emerged, a party was held on the eve of her husband's funeral to gatherings or reports to a taken place in downing street during what was a current of iris lockdown. and germany's reported a record number of view cove cases for a 2nd day in a row. 92000 infections were reported. hospitalizations and deaths though are lower than in previous weights. more on the ongoing of joke of ich saga, i spoke to western sidney universities. david rowe a little bit earlier,

he says it's been an extraordinarily sensitive issue with debate within australia over who actually makes the ultimate call being complete confusion here as to who actually has jurisdiction. so scott morrison, the prime minister said 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 seemed to be that was the arrangement at the time. i'm within a day or so that has changed and so the federal government is kind of said, no, we control the board. and so there's been a real confusion. tennis australia 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 key to keep hold of the one that it has over 4 grand slams. so it's been an extraordinary sensitive issue as essentially a political issue. you go the whole question of the position of sport in australian culture. that's obviously very powerful. but also you've got the questions. read chrissy in terms of the treatment of its citizens and the nations in latin america have now stepped up. their vaccination tribes cheaper, chilly brazil land now among the 10 most inoculated countries in the world. mexico though is lagging behind and struggling to cope with the amazon buried john hohmann reports cove. it's returned to the attack in mexico downy more than $500.00 flights in the country. is ella and stuff of good infected or mass with the virus. the general population suffering to wimbledon 200000 active cases. i mean while

a lot of president lopez over the door was sure he wasn't one. this was him. amassed in his monday morning press conference or is it just out of? yes, i'll get tested later, but i think it's a flu peril you'll go guess it wasn't. and when he tested positive for cove, it, there was criticism of a leader who some believe has taken the virus lightly from the star. but even the president's infection hasn't provoked the same interest as it did the 1st time. he caught cove it a year ago. levels of alarm over the virus in general have gone down, and that's probably because even though january, so the highest daily number of people infected since the virus began a lot less people are getting seriously ill or dying to does that mean a mix code? the war is one, the vaccines working and the virus is week is elsewhere. the expert search caution a or her last up we are sitting hopefully this is there below good of upon them. it

would, we're not sure because he, they all micro barian came out. so can authors in the capital some seem to be taken that warning seriously. there were long cusick government testing boost. well, i took the test to take care of my children and my family. we can't take the risk and think it's just simple flu. i must take my medication cues for the vaccine, all so stretched out in mexico city. here the majority came to get all the jobs they can as fast as possible. not so in some other parts of the country, particularly the poor states, in which the vaccine hasn't arrived at some far flung communities. well, they've simply been reluctant to get the shot for mexico, but could spell trouble to was not matters of blending the much needed are the main risks were, would themselves because they could get far more seeker and eventually for the population. because of the possibility in these group that new strains come up, wallace cornel. but for now the country's running is no longer with no new governmental restrictions. trying to ride out the latest attack of

a now familiar fo john hohmann. oh, does it mit screw city? and begging their wrapping up checks for all inbound travelers ahead of the winter olympic games in 3 weeks. officials are concerned an outbreak of covert maintain the nearby port city of john gin could spread to the capitol brit climate reports 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 omicron variant of coven 19 have been detected in several provinces. but the focus of containment is the northern port city of t and gin. just 30 minutes by train from beijing, from oppose. you know what? we have to fight that desperate into the individual areas for management and control and set up sexy, sexy selling time for raw t self dating necessities like fighter turbos and prepare foods, the rest of him place order as they meet 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 mandatory testing has been introduced after nurses tested positive in the district of chin. moon 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 band from 8 countries dining restrictions and limits on numbers for gatherings. on friday, chief executive carry lamb announced a relief package for affected businesses, and that restrictions will be extended for another 2 weeks. that extension means there will be restrictions on dining and gathering during the chinese via holiday, which will put a damper on traditional celebration said to ring in the year of the tiger brick planets. al jazeera hong kong, the number of new covered infections in india has now risen. it's more than 260000 in the past 24 hours driven by all maker on. also you've got hundreds of thousands

of hindu pilgrims gathering for a religious festival and there are fears that could become a so called super spreader events. poverty baton has more. the thousands of hindu devotees have thrown to the bank with the ganges for the end will dipping the river. the week long pilgrimage has continued despite covered 90 cases surging throughout the country for the money that the holy water was brought and played on the practice. social distancing, and batches of only 50 people are allowed at a time. we also use drones to sanitize the place people across india, celebrating various festivals and mac type restrictions. the largest of these is in western goals. the only vaccinated pilgrims are allowed. testing camps are open, even as public cases and schools have closed. despite these measures, nuclear with 1900 cases in the state of breaking all your records. hospital admissions in india, however, have remained relatively low in the country's largest cove. in 1900 facility in new

delhi, most beds are empty and not many patients are on a ventilator. we have enough oxygen, we have enough, i feel bad. we have enough medicine. and we have all the infrastructure, it became time, you know, also drained our doctors, nurses and paramedics technician to how to deal with the increasing numbers. so this time we are better prepared than the 2nd year. authorities expect the omicron fuel search to stream resources, but are taking steps to address the impact they are now advising. asymptomatic contacts have covered 90 patients to avoid testing and quarantine at home. what the advisory signifies. is a low is a degree of pragmatism and i understand this is a relatively short on thing. it's not that, that it's, it's giving up on testing. it's a short on thing for the simple reason that the number of, of, of is implemented contents are so enormous that it's simply,

it's simply restricted to highest groups. authorities will soon decide on extending the ban on the election valleys in the capital, new delhi, when you cases speak to an all time hi, there will be another weekend golf, you public health, hot warm that on even restrictions. good back fire. if this is continued despite as a currently, even a small percentage of new hospital admission good, overwhelmed health jefferson, barbie, michelle al jazeera new delhi in afghanistan, the un secretary general says it is a race against time with cold temperatures and frozen assets forming a lethal combination antonio quoterush reiterated the world is not doing enough to address the crisis there. this was that of talks between the un humanitarian chief and the u. a secretary of state, a diplomatic as a james base reports from un headquarters in you. the u. n. is appealed for more than $5000000000.00 to prevent about $9000000.00 people from starving in

afghanistan. the situation could get even worse if there is a complete collapse of the financial system in the country. and that's why the un secretary general antonio guitarist has asked his humanitarian chief martin griffith, along with the head of the international committee of the red cross pita mara, to reach out to the u. s. secretary of state antony blinking. they'll be meeting virtually in the coming hours to deal with what the secretary general calls a race against time. you have afghans on the verge of death and talk a concrete death on the ground because of hunger because of disease and because of lack of assistance. so it's absolutely essential to avoid the collapse of the economy and for that we need to inject liquidity, the economy. what does the us need to do? and what moral duty to this, does it have to prevent the breakdown of the financial system in afghanistan?

and i think the west as an a very important role to play because a most of the financial system in the world operating dollars. the obviously there is a meaningful volume of funds that are frozen in the united states and in several other countries in the world. but the way to apply them in a way that is not diverted, but really serves the interest of the african people is something in which we are working guards to make sure that all the necessary guarantees are provided. one high level un official has told me that they believe the u. s. is beginning to realize it must change its position and find a way to unlock some of the funds which currently frozen, bought the americans remain adamant that none of the money must go to the government of afghanistan. which of course is now the taliban. that's intelligent tina, which is trying to work out a deal with the international monetary fund to avoid economic collapse. the

government has until march to restructure billions of dollars in debt loan to it by the i m f in 2018. theresa both spoke to the continuing economy minister, math, and goodman about the progress being made in 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 monthly. 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, american men who explained the current situation is 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 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 a loan that many, many so as people long as the support funds moving actually solution to a government so that the government could win the elections. and that created a lot of entirety. it created many problems and 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 are your teenage 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 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 troubles. there are differences they m f ones a faster boss of fisco. 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 mean,

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 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 sectors associated with, with natural resources and then get industrialize or in denice. 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. argentina will have to be around $2900000000.00. that's why an agreement is crucial to prevent that country default once again. that is,

i will defeat the site if dozens of journalists and activists in el salvador have reported. they've been subject to phone hacks by the government research from an internet watchdogs. as many of those targeted worked the independent use side, i'll follow the output was reporting on suspect deals between the government and street gangs at the time of salvatore government reportedly use the israeli pegasus spy program, but it has denied responsibility later on we offer like $269.00 days with full access to my phone to the phone microphone to the camera with full access to my calls, contacts messages, images, documents, to be honest, this is a little scary. and it's also hard to process to know that you've had a stranger in your house on your privacy, on this line. california governor given you some has denied parole for the man who assassinated us presidential candidate, robert f. kennedy. sir john, sir,

on the pit of palestinian refugee has been serving a life sentence for that killing in 1900. 68 kennedy's murder. just 5 years after his brother, president john f kennedy was killed in dallas. rob reynolds with this report from the san jose, the man convicted of killing robert f. kennedy, more than 50 years ago will remain behind bars. california governor gavin newsome rejected parole for sir, han b. sharice your hon. a palestinian immigrant found guilty of assassinating kennedy in 1968. kennedy was a democratic us senator and younger brother of the assassinated president john f. kennedy. he was running for the democratic party nomination for president and had just celebrated winning the crucial california primary at a rally at the ambassador hotel in los angeles. i thank to all of you and now it's on the chicago and let win. now. as kennedy and his entourage made their way back stage in the kitchen area of the hotel, sir,

hans struck fatally wounded kennedy with a bullet to the head. dozens of people witness the shooting. it was an act of violence that changed the course of american history. in august of last year, a california parole panel recommended that sir han who is now 77 years old, be released, saying he had expressed some remorse, but newsome has the final say on pearls. in a statement he called sir han's assassination of kennedy. among the most notorious crimes in american history, he said sir, hans still poses a threat to the public. sir han initially said he was motivated to kill kennedy because of the senator support for israel. he never denied the crime, but later claimed he remembered nothing from that night. although 2 of robert kennedy's children urged sir han's release, many kennedy family members said they were deeply relieved by the decision. rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles, back in

a moment with your sports news more reaction from australia when of a joke of it. once again faces the prospect of deportation. ah

with ah ah ah. ah well come back to sport. a friend of mine was just tweeting and saying, reads regards novick jokers, which will never end. i think it's a fair question, but it's take talk if he has until monday we'll see what happens while a joke of it is still hoping to play at next week. so strain open his legal team a have appealed against the decision to cancel his visa for sec in time with

a new hearing now set to take place on sunday. early on friday, immigration minister alex hall as used that his personal power to revoke joker, which is visa player isn't vaccinated against coven 19. but he had hoped to be given a medical exemption or a joke of it to has been included in the drawer for the 1st grand slam of the season, which is due to start on monday. i'm not gonna sit here and start kicking nova whilst he's done. it's of a see. yeah. like i said at the other day it just is not a good situation. just seems like it's dragged on for quite a long time now and yeah, not great for the, for the tennis, not great for destroying open. not great for nova. oh yeah. not of a say a lot of people who criticized obviously the government here as well. so it's not,

not being good on your car which will go back into immigration detention, not 21, g m t that's 8 am on saturday in melvin. he will be allowed to go and meet with his legal team in the presence of australia, board of force officers or his appeal hearing will take place at the federal court on sunday. if that concludes in his favor joke of his australian open title defense could still begin on monday. oh, we've been talking to 7 news, sports reporter andrew mccormick about that. the blame game currently being played in australia? well, i think while the majority, people are great, we know that job at each 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, some part of the blind. yes. fascinated by spot, he was told and given information which is turned out to be false. in terms of the

tennis destroyer and other officials. i have the astronomy and i've been telling him that you know, d. c, 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 on my history here in melbourne, that wasn't the case and i gave you guys assurances that weren't the case. you don't know that job which point of view, i mean type of why what you personally about. so that's nice, nice you have to personally bet. and i think why that this 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 tied in. and so what. ready 48 hours from the turn in to get a decision on the beta. when he won, he's caught 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 of it, they want decision one while the other. you know that lying or is, you know, taneesha protests against a referee at the africa couple of nations that has been rejected. the confederation of africa football dismissed the complaint about their game with molly ending before 19 minutes was up. can also confirm the result of wednesday's game as a one neil wind for molly. it's been reported that the referee had been suffering from a heat post. nathan cameron have their spot in the knockout round that they came from behind to secure a big win. again, if you're in a instance, bucher was the star of the show, the former portal strike us going twice in the game camera going on to see for one they're looking at to win the form. and so for 6 time, but enough, i also picked up

a when they beat caper the one nails the result means both teams have 3 points off the 2 games and group a african football right to my head him is a, is in cameroon. for the torment he says, the host nation are strong contenders to in 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 cameroon, i could shield the excitement for the match. you know cobit protocols, i made it difficult for support to get into the state and, but i can tell you here every single 50 meters, 100 meters, there's a cache or a bar set up huge screens. everybody yesterday had on their camera and there have taxis cigarette he us everywhere there was a kimberly and like, i think that kind of momentum, that kind of enthusiasm, really boy a national team. and we saw that, i think, you know, cameron, especially i want to say quick above and several books are who had to go lastly and

it's not for me some petition and only 2 matches. cameroon, are sort of spoiled for to it's kind of when it comes to records, i had several esl rosie mila patrick and boma. but this kinda has scored an unwilling goal, is because it says to me, and these are a great start at the ask on their hosting. so i think he's slowly trying to transform his legacy if he continues this. and if camera can go far and be one of those legends that you can add to the camera in the pantheon of african strikers, catherine drive and also lataya has won the duck, o'reilly. for 4th time miles the race, it's really the saudi arabian deserts came to a climax on friday. 51 year old. took the over honors ahead of francis my time. well, that chance and allow me when it makes al api and the 2nd most successful driver in the history of duncan can car category and that's it for me. i i hand you back to come up santa thank you so much for. that's how we're coming up to the top of the, our 1400 hours gmc, i'll be back in

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