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in the philippines. hundreds of people have been killed and half a 1000000 driven from their homes. ah, irish damage, you're welcome to dw news asia. glad you're good. join us members of the organization of islamic cooperation or oh, i see will fund humanitarian aid in afghanistan through a trust at the stomach development bank. the move agreed to in islam above, over the weekend seeks to answer a fundamental question. many countries are facing. with sending financial aid to have gone is done. how does one send money into the country without appearing to legitimize the dollar bond, or was still inadvertently funding it? the dilemma isn't lost on the militants either who believe they are being wronged. here's it's acting foreign minister on the issue of thought bonds,

visitor music. across the world, it is accepted that if a government has people and if it has a power over its people and if they can maintain security for their people other than this government has the right to be officially recognized your home at the moment because that government is not recognized, this is an act of oppression a. and that prevents countries from directly sending money to have gone is done. but there have been calls to release the countries overseas assets of gone on central bank has around $9000000000.00 in reserves, mostly parked in the united states. but they've been frozen since the balaban takeover and washington shows no signs of budging. for now, they've gone on reconstruction trust fund, which is administered by the world bank has agreed to unfreeze $280000000.00 for humanitarian efforts. 180000000, go to the world food program and

a 100000000 to unicef. getting money to your organizations, that unit is one thing using it to deliver. 8 to people is another. as we report enough, la, missed on to day aid. the delivery is its own mammoth challenge. the only road leading into this remote area along the border to pakistan has been partially destroyed by mines. we're driving to an area where the afghani army and the taliban font. for decades. the people who live in this village were caught between the 2 sides. now they suffer from extreme poverty. women and children have been especially hard hit by the situation midwives sent by unicef are trying to help the desperate mothers who am i need medicine. but the streets are blocked out and there has been a drought for years. there has been no rain. our children are suffering of what i

hope they give us something. i need food for my 2 grandchildren. they are sick and don't have enough to eat. we have a bad thing. the taliban used to shoot at the aid workers. but now the women are allowed to enter the village. how young, what are these a hawaii have to bring more medicine here? because every day, more patients come to pick it up like it is more like we're having problems getting supplies. but i thought of the teacher, the problem, i'd commerce be deco luck getting out of the fact that women speak openly with us. anger's, the taliban. i could, one of us love of them on our women must cover their faces. moments to the upper. did our duty was they push us back up and we have to stop filming only after we are joined by the unicef communications team and their accompanying taliban. does the situation calm down they drive with us to the next village.

we want to think this woman is pregnant. the mobile units have health team examines her. the next hospital is 2 hours away. her children are malnourished. a woman wants to show us how she lives and invites us into her house. her family has many children and little space, no heating and nearly nothing to eat. but this is what i will cook today. i will give it to the little ones so they can have something warm to eat. it's a small bowl of corn meal. that's all we have work, it were more and more people crowd around the unicef, edward personally, they don't have enough of anything including food the needs are so immense. and because we are not only providing basic humanitarian assistance, we are also having to support a system from collapse the taliban riding with unicef. workers are heavily armed.

they repeatedly make it clear that in afghanistan, the un organization can only help people in need. if they allow it. and young men are for more from istanbul is journalist ali, let the fif ali, what are people in of ron isn't telling you how bad is this your monitor in situation on the ground? the situation is really bad because what's happening is that price is of basic stable unit staples, we're talking, you know, rice, cooking oil, things like that. continue to go up. people still don't have proper, you know, settled, incomes that they can rely on. and obviously the foreign aid isn't coming in the way that it needs to. a lot of what's happening right now is a lot of it is being promised, but isn't able to be distributed to the people either because of logistical reasons or pretty soon they will be issues with the winter where a lot of the country special, the most impoverished parts of the country will become increasingly cut off,

so it's very important that before all of the snow and all of the rain hits that the actual humanitarian aid reaches the most remote parts of the country. you know, those were the parts of the country that even under the former republic didn't get much assistance. they didn't get much aid, didn't get much money and now you know, they're suffering even more. and getting to them is going to be even more difficult . i'd like to talk a bit about this distribution process. i mean, particularly when it comes to the taliban and the territory that they control, are the taliban helping all hindering agencies trying to reach the people who need help? it really depends on where you're talking about. you know, there are provinces and there are, for instance, couple months ago people were talking about and my don't, why lack province when they were trying to distribute who managed terry and aid where the current governor of the province was saying, actually all that money and all that

a needs come to me and then i will decide how it spread, how it's distributed. and that's a very dangerous thing because you know, this had happened in the past as well during the republic where you would have officials where you would have police, where you would have, you know, the sort of self appointed and a lot of ways. how can the leaders of an area thing, i will be the one to distribute the aid. and what happens then is you don't know if it's really getting to the most vulnerable orifice is getting to the people closest to the people. this was notorious and ibp camps at the time. and this is something that people are worried about that if the taller bond take too much influence too much power over this process, that they will do that, you know, that they will eventually repeat this current process. now the taller boss have in the past, they have tried to distribute aid in terms of food aid in terms of money, in terms of back wages across several provinces. but of course, they don't have the funding and the capability to do it on a large scale as it could have been done previously. so it's really important that

the u. n. u. other agencies find ways to either work with the taller bond or have the taller bond allow them to work and really distribute the things in a systematic manner. because as i said earlier, as much as you know, the winter advances, the more difficult it becomes to reach a lot of areas of the country. a major concern among countries has been attending aid to have gone in on either legit promises or partly funded the olive on. do you think these sounds are legitimate? well i mean inter legitimizing the taller bond. these countries are meeting with a taller one. you know, the, you had sent representatives, germany has some representatives, the u. k, the us, you know, they, they flown to door to meet with them. so this is part of the question is if you're meeting with them and you're talking with them, how would you know, is that not one step towards ledger migration, if not actual, legitimize ation. if you are, whether you call them the de facto, you know,

foreign minister or the defect or whatever minister, you're still sitting with them and talking with them, right? so there's that. and then in terms of ok, if the money goes to the taliban government, i think then it becomes even more important for these countries to have some kind of engagement in some kind of oversights. if they listen, this is our money, and we want to be sure that it's actually distributed to the people in need. this is something that they couldn't really do with the former government. you know, they kept whenever they were these different aid conferences and things like that. they kept trying to put boundaries, limitations, say that, you know, you have to curb corruption by this amount. those benchmarks are never really hit. so now it's important for them through not only do something like that, but to try and see if they can implemented this time. we live there for the time being, but thank you so much for joining us today. i'm in the tv. the troops in the philippines have been racing to deliver aid to regents,

devastated by super typhoon ry. at least 375. people have been killed and hundreds more injured after the massive storm hits last week. half a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes. the red cross has already launched and emergency bill. many survivors are desperate. i am hungry. have mercy. that's what's written on this man's shine as he tries to flag down help surrounding him. a fallen power lines, a mangled mass in the carnage. survivors of super typhoon rye have been left and begging for food and water. oh, but what is the liam for bud? what is really important during this situation is water and food. the people are under stress and they need water. well, i thought, oh, they are so thirsty loanable began. oh no,

i hope we can fix the supply. and then it will give you the president, rodrigo, do tirty has promised about 36000000 euros in funds. i to help with the recovery from samuel mago, but reaching the people who need help is no easy feat. many areas are still struggling with down communication lines, power outages and blocked roads. the anger and desperation a palpable people here feel abandoned because the linen guy, well they should've at least given us one fire truck for water that but there is none. none right now. no one showed up. i don't know where the politicians an election candidates are the double in the let's see what happens when election time comes around. when they come here next, they'll see that they'll be hurt by what the people here will say,

except that lemme bonus himself had been on what ball. so brussel at the monotony. wonderful. the red cross has appealed to the international community for 19000000 years to help victims of the disaster. but with scientists warning that climate change is making typhoons like this deadlier, that amount of money may just be a drop in the ocean. that's it for today. there's of course more on our website, the w dot com, forward slash asia as ever you can follow us on twitter and facebook. we'll see you here tomorrow of ah, the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say, information and context? the corona virus update the coded 19 special. next on,

oh, are you ready to get a little more extreme? ah, these places in europe are smashing all the records. step into adventure. just don't lose your grip. is the treasure map for modern globetrotters, discover some of your root wykard breaking sites. and now also in book form. ah, ah, welcome to your cobra 19 special. i'm chelsea delaney in berlin. travel restrictions are tightening once again in europe. last week, germany classified all neighboring nations as high risk, while france band, all tourist and business travelers from the u. k. this,

as the british government says it's facing a tidal wave of new infections fueled by oma cron. the new k recorded a leap of 72 percent and the number of daily cases compared to the week before at over 82000 cases per day. it's more than any time during the pandemic. g, w correspondence, charlotte chelsea toll reports from london. ah, mister cheer on the streets of london once again bringing holly thompson, hospitality may will be open. christmas party still allowed to go ahead as planned but cove it is costing its dark shadow as the days ahead. is experts warm, the omicron tidal wave is coming and it's coming at a phenomenal pace. what we know is that it reproduces very, very fast. um, a week ago us also, we said it come reproduces every $23.00 days or 3 times a week and putting it very simply. that means in one week,

you get 8 times as many sections, 2 weeks, 64 times as many weeks, 512 times as many says coming at us like an express train. you kay's already reporting record cove it cases with on the chrome. now the dominant variance here in london resisting calls from some for further restrictions. the government's focusing instead on its booster campaign, resulting in lengthy queues at vaccine sites across the country. obviously though, micron is growing so rapidly london and we just wanted to get in as quickly as possible. so many people i thought of getting over it again from last week out of the office policy 1416 them gall cove. it clearly omicron is really spreading quickly. it's very relevant or very important for me to con her to learn for in 5 hours. not that i want to make an issue of it, but i live with my mother and father who of, in their ages. i want to ideally get it done full. i went to go and see relatives and people over christmas. i can't feel my toes there,

but it's okay. it's okay. the government's during the doors open to every adult in england to get boosted by the end of the year. they're hoping to offer up to a 1000000 jobs a day is early data suggest the 3rd vaccine is key to combating on the crop. this is a massive undertaking for the health service they're being asked for another major, maxine push to try and vent hospitals like this one from being overwhelmed with our concerns. it won't be enough. as people here lie, not for that boosters. there are already people in hospital with omicron hospitalizations are climbing, and one person's confirmed to have died with oma chron. while it's not yet clear how severe the very intense, the sheer number of cases alone could prove overwhelming. in the shadow of this vaccine center, a reminder of what's at stake, a memorial wall commemorating the 10s of thousands of lives lost to cove it. and it's with the pain and sacrifice at the past. that this weary nation is now facing

the threat of another worrying winter to come more for more on the situation in the u. k. let's talk to julian tang a clinical ver ologist at the university of leicester julian. i thank you for joining us. the situation in the u. k is already bad, but recent models from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine indicate it's about to get a lot worse. therefore, casting between $2575000.00 from overcome by the end of april. what will the coming month look like for the u. k? yes, and some questions about those models and they have been wrong before overestimating north deaths and cases that one of the key things about the model is that they're trying to model the severity of illness from from neutralization studies are being done in the lab as well. we know from previous attempts that supposedly illness is very hot model and that way that i suspect that the number infections may be close to the mark with the impossible as asians maybe less in the most predicts that in

the most pessimistic scenario, even the most optimistic scenario where maybe not as many hospitalization, so just to wait and see. and those we know that she's our responses are also very important in keeping people out the hospital and have more severe disease. antique responses are not really correlated in the model of the many fixed antibody utilization that results. but no matter what way you really look at this, the u. k, the rest of the world is facing more cases. more hospitalizations, is that avoidable and the u. k. now is difficult as if left it very long was you start to see the peak of these cases. now use irma con, it's essentially the horses bolted. so even though you impose restrictions, now, there are lot of viruses to lock people out there who are sealing the own, con, no van across the population, locals. delta hasn't gone away either. that the restrictions will reduce both the

variance in terms of infections and death. and hospitalisation and death, hopefully, but now it is very late on to do this and with christmas new year already upon us, this as low as asians now will have increased even as we speak in a even behind closed doors. we've seen in recent days that countries like the netherlands returning to locked down, do you think leisure is that strike a potential lockdown are coming in the u. k. social a purely various point of view. i think that's probably what's needed if they wanted to achieve that goal of actually reducing was fro, omicron, and not just for 2 weeks. as some of said already, i think for at least 4 to 6, we're gonna have to use that kind of measure to really lockdown the virus. but that causes consider hoslard hotly, hospitality industry and economy in a, in a wider sense sort of social, psychological welfare. so i was can be really hard to struggle balance between that, those 2 extremes. one of the challenges here

a seems to be that we don't know a lot about on mark on right now. there's still a lot of unanswered questions about how deadly it is or how can governments, including the government in the u. k. draft health policy is when our understanding of this area is still quite limited. so this, the issue of the precautionary approach in effect control, if you're not sure about how severe the virus is, how fast it spreads, you put in place measures that will cover those eventualities, even at the most pessimistic level. now of course, that has a knock in effect for him education or society and economy. but if you poorly look and control the virus or some of the sockets, asian cultures have done very well as, as a kind of restriction of measures that you need to impose early on. and then you can reap the benefits of that later on. that when you open up was of ours is down to, you know, virtually 0 and them over the u. k. and other european countries to that, it was just far too high for that. so what you're looking for as a mitigation the of the peak and hopefully something we can live with as well as,

you know, overwhelming the local health services. you mentioned there that net effective measures we've seen in, in south either asian countries. what exactly did you mean by that? can you elaborate a bit on what those have been? yes, so rather than getting the pandemic when they weren't sure about the viruses, well, the original will constrain the went to universal masking and forced isolation. quarantine of effects and contacts. there will be had security taxes on risk, ankles and mobile phone apps to track. they've been what he broke, those isolation, quarantine orders that even new friends they had to that they made, it won't stay at home and they need a written permission slip. so to leave the house for essential business that, that kind of measure, i did actually work very well to stem the tide of carrot in the 1st wave. and i was more people vaccinated and hung had left me in unity and the risk of severe disease . and death is much less at the moment, but if you want to reduce the risk of over one of the health care service,

cuz they're dealing with the things that in the winter winter months that the you may need some kind of locked down or at least something similar to restrict those numbers that even server that given that there are the 80000 now. so julian taking the long view here many in europe had really hoped his christmas would be different than the last. it doesn't appear that that's going to be happening. do you see a risk and this pattern every winter, just repeating itself and from now on there's a list put a lot to listing some of my colleagues. i think this viruses no doubt, into the human population. the number of spike person mutations, though rapid spread with less severity, from data coming out to south africa and also so early they to know from hong kong and also chambers suggest that the vice wrecked gets better than the upper or lower sparrow to track these or changes i'd expect the see for a virus, but better adapt his human population that host over the next few years. i think what you can see is that a mother marta from the vice on my spread more rapidly there. but for which most

people may not need vaccination. and that is julian tang, a clinical neurologist at the university of lester. thanks so much for analysis. you now it's your turn. here's of your question for our science correspondent derek williams. oh my husband was vaccinated then 2 weeks later tested positive for covered 19 could that be due to the vaccine? oh no, but depending on what kind of test he took for different reasons, there are basically 2 different types of diagnostics. the most accurate is called a polymerase chain reaction or a p c r test. now, it works my amplifying tiny amounts of sars, covey, two's genetic material in a sample, up to levels where it can be detected exactly why vaccines can't cause a positive pcr result is complicated scientifically. but more or less comes down to

the fact that most of the currently approved vaccines don't use a full version of the real virus to kick start an immune response. they instead contain short stretches of genetic material that don't replicate that the grade fast and cells and that aren't detected or amplified by pcr. the 2nd class of detection diagnostics called androgen tests they work by revealing the presence of certain proteins that are specific to sars covey. to they're cheaper and faster, but also less accurate than pcr. because some back scenes cause your body to produce the corona, virus spike protein to, to kick start your immune response to the pathogen. it doesn't seem impossible that an antigen test which detects proteins, might be confused by that. however,

to avoid any confusion, most commercial antigen tests are not designed to detect spike protein, but other corona virus pro. and in addition, vaccines are injected into the arm, but detection tests, they swab the nose or the throat, the cells, there are not the ones producing spike proteins after vaccination, so long and short vaccines don't cause coven 19 tests to turn up positive on the presence of the virus does thanks for watching. ah, ah, ah, with

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arm across sweeps the united states, the new variant becomes b dominant strain among new infections. among new infections, washington plans to massively boost it's free testing program and turning the tide, ethiopia, government says, is, forces are moving in as arrival to grand forces announced their retreat to grey demands, a no fly zone to stop drone attacks ah, on my life. thank you. so much for joining us, and we start with new developments right here in germany, the public health agency, the robert cock institute, is calling for more radical steps against the armor crohn variant of the corona virus. it says the country should impose maximum contact restrictions beginning immediately. germany is leaders are meeting to decide the next steps to fight the

covert search. preparing for alma kron, germany is rushing to get a vaccine booster shot to its critical workers like these firefighters and hamburg before the new cove. at 19 variant becomes dominant. here, while daily cases are sinking across the country, experts more in the dreaded wave could arrived just after christmas. amf and nationalists excellence. it's a rapid exponential increase i talked about if you take the conservative estimate that cases double every 3 days, or what scientists and britain are recording every 2 days. and if you only need a pocket calculator to see that that extremely fast is bombs. and while vaccines are the 1st line of defense, germany's government is preparing new restrictions for as early as next week, even for the fully vaccinated. like just enough not fight that we will have further restrictions on private contacts. so we're well prepared for the spread of the new

virus mutation, all over europe has them all hers a huge while in novel positive. what the new curves will look like is unclear. that still needs to be discussed with the leaders of germany states. but it seems everything is on the table is global when the speech data father, if experts, predictions are confirmed and what we're seeing in neighboring countries continues the allied. and we can't rule out a general lockdown, including everything from businesses to education, to private gatherings of, to yet mismatch reason. for starters, that will likely mean cancelled new year's eve parties. and those making fitness resolutions for 2022 might have to postpone hitting the gym until the arm across wave is over. all right, let's bring in rough app wyler. he is director of the european bio informatics institute, an advisor to both the current and the previous government in germany, sir, a very warm welcome. what do you make of these suggestions that have been made by

the robert cock institute? are they enough to act as a circuit breaker? well, it's a suggestion of over coping. projects would be really implemented. i think fits that would give us a good start to buy time for getting the jets into the people. do we have in your expert opinion, do we need more layers or protection? what is your current advice to this new government? but i think what's really important that was paid try to do is to get as many people vaccinated 1st time, 2nd time, still necessary for many unfortunately. and also been reading the boost for, for the already pretty vaccinated, because we know that that's the great thing that the vaccines, which i use i the effective to protect with a booster,

a campaign against me. and that's, that's really a relief. but we need to buy time and get as many vaccinated and boosted as possible. how easily is it for people to get boosted in germany, set the scene for us when, when i think it's, it's good. it started, unfortunately not as early as it should have started, but now i think the campaign is going pretty quickly and i haven't heard any complaints, but it's difficult to get access to, to explanations now on the car. as you know, in many places around the world, it is now the dominant strain in, in the us, in the us and in denmark. what is the situation in germany when he, in germany, it's really the lucky situation. it's lagging behind,

but that doesn't mean the lot because with the current speed, it would be still by end of this year, beginning of next year. the situation gets gets on the clinic. we hear the dominating effect, and he should also not forget, we are not. it's not that one. strain is replaced by the other. the other data will still go on its own. you will be overshadowed by the sheer amount of on equal infections. now people as you know, everywhere around the world, but here also specifically, are coven weary? how difficult is it for health officials, policy makers, and people like yourself who are advising the government to rally the population? get everyone to comply with the measures? is there enough public trust in the new government? i think so. yes. there are a current government has health minister which was always very frank and out over

many, many years. and i think a lot of people trust them and, and put faith in. now in my final question to you, sir, the u. k, as you know is, is an arm or army crime hotspot. cases are skyrocketing, they're one of the most vaccinated countries in europe. what does that tell you? what it shows us, but it's so important to get people fully vaccinated and get boosted cause unemployment will infect also with the vaccinated and sometimes even boosted people . but many of them who's also one so infected will show no symptoms of very mild symptoms. and it's very rare that people get seriously ill or died when they are fully vaccinated and boosted vis

a completely different situation for everyone. so i'm vaccinated and so i can only get whatever jeff, you need the 1st, the 2nd 3rd, just go and get it. it's dangerous out there. raw ha applies director of the european buyer informatics institute, an adviser to both the current and the previous government in germany. so thank you so much for taking our questions. pleasure, thanks for having. good bye. let's take you now to our correspondence, simon. young in berlin, simon, our we started off the broadcast with a very urgent recommendation of by germany's institute for infectious diseases telling people, cut all social ties, don't travel if you don't have to. so do you think the government will heed their advice? well, it's definitely not their inclination all through. they've been saying they want to

try and like have his lighted touches they can while reacting to the very worrying situation as on the chrome begins to take hold in germany. and to give an example, the justice minister, marco bushman has been saying today that the government should do everything it possibly can to avoid a lockdown. i think there inclination for christmas in particular was to say, well, you know, probably people don't have so many contexts outside the home during the christmas days. and just with that, we're hoping that appeals to people to just avoid that and reduce that context as much as possible would work at. but this robert cock institute, the infectious disease institute has, as he say, issued this call saying at really the only way to combat omicron will be widespread and serious locked downs. that means closing restaurants immediately. they're saying extending the school holidays after christmas and other pretty drastic measures so difficult decisions that difficult decisions ahead. can you glean from

you know, what you've heard, where you are in terms of which direction the government is leaning? well, what we seen is, is a discussion paper that's going to be looked at this afternoon in this meeting of the state leaders and the central government, which is the same for the saying that from the 28th of december. so after christmas through the new year and well into january, they'll be significant extra contact restrictions. a groups of no more than 10 fully vaccinated people allowed to come together. people are vaccinated, they'll be, it'll be just a teen. people from the same household and all sorts of other recommendations. they're only coming in after christmas. and as we've said, some people say that's just not going to be enough. i have my final question to you or simon. i mean this is it at baptism by fire for this new government sworn in

just 2 weeks ago? no honeymoon period for them. um, is this going to be the stress test for chance? their shots and the new health minister was definitely their 1st a stress test. and they're having to organize extra high level meetings to discuss what to do about so on the kron and take this very difficult decision. it's a judgment call him he called out about the new health minister. he looks like the right man at the right time. he's a professor of epidemiology. he understands the details, but this is also a political question, how to keep social and business life going, while also protecting the health care system. tough days ahead for the government official have days had for the government to simon young, our political correspondent of reporting. thank you. and in the united states army crime is now the dominant variance by far accounting for 73 percent of all infections just a week ago. the number was just 12 percent in new york. a virus cases are surging.

and just ahead of the holiday season gatherings. oh oh, oh, so one happy new year. this is just a test. new year's eve in times square has not come early by the on the chron wave has hit the u. s. sooner than many experts expected nearby and new yorkers line up to get tested with christmas just days away and cases surging. many are worried. definitely feels like that 1st wave of the pandemic without anxiety, all these long lines around the city, people getting tested, exams are getting cancelled for people in grad school like myself. so i kind of feel like that really part of the content we didn't really know was happening. i think we've all been affected as a new yorker, we're targeting every single promotion that we can um got dull, vax boosted regular testing. i am plenty of travel for the holidays, but depending on the result of this test, i'll probably stay put in your back. americas took pandemic advisor. anthony found

she though, had a hopeful message for those worried about the holidays. and you can go the extra mile and get tested before you have a family gathering or a group go test the day before or the day of getting together, but vaccinated and boosted people. one of the family members of accident, it should feel very comfortable in getting together and enjoying a holiday meal or a holiday. get together president joe biden plans to address the rapid rise in corona virus cases later on tuesday. but he's already made it clear with some of the blame lies for those who choose to remain and vaccinated. he'll issue a stark warning and make clear and vaccinate individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths. that is not trying to scare people or maybe it is trying to make clear to people in the country what the risks are here of not being vaccinated. despite the worsening situation in times square,

some people were still in a festive mood. thought this might be the last time new yorkers see these lights in person. the mass still hasn't decided if new year's celebrations here. we'll go ahead and tell you about the other developments in the pandemic the eaves coven. 19 pass for travel is set to expire 9 months after vaccination, unless the holder has a booster shot. while the new rule is due to come into force in february and the use a drug regulator says it's still unclear if existing vaccines need to be tweaked to better fight off our micron. but during a says it could begin a work on a new booster shot within weeks. and thailand is reinstating a mandatory hotel warranty for foreign visitors amid concerns over the on the chronic variant. and that, so get you caught up now with the other stories making headlines around the world. japan has executed 3 death row inmates. it's 1st use of the death penalty in 3

years. the prisoners who had all been convicted of multiple murders were put to death by hanging is widespread. public support for capital punishment in japan was by growing criticism from human rights groups. the philippines is still reeling from the aftermath of last week's powerful typhoon. local officials are pleading for aid. japan and china announced they would send power generators, water and food, die from right killed at least 375 people and displaced hundreds of thousands, malicious, recovering from devastating floods that swept the country last weekend. at least 14 people died and tens of thousands were displaced after some of the heaviest rainfall and ears, malaysia's prime minister admitted the official response has been too slow. yeah, carefully lifted from her flooded home in blankets.