he sees it won't earth awesome he under reporting is probably of the order that the actual incidence is currently 2 or 3 times as high as the incidence. we are measuring all, smithson, the u. k is facing a surge in omicron cases, and that is frustration that rapid test kids aren't available. with some ominous nanine. the pharmacies around the light is not only will got the signs outside the run outside. many people need a negative test to be allowed to work. i'll gather to celebrate the start of a new you or countries are grappling with rising, covet case number's health authorities are also under pressure to reduce the isolation requirements for people infected or in contact with a positive case. the u. s. recently shortened its quarantine period and germany's health minister says he's considering a similar move. d w reporter joel delroy joins us in the studio. well, he was explaining was behind the race to reduce warranty. until recently,

health authorities around the world have mostly followed the scientific recommendation that people isolate for up to 2 weeks after testing positive or coming into close contact with an infected person. but now as the army, kron variant kicks off new ways of infections around the world. more people are finding themselves stuck at home. tracking data shows over 19000000 people have tested positive to coven 19 in the past 28 days. and that has had an impact on the economy. some hospital schools and businesses are finding themselves short staffed recently, thousands of flights were canceled. us airlines demand a shorter isolation period to get people back to work. and this week, the u. s. center for disease control, cut the recommended isolation period down from the previous 10 days to 5 days for people without symptoms, spain, the u. k, and others are also reducing isolation and other countries may follow,

including germany, france, and italy. but how risky is this strategy? the cdc is own modeling, found that after 5 days of quarantine, there was still a 35 percent chance that a person could pass on the virus. now that risk reduces to one percent after 10 days. so why shorten the isolation period? well, previous variance had an average incubation time around 5 days. however, some studies are showing that all the current has a faster incubation period of around 3 days infected people may develop symptoms more quickly, and some are arguing that that could allow quarantine to begin and end earlier. but other scientists are urging caution wanting that there is still much we do not know about the impact of ami krohn. the decision to reduce isolation periods may be welcome news to millions of people stuck at home. but it's a calculated risk that is being made to get people back to work. now to the

us were a jury has found british socialite delane maxwell guilty of helping the late sex offender jeffrey epstein, abuse under age girls over a period of years. after 5 days of deliberations. the new york jury found maxwell guilty on 5 counts, including recruiting and grooming up scenes, teenage victims. the burden could see the 60 year old spend the rest of her life in prison, recruiting and grooming teenage victims and trafficking a minor. these are the heavy charges of which british socialite, galle maxwell was found guilty by the new york jury. the road to justice has been far too long. but today, just as has been done, no one, no matter how powerful or well connected it is above the law. delaney maxwell is the daughter of british newspaper. baron robert maxwell, in court,

accuser showed evidence of maxwell's close relationship to late financier and convicted sex offender. jeffrey epstein, epstein was child and 2019 based on charges of sex traffic miners, but he committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial. in the current court case of killing maxwell, she was found to have helped epstein systematically procure young girls some as young as 14. the charges against maxwell were brought forward by 4 victims, but many more feel they have been served justice. this is a victory for all of the victims of miss maxwell and abstain. moreover, i think this is a victory for all young children, boys, girls, women, and men who are victims of abusers like this. it will give them the needed push to step forward and to speak their truth and to hopefully get justice like these young girls have with respect to miss maxwell, the defense as to 60 year old is being used as

a scapegoat for other people's crimes. i. we firmly believe in glens, innocence. obviously we are very disappointed with the verdict. we have already started working on the appeal, and we are confident that she will be vindicated everyone the healthy, have a happy new year. how you doing, maxwell now stands to spend the rest of her life in prison. if she receives the maximum possible sentence of 65 years. so where does case go from here? d, w correspondence, stuff and siemens has more. that is a sentencing error dates to be sets and this is when the judge comes out and announces what he sense into. but you heard already the attorney for mr. xle saying that they are working on the appeal. so this will definitely go into an appeal in an appeals court will be and then have the,

the job of sorting this out if this appeal is, is legitimate. and if there is, are grounds actually, if there are grounds for an appeal. now the prosecution, that's what many experts say made really, really sure that they are, that they give because they were actually expecting ain't an appeal, no matter what. when if it makes mist, maxwell would have been found guilty. but they made sure that this is somewhat of an air tight, a prosecution. they delivered with the testimony of those 4 victims, for example, as at rest. so this is going to be a hard time from his maxwell in the appeals court, i would think and again 65 years in prison, this is the rest of her life, sketch up on some other stories making headlines around the world. today. the european union has said it supports and international arms embargo on me on mars military regime and says it's toughening its own sanctions on the country is comes after humanitarian groups reported. the military killed and buried 30 people last week and a village conflict torn ah,

kaya state. police in hong kong have formerly charged to senior editors from the online pro democracy news outlet, stand news with sedition. they've been identified in court documents as former stant news chief editor john p. b and, and patrick law. the announcement comes a day after authorities rated the offices of stant news. strong winds and drought conditions in argentina have intensified wild fires raging in the south of the country. some $250.00 firefighters and national park employees are involved in battling the blazes in the patagonia region. officials say the fires have already destroyed thousands of pictures of boys. the body of south africa's archbishop desmond too, too, has been brought to a historic cape town cathedral where it will lie in state for 2 days. mourners have been streaming into saint george's cathedral to pay their final respects to the

revered clara. for opening up to the public, the church conducted a private service for the family to to be cremated and his ashes buried on new year's day inside his former parish. where he had preached against racial inequality, the anti apartheid icon and nobel peace prize laureate died last sunday at the age of 90 o. every day at noon this week, the bells of saint george's cathedral and across south africa have chimed in. remembrance of the former archbishop flowers, a mass for desmond tutu though he wanted no grand display of mourning, his daughter non tom b. thank to people around the world for their support. it has been an outpouring of love and support and that we, we,

we don't have enough mouth. there are times and we are laughing at sharing story. there are times we are crying as we come to to life without dead cape town. city icons are illuminated in the purple of 2 tooth clerical robes. south africa, the president added his words to the chorus of tributes because he was the voice of the voice that he was the one person who paid for justice. for people living with a b. as for the l g, b, t, q, i, community. and for the did jack to the oppressed people. not only in our country footage from 985 shows to to coming an angry mob who had been beating and accused apartheid collaborator. he was one of the strongest voices for peaceful resistance against the system. a pricing south africa,

black people. we know we know who we know. we shove over every day to travel the world containing like human rights against homophobia, israel's treatment of palestinians and climate change. one of his last public appearances, receiving a covert 19 vaccine, sending a message of social solidarity right to the end. saturday's funeral will be limited to just $100.00 guests inside the cathedral, but will be followed by countless more outside and around the world. in china there is a tattoo bad forcing footballers on the national team to rethink their inc, the days of sporting tattoos. our over says china's sports authority considered a controversial decision by many. china says it's an attempt to set a good example for society. players already with tattoos are advised to remove them

or in some cases cover them up and new tattoos or a no go. 32 year old chung being pain. normally a 1st choice, national team player was allegedly dropped from the team for his body ink in 2019 and finally, while santa claus has already come and gone in the western world in russia, the arrival of his equivalent father frost, is still highly anticipated. and this 6 meter tall snow sculpture in the city of air beans is sad to bear an accurate likeness building a snow statue in front of the town hall just before the new year is somewhat of a traditional city. legend says, father frost brings presents for the children in russia on new year's day. you're watching dw news. just reminder the top story we're following for you here

today. the world health organization this morning that the army kron and deltas delta corona, buyers variance could produce 8 su nami, of covered 19 cases that will put immense pressure on health care systems. countries round the world, including the u. s. france, ireland, and portugal at ball announced record numbers of new cases. you're watching, dw is up. next, we've got a documentary for you continuing our series legendary hotels as time looking at the american colony hotel in jerusalem. i'm terry martin. thanks, watch with imagine how many portion of lunch us heard out in the world climate change can be very comp, the story. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much we can really get

we still have time to work. i'm going all with what 5th ah ah ah jerusalem city say could to judaism islam and christianity time and again, it has been full, shabba, destroyed and rebuilt a city that like few others has long been the focus of utopian hopes and dreams,

and a flash point in the conflicts that have to fight at the middle east. but it's also a city dotted with havens of quiet and peace, including the american colony hotel oop . and a waste of welcome open to every one. no matter the nationality, ethnicity, or religion. time has left its marks only lightly. here the hotel remains a haven of tolerance, jews, christians, muslims, israelis and palestinians all work side by side and share a common cause. it's a place of encounter. both staff and guests were at men. mcgovern moses hotel is the safest place in the area, no place open to wall, full door left to our liquidity mess. i think that story of the hotel is the story

one crisis afternoon and with miraculous savings. guests to book a stay in this 5 star hotel are looking for opulence, the mood he is gentle and relaxed. the $94.00 rooms and sweeps in the hotel, offer a place of tranquillity, instability in a city that is often anything bought bought. it took decades to this historic building to be transformed into a prestigious hotel. it began a 150 years ago, in a distant place. in the 18 seventy's, chicago was the home of horatio and anna spattered. horatio spafford was a prominent lawyer, and the family lived in comfort with their 4 daughters,

the spaniards without protestants. in october, 1871. chicago was devastated by fire. hundreds perished. the spaces helped as much as they could. but the great fire had claimed much of the family's investments. o 2 years later, the spaniards decided to visit europe and earn full ghouls went ahead. one night their ocean liner was rammed by a british vessel and sank within minutes. more than 200 people lost their lives, and a spaniard survived. but her 4 daughters had drowned. lou, anna and horatio tried to rebuild their lives after the tragedy. they had 3 more children, but their only son died of scarlet fever at the age of 4. some years later, when 1881, the staff was decided to leave chicago with their 2 youngest daughter's bertha and

grace joining a small pilgrimage that set sail to jerusalem. it was the liver. i declined that in less vinkadesh. jerusalem was a small city in a corner of the ottoman empire in a walled city. i considered wholly by all 3 monotheistic religions, highly. they all shared the belief that when the messiah returned, he would 1st appear in jerusalem annual silence. yes, count. oh, the small american congregation moved into a house in the old town in the muslim quarter. they had no desire to be missionaries. they were waiting for the fulfillment of the biblical prophecy, the 2nd coming of christ, ah, is bedford's milligan. i again as this backwards formed their very own private and personal sex and were convinced that the messiah would come the following year at easter to austin. they went up the mount of olives every sunday in case that christ

had arrived on the mount of olives. and i think some of the community were quite prepared to right fancy run into jesus christ on the street with it. so he might just be walking around in the old city where it's like each other. oh my gosh. i have to say, i find it difficult to describe anna's buffer to show me mildred, there's something i really like about her. say, oh, been that many people were afraid of her much. i'm out of the day. she was a strong woman to be love and it will show the way the american colony developed had a lot to do with her on a leaky low. you'd say i'd say her religious ideas slowly took hold in the community. i don't like the new york a little bit too little for celibacy, was introduced in 1886 i li, celibacy, probably because horatio and anna had grown apart. a canoe,

a big lunch rush over, and it wasn't purely out of spiritual motive. sinead down a lawyer, i'm me, me spirit wiling pill william when enter instructed the group to top sexual abstinence one young woman lizzy page stood up to her. we should ha, lizzie, who was a good friend of anna us, would not accept the commandment of abstinence. meanwhile, i said, my spiritual relationship is a sacred to me as my relationship with my husband. e mcmillan law marana did not like lizzy's resistance release even than she banished the couple from the american colony may even after lizzie fell ill. he, he thought on, but she died of pneumonia on me, and her bite gun been call him. after her death, her husband odus returned to the american call at 8 o'clock. on the american

academy the american consul was determined to disband to commune. he regarded its members as charlatans, accusing them of loot behaviors, but he didn't succeed. unexpected continued her philanthropic work with zeal and her door was remained open to the navy. blue. the next generation of the family went its own way. horatio and his daughter, bertha married, frederick vista, a gym, and swiss. she to fight her mother's policy celibacy, and the couple had 6 children. there was also bertha who decided to take in more visitors to the commune. in asking actual pronouncing it took off with the 1st wave of tourists beginning in 19031904. when the american company clark tours brought

mostly wealthy american travellers to jerusalem couples allen proctor. mm. the financial groundwork for the hotel had been laid several years earlier in 1896 more than a 100 swedes drawn in by an spf, it's vision and ideas, joined the community. the sweets contributed much needed practical skills and help boost the community's economic prospects. agriculture and handy crafts became an important source of income. the american colony began to flourish and cross blue by then the community had more than a 150 members. the american colony was bursting out of its house and the old city, after the sweets got there, they were very wealthy at the time they were looking for somewhere that they could expand and somewhere they could farm by now they had, they had pixels at cows,

they were looking for gardens to grow things, looking for space with the group moved to a large estate which would later become the american colony hotel. ah, at the time it was situated in the midst of olive groves outside the jerusalem city walls. a former palace, with many rooms, a shady court yard and a magnificent garden. an est with a special atmosphere, continues to this day. the move did not change the guiding principles behind the american colony. the members continued their charitable work and were valued as gracious hosts. they quite quickly became influential or just

that people came to them in the muslims and jews and, and, and christians all came to sing with them even if they didn't speak the language. and they were very good singers, and they sang a lot and they sat around and they talked and they talked about life and they taught how to lead a good life. and, and they were not missionaries, they weren't proselytize. and so that people were not threatened by them. smells ignores all force on the beginning. they used their ability to speak arabic to network with the neighborhood that they initiated social project select. they founded a school that also accepted muslim children as well as jewish children who wished to attend i. so they were striving for integration from the start. i know that song often unforgotten, unclear for them. it doesn't matter what you were, because they themselves was strangers. they probably knew what it was to be a stranger, so they were the ones who took the men. when you have a philosophy of openness, then of course, thus the precursor of hospitality,

isn't it? because he attends his open. so i think probably the hotel was a natural development of the philosophy in under best, his guidance, the hotel flourished. she tastefully blended furnishings from europe in the mid laced, which lent the rooms a distinctive flare. she also had a passion for culture and guests enjoyed evenings of music and excursions to the surrounding area. original buildings still standing today. the ottoman architecture, the round arches and the stone walls have been preserved over the decades with careful restoration work. the original character of the state remains intact. there is subtle nonce to the path throughout the building.

ah, the da, cool off is the sense of comfort and ease. even the largest suite has a bathroom that is modest and unpretentious in design. history is still visible here. oh, tell trademark the hotel even has its own archive which is tended to with care. it's opened guests who want to delve into the history of the american colony hotel . the swedish arrivals founded a professional photo studio which took tens of thousands of photographs. ah, the expansive collection is one of the kind document of the past. ah,

weed of the studios quality work spread quickly at the time. he sal give man. yeah, we'll him, she, me because of the keyser vill helm. the 2nd the german emperor visited jerusalem in february 1889. by that time the american colony had already gained experience in photography. so young it was an extraordinary opportunity to say golfing. they accompanied the kaiser from the landing in haifa to his arrival in jerusalem, a actually a yellowish lime vey. it because they sent the photographs all over europe. a. that was the project that brought them recognition. their hope of america zane will scream with him lay reflect the tunnel. move to photography studio was not their only selling point. by 1900. more and more wealthy americans began to visit jerusalem. for the 1st time,

the american colony began to charge for room and board. ah, the american colony also began to attract visiting writers. ah, m one was sam allowed to live. now today is the author of the wonderful adventures of niels, wholesome, ah, similar electric yellow, shall i. embrace selma lava lift, visited jerusalem with her friend sophie elkin in march. 1900, a whole lot more. some say they were a lesbian couple, 0 less be in the spirit. a evey selma had heard about the story of the swedish immigration and thought that it might be a good subject for a novel. sheila, a and the she knows the fleet di, has russia lives in the sector, and she spent 2 weeks interviewing the swedes in jerusalem. be able to line elaine

out. i'm your should buy them better. why mean v a not hard to question one year after returning to sweden was she published the novel to jerusalem taylor all based on the ocean 9 jerusalem. it was a best seller in 19 o 9. so my landlord became the 1st woman to be awarded the nobel prize for literature. the american colony hotel welcomed many prominent guests. john steinbeck and graham green stayed there for weeks at a time. the hotel was also popular with hollywood celebrities, the measure, the ama thurman, and now when, oh, my thurman came. it was all last minute. there was no will room left for her because she was travelling with her nanny and child really that we sent the hotel manager to a friends place. and she got his apartment civil, a 100000 would year. the history of the hotel is closely into woven with the

history of jerusalem. its conflicts, competing interests and claims to power. jerusalem is wholly to muslims, christians and jews. the city has long been both covetous and contested. oh, in the 19th century, jerusalem was a walled sissy in the middle of the ottoman empire and a turkish royal. ah. during world war one, palestine also became a battlefield. the british wanted to put an end to turkish rule in the middle east . jerusalem descended into chaos. many people were injured or lost their lives. ah, the american colonies warden with all the american colony was assign tasks by jama

pasha, who was supposed to defeat the british in egypt. iowa locals, along with both pa, he came to jerusalem and ordered the establishment of the red crescent to care for wounded soldiers wounded toward him with a fan and the center of the organisation was at the american colony. had the american colony ah, the commune, provided humanitarian aid to the red crescent, took his largest relief organization, members of the religious community care for the wounded. they also organized soup kitchens for the population. after feminine epidemics began to sweep through the city, the american colony avoided all political engagement and insisted on remaining neutral, especially amidst the war. the community followed the lead of anna spafford and her daughter, bertha, who later wrote. it was

a tense moment in which i asked for guidance. my answer was that we had offered to nurse neither friends nor foes, but humanity. and that our offer held good. mm . mm. in late 1917, the bush took control of garza. jerusalem was surrounded, the ottoman troops surrendered without a fight. the turkish governor, he was passing, the american colony was told to put out what flag, which is very nice, except he didn't have a white flag. so he went into the american calling. they took sheet from one of the beds, tore it, and 2, and walked out to find some british men to surrender to which he did. and the british who took it had no idea what to do with it, because they've never been in a position of accepting a surrender. and bearing in mind that one was a cook, a push officer, accepted the surrender. the historic moment was recorded by an american colony

photographer. this photograph is the only surviving document of the moment that spelled, the end of 400 years of ottoman rule was captured before the booty should have fishy announced victory. ah, the mission now made miasma. in the end, it was mayor who seine, who informed the residence of jerusalem that the turks had surrendered shields, and it was larson, of the american colony who documented it was amy valasics with everything which is general. edmond allenby and to jerusalem was deliberate understatement. dismounting and walking through the jaffa gate on foot. on april 25th 1920, the victorious allied powers transferred administration of palestine to britain.

under the british mandate, jerusalem developed into a modern city attracting ever more tourists and business people, as well as our good jewish immigrants. edmond allan b, who'd been promoted to field marshal, became one of an a spot that's welcome guests. business at the american colony hotel was booming. that colony had, by that time, more of us become a toe. you can imagine coming in from england. you defeated the germans and the turks. and you find are these people are living a slightly westernized style of life? at the american colonies, the cities cultural classes, rub, shoulders ah, one of the most famous guests was thomas edward lawrence, best known as lawrence of arabia and astute observer, brilliant writer, an avid teller of tales.

lou 1923 and especially died little. she tied on her spirit through his work and faith, bringing people together and creating places of refuge for her biggest concern. went to the cities, disadvantage children. in 1925. she opened an orphanage law . the orphanage would later become respected children's center, a charitable institution that still occupies the original location in the old city . the foundation provides health, social, and educational support to palestinian children and families in east jerusalem. the seats of the charity were planted on christmas eve in 1925. when beth spafford, vesta encountered a bedouin,

his sick wife and their baby hospitals were closed and the family had no place to stay. ah, as vacillation rose in him and was he before me stood a rustic madonna and bab and metaphorically speaking, no room for then in the in beth arranged for the family to receive medical attention bought the next morning. the father came vis his baby and said, my wife died. and i don't know how i can take care of this baby because i live in a case. oh, so then down to take the baby and bear it out. we'll said he moved. of course she took the baby golden ears, but all did he had in this building in one or 2 weeks time more babies were coming because a story like this gets around fatty fast. mm. mm

. so this became a baby and especially baby home. ah . oh, also supported mattress offering help wherever it was needed most regardless of the recipient's background or faith. mm. with the help of the nurse can donations faster, soon expand to the orphanage into a children's hospital. busy ah,

the 900 cities extensions began to rise. the british should promised support for national home for jewish people and also promised the arabs independence. both sides felt boatright. ah, the escalating violence put the american hotel which did not want to take sides to the test. the situation became increasingly tense. in 1936, the arab revolt began palestine was on the brink of civil war, caught a false exit. isaac was flying from 1936 to 1939 during the arab revolt. the american colony, which was right on the border, was very anxious to maintain strict neutrality, can avoid conflict or trouble with any party. and an conflict gotten over the aca to become in 1963 jews began to flee germany for palestine by

1939. some 200000 had arrived. arab nationalists began to carry out attacks against the jewish immigrants in the british administration. the american colony hotel found itself in a precarious position during the 2nd world war. there was fighting here in the courtyard and to hand fighting between the arab legion and the israelis. i was and there was more to us, blew up part of the lobby road entrance lobby and rated the old palm tree that we had in the in the summer. barstow had bullet holmes on it. at the same time, i mean the bertha was still going out to bridge parties to left a staff at vista was widowed in 1942 by then she was well known as a hotel manager. but the hotels hopes for revival after the war would dashed. the

conflicts in the city remained unresolved, and visitors stayed away. ah, on may 14th, 1948, the british mandate expired. that same day doth had been good and proclaimed the state of israel. i am, ah, the next i, a military coalition of arab states attacked jerusalem again became a battlefield. the american colony hotel was turned into a field hospital, situated directly the frontline ah bat us baffled cut in stone bench. the out ob, furthest bafford bag,

the arab army not to occupy the house. i say they didn't want the house to be considered arab territory because of course they never knew what would happen next . i gate. and the fact that their request was complied with. must have been due to their good relations with the arabs in court of appeals. if it hadn't been for those good relations. neither side would have granted any consideration to the request as fixed cannon, venice, which to the point of it soon became heter. ah, in 1949, a truce was reached between israel and the arab states. the holy city was divided. israel received the western parts. jordan, the east border controls, became commonplace in the city. the american colony hotel fit for its future as a night, the hotel was cut off from israel. it was in the arab part of town. and the wool made things very difficult for it because it was

a war zone on the american economy was on the edge of the was it? so all of a sudden it became a rather economically bad thing for the american con, on the fact that this a new border had to rotate. plus, of course, it lost all its contact with these weighty site, which was probably at the time the site was doing more business with by now, the american colony was a business, lost a lot of its clients, so out of its suppliers. so it was a big show shock and also culture show the face of the city, anti tel wood, linked in the coming years. the hotel was on the brink. oh, the problem was that we weren't and that reached ahead in about 1960 and that's when my father had to come out when the hotel was faced with bankruptcy. ah,

beth his son horatio vest up was living in london. he decided to return to help site. the hotel horatio had grown up in jerusalem, but left for london at 17. he became a lawyer and married a high spirited actress. when he returned to jerusalem, the ratio promised his wife valentine that he would stay only 6 months. he reorganized the whole structure of the hotel and he started to try and build it up as a, as a hotel with more commercialized facilities. and he convinced my grandmother that we should have summer to have drinks a kind of bar because before that you were, you could, we were allowed alcohol. but only if you had it in your room when the sun sits in jerusalem hotel turns on it's like.