montana monet detention ever since. it was opened, human rights activists argued guantanamo is. where in the u. s. lost its moral authority. the infamous prison has violated the geneva convention for 20 years. why has it still not been closed? today on the day with this is dw news live from berlin tonight and omicron tidal wave headed for europe. the world health organization predicting that half of europe's population could

become infected with the contagious corona virus variant. by the end of the winter, a life with w h o is europe director. how a warm should we really be. also coming up tonight. it is getting hotter here. climate scientist said the past 7 years were the warmest on record. they are warning that we should plan for the worst, plus the un calling on the world to help the people of afghanistan never before has the you and asked for so much money. never before as the threat of humanitarian disaster been so great. and a special report on the u. s. military's notorious guantanamo bay prison. 20 years after the 1st prisoner arrived, promises to shut the camp down. are still being broken. ah, i'm goddamn reviewers watching on p

b. s in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome restart this tuesday with a dire warning from the world health organization and europe's pandemic future. the w h o predicts that over half of all europeans will become infected with the omicron variant of the corona virus by the end of this winter. here's what the w h of europe, director huns cougar just said 50 of the 50 countries in europe and central asia have no reported cases of on the chrome. it is quickly becoming the dominant virus invest in europe and this no spreading into the balkans. at this rate, the institute for health metrics and evaluation forecasts that more than 50 percent of the population in the region will be infected with mcclung. in the next 6 to 8 weeks or earlier i spoke with dr. glueck and i asked him,

how alarmed should we really be here in your the toyota crystals. so the extra ordinary speech offerings mission, the tactics change from preventing transmission to preventing disruption. it's through the, at the individual liver. the only convent may be more mild, particularly into people who are boosted, but because of the she had numbers because of still a large share of the population infection. 8 it. the cit is that the hospitals will get overwhelmed and particularly short of health workers who are becoming more and more in fairs. and that's what we're seeing. i mean, we're hearing more and more about hospitals and clinics, being understaffed, people calling in sick. how worried are you there? we're going to begin seeing health care systems collapse here in europe.

that we know what to do. duct dues are the same for any value to we got a defy funding mc stabilizers number to wow. full vaccination number to boost boost, boost number city increase the use of marks including high quality must, like respirators in highest settings, number for ventilation, particularly in classrooms and number 5 new treatment protocol. because the good news is also debt. new books are coming on the market. the key issue is that is no one sing and measure its effects. a nation bluff approach in the o mcroy very it spreading so quickly is everything that we've grown accustomed to in the past 2 years. what you just mentioned, these 5 things up, a lot of people are wondering, is this no longer working? i mean, we all know of people who have been vaccinated, who have been boosted,

and yet they've still tested positive right. we have to remember what the vaccines are made for h 2, but event severe disease and death and dead a bite, but eventing hospitals to collapse. but the number of countries have high vaccination rate, but they're not implementing to public health measures because someone who is vaccinated can still transmitted disease. so it's a package. and what about people who are asymptomatic? for example, there's a big discussion about whether or not schools should be kept open right now. let's say that we have students, we have teachers who may be positive, but they are asymptomatic. is this a reason to shut the schools down or should we be telling these people to stay home and keep the schools open? the school has to be the last wants to close. and the 1st ones today open because it's not only educational but a very important place for a mental health social development. also to put

a vincent or detect domestic violence. and we know what to do, the children need to be vaccinated. da, ventilation needs to be there. the teachers to get the 1st in line to get the boosters, but you make a good point. that vendor society can and health systems can no longer to cope with all the testing. what i'm thankful that tracy den countries made a vice di policies for testing and quarantine in dr. clear, you know, we, we hear people talking now about corona virus fatigue and, and wanting to return to norma, which you can understand. but are we contributing to that by always talking about the number of cases instead of the number of severe cases? because every year, you know, we have the threat of the flu, but we're not talking about so many. the number of flu case is really because the flu is endemic. are we headed to corona virus being and demick and should we be

changing the way we talk about the virus? as a result? definitely which should change from looking at the absolute number of infections to what not on you hospitalisation, but people in d. i see you because what we see in a number of countries is that the percentage of so called incidental infection. that means people who go to the hospital, not critical of it, but diagnosed because of the testing that fraction is increasing. but it's too early to say it's endemic. basically what we see the article is that everyone is going to get some kind of humidity either from the vaccine or through the natural infection. but the infection still has a lot of surprises. for example, the look of it. so every individual needs to take responsibility. so this thing says, isolating and try to put a vent to become infected. that's yeah,

that's very wise is the actual insight. there's still time to get vaccinated and to get boosted. there's no need to play russian roulette with your help. that's for sure. dr. hans click a regional director for the european office for the world health organization dr. gregory, appreciate your time tonight. thank you. my pleasure. what israel is among the places that if seeing new cases, record numbers of coven 19 residents? there are also getting a 4th vaccination. the 1st before anyone else in the world. but now the fast spreading, oma kron very, and it appears to be out pacing the government strategy the w's. tanya kramer reports tonight from tel aviv. the line for a coven. 19 test is long at this official center. in tel aviv with the on the cross barry and spreading fast, free p c r tests are now reserved for people over 60, under their high risk groups. everybody else is required to take it down to gen test 1st, with ever changing rules. patience is running low properly and basically the rules

change on a daily basis. there is a joke that if you refresh the news on the news page, then you get different restrictions and different rules. mostly mchuga feels like a circus. i mean, if the council, the p c r, test the nurses do the antigen testing at home and send our kids back to school because now we have to stand here. we can't work on it. we have to just stay at home being caught boshamp light. israel made an early batch on it's rapid vaccination campaign. in october, it had successfully slowed down the del to waive by administering a 3rd booster shots. but now the country is struggling with the i'm a kron variant. i we're talking oh, very on that is spreading very fast. then cal bishop period is about 2 days knocked 7 days as used to be. so this is why many of the epidemiological measures are especially testing and breaking of transmission are much less efficient. ah right

now, much of israel's coven strategy has been focused on vaccination. over $4300000.00 israelis have taken the 3rd booster shots, less than half of the population of roughly $9400000.00. since last week, the country has begun to roll out the 4th booster for people over 60 medical staff and other high risk groups. ok. each time we boost we fortify our immune response. we deepen the immune memory and in since our ability to cope more efficiently with the fire in that already challenging us and those that will and unfortunately, will emerge as it's still unclear how hospitals will cope during this 5th wave. as a healer hospital in tel aviv family, dr. laura azurie,

takes us to the cove at 19 wards. not every badge is occupied right now. but numbers of severely ill patients are increasing daily, and majority are unvaccinated, or have underlying health conditions quote unquote, on an intervention at the moment some of our patients are vaccinated and some are not so funny. every one hospitalized has underlying health conditions. and i am harsh, she me, kidney conditions or diabetes. but again, the vaccinations are very important and very effective for women showing them the lim thought after so many waves of this disease, there's a sense of experience routine on this wards are now. newly authorized drugs can be given to patients early on. still after 2 years, it's not just hard for doctors and nurses to keep up. but for every one struggling with the new uncertainty that's replicating along with this latest variant. or

let's get around of mel with some of the other head winds we're following to saw. were in context on the president. okay. yeah. says that russian lead troops will leave his country within the next 10 days. okay. you have called for foreign military support. last week, after days of violent unrest, according to the interior ministry, almost 10000 people have been detained throughout the country. dozens of dog. a man accused of setting fire to south africa's parliament building has been charged with terrorism. officials say the suspect was arrested at the scene with explosives. he has denied the charges. critics claim that he's being made escaped. go to cover security fills. fire on january 2nd, cause extensive dimmed to the part of the late american author and civil rights act of his maya angelo has become the 1st black woman to be featured on a u. s. coin. the new quarter dollar depicts angelo with her arms raised and a bird in flight behind her. these are images that were inspired by her poetry. my

angela died in 2014, at the age of 86. the european union's climate monetary agency has relieved a harrowing new report showing just how much global temperatures have risen in the past 7 years last year was the 5th warmest on record and extreme weather events hit every continent on the planet. science is our warning that we have to prepare for the worst the last 7 years with the world's hottest on record, and by a substantial margin, according to the use, copernicus, climate change service. in 2021 global levels of c o. 2 and methane reached record highs. while in the same year. wildfires devastated parts of grace north america and siberia. floods reaped 3 towns in west in germany and droughts across africa lead to what was

called the fast ever climate induced famine in madagascar. that is the climate changes. so to does scientists ability to track and predict it thanks to more advanced modeling except how we are able with more precision to, to determine depending on on different project to raise of emissions. what would be the outcome for the atmosphere? the good news is because of that, or we can show that if michelle taken we expect the atmosphere to not to go, we're too far into uncharted territory, drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is widely a grade to be the best defense against further human induced warming along with

protecting and rehabilitating k ecosystems but with extreme weather events already heating, adapting is vital to protect life. climate change happening, we're seeing more extreme weather many times. we're not prepared that is increased severity and extremity of extreme weather. and so we need to be better prepared. last year, global temperatures were more than one degrees celsius above pre industrial levels, leaving only a tiny margin to avoid 2 degrees or more of warming. and the catastrophic effect signed to say that would have on the planet the united nations, as, as the international community for almost 4 and a half $1000000000.00 to help afghanistan. now, this is the u. s. largest ever humanitarian appeal for any country, but it comes with a dire warning as well. this is a stop gap,

an absolutely essential stop gap measure that we are putting in front of the inside community today. without this being funded, there won't be a future. we need this to be done, otherwise they will, they will be outflow, they will be suffering. but in truth, the suffering is already there. to see more than half of afghanistan's nearly 40000000 people are facing acute hunger in places like in north western, afghanistan's bodies, province, years of drought have added to feud shortages. also, people have no cash to carry out their daily activities. and as we see in the next report, this is forced some to consider the unthinkable selling off their own children to survive with fama walks across his parched land. these ones fertile fields in afghanistan begged his province. and now dry and

barren, 2 years of drought have left farmers destitute and force many to abandon the region . bordering the, there's no rain, there's drought. i'd say almost every one of these villages has left re run on those who remain limited aid from the read crisen is a vital lifeline. local speak of times when there was ample rain and snow here. but ever frequent a dry spells has made water a scarce commodity. the economic crisis following the television takeover has any worse than the already dire situation. and the new provincial rule is say, there's no money to help to the we weren't prepared for the situation because the previous government left us with nothing here with the pot and all that. and from

an economic perspective, we have nothing to offer either. so we're trying to help 3 aid groups with this and we've had meetings with them and told them that the problems here. we didn't get as many people now living camps for the internally displaced like this one outside the provincial capital homeless and pushed to the edge of starvation. some here returning to desperate measures. these parents say they're at the point of selling their 8 year old son for food. when they're watching the children want bread, but don't have any. i'm helpless and have no option other than to sell him to someone else. without them we would then we really us and we really and i carry with counseling with yeah, that's pretty, it's a bleed choice. now facing this poverty stricken family who like many others have become casualties of drought and conflict between them. selling their own children

. 20 years ago today, the 1st prisons arrived in guantanamo bay, the detention camp that was set up by the u. s. following the $911.00 attacks and the ensuing invasion of afghanistan in a clear breach of human rights, most prisoners were held indefinitely without trial w's. oliver salad went to the u . s. naval base. guantanamo and the camp, that some say has come to symbolize. one of the biggest us moral failings in the war on terror. mm guantanamo, located in a tropical paradise. but the u. s. naval base in cuba stands for human rights abuses and torture. mohammed to old slaw. he was held cheerful, 14 years, suspected of involvement in the $911.00 attacks, but never charged for a crime. he was brutally tortured and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder until to day 34 months ago i woke up and i was shaking. so skin, because i saw my,

my jacket on the door and i saw it was someone coming to get him. and he took me a very long time. some time i wake up, i cannot breathe. defense counsel anthony natalie represents an alleged l. k. the terrorist who arrived here in 2006 and since then has been waiting for his trial. guantanamo has been seen internationally as a stain on american history. so where does that place here put the united states? we're ashamed that everything that made this country. one that we could say was a free country that had equal justice for all has abandoned all of that. and that sat, it said, and i, i don't know how we're going to be able to recover montana. mom was built after the $911.00 attacks u. s. government aimed for a forceful and rapid response. united states went down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. in

the war on terror, america and its allies invaded afghanistan. the u. s. naval base at guantanamo bay served as a prison for a ledge war criminals, and tara suspects a place where the constitution of the united states does not exist ever since. it was opened. busy human rights activists argue guantanamo is where the u. s. lost its moral authority, the place of torture and double standards, that is mostly of limits for a camera. but there's also another side of guantanamo a place where 6000 inhabitants try to go about their everyday lives. in a bizarre contrast to the infamous prison residential areas resembled small town america some normalcy in a place. full of contradictions. rady, you get more, delivers the soundtrack for guantanamo, and she is get most voice. hello. hello. well bowman, to your morning show with d. t a candles,

otherwise known as petty. i'm the analyst for trials and the prism are not part of their coverage. a. it's not really part of like the culture here. you now that's a, another side of the base. here on this side we have a whole different type of operations going here. the new school allows that students somewhat of a normal childhood, 5 kilometers from the notorious torture prison. good. okay. what is the amount of things that you know, that made? that's actually the message that went that on a sent to the one. whoop, they said that of 2 kinds of people in this world, people who don't deserve a little bit of law. muslim young people and people who deserve the latino, out of almost 800 former detainees. 39 are still incarcerated in guantanamo only to have been convicted of a crime on my next guest is cliff sloan. he is an attorney and american diplomat to served as the special envoy for guantanamo closure under former president obama

. it's good to have you on the program. mr. sloane, we wanted to talk with you today because you were the man you were put in charge of closing guantanamo back in 2013. you quit the job after 18 months. talk to us about your experience. i mean, what was the biggest obstacle then in shutting down the prison? well, the obstacles that have come up with the guantanamo closure are political opposition . that is irrational and not based on fact. and some legal obstacles. it based on laws, unwisely passed by congress. but having said that, there is no reason that we cannot move forward with closing guantanamo. and actually it's important to note that we made a lot of progress. when i became special envoy for guantanamo closure, there were 166 people remaining at guantanamo when president obama left office.

there were 41. and as we just heard, there are 39 now. and the reason i emphasized that is because sometimes there's fatalism in a sense of defeat and we absolutely can and must move forward aggressively and moving the remaining people out of guantanamo. it can be done this way. any hours they be sent, mr. so where would you send them? well ok, so of the $3912.00 are facing charges in the military commissions process including 2 that were convicted. 27 have never faced charges. those $27.00, unfortunately, there still is a law that they can't go to the united states, but they can either be repatriated to their country of origin. or if that's not possible for national security or human rights reasons, they can be resettled in 3rd countries as has been done with other detainees. and when i say transfer them, i'm not saying transfer to incarceration,

i'm saying transferred to freedom. those 27 should be transferred to other countries. it's, it's difficult to work that out, but it is something that is very important. it can be done in the 1st year, the biden administration, there's only one person that has moved from guantanamo, and that is just far too slow and what's, what's, what's the problem? i just wanna be sure the of the people that you'd like to see transferred. do we know how many can not go back to their home countries because their home countries simply refused to take them? no, i mean those numbers are not a matter of public record, but you know, that sometimes is used as an excuse that sometimes the said, oh, the reason they're still at guantanamo is because there's no place for them to go. and in my experience, that simply is not correct. as i was saying, it takes a lot of work. but other countries, including countries in europe and countries elsewhere in the world who recognize

that guantanamo needs to be closed. and that these people need a place to go to. i have provided resettlement opportunities so it can be done this line that you hear some time that, well they're there because there's no place for them to go is simply wrong, can be found for them. it's so i've got 32nd so as people around the world there we're looking at this and saying you've got these people, they are 20 years after setting up this prison. why haven't you brought them to the us charged them with the crime and tried them. like you're supposed to do when you're respecting the rule of law. well, in terms of bringing them to the u. s. unfortunately, congress passed a law that they cannot be brought to the u. s. for any purpose, including a prosecution. there is this military commission process in 12 of them, it stays churches there. that process has had many, many problems. it itself, the reason the others haven't been brought to trial. there is,

there simply is not the evidence to do so. and that is why they need to be transferred out of one kind of mo, immediately. that's unbelievable that we're still talking about this situation. 20 years later. cliff sloan, obama's, former envoy for the closure of going talk about joining us tonight from washington . mr. song good talking with you. thank you. thank you for having the i appreciate it. you watch the w news, and here's a reminder of the talk story that we're following before you. the world health organization to your director. issuing a strong warning of the spread of the o. micron corona virus variant which has become dominant here in europe. he says that over half of all europeans will likely become infected by the end of the winter. if tighter measures are not put in place, you're watching the w news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day to night. the heart of a pig that could save the life of a man will be right back. ah

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