that is judy dempsey, carnegie europe senior fellow. get over to the first word news, laura wright is back. laura: south africa at the center of the omicron variant, not showing a surge in hospitalizations. dr. anthony fauci says it doesn't look like there is a great debris -- degree of spread so far but cautions it is too early to be certain. >> we absolutely have community spread in this country, we have community spread with the new york-and assorted case, were someone in minnesota went to new york and got infected and people he was in contact with got infected. we don't know how many are of them but there is community spread. laura: myanmar sentenced a former leader to four years in prison according to reports from a news agency. he was removed in a coup in february, found guilty in breaching covid rules. the party won more than 80% of the seats year ago. france has nominated the first woman to challenge emmanuel macron. she had six to 1% of member's votes. she was seen as the more moderate of a kind it is. evergrande's debt restruc

french businessman came up with the idea of holding a lantern festival in blan jak with you as an a. dempsey cooler, so china's lantern festival is huge. 10 times the size of this one because it's impossible not to love the lanterns and sculptures their fear. the light creations at our festival were assembled on the spot. every festival starts from scratch, everything was tailor made for us. so you're apart from the pond as of course, because a pander is always a panda bluff overdue. she sorted it, but we have a lake we can use to no luck. and we have a pagoda for the emperor, told him, and a boat which travels down the river is a boil for the samo. ally in the flow of visitors can even get to the festival on the boat or by other means of transport. blan yaks. lantern festival runs until the end of january. ah, you're watching the w 7. next, we got business for you with rob watson. i'm terry martin from me and all of us here in berlin. thanks for watching. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word, polish pinnacle rico is in germany to learn german. why not

ah frank assessments, this crisis continue to regional christian club, even though there dempsey believes in the beginning with i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from the young people. that is one of the most of the things that come out of this critical debate. do you think that they should be facilitated? not think right. it's a really simple question. let's give me a child. want inside story on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back here. what you know, there with me. so rom, the reminder of all top stories, label, chrome virus cases. the highest pandemic began the number of cases this week increase to more than 6500000 infection. friends of broken, another national and european record for the number of daily cave. in 1900 cases, the health minister says to people tested positive every 2nd. the indonesian government has agreed to give shelter to more than $100.00 wrangler refugees were stranded at sea. the group of mostly women and children were stranded off the coast after attempting to reach malaysia. the united nations is calling for a sci fi, remember the following

ah frank assessments, this crisis is continued to recon luca shannon club, even though there dempsey believes in the beginning, the informed opinion. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from the young people. that is one of the most types of things to come out of this critical debate. do you think a should be facilitated? not sure. okay, i think, right? it's a really simple question. let's give me a child once. inside story now jazeera ah ah, you're watching out just a time to recap our headlines now. several european countries are imposing new restrictions ahead of the winter holidays after seeing record highs in current, a virus cases, the netherlands has begun as strict locked down to curb the spread of the army kron variance pakistan is hosting an emergency meeting to discuss the humanitarian and economic situation in afghanistan, members of the organisation of islamic cooperation, of being joined by the u. s. u. k. european union and russia. hong kong chief executive is urging people to vote in the 1st election since sweeping changes were imposed by mainlan

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