i'm sure everyone certainly hope so professor peter ching hung in san francisco. thanks very much for your time. merry christmas. merry christmas. rebecca, thank you. i can it's 10 now to some other stories making headlines around the world in bangladesh, at least 39 people have died after a crowded ferry caught fire in a river near jello. cathy some 250 kilometers south of the capital duck up and a st. most of the victims died in the fire. others drowned after jumping overboard to try to flee the flames. by ging has denounced a law signed by us president joe biden banning imports from china chin jang region of allegations a forced labor. the chinese foreign ministry says the bill quote violates international laws and interferes in china's internal affairs. and according moscow has find google and meta, the parent company, a facebook, more than $100000000.00 for they repeated failures to delete content that russia dames illegal rational fourteens have increased pressure on big tech companies. and what critics claim is an attempt to gain title control over the inte

peter ching hong about the third dose and its protection across -- against omicron. >> when you get a booster it is like turning back time. it is like back to the future, so to speak. back to the original time or the vaccine was 95% effective. of course we do not have a number yet because we do not have human data but it does suggest that by getting a booster you raise your antibody levels so much it is going to overcome any mutations in that spike protein. kristen: the doctor says he feels very protected with the booster. larry: abc news got a rare look inside the cdc emergency operations center has officials keep a close eye on the variant. experts say it may be more transmissible but appears to be less severe. though, much more research is needed. >> we have concerns about this new variant in terms of transmissibility. we do not know what it is going to do in terms of severity. even if it is not is not is nott if we have many many people who get it, we have a much larger denominator and we could be within a problem of divvies -- disease severity anyway. larry: this number is a conc

safe, that now looks like a policy that'll be difficult to justify tony ching, al jazeera still ahead on al jazeera. ah, not peter pug, spider man flies into the top spot and the bug selfish smashing and pandemic milestone during the holiday weekend. spain's drain from rural areas. what the e u is doing to urgently re populate small towns and in sport england continue to struggle in the ashes against israeli, a gym and we'll have all those details and more a little later in the please out ah, the we may have some record breaking heats in africa. hello everyone. good to see you 1st. we're going to begin in the middle east and still this cloud over central sections of saudi on monday. i don't think we've got the rain briskin there any more, but we're going to go into the gulf for a closer look because what we do still have is that shamal coming down from iraq. so we'll see when gus in doha, so about 40 to 50 kilometers per hour. downpours of rain to be expected in southern pakistan. this is going to impact karachi, unsettled toward the northeast. the hor and islam of by your temperatures are below where they should