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there has been no shortage of volunteers coming forward to help the international red cross and red crescent say that they have been overwhelmed by offers from around the globe. this year in response to unprecedented humanitarian need our sea has witnessed equally unprecedented humanity soon kindness with hundreds of thousands of people joining the red cross red crescent family for the 1st time all the while can turn dealing with the terrible impacts of qubit 19 on the road wives. the response or from those wanting to help has been higher cost the globe with european countries recording tens of thousands of sign ups we asked people what spurred them to come forward i started one sharing with the red cross in the beginning of this year after i cope with the isolation facility and the reason why i started volunteering with the red cross there is because i had actually stayed at the facility when i have come back and august and the red cross that so much for me and i really want to do something for them and give back to the red cross and the society i really recommend doing it to get to know a

unprecedented humanity sin kindness with hundreds of thousands of people joining the red cross red crescent family for the 1st time all the while contending with the terrible impacts of qubit 19 on the road. well the response from those wanting to help has been high across the globe with european countries in particular recording tens of thousands of sign ups we asked people what spurred them to come forward. i started a long tearing with the red cross in the beginning of october this year after i cope with the isolation facility the reason why i started volunteering with the red cross there is because i had actually stayed at the facility when i have coded in august and the red cross that's so much for me and i really want to do something for them and give back to the red cross and the society i really recommend doing it to get to know a lot of different people from different backgrounds and being able to do something good for the society in this situation when the pandemic started to i began to actually participate in their russian retros going to could be 19 i decided to go into it was m

the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies has reported an unprecedented global search and volunteers in response to the covert catastrophe despite the significant risks for health to working with the virus victims. this sea in response to unprecedented humanitarian needs of our sea has witnessed equally unprecedented humanity soon kindness with hundreds of thousands of people joining the red cross red crescent family for the 1st time all the while can turn dealing with the terrible impacts of 19 on the road. numbers were high across the globe with european countries each recording tens of thousands of sign ups wealth people why they had come forward i started volunteering with the red cross in the beginning of october this year after i cope with the isolation facility and the reason why i started wanting with the red cross there is because i had actually state of the facility when i have covert and august and the red cross that so much for me and i really want to do something for them and give back to the red cross and the society i really recommend doing it to

stories of separation or not being able to reach family members are common here the sudanese red crescent working in coordination with the international committee of the red cross is trying to help but then i'm on about the only other part of it . we started a program called family reunification at the beginning we allow them to call their family members for free if that doesn't work we send short messages viral partner agencies in ethiopia so far we've conducted 2500 phone calls and sent 86 messages 70 percent of the phone calls lead to good results it's been 26 days since this if you open woman from the city of ramallah lost contact with her husband and children she is here again to check with this with a nice red crescent office for new information not ready to give up she says she prefers to stay near the border hoping that her loved ones might show up here at the moment. our 201 day at sudanese ethiopian border. separatists in cameroons english speaking areas are threatening to disrupt the regional election process it's the 1st such election and a culturally diverse nation and the go

stories of separation or not being able to reach family members are common here a sudanese red crescent working in coordination with the international committee of the red cross is trying to help the. then among a lot of money others not all of it not only get we started a program called family reunification at the beginning we allow them to call their family members for free if that doesn't work we sin short messages via partner agencies in ethiopia so far we've conducted 2500 phone calls and sent 86 messages 70 percent of the phone calls lead to good results it's been 26 days since this if you open woman from the city of ramallah lost contact with her husband and children she is here again to check with this with a nice red crescent office for new information not ready to give up she says she prefers to stay uni at the border hoping loved ones show up here at any moment. but let's speak to mohammed live now from recoup or come in sudan and mohammed as we heard we report things pretty hard for those arriving refugees hoping to get in touch with loved ones. that side to the story that i

the director of health at the international red cross and red crescent societies.n london, max lawson, the head of inequality policy at oxfam international. emmanuel, let me start with you. as i understand it, scientists are concerned about the variance in the coronavirus, but they are not surprised. why is that? >> we know that viruses mutate. so who are not surprised to see mutation in this case. what we are seeing is a very high number of mutations, an indication of potential higher transmissibility of the virus. science is studying the information that we do have. then we need to keep a close eye on this virus and understand better how it is functioning and what kind of additional risk the virus presents not only to the u.k. and europe, but the entire world? anchor: health officials say that this virus be tatian is proving to be up to 70% more -- virus mutation is proving to be up to 70% more transmissible. but that is based on modeling, correct? >> yes. we have 17 different mutations making this variant a bit more prominent than we would have expected from oth

asia pacific head of the regional health unit of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies welcome to you all john i'll start with you the red cross is the world's largest humanitarian network have you had to divert resources from things like malaria tb and a job to deal with cove it absolutely no. really all it is that it's operation. ration the international federation also. gauged and we for instance in the asia pacific region we had 38 national red cross presence. and every one of those $38.00. are engaged in. what works allocation activities in respect of all we also activities or so little. anomic programs. so there isn't much a major priority or. jeremy when you hear about resources being diverted what does it tell you are going to be the challenges in trying to bring down the cases of malaria there was this ambitious strategy set up by the global tech technical strategy from the w.h.o. to bring cases down to 90 down by 90 percent by 2030 already it suggests they're way off beam what's going wrong yeah well i think there's really a lack of investment in tha

has a couple bianco there director of health at the international federation of red cross and red crescent society is great to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera thank you. still to come on the news are why a court in the central african republic has rejected former president bush he's a beds to run in the upcoming elections and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackled the most important day in their academic calendar. and argentina to u.-turn after sacking their rugby camps in peace or will be here to explain more later in the show. how the weather looks decidedly disturbed across a good part of the middle east at the moment still a fair amount of cloud just around the black sea the caspian sea through the event we've got some showers in the forecast here just some cloud to just coming down into saudi arabia through kuwait just to the north of us here in qatar will see the showers continue across central parts of saudi arabia want to see showers to up towards a more of iran and showers just pushing into that eastern

the head of the world's largest humanitarian network, international federation of red cross and red crescentieties, is urging governments to fight "fake news" about the vaccine. how can people know fact from fiction? whitney phillips is an assistant professor at syracuse university who teaches media literacy, mis- and disinformation and political communication. professor phillips, nice to have you. let's start with the phrases disinformation and misinformation. you've been studying this kind of thing for quite a while. what did you start seeing, let's say, in 2016 and the election? prof. phillips: the thing about 2016 that was most striking and that i studied most directly was issues of amplification. so, whether something was misinformation, so false or misleading information inadvertently spread, or disinformation, false or misleading information deliberately, purposefully spread, when journalists or everyday people would respond to it, even to debunk it, that would amplify the mis- and disinformation. and it would make it -- it would give it sort of a longer tail. essentially, it would al

stories of separation or not being able to reach family members are common here the sudanese red crescentworking in coordination with the international committee of the red cross is trying to help but then a man who's been on the other side of it. we started a program called family reunification. at the beginning we allow them to call their family members for free if that doesn't work we sin short messages via partner agencies in ethiopia so far we've conducted 2500 phone calls and sent 86 messages 70 percent of the phone calls lead to good results it's been 26 days since this if you open woman from the city of hama lost contact with her husband and children she is here again to check with this with a nice red crescent office for new information not ready to give up she says she prefers to stay at the border hoping loved ones show up here at. our 201 day at sudanese ethiopian border. still ahead from here on al-jazeera after decades and we look at what cameron's president might be able to achieve and the country is a fast regional election. homeless people in honduras struggle to find foo

the president of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent is urging governments to combat the spread of false information on covert vaccines what she calls a 2nd pandemic francesco rocca that the public will look to as to take the job could stall efforts to counter the virus. we believe that the massive coordinated efforts that will be needed to roll out the covert vaccine in an acquittal manner need to be paralleled by equally massive efforts to proactively build and maintain trust raka cited survey showing that in many countries most are unwilling to take a covert vaccine and as examples of fake news he highlighted a popular belief that the virus doesn't affect young people or africans and also claims that the virus has disappeared and the pandemic is over the red cross director for health care told us he believes public acceptance of covert vaccines will and over time well the reason one element these a new pandemic a new virus that behaves in ways that we didn't know until a year ago and we have to use covering it slowly slowly by slowly and so science is ado

plus the secretary general there of the red cross and red crescent how this new code vaccines won't solve all of the problems with the virus but they also reveal to you that has been an unprecedented surge of volunteers willing to join the fight against the pandemic and leave the country britain tells fiji born veterans who.

the red crescent in the province of tehran has had 20 search and rescue teams out on the mountains lookingg. the us president—elect joe biden has warned that there will be devastating consequences if president trump continues to delay signing a covid—i9 economic relief bill into law. if the bill is not signed by the end of saturday, millions of americans will go without unemployment benefits. the bill, which was overwhelmingly passed by congress, was the product of months of difficult negotiations and compromises. one compromise was the payment of $600 to americans earning less than $75,000 a year. mr trump says he wants americans to receive $2,000. but republicans in congress have refused to agree to the change. the uk's new trade deal with the eu marks "a moment of national renewal", according to boris johnson's chief brexit negotiator. lord frost says it's "one of the biggest and broadest agreements ever". parliament is being recalled on wednesday to debate and vote on the document, which runs to more than 1,000 pages. pro—brexit lawyers will be scrutinising its contents over the next f

as secretary general of the international federation of red cross the red crescent societies tells us why there's been an unprecedented surge in volunteers and risking their health to find covert. leave the country used to britain's hells fiji born veterans who fought for the union jack in iraq and are.

a search operation mounted by the red crescent has rescued 14 people but been halted until the morningdoctor and a mountaineering instructor. the uk's new trade deal with the eu marks "a moment of national renewal", according to boris johnson's chief brexit negotiator. lord frost says it's "one of the biggest and broadest agreements ever." parliament is being recalled on wednesday to debate and vote on the document, which runs to more than 1,000 pages. pro—brexit lawyers will be scrutinising its contents over the next few days. georgina wright is an associate at the institute for government. she explained some of the main points of the agreement. clearly there is the ability now for the uk to david's where it wants but that will come at a price. you see that throughout the whole of the agreement, there are a lot of things that businesses in great britain will need to do now to be able to continue to keep exporting to the eu. they will have to fill in a lot of paperwork to prove for instance that the product they are trying to export meets eu rules and has been produced and manufactured

a search operation mounted by the red crescent rescued 14 people, but has been halted until the morningnd a mountaineering instructor. daniel stockli is a professor at the department of geological sciences at the university of texas. he's climbed the alborz mountains to do geological research. earlier he told me how these mountains are like. these are really not technical mountains, but they are very easily accessible from tehran, quite steep, high relief, basically, you very quickly get to about 4000 metres above sea level, so the alborz mountains are a relatively young mountain range, so they are very steep, the southside has very little vegetation, so if you have unprecedented snowfall, there is nothing holding back the snowpack, so you could have avalanches. this sounds relatively accessible. are they quite popular with locals and visitors? they are really quite popular, so they have a ski area on top, there is an aerial tramway that goes to the top, very popular with hikers, backcountry skiers, limited slope, medium slopes for skiers, they are on the outskirts of northern tehran, t

the early couple bianco is say director of health the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies he says the best way to reduce the spread of fake news on vaccines is tease evidence to back the information. we are very worried about the me seem formation that he circulate the particularly on all social media these it's been going on for months and he's intensifying right now with the arrival of vaccines a lot of rumors going around that colby may not be there that colby may not affect africans that if you get a vaccination you may be sterilized or if you use garlic you may fight probably 1000 all these claims are not based on evidence and are very very risky. to produce is that we are all trying to stop this terrible and i think a lot of people in social media and outside like a direct cross are christians are working very much hard to to to to combat misinformation to put forward to the right information we think we really believe that is the priority is to bring in the right type of information at all levels of media politicians researchers and organizations like like

the rescue operation is being led by the red crescent, who on saturday sent 20 teams to try to assistle down from the heights. among those who died are a political activist, an academic, a doctor and a mountaineering instructor. since the introduction of a wide—ranging national security law, hong kong has seen a growing number of young activists seeking asylum abroad. china has warned foreign governments against supporting their claims for political refuge. the bbc has spoken to several young protesters who attempted to flee to the us consulate inside hong kong. danny vincent reports. this is the unprecedented moment four young pro—democracy protesters attempted to flee to the us consulate in hong kong. these scenes are rare in the territory. they said they were seeking asylum from political persecution. the us government says asylum can only be sought inside the country. they entered the building only to be turned away. a new national security law has led to a growing number of young people fleeing the city. they spoke to the bbc under the condition of anonymity. one is a us citizen

the red crescent in the area has had 20 search and rescue teams out on the mountains, looking for otherorced many roads to close in several parts of iran. at least two security personnel have been killed in a series of explosions in the afghan capital kabul. officials said there were four blasts within the space of three hours. they damaged houses, shops and vehicles nearby. kabul has witnessed several bomb and rocket attacks in recent weeks targeting security forces, politicians, journalists and activists. the chair of the afghanistan indepedent human rights commission, shaharzad akbar, gave us a sense of life under daily violence in kabul. kabul has been really violent, and across afghanistan, there has been a wave of targeted killings, normally targeting journalists, activists, human rights defenders. names, people are familiar with. people who aren't very powerful or have a lot of security, but people who are familiar to afghans because they stand up for rights and freedoms. they're being targeted mercilessly. last week, we lost a prominent activist who worked on elections and a wee