u. k. basically, he, he'd been being paid by that lobby in government for private companies. and indeed, got that stage where or was johnson was trying to actually lift an inquiry and keep them in place. that was a bought job. we had to do a u turn on it. and there was a really big scandal then other scandals that beset bars. johnson, all of them not just local issues here, but major national once a played their part in this decision. and andrew, as you mentioned, is no shortage of issues. now, shortage of scandals facing the conservative party at the moment. can we say what and what, what led to defeat in this contest? constituency? well, one of the differences in this, by election them in the conceptions might well try to say, look, is, is mid term a blues. it often happens on major issues with governments, but no, this is personal. it's about boris johnson. and you know, helen morgan said in her acceptance speech. sure. that's the, the party is over for the prime minister. a really a dig there at this issue of christmas party, which may sound a caught a lightweight issue,

u. k. basically, he, he'd been being paid by the lobby in government for private companies and indeed got to the stage where boys johnson was trying to actually lift an inquiry and keep them in place. that was a bought job. he had to do a u turn on it, and there was a really big scandal than other scandals that beset bars. johnson, all of them, not just local issues here, but major national once a played their part. in this decision. still head on al jazeera rescue operations are underway, the philippines on to it was land while one of the most powerful storms this year. and at least 19 people have died off to a 5 on account of the building in japan. ah, mm. look forward to greatest guys with sponsored point cutoff airways. hi there. thanks for joining an typhoon. rice certainly did a number on the philippines, but the disturbance now making a clean sweep of the country's sliding into that south china sea. we take this story a few days ahead, over the course of the weekend saturday into sunday. brushing up against that coast to vietnam will track where it goes in his sack. but also you know,

u. k. basically, he, he'd been being paid by lobby in government for private companies and indeed got to the stage were or was johnson was trying to actually lift an inquiry and keep them in place. that was a bought job. we had to do a u turn on it, and there was a really big scandal than other scandals that beset bars. johnson, all of them, not just local issues here, but major national once a played their part in this decision. now, good missionaries kidnapped in haiti 2 months ago have been released as not clear of a ransom was paid for the 17 americans and canadians. some of them children who 5 afraid in the past few weeks for the final, the 12 released on thursday. they were all captured in october after visiting an orphanage near the capital porto prince roy i gathered they were treated to rule to be well, i'm still waiting to hear the rest of their story. i'm sure they were treated supremely new. wifi 80 is hard. you village best and i have not received any details. i think if there had been any severe problems and aid injuries or any losses that they had, we would have probably heard

u. k. basically, he, he'd been being paid by lobby in government for private companies and indeed got to the stage were always, johnson was trying to actually lift an inquiry and keep him in place. that was a bought job. he had to do a u turn on it. and there was a really big scandal then other scandals that beset bars. johnson, all of them not just local issues here, but major national once a played their part in this decision. the philippines is counting the calls of typhoon roy, which killed at least 12 people and left a trail of destruction, 195 kilometer. and i went down the power lines and destroyed homes, forcing hundreds of thousands to seek safety and dagon reports from the capital manila. more than 24 hours since stifled right 1st made landfall in the philippines, and many areas remain cut off. government leaders admit they are struggling to get an accurate picture of the typhoons impact in their gross and sir ego provinces. in the town of mary bo hawk, if the whole province rescue operations are still underway. local government workers there say at least 20000 families have alread

u. k. basically, a, he'd been being paid by lobby in government for private companies and indeed got to the stage were always, johnson was trying to actually lift an inquiry and keep them in place. that was a bought job. he had to do a u turn on it. and there was a really big scandal then other scandals that beset bars. johnson, all of them not just local issues here, but major national ones played their part in this decision. china is denouncing what it calls a deplorable u. s. ban on imports because of the mistreatment of the muslim, weaker minority. the senate unanimously voted to force goods manufacturers in changing region to prove false labor hasn't been used. there are the ministry of foreign affairs in beijing. sand 0 is making of excuses to control chinese impulse may vomiting g general pop after talking to you and the u. s. the prices chinese enterprises and companies by every means such as severely violating the market principle and international trading roles. it seriously harms the interest chinese institutions and companies. we deplore and firmly oppose that we use the us to c

u. k, everyone is basically saying keep this a cautious new year's eve. don't go out and party to hard. so on, johnson called for sensible celebrations, being taken out by the public well, yeah, in london, this is a very, very quiet new year's eve where i'm standing on the embankments across from the london i. there are people around but nothing like what they would be on a normal new year's eve, the celebrations, the spectacular that you would get any other year. not going to happen this year. normally that would be, you know, massive fireworks display going on on the, the barges and the lawn deny behind me at midnight that's cancelled. there was a policy that was planned for trafalgar square that was cancelled as well. nothing happening in scotland in cod air for in belfast either. but in england you can still go out if you go to a nightclub, you can party with your friends and your family, if you won't say in other parts of the u. k. scotland, wales and northern ireland nightclubs are closed, big restrictions on the number of people that actually can a

as the indo pacific quad and the american anglo australian union orcus basically this orkin deal is the united states and the u. k. uniting and helping a strayer create its own basically expand its nuclear capabilities, expand the nuclear capabilities of its fleet. so this is an attempt by washington and london to make us trailer, into more into more of an atomic superpower. in fact, on the side note at this deal has already caused quite a scandal between the allies, because initially, france was about to do more or less the same, but washington and london, well, they muscled out their partner, their ally, paris, out of a very lucrative contract but going back to the meeting between, ah, going back to the spiritual conference between vladimir putin and changing ping, they also express a desire to move further away from exchanges in dollars when it comes to bilateral trade and will increase the volume of deals or in our local currencies, in fact, staying with the subject of economy, vladimir putin has revealed that more than a 150000000 of doses of russia's vaccines against covert. sputnik v and sputnik light will

u. k. what is going to do in the u. s. basically it has destiny is becoming the dominant new strength throughout the world, unless it doesn't compete fully with delta. so it's really the south africans that know within days instead of months that took this. i'm a crime variant and gave us awareness that gave us a head start. so getting back to what you mentioned earlier, steve, you're going to do contact tracy. we got on this in the us, even though there was some delay in getting the 1st sequence is the u. s. now it's, you know, everywhere, but we got to those cases very shortly after they arrived very shortly after community transmission was started and we owe that debt to the south african sciences. let me ask you to talk about, you know, cutting off travel. and there seems to be, you know, in this drama, this major health pandemic drama, a desire in some places to blame a country to blame a place as opposed to saying, hey, you did the right thing by stepping forward because of the consequences. it would come out and as we know, a

u. k. are overweight and right. ah, basically, life changing impact on the body. slowly low your quality of life. ah. according to the messages spread far and wide, we alone are to blame for our weight. that people are simply gluttons unable to control their appetites. you have a choice, make the change. ah, we are told it's up to us. but is it really? for me, the most difficult stigma to cope with is this idea that, that people have no willpower. the people and larger bodies, people with obesity don't have a well power earl, so they wouldn't carry excess weight because we're told so often that that's all it takes to lose weight. go to the gym, follow this diet program. you know, if you just stick to it, you'll get there for public health officials. we're sure you get a little personal will power was all it would take to slay obesity. needless exercise, more became the mantra of the 2 thousands. it would go around the world. ah, so let's start moving. let's start pushing, twisting, climbing and raising the roof. let's start movin

now more countries are announcing a diplomatic boy because of the basic winter olympics, canada and the u. k. have now joined the u. s. and the strategy is decision to protest what they call china's human rights abuses. athletes from all 4 nations will still be able to attend and compete in those games as a country, indeed, as many partners around the world, we are extremely concerned by the repeated human rights violations by the chinese government. that is why we are announcing today that we will not be sending any diplomatic representation to the beijing olympic paralympic games this winter. our athletes have been training for years now looking forward to compete the highest level against athletes from around the world. and they will continue to have all of our fullest support. ah, hello, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines media tied. couldn't jimmy lie as one of 3 pro democracy activists found guilty of taking part in a band vigil and hong kong? last year, 24 people were charged in relation to the commemoration of the gentleman square masika, held in violation of pandemic res

u. k. health secretary has announced in the last hour or so, basically saying that, you know, the data that they've seen, they've analyzed suggests that they don't need to do anything just yet. he said they'll keep on looking at it and off the new year. then if the situation worse than this, then they're not going to rule out bringing any new restrictive measures in. but clearly, i think for us, johnson has decided that a, it would have been difficult to get me restrictive measures through because his cabinet is opposed to it. his back benches are opposed to it and also be looking at the new data about alma krohn about the severity of m a crohn. they have decided that they can afford, i think for the, for the moments at least to wait and see. all right, thank you. very challenge reporting from london while we'll stay with london and speak to mark connor brown, who is a medical host historian, excuse me, and a senior lecturer at city university london. thank you for joining us. on the al jazeera news hour. i know that you've been making the comparison between this pandemic on the russian inf

leaders and a controversial defense dale france correspondence. charlotte basically looks at the countries trouble ties france and the u. k. have been like 2 squabbling neighbors for a millennia. at times those disputes have descended into full blown wars. but for over a century there has been this relative, calm, not is until now. in the past, the u. k. is had plenty of success against france on the high seas, but now the french are looking to recapture access to waters between the 2 countries. for fishing rights only going to print, didn't we still, since the beginning of this year don't have the licenses i did. we're not fighting with the english and we're engaging in dialogue to try to make our position understood so that we can get access to these waters. so i think we may have to go further find other approaches that may not have been previously addressed. the agreement signed today provides for retaliatory measures. europe must apply those measures for boil official tail, so rotten that france even threatened to turn off the u. k. is electricity supplies, but was this about more than simply making waves over fishin

basically, this is all about many rich countries, including the u. k and the e u. they're refusing to barge on rules, particularly regarding intellectual property rights for rich and nations. have secured 7000000000 doses of the vaccine in comparison to the low income nations, only having around 300000000 doses. now these nurses unions are really accusing rich nations of violating patients rights. instead of supporting this waiver, certain governments or protecting the prophets of big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of public health. these countries have violated our rights and the rights of our patients and cause the loss of countless lives of nurses and other caregivers. and those we have cared for. well, nurses unions in 20 different countries have now filed an appeal with the united nation, saying that the global gap between rich and poor is only just exacerbated with the pandemic. and is now becoming blindly obvious. not only that, what they all he was at the transmission of cove it in developing nations, increases the risks of new variance emerging. n

u. k. is former information commissioner is raising the alarm over the government's planned, new advanced research agency, and this body will be exempt from requests under the freedom of information act. that basically means that journalists on the public could be left in the dark about how it spends the 800000000 pounds that have been earmarked for it. the u. k. that freedom of information act came into force in 2005 it entitled citizens access to data held by the authorities. and while hailed as a step towards open government. it certainly has its critics, including among those behind the new exempt research agency. from my point of view, as a truly malign piece of legislation, i am fully in favor of decisions and information about them being released. but i fail to see how the process ology, of government benefits at all from freedom of information disclosures. in september, open democracy revealed, but over the last 5 years, the u. k. government spend at least half a 1000000 pounds on legal battles trying to prevent. disclosures of information is mainly concerned to health and social care. a coordinator of the u. k. is freedom of information, extent mark, what's believes the latest exemption is

u. s. and in their homelands. south korea has recently launched a k belt cluster k chip bells cluster, which basically entails foreign companies such as you, paul and a s and mel participating. but at the same time some products basically s k hi, next memory chips and nan flash. their focus is not just going to be on memory chips, but also on system chips. taiwan, at the same time, is going to invest heavily with in taiwan while maintaining the leverage in the us by expanding production facilities. so we'll have to see how this unfolds into 2023, and into the longer term, maybe the next 10 years. june teufel dryer, let me ask you, taiwan, we know has almost 60 percent of the market when it comes to semiconductors. is there any possibility that we could see taiwan try to use this shortage of semiconductors as a political tool? well, the time one is very, very careful. m the momentum recently. and i would say in the last 5 years, just because china has become so increasingly aggressive across the board, i don't have time to get into a here, i'm sure, but united front work activities aimed at subverting the democratic p

u. k. there will be similar measures from scotland and wales and northern ireland. that's been said that these measures basically reintroducing further measures which were out earlier . but britain in particular, criticized for being slow with its travel restrictions. it's going slowly because it feels that the booster jap will actually bring it into a safer position than other states because of the faster rollout. but there'll be a p c r, test mandatory within 48 hours of departing on the plane. and on arrival, there has to be a, a negative result from pcr test or within 48 hours. the has to be self isolation. and now nigeria has been added to the list of the read list of countries, which people have to go into a quarantine for a whole 10 days in a specified hotel. the government will norm that's caused outrage in nigeria. now the government has a straightforward policy. it believes it's doing these things as a, as a preventative measure, but it's real weapon against cove. it it believes is the bose booster 3rd jap. the question is, the additional pcr test that people come to this country take as a precautionar

u. k. and so what are the chances of new restrictions for england being announced soon, dory? well, i think they're receding, they have not disappeared, but it's basically burst. johnson has not had any new data for the last 2 days. the last number on new infections was on friday over christmas and boxing day they weren't published. so he will see today the state that he seems since before the weekend and on that basis he will make, i think, a decision about whether they're going to be me restrictions coming in before new year. he really is going to face, i think, a very reluctant cabinets and back benches within his own conservative policy. if he tries to push through any new restrictions that is because they feel vindicated in trying to keep the restrictions as minimal as possible because they are looking at the, the data that is coming out on, on the kron from various studies around the world. and they are seeing what everyone else is saying that it looks like on the kron is less severe than the delta variance. yes, it's much more infectious, but it doesn't make people quite as ill. and they are going to be thinking, well, that shows that we were on

u. k is entering the omicron crisis of $50000.00 cases per day and almost no capacity analysis. tim. that was not inevitable. it was preventable, had retaken basic measures like mass mandates, put ventilation in schools, and had to sort of better systems for mitigation schools and, and backs nature children. so the fact that you know, we book, i think ultimately need to go to lockdown will again be because of delayed basic measures which are not very restrictive, but could have preempted this had react to dolly. so the problem is actually late action and had not done should never be the primary measure of controlling the pandemic. unfortunately, at this point in time, the crisis is so severe that i think it will be needed. but it amused faces crosses are so severe, but there are times we don't know yet, do we, how the vaccines will react to a micron? yeah, well, i mean, do, says will certainly help. but the fact that it's doubling every 2 days means that, you know, we're heading to hundreds of thousands or even a 1000000 cases a day. and when you have those levels, irrespective of severity of the varying until what impact vaccines have in the pr

basic level. i me, when i'm out and about, i'm seeing people wearing masks more and more here in my part of the u. k, but they're not socially distancing. so it does what i mean, that kind of defeats some of the purpose of wearing them out the mouth then doesn't it? i think this trust and respect issue of people have about the politics and the governance that's going on here is really center to what we're thinking about how we're, how we're responding. and certainly, you know, their rationale is maybe to wait till february. but i think sometimes it just seems silly when people say that here in the u. k, it's always been this way during, during covered. we'll let you know next tuesday what the new rules are going to be . and quite frankly, well, that's a long time from now. why not just make the rules if you're going to do them? so i think there's some questions about how justice has been communicated, but certainly how is being implemented, naomi, whether or not we're all agree on population wide mandates. should people in your industry frontline health care workers at least be required to take vacc

u. k. there are no a standardized ation around ventilation requirements for public spaces, offices building schools. really, it is time to ensure that we have some of these basics in place to treat a clean air just as much as a public health issue as clean water. those are absolutely absolutely fundamental aspects towards this, and it is very likely that we will see a future restrictions here in the u. k. as a result of the rate of spread, i can't see it being blunted by boosters just because of how many we would need to deliver in a very short amount of time. ok, so what would your message please or 2 for people watching anywhere in the world right now about what they should be doing to protect themselves. well 1st of all, if you've not had your 1st or 2nd dose of vaccine, that would be the 1st step in terms of requiring protection and those who are eligible for getting a booster. absolutely, that would be the most effective. now in addition to that, we know that even people who have been boosted will, there will be a proportion of people who will still catch the virus. therefore, we need to really go back to some of the measures that we know work that include

basically, proof of having received the jobs will be needed to enter big crowded venues like night clubs, more than 51000 people tested positive in the u. k. in the last day. and the 161 have died. health official say all mcclellan will soon account for half of all cases, but there are worries about whether the public will actually follow the new rules when it seems that those making the rules have ignored them. in the past. john, a whole reports from london deny deny, deny has been the strategy at number 10 downing street over reports of a staff christmas party last year when they were banned under cobra rules. the government says no rules were broken, leaked video recorded 4 days later, during the rehearsals by senior staff for news briefing offers damning evidence to the contrary. i went home, old and allan and ah, is chief of the season line, right? this is, this is recorded inspection policy with a business associate. just one of those involved has now resign it recalled and perhaps eclipse to previous pandemic rule. breaches like chief advisor, dominic cummings, lockdown family road trip, the former health secretary mat hancock's of

basically a case of u. s. regime change. and since then, nato weapons have been flooding into eastern you crate. i mean, i read a report recently, the u. k. military chiefs, a training ukrainian soldiers and american weapons are still pouring into ukraine. now with a defense minister in kiev saying he wants western powers to get involved. how much more involved, could they be? the quite correct. of course, we've also see these needle exercises in the black sea with british america and other vessels, not just going into russian territory waters, but also bit busy, crazy busy government ministers in ukraine and providing stuff back up. no. so what the west is doing here, by the way, you're right. it's also providing somebody as a back up of these need y exercises. not just trying to reassure you cream, but also trying to threaten russia. know where the russian church they were in russia. the not invasion ukraine. why don't use an excel, i say, is using the presence of those troops to pull up our call in the build up of these talks, the july to like, my hope is when the to meet by video league. actually, they will cram things down and come

u. k. like israel, that show a very clearly that of ex vaccinated people who have a almost similar risk to get it to have severe cases, severe cove. it and even today it's, it's basically a in transparent data. we have from austria here, people, so claim, or some hospital people. so claim that it is a wave of they unvaccinated, but this is basically not true. and so what would you, what would you suggest that you do that? and it's due to the way of counting unvaccinated, that the, that they count people that whose vaccination is more than 6 months old, they count as an vaccinated people who don't have proof of the vaccination. when they come to the hospital, i counted as unvaccinated for that's how you get it on. if that was the case, talk to. so dixon, the chancellor wouldn't to be forcing mandatory vaccinations. austrians next february. so what is he and his advisors know that you don't? well, i don't see any reason for mandatory vaccination to tell you the truth because from another point that that proves very clearly that the vaccination is not effective is that they are now calling everybody to get the booster. if, if the, if the 1st 2 vaccinations had been effect

u. k. $10000000.00 infected death rate, 1.4 percent spain, 1.7 percent. france, 1.5. that should mean the vaccines are working. yeah, he said good news. it is good news when basic, but for who. so this is right once again. now of course that means that the about sin is working right. maxine is affect diva baths. maxine at my idea of axis must be x accessible by him of a for every one. for every human being. this is not happening. this is why we are so concerned about i did, did, did the current trans silva, the distribution of the vaccine cell around toward talking about it for doses. so add it boosted over some one. he's talking about 2022. even the 5th dose is, and this is, this is, i mean, this is a point of concern, you know, from the a number of people out there actually because i'm british and in the u. k. at the moment the prime minister is saying, if he find one vaccine or 2 vaccinations is not important, now you need a booster every 6 months. is that so it is that the future? do you think of how we can address? i'm not a, i'm not a scientist. i'm not a medical doctor, so i don't want to do and that is something that is not up to me. but i did. did did

u. k. 10000000. infected death rate, 1.4 percent. spain, 1.7 percent. france 1.5. that should mean the vaccines are working. yeah, he said good news, it is good news when basic, but for whom so it is right once again. now, of course, that means that the vaccine is working right. maxine is at fake deever but so maxine, it may be of axis must be x accessible by of of for every one for every human being or this is not happening. this is why we are so concerned about i did, did the current trans silva, the distribution of the vaccine cell around award. you're talking about it for doses, so add a booster. oh, some one. he's talking about 2022. even the 5th dose is. and this is, this is, i mean, this is a point of concern, you know, from the a number of people out there actually because i'm british and in the u. k. the moment the prime minister is saying, if you've had one vaccine or 2 vaccinations is not important, now you need a booster every 6 months. is that so it is at the future. okay, think of how we can if i'm not, i'm not a scientist. i'm not the medical doctor, so i don't want to do and getting something that is not up to me. but i did did did the consen

u. k and pay i watering amounts of money to do it. but the people who lead you pay higher education institutions would rather see math, disruptive, industrial action every year and fix the basic problems. this is the voice of amy and english lecturer in these universities are making a lot of money off of students. but they are not at compensating their staff and staff are having to live and really severely an insecure conditions. she doesn't want to appear on camera because she doesn't want what happened to her to undermine her future career balls, doing her postgraduate degree and teaching at the london university. she made $15000.00 a year and able to pay rent cost. she chose to live in a tent for 2 years and carry on teaching. the students never knew there been stories about cache i staff who've been facing homelessness. and definitely a lot of cash i staff have had experienced that not being able to afford awe rent and have had a couch server or do those kinds of things. or they're stretched between and multiple different short. and we're hourly paid contracts. the average salary of a university vice chancellor is $330000.00 a year. excluding bonuses, an average electric

that basically means that journalists and the entire public could be left in the dark about how it spends the 800000000 pounds that have been here mcg for its budget. now the u. k is a freedom of information that came into force in 2005. it entitled citizens access the data held by the authorities. and while hailed as a step towards open government. it certainly has its critics, including among those behind the new exempt research agency. from my point of view, as a truly malign piece of legislation, i am fully in favor of decisions and information about them being released. but i fail to see how the process ology, of government benefits at all from freedom of information disclosures. in september opened democracy reveal that over the last 5 years, the u. k. government reportedly spent at least half a 1000000 pounds on legal battles trying to prevent. disclosures of information is mainly concerned health and social care and coordinator over you case, freedom of information act center mock watts believes the latest exemption is an attempt to cut transparency. this time i say the government's decided that and it will, it will knowns have the freedom be subject to