u. k. still trying to avoid any sort of christmas shut down. so we're going to start with the latest snapshot from johns hopkins university showing the red number here. i'll circle this 1. $17000000.00 plus cases of coven 19 reported around the world. in the last month, you can see clearly the bulk of them coming from the united states and across europe as well. and in fact, if we start to look at europe, we'll look at the u. k. at 1st of all these graphs i'll show you are a 4 month snapshot from august starting. so this whole period here the u. k. was looking at sort of $35.00 to $45000.00 cases a day. now, in the realms of $75000.00 a day plus in the united states will ever doing quite well. it's definitely a downward trajectory from that high of 100. $60000.00 plus in september. now, this point round a 130000 cases a day. this is a 7 day rolling average i should point out as well. and south africa just wanted to show you as well for a global picture where all the current was 1st detected, of course, this whole period. look at that october an

u. k. still functional. the crew are safe. in italy, rescue workers are searching for any more survivors in the rubble of several buildings that collapsed on the islands of sicily. they've recovered for more bodies. after digging for 30 hours, several people are now confirmed, dead. 2 are still missing. the buildings came down after a ghastly explosion on saturday in the town of revenue, sir. south korea and australia have signed a defense deal worth more than $700000000.00. south korea will supply australia with artillery weapons supply vehicles and radar equipments. the largest defense deal between australia and an asian nation, and comes at a time of height and tension between australia and china. the delivery but important commitment of our government that we might. it's an important further chapter in the defense industry story for australia as we continue to build our sovereign capability. and career is an important partner in that journey, both in our security arrangements, but also in the building or by our sovereign c

u. k, where you are to some countries over in africa. but despite there being communication over in the u. k, they're still in vaccine hesitancy and skepticism over there, as well as an end part. so a lot of countries in an eastern europe. but what do you put that down to? this is not different in the supply and make the information here. the movement or groups are very strong. they're always being on me. so one other, maxine and now we'll go back, but now the social media is really popularizing the message, so a lot of people are skeptical about it in africa. so i either go to get union data survey among a number of african countries. and most people said they are, they are, they're willing to get back to me because what do you use to see them operate? you know, in a normal life. so having at the scene is not just part of life. it's not that big deal, but we didn't see why the young people have the joy either of appeal or not. we did not have that choice enough to know that you're part of the people's vaccine. and one of the things that your organization calls for is equal access to vaccinations . what ne

u. k. a still trying to avoid that christmas shut down. let's start with a snapshot from johns hopkins university showing the number of cases debts and backs in nations. cases, the smaller red number, or the number of infections. $17000000.00 plus just in the last $28.00 days. the most of them is you see coming east coast of the united states, new york, particularly and across western europe as well. so let's have a look at europe, u. k. first of all, with graphs from our world and data, this is for month snapshot all day. these graphs, this whole period through here, looking to sort of 30 to 40000 cases a day, but now up here, 70000 plus every day in the united states, things were well, maybe not coming under control, but certainly case numbers were coming down through october and november, they are up again to the point of being about 130000 a day in the united states. and just one of the country to tell about south africa . look at this graph over the last 4 months, this period here. october, november. we're talking only $200.00 cases a

u. k. although for example, you can and are trained from the u. k to belgium. that's still possible though, there's also not very logical all these restrictions and austria is now taking the lead because austria is only letting people in who are boosted. you can only get there if you have 3 shots, if you're only vaccinated, you needed an additional test. and all other people have to quarantine and, and the netherlands are contemplating a full lockdown again and also a trevor, ben and germany also is considering out some areas in europe as high risk area. so you can go back without guaranteeing. and in the next days and weeks, we will see more countries fall into this pattern. so we are back to the sky we had last christmas, and everybody bought into to avoid that. but the, the new or micron vibrant is forcing governments to react. now clearly restrictions, therefore, from country to country, could there be a unified it would be an approach well blood, li speaking, there is no a european approach. there was a summit just last thursday here by the leaders and had the dire war

u. k. it is still functioning. okay. and the crew are said to be safe and said to be one of the most important wetlands in the world. the doin yona, national park in the south of spain is a unesco world heritage site and a refuge for migrating birds and endangered animals. but as natasha glenarm reports, the park is suffering from years of water theft by farmers. and now a drought. with every season a different diana emerges. scenes 57 year old national park is nature's tableau of wetlands beaches dunes and pine forest ecosystems. scientists call the wetlands one of the most important on the planet. yet these days it's the dry season year round at this unesco world heritage site. you can see that it is not an an integral to stage now because they know what they're so old a species of finding on some video, those which should be a perfect fit in the say that half or so if thrown in here they are in children 3000 seasonal pods used to dot the wetlands today. there are less than $100.00. the world wildlife fund or w w. f sa

u. k. combined is still struggling . and so it, the situation with boris johnson isn't just about his popularity or how he is getting on with his m p. 's. it's about whether or not he's capable now of actually dealing with the crisis at root level that sir real concerned for the public. and it's also not just the u. k. facing strict measures to care how the 19 is it? angie, what else is happening across europe will caught a lot of throughout europe in fact and out of paris. we're hearing now that there's a new measure being introduced for over 60 fives of if they don't get the booster vaccine or which is being pushed very hard in france as it is elsewhere, particularly the u. k. then they will get coded passes. we're hearing from brussels that the you president us live on. the lion is saying that in mid january, omicron is likely to be the most dominant virus. that's not surprising. a lot of people that's applies to the 27 nation european union. we're hearing from dublin that the irish republic expects that on chrome to

u. k. to approve fishing licenses for french boats in british waters as passed without a resolution. france was threatening legal action if the deadline set by the u wasn't met. power still waiting for the u. k to approve nearly a 100 licenses for its fisherman. both countries have been involved in the long running post breaks that dispute over the right to fish in territory waters. of the migrants in san and think is from central and south america have blocked a crucial highway between mexico city and the state of pueblo. the group is traveling north to the us border with many beginning that weeks long journey without any food or warfare has been an increase in the number of margaret's trying to reach the u. s. in recent months and elsewhere in mexico and investigations, begun into the depths of 55 migrants and asylum seekers. as many as 200 of them were crammed into a truck when it overturned in the southern state of champ us manuel rapids following developments from mexico city. a small roadside vigil in southern mexico . residents from the city of duke's law in chiapas state paying their respects to at least 55 central american migrants who were killed in a vehicle a

u. k, the economy, there still are kind of those concerns hanging over, especially about the latest variant of 19 and it spread. now, even though the symptoms are mild, it still has led to a lot of talk that there could be even locked downs again in the country. what's the latest on that? and is that something that you think that the people would, would comply with if they were to be put in place? ok, a few things on that racial number one, you probably heard that netherlands is now total locked down lockdown. and the queen has just announced this is sort of hot news that she has counseling christmas with the roll family sandringham, and that is huge for her to do. the reason that that's important in this whole mix is people across the u. k. everybody really looks at the creed we've talked about this before as it's ready to like the countries grandmother. she's very solid, very stable. she's not on alarmist in the slightest bit. that when she does something that sends a message to the nation, on the other hand, of course you have david frost, the former, you chief negotiator. he was lined o

u. k. although for example, you can and training from the u. k to belgium, that's still possible though there's also not very logical all these restrictions and austria is now taking the lead because austria is only letting people in who are boosted. you can only get there if you have 3 shots. if you're only vaccinated, you needed an additional test. and all other people have to quarantine and in the netherlands are contemplating a full lockdown again and also a travel band. and germany also is considering out some areas in europe as high risk area. so you can go back without guaranteeing. and in the next days and weeks we will see more countries fall into this pattern. so we are back to the ski we had last christmas, and everybody wanted to avoid that, but the, the new or me cron vibrant is forcing governments to react. now clearly restrictions differ from country to country. could there be a unified he would be an approach. well bluntly speaking, there is no european approach. there was a summit just last thursday here by the leaders and had the dire warnings on the ta

u. k. so just at the all mccaul, variants may not produce as severe symptoms as delta, but they're still concerns about it being highly transmissible. right, so these 2 new studies that have come out from the u. k, one from scotland, one from england, both of them suggesting that the on the cross variance is less severe results and few hospitalizations than the delta variance. so to give you the, the study that's come out of england, it found that $40.00 to $45.00, there was a 40 to 45 percent reduction in hospitalization is lasting, one light or longer. when compared to delta? so quite a market reduction mass scientists, experts here are saying it's encouraging, but the rules i really stressing caution. hey, this is very, very early data that is still emerging at that i'm lot still isn't known. and crucially, even if this is less to via the shit, number of infections of cases could still mean that the health services on the very intense pressure and how much pressure is the embattled prime minister boards johnson feeling for mom across that. so currently gripping great britain, well, he's resist

u. k. then intersects is still asking if the chancellor knows that energy bills going up by 150 percent and the new year is a problem for ordinary people. businesses and the economy. we spoke to an economist who specializes in energy commodities about this. he says the current crisis is she primarily to the ease geopolitical choices? you're good, they expect their prices well even higher. for instance, the european union countries will be additional $395000000.00 them in energy governments next year because their hasty policy or energy transition. that's one thing. the other thing is that the european union have been one of the sizing energy and at the same time, in bearing the circulation seem to dance by line which was completed in september. and it has been sitting on since then. you seem to have provided them with those all that shows as though i'm working with classes but know they wanted a bank politics and they would be very heavy brush or finally christmas. of course, just the day away now in santa claus will be getting ready to deliver his presence bus, where the pandemic still rag

u. k. currently, the article epicenter the u. k. governments like touch booster driven gamble based on data that still evolving will either be proven right to everyone's relief or wrong, perhaps giving other countries just enough time to change course jona whole al jazeera. now vaccination rates in bosnia herzegovina are low, many are reluctant to take the jap. one group is actually bucking the trend. prison is 80 percent of inmates in fact received at least one vaccine dose in stock. contrast to the overall vaccination rate, which is below one 3rd of mass has been out the 1st meeting in 11 years between the palestinian authority president and these really government defense minister benny gans grated mahar. the bass to discuss security coordination and economic issues about extending officials at the meeting stress, the importance of having a political venue to find solutions. move mary full said in western islam. i think there are a couple of things prompting this american pressure almost certainly to see progress or at least some indication of willingness to talk by the israelis with the palestinians. at the same time as the pri

u. k. although for example, you can and training from the u. k to belgium, that's still possible though there's also not very logical all these restrictions and austria is now taking the lead because austria is only letting people in who are boosted. you can only get there if you have 3 shots. if you're only vaccinated, you needed an additional test and all other people have to quarantine and, and the netherlands are contemplating a full lockdown again. and also a trevor, ben and germany also is considering out some areas in europe as high risk area. so you can go back without guaranteeing. and in the next days and weeks we will see more countries fall into this pattern. so we are back to the scheme we had last christmas, and everybody bought into to avoid that. but the, the new or me cron vibrant is forcing governments to react. now clearly restrictions differ from country to country. could there be a unified it would be an approach? well blood, li speaking, there is no a european approach. there was a summit just last thursday here by the leaders and had the dire warni

u. k. all the different nations in the u. k. have different rules taking and as an example, hospitality is still open. pups and restaurants shops are still open as well. so compared to the number of places, there isn't as much as many which is restrictions is say, the netherlands, for example, bought new rules, wiring to juice, working from homes, advise mosque wearing is mandatory once again, the government wanting to focus on a boost to campaign and you had and that report that massively ramp topics bruce to campaign and a huge 50 percent of adults in the u. k. now have had that boost job not is expected to give the population a good level of immunity against the on the chrome variance. but there are, as you might expect, officials who, according to fall pinter restrictions some saying that and if the restrictions don't change, you could say, see thousands of hospitalizations a day, a good deal of concern reports as well. that there might be a lockdown being considered up to christmas. well, as you say, the government seems very divided on the restrictions and many of bar assumptions ministers. i've been revolting again, same

u. k. the season, however, could still face unexpected interruptions. the cove at 19 pandemic is taking its toll on premier league football. only 4 matches out of 10 were played over the weekend because teams didn't have enough healthy players. and other clubs like chelsea wanted to postpone their games. but we're not allowed to buy the league. we were just worried about the safety of players. the players were concerned about their health because we had several causative quoted tests in several for and consecutive days. and that was it. but at a meeting with league officials on monday, collab executives rejected the idea of postponing the round of fixtures scheduled for over the coming festive season. coaches who want to break now have no choice. we have no idea what will happen. we was we will do tests, we will continue to do tests on a daily basis and we will go to training like we did for now the games must go on. but that could change if the british government imposed further pandemic restrictions. this is dw news lie from burnett. hey, as a reminde

u. k. currently, the, on the chrome epicenter, the u. k. governments like touch booster driven gamble based on data that still evolving will either be proven right to everyone's relief or wrong, perhaps giving other countries just enough time to change course journal al jazeera in me and mar a military offensive against ethnic had an armed groups is intensified the military that seized power in a coup in february is when accused of committing atrocities against villagers. thousands are fleeing into thailand and n he's in officials say they will not offer refuge to a group of ringo on a strand. the boat near the country is archie province. they say the vessel will be turned away, but they will help prepare it 1st. at least a 100 people including children on board. for giovanni progressing, i got unload at the movies. job is to secure the countries border. bureau hunger are not indonesian citizens, we can't just bring them in as a refugees. this is in line with government policy. a catholic charities set up my mother theresa can no longer receive foreign funds in india after the government refused to renew its license. ministers at say the m

there's still a lot of unanswered questions about how deadly it is. or how can governments, including the government and the u. k. draft health policy is when our understanding of this very and is still quite limited. so this, the issue of the precautionary approach in effect control, if you're not sure about how severe the virus is, how fast it spreads, you put in place measures that will cover those eventualities. even at the most pessimistic level, though, of course, that has a knock in effect for him education or society and economy. but if you poorly look and control the virus or some of the sockets, asian cultures have done very well as, as a candidate restriction of measures that you need to impose early on. and then you can reap the benefits of that later on. that when you open up was of ours is down to, you know, virtually 0 when the moment the u. k. and other european countries the and it was just far too high for that. so what you're looking for as a mitigation, that after that peak and hopefully something we can live with, as well as you know, overwhelming your local health services. you mentioned th

u. k. has now granted more licenses. french fishermen are still unhappy and continue to threaten british imports. now that brings us to another bone of contention migrants the u. s. wholly still struggling to find a way to deal with mass, illegal migration. but the brakes think francis found a solution. turning a blind eye to those who try and cross the english channel. france is failing to police its coastline. we could fund double the number of french police, but they are not serious about intercepting migrant groups in broad daylight. it would further anger taxpayers here by throwing more good money after bad. i believe this reluctance to intervene. this refusal to get involved is a political decision president emanuel mac. ron is seeking re election next year and thinks dumping on the british will win in bots. ando was really stoked following the deaths of almost 30 people in the english channel in november. now they had been trying to reach the u. k. sure. was that france hit back telling the u. k to stop it's latches. britain is in no position to be giving lessons to us. britain should sto

u. k. both politically and scientifically, we were still coordinating just yesterday, my colleague said that what has been observed on the ground exceeds anything that has been observed in the entire pandemic. we have to prepare ourselves for a challenge that we have not faith yet in this form. while infection numbers have been dropping gradually in recent days and weeks here in germany, it isn't happening fast enough. according to the country, public health authority, the robert coffee institutes in order to release the burden from intensive care beds and the availability of those intensive care beds, not just in germany, where there are problems on the horizon, the new action being taken in switzerland. they've brought the new measures which are designed in order to well get more people to get vaccinated. basically if you haven't been vaccinated or can't prove that, you have recovered from covered it. within the last 6 months, you're going to be pretty much bod, from, from everywhere. in switzerland, from here on out, what we're seeing is you're going to need to provide the proof of one of

u. k is just reported another 189000 infections. some of the jump can be attributed to the christmas holiday period, but hospitals are still under huge pressure. and the u. k is now drawing up plans for temporary field hospitals to cope with a search as well. retrans reports from london. wow. cases, a skyrocketing home ations in england, or at that point during alarm bells ringing. there's an ami kron surge is about to crash over the already struggling national health service. so if we keep them increasing, especially it, of course the pressures are, again, my thing week on week when you've got workforce, as i've said, that's already up to 550 for nurses on many more. and so i feel as saying, then of course, the pressures are building and building and building. so what will it be like? and john, you re contingency plans of being put in place to co existing hospital capacity becomes overwhelmed with new temporary boards built the house patients. 8 temporary surge hub, being built at hospitals around the country, each one with a capacity of $100.00 beds more sites of being planned for an extra $4000.00 bed. if needed, it, hope that non

u. k. are overweight and the rates are still fine. mm. a life changing impacts on the body and slowly low your quality of life. mm. according to the messages spread far and wide, we alone are to blame for our wait. fat people are simply gluttons unable to control their appetites. he 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 urls 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 like health officials, we're sure you get a little personal will power was all it would take to lay 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 moving more

and he says on the cronies, so infectious, it could still cause major issues. good data from the u. k. is fairly small scale, it's only from infractions younger people, so you have to remember that caveat as well. but it showing us initially at least a reduction in risk of going hospital of 50 percent, all the way down to half to 2 thirds. but unfortunately, if you look at the numbers and you can pay where we are today, yesterday we were on the same days. now last year we have 3 times as many infections and probably an awful lot more, which are very, very mild, are a soon to magic. so we could well end up with a situation where all dropping inability to cause disease is pulled the other way by increasing numbers of people who would be affected. so on an individual level, if you're lucky enough to get the right virus will be for very and then you'll much less likely to be in. it seems least if you're younger, we don't know about all the people. but of course, that will happen to many more people. so overall, for society, it might might be that there's no much change and that we will ha

now normally those, those are the holidays for most people, but the you can still go and get your vaccine in the u. k. if you, if you need to there, the number of cases is still breaking reco. it's pretty much every day. the thursday figures were nearly a 120000 new infections. now that is the highest number of the pandemic. so far, this week records have been falling most days. so the good news, as we have been hearing, is that homer crone does seem to be less severe than the other variance. the evidence that is coming from global studies at the moment suggests that it's perhaps between 30 and 70 percent less likely to put you in a hospital than say, the delta area was bus. of course, the big question is, as it is so infectious, infecting more people, been del, today's dates, there is still a chance that the burden on the chess or how services around the world could still be unacceptable. that's right. thank you very much. worry for that update. we're a challenge live for us in louis friday, maximum sin, south africa or announced the very 1st cases, ami chrome, which continues to drive record search

u. k. dizzy all mccomb epicenter, the u. k. governments like touch booster driven gamble based on data that still evolving will either be proven right to everyone's relief or role, perhaps giving other countries just enough time to change course. donahoe al jazeera palestinian president mahmoud abbas has had his 1st formal meeting with an israeli official in more than a decade. he was hosted by the israeli ministry of defense benny guns. guns says they discussed security coordination and economic issues amongst others. harry forces has more from west jerusalem. i think there are a couple of things prompting this american pressure almost certainly to see progress or at least some indication of willingness to talk by the israelis with the palestinians. at the same time as the prime minister natalie bennett is still rejecting the idea of the u. s. reopening, it's palestinian focused consulate in jerusalem. also the security situation in the occupied west bank and inside east jerusalem as well in recent weeks has deteriorated. and so there is some imperative there for the 2 sides to talk each side, giving a slightly different appr

u. k. currency the on the chrome epicenter, the u. k. governments like touch booster driven gamble based on data that still evolving will either be proven right to everyone's relief or wrong. perhaps giving other countries just enough time to change. course jona whole al jazeera will many countries in latin america only now recording the 1st on the call cases. but the continent as well prepared with some of the wells leading vaccination rates was on the ram his he is in columbia council ball guitar. just to give you an idea. if you think about it, mike has just 8 percent of the world population by, by mid 2021 had already accounted for a 3rd of all corona virus related that globally, that just gives you an idea of how difficult things have been here. how difficult has been for government to reorganize the day, often apache health services that many of the countries in south america have at least for the majority of their population at the beginning of the vaccination campaigns most come through with maybe the exception of sheila, most countries and south america had a very hard time finding vaccines to start those campaigns in earnest.