said though daily infections in the u. k. hit another record high on friday, and england's top health officials to say that the health services now on a war footing the u. k though, is not alone when it comes to struggling with the pandemic. the karen looks back on the past year. if 2020, with the year we love to cove it 2021 was the year life was supposed to get back on track. but as always, things on never that simple. after months of locked downs and restrictions 2021. so patients reach boiling points with trust in lead, is that an all time low and people's spinning on to the street in protest, despite officials warning inoculation was vitally important. ah, in the u. k, the government's reputation. nose dived as p and boris johnson flip flopped on guidelines. leading brits confused and frustrated where mosques don't wear mosques, hug your friends, don't hug friends, rush on your neighbors, and cancel your parties. as the p. m was alleged to exempt himself from the rose and i ah ah, there's a meetings of people at work toda

u. k. hit another record high on friday. and england's top health officials to say that the health service is on a war footing. the u. k. though is not alone when it comes to struggling with the pandemic. karen looks back on the past year. if 2020 was the year we lost to cove, it 2021 was the year life was supposed to get back on track. but as always, things on never that simple. after months of locked downs and restrictions 2021. so patients reach boiling points with trust in lead is at an all time low and people's spilling onto the street in protest. despite officials warning inoculation was vitally important. ah, in the u. k, the government's reputation, nose dived as p. and boris johnson flip flopped on guidelines. leaving brits confused and frustrated. where masks don't wear masks, how your friends don't her friend's rust on your neighbors and cancel your parties as the p. m was alleged to exempt himself from the rules and i, ah ah, there's a meetings of people at work today, but this is where i live and to i work. others were meetings of people at work. unsurprisingly, the country is predicting his days in number 10 on n

u. k. hit another record high on friday in england's top health officials say the health services on a war footing. the u. k. though of course, is not at all alone when it comes to struggling with a pandemic. nick hair and looks back on the past 12 months. if 2020, with the year we love to cove it 2021 with the year life was supposed to get back on track. but as always, things on never that simple. after months of locked downs and restrictions 2021. so patients reach boiling points with trust and lead is at an all time low. and people's spinning on to the streets in protest. despite officials warning inoculation was vitally important. ah in the u. k. the government's reputation. nose dived as p and boris jones and flip flopped on guidelines, leaving brits confused and frustrated. where mosques don't wear mosques, how give friends, don't her friend's rust on your neighbors and cancel your parties as a p. m with a ledge to exempt himself from the rules. and a, ah, ah ah, there's a meetings of people at work to let this is where i live and to our work. others are meeting the people at what unsurprisingly, the country

u. k. hit another record high on friday, and england is top health officials say the health services on a war footing. u. k. though of course, is not at all alone when it comes to struggling with a pandemic. nicky arrow looks back on the past troubled 12 months. if 2020 was the year we love to cove it 2021 with the year life was supposed to get back on track. but i was always things on never that simple after months of lock downs and restrictions 2021. so patients reach boiling points with trust in lead. is it an all time low and people spilling onto the street in protest, despite officials warning inoculation was vitally important. ah! in the u. k, the government's reputation nose dived as p. m boris johnson flip flopped on guidelines, leaving voice confused and frustrated. where mosques don't wear mosques hug your friends, don't hug friends rust on your neighbors and cancel your parties as a p. m. was alleged to exempt himself from the roof with ah ah, there's a meetings of people at work to it, but this is where i live and so i work are those are meetings of people at what and surprisingly the country is predic

currently all travelers have to take a test within 2 days of arriving in the u k regardless of your vaccine status. the u k, though says this new rule means travelers who are double vaccinated will be able to skip that arrivals test. the travel industry is praising the move, calling it a big a step back to normality. the change is set to take effect on february. 11th. we're just 2 weeks away from the opening of the beijing winter olympics. officials announced today of the more than 2000 people have arrived so far for the event. more than 70 have tested positive for covid-19. officials say all confirmed positive tests are from other stakeholders, not athletes or their team officials. all olympic related personnel who enter china are completely separated from the outside society. residents of the chinese capital say they're disappointed at not being able to attend events due to coronavirus restrictions. but many say they do understand why. back here at home, the colorado fire is continuing to burn in monterey county today. it's so far scorched 700 acres standing up. 35 1% containment right now. sarah stinson reports

u. k. they say though the crypto currency is don't fall under that because again, they've been operating without this. so they're trying to bring crypto currency under this. the goal here, according to the government, is not to stifle innovation. they don't want to cycle in innovation, they say, but they do want to protect people against, you know, bad actors essentially in the space. and let's be honest, here looks the you're gonna find few people who are as big of a supporter of crypto currency than me. however, there are a lot of bad actors in the space. and so you do have to recognize that a lot of people don't understand crypto currencies. that doesn't mean they all have to be protected. you got to put on your big boy pants and make decisions for yourself. but at the same time, you also have to recognize it's easy to influence people and trick the into, you know, investing in some show coin with pumping down. but people don't understand what that looks like. and so i can understand why there is an effort here to kind of rain in some of this. absolutely. so what you're saying bad is there ar

u. k. reopen after the holidays. even though infections are creating new rec holes with each passing day. ah, sammy's a dan, this is al jazeera alive from dough hall. so coming up, if they are fearful off for not being able to comply with a lot and they have to make up their mind. a warning for the media from hong kong leader as another news outlet shuts down and fallen silicon valley star, elizabeth holmes faces years in prison for invest of fraud and conspiracy. india has imposed a weekend curfew in delhi, after seeing the highest curve 19 infection numbers in months, jellies chief minister is among the latest to test positive day after speaking at an election rally were a few people was seen wearing masks, doctors suspect the more transmissible alma crohn varian has begun to overtake delta in the u. k. children are going back to school for the 1st time this year, but with a number of positive cases of covey, 19 rising ex potentially last week. heads of schools, fear staff, shortages more than a 1000000 people on now in self i

even though the 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. and go, 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. she was met, france. hate back

u. k. are asking though, is, or should he resign? could he resign or critically will members of his own conservative parssi make his future untenable? force him to essentially step down kick, starting at a leadership race in the conservative party. we know that there is huge amounts of public anger about sir. the attendance of boys, johnson, that this party that he claims he felt at the time was a, a working business meeting that just has fallen flat with the british public. and clearly the opposition parties, as we heard there in that report are enraged by boys johnson. we had kissed armour directly accusing boys. johnson of being a lawyer, something that the opposition labor leader has fallen short of doing should is though, whether the real threat comes from within the we know that a handful of conservative and piece of already come out urging the prime minister to do the honorable thing and resign the most senior of those being leader of the a scottish conservative party and other conservative m. p. described boss johnson as a de

u. k. has requested significant changes to the deal, noting that as it sounds now, the required border checks for northern ireland treated as though it is no longer a part of u. k. in response, the use chief for exit negotiators said he is highlighting the importance of the current deal because it was the only agreement they have been able to come to so far. and ultimately, it is about ensuring stability, predictability, and prosperity in northern ireland. bearing in mind that the protocol represents the one and only solution found jointly in lights of rags it to protect against of the peace process and avoid to hard border on the island of island. joining us now discusses hillary ford, which president of straw mark business development consultants, an board member with the british american business association. now, hillary, what do you make of these talks? i mean, is there hope for some kind of deal that would address the concerns of the u. k. has presented. well, rachel, pleasure to be back with you. and as always hope. yeah, there's a few things here. i actually would agree though with our raoul group role, he's the former adv

though the u. k. the health resides such a job. it says that the country needs to learn to live with cove at 19 england, describing all cry virus measures, meant to combat the article buried vaccines, different mandatory math, squaring in shop, some guidance to it from home and next week, and some hopes of hospitals in england. continue to be overwhelmed with patients. hey, german inquiry has found that the full, the pope benedict knew about abusive priests, but fail to act when he was the archbishop of munich from 1977 to 1982 benedict was known as the cardinal jokes, advancing at the time and has repeatedly denied claim see covenant abuse, but investigators that he knew and allowed the police involved to continue working without sanction. serbia has abandoned plans to allow a controversial lithium mine to be built in the countries west. and from the prime minister for weeks of protest mining company, rio tinto was behind the $2400000000.00 project. davis argues, but lithium money would damage rivers and farmland boys. some of whi

he was detained again though by u. k. police a decade later, but the case against him collapse. he then applied for a british passport in 2019 and even got one in september of 2021. but it was revoked 4 weeks later. so let me talk when i see most, i'm becky join december. very grateful. thanks for your time this afternoon. just bring us up to date them with your situation if you can, because we heard that you received a british passport, not so long ago, but then it was revived. why was it that we were given any reasons? yes, the passport was when i received it, i was overjoyed i, i tweeted out that i'm finally be able to travel to go and visit people around and go to go to my daughter's wedding abroad. and then within 3 weeks i was, i received a letter, an ironically the letter i received would show the great deal of incompetence was actually primarily the cover letter was addressed to a person who had been convicted in the north of england for passport fraud. and it was dated 2017, and i left the letter sort of rece regurgitate and reiterated the reason why my passport has bee

u. k. climbing rushes in contact with former ukrainian politicians as part of its plans for an invasion, though it hasn't provided any evidence. britain's foreign ministry says it has information that russia's planning to replace the ukranian president folemi zalinski, the former ukrainian m p u evan moody, f. u k. foreign secretary liz truss, says britain will not tolerate what she called a kremlin plot to change the gun. the country's government russia though dismissing the comments was dis, information and accusing berto and neither of deliberately escalating tensions over ukraine dosage. barry, following this one for moscow, tell us more about that kremlin reaction. mendoza? yes i, we just have a statement that's been issued by the russian government and says that the, this information spread by the foreign office is yet another example of proof that these nato countries headed by the anglo saxons are escalating the situation around ukraine. the british government, of course, having some very strong accusations against this government in moscow saying that they are plotting and planning. an

the and other story the bring you today. moscow has lush though it's up. the u. k, after leaked documents revealed the britain plans to spend millions of pines to promote its agenda and influence society in russia. the papers purportedly from the british foreign office were published by the investigative group underside on its website. russia's foreign ministry spokesman brooked on the trove of data that was exposed. the under side archives contain dozens of documents with project descriptions, lists of names, organizations, and all of the accounting fraud. the numbers boggled imagination. more than 1300000000 roubles have been allocated for the period from 2020 to 2020 free to finance programs to influence public organizations. and for them, government agencies and transform the course of russia in the direction great britain needs. what we have here is a trove of lead documents that are being published online by this group on the side, appearing to reveal this evolve network of and job to receive grants. so funding from the british or authorities for dozens of pr

u. k. but also where you are that though, on the con, symptoms appear to be less severe hospitalizations. arising, particularly among very young simply because, and these as far as the, the, the raw numbers are concerned to people being admitted to hospital because so many people are being, being infected with on the card. as you said, it is less severe. it is less severe than delta, it doesn't require hospitalization, in most cases. but when you have a spike like that off of cases, even a small percentage of that. you've got very small percentage off cases. the bureau quality is enough to tax health authorities because they're just so many we should contextualize some of these figures there because actually what we're hearing is a lot of these numbers. for example, children under 5 without for $100000.00 in the us, up from 2 and a half. it $100000.00. all in part because people are being tested hospital having come into hospital for other conditions. and then when they're tested that found to be coven positive, because it is spreading so far. and actually, i don't. and with children in particula

whether or not there are an enemy is beside the point, they're not as though there's no real n u k in the world. and there's no real enemies of the united states, but an enemy is needed. so we'll move from russia to china week. we really have to understand, but we have to understand the, the profound sentences, the works in geo politics is not a sort of academic that is something that affects all our lives. and we have the right to comprehend and you know, ordinary people whose lives it's filled with all sorts of things. also have the right to understand it. beyond headlines live only one side, one fear and the lead still know that it, it works that imperial idea but relies on propaganda the threat from the other. they have to minimize, i don't know. the as of battalion now integrated in the ukrainian army with its views about hitler and against jews. and of course the, the idea that china brought 800000000 people out of poverty. these ideas, they're not allowed to be put on media in nato nations, as, as a matter of course, we who knows, among those who vote and as i read in some poli

u. k. counterparts, german counterparts, french counterparts. and we've got though the reality the u. s. is the power broker here. russia only wont wants to talk with the u. s. and yet we're talking about european security. so why does it feel like the europeans are always punching below their weight in this crisis? well, that's very easy. i mean, 1st of all, they're not an unclear power and folk rock for russia, the status of nuclear power decides if i yes, you can. france have a smaller nuclear arsenals. bought the british one is basically attached to u. s. one. and, and the french explicitly site that as a result, as a means for national defense. no, for defense of nature, alliance of such a. so, so for the bigger european security question, the big nuclear power is the u. s. then there are sort of the predominant military power. and although there are folks like me who continue to tell the europeans that in russian or mindset and viewpoint, military policy, the decisive factor up until now that europeans for happy to ignore that. i thought there is sid if one thing actually where

u. k, in just one day, fall short of the 1000000 a day. the government's aiming for the race to reinforce immunity is gathering pace . if the extraordinary infectiousness of the on the con variant though, which is really worrying global scientists and health experts in the u. k. o micron cases are now doubling every 2 days. and with more than 200000 possibly infected every day, the number could pass a 1000000 within a week. long cheers dana vaccinations centers up and down the u. k. as the government's booster jap program continues apace. the dilemma facing the politicians on that side of the river is whether the jobs alone will be enough to slow the progress of the alma kron variance. so we have to look at what we can do to slow only crohn's advice when it comes to deciding which options to reduce the infection rate. the advice from the w h o do it all ah. ready and there isn't an actual crisis to suit their needs. they'll make one at the pentagon says russia is creating an excuse to invade ukraine. moscow, dismissive the accusation ah, hello, i'm dr. jordan. this is al jazeera la you from de also coming up. i think he's been exposed as, as a for, as, as a liar. and i think the briti

so despite those hospital admissions though, the u. k. thank for now, full boost is needed. why is that? well, they've been analyzing data, and this is the ongoing campaign by scientists and policy makers to try to work out what the best course of action is. what they've found from looking at the data from crunching the numbers from the testing regime and from the hospitals. is that those who have had the booster, the 3rd jab of the current virus faxing? 3 months later, they still have around 90 percent protection against hospitalization of severe symptomatic infection. that's particularly for the over 65 year old, so very vulnerable group. now that's not to say you're not going to get coven. certainly after 3 months, protection against mild symptoms does go down so to around 30 percent. but the, the fact is that that is more likely to be treatable at home and not to put any pressure on the u. k. national health service. so what the policy makers and the j c v i the joint committee on vaccines and immunization or saying based on this data, is that whereas some countries in t

as though the government was almost on the booth cruise, but it seems as though bar johnson may not go down with his ship. u. k. radia host john gordon says the saga does reflect the sorry state of british politics. morris johnson has absolutely disgusted me. it is completely and utterly wrong when we, the people were following all the advice to the letter. and some people were getting fine when they wrote, how did he and other members of the government, if they were there, break their own rules. and no man or woman is above the law and the law should take precedence here and they should investigate. it's not good enough that that's going to report in weeks and weeks needs to report. now what this story illustrates, it's just how poor our mainstream politicians are today. they're all pretty useless and you couldn't put a cigarette paper between them. we've been let down in our country by the political class, the professional political class. they all basically discussed me. well, those revelations of downing street gatherings didn't come amid europe's ongoing attempts to grapple with high coven infection rates

u. k. and it's expected to also appear in other countries. really, how concerned should we be though? i think we shouldn't be. i'm more concerned than we were before. the situation will remain dynamic. you variance variance will appear. as many people get infected, new variants will develop and, and so it's really up to us to get vaccinated to stop the spread of the virus on the global level. and overall, what impact is this going to have on how we tackle the pandemic going forward? i think it will not have a different impact then the measures that we already taken. i think vaccination is really important and getting data to really judge new variance and be ready to potentially also have different measures in place. ok. i prefer to way i could actually the hospital in berlin. thank you. thanks for having me. ah, to sunburn is league a news now bruce the are both want return to winning ways on saturday afternoon with a 32 victory in half and i haven't been knocked out of the german cup during the week. michael rose's team was in need of a positive result and. and i will go from a set i

u. k. in just one day. fall short of the 1000000 a day, the government's aiming for the race to reinforce immunity is gathering pace. it's the extraordinary infectiousness of the oma con variant, though, which is really worrying global scientists and health experts in the u. k. alma crohn cases and now doubling every 2 days and with more than 200000 possibly infected every day, the number could pass a 1000000 within a long queues. again at vaccinations, centers up and down the u. k. is the government's boost. the job program continues apace. the dialogue about facing the politicians on that side of the river is whether the jabs alone will be enough to slow the progress of the arm across variance. so we have to look at what we can do to slow leak cons advice. when it comes to deciding which options to reduce the infection rate, the advice from the w h. o, do it all. oh, straight is deportation of tennis champion. novak yoko, which is delayed, as he fights the decision to revoke his visa of a pandemic rule. ah, hello, i'm sammy's a them, this is al jazeera live from dough hall. so coming out russia lead alliance says it's sending peacekeepers to catholic stan hit by protests and riots