so if you look at the conversation in china was, i agree with the w h o a statement. it is a real, i mean that, that, that issue that i will believe. but again, when we look at all of the, all my needed that, that, that in fact was come, visit the not only, let's say the jump on or oriental. it will go around 2 percent of them, at least based on that that was so positive in them of the 90 and we know the new somebody and the us in the month it is a most wonderful bill. jerry, the, i'll be presenting the cases again with the current policy within china that they will not be for that it needed desolate. and also the action case also becomes a big question about the real situation in china. but at least we can see in that place i from discuss my with my fellow with young china, this situation at least it's getting caught in the city, but it seemed a way we will move to the are some, some, some are around the city and it's in the situation in china will be also are still challenging and the next man and again, the stand in something that the china is doing now in very imp

a w h o has accused paging of under representing the scale of the outbreak. something it denies drago you would 0. we continue to sheer cove 19 information with the international community, including the w h o, based on the principles of lawfulness, timeliness, openness, and transparency. reach authorities say they are working to strengthen health facilities ahead of the holiday period. some fear the travel rush will lead to a new search of infections in rural areas, especially among the elderly. the government has issued guidelines discouraging large gatherings and any trips that expose all the people and pregnant women to the virus. but they've stopped short of enforcing any bands for john. the warnings are too little too late. adding to his frustration the knowledge, his loved ones were probably not added to the official virus death toll. on his aunt's death certificate, the cause of death is described as heart failure. katrina you out a 0 dating american singer songwriter david crosby has died at the age of $81.00 out for a long illness. he founded 2 folk

but the w h o is calling for action across all of it's 194 member states. the w h o chief is also appealed for more than 2 and a half $1000000000.00 to help millions of people around the world. we're facing health emergencies for it, a good number of people around the world, 339000000. it's not a happy new year. instead of hope, the new year brings fear, fear of diseases, fear of starvation, fear of conflict, feed off climate related to disasters that are driving people from their homes. the world can not look away and hope this crisis resolved themselves. that's why we're calling on our donors around the world to support doublet. joe's health emergency appeal for $2.00 bill in the us dollars. an 11th person has died after saturday's mast. she tenet, a boring dance studio. east of los angeles police is still searching for a motive. bind the attack, the 72 year old suspect shot himself while cornered in a car park. the gun violence archive is saying they've been $36.00 mass shootings in the united states so far this year. 5 of which involved mass mighta from

in 300 children in indonesia, gambia and his back, his dad died of acute kidney injury, which the w. h o says it might be late to contaminated syrups. w h o says that the syrup have unacceptably high levels of toxic chemicals. once them remove from the shelves, it's urged it's $194.00 members states to prevent more deaths. the indian manufacturers have denied that their products are contaminated. so those are the headlines, the mastery cases, the program coming up next, we'll have more news for you. a little bit later on i'll see them lou . ready ah, 2004 calendar must race arrested during a trip to macedonia. his interrogated and mistreated. nobody knows his better about 5 months later, he is released in a forest in a day now. gums, indistinct, foolish them so good. it's so dusty, passport and see. on darkness all get certain things we noticed, so mind miss charlan. so these are parked, he shogi bank maps to buckets. she says the image from him which was finished, which been excused as he formed and the co and i'm as we case basically revealed the entire underbelly of the secret america

we will continue to hold technical eggs, changes with the w h o. we also hope the w h o will uphold a scientific objective and just position we tediously. the 3rd in gifted have pushed many countries to impose travels, restrictions on passengers traveling from china. beaching has qualities, restrictions, discriminatory and unacceptable. now new year's eve is normally a pretty route he night hair and berlin, but after dozens of police and fire fighters were injured in attacks involving fireworks. there is now an increasing debate about who is to blame the city's mer as calling for summit on house a deal with youth violence. the german interior minister has suggested that failures in migration and integration could be partly responsible. why it might seem, in the heart of brewing the ushering in of the new year escalated into st. violence in many cities across germany. as usual, rollin was one of the main hotspots with the intensity of this years. violence was described by police as far worse than in previous years. police officers warman, those attac

the w h o has accused paging of under representing the scale of the outbreak, something it denies drago you would 0. we continue to share a cov, 19 information with the international community, including the w h o, based on the principles of lawfulness, timeliness, openness, and transparency. regional authorities say they are working to strengthen health facilities ahead of the holiday period. some fear the travel rush will lead to a new search of infections in rural areas, especially among the elderly. the government has issued guidelines, discouraging large gatherings and any trips that expose older people and pregnant women to the virus. but they've stopped short of enforcing any bands for junk. the warnings are too little, too late. adding to his frustration, the knowledge, his loved ones were probably not added to the official virus death toll on his aunt's death certificate. the cause of death is described as heart failure. katrina, you al jazeera dating. meanwhile, hong kong has announced people infected with covey 19 will no longer be required to quarantine. the business harp ha

your response to that data was simply said that they are not withholding any information from the w h o that they are being transparent as possible. with the, with the w t o authorities in sasha monetary fund says a 3rd of the global economy will slide into recession. this year is warning 2023 will be much tougher for hundreds of millions of people. the i'm f blames a simultaneous slowdown of economic activity in the u. s. europe and china, caused by the war ukraine inflation, higher energy costs, and rising interest rates. ricky price is from the center for economics and business research in london. she explains a headwinds that global economies are facing. that had been the expectation that perhaps with the removal of covey restrictions, china would re merge if you like, and reunited with the rest of the world after the problems that he has had for a number of months now. and all slowing growth. but of course, in the next few months, i think what the, methinks, is that they're going to be problems. because of course, covered the spreading and the, there's the question of course, of tr

than $300.00 children indonesia, gambia and is becca stone died of acute kidney injury, which the w. h o says might be linked to contaminated syrup, w h o says the surface of unacceptably high levels of toxic chemicals. once them remove from the shelves, it's 194 member states to prevent more death. the india manufacturers have denied that their products and contaminated the united nations. a chief has been in afghanistan, raising concerns about the rights of women and girls. with the taliban acting. foreign affairs minister mos in griffith visit follows a similar trip by the winds. top female official taliban has ordered aid groups to band most female employees, prompting many agencies to partially suspend operations in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. women have been barred from education and much of public life, marking a major pullback on taliban promises of women's rights. when they came to power again in 2021, it was al jazeera ally from london, more still to bring you on the program. residents of a bedouin village, you know jerusalem refused to move despite israel's far i secur

more than 300 children in indonesia gambit and was becky stern from acute kidney injury last year, w h o says the cough syrup had high levels of toxic chemicals is asked for products made by 2 indian companies to be removed in 7 countries in while a w h o chief was appealed for more than $2000000000.00 in funding to help millions of people facing health emergencies around the world. for a good number of people around the world, 339000000. it's not a happy new year. instead of hope, the new year brings fear, fear of diseases. seat of starvation, fear of conflict. feed off clay met relayed to disasters that are driving people from their homes. the world can not look away and hope this crisis resolved themselves. that's why we're calling on our donors around the world to support doublet. joe's health emergency appeal for 2.54 bill. any us dollars. ah.

and we've are the w h o m order. now hup. making him order now. technology accessible to africa, to produce that own in modern a vaccines are going to be on the shutter right to having thought to yodi it is so lovely to have you. we've been talking to a lot over the past couple of years, but this is something quite fresh and new and potentially positive. we might not audience who you are, what you do. well, it's wonderful to be with you. so me and it's great to be on the sisters. my name is dr. idea. lecture lives dr. yadi, i work several hotspots in the show. really the most passionate one is about charity africa, your african vaccine delivery alliance, as well as i'm special envoy to be access to tools accelerator which is a global global platform situated. all right, if to have you ladies, go to have your audience as well. if you're watching right now, you're on youtube, you an important part of our conversation, but your comments or questions right here. be part of today's show, a facts and figures. petra and our

but even if it's not bias, i mean, even if it's with several countries getting together with the w h o, given the support, this is huge and it, let me start with some of the i do understand and that is what all the vaccine needs. of course, we were in the global pandemic, so this coverage. but beyond that, not to yodi. what else? there's measles, there's, there's rebel. does that mean something that is very close and dear to my heart, and i'm currently visiting, visiting sort of the global health sort of gurus and headquarters of the world to geneva. i've just recently been talking to some people about h p v. vaccines and also the testing the diagnostics for, for, for the human problem of virus which is, you know, the, basically the cause of cycle cancer. we have vaccines for instance, can prevent this. we have testing become presented. we in africa need to be able to look beyond that. we need to be able to look at the fact that not every african countries going to be able to produce vaccine. i mean that people talk about producing the shop and the re, we must be realistic that there i

the managing director of african by technology by logics, be based in cape town, and we've our, the w h o m order. now hup. making him order, no technology accessible to africa to produce that own him order. ne vaccines are great to be on the show, great to having thought to yodi it is so lovely to have you. we've been talking to a lot over the past couple of years, but this is something quite fresh and new, and potentially positive. we might not audience who you are, what you do. well, it's wonderful to be able to find me in. it's great to be able to i didn't tell you id like to talk to ya. d. i went to the show, read the most passionate. one is that i had the african african back in delivery as well as i'm special on voice with the access. because the tools accelerator, which is a global global platform situated at w h s. all right, get to have you ladies good to have you as well. if you're watching right now you're on youtube, you an important part of our conversation, your comments or questions right here. be part of today's show facts and figures. petra, and thought to yodi. we have

a w h o has accused paging of under representing the scale of the outbreak. something it denies drago, don't you, would you all we continue to share a cove 19 information with the international community, including the w. h o, based on the principles of lawfulness tomlin, ashley, openness, and transparency. we authority say they are working to strengthen health facilities ahead of the holiday period. some fear the travel rush will lead to a new search of infections in rural areas, especially among.

the w h o toll china's top health officials. the detailed information needs to continue being shad beijing now says that nearly 60000 people have died in hospitals since it lifted straight corona virus restrictions on december. the 7th. china had previously reported just a few dozen deaths for december and only around $5000.00 in total. since the start of the pandemic. international health experts forecast they'll be at least $1000000.00 covert related deaths in china by the end of the year. katrina, you reports from basing this is the 1st acknowledgement by beijing that there has been up until now a severe under reporting of corvette data here. and it follows criticism from the w h o as well as the u. s. and other governments that china has not been transparent about the scale of the outbreak. this really is the 1st indication really of how big this outbreak has been in china since the lifting of virus restrictions in early december. and the number is really spectacular before this. the only official figure we had about for a d

and on the topic of new variance, the w. h. o says the chinese coven data shows no new variance. and is that a big sigh of relief for their ologist for us as well? well yes, but that's not surprising. this virus news, no borders, it's interest missing very quickly across the world from the even from the alpha. very. and then along with delta, now, i mean chrome is even more transmissible, but look, is less severe. so i'm not worried about the virus to say for the rest of the world . i just hope that the, the wonderful people in china can get good enough vaccines. it can you tell us, does the china, in your opinion, have the outbreak under control? well, i mean the rest of the world doesn't have the control either just living with it. so i think that's a relative comparison. i think what's happening in china is that because they delayed so long getting a good back seen into that population. the prices spread well beyond the typically see from the i've actions in the west to be controlled by those back scenes. so the see a kind of double whammy with a delayed vaccination that cover

and let's talk to dale fisher, chair of the w h o 's global outbreak load and response network. he joins us from singapore. with hong kong, reopening it's borders to mainland china. how bad could the covered surge be? well 1st, with all countries opening up their borders to china, i think every country has to consider the potential threat both to its population and it's an a health system. the other 2 areas are concerned. so population is very well vaccinated, particularly the seniors and well boosted than really they should not be under particular threat from severe disease if the health system is strong and a lot of chinese travelers start accessing. and then of course, that could put a threat on the health system but, but really, it depends on, on how many infected travel is actually in the country that could cause that risk. and also the, the resilience of the country and the people itself will, hong kong is a travel hub and a lot of it seeing is not vaccinated yet. and this could cause a risk. we've seen this problem of seniors declining vaccination and singapore as well as

the w h o says it's the most transmissible sub variant detected . so far. china has suspended, bees are processing for visitors from south korea over its tough cobra. 19 rules for chinese rivals. japanese news agencies report similar retaliatory measures for travelers from japan. beijing insists it's outbreaks are past their peaks and say the curbs on its travelers or discriminatory. heavy rains calls rock slides and flooding in many areas of the us state of california. all residents of the town of montes seato home to many celebrities have been ordered to leave. at least 14 people have been killed so far in california and more than 200000 homes and businesses left without power. prince harry's autobiography has gone on sale after months of anticipation and controversy. the book titled, despair reveals details of the british prince's life from the death of his mother, diana, to his military career, as well as his account of tensions within the royal family. the trial has begun in grease of $24.00 humanitarian workers on charges related to humans smu

and these kind of data, for example, also the number of people being hospitalized is what the w h o is asking china to release. because so far that these numbers are just not available at all, like about tomorrow, tomorrow, and to be in beijing. take a look now at some or source making headlines around the world will start in israel when the new government has unveiled a plan to overhaul the judicial system and weaken the powers of the supreme court. the proposals would allow parliament override some supreme court. supreme court decisions with a simple majority critic say the plan would up and the country system of checks and balances and undermine its democratic institutions. iranian authorities have released a prominent actor tehrani ali ali dusty a from prison on bail images on twitter show her celebrating her release the oscar winner was arrested nearly 3 weeks ago. after criticizing the crackdown on anti government protest posting at least 3 instagram messages in support of demonstrations for her account was disabled. new year's eve is a rowdy night here in berlin. but after dozen

in the united states, the w h o says it's the most transmissible sub barrier detected so far. china has suspended. these are processing for visitors from south korea over it's tough covered 19 rules for chinese arrivals. japanese news agencies report similar retaliatory measures for travelers from japan. beijing insists it's outbreaks are past their peaks. and so as the curves on, travelers are discriminatory. jo, but in mexico for the 1st time as us present to attend the north american summit, talks with canada is just intrusive and mexico's under manuel lopez over a door. those talks will focus on illegal immigration and climate change and drug smuggling. prince harry's autobiography has gone on sale after months of anticipation and controversy. the book title there reveals details of the print of the british prince's life from the death of his mother, diana, to his military career, as well as his account of tensions within the royal family. the trial has begun in grease of $24.00 humanitarian workers on charges relating to humans smuggling. the activists face several charges includin

down on previous figures. vaccinations largely largely protect people against severe disease with w h o says access to effective vaccines is still very unequal. in many past the world co restrictions have been east as people now to live with the virus rather than eliminated over ologist here in europe, and are talking about to cope it. coming and demick rather than a pandemic. asked about of plaster, who is a village is from your school, the university of mine's what this could me well, the situation is such that the numbers of new infections have been stabilized throughout europe in the recent weeks due to despite the fact that restrictions have been lifted, so there is some sort of relief, but however you might call it pandemic or in them is a virus. it's not gone. it's still causes a number of infectious and also deaths. and so we have to march the situation closely. and we have to remember that other viruses like flu or s virus, are now leading to an increased rate of hospitalization and creased very close for nurses. and doctors was already exhausted after 3 years of condemning. so

now, more than ever, the world needs w. h o. making a healthy a world for you. for every one. 0, i me, parker into all the top stories on al jazeera, thousands of people are holding mass demonstrations for a 2nd day and peruse capital that demand in the resignation of president dina brought an end to police violence. 4050 people have died since protests began in december. marianna sanchez has more lema. most of the people who voted for our former president viewed august the york. now once he's promised us to be delivered, he offered irrigation programs. he offered an agrarian reform, he offered a change of laws, i told you to tional reform, and actually that's, that's not what people are getting. so what, when they see a, c, e o is gone. they are here because they want those promises to be delivered. and they believe that the, you know, will not be, is a traitor, and she will not deliver on those promises. ukraine presidents calling for decisive action on foreign weapon supplies ahead of a meeting of western allies in germany on friday. follow to me, zalinski ur

and while the w h o chief is appealed for more than 2000000000 dollars in funding to help millions of people facing health emergencies around the world. for a record number of people around the world, 339000000. it's not a happy new year. instead of hope, the new year brings fear, fear of diseases, fear of starvation, fear of conflict. feed off climate relate to disasters that are driving people from their homes. the world can not look away and hope this crisis resolved themselves. that's why we're calling on our donors around the world to support w. joe's health emergency appeal for 2.54 bill. any us dollars? ah, this is out there. and these other top stories now, germany says it won't stand in the way of poland wants to send high tech battle tanks to ukraine. kiva sees the german made hardware is crucial to its defense. it follows days of pressure on berlin from ukraine's western ice. moscow's foreign minister has accused the west of trying to destroy everything russian. so gala rav made the comments after meeting his south african counterpart in pretoria on monday, that africa's go

the w h o recommends countries should continue vaccinating people and incorporate covid-19 vaccines into routine care. alright to get more insight on where we stand three years after the start of this pandemic, we're joined now by dr peter chin hong and infectious disease specialist at ucsf doctor. it is always good to see you. i want to start with covid here in the united states, and you just heard heather mentioned a moment ago. president biden's decision to end the covid-19 emergencies here in this country coming up in just a few months in may. he points to the fact that that life is in many ways, returning to something closer to normal for. for many of us, let's talk about the implications of that decision. what does that mean for how we are going to manage the public health threat from covid moving forward? well alex . uh in many ways, i think the biden administrations catching up to what we already think. here in california in the bay area and in the country, meaning that many people are back to sort of regular life. but i would caution that with you know , calling off the public h

on tuesday, china's top scientists presented data to you in agency officials, the w h o emergency program directors, as beijing is under representing hospitalizations and deaths from the disease. there are certainly issues in terms of the criteria for recording and reporting, dance attributable to call with dining. we believe that definition is too narrow, which requires the spiritual failure association to register as a covert related that as of right now definition, we know there are difficulties and all countries very often in recording hospital relief is admissions use of i see you for some of these, but again, we believe that the current numbers being, being published from china under represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions. in terms of i see you admissions, and particularly in terms of that, your opinion is now recommending pre flight. cobit testing passengers flying from china to the blog. the recommendation comes from the use integrated political crisis response. group. officials also recommend that all travelers, where mosques, they've encouraged

and it follows criticism from the w h o, as well as the u. s. and other governments that china has not been transparent about the scale of the outbreak. this really is the 1st indication really of how big this outbreak has been in china since the lifting of virus restrictions in early december. and the number is really spectacular before this. the only official figure we had about for a death hole was just over $5000.00. so this jump 260000 is really quite big. let me just break down those numbers for you. what the government has said, they said between december 8th and january, the 12 there were 5503 people who died as a result of re spirit. 3 failure due to corvette and the vast majority, though $54435.00 died. as a result of the combination of one illness with corbett, they said that the average age was 80, and the majority of people who passed away were over the age of 65. now the good news that the government is trying to focus on here is that they're saying that the peak of the outbreak has now passed. they said that peak occurred around c

is top scientists have given information to you and officials for the w h o. it says beijing is under representing fatalities for they've ins, off protesting for 6 consecutive day in a santa cruz region against the rest of local governor lewis fernando camacho. he's charged with leading a coup against socialists, neither even morales in 2019 charges he denies. on the neighboring peru, supporters of former president petro castillo, have renewed protests after 2 week pause on tuesday. conservative groups of march for peace. after almost 2 dozen people were killed during violent protest before christmas, castillo was ousted and detained after he tried to legally dissolve congress last month. as i headlines, news continues here now to say that's after witness talk to al jazeera. we also do you believe that women of afghanistan was somehow abandoned by the international community? we listen, we have a huge price for the war against terrorism as going on in some money. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera a companies h

now we just had the w h o director general, that sets address given us, saying we can fast track if you were close as vaccine. what would that mean for your work? that would be really exciting news because we have, we are wanting to know so many people did you back last? yes. just in 2020 a lot. the white last about 1600000 later tuberculosis, which is preventable. so if we had a vaccine, then we would greatly reduce the number of legs that we're losing to q back losses . okay? but we already have their b, c, g vaccine against you, but closes, how might the new candidates be better? we all know that the b c, d vaccine. first of all is very old. it is not effective. it's only meant to prevent the most severe forms of tuberculosis. and right now we are seeing even people who have been vaccine, knitted with busy getting infected. we are getting children of 3 months who received the bcu vaccine getting infected with tuberculosis. that means the besieged vaccine is not effective at all, is not helping us in any way in reducing the number of new infections and deaths related to be saw in a ne

he is a professor of epidemiology and co director of a w. h o collaborating center for infectious disease, epidemiology and control at the school of public health to hong kong university. welcome to a d w. a professor at china says these restrictions on travelers from china, a discriminatory and, and lack of scientific basis. what do you say? well, if you are, i wanted it, i know today we clearly to do a p c r test. before we travel and our, the test on arrival, that's going to change it later this week. but the policies that have in place at the moment are actually not that different to what china has been asking for for the last 3 years. so i'm not sure discriminatory is the right word, but i would agree that, that they're not really evidence based. they're not going to make a lot of difference in terms of the global spread of new strains, right. and what are the concerns that new more infectious variants may search in china, and consequently spread around the world? right now what's being detected in china is be a $5.00, which is 1st of the 2

the w h o recommends vaccination and says access to effective vaccines is still unequal. globally, restrictions have been eased in many parts of the world. people learn to live with a virus rather than eliminated. well, scientists in europe are talking about coven 19 becoming endemic, rather than being a pandemic. but a plata is a biologist from the university of mines. he told us what that means. well, the situation is such that the numbers of new infectious have been stabilized throughout europe in the recent wakes due to it, despite the fact that restrictions have been lifted. so there is some sort of relief. but however, you might call it pandemic, or in the virus, it's not gonna still causes a number of infectious and also deaths. and so we have to lose watched the situation closely. and we have to remember that other research viruses like flu or r s virus, are now called leading to an increased rate of hospitalization and an increased vertical for nurses and doctors while already exhausted after 3 years of condemning . so we have to watch the situation, villages to build a plot, the speak