john henderson reports, tens of thousands of colorado ins are waiting for the smoke to clear to learn what they've lost. things look okay from up here, but there is some smouldering in there, so actually really get down there. it's almost impossible to know. david marks who lives in fire ravaged, boulder county knows 3 people lost their hopes, full home golf in flames. so 5060 feet high probably it was really i've never seen anything like it. i mean just house after house fences. just stuff flying through the air just caught on fire. authority say they believe as many as 500 homes have probably been destroyed as the fire tor, through drought stricken neighborhoods. at least one 1st responder and several other people were injured. as winds of up to a 169 kilometers per hours. bread, intense flames, with terrifying speed, colorado governor, jared colors in boulder, county sheriff joe kelly took the devastation from the air. this was a disaster in fast motion. all over the course of half a day. nearly all the damage, many families having minutes, minutes to get whatever they could, their

john henderson has more from washington d. c. if the attack on the u. s. capital were to happen again today thomas bangor says the newly revamped force could hold the mob at bay. we didn't have the people, we didn't act on the intelligence and we just weren't prepared the way we should have been. and that, that's going to change that has changed and, and the next time that we're tested, we will not be making those same mistakes. the inspector general for the force that protects the u. s. capital complex found that during the january 6 2021 assault, one year ago, officers had ignored intelligence warnings that writers might attack the seat of government. and when they did offices were numbered. outmaneuvered in illinois equipped and while i'm proud of our officers, the events of january 6th did expose critical departmental failures and deficiencies with operational planning, intelligence, staffing, training, and equipment. um anger, outsider brought in to overhaul the camp or to lease told the senate rules committee. he's addressed 90 of a $103.00 recomm

okay, so more with john henderson. later on in the days we see what happens with those project. thank you. john always plays to welcoming environment to al jazeera president of the eraser group. thanks there, a media. he's on the scott from new york. i am off the journey so much to talk about. i want to talk about joy biden's speech. first of all, what did you make of his decision to well attacked? donald trump, if not mentioned him by name and whether that actually just plays into donald trump's game of woods of wars, of words i should say book. i mean i, i agree with a lot of what president biden had to say. but of course, the backdrop is that over the course of the last year, we've done nothing to address the underlying political divisions. there's so much sharper in the united states than in any other advanced industrial democracy around the world today. the election in 2020 was badly broken by the sitting president, and he's doing everything he can to ensure the 2024 will be as bad if not worse. and so, when biden, at the beginning of the year said america's back, it's hard

live now to washington and our correspondence there, john henderson, johns the medical authorities, can they can they or can they not cope with this? now the way it's going peter, it's pretty bad, one out of 4 medical centers with an intensive care unit now reports that they are 95 percent full or more. so this new variant is incredibly infectious. the good news is it seems to be less deadly, but with more people actually contracting the virus that still threatening to overwhelm hospital. president biden is going to be getting a briefing from his covered 19 team later today. he may get information that we don't know, but what we don't know, what we do now rather is pretty bad. that is that the positive testing rate is at 18 percent nationwide. that's unusually high in new york city where it was 3 percent a month ago. it's now 33 percent. this new variant is incredibly infectious. it's spreading throughout the country. it is closing down businesses, restaurants, that sort of thing. there are new masking requirements. interestingly, the centers for disease control is actually contracting

if moscow invade ukraine cross to john henderson who is live for us in washington, d. c. so john, what is the us president expected to say to try to reassure his ukranian counterpart over starters? i think we can expect him to reiterate what he said before. it is a landscape, and that is, there will be no decisions about ukraine without ukraine. vladimir putin of russia seems to want to negotiate the fate of ukraine without involving that country simply by talking to the us and president biden, to president biden's message to you. grant is no, we're not going to let that happen. we can also expect that this will be a call with a very different tone. we haven't gotten a read out of it yet. we don't know if it's been completed. we expect that at some point when it's over, but we know the tone will be different than when the last president was talking to hello to me as a landscape. that was president trump, you may recall he was impeached after a transcript came out showing that repeatedly pressured zelinski to investigate biden's son hunter barton before the us election. an

and college courses are going online once again to more now that from john henderson in washington dc. so what exactly is happening in the u. s. right now, john? well, the new year's celebrations were happening across much of the country. some were cancelled, chicago had its biggest ever, but the big grandaddy of them all of the one in new york. and that was definitely far more muted than in the past. usually about a 1000000 people gather around in and around times square in manhattan. last year that was cancelled few doesn't healthcare workers gathered this year. only 15000 people were allowed to go. they had to be masked, they had to be vaccinated. it was a very somber start to the year. pfizer is planning boosters for people 12 to 15, but those those boosters as much as they are helping mute the effect of the micron very and they're not stopping it entirely. and that means people are getting the variant in record numbers right now, and they're not able to get tests as quickly as they need them. the country's got a testing problem. so president biden has offered out 500000000 free t

john henderson, al jazeera washington. now there's been a furious reaction in australia after the tennis star novak joke of it was granted a vaccine travel exemption to play in a major tournament. them organizes are denying. he's been given special treatment. but critics point to double standards a time of soaring, coven 19 infections. his sarah clock, his loan number, one tennis player, and 19 as he's 20 major titles at the trial. and this year he gets to defend his party, after announcing on instagram. but he was exempt from the country vaccination and was granted permission to travel to melbourne. obviously the announcement by novak that he has been gone to the medical exemption and and that exemption for them the opportunity to come into a trailer, come into victoria and compete at the israel open. the decision has triggered widespread anger and a country that had to deal with some of the toughest type restrictions on travel, both into states and overseas. and from those in a city that have endured the world's longest

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. let's keep talking about this white 20 in the morning on the u. s. east coast. we say good morning to our white house correspondent. kimberly, how can kimberly the surgeon cases this is what we keep hearing. everything going up. can you give us sort of a breakdown of a procedure of, of how bad things are currently in the u. s. yeah, well we're, as we've been talking in the last few moments and john henderson for it there, there is a record that the united states didn't want to hit and that is the highest daily average in terms of cases more than $1350000.00 in just the last 24 hours that's the highest around the world. now to put it in context, this is a country of both $360000000.00 plus people. so you have to kind of remember that it does sound like an alarming number and it is very high, and in fact, it's the highest in the world. but in terms of context, what we're seeing is also some record high hospitalizations. but again, we're starting to get a better idea of the numbers now, knowing that a lot of these people didn't go to the hospital and ge

as john henderson reports, tens of thousands of colorado and are waiting for the smoke to glitch, to learn with. they've lost things look ok from here, but there is a smouldering in there until you really get down there. it's almost impossible to know. david marks who lives in fire ravaged, boulder county knows 3 people who've lost their homes for home, golf and clam. so 5060 feet high probably it was really i've never seen any like it . i mean just house after house fences just supplying through the air just caught on fire. authority say they believe as many as 500 homes have probably been destroyed as the fire tor, through drought stricken neighborhoods. at least one 1st responder and several other people were injured. as winds of up to a 169 kilometers per hour, spread intense flames with terrifying speed. colorado governor jared poll is in boulder, county sheriff joe kelly toured the devastation from the air. this was a disaster in fast motion. all over the course of half a day, nearly all the damage, many families having minutes, minutes to get whatever they could, their, their

john henderson, al jazeera, still a hat here on the news are for you. tributes pouring in for betty white's the golden girl of comedy whose digests weeks before her one hundreds birthday ah, african stories from african perspective. most of them are never bought more than i was not going to go machine because of the voice of machine appealing in. i mean, it's short documentary by filmmakers from kenya. he raised almost talent, talented something back. it's about and ivory coast colors. i lived here and scrap yet animal africa direct on al jazeera january, and i just need, i don't know why. here we look back on us president joe biden supposed be in office 12 months on from the capital building by be part of the stream. enjoy. now, social media community at sierra leone recovery from civil war continues. we mark 2 decades since the end of one of africa's most political complex. the bottom line div clemons dives headlong into the u. s. issues that shape the rest of the world. as we enter the 3rd year period, 19, we go back to where it all began and investigate how far we come into the pandemic

henderson, who joins us from washington. d. c. john, good to see you, and not a great start to the new year. there tell us, tell us more in on all those new years eve celebrations were much smaller than they have been in the past. the biggest one traditionally as in new york city, usually we have about a 1000000 people getting together there last year. of course that was cancelled with just a few dozen healthcare workers there. this year the mayor allowed $15000.00 people are much more limited group to go out and celebrate. they had to be vaccinated, they had to wear masks. so it was this summer celebration to start the year, and that's because this alma kron variant of the virus has been spreading like wildfire throughout the united states. this is a country where only are fewer than 2 and 3 people are vaccinated. only one in 3 has got that booster shot, and there's a testing problem here because of the new variant. everybody's trying to get tested whenever they feel sick and that has, that means that the tests that were on

john henderson al jazeera and more than 500 homes had been destroyed by a large fire in working through. it swept through a settlement in boats on a thursday, firefighters and residents worked through the night to put it out hundreds of people and now homely. saturday marks 20 years since you are tansy entered circulation. european central bank marketing antony's eve with a light display in blue and yellow, representing the colors of the block. he resign currency was 1st introduced back in 1999 with coins in bank notes being launched in 2002 dominic cane has more from daily. busy 20 years ago, it was a novelty, a new currency across much of europe. as one central bank took on responsibility for the monetary policy of hundreds of millions of people. for much of its 1st decade, the eurozone seemed to prosper. but then came the global financial crisis with the greeks leading a succession of e, you states, unable to pay their national debts and close to defaulting on them. and therefore, dropping out of the euro club, brussels became the place for seemingly endless meetings of ant bailout p

john henderson al jazeera washington, the u. k is recorded more than 200000 daily current of our cases. for the 1st time . prime minister boris johnson says there'll be no new restrictions for now. but want of challenging weeks ahead. your joe has become the 2nd city in china to be put into lockdown off the reports of new corona virus cases. the restrictions are similar to those imposed for the past 2 weeks in the industrial hub of she. for the 1st time in 3 months, hong kong has found a case of corona virus that it hasn't been able to trace, that could mean that there are more cases going undetected in the territory. the main suspect than the assassination of haiti's president juvenile noise has appeared in a u. s. federal court for the 1st time, a former officer in columbia as military mario palazzios, was extradited from panama. he's the 1st to face criminal charges in connection with the murder in july, which triggered a political crisis in haiti. a court in canada has ordered iran to pay $84000000.00 to the families of thos

henderson in washington dc. so does that mean any reaction toward what has the reaction been to this so new figure of a 1000000 cases? what we're about to find out, president biden is right now getting a briefing from his cove in 1900 team and we expect him to speak afterwards. but meanwhile, what we're hearing is, is just a lot of concern. a lot of fear across the country about this new variant, the omicron, the problem is it may not be as deadly as other variance have been. but because it's driving so many people to medical centers, it threatens to overwhelm them. one in 4 medical centers with an i c u, a is reporting that they are 95 percent or more full and that 1000000 probably understates what's going on here. the 1000000 people testing positive on one day. the problem is that most people can't get a test, so there are people walking around who don't know with their contagious or not. and that 1000000 number that's about double what it was just 4 days ago. so the president has to address this testing probl

john henderson, al jazeera chicago tennis, well, number one, know that jock of is fighting attempts to deport him from australia. he has a court hearing on sunday. he's now back in detention after australia's immigration minister council. his visa on health route is the 2nd time his visa has been revoked. joker ventures refused to say whether he's been vaccinated against over 19 . sarah clark has more from prism the visa soccer is back in court and on saturday here in australia, there was a preliminary hearing in the federal court in melbourne. this is obviously jock of his team trying to stop his deportation, a heavy astray and open on monday where jock of it is in the 1st round. and now the government cancelled his visa for a 2nd time. on friday they noted that was made on this decision was made on the grounds of public interest because they considered novak given out to be a health risk to australians. now they re issued a re argue that time again. and now the federal court in melvin. they presented a 268 page document stating that he may fan or fuel anti backs nation sentiment. her

john henderson al jazeera washington . of course, there's a lot more data to consider than just the record number of new cases in the us. he's criminal offense, mary with a look at some of the numbers behind the headline. a 1000000 coven tases, in one days of the a huge issue for the united states. but there is a little more nuance and even some slightly good news when you go behind the numbers. so let's start with this. the 1st chart we've got from our world and data . this is looking at cumulative cases of covered 90, not daily tases. this is, everything has been over the pandemic up the top. there we are now looking at $55000000.00 plus cases of covert throughout the pandemic. so if you're getting 1000000 of those cases in one day, in a pandemic, that's the last 2 years. that is clearly a huge issue. the good news, though, if i can use that phrase, is the death, right? it's not going up. certainly not the highs that we saw there. this was a year ago when there were around 3 and a half 1000 deaths a day. at this point, w

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. still ahead on al jazeera. why sciences warry, a penguin? paradise, at the end of the world won't last forever. and 2 of the biggest names in self wearing gaming strike, the biggest steel industries history ah, look forward to brighter skies. the weather sponsored my cattle airways. there have been warnings for bursts, avalanches and heavy snowing hung shewn, accardo. they've gone there. just except uses. winter is going to snow is not particularly heavy now, but the warnings for high waves along the coast of hunters they continue, has been persistent when this quite a fetch here, yet cold, right? life is peninsula. korean plants is her souls. maxim is about 0. rises a little bit when the sun is more dominant than the slow shout, cold reaches a long way. sas in japan, congress shims max on the 9. the same is true through japan is not extremely low temperatures, in fact, not for the average for shanghai, but it's a notable breeze all the same as yet. it hasn't really enhanced the rain in viet nam, the seasonal rains, which really don't rely o

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. still ahead on al jazeera hong kong pro independence activist edward loan is released from prison after 4 years behind bars for a protesting 2016. and why scientists worry a penguin paradise won't last forever. ah hey, there will consider a world's weather update. we're going to begin in australia. i cecile, we've got some bouts of heavy rain to the expect. it southern sections of queensland. this will also affect brisbin on thursdays walk into the big story in the west is that he'd 40 degrees in perth will paint the colors on the dark of the red, the hard, the temperature if purse hits 40 degrees on thursday, that will be the 8th day so far this summer at 40 degrees and pause, that's good enough for a new record. and i think we'll keep it going here. so 3 day forecast. we've got yen for 40 degrees on friday and by saturday that could be the 10th day. so extending the record, if this forecast holds up to new zealand right now, we've got some rain dance in into the north island. so tha

john henderson, al jazeera washington doctor david friedman, is president elect of the american society of tropical medicine and hygiene. he says that a balance needs to be struck between public health and keeping the economy going. cases are very hard to track now. many people are doing self tests at home. there are no good mechanisms to report them quickly to public health authorities. so the 1000000 we heard about is actually maybe more than one day's worth, because a lot of reports weren't submitted over over the weekend. so hospitalizations really speak to the impact on the health care system. and the, the, the impact on the population. people was sick in the hospital. busy is another important thing to know because the, the, the i, c use are not full, the hospitals are getting to be full again. but for example, our hospital only has about 10 people in the i see you right now on ventilators, where as it was 70 or 75 at the pico last winter, we have to run our economy. and most of the people that are out there, especially the ones that are vaccinated, are only mildly ill. and you kn

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. the philippines has the highest covered 19 cases, highest number of cov, in 19 cases in southeast asia. the army con variant is driving up infections in the capital, manila and surrounding provinces. the government has imposed new restrictions, especially on unvaccinated people. and as jemila alinda then reports many a feeling the strain of the meshes. joseph marinez, it used to have 8 barber shops like this one. but since the pandemic broke out, he's had to close 5 right now. only this one is making money. but we can't take anymore lockdown. small business owners like us are suffering and the poor are getting poorer. the capital manila is now on alert level 3. the 2nd strictest lockdown here imposed by the philippine government. that means schools as well as amusement centers are closed again and the movement of travelers is restricted. president rodrigo, the 3rd to has implemented a no vaccination, no ride policy designed to restrict the movement of unvaccinated people on public tra

john henderson al jazeera washington. the u. s. has imposed sanctions on the bosnian serb leda millard. dick washington accuses him of corrupt activities that threatened to destabilize the region and undermine a peace accord was, is facing its biggest political crisis since the war in the 990 s. as dante threatened separation of sub dominated areas, both near eliana smell, janik has moved from virginia. luca in bosnia, miller, dadi can member of bosnia herzegovina presidency, says that he doesn't know why he is being punished with these sanctions. and he also says that this will not stop him. i have to remind you that he is been already object of the sanctions from the united states of america in 2016. the reason for that back then was the fact that he didn't act in accordance with the date of peace accord. and this time, in an official public release, the united states explained that they introduced these sanctions because the mil roddic announced that he would return certain authorities from bosnia and herzegovina to republic a s

john henderson al jazeera washington, of course, has a lot more data consider than just the record number of new cases in the u. s. p. has come out santa maria, with a look at some of the figures behind the headline. a 1000000 coven tases in one day is obviously a huge issue for the united states. but there is a little more nuance and even some slightly good news when you go behind the numbers. so let's start with this. the 1st chart we've got from our world and data . this is looking at cumulative cases of covered 90, not daily cases. this is, everything has been over the pandemic up the top. there we are now looking at $55000000.00 plus cases of covert throughout the pandemic. so if you're getting 1000000 of those cases in one day, in a pandemic, that's the last 2 years. that is clearly a huge issue. the good news, though, if i can use that phrase, is the death, right? it's not going up. certainly not the highs that we saw there. this was a year ago when there were around 3 and a half 1000 deaths a day. at this point, we're now down to about 1200 a day, which is still a lot. but as you

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. still ahead on al jazeera, the active is to popularized pro democracy rallying call in hong kong, becomes the 1st to be released from jail. and 2 of the biggest names in software and gaming strike the biggest deal in industries history. ah ah, look forward to brighter skies. with sponsored by cut airways, there have been warnings for both avalanches and heavy snow in hon. shoot, accardo. they've gone now. just accept uses winter. it's going to snow is not particularly heavy now. but the, the warnings for high waves along the coast of hunt you, they continue, has been persistent when there's quite a fetch here yet, cold, right? life is, but it's your korean plants is her soul's maxim is about 0, rises a little bit. when the sun is more dominant, slow shells cold reaches a long way south in japan seems max on the 9. the same is true through japan. he's not extremely low. temperatures, in fact, not for the average for shanghai, but it's a notable breeze all the same as yet. it hasn't rea

john henderson, l g 0, chicago, still ahead. they are not 0 to the biggest names in software and gaming strike the biggest deal in the industry's history. why scientists, why that a penguin paradise at the end of the world with look forward to brighter skies, the winter sponsored my cattle ways. when 2 others tumbling out of east in your western russia, down through turkey. so the levant and down towards the raven peninsula. actually, at the moment we have a system here which is bring your few showers through you a dying out system. as it is seen through eastern iran, so the risk of flooding here. but what's happening in easter medstar, a different story here that's been colder with a lot of snow in it and the cold wind that follows will generate big thunderstorms that run through garza into jordan lebanon's, snow easily on the heights even at low level. i think the cold air will penetrate, so the shamal which is already picked up. this isn't particularly cold, but he's going to last for wednesday, thursday and friday i think no

john henderson al jazeera washington . india is bracing for another wave, a current of ice as it reports another high, if more than 15000 new cases in one day that is twice. and i'm seeing only 4 days, maybe a 3rd of infections were in new delhi. and the moon by both cities have brought back curfews and other restrictions following the highest 1900 infection numbers in months. and let's makes right away to liz brought him, who's in italy. so let's, these numbers are rising radically. absolutely naked like we're seeing in many countries, the numbers are being driven by the on the kron variant with 75 percent of cases in major cities being on the kron now, the eastern city, all call kasha is recorded. it's later positivity rate was 38 percent. i mean that's more than one and people one and 3 people who are being tested guessing of positive result. mom by remains the worst affected and the cases they have gone up 700 percent over the past week. the hospitalization and moon by there, around 7.7 percent. and while that might not seem like a very large percentage of people who are catching the

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. inflation in the united states has hit levels not seen in 40 years with a 7 percent increase on the previous year. the white house blames global supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic, but other se, stimulus programs, the main reason for the search and prices. my cat reports from washington dc. price is for groceries rent another needed items continue to saw. the owners of small shops are particularly hard hit, as they see their customers beginning to treat what were every day purchases as luxuries you can see had the money flows. you can see, and when people are not getting the extras when they're getting coffee trip coffee instead of cappuccino, you can see it. you can see how they pay it. bad. they're paying in coins, be increase in prices, is now being felt at every gas station. and in every grocery store. i just think we're a little more careful. i notice it in almost every product. fruits vegetables, which we buy a lot of daily products. i can't really see anywhere that the prices have gone down, but they've gone up bottlenecks in the supply c

john henderson, al jazeera chicago police engineers here have use tear gas and water cannon to dispose thousands of people marching against president chi site. he's been under intense pressure since july, when he sacks the prime minister and suspended parliament. and he, people from that report from the capital tunis ah, january 14th is usually a joyful celebration of 2011 revolution that brought an end to the authoritarian rule of president xen, aberdeen been ali beginning away for popular pricings across the region called the arab spring. only to nature emerged as a functioning democracy with free elections in any constitution. i'm got all fed but on july 25th last year, president chi side for the democratically elected parliament and suspend to the constitution in what today's demonstrate is called a crew to tar. ah, but this year political party is an opposition group such as citizens against the who hold on to nations to march against what they say is president sides increasingly authoritarian leadership. wow. protest is angry at what they call, ty sides own during kuda. tar and h

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. i select herron out. there are the active as to popularized the pro democracy rallying call in hong kong becomes the 1st to be released from jail. and they vanish from iraq nearly 20 years ago. now these need to talk about to head ah you cannot of missed the story of extreme snow on the eastern side of the u. s. nissan canada. because that real kodak came up against its rival, the wall must have. hm. you get explosive results that you probably know about half mattress. no fell in toronto. it's been the 2nd snow. yes. day on recording nato was more stout. come for all to use inside of canada or the wind that follows is a cold ones to be or lake effect snow for toronto, for example, in the us, it's more case of a feels cold is more like the rain than snow because the breeze is now coming up from the southwest, nevertheless, proper wind. as you can see, that's on its way through then following it really cold air. look at these temperatures is a high temperatures on wednesday in, for example, kansas minus 4 i

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. the british promised as facing growing cause for his resignation after apologizing to the nation for attending a party at his official london residence during the height of the lockdown in 2020 . at the time the government was enforcing strict measures confining millions of people to their homes. under simmons has a story. ah, horace johnson has never been under such pressure from his own party, the opposition of the people who elected him. he set out to try to defend himself. the key question, did he attend a party for around 40 guests in his back garden that appears to a breached cove at restrictions? first, he tried to address the british people. but i want to apologize. i know the rage, they feel with me over the government i lead when they think that in done in street itself, the rules are not being properly followed by the people who make the rules. and when i went into that garden, just after 6 on the 20th of may, 2020, to frank groups of stock before going back into my office

john henderson, l g 0, chicago, australia is immigration minister has yet to decide on with a tennis world. number one, know that junk of it can stay with the australian open drawer to be announced in the coming hours. early on wednesday. joke of it's admitted to break in corona virus isolation rules and his native serbia. last month he says an interview, he did offer a positive. cobit 19 test was an arab judgement. was australian visa was revoked after you arrive last week. now that was overturned by a court. sarah blockers and brisbin, she explains what could be a handful joke of it. will the fight of another joke which still hangs in the balance. and this is joe days, 3 days after that court decision was made where the federal court decided to reinstate his visa now the immigration minister, alex holt. he holds the power to remove jock of each from australia to deport him and cancel that visa for a 2nd. time you would expect the minister to make that decision and announce his decision before the line up is announced by tennis australia and that's expected this afternoon in melbour

john henderson, l g, 0, chicago, a tsunami as hits the pacific nation of tongue or after an undersea volcano erupted, it's still unclear. the extent of the damage is many phone lines are down, and warnings remain in place for samo of fiji. von iwatsu and parts of australia and chappelle has the story the whom, the tongue of whom the high pub oqueeno in the south pacific ocean, about 70 kilometers north of the tongue and capitol dooku alova has been active in recent days. it's a russian sending ash more than 20 kilometers into the sky on friday. another ruptured on saturday was so violent. it was seen from space and register 2000 kilometers away in new zealand. it triggered us unami, which hits honda within 20 minutes. waves crashing a shore on the main islands on the top and violent ash turn skies over the capitol as black as night. residents of low lying islands in the area had been told to stay in doors where a mask outside and cover rainwater reservoirs due to the falling ash and acid rain . here's how one woman described it to her family and friends like explosions in town. i gue

john henderson al jazeera washington. the u. s. has imposed sanctions on bosnian serb leader millard. dick. washington accuses him of corrupt activities that threatened to destabilize the region and undermine a peace accord, as is facing its biggest political crisis. and so in the 1990s, as dante threatened separation of sub dominated areas from bosnia. more rockets have been fine on iraq. he military base hosting us soldiers, 5 rounds targeted the on our side and base. no casualties have been reported. that been several attempted attacks on us troops in iraq in recent days. and coincides with the 2nd anniversary of the kenning of the top. iranian general cast some silly money who was assassinated by the us in bagdad. the top figure, intimacy as political establishment is on hunger strike, threatening to deepen a month long political crisis. nadine b harry previously served as justice minister and he's deputy chairman if one of the nation's biggest political parties the and not our movement and just chappelle has more of the story

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. iran has the highest inflation rates in the world, thornton nearly 60 percent since 2018. and while its new government says improving the economy is still a priority. many struggling or so. 3rd reports from iran. these shopping bags get lighter with each was it as your arm betters with inflation. it is this people that suffered the most valuable, not often enough. prices have gone up so much that we're not able to buy basic things. even buying simple cloth is not affordable for me. i'm not from tehran, but even in my own city prices are an affordable prices of chicken, meas, rice, and so many other foods are increasing. day by day. everywhere in the country is the same. iranians have had to endure sorta inflation rates for decades. and while they may complain, there is very little they can't do. but the annual inflation rate announced in september was the highest since 1995 at $45.00, a person and the figures hovered around say, mark says down with some food supply cause seeing triple digit increase customers on only wants to soften him. some small shop

john henderson al jazeera washington. india is bracing for another wave of crone of ours says it's reported another high of more than 58000 new cases in one day. that is twice the number seen only 4 days ago. nearly a 3rd of those infections came from delia, mom by my thirties, have brought back curfews and other restrictions following the highest code with 19 infection numbers in months. let's cross right away to elizabeth ron m, whose life was a new dahlia and liz. what about these numbers? it seems there rising radically. absolutely not. can it's a warning situation around the country, the eastern city, all the cold cuts in that recorded a positivity rate of 38 percent. that is more than one and 3 people who are being tested, getting a positive result. you mentioned mom by and delhi and mom by they have seen an increase of 700 percent increase in cases over the past week with around just on the 7 percent of people. 7 and a half percent of people who tested positive on tuesday, needing hospitalization. now that still about 834 people. and so was that the rise in cases we seeing more and m

john henderson in washington dc. theresa bo, and when a sire is when you tell us that where you are, is that a line of people there behind you're waiting to get tested? well, there's an alarming increase in infection here. in argentina, the government has confirmed that it's fidelity, but also only from that reading stuff wholly in the city of when a fight is also in the provinces across the country. what right here in front of a hospital, well, there's no lines of people that have come here to get tested. some of them have been waiting between 3 and 4 hours in order to be able to get a test. we've been talking to them, some of them say that they have symptoms. others say that they had a close contact with someone who had coven 19. the thing is that most of the people you talked to have someone they know that's currently in isolation or as sick with co read 19 president, i let up a 5 members have discarded for now we imposing restrictions in the country that don't forget that our don't tina was one of the 1st countri

as doctor john henderson about this in our washington news send to president biden, i believe, meeting with his covey response team. later on today, i had to respond to a 1000000 cases in a day. well, the fact that he is getting a briefing from his coven 19 team and is addressing the american public is probably a sign that things have gone seriously. south that 1000000 cases you mentioned, that's a new record come on. and as you say, double what it was less than a week ago, the national testing rate, his sword from 5 percent in november, 1019.5 percent on monday in new york city, it's even worse there. 33 percent of the people who go in and take a coven test, come out with a positive result. if you live in new york city and you know, 2 people, one of you on average, has coven. nevertheless, that is not affecting new york city schools. we can talk more about that later, but this variant has the president on the defensive. this country also has a testing problem because so many people are getting sick. they're over running testing centers, and it's taking people who used to be able to wa

john henderson, l g 0, chicago. still ahead on al jazeera, the philippines government is accused of penalizing the war with tough covered 19 restrictions. ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies. the weather sponsored my cattle airways. and away we go with your world, whether updates right here right now. nice to see you will begin in southeast asia, west javert jakarta, scooping out 204 millimeters of rain. typically for the month of january, you would see $300.00. so quite the helping of rain and still in the forecast, solid bands of rain over the islands. same goes for borneo. so that's really where that flooding risk will be. heightened. meantime, sumatra, those heavy rains are starting to peter out. now an update on the ne monsoon but subdued right now, but still we're getting into heavy bouts of rain for central areas of the philippines on thursday. rain is dancing in to western areas of the pearl river valley. same goes for the yang. see that shoving clouds further toward the east and you guessed it, the snow

john henderson al jazeera washington, the u. s. has imposed sanctions on both the and sub liter miller on da. dick washington accuses him of corrupt activities that threatened to the stabilize the region and undermine the $995.00 piece. a call that ended both new civil war, both facing its biggest political crisis since the war dog is threatening to separate sub dominated areas from both lilliana's, many outage has more from bondage. luca in bosnia miller daddy, member of bosnia herzegovina presidency, says that he doesn't know why he is being punished with his sanctions. and he also says that this will not stop him. i have to remind you that he is been already ah, object of the sanctions from the united states of america in 2016. the reason for that back then was the fact that he didn't act in accordance with the date of peace accord. and this time, in an official public release, the united states explained that they introduced these sanctions because our mil roddic announced that he would return certain authorities from bosnia he

john henderson al jazeera washington, the european union's top diplomatic won't. russia would face massive consequences for any military escalation in ukraine. joseph burrows been visiting the front vines of ukraine's war with russian backed forces in the countries east. it's seen as a show of solidarity with ukraine in the face of a possible confrontation. russia is denied that it has plans to invade its neighbor, despite amassing tens of thousands of troops of the border. the conflict of the bush. ah, he's on the verge of getting deeper. and then sions has been building up with respect to the, you know, being security as a whole. russia has been massy through, you know, lady when usual manner woodlands around to canyon bore them in a joint press conference with the german foreign minister, the u. s. secretary of state entity blink and condemned russia's behavior towards ukraine. both germany in the united states, c rushes actions toward ukraine. as an immediate and urgent challenge to peace and stability. in europe, we condemn russia's military build up on your friends orders, as well as

john henderson al jazeera washington, the european union soc diplomats, as warned, russia would faced massive consequences for any military escalation in ukraine. joseph burrell has been visiting the front plans of ukraine's war with russian backed forces in the countries east. it seen as a show of solidarity with ukraine. russia has denied that it passed plans to invade its neighbour despite amassing tens of thousands of troops at the border. the conflict of both us. ah, he's on the verge of getting deeper. and then sions has been building up with respect to the b and b as a whole. russia has been massy. do you know? maybe you mana woodlands around canyon ball in the joint press conference with the german foreign minister, the u. s. secretary of state entity blinking condemned russia's behavior towards ukraine. both germany in the united states see russia's actions toward ukraine as an immediate and urgent challenge to peace and stability. in europe. we condemn russia's military build up on ukraine's borders, as well as moscow's increasingly our rhetoric. as a continues to push the f

john henderson, al jazeera, more than 500 homes, have been destroyed by a large fall in western peru. it swept through a settlement and she put it on thursday, firefighters and residents work through the night, put it out, hundreds of people. and now homeless dozens of palestinians have been injured after israeli forces fy tear gas to disperse weekly protests in the occupied westbank. a people in nablus were protested against the building of settlements in the villages of john and beta. it occupied, eastern islam, palestinians gathered to voice their anger at israel's ongoing plans to force displacement of family. 16 comes for people displaced by fighting in nigeria is born a day to being close down to government had set a new year deadline. several months ago, tens of thousands of people are set to return to their homes. but rights groups fear some of those places are still under a type by groups. fidelis and bar has more now for future thousands of i. d p is in this 16 gone there on comes, have been here for some years. some of them have stayed here for about 8 years, and at the the

john henderson, l g 0, chicago staff are the official residents of britain's prime minister held regular friday. drinks parties during lockdown. that's according to report by the daily mirror newspaper far as johnson had already apologize to the queen for one such party at downing street on the eve of her husband, prince philip's funeral. when on wednesday bars, jones not there, but it's public for forgiveness for attending another drinks event. on the 20th of may, 2020. the opposition. on some, in johnson's own party, a cooling on the prime minister to resign. johnson says he thought he was attending a work event. ah, public opinion appears to be turning against jones, but some people at least appear to be having fun with it. a flash mob, partying johnson lookalikes, turned up at the gates of downing street on friday. 100 percent here the apology was half hearted. it did even seem to intimate. in his mind. he seemed to believe that perhaps the rules were not pregnant. the guidance was fired, which is just inconceivable. discordia and demick of what this government are about, what they b

john henderson al jazeera washington . of course, there's a lot more days to consider than just the record number of new cases in the u. s. his criminal offense, maria with a look at some of the numbers behind the headline. a 1000000 coven tases in one day is obviously a huge issue for the united states. but there is a little more nuance and even some slightly good news when you go behind the numbers. so let's start with this. the 1st chance we've got from our world and data . this is looking at cumulative cases of covered 90, not daily tases. this is, everything has been over the pandemic up the top. there we are now looking at $55000000.00 plus cases of covert throughout the pandemic. so if you're getting 1000000 of those cases in one day, in a pandemic, that's the last 2 years. that is clearly a huge issue. the good news, though, if i can use that phrase, is the death, right? it's not going up. certainly not the highs that we saw there. this was a year ago when there were around 3 and a half 1000 deaths a day. at this p

all right, thank you very much, john henderson, with the latest from my chicago there on this story. now one community activist was killed in columbia every 60 hours last year. this is according to the country's human rights ombudsman officials. as an $145.00 socially does, including human rights defenders and environmentalists were killed by illegal armed groups numbers down slightly from a 180 to the year before. violence has become a defining challenge for president even to k. the government uses left wing willis of attacking the activists as they see to control drug networks and illegal mining . meanwhile, in the development of former colombian presidential candidates who was kidnapped and held by rebels for 6 and a half years as announce, she is running for the top job again. and good battle cor confirmed her candidacy at a news conference in bogota. on tuesday, she was held in the jungle after being captured by the revolutionary armed forces replica in 2002. when she last ran for the presidency. colombians all set to go to the polls in may. alexandra, yet he is joining us now f

john henderson al jazeera washington . the rest of the days news is coming up. a landmark deal is made in canada to help a tune for its past treatment. and the message from the un chief to saddam general to purchase term with with hello. thank you for joining in your world weather update begins in australia and here's an update on x. tropical cyclone sets. it's moving closer to the coast of queensland. the gold coast has shut down. beaches over dangerous surf. we've seen those ways 45 meters even up to 10 meters high. we do have what, whether from brisbane rate down to victoria state and at times this will be some pretty driving rain off to the west. temperatures are hot enough in per $37.00 degrees and let's remember, western australia is parched, catastrophic fire. danger in some parts of the state. after new zealand, wet weather dance is in to the north island. so auckland, your seller's stretch of weather comes to an end. we've got some showers in the forecast for you on friday with a height of 24 degrees off to southeast asia. ne monsoon not as active as it

john henderson, al jazeera washington. of course, there's a lot more data to consider than just the record. number of new cases in the u. s. is come all santa maria with a look at some of the numbers behind that headline. a 1000000 coven tases in one days of the a huge issue for the united states. but there is a little more nuance and even some slightly good news when you go behind the numbers. so let's start with this, the 1st chart we've got from our world and data. this is looking at cumulative cases of covered 90, not daily tases. this is, everything has been over the pandemic up the top. there we are now looking at $55000000.00 plus cases of covert throughout the pandemic. so if you're getting 1000000 of those cases in one day, in a pandemic, that's the last 2 years. that is clearly a huge issue. the good news, though, if i can use that phrase, is the death, right? it's not going up. certainly not the highs that we saw there. this was a year ago when there were around 3 and a half 1000 deaths a day. at this point, we'

john henderson al jazeera washington. they are a finance top diplomat as warned that russia would face massive consequences for any military escalation in ukraine. joseph burrell has been visiting the front lines of ukraine's rule with washing backed forces in the countries east. it seen as a show of solidarity with ukraine. russia has denied it, has plans to invade its neighbor, despite a massing tens of thousands of troops at the border. the conflict of the boz ah, he's on the verge of getting deeper. and then sions has been building up with respect to the european security as a whole. russia has been massy. do you know lady news? you own mana woodlands? around to canyon border in a joint press conference with germany's foreign minister, the u. s. secretary of state antony blank and condemned russia's behavior towards ukraine. both germany in the united states. c rushes actions toward ukraine. as an immediate and urgent challenge to peace and stability in europe. we condemn russia's military build up on ukraine's border

john henderson al jazeera washington . of course, there's a lot more data to consider than just the record number of new cases in the us. he's come from mary with a look at some of the numbers behind the headline. a 1000000 coven tases in one day is obviously a huge issue for the united states. but there is a little more nuance and even some slightly good news when you go behind the numbers. so let's start with this. the 1st shot we've got from our world and data. this is looking at cumulative cases of covered 90, not daily tases. this is, everything has been over the pandemic up the top. there we are now looking at $55000000.00 plus cases of covert throughout the pandemic. so if you're getting 1000000 of those cases in one day, in a pandemic, that's the last 2 years. that is clearly a huge issue. the good news, though, if i can use that phrase, is the death, right? it's not going up. certainly not the highs that we saw there. this was a year ago when there were around 3 and a half 1000 deaths a day. at this point, we're n

john henderson al jazeera washington, the u. k is recorded more than 200000 daily, correct, of ours cases for the 1st time. prime minister bars johnston said they'll be no new restrictions for now. but one of challenging weeks ahead. you, joe has become the 2nd chinese jesse to be put into total, locked down off the reports from the current of our cases. the restrictions is similar to those impose for the past 2 weeks in the industrial hump of shan, canada will pay just over $30000000000.00 in conversation to members of the indigenous communities who were taken away from their families when they were children and put into state care the money will go to the families who are affected over the last 3 decades. cash will also be spent on performing the current child welfare system. the main suspects in the assassination of haitian president juvenile boise has appeared in u. s. federal court for the 1st time, $43.00 old former columbia military officer, mario plus you was expedited from paula. but he's in catholic style of use tear g

john henderson, l g 0, chicago, little one of our top stories and b is really demolition of palestinian homes and shake gera. joining me now, as daniel seidman is a human rights law, enjoys been awful west. jerusalem is decided when, thanks for joining us on al jazeera. why in particular, has this eviction been carried out? the official reason is an expropriation of privately owned land to build a swarm for the palestinian residence of sharlitra. but that is not being taken at face value. there were alternate sites to build that school. it was possible to build the school on that side without demolishing the house. and it's taking place in the context of a major thrust by the israeli government to displace the palestinians of shandra and turned their properties over to the settlers. so what on the face of things made, peters appeared to be a something in the normal course of events. a rule is basically one of the rushed nerves in the conflict, the displacement of palestinians in shadow, gerra and, and so on and elsewhere. what recalls do any palestinian families still living there have