security forces kill 3 protest is in sudan as 1000 rally against the recent military takeover plus a popular congolese dance music. get special recognition by the united nations. ah. the number of daily cove in 19 cases globally is approaching 2000000 as daily double the number seen in the last week. the u. s. is the worst affected accounting for nearly $1.00 and $3.00 cases in the world. but even though delta and army kron variants, are surging hospitalizations and deaths are relatively low. let's go live now to mike hannah, who is in washington d. c. my just took us through the situation there in the u. s. oh, well, it goes on as you can hear behind me, the church bells ringing as they do at noon every day, but for many within the united states that is a very tough time. indeed, the rates of infection continue to rise across the country in washington, dc. here for example, there's been a 900 percent increase in terms of infections over the past 2 weeks. this is a massive increase. and if you extrapolate that to other states around the country, then you will see that this is a major issue in terms of the rising infection rates. the cdc says, though that the death rate has dropped some want. it is 7 percent down over the past week. than it was the week before, and this, the cdc in service is a direct result of people who are being vaccinated. it says that the one certainty in terms of dealing with the various variance, is that vaccination plus abuse to shop does lead to far less side effects. should a person contract the virus, or the majority of those who being admitted to hospitals across united states as a by researches or unvaccinated people? remembering of course, at some 35 percent of americans are still not vaccinated despite calls from the biden administration, calls from health experts to get the vaccination. and as i said, the one clear piece of data that we've got in terms of dealing with the virus is the fact that vaccination does reduce the level of side effects very significantly indeed. and my candidate for us in washington d. c. thank you. let's go south now to mexico officials there have warned about a new wave of infections or than 4000 new cases have been reported. mexico detected his 1st case of the on the con variance earlier this month. my rap alo jones is now life from mexico city manuel. so talk us or how mexico's pairing for this next wave? just this week, we were able to see these long lines once again. these queues outside of vaccination centers came with the spike in cases the mainly link to the holiday season. but there is a sort of renewed push to, to kind of revamp policies of prevention here at the very least step up step up, efforts for vaccination. but it's not only mexico that's taking these extra steps this. there we are seeing new cases, a spike across the region. in the case of argentina, for example, there been more cases reported this week. and in that, at any other point in the, in the pan demik, we're seeing in alarming new trend in the u. s. territory of puerto rico. just yesterday there were 307 hospitalizations reported 84 of those hospitalizations were children. there's also concern over an increase in hospitalizations of medical workers. we have to know that the dominant strain is remains the delta variate when we're talking about the pandemic in latin america. but there is a lot of concern over the army kron variant which continues to reach new parts of the continent already been identified in at least 10 countries in latin america. and one interesting thing to note here is how different each country is applying policies. are there really are extremes here on one end? you have countries like mexico, where very little is done to enforce any sort of mandatory quarantine or lockdown policies there for poor and travelers come into the mexico. there is no requirement to present a negative cove in 1900 to sorry, cobra, 1900 tests. when you compare that to countries like chillik, which require at least 72 hours for foreign travelers to present a negative test, there are mandatory isolation periods. you get a sense of how different each country is doing, if there is any good news to report in terms of these latest developments as the fact that south america, as a whole, is now considered the most vaccinated country. the most vaccinated continent in the world. but it's not across the board. there are still countries like guatemala, for example, that are only at about 24 percent vaccination. so the challenge for that we're hearing from international health experts is vaccine access countries like mexico and argentina, or working on a joint program to produce more doses of astrazeneca. but vaccine inequality remains a major challenge. there are still many countries in the region that have yet to reach even 40 percent vaccination rate, not even 50 percent vaccination, which is considered to be the threshold necessary to reach cope at 19 immunity. all right, thank you for that. i've had them and there are palo in mexico city. let's hear more now. all the you case preparations and a chess england to is opening temporary field hospitals. at the moment the number of people admitted to hospital is significantly lower than earlier in the year. about 1860 people were admitted on wednesday compared to 4 and a half 1000 last january. but the number is rising. the latest figure shows that hospital admissions are at the highest level since march. however, despite arise and hospital admissions, the number of people in intensive care is dropping. for a talent is falling developments in london. the editor supposed to be given a ball park figure of about 10000 hospitalizations at one point when things start to get really tricky and they are just creeping over that benchmark for england at least. so the plan is to set up for their calling a hub, the various hospitals around the country, they'll be temporary structures put up in comp, os, etc. and each one will have about a 100 beds capacity. it doesn't so much, but the hope is that that will be enough to deal with any over spill from the main hospitals. if it's not, they all looking at other sites to set up around for thousands more beds to deal with a super search events. they're hoping that none of this is needed, like the nightingale hospitals weren't really needed earlier in the pandemic. but they want to have the safeguards in place just in case the police in southern china have been captured on camera parading for men through the streets and a public shaming. exercise of an accused of transporting undocumented migrants while the country's borders remained largely closed. due to covert 19 earlier we talk to our bacon correspondence, katrina, you. she says these recent public shaming exercises have spent a lot of back on videos were circulating on way ball chinese version of twitter. but they have since been taken down and for the most part after sparking quite a lot of backlash, them mix comments think a lot of people were shopped because these public shaming exercises very unusual to see today. but they were very common during china's cultural revolution. the period of the 196970 is a very chaotic time. and for those alive who can remember it, it's a period that they would rather forget. and since then, public shaving has actually been outlawed here in china and i was just going back to those videos what we can see police parading for people around before a crowd. these people are in the hazmat or protection gear. they are wearing black cards around the next that seem to have their photographs. now these men have been reportedly sentenced to the trafficking people across the vietnamese border. and just for a little bit of context. and this is taking place in the city of ging, she, china's province of wong. she this is relative to china. it's a very poor area. it's quite a small city on the border. and in recent months ging, she is actually arrested incentives. dozens of people for similar crimes of trafficking. now in china we have this 0 tolerance approach to covet 19, but the border areas in particular are very vulnerable to outbreaks because of the poor smith. there have been a lot of outbreaks around different borders in china, and so the authorities in these areas are under extreme pressure to keep coven 19 cases down. a human rights group is accusing government forces in northwest me enough of killing civilians and destroying their homes. the military housing commented on the allegations. drone video, which matches satellite images, show smoke billowing from the town of 10th long and chin fate. tony chant reports from the me and my border fires burn in the hill, top town of tent, along and chin state northwest, and mamma. the destruction caused by artillery shells and fires set by mamma's military, appear part of a concerted policy of scorched earth. most of the towns, $10000.00 residents, have fled across the nearby border into india, powerless to do anything to save their homes. others fled chin state for the simple reason. they couldn't find anything to eat in the creek about for, i mean, but especially in my 2 p, there was a here food shortage. the people couldn't access to farms also asked the military had placed my zondaway. no transportation was available and people couldn't go from one be led to another. internet access and phone lies were shot. satellite photos show how starting in september, systematic and coordinated attacks destroyed 580 buildings in the town. these tactics often associated with me and mars military and all because the residents had shown resistance to february's military coup. even in the berman heartland, home of mere mas majority, ethnic group opposition has been greatly put down in saigon. this woman shrieks with grief. after finding the body of her grandfather, one of 12 villages reportedly murdered by the military, memos, government of politicians and exile, condemned the alleged war crimes. the military, everyday committee crimes terrorist act against the people be by the die. and it is compromise comprised international crimes against the remedy. so thank you for making statement. thank you for your concern. but the current situation remind you, ought, you know, more actions of concrete actions to stop that kind of military actions and to stop that illegal military terrorist. and as recently as christmas eve, 38 civilians killed and burned to work. as for the charity, save the children, now confirmed to be amongst the charred remains. and the past month alone, there have been incredible stories of mamma's military perpetrating massacres in saga district and kaya state. in the past week, thousands of civilians have poured into thailand, telling stories of air strikes that have targeted civilians nearly a year after the military coup. it appears all the fears about an unchecked military rule inside myanmar. coming to fruition tony cheng al jazeera on the me on my border. the damaged bose carrying were hanging migrants now denisia is being code to shore. the bo shows mostly women and children was left to drift off the coast of the province for days while attempting to reach malaysia. and his government decided to give them shelter on wednesday, saying they were facing emergency conditions. hundreds of the most in minority who fed me and mall have reached indonesia of the years on for perilous journey, often lasting month still ahead on al jazeera talks to revive iran's nuclear deal reached a critical moment. we'll have the laces from vienna a to the leader of the soil. due to archbishop desmond tutu as his body lies and stays the cathedral in cape town. ah. hello verse, looking like a west end to the year, forget part of the middle east, and that includes us here in casa, you can see this area. cloud is already brought some bits and pieces of patchy rain over the past 24 hours that rain. if anything will to stir proper touches, we go on through the next 24 to 48 hours. that line of cloud there stretches across the gulf, some heavy downpours into a good part of a round. the you are you seeing some showers longest? both of bright, along with eastern areas of a mile, and then we move on into satch date and see how that lot of rain is still very much in evidence. i think that will be the site the where to stay here in carter. we are going to see some heavier burst of rain for time the 1st proper ramen, really for around 8 months i received some lively showers, longest bells of rain into the eastern side of the mediterranean. there be some more. well, it's just coming down into northern parts of egypt. the northeast of libya are as well, much of north africa will be dry. we'll see some showers there just along the guinea coast, a showers a standing into the tropics, of course, and no showers. they run out of the democratic republic of congo through zombie. as in bob, we sang some heavy showers eastern parts of south africa, also seeing some heavy showers try and find for the most part in cape town. by the time we come to saturday, they're the funeral. of course, the big funeral. we could see some wet weather just sweeping out of the clouds. ah frank assessments, this crisis is continued to weaken luca shan club, even though perhaps he believes in the beginning there have been informed opinions . biting politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people . that is one of the most of the things that come out of this critical debate. do you think it should be facilitated? not sure. okay, it's a great. it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a chop swans inside story on al jazeera. ah ah ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder about top stories they sell. the u. s. is reported nearly half a 1000000 corona virus infections. it's nearly twice the amount seen during the last week, but hospitalizations and deaths are relatively note. you case setting up temporary field hospital is to deal with the crone of our search. the government is concerned, this system could still be overwhelmed despite the mom itself and new variant. human rights group is accusing government forces in northwest me and not killing civilians and destroying their homes. the military hasn't commented on the allegations. security forces since you dont have killed at least 4 protest is maybe shot dead snobs or amman as thousands rallied against the recent military takeover protests have been taking place across the country. demonstrators in costume approached the presidential palace mamma, doll, as worn out from called her mom. and so what has happened or what is happening now? and durham up where right now that situation under man has developed into a major confrontation between security forces and the protesters. earlier in the day, the impression was that to this day sir, protest was a, a less violent and the numbers are for testers. less than during the, the, the previous occasions what you know as the day progressed, it became clear that because security forces prevented the protest as in, on demand to reach out to him, to cross the bridges into that central cartoon. ab that made the major confrontation, took place in on doorman itself, particularly in their street called shara albin at. that's where those are protest as were killed, 4 of them, according to medical sources, and also sources from the side of the year of the revolutionaries. the resistance committees, it, it's a major situation that not only those 4 that have been killed, but also an unknown number of people are injured and that, that the indication of the, the, the big size of this. as of this, sir, dangerous situation is expressed by has been expressed by the doctors unions who called on their colleagues to go to the hospital in sharon are buying the st of a buying and also in the under man hospital to help or with the treatment of the of those who have been injured in the, in the, in the, in the confrontations or so even the state, the captain states, ministry of health has issue there. me a similar as statement calling on doctors to go to those 3, those 2 hospitals to help with the year, the treatment of the wounded mom. i did remind her of you is of, of what it is that protests is, are demanding, and have they suggested or has it been suggested any path way out of the current stand off? well, protesters are until now they are playing a 0 sum game with the, with in their consultation with your forty's, our demanding no less than the complete withdrawal of them, of the military commanders from the, from the year that the, the, the high are all in council in the country and they are refusing any compromise. they are refusing any negotiations with the military component of the, of the sovereignty castle that is rolling the country. ah, there have been, there have been attempts by some other parties, some parties who are not integrated in these revolutionary committees to come up with a roadmap at well by all sides or in this conflict can come to a kind of compromise to get the country out of the, of the mess, the political mess and the security mess. but these revolutionaries, these a call themselves that have allusion of these, these resistance committees are refusing any negotiation with the other site. i, mom of our cost of elements in sit down from caught, soon. thank you. and there has been told that an agreement to revive iran's nuclear deal with world powers is still far off. the 8 round talks between diplomats commenced indiana on monday. source is close to the negotiation. say there is deep disagreement surrounding rounds demand for us sanctions to be lifted immediately. they say that hawks are going in a good direction but that they lack the momentum to achieve results within a reasonable time frame. and as those talks take place around, launch to a satellite carry a rocket into space. the u. s. has complained about previous launches because of fears that the technology could advance around ballistic missile program. a tomb of cities is coming to an end near baghdad. green's own iranian back, she political parties have been protesting against the results of october's legislative elections. they say the vote was rigged. they're now dismantling that hence with all areas fit to be cleared by saturday, the supreme court ratified the election results. after 6 weeks of legal challenges, moon is in south africa paying their final respects to anti apartheid icon. desmond tutu. the archbishop's body is lying and state and saint george's cathedral and cape town. before saturdays funeral south africans are observing a week of national mourning for tissue who died on sunday h. 90 for losses, families to cobb, men, celebrated life well lived there. now we share many memories with the arts. in particular, there's 22 family. first and foremost, i think my grandfather is always talked about how much and the likes of ireland, gustavo, we're always an installation to them. a political prisoners don't proven islet who are able to instill hope in them that they will one day be able to achieve freedom in their lifetime. okay, for me the miller joins us now. life and me to just ask where you are and what's been happening that today but we'll just outside saint george's cathedral. and in fact, the body of the archbishop desmond tutu was moved from the cathedral just for the evening and will be returned early on friday morning. and once again, 4 people mourners to come through to the church, pay tributes to the late archbishop, and also put the fear of final farewell. and when his body was moved from this church, it was in a simple pint coffin with rope handles according to his wishes. he wanted the proceedings around his a commemoration and of any memorials to be as simple as possible. and that coffin, just a dog with a simple bouquet of white carnations, that's all he wanted. and looking a heads out of the funeral on saturday. we understand that it is a what is described in south africa as a category one state funeral. but some of the pomp and ceremony will be put aside because it's not what the archbishop wanted. the south africa, national defense force would usually have some sort of parade. but in this particular case, they're just going to hand over the sub african flag to his wife. leah to to so as grand as the saint george's cathedral is where he led to the anglican church for many years. much of the proceedings in the days to come will be done as simply as possible. and we will be expecting to see, just as we did through the day to day hundreds of mourners come through to say a final good bye bye for now, thank you for that for me to mila and kato, ausa dons born deep in the heart of africa, which has spread worldwide. now, the congress member has been recognized by unesco. united nations cultural agency has added the downs, moves to its list of what's called intangible heritage. in one con has more don't blow in full flight is the rhythm of the room, but brings joy to the don't. but this is just the distraction of a hard day's work. the song, the band plays is called the peace and unity which came about after the congos independence from belgium. ah, for the last 50 years. so it's become an anti colonial anthem across the african culture. and this month, unesco recognizes the style of music as a living cultural tradition. and there were intangible cultural heritage for the ban. lita, it's a recognition of a life playing music me of a normal but got a bit ability has many characteristics. it's existed for more than 50 years. i've lived my whole life with rumba. if you look at the rubber now, we elevated and developed it. although we've kept our references to the icons like grand cali pump a webber, semarino, marcia tag, lay modem. ah, the start of music in some way, tells the story of one of the biggest crimes inflicted upon africa, slavery. the music's origins can be traced back to central africa, but it was voted to get mantic ocean between the 16th and 900 century and was particularly popular among the slaves of brazil and cuba. cuban zuba in particular, became big enough for the country on approved by the time recorded music writing congo congolese artists began to recognize their own rhythms and history in cubans and took that i'm the music came a full circle, becoming rhumba knows all set your default our ancestors were deported to the americas in the 1516 century, and went to either north america, central america or south america. but the focal point was cuba in central america as well. so in cuba, there was a surprising mixture from those who came from africa, but also from whom the slaves have encountered one stair. the sick you saw renew on the recognition is also important to foster and industry. to not just only recognize talent, but to develop a natural, ah, not law, it is our creation. rhumba is rhumba is our life. rumba is our vision. so room, but is us. that's why we want room, but to be recognized as our own. it is our identity. rhumba is congress. ah, one of the things you in recognition does is highlight the room, but sound is a commonly, just as reggae is jamaican, another off or recognized by the you and cultural agency, ah, the music plays on louder and more proud of him. wrong costs and jury in new york has found british socialized lay maxwell guilty on $5.00 counts and a 6 trafficking trial charges against a former associate of merican finance. here and convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein include fixed trafficking of under age girls, deborah, others on the reports. it took the jury 5 full days more than 40 hours of deliberations. elaine maxwell guilty on 5 of the 6 charges she faced convicted of grooming young girls for sexual abuse by her former boyfriend, jeffrey epstein, and even sometimes joining in the british social. i remained calm and whispered to her lawyer and drink a sip of water. as the verdicts were read out. outside court maxwell's friend, lee sat in a regular throughout the trial, and he left without comment. your chance to give a reaction to the verdict for the prosecution, the verdict was a welcome relief. the road to justice has been far too long. but today, justice has been done. i want to commend the bravery of the girls now grown women who stepped out of the shadows into the courtroom, their courage and willingness to face their abuser, made today's result. and this case possible. the trial attracted enormous global attention, wealthy and into angel epstein and maxwell moved in elite circles counting the rich and famous even former presidents and britons, prince andrew, among their friends and associates. maxwell's lawyers argue that she'd become a scapegoat for epstein crimes. he committed suicide while awaiting trial. in august 2019 defense lawyers attempted to poke holes in the testimony of the 4 made witnesses and even brought in memory experts to undermine their accounts. but to no avail, we firmly believe in the lens. innocent. obviously, we are very disappointed with averted. we have already started working on the appeal and we are confident that she will be vindicated. delaine maxwell turned 60 years old during these jury deliberations. the sentencing will be at a later date, but she's now facing up to 65 years in prison. gabriel's hondo algae is either new york, several weeks of heavy rain, has caused a flooding emergency in more than 100 cities across the northeast and brazil. tens of thousands of people in bar here, stay sorry. the homeless or displaced dozens of died and what regional officials are calling the worst disaster in the states history, brazil's government, to set aside mon, $35000000.00 to help with recovery efforts, can always find much more on our website. the address for that is answers era dot com ah, this is al zara, and these are the top stories. the u. s. is reported nearly half a 1000000 corona virus infections that is nearly twice the amount seen during the last peak. but hospitalizations and deaths are relatively low. mike, hannah has more from washington dc. the cdc says system not surprising case numbers is being driven by both the variance of the virus, both the delta and the ami kron. it has released some statistics that indicated.

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