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kenya after president of who are kind of hosts the leader of somaliland fears that a giant iceberg is on a collision course with an island in the south atlantic and could destroy a wildlife haven. and install a cam has stunned the golfing world well number 94 winning the u.s. open tournaments deb you. welcome to the news our countries in the european union may be able to begin with 1000 vaccinations before yours and so the agency that approves the blocks drugs is expected to deliver its decision on the pfizer bio untag vaccine next week and the e.u. has been pressuring the a.m.a. to speed up the approval process as much of the continent battles with another wave

of the virus take a look at the rate of infection and here it is this was the situation just 2 months ago lots of that dark red color show high rates of infection and now nearly the whole continent is darker. adds so the european center for disease control says any more than $120.00 cases per 100000 is critical so every country except finland norway arlen's and iceland is on this highest level serbia georgia caray share and lithuania have the highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. have reported most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000 cases so we have 2 correspondents following all the latest developments in europe jonah hope will join us from london which will go into lockdown on wednesday 1st we'll speak to an idiom is joining us from brussels on this push by european countries to get the vaccine quickly and speed up that approval process now where

do things stand. what we've just heard in the last couple of i was confirmation but the european medicines agency to regulate 3 body for the european union is bringing forward an exceptional meeting from december the 28th to december the 21st so next monday where they will issue approval for this phase a vaccine of course that was developed in germany the german government has been expressing its concern in the last 24 hours about the speed at which the may is acting saying it was undermining the public's trust in the e.u. to take action they're going to welcome that news yet in spawn the german health minister has said that he wants to vaccinate people before the end of the year and they're saying that they're ready to vaccinate between 3 and 4000000 citizens by

the end of december so very quick indeed they saying that they hope to have 60 percent of the population vaccinated by the end of next summer that's the figure which the world health organization says is a tipping point where you can really get a pandemic under control and look at netherlands for a moment nadine because it's dealing with a huge surge in cases there and going into a strict lockdown. it is just like germany which is bringing in a national lockdown on wednesday the netherlands introduced its lockdown on at the start of tuesday it's controversial there but in the words of the prime minister mark router it's essential to bike to face sour apple before things get better. the lockdown involving shutting non-essential shops as well as schools will last until january at the moment they're seeing more than 40000 daily cases with. the

death rates of the 24 hour death rate in the hundreds so there is stream lee worried they they are also telling people in the netherlands not to travel across the border to belgium because here shops have started to reopen on like bars and restaurants but hoping they can keep going until christmas of course this is a very busy time important time for their revenues but the government can't rule out bringing in tougher measures at the end of this week because also here we're seeing the reproduction rate the already at no point 97 reportedly once it reaches one things can rise exponentially so nobody's taking anything for granted in the message here and elsewhere is please be careful even if you can do things you don't have to in other words christmas try to be sensible all right nadine thank you very much nadeem with an update from brussels let's go find out the message over in the

u.k. and bring in john hall from his joining us from london at and the u.k. is going into tier 3 restrictions that come into effect on wednesday midnight at the same time we are hearing that there is a relaxation of rules over christmas what can you tell us about. well to clarify it's london and parts of the southeast of england that move into tears 3 the highest coronavirus restriction t. adjoining much of the rest of england up to 60 percent of england will be in 2 or 3 after midnight tonight even spiraling rates of infection around the london area and the southeast in some places infection rates doubling in 7 days we're told that there is this particularly virulent variant of the virus that's been identified in potter sponsible for that fast uptake in the infections and then as you say this rather in congress situation where the government is lifting all restrictions for

a 5 day period over christmas to allow families to get together in their homes to mix together and it sparked real concern about what comes down the line beyond christmas possibly a 3rd wave in january maybe even a 3rd lockdown real criticism aimed at the government not least on tuesday from 2. preeminent medical journals in this country both internationally respected that have issued a very rare joint editorial warning the government of what is at stake here saying simply that if people do get together people will die most likely elderly relatives predicting that the caseload for the national health service after christmas will be 40 times higher than it was at the beginning of the 2nd lockdown back in the autumn and urging the government not to blunder it says into another era so lots of these voices now aimed at the government urging change the government has not given any indication that it's about to make a u.-turn essentially to cancel christmas though it sounds like there might be some tweaks in the offing the government and the other nations of the u.k.

discussing the possibility of tweaking these rules and one minister earlier on in the day admitting that look all coronavirus measures are under review all the time all right ana thank you for that update from london. well over in france the country is also in some of its covert 19 restrictions and in paris with more on what's changing there pull over the past few weeks the french government has been miffed restrictions are shops opened a few weeks ago but today the french government is really lifting the main restriction that is on people's movement so people can now travel all over the country and they do you know the permits however where some restrictions are been lifted up as a being reimposed and now there will be a nighttime curfew so from a typical no it's till 6 o'clock in the morning so people will have to go to very good reasons for example working in an essential service but some things do remain

shots museums restaurants bars own cultural center is not is why there was a big protest here in central paris many people gathered on the steps of the paris opera house they are workers from the restaurants and bars and cultural centers like the oprah house here in paris they are upset they say that they are not being allowed to reopen mid december that is what they had hoped not to see huge numbers of cinemas in theaters that will close its catastrophic burst will no longer be the culture city it was before the lockdown because if you can't say one sector is essential and another is not there's no evidence of clusters in theaters and cinemas. the french government says that they won't be able to open it least until mid january maybe not now the reason says the government is because the force is still circulating at rates that are far too high it is too much for risk they are calling these industries not essential services but of course for these people who come to protest it's extremely upsetting because they are worried about the large

even its health experts in the united states say the coronavirus pandemic has led to the largest exodus of senior public health officials in american history some say they've been the target of political activists conservative groups and anti vaccination campaigners who've united. around common goals that story again the reports. protesters in the u.s. state of idaho gather outside a public health meeting they say they oppose the mandatory wearing of masks some health officials say they face similar demonstrations during the coronavirus pandemic if you haven't figured it out but you know this whole thing with yeah but . it's just. tissue coleman is the len county public health administrator in the state of kansas she says she's struggled to keep her rural county safe from k. that 19 my friendship list has decreased and i just i don't have. it's not that important to me to be friends with someone who's going

to be so against trying to protect the public because they don't want to be told to do something at least 181 health workers in $38.00 states have resigned retired or have lost their job since april experts say it's the largest exodus of public health officials in american history this is the range rainer you know you know where you're in. really right now. linda vale is the health officer in michigan she's received letters at home calling her a communist and a fascist but she says she won't resign clearly have made that decision and they're not easy decisions to make because this is not a job that you want to leave during the midst of a pandemic there is an entire community of people that are out there depending on you and with the biggest back the nation campaign in the country's history on the way that may be more true now than ever before victoria gate and be al-jazeera the

world health organization says it requires $5000000000.00 for its kovacs vaccine facility to buy doses for low income countries it's in talks with pfizer to include the covert $1000.00 vaccine as part of an early global rollouts the health agency has secured only a fraction of the $2000000000.00 doses it hopes to buy over the next year w.h.o. created the kovacs initiative to ensure poor and middle income countries have access to the vaccines. plenty more ahead on the news hour including. despite accusations of vote rigging and violating the constitution guineans president is sworn in for a controversial 3rd term. we hear from the forest tribes who've had their homes demolished and say their livelihoods and traditions are at risk coming up in sport we'll hear from the premier league manager who wants

a level playing field when it comes to allowing fans into stadiums. but 1st a faction of boko haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria the students were taken on friday from a boarding school in katsina states there are concerns the government has not been upfront about the real number of those abducted it says it's negotiating with what it calls armed bandits now in 2014 boko haram kidnapped these girls more than 276 girls in chibok this time the group's faction says it's abducted more than $500.00 boys if confirmed it will be the largest number of people the group has taken in recent times or the parents of the missing children have staged protests there demanding the return of the students you have met did not we want government to

risk your children because they have the capacity to do so but their actions are snow because it is not their children that are involved in the incident they put us in the situation not parents and grandparents absolute confusion they've stopped us from having peace of mind we are totally sad by the dream as more from a boozer. we understand that the group has been on the move since the day or since the night they were taken from can kind of and the been moving from one forest to the other climbing rocks and mountains according to witnesses who escaped the most subduction what they telling the media were the telling government officials and kids in the state so it's difficult to say exactly where they're all there are rumors that they've been moved from in a state deep into the forest in some from a state where over the last 7 years we have seen how. security has deteriorated with bandits attacking communities and displacing hundreds of

villages and. rendering a lot of people homeless and usually we were told that only a few dozen students were abducted the need later turned out that they were more the governor of kut in austin was talking about 333 and now witnesses are even claiming that the number is much higher than that because the school had more than 800 boarding students and on the night of the abduction on the following the following morning after the night of the abduction more than 200 students were reportedly rescued or have come back to school before the school was finally shot so if you had more than 800 students in a school and only 200 have come back then definitely more than 500 are left and accounted for but quite i mean saying that it's holding more than 520 of them if not just classified or doctors confirm them subtly this will be the most the biggest abduction since this conflict or the book quite

a crisis began 11 years ago somalia has cut diplomatic ties with kenya its accusing its neighbor of political interference in a decision by kenya's president to host the leader of somaliland has strained relations even more somalia has recalled all its diplomats from kenya and ordered their counterparts to. leave somalia within 7 days malcolm webb has more from nairobi. that election is happening next month is based on a fragile agreement between the leaders of those 5 so you autonomous states and jubal and its president came here to visit nairobi kenya spoke to the government returned back to somalia the somali government then said the president the job were negative on the electoral agreement and blamed kenyan interference for that now just 2 days ago the president of another region somaliland came here to nairobi and that's been followed by further allegations by the somali government of

interference by kenya that's what led to this latest move with them cutting all diplomatic ties but this is the latest in a series of diplomatic disputes between the 2 countries began nearly 2 years ago those disputes were initially about a maritime border dispute over which country gets to control substantial offshore oil was the more recent this be based around somalia accusations of kenya interfering in his forthcoming election so just to pick up on what malcolm was saying about somaliland let's take a closer look at how it fits into this dispute somaliland a situated on the horn of africa and it borders djibouti it's a self declared state but no foreign governments recognize it as an independent country it broke away from somalia in 19011 clan warlords toppled dictator mohammad saeed bari carving the country into personal 5 terms talks have been held to

discuss unification but the parties have been unable to reach a breakthrough somaliland has managed to maintain its own independent government currency as well as security system let's bring in our old he's a senior analyst covering somalia for the international crisis group he's joining us from the kenyan capital nairobi thanks for your time you say that you're not surprised by this move but what's the significance of this happening now with an election in somalia due to take place in january. yeah i mean i think it very much relates to electoral dynamics the premature administration in mogadishu feels that kenya has been supporting the political opposition whether that soften the door in cuba land whether that's somaliland itself or whether that's the political candidates that are running against of them a lot of them have been based in nairobi have their campaigns based there before some of them travel to mogadishu recently so i think it is very much ties with internal somali politics and election dynamics and in terms of somalia trying to

put pressure on kenya to maybe we we assess those relationships so what we're on the ramifications could this cutting diplomatic ties how. well i mean the ramifications can be quite serious so 1st of all the region when it comes to somalia is quite divided right now you have kenya on one side of the on the other and we've seen these proxy dynamics kind of play out in somalia with damaging effects you school competitive electoral process on top of that in which different candidates are speaking different external allies and so this adds another layer of division to that i think one big unanswered question is the future of kenya security participation in somalia as well kenya has a number of troops as part of the african union mission in somalia any sort of change or quick push to to remove those troops would have quite devastating

security consequences i don't think that's something easy and then maybe not exactly where mogadishu administration is calling for we can't rule out that as well and they need to consider all the dynamics that play on top of the issue of security which is an important one that you raised what about the impact this could have on some of the refugees in kenya whom kenya hosts and kampf. yeah unfortunately that's been a point of pressure in the past times 10 years basically threaten to close refugee camps like that dob which in turn would be perhaps a lot of refugees going back to somalia and overwhelmed fragile dynamics there so and so unfortunately that kind of got caught up in sort of the to dynamics between the 2 countries before rather than you know comprehensively addressing the refugee issue so so there is concern that if kenya chooses to respond as well in these

sorts of ways back in the one point of leverage as a group as the international crisis group are you concerns about. any potenza long term consequences for the region as a whole for the horn of africa i think what we've seen in the past few years is some arrangements and cooperative dynamics in the region with regards to somalia break down quite a bit and that breakdown is worrying in this significant effects cooperation in somalia on the security front in missions like amazon cooperation in somalia in terms of the state building fronts as well i mean so we see this divergence within the region and you know i think that that is something that needs to be addressed going forward and can allow this to really continue because over the past few years we've seen it by needs a building effort security efforts so i think at one level the region itself needs to have a discussion and come to sort of a comprehensive and coordinated view on what it wants to see going forward in

somalia right samarra who would thank you very much for speaking to us from nairobi . thanks for having. well dozens of homes belonging to nomadic tribes in indian administered kashmir have been demolished local authorities say the community is illegally occupying forest lands but the tribes argue they've lived there for generations as alexey o'brien reports. to those destroying these hats in the himalayan forests they are unwanted pieces of wood and cement. but to the back are well and good the muslim nomadic tribes who live here their home at least for 6 months a year as they move between the forests and mountainous pastures what they heard of goats and sheep. we are yet to recover from the shock we have been living here for generations we are now worried for our livestock

and our children i tried to plead with the demolition team but they threatened us with a rest and a find. some in the tribe received a notice from the local forest department saying their homes were illegal a few days later people arrived to tear them down. the himalayan region of kashmir is controlled by india and pakistan and pot but claimed by both in full last year india revoked the region special status imposing restrictions on movement and enforcing a communications blackout. critics say the government wants to change the demographic of the muslim majority region as carrying out the demolitions to do that. they want or disloyal gradually from the. told them out make them all melissa and. said. indian is there and that will give us

a little bit bad agent really. but local officials say they're only following court orders and that more than 60000 people are legally squatting on the land in india traditional forest well as a usually protected by law and tribal leaders in kashmir say that should extend to them. last year with a special status was appealed to the government published. that they we're going to implement the forest in the region. on the gold is different the government is what . people are suffering under pressure from the government to move from the forest and from encroaching cities some say their traditional way of life is becoming too difficult. you give a good at being live in fear that we may fear to see him freed as the others we keep on thinking dear night that our homes may be demolished it would be good for

generations they've led a nomadic lifestyle but that could soon become a thing if the past an example ryan al-jazeera top senate republican mitch mcconnell has congratulated president and vice president elect joe biden and campbell harris this comes a day after the electoral college validated their victory in november as election during a speed biden said us democracy has prevailed he criticized donald trump for a continually questioning the legitimacy of the vote shihab rattansi reports from wilmington delaware. are biden of delaware a democrat. i 65 knows the real. california is electoral college vote made it official joe biden is the president elect and in the end the formal tally of the states joe biden won in the november election was the procedural affair it normally is across the country electors in

states that biden flipped from the republicans cost their states votes for the president elect joseph r. biden has received $16.00 votes under the u.s. constitution the president isn't chosen by the popular vote but by the $538.00 electors of the electoral college however usually they follow the majority vote in each of their states as part of the trump campaign's efforts to overturn the election results efforts were made to subvert that process they have acted to nan honestly cast 16 votes for joseph r. biden but even in michigan one of several states where electors were given a police escort the vote was conducted without surprise and eventually 306 electors across the country voted for biden 232 for trump soon after joe biden made a national address calling for the page to be termed 306 electoral votes is the same number of electoral votes that donald trump and vice president pants received when they won in 2060. me at the time president calls the luck the electoral

college tally a landslide why is our own standards these numbers represented. a clear victory then and i respectfully suggest they do so now if nothing else some wonder whether this rather focus on the electoral college might lead to more discussion about whether us will use should be allowed directly to vote for president i myself disagree that we still need an electoral college to certify our election results and we should really lived into our principle in this country of one person one vote and make sure that we honor the popular vote when americans vote for president on election day as the electoral college finalized biden's victory throughout the day trump tweeted about election fraud he has repeated he will fight on in the courts there's no clear what his motivation is at this point the electoral college votes will now be sent to the u.s. congress where they will be counted and certified on january the 6th there are reports that some republicans may attempt

a last ditch style and at that point would have nothing else will be a symbolic moment that will help a narrative that many from supporters still believe that this election has been stolen however the polls also show that a majority of americans do feel that it's time to move on she able to answer the al-jazeera wilmington delaware still a hands on al-jazeera warnings that malnutrition related to the pandemic could kill more than 100 children a day over the next 2 years world heritage sites under threat how stability in libya could help bring a new lease of life to these 2000 year old ruins in sports india and australia get ready to play test cricket for the 1st time since the coronavirus lockdown.

the next byte of i think you describe it as poor weather is on its way through the circulation in the eastern med it's caused flooding in turkey it's got the same potential to do that from the western side a serious route evident that's or israel passing territories towards northern egypt is cause flooding in the eastern side of libya as well and that's a picture for tuesday and indeed wednesday ahead of it there be some rain in iraq in iraq mostly in the north i think of iraq and then snow shows itself from the high ground of iran gaza reflects this still poor weather by description is 18 and 19 degrees that it won't feel that it could be windy with frequent showers in fact sunshine well that visible i suspect on wednesday sees no rain southern africa carries on the pace is a bit of a circulation visible here they are covering a delta so significant rain here as you might expect last compact line that takes it across zimbabwe to mozambique but the still potential for big showers further

south in johannesburg and throughout zimbabwe but away as forecast as you seen the last 2 days 3 days of summer storms not much wind to move them on a good season good wet season for zimbabwe and looks like it will be for malawi as well. and the porous suburbs of 3 european cities community tensions often reveal a shot of cultural divides but they feel they have no future and are sidelined as discrimination is a real problem in brussels al-jazeera will meet some of those struggling with racism radicalization and life on the margins of the joy of this young man a week from a day set and early stage the other face of europe on al-jazeera. regimen biological and chemical agents are pre-owned weaponized throughout history alhaji

warfare the 1st word it's head with me and started fighting they have developed by nation state so there could be enough to fix every child. now within reach of those seeking caleb's compounding the most toxic substance in the world would have to man made invisible friends on al jazeera. on the way down the top stories on al-jazeera this hour countries in the european union may be able to begin covert 1000 vaccinations before year's the didn't see that approves the blogs drugs is expected to deliver its decision on the pfizer bio

intact vaccine next week so malia has cut diplomatic ties with kenya accusing its neighbor of political meddling in the semi autonomous state of juba it's also an odds with nairobi for hosting the president of somalia an area somalia claims as its own but is disputed by so. get is president there has been sworn in for a 3rd term condé won almost 60 percent of votes in the presidential election in october his opponents say the election was rigged and that condé violated the constitution by running for a 3rd term dozens of people have been killed an anti-government demonstrations in recent months the opposition has vowed to continue protesting nicolas haq is following events from neighboring senegal joining us now also controversial 3rd time for a con day and he has been sworn in next with us. that's right he's been sworn in much to the consternation of many good in it gloating those that are right here i

am outside the museum of black civilization where the continents activists and civil rights groups have gathered and they were following closely this swearing in ceremony watching this 82 year old president who tweet the constitution to run for a 3rd mandate and won this election marred according to the opposition with irregular irregularities won this election and much to the consternation of of many here there is still protest on the streets of cannot create but many people here that we spoke to talk about a greater trend in on the african continent where we see heads of states changing the constitution to stay longer in power now joining me now is fred but you're from the d r c congo among these people that have come together here to talk about democracy many of you have arrest warrants against them including yourself and you've spent time in prison when you see the election of outside condé what signal does that

give to young africans on the continent i bring this one feel that leaders of 1st certain generation are not ready to to leave to accept that there is a new you know a few people who want even more democracy and true democracy and they have used the constitution is their constitution to trieste the idea of democracy by changing their. running mate in many mind it's and i think the message that that we get from them is that we need to misapply our you fought against them and to force them to leave to let's you generation come in and especially 2 to 2 minutes new habits a new idea and practice coming. that means. international income which will come with respect. and put in the law on everything and not trying to

change the constitution now this year in particular 2020 year of a pandemic we've seen the shrinking of civil liberties we've seen. as you mentioned in this conference the civil space so the space for freedom stifled why is this happening right now why are we seeing these has it states taking autocratic measures as you've described it in this conference i think this is not a new trend this is it is something that has been going on for for a long period but i think they have become in a bit more sophisticated in the way of doing it in the sense that they are manipulating the laws and they are using more efficiently i would say the police to mean to people but this is this sort of reaction also to with of movements that rise of almost everywhere in the continent and which shows the winning news of african people too to see the change so i think it's

a new normal reaction against what we are doing but i think the more that we are the more they will react that's where the more we organize and try to fight back fred from africa thank you very much now the story is turning 70 happens with only 5 heads of states present all of them are running for reelection including us on what our who is sworn in just yesterday and the opposition say they will continue to protest in the days to come despite this swearing in ceremony during back you all right nicholas thank you nicholas reporting from dakar. well u.k. scientists are set to embark on a mission to study a renegade iceberg that's on a collision course with a british overseas territory the iceberg known as a $68.00 a broke free from a larger ice shelf and back in 2017 since then it's been moving north towards the south georgia islands and despite losing a lot of its both in recent months

a $68.00 is still estimated to be the size of luxembourg and what scientists fear is that it could destroy the rich ecosystem and wildlife haven surrounding that island and could also block hunting routes for penguins and seals so the british antarctic survey will lead next month's expedition the goal to determine what impact the iceberg could have on one of the world's most important ecosystems let's all speak to garage link he's from the british antarctic survey which is organizing that mission and he's joining us from cambridge over in the u.k. thanks very much for your time with us on al-jazeera just tell us what's happening right now with the iceberg and how long before it actually reaches south georgia islands well the iceberg is just 50 kilometers away now from the continental edge of south georgia or the sun really complex and we need strong currents around south georgia so it could actually do quite a circuitous route you call actually foundering on some of the continental edge so

how fast then is it moving. it's moving quite slowly but actually quite fast for an iceberg so to a maximum speed of about a kilometer per hour about 20 kilometers or so per day so actually you can travel quite a large distance in quite a short amount of time give us a sense of just how big this iceberg is. yeah one is actually massive in terms of icebergs mostly i suppose when they're in the open ocean they tend to break up and go into smaller icebergs this one remarkably as remained intact and that is still even more remarkable because it's got quite a shallow keel is not very thick so we expected to break apart so something the size of luxembourg is going to be a massive impact on an island like south georgia which isn't that much bigger than luxembourg itself and as we're saying south georgia is recognized as one of the most biologically rich places on the planet so what is the concern if it actually. plows into the seabed there yeah well i mean it could scour large areas of the

continental shelf but diversity on that shelf on the bends there is equivalent to what we find in areas such as local activists and really significant amounts of carbon is stored up in this ridge by diversity on the seabed but also we could get in the way of these enormous colonies of seals and penguins globally significant populations over half of all working penguins for instance are found on the islands of south georgia wow ok and is this iceberg is it a result of climate change. no not really it came apart form the last year i shelf in 2017 and that's a natural process weisberg's car all the time what we are worried about though is that models are predicting that this type of carbon defense is going to increase in the future and so we could expect more icebergs like this to be going in these sorts of directions in the future all right we'll leave it there we thank you very

much for joining us from cambridge. the international criminal court has rejected calls to investigate allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in china in jang province so exiled we had given the court evidence accusing beijing of locking up more than a 1000000 people from the muslim minority and forcibly sterilizing woman but prosecutors say they can't investigate the allegations because china is not a signatory to the court based in the hague. the world is on the brink of a nutrition crisis because of the corona virus pandemic that's according to her report by save the children that says pandemic related malnutrition could kill an average of $153.00 children a day over the next 2 years the number of malnutrition cases around the world is rising and an additional 9300000 children could suffer from wasting and severe weight loss that's because of increased poverty and loss of livelihoods and reduced

access to health and nutrition services. well australia's prime minister scott morrison has warned china it would be in breach of global trading rules if it stops imports of australian coal his remarks follow chinese state media reports of a possible ban it's a further escalation in their trade dispute and the potential blow to australia's economy as nicola gage reports from sydney. a strike here is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of coal used in both steel making and to generate power one of its major markets is china but months of imported lives have left millions of tones of a strain called stranded off china caused an industry in turmoil jonathan a political reasons not economic crisis because economically it's itself china has clearly a political stance that they the parties back in. beijing faming lee confirmed

a trolley was being targeted in a state backed global times newspaper saying power plants have been granted approval to import coal without clearance restrictions from anyone except to strongly of those countries that are available and also are willing to export cochin-china i introduce irrational collyer are we seeing quite a large within this for those countries to actually expand their market in china. if no doubt further inflame tensions with beijing which is shutting morris trading industries out of china in a deepening tried to use or the foreign interference beijing that bears in hong kong and allegation about the origins of the coronavirus. talking about coal in a strongly right now is a sensitive industry stakeholders have been reluctant to comment on what's happening with china and australia remains without an energy policy as more countries set climate targets carbon dioxide levels under the strain he was blocked

from speaking in a recent united nations climate summit due to its perceived lack of action on climate change some experts believe now is the time to plan for a future of reduced use of coal and other force who struggle is increasingly being viewed quite rightly as an international climate action strategy needs a plan we need a plan to get out of coal and gas we need a plan and transition all of those workers for a plan in the short term to thaw ingenue tried. cold exports to china were worth more than 10000000000 dollars last year now that's threatened and other industries will be wondering if they could be next gauge al-jazeera. katrina you has the reaction from beijing. the relationship between china and australia has hit the lowest point that it's ever been at and that's clearly manifest in the trade relationship but it pours far beyond that now tensions between the 2 countries really ratcheted up when

a strongly demanded an independent inquiry into an origin of the carbon 19 outbreak earlier this year but they've been souring for much longer than that really one clear point was in 2018 when the previous australian government imposed this law against political interference in china it wasn't specifically named when that was announced but china definitely was implied as the target of that law and since then the government has taken various steps that have really good beijing culminating in what we saw last month in a 14 a list of 14 grievances released by the chinese embassy a basically expressing to australia all the things that it was unhappy with including the fact that australia banned huawei china's iconic telecom giant from participating in the development of its 5 g. network because china knows that australia is economically reliant on china its biggest trading partner about 30 percent of all the trailing exports end up in china and china really is exploiting this fact and it's almost as if they jean is

making an example of a strain is sending a clear message to smaller countries that are economically reliant on china that if you do not behave in the way that beijing deems appropriate that there will be consequences for your country dozens of unesco sites that have been damaged or risk of losing their world heritage status in the 1st of a 5 part series we visit the ancient ruins on libya's mediterranean coast fighting has left the site neglected by local authorities but as malik traina reports peace talks could help change its. established by the phoenicians in the 4th century b.c. the coastal city of so brought was used as a trading post that served as an outlet for trade from africa it was later ruled by the new median kingdom of mass and until rome rebuilt it in the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d. . today from a distance it looks like it's endured the violence libya has witnessed for nearly

a decade. but close up are signs of the conflict. the conflict in libya between the internationally recognized government of national court for g.n.a.t. and warlord police to have 2 years libyan national army l in a letter to unesco to puts abroad and 4 others on its list of endangered world heritage sites so brought to was controlled by forces loyal to have to during his failed military campaign to capture the capital but the tripoli based government retook the city in april yeah. unfortunately the city of subprocess has seen several armed conflicts in the last decade the ruins were hit during the fighting but thank god there was only minor damage to the theater. but now brought as crown jewel a 5000 seat theater has survived and stands 3 stories tall built by the romans nearly 2000 years ago it's

a testament to the history and culture this country on the southern shores of the mediterranean has official here they thousands of foreign tourists use the come and visit but the years long conflict and political divisions have had a devastating impact on a 3rd of them sector. and of course there's also the pandemic for now besides a few local families heritage sites like this remain for the most part abandoned but some still come. we live in tripoli with cave 19 we're all a bit depressed so i brought my kids here to see the history of their country and to get some fresh air the lack of attention and funding by authorities is clear and we all hope the fighting will end and we can have security and economic stability in our country i hope that those in power realize how important developing our historical sites are it could create jobs and give young men an incentive to leave their weapons behind. with un facilitated talks between the rival sides ongoing

many here hope stability will be achieved however long that takes and with that a new lease of life for libya's historic sites malik traina al-jazeera subrata. this coming up next on there was a surprise. story. then

again time for the sports news with santa thank you very much at darien while south

korea's a produce a huge upset at the women's a u.s. open in texas at the world number 94 winning the title on her term and deb you saw . nobody saw it coming south korea's a limb kim stunned the golf world on monday by winning the u.s. open on her debut at the tournament. the world number 94 had a massive task going into the final 18 holes trailing by 5 shots but that didn't faze her. neither did the fact that she was up against world number one gin young coach her fellow south korean having to settle for a share of 2nd place alongside amy olsen of the united states who carded 3 straight bogeys in her final round her manage to finish up 2 under. kim however had no such

problems the 25 year old made 6 birdies 3 of which came in succession on her final 3 holes to seal a memorable victory. for saddam or a 3rd or here i cannot describe it in birds i never expected that i was going to play the women's u.s. open but with this win i still cannot feel it could probably sink in when the 70 wraps up. the world will wait and see whether this win is just the start of big things for the new u.s. open champion. so he'll malick al-jazeera when chelsea have the chance to move top of the english premier league with a win later this choose day doesn't manager frank lampard is unhappy that fans will no longer be allowed to attend games in london the english capital is about to see the return of tougher coronavirus restrictions a lamppost says it's putting some teams at a disadvantage i did feel they should have been

a level playing field for the fans if some scrubs can have them some calm we've seen i think already or far away on the pitch the the back in that they give you and what it does to the game i think i should be pretty level i also think that we can really cannot tell in the government to control 2000 fans coming into the stadium if they're coming from within that's here or whatever however i want to do that to keep things moving along. so it's unfortunate to say the least arsenal manager mickael or ted has taken for sponsibility for the gunners disastrous a run of form a year into the job to test team are 15th in the table having failed to win any of their last 5 matches when you know getting results on the end of the day the manager was in my actually my responsibility to. those when i accept them because you can say whatever you want to explain but at the end you have to influence isn't this club is too big to accept these many losses in the last weeks so

my chest is here and he is on all the manager under pressure as barcelona's ronald koeman take on league leaders they also see that on wednesday when this team are 9 points adrift of the top spot the dutch manager has been forced to deny reports that the players are unhappy with his tactics and insists he does still have their full support. of everybody depopulation the price is always high in this club because they used to do when everything but sometimes it's not. it's not like that because you have changed you make changes in the team in a club but it's a difficult situation in the club australia and india getting ready to play test match cricket for the 1st time since the koran a virus lockdown the 1st of 4 tests between the country starts on thursday it

follows to a limited to over theories that australia won the one day as a law in their trial to end the t 20 looked like tough cricket but in the spirit the guys made reply and that's one of the benefits of the i.p.l. i think that the guys get to know each other well there's good relationships and the guys planning good spirits a great rivalry why bring it on i just literally bring on thursday and for the next 4 test matches the good. really as good as it gets in terms of test cricket with the ashes i think wind you know won their 1st ever test series in australia at the start of the last year the opening test is a day night match in adelaide rediscovery spent there. they go out yes every in every series 1st test but it's really crucial but this don't be a big force this big boy this measure not that i did so but so i think that he goes

and he says for us. players are big as a unit and think for each other. the baltimore ravens have boosted their chances of making the n.f.l. playoffs after winning what's been described by fans as the game of the year the ravens came from behind to be the cleveland browns 47 to 42 jackson was the star after leaving the field with a cramp equal to about returned with 2 minutes remaining to throw a go ahead touch down. and that's those ball for me we'll have more for you later on but for now it's back to that ok sign i thank you very much for that what's huns of thousands of tourists converge converged on chile and argentina so experience this year is only total solar eclipse visitors were worried they wouldn't see much because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time our latin america is overseer newman reports from santiago. for the 2nd time in 6 months the moon

passed over the sun in the southern hemisphere creating a stunning spectacle that turns day into night. unfortunately for residents and tens of thousands of visitors and astronomers who travel to southern chiles and i would kony a region the weather clouded over with they'd hoped would be a perfect clearview. eclipse is never cease to amaze especially astronomers they study the sun's corona which drives solar winds and can produce alterations in the cycles of the earth why is it just important to be able to see the corona better. or. we cannot forget that the sun is really there in the solar system so if you turn. the lights on. we. will die in less than a week in the capital santiago will only 80 percent of the moon could be seen

covering the sun well this is about as good as it's going to get i can still see a sliver of the sun peeking through but you can still see some light out here but it's darker than it was just a half an hour ago at high noon there are no clouds in the sky it was boiling hot and now it feels much much colder. residents who come to see and feel the same things were not disappointed. this gives you a different energy it's an extraordinary sight a privilege. in 2024 another token solar eclipse will pass through mexico and parts of the united states but it won't be another one in this exact place for another 400 years to see a human al-jazeera sent out. thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera will be back in just a moment or 2 right at the top of the hour we'll have much more news coming for you right here on al-jazeera thanks for watching but by.

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