investigator, on his unprecedented journey to the french high court, every place to make sure that the information to bring its context, taking on the arms trade in his fight for justice, for innocent palestinians, and their families made in france on old jersey. ah . the world health organization warms the pandemic is far from over the urges countries to rethink their corona virus restriction. ah, hi there. can fidel this is l g law from bill ha. also coming up global tech giants, including google and facebook threatened to pull out of hong kong fighting,

newly proposed restrictive policy law. live on, on the brink of a total economic collapse, a fleet, the international community for health care take a prime minister with condition. and you oil deal between the united arab everett and israel is causing concern among environmental. i'm stephanie decker on the waters. my latch, we'll have that story coming up. i will help organisation has warned against eating cove at 900 restrictions to soon criticizing what it calls a premature rush back to full normality. a number of countries across europe are significantly relaxing their rules, that despite rising numbers and concerns about the highly contagious delta variable, the w h o insist dependent damage is not over yet. and further waves of infection

could surface later in the year. all of the countries of the america, we still have nearly 1000000 cases. week 1000000 a week hooked up. it is an over am and the same in europe, in europe, in region, we've half a 1000000 cases week like this thing has gone away. so i sometimes have this sense that everyone thinks it's all over and we're just getting on. and to an extent, i understand the sentiment, understand why people want to feel that way. but for a lot of the world, unfortunately this thing is only getting started. we just need to be a little more patient. remember last summer where we had everything got good and then everyone kind of relaxed. and then we kind of arrived in september or october and ended up in huge trouble. i think that's where we're going again with a much more transmissible variant. this time around of the month of criticism that covert 90 vaccines weren't reaching developing nations inoculation drives around

the world are picking up. but the role as calm as experts worry about the impact of the delta. various shala bells, reports, vaccine drives the gathering pace and countries around the world. this is 1500000 doses of the medulla vac, seen flowing into el salvador as a donation from the united states. i'll, salvador has administered just under 3000000 doses, enough to fully inoculate 22 percent of its population. it's an amazon called for me, so we have a special commitment to the entire region, and we are not going to stop until all countries have vaccines. they require to protect older citizens in ivory coast housework as a visiting market to get as many people vaccinated as possible. they'll visit 130 in the capital abbey, shawn in the next 2 weeks. in some countries, in africa, covered 19 case numbers, a doubling every 3 weeks. i have just received my vaccine and we were leave because

i had been waiting to do it for a long time. in russia, the government has opened its largest vaccination center in moscow. russia reported a record high 737 corona virus dates on tuesday. and the last week showed a slight decrease in the incidence of covered in moscow. but nevertheless, the level of hospitalization and morbidity itself is at a very high level. but how will the delta or other mutations behave? it's a question health authorities are asking around the world. israel's health ministry really started that the 5 by on take vaccine is just 64 percent effective against infections by the delta variance. it had been 94 percent effective against previous strains of the virus, although they reported it is still more than 90 percent effective to keeping people out of the hospital. there's no doubt that there is a level of escape with adults away, and that means that there is, there is a level of reduction in protective immunity with this particular band,

even with vaccines. the good news is that with 2 doors of vaccine, there is still a very high level of protection for individuals against severe diseases like hospitalized ations and deaths. the dose of variances accelerating the spread of outbreaks and places that had previously escaped. the pandemic fee g went an entire year without recording any community corona virus, cases until the new strain arrived in april. on tuesday it reported a record 636 cases and 6 deaths. it does hurt you in some way, and it does also let you know that, you know, we're not far from over the, i see you the main hospital and the capitol sousa is full. so as the city morgue, 10 percent of the genes are fully vaccinated. officials are hoping to increase that number to stop the spread charlotte bellis out 0. livid owns caretaker. prime minister is warning his country is days away from what he calls a social explosion house on the up as appealing for international help to resolve

the economic crisis. inflation is storing the lebanese currency hits new lows, pushing thousands more people into poverty. they says the global community must steppin now. and when ashley though i reckon my plate today to all the king's princesses, presidents leaders and l i and friendly nations. and i call on the united nations and all international agencies in public opinion to help save to live in these people from death and prevent the destruction of the country. leaping on is it a short distance from a social explosion and the liberties are facing the stock site on their own? and then he has more now from beirut. the country is in crisis, it has been in crisis for more than a year. the state is near nearly bankrupt and it's just a daily struggle for every lebanese. we're outside one of the gas stations here and you see the long lines, people wait for hours just to fill up one 3rd of their fuel tank. there is

a fuel crisis just as there is a lack of medicine after people fill up their cars with gas, they go to the pharmacy to start looking for medicines, which more often than not, they do not find. and then there's a hyper inflation. the price of food, it has more than tripled in recent months, yet the minimum wage remains the same. and the majority of the lebanese people turn in the local currency, which is now worth less than $50.00. and the reason is if i am going to die destroying god without throwing up, we have money. we're going to buy anything. we have money, really. we have money about going to buy anything. that's not there goes on there are those people who fill earnest salary, but unemployment is on the rise. it's now 35 percent and research institute say it

is going to increase to 40 percent of the. this is a country which is starving for dollars for hard currency, and the central bank mandatory reserve is drying out. and the central bank was giving importers dollars in order to buy fuel medicine at an affordable price to subsidize these goods. and like i mentioned it's running out fuel prices have increased by by 50, by 50 percent. so has the price of bread. so people are struggling and you just heard. a that man, there are those who have money, who are able to buy something just can't because they cannot find it in the country which imports almost everything that it needs. israel's government has narrowly lost devotion, parliament, bracing belts about the viability of the new coalition. it failed to renew a contentious law. the balls palestinians of the occupied territory from settling permanently with best spells as israel 59 members voted in favor and an equal

number voted against this. after an old knife connected session, though he has more from occupied eastern there was a lot of back and forth between the government and the opposition. and when you think about the opposition and now it is benjamin nathan. yeah. the former prime minister, who is the head of the li, could now the party and opposition who was heading the the, the effort there to stop that bill from passing. now, that is a bill that has been there since 2003. it was impose at the time of the 2nd intifada, and at the time it was said that it was because of security reasons. israel needed to have that citizenship low and also to protect the jewish character of the nation. now that law had been renewed every year, including during the premiership of benjamin. it was happen over night that the

opposition made its best to make sure that that law did not happen. you do see in the israeli media, reportedly, benjamin netanyahu had said that as a closed door could session before this meeting, that actually it was more important to overthrow the government than rather past the citizen as ship low. and that is exactly what happened because something he was so adamant about doing his premier shape. well, he wasn't adamant about anymore. so as a fact, the result of it is no more citizenship low in israel. at the moment i'm going to court hearing is on the way in south africa, where the former president, jacob's duma, is fighting against the prison sentence. room has been ordered to spend 15 months in jail for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry. he's defied a 5 day deadline to hand himself in and has accused judges of bias. live now to for

me to miller and peyton moore's book with a court hearing is taking place. so obviously this is the form of president wanting to avoid jail, but it's not just a high court volved also the constitutional court. when will we know he's actually going to serve time? well, we're in our way into the, the quote fission. now, where the former president's lawyer is trying to put across arguments around the jurisdiction of the high court, granting an interdict. again, that order by the constitutional court basically trying to stop the former president from being arrested. he was supposed to have handed himself in by sunday, and that's off to the constitutional court judgement that found him guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months. in jail now, once that deadline expired, police would then have had to arrest the former president by wednesday. that's 3

days after the 1st deadline. and at this point, the police have said that they wouldn't make an arrest pending this, these court applications by the former president. we also know that he's returning to the constitutional court next week to appeal to them to rescind that order that they made. and that sentence that they gave legal experts have said that that application, while it's been granted and they will hear the former president, he has very low prose prospects of succeeding in appealing to the constitutional court, given that it's the highest court in the land. there isn't any other court above it, and that's why jurisdiction is now being argued in the court behind us to try and stop that warrant of a risk from being affected by the police. we don't know when exactly the court will rule. as i said, we're just an all way into proceedings now, but it's after that that you would have a clearer indication of what happens next. if the president will hold,

the president will be arrested. but we know there's a deadline of at least just another day. find out that we'll be checking back in with you. i thank you very much for that for me to mila still come here on al jazeera. stay away from thailand toxic rekindled official for people to stay clear of the area near bank. i i, it's time for the journey the winter sponsored by cut on airways. hello there, let scott in east asia and there's more wet weather on the way for japan. if we follow those pulses of rain being pumped along, the may you front, we can see those heavy rains on schedule for much of han sure. we can take a closer look. it's not just japan, it's also the korean peninsula. south korea being inundated with rain and we could

see land slides and flash flooding here. but we are expecting more disruption on thursday as those heavy rains kick in to southern areas of hong shoe. and if we follow that system back into china, we can see its edge slightly south, and that's going to bring some storms and some showers to shanghai. but the heat and humidity continues there. it's also looking dry down in the south, but the wet weather is on the way and things are feeling relatively humid in hong kong. now, the weather is still on the cards for the south asia, up in the north east. we've seen it's being in on dated with those one soon rains. we've had amber warnings out for a number of states, a some be hot and west bengal. we're expanding, expecting rain for particularly heavy in these areas as well as in the poll in bangladesh and me and ma, we could see flash flooding where those rainfall particularly heavy, and that weather update. sponsor

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at 19 restrictions to food, several countries in europe, a relaxing rules, despite concerns about the highly contagious delta various levels can take a prime minister is wanting, his country is days away from what he calls a social explosion has on the up as appealing for international help to resolve the devastating economic crisis. virtual coord harry has just gone in south africa where the former president jacob boom, it is fighting against a prison sentence. him has been ordered to spend 15 months in jail for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry. the trial of austria is former vice chancellor hines, christiane scott here on corruption charges has begun in viet straw here, who is also the leader of the right wing freedom party is accused of offering to change a law to help a party don't to secure public funding for his private hospital, it's part of larger, a larger scandal that led to several corruption investigations. the so called the

beef it gave scandal broke in 2019 led to the fall of the previous coalition government with sebastian cars. well, let's take a closer look at how all of this unfolded. hinds christina hare was secretly filmed with a woman posing as a wealthy russian while on a holiday. and in 2017, the leader of the far right freedom party offered her state contracts in exchange for financing his election campaign. straw. her also made a pitch to sell off austria as most read tabloid, and changes editorial lines to support him. the video was leaked in 2019 bringing down the coalition government and ending his student as vice chancellor over at rice and is a journalist and correspondent for the german daily burger minor. he joins us now by scott, from vienna. thank you for your time. tell us how big of

a scandal is this not just for straw here, but what was it done to the party that he used to lead? well, so thanks for having a can. first, we have to say this is just the 1st trial that came out of the famous i'm famous video that you just mentioned. and of course, it's the main packets of this video. as you might know, it's an app to his resignation. he was excluded from the party and this freedom party is now on the new management. and of course, he could face up to 5 years in prison if there is a verdict on friday, which we still don't know. but i think it's important to see that it's just one of the aspects that came out of this video. it's just one of the several investigations that took place afterwards. and. and since the video came out, actually the focus that you know, both the criminal investigations,

the state of turn, the semester cations, as well as the investigation of the opposition parties and the parliament in austria. here into what have been said in this meeting, you have shifted. it's no longer about time system stocker and the freedom party, but it's more about, you know, the allegations of bribery, corruption. that mr. the still chancellor, who has now a clinician with the green party, has to face it's about basically one sentence that 1st set him this video. it's a privately on casino company that he said was paying money to almost every political party here. not sure in order to get access to our majors, to change loss in their favor. and so this is what is being looked into now for the criminal investigators, as well as of the by the position parties and parliament. ok. given that there were

a lot of things to come out of this be think a scandal. as you said, i'm wondering how is this trial being followed by the public people interested in this is being followed very closely. well, i think that's probably more attention from foreign media, some domestic, boston media companies or media as well. as i said, you know, the instructor is more or less like a tragic figure. it's become more or less like a tragic person if you want to put it that way. because the whole thing and of his political career at the sandy itself is not fees of his, of his run that he had. he was one of the most important person in the far right year in europe was a network treat. it was close to marine the pan in france. it was close to victor or been in hungary. so of course, the media attention is understandable, understandable, but mostly for media is very interested in our streets a little bit different. as the staff before, the focus has been as pop months about allegation into allegations that you know,

the chancellor part of the seventy's party of course would have to face. and it was a very uncomfortable situation for the counselor because there's several people, you know, farm, former ministers and, and even the, the, the, the, the financial mystery was a very close friend of his is, is accused by the state prosecutor of possible bribery. so that's the domestic focus here is basically more on the conservative than the freedom party. all right, thank you very much for your time. we'll have to leave it the rising and we appreciate it. the supreme court in the netherlands has upheld a hate speech conviction of fall ride populace politician. get one lives by this known for his anti is rhetoric was convicted by an appeal court. last year, for insulting moroccans, he had demanded

a re trial of his case over marks made during the campaign. in 201-4150 young students have been kidnapped from a school in north western nigeria. attack is rated the boarding school and could do the station. what is the 10th felt to abduction in this part of nigeria? since late last year, distraught parents have been gathering at the school the waiting news. police say that the few in those responsible, alongside the military gangs of so called vendors have been kidnapping students for ransom. fidelis and bob is following this for us from a boot. fidelis. what more do we know about this latest kidnapping? well the gone men found the get back to the high school just on the outskirts of katrina, city, which is the capital of the state, kidnapping, dozens of students. they had open fire, overpowering the security personnel,

and then loaded defense students into vehicles and took them to trust for it in that region. so the police released the statement saying that the men a hotspot, shoot off the bandits. i see, i know locally, alongside military personnel, like you mentioned, parents have been in the school just near the school waiting for answers because some of them were informed just monday morning when you can, nothing happened. and when they came to the school, nobody is really giving them much information because the security details, i feel trying to piece together information before getting across to the students as president. well, how about how do you have issued a statement and i am asking security agencies to go after the span dixon. we need to students not just them, because this is the default of such my abduction in cut enough states which are the most viewed by banding. we've had 10 of such my subtractions across the not with

region which has been taught by banding. right. thank you for that there. fidelis and bar in a boucher a fire at a plastic factory and thailand that killed at least 155 to an injured more than 30 is re ignited again. because of the blast of lace that stop the file. the block that started the fire other is still unknown. the public has been warned to stay out of a 10 kilometers on around the facility. on the outskirts of bangkok, let's go live now to tony chang, who joined us by scott from bangkok. so tony, this is re ignited now. what more do we know? about an hour and a half ago, the fire which the fire service had said was i was under control and almost extinguished at my shirley this morning. and for am local time. it's suddenly flared up again. we were seeing huge clouds of black smoke again with the chemicals

in this plastic factory. catching fun to firemen were injured, took them by surprise, have been evacuated to local hospitals. 200 people who had been coming back to their residence is because they filled the area with safe will quickly move down again. it appears in the last couple of minutes that the phone service has, once again got the fall under control and the, the black smoke they were saying is now subsided again. but it is raining very heavily at the moment that say the point is, is actually more of a problem. this is a chemical fine and the water from that rain could, couldn't make it ignite further. but the real problem is here that there was so much of the chemicals used to make this plastic packing in this factory more than one and a half tons, they don't know how much is the off, how much still remains. and i think that it's strange. the danger and the extent of

the file that we've seen that it's able to imply me again so quickly. so people i think are going to be very wary of returning home tonight. tony chang in bangkok, thank an industry group that includes facebook, twitter and google says pick joins, could stop offering best services in hong kong of a proposed changes to data privacy laws. the amendments target the malicious sharing of people's information known as doc thing. but the asia internet coalition says, while it's against talking, the draft law of vague wording could leave local stuff open to face criminal investigations and prosecution. companies have also faced new challenges after beijing imposed a national security. lauren hong kong, which critic se stifled freedoms and dissent. israel's new foreign minister, you are in the peed, has taken his 1st international trip. the destination, the united arab emirates, the country's established ties last year under a deal broken by the trump administration. a part of that deal is an oil contracts

that we'll see. tank is dark and israel, southern port i left you e will be sent through a pipeline to ash cologne in the north. then loaded on tank is bound for europe. that's causing concern among environmentalists, the stephanie decker reports from i lot. so call it like this actually is 5000 years old. ever seen that peter, me to seen the different kingdom. it took thousands of years to create but so fragile. it can be instantly killed. which is why environmentalist to sounding the alarm about an oil deal between israel and the united arab emirates that will soon see huge tankers deliver oil to israel, southern port of a lot from the u, a. e. just one of the pipes. actually somebody isn't putting the all into the water. ok. if you have one of the mean happen. yeah. why maybe

somebody did not close devolved to mattie is not working something technically you're going to have an oil spill which can be thousands of anita and that's coral . reef extends for around 11 kilometers along the coast, just over kilometer of that falls under a protected nature reserve created to protect it and the marine life which flourishes around it. but it won't be able to protect it from the many oil tanker is expected to pass through here under this deal talking here. but we understand what we're told just around 300 meters away from the precious carl relax. reef special. the carls are known to withstand large ranges of changes in temperature, making them potentially crucial in the survival of our reefs in the future by transplanting them to less resistant areas. a large red sea coast and it's under water life is also a major source of attraction for tourists. this mesmerizing underwater world artificially sustained in the local aquarium for all to see

a reminder of how important it is to protect it in our natural waters. all these economy with guy because stories are coming for the c 2 is coming to see fish to see to cause. and without these there's no reason why should people come to the desert? smaller tiger is an environmentalist. he and other groups of petition the supreme court to stop this oil deal and say they're still waiting for a response. we approach the israeli owned europe, asia pipeline company for comment. they issued a statement saying they're committed to maintaining the safety of the residence and protecting the values of the environment that they operate using the latest equipment, meeting strict international standards. but that doesn't appear to convince anyone here. this all the fast prophy is for the golf over the goal for voc up. we're talking about the place where full countries are leaving around it. we have jordan, salazar,

abs egypt. and these were all 4 countries leaving from tourism. any potential oil spill here and the inevitable gradual pollution because of the increased flow of mega oil tankers will be felt by stephanie decker, ultra 0, and that in southern israel. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. the world health organization has warned governments against easing cove at $900.00 restrictions to soon several countries in europe are relaxing rules, despite concerns about the highly contagious delta variant. part of the countries of the america, we still have nearly 1000000 cases week 1000000. a week cup it is an over am and the same in europe in europe, in region. we've half a 1000000 cases week like this thing has gone away. so i summers of this sense that

everyone thinks it's all over.