like the city we say we need to take america to try to bring people together trying to deal with people who left behind me. ah . the world health organization wants to panoramic a far from over there just countries to rethink easing their grown virus restrictions. ah. tell them how am i being and this is al jazeera life and go home. also coming up lebanon's, caretaker prime minister says it's days away from social exclusion. and that's the world steps in the financial rescue. oh,

not destroyed parents gathered to school or around 150 students have been adapted in one juniors, latest last kidnapping. your oil between the united arab emirates and israel is causing concern among environmental. i'm stephanie decker on the waters off a latch. we'll have that story coming up in the world health organization has warned against ease and coven 19 restrictions to soon criticizing what it calls a premature rush back to full mortality. number of countries across europe are significantly relaxing their rules, as despite vice numbers, some concerns about highly and contagious felt at variance. the w. h. o insists the pandemic is not over yet. and for the 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 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 summers of the 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. but i think that's where we're going again, with a much more transmissible, very ample time, around after months of criticism that covered 19 vaccines weren't reaching, develop nations, not kill asian efforts, are picking up. and charlotte bellis reports. the focus is on keeping pace with new

variance. vaccine drives, the gathering pace and countries around the world. this is 1500000 doses of them are doing vaccine 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 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 is a visiting market to get as many people vaccinated as possible, though visit 130 in the capital abbey, john in the next 2 weeks. in some countries in africa, covered 19 case numbers, a doubling every 3 weeks. i have just received my covert vaccine and we were leased 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, deaths on tuesday. 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 and take the 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, keeping people out of a hospital. there's no doubt that there is a level of escape with the does have a 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, that 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, we're far from over the, i see you at the main hospital in the capitol. susie is full. so as the cities morgue, 10 percent of the genes are fully vaccinated. officials are hoping to increase that number to stop the spread charlotte bellis out to 0. well simberg prime minister is in a serious and fable condition in hospital where he's being treated for coven, 19 savvy bethel tested positive shortly after a t v. e summit in brussels. at the end of june. he was between his 2 vaccine doses

. folks say he's recovering, but of decided to keep him in hospital under observation, lebanon came to take apart, minister is warning, his country is days away from what he calls a social explosion, half and the up is appealing for help. so avoid, i tried economic ruin. the world is offered a financial lifeline, but once a government formed 1st with a reform plan to do with corruption, the obsess, the global community must step in and out. well, actually the article by play today to all the king's princesses, presidents, leaders and ally and friendly nations. and i call on the united nations and all international agencies in public opinion to help save to live in a 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? they know how to 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 time. there is a fuel crisis just as there is a lack of medicine after people fill up their cars with gas, they go to 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 11 people turn in the local currency, which is now worth less than $50.00. and the reason is if i am going to destroy 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. on the central bank. mandatory reserve is drying out, and the central bank was giving importers dollars in order to, you know, 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 breads. 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 import to almost everything that it needs. cutter. one of the golf country

since offered to help her since it's foreign minister to be rude for more talks. mohammed been up to rockman funny as meeting present, michelle, i will permit to designate side harry as well as the commander of the lebanese army, cheering his last visit back in february. he said, assistance was dependence on the formation of a new lebanese government. israel's government says, now the last vote in parliament raising doubts about the viability. if you call addition, it failed to renew a contentious law, the bars palestinians, and the occupied territory and settling permanently with their spices. in israel, 59 members voted in favor and an equal number voted against it after an all night convinced that session a virtual court hearing is under way in south africa over former president jacob soon that is fighting against a prison sentence that has been ordered 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 as a case judges of bias for me, the miller has more for p. s or merits burg. the former president, jacob's dumas lawyer, is still arguing around the issue of restriction, and that's before he even gets into the merits of wanting to hold that rest of the former president. and why jurisdiction is important is because in the last week, the constitutional court ordered that the former president spend 15 months in prison before contempt of court. and the constitutional court is the highest court in the land, and it can't be appealed. and so it would be quite extraordinary if jacob's dumas legal team was successful at the high court, given that it doesn't necessarily have the fall was to challenge or send an order by the constitutional court. but jacobs who might, is relying on being successful in court today to prevent that race from taking

place. he was opposed to have handed himself over to police by sunday. that was 5 days after that court judgment. and if not, he would then face arrest, which is the reality at the moment. and, and what's happening in court is an attempt to stop that. but why this is also important because a sort of the outside his residence as in northern could do natal. hundreds of supporters came out to defend the former president. they say from the prosecution from arrest saying they wouldn't accept it. and so the african national congress, the part to he belongs to the governing party. and so that's because also issued a statement saying those kind of scenes was unacceptable, especially during a level for locked out in south africa where we are not supposed to have gatherings of a large amount of people know gatherings a tool in fact, still ahead on all to say we're all still former vice chancellor, it goes in charlotte part of a b for gates scandal that led to the glass on the previous government and get the

job or lose your job. why refusing to be vaccinated? truth be costly for some employees, return to the office in the us. ah, hello there, let start in south asia and the heat continues across more than pakistan and north west in india as those monsoon rains store. so things are looking very hot and dry . the wet, wet weather will arrive at the weekend, but for now, temperatures sticking in the early forty's for the south of that, we have got the wet weather. those monsoon rains, inundating the western coast, falling particularly heavy heavily in terror. la and southern areas, we have got a landslide alert out for the south west of sri lanka where those storms are expected to be pretty heavy. as we move into thursday those storms do pick up more

sensually across the east coast of india and in the north east, we've got amber warnings out for a number of states here. now paul is going to keep seeing that whether we could see more land slides and floods to send the story for baton, bangladesh and me and mom. and as we move over to east asia, it's a similar story for japan. it's just being inundated with rain over the next few days we could see more devastating land slides where that torrential rain continues to fall. and as we follow the system back, it's not just the korean peninsula. it's also shanghai that's going to see the wet weather with storms and showers on schedule. the when a war crime is committed, who is coming to the, i'll just follows that garzon human rights investigator on his unprecedented journey to the french high court. i says it every place to make sure that

that's going to bring that's context taking on the arms trade in his fight for justice, for innocence, palestinians and their families made in france and disease the the me this is al jazeera, a quick reminder of the top stories this, our world health organization has won governments against ease and coven 19 restrictions to soon several countries in europe are relaxing rules, despite concerns about the highly contagious delta variance of care. taken. prime

minister is warning his country is days away from what he called the social explosion. the up as appealing for international help to resolve the economic crisis. out of virtual court hearing has begun in south africa over former president, jacob fin a fight against a prison sentence in order to spend 15 months in jail for failing to appear at a cause option inquiry. nearly 150 school students are missing in northwest nigeria, after attack is rated. a boarding school is the latest in a recent wave of mass abductions, targeting students there to the wolf with more distraught parents gather the school compound consoling one another. as a wait to your use of their missing child, ripped sandals and empty beds are all that remain after attackers rated the battle . baptists boring school in northwest nigeria, while students slept this morning about 6 to

maybe have given up a new light shooting. and i'll talk including my police, say the assailants overpowered security guards and took the victims into a nearby forest. more than 2 dozen students have been rescued. this is the regions tent, my school kidnapping since december a day earlier, and a separate attack on a health center north of cad do not city about a dozen people were abducted in been children as young as 3 minor owners. many in northern nigeria live in poverty and don't have jobs. the region has seen a rising kidnappings for ransom in recent years, which is having a devastating impact on education. in 2014 the world watched an outrage as the rom fighters kidnapped 276, google from chip secondary school. president mohammed who will hurry,

his face mounting criticism about his government, struggle to tackle the crisis with families calling on the international community for help with standing one voice. we don't want, you know, to want to love you guys, but for this community, fear has spread that no school anywhere seems to be showing move out to 0. police and hong kong have arrested 9 people, suspected of involvement and a bomb. once they're accused of making explosives to font at multiple sites across the city. think secondary school students are among the suspects as a to him. brian reports, hong kong police presented the media with evidence of what they say was a plot to make and plant bombs across the city, helmet, shields, their guns walkie talkies and chemicals. and a list of targets cooling thee across about tunnel. well,

ways caught rooms and even they wanted to lay the bomb in the, in the rubbish been on the streets with avail to, to, to maximize the damage caused to, to the society. 6 of those arrested all secondary school students. it is a 10th time in hong kong, or you know, it's almost a week since a man died after stopping a police officer and then him so security officials classified it as a lone wolf terrorist attack messages on social media. later, up at condolences to the assailants family, the events of the past few days demonstrate that the anti government protest movement may not have been entirely extinguished. and that se analysts may lead to a new and wide campaign against percent. it's a year since a sweeping national security law was imposed on hong kong. now the government is proposing legislation to amend the privacy law or a thumbs to the protests in 2019,

when private details of police judges and journalists were disclosed on line. a practice known as doc thing, but tech companies like google, twitter, and facebook. a worried the proposed changes could lead to local employees being find or jailed. if they refuse to handle that data to the hong kong government. as a consequence, they warned they might quit the territory one of the world's leading financial centers. hong kong chief executive says that only illegal behavior is being targeted. her law at the old chalice. as we all know, many people in hong kong have been traumatized by doc thing on the internet for a long time. this brought support in society and to solve this problem and said this time, the amendment of the legislation is to solve this problem. experts say the proposed changes add to the mood of uncertainty among foreign investors. this could have a very negative impact on the business climate,

on its reputation for the free flow of information. now for some, the territory reputation for safety is also being questioned. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong, as a search in season forest and russia for plain that's gone. missing almost 30 people on boards. the turbo proposed contact for their traffic control and failed failed to land as schedules on the come check cut peninsula and 26 planes. manufactured until 1986 have been involved in several accidents in recent years. a court and beller is for sentenced a former presidential contender to 14 years in prison on corruption charges. victor barber eco has been convicted of money laundering, bribery, and tax evasion. is arrested last year when he tried to register his candidacy against president of sunday lucas shanker, a crack then on anti government. protests was followed the votes, but for the votes and led to sanctions against minsk. the trial of austria's former

vice chancellor hines christian straw, her own corruption charges has begun in vienna straw. her who's also the leader of the right when freedom party is accused of offering to change a law to help a party donor, secure public funding for his private hospital is part of what's known as the it be for gate scandal. hines christian struck her was secretly films with a woman posing as a wealthy russian by holiday on spanish islands and 2017. he offered a state contracts in exchange for financing. his election campaign struck her, also made a pitch to sell off. austria's will stretch tablets and change, et cetera. tauriel lines to support him. the video was linked in 2019, but then the coalition governments and engine has synthesized chancellor of our writing as a journalist and correspondent for the german daily hours per gallagher minor. he says several investigations and i looking into the wider issue of corruption and austria 1st,

or we have to say this is just the 1st trial that came out of the famous. i'm famous, it's a video that you just mentioned. and of course, traffic is the main protagonist of this video. as you might know, it left 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, of several investigations that took place afterwards. and since the video came out, actually the focus that you know, both the criminal investigation, the state of turn, the investigations as well as the investigation of the opposition parties and the parliament in austria here into what have been said in this meeting has shifted.

and it's no longer about time system slacker and the freedom party, but it's more about, you know, the allegations of bribery of corruption about that mister clips. the still chancellor, who has now a clinician with the green tardy, has to face it's about basically one sentence that 1st set him this video. it's about 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 all majors, to change laws in their favor. and so this is what has been looked into now, both by the criminal investigators, as well as the by the opposition parties and parliament. a fire as a plastic factor in thailand that killed at least $14.00 or 5 or an injured more than 30 as re ignited again, cause the blast started to fire. so unknown, the public has been born to stay out of

a 10 kilometer zone around the facility on that skirts of bank coke. israel's new foreign minister. yeah, your la pete has taken his 1st international trip to the destination. the united arab emirates, the country's establish ties last year under a deal brokered by the trump administration. part of that deal is an all contract that we'll see tankers doke and israel, southern ports of islands. you re, oil will be sent through a pipeline to ash cologne in the north. then loaded onto tankers bind for europe as cause and concern among environmentalists. stephanie decker reports from i lots. so cause like this actually is 5000 the ever seem to be the me to seem different kingdom. it took thousands of years to create but so fragile. it can be instantly killed. which is why environmentalist, a 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 actually somebody isn't putting that into the water. ok. if you have what happened? yeah. one minute somebody did not. close devolved your method is not working. something technically you're going to have an oil spill which can be 1000, go benito, not coral reef. extends for around 11 kilometers along the coast and just over kilometer 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 tankers expected to pass through here under this deal. talking here what we understand, what we're told, just around 300 meters away from the precious coral b. last reef special. the curls 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 that 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? smolik 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 these really own 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 that goal. for voc cover, we're talking about the place where the full countries are leaving around it. we have jordan salad or egypt and he's read all 4 countries leaving from to reason any potential oil spill here and the inevitable gradual pollution because of the increase flow of mega oil tankers will be felt by stephanie decker, ultra 0, not in southern israel. more than a year and a half into the pandemic, and companies feeling more confident that bringing employees back into the office. but in the us, some who refused to get vaccinated risk losing their job's gabriel. as on the reports from new york in new york city with cove, it well under control and more than 50 percent of the population fully vaccinated. workers are slowly beginning to return to the office, but was study showing as many as 25 percent of american saying they have no plans

to get the jap can employers demanded. the short answer is yes. employers have a lot of freedom. employers in the u. s. can demand record the vaccination of proof of vaccination. they can of course, ask employees if they've been vaccinated. employers can even go one step further and, and require vaccination of their employees. the hospital in houston did just that back seen mandate for employees over a 150 health care workers are refused, were fired or resigned. eve client has been practicing labor and employment law for over 30 years. she tells me there are only 3 groups of people that cannot be fired from their job for refusing the vaccine. someone with the disability. for example, somebody who is immunocompromised may not be able to get back to native, or if they get vaccinated, it, they may not have the anti bodies that are necessary to keep them likely to be covered free. let's say somebody on chemotherapy. so that might be somebody who

can't be ex, native, or vaccinated, but still needs precautions. they might be out of the workplace. the others protected from firing for not getting vaccinated or pregnant women. and anybody who's religious belief prevents vaccines for now, u. s. companies are still trading carefully. delta airlines is requiring new hires get vaccinated, but not explicitly demanding it of current employees. mcdonalds is offering 4 hours of paid time off from please to jan. while new hires and amazon are given a $100.00 bonus on their 1st day after showing proof of explanation. complicating matters further that delta variant, the highly infectious strain, now accounts for a quarter of all new cobra cases in the us and has seen some countries holt or even reverse their reopening plants. there is no one size fits all approach. of course labor laws differ country by country,

but with the majority of us companies planning to call back employees to the office in the coming weeks, the u. s. could be a test case on what works. and perhaps what doesn't. gabriel's condo, i would use either new york. ah, this is al jazeera and fees of the headlines. the world health organization has one governments against even call the 1900 restrictions to soon several countries in europe are relaxing rules, despite concerns that the highly contagious delta variance all of the countries of the america. we still have nearly 1000000 cases. week 1000000 a week in the hook up, it is an over am and the same in europe and europe in region. we've half a 1000000 cases week like this thing has gone away. so.