[000:00:00;00] ah me ah ah, ah. battling the corona virus on a south korean war ship have hundreds of sailors test positive. 19 ha . meanwhile, pumped up to pansy, england lift karone of restrictions, but scientist wanted could have a 100000 cases a day soon. a

hello there, mr. hey, this is alter their life from durham, also coming up. so the africa, braces for more unrest as former president jacob's room as corruption, trial resumes, well have a live update from the course. worried about carbon levels and the effect on climate change from walk by a still raging inside the area. well, a south korean war ship has become the latest battle ground for trying to combat the corona virus around the world. it's another example of just how aggressively the delta variance is fueling these curve in 1900 sturges, and just a week infections on board. the military vessel has gone from 6 to almost all the crew of 301. and comes south korea still fights, it's one outbreak at home. meanwhile, southeast asian nations are also struggling to contain the delta variance. indonesia is now battling an oxygen through shortage and now has more daily

infections in india and brazil. africa has recorded few, says another continence but there still been a 40 percent jump in code 19 death, just in the past week. only about one percent of the continent has been vaccinated . meanwhile, the confetti ann countdowns marked the start of what's being called freedom day. as england lifts almost all restrictions, but scientists are wanting that could be more than a $100000.00 cases a day. and just a matter of weeks around the pride is in. so with more on that south korean warship outbreak, it is a very alarming outbreak. given the fact that this did seem to spread through the entire ship's company in the matter of just a few days, it is rather reminiscent of the outbreak of the court to the u. s. aircraft carrier way back at the beginning of his pandemic in march of last year that was similarly stricken in the pacific ocean war. ships we know are incredibly vulnerable, confined spaces,

especially below decks with very little chance for large crews to socially distance . this is a much smaller ship and it's no less alarming out of the crew of some $3247.00 testing positive. this said destroyer is part of south korea contribution to the anti piracy task force of the east coast of africa. it still had another month of its deployment to run, but that has now been prematurely cut short as questions are being asked here is have career about given the vulnerability, why hadn't the crew been vaccinated? now the military have come under a lot of scrutiny and they had said that there were logistical problems in getting vaccines out to the ship. that may be true, but they certainly have much bigger that just tickle problems. now they have a stricken vessel and a sick crew, and the solution to it is by no means easy as they have sent from south korea to military craft to bring the entire crew back here to south korea. those same planes have taken out a replacement crew, a reduced crew of

a $150.00 sailors whose job it is now to bring this ill fated vessel back to south korea waters. home in while thailand has expanded its locked down as current of ours infections that continue to rise and now reported a 4th consecutive day of record new cases with more than 11000 infections. domestic flights have now been suspended and even more places are under curfew. people from high risk areas of also been asked to stay at home. tony chang has one from bank call. drove past the hospital to day where they were accused outside the hospital around the block of people waiting just to get tested. it's a real problem here. i think the government recognizes that they don't have the system this situation under control. they're trying to increase the level of the locked and we're still not seeing the same level of lockdown. we saw this time last year when very strict missions were in place. but they're tightening things up. this is the 2nd time in less than 7 days. they've increased the curfew. it's now no

longer optional. people have to stay in doors between the hours of 9 pm and 4 am. more places of business are being close to being forced to shut again. that was voluntary last week when they put these measures in place flights out of the capital a being ben. this is regarded as a deep red zone in an area of really serious infection. and they want to start people from moving in and out of bank up until the problem is the government kind of torn down in the south is trying to open up trying to get taurus back into pre kit and some movie now the other holiday island that opened up with the sandbox scheme, but with everything that's going on in the rest of the country, it seems very unlikely that time will open up. the prime minister's hope was that it would happen on the 1st of october. i think at this stage that's very, very optimistic. when i one of the biggest local sponsors of the tokyo olympics, i said it will not be airing. any commercials related to the games because of the

lack of public support for the event itself. to to chief executive officer, toyota will also miss the opening ceremony and tokyo on friday. paul suggest more than half of the japanese public do not want these games going ahead and nearly 70 percent say they down organizers can control curve in 1900 infections. there have been about 60 positive cases now reported amongst athletes. officials and journalists are fall deep to good us on a is a clinical epidemiologist and a senior electra queen mary university of london. she said lifting restrictions in england could lead to more mutations that can be even more dangerous. this is not a wireless that we can live with. i mean, we are seeing this virus evolve and the to a new how do you transfer me to believe every few months then which then takes over across the world and leads to another search. the only way to prevent this sort of bias that, that patient and protect our precious vaccine resources is to prevent transmission . and that's not just in the regional level. but in a global level,

we know that many countries don't have adequate access to vaccines. it will be a long time, perhaps even one or 2 years before everyone is vaccinated. and in that period of time, if we allow transmission to continue at high levels, we will see many, many more new radians. and one could potentially escape vaccines more 40, which could have implications for the band to me across the globe. so i think countries who think carefully about not just, you know, vaccination strategies, but also how to keep transmission low with good surveillance test with isolated systems. and you know, good measures to deal with transmission like investment and ventilation a, into environments and masking, and good border controls until we all get this under control. what's happened now is we've had a highly transmissible strain emerge, which is threatened elimination in areas that haven't had strong permission for long periods of time like vietnam. and that's what's really concerning. and if we continue to live with the wider, we want to see more and more transmissible streams that at some point,

and i'm just going to become impossible. and they may also keep ahead of our vaccines, which means even with the vaccines, we may not be able to protect ourselves. and that will be a really dangerous place to be, are moving on now and jacob zoom as long running corruption trial has resumed with the former south african president appearing in court via video link. zuba deny is charges of fraud and corruption, and money laundering billing to a $2000000000.00 alms deal with a french defense firm. when he was deputy president on july 7th, zoom a 100 himself into police to serve a 15 month prison sentence on a separate case. his arrest spoke to days of looting and via and violence. when it seemed to be at smith, he's outside that courthouse force in p. the mars berg bernard you've been covering the aftermath of the violence that we've seen this past week. can you remind us where this all began, what this trial is actually about? stacy, this goes back to 1999 and the deal involving 16 allegations

approve the jacobs numerous facing involving deals with fighter jets, another military hardware with 5 european countries. one companies, the one involved in this case, being polish, they denied any involvement, of course, denies corruption, but this has been going on for years and years and years and years. and finally, in may, the trial started after many attempts at postponement or getting the case thrown out, then zubair ended up being jailed a couple of weeks ago for failing to give it evidence to a corruption inquiry that was being that the government looking into corruption from when he was president, now zoom as lawyers are in court virtually today. the only person physically in the court room to my left hand is the judge. zoom in jail about 30 minutes drive away from here is lawyers are in his office. as lawyers say, the president has the rights to appear physically in court, and they want this trial now postponed until juma can appear in court. and even if

the judge rules that the trial can go had virtually they defends, also want the lead prosecutor taken off the case because they are lead. she lead things to the media. so this is what is being argued again today before the evidence can be heard in the trial problem. and can you talk us through what to expect from the court today in terms of outcomes, all their worries, we could potentially see more rest. i mean i see a huge security presence around you. busy there's a very strong security presence here, a lot of military, a lot of police because party as a consequence of the violence that was last week, there were fears, zoom, a supporters would turn up again here in pizza, march march book. today to show their support for the former president, they've been here a previous hearings in significant numbers. interestingly, there is no one here today. no obvious of assume a support is here as

a strong military police presence and a lot of media here. but generally, it's very quiet, and this is very interesting because that happened phases, zoom, and supporters would turn up the rest of the country all the rest. of course, you know how, how tang where most of the re looting inviting what was, is concentrating on rebuilding and re supplying stores and warehouses were ransacked. the president remembers that or i'm opposed to use a success. it says this was deliberately orchestrated, and there was a deliberate attempt to destabilizing the government by attacking the country's infrastructure and attacking the country. supply network alleged the people supporting zoom. where behind this, this is why there is concern over how this trial might pan out today. katie, a very delicate moment for south africa. bennett smith there for us outside the court and merits bank. thanks so much bye. now moving on and phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists,

and politicians have been hacked by government using spyware, owned by his rarely surveillance company, the n f o group. that's according to the latest investigation conducted by 16 media outlets jointly investigated, say they obtained a list of 50000 numbers targeted by the spyware pegasus. with these 600 politicians, 85 human rights activist, and almost 200 journalists from 50 countries have been effected. john was working for international news organizations such as the associated press, the new york times. bloomberg and algebra have been targeted since 2016. and so initially said the software would only be used to spy on terrorists and major criminals. these really, meanwhile, has called the investigations findings exaggerated and basis. while i spoke to pseudo, but roger, he's a founding editor of the why and also a journalist whose and phone was hacked. he says it needs to be legal repercussions . there is something known as muffled, lawful interception,

and there's the prescribed procedure for this mention in statute in government rules, as well as the guidelines and the you suspect, which of all hacking into my porn is specifically excluded from the definition of multiple levels because it is defined as one of the constituents of the crime of hacking. so if it has been found on my phone, as we can confirm, this means my phone was hacked. that's me, the crime was coming. the question is, who has committed the crime now? and that's all on the record, a thing that they only sell by where to so called better government. so it's really for the government of india to answer. and when they've been in the past that are you, are you a user of pegasus? the have stopped? well, short of it, categorical denies, but the government has never been denied on the record that they use. pegasus is really, you know, in military and civilian technology have developed

a lot of tools which are very useful for government around the world, particularly those that play fast and loose with the humanitarian norms or democratic norms. and so the targeting of journalists cannot be justified by any people to national security, which is the usual alibi cited by, by government when they, when they tread on civil liberties hostile. ahead here on algebra, a cleaner foster floods in western europe as heavy rain continues to fall. ah well, it suddenly got quite active in the western pacific,

just the top of your chart there in fall going off and other ones appeared south of china. so that's where we actually will the big showers in the philippines, southern china, which means is not much in this big gap here to pick up a few. and they are concentrating in southern sumatra in jakarta and they're crossing silhouette ac. otherwise, daily showers, i'm not surprising. the heavier ones could cause bigger problems in jakarta, always a potentially flooded place in australia, winters really talking, you know, wanting to the strength of the wind to day in victoria, probably tomorrow as well. this next, just to bring it colder, it looks like 14 and that's when the sunrise. and this here is why cross the victoria. now you're good dump of snow coming your way in perth. that's an active system. windy and wet weather coming into later on tuesday and lasting throughout wednesday, slowly eating as the sun tries to show through the sun should return in victoria and new south wales 10 degrees in camber. this being wednesday, there is still some flooding on the ground in this far northern part of south

island, but there's no more rain to come on tuesday. wednesday is a different story. the rain says to come in on this western side of sapphire island . the across the world, young activists and organizers around them motivated politically engaged the challenges they face couldn't be more daunting here. and beta we were the one who had life on what was going on. and the way that will mean media, then there's looking stuff that goes on is always in a dynamic formation. we have the agency to create the vibe of the generation. we change on al jazeera

o a hello again, i'm the south bay and are home that remind you about top stories, the salad, the majority of personnel on board a south korean military ship have tested positive for the corona, virus infections, bike from 6 to 247 in just a week and comes south korea continues to fight at west outbreak at home. taken soon as a long running corruption trial has resumed with the former south african president appearing in court 5 video link, zoom, it denies charges of fraud corruption and money laundering his arrest on july 7th. on a separate case, fund day is a violence and looting phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists and politicians have been hacked by government using spyware. owned find is really surveillance company, the n f o group. these really fun has called the investigation findings exaggerated

and based how heavy rain has triggered flooding and the austrian bought a ton of her lane, streets across the old city was much there's you can see after the cost back of river best it's banks residence, had been evacuated from several districts and the man has declared to disaster. the government has pledged to support the people affected. meanwhile, german chancellor angler market has described the scenes in flood damaged villages there as surreal and ghostly and the crisis and parts of europe is only getting more heavy. rain has had parts of eastern germany, austria and the czech republic, at least 183 people have been confirmed dead. that number still expected to arrive . adam rainy reports now from shore in germany. destruction on a scale hardly imaginable. people in short, germany are clearing out what the flood waters left behind at a local guest house in bery,

they're taking stock and saving whatever they can with fish and fish are going to do the picture. good line of also some to salt. all bar manager, michael croyt, it shows us how high the water rose here. often there's some saturday was meant to be the brewery grand opening after 4 month renovation. now he says he'll be lucky if they open within a year, the cushion line and was annoyed on that, but i will not thousands. i'm not one in under the everything in the seller was destroyed, the heating everything technical and the cooling. we're talking at least 3 quarters of a 1000000 euros to replace it all. with recovering clean up effort fully underway, chancellor merkel came to this region on sunday, promising give the people what they need and she was clearly touched by what she thought. is this a 2nd? it's terrifying. i would say there is no word in the german language to describe this devastation. but what i witness is incredibly comforting. it's how people are sticking together,

how they helping each other. this solidarity among people. the merkel cabinet is scheduled to meet on wednesday, where, according to report, they'll approve billions of years in relief and reconstruction funds down in the village. it's all hands on deck volunteers that come from across germany to help out the burner knowing if in his 2 friends came from the neighboring village and you're going to don people, it's crazy to see all the people that now become poorer from one day to the next, they can use all the help they can get back at the bar, michel croyt says he doesn't have time for the sadness to see been help his started to arrive and he wants to focus on reopening as soon as he can. adarine al jazeera short of germany. i'm floods to fires more than 10005 fighters right now, struggling to get wildfires under control. across the western united states, thousands of people have had to flee their homes. the national weather service has

warned that 5 conditions alone, the worse and in the coming days, drought and high temperatures of help to fuel the flame. on meanwhile, more than $180.00 wildfires are burning across the russian province of siberia. the crew here region is one of the west effected areas. almost 2505 fighters have been called into battle the blazes there. now, while fires do happen in that region, every summer this year, its been even more intense due to record high temperatures. or above many reports. uncontrollable blazes is consumed thousands of kilometers of siberian forests. as the trees burned to a thin building, smoke drifted towards your goods city and dozens more towns. yeah. could hear the officials won't residence, to shut windows and stay in doors to avoid choking smoke. any good but with our eyes are burning and over all the smoke is very dangerous for the health of us

villages. we see on television planes that are dropping water on the burning forest, but they are sending these plains to help us for some reason. yet katia has been in the state of emergency for weeks last month the temperature saw to 38 degrees celsius if the highest ever recorded in the arctic circle. this not from nasa shows in read the early summer heat waves that have been scorching eastern russia and europe. the pilgrims. that's okay. it's all because of the drought for the 3rd year straight. we aren't getting the copious amounts of rain that we used to get. the heat wave is sucking moisture of roots and trees creating a tinderbox in siberia. usually one of the coldest regions on earth, the fires are consuming what was once permanently frozen ground. and the carbon rich pete below. scientists worry that this will release more carbon into the

atmosphere and contribute to climate change. for that purpose out, i would probably kill the situation with wild fires in our republic is pretty difficult because we're experiencing the trial summers in the past 150 years. and the code here on the month of june was the hospital records. the russian military is flowing in fi. fi has more than 2500 a battling the flames. the weather is exacerbating the problem. if not for the strong winds, we could do it faster. what you see, how strong the winds are. that's our biggest problems, right? now the passenger flights you could have been suspended. now military planes are taking to the skies to douse the flames. but these fires are also igniting unger month resident by boat, bottom, many se moscow hasn't acted fast enough or sent enough resources. people already feel isolated from the kremlin,

which is almost 5000 kilometers away. now they feel abandoned to northern manley out there. well, that's not brigand, mark decent off. he is a climate solutions specialist and also an honorary associate professor at the university of new south wales. he joins us now from sydney. mach well does watching these catastrophic floods at the same time. these raging wildfires in some places that you wouldn't necessarily expect. often what you've seen an australia, i don't suppose you're surprised by all this. and those also tries climate. science means that wildfires will become fees and more frequent. that climate change also warms the atmosphere and they have to sphere then holds more water. so when it does rain, the rain can come down, but in torrents, and so we can get get floods as well. mark the impact of climate change as we're seeing now becoming more and more pronounced. there have been these warnings that things could happen much more quickly than predicted, especially when you take into account big emission moments like permafrost melts

and maintain, and methane emissions. now, i know for us humans to take action. we need to believe that it isn't too late. but is it we can't be sure, but all we can say is we keep on. we must keep on struggling to get to the solutions. we know what the solutions are, but i'm afraid many governments and industries unwilling to change at mark, i know you're yourself, work on sustainable development and renewables. now, given what we've pumped into the atmosphere already, we're not just going to have to try to cut emissions to mitigate climate change, but also to adapt to what's already going to happen. is that change now happening fast enough? i think we are not changing fast enough. we are not moving towards the solutions. part of the solution is technological. we must transition all fossil fuels to renewable energy and energy efficiency. that will, will be a huge step forward,

but it won't be enough. i'm afraid. most of the emissions caused by high income countries and rapidly developing countries moving towards high income. and so we actually have to reduce our consumption. now consumption is creating more and more emissions. and this is a very difficult message to, to get across particularly to industry and business and decision makers. but ultimately, not only do we have to make technological change, we have to make changes to our socio economic system. and that means reducing energy consumption and reducing consumption more broadly. mark for a long time, we've been talking about all the changes that need to happen now, given the policies that are on the table at the moment that close the global awareness, it's growing as we're seeing, rich countries start feeling the pain. like now you personally optimistic about the future not the mistake,

but we will make the necessary technological changes, but i fear that will make them so late that will experience much worse climate change than with seeing right now. we will see worse droughts, worse heat waves, was fast films and worse floods. so i just hoped that as a public consciousness grows and the pressure on government's grows, we will respond at last with great effectiveness and speed. and really time is of the essence. now. we all heard that, i think mark, mark different of the climate solutions specialist and honor. i associate professor at the university of new south wales. thanks so much for sharing your expertise with us here on out was aramark. thank you for having me on your program. now moving on and a chord in japan has handed down prison sentences to, to americans who helped form a nissan chairman called school to flee the country. michael taylor, us on the veteran was the 2 years in jail and his on peace was given a sentence of

a year and 8 months. they've needed guilty to helping or escape to 11 on back in 2018. the boss is facing charges of financial misconduct in japan, which he denies an afghan government delegation on the taliban say they will hold more meetings. after 2 days of inconclusive talks here and katha, they issued a joint statement saying that negotiations will continue until a settlement is reached and thought about disagreed with proposals on a political roadmap and a constitution for canister on the group. once prison is released. but the afghan delegation says sci fi is their top priority. how far? right, pretty common taishan katie hopkins, will be deported from australia, after she boasted on social media about breaching quarantine roles. hopkins traveled to a trailer to take part in the reality tv show. she was in 14 day mandatory hotel quarantine and sydney before phoning was used to start her trip,

sparked outrage because the government has kept strict caps on the numbers of even a straight eons allowed to return home, leaving tens of thousands stranded overseas. i thought it was just shameful. the fact that she was out there, boasting about breaching quarantine, was just pulling it was a slap in the face for all lies a strains who are currently in lockdown and it's just unacceptable behavior. so i personally, i'm very place she'll be leaving her. the un wild heritage committee is proposing to label the australian great barrier reef as in danger. the israeli and government describes this move as a politically motivated one. as the announcement was made at the meeting in china relations between camera and beijing have worse and in recent years, but it's really it was warned of the listing back in 2014 climate change has been cited as contributing to the loss of coral reef. there are muslims around the world are mocking the day of our 5. it's one of the most important days in the atlantic

calendar and also during the hodge pilgrimage. considered a day of repentance around 60000 worship is carrying out a series of rituals, and pres, as they leave mina and head to mount arafat, where the prophet muhammad held his last farewell sermon. and normally nearly 2 and a half 1000000 muslims would be taking part in this annual gatherings, but probably $900.00 restrictions has this year, limited them to a small number of saudi vaccination residents. ah, hi there. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. the majority of personnel aboard a south korean military ship have tested positive for the corona. virus infection spiked from 6 to 247 in just a week and comes a south korea fights. it's west outbreak at home. robert bride has worn out from sol. questions are being asked here is how career about given the vulnerability.