is problematic, will it be 3rd time lucky in the bulgarian election? special cap rates on pal to thera, gutter, one of the fastest growing nations in the world. ah, won the cause of needed to oakland and develop it all right into national shipping company to become a p middle eastern trade and wanting skillfully knocked out 3 key areas of develop who filling up from it. so connecting the world, connecting the future, won the cost cutters, gateway to whoa trade, the stage a set, and it's time for a different approach. one that is going to challenge the way you think from international politics, to the global pandemic, and everything in between. upfront with me, mark lamond hill on out 0. ah

ah, this is al jazeera, quick reminder on the top stories this are. russia has dental eyes playing any role in the micro crisis on the pool and spellers. border. european union is placing more sanctions own bellows. next week, thousands of people are stuck on poland border with bell louis and the standoff between the 2 countries is deepening. the former south african president, f w. a clerk has dies at the age of 85, who's the countries lost a part idea of presidents from the u. k. as prime minister boris johnson's. welcome to the u. s. and china deal both countries. st. clair's that they'll work together on climate action. countries issued their joint statement separately on wednesday. let's get more on the top story. the situation on the poland spelling was border,

or there i spoke to evolution of volunteer, who provides humanitarian aids and supports on the border. i've been involved in an effort to provide an age to you know, people, migrant refugees stranded in depaula in the us on the police side of the border the on the phone called restricted area because no one can enter that part and even different organizations can enter this part, but i actually met even beyond this is close mixing it up like one or 2 or 3 kilometers from the border in the for i think the best for us. my son and the other volunteers and also the inhabitants from the region. we've been providing major in a directly on the front line and say, in the form of providing food, warm foods, tea, clothes, shoes, you know, all the basic stuff that is needed and water and,

and so on. some medicine, some, some great. first aid to to the people's lar stranded and been involved in the rosters are going to get for because the professional big organizations are not here. i know they are not allowed to enter the area but also the president them from thing beyond this area. and i would, i would expect that they would, they would act and, and of ok for, for being out and just just come germany has recorded in excess of 50000 covert infections. it's highest numbers and the pandemic began incoming german chancellor schultz called a meeting to discuss how to react break his spin blame on germany's relatively low vaccination rates of runs. 67 percent of those customers don't cain, he's low for us in berlin. dominic, these are staggering numbers, we'll find it. yeah, well that's the question. so many people here in germany have been asking for some

time. certainly over the course of recent days, we've seen ever climbing numbers now, as you say, more than 50000 people being diagnosed with the virus and a say, those numbers just keep going up and up and up. the problem many people say is that there is a lack of direction coming from the government, because right now you have a caretaker government in, in office, but not really in power as it were. so although angle immacule is still chancellor, although olaf shots is still finance minister because coalition discussions are going on behind the scenes, there isn't really, as it were a firm hand on the tele. now mr. shots has been accused by some in the media and by some other politicians of not really having stepped up as it were, into the role which she really wants to take. as chancellor. he's been addressing those concerns and talking about corona and the measures that need to be put in

place in parliament. this is what he had to say to members of parliament a few hours ago that the us of not want on the viruses still with us and threatening our health. therefore, it's very, very important that we take all measures to be sure that we can protect the health of the citizens of our country. although the situation is different because many people have been vaccinated i, it's still not good. especially because the to few people so far have taken the opportunity to have the vaccine said on the next 1st the government planning to do to tackle this school question would be which government that's the point here. you have this rather strange situation where the previous government grand coalition of left and rights is in office, but as a say not really in power. whereas those parties who want to form the governments and who now have a majority in parliament will then not in office. yes. and so no one seems really

clear as to what the next step is. we certainly have in this federal republic, 16 states make up the federal republic and prime ministers of several of those states have started advocating one approach or another. so for example, here in berlin, they have what's called, that's fi, gay, they go the 2 g rule in german. that means what you have to have to be able to prove that you have either recovered from the virus all that you have been vaccinated. with that in place, you were able to go to bars restaurants and that sort of thing. without that proof, you can't do that, but in other states, it's in a different situation. for example, in the state of bavaria, the southern states for varia, which is governed by the christian social union, in other words, one of angled and ackles key allies. there you have the prime minister, put saying that his state is now in a catastrophic situation where the numbers all along the bavarian border with austria and with the check republic are going up through the roof. and so you have,

as i say, lots of different approaches coming from the different states. mr. shots, the current vice chancellor finance minister, the man who wants to be chancellor in the next few weeks where he is said, there will be a meeting of the federal government and the states leaders where they work out what to do next. that's not going to come for another week, and all the while, 50000 people are being diagnosed with coroner every day. that means in the course of 3 weeks, if those numbers stay the way they were, that would be 1000000 new infections, which explains why everybody wants to see something done as quickly as possible. ok, dominic cane, updating his life from maryland. thank you. dominic. at least 25 people have been killed by flood sant landslide. since runker, roads and homes across the country are inundated, after more than a week of heavy rain. 1200000 people have been affected. it's monsoon season and brains were expected,

but the floods came suddenly. this time the man is expected to ease over the coming days or men n me. now fernanda se joins me now form colombo. now, what walkie tellers? the rains have been a bucket thing across the country and for people affected there's been no respite for 5 days. essentially when the skies have opened up and we're not talking small showers. essentially, the mitre logical department has told us that 100 millimeters 150 millimeters a day. i mean, this is the kind of quantities of rain that certain areas don't even receive in a year. but this has been the problem, and this is why we're seeing that. that's all. what we've heard is that the tool has gone up to 26, and a large number of those fatalities basically losing their lives in earth,

flips or massive landslides, as opposed to all of them being drowning in lots of the flooding areas. so there have been landslide warnings in a number of parts of the country. and even sort of, you know, very, very unfortunate and said cases where the entire families have got crushed under tips. there was one family in rumble, couldn't 2 days ago. 3 members of the same family were killed in an a landslide that have been one or 2 sort of. the 2 were linings where they have been rescued. but generally, the landslide have been a problem and the national building research organization warning that the very real threat of for the, for the eclipse is very, very possible. so that has been some of the issues that is facing mental fernandez the lifers in colombo. thank you. minnow north macedonia,

parliament is holding a no confidence votes against the government. soren's eye of follows the social democratic prime minister to spalding his announcement resignation indefinitely. i have suffered a heavy defeats in local elections. the main right when opposition leaders secured the support of 61 parliaments, 120 legislators to bring on the motion for 61 vote in favor of it, the governments will be removed. if neither party succeeds in forming a government, an early election will likely be held in spring. john sir oculus has more from scorpion. this government could fall by the end of the day if the prime minister loses the vote of confidence, he must within 24 hours. and in his resignation to the president of the the lack of satisfaction in this government's performance stems largely as we're

hearing from it's ineffectiveness in progressing north macedonia, down the path to towards e. u membership. the latest disappointment came earlier this year, when there was a special meeting of e u leaders to decide on whether an official invitation would be issued to tell pena and north macedonia. to begin next session talks on that invitation, didn't come. that seems to have been the last straw for a lot of people who went to the polls on the last day of october in local elections that were held nationwide. the ruling coalition of the social democrats lost almost 3 quarters of municipalities. and after that prime minister zones, i have said i no longer have the confidence of the people. i must go. however, he has not gone. and that is what prompted the 61 legislators 2 days ago to back an opposition call for a vote of no confidence. nominally the government control 62 and peas,

but the fact that 3 of them sided with the opposition cole for a vote of no confidence suggests that mr. z, i may not control all 62 of his m p 's. and it's therefore, perhaps more likely that he will lose that confidence motion. in tennessee, there are more protest taking place in the city of a gora, pastoral person was killed st. confrontations with security forces. according to the demonstrators, the man died on choose day after police fire tear gas to disperse them. they've been blocking roads in protest against the government decision to be open to landfill signs. that was close to earlier this here the u. e by her in israel, and the u. s. have begun conducting military exercises in the red sea. the multilateral naval operation is the 1st of its kind since the 2 gulf nations normalized relations with israel last year. the exercise will take place for 5 days

. focused on foreign minister has said the international community must avoid repeating past mistakes and perceived positive engagements where the afghan of son sharma would career. she was speaking at a meeting in islamabad with senior diplomats from the united states, china, russia, and afghanistan. to discuss the situation since the taliban take over. the worsening humanitarian situation and the refugee crisis. where the focus of the talks, environmentalists and new delhi had accused the government of not understanding the link between the environments and public health coalition has reached a critical point in the capitol. the air is choked with smoke and the sacred human a river is churning. toxic foam, have natar reports. ah, these images have come to define new daily's pollution crises. hundreds of devotees

are taking a dip in a river covered in take form caused by toxic waste that flows into it every day. then it is really dirty, but what can we do? we need to do our rituals and had to do them in dirty water. we can't do this at home and have to come here for the festival gun. they're going to be owning it shouldn't be for the but what can we do? people who are responsible on making so much money in the name of cleaning the small stretch of the yamuna that flows through daily is the main source of water for the cities. 20000000 people. it's also one of the most polluted in the world. the government has ford billions of dollars into cleaning the yamuna, but it's still polluted and covered in full. most of the of it's also banned. be broken, entering the water st. paul, to clean out the pool and set a barricade to stop it from reaching the bank. but critics say that this has nothing to solve the issue, and now people have them all, despite the stange and the food. meanwhile,

the equality in one of the world's most polluted cities has plunged to its worst levels, the season. much of it has come from neighboring states, where farm fires like these have been burning for weeks. politicians admit their strategies have had little impact. the biggest obstacle is that via belly government has a very aggressive action plan against pollution. we do not have any kind of a deed, an election plan mandated by the central government on pollution that holds all the north indian states accountable for their actions. environmentalists have criticized the gulf in for its approach to these crises, lack of political will, lack of bureaucratic will, a lack of urgency and correlation, understanding the link between public ecology and public health in our political and we were really glad to class is extremely important. and that is the mean problem that makes our air toxic ariba frothing up and our forest disappear. study say air pollution, cost billions of dollars every year,

and is one of the leading causes of death in the city. millions of people are struggling while the government tries to find a solution. hardening metal al jazeera, you deli harlan's tech industry is only open up and so as it's environmental impacts power hungry days has sensors are demanding ever more electricity into warnings of blackouts. the barker reports from dublin on the outskirts of the irish capital tack giant, microsoft laying the foundations of a vast new data center. a short walk away from where google has one of its colossal hubs. they're so big they can use as much electricity as a small city and eat around 500000 liters of water a day to cool their systems. we need them to support the internet and store content . and for years, the irish governments welcome the tech giant with open arms and tempting low tax rate. but there were deepening concerns that within a few years, a 3rd of islands,

electricity will be used to power a rapidly growing network of centers. some expert say the figure could be even higher, would worries about the nation's energy security. i think that the worry is if it's a very cold winter for example, and there's a big demand on the grid for, for heating and so on. and yeah, there could be, there could be blackouts, islands racing to produce 70 percent of its electricity from renewables, mainly wind by 2030. but in the short term, data centers will rely on fossil fuels, mostly natural gas, to keep running opposition and peace. want to freeze on all new centers until that impacts fully known. certainly we can't do without email and we can't do without are mobile phones. i'm not saying to us, i'm not a lot ice. i'm not dissing all these things, but we have too many of them already. and we've planned for too many more. the irish capital is europe's largest data handling hob,

a quarter of the continents data come through here, where there is, of course, a cost and environmental cost for everything that we do on line. the internet accounts were roughly 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. last the same as the entire world's air traffic, a figure that's expected to double within 5 years. none of the tech jaunts we approached agree to be interviewed for several, including google and i. b. m confirmed that committing to easing strain of a national grid in the short term next generation center such as this one of the construction will also generate their own electricity using an onsite gas powered energy plant. this site near dublin's being built to house surface from chinese social media, giants, tick, tock, the global growth, the data is enormous. it has to be processed securely and in large data centers like these am and therefore they are essential infrastructure. we, you know,

the world needs to be able to process the stated they are needed. the issue is how do you do it in the least damaging and most sustainable way possible? there are future plans to power census using wind and other sustainable means with any surplus energy adding to the national grid, but with an average of 3 internet connected devices for every human on the planet. a call just say the transition needs to have happened yesterday. leave palka al jazeera dublin, french president, him on or on the cross has used remembrance day to lead tributes to the man who was the last 2nd world war resistance fighter. he reads jeremiah was one of the hundreds of soldiers who fought alongside general shoulder goal against german occupation. he died last month, h $101.00. the said the old prize has been eliminated with images of poppies, full member and stay. events marks the honest assigned on november 11th 1918 ends in fighting in the 1st world war i far will be here shortly

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with full ah ah, to report his holla, thank you so much, pockets on take on australia shortly and the 2nd semi final, the t 20 world cup asian side have been the inform team out the tournament. so far . they remain unbeaten as the aim to win a 2nd

t 20 world cup title australia won the toss and, and put pockets on in the back side very proudly that it's been wonderful to be a part of pakistan, cricket we have some, you know, incredible young players it's a mix of wonderful experience, plays in our lineup, and they die and the team is performing admirably while whoever wins out next for them will be new zealand, the black cap speed england to reach the final england ballad 1st, then an unbidden, half century. for moment alley helped him to a total of a $0.16 for 4 zealand lost to early wickets. in reply, including that of captain kane williamson, daryl mitchell, smashed and unbeaten 72 was new zealand, one by 5 wickets. fleet moment from key ways after losing to england and the one day world cup final in 2019 or a bunch of 95000000 all of us. and i was the very proud to be representing a country. and i mean,

obviously we've had some success in the last few years. you know, we're going to enjoy the actual, obviously, we celebrate that, but then we move on pretty quickly. we're now going to find them on sunday and we're taking on it should be good fun. liverpool legend steven gerrard is now in english premier leak manager. the 41 year old has been confirmed is the new boss of the aston villa. it follows a successful stint with rangers in scotland, where he let them to a leak title. jarrett has his work headache with villa though the cupboard just outside the appeals. relegation zones. afghans national women's football team had played their 1st match since being evacuated from cobble last month. they were among thousands of refugees flown to doe how once the taliban came to power in august. many on the team say the only way they could continue playing football was to leave the harding reports. the few fans at this game know what it's taken to get here. these afghan refugees barely fill one section of the

stadium, but cheer to support their national women's team. all the same b, o, this is the 1st time the women's team have played since being evacuated from cobble last month. they're up against per chart. the nation hosting them, we have always retreated in the state of got out of that the legacy of the world covers for the entire region, not just for color. and there, there's no better way to showcase for them to hover off gum brothers and sisters who were temporarily staying in doha to be part of all of this, of the celebration of the world cup. and the celebration of football people was behind the operation to evacuate nearly 100 footballers after the taliban took control of afghanistan in august. the future for women is sports. there is still very uncertain. women were not allowed to take part in sports during the taliban

1st rain that ended in 2001. but now the afghanistan women's national team get to compete on one of the biggest stages in the world. and one that will host the world cup. this time, next year the khalifa international stadium sits in the heart of doha close to where thousands of african refugees are stayed. many came without their families, but if found close relationships on the field, we've been asked to hide the players identities for their safety. if you are alone, if emily is not with us, but i shall bonham or so like a middle class, your sister. and if you are really happy to get her, i really feel throughout the team expects to stay together and try to find asylum in another country. they've been invited to play other teams around the world as they look to find a new home base. walk a tar went on to win this match the team coordinator said the experience was

invaluable. i feel about being a and have a gun being using the mission. flag of gunnison is really proud for me and is really good day that one day i was able to bring the goes out and we the goods that are using the new stuff like of of gamma. so if you have a dame, it never come get it for you. you have to fight for it. and football, if my love, you know something in my her while the away team can't go home, they're hopeful their futures will be brighter, both on and off the field. we are hurting al jazeera johan. the golden state warriors have continued their winning run in the n b a. they beat the minnesota temper walls for their 6th street. when under wiggins started for the warriors with a season high, $35.00 points. steph curry tripped in with 25 more. it's lead golden state

21232100 10 victory tennis now and 3rd, seed carolina plesk of law has won her opening match at the season ending finals in mexico and a battle between 2 former world number one's was where i came from a, sat down to meet 2 time grand slam champion guard being marissa, in 3 sets of both players are the only 2 veterans of this tournament with the other sex making their deep gifts. one of those being and that con delights the estonian breeze through her opening round robin match in guadalajara, she beat french open champion. barbara craig cova in straight sets. mont, devices on an 11 match winning run up to punch in the back to back titles at the cuddling pack. and transylvania. and oh, okay, and that is all your sport for now. holler back to you. thank you very much. indeed, a farmer will not sits for this. you, sir, do keep it here on al jazeera, they're gonna take a quick break. i'll be back with you at the top of the year,

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