america is a region of wonder, i'm joy tragedy and yes of violet. but it doesn't matter where you are. you have to be able to relate to the human condition with no kind of a light. and it's my job to shed light on how and why ah hundreds of iraqis are flown home from bella luce giving up hope of starting a new life in europe. ah, hello, i'm down. jordan, this is al jazeera ally from dell also coming up. yes, president joe biden, house is northern and southern neighbors at the white house, the 1st summit between north american leaders in years as another wave of corona

virus sweeps, europe, new restrictions are re imposed for unvaccinated citizens to contain the spread and assessing the damage. severe flooding on land slides lays waste our homes, roads, and bridges in western county. ah, but have been signs of an easing in the border crisis on the european union's eastern frontier with a plan from the nation accused of creating the problem. and the 1st large group of migrants returning home, the western borders of bella was remain essentially sealed with a heavy security presence in latvia, lithuania, and poland. there with the key border crossing of kristen, it's thousands of people are still waiting in temperatures, which fall below freezing over night. but around 400 iraqi migraines abandoned their attempt to enter the u. heading instead for the bell russian capital minsk. from there they boarded an evacuation flight organized by the iraqi government,

ultimately heading to the capital bank. that was 1st up with the northern iraqi city of at a bill. most of the passengers were iraqi kurds from your autonomy region near the border with turkey. many have been stranded at the poland better, who's bought more than a week before giving up on reaching out to zeros m and con reports from the airport in our building. as they arrive at you can see the exhaustion in their faces. well, some a glad to be home. other say the return. i'm going back, i'm ready to try a 100 times again. next summer i intend to go. the kurdish regional government of which our bill is the capital, released a statement blaming people smugglers for jupiter rockies into going to buy the roofs. the statement promised to crack down on them. in the last few days, they say they were arrested 10 members of a criminal smuggling gang. some of those returning thursday described a horrific experience. those of her i will not be to hear. the situation is so bad, the smugglers using people i've seen people dying before my own eyes. i will not

try to travel again. i will not go with. a lot of these. people have sold everything they own to get to europe. they are likely to come back to less than they have before. the future for them is blinking on the $341.00. people disembarked on this flight here in our bill. another 90 will disembark in baghdad. now there are more flights in the coming days. how many more is a negotiation between minsk and baghdad, but perhaps the real negotiation is exactly how many iraqis will want to get on those flights. among con our desert, a real an acid bag has been monitoring the situation on the poland bella roost border stranded cold, and living in miserable conditions. these people under beller russian site of the border with poland and now getting some help. but it's far from what they want and meet feller roosters has some in a makeshift shelter, a warehouse with beds, blankets and food. but still they tried to cross. oh. this footage,

released by polish authorities, shows people detained as they crossed the border. ah, me on a dub, in the green supposed come there were $501.00 attempts of illegal border crossings from belarus in the last 24 hours. this means the total number of such attempts in november exceeds 6000. c but the russian forces also released this footage. lithuanian border force dog bites into a man sleeping bag. lithuanian authority say they didn't know someone was inside. the e you wants to impose more sanctions and the g 7 has condemned by the roost. they say it's creek to the situation on his borders in what the you called a form of hybrid attack by the russian official say the president has offered german chancellor and glen merkle away forward president with this museum, the e will create a humanitarian corridor for 2000 refugees, her and the camp were taken obligation upon ourselves to assist the other 5000 as

much as possible and in case they are willing to return home. something the e u has rejected out of hand. but tensions are belly roost. his borders remain high . ukraine has deployed the national guards to its border with belarus and lithuania, as also reinforced its porter with the country. by the ru, says, it won't force any migrant refugees to go back home, but with no solution in sight, those who are trapped are likely to continue to be used as pawns in a much larger game. as i beg, i'll jazeera poland, and amongst all of his russia has again weighed in, insisting that the crisis has been manufactured by the west news and you get there . so when you start on these one cannot help but see that western countries are using the migration crisis on the bell origin, polish border as a new reason for tension in the region that is close to us and to pressure minced glasses. and at the same time, they forget their own obligations in the humanitarian sphere. the board us president joe biden has been holding his 1st in person meetings with the leaders of

canada and mexico at the white house. both canadian prime minister, just intruder, and mexico's bread and others. manual lopez arbor door had one on one meetings with bite and before the summit, it's the 1st time north american leaders have gathered since barack obama left office. our north american vision for the future draws on our shared strengths as well as 3 vibrant democracy, dynamic populations and economy. wishing to work together where that we can be, we can meet today. and we can meet all the challenges and we just take the time to speak with one another by working together. and we have to end the pandemic and to take decisive action to curb the climate crisis. meanwhile, joe biden says he's considering a diplomatic boycott of february's winter olympics in china. he made the remarks during his meeting with just intruder. it's expected to take the form of us government representatives not attending the olympics. however, the participation of athletes expected to remain unaffected. the canadian province

of british columbia is under a state of emergency as torrential rainfall continues. one persons confirmed dead, at least 3, missing 800000 people have been forced to leave their homes and the countries west and must province flooding on landslides of cut major roads, making transportation of goods difficult. just the worst flooding that i've ever seen. i come from an area built the flood plains in the city, both in the middle of it. but you know, this is, this is quite significant here affects a lot of people and it's really disheartening. out of here i gave a little condo, has moaner from su, mass in washington state the, as you must. so very area that you're referring to is the canadian side of the border, british columbia that has been absolutely decimated by this storm. there is a lot of worry cuz that's a very agriculture rich area of a south west canada and with potentially dozens of farms totally underwater

officials. they're ours estimating that the total amount of money that could be needed to rebuild that area. not only the farms but the homes, and the infrastructure that has been lost could be more than $1000000000.00. where i'm at now is the town of sue moss on the west side of the border in the state of washington. this is in the northwest part of the united states. this is a small town of about $1600.00 residents only. and they are very much at the epicenter of this storm that passed through here a couple days ago as well. and they're now very much in a clean up stage as the cold wet rain continues to fall here, let me step out of frame so you can get a sense of what this cleanup looks like here there. or as i mentioned, $1600.00 residents of this town, and it's estimated that about 80 percent of the homes had some sort of water damage or were totally destroyed. most of the residents have bleed,

but the few that have stayed have ever are bringing all of their data now destroyed, possessions that are inside their home and bringing them here to be taken away to be taken away to the dump. european governments are increasingly restricting the lives of unvaccinated people, as coven 19 infections. surge once again. but doctors are questioning if countries have relied too heavily on jobs, while neglecting other containment measures, like mosques and social distancing. for we challenge reports, balls a full along with he fronted many do this resort town on spain's east coast is popular with u. k. package tourists seeking an escape from the autumn weather back home. but a spike in local coated cases recently suggest they may have been bringing something with them that the show to feel or we don't have proper data on the rise of the infections. but we did notice as soon as tourism came back to this area,

the rise of infections came to this is unquestionable. so visit is being offered, vaccinations, some haven't had one at home. and most have arrived on crowded plains. me arrived at the port yesterday. 5 flights all came in at the same time, and they was thousands of people from manchester, bristol, o q enough together. so that's not, that's not good if you're trying to keep covey down to a minimum. spain's infection rate is rising, but it's worse elsewhere in your german chancellor. anglo merkle says, a 4th wave has hit her country with full force where infections worse, access to events, and restaurants will only be for those who've been vaccinated for who've recovered munich has cancelled. it's christmas market infections in bavaria, a double the national race of 300 or so 100000 uncommon on monday was said that

you were allowed to set up an in the end. the result is that we have to dismantle now. and we have to bear all the costs. nobody pays the cost increase, private doctors are being drafted into the public health care system for a month. hospitals and intensive care wards have been overwhelmed by rising infections. recently, medics are protesting, saying that overworked and underpaid. many european countries, of course, on the horns of a dilemma, significant part of the population don't want to get vaccinated, but nor do people want more restrictions on their day to day lives. well, those are on back to needed, obviously are more so able to getting infected and, and having severe symptoms. so they're, they're driving the pandemic. the other issue is that european countries are being very reactive, rather than proactive, has been largely a focus now on vaccination. and less of a focus on other control measures like face masks and interiors,

the co certificate, which i think is incredibly important. the death tolls on what they were earlier in the outbreak, but people are still dying. and once again, europe is the center of the world's cove at 19 pandemic for each helen's now to 0, also to come here and al jazeera, including another day, with no verdict in the trial of us. teenager col rittenhouse was accused of killing black lives matter protested. i'm searching for bombs how this afghan village is, protect ticket. so from the remnants of war mornings ah. ah, look forward to brightest galleys. the winter sponsored by cuts on it weighs. hello there the weather, sloshy set fare for china saw the korean peninsula and for japan got some sherry rain just getting out of the way for japan over the next day or so. but with high

pressure in charge. china, at least for the time being, is largely settle. there will be a change as we make our way through friday, who are the more showers just coming into that southwestern corner of the country. and they will become more, ex expansive, more widespread as we go on through saturday. not particularly heavy, but they're nevertheless rather gray, dull and damp day for good part of the country. north korea also sing, wanted to shout, but la, she try south korea fine and try with plenty of sunshine as is the case by the state. of course, a good part of japan. sunshine is showers. meanwhile, across south east asia, the live your show has just been southern parts of vietnam was seen flooding recently into we're thailand, more heavy showers coming through here than this usual splattering of showers across malaysia and indonesia. some of those in the south, very much on the heavy side. so this is a very heavy rain recently for southern parts of india, this developing system bring more heavy downpours into tom another into under per dash. and it stays rather disturbed there up towards the northwest,

more heavy showers all the way up to good to right and even the northern plains. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always eats it as he job is whole real ways to panic. but somebody's got to do it. where do you go to the pilots? girls that voiced you promoting clean safe sanitation for all. but with a 3rd of the world lacking basic facilities, can his unique style really help clean up the mat? sunny culture to pop culture is the fastest way those soft if any patient problem. mister toilets, a witness documentary on al jazeera lou . ah,

we'll come back and pick them out of the top stories here. this out. hundreds of iraqis who gave up trying to enter the european union. i've arrived back home that repatriation flight 1st stockton at a bill the migrant. some refugees have been stranded at the belgians, potent border and cold weather conditions. yes, president joe biden's, hold of his 1st in person meeting with the leaders of canada and mexico at the white house. the 1st such gathering of the 3 north american nations and 5 years discussing everything from the coven, 19 pandemic, to climate change. on several governments in europe are cracking down on people who haven't been vaccinated against cope at 19 virus is spreading again in the number of countries, including germany with deaths are also in the rise. one of the 3 men on trial for the shooting of an unarmed black man in the us state of georgia has told a court he saw him as a threat. travis michael, is charged with the murder of ahmad aubrey. he chased down and shot aubrey as he

jogged through the neighbourhood. in february, last year, michael insist he was acting in self defense. he was coming straight to me the 1st time i was thinking or he's gonna try to give him his truck or he's going to try to attack me or my dad or who knows what? he was acting weird. he was acted funny. on the 3rd day of jury deliberations in the murder trial of ca, written house in the u. s. has ended without a verdict. after 23 hours of deliberation, the jurors will return on friday to continue the 18 year old written health is charged with shooting protest as killing to an injuring another during racial justice rallies in wisconsin. last year he says he acted in self defense. his lawyers have asked for a miss trial of the evidence presented by the prosecution. john henry was outside the court in kenosha, where they've been 10 seen. there's an air of anticipation outside the closer county circuit court. after 3 days of jury deliberations in the kind of written house case, each day, more and more people gather on the steps of the court house and it's gotten more 10

. they're going to few clashes between protesters encountered protesters. there has been some arrest, an interesting lake. police began to turn away. protesters who come harmed as not because we're in front of a court house. but because wisconsin has a law that says you cannot carry a weapon within 300 meters of his school and there is a school nearby. inside that courthouse, col rittenhouse, and his lawyer show up every day anticipating his fate. he faces arranging charges from reckless endangerment, all the way up to 1st degree homicide. that comes with a big change, a life sentence. the lowest charge has a maximum sentence of 12 and a half years, so it 18 if written house were to serve that entire sentence. when he got out of prison, he would be 30 years old to men convicted in the united states for the 1965, assassination of the black civil rights liter malcolm x had been formerly exonerated, mama disease and kelly's law both around 20 years in jail islam died in 2009

a 2 year investigation by the manhattan attorney's office, and the 2 men's lawyers concluded that decisive evidence was withheld at the time. a 3rd man was also convicted of the murder instead of the trial that as ease and islam were not involved. protests in sedan have again clashed with security forces the day after at least 15 people were killed by gunfire. tear gas was thought of demonstrators in the capital cartoon. there's widespread angle, the military refusal to hand back power off the last months, takeover house and prime minister bella hummed up, is still in custody. 2 days after the military said he'd be released along with other political prisoners to 0 as he been, morgan has more now from cartoons and they, after the mass process in which at least 15 protesters were killed. more people took to the 3. they started barricading some of the main roads around the capital boom and some of their residential neighborhoods. and they said that in response to the amount of excessive force that was shown by the security forces. now the police

made their for a press briefing seems to take over on thursday. they said that they did not use any live ammunition against processes and they use the minimal 4th needed to try to sub processes and that they only use tear gas and bathrooms and did not fire weapons protests, as they say in the country that happened. and that protested attack police properties in which they had to defend, defend themselves at least 80 police officers have been injured in the process on the 13th of the 17th. but processes said that is not true. they say that they have evidence, evidence of live immunization being cited for a test of people in hospitals as a result of those injuries. and they say that they have been very peaceful and have not used any kind of violence against any public properties. oregon police officers, so 2 opposite statements coming out and the process has been ongoing late into the night with many processors still barricading main roads, still barricaded. 3,

determined to show the minister that they're not going to give up in the demand for the military to hand over power to civilian rule. uganda police that have killed 5 people connected to tuesday, suicide bombings in the capital. 4 men were killed in a shootout in a town near the democratic republic of congo border as they tried to cross back into uganda. the 5th man and luke and carry with killed him what's been described as a violent confrontation with security forces. rating his home outside come parlour . a 2nd cleric is still a subject of a manhunt. at least 3 people died and 33 others injured in the attack. a palestinian rights organization has called for a rapid and impartial investigation after a prisoner died in the hospital while in israeli custody. some more had spent 13 years in prison. the palestinian center for human rights says it's extremely concerned he hadn't received adequate untimely medical care. human as i had before now from garza pictures of sammy alarm were hanging his home in gaza and at his

funeral, they were supposed to welcome his return. after he was released from an israel, the prison had been detained since 2008, and sentenced to 19 years and weapons smuggling charges. he died in hospital on thursday in israeli custody members of his family say they have been his shock since being told of his death record. who is the occupation to blame the neglected him? they detained him and he was perfectly fine. he didn't suffer anything. when i haven't seen him for long years, but they always denied our visit. i just want them to send his body back together. we want to see him. sammy suffered from congenital heart problems. his family and supporters say that was were sent by years of living in hard conditions in prison. the cues israeli authorities of deliberately neglecting his health. nothing

would be as a result of medical negligence, that the occupation authorities practiced on the prisoner where he was left for over 14 hours the crossing while being transported from napa prison. rocca hospital shows the deliberate and intentional medical neglect by the israeli authorities, sammy's family, se israeli authorities presented most and his mother only so him in prison. a few times over his 14 years in prison. in a statement to elgin euro, israel's prison authority, said, all prisoners receive treatment according to the need set alarm worse, death will be coat, looked into or checked almost 5000 policy. the prisoners are in is really present. the ministry of palestinian prisoners does more than 500 of these prisoners suffer medical condition and some are cancer patients. while 227 of them had died in these

really prison, this 967 sammy's relative say all the was now is to receive his body. but israeli officials have refused to release it until the end of the remaining 4 years of a sentence. in the c o 0 gods croatia is commemorating the 30th anniversary of the worst massacre before year war. thousands of people walk through the look of which militia and yugoslav soldiers captured in 1990. 1 hundreds of creation fighters were killed in the 3 month siege. and tens of thousands of non serbs were forced out. said he was return to croatia 70 years later. and rebuilt columbia's constitutional court will soon decide whether to fully decriminalize abortion. currently, it's only allowed on 3 grounds. if a mother's life is in danger, fetal deformity, or if the pregnancy resulted from a rape or incest, otherwise, abortion is a crime punishable by up to 4 years in prison. rival activism gathered in bogota

are ahead of the routing. i was sandra petty's that columbia constitutional court, is that to decide whether to eliminate the abortion as a crime in columbia? an issue that is deeply devising this very catholic county people in favor and again, that possible deficient have been facing off in front of the court. abortion was partly legal, i think columbia in the 2006 court ruling which allows it only in case of rape. me build a form at the end if the health of the woman is at rest. but pro, choice as located say that even in those cases, care is exceedingly hard to access, especially for rural and poor women. a coalition of pro choice to the last year, arguing that a crime that only criminalizes women is unconstitutional, isn't the, it's unjust, indiscriminate tree. and it's making the most vulnerable women in the country,

the most criminalized for this offense, for we cannot allowed colombians to continue dying in the womb. the loan is the most sacred place is where we should all feel the most protected for our entire life. 90 percent of abortion in the country take place for invest in live and at least $400.00 women. many of them under age ever been convicted are sanctioned since 2006. now the court has until friday to make a decision, and if they decide to do the criminal lives, colombia could be joining a state of other pro, choice decisions. and the region that show that aptitude might be changing address much of latin america. rival groups are protest is faced off in bolivia is capital a pass on the wednesday after the repeal of a controversial money laundering law. oh, supporters of president luis, or say, classed with demonstrators, accuse him of trying to course dissent. the law gave authorities power to

investigate any citizens assets without a court order. the president that down off a 9 day national strike. now for decades, afghanistan's helman province was on the front line of the country's conflict. well now groups are trying to clear bombs and land mines left from the war to prevent people being killed or injured bahati reports. instead of just learning math and science, these children are also being taught how to identify mortars grenades and signs of land mines mistaking them for toys could cost them their lives. yeah, moves though that she knew mostly the streams were dry. so we were looking for water, then an old man shouted at us. i see that there is a big snake nearby and he tried to cover with grass. it was actually a rocket. so he left the area, fearing there might be more bond. non profit groups like the halo trust are working to prevent more casualties. one way is to paint rocks. the white side means the path has been cleared. red points to areas with potential minds buried underneath.

ah, yes, i'm afraid. but i know that when i see white students, we can play there, and when it's read, we can't play there. since 1989 more than 40000 people in afghanistan have been killed or injured by land mines. an unexploded ordnance, according to the u. n. a few months ago, this malice wife lost both of her legs in the explosion, just outside their home. up for this incident was very painful. i saw it happened with my own eyes. i saw my children screaming and crying of the scene was very painful for me. i feel alone and the stress is too much, too much. so those now others like him, are employed by groups to help locate minds before they explode. we also give jobs to people who would otherwise be in the fight. we give jobs to young men who a forced through desperation to join the insurgency or had joined the army. and so

we can give peace for what we take the rifle of them. and we give them a mind to touch it over the past 3 months, about a 100 explosive devices have been diffused in the region, including 25 in this village. we were there with the russians. we were there with the civil war. we were there with the 1st taliban regime. we were there with nature and we will stay thousands more land mines are believed to lie undetected, a legacy of war that continues to maim and kill. leo harding al jazeera and 35 members of janice don's women's youth football team of arrived in the united kingdom of to fleeing in the wake of the taliban takeover. the plane carrying them and their families, 130 people in all landed up stands to their port. the flight was paid for by t v star kim kardashian. west members of the team had been staying in pakistan.

woman, i've not been able to take part in any sports. the taliban seized power. a trial of aid workers involved in refugee search and rescue operations in greece has been a jun, soon after it opened the group of 24 people, including foreign nationals faced up to 8 years in prison on smuggling related charges. rights groups described the allegations as fossil and politically motivated and say the charges should be dropped. officials declared the court not competent to try the case. a new date for the trial is yet to be scheduled. several us states have announced a joint investor.