in the last episode of democracy, maybe we explore how sharon's elders led the flight to self determination residing at that time. thinking that the nato was the same as thinking of 2 ends government by the people on al jazeera, ah, at the, at the center of the cove at 19 pandemic. again, a dire warning for europe has countries report record high infections. also south korea to struggles with a new surge that's putting the health system under pressure. ah rahman, you're watching out there alive. my headquarters here in doha, coming up in the next 30 minutes calls for a cease fire. and ethiopia video shows thousands of government soldiers being held as prisoners of war by to grier rebels. plus ha

belkin die, die. nasa launch is a mission that one day could save the planet. a spacecraft will crash into an asteroid to test how to stop one crashing into earth. ah, welcome to the program. we start with a di, warning from the world health organization that hundreds of thousands more people will die as a new wave of the corona virus sweeps europe. germany is set to mark 100000 deaths as it hits a new record of more than 66800 cases in one day. in france, 30000 people tested positive in the past 24 hours for the 1st time since august. and the netherlands is introducing new restrictions, social distance thing is set to become compulsory. again, let's go straight over to andrew simmons who's in rotterdam,

where he's monitoring the situation across your former for us and andrew, obviously the netherlands are in the wars again, what's the situation like where you are? what across europe, the situation is escalating in terms of co infections rising here in the netherlands. a new record 40 percent increase in the weekly figures of infection rates from other disturbing percentages and 19 percent rise in the number of hospital admissions. 26 percent of 26 percent rise in intensive care admissions. that is a real crucial figure because it indicates the seriousness of the situation we're seeing now. the 1st transfer of patients from the netherlands into germany, germany helping out bad to try and ease the pressure on hospitals here has been

taken across the border from water where the situation is quite critical. and also this is a place where the or is all ready a partial lockdown. so the government really struggling now to work out a way to try to reduce the infections because there's another percentage is really important. 84 percent of the nation has had vaccinations. the adults that it is, and that is a really high figure, surprising many experts as to why the situation so di, here and of course the situation with vaccinations, whether or not to make them compulsory is on the minds of politicians right across europe right now. but as you say, andrew, you know, germany trying to help out the netherlands, but it's beset with its own problems as all other countries in the region. as you mentioned, you know, friends and you look further east and ukraine has problems to that's

right. germany now approaching that figure of a 100000 deaths, something the most populous nation in western europe thought it would never see about there it is just not far away. now germany now looking at a possible lockdown. certainly a state region by region there assessing the situation. position is pretty bad. and in france, we're now seeing some reco figures. $30000.00 and a period of 24 hours of new infections those highest since august. i should say that despite new restrictions, the stepping up of the vaccination program. furthermore, in australia now day 3 of the full lockdown. everyone in the or waiting to see if this, the strict measures are having an effect on the infection rights and the czech republic . we're now seeing a situation whereby politicians are looking at putting

a new mandatory vaccination program on over sixty's. and you mentioned ukraine. we're expecting some resistance that to plans there also to introduce compulsory vaccinations. so this issue of civil rights, some new vaccinations that are going to be imposed on populations is something that's on the mines. as i say, of governments all over europe to try and combine these increases with di, warning from the world health organization of an escalating situation right across what they do strive as the epicenter all the increased occur. virus infection rates, but it's not going and moving story that we're continuing to monitor. we'll come back to the course, andrew as the day progresses. thanks very much. andrew simmons in rotterdam. ok with infections have reached a record high in south korea with more than 4000 cases. the number of critically ill patients is also at record levels raising fairs that hospitals could become

overwhelmed. many of those affected all the elderly prompting a push for booster shots to keep the senior in the case of the elderly. it's observed that the immune effect of vaccination decreases rapidly over time. accordingly, after about 4 months, break through infections have been observed to increase. so the government has shortened the interval required for a booster and is rushing to administer it. well, joining me now from sol is dr. liz tan. she is with the internet that the ms medi women's hospital and joins us now. live from the good time with a doctor. time on the program. korea was one of the 1st countries to be infected with the virus back at the end of 2019, at 2020. and it cracked down very hard on fighting and tackling those infections. but while we seeing this spike now, when it's had such a good record and trying to immunize its population, will start on november 1st. that's when south korea implemented our step wise turn

to normal. that was our exit strategy from the pandemic. and we in started easing restrictions throughout the country. and that's when we started to see a dramatic ethan cases a basically from november 1st to today there's been a 2.5 old increase in the number of daily new cases. but more problematic than the increase in total daily cases is the increase in hospitalizations, the increase in ice you admissions, and unfortunately, also the increase in best. unfortunately, today was the 1st day ever in the pandemic that at south korea saw the death of a child. you to curve at night? i and so that's definitely one of the reasons. the 2nd reason as was mentioned is the waning of immunity, especially in the elderly. these groups were, are prioritized for vaccination early on. so it's now been 9 months since they started their math and, and we are seeing more and more breakthrough infections. in this acc, elation,

and under serious doctor crunch the drug barons. we'll, we'll get into this now into more detail. i mean, the real concern at the moment now for south korean officials is i see you bet, capacity of the alarm bells all ringing, apparently 75 percent. i see you capacity is available. it's already reached 60 percent. what do you think the authorities need to do, or are we looking at a national lockdown across south korea? i doubt that there will be a national lock down what the government is trying to do at this point is to ex and the deployment of booster shots, especially among the most vulnerable as quickly as possible. there are increasing testing, especially in congregate resident fill settings, that just a nursing home and our long term care facilities. the residents and staff at these facilities need to get tested nearly on a daily basis. now,

also the vaccine pass system that we have in place will likely be expanded. also the use of monoclonal antibodies as a treatment will also be expanded. so soccer has never had to go into lockdown throughout the pandemic. even though we are at some people might say at a near crisis situation, i doubt that we will need to go into that national lockdown. i think that restrictions will be tightened and other strategies will be deployed. we shall see what happens and said we come back teeth more analysis as and when things trained for the moment on his time. thanks for joining us from sol in south korea. ok. now, united nations has altered immediate evacuations of family members of international staff from ethiopia. that is growing along after to grind rebels came to be edging closer to the capital, addis ababa? the presidents of tenure in south africa have both call for cease fire. the tory

gate and be reports i some of prime ministers, abbey ahmed soldiers, and now prisoners of war, and the 2 grains have been parading them before the cameras. the presidents of kenya and south africa say all parties must commit to ending the violence. we expressed our corrections at the school for barrel amends. the roaring parties in europe, i beg, with parties to attempt to convince durham in new york in reference, negotiated says friar, i've been l inclusive. political dialogue. as the wardrobe is closer to the ethiopian capital plans to defend addis ababa or intensifying these women have joined a neighbourhood protection, forced to guard against advancing rebel forces. they've set up road blocks, a searching vehicles for weapons and a checking people's documents. but they haven't but the ballot for luggage. another

luggage we women believe that random security checks and passes by a very important we also encourage others to do the same. because when we do this, we have no doubt that strangers them records with their academic. abby has informed the nation that he's going to the front line where he'll personally lead the army, and he's asked ethiopians to join him in what he calls the battle to save the nation. the u. s. is calling the military escalation, alarming, and says it threatens any diplomatic progress between the government and to grain forces at us is under great threat. ah, and it also means that there's likely to be considerably more suffering. and people should leave now to avoid the worst possible sin scenario, which could be ah, rebel forces entering at us or starvation or deprivation. germany and france have joined the u. s. in urging their citizens to leave ethiopia. while the

un says it's temporarily relocating the families of its staff. meanwhile, more than 2000000 ethiopians have now fled their homes with reports of human rights abuses on both sides. and 7000000 people are in need of food age. victoria gates and b al jazeera. all still had hail on al jazeera election. observe as hale improvements in venezuela selections, but refused to call them free and fur and mining in the democratic republic of congo as a dangerous job will tell you out the post to make things safer. strikes after the break. ah, now the ne monsoon is setting properly, this is right up top of your screen and it's the time for eastern rizal and vietnam

to get persistent re lease for awhile. and the sat general band where it's going to be heaviest. cambodia crossed the far south of thailand and the lazy down towards singapore. sudden, sumatra has been dry recently without back in the shower as want to get his java. so fred's or almost inevitable there at of straight. he has had a really wet time recently and especially new south wales. this is the result of a flooded river that are more and that's going to be in flood. i think 4 days weeks more because it's not the end of the rain. new south wales has broken many records and much of australia. it is significant wetness this spring. and as of august for thursday, all the orange tops are significant thunderstorms. now they've left western australia dry perth, he's getting significantly warmer next day or so well above average. but the rain will be the story. it will eventually co go offshore, but not by friday or wait till the weekend for that to happen. and it's coming your

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the a book about watching all just really lisa, who, rob, no reminder of all top stories. europe is struggling with a new cro virus outbreak. germany is set to mark 100000 deaths while friends in the netherlands, amongst those reporting record case number 1900 infections of also reached a record high and south korea with more than 4000 cases. the number of critically ill patients is also at record levels, raising fans and hospitals could become overwhelmed. and the united nations has ordered immediate evacuations of family members of international stuff that's going alarm after to grow and rebels fame to be closer to the capital. as ab about saddam's prime minister says an investigation has been launched into violence, committed against protest, as dozens of people were killed in demonstrations in recent weeks against october,

military take over the police and security forces have denied using live fire. now human rights watch says valerie and poland are violating the rights of migrants and asylum. seekers watched on says it's documented abuses on both sides of the border. the report says that the russian guards are involved and inhumane treatment towards the migrants, the mast on the border in the hope to of reaching the european union. while punish security forces are accused of engaging and violent pushback. 13 people have died as a result of the hiring conditions that vast is on the bella, russian side of the border where migrants are facing freezing temperatures. while conditions in this can peer are getting harsher and harsher by today. it was freezing overnights in the last couple of weeks, but now it's also freezing during the day and it has started to snow. not goods very much. you can be feeling very cold. this plays is not hormone

stuff. someone can live with it all like children cannot live inside this building . is the warehouse not for living? this is how they are getting some water. this is how people are washing their clothes in the middle of the month. and where they go to the toilets, there's a center here where they can spend a night, but many a crime to get a money. a coughing money are getting ill. so increasingly people are choosing to be repaired created. they leapt through the back door fellowship officials take them to the airport. but there's also quite a significant group assess. we're not going anywhere we keep waiting until germany takes them in. and there's another group who at night tries to still sneak in to the polish border and try to cross secretly. but conditions of course have very difficult. and this winter here,

it is really cold. temperature. people have died already trying to cross and so it's a very desperate situation of as well as elections were held under better conditions . and those of previous polls, according to european union observers, sunday selection was the 1st and maybe 4 years to include opposition figures, treatable as more from caracas. he was the report everyone had been waiting for for the 1st time in 15 years. they will appear on union of serve the regional elections in venezuela and presented their preliminary findings. lastly, on their san permian babel the elections were in better conditions in comparison with previous elections. the electoral council that was renewed in may 2021. it's the most balance council. in 20 years. the political campaign was filled by the excessive use of state resources. even the law says how campaigns should be handled . there were no sanctions to the violations. on sunday,

venezuelans voted to choose mayors and governors across the country. they. e. u mission was invited by the electoral council and by the opposition who agreed to participate for the 1st time in 4 years. the report by the european union of servers is for many a 1st step towards a dialogue and future elections in this country. but the report also indicate that even though the elections havent with efficiency, the whole process was affected by lack of independence in the judiciary. and also lack of respect for the rule of law, something that affected the equality and transparency of the process. the government says the elections were an example of democracy, their ruling socialist party, $120.00 of the $23.00 governorships. the opposition wanting the total national vote, even though 60 percent of their population did not participate. divisions within the opposition prevented them from winning more states. so our position leader embry gabriella, says the election was not a defeat. now, what is your own,

deary that a salvador position obtain them one for bell. this is a beth refilled. and the last and dinners we never did. these are the salesman for the opposition as not falling, who was falling as my little the big defeated for the government? i what can you annually say nicole? am i louise desperate to regain international credibility as a murder? though, if i don't think i am, our nicholas maduro was willing to given more governorships in exchange for validity of the electoral process and himself. this is not a transparent election from the perspective of a liberal democracy. it begins with the electoral council that has 2 members out of 5 of the opposition. we celebrate those 2, but they are a minority. can you imagine any country accepting that? then is willis trying to recover from an economic crisis. but sanctions from the united states and the european union complicate the government plans. protest and sanctions have not been able to force mother would are out of office,

which is why the your position is back in the polls that he said, well, i'll just see dad that i guess apple has sued the israeli cyber firm and so group over its controversial hacking tool that the tech giant says the company's pegasus software tracked and targeted its uses in the us. apple is the latest in a string of companies and governments to take legal action against the spyware maker ready westby as chief executive officer and global cyber risk. she says it's one of the strongest steps any company has taken so far. it's very significant because the software was developed to target i phones and android mobile phones. so if apple can succeed and get a ban or an injunction, so that the en, eh, so software can not be used on their phones, it will effectively kill the n s o market for the software. so it's a very big move by apple. one that i'm very glad to see them take,

i think it's very important. they're trying to hide their fear mongering and they're trying to hide behind terrorists and pet files. and the fact is, they aren't trotting out examples of terrorism and head of files and their technology successfully defeating that. what we're seeing is governments that have used this technology to suppress human rights and civil rights. and ways that are countered to democratic principles. and certainly in the united states, national security interests. so they are just simply trying to hide behind israeli defense licenses for the technology and also claiming that it can be used to catch bad guys. while the bad guys may be in a. so i made a shortage of chips is affecting global supplies of calls mobile phones under the electronic devices. and i was prompted some sort of the south korean electronics join to build a multi $1000000000.00 semi conduct. the factory in the us state of texas wilson

children has moved from washington d. c. this is the 2nd facility for samsung in the austin, texas area. austin, of course, is the capital of the state of texas. and that facility that samsung has had in that city has been there for about 25 years. this facility is going to be much larger. it's going to be located in a small suburb about 30 minutes away from downtown. it's going to comprise some 5000000 square meters, and it should hire between 1502000 people. once the plant is open for business. now this is also going to bring about $6000.00 jobs in related construction and, and so re costs. during the construction period, but in a state of 29000000 people, that's a drop in the bucket. that said, this is the single largest foreign investment in the state of texas as history added bank. so good on

a promise that both the state officials and federal officials have said about trying to bring manufacturing back to the united states. there's also one of the fact that for the 1st 10 years of this new plants existence, samsung is going to get a rebate on up to 93 percent of its property taxes. property taxes are what paying for public services in the state of taxes. and so while everyone is saying this is a good thing, economically, there are going to be questions raised about whether this corporation will be paying its fair share. cobalt is one of the most sought after minerals in the world . it's used in batteries at power, electric cars and mobile phones. much of it comes from the democratic republic of congo, but mining there is dangerous work, and the government is pushing to improve safety. malcolm web reports now from coloma mine in lab, our province. these miners work at one of the largest informal cobalt mines in

the democratic republic, a candidate for the 1st time. some of them have been given safety jackets in hot hands and the manages planned to limit the number that things didn't go to plan. thousands of mine is once worked here. none of them can afford to miss a day's digging. there. a few jobs in congo, growing demand for electric vehicle batteries, for which cobalt is used in these men can about $4.00 a day. about a face of the countries cobalt is extracted by hand with known as his mind. most of them are legal, nobody counts the accidental death. the government says it wants to formalize the sector and by pool its cable, the government is going through the price. the government is going through the production, the government's going through everything it has to be as i was,

anyone can come in the country and do everything they want to do. the government says it will open you off his mining sites, not k. what will happen to the existing mind process a warrant that we shut down for breaking roof. that's why they're providing hot half for the 1st time. we met the man who controls this mind. the hotel he's building in the nearby city of cal wavy. he says he's frustrated by the government plan called general cobalt enterprise, or e d. c. c h, i met. if e g c prioritizes creating a monopoly, it will be a problem for us. the priority is to formalize the artistic mining sector. we don't want to be blogs, we will continue selling minerals to those who actually finance our operations for them. i use it up or less, but because i'm not back of mine. the shift is short. managers say they need more time to make it face point thing out of the work.

are there about $200000.00? a little puzzled about a number of people are getting very rich when the coal mining industry. no. okay. solar the table here. so barely be paid anything for the shore shift if a tool there's no order here. we need order because we have too many. we need to buy the people into the group to work on different days. more appealing for better conditions so we can work properly. none of us have a good position in life. if we weren't here, we'd be stealing things in town to survive. many wondering if any reforms will actually happen and mine as a wondering if they'll make them safer or cost them that job. malcolm web al jazeera kalama, mine democratic republic of congo, a nasa is coming out to transmission that good one day stop an asteroid destroying

the planet. now the dog spacecraft was launched a few hours ago and will eventually collide with the small space rock millions of kilometers away lower. but man, me has the story. 3, to run the, its mission could one day safety a nasa would deliberately crush a spacecraft into an unsuspecting rock or you could die morphis. and the aim to find out what it would take to stop a launch asteroid from one day, crushing into the us and devastating the planet bill. we're gonna bump into a desk and off i call it stadium sized in all like soccer stadium sized. asteroids that, that what that is in orbit around a body that is about 5 times larger. so that's what, that's what we're gonna de went and measure. really did change of orbit. i forgot secondary body, but it's the 1st time scientists are attempting such an experiment. and this is how

they going to do it. like a dime all the circles and asteroid cold did a mis. nasa has waited for it to get close to earth, a mere 11000000 kilometers away. the spacecraft will reach speeds of more than 24000 kilometers per hour and head straight towards it. they're hoping the crash will take both objects out, of course, even if ever so slightly. and it will all be streamed by video back to earth. and that would tell us a lot about if you want to deviate completely as more or less that i told the earth, what type of spacecraft to what speed, what weight, what impact will need to have to deflect an asteroid sign to say the results of the experiment all fine. so if an asteroid measuring just a few 100 meters collides with our planet, it could have devastating consequences. what they're really targeting our asteroids that could be like regional and destroyers like something that could have

a huge impact and say, a certain part of the, the planet. so it's really important that we have a means to protect against those scientists hope the small impact will be a huge step forward to protecting a potentially devastating impact on us. laura dotted manly al jazeera ah, your ga 0 with me to hell, robin. reminder of all top stories that europe is struggling with a new crone of iris outbreak. germany is set to mark 100000 deaths while france in the netherlands are amongst those reporting record case numbers and re simmons has more on the situation from rotterdam in the netherlands here in the netherlands, or a new record or 40 percent increase in the weekly figures of infection rates and or some other disturbing percentages.