ah, ah ah, ah, this is al jazeera ah, it is 10100 hours gm to 1 pm here in doha. i'm come all santa maria with the news our from al jazeera, a new corona virus variance is causing alarm around the world. flights from southern africa are being banned as scientists want, it could be more resistant to vaccines. from migrant crisis to political crisis, france cancels talks with the u. k over how to deal with the problem.

i'm seeing bas ravi live in biscuit. we're curtis don's government says it is foiled and attempted armed who just days before parliamentary elections and a senior official from sedans governing council tells al jazeera, the prime minister of dana hum, dog, backed october's military takeover. and in sworn to former australia as captain campaign is set to miss the ashes series. be 36 year old is announced. he's taking an immediate break from own forms of cricket for the foreseeable future. ah, sir, we're gonna start with this new corona virus variant detected in south africa that is raising concerns all over the world. several countries have rushed to take action within just 24 hours of the news. emerging united kingdom festival has halted flights from south africa. nam may be as and bob, we bought swan and

a suitor and s were teeny germany. actually in check republic. they are imposing similar fans. the rest of the a you look set to follow elsewhere. countries including israel, singapore, and japan and india are they're all tightening up their borders again. and it's all because of this, scientists worried about this variance more than others. it's actually doubled mutations than the globally dominant delta variant, which potentially makes it more infectious. and able to evade vaccines. so we're going to get the latest from london with jonah, how shortly for that picture in the u. k. and europe. let's start in johannesburg. south africa with family to miller. my goodness. there's journal, it's go to for me to now and me the, the dasia version we're feeling here. the beta variant as i remember, actually originated in south africa and, and here we go again with another one and then just in between all of that. so the africa also struggled through the delta variance which was dominant

at the time affecting 99 percent of cases. and yet again, now the detection of a variant that has scientists worried specifically because of the complexity and the multiple mutations they're seeing in that spike protein, which you mentioned is concerning, because they're worried about how it will spread from person to person. and also, they are uncertain about just how effective vaccines will be in protecting people, and also how antibodies that people who already have covered already have had covered how those antibodies may or may not neutralize the virus. they are somewhat cautious in terms of the extent of what this new variant might mean that they continue to collect data and they say they will have more information in the coming days and weeks. and we also know the world health organization is meeting over this particular variance, but it's had an immediate impact in terms of travel restrictions already

implemented against travelers from southern africa. 6 countries there you mentioned who now may not be able to leave these countries and travel abroad as easily as they could just a few weeks ago. and also scientists in south africa, a say, a month ago we had about $200.00 cases every day. and now we are seeing a spike that's about 2000 every day, far less than the u. k. but really the concern in south africa is that the strain on the house system and also potentially new restrictions coming into play. or when, when the government just doesn't want there to be an extreme spread of this view variant here. ok, thank you for me to miller in johannesburg. been now journal hall in london, a joiner. you live in where you hartford ch. are we live and learn and these are circumstances and it seems the u. k. moving very quickly, this time extremely rapidly, really,

when you consider that it was only about 4 pm on thursday, we understand that pretty scientists, you. scientists brought the news to 10 downing street about the discovery by the south africans, which had only happened on tuesday that this, this varied was identified. and that rang such alarm bells inside number 10 downing street. that within i was, they had made the decision to impose these new travel restrictions on 6 southern african countries. now that's in, in absolutely stock contrast to the way they responded. the government here to the emergence of the delta veterans when it was 1st detected in india all those months ago, they daily dallied for quite some time. they effectively did very little too slow. it's spread into this country. will. this variant could be worse described here. no less as potentially the worst coded 19 variant. yet identify good news and bad news . we've been hearing quite a lot about both in the run up here. the good news is not off, as it worked so quickly to identify variance and identify and notify the rest of

the world. rather, they are only 56 known cases at the moment in south africa will be one, has now popped up in hong kong of a south africa, a flight from south africa. no known cases in england. at the moment though, at all arrivals in the last 10 days, hurriedly being p c r tested, the bad news is, you know, they just don't know very much about this thing and it is now out there. and all they could do is hope that they could buy some time to do the work was necessary to try and find out just what kind of a threat this thing really is what those mutations do in the spike protein, those little fingers, bits that come out of the virus itself, they're the main means of spread of infection, double the number of mutations that they're worried, of course, about how transmissible the but also crucially about the possibility that those mutations might mean. that this thing could evade the vaccines we have and you're moving quickly as well. joiner things because frankly, europe's got plenty of problems of its own kind of. it was at the moment. i mean,

one has to assume that european countries will follow england's lead. at this point . there's a 5th wave kind of washing over the continent. continental european union sca ravaging a lot of countries that is low vaccine. take up in the number of them. people are running out of their immunity on 2nd doses as they are here. the booster programs are slow, etc, etc. i mean, this is the last thing anybody needs, particularly in the winter months. and of course, as for me to was pointing out there as the world. ready health organization knuckles down the south need to try and decide whether to declare this new variant . one of concern to the rest of the world, john hall with the picture from london and across europe. joan is thank you for that. will return to that later, but, you know, this pandemic is. it's one of a perfect storm of problems as well to derail the world's supply chain networks. businesses everywhere dealing with bottlenecks as they try to order in goods.

countries out the united states, the bracing for delays stretching into christmas capital elizondo reports now from hoboken. in new jersey there's no shortage of form in the frothy cappuccinos it cower bunker coffee shop. what there is a shortage of is pretty much everything else. the global supply chain strain has made it difficult to keep the coffee shop stocked with a central food and beverages. the sign on the door says it all. customers are urged to be patient with staff members because they're out of a lot of stuff. we're short on everything from bacon and cran. straw's cups, silverware, packets catch up, packets being just small things. take this coffee cup and it's lid it most certainly was manufactured in china. and according to one supply chain expert i spoke to, it probably took over 200 different entities to get this,

the factory and china to the coffee shop here in new jersey. the supply chain is like dominoes one falls. they all fall, the well documented supply chain problems could be exacerbated during the christmas holiday shopping season and into lunar new year in february. experts say a few big companies are prepared, but most are not. for 99 percent of the companies on earth, they are managing with spreadsheets and emails and it is taking 50 or 60 phone calls to manage one shipment. and we have people in the industry literally breaking down in tears over the pain of trying to keep track of a 1000 shipments across the world. oh, it gets very hectic in here, especially saturdays for erica when she calls her distributors, asking when she can reliably get supplies for the coffee shop. the answer she is given is not what she's looking for. right now we're being told that at minimum 10

months maximum about 20 months until our supply chain here is completely back to normal. you said all right, for her and millions of business owners around the world. it can't come soon enough . gabriel's hondo al jazeera hoboken, new jersey coming up 10 minutes past this news are, here is what is coming up more protests on the solomon islands against growing chinese influence police not flying in from australia to try to control the situation. workers' rights tramples the foreign owned companies accused of exploiting minors in democratic republic of congo. and then sport. we will find out why african full countries are set to buy plans to hold a world cup every 2 years. ah, in other news, french fishermen have blocked access to the euro tunnel and channel polls

protesting against post briggs at fishing arrangements ahead of france as national fishy fisheries committee is putting pressure on the u. k. to issue more licenses to its fishermen. both countries i'm involved in a long running dispute over the right to fish in that territorial waters. more with andrew siemens now and android. this fishing controversy seems to be one that doesn't go away and in fact keeps getting worse. it certainly does a long protracted dispute between brickman france over this post breaks it arrangement on fishing, which the u. k. feels is there right now, and they've been making it clearly clear to everyone that they will make the final decision on who fishes in its waters and the french are saying that. so they don't have enough in the way of licenses. we're seeing a round of protest, possibly what was planned to be the biggest yet by fishing protested however,

the stormy weather is having its effect, leaving some large ships a port. and so the blockade may not be effective in some places. in some my low in brittany were hearing that one boats was in fact affected by it was stuck in port for up to an hour. but that's a process. now we'll move on to the channel tunnel. well, later on, there is a plan to try to stop all freight trade going through the channel tunnel that will cause major disruption if it indeed takes place. that is the plan here in color. there's also a protest plan, we're not seeing any action yet. we've just got one police boat patrol here and in we throw harm. there is also a protest plan. these fishing protested say that it's simply not, not on the that the british will see more action. and there is

a big political aspect, so all of this as well because the french government is backing these protest is and indeed is threatening the u. k. unless they have developments on fishing rights that is threatening the u. k. with blocking some level of trade and this is representing only a small amount of freight, but it symbolic of the dispute between the 2 countries over over this sort of business. and without rehashing the entire break that trauma and i wouldn't wish that on anyone, but is this phishing problem is, is simply something that wasn't sorted out properly in the break that agreement or it's just that boat side, the still got grievances with what was a great well, it, it depends who you listen to. the french would say that the british of renamed on their promises or the, the british would say that they're within their rights. another french have actually had

a slight change in approach in that the merits i minister decided to offer up to $68000000.00 in compensation to fishermen that went there badly with them because they thought this was a mention admission of defeat. this minister have in fact, got a record of being really militant about the situation saying that sir, britain should really get ready for before full action, but by the fisherman, back by the government, no emanuel macaroni. i had stepped in the president of france and said he will not yield, we will back the fisherman all the way. so this is war of so many aspects of a lousy relationship between the british and the french right now. it's never really been mortensen. and as low in terms of bad feelings between the 2 countries at every level, particularly diplomatically, isn't it that, isn't it? so right, andrew simmons in can, i thank you. and we're going to build on bad another source of tension between the

u cane. frances paris canceling and meeting with the u. k. i. this was aimed at so tackling the issue of people smuggling across the english channel. it's after prime minister bars johnson criticized the french authorities for their handling of the migrant crisis pull. brennan isn't the british coastal town of dover to talk about this when i mean, just build on what andrew was saying. relations are so low at the moment that even with something as important as the lives of people in the english channel meetings have been cancelled over. indeed, what essentially has happened is that the 2 sides, britain and france, are unable to agree how best to proceed to make the channels safer and to stop the migrant crossings on the small boat side and a 3rd on wednesday when the deaths happened when there's $27.00 deaths happened the 1st reaction of both sides was to urge, closer cooperation. but the, the fishes between them, the cracks between them were already starting to appear on wednesday after boris

johnson spoke by telephone to president micron. and the read out from the british side of that. it was that they described it as a closer corporation. but he said we had difficulty in persuading some of our partners, particularly the french, to do things in a way that the situation deserves. so essentially, they're outright saying that the french are not taking the situation seriously. it's a real slap in the face, and it's not just nuanced. it's there a misstatement. fast forward to last night. and the british, the british had been advocating this idea of joint patrols, french and british soldiers or police marching up and down french beaches, looking out for migrants. it had been gently pushed back by french officials and authorities. yesterday. that didn't stop. forrest johnson coming out with a formal letter last night thursday night, again, formally asking for this as a proposal. and to the point where i, my reading of it is the president macklin has just become so exasperated with the

way that boris johnson of his to be bouncing the french into following boris johnson's way of doing things that they said, no, you're out, go away. hush french, british relations at quite a low at the moment. thank you for that. update our pool brennan in dover, the deputy head to of sedans, governing council of told out to 0 that last month's military takeover was the best option. is woods to start what he calls a spiraling crisis. general mohammed handed thou got the gallow also known as him. betty says the movers discussed with all parties and that includes the prime minister of de la hancock from hitting over here. what's happened on october 25th was the ultimate outcome of a long process. since that changes started in sudan during such process. many discussions were made. and many initiatives were proposed by various parties, the prime minister himself proposed to initiative. and during our meetings and the

transitional partners council or the sovereignty council, with the cabinet of ministers, we made maximum effort. but we couldn't reach a breakthrough. at that point, we were left with 3 options in the best of which was the move we had taken. who was, it was completely agreeable to the prime minister himself of the work. we did not make such a move on our own. they said with russell said, i've been speaking exclusively to keep political figures and sit down as these efforts are being made to bring back civilian rule, he explains what might happen next. people have been asking whether really the prime minister up the la hum duke was aware of the call, or was a part of the call of the admitted to take over into come to not. and when i into waived mr. how do i ask that question? what are you aware of that some people say that you were part of it. he very clearly am they to me and they said that he did not know that the military takeover is coming. he quit somehow some. he was suspicious of that,

but definitely it happened. it didn't happen with their consultation with him. but now the deputy chairman of the 70 council of sudan and the head of the rapid support was the strongest. the region of the army says that actually they have discussed with the prime minister of the duke as well. and that he need, did the military take over 3 years to the day that it took place. so it is quite a bold one. will see what mr. duke is going to say regarding these allegations, but definitely it will have that pin occasion because as you mentioned that he was on the powder house as when they were negotiating a deal. and people were already to question his independence. but he said that he's going to be fully independent, and now off there, there is legation. people are going to question more, he's less to see more. and that is definitely going to make his job quite tough and also could potentially support anger among the people who are already will pause in

this deal to cook. it's done now with security services are saying they afforded a coup attempt. at least 15 people detained, including politicians and former officials in basra is there for us in the capital . bish care with more of what's going on zane. welcome all, according to an official government statement released earlier today. the security service, along with the ministry of internal affairs, carried out raids on people's homes in arrested as you say, 15 people and they were allegedly plotting to carry out an armed coup in the days after parliamentary elections parliamentary elections here in ferguson are just a few days away, just 2 days away. and the report suggests that this group was trying to amass as many as a 1000 people, aggressive participants. the government says that would take part in violence

street protests and instigates, according to the government. clashes with police and security apparatus of the government, and they say that that is exactly the kind of thing they have forwarded. it has to be said that this report comes out at a very convenient time. it does fit the government narrative very well. the government trying to oppose itself as, as new leaders, as the adults in the room encourages done and saying that they are the ones to bring stability to the country. this an example of stopping the same kind of violence and protests that people have seen in the past and do not want to see again. so what do you tell us? then saying about the elections, as you said, sunday, the parliamentary elections a do what sort of expected from those well, in many ways it has to be said, the outcome of the election is somewhat clear. most of the front runners likely to take the seats in the new form of government,

which has 90 seats in parliament. they're all, all the front runners are generally supportive of presidents, other depart. and even though, since he's taking power as president, he's been criticized for cracking down on political descent for silencing its credit for taking steps that have weakened press freedom. the fact of the matter is that he still remains the most popular leader in the country. blinded by a child who disease thus unbecoming, have struggled with depression at an early age. the pursuit of knowledge, he says, saved him and led him to a career as a lawyer once a member of the party, overthrown by curtis jones presidents, other japira, the acting m. p is now running for parliament as an independent, legit you his campaign slogan. i see the truth a play on his disability suggest he has not lost his sense of humour and perhaps a jab at the current leadership. he may be blind,

but even he is able to see the people's real problems. when you, my plan in social media is just like tv. you can do a good nasal, you can make appeals from social media, but you will not lead your waters to the bell at boxes. that is why personal contact the moment when you are chatting with your potential voters, it better the chances that this water will come and will fill you in a system that has for years run on political favortism. thus done walking, the beat makes him a rare breed the election for a new parliament is only a few days away. but walking around the capital, bish cat, you wouldn't be able to tell. this is the lowest level of public activity this country has ever seen before. a vote. now that may be down to a nationwide case of what some experts are calling political fatigue. this is after all, the 4th round of poles this country is conducting in a year. political heat from opposing forces is also noticed that we milder descent has been muffled by allegations of corruption. opposition activists and leaders are

out of the country or in prison and front runners that are likely to fill parliamentary seats largely back. the president japira has not been as heavy handed as previous leaders, but has cracked down on political opponents, intimidated critics and pass laws to weaken press freedom things. he said he would not do. public promises that make him happier. his critics say, are a cover for the same corruption of past governments. many fear the elections will be followed by hostility, probably nice because you familiar with like a bridge. i have no doubt that's going to have that history shown us that such dictators as the current government, white for elections only to strengthen their vertical power. as soon as i have enough support, as soon as they have the parliament in the court in their hands, they will intensify. the fight against this voter turn is going to be an important indicator of the health of democracy in correspond. and after years of ballads cast out of fear, under pressure or for payment, turn out this time is expected to be extremely low. st. basra. v. o z rubbish,

keck, iran's top nuclear negotiate says talks in vienna will fail if all sanctions on his country are not lifted late, but here he is also asking washington for guarantees that it won't leave any future agreement around the new government is due to hold it 1st talks with international power over the nuclear program on monday. police in the solomon islands have imposed an indefinite night time curfew in the capital of 2 days of vine approaches . t a gas and warning shots were fired on friday to disperse the crowds, gathering and honey our police from australia arrived to restore. come a sarah clock, no reports flies burn, and thick smoke billows across the solomon islands capital. this is the aftermath of 2 days of wires. leave his ransacked local stools after 36, our curfew is lifted. we have just come to pass through a lot of buildings and you know, a lot of our businesses that we've been down and behind me that that's the police

response team. the out of the trying to control the situation here more than 100 police diplomats and defense personnel from australia had been deployed to honey ira at the request of the solomon islands, prime minister. but the new guinea is also sending a pace, keeping team in or to try and restore. com. we have a stride into a brightly going back to the solomon islands, to support our pacific family to ensure that we can have stability in place. so that i can resolve issues internally. the flashpoint for these anti government protests was the chinatown district demonstrate, is targeted, the chinese on businesses and government funded building a spokeswoman day. yet, we are gravely concerned over the attacks on chinese citizens and chinese funded enterprises and have asked the local government to take all measures necessary to protect the safety of chinese nationals and institutions. the group behind these

demonstrations are from the nation's most populous islands, the min later province, that accused the prime minister of ignore your needs of the region. and they want him to stand down. request, he's refused. this is about um, i think a pretty deep seated grievances on the part of many ordinary solomon islanders ah, about the way they see government behaving about the way that our development occurs in solomon islands. ah. at the way the economy structured at corruption and perceptions of corruption and all of the way that the central government deals with the provinces protest is there also angry at the central government's decision to cut ties with taiwan after 36 years and form an allegiance with china, that decision was made in 2019,

but with china's growing influence in the 14 nation pacific islands, it continues to fuel discontent. sarah clark, ours here, in the news a head. so look a why and use that farmers are holding rallies again, despite the government announcing a controversial agricultural will be repealed and what's causing a real estate rebound in nigeria, where hundreds of homes are being built every months. plus your sport seems busy, not in the regulations to all the actions with far a little bit late. ah hello there winter is certainly being felt across europe and there's more wet, windy and cold weather to come in the days ahead. particular for the north west. we've got storm r when working it's way south, bringing arctic blast to britain,

an island it is remaining unsettled as well though in the south. if we take a closer look, we got low pressure that's pushed across the mediterranean. it's cause flash flooding. a lot of that wet weather in mouth and it is going to be concentrated here that wet and windy weather for the next few days, got warnings out for southern parts of italy, coastal areas of the adriatic. and by the time we get to saturday, it's going to be very wet. indeed, for western areas of greece. we've also got a wintry mix pulling in once again to northern areas of spain. we're expecting a meter of snow to fall in, paces here. and a lot of those wintry conditions extending up into the northwest. thanks to storm are when that's bringing wind speeds up to a 120 kilometers per hour. so gale force winds affecting northern parts of scotland . a lot of that snow sleet and wind to re mix moving down into the south. by the time we get into saturday, the temperature in london and paris is going to sit at 5 degrees. it's going to

feel rather chilly that to weather update. ah, the frank assessments this gracious continue to weaken a look, a shell even though perhaps he believes in the beginning there have been informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from the young people. that is one of the most things that come out of this critical debate. do you think they should be facilitated? not choke it, right? it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a child. swans that inside story on al jazeera is and less than a year. capital will host the middle east 1st, well come in preparation. the country is staging a major and says to women, think the nation's going head to head in think purpose bill stadiums for 2020.