gains a problem across iran. finale 2 weeks we've had high levels of pollution recorded in to run and the city remains cloaked in smog. but weather wise, it is settled and dryer. here we got a few showers popping off in the east, but across much of the region it's dry. it does get a little bit unsettled. thanks with shamar wind that's blowing down across the gulf states. we're going to see some dust kicked up. hey, the sunshine for guitar for the u. e. and as we go into sunday, that wind is going to intensify stretching down into amman and yemen that will move across to north africa. the wind picks up across northern areas. we got a bit of the horrid dust to be found there in places like egypt and in libya. but for the wet weather, we have to move over to morocco that thinks the low pressure across the mediterranean, that's bringing some storms and showers here, as well as coastal areas of algeria. and it was, we moved to central africa. it's not as wet as it has been. recently. we are seen some heavier falls effect, southern areas of somalia. we could see flooding here. but for south africa it's

been very wet and windy in cape town, but it's an improving situation this weekend. and you car in the news ahead, we're going to speak to business owners in the u. s. so a facing may just supply set back ahead of the holiday season. we're also in uganda with the return of a violet rebel group is threatening some of its most vulnerable communities and in sport. busy night. indeed, you rocked the lake far as long as all the options to later ah, in the country with an abundance of results for the road and walk indonesia whose firms for me, we move full to grow and fraud. we balance for rena economy, blue economy, and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs.

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news here at al jazeera and there is breaking news on the current covered situation that's coming out of belgium, which has confirmed a 1st case of the new corona virus ferry. and that when we were telling about a little bit earlier, which has been detected in south africa and has prompted a number of countries to review the travel restrictions, european nations particularly rushing to impose those restrictions dominant cane in berlin with more on this. and the kind of situation across europe, this is, you know, we don't want to get alarmist too quickly, but this is exactly the kind of thing which governments worried about the virus being on the move. yes, this is as you say exactly the thing that the ministers, the medics around this continent would fear. the thought that a new variant which has been described as being of really serious concern and that a person or persons of now been to, to our have it in their system. certainly some reports say to people have been

found with this variant in their systems in belgium, but all agree that at least one person has and that one person has been confirmed by a belgian minister. now the important thing to stress about this is the person concerned it is, it is reported tested positive for cove. it's on the 22nd of november, thus monday of this week and they were un vaccinated. now clearly in many you countries, right now, you have levels of vaccination in the population of around 2 thirds, perhaps more in some cases. so clearly from the govern mental perspective, but right across the you, you have the e u as an institution in the shape of president of the commission on the line. really concerned about this new variant detected in south africa in southern africa and calling for governments to restrict access from people who've been in southern africa to the e. u. and now you have this confirmation from the belgian government that at least

one person has tested positive in the course of the last few days for this new variant. dominic, let's talk about germany. specifically, i am reading about flying intensive care units being used by the air force trying to reduce the strain. tell us more. yeah, well the thing about this situation in germany right now is that it is as bad as it has ever been and it is growing increasingly bad as the weeks unfold. so yes, the lift buffer, that's the german air force ferrying help around wherever possible to the places where it's needed most. and there are some states where the situation is described officially as catastrophic. 3 east german states states in the old east germany have had 10 percent or more than 10 percent of all their cases have happened in the last 7 days. then if you extrapolate that to a federal level,

what we have is more than 360000 cases in the course of the last 7 days. and then just to add further to the sense of the seriousness with which people see things. the reality is, in 3 days of the last 5, there has been recalled cases and today is no exception. more than 76000 new infections announced to day dominate cane, updating us with a situation across europe. a reminder that breaking news belgium, confirming a case of this new variant pandemic is just part of a perfect storm of problems really, which is work to derail the world's supply chain networks. businesses everywhere dealing with bottlenecks. they try to water goods, countries on us bracing for the delays to stretch into christmas schedule that was under reports now from hoboken in new jersey. ah,

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 re ably gets 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 also for her and millions of business owners around the world. it can't come soon enough. gabriel's hondo which is eda, hoboken, new jersey,

little bit of broader picture for you here. more than $600.00 container ships, i currently stuck outside ports all over the world. that's expensive. now costs about $20000.00 to ship a 40 foot container from china to the east coast of america. that is a 500 percent price rise in just a year. that means consumer price levels could increase $1.00 and a half percent between now and 2023 and it's hitting businesses and major industries as well. tech giant apple says a global shortage of semiconductors made. it missed out on sales of $6000000000.00 in 3 months. to september and the auto industry we've had a lot about those. it expects to miss out on revenue of 210000000000 dollars this year because it can't get enough microchips. we've got allison stewed allen with us to talk through this see of international marketing palm as, as i go through all of that. allison, it, i mean it's, it's a huge no hun effect all over the world and through different industries. but it basically comes down to the ships, doesn't it? all the ports which can't handle the volume of shipping is, is that the case?

it is the case. you've got this backlog. as you mentioned a moment ago, of, you know, ports all over the world with ships waiting to dock to be unloaded, to go back and fill up again, or return a full as well. and the pandemic has just made this a chronic problem. retailers, especially, we're seeing christmas gifts or seasonal gifts being out of stock, not sure when they'll be back in stock and really clearing this backlog is gonna take 6 to 9 months. is the prediction, not just from the port of los angeles long beach, which actually accounts for about 40 percent of all the us imports, but ports all over the world. partly because you've had these furloughed workers during the pandemic. now they're back and now they're needing to work. 247 i you're having shapes throughout the day and night, 7 days

a week. okay. it's going to take a little while. this is a knock on effect then, as he sighed from cove it and from staffing levels and shut downs and locked downs and all sorts of things that's been going on for 18 months now. so i'm trying to understand how it's become such an acute problem. now or is it, is it just reached that sort of critical load? i think what, what's happened is there's been a build up. so you know, let's not forget the suez canal. oh yeah. drama that we had only a few months ago, which also delayed shapes from getting east west. so that to means that the backlog has just been growing. and we are really back to normal. let's be honest. we are still in a pandemic. your report just a moment ago about germany, about belgium, about south africa. so this is not going to go away any time soon. and, and what retailers are grappling with, especially at this time of year, is, how do i get stock? how do i maximize my revenue with the stock i already have?

and of course i'm gonna get all of the christmas hanukkah, seasonal gifts coming in to stock in july of next year, which is that helpful? so am i am, am i am, i'm not blaming myself here, but i as in all of us making it worse if i hop on amazon and need to order a bunch of stuff. is that, is that build up making it all worse as well? well, amazon has, i think it done quite a bit of advanced planning and you know, of course, with its buying power as a business and the interest of retailers to have a presence on that platform. and they are, they seem to be fairly well prepared. but you may not be able to buy the product you really want at this time of year. but generally speaking, the idea of online purchasing, which is what we all do and have done even more since the pandemic, is it just, i just wonder if this is just as the ships try to clear, we're just adding more conquer. we are adding more cargo. the other thing though

we've done is that we have changed consumer habits forever. we are now shopping online, increasingly, and it's going to be very tough for the bricks and mortar stores to get us back in person unless they do something innovative. allure us back, they need to reinvent what it's like to be in their shops. and so that we want to go back and get out of our pajamas. i don't want to get out of my pajamas, they make me when i go and television. unfortunately, alice threw it at leisure tokens. you really informative. thank you. novices in honduras will go to the polls on sunday to elect a new president's kansas. tens of thousands of people are fleeing the country for the united states, leaving behind a nation, suffering corruption, violence, and poverty. manuel raphael reports now from the city of san pedro sula, in northern honduras, juliani and her family live in the outskirts of some federal sula. last year,

they were left homeless after 2 back to back hurricanes, slammed into central america. displacing more than a 1000000 people. with the help of a non profit, yolande was able to once again put a roof over for families heads. but she says times are still hard, and the thought of migrating to the united states is always in the back of her mind . unavoidable by avenue, american animal planet. we can't even pay our rent. we can't pay for anything. when we see that we are at rock bus him, we say that we're going to leave. there's no other option because here we can't do anything in one mazama. yolanda showed us around her neighbourhood. it's clear from the political posters on the sides of homes that election season is in full swing, i, bonanza. but while politics appears to be the only topic of conversation among neighbors, not a single person we met during our visit had any intention to vote. and if anything, many are debating whether or not to do what tens of thousands of others have already done in recent years, i don't know joining a migrant caravan and making the perilous journey,

nor toward the united states. the one that has on its own age. i'm after these elections, i'm leaving because i don't have hopes of anything. my mother has a house here, but she's leaving to is being here is to live in anguish. it's something horrible. horrible. over the past few years, migrant numbers from honduras have skyrocketed. a historic wave of migration fueled by rampant corruption, keeping public services like health care and education ever further out of reach for a majority of citizens honduras house, one of the highest poverty rates in all of latin america. and as national elections draw near. many of the people that we've welcome to tell us they have no confidence that a new government will improve their lives. in fact, the overwhelming sentiment, at least for many in this community, is that the sooner leave the country than wait for it to change for the better you lunney says the only reason she hasn't left is because of her children. her 16 year old daughter jamie, suffers from severe scoliosis and she worries jamie wouldn't survive the 4000

kilometer trip to the u. s. southern border. like many others, you'll any says she feels helpless. 91 benefit of no matter who wins the election, things will stay the same. because i think the only thing the politicians want is to grow and become rich. right now they need poor people for the voice, but later when they're in power, they forget about us. more than 75 percent upon durance live below the poverty line . in experts warn that number can grow to as high as 80 percent by the end of the year with a forecast like that, there's little hope. the next generation of hundreds will have a better opportunity to choose an option. other than migration money ended up a low al jazeera, some bedroom sula, honduras runs for sarah, choosing foreign owned mining companies in democratic republic of congo of widespread abuse, including physical beatings. malcolm weapons been looking at that story from coal. where's the in lap a province and just a warning, his report does contain some disturbing images. geron colombo,

went to work as normal on the 11th of october. his family haven't seen him since when he was a truck driver to an industrial cobalt mine that belongs to a chinese company. here in a democratic republic of congo, his wife to traumatized, talk about it. gerard's brother, john patrick was told about what happened by another worker. got my van. his truck broke down into mine at around 3 30 in the morning. he reported it on the radio, invaded for help. when his colleague arrived later and opened the truck cabinet, found only his heart had his shoes and blood, and other workers filled what they saw in a mobile phone. she long, they're saying you chinese assaulted him. whereas his body days later, this video was circulated on social media work of films, 2 men wearing the minds uniform and accusing them of burying a body. it left gerad,

somebody wondering if it was him. they went to ask the mine, they said the managers gave them $500.00 and this signed paper stating that the money was for morning. but they didn't answer any questions. this is where sharon worked. the company's called sick. i mean, it didn't respond to our request for comment. it's one of several state back chinese companies that have bought most of the cobalt mines. gerad disappearance is just the latest of many allegations of abuses committed by foreign mind managers. mind minerals make up almost all of congo is x force. and here the city of co lazy is an art of it's essentially for cobalt for a mining company that a lot more wealth from it. the most of the work is here and there's a feeling among many minors that some of the forum work is simply don't care about the right people. i. the social media video shows

chinese manages ordering communities soldiers to be men who tried to steal rocks with cobalt for which demand is soaring for its use in electric vehicles. the provincial governor told us she's cracking down on miss treatment in mind. when i saw one of the week i've been beaten. you can ask, i'd make my decision. this chinese people was been arrested. there was in prison. the arrest was well publicized rights groups say they were discreetly released soon after louis did it. the state authorities are very weak in the face of chinese economic and political enter it up to the chinese companies have ministers and m p . 's in on their deals. this makes them very powerful and uncontrollable john and his brothers meet almost every day by the court house in co wavy to check on the public prosecutors investigation into jarrett disappearance. they say the delays

and excuses. just keep coming. they're worried they'll never be justice. has jeroen, but they keep seeking it. there's nothing else they can do. malcolm web al jazeera co ways, the democratic republic of congo. there are concerns growing and you gander about armed groups from neighboring democratic republic of congo, the targeting refugee camps for years you get into the government said the allied democratic forces were defeated and pushed out of the country. but along the things to be the case, the groups been active in uganda since 1995, the adf, known for its extremely violent methods. the united states even says it's linked to ice all of them. so as i report now from congo near, you can this border with the i see where the police told al jazeera, they have dismantled what they're calling domestic terror cells. mohammed, she going to was a major in the, you've got an army. he was killed in 2015. he was one of several former commanders of the ally democrats force his rebel group,

were integrated into the military. after seeking amnesty, his reader tells us before his death, to going to had been scared and expressed fears about people trying to kill him. work i tell you when he died, we started hearing that the adf was targeting. if one had left them and dreamed the government, maybe they thought he had secrets he was giving to government. adf, has its roots in western uganda. it was kicked out by the military in 2001 and set our bases in eastern democratic republic of congo. security forces here blamed the group for a number of assassinations. and recent attacks were civilians were killed and others injured. they have intensified patrols and surveillance in the city in areas bordering d. r, congo. they say the rebels have increasingly been recruiting young ugandans into their ranks after this young children, beautiful recruiter,

a gentle pull over at us, find ways of smuggling them out of the country into the dnc after they have been hardened into the willingness of committing actual violence against your guns when they get where we're back into the country. the rear margins of the adf in uganda. so many years after the group was pushed out of this part of their wins or re, mountains is worrying many, including refugees from the d. r congo escaping attacks by the fighters in a region troubled by rebel groups. divers, a congo lease form across the border in the eastern democratic republic of congo. come to this reception center every day because of the conflict in not cable province and a tory some of those we talk to say the a fling from adf rebels. compiler corley fled from the outskirts of benny in north cuba province. he's concerned about a possible infiltration of 80

a fighters in camps for refugees. powers woke up on your probe. you cannot predict our families. we cannot go to the farm to do in the walk. people are living in fear invidious. they are burning vehicles on the roads. i still has claimed the most recent attacks in the name of its central african administrative division, which the adf is believed to be a part of police and military commanders say they have everything under control, but also not ruling out the possibility of more attacks. cathy sawyer all jazeera western uganda busy all day here on al jazeera got time for looking for with far thank you so much come on. south african sport is facing a large scale shot down due to the attack detection of the new corona virus variant . south africa's cricketers play benevolence on friday, but the rest of their series is in doubt as that has series against india. in december, 15 british and irish golfers withdrew before the 2nd round of the joe berg opened.

teed off on friday. rugby being hit to with south africa having just welcomed for european clubs for a tournament. least 2 of those are now trying to leave. fee for president john infant he know, has accused those who oppose by any whole world top is being scared and change and wanting to keep their heightened status in the game. and contina has been in cairo, attending the confederation of african football's extraordinary meeting. the continents member countries of overwhelmingly voted back the proposal of holding the rogue up every 2 years. and continues comments have been interpreted as a veil. dig at europe and south america will come out against the plan. i think is what against are those who are the talk? it happens in every sector of life. when did our reforms and changes those? what are the told to the want anything to change because they are the top. they are afraid maybe that if something changes, their leadership position is at risk. we cannot close the door. we need to keep the

door open. we need to give hold. we need to give opportunities the entire world. earlier will spend 2 african football journalists, gary al smith, and he told us why half is in favor of the biannual well cup. why some players could split from their national teams? well, is just a question of money every 2 years, guarantees that at least $5.00 to $6.00 associations will get a substantial amount of money. and that's all it's about really. and it might seem like a very selfish point of view from africa. but what can african countries do when the world cup overwhelmingly saved us continents such as europe and asia and probably north america. so that's the argument. it boils down to money. there's the real threat because it again will ball down to bread and butter issues. the

salaries of these players on the weak lee bases are paid for by these clubs. and so by coercion, all by some agreements, these thoughts may decide to step away from the national teams. and increasingly, we are seeing more and more frequently as being more vocal as you know, because it does not seem like the international football colanda is kind to them. and as the grew, you might question whether there's too much football for them already. marcia had been knocked out at the rapidly ink at the french side were beaten for 2 by del, its sri. the turkish club are now top of their group and guaranteed a spot in the knockout rounds. ryan babbles for dallas house or ice forth on friday, the dutch striker is set to release his autobiography in the form of an 8 track rap album. and former australia has captain tim payne says he's taking an indifferent, indefinite leave of absence from all forms of crickets. the announcement comes just 12 days before the start of the ashes,

which means the 36 year old will miss the series against england pain resigned from captain c last week following an investigation and to sexually explicit text messages. incentive, former female calling back in 2017 possible or pat cummings will replace him as skipper with steve smith to be his deputy. though i haven't had too much experience as captain it was always in the back in the mind that this might pop up at 11 stage . and it's rod stier nasa series, but i feel like a pain really, i'm really well equipped. i've had a good few years of training if it did pop up and pay blocks, dave, other, teammates around support, stuff i think would be pretty seamless. okay, and that is all your sport for now. come all back to you in for thank you so much for that more sport, an unexcused hour, 1500 hours gmc though, we're back in just a few moments time. more in the breaking news from belgium. the 1st case to take

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algeria. great with, oh, belgium becomes the 1st european country to confirm a new corona, virus buried scientists. i could make vaccines less effective. ah, logan hemwall santa maria here in doug. this is the world news from al jazeera started as a migrant crisis. now war woods, france counseling talks with the u. k. over how to deal with those, trying to cross the english channel. also in the news cargo sounds, government says it's foiled a qu days before parliamentary.