hon children on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm demise the welcome to the news our life from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. global alarm over a new cove at variance in southern africa. the us restricts travel. europe has its 1st case and proposed to do the same. the european commission has today proposed to member states to activate the emergency brake on travel. just days after dozens of migrants perished in the waters between them, france and persons stumble over politics in the search for a solution. ethiopian prime minister vows to bury the enemy's hitches appear to

show him front line against rebels. and americans are heading a shop on black friday that might be slim pickings for the bargain. hunters in sport, african football leaders vote in favor of holding more regular world cups. the confederation of african football is backing the fee for president's plan to stage the finals every 2 years. ah, welcome to the news. our top story. a wild health organization is declared a corona virus variant of concern warning of a new mutation which could spread more quickly just 2 days after it was 1st reported, the u. s. has now joined several other countries to restrict travel to southern africa where the 1st cases were identified. with this unease spreading,

north american and european stop markets have suffered there was days of the year. variant is currently known as b 11529. but has been assigned the greek letter on mc wrong. first, k was detected in botswana, but it was some south african scientist who 1st identified it over a 100 confirmed cases have been found in south africa, hong kong and botswana. the change is in the 32 mutations on what's called the spike protein. this is what virus uses to penetrate human cells and cause infection in the body. it's also what most vaccines are designed to target, and it could take weeks of work to uncover what impact these changes could have on how effective the vaccines are out there is it, andy bober has our port now. it's the news. no one wanted to hear the discovery of a new covey, very and called ami krohn. first identified in south africa,

has hit world stock markets as concerns grow about a new global threats. the world health organization has labeled it a variance of concern based upon the information that we have, particularly from south africa. and they have advised w h o that this variance should be classified as a variant of concern. so today we are noticing b 11529 is the variance of concern named on the crime, the w h o cautioned against hasty counter measures for now, but many governments chose instead to act fast. early indications show this buried may be more transmissible than the delta varied, and current vaccines may be less effective. again. it may also impact the effectiveness of one of our major treatments. one of the u. k. his lead by restricting travel from 6 southern african countries with the emerging old member states to follow suit. cases of a new variance have been confirmed in a growing list of countries, including hong kong,

israel and belgium. it is now important that all of us in europe act very swiftly. the european commission has today proposed to member states to activate the emergency brake on travel from countries in southern african and other countries affected. of course travel restrictions of designs not to hold the spread of the variance. it's too late for that. but instead to by time this new variance is, has got the most mutations that we've ever seen, the crowd of ours. so 30 more compared to the original strain and about twice as many delta, it will take weeks to know all of that information. and we know that from previous studies on the alpha delta that it takes time to understand the transmission infectiousness. it takes time to understand the severity in the weeks ahead, the world will hold its breath, waiting to find out whether the new variant is a dark turn in the panoramic or a false alarm. nadine baba al jazeera well south africa has been the focus of this

story. it's where the new variant was 1st identified tools and i, one of the nations to which travel has been restricted by the united states and other countries for mean a miller reports from john is back frustration at janice birds international airport. as dozens of people try to return to the united kingdom, it comes all was off. date was announced. a new variant of coven 19 had been identified in south africa. that led to the united kingdom announcing a new travel ban on people coming from southern african countries, including south africa. but swanner and bob with is a bit inconvenience. we had our flights book for a week time, but we got the news from our daughter in about 1 o'clock last night saying that you thought you were going to introduce the read it's on justified.

it's abrupt and it's not good for tories for south africa. was seen these regulations wave off last night. people up front to keep trying to get back into the south african scientists say they're worried, existing vaccines may not be effective. and the new variant may spread easily. genomics develops in south africa has been outstanding throughout this whole pandemic period. and that's why we've been able to identify when changes occur. the fact that we are able to identify changes quickly is good news is good news for the world. but we must be careful that we don't then jumped the conclusion of, well, that equals, it came from here, it came from there and it means it's there so that we need to understand much more about this. so far, dozens of infections have been identified in south africa. while in botswana, the government says the new virus was found in several foreign nationals on a diplomatic visit. while the south african government says it respects the

decision taken by the u. k and other countries to limit travel to and from the region. and that precautionary measures may be necessary. it says the decision is rushed. procedure interventions were brought to say we do tend to dos in terms of restrictions in terms of the regulations, whether they're with the review of that a possible 4th wave. compounded by the new variance may further strain and already overwhelmed health system in south africa. for me to mana i'll to 0 johannesburg. well, the 7 countries are on the u. s. restrictions including south africa, which announced the variant and botswana where the 1st identified sample came from . the same countries restricted by switzerland and include the 6 band by the u. k.

and others on my can joins us live now from washington. but tell us, have we heard anything more from the president or anyone in his administration about these restrictions and indeed the variance itself. well, the u. s. has acted very quickly in terms of this. there was a briefing with the white house cobra team in the course of the morning. they spoke to scientists in south africa, and then you had the w h o announcement that this is a variation that is potentially deeply dangerous. the u. s. was quickly to impose a travel ban on south africa and a number of other countries, most of whom on neighbor to south africa with the addition of malawi. now this supplies only to those who do not have us passports or permanent residents in the us at this particular stage. but the ban on deck travel will come into effect on monday. and this is what the white house white house cobra team has proposed. and

that will go into effect immediately. so very quick reaction from here in the united states. s. and we've seen or heard of the reaction. the market has been very swift for european and us stalks. and that was be helped by comments that have been made by the president joe biden. well, president biden has recently spoken about it. he's spending the holiday weekend in nantucket, with his family. and this is what he had to say. i don't know a lot about the blue one

law president biden, they're calling on all of those who are not vaccinated to get vaccinated calling on those as well, who are vaccinated to get a booster shot as quickly as possible. so president biden, using this as a way to try and get the vaccinations, speeding up again in the united states, sir close to 80 percent of vaccinated at this point. but there is still a surge in cobra cases in a number of states within this country. and now this new variant, adding another threat to it, and one must just add as well that in the past, there have been a number of variants of the cobra virus. and there was initial alarm. but subsequently they proved largely an important in the pandemic. and the larger scale, however, research is now looking at this particular variant. what makes it more problematic is that it appears. it does not result from that delta variant which calls so much trouble. it is a totally unique, a one and that will require even further research. you cannot draw on the research

that has been done to variance in the past. as he say, there is a great deal. we don't know about this new very in thank you very much. mike hanner in washington dc, bring his sir or the latest on the reaction that we have seen there. well mazar, moshe bella is a professor of public health and the deputy vice chancellor of research and innovation at the university of choir zulu natal joins us now from dub and in south africa. and that may be all pick up on the point that our course. what it might, can, it was just making it is, there is a great deal we don't know about this mutation, but how does the way in which this variant behaves differ from mutations that we've seen in a virus so far? yeah, chris, in smyrna and sewer view or something from our end. what do we have noted is that there are specific mutations that we have seen before and those are in delta in be

tied in some in alpha as well. but they're also mutations that we have not seen before, and unfortunately, the way this virus is behave, it depends on the combination of that constellation of mutation suite. we don't know exactly how it's going to behave, but so far what we're seeing is that there is a simmering repeat spread and we are also seeing that there is a re infection amongst people who i have been infected before as well as people who i've seen a tips, so the 2 concerns are on the veterans of concerns around this 2 issues of wine and possibly higher transmits ability. and secondly, their, their concern around as you vision of the community. those are the 2 things that i think have also prompted their world health organization to deb this a variant of consent m as in image or micron. how quickly has it spread

in south africa? yeah, it has a essentially concentrated in the part of the rico which is holding and we have essentially seen some clusters in one part and it actually spread within a matter of 2 weeks. we've seen a repeat spread from cases that we saw as 58 last week on monday. and in that area it was about $500.00. but end of the week this week we saw earlier in the week that had about a 1000 cases of interest to 2000 today's 2300 in that particular area. so that the only way it's, it's actually required high. it troubles in the matter of $5.00 to $6.00 days. he was saying that as scientists and doctor is a particularly worried about 2 things, that is the high level of transmits ability, the speed at which this variant is able to spread. and then also the chances of re

infection, which is also higher with this very and tell me more about the, the vaccines and how it might affect the level of protection vaccines give us yet. so i think at the moment we have sort of anecdotal data to support that some people with bucks in some who of us and it also getting great 3 infections, but they are mostly mild, mild cases. so there's still a lot of work around that. we need to do to understand exactly the extent to reach their couldn't they can be reached reduction in effectiveness of vaccines. but so far with the evidence that we're seeing on the ground, we've got confidence that the vaccines are playing an important role in preventing

severe disease, hospitalization, and death. that i think that we are confident so far with the evidence we have. but we're going to is still too early. we're going to wait maybe for another couple of weeks to be able to study the law to ration of illness in patients, to extra to see what the outcomes look like as well. and then receive the data from the laboratory on the response of onto bodies and combine all of this information together to try and make sense of the behavior of this event. so just to be clear, we don't know if this variant can cause symptoms. tim being more severe or if, if there is a higher risk of hospitalization or death. yes, so we haven't had enough follow up time to be able to make a new sort of conclusions around severe disease. you need at least 2 weeks to follow patients up to, to basically look at the outcomes and in some instances you need longer than that.

so we need a little bit more time to see those outcomes what they look like. but so for those who are vaccinated, the reports that we're getting, the anecdotal points that we're getting are those of, of mild disease. we're still waiting, therefore, for all of this data to be pulled together. we are confident that the measures we have on vaccination and public health measures can have control march of this virus. and the vaccination can really protect potentially from severe disease. but all the way to have the data to confirm that there's been a great deal of focus on travel bands or travel restrictions in the west. but i want to ask you about how health system is in africa. are coping with this new variant and, and whether they really have that the capabilities to deal with her, another stress or a shock to their system as a result of a varied that is,

is much more contagious. yeah, i think that the very end is a, is a, is a problem and we will get the very end of think in africa. what we are most concerned the font is the fact that a lot of our people are not vaccinated in a lot of people were folks who made it. who could be looking at is a majority to will have mild disease when they get infected by the very end. and therefore, really not cook kritisha on, on the hospital system. but for as long as we have the lower levels of vaccination, then we, we expect that we're going to see a burden on the health care system. and in order to, to deal with that, we may have to resort to restrictions of movement to, to prevent pressure on the hospital services. thank you very much,

professor must have more shamella joining us that from south africa. thank you. now there have been protests in the netherlands after title cove. in 19 restrictions were announced that dutch governments ordered a night time closure of bars, restaurants and most stores to stem a record breaking wave of cases from friday. venues miss close between 5 pm and 5 am. dutch hospitals are postponing all non emergency operations to free up beds and intensive care units. some patients have been transferred to neighboring germany for treatment center. awesome was at a protest in hate and santos, this update. well, go from my desk now announcing, 1st love that day, and now it's just a couple of weeks ago. infection rates have really gone up in the last couple of weeks, and adams is doing particularly back here in europe. so the government says they have no other choice but to impose what they call an evening lockdown. so after 5

o'clock, all non essential, shop staff, faith, referent. basically the whole country should be close to people should say indoors . only essential. shops are open until 8 o'clock, but the interesting part of the whole packet of measures is that school will still remain open. and this is a great for me, sir. and because a lot of infection in school right now, but the government didn't want to go that far. there was a lot of force. it says i'm on the prime minister also. question, what are some people feel thrust you? he said that it was a difficult because he also felt that it was very difficult for the government to convince people to accept these new masters. and while he was speaking, there was a noise demonstration right here. police are now clearing the area, but people are making noise refusing all if you measure. so despite the fact of course, at the very end has now been found. also the new variance from south africa in belgium, which is very near to the island to plains, also have arrived from south africa this morning. these people i'm out sort of in

front of immigration, still they still waiting for the assessing results. so a very conflicting situation here with the reality which is very serious and people here for testing against you micro you're watching the news, our life from london much more still ahead on the program president is saying russians are involved in applaud to oust him as his neighbors troops the border as grief and rush off the dozens die in the was mining accident in more than a decade and ins for european champions. christiana, rinaldo is portugal, if it's on a collision course next years. well, come in, cat. ah, in the hours after 27 people died, trying to cross the sea between france and the u. k. the leaders of both nations

promised new resolved to prevent more deaths, but barely a day later, a political route over a letter sent by the british prime minister has led france to freeze its neighbour out of an emergency summit. this weekend. a number of refugees in migrants entering europe has fallen since the height of the war in syria, with a sharp spiked was with a shock shop spike down during a crone of virus pandemic. so far this year there's a slight trend up on the past 2 years. most of those people apply for asylum in germany, france, spain, in greece, leaving the u. k. early 5th on the list. you have to be on you. k soil to claim asylum. and in the year to september, around $45000.00 people made the journey that's up about 11 percent on the previous year. but the big change is in the way people are trying to get there. most of them used to hide on the back of laurie's book from 2018 to 20. 20 number of people crossing on small boats went up 30 fold to more than 8000. and then this year,

rise has grown to more than $25.00 and a half 1000 people. ms. events this week of shown putting their lives at risk until this most recent accident under 66 people had died or gone missing crossing since 2014. that's now gone up to $294.00 pull brennan reports now from dover on inland south coast. seeing these migrant boats close here in a honda. it is easy to see just how inevitable wednesday's loss of life was. the $6.00 to $8.00 meet the inflatable simply on designs to cross the treacherous waters of the english channel. but what was left foreseeable was how the initial political consensus that there needs to be closer cooperation between france and england to prevent these crossings happening has fallen apart in the space of just 3 days. britain's proposals included, for example, putting british police and potentially army on french beaches to help the french

patrol that stretch of coastline. but the french had been resisting that for the previous 2 days. so when bonus johnson formerly requested joint patrols, the reaction from the french was exasperation. gdcp was good. i spoke 2 days ago with prime minister barak johnson in a serious manner. but on my end, i seek to continue doing as i do with any country in any head of states. i am surprised by methods and they are not serious ones. if you don't communicate from a leader to another on these matters via tweets and letters, you are making public. we are not whistleblowers come on. boots on breeches appears to be one of the biggest brands of contention between the bush and the french. specifically, britton's ongoing pressure for the french to allow joint patrols along the french beaches in order to prevent the boats putting to see in the 1st place. but the french of long resisted that idea, saying that the length of the coastline means that that's simply not practical, as well as the issue of sovereignty. so embarrassed, johnson included the beach for charl idea and

a formal letter to president micron. and then similar tennis li tweeted, the less it's a social media. it had the impression of trying to bounce the french president's into agreeing with a british perspective. what he did was sent out a fight. very good, clear if you take time to read, unless you'll see this idea is makes it very, very clear that we weren't working cooperation handed glove with the friends. i can't think of another way of resolving this other than to talk about it and to put additional measures in place. so close and yet so far, i think stan breton will be excluded from sundays meeting over there in kelly with the rest of the channel nations. there will be no new cooperation despite the appeals earlier in the week from president micron, a prime minister johnson, and nothing new to stop refugees and micro attempting to make the treacherous crossing. these 2 countries, so close geographically, remained so very far apart on this thorny issue pull brennan al jazeera dover in the flow of migrants and refugees is also causing concern on another of the ease

borders. this time between poland and ben ruth, who's present alexander lucas shanker, visited a crowded board camp. the crew shank of met some of the thousands of people makes shift shelter and told them they were free to head west or to go home. european union has accused better roots of engineering the current crisis by distributing visas in the middle east, flying people in and then pushing them towards the border. because shanker says, but we will help people to return to their home countries. they won't be forced to do so. yes. what that does? yes. i'm looking ahead and if the margaret crisis and bruce, so now it will grow much bigger. not only in spring, but next winter. we understand that a large flow of people will be arriving in bill of bruce, and it will be hard to hold them on the poor to the problem not well. the issue of immigration is not the only issue dividing france and the u. k. right now,

french fishing crews of blocked ports in ferry traffic across the english channel in a dispute over post brakes and fishing licenses. fishermen are angry at the british government for not granting more licenses to fish, to in order to fish and anger at their own government as well, so not doing more to defend them. under simmons reports from kelly, the day protests started after boats plied stormy seas to reach french ports just before they arrived. some fairies made sure they left port ahead of time. the trawlers maneuvered to set up blockades. the main one here in cali. each protest lasted only one and a half hours, half a dozen boats here, but enough to stop ferries from entering or leaving the harbor. one french police patrol boat was there throughout. the dispute is about post bricks. it rules on licenses for the french to fish in u. k. waters. scarlet audio boys. what we're waiting for from parish johnson is the

him to unblock the deal that he himself signed nothing more, at least then the fisherman will be able to continue working together. right now it's block. some of the fishing protesters say the u. k is destroying livelihoods, or just one second. i'm 35 years old. i have 20 to 25 years ahead of means his business tomorrow as he could take away my license. i lost my job and i want to make a living from fishing and don't want to be paid to stay at home. the fishing protests weren't confined to the sea. they also blocked road freight from entering the channel tunnel, causing long tail backs. their action on land sends out the same signal as blockading seaports that unless britain eases its rules on fishing licenses, then they'll be more disruption to trade. fishing in france may represent only a small part of the economy, but the government is steadfast in backing resistance to action. it seizes a breach of the breakfast deal on trade,

talks between governments on both sides. the channel are still deadlocked, and there are threats from the french government to stop british fishermen from using its ports to unload their catches and cross border fray could be held up by intensified customs checks. andrew simmons al jazeera kelly. now, ethiopia, as far as her visits, had troops battling fighters of the tag, rye peoples aberration, fontenot countries. north told reporters the armies and morale is high and the rebels and their allies have been pushed back. their advance is spot fears that group in its allies could reach the capital, addis ababa. the u. s. embassy is tweeted, urging us citizens to leave the country. now brianca kupta reports. the front line is not an unfamiliar terrain for if he appears prime minister. by this time i'll be amad who also holds the rank of lieutenant colonel, has returned to the battlefield to rally his troops for what he calls an

existential war. video released by the government shows abi, with soldiers, who are fighting against tiguan rebels in the, off our region. we did away with though to what you see behind me is a mountain area that was a strong hold for the enemy until yesterday. now we've managed to clear the area fully. the morale of the defense forces is really great. the war is being undertaken with great feet. now we've taken cast the guitar. today we will take over schieffer and burka. we will continue until ethiopia is freedom, is insured to pay more noise. since july, the rebels have been expanding the battle from inside t cry into neighboring, i'm horror. and off our regions. they have ceased towns that are a few 100 kilometers from the capital, addis ababa. they say, the prime minister has lost his chance at peace, much using war. the measures taken by, i'll be off ned, a desperate. it would have been better for him to suggest solutions for peace and

negotiations. yet he chose war. he should have upheld the opportunity for peace. canada has now joined a growing list of countries who are asking the citizens to leave, and which fears that the battle could move towards the capital, and that the fighting could get a lot worse. prime minister abbey asked meds, decision to move to a front line. apparently in the region where fighting is not actually so serious at the moment, is apparently intended to galvanize his support base and mobilized new recruits for the armed forces. and that's not likely to be effective. i think many people may respond to the call, but this war is being fought with heavy weapons and.