best films from across our network of channels. ah, be the hero world needs right now. washer. ah, more countries around the world, bon flights from southern africa after the discovery, the new variance of cove at 19? ah. come all santa maria, here in doha with the world news from al jazeera, rallying the troops ethiopian prime minister visits the front lines fighting escalates against the tig or i rebels was when the news of these 3 people died in the solomon islands. after days of rising against government policies and sri lanka

stops a shipment of fertilizer from china or off to tests reveal it contained harmful bacteria over and a growing number of countries all over the world of decided to ban or restrict travel from southern africa. this means south africa botswana cimbawe way, namibia las suitor, s sertina and mozambique all among those affected the bands came as the world health organization declared a new cove at 19 varied to be a variant of concern and named it army cra. we understand that people are concerned . the good thing is that we have monitoring systems around the world to detect these variance very quickly. this variant was detected a few weeks ago, and already scientists are sharing research with us information with us so that we can take action. what's really important as an individual is to lower your exposure . the measures these proven public health measures have never been more important distancing wearing of a mask,

making sure that it's over your nose and mouth with clean hands. making sure you avoid crowded spaces, have be in rooms where there's good ventilation and when it's your turn get vaccinated. we're still learning a lot about this new on a cron variant. at this stage. this is what we do know 1st reported to the world health organization from south africa on wednesday. the varied has 32 mutations on what is called the spike protein, which is what the virus used to invite our cells. as means it's spite protein is dramatically different from the original cove at 19. and well, what that means for the effectiveness of vaccines is as yet unclear. it's a from asana pisec though from the university college of london school of pharmacies is variance, a more likely to keep emerging like this, as long as vaccines aren't being distributed equally around the world. world health organization has been warning us repeatedly on month on and really since the beginning of the pandemic. that vaccine inequities will continue if we can

have high income countries forwarding vaccines, such that entire continents are left to very limited access to vaccines that inevitably this will lead towards a more fit viras, a potentially vaccine resistant virus. unless there is a more coordinate approach to words, vaccine distributions, if we look across the entire african continent, there's less than 3.5 percent uptake of vaccines at the moment. and that has been due to a supply issue. so only focusing on high income regions has been a short term, i'd say view of the issue. and we also have taken for granted that delta is the worst variance that we could come across. and now we have some evidence that could point to other why is it is of course, early days. but what scientists have come across is deeply worrying about one of

africa. they have all been very quick to share their genetic sequencing in the international community. has also stepped into really escalate the response to that is absolutely positive thing that we have the systems in place for early detection and response. what we are concerned about with that 30 to mutations on the spike protein as well as on the nuclear caps. it is that this could become a more infectious virus, would enhance, transmits ability. it is too early to say whether it could lead to more severe symptoms, which would dictate higher rates of hospitalizations. we just don't know that yet. there is, there is a lot of uncertainty and further work that is needed or concerns about the new variance, our only adding to an already worrying situation in germany with the air force has been mobilized to move seriously ill patients from overwhelmed hospital in the south. this is the 1st time the plane fitted with up to 6. i see you beds have been

used. they are being called flying intensive care units. over in the netherlands, there were protests in the hay gulf for the government ordered bows. restaurants and shops to close at night. overwhelmed hospitals cancelling surgeries to free up beds for their cove at 900 patients. and in australia, thousands of again protested against current rules. counts marched through melbourne city center for 3rd weekend, protesting against the bill that would give the victorian state government more pallets. in the case of a new pandemic, covered 900 vaccinations have been made compulsory for nearly 1250000 of the states workers. and frances delay making covert vaccination compulsory for health workers in its caribbean. overseas territories have been riots against the policy on the islands of guadalupe and martinique. the situation still tense on guadalupe where protest is blocking roads. natasha butler has the support for us. emily keys

bell is saving what she can in what used to be a home in the city of plenty. pete in guadalupe. she still can't believe that a lifetime of memories could be destroyed in minutes in a fi that was started by looters during protests earlier. this week, she was lucky to escape. now she's trying to pick up the pieces. and then for football quote, there are no photos left. not even a picture of my mother. demonstrations of shaken the french caribbean island for more than a week. emily says she understands people's frustrations, but not what has happened in her neighbourhood. spectrum's like last year. this isn't how the economic situation in guadalupe is going to improve. yes, there are problems, but it's not loading vandalizing and burning that are the solution. next door, a wedding shop run by this man's family for generations is ruined. i love it with him. what can i do? what can i do?

only my eyes could cry. the situation in guadalupe is tense. a strike that began more than a week ago of a mandatory cove. it vaccines for health workers has widened into a demonstration against the french government and become entrenched as protest is continued to block the islands, major roads. there is a massive tailback of calls on this road and i've been speaking to some of the people in the cause. and what they say is, i've been waiting for more than an hour and what they're waiting for is for that blockade up there to be cleared. and once it is, the police will let them all through the process of suited review. we thought we could pass, but we have no information. we don't know if it'll open or not, but we don't want to turn back now or probably durham, however, it's a bit complicated, but we have to live with it and be patient near the islands main airport. these boat owners have started a new business, selling rides as a way of bypassing the blockades. this man just arrived from the mainland. he was

worried about the situation. octomom bumper boss for the moment. we can't get home easily because it's a bit of a was in between the locals and police. we can't get past some blockades to we're forced to find a plan b like dyslexia both skis, alibaba, city by law. the french government is talking with authorities and guadalupe to find solutions to the crisis. meanwhile, people on the island are managing as best they can, as they try to keep things running, but with no end to the situation on the horizon. some people's patience may begin to wear thin without a butler, al jazeera, 20 feet wide loop, or until other news in the u. s. as it's greatly concerned about the escalating conflict and ethiopia, and it's called the urgent negotiations. the state department, the comments follow a phone call between the secretary state and kenya's president. meanwhile, the, if you have been prime minister, the ottoman has joined the army on the front lines against the ryan rebels from the north and says, his forces are making gains, the government declared

a state of emergency earlier this month. more with samuel got a check in dependent journalist in, out of south alabama. so the youth is concerned and once urgent negotiations, is there any indication of who and how this would be negotiated. where there doesn't seem to be any interest from both sides then settling this and the more peaceful way the u. s. and other western nations have been pushing for some kind of peaceful engagement. but again, there doesn't seem to be any interest. the prime minister, as you indicated in the bustle ground, confirmed by a video and interview he did saying that he's going to be bearing the enemy. and this he said, this is about the independence. so there's an assumption from the been government side that western nations are really endorsing the notion that the left is the victim in this while the fuel can ok,

and we've lost our connection with that. we've got a cho, unfortunately. and as that, about updating us on the situation and ethiopia with prime minister avia it out on the front lines of this complex. now now the bodies of 3 people have been found in a burned out building in the solomon islands capital, where they have been days of rising streets of honey, our unquiet, separate tensions remain high purchase to set fire and damaged property in the past 3 days. it was prime minister manasseh spoke of our right to resign. they accused him of neglecting the nation and switching diplomatic agencies from taiwan to china . 3 o'clock following the story from brisbane, australia. these are the 1st confirmed fatalities after 3 days of loosing and rocking across the capitol. they were, as you mentioned, found in the area chinatown. a bird has to and chinatown is normally a very busy area. we believe the will. the luck report for suggesting these may

have been looted to record inside the store, which was set life. and in the last few days, and of course chinatown was considered the flesh points the main area with some of these and government protests with targeting that were targeting the chinese funded operations. and the chinese run stores because they're grumpy and they're angry about the government decision in 2019 to give up their allegiance with taiwan instead, favoring a china. so the 1st 3 confirmed fatalities. we've also had on saturdays another development where the police have confirmed that they've arrested more than 100 people in relation to the last couple of days on rot related incident. so they haven't charged yet, but certainly they showing they want to move on this. we've got the prime minister, he, we still believe he isn't hiding 50 resign protection and safety. we saw on friday, his house, his residence was targeted by not just people trying to fit his life,

but also lucian's that was contained. but we still haven't heard from the prime minister in the last 24 hours or so. so the report suggests he's in hiding and we do have the a strain defense for the public interest. there. they're trying to store some water in the capital, honey checked the world, whether next and then. well, why isn't there much enthusiasm for this weekend's parliamentary election and curtis, with black friday sales in the us, the big piece, big boost retailers, wanting at me. ah, ah, look forward to scores with sponsored cutoff at ways hello there. let's start in europe and a rare read weather alert has been issued for more than areas of the u. k. that's thanks to storm are when that's blowing down. bringing some very strong winds and

an arctic blast to parts of eastern scotland and the north east of england. and those conditions are going to head south. it is going to turn rather chilly across the west and central areas with the temperature coming down. now across the south, if it's not winter, it is wet particularly across. now let's have a look at that alert for the north west. we could see wind gusts across scotland and the northeast of england reach up to a 130 kilometers per hour. and that brings its own concerns with it, but we are seeing the snow sleet and the rain pull down further. south. northern areas of france are going to get rather chilly on saturday. and a lot of the heavy snow can be found in poland. by the time we get to sunday, so much of scandinavia, however, it is wintry with snow flurries, either from northern areas of spain, yon going to be some heavy snowfall over the next few days, up to him nisa expected in places no further east to this. it is wet and windy indeed across much of the mediterranean, with heavy rain for western parts of italy and greece,

we could see some flooding of the next few days. oh, the weather is sponsored by cats. all right, ways. the listening post cuts through the noise, we're talking about competing now the modern day tools being used to perpetuate those competes, imperative, separating spin from fuck all 3 versions of the story and some elements of the truth. but the full story remains and coaches on the packing the stories you're being told. it's not a science story at all. it's a story about politics, the listening post, your guide to the media on a just 0, ah ah,

on al jazeera, these are the top stories are growing, number of countries around the world of decided to either ban or restrict travel from southern africa. their restrictions came as the world health organization declared a new cove at 19 variance to be of concern the u. s. as it's greatly concerned about the escalating conflict. any theo pierre has called for negotiations in the state department, followed a phone call between the secretary state and kenny's president. the bodies of 3 people of in fountain of burned up building in the solomon islands, capital streets of honey are all quiet. the tension remains high, protest is of set, fire and damaged property of the past 3 days. for it is incurred, hassan will return to the polls on sunday for a re run of last years parliamentary elections. the results of bad spot that both spot to revolution that unseat of the government. and so former prisoners saw that a jumper of when the presidency by a landslide job of now needs to gain a broader,

legitimately deliver on its promise, a fair election famous robbie, with the support and from the capital. bish check still before election day freezing temperatures. another hurdle for people in the city of biscuits going to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections turn out is expected to be dangerously low. in kurdistan, doubts over the legitimacy of elections can quickly turn into violent protests, discontent over rising prices. the slow pace of promise change, frustrations that rural and urban voters share. at a memorial dedicated to care gives people killed and past revolutionists. many say they won't vote this time. the gap and trust between them and their leaders too wide to cross is found unless they no longer knew. what makes us feel sorry is that laws are not working. even if we say this to the authorities, the legal system doesn't work. they don't listen to us, even if we have our own coal, our own gold, our own water,

we are not in control of our resources. this is why we don't trust any member of parliament or any president, we're against all of them. those in the president's inner circle say it's too soon to pass judgment and undoing decades of corruption will take more time period as republic has grown up in missouri, adults in the room. and so it will be a very confident and competent government. and our main goal is to improve efficiency of the state. it's not going to be easy, but also a re accept. i accept the skeptical domestic opinion to make lasting change. the president will need support in parliament. the election will see clearly as people vote in 90 new m. p 's down from a 120, but even in its weakened state as a smaller part of a new shared system of power, hermiston parliament matters, had looked about up, came out to power off following controversial events last year. and she needs to gain abroad and legitimacy within society. if he can deliver on his promise to

conduct fair elections on an ensure that parliament ever presents society as a whole. he might enjoy a legitimacy for a longer period of time, sufficient for him to conduct the reforms at his face. the government is keen to avoid the violence of protests of the past and with pulls due to open on sunday. the country security service says it's rounded up 15 suspected plotters allegedly planning an armed overthrow of the government. the raids a show of strength, seen by many as a warning to any one hoping to contest election results on the streets. a rubber stamping parliament marched towards one man rule preservation of democracy for voters. right now, these kinds of political concerns are secondary to more basic needs. in this country is in the grips of an energy crisis. and throughout the campaign,

voters have been asking all the candidates the same question. what is being done to make sure there is enough power for them to stay warm? because winter is coming and days before the election winter is already here. zane bas ravi ultra 0 biscuits and malawi, thousands of people protesting against rising living costs corruption and government favoritism. huh. they spied t against to break out the demonstration, as the protest is much towards the council offices in the capital. the long gray is that by form a politician bond carlindo who says the government is backtracked on its promise to create jobs. russia is mourning the victims of a mine explosion in siberia. it's believed to kill 51 people. the worst incident in the countries mining industry. more than a decade, 3 people have been arrested, suspected of negligence, and a breach of safety procedures and smith as mo, from oscar for russia's poorly regulated mining industry. the news was as

inevitable and as bleak as a siberian winter. dozens of people killed, including 6 rescuers, probably by methane poisoning in the shafts of the list. we actually are mine. i have no words. i've already said that me thing was over the limit. my husband came home from work every day and said it wouldn't and well, it was so with the limit that all the senses were beeping. and on the night of november 14th, the 15th of fire broke out of the unit to no measures were taken. he is the result here. just 10 days have gone by and they're all lying in there. there were 285 people in the mine when it began to fill with smoke on thursday. rescue team scrambled, but the situation on the ground was so unstable. they had a little time. after a few hours, the rescue attempt was called off because of the risk of another explosion. 50 people are in hospital according to local authorities. the miners who made it out

alive, described a frantic scramble to evacuate full truth. i was crawling in then. i felt them grabbing me. i reached my arms out to them. they couldn't see me. the visibility was bad. they grabbed me and pulled me out. if not for them would be dead. the director of the mine and his deputy had been detained, police in siberia say to state security inspectors have been arrested on suspicion of criminal negligence. investigator save inspectors, had issued a safety certificate for the mine in november, but had not actually checked the facility 3 days of morning had begun in the siberian region of k. moreover, this is the worst mining accident here in 10 years. it's a very dangerous industry in russia and across the former soviet union safety standards. a poor was a lack of oversight of working conditions and aging soviet air equipment. bernard smith, al jazeera moscow,

ukraine's president volume is zalinski says his security services of uncovered a russian backed plot to overthrow his government. without elaborating the details, zalinski told journalists the crew was planned for next week. kremlin flatly denied the allegations, but it all adds to recent tension over a russian military build up on ukraine's border. until millions on my shoe blairsville just love nation desirable, did the valid me put them on. i can add that. not only do we have the information, but we even have audio recordings of representatives of ukraine. let's call them that discussing with, let's call them representatives of russia occur in ukraine. shall stratford is in the ukrainian city of, of their fca. and he's been talking with people about the deepening conflict. this is a town about the car, about 3 kilometers from the front line. it's seen so very heavy shelling and fighting in the mall 7 and a half years since this conflict started. many of the residents of flayed, many of them say the situation is got even worse in recent weeks since the reported

build off of tens of thousands of russian troops on the russian side of the border . we in the last half an hour, so have heard what sounds like shelling in the distance. many the residents here are increasingly angry with the president. they say that he is not doing enough to protect them and he's not making as much of an effort as he promised to enter this war. lucy, would you still got the instrument was shell and today as the read every day, the situation has definitely got worse and there is shooting was heavy weapons. not just mal arm so much, nearly 8 years and no one can solve this fiction. the former president, he promised to end the war in 2 weeks and the same rubbish from president lamp. he was, he had come to the election and 29 vote for me and i will finish ever in the year mamma, but did he was not. russia is stalson denying that it has any plans whatsoever for

the invasion of ukraine. indeed it is. describing reports in the international media is such as being nothing short of hysterical. but meanwhile, this seems to be no real prospect for a lasting political solution to this conflict. leisurely, also knew he didn't start the war, but he promised to finish it. and people believed him. things that god even was now . children and the elderly die from mothers and fathers, a forced to shelter in the basement. lensky needs to negotiate with putin and the separatists. me and mr. sit down and talk, otherwise, how can pieces all wars and 3 negotiations. so start russia accuses ukraine of not sticking to its part of the to agreement and agreement signed in 2015. that stipulates that ukraine gives special political status to the air is controlled by the pro russian separatists. many of the ukrainian government say that that would potentially give russia to greater hand in ukrainian affairs. meanwhile,

the ukrainian presidents determination to eventually get nato membership for ukraine continues. and that is something that the russian president seems determined to stop char strap it down to the era of the of the united states is taking the disbanded colombian rebel group, fall off its left of terrorist organizations. decision will allow us agencies to operate in parts of columbia. is new, where form a funk, 5 live and work the fox signed fi fi deal with the colombian government back in 2016. now dispute between for long here in china is escalating. it's all about organic, both eliza, the sri lankan government says the $20000.00 tons shipment contained harmful bacteria, which could hom crops. the chinese manufacturer has rejected the complaint and says pay up and off and under says more from pennsylvania in the city of candy, members of agriculture,

trade unions took to the streets to protest. a shipment of organic fertilizer ordered by she'll anchor from a chinese company shall anchors national plant quarantine service o in peak. us refuse to allow the ship carrying $20000.00 tons of organic fertilizer to enter columbia port and unload its cargo. after it said it found harmful disease causing bacteria in both samples provided for testing for some gram possible bacteria for po. and did the we may as well frustrated a source done at the if bigger. so this test was fin. therefore, we haven't to showed about permit the chinese manufacturer ching down in biotech, and the chinese embassy in colombo, rejected the findings. some hi, may, a director of the company seen him arriving at the agriculture ministry. told al jazeera caught our products do not contain alina. she added that china customs technical testing center and should

a group tested the same batch of samples using internationally recognized testing standards and methods, and also confirm that our products do not contain harmful bacteria. the company claim that the unscientific detection method and conclusion of shall anchors national plan quarantine service regarding fertilizer samples obviously do not comply with international animal. and plant quarantine conventions that surcharge, dismissed by a number of sealant and scientists. the danger is that these microorganisms once applied to sri lanka and saw you feel cannot pig them back so that if they become palm full, then there is no way that we could reverse the process. as a scientist, i wouldn't not recommend under any circumstance to ah, pick in this consignment of fertilizer. as the stand of continues with the ship

anchored of the southern coast, the buys obtained a court order, preventing a state bank from paying for the goods. china's embassy and colombo responded by blacklisting the bank. the sheila could minister of agriculture, who said the government would pay for a large part of the $9000000.00 shipment. toward of media briefing on wednesday that there was a breakthrough behavior to understanding that the bill, beg bishop back and send the samples again. and then re, kendall, the re pasting, and we can get the shipment of the union's a warning, the government against any settlement, then our you, the money we're telling the government don't pay compensation under any circumstances using money collected by taxing the people on the agriculture director general says the detected pathogens cause disease and wrought and can result in yield loss, while the chinese manufacturer and the government are fighting to have the shipment cleared. scientists injure lanka opposing that, saying it's

a biodiversity hot spot, and it's ecosystem must be protected. minute fernandez, audio 0 para dania central sher lanka. finally in previous years, the black friday holiday shopping event created friends. it seems in moles around the united states, the shift to online shopping as a result of the panoramic, that's resulted in much smaller crowds this year and gabriel is on day was out in about new jersey. this is the 2nd biggest shopping mall in the entire united states. it's called the american dream got over a 120 different stores. it's busy on the black friday, but not as busy as you might expected pre pandemic times. and that's because there's really a confluence of a perfect storm between 3 issues here. number one is there's a supply chain issue. a lot of the stores don't have all the things they normally

would have because of the global supply chain crunch that is being felt right now. there's also a shortage of retail industry workers as well. and 3rd, inflation in the united states is also becoming more of a problem as has been rising. so, add all of that together and we're not sure we're going to see the same amount of buying and spending, if you will. they would have been in previous time before the pandemic. ah, and how these at the top stories are growing, number of countries around the world of decided to eat a band or restrict travel from southern africa, botswana, zimbabwe, maybe la sue through s, what teeny mozambique, south africa all affected by this other restrictions came as the world health organization declared a new cove in 1900 very to be of concerned naming it on the chrome. we understand that people are concerned. the good thing is that we have monitoring systems around

the world to detect these various very quickly. this variant was detected a few weeks ago and all.