floss for the world trade organization, health countries to secure corporate 90 vaccines will be speaking to the w t. o new director general. counting the course on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera, ah. hello, there, i'm hello, am i here, dean. this is the news are live from dough hom, coming up in the next 60 minutes. is war countries ban flights from southern africa because of a new cove at 19 variance. america's top infectious disease expert says now is not the time to panic. assessing the economic fallout, what the you ami con variance means for the global financial recovery. the u. s.

is calling for urgent negotiations to end the conflicts in ethiopia. while prime minister avia nerds is on the front lines and writing on the streets with keener fossil, demonstrators bent their anger, demanding the president sat down. and it's for more misery venue. kasey night's dinner perennially based. they got some of the table afterward. sue mil lost a hostile new castle still to win a li dang this is ah! where we begin in the us with the white house is top. medical advisors says the newly discovered army kron cove with 19 variance should not be a reason for panic. but antony vote, she also says he wouldn't be surprised if the variances already in the united states. the u. s. has joined a growing number of countries around the world that have band or restricted travel

from southern africa. early evidence suggests the new strain could be more contagious than the delta variance. we have not detected it yet, but when you have a virus that is showing this degree of trans miss ability and you're already having travel related cases that they've noted in israel and belgium and other places. when you have a virus like this, it almost invariably is ultimately going to go essentially all over the issue. a blocking tray of a travel from a given country is to just give us time to assess it better. that's the reason for doing that, not any reason to panic, but we want to give us some time to really fill in the blanks of what we don't know right now. we've got correspondence across this developing story. this are we're going to be in johannesburg with for me to miller. we're south africa's government says it's unfair that it's being punished for detecting the variance poll brennan

joins us from london to give his details and how the u. k is responding to the 1st confirmed cases there 1st. so let's get the reaction at all the united states. with heidi jewel castro, hese and $35.00, she is saying that no is not the time to panic. that's right. he says, there are still many questions to be answered concerning this very and one of the biggest being, whether the current vaccines are effective against it. and the scientist in the u. s. are working with the government and with the vaccine developers to try to find evidence of the answer to that question. pfizer say in about 2 weeks time, at least in a laboratory setting, some evidence of whether or not the antibodies elicited by the current vaccines would be effective against this cron variant. in the meantime though, this travel band of which the u. s. was among the 1st countries to announce against

the south african countries, it's receiving some criticism as possibly giving americans a false sense of security. given the statements from dr. fowl. she that very likely this very end is in the us. if not, will be coming to the us soon. so really the stance serving as something to buy time while these and while these questions are being answered about the very end and as some 60 percent of americans have been backs needed at this point against the current variance of, of cove. it for more americans to be vaccinated and also to get their booster shots, which is something that the u. s. government is pressing for. ok, heidi joe castro, joining aside from washington. d. c for no. thank you. high g. let's take you straight nights for brandon. he's joining us now from lunch and we're pull. there have been confirmed cases of the omi crone screen already. how does the u. k.

government responding to this? well, it's responded with, 1st of all, the health secretary, the talk minister, government minister in charge such a job coming out and announcing this basically telling people what's going on. and it'd be followed in 2 hours from now around 5 o'clock local time with the prime minister boys johnson. he will be flying by his chief scientific advisor and his chief medical officer in the downing street briefing where he will set out what the government's response to these 2 cases are. it's highly likely that he will go for a plan b, although he may or he may just hold off for a couple more days. but i think the, the advice is likely to be that based on the criticism that the government have a previously for not acting fast enough in the face of new variance. i think it's highly likely the plan be in the u. k. will be inactive and not effectively summarized means banning unvaccinated people from certain indoor settings and

legally mandating mask wearing and face coverings in certain settings as well. to talk about the 2 cases themselves, one was discovered in a place called chelmsford, in essex to the east of london, and other one in nothing and up in the midlands of the u. k. both are linked say the government, both have linked to travel to southern africa as well. that will be the 2 individuals themselves are now self isolating as all their immediate families. and that will be now search testing of the local communities as well in order to check whether the virus itself had managed to get out. perhaps if they've gone to a local shop or something like that. so they'll be search testing of the local community just to check the spread if there has been any in those 2 local communities. but as you say, the authorities are clearly very concerned. otherwise the prime minister wouldn't be doing this at 5 pm on a saturday. ok, paul brand and bring us up to date for nonsense tonight. thank you, paul. well, the so concerned in the netherlands after dozens of passengers form thank africa

tested positive. here's what we know so far. the to flight sickle from cape turn and johannesburg at around 1 am local time friday with the 600 people on boards. the chair line can't say whether a negative test was required before departure. midway through the 11, our flights country started shutting their borders to south africa. the netherlands announced its own ban. once in amsterdam, people were kept in plains on the tarmac for hours before being bused to testing facilities. so far. at least 61 people have tested positive and are being kept in isolation labs or analyzing those samples to see if they are the only kron variance . well, let's get more now from for me, the miller. she joins us live from johannesburg. for me do this is all quite troubling stuff as needs begins to filter, right. 3 about these new cases and you variance, at was the reaction,

been like inside the africa itself, where to be fair, they're the ones excited the alarm a bite, this new strain. and that's the, precisely the message that the government is putting out that we've done good work . our scientists have been at the forefront of ensuring that they stay on top of any changes in the virus in detecting any mutations. and that's exactly what they've done, and they've also been transparent. and now instead of that being appreciated, i suppose south africa and the southern african region is being punished for coming forward with that information, especially as we see cases in other parts of the world. the government has called it nothing less than punishment and that it's unwarranted. it creates uncertainty and panic. and we've also heard from scientists in south africa who have said that we need to be cautious about what we do next. we need to and cover more information

. we need to collect data, and we unders me to understand better exactly what this variant means, how transmissible it might be, and just how vaccines will continue to work to keep people safe. but there really has been an outcry, not from the government is also trickled down to the general public. people who are trying to travel out of the country perhaps returned to the u. k. for instance. but also people in south africa ahead of the holiday season, who were expecting people to travel to south africa, especially when there's been a mass of slump in the economy. and south africa usually gets tens of thousands of visitors from europe and the united kingdom. and this would have meant a boost to the economy and now that's just been shattered. okay, for me to know other live for us from johannesburg for me to thank you. the lease is covered, $900.00 variance might disrupt the global economy just as it was something to show signs of recovery use of the only con variance has an immediate effect on wall

street stocks and treasury yield sank on friday and that led to the biggest oil price drop since the pandemic began, europe's biggest economy, germany was already struggling to recover before a 4th wave hates at group on just 1.7 percent in july. the global supply chain could also face huge setbacks. several countries impose restrictions and blocked turns further disrupting manufacturing. and shipping, and there are indications, interest rates could rise in the coming months. or cornelia mayor is the ceo of may a resource. she explains the market reactions to the new variance. oh mike, it's always overshoot and under shoot. but it's, it's, it shows a real of wariness, amongst, amongst trade, us, amongst everybody in terms of what does this mean? what will that mean for air travel?

you know, some people say it's not that much that will be, will be closed off because it's right now southern africa to, to other countries. but you know, if, if should this variant spread, if then the trans atlantic roots and things like that close down again, that would be bad. so markets are fearing for the worst. we are rightfully concerned. and you know what we see in europe, especially new c, austria's having shut down. some belgium is having shut downs. parts of germany are having sort of semi shut downs. so it's, it's, it's become more and more economies are going back into further shut down and should this variant prove that the vaccines are not really geared up to, to defend people against that, against this variant dad would be, that would be, that would be bad. so one on the good side though, when we see with that now several waves and we have sat, several waves of sharp downs,

every shut down has had an incrementally less bad impact on the economy. so whilst it is not good, it's less bad that it was the last time around. 20 marcella had on this these are including will tell the why there isn't much enthusiasm for this weekend's parliamentary election and curious son electric vehicles, maybe the future. but in democratic republic of congo, mining for materials used to make batteries is devastating livelihoods and in school, find out what was behind this heated exchange during any challenging ah, ah, the us says its greatly concerns about the escalation, conflicts any to you and has called for urgent negotiations, the state department's statements follows a phone call between the factories,

fate and kenya's president, european prime minister, i be asked net, says joined the army on the front lines against the guy and rebels from the north and he fits his forces are making gains. let's get more from samuel guest show. he's an independent journalist working out of this of, of some how different is this recent intervention from the u. s. that says past efforts to bring this conflict to a close? well, the relationship between the us and the job is that the breaker, the children government done accusing the us. i have to say that by the ministration of siding with the left in which they feel tied by the order of parliament that it is a terrorist organization. the job site they took on government side has been saying, forcing them or pushing the pressure to negotiate with a t p,

as almost like you know, pushing the u. s. food. sit down and negotiate with the algebra and i've gone. but they have to come union employee that has been going back and forth looking at the situation and having a conversation with the children and government that she left leadership at. metalli's still t's a small window of opportunity and the u. s. has been forced to play a supporting role to this because you didn't invoice. but once again, between the both sites, there doesn't seem to be any kind of interest to see this come to then the job prime minister will you said, you said is in the bottle gown. and he was shown on national tv, giving interviews in the open. he has said that he wants to see this end, but he wants to bury the enemy. and this shows you that military might, is more practical in this, from the perspective of both both sides and a state of the peaceful resolution that many countries are calling for now,

including who was point minutes that has the prime minister saying the turkey is in a position to support, it's your best, should they pursue a peaceful resolution to this market and some it was the latest in terms of the fighting in ethiopia. well it's, it's hard to no one fuck, but different versions. the open government only acknowledges that there are fights and combo chop and death a t p and left, saying they're still pursuing their dream of, you know, really pushing this government out of the way and see a transition. government in e t o and the children government is saying that like prison has warrant, people are inclined to support such a way and those people are even supporting the pain. they will take action. this is a state of emergency in the country, but the so about in

a normal to get but at night under a state of emergency, the people are being detained, accused of supporting the a t p. and there are checkpoints and it's a bit quieter than the usual. ok, so you got to show that a lie from this both some thank you. protested in between a faso or calling for the resignation of precedents. rush caberry as anger against worsening violence by arms groups 3 burkina faso soldiers were injured during an attack. and wednesday, evident caberry has promised to enter what he called dysfunction within the military. because huck has reported extensively form burkina faso and joins us now formed a car and they burn center go next. just give us a sense of why the protectors are so angry that it's led to seems like the one we've just shown are viewers on television. i think the latest, the type that took place just mid november in data on

a on there is no doubt. maria security forces, outpost, to where, where they were attacked and 50 people were killed. but the information that leaked out following the attack that they had gone 2 weeks without food ration and that they had to hunt to survive when they came under attack. well, that caused dismay and shock and anger, amongst many people in burkina faso. and in fact, those that are protesting today, they say that protesting in support of the security forces, but against the president hawk macavoy. now he's announced on thursday after almost a week of staying quite silent about this, this whole affair. he's now on, on them on thursday that, that he would make some sort of reforms to the military allowing less space for corruption. and yet, despite this announcement made, there's really what has happening right now is there's little trust between the

presidency and the government and the people because in effect, holla, 1300000 people in burkina, faso are displaced. 60 percent, the vast majority of them are children and despite reassurance is made by the government, things are just getting worse. hello and ed nick me. we're also hearing reports of an escalation over in neighboring, in the share of were protested of attempted to block a french convoy what was going on there. well, this french convoy 1st departed from ivory coast and travel through burkina faso all throughout the week. it was met by protesters and burkina, faso and bobo, yula. so and kaya in walker do go 3 towns where currently there are protests. there were met by demonstrators chanting, anti french slogans, accusing the french of working hand in hand with armed groups. obviously, the french military deny that they say they are here to help the government attack

and neutralize arm groups. but the fact of the matter is there's been an uptake of attacks despite the presence of a french, a security forces. now, in the town of terra, it's it though this conway has passed. burkina faso is now is the chair. we're hearing from the mayor of tara, that several people have been wounded, allegedly both knees, cher security forces, or french forces have shot on protesters. and thus is just adding fuel to the fire . and this growing sentiment, not just in between, if also but also a neighboring new sharon molly that arms alone will not bring peace. there needs to be another way out for people to return to their homes. because arm groups are increasing their attacks is specifically in that border of nuclear burkina faso. and molly and you have to see the context of what's happening in the region to understand the protests that we're seeing here in breaking of fossa nicholas' hoc, they bring us up to date from the car in senegal. net. thank he. human rights

groups in democratic republic of congo, say chemical spills, and cobalt mines, ruining local livelihoods, the world's demand for cobo, for soaring, this rich country switch to electric vehicles that use batteries that contain the mineral mark web reports from a shannon vendor in lieu of a province lizard wiki loan of servicing, kasan goes fish dead. he says he found them in this pool until after it leaked from a nearby mine. here in the democratic republic of congo, i guess in one says it killed the plans and that he found the fish floating. it was a month ago. he says he can't afford to clean the pools and replace them though a move to. i feel pain because this is how we pay school fees for our children. this is how we always lived. now they've done this and we have nothing to do next to the pools surfing guys, cabbages. but they're stunted and inedible. we says the acid spoiled the soil,

his neighbors say the same community live near an industrial cobalt and copper mine called k c. c. most of the world's cobalt comes from congo extracted mind like this . they use large quantities of acid to separate cobalt from rock rights groups say, spills are common and environmental regulation is almost nonexistent. this pipe is one of the places that the acid spilled out of the mind. the mines, just on the other side of this embankment surfin farm, is about 2 kilometers down this stream, and all of the people that we've spoken to in the communities here, whose fish pool formed and livelihoods with spoiled se they still haven't being compensated. the mind belongs to swiss trading and mining giant glen core, which supplies cobalt to us. electric comic, a tesla for its batteries. glen course had it accidently spilled, electrolytes here a month after the acid. it's work as scattered lime to neutralize some streams and

rivers. but activists say it was too little too late. there was a manual, a pool as been researching the impacts of the spills. he says, dozens of people's livelihoods have been destroyed, and he's documented cases of cough, headaches, and skin burns caused by the acid, which glen cool denies, connected. what we accordingly got to do is to identify our victim. and to find how truly been how to make compositions. glencoe told al jazeera in a statement that it tested waterways after the spills and found their p hates level to be neutral. that fish likely died for an unrelated reason. and that conditions in vegetable gardens had not been impacted. emanuel doesn't buy it. the good way to save the image to, to recognize the problem and to fix it is not to hide millions of dollars worth of cobalt a truck out of congo every day. clinical minds about a 5th of it,

he recorded trading profits of more than 3000000000 dollars last year. sarah fin says he and his family have lost most of their income. there's a handful of big winners in congos rapidly growing cobalt industry. sarah fins, not one of them. malcolm web al jazeera chairman than the democratic republic of congo. thousands of people in malawi protested against wiser, living costs corruption and government favoritism. the police volunteer gas to break up the demonstration, as protested mars towards the council offices in the capital. the long way decides fund form or politician bond carlindo, because the government has back tracks on its promise. to create job. president vladimir putin has led a vigil for the vixen's of one of russia's worst mining accidents in over a decades. at least 51 people, including rescue personnel were killed in a lisa,

an explosion in siberia and coal mine. on thursday, 3 people have been arrested, accused of negligence, and a separate probe was looking into state officials. so to have inspected the mine earlier this month. for this in kingston will return to the polls on sunday for a rerun of last year's parliamentary elections. the results of that vote sponsor revolution that unseated the government. and so former prisoners severe your power of win the presidency by a landslide. you are off needs to gain a broader legitimacy and deliver on his promise the fair elections saying the throw of a report from the capital fish kick still before election day freezing temperatures. another hurdle for people in the city of bish kept 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 that nothing to lose. 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. we'll take more time care to visit 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 is 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 courteous 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 went 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 that polymer and to have a present society as a whole. he might enjoy legitimacy for a longer period of time, sufficient for him to conduct every forms 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 coup ladders 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. 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's enough power for them to stay warm? because winter is coming and days before the election winter is already here. zane bas ravi al jazeera bishop, still ahead on all to sera sedans. prime minister takes action against security force leaders these after he was reinstated. and we look back at the life of one of

america's most influential composer, lyricists stevens, sometime dice. at the age of 9 to one sport of test for boss lunacy coaches, he prepares for his 1st we much ah hello there. let's have a look at the weather across the middle east and it's northern areas that we are seeing the unsettled weather. we've got wet and wintry conditions pushing across turkey into the caucasus and we will see showers in syria on sunday. but. 8 it does dry up by the time we get some monday remains dry across much of the region and extending east into iran. but we are seeing some unsettled conditions around the gulf. thanks to shamal wind, it's going to pick up kicking up some dust with places like guitar and the u. a.

and for dough and dubai, we are going to see the temperature dipped down slightly over the next few days. it will feel slightly cooler. and it's going to get cooler across the northwest corner of north africa. thanks to north wesley wind. it's blowing in some heavy showers in storms. we could see some flooding across more than areas of algeria across central areas. and those winds kicking up some of the higher a decimal places like libya and egypt for the wet weather across those central areas, we have to head to the east southern areas of somalia as well as kenya, seeing some heavier showers. we could see some flooding here was other areas of africa. it's angola that sees very wet weather and we've seen blustery showers in cape town as we move to south africa. but it's an improving situation as we head into the new week. that sure update. ah, the assassinations in broad daylight and increasing moderates,

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