we might have not just introduced the claim i have biologically productive earth lies discovered cutting edge solution for sustainable sitting on al jazeera ah, the identification of only colonel coincides with a sudden rise in corbet 19 infections. a warning that the new current of ours variant could be having a big impact in south africa. but some doctors think it's just a mild infection. it comes as more countries find their 1st cases if only chron when you travel restrictions taking hold in the coming hours. ah, lauren taylor, this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up, make the u. k less attractive, and stop playing politics over migrant deaths. say the french, after summit,

they excluded the u. k. from final hours voting in honduras. it after years mind in corruption, their fears, a foul play and it's been 4 years of a 247 had it. is it an illness or are you as embassies around the world under attack? we speak to one of the 1st victims of havana syndrome. ah, hello, the new and potentially more transmissible variant of corona virus has continued to spread with cases now found in more than 10 countries. health officials around the world. se omicron, which has been called a variant of concern, is likely to be far more prevalent than that. and in the past hour, the president of south africa, where the variant was 1st identified says it could be linked to a start rise in infections and criticize the imposition of travel bands. we are

deeper, disappointed by the decision of several countries to prohibit travel from a number of southern african countries, including our own following the identification of the army con variant. this is a clear and completely unjustified departure from the commitment that many of these countries made at the meeting of the g. 20 countries in rome last month. and then even to join his live in the janice bags. ok, anger there over these travel buns. there's been a significant amount of frustration from within the south african government and also scientists and experts around those travel bands. and it appears that the president from a post, they used his address this evening to south africa and to also send a message to the world around the travel bands. saying that further cobra,

1900 restrictions would not be imposed south africa, would remain at level one because they don't see the government doesn't see any reason why they should be further restrictions and raw the south africans to get the vaccinate it. there is a lot of concern around what these travel restrictions will mean for southern africa as a region, especially ahead of the holiday period with thousands of visitors from europe and the u. k. are expected and just the, it could not make impact, but it's certainly a lot of anger from the president and the government around the good work. they say scientists are doing a route sequencing to them sequencing and also just tracing cobra, 1900 changes. and instead south africa being punished. and so he doesn't want to change the restrictions test, but more about the impact he seems to think it's having already this varied well, he says there is some speculation around just how much this new variant has contributed

to new cases. in the last couple of weeks, a few weeks ago there was an average of a perhaps 4 or 500 cases every day. that's now gone up to about $1600.00, so they has been about a 90 percent rise. the government says around coven 19 infections, but he also says it isn't enough to increase restrictions in south africa, but they're watching it closely. and certainly the government are quite concerned about how south africans will react to further restrictions. after almost 2 years. battling coven 19 and the lock towns that they've had to india, but things for south africans release will stay, as they've been. the only concern really is perhaps limiting large gatherings. and one of the key messages again from the president is around vaccinations. but this is what he had to say in that address just now. the identification of omicron

coincides with a sudden rise in corporate mountain infections. this increase has been centered in houghton, although cases are also rising. in other provinces, we have seen an average of 1600, you cases in the last 7 days, compared to just 500 new daily cases in the previous week. i mean to me and i thank you very much indeed. we had criticism there from the south africa as president on travel bands. passengers arriving to the u. k. from all 10 of these, some southern african nations need to court and teen as of sunday. that's the same for people from 6 of these countries entering japan. and for monday, the u. s. is bonding travelers from 8 of them except for american citizens. but some nations are going further. morocco is halting all incoming travel from around the world for the next 2 weeks from monday. and that follows a similar decision by israel,

which from midnight that's in 3 hours time as band. all foreigners hurry forfeit, that getting in while the getting was good. sunday was the final day of relatively unrestricted arrivals at israel's main airport. you rules me no foreigners save those with special exemptions will be allowed into the country in the wells harshest response to the army. chrome variant is res. returning home, we'll have to koren teen for 3 days if vaccinated 7 days, if not, and be diverted to quarantine hotels. if they've been to read list countries in africa, at the weekly cabinet donuts for the hammock a holiday, while ministers voted on measures destined to ruin many holiday plans are shoved solid lad dick. but now we need to tighten up our borders in order to keep israel open internally. i understand that we need to change vacation destinations and go into isolation upon return. this happens in my family as well. restrictions on the countries borders is not an easy step, but it's a temporary and necessary step. lot of the, in another controversial move,

the security service will once again trace transmission by monitoring people's phones. although, unlike earlier in the pandemic, the government says this will be reserved for confirmed cases of the army chrome variant. they made it impactable. this of course will be 1st felt in the tourism industry, not just in israel, but here and occupied east jerusalem. and in the occupied west bank as well as tentative recovery built on the reopening of the borders to tourists just a little bit earlier this month has now been thrown into doubt. tourists you've already arrived can finish their trips, but soon the supply of customers will dry up again, it was the beginning of the beginning of what we hoped to be her, her return of the tourist industry and the return of tourists to, to israel. and again, this is another flap in the faith further into jerusalem's old city shopkeepers who'd only just reopened a contemplating bringing down the shutters. again, i don't think is that i thought because her, 1st of all,

this could be not in every way around the world, not only in this country. and so the tourists have got in, heightened concerns about getting back out. this is not good news parcel cause i hope we can go home. where does the problem with the planes that i cover here? i don't of the going to go back the government's message, but it closed the board as early and reopen after 2 weeks. been close them late and regretted recent experienced though tolls of temporary restrictions being stretched well beyond the and dates few. here are betting that the tourists will be back soon, or if will sit al jazeera occupied is jerusalem. a scientists around the world are working hard to find out more about the effect of the new strain that ranch me. little is known so far about the severity of the illness it causes or if it requires a change in treatment variant b $1.00. point 529 has been assigned to the greek eta on micron. it was kind of variant of concern by the world health organization on friday, and that's after it was flagged up by south african scientists who detected it in

samples from there. and botswana. the concern comes from the amount of mutations they're $32.00 on what's called the spike protein. this is what the virus uses to cause infection and is what many vaccines are based on? the u. k. governments, as it will convene an urgent meeting of g 7 health ministers to discuss the variant on monday. he parker has more now on the situation across europe. we on the con, variant is in europe with every passing, our more cases are detected with the single largest number of infections found on to flight that arrived here at amsterdam, shipple airport on friday from cape town at johannesburg. of the $624.00 passengers on board. $61.00 tested positive for coven 19. and more than a dozen half the omicron variant. all and now isolating. will the present 100 percent of the people who return from south africa will be contacted. we also asked the municipalities to visit 100 percent of the people at home to check whether they

are really isolating the on the corn variance now being identified in germany, italy, the u. k. denmark, belgium, chet, republic, and austria. we case is likely to be circulating in france according to the french government. the urge a message from brussels couldn't be any clearer vaccinate vaccine night vaccinate boost boost, boost as much as is possible. because this boosting of vaccination arrays us the level of antibodies and stimulates the memory cells for covet a viruses. therefore, this is the police of the immune system. the europe wide response has been to restrict flights from several southern african countries and introduce mandatory testing of people arriving from abroad. travelers coming here to the u. k will have to quarantine for 10 days of their own expense moves. some scientists believe won't be effective in stopping the spread. it's complicated that you to imagine that you're going to be able to prevent discretion of to be agent as consolidated

a case. guess an example. in belgium, we entered the trembling belgium. i ended up with the gate and she had absolute demoted contact with anyone from southern africa. scientists in italy have produced the 1st image of the variant that has more mutations in spite proteins, the part that interact with human cells compared with the highly infectious delta variance. in the absence of any hard data on how wide spread or virulent the armor chron variant is, or indeed any information on whether or not existing vaccines conferred degree of immunity against it. scientists are urging caution due to marched by way of new restrictions, and it could have a negative impact on europe's economies due to little. and it could take the pandemic in a dangerous new direction. these walker al jazeera london, ah,

the french interior minister says his country won't be held hostage by the u. k. domestic politics. when it comes to migration. she hi, damina was speaking at an emergency summit in cali. are to 27 people died trying to cross the english channel last week. he says france wants to work with the u. k, but it must take responsibility by making itself less economically attractive for migrant. british home secretary didn't attend sundays, meeting after invitation, was withdrawn by the french said to her, noted, ha, this joint work meeting can only be done in a serious way and without being hostage to domestic politics. president micron said several times this week that the relationship with britain must be relationship of equals. we are not auxiliaries of britain in somebody or a challenge was falling. the talks in colleen has a septic that solution. nothing is further away. given the breakdown in cooperation between the united kingdom and france has taken place this

week, the press conference that happens in the aftermath of this meeting in calais took place in just something that how they can see in the background. behind me add 2 main strands to it. the 1st was that i think there was a recognition amongst the participants that the e. u does need to have a more coordinated mode, joined up asylum policy at the the situation. the time of this course is not the only immigration issue that the, that you're facing in. and it also has what's going on on the poland that are roost border. and i think both of these things are being looked at together by the european union as they, as they should, the, the, they, they recognize that they need to have some kind of action. now, the commissioner was saying that from tx, which is the kind of border for leasing force will send a plane the help police that the french coastline. and she said that she was

shocked by the kind of she but at the industrial scale of the people smuggling operation. now the 2nd strand that they discussed was about the united kingdom following this spots that they have had. and there were a couple of points that making that one is that this meeting was not supposed to be . and c, u. k. they said it was supposed to be pro european spots. they would digs that were made out the u. k. by, by the belgians and the french saying that the situation in the united kingdom is such that it's attracting many migrants because they say it's easier to be an undocumented migrant and access the labor system in the united kingdom than is in europe. a trick with public has a new prime minister, 7 weeks after it's general election. nobody ration for pitch fiala was unusual. president milos say man was diagnosed with code 19 on friday and perform the ceremony inside a large plastic box. viola had a shock when in last month selection and 2 weeks of tulips with his right wing.

civic democratic party is now leading a 5 way coalition. boat being counted in curious, dan's parliamentary elections a year after disputed election led to political turmoil. the number of seats up for grabs has been reduced by the president from 120 to 90. that means the parliament will be weakened versus been held days after an alleged plot to overthrow present sadie a jumper off was put down. famous rob has more from the capital, bish case. we've come to a polling station in the south of the city. this is the most densely populated part of the city and election workers tell us that the numbers of people they see in coming in throughout the day really closely mirrors the presidential election back in january. that one president southern part of his term in office. so that's going to be something that the government generally sees as a victory the back then it was about 30 percent of the eligible voting population that came out. now,

initial data suggests it's about 28 percent. so certainly something that will be encouraging to those in government, mr. depart in a circle. but experts say that it is still too soon to tell that it depends on how things play out in the next days and weeks. and it depends on whether or not election results will be contested in the halls of government as per the law or on the streets, which is something that has happened and courteous on before. still to come on out his ear and defy any of his f, i reaching out to you against his piece of access to the frontline emanation with with getting going on your weather forecasts for monday, europe and africa. we're going to start in this part of europe right now. we do have some snow that peer knees right through the alps, a lot of activity for

a sicily central and southern parts of italy over the other side of the adriatic sea and some snow over a higher elevation, but also lower to the ground as well. sorry, avo 6 degrees, we could see some mixing there. what whether also through greece, though, i do think athens will stay dry, 20 degrees and what, whether from the black sea right through the mediterranean, for turkey, but powerful winds blasting through the boss for a system bowl. could see when guess of up to 90 kilometers per hour. other side of the mediterranean, again, just set snow for the parent ease, but central and southern parts looking pretty good. northwestern europe. right now we do have some snow across said the baltic states and that rain, snow line pretty much on that border with lithuania and bella roost. mince has a high of 4 degrees also for in london, but hang tight, i will bump up your temperature in the days to come in to double digit territory 11 degrees and wednesday, the 1st day of december, a high of tank. so all of that wet weather around that central mediterranean is

also going to give us some showers for algeria and tunisia, tunis. so high of 12 that's well below average. that's it. see as soon ah, in the light of the open seas hides the dark secret. men forced to work without pay inflate for years. but a glimmer of hope remained for the forgotten fisherman. as a group of activists delve deep into the illegal fishing industry, demanding justice and freedom. ghosts fleet, a witness documentary on al jazeera lou

ah, or one of the top stories here now to 0, south africa is president, has criticized border closures following the discovery of a new strain of the corona virus. cyril rom opposes, says there has been a rise in cases since on the con was identified. cases have now been found in more than 10 countries, and a number have added travel restrictions from 22 g m t. all foreigners are barred from entering israel for 2 weeks. and the french interior minister says his country won't be held hostage by the u. k. de lastic politics when it comes to migration comes after 27 people died, trying to cross the english channel last week. voting is underway in honduras to choose its next president. woollen 5000100 urines are eligible to vote in the election to replace president one under orlando hernandez. his time in office has been played by chronic unemployment allegations of corruption and waves of fleeing

migrants. leftist candidates, jamara castro is hoping to asked ruling right with national party my, you're up rogers is live from the honduran capital to go see golfer. so there's been a lot of tension in anticipation of this election. many worried about violence or are things playing out today on election day? that's right, merriman, much of the violence, much of that tension, much of that excited that a lot of hundreds have been feeling is due to the fact that there been more than 30 people that have been that have suffered attacks more than 30 people who have died as a result of politically motivated violence, mainly in the lead up to this election as the campaign season was starting to heat up. now what we're seeing today is, is a very calm day. people coming out in mass to vote. we're at one polling location here in the 100 capital and alpha at a public school. the cues have been long since the pulls opened. at 7 am and accuse have been long and pulling locations all across the city,

which is an encouraging sign that perhaps those anxieties may not have been merited . that perhaps these were just rumors that there would be violence on election day . so again, on that, and it is an encouraging sign that we should note that apart from the fact that there has been a higher than expected public turn out for people coming out to vote. there is a massive mistrust of the electoral process here in honduras. much of that has to do with what happened in 2017, during the last presidential election. a disputed election in which international observers say that the ruling national party was able to claim that victory under questionable circumstances under fraudulent circumstances. even so we have seen a few irregularities that we need to mention as well. primarily a failure of a new biometric scanning system, a massive investment mat, millions of dollars that we're invested into this new system to specifically to prevent the type of fraud that was documented during the 2017 presidential

elections at this pulling place. right now. we understand that somewhere around 90 percent of those machines simply either aren't. busy working or the codes work provided to the, to the pollsters, to make sure that these machines would be working properly. but in terms of those tensions in terms of batting zion, in terms of the violence, it's a much calmer day than i think a lot of people were anticipating. and this is all happening and mr. and migrant crisis and also the worst thing, poverty. how much of an impact your interaction will have on those kind of issues? this is a pivotal election marion for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that backdrop, that you mentioned massive historic level of migration over the course of the past few years in honduras linked to worsening poverty. linked to worsening ramp and corruption in the country. so yes, there is an expectation that this could be a, a huge turning point for the country. on the one hand,

you have the candidate for the really national party, nasty as food a who many people see as a continuation of the of the ruling national party, a continuation of president wonderland. where members, who many people see as being the reason that the country is, is so corrupt as being the reason why poverty is worse. and the president himself has been linked to, to, to drug trafficking as well. and on the other hand, you have a radically different, a radically different candidate, but many hundreds of feel as though what the country needs is a radical change. lauren manual, thank you very much. indeed. sudan says 6 of its soldiers have been killed during and attacked by ethiopian forces. it happened that an army post near a concert, tested border area and get to restate. the military says its forces repelled the offensive and inflicted heavy losses on the arm group. if you have his army chief, denied his soldiers had any involvement in the attack. when she appears

intensifying, internal conflict spread to the northeastern region of afar. an area where most imports come through, it's important or the key route for most of the countries. imports from djibouti out of there is the 1st international news channel to gain access to the region. since the fighting began, i meant to have a cool report, the town of schieffer and the medina. i am now standing in the heart of share for a city as it has been debbie center of military operations during the past 40 days of the month. i didn't hear this is the situation that the how much you'd better take shelter. it looks dangerous. a long time i did that. this is the situation we have been seeing since we entered the city. i just it was

one of the 1st to arrive. we were the 1st team of journalists to enter the city. this is a mountainous area and what we heard was gun fired exchange. the scenes we witnessed are very appalling, that the bodies everywhere on the street, it is a living proof of the financial ness of the fighting that are clear signs of the lack of humanity in this conflict that the grand forces were driven out of the strategic area by militia, from the far region, 50 commercial shops were totally destroyed. even the mosques were not spared. we have been hearing gunfire from all directions over the past 4 hours. all the residents have fled for their lives and the city has turned into military barracks for their 40 fighters, those militia, as our supporters of the syrian army. they have seized the city under advancing towards body and come boucher, the international community. you will need to step in as the humanitarian situation here is really dire as a result of the fighting. that, that should be buried, that the earliest in this small city,

like you can imagine how the situation would be when the fighting goes to larger cities within m ha, to province. the u. s. government is investigating an unknown illness that's effected more than 200 of its officials, working abroad. diplomats intelligence and high ranking miniature offices have all suffered unexplained brain trauma. as forced some of them to give up their jobs. rosalyn jordan spoke to one of the earliest victims of what's become known as havana cintron, cia officer mark palmer, romulus, went to moscow in 2017, for meetings with russian intelligence officials, polymer rumble, as never thought he'd come back to the us with a career ending traumatic brain injury, it's been 4 years of a 247 headache, which is, you know, not only of painful physically, but just in from a medical offer spectrum. it's pretty, it's pretty debilitating. so while i've gotten better, yeah, because the treatment i received at walter reeves, national rapids and of excellence that's on the road, leading traumatic brain injury programs. i'm still not there yet,

so i'm still suffering. paula morales says he woke up in his hotel room, dizzy ears ringing, and suffering. a never ending migraine, a year earlier. diplomats at the u. s. embassy, and havana reported similar symptoms. at 1st, the u. s. government considered the cases anomalies. but 5 years later, at least 200 u. s. government officials and some of their relatives are struggling to recover from unexplained health incidence. also known as havana syndrome. the by didn't ministration says these cases have spurred it to find the cause. when you sit down with, with our people in here, ah, what's happened to them? how they been effective? ah, it's very, very powerful. and it only reinforces in me the absolute conviction that we need to do everything possible for our people to care for them. to protect them,

to get to the bottom of what happened. the assumption the officials are being attacked with weapons that use lasers or microwaves instead of bullets. similar to what's being demonstrated here. the injuries have turned up in vienna, in bogota and guam, joe, and in hanoi, just before vice president comalla harris's visit in august. some speculate russia is behind the attacks, a charge the kremlin denies. still cia director bill barnes. recently ward moscow, there would be pay back if true, the trumpet, ministration also blamed cuba expelling some of their diplomats and 2017 mark pol, miraculous and his lawyer believe the government should tell the public. all that knows. we don't know what the intelligence community knows truly about these incidents and if revealing certain information when caused our country greater

problems. but i like to think that hopefully we are the em and solely to victor in the situation. and that we have something that we can do in response, dr. say the cases resemble the traumatic brain injuries us forces suffered in i. e . d attacks during the iraq war. congress recently passed the havana act to make sure the injured get the care they need. but it doesn't address the growing unease, some feel about serving abroad. mark palmer roblis says the cia has stood by him in the past 4 years, but he wants the us to send a message. these attacks won't be tolerated if it is an act of war. and so we're gonna respond appropriately. so i don't think this is just simple sanctions. absolutely. you don't want to start work re over this, but there's going to be have to be some really tough measures taken against your adversary. you know, if it's russia and this is, this is, this is serious business now. a call to action to protect those who thought they

knew the risks that came with their jobs. rosalyn, jordan, elders, era, washington, cool, man, you can always catch up at any time on our website is that is al jazeera dot com ah top stories around to 0. the new and potentially more transmissible variant of corona virus has continued to spread with cases now found in more than 10 countries . health officials around the world say on micron, which has been called a variant of concern, is likely to be far more prevalent than that president of south africa where the variant was 1st identified says it could be linked to a stark rise in infections and criticize the imposition of travel bands we are deeply disappointed by the decision of several countries to prohibit travel

from a member of sodom, african countries including our own following the identification of.