as a lifelong ambition, the studio chose was of my own village and good das permission going behind the lamb's as got him saying, brings his personal story to life. al jazeera correspondent, my own private bollywood. ah, we are deeper, disappointed by the decision of several countries to prohibit turbo from a member of southern african countries. south africa's president criticizes travel bands and says the countries watching infections closely, but doesn't see a need for more restrictions. ah, martinos is al jazeera live from london, also coming up make the u. k, less attractive and stop playing politics over migrant death. say the french after

summit. they excluded the u. k. from poles closing in honduras. but after years, mind and corruption, their fears are found played and ah, it's carnival time in synagogue capital, and relatively new event to celebrate longstanding traditions. ah, feller the new and potentially more transmissible variant of corona virus is 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 even more prevalent than that. and in the past few hours, the 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 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. i'm in miller, isn't johannesburg. there's been a significant amount of frustration from within the south african government and also scientists and experts around those travel fans. and it appears that the president trump supposed to use his address this evening to south africa and to also send a message to the world around the travel band. saying that further called the 1900 restrictions would not be imposed of 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 rather south africa to get back to native. there is a lot of concern around what these travel restrictions will need for southern africa as a region especially hit the holiday period with thousands of visitors from europe and the u. k. are expected to see it could not make impact, but it's certainly a lot of angle from the president and the government around the good work they say scientists are doing around sequencing to them sequencing and also just tracing cobra. 1900 changes and instead of south africa being punished, we had dec christa's in there from south africa's precedent on travel bands. and passengers arriving to you k from all 10 of these southern african nations need to quarantine as of sunday. that's the same for people from 6 of these countries entering japan. and from monday, the u. s. is banning travelers from 8 of them except for american citizens. as a nation to going further, america is halting. all incoming ad traveled from around the world. the next 2

weeks from monday and that fall as a similar decision by israel, a ban on all foreign travellers has just come into effect there to last the next 2 weeks. i forced reports from occupied east jerusalem. 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 world's harshest response to the army. chrome variant is res. returning home, we'll have to quarantine for 3 days if vaccinated 7 days if not, and be diverted to quarantine hotels. if they 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 kron 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 westbank, as well as tentative recovery built on the reopening of the borders to tourists. just a little earlier this month has now been thrown into doubt. a fancy tourists you've already arrived, can finish their trips with soon the supply of customers will dry up again. it was the beginning that was the beginning of what we hoped to view her, her return of the tourist industry and the return of tourists to her to israel. and again, this is another slap in the face. further into jerusalem's old city shopkeepers

who'd only just reopened a contemplating bringing down the shutters. again, i don't think is, will i because her 1st of all, this could be nothing everywhere around the world. not only in this country, and for the tourists who got in heightened concerns about getting back out. this is not good news parsing cars. i hope we can go home. where does the problem with the planes that i come a year? i don't know if that got to go back the governments message, but it closed the borders early and reopen after 2 weeks. been close them late and regretted. recent experienced though, tells of temporary restrictions being stretched well beyond the and dates. few. here are betting that the tourists will be back soon. harry faucet al jazeera, occupied east. jerusalem. scientists around the world are working hard to find out more about the effect of the new strain, but relatively little is known so far about the severity of the illness it causes or if it requires a change in treatment. here's what we do know. a variant b 11529 or on the chron was declared

a variant of concern by the world health organization on friday, as 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. there are 32, what's called the spike protein. this is what the virus uses to cause infection. and it's what many vaccines are based on. got to manage munoz, a fire ologist at the university of lancaster. he says he's most concerned about the impact on vaccine efficacy. my major concern at really is that because of this magnitude of the mutations in the spike protein, it's going to have a significant impact on to the vaccine efficacy. and the, what we know already is that those mutation that this a new valiant has acquired, those were individually been reported another of audience. so we have a, some level of translation that we can put into the context for this new barrier. so beside transmission and as some effect on to may be high disease severity,

the major concerns i have is really all the vaccine efficacy around. we have a virus that can be more transmissible can spread very quickly, but doesn't really cause any harm. and that is jewish, and we wanted to be in a let's hope that that would be the case. but that doesn't seems to be that the situation at the moment because most of the cases that we are having at the moment or in a video urbanized that prevents has been in the south africa. for example, m pretoria and jonas berg. so the situation that you will see an advantage to a population we are that is a bit more condensed to environment, cannot be translated into other countries. and more importantly, that is a other burden off disease like t b and h, i b has been common in south africa. so perspective of the disease severity that we will see over there might not be really translatable into other countries. ah frank says it wouldn't be held hostage by the u. k. domestic politics on migration . that response came in a european leaders emergency summit in cali,

which was missing representation from the u. k and was called after 27 people died, trying to cross the english channel or a trans reports from kai they wait because that's all their lives have become here. the queueing for charity clothing, anything to fight the early winter chill. but ultimately, they're waiting for an opportunity. if and when that comes, it might kill them. is an from sudan. heard about the 27 people who died in the channel this week. it hasn't put him off when you date and do something that's good for day. when you die and you is leading father so dilute, i think that is good. so, but if the guy tries validate that you're running behind your dream, they're trapped. no european country wants them and they know it until we are dying of death or our discipline. those the only option just do

their shoes. tell them easy to say. french police have stepped up. beach patrols recently. storms have made this a treacherous time to attempt to crossing. assuming you can afford the $3300.00 smugglers, a charging and the inflatable thing. is they use a small and vulnerable refugee charities, according on governments to make legal options for migrants and asylum seekers? easier. and what we need is there is a better, a solid system is not fit for purpose in a moment. and we call for something that doesn't force people to wrestle lives in a boat for the channel. on sunday ministers from france, germany, belgium, and the netherlands. and he repent commission diplomats met to discuss the crisis. they pledged more unified policing and the use of the resources like an e u. border agency plane to patrol frances coastline. past the u. k. was absent disinvited by france after boris johnson angered emanuel. my chron. by tweeting

a letter he'd written to the french president containing previously rejected policy suggestions. settle, hey, nodded. have i this joint work mating can only be done in a serious way and without paying hostage to domestic politics. president mac, ron said several times this week that the relationship with britain must be relationship recalls. we are not auxiliaries of britain. this issue has always been one that requires cooperation between france in the united kingdom and right now that is failing. yes. british politicians like to blame france strikes from domestic problems, but with the french presidential elections approaching the case, isn't the only government playing to the home crowd by throwing insults across the channel. meanwhile, desperate people, a shivering in the cold and drowning in the sea, will reach helens out his era. kelly polls, it's usually closed in honduras, but say they'll stay open to let the last people vote. as the country choose is next president. well than 5000000 honduran to eligible to vote in the election to

replace the president one, orlando hernandez. his time in office has been played by chronic unemployment allegations of corruption and waves of fleeing migrants for joined his life from the home during capital dignity golfer. what's the mood on election day? it's a festive mood. it's jovial, much more so than i think many people would have anticipated today, given the amount of violence that we've seen in the country over the course of last few weeks. and the lead up to this general election, as you mentioned, pulls are staying open despite the fact that they would have closed about 15 minutes ago. but the national electoral congress is saying that the polls will remain open to give voters in opportunity to vote to get everybody in the country and opportunity to cast their ballots today. now, despite this large, larger than expected voter turnout on the general election day, there is a massive mistrust of the electoral process here in honduras. this is due to what

happened 4 years ago. the presidential election in 2017 were international. electoral observers would have characterized that as the national ruling party, claiming victory under what could be characterized as fraudulent circumstances, questionable circumstances, to say the least so that it has been an expectation that that could happen. again. the good, there was fear that the ruling party could use foul play to steal the election once again. but what we're seeing from people is a lot of enthusiasm, this large voter turnout could be a sign of optimism that the electoral process could yield a better result. people here quite hungry for change after 4 years of one party rule. and why is this food important? the elections are proven to be quite pivotal or, or have the potential to be quite pivotal for a variety of reasons, not least of which this is a general election that's taking place under a backdrop of what's been

a historic migration crisis. fueled by worsening poverty field, also by ramping corruption here in the country. many people equate or, or blame. the worsening poverty blamed this ramp and corruption, the country on the country's ruling party and the country's sitting president, one of land where amanda has been linked to corruption and also linked to drug trafficking. by way of shady dealings with his family. his younger brother, a former member of congress, serving a life sentence in the united states. there's a sense that the country's been under the grip of a small group of people. a family you might say that's use corruption and violence to turn hunters into one of the corrupt, most corrupt countries in the world. now this is a very strange election. we talked about people having massive mistrust of the electoral process. yet we could potentially be see a rec, be seeing a record turn out of voters here in the country. again, people that are hungry for change, wanting to see

a change in leadership outside of what the country is. witness over the course of the last 8 years, but alternatively the opposition candidate is the one who provides the most radical change. 4 but again, people are wanting something different that could provide hundreds who by the way, somewhere around 75 percent of whom live below the poverty line in opportunity to have a choice in life other than to migrate to the united states. my new rep or thank you very much indeed. still to come on, i'm 0 under fire and he is a far region here again, exclusive access to the front line, an escalation called ah hey there, good to see. here's your weather forecasts for asia. we have somewhat weather

moving across central and eastern parts of china, but watch what happens on tuesday becomes more organized as it slams into the korean peninsula. i q shoe, chicago, and southern sections of honju. but for now, we'll stay dry in tokyo with a high of 17 degrees. rain is clearing away from taiwan. i pay $23.00 degrees. still few showers, though, and hong kong looking good wall above average, getting up to 26 degrees. rain sauntering around this se portion of asia the northeast monsoon, giving us heavy pockets of rain central and southern parts of vietnam. and we could power up some thunderstorm. searching been city and jakarta, jakarta getting up to a high of 30 degrees off to australia. what weather for queensland coastal sections a lot around that east coast there. but it starting to spread further inland in the days to come for now brisbin has a hive $26.00 degrees looking good in western australia. perth, in the sunshine, at 27 or in this weather report in new zealand right now,

getting clips was some showers for the western portion of the south island. also some rain around the capitol region wallington at 19 auckland, looking good in the sunshine. 24 on monday. that's it. ah, the from the al jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation with no host and no limitation. lead to the place of color . it was the struggle. yeah, it would be much easier for me might feel that white people part to go into chad thing a phone. right. good. carry other people wait a minute, you get where you don't you stop what you're doing and made one studio b unscripted on al jazeera. ah

ah ah, or model top stories are 0? south africa's president has criticized order closures following the discovery of a new strain of the corona virus. 0 run poser says there's been arising cases since on the cron was identified. cases of now been found in more than 10 countries and a number of added travel restrictions. all foreigners are barred from entering israel to 2 weeks. and the french interior minister says his country won't be held hostage by the you case, domestic politics. when it comes to migration, 27 people died trying to cross the english channel last week. a check republic has a new prime minister, 7 weeks after its general election. inauguration of her patch of yellow was unusual . president miller semon was diagnosed with co 19 on friday and perform the

ceremony inside a large plastic box. yellow had a shock when in last month's election and after weeks of talks is right when civic democrat party is now leading a 5 way coalition for it's been counted in kingston's parliamentary elections a year after a disputed vote lead to political turmoil. the number of seats up for grabs has been reduced by the president from 120 to just 90. but as endless ravi reports from biscuits politics this year has been more peaceful than before. election day for curtis. dan's new parliament a re run one year in the making, in a country where it can be difficult to tell if the political storm has passed. or if you're in it's, i mean at the detective, we have too many negatives. our country was so ruined during previous years. we nearly hit rock bottom. i want quick active and effective measures from the

government. i really want our country to rise. we always say we are one of the most ancient nations in the world and we are proud of it. but in fact, there is nothing to be proud of. and i want us to have reasons to be prouder did our system won't government to stop playing political games. we believe stage intrigues and start dealing with economics. the country is, well, peoples wealth and improving international relations, attracting foreign investment. so people can live easier and better lawyers some journalists, critical of the president, said they were barred from reporting a polling stations. opposition leaders accused the government of influencing the voting process using the same corrupt practices of past leaders. the government, by its own admission said before the polls, it won't be perfect. but the central election commission said there were 5 times fewer violations at pulling stations, as compared to last year, were at the polling station that is closest to the main square that was last year.

the scene of violent protests and clashes with police over disputed parliamentary election results back then. this time so far it has to be said, things are pretty quite disputed results from last just parliamentary election led to a violent revolution. the 3rd into decades bringing president southern power off to power. after casting his ballot, he left on a diplomatic visit to took minister and criticized by his opponents for not delivering on many of his public promises. depart will likely count a quiet election day as a promise he did make good on. i think it's a bit of an overstatement to say that this is the best selection of 30 years, but certainly compared to some of the more recent couple of elections. we can say the, the amount of complaints the spread of abuses is certainly lower. this time the final results will be out in 2 weeks. and the 1st session of parliament is expected to

convene early next year. if nothing happens in the coming weeks, that will be something meaningful. a turning point for this country and the government will count it as a success to have kept the wheels of democracy moving. then basra, the old 0. if he appears intensifying internal conflict spread to the northeast region of afar, it's important as a key route for most of the countries in ports from the port djibouti out. there is the 1st international news channel to gain access to the region since the fighting began. mom and the hotel cool reports from the china. she for the medina, i am now standing in the heart of shepherd city as it has been the center of military operations during the past. 40 days. hi to here. hi. this is the situation that the how much you'd

better take shelter. it looks dangerous. okay, gonna hi ton. this is the situation we have been seeing since we entered the city. i just 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 witness 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. cities, commercial shops who are totally destroyed, even the mosque 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 are supporters of the fuel, be an army. they have seized the cd on their advancing towards body and combo chaff

. the international community you will need to step in of the humanitarian situation here is really dire. the result of the fighting. the dead should be buried at the earliest in this small city. like you can imagine how the situation would be when the fighting goes to larger cities within a 100 province. doctor's in democratic republic of congo, reporting a high rate of birth defects in babies. born near cobalt mines, gold is used in batteries for phones, laptops and electric vehicles and demand for it worldwide is soaring. there are increasing concerns about the health costs. malcolm where visited co whizzy, the city at the heart of the cobalt mining industry. when blue awesome buy was born with a cleft lip. her mother henrietta was worried there, hoping they can get help at this hospital in the democratic republic of congo laws, grandmother miss single. willa has seen cleft lip before i michelle. she can, i don't know what causes this,

but one of our neighbors also has it and he struggles to speak other people in the community habits. but none of them have had surgery. they just lived with henry s. s l. food and drinks in one of the many informal cobalt mines here in lieu elaborate province. dr. william kang says he seen far too many black lips and other malformations in newborn babies over the 5 years he worked here and says they can be connected to mine pollution when they wake him, the mining at the mouth of the pregnancy. these explore, he sent to the mining to the dust of the mining didn't matter in the mining game as the baby and the baby can born with this month formation. the bill is given corrective surgeries to thousands of children funded by charities. he also worked on research projects, but he says much more needed to be done in the se, there's a lack of data sciences. i have found that children, whose father's work in the mines

a much more likely to have birth defects. most of the cobalt, his mind, industrially by foreign companies, most of the world's supply comes from here, is used in batteries in mobile phones and electric vehicles. demand for it is soaring in china, europe, in the us communities here live right next to the mountains of mine. tailings most mine is working informal, illegal minds, sticking out, cable by hand. scientists say mine is exposed to radiation for metals at work may then be exposing pregnant mothers at home. we went with dr. billy to meet another of his patients. helen panza, son de la, has a birth defects in his legs. doctor billy says it can be corrected with surgery, but it needs to be done soon. he's looking for funding. there's no way helen can afford the $1500.00 with is needed. we stop going to hospital because we don't have money. we would go for the surgery if only god will help us dollar and helen

live less than a 100 meters from a large industrial mine. it's just over there. helen's husband works in a mine the research his say, if it is indeed mining pollution that's causing the mouth former teeth, they expect more mal foreman sees in future generations. and the worst of this is yet to come. dollar and children like a me need public health services that don't exist here. we did much of the money made from cobalt mining, goes abroad as hardly any help for the people who suffer its effect. malcolm web al jazeera, co wavy democratic republic of congo, and he, 3 people have been injured after magnitude 7.5, earthquake struck the western coast of peru, the turn, the damaged roads and buildings in the amazonian region. there also be reports of power cuts in some areas. parts of the 16th century church collapsed. australia is

introducing a new law to target people who post abusive messages on social media will allow the government to access the personal information of uses if they post defamatory comments from mr. scott morrison says it will make platforms such as twitter and facebook hand over data. thousands of people have been asked on the streets of senate goals, capital for the great deca carnival, elaborate face paintings. fire eaters and musicians are helping to showcase the country's diversity in an event, hoping to rebound from the pandemic, because hacker pops ah, to the beat of the drums. and under the protection of the gunk wall, a mid dinky spirit from southern senegal, there is no stopping to curse carnival, the roaring simba a hunter that spend too much time in the forest turning into a lion is here to clear the busy streets to make way for this parade, rosella look good. i came all the way from cousin mancha to take part in the

carnival. this is what we do before the harvest of rice. earlier in the day, children took part in what is the 2nd edition of a 3 day carnival with a theme of legends entails of senegal. it's kind of in mock, he got to leave it with us. it's an event that promotes the cultural diversity of synagogue. it's out of love of culture that we came up with the concept to promote and add value to our historical diversity. the carnival was cancelled last year because of the pandemic with the countries borders now, reopening to tourists. before the discovery of the new variance, participants waited in the night, expecting thousands of visitors to come and watch them performed the final arrange . organizers had hoped that this event would or try large enough money to count. this has been down by the, you know, many of the strain of the current varez and will, there are no known cases, urine, synagogue, fear of ours. it's reading process. the martin. it's so more ready to pick them

account valving affected setting all the quality which relies heavily on them in a bank like them. while there is no tradition of carnival in senegal, there is tradition of using music costumes and dance to tell a shared history and get people moving the beats at their culture. no matter where they're from. nicholas hawk al jazeera, the car ah erma, the top stories, roger 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, or micron is likely to be far more prevalent than that president of south africa where the via variant was 1st identified says it could be linked to a stark rise in infections and criticized the imposition of travel bands.