trafficking across india, one of those fighting to say on the ball children on al jazeera ah, these restrictions are completely unjustified and unfairly discriminate against our country. south africa, the president calls on government to scrap travel bands and instead focus on vaccinating the world against covered 19 war cases of the con, very 1st by data fight in south africa are appearing globally as investigations. continue into how dangerous it is. ah, hello,

i'm hasn't think of this is just yet alive from the halls that coming up. france declares it won't be held hostage by british politics on migration. after a crisis meeting that excluded the u. k. votes accounted after the hon during elections. former 1st lady jamara castro's hopes it will make her the country's 1st female president. plus i'm gabriel's onto in new york, where british social ag lane maxwell will face a jury for the 1st time in a trial. that's sure to be filled with drama. ah, the south african president has demanded an immediate end to batt to travel bands that he's called unjustified and discriminatory against his country and its neighbors. sir, i'm opposed to address the nation after a highly mutated variance of cobra. 19 was identified by scientists,

and governments rushed to close their borders to southern africa in response. 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 corn variant. this is a clear and completely unjustified departure from the commitment that many of these countries made at that meeting of the g 20 countries in rome last month. and his latest remarks, the world health organization again urged against sudden travel bands saying it will take time to know if the mac cron variant is more transmissible or causes worse symptoms. cases of the variance have now been confirmed in more than 10 countries on opposite sides of the world. a south african doctor who raised the

alarm about on the cross says her patients who been diagnosed with the new very, and have shown mainly mild symptoms. for me, the miller reports from johannesburg. angelica, here is the south african doctor who 1st had take the new symptoms in patients who had contracted coven 19 while she says the symptoms up until ya cases so far have been mild. so what is interesting is that, that the clinical symptoms or not the same, then with delta, extreme tightness, and fatigue, and the young people that was how we 1st detected with a bit of her body i, campaign, and headache. very, very similar to what you will normally see with any viral infection. so the africa has to take to just over 50 cases of the new variant and enabling, but swan or 900 people have been infected. they've also been cases in belgium, israel, and other countries. so i to say it may take up to 2 weeks to better understand the variance to determine how easily it spreads and how well vaccines work to protect

people. because these more than 30 mutations, that might, it might escape the immune system, or it might escape the vaccines. what we have seen so far is people that has been vaccinated species were far as it around we had the last short in august this year did contact the virus and it's miles very, very well. sometimes. there are no known admissions to hospitals. people the contract, the new variant. what is your view then on the global reaction to this variant being detected in south africa? extremely premature. and you know, it is as if they went into a frenzy and each and every one out there on biking, a great a high about this. and the question is, you know what, why we have, we have won't that we are going to see a 44 or a wife. we have to sit,

they will come at variance. we did say that the variance will mostly come from unvaccinated ivy paid people who's not controlled on the medication or never been to taking any medication. that's not, that's something that's new. well, scientists say the variant is behind a sharp rise of cases in the halting province. how the spread of the disease is managed should be carefully considered. an increasing number of experts say the law downs and travel bands don't work and that instead damaging economies and causing unnecessary panic, then says the focus should be on ensuring everyone in the world has access to vaccines. south africa, india and other countries have been for months coating for payton waivers. to allow for vaccines to be manufactured around the world. so far to 70 percent of africans have received a job with very low vaccine access, with the inability to be able to fully make our own vaccines. and to be able to get

out of this. been driving fast enough in a timely manner with the vaccine about it. witnessing and the stigmatization of certain countries in africa related to the variance. this is not a good look for the global not what we need is cooperation. what we need is global solidarity. and what we're getting in return is actually of a punitive approach to how we can actually will manage the spending 2 weeks from now. when we might see a different picture, we might see a total different clinical picture from, from us what we experienced currently. but, but for now, we can't even cite, escaped the vaccine efficacy. we can say that while travel bands often used by time to better understand new variance and the spread of the coven, 1900 virus. some scientists in south africa, a calling it's a futile exercise. for me to mila al jazeera johannesburg, the british government says it will convene an urgent meeting of g 7 health ministers on monday to discuss how to respond me back. a reports from london. the

on the con, variant is in europe with every passing hour. 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, and johannesburg of the 624 passengers on board. $61.00 tested positive for cove at 19. the more than a dozen half the omicron variant, all and now isolating all the percent 100 percent of the people who return from southern 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 oma corn variance now being identified in germany, italy the u. k. denmark, belgium, chet, republic, and austria with case is likely to be circulating in france according to the french government. the urgent message from brussels couldn't be any clearer vaccinate vaccine night vaccinate boost, boost,

boost as much as possible. because this boosting of vaccination arrays us a 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 at their own expense. moves some scientists believe, won't be effective in stopping the spread. it's concave unite you to imagine that you're going to be able to prevent the discretion of to be agent as resorting to the case. as an example. in belgium, we entered the trembling belgium. i ended up with a gayden shad absolute demote. i got 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 parts that interact with human cells compared with

the highly infectious delta variance, in the absence of any hard date or on how widespread overland the micron variant is . or indeed any information on whether or not existing vaccines confer a degree of immunity against it. scientists urging caution do too much 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. the bulk of out to 0 london or the flight bands imposed on southern africa will add to what is already a grim year for global tourism. united nation says the sector is losing another 2 trillion dollars. calling the pandemic recovery, fragile and slow. the world tourism organizations as international arrivals will remain 70 to 75 percent below the numbers recorded before covered 19 hit vector. also last 2 trillion dollars last year, making one of the worst affected industries. more than $100.00 countries are

currently completely or partially closed to foreign visitors will be ation expert. todd curtis is the found safe dot com. he joins us now from boston. in the us, thanks very much for being with us. so talk to then about what the, the, the implications are of this on the, on the ation industry and a whole and the not calling effect it has throughout the economy. well, the aviation industry may actually not be affected as deeply with especially the latest variant of the current or virus. in part because throughout the pandemic, aviation has been a key factor in transporting equipment and people to her as needed for vaccination and for medical care. but more to the general point with respect to travel, it's been a slow recovery in part because so much of travel is international and origin. and

even if you have some countries, for example, united states, which is fairly open with respect to domestic travel, there are still rebels, relatively high barriers to entry for free travel from overseas. and especially the mora, let's just say the part of the travel industry would actually contributes a disproportionate share of the revenue business travel that's been particularly affected, not just from the individual travelers. but from all the ancillary activities that may go on, let's say, around an international conference or an international convention, it still has not recovered globally, as much as the industry would expect. and i fully expect even without the late is very and will be sometime in 2022 or even 2023 before that. so to return to something resembling the norm of 2019. is this all down to the pandemic? i mean, there is the supply chain, the supply chain problems around the world, the,

the we've reported on and there's also high oil prices right now. what, what effect have those things had on tourism and travel? well, the effect on tourism in air travel hasn't been equal in some tech sectors. again, the united states, it's actually come back to something approaching normal behavior when it comes to lead her travel. now with respect to the supply chain, problems and such part of those are due to the pent up demand that happened when many functions were not operating normal during the pandemic. even today in the united states now elsewhere, there are months long delays in critical parts of the supply chain for high end items such as automobiles. but more generally, i think the one key for reducing the stress of the panoramic, including the effect on the ation, is have a more broad wide distribution of vaccines and acceptance of vaccines in those

populations where the vac sean's accept is accepted. but because frankly, unless a very large proportion of people in the population are immune from the virus, either from vaccination or through other means, there will still be ample opportunity for this virus to mutate. the crime mutation of the last few days is just one very and there may be others, the sooner people are vaccinated. the less likely it is these other variance can take hold. good talk, you talk courteous in boston, thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. are still ahead on al jazeera, we get an exclusive access to the battlefield front line, and ethiopia is a far region. and virgil ablow, the acclaimed men's, where design up a louis baton and founder of all white dies h. 41. ah,

ah, look forward to burritos guys. with the sponsored my cattle airways getting going on your weather forecasts for monday, november 29th. hello, good to see you were going to start in india, where that ne monsoon has given us a lot of rain for the southern slice of india and you know, and i over the past little bit, scooping up more than a 100 millimeters of rain. now, all of the amber alerts have been dropped on mondays, so the rain not falling at the same intensity as it has been over the last few days, but still coming down nonetheless, have you spouts will be reserved for them. all these and true locker on monday. next stop, we're going to southeast asia and we've got rain sauntering around. we'll power up some thunderstorms. hutchinson city rate in to jakarta with a high of 30 degrees. and that northeast monsoon is also slamming rain into central and southern sections of vietnam on it. to show you this,

the rain is starting to clear away from taiwan, still getting clipped with some showers and type pay with the hiv 23 degrees and hong kong temperature. is well above average share with a high of 26 degrees. rain is moving across central eastern portions of china. that's monday. i will show you tuesday. this becomes much more organized flags into the korean peninsula, q to chicago, and southern sections of haunt you drive for now in sophia, with the high of 70. that's it. season. the weather been said by katara always. there's a lot more in and out of the or than tv with our website mobile apps, social media, and podcast. al jazeera digital is the world award winning online content. and each week on portal will bring you the very best of it. they're trying to broaden the people to be to go somewhere else. but the truth is that it got nowhere else to go

. so if you missed it online, catch up here with me sound or gotten on al jazeera. ah, the me again, this is as a reminder of our top story, south africa, the president has criticized board explosions after the discovery of a new strain of the corona, vice. he called it completely unjustified. still ram of poster also says there's been a rise in covered 1900 cases since on the corn was identified. cases have now been found in more than 10 countries, and a number have added travel restrictions, all foreigners now bought from entering israel for 2 weeks view and says the global

tourism sector is losing another 2 trillion dollars this year. calling the pandemic recovery, fragile, and slow more than $100.00 countries are completely all partially close to foreign visitors. ah, a vote to be counted in honduras off the sunday's presidential election. people have been choosing a successor to one orlando hernandez. his time and office has been played by chronic unemployment, violence and allegations of corruption left his candidate, jermarta. castro is hoping to oust the governing right wing national party and become honduras 1st female president. her rival is the current mayor of the capital to goosey gulf of electrical officials, say voter turnout is. hi me, manuel. rap hollow is alive in the capital force and my, well, it's been a lot of tension ahead of the selection worries about violence potential. why is

how things play out today? there was quite a lot of tension, quite a lot of anxiety building among hunter and citizens in the lead up to the general election. many people worried that there could be a repeat of the sort of violence that played out in the days that followed the announcement of the last presidential election in 2017. with many people, i worked with many international electoral observers seeing the outcome of the 2017 election as questionable circumstances, part of the youth of euphemism. but what we've seen today was quite the contrary, a large turn out of voters. and just to set the scene for you a little bit where we are right now, we're outside the headquarters of the opposition party, the party of seo motto castle, the former 1st lady of hunters who is now seeking, i, who is now seeking to become the president of honduras, it would be irresponsible for us to quote, any exit polls at this moment. even though local media are running their own independent polls, we have to wait until the preliminary results are announced by the national

electoral congress. they were supposed to already have made their 1st announcement, but that hasn't yet happened yet. we anticipate that that could happen in the next couple of hours. but as you can see and hear the music and the celebrations going out on behind as to very different scene, very jovial there celebrations. very, very different than what we've seen in the lead up of the general election, which has been a lot of tension and a lot of anxiety over fear that this could be a repeat of 2017, where the national, the ruling national party. oh, claim to victory under fraudulent circumstances. and it does seem to be a pivotal election for honduras with did with da da migrant crisis and the worsening poverty. how, how big of an impact could the selection have it's still election day, but the potential for this to be a pivotal election for honduras is still very much on the table. this has been a one party rule for the last 12 years. the last 8 years have been under the same

pres, a president that, as you said in your introduction, has been marred by scandals by allegations of corruption misuse of public funds and even ties to international drug trafficking. so many here in honduras are hungry for a change. i many would say that they're hungry for, for any type of change at this point. with the most radical change, it would come from the left as candidates. you might have castro of the leave it a party, many people on, on, from, from the ruling national party see her as a threat to the stability of the country, of potentially leading honduras to a sort of isolationist situation. distancing itself from the united states. hunters is largest trading partner, but when you look at the circumstances here in the country, the context of the migrant crisis that we've seen play out where thousands of hundreds, hundreds have left for the u. s. southern border over the course of the past few years. fleeing violence, fleet worsening poverty, fleeing what they see is ramp and corruption that is endemic at this point of the

government. they're hungry for a change, and for many the only real change could come from a radically different candidate. that's where that's where you might a capital would come in. meanwhile, thank you, manuel. rap, hello into goosey gal. before us are france says it won't be held hostage by the u . case. domestic politics on migration. european leaders attended an emergency summit on the issue in the french for city of cali, but the british were not invited. meeting was called off to 27 people died, trying to cross the english channel. we're a challenge reports from cali. 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 there waiting for an opportunity. if when that comes, it might killed him keys and from see don. 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

is good for day. what you day i knew is leading bardello so dilute. i think that is good. so it's better to die, to raise work today, drive you running behind your dream. they're trapped. no european country wants them and they know it until we are dying of. yeah, it cool our discipline, those. the only options just do is their shoes. tell them movie 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 a, is a better, a solid system is not fit the purpose of the moment. and we call for something that doesn't force people to rest their lives in about across the channel. on sunday

ministers from france, germany, belgium, and the netherlands. and he ripping commission diplomats met to discuss the crisis . they pledged more unified policing and the use of the resources like an e. u. border agency planed to patrol frances coastline. past the u. k. was absent disinvited by france after boris johnson angered emanuel my cron. by tweeting a letter he'd written to the french president containing previously rejected policy suggestions, said to handle that have i, this joint work mating can only be done in a serious way and without paying hostage to domestic politics. macro said several times this week that the relationship with britain must be relationship of equals. we are not auxiliaries of britain. this issue has always been one that requires co operation between france and the united kingdom. and right now that is fighting. yes, british politicians like to blame france to distract from domestic problems, but with 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 shivering in the cold and drowning and the sea will reach helen's outer 0 kelly. the conflict in ethiopia as a t gray region continues to spread to other areas including neighboring a far where most imports come through. mohammed torkel from our sister channel agency, the arabic is the 1st journalist from an international news channels to gain access there since the fighting began. now the medina high, then medina is set up to yeah. we are now with the city of she for strategic city, but separate regions of a fall on the horror. it's also not far from the tea gray region. it was the main stronghold of the t grey frontrunner, which controlled this strategic area. and i figured out the manifestations of the fight in a very clear around us. this was a major fighting for that. been a large number of killings and a large displacement movement. the situation is still chaotic and difficult.

everyone around us has been turned into an armed person. that could be militia members, a federal soldiers. i'm still, most of the residents are civilians. this is the strategic shift for a city which was the center of the fighting between the fighter of the t great front and forces from afar, supported by the federal government. mom about our call. jeff, for the other about 18 months after she was arrested british socialize, he lay maxwell is about to go on trial. she accused of enabling the crimes of late sex offender jeffrey epstein, who authorities say, took his own life while awaiting trial. maxwell insist she's innocent and claims. she too was a victim. gabriel, alexander reports from new york create a. how much did elaine maxwell know about geoffrey epstein to alleged sexual abuse of under age girls? that will be the central question in the trial of the 59 year old british socialite,

facing charges of sex trafficking and other crimes. and he is going to be the invisible presence hanging over this. and that is why i think that she is going to have to explain something that everybody really wants to know . what was his hold over her? what was that relationship? a big unknown on the trial is how far the judge will allow the prosecutors to probe and epstein and maxwell's high profile social circles that included many household names from politics, industry, and entertainment. one being britain's prince andrew and his accuser, virginia roberts, who says she was trafficked by maxwell to the prince per sex. when she was a teenager is likely not going to be called as a witness. he denies any wrongdoing, but prosecutors are expected to call at least 4 other women. all epstein accusers

who are going to tell the jury, maxwell groomed them for sex with epstein, one when she was as young as 14 years old. it's a trial with all the trappings of a salacious, drama, sex power, money, and fame. but victims rights advocates hope that the jury does not get distracted by that and instead keeps their focus on the women who say they were abused by epstein. and that it could have only happened with the help of maxwell. this is an example of one of the most horrific and long enduring patterns of sex trafficking and child exploitation. there are so many victims and whispered kick, really disturbing about the case is how open they operated. and how many people knew, and how many people they involved in this exploitation scheme, maxwell has pleaded not guilty and denies all the charges. her legal team will try to cast doubt on the allegations and the testimony based on evidence that happened

more than 20 years ago. the trial is expected the last 6 weeks, if convicted maxwell faces up to 80 years in prison. gabriel sancho al jazeera new york, a magnitude $7.00 earthquake a struck the western coast of peru, it's damaged roads and buildings in the amazonian region, including a 16th century church. at least 10 people injured and 75 houses destroyed. tremors were felt in neighbouring ecuador and columbia. internationally renowned a fashion designer, virgil ablow, has side at the age of 41, who was the 1st african american artistic director of louis returns menswear collection, and was hailed for his thoughts on social and environmental issues. katya lopez, hold i and reports. ah, he was a high end designer and a visionary who rose to the top of the fashion industry. virgil ablow was often

described as a renaissance man in the world of fashion. as lloyd taunts 1st african american artistic director, he push boundaries, redefining the designs of luxury brands. you can't talk about st. we're specifically luxury street where without mentioning the name versa at law, it's impossible in the more than 160 years that louis baton has existed as a fashion house. he was there 1st lack read of director styles once unthinkable on the catwalk like mixing sneakers and camouflage pants with tailored suits and evening gowns became a blueprint for other designers. a combination of luxury and street were also attracted a new and younger market. ablow was born in the us state of illinois to immigrant parents from gonna his mother, a seamstress taught him to so and even though he did and how formal fashion training,

he understood the industry and the role that plays in modern culture for more than 2 years. the founder of the label off white had been suffering from an aggressive form of cancer. despite his illness, he kept active. earlier this month, he traveled took a tours capital for his 1st museum exhibit in the middle east titled figures of speech. he leaves a legacy that influence fashion and managed to inspire the world of art and culture . virgil ablow was 41. ah, that's good, round up. now the top stories on al jazeera south africa's present, has criticized border closures. following the discovery of a new strain of the vars he called it completely unjustified silver. i'm a po so also says there's been a rise in co 19 cases since i'm a chron was i.