studio be unscripted on al jazeera, the usa always of impressed the people around the world. people pay attention to won't be going here, and i'll just, he was very good at bringing the news to the world from here. ah, these restrictions are completely unjustified. south africa's present an urgent governance to scrap travel bounds office the new code 19 variant raises alarms around the world. ah, hello money inside of this is al jazeera life from day or so coming up, i voted, turn out. is it reported in honduras than in the election? that could see it's fast? female presidents, preliminary results are in we'll get an update from's to class. it won't be held

hostage by british politics on migration on to cross this meeting. that excludes the united kingdom also had i'm gabriel's on to a new york where british socialite di lane maxwell will face a jury for the 1st time in a trial that sure to be filled with drama. ah . the south african president is demanding an immediate end to travel bounce following the discovery of the new cove at 19 veron only chrome. so a rama fossa address the nation, saying a moved by governments to close their borders to southern africa was on justified and discriminatory. the i'm on chrome very was 1st identified in south africa. 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 the meeting of the g 20 countries in rome last month. while the world health organization is also advising against some travel bands, it says more time is needed to determine whether the on the chrome is more transmissible or causes where 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 ami chrome says her patients who been diagnosed with the new veterans have shown mainly miles symptoms. but me the miller reports from johannesburg. angelie good sir. it's the south african doctor

who 1st to take the new symptoms in patients who had contract cove at 19. well, 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 average has to take to just over 50 cases of the new variant and enabling but swanner 19 people have been infected. they've also been cases in belgium, israel and other countries. scientists 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 specie we're far, is it around? we had the last short in august this year did contact the virus and it's miles very, very much symptoms. there are no known admissions to hospitals. hill people with 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 full or a wife. we have said 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. wavered to allow for vaccines to be manufactured around the world. so far as 7 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 motive that we are 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 all 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 currency but, but for now we can't even say escaped the vaccine efficacy. we can't say that while travel bands are often used by time to better understand new variance and the spread of the coven 19 virus. some scientists in south africa, a calling it's a futile exercise for me to mila alger 0, johannesburg. ah! early results from honduras, the giving leftists opposition candidates a lead off to sunday's presidential election. if they are, mater castro, wins she'll become the country's 1st female leader. a main rival is the current

mayor of the capitol, electoral official, se voter turnout has been high, a skies a manual. apollo is lying for us in the capitol. i know so early result coming in now. what are they telling us? the early results are in a little bit for the noise in the pick of it's sort of opposite you get it. you monica speaking to the crowd behind it. now what the national electoral congress has come out with preliminary results. we should note only 16 percent of the vote has been down. it goes far, but it gives her 53 percent of the vote until now again, only 16 percent of the votes have been counted. the national electoral council has asked the candidates to refrain from proclaiming themselves the victor, both of both be the opposition candidate and the candidate for the ruling party, asking them to not stir up any emotion wanting to prevent the sort of violence that

we saw take place there are the 100 capital 4 years ago following a disputed presidential election, and then over a dozen deaths that happened in the riots that took place following that election. that international observers have categorized as having been won by fraudulent means. now, there was a lot of anxiety building up here in honduras, and the lead up to this election, people worried over the increase in political violence more than 30 political candidates who have been killed in honduras since last year since the primary election. so there was a lot of fear, a lot of worry that that violence could be translated again this year on the streets of the city that has not been the case, as you can see behind me from all these flags waving. as you can hear from the hears and the fire cracker fireworks around us, it's a celebratory atmosphere. very different, i think than what many people were expecting. and this could end up being quite

a pivotal election for home doors. can you give us some context? oh oh, almost regardless of who ends up being declared, the winner of this election, this does have the potential to be a pivotal election for han for hundreds if the opposition candidates to america is declared the winner. this bar to the end to 12, a 12 year rule by a single party by the ruling national party. already it means an end to controversial president, one, orlando, amanda's whose administration has been marred by allegations of corruption misuse of public funds. it even ties to drug trafficking, and we have to mention the context under which these elections are taking place in the country. some around 75 percent of the population of this country lives below the poverty line. this is one of the things that migrants will even in math, from the country side as their main reason for leaving

a poverty ramping corruption. so there is a 100 change in honduras, not only from supporters of the opposition candidate from people from across the political spectrum, but the most radical change would opposition candidates, humana customer. i can't money. thanks to that minute. we're paula. that an outside a very excited crowd. from says it won't be held hostage by the case domestic politics on migration. european leaders attended an emergency summit on the issue in the french poor city of calais, that the british went invited. the meeting was called up to 27. people died on trying to cross the english channel or a challenge reports from kelly. 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 kill them keys and 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. what you day anew is leading, says father. so dilute, i think that is good, it says, but it's got raised, validate, drive you running behind your dream, they're trapped. no european country wants them and they know it until we are dying of. yeah. get all our discipline those. the only option just do is their shoes. tell them what 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 for purpose at the moment. and we call for something that doesn't force people to raise their lives and about of the channel. on sunday ministers from france, germany, belgium, and the netherlands and he repeat, commission diplomats met to discuss the crisis. they pledged more unified policing and the use of e resources like an e u. border agency plane to patrol frances coastline boss. the u. k. was absent disinvited. by france, after boris johnson angered emanuel micron by tweeting a letter he'd written to the french president containing previously rejected policy suggestions. said to he nodded, have, i wish joint work making can only be done in a serious way. and with that being hostage to domestic politics, macro 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 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, a shivering in the cold and drowning in the sea, will reach helen's outer 0. kelly still ahead on al jazeera, from sense a minister to its over the territory of guadalupe. also riots of a rule from 10000 kilometers away. they've county because i'm kind of where he holds the suggested that the president started job title is likely to solidify his course on a

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especially around our late victoria in southern sections of somalia on monday. bit further toward the south. things are looking fairly calm. we looked toward madagascar, those central and northern portions of the island. we'll see some rain here. things are looking nice and sunny in cape town with a high of 21 degrees on monday and port elizabeth, you've got a height of 21. that's it. that's all. see you soon. oh, the weather sponsored by katara always. the listening post cuts through the noise, you are talking about competing now they see monday tools being you perpetuate. there's competing narrative separating spin from fuck all 3 versions of the story and some element of the truth that the full story remains and contains hung packing, the stories you're being told, it's not a science story at all. it's a story about politics. the listening post your guide to the media on a jesse uta. ah

ah, you're watching out as a reminder of our top stories this hour. south africa's president has criticized border closures following the discovery if a new strain of the current of ours describing it. as completely unjustified. several ramirez are also says, has been a rise and coven 19 cases. since only crump was identified. cases have now been found in more than 10 countries and a number have added travel restrictions all foreigners not bought into entering israel for 2 weeks. and he results from doris giving left his opposition, counted as a lead up to some nice presidential election. if the armada castro wins shall

become the country's 1st female or now in our top story in the british government says it will convene an urgent meeting of g 7, health ministers on monday to discuss how to respond to the new on the chrome variant. me bunker reports 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 schiphol airport on friday from cape town, 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 about isolating laportia and 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 who own the check, whether they are really isolating. the oma corn variance now been 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 urgent message from brussels couldn't be any clearer vaccinate van, see, night vaccinate boost boost, boost as much as is 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 complicated that you to imagine that you're going to be able to prevent 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 gate and should absolutely denote that 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 on the con 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. they've walker al jazeera london. let's take a look at how countries are attempting to seal themselves off. passengers arriving to the united kingdom, all 10 of the southern african nations now need to corn team. japan is imposing

similar roles. small the u. s. will still have a full travel ban on 8 countries of as going further. morocco is holding all incoming ad travel from around the world for the next 2 weeks. and that follows israel's decision to ban all foreigners from entering. also for 2 weeks, a be ation expos, todd curtis is the founder of s a dot com. he says it could take another 2 years to get the tourism sector back to what used to be. 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, asian 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 rather relatively high barriers to entry for free travel from overseas. and especially the more, let's just see the part of the travel industry that actually contributes a disproportionate share of the revenue business travel that's been particularly effective, not just from the individual travelers. but from all the ancillary activities that may go on, let's say, around an international timeframes or an intervention convention, it still has not recovered globally as much as the industry would expect. and i fully expect, even without the latest, very in it'll be sometime in 2022 or even 2023 before that sector returned to something resembling the norm of 2019 francis minister of overseas territories. as visiting the french caribbean island of guadalupe where he's insisted that compulsory vaccinations for health workers will happen,

eventually. hundreds of people rallied against the government's plan on sunday. approaches have moved into a laundry movement against my poverty level to pay people. parents now says it is open to discussing more autonomy for guadalupe. natasha butler reports well the french minister for overseas territories of his did a military base. he met security personnel and also police officers. some of those offices were injured in the unrest that have shaken guadalupe over the past 2 weeks . now he refused to answer any questions after his visit, but he did give a brief statement. he said that in the next day he would be meeting officials from guadalupe also some representatives of trade unions to talk about some of the grievances they have on social and economic issues on the island. it also talk about cov restrictions, in particular, this very contentious issue. of mandatory cove. it vaccines for health workers,

all not point said sebastian, corner frauds could not be flexible. so clear life. let's be clear. the law of the republican terms of mandatory vaccination will apply here in guadalupe and in martinique because that french territories and no one would understand if a little that protects health workers and patients was not enforced. well, for some people in guadalupe, the minister's visit simply comes to like 2 weeks after the unrest and the protest, the strikes began. they say that this is just another example of the way that paris regards people in guadalupe for them. they feel very often that they are 2nd call citizens. in fact, one protested, told me that if such a situation had fled up in mainland france, a minister would have been dispatched within hours and the ban similar protests in another french overseas territory. anger on the island of march snake of the past

insisted on compulsory vaccinations for health work as an emergency stuff over there. though it's been counted in congress, felons parliamentary elections a year after the speech of poll led to political turmoil. final results are expected in about 2 weeks at some journalist say that were bought from properly doing their job. famous ravi reports from michigan 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, i think 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 system

. won't government to stop playing political games with the legal stage intrigues and start dealing with economics, the country as well. people's wealth and improving international relations, attracting foreign investment so people can live easier and better lawyers. some journalist, 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 of polling 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

quiet. disputed results from last year 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 in 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. 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 counted as a success to have kept the wheels of democracy. moving. then basra, the old euro,

thousands of people protested in the serbian capital belgrade to demand more action to reduce high levels of pollution. there is anger over new laws. the environmentalists say will make it easier for foreign mining firms to buy land. earlier rallies, turn violence on, even though it reports from belgrade. a new set of mining laws that have been adopted in serbian parliament last week, 3 years of brought this by opposition parties, angry and activists. active. it's believed that those laws will give a free reign to foreign mining companies, causing damage to the environment. brought this escalated on saturday when hundreds of brought the blocked major roads and bridges in cities of serbia. in novi, sad invaluable dina dozens of protest, there is briefly scuffled with police as well in the capital baldridge. the most serious incident occurred in the city of saba inverse 330,

a very unknown people try to drive through the group of citizens who are blocking the road with a bull. those are one of the protesters managed to climb on the bulldozer, kevin, and started beating the people inside. the violent incident was widely shared on the social networks brought their shabbots. we're also attacked by the most people carrying bass and hammers. local position claimed that police beat jo and let the holy guns to attack, they are now demanding freedom for the rest of activists and arrests of the holy guns. they're also calling for to be on president alexander voltage, not to find the adult their gloves, which is not likely to happen regarding, you know, the progressive party has majority insur be on parliament opposition leaders as well as agreed activists are treading with new brought this the conflict in ethiopia is to grind. states has now spread to all the areas, including ne, in a far a region when most inputs come through. i'll just there is

a fast international news channel to gain access to the read region. since the fighting began mohammed to our cool from office to china, algiers, there are big reports from the town of cher. now, the medina, either medina, is set up to let you know we are now with the city of c for strategic city, but separate regions of a far hora. it's also not far from the t grey region. it was the main stronghold of the t grey frontrunner, which controlled this strategic area. the manifestations of the fight in a very clear around. this was a major fighting front. been a large number of killings and a large displacement movement. the situation is still a chaotic and difficult. everyone around us has been turned into an armed person. that could be militia members, a federal soldiers. still, most of the residents are civilians. this is the strategic shift for a city which was the center of the fighting between the fight of the t great front

and forces from afar supported by the federal government. mom about our jeff for him. and the nationally renowned fashion design a virgil blow has died at the age of $41.00. and a statement on social media is family said he's been diagnosed with cancer. 2 years ago, a blue founded the brown off white, and in 2018 he became the 1st african american lead, the men's wear line louis told out i'm on the inside. with the headlines on al jazeera, south africa's president has criticized border closures following the discovery. if a new strain of the current of ours describing it as completely unjustified several rum oppose are also says there's been a rise in coven 19 cases since only corn was identified.