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end the war against russian back separatists in the east. and we report from a border in afghanistan with thousands of people continue to flee off to the taliban, take over and on he'd sent to the sports news law from our free for arab cove studio. on day 2 of the students hosts casa off to a winning store and coming up later campaign as the african champions, algeria mm . now do you, ganna is deploying soldiers across the border into democratic republic of congo as that battle as an armed group. then it follows and strikes against the allied democratic forces on tuesday as part of a joint operation with the congolese army. the on group is based in easton congo, and is also said to have links to i thought you gotten to blames at the 3 bomb attacks and that's capital can parlor earlier this month. while you got the troops

entered d r c at the nobility crossing that, the north kiva stays forested area, which makes it difficult to get through it here. but the 80 s has its high doubts and hidden bases. and that's bringing malcolm web. he's following developments force from the kenyan capital nairobi. malcolm, can you talk us through the scale of this operation? troops off to the strikes now let me know that you got it all confirmed how many troops or what equipment going in. but a couple of weeks ago we did hear from connelly's army sources, that there were 3000 you gotten into preparing to enter in the border area. we did hear from the gardens that it began with strikes. you got the military does have a handful of russian fight the jets and the long range artillery being used to be, says, adf bases as well. the commonly, military, as far as you know, on directly involved in the fighting at this stage. but the last 6 months,

they have tried to run operations against the idea found other groups in that part of the country. that strategy would call the state of c. j, a martial law. the clad in north province and into re providence without being criticized for failing lead document showed that some of the military budget for the project was stolen and people said that it wasn't very effective. not why. certainly some people have been cooling for this. you've gotten that intervention to try and stabilize and agree to violence that we've seen did not fall to congo in recent months and years. but others are skeptical about guns as military joining in this conflict is actually going to bring stability to easton kong and being it will mountain. can you give us a sense then of the level of cooperation now between uganda and the d. c, who this is something that's been talked about for weeks,

possibly months. and because of the criticism of the con, the leis opperation for having failed, then there was some n p in congo. been calling for another kind of solution. they welcome the idea of the military coming in, if we can indeed bring in to, to, to the violence that we've been talking about. adf in north tv, and in the, to re proven. and also in our group cadet cohen until the province, which has been responsible for massacring civilians and displacing large numbers of people. we don't know yet how this is going to go down the idea of the history of bushing military. that is the packet and of responding by committing math because again on protected civilians in the villages around the town of benny. but we waiting to see how this operation proceeds and will bring you more as soon as we hear, we will indeed malcolm where the across that for us from my ready. thanks so much malcolm. well, let's not bring another kind of under balance. she is the project director for the

great lakes at international crisis group. she joins us now from the hague, but it's usually based also in ny ruby nellis. they're obviously sensitivities with a joints you got the ration given the history. do you think there is the capacity to actually get this done? what are they actually hoping to achieve here? hi, good morning. yes, you're definitely right. given the history of uganda in the air. see, i think there's a bit of skepticism as to what you've gotten. they can achieve and we've seen in the past that you've gotten a has not always had the best interest of the least population in mind, nor that it really one to stabilize the eastern. dear see. but what we see now is, but apparently president katie has given the green light to this operation, which gives it a bit of a different characters and previous interventions by the you've gotten them in eastern year, see what they hope to achieve as in the, to fight the your previous speaker also already mentioned. they're trying to the feet adf, because according to the colonies and the you got,

and they were responsible for reasons volleys, income. paula, i'm curious, how do you know her read the adf strategy here? the bombings and can paula now triggering this larger offensive. they actually want to pick a financial, was this potentially a miscalculation on their part? well, we're seen in the past with a the face, but there's always a bit of a cycle is active, they attack the population. we've now seen the reason the tax in kampala and your gun itself. and then there's often and step up in military operations by the release. afterwards, we often see right retaliation by the adf on the con, lease population. so it's a bit of a cyclical violence. adf has been active in eastern d, or c for almost 3 decades. is, it's an opportunistic, aren't group, they're, they're possible of, they can find, they can make linkages to other alliances in, in that specific part of the east. so whether they want to pick

a fight or not sure, and we'll see how effective military operations will be in fighting. they haven't been that successful in the past. well, let me then ask you about the adf n game here. what do they actually want it all stand? somebody has links with iso, but it's also about fighting with 70. so what is there actually the ultimate ambition? well, area of is a very vague hog armed troop. and as i just mentioned, they've been active for 3 decades. and a lot of researches have spent time on finding the true objectives of adf. what is it that they really want to achieve? we now see that there are 2 factions within one of the biggest fraction, but has claimed or sore allegiance to isis. and another smaller faction that still strikes for the older idea of fighting with 7 and overthrowing them with 70 government. the biggest faction is the one that's currently being targeted. very interesting. now like i believe you yourself were recently in can paula how much

you gunned and how big support is there for this operation as we see it unfold? or i find that difficult to answer when we were there. there was no talk just yet about potential operations by the governance in easton, d, or c. i think it's probably more important to look at how you've gotten and present will be perceived in east of the sea itself. and i think a lot of people in kampala so for quite worried about current development. so in that sense, there might be a support for the current operations in, in eastern d or c. well, given the i selling substantial, i saw length with the adf. i'm curious, how much of an inroads do you think i saw is actually making into that region more broadly? yeah, what we're seeing and what graces group has been looking into is actually the trans national networks of ice is in eastern africa. we're seeing connections between adf, active in east and b, or c, and the rebel movement active in northern wars on beach. so we see rwanda actually

fighting rebels in northern mozambique, and they've gotten that now targeting adf. also linked to isis in eastern d or c. but these 2 groups, there also connections between the 2. the we've seen this transactional network emerging, also being provided financial assistance by isis members in kenyana, roby. so it's definitely a network that's on the rise in the region. some who will continue watching very closely and have and develop the project director for the great lakes at international crisis group. thanks so much for sharing your expertise and thoughts with us. i'm out there in elecom. thank you. have a good day. i'm leaving on the 8th. your appeal government says it's made more advances against ryan forces during days of fighting the prime minister's office as forces quite liberated many towns and villages in the north that were under the control of the t p l. f. the government says it's rebuilding some towns damage during the fighting. additional reinforcements are also being sent to join a major offensive against

t p l or forces me onto the pandemic now. and my jury and health officials have found the new on the cron variant of credit 19 was present in the country as early as october. the center for disease control says retrospective sequencing of previously confirmed cases identifies the variant that amongst travelers. because most populous country has also discovered 2 more cases this week. the army con variant was also in europe before south africa last at the wells health organization. last week, in the netherlands health hours, he said they detected the various to samples from the 19th on the 23rd of november . scotland fast minister also says 9 cases reported. there are linked to a single event on november 20th. well now more than 20 countries have so far reported cases, health expense in the u. s. are also testing samples to see if it's present their

alan visual reports now from washington. d. c. be guided by science is a new variant. but familiar advice when the united states, if you're not vaccinated, get vaccinated, get boasted if you are vaccinated, continue to use the mitigation methods, namely masks, avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces, choose outdoors, rather than indoors. keep your distance, wash your hands, test and isolate if appropriate. there are no signs of the variant in the us, but other countries are stepping up measures to stop at spreading. in japan, for example, all 4 nationals have been banned from entry that last month and traveling japanese citizens and residents will have to quantize for 14 days on returning to the country. many nations have already been travelers from south africa that would stop the spread, says the world health organization. we are trying to warn the other country of the emergency that might be coming through. and those countries don't want that now

trade or so to try their level, best to get prepared or if she, this particular pathogen into, into their territory the supposed to do. but closing the borders of painting to certain countries for entering. i don't think that will stop markets have taken a have since then you varied with an answer. but unless see a short term shock. we do look for the economy to pick up again, especially spending on services in the 1st quarter and going into to the spring, the northern hemisphere spring in the 2nd quarter. and beyond that we look for above average growth next year. public health experts in the u. s say it will take 2 to 4 weeks to discover how strong the army cranberry is. and if the vaccines can stop it, i'll fisher, i'll just either washington. while. meanwhile, south korea is struggling to contain sharp rise and infections and death largely from the delta variant. and the government has shelved plans to further relax

current of restrictions to try to protect the strained health care system. there is also imposed bands on travelers from several countries to stop the spread of the new army con variance. well, i was ton and sol as a doctor at the muse metty women's hospital, she says the government is speeding up the booster campaign to try to contain the spread. on october 31st, our can had achieved population full immunity of 74 per cent. and on november 1st, we embarked on r, a stepwise returned to normal program, basically many social restrictions were lifted. the problem was, we didn't do anything substantive to address the issue of increasing breakthrough infections, especially among the elderly, each 60 and over. and so what we've seen is not only an increase in daily cover cases, which is what we expected with decrease restrictions. but we've also seen

a very substantial increase in cases age, 60 and above force that has led to a surge in icy you cases, hospital admissions, at the current situation that we're in right now, where hospital ice, you occupancy in the sol capital region is greater than 90 percent, we're making every effort to protect the vulnerable through a expanded booster campaign. ah, but unfortunately this is not accelerating at the rate that we would like. oh, there are about 14000000 people who are now eligible to receive a booster. only 2800000 have received the booster so far. we're also trying to secure or hospital beds recover patients. in addition to shunting the majority of covet positive people to home care rather than hospital care

or monitored isolation facilities are still plenty more ahead for you. this news are including security or invasion of privacy. why former israeli soldiers say they were ordered to photograph palestinians. and then for the n b a is a biggest r lebron james is sidelined by coven 19. ah! now ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says direct talks with moscow and needed to end the war in its eastern don math region as comes as nato foreign ministers, me for a 2nd day and latvia, capital ukraine urge the alliance to boost military cooperation and impose economic sanctions on russia, well, let's now speak to charles stratford. he's in tourette's in new crane. charles, there's been plenty of rhetoric thrown around over the last few days. what sort of sense you getting from care? how worried are they?

i think it's fair to say that give all very concerned this big efforts galvanized as much support as they can from the nato partners. we've actually heard statements from zalinski like this before. reaching out to the russian president vladimir putin for direct talks earlier this year. that was an intimation from poaching that he would agree to such tools. but nothing ever really, nothing came from it. it's bare also to say that that has been what certainly atlas describe as an utter failure in peace negotiations so far. focusing on the 2 agreements, these agreements piece agreement that was signed in 2015 that many analysts say it's very much weighted in the russian back separatists favor. and by default then in russia's favor, it would potentially give russia, they say too much of a hand in ukrainian affairs. and russia accuses ukraine very much dragging its feet

on signing or certainly implementing it's part in that agreement, the minced to and then you've got to got to look at the main negotiating platform for these piece talks, which is the so called normandy format. but it is made up of problems, germany, russia, and ukraine that be no direct tools in that format between the ukrainians and the russians. and interestingly, earlier this month, the russians published minutes from private conversations that they had with foreign ministers of france and germany saying that in these conversations that russia, so no need for any more talks until russia was stopped, being referred to as a party in this conflict russia still saying that it has no role in the war in don bass. it's always said that he's had no real direct military impact on what's

happened there. so yet again, it just shows you just how difficult it is to get all these policies around the table. to get negotiations really started, but as i say, the fundamental reason. so most analysts say is because of this failure really of minutes to, to take into consideration the needs of ukraine and bear in mind that that agreement was signed in 2015. when, according to many analysts and many ukrainian members of government, the ukrainians had absolutely no choice cuz their backs were very much up against the wall, then losing that wall. and, and it was he that agreement being signed in 2015. so we're very different, difficult diplomatic situation that we're in and yes, the ukrainians seem increasingly concerned charles job, so there was all the latest for us from ukraine. thank you so much. charles. well, let's now bring in andre. caution of he is director general of the russian

international affairs council. he joins us now from moscow via skype. andre, thank you for your time today. i'm curious, how realistic you think the possibility is these direct talks might be with well, definitely it's better to have talked to her other than not with have talked to the question is, what are the subject of these negotiations? my b, apparently the union side would like to some audi why. so the means agreements and maybe to change some of the, all the terms of the agreement to. and i don't think that the russian signed a side is incentivized to do that. unless it might expect to any flexibility in exchange for that. so i think that that is a difficult to teach and, and i agree that that means the agreements were signed many years ago. and at that point the u. k. and i mean, it was very weak and you came was added to sign or whatever

a needed to sign in order to still of the military confrontation. right now the sedation is different. and of course, there are many people in kiva who believe that they means to get him. us do not meet the national interest of the country. oh, let me ask you about habit for well being viewed in russia. is there actually popular support for this? she build up and all the science and pigeons and french told us well, i think that the russian public is very tied. oh, are you clean and the conflict in? don't boss. i don't think that it makes it a headline. so in our osha these days are however, we should not forget that if you look at don barza, there are at least 600, it's seldom don't. fashion citizens live, am dea. well, so in case that is an escalation or for military activities. so in east ukraine, i think that the russian media will definitely try to present it

as a nation against the russian citizens. and may beads will seed some nationalistic feelings in russia with oh, i think that russians are much more concerned right now about their domestic agenda . or other than any foreign policy matters. although have also been for justin that all of this is about leveraging prussia and the lead up to personal discussions with the west taking the last. do you think there's any truth in that? i think that there is concern or in the kremlin, the, to the west to is a gradually expand and i, it's milton assistance to you could ain i. and though ukraine is likely to join 18 any foreseeable future. but these are our vision that sir nate is grad unit movement. it's military infrastructure closer to our ocean borders, or is clearly a metro concern or formal of dishes in moscow. so maybe they would like to get to

the west the attention and particularly the attention from the biden administration saying that we would need to agree on some kind of mutual stain if we're talking about gain, are you of course, or are in a position to expand your corporation, but you should keep all the security interesting view as well. what else album positive thompson on russia? i see is lensky in the last few days. he was there alleged that there was a coupon against him with russian involvement, as i said in speculation at national involvement with al situation on the been a ration border in your mind. what does rush actually want to achieve in the region? is this about economics and gas say, or is this about political power? well, as far as ukraine is concerned, i think the, the may, no, ah, the main goal of the russian polish right now is deterrence. russia would like her to deter ukraine of rama luke and for the military solution of the situation in don

bus. i as far as the west is concerned, the signal is that we should have some infant go. she asian, about her more general or security architecture in europe bar where russia are, might just have it's interest to the inter, sir protected. it's not clear what kind of security architecture we can look for at this particular juncture, but are definitely are russia or would like to have a direct dial it go with its western counterparts on more general issues than only yuki andre caught or not by the director general and the russian international affairs council. great. get your thoughts with us here on out there. thanks so much for joining us. i do think ah ah, now let's close to as thought scheme for an update on the fif our cap, the major test event here, and kathy head of the wildcat next year. it is now

a day to of the tournament and we can bring an asp. what's present a piece of stem he is at a very special stillia. yeah, thanks very much. softer cutters. opening victory and t, stadium durations on day one. we've got another busy one for you with 4 more games coming up today. the 1st one has just started at the denali stadium, where the african champions algeria up against sudan in group b. and i can tell you that jerry had just taken the lead and that one will show you the go a little later. the work of stadium support of cars is most ambitious project. yet with almost all of them, both a year ahead of schedule, they designed to represent the past and present thought that takes a look at the inspiration behind the designs. the 8 modern stay to the stadiums reflecting castles, rapid development as a country in just a few years with a common theme, tying them together. heritage architects, bro,

him j. the didn't need to go far to find inspiration. phase design of also mama stadium, the guffy, ah, the pile of local, the local that we used to where we are kids. i would never forget going to the old suit shopping for all sorts of styles of for years. and i realized that was, there was tons of different patterns and designs, but the challenge, he says, was sending his idea into a functional and sustainable stadium in the country where the temperatures reach almost 50 degrees celsius stadiums are air condition too. while it's open to the sky, and interestingly, even ventilation, these, this can have some openings wherever the wind has been calculated, to penetrate through to create the proper breeze. and all the technical matters. casarez home to lessons 3000000 people. and with vos on develop land, it's been in

a unique position to build stadiums without controversial relocating homes. i've seen in some of the previous house countries, the locations of the stadiums where widely chosen to be built in an area that the national strategy in the country is moving toward and trying to move population toward. since kat are one the world cockpit, it's accelerated building. it's infrastructure like roads and public transport across the country. for the 1st time in world history, all the stadiums are within a short distance of each other. and our city dream will find one thing, the more than one game in a day. no more better way to do that and build an entirely new metric system to achieve a dismantle stadium, recyclable seats, and venues to be used as sports and club. so educational facilities, it's all parts of castles, world cup legacy plan, of creating a community within and around the arena's. we made sure that the legacy aspect of those stadiums fits the local needs just a bit stadium, which is the opening

a stadium for, for the world cup. just the stadium provides lots of greenery for, for the north and pot to our parts of thought. and this scenario is as replicated throughout our stadium. so we are pretty sure that there will be a, you know, some sort of a daily usage for these facilities beyond 2020, to the middle east. first, ever, walt camp has taken more than a decade in the making. a game changer for cats are, as it aims to establish itself as a cultural hub in the region. sort of credit. i'll just verify all of from here from now. we'll be back for i made sports for the from later before at around $1045.00, gmc heritage to the nears an israel is advancing its system of surveillance and the occupied west bank. fine tuning face scanning cameras and smartphone apps form is really soldiers say they've been ordered to photograph palestinians in order to build a digital database. if the population palestinians say it's yet another invasion of

their privacy need. abraham has more from hebron even before. yes, edible man he presents his identification card at this is really checkpoint. the soldiers already knew who he is. he has to cross the checkpoint to get to his house in hebron, in the south of the occupied west bank. many cameras monitor his journey home. they're a part of an advanced israeli surveillance system that includes face scanning cameras and like tracking the cameras are so close to yes, his house, he says his family has lost any sense of privacy and did. but all the stuff that we had, she threw curtains before all the choir changed him after i heard an israel soldier say i can zoom in train house. i want a little and see what happens inside. in addition to these cameras that have been put up by the israeli army, just the meter down residence. tell us that is really settlers have put up another surveillance system here in hebron, in 2019 the israeli military acknowledged this. nun official system exists. no

children here, don't feel safe in their own homes. a few months ago was really soldiers rated this house, walk the children up here to take the pictures, a palestinian social justice. the surveillance system shows how much the israeli occupation controls palestinians ought fi. lini melanie, we are looking at a generation of palestinians who is anxious, angry, and filled with fear. they feel their lives are useless. and on top of their asked to smile to their occupiers. these really army has installed visible and hidden cameras across the west bank and told edges. eda, it's for security reasons. the army doesn't comment on its capabilities. but palestinians believe there are thousands of cameras monitoring them. recently, some israeli soldiers revealed be photographed palestinians. these photos are then used for a smartphone app called blue wool. the app matches the photos to the person's details in the system and alert soldiers if the person is wanted for arrests is

really organization breaking. the silence collected the soldiers, testimonies, the most. a shocking thing for me, for us, was to hear that we are sending now are soldiers to competes military units to compete against each other for who takes more. a 4th of all while it's danny and in mystery. even in their homes, palestinians like yasser say, they feel violated when he fears israel might use the private data to evict his family out of their house. he that rahim elijah's eda had brought in the occupied west bank are still ahead here on out there. i am rob mcbride in western afghanistan at the border crossing with iran. that's been a barometer of the volatility on both sides of this frontier. i'm john again, raska in doha, looking at the technology, they'll keep stadiums code for the wildcat. ah.