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a huge global infrastructure plan, claiming it will be an alternative to china's belton road initiative. and we report from a border and afghanistan where thousands of people continue to flee after the taliban take over adult. he dismembered with their sports news. coming to you from our special studio on the waterfront in dover. it's day 2 of the fee for erica. ah. now uganda is deploying soldiers across the border and to democratic republic of congo as a battle, as an armed group. then it follows air strikes against the ally democratic forces on tuesday as part of a joint operation with the congolese army. the on group is based on eastern congo and has said to have links to i, phil uganda, blaine's of a 3 bomb attacks and it's capital can parlor earlier this month. well, ugandan troops entered the d. r. c at the nobility crossing that's in north cuba state. it's also a forested area,

which makes it difficult to get through. and here that the adf has its hide outs and hidden bases. or let's bring in malcolm web, he is following developments for us from the canyon capital nairobi. now hm. first, those air strikes and now troops can you talk us through the scale of the operation . missy will milky sources told us in recent weeks that would be to build up about 3000 you gotten in troops near the border, at least in congress, preparing for this operation, midnight side of commented on the number of troops that are actually involved. now, tuesday afternoon, you saw video soldiers entering on foot just in the last few hours we seen video of military vehicles heading into the congo as well. but with regard to the scale, we don't know any more than that. but we do know a bit about how the adf has responded to these military operations in the past. the communities army is to feed them several times before. busy the abs, 10, he lay ambushes in those thick forests that you've mentioned,

which can be very dangerous, un troops to see them, tons in a new entry at the heat, in the fall of cold, in in bloody ambushes. then the other thing that the adf sensitive is off to being attacked is to retaliate again on protected parts of the civilian population, villages and so on, specially around the city of benny. they've been attacking civilian law the last 7 years. and more recently, who have been attacking civilian further north of that in a tory proven now can given the level of resilience we've been seeing from the adf . what's the kind of cooperation we're seeing now between you gander and the d. c, especially given the historical sensitivities here was discussed for weeks, possibly months between the government and felix difficulty in kinshasa and the government of uganda income. paula. but certainly, some history that you mentioned it was 25 years ago that you got and,

and they bring rolando invaded eastern congo. and they've been accused of meddling ever since, of backing on groups of fighting, either alongside each other or against each other. sometimes with the military presence, other times 3 proxies. and if you speak to a lot of comedy leave, they'll say that this is in a foreign intervention. it's about accessing voss, resource mineral resort as well. so he can, congo a lot of those minerals, of course, do exit 3, uganda mironda to the mountain web across that for us from nairobi. thanks so much malcolm. well, i spoke to nelly under valez. she is the project director for the great lakes international crisis group. she says the adf has yet to be defeated. we've seen in the past that you've gotten the has not always had the best interest of the communities population in mind, nor did it really want 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 character than previous intervention by the governance in easton d r. c. what we're seeing in the past with adf, but there's always a bit of a cycle. adf is active, the attack, the population. now seeing the reason detection come fall on your gun. so, and then there's often and step up in military operations by the comb. afterwards, we often see retail creation by the adf on the only population. so it's a bit of a cyclical violence idiot has been active in eastern d, or c for almost 3 decades. is that 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 adf. they haven't been successful in the past. how moving on now? and the e. c o p and government says it's made more advances against brian forces during

days of fighting. the prime minister's office says force is quite liberated many towns and villages in the north that were under the control of the t p. ls. the government says it's rebuilding some of the towns damaged during the fighting and additional reinforcements and now being sent to join a major offensive against tpl forces. now, russian president vladimir putin says he will seek assurances from western governments that nature won't expand east has comes as nature. foreign ministers meet for a 2nd day. now in latvia is capital ukraine has the alliance to boost military cooperation and also to impose economic sanctions on moscow as a mass of thousands of troops on ukraine's eastern border. your friends president wants direct talks with the person, the end of the 7 year conflict with russian separatists will not speak now abandoned smith. he joins us from moscow bonnet, it feels like it's trying to shift the focus on the pressure here.

well 1st of all, on that request for direct talks at the ukrainians have made for diebold with russia that's they've made the request before. and russia has again said today the ukrainians are going to have to speak to the separatists in easton ukraine. russia is not going to have direct talks with ukraine, so they push that to one side. vladimir putin has made clear, again today that he wants direct talks with the west to stop the threat or the risk of nato expanding eastwards. ukraine might be interested in joining nato. it might be interested in joining you, but russia wants to keep ukraine in its orbit. that's what a lot of this is about. and in fact, we heard taught from the kremlin recently, that they might be a summit between joe biden and vladimir putin pops very early. next year. the white house says he knows nothing about it, although we admit it has been talking to the russians about ukraine through back

channels. i missed that would be a repeat of what happened in the summer. russia built up its troops along the border with ukraine, and a couple of months later, biden announces he's making plans to hold a summit, meeting with me. and then a fishing of us russia talks. i see that the russian foreign minister says brother's status to meet anthony blinking the us secretary of state tomorrow. what's likely to come out of that meeting? yes, both men are meeting on the sidelines of an o. s. c. e, meeting in stock comin annual meeting in stock home. and laura will be taking that message again from vladimir putin that russia does not want ukraine joining nato. it does not want ukraine spreading. nato spreading its influence eastwards. it wants to keep it sphere of influence. of course, there's no indication of what ukraine or recognition or exceptions,

what ukraine might want, but from russia's interest, it wants to keep the ukraine in its orbit and to keep up that pressure. russia has announce, is going to have a military maneuvers up to 10000 soldiers in 30 different locations when some maneuvers that in locations including the border with ukraine, the east and ukraine. southern border with bella rush about russia. as of the same time, russia accuses ukraine of deploying half its army under $25000.00 people, a lot towards the east to that border with russia. bernard smith, with a view for us from moscow. thank you so much, bennet while there's still plenty more and here this needs are including security or invasion of privacy. why form a israeli soldiers say they were ordered to photograph palestinians? i'm rob mcbride and western. i've done this done at the border crossing with iran. that's been up a rama to the volatility of both sides of the frontier. hundreds for the biggest

dollar from james is sidelines by 19 me while till the pandemic now. and my gerry and health officials have found the new army, chrome variant of cuba 19 was present in the country as early as october. the center for disease control says retrospective sequencing has previously confirmed cases, identified the variance amongst travelers, africa most populous country, is also discovered 2 more cases this week. the only con variant was also in europe before south africa. a lot of the world health organization last week in the netherlands, health authorities say they've detected the variant and to samples from the 19th. and the 23rd of november. and scotland fast minister office has 9 cases reported. there are linked to a single event on november 20th. are 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 allen fisher reports now from washington. d. c. 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 period 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 go on that now trade or so to try their level best to get prepared or if should this particular public in enter into their territory the supposed to do but closing the borders or bring him to certain countries for entering. i don't think that will stop markets have taken a have since then you varied with names, but unless see short term shock. we do look for the economy to pick up again, especially spending on services in the 1st quarter and going into 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 will, fisher, i'll just either washington while, meanwhile, south korea is struggling to contain sharp rise and infections and death largely

from the delta vary and the government has now shelves, plans to further relax current of virus restrictions to try to protect the strained health care system, there has also imposed bands on travelers from several countries to stop the spread of the army con, very and well alliston and sol as a doctor at the ms. medi women's hospital. she says the government is speeding up their bruce to 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 return 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 prescriptions. 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 i see you are occupancy in the sol capital region is greater than 90 percent. we're making every effort to protect the vulnerable to a expanded booster campaign. ah, but unfortunately this is not accelerating at the rate that we would like. oh, they're 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 recovery patients. in addition to shunting the majority of covet positive people to home care rather than hospital care

or monitored isolation facilities. now the european union has launched a multi $1000000000.00 scheme to rival china's vast and influential belton road initiative. and the venture was the investment in digital transport and energy projects, giving country is what european commission president as love underlying describes as a true alternative. well, let's bring a dominant kenny's across this for us from berlin. dominic and ear responds to china's belton road initiative. will be at 8 years later, can you talk us through what it involves the point of the e. u is trying to make with this new initiative is helping countries bring their level of infrastructural development up. and that, that is going to be a major boost for the world's economy, and that it's not necessarily to be seen as a rival or an alternative to what the chinese government has had in place for many

years. now. certainly, that's not the impression that has sort of fonder lion has been seeking to convey to people. this is how she referred to this new global gateway proposal. when she spoke a while ago for major investment and infrastructure development around the world, we want to take a different approach. we want to show that a democratic value driven approach can deliver on the most pressing challenges. we want to show that it can on one hand, meet not local needs, but also on the other hand, to tackle the global challenges we have. and thus, in a way also of course benefit the european union. because global gateway is also about our strategic interests around the world. it's a new strategic approach to investment and dominate what sort of impact might that

have both in terms of the economics and the politics will. that's the real question that many will be asking. now, what will the reaction b in beijing to what is being announced in brussels? we know that from the chinese government's perspective, their hope is that their belton road initiative, which is the effectively the rival as it were to what is being proposed in brussels, is aiming to reach fruition by 2049. the 100 anniversary of the communist party taking control of mainland china. so that's from one perspective. we know also the chinese government already invested a very considerable amount of money. the last time that an announcement of money was made was in 2019. when she gin ping announced a $127000000000.00, no fresh announcements from bay ging since then. the question is how this will play out what countries will wish to align themselves with the chinese perspective,

and which will want to align themselves with the use perspective. remembering that there are those in europe in the united states who have real concerns about china's investment in other countries around the world. that's how to view this announcement from brussels dominant corner across that for us from the allen. thank you very much, stomach now moving on the united states on the taliban of ended 2 days of meetings here in cattle, where they discuss the monetary in crisis and chemist on the taliban, all the u. s. to release financial assets and to remove sanctions. meanwhile, the washington calling on the taliban to ensure the rights vaskins and to form an intrusive government. the un says more than half of the people in afghanistan are suffering from acute food shortages. this winter and agencies are also warning of a potential crisis and neighboring countries. that's as thousands of people continue to flee. afghanistan from mcbride traveled to the country, is bought

a town of islam. carla, that's seen a recent surgeon. people crossing in both directions with its cross border traffic and people in goods. islam hello provides a good indicator of the problems facing both afghanistan and iran. the surge of people trying to leave afghanistan as the taliban took over, has eased in recent weeks. assign according to those guarding this crossing. the conditions have improved. oh, come, governor, come for whatever problems the migrants had thought they've been solved for vehicles including trucks are moving freely again with that sort of considering this is such a sensitive crossing things on the border itself. are pretty relaxed before now we as visits would have been held way back several 100 meters and several fences inside afghanistan. now we are allowed to approach up to the borderline itself. the last taliban checkpoint is right here. this is where i'm going to stand and beyond

here is iran. and taliban officials were eager to show us how they are also tackling smuggling and illegal migration across this 1000 kilometer border. but in the nearby major city of had at, there's a constant line of people that side the iranian consulate, hoping to get visas to leave. and here and throughout the country makes shift camps of internally displaced. people have sprung up as the new government struggles to cope. bussey kids of a sudden moped winter is now sitting in. if there's any kind of humanitarian assistance from whatever countries we would appreciate and acceptance back at the border coming in the opposite direction as a steady stream of afghan deportees from iran. many of the victims of iran's long standing program,

a forced repack creation because of its own worsening economic crisis. article doing but job again. it's my 1st time back and again, it's 10 after 20 years. look at me and all these people around me have experienced lots of problems in iran, but then now joined by more recent arrivals who fled after the taliban takeover? actually i was able to get to, to leave my country, need my house, lead people like nasa on behalf a who refuses iranian soldiers of mistreating him. and actually i was trying to get to europe. but at the time when i was getting to iran, i got so difficult. the soldiers all for the border of iran, have trying to kill you or just arrest you when they are rescued, they will punishment. they will give you as punishment as a animal. 2 months after leaving, he's back where he started, but says he won't be long before he's on the move. once more. rob mcbride, al jazeera islam halla afghanistan. now iraq supreme court is due to ratify the

results of october's parliamentary election. and selection commission announced the final results on tuesday following weeks of re counting and confirmed the political block led by sheila and looked other sada as the winner, the block secured 73 seats out of 329 supporters of iran backed factions. and now, calling for the results to be rejected, movement otherwise hid has more from back the bad, bad. following the announcement of iraq's parliamentary elections results. these protested as the supporters of the pro iranian she are political parties that last many seats in the elections, they say that they are totally rejecting the results and they're demanding the electoral commission to conduct manor a talent of old at the voice. now, on the other hand, the electoral commission says that it's moving forward with submitting the final

results to the federal court for final endorsements. it says that it has received more than $1400.00 appeals from a political parties. it has turned down most of them, but based on a number of them, it has conducted 2 phases of a manual recount of a disputed votes. it says that it has conducted manual recount of about 27 percent of the votes, and that has led to change in only 5 seats. but those newly added 5 candidates after the manual recount they do not represent there for iranian political parties. noble enter, abilene will remain opponents of the upcoming government. we consider it legitimate as it was brought forth by vote rigging. our enemy is to judge an adversary at the same time. oh, well, so these protests are to say that there was continued protesting here. there was continuous setting up tents near by dad's giddeons on until the electoral

commission conducts manual recount of old at the votes. most of these protest as our members are emitted to individuals, members of the popular mobilization forces, the military length of the pro, iranian. she are political process and they're, they're worried that if they're political parties are not taking part in forming their new upcoming government. then they might be dissolved. israel is advancing in system of surveillance in the occupied westbank by including face scanning cameras and smartphone ups. format is really soldiers say they've been ordered to photograph palestinians to build a digital database of the population. palestinian 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 sir, is house. he says his family has lost any sense of privacy and the 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, dallas. that is really settlers have put up another surveillance system here in hebron, in 2019 the israeli military acknowledged this non official system exists. no children here, don't feel safe in their own homes. there are a few months ago israeli soldiers rated this house, walk the children up. okay, to take the pictures of palestinians. osceola, just as the surveillance system shows how much these radio 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. he is 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 alerts soldiers if the person is wanted for arrests is really organization breaking. the silence collected the soldiers, testimonies. the most shocking thing for me, for us was to hear that we are sending, you know, our soldiers to computes military units to compete against each other for who takes

more. a 4th of all while the senior news streets, even in their homes, palestinians like yasser see, the feel violated. he fears israel might use the private data to evict his family out of their house. that rahim al jazeera, have brunner in the occupied westbank. now european diplomats have urged iran to show it serious about salvaging the 2015 new k d m. on tuesday representatives from russia, china, germany, france on the u. k. met with iranian officials in vienna. the u. s. is also participating in the talks, but indirectly iran one sanctions lifted in return for limiting its nuclear program . hans downtime for the weather and his jeff. more rain on the way for floods stricken areas of northern spain. hello everyone. let me show you this picture. we've also got snow through the parent ease as well, and a lot of this what, whether it's diving down into northern africa. we'll talk more about that in a 2nd unsettled conditions across the valley. eric's as well,

but i do want to take you to italy, weather alerts out because we're going to see the rain pile up for central parts of the country. this includes for rome, also unsettled for the other side of the adria to see some bursts of rain to be expected. here, we'll call it most star rate through into, to broadneck. that western side of greece is also going to get some of this driving rain filter in over the g. and same goes for turkey, a scattering of showers for is marrow mile. my temperature is across turkey have dropped with that cold front anchor at 8 degrees. see that when pick up through the boss 1st, but nothing like we saw just a few days ago. take you to northwestern europe right now, that cold ra northwind really driving down temperatures. and we've got snow swirling around the baltic states weather alerts out here too for a lot via just looking at some ice conditions and snow really plaguing some of these parts over to north africa. right now, some heavy rain northern morocco into northern algeria. alger is the height of 14.

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