sarah had teams on the ground, they are demanding an immediate restoration off the civilian government to remove wood, wooden document trees, and live knees. ah, south africa's corona virus cases, double to 8500 in a day. most of them from the army kron variant. the u. s. identifies its 1st case of on a cron in a traveler from south africa health experts pushing for vaccinations over a travel. ben ah, why hasn't think of this is al jazeera life from donhauser coming up? the women's tennis association suspends all tournaments in china over concern for

player puncture y plus a peek inside, cut out state of the art world cup stadiums and the inspiration for their designs almost one week, after alerting the world of a new cobit 19 very in south africa's new corona virus cases have doubled in a day. about 3 quarters of the $8500.00 cases are thought to be the army kron variance. many countries have been imposing travel bands on southern african countries, which the un secretary general has called deeply unfair and ineffective. what is in acceptable use to have when part of the world? debt is one of the most vulnerable parts of the world economy condemned to a lockout when they were the ones that revealed the existence of a new variant. that by the way,

already existed in other parts of the world, including in europe as we know. so this is a very strong appeal that i launch a pupil common sense. we have the instruments to have safe travel. let's use those instruments to avoid this kind. over. allow me to say travel upper tight a european commission president ursula vaughan delane is calling on the you to consider mandatory vaccinations to help fight the rise in cases. several you nations announced booster shots and plans to vaccinate children. the arm across varian has now been reported in at least 24 countries. the united states has accorded its 1st case. that's where we're going to go right now. alan fischer is life for us in a washington. so alan, what more we hearing about this patient that's man arrived in the united states in

california on the 22nd of november from south africa. that of course, before the travel bands were put in place, didn't feel terribly well tested on the 29th of november. it was then he was positive, it was sent for further testing on the 30th by 3 pm. public health experts had the sample by 8 pm, the confirmed it was the new variant at you. remember that when corporate was found in the united states, it was also fast on the west coast. now this man is an isolation, has caused contacts have tested negative, but of course track in trace his underway. and as i see, he arrived before the travel bands were put in place and to the photo. the presidential adviser on corporate was asked about those travel bands. and a briefing at the white house in the last few hours, he said the intention was never to stop it arriving in america. that was simply never going to happen. we knew that it was just

a matter of time. before the 1st case of arm, a crown would be detected in the united states. and as you know, we know i've been saying it and my colleagues on the medical team and other 7 saying that we know what we need to do to protect people get vaccinated if you're not already vaccinated yet. boosted if you've been vaccinated for more than 6 months, with a name or an 8 or 2 months with j and j. in all the other things we've been talking about, well, getting your children vaccinated masking in indoor congregate settings. what they do know is that the man who traveled to california was vaccinated, but he hadn't received his booster. so the, we're looking at that because of course, and to be folks, he says they now have a window of $2.00 to $4.00 weeks when they have to find out just how severe this variant is. and whether or not the existing vaccinations will be enough to combat it, it's going to be

a very troubling $2.00 to $4.00 weeks for public health experts, not just here in the united states, but around the world. all right, sir alan fish ally, 1st there in washington, bay sal. how rory challenge is in london with more on the coven? 19 surge across europe. or mac. ron is spooking europe. with the delta variants, the continent is already the global epicenter of the coven pandemic. again, leaders are worried what extra woes the new variance may bring. despite hastily enforced travel restrictions, so sama considering new policies like legally mandating citizens to get vaccinated . i think it is understandable and appropriate to lead this discussion now. and how we can encourage and potentially think about mandatory vaccination and within the european union, this needs discussion. a 3rd of e, you citizens, a 150000000 people remain unvaccinated to many belize fonda land in order. what

science tells us already is that full vaccination and boosters provide the strongest protection against comment that is available now. others are heading that way to austria is bringing in mandatory vaccinations for teens in february. and this is the man replacing anglo merkel is germany's chancellor. is bear up because what we need is a legislative procedure where every member of parliament for it's according to his or her conscience on a general mandatory vaccination, germans it's horn about it didn't finish on as i'm against mandatory vaccination. i think everyone should be able to decide for themselves as i'm from sorry scepter. in the beginning i was skeptical because i believe everyone should be able to decide for their own body. but now unfortunately, it appears there's no other way out of this pandemic. one country that is very

unlikely to go down the route to mandatory vaccinations is the united kingdom. yes . the priest, a program is now being extended to anyone over the age of 18. but the government rejected the idea of vaccination passports, and even just making face masks mandatory again, on public transport and in shops are the past 3 parliament with much grumbling and abstaining from conservative and peace. with over kron. there are 3 big questions without answers yet. how transmissible is it, how severe is it? and how well will the current vaccines work? there is still a lot of uncertainty around on the crown, and this data will come in and there are scientists around the world that are studying this. but there is no indication to suggest that the vaccines won't work, even if there is a reduction in efficacy. it's still better to have the vaccine because it will save your life. the w h. i says everything that is being done to combat delta, the dominant strain worldwide should be applied. am strengthen for omicron,

and in the days to come, we should know better what we're dealing with, rory helen's. how does era london, how the women's tennis association has suspended tournaments in china and hong kong? it says the decision was made due to concerns about the safety of form, a double walled number one punch. why? in a statement that w t a headset players and staff could face risks in china. on november, 2nd, pang y accused the former chinese vice premier shank golly. sexually assaulting her via social media that post was later deleted. 11 days later, chinese state media released a video of the 35 road dining at a restaurant in beijing. double ga said the footage was insufficient proof of her safety. if you days late to some of the top names in support, voice concerns about punks safety. under increasing pressure from human rights groups, china responded by saying, pines, disappearance is not a diplomatic question. on november 21st,

the international olympic committee is chief, held a video call with pong and said she appeared to be fine. but critics are not convinced upon was able to speak freely. oh yeah. q one is a senior research at human rights watch. she is applauding the w t. a decision. so much respect, because this is what standing up for human rights in china. looks like this is what integrity looks like. this is what leadership looks like. i mean, we saw the video clips and pictures of her mining, but we have not heard from her directly. she has not talked to her friends, not ok. press conference. she has not spoken directly, so i would say, you know, she's alive, she lives in beijing, or whether she is safe, whether she's, you know, the way we can tell. i absolutely hope that a more international course organizations, international businesses will follow suit follow

w t lead and then every forth in the right in china and not be complicit in human rights violations in china, especially, i'll say the international olympic committee who participated in this public and the video was shot, it's really shame for 40 year from engagement with china. what had come out of it is crime, spoke to hong kong, serious crackdowns in credit against humanity. she appears correct out in hong kong . now i've been disappear. she's a huge star and she can be disappeared so that it's definitely not working. so we do something differently. tanks and other heavy machinery have been seen crossing into democratic republic of congo. as uganda stepped up a tax against the arm group its launch the joint campaign against the allied democratic forces with the congress, these army, malcolm. web reports, ugandan troops, tanks and armored vehicles as cross the border into the democratic republic of

congo. the 2 governments say they're going to hunt down an armed group called the allied democratic forces, or adf. he can the government blame p a. t. s a 3 suicide bombings, kansas capital can paula? 2 weeks ago, several people died. dozens were injured. it's not the 1st time you've gotten his army has been in congo. it invaded 25 years ago along with wonder. it's been accused of plundering minerals and meddling on and off ever since. we've seen in the past that you've gotten the has not always had the best interest of the common least population in mind, nor that it really one to stabilize the eastern d r. c. but what we see now is but apparently president the security has given the green light to this operation, which gives it a bit of a different character than previous intervention by the ugandans in easton d r. c. the adf originated in uganda. in the 1990s for 3 decades is hayden, when the forest of eastern congos,

profiting from timber and minerals wines 2 years ago, he pledged the legions to eye so well that the extent of the connection isn't clear . in recent years, it's become notorious for massacring thousands of civilians in the villages around the city of benny. people of north keyvi province, a tired of the violence. congress army said it would stop the killings. it introduced martial law in the region 6 months ago. but it hasn't worked. that's why some people and now welcoming the ugandan armies arrival others, a skeptical, the 1st thing the relation is looking for protection. they want them to, to end. and that can be only possible if the protection of civilian is the 1st objective are not clear how easily the adf can be flushed out of its forest, high doubts, or how long you've gone to nami plans to stay malcolm web out. is there

a fill ahead on aggregated debate that's divided the u. s. for years supreme court, his arguments on abortion rights plus any future russian aggression would come at the fight price. nato warns of economic sanctions if russia uses force against ukraine. ah hello, good to be with you. here's her headlines for the americas. we've got a reprieve coming in. finally for canada's west coast and the pacific northwest dry conditions, vancouver hyatt, 7 degrees, and look at this warrants, we have 4 billings montana 90. we could break more than 40 records across central and western parts of the us. temperatures are also on the rise for the east coast as while new york, 13 degrees. but this disturbance,

india biotech. it's going to swoop into nova scotia, cape breton, island, and newfoundland. so white and windy conditions and we've got a swath of snow moving across quebec as well. con conditions for the u. s. se, temperatures here are really nice. atlanta, 22 degrees, and some of that warmth. we are talking about denver $23.00 above average temperature and los angeles has come down just a bit, a run of rain to be expected for the yucatan peninsula. plaguing can coon or take our foot off the pedal for heavy rain for costa rica and panama still going to be some range is not falling at the same intensity over the last few days. burst of rain through the amazon base in bogota, it's got a high of 20 degrees. that stormy weather we saw for the southeast of brazil, most of it pushes out toward the south atlantic, but still the risk of some showers for rio de janeiro on thursday. a gynecologist working as a volunteer in areas of conflict is not only

a school he's also known for delivering babies, treated women who medical services are limited. you're truly a doctor of humanity and hope to see world what was the don't to to mission with oh, the me again, you're watching. i just need a reminder of our top stores. the women's tennis association has suspended tournaments in china and hong kong,

over concerns about the safety of former doubles world. number one, the pung swine. he's accused the former vice premier of coercing high into sex and was not seen in public for more than 2 weeks. south africa's corona virus cases of double to more than 8500 in a day, most of the infections are thought to be the new code. 19 very us as reported its 1st on the kron case or julie fisher is an associates research professor of micro biology and immunology at georgetown university medical center. she joins us via skype now from alexandria. virginia, thanks so much for being willing. so let me ask you, 1st of all, we know it's going to take at least a couple of weeks to determine just how, how strong or dangerous the on the chrome variant is what they just took us to. what are they going to be looking for as they try to do that?

so what we know about that variance right now comes from what's called, you know, mac surveillance that was conducted in south africa and reported. and that is analyzing the sequence of the bible genome, understanding how that might relate to characteristics of the virus. we're not super great right now and predicting how well those mutations aligned with, with real world changes, if you will. so what scientists are looking for now is to understand how well does the immunity illustrated by current vaccines, neutralize this virus are prevented from, from infecting people from causing illness. is it more transmissible than other variance? does it trans that more easily from person to person, and do we need to worry about the virus escaping or dating the test that we use worldwide, right now, those tests are going on in the lab to understand? do we need to think about changing the vaccines? do we need to worry that disease will be more severe with despair yet?

yeah, on the severity question. a number of cases that have turned up that have been detected so far for those infected have shown mild symptoms. and i know that's, that's not a large number right now. but is there perhaps a sliver of optimism there is? is that a cause for optimism, right? now, right, there's your, there's still so much we don't know, but it's certainly as promising that what we're hearing about the spread of this new variant, even as it's, it's accounted for a way to one of the cases in the countries where it's been reported particularly south africa, which has been focusing on it. what we're hearing is that the disease is not more severe. so the speed with which spreading suggests that may be more transmissible. again, a lot to learn. but the good news so far is that it does not appear to cause more severe disease. and your assessment is there more that the united states could be doing right now to tackle this very you know,

there's so much that we could do with the tool kit we have where we were 2 years ago. we had very few tools to use when, when sorts covey to was emerging initially, and now we have so many more tools toolkit. the 1st priority is to, to make sure that we get people fully vaccinated as much as possible. because even if the vaccine has reduced efficacy against against this new variant, which we don't know for sure yet. but even if it does, it will still offer some protection against severe disease and the more people we can get back to the better. the 2nd thing is, is improving our ability to look for the spread of these variance and to understand how the virus is being transmitted. what those pathways are. and that means really stepping up our genomic surveillance game here in the united states, where we have not had a consistent nation wide coverage of positive samples with

genova experiments that can tell us so much about how the virus is changing and give us more ability to understand and to control it spread. good to get your analysis on this. julie fisher, thanks very much for being with us. thank you so much. a women across the united states have had a constitutional right to abortions since 973. but a new case before the supreme court could lead to abortions becoming becoming illegal once again in many states. i just zeros heidi show cast reports or nearly 5 decades. women have been able to get abortions in the united states, thanks to a decision made within these marveled halls. now, a new panel, a supreme court justices, is revisiting that decision and could take it all back. it's heartbreaking to think that ro could get overturned and ro has always been the floor and never the feeling

that i want to live in a country where every single person can have access to health care. and that would mean saving the life of so many russian and sheltering who are voiceless, are unable to defend themselves, and they're relying on us with the abortion case before the court comes from mississippi, where the conservative state legislature wants to ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks, well, before viability lower courts have ruled the ban unconstitutional. but now the supreme court with its new 63 conservative majority will have the final word. president trump appointed 3 justices that he, that he promised would overrule roe vs wade. but there is no reason there is no constitutional basis to overturn nearly 50 years of presidency during the hearing. liberal justice is voice concerned. the court's legitimacy was at stake. will this institution survive the stench that this create

in the public perception that the constitution and it's reading or just political acts. but many conservative states are viewing this moment as the most opportune in a generation to attack abortion access. we're about to make it law live enacted more than 100 state level restrictions this year alone, including a texas ban on abortions after just 6 weeks of pregnancy that way. but that's nothing compared to what may happen if the supreme court overturns ro, if the court were to do that, it would mean that states across the country that have that have enacted so called trigger bands that would ban abortion. at the moment that gro was overturned, whole show, the majority of america were access to abortion. these protesters organized by the women's minds, are in circling the supreme. i had the voice heard while from testers, on the anti,

telling their own little rally, little one and it looks like on 15 weeks old, the child is fully born. we know that they have a central nervous system. we know that the heart is beating, so we know that this is not a con gazelle, like we are lied to for so many years. the hearing lasted about 2 and a half hours. lawyers from mississippi argue the decision in roe vs wade was egregiously wrong and should be overturned. while the pro abortion side argued, a woman's liberty over her own body is at stake. the justice is line of questioning, offered few clues to how they will ultimately rule their decision is expected in june. i to jo castro al jazeera washington or nato is threatening russia with economic sanctions. if a uses any force against ukraine, concerns about a russian military build up on the cranium board and dominated 2 days of talks. in latvia, as cap to william russia is demanding guarantees from nato that it won't expand its

true deployment any closer to the russian border. the conflict in easton, ukraine is killed almost 14000 people in the past 7 years. and the future russian aggression would come at the high price and have serious political and economic consequences for russia. georgia on ukraine, our longstanding and close nato partners, contributing her to our missions and operations on aspiring for a membership. ministers made it clear that we stand by our decisions, our support for that sovereignty until the total integrity remains and wavering and we remain committed to enhance our support to both countries. we've also observed a massive spike more than tenfold in social media activity, pushing anti ukrainian propaganda,

approaching levels last seen in the lead up to russians invasion of ukraine in 2014 . now we don't know whether president putin has made the decision to invade. we do know that he is putting in place the capacity to do so. on short order, should he so decide? so despite uncertainty about intentions and timing, we must prepare for all contingencies while working to see to it that russia reverse is course. a united nations committee has put off a decision on who will represent afghanistan and miasma. at the body, both countries, democratically elected governments were toppled earlier this year, the arguments were made for the seats of both countries with the taliban and myanmar. jones pitted against ambassadors, diplomatic to james bass has more meetings of the credentials committee of the un general assembly are often little noticed, but it's now in the spotlight because of the controversy over who should sit in the

seats of afghanistan. and man ma, after dramatic changes in the 2 countries, the 9 member committee chaired by sweden and the swedish ambassador came to reporters to reveal what had happened. the committee decided to defer some of the credentials in these 2 situations. the report of the committee will be made public once, once it has been issued for the concentration of the general assembly to to what we will not make any more comments until the report will be sure. so what does the food mean in this case? it means that the existing ambassadors will stay in the post. the ambassador of afghanistan, who was appointed by the former president ashe rough gunny who fed his country, which was then taken over by the taliban, and the me. moran basset appointed by uncensored, she whose deposed along with her government they will stay in the post as to baset

us for now the fix or the 8th stadiums that will be use a cutter. 2022 are being used for the hour cup. the tournament, which kicked off on tuesday is a chance for cutter to cut test out its infrastructure ahead of next year's woke up . the designs represent the past and the president saw how to take a look at one spot. the 8 modern stay to the out stadiums reflecting cat falls, 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 level for mama stadium, the gulf for you. ah, the pile of local,

the local guffy is 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 realize 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, categories, home to less than 3000000 people. and with vast, undeveloped land, it's been in a unique position to build stadiums without controversial relocating homes are seen in some of the previous house countries. the locations of the stadiums were widely chosen to be built in an areas 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 cup history, all the stadiums are within a short distance of each other and our city dream. we'll find one thing would be more than one game in a day. no more, better way to do that and build an entirely new metric system to achieve in a dismantle stadium, recyclable seats, and venues to be used as sports clubs, educational facilities. it's all part of categor well 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 woke up just the stadium. provides lots of greenery for, for the north and pot to our pots of about. 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 the aims to establish itself as a cultural hub in the region certified at al jazeera, doha. ah, this is angela. it's got a round up of the top story. south africa. corona virus cases have doubled to more than 8500 in a day. most of the infections are thought to be of the army kron very it. it has now been reported in at least 24 countries with the u. s. being one of the latest allan fisher has more from washington. this man arrived in the united states in california on the 22nd of november for.